E.CJcep' OATES
BATTALION SPORTS -EDITOR
Pistol Team Shaping Up For Big Year;
Bob Shiels Plasters Board For “288”
The pistol team is about in
shape to start defending their na
tional title which they won last
year. This writer has been led to
believe the team is better this
year than they were last. If they
repeat they will have to have lots
of luck as well as lots of skill.
Bob Shiels, mainstay of the
team, peppered the cardboards for
a 288 out of a possible 300 the
other day. He hit a 91 on slow
fire, a 97 on rapid and a cool 100
on timed. That is pretty good
country shooting. Bob is going
to run into trouble one of these
days if he ever has a daughter.
The poor girl will spend many
nights at home because the boys
will be afraid to come around the
“gunner’s” house.
Coaches Will Vie For Caper Honors
At Basketball Game Saturday Night
Coaches Hub McQuillan of the
Aggies and Ralph Wolf of Baylor
are due to put on a show here Sat
urday night when the Baylor
Bears invade DeWare gym. Both
of those guys get worked up dur
ing a close game and they can’t
sit still on the bench.
Past games between these teams
lead us to think that this game
will be a battle to the finish and
will be “tight like that” all the
way. After the game is over the
coaches will get together and each
will try to tell the other how his
team tried to give the other the
game.
Odds And Ends From Here And There
Ned McDonald, senior football
er at Texas this past season, is
quoted with the following state
ment, “Rhoten Shetley of Furman
is as good a fullback as one could
want. He’s fast, hits hard, and is
an excellent line backer. He aver
aged six and a half yards per try
and I’d rather have him on my
team than John Kimbrough.” Mc
Donald played with this boy in the
North-South game and maybe he
is a good as he says, but I will
still take Kimbrough for my man.
John just averaged a mere 6.3
yards per carry against Tulane and
we are of the opinion that the
Tulane first team could have beat
en the South and their second team
the North all in the same after
noon.
It looks like Texas has settled
down and are away for another
cage title . . . Dizzy Dean is ask
ing for $15,000 to pitch this year
. . . Houston is still in the air
wanting to know who the next Rice
coach will be . . . Coach Art Adam
son needs a goalie for his cham
pion water polo team . . . The
football players say the best
banquet is one where there are
no speakers and if there AINT
no speakers there aint no banquet
. . . Dizzy Dean says a wisdom
tooth has been causing the trouble
to his salary wing . . . These let
ter jackets the football players
are getting this year are plenty
smooth, wonder what Hickman
would give on one if you could
swipe it?
Frog Five Already
Occupy Cage Cellar
FORT WORTH, Jan. 10.—Not
quite 10 per cent of the 1940
Southwest Conference basketball
games have been played and the
T. C. U. Horned Frog five is
already at the bottom of the list.
Rice took the Frogs 57 to 41
in Houston Friday night and the
Aggies drubbed them 44 to 31
in College Station Saturday night.
The hapless Frogs have to meet
the Rice Owls again next Friday
night, this time in Fort Worth.
Coach Mike Brumbelow, how
ever, maintains his faith in the
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boys’ winning a few of their
starts.
“I still think we’re good enough
to chalk up two or three victories
before the season closes. We were
good enough against Rice to have
won from A. & M.”
Friday night’s game with the.
Owls will be T. C. U.’s first ap
pearance on the home court. They
meet Texas in Austin January 20
and then take time out until Feb
ruary 3 for the fall semester final
examination week.
Boxing Bag Installed
The training bag ordered by the
Boxing Club has arrived and is
now ready for use in the boxing
room of the gymnasium. This bag,
also known as a “heavy bag” or,
“body bag”, is three feet long
and sixteen inches in diameter. It
is one of the favorite pieces of
equipment among boxers, furnish
ing the opportunity to develop a
real wallop and good indurance, so
vital to a first-rate boxer.
Since the bag is proving so pop
ular that it is becoming a prob
lem to give everyone a chance to
use it, a method of reserving it
for individual use will be put into
effect by the Boxing Club mem
bers tonight. The members will
be assigned a definite time to use
the bag and since it is club prop
erty—bought and paid for by the
boys themselvse—it will be reserv
ed for use of members only. How
ever, all new members will auto
matically be given the right to
train with it.
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Cage Team
Must Win To
Stay in Race
Aggies Undefeated
In Conference Play
One up and eleven to go for
the Texas Aggie cage team, and
like the football team, they are
still undefeated and untied. How
ever, that record is quite likely to
go into the ash pile Saturday night
when they meet the Baylor Bears
in DeWare Field House, formerly
the Memorial Gymnasium, on the
campus here at 7:30 o’clock.
Although the Aggies won from
T. C. U. while Baylor was taking
a last-minute licking from S. M.
U. , it does not hold that the Bears
have an inferior team. In fact,
Coach “Hub” McQuillan rates
them among the top teams in the
conference this season. At any
rate, they are one of the tough
est for the Aggies regardless of
what other teams may do to them.
The cadets have been held back
somewhat by the overtime football
season and Bill Dawson, center,
and Bill Buchanan, guard, only re
ported for basketball this week in
time for the T. C. U. game. Both
are ends on the football team, and
both played in the Sugar Bowl
game on New Year’s Day. Dawson
got into the T. C. U. game but
Buchanan still was new to the
Aggie system and watched from
the bench. He was an All-State
player at Weatherford Junior Col
lege last season and should see
considerable service this season.
Coach McQuillan seldom an
nounces his starting team until
just before the jump but at this
time it looks like he will start
the following team: Forward—
Tom Tinker, Mt. Vernon; and Jude
Smith, Houston; Center—Bill Daw
son, Crockett; Guards—Capt.
Woody Varner, Cottonwood; and
Bill Henderson, Houston.
INTRAMURAL
HIGHLIGHTS
By HUB JOHNSON
Old weather man has still been
causing a bit of delay of going
any further in the program so far
this year but now and then a
few outside games are slipped
in.
D Cavalry wearing the white
caps swam, ducked, fought, sub
stituted out over 3 Hq. Field Ar
tillery to claim, the title for their
league. The two teams were tied
for the top place and the game
was played to decide the represent
ative for the league.
Freshmen who are participating
in Intramural Athletics for Physi
cal Education credit are reminded
that they are to meet with their
original P. E. section for the re
mainder of the term. This was
specially called to my attention
for the benefit of those concerned.
Three games of handball just
about finished up the games for
the week until Wednesday night,
These three were all forfeits, with
Hq. Signal Corps, C Engineers, and
L Infantry receiving the benefit
of the ruling.
To forfeit a game not only goes
against the record of the team
as far as scores are concerned but
also as far as the general talk of
the team that certain organization
might have.
It is true that there are many
reasons for forfeiting games, some
of which seem unavoidable, but
with nearly fifty men to play these
games, it seems like an evident
fact that the organization could
have at least a team to represent
them on the field or court no mat
ter if the team does have little
hopes of winning.
The team that receives credit
for the forfeit doesn’t feel as
though they have rightfully won a
game but merely received credit
for being present. And yet they
go to the trouble to go down to
play. Many of these players give
up something that they could have
done to play the games,
This is not the manager’s fault'
in all cases for the larger majority
of times the games are forfeited
due to the lack of players.
Try to give the other team a
break and, if it does look hopeless,
notify the office and inform the
opponents. That is one sign of
good sportsmanship.
BATTALION
THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 1940
PAGE 2
Cadet Cage Captain
1940 AGGIE BASKETBALL ROSTER
Head Coach
H. R. (Hub) McQuillan
(North Dakota Aggies 1916)
Captain
Durward B. (Woody) Varner
No. Player
Home Town Pos. Age Ht. Wt. Exp.
17 Dawson, William (Big Dog)
Crockett
C
24 6.5 225 1-VL
18 Smith, Jude
Houston
G
25 6.1 170 1-VL
19 Duncan, Harold (Frog)
Kingsville
C
22 6.4 190 1-VL
20 Adams, Billie Joe
Bellaire
F
20 6.4 180 2-VS
21 Lang, J. T. (Jaytee)
Kurten
F
25 6.0 175 I-VL
22 Henderson, Bill (Jitterbug)
Houston F-C
20 6.4 195 FN
23 Stevenson, Charlie (Steve)
Johnson City
G
19 5.11 190 FN
24 Tinker, Thomas (Tink)
Mt. Vernon
F
25 6.0 180 1-VL
25 Varner, Durward B. (Woody) Cottonwood
G
23 6.1 170 1-VL
26 *Dwyer, Sam (Sammy)
El Paso
G
21 6.0 175 1-VL
27 Adams, Raymond (Ray)
Copperas Cove G
19 6.0 160 FN
29 Buchanan, William (Buck)
Weatherford
G
20 6.1 175 JC
30 Crouch, James (Jim)
Ft. Worth
G
19 6.0 175 FN
*—Will be eligible at mid-term
in February
VL—Varsity Letter
JC—Junior College
VS-
FN-
-Varsity Squad
-Freshman Numeral
Durward B. “Woody” Varner, who came forward rapidly in his
junior year last winter and has been showing greatly improved form
in practice and games this year, is the captain of the 1940 Texas
Aggie basketball team, which opened its conference season last
Saturday night against the T. C. U. Frogs at College Station, winning
44 to 31. Varner, from Cottonwood, Texas, also served as president
of his class during his sophomore and junior years and now is cadet
colonel of the corps.
History of Texas
Written by Prof
“Steen’s History of Texas”, just
off the press, is the work of Dr.
Ralph W. Steen, associate profes
sor of history at A. & M., and
appears to be the book to fill the
long-felt need for a compact com
prehensive history of Texas.
The book covers Texas from
the time it was a province of Spain
on down through the years to the
Twentieth Century. All phases of
Texas history are covered, includ
ing its people, farm, ranch and
industrial development, and its poli
tics.
Dates, names, and statistics are
given only when they add some
thing to the historical value of
the book. Dr. Steen says that it
is free from prejudice and that his
material has been carefully select
ed. “It is not written to perpetu
ate the fame of one man nor take
sides in the controversial issues
of Texas history, but to give the
pupil an understanding and appre
ciation of the whole of Texas his
tory”, he explained.
Prior to joining the faculty of
A. & M. in 1935, Dr. Steen taught
Texas history in the Reagan Coun
ty public schools, Hillsboro High
School and Hillsboro Junior Col
lege. He is also the author of nu
merous historical studies in the
“Southwest Historical Quarterly”
and also of several books on Texas.
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