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f 4 * % « 4 *. t 4 f ji * f I 1 E.C.3eep' OATES BATTALION SPORTS EDITOR Don’t Try a Drive to Houston Over Sheet of Ice Even for a Basketball Fray This writer motored to Houston early Tuesday morning with the basketball team. The highway was a solid sheet of ice all the way. It required over three hours to make the drive that is usually made in less than two. Coming back Wednesday the road was in good condition, however. Saw Jimmy Kitts ifet the Rice Hotel and he appears to be in fine spirits. He will probably land a fair job somewhere. It is being rumored in Houston that Buster Brannon, young basketball coach who is taking the Rice Owls to the conference championship, will be at the helm of the T. C. U. cage team next year. One of the assistant football coaches Neely is bringing in at Rice was his basketball coach at Clemson. Tickets Are Now on Sale for Football Banquet; Col. Ike Ashburn Is In Charge The annual football banquet will be held in the mess hall Saturday evening. Saturday afternoon the Sugar Bowl officials will present the SUGAR BOWL to A. & M. and that night they will be guests at the banquet. Tickets may be secured now from Col. Ike Ashburn. The price of the banquet has been set at one dollar per plate. This Bert Selman scored a lot •of points against the Aggies Tues day night, but it is not a record. Two or three years ago Ike Poole of Arkansas tallied 26 against A. •& M. . . . Dough Rollins will be the principal speaker at a foot ball banquet in Bellville tonight. He will also show pictures of the Sugar Bowl game . . . Texas IT. has signed to play L. S. U. and Oregon in 1941 . . . The cadet cagers play their next game against Baylor next Tuesday and then have two weeks off for exams. . . . Now Is the Time to Care for Your Car Winter is danger-time for the car that isn’t ready to meet a dropping thermometer! Bet ter drive in here for a check up so your car won’t check out of the running! • AGGIE SERVICE STATION SINCLAIR GAS & OIL Experienced Mechanics Courteous Service ■! C. E. (Red) GRAY MANAGER 2 Blocks East of North Gate Phone C-400 Coach Homer Norton and Dutch Meyer will coach the North-South high school teams next summer. Norton coached the leading team in 1939 and Meyer coached the leading team in 1938. Both teams- won the Sugar Bowl game. . . Ohio State has filled the open date it was wanting A. & M. for. Purdue will play the Bucks on that date. . . . Bill Henderson is still one of the top scorers. In five games he has hit for 63 points. That is a little better than 12 points a game. Championship In Water Polo To Be Decided Tonight Blue water will splash for the last time tonight at 8 p. .m. as 3rd Combat Train Field Artillery meets the winner of the E Field Artillery. A Chemical Warfare game that was played late last night in the championship water polo game. Bob Groulx, F. O. Cantini and Harold Harry will be the main sparks of the Field team and along with the remainder of the twelve man squad will give their opponents much to contend with. E Field Artillery won their quarter-final game from C Cavalry 8 to 0, while A Chemical War fare scored on F Battery Field Artillery for the first time this year and turned them back 4 to 1. In case the Chem team is the other final entry, Harry Warnke, Scott Stubbs, and Lee Carson will be the lead men. For Battery E, Paul Kirk, War ner Brundrett, Paul Dillon, and Mac Oliver, all veterans of last year’s team, will be four of the seven starters. Not finding any money in a San Diego, Cal., church a thief set fire to the edifice after typewriting this note: “Next time leave some dough in this joint.” Expert Radio Repair STUDENT CO-OP Phone No. 139 North Gate YOUVE BEEN WAITING FOR IT! AqqiELANDS OWN NEW HIT TUNE' NOW PUBLISHED IN SHEET MUSIC. COP/ES FOP SALE 0/V THE CAMPUS League-Leading Rice Owls Defeat Aggies Rice Gives Aggies 2nd Cage Loss Owls Down Aggies 67-54 To Take Big Lead in Cage Race By Gene Oates It was too much Bert Selman for the Aggie cagers in Houston Tuesday night as he dropped 24 points through the basket to de feat the visiting cadets 67 to 54; It gave the McQuillanmen their second defeat of the season, both being at the hands of the league leading Owls. The Owls grabbed the lead in the first minute of play when Craddock looped a crip shot. “Big Dog” Dawson, who played a whale of a game, tied it up at two-all just before Chet Palmer sent the Owls into the lead again. Jude Smith tied it at four-all as he sunk his only bucket of the night. Sel man made good a couple of gift tosses and from there on the cadets never could catch the Owls. At the half the Owls held a 38 to 23 lead. Dawson, Tinker and Henderson were hot right after the half and they pulled the cadets up to where they were trailing only 35 to 42. It appeared that A. & M. had solved the mystery and might have a chance, but then Zender and Go mez went on a spree for the Owls. Bert Selman was all over the floor and couldn’t miss the hoop when he tossed. He tallied 17 points in the first half and then added seven in the second. Kinney, the great sophomore center for the Owls, was held to ten points. Dawson was high man for the Aggies with 16 points and Hender son trailed with 15. “Fish Buck” Buchanan got in his first cage game as an Aggie and played a great game at end. The Sears-Curtis combination of officials had two fouls on him be fore he had gone the length of the floor. Coach McQuillan had a technical called on him for coaching from the bench, but it saved a point for his team as the Owls had a two- pointer taken away from them as the technical was called just be fore the man shot. FISH BETTER The Aggie Fish lost their sec ond game of the season to the Slimes, but looked much better than they did here a week ago. The final score was 49 to 34 for the Slimes. Last week the Fish lost to the same team 21 to 50. Sterns was high man with 16 points for the Slimes. J. O. Wilson talli ed 12 for the Fish. Manning Smith’s young Aggies showed much improvement, and there are some fine potential players on the squad. Rice Texas A. & M. Fg Ft Tp Fg Ft Tp Craddock.f 3 1 8 Tinker,f 4 0 8 Palmer,f 6 2 14 Lang,f t 2 1 5 Kinney,c 4 2 14 Smith,! 1 0 2 Norton,c 0 0 0 Stevenson,! 1 0-2 Gomez,g 4 0 8 Dawson,c 8 0 16 Zander,g-f 2 0 4 B.Adams,c 0 0 0 Selman.g 8 8 24 Varner,g 3 0 6 Pepper,g-f 0 0 0 Buchanah.g 0 0 0 Henderson,g 6 3 15 Totals 27 13 67 Totals 25 4 64 Officials: Curtis (Texas) and Sears (Kentucky Teachers). Personal fouls: Craddock 4, Palmer, KinneyS, Gomez 3, Tinger2, Lang, Ste venson 2, Dawson 3, Varner 3, Buchanan 2, Henderson 3. Free throws missed: Craddock, Kin ney, Selman 4, Lang, Dawson 2, Adams, Varner, Henderson 2. CONFERENCE standings P. W. L Pet. Rice 7 6 1 .875 Texas 5 4 1 .800 Texas A. & M. 5 3 2 .600 Baylor 4 2 2 .500 Arkansas 4 1 3 .250 S. M. U. 5 1 4 .200 T. C. U. 4 0 4 .000 Friday: Rice vs. Baylor at Houston. Saturday: Rice vs. Baylor at Houston. Jan. 30: Baylor vs. A. & M. at Waco. Agronomist To Address Plant Science Seminar Dr. P. C. Mangelsdorf, Agrono mist at the Texas Agricultural Ex periment Station, will speak before the Plant Science Seminar Thurs day evening on the subject, “Mod ern Methods in Corn Breeding.” Dr. Mangelsdorf will discuss the methods for producing and main taining inbred lines of corn to gether with the production of the popular corn hybrids. Also, the emportance of these hybrids throughout the corn-growing re gions of the United States will be discussed. Mention will be made of the methods for changing white varieties to yellow. Slides will be used to illustrate the lec ture. The meeting will be held at 7:30 in the Experiment Station assembly room. BATTALIONA— THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1940 PAGE 3 Today Last Day To Purchase Football Banquet Tickets Banquet Follows Ceremonies To Be Held On Kyle Field at 5 p. m. Saturday Afternoon Reservations for the banquet to be staged Saturday night for the A. & M. football squad, victor of the New Year’s Day Sugar Bowl clash and the Nation’s Number 1 team, must be made by all inter ested in attending by 5 p. m. today, Col. Ike Ashburn, member of the committee in charge of arrange ments of the affair, announced. The tickets cost $1 and may be obtained at any of the following offices: Publicity Office and Col. Ashburn’s office, Administration Building; Extension Service of fice; Aggieland and Lipscomb’s pharmacies at the North Gate; and Canady’s Pharmacy in Bryan. Herbert Benson, president of the New Orleans’ Mid-Winter Sports Association which sponsors the Sugar Bowl Game, will present the sugar bowl to Dean E. J. Kyle, chairman of the Athletic Commit tee, at ceremonies to be held on Kyle Field at 5 p. m. Saturday aft ernoon and will also attend the banquet afterward. Other awards to be presented at the ceremonies on Kyle Field to which all stu dents, College Station residents and Bryan residents are invited will be gold footballs to the Na tion’s No. 1 football team, the awards to be presented by Mr. Benson. Men accompanying Mr. Benson to College Station from New Or leans will be Abe Goldberg, vice- president of the association; Hap Reilly, publicity chairman of the committee; Fred Digby, sports edi tor of the New Orleans Item- Tribune; Warren Miller, first Sugar Bowl president and organiz er; Clarence Straus, secretary of the committee; and Joseph David, treasurer. M, INTRAMURAL A HIGHLIGHTS By HUB JOHNSON Class A water polo finals come to a close this evening as the 3rd Combat Train Field Artillery meets the winner of yesterday aft ernoon’s match between E Field and A Chemical Warfare. C Coast Artillery trounced 2nd Hq. Field Artillery to take another step towards the League C hand ball championship. This is the league that finished in a three-way tie. Burges, Davis, Marsh, Sharp, and Kellog proved to be too much for the horse-drawn cannoners and won all three games. They now face A Chemical Warfare for the final match of the league. A Field Artillery’s win of the tennis tournament for the third time runs them up near the top of the season standing with 180 points in three sports. F Engineers still lead the list by a narrow five points, 245 in four games, while C Field Artil lery is tied with “A” Battery for the second spot. A Chemical Warfare is also creeping higher each time points are posted. It is now in the semi finals in water polo and trying for the league in handball.. In other handball games Mitchell, Kay, Boudreaux, and Higgen- botham marked up two wins for A Infanry over C Field Artillery and advance another runner to wards the top of the column; B Signal Corps and the Artillery Band each won a match and had no other players to decide the third. A flip decided the winner to be the flag-wavers. Bayer and Mayer—what a com bination—not only in name but also in play, proved to be too much for A Infantry as the M Infan try fish ran off with the Class B basketball championship. Ohio State University fraternity pledges have an annual “Ditch Night” on which they defy the rulings of the actives. Sugar Bowl Game Shown at Federal Employees’ Meeting The Aggie-Tulane football game was featured at the January meet ing of the Brazos County Council of Federal Employee organiza tions and the Aggie Federal Club (Local 577, National Federation of Federal Employees), at the audi torium of the Animal Industries Building, last Saturday night. Fine points of the game were ex plained by Manning Smith of the Aggie coaching staff. Presiding over the meeting was L. A. Machemehl of the Farm Se curity Administration, vice-presi dent of Local 577. Awards were made for good work in member ship increase to George Shrader, Mrs. Hilda Wood, Miss Mae Hop kins, Gray Barnes, John T. Conn Jr., and Mrs. Elizabeth Barron. The club now has 150 members, largest in its history. Special trib ute was paid to Mrs. Gertrude W. Du Bois for her fine work as chairman of the social committee, which she recently gave up, and for her zealous activity as secretary of the local. Manning Smith was introduced by Dr. W. B. Davis of the Fish and Game Department, program chairman. Petitions were prepar ed and signed by all members pres ent in behalf of H. R. 960, which provides for extension of the merit system civil service, classification, and review of efficiency ratings to field employees. The petitions will be sent to Hon. Luther A. Johnson, and to Senators Tom Con- nally and Morris Sheppard. Any who were absent from the Satur day meeting may sign the petitions at the log cabin near the A.A.A. building. New-Style Roundup To Be Featured At Fort Worth Show FORT WORTH.—The All-South western Roundup, where hometown talent passes in review and visi tors meet their former fellow townsmen, will be a new feature at the Southwestern Exposition and Fat Stock Show, March 8 to 17, in Fort Worth. Invitations to participate in the events have been mailed by John B. Davis, secretary-manager of the show, to 50 presidents of cham bers of commerce and other civic organizations. Also a general in vitation is extended to any com munity, town, county or civic group to take part. The plan is to open the amuse ment building on the stock show grounds to the general and visit ing public each morning of the 10- day exposition. Visiting delegations will bring their hometown talent for 30-minute programs, which may include band concerts, quar tets, tap dancers, square dancers or other talent the towns may elect to offer. The All-Southwestern Roundup will be in progress from 9 a. m. to 1 p. m. each day. Music will be available for dancing. John M. Hendrix, director of special events, who 'will be in charge of the feature, urged that entries be filed with him without delay because a maximum of 20 programs of 30 minutes each can be accommodated during the 10- day period. “Aside from providing a meet ing place for visitors,” Hendrix said, “the new feature will be an opportunity for hometowns to boost their own communities and forthcoming events. Also it will be a means of developing young talent in the realm of entertain ment.” Beloit College has abolished mid semester examinations. Dean Gilchrist To Deliver Address At Purdue University Gibb Gilchrist, dean of engineer ing, left Wednesday afternoon to attend a road school meeting at Purdue University at Lafayette, Indiana. This road school corres ponds to the short course at A. & M. Mr. Gilchrist will be the chief speaker at a banquet Thursday night. His subject will be “The Engineering and the Road.” Dean Gilchrist will return to A. & M. next week. Mr. McNew will take care of any business in his absence. Governor John W. Bricker of Ohio paid an unexpected call on the family of L. Brenner near West Salem one morning recently. While driving by the Brenner home he discovered it was on fire, and stopped to give warning. M Infantry Wins Basketball Title The final play-off in Class B Intramural Basketball ended with M Infanry on the long end of a 24 to 9 score over A Infantry. Bayer led the victors by scoring 8 points the first half and 4 more during the second period; a total of 12 to make him the high-point man. He was followed closely by his team-mate Mayer, who found the range in the second half and accounted for 8 more points. Bell, Jones, and Webster split the scoring honors for A Infantry by making 3 points apiece . This win places them in third place for the Class B Champion ship. The first and second notches now being filled by C Field Artil lery and F Field Artillery. 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