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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!
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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.”
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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
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0 0
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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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