The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, January 27, 1940, Image 3

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The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, January 27, 1940, Image 3

Newspaper Page TextE.CJccp' OATES OATTALION SPORTS EDITOR Country Boy Goes To Town and Comes Back a Broke But Much Wiser Farmer “I was robbed,” says Coach Homer Norton. No, he was not talking about the Rice-A. & M. game in 1937. He was in Dallas a few days ago. When he went down to pay his hotel bill the next morning he reached for his wallet. Yeah, the wallet was there, but the wallet was bare. Someone had gotten in his room and bor rowed all the money, but they did put his wallet back in his pocket. These city slickers sure take advantage of a poor old farmer boy from the sticks just EAST of the BRAZOS where the fun flows. Following is a sign that appear ed in the Commons over at the University of Texas the other day. It was the advertisement of the day’s “special.” “AGGIE SPEC IAL.”—For 5 cents you can pur chase A CUP OF TEA. Final Exams Could Wreck Aggie Hopes For Basketball and Football Teams The Aggies traveled far and wide last fall in winning the na tional title in football. They were away from their classes for many days and now it looks as if the boys will have to pay the damages. The boys have to pass some 11 to 13 hours of work and there are several who are going to have to look in the grass, under bridges and everywhere else for that many hours. Some of those football play ers are the mainstays of the bas- getball team and if they go out the basketball team will be wreck ed at mid-term. Tonight and this afternoon will he a highlight in the lives of all Aggies now in school. This after noon the famous SUGAR BOWL and the gold Sugar Bowl footballs will be presented to the school and to the football players. Tonight at the football banquet the other awards will be presented to the football players who have brought the school into the limelight of the entire nation. Footballs, watches, tie clasps, jackets, medals, bars, blankets, luggage and other things will make up the awards. Up until this year A. & M. was just another college sitting here in no place. All of the people in this part of the country knew about it as did a few in other parts. Now A. & M. is known wherever there is a radio. A prof can go anywhere in the United States and say he teaches at A. & M. and the people will look up at him. Until this time when they were away and men tioned A. & M. the people thought he was at a hick school. There were 52 boys who brought about this change and they are due a lot of credit. They did more for the school in one year than any other group has done since the founding. Some of the other groups built the school up, but it was this foot ball team that has brought it the recognition it truly deserves. MTHt ASSILNMHJY HALL INTO FUMING DEATH...with a can of T. N.T. in his hand...a prayer in his heart... and a woman’s kiss still warm on his lips! ■V EDWARD G. ROBINSON BLACKMAIL rnth RUTH HUSSEY GENE LOCKHART BOBS WATSON Screen Play by David Hertz and William Ludwig Directed by H. C. POTTER Produced by JOHN W. CONSIDINK, Jr. Saturday, Jan, 27 12:30 ...which me to ill greateit trinmph...while AEl _.$! suffering ill - rMr greatest defeat! i SSs C »^ Saturday, Jan. 27 6:30 & 8:30 NAVY TO TRAIN COLLEGE MEN AS AVIATORS The United States Navy, in an effort to build up its aviation forces, has announced a training program which includes the en rollment of 1,200 young men from civilian life, during the next twelve months. This number may be in creased in the near future. These young men will receive the prescribed training course at the Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida. Upon completion of this training, they will be designated naval aviators, and commissioned as officers in the Naval Reserve, and sent to active duty with the Naval Aviation Squadrons. This duty may extend to eight years, during which time they receive the full pay of their rank. A Selection Board of Naval Of ficers will meet in Houston, Texas, commencing March 11, for the purpose of selecting candidates for this training. Candidates must be unmarried American citizens, between twenty and twenty-seven years of age, and have a minimum of two full years of college edu cation. Interested parties may re ceive full information and appli cation blanks by writing the Cadet Selection Board, Naval Air Sta tion, Pensacola, Florida. 27 Freshmen To Be Awarded Numerals GRADES OF FISH MUST BE UP TO REQUIREMENTS The Athletic Council has ap proved the awarding of numerals for 27 freshmen gridders for the past season. The Freshmen won one and lost two games. These awards are based on their athletic ability alone and the boys must now get their scholastic standing up to par before they will be able to receive the awards. . Those recommended for the awards are Cecil Voss, Jamie Wil son, Woodrow Bando, Leonard Beard, Lloyd Ferrell, Harold Boyd, Kyle Drake, Sam Rankin, Tom Pickett, Paul Wofford, William Sibley, Jackson Webster, George Smith, Freeman Thompson, Ed ward Ogdee. Jack Swank, James McAshen Robert Tulis, A. F. Johnson, Jack Kraras, Marvin Mitchell, Charles Miller, Felix Bucek, James Brewer. Willie Zapalac, Ray Mulhollan and Rex Sharp. Scholastic requirements will knock a few of the players out of their awards. INTRAMURAL HIGHLIGHTS By HUB JOHNSON Heat is still the major problem all over the campus. In intramural games, steam heat in the “Y” par lor and burned energy from pre spiring bodies allowed the playing of the two lone sports, Class A handball and Class B ping-pong. C Coast Artillery continued to take things the hard way and turn ed back A Chemical Warfare 3 to 0 in handball to take the league championship that was tied up three ways. This puts Sharp, Kellog, Davis, Marsh, Burges, and McMahon in the finals which are now in play. President’s Ball For Brazos Co. To Be At Bryan Legion Tonight Lang A. Spell, director for the Brazos County President’s Ball to raise funds for the fight against infantile paralysis, announces that a dance has been arranged for the American Legion home Saturday night. Mr. Spell states that an effort is being made to make this event a county-wide undertaking. He al so stresses that those not planning to attend a ball but who want to help in the drive against the dread ed disease should give their dona tions to him. BRYAN GIRL AT T.S.C.W. “DINES IN SPANISH” DENTON.—“Por favor paseme usted las papas” may mean “please pass the potatoes,” but Helen Mill er of Bryan sticks to the first Spanish version while eating in the Spanish special dining room at Texas State College for Women. Miss Miller eats daily in the dining room along with forty oth er Spanish students who want to master conversation in a foreign tongue. Nothing but Spanish is permitted during the meals. Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Miller, Miss Miller is a senior stu dent majoring in French and Eng lish. All freshmen are reminded to sign up for Physical Education at mid-term registration. Even though you play intramural games for P. E. credit, you are required to sign in a class for lectures and other called meetings. Battalion Sports SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 1940 PAGE 3 Here’s Baylor’s Basketball Squad ' . ' v The Baylor Bears, in their sec ond hectic week of Southwest Con ference basketball, play the second of a two-game series with the Rice Owls tonight in Houston. Coach Ralph Wolf’s charges made a strong comeback in the title scramble last week when they handed Arkansas a double defeat on some neat defensive play. Shown above, letft to right, front row; Grady Vaughn, Weldon Bi- gony, Ernest Marshall, Ralph Wolf, Jr., Happy Shahan, Dwight Parks, Charles Boswell. Second row, left to right: Sher man Barnes, Loy Gilbert, Joe Ter ry, L. V. Arnett, Fred Crow, Pete Creasy. Back row, left to right: Delma Suhr, Coach Ralph Wolf, Joe Fri- valdsky, Marshall Henry, Frank Bryski, Frank Allen and Warner Brock, student manager. A water polo game played Iasi Wednesday to decide the othei final entry ended with E Field Ar tillery on the heavy side of a 3 to 1 win over A Chemical Warfare. The final game which was to have been played the next night. Thursday, was postponed until Tuesday of next week. Notice to managers: Entry cards for Class A volleyball and horse shoes and Class B handball and horseshoes are due this morning. If you haven’t turned yours in, do so before noon. With the freshman ping-pong tournament coming to a quiet close, the final play-off schedule was drawn up the same night as many league winners were pro claimed and games commenced on the spot. B Engineers won their way to the quarter-finals by defeating G Infantry 2 to 1. Hausman, Mc Clelland, and Burman were the players for the Castle fish with the first two defeating Hill and Carter and Burnman losing to Groves. They won their league the same night from the Infantry Band 3 to 0. The Second Combat Train fish won another game that night from 3rd Hq. Field Artillery, 2 to 1. Weems and Ambrose won over Ashley, and Brittain and Gates lost to Robertson. A Field Artillery fish won a quarter-final game from A Coast Artillery 2 to 1, and the 1st Hq. Field Artillery fish were defeated by A Cavalry, also in the quarter finals. • FATHER OF TOM AND KEN MILLS DIES IN HOUSTON R. L. Mills Sr., retired Groes- beck merchant, died Monday in a Houston hospital. The body was sent to Groesbeck Monday night and funeral services were held Tuesday. Mr. Mills was the father of Tom my Mills, former Aggie football captain, and Ken Mills, former Allen and A. & M. backfield man whose football career was ended by a back injury while working summer before last. New Basic Courses In Fish and Game To Be Instituted A. & M. students interested in fish and game will have an oppor tunity to take a number of basic courses during the second semester. Particular attention is called to a new course which has been author ized by the committee and the fac ulty and which should fit in as an elective for majors in other depart ments. The course will be known as F. G. 406 and will constitute a survey of fish and game develop ment. Emphasis will be placed on students taking work in engineer ing, arts and sciences, veterinary medicine, and the various depart ments of the School of Agriculture. There are no prerequisites except that one must have junior standing before he can be admitted to the course. There is no laboratory work; the course carries three hours of credit. Other courses which will be of fered during the coming semester ate ecology of plants and animals, in which plant-animal relationships are considered; ornithology, or bird study; and a course in pond and stream improvement. During the coming summer the wildlife survey of Culberson County will be continued by the Depart ment of Fish and Game, credit be ing given for field work done. Al so practical fish culture will be given, the field work being done in the Guadalupe River drainage, probably in Kerr County. Through the various courses the Department of Fish and Game is endeavoring to make its work practical, and fit its majors and others to take positions of leader ship in the general field of wild life conservation, whether on pri vate farms and ranches, or in fed eral and state agencies such as the Extension Service, vocational agri culture, the Texas Game, Fish and Oyster Commission, Agricul tural Adjustment Administration. Soil Conservation Service, Farm Security Administration, National Park Service, U. S. Biological Sur vey, and U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. T. C. U. Cagers Busy On Final Exams, No Games Scheduled Until February 3 FORT WORTH, Jan. 27.—“Horn ed Frogs Go Two Weeks With out Losing a Basketball Game” might be the headline of the week in Southwest Conference Basket ball circles. Coach Mike Brumbelow’s boys do not play a game from January 20 to February 3. They’re busy trying to ring up goals in final examinations. The conference race is not yet half over, yet the Rice Owls, after Saturday night, will have played nine of the 12 matches on their schedule. They meet Baylor in Houston Friday and Saturday night, then go into retirement for three weeks before finishing up with two with Arkansas, in Hous ton, and one with Texas, in Aus tin. Dr. W. W. Comfort, head of Haverford College for 22 years, will retire in June. “We’re Not Like Tennessee,” Say A. & I. Grid Fans KINGSVILLE, Jan. 24.—When A. & M. put the A. & I. Javelinas on its grid program last week it completed the heaviest schedule A. & I. has ever undertaken and prob ably the hardest that could possi bly be booked according to Head Coach A. Y. McCallum, who has piloted the Hogs since 1928. The nation’s No. 1 football team and the nation’s No. 1 scoring ag gregation are both on the Hog’s list, which includes two intersec tional opponents, two Southwest Conference members, three Lone Star Conference teams, and the Hogs’ own special opponents, the Alamo Conference gang. A. & I. will lead off with San Jose State in San Jose, California September 16. For three consecu tive years the San Jose Spartans have led the nation in scoring, their total for the past year being 324 points. Their score against the Javelinas last fall was the lowest they made all year in an unde feated, untied season. First opponent of the season for the mighty Aggies, the Hogs will go to College Station September 28, thus the Hogs will be opening the season for both of America’s No. 1 teams, the Spartans, nation’s leading scorers; the Aggies, No. 1 on AP and other sports polls. Third major highlight of the year for the Javelinas will be their tussle with the Rice Owls in Hous ton Nov. 2. The Hogs took Sam Houston Teachers last fall 7-0 the week before the Teachers threw the nation’s sports writers into a dither with a 9-8 victory over the Owls. Not content with one state A. & M. opponent, the Hogs will en gage the Arkansas A. & M. Col lege in Kingsville for their second intersectional game of the season. Alamo Conference competition is reserved to ring down the cur tain, as the Hogs finish with their other games before their first defense of their 1939 conference crown, held jointly with West Tex as Teachers of Canyon. There are plenty of fans who be lieve that this Owl-Longhorn game, scheduled for February 27, may decide the conference title. To date, the strength of the Ag gies and the weakness of Arkan sas have been the season’s sur prises. The Aggies, doped to be a sec ond division outfit, have won three of five starts. The Razorbacks, rat ed as top-flight and a possible flag contender, have dropped three out of their first four. Architects Inspect New Denton Buildings Professor C. J. Finney and 22 students of the fourth and fifth- year classes of the Department of Architecture left this weekend for Denton to inspect the work of O’Neil Ford and A. B. Swank, ’36. Dallas architects. They will vis it the new “Chapel in The Woods” at T.S.C.W. and four of the new low-cost houses which have been hailed as outstanding examples of Southwestern homes. This trip is one of a series con ducted by the Department of Arch itecture as part of its program using this region as a laboratory in developing a regional expres sion for Texas architecture. THEIR LEGS GET COLD, SO SO SCOTS QUIT THEIR KILTS LONDON, Jan. 24.—Scottish soldiers, to protect their legs against poison gas, are going to lose their famous kilts. War Secretary Oliver Stanley announced in the House of Com mons that Scottish regiments will wear uniforms covering their legs. Only drummers and pipers will be given ne kilts. A special course for the college’s maids and porters has been an nounced by Bryn Mawr College. SEE AGGIELAND PHARMACY AD For Valentine Candy and T*r| c NEXT WEEK W. J. Douglas, Jr. INSURANCE AGENCY General Insurance Commerce Bldg. Phone B-160 AGGIES TACKLE BRUINS TUESDAY NIGHT IN WACO Last Game For Team Until Examinations Are Over Tuesday night the Texas Aggie cagers play a return engagement with the Baylor Bears in Waco. This will be the last game before the long lay-off for mid-term ex aminations and will also be the last game between the two schools this season. Baylor finishes a two game series with the Rice Owls, league leaders, in Houston tonight while the Aggies are still at rest from their battle with the Owls last Tuesday. In the first game between the two teams, the Aggies took an early lead only to surrender it to the Bears a short five seconds later. It was the same way throughout the entire game with Frank Bryski and Joe Terry pac ing the Bears and “Jitterbug” Hen derson and Tommy Tinker spark ing the Aggies. Grady Vaughn, Baylor star guard, was injured in the first sixteen minutes and was removed to the hospital. The half ended 23 to 21 with the Bears on the heavy side but they lost their lead by a narrow margin of three points and the game, 49 to 46. Tuesday both teams will be primed to the fullest extent. The Aggies will be trying to retain their third place position they now hold while the Bears, if unsuccess ful with the Owls, will be playing to take the spot from the cadets. Armour Institute of Technology and Lewis Institute are to be com bined into the Illinois Institute of Technology. CHICKEN GRILL FRIED CHICKEN STEAKS OYSTERS AND FISH 24th and College Ave. purchase 'new ^ giant size BRITEN TOOTH PASTE Hurry be fore they’re all gonel Big 40 ounce GLOBE.Two lively, hand some gold fish. EXTRA SPECIAL “Optional” FREE! Fish and Bowl with a $1.00 purchase in our Candy Department Either Deal Is A Bargain Shop Early—Supply Limited Saturday, Jan. 27 AGGIELAND PHARMACY REXALL DRUGS J. T. Burtis, Mgr. “Keep to our right at the North Gate and you can’t go wrong.” CASH For Any Of Your Text Books STUDENT'S CO-OP STORE North Gate 2 Blks. East

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