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Chase Holland Gives Every Coach And Player on Squad a Fine Tie Clasp The clips have caused much com ment wherever the players have been. In fact, over at Waco Tues day night a cute little girl saw the one on Tommie Vaughn. She punched her escort and said, “Look, his tie clasp is just full of dia monds.” The clips are cut in such a way that they do appear to be full of diamonds. Mr. Holland has a son enrolled at A. & M.—Ira J. C. Holland Jr. of the Field Artillery. There is only one thing that this writer and probably everyone else that has seen the clasps can say: they are indeed beautiful, and we would give anything for one. The players had better watch them very closely! Baylor Has Organized Booing Section That Makes A. & M. Look Amateurish Chase Holland, a jeweler and A. & M. supporter, of San Angelo, presented to every player and coach on the football team a spur tie clip like the one pictured below. This writer has heard the Aggies “boo” officials at contests here, but the Aggie corps is not in the same class with the booing sec tion at Baylor. Tuesday night the officials, Ab Curtis and Dusty Boggess, called a few close plays that were in fav or of the Aggies. The Baylor stu dent side of the gym went into a huddle and came out with a well- organized “BOO” followed by hisses. I don’t remember as I was too busy marking up Baylor points, but I believe that the Baylor band even plays a few bars that fit in with the booing. This was short-lived though, as Baylor went way ahead in a hur ry and from then on the students chanted nothing but, “Our team is red hot!” That was true, too. The Bears were RED HOT. Baylor is playing as good a brand of ball as any team in the league right now. The Bears have one of the best gyms in the Southwest. APPOLOGY TO HERB SMITH This column stated a few days ago that the watch that was giv en to Herb Smith was misnamed. We stated that blocking was his weak point, but since that time we have been corrected, and we duly apologize. Joe Boyd stated that it was Herb’s blocking that made Joe an All-American. He said, “You have to be a good blocker to block that McCullum of Tulane, and Herb did it in great style.” Beau Bell, former Aggie base ball great and major league per former, has been traded by the De troit Tigers to the Cleveland In dians. Beau stated that he is very happy over the trade. Manning Smith, one of the as sistant Aggie coaches, failed to get the head coaching job at Centen ary, because Hanna, another for mer Gent star, was selected for the position instead. “Siki” Sikes, the greatest end in Aggie history un til Herb Smith came along, was also considered, but Sikes is al most a fixture where he is. Collars may choke, shirts buckle and tails ride up. But your dancing feet are superbly at ease in Mans fields. Ease that will make you want to dance until the stars melt in the sky. Easy on prom-time budgets, too. V, 7 t T TX WIMBERLEY ■ STONE DANSBV W-OTXT' CiOCKlERS BRYAN Save Money On VALENTINE CANDY Read— Aggieland Pharmacy’s Ad. Saturday LET US Clean Your Clothes FOR YOU PATRONIZE OUR AGENTS MODEL GLEANERS Bryan START THE MONTH OFF RIGHT BY USING SINCLAIR GAS AND OIL AGGIE SERVICE STATION E. C. (Red) GREY, Manager Two Blocks East of North Gate Phone C-400 Baylor Cagers Down Aggies 68-36 Tuesday Night Baylor Leads Most of Game Shahan, Bear Captain, Lost for Rest of Year By Eugene C. “Jeep” Oates Baylor continued to serve notice on the world that it is not to be counted out of the basketball race yet, as it annihilated the Aggies Tuesday night to the tune of 68 to 36 in Waco before a crowded gym full of Baylor partisans. The Aggies had the lead but one time, that being early in the first minute when Henderson made good a gift shot. From then on it was all Baylor in general and Vaughn, Frivalsky, and Bryski in particular. Frivalsky scored 12 points in the first half and with the help of Vaughn who scored eight in this period, the Bears held a 31 to 19 advantage at the half time. Henderson, the high scoring lad of the Aggies, was held to four points, two free throws in the first minutes and a basket in the last ten seconds. Coach McQuillan, in trying to cross up the Bears, started Dun can at a guard in place of Jude Smith. This did not work as was planned. In fact nothing worked against the Bruins who are play ing the best basketball of any team in the conference at this time. Anytime the Bears tossed the ball in the air it went in the hoop for two points. They kept the ball most of the game, partly be cause they were taking it away from the bewildered Cadets. Jude Smith was high-scorer for the Aggies with 10 points. Daw son was next in line with nine. The Cadets played the last few minutes against the Bruin reserves and at that time they were able to hold their own. Shahan Lost Capt. Happy Shahan, star player of the Bears, is lost to the team for the remainder of the year. He did not play against the Aggies and it is doubted that he will be able to play again. His eyes have gone bad and he has been advised to quit the sport. The doctors hope that he will be able to play in the Texas games. There were several A. & M. students over to witness the game. Bill Audish, Walemon Price, Tom mie Vaughn and Jimmy Parker were strutting their new football jackets which were drawing a great deal of comment. Baylor used ten players, while the Cadets used nine in trying to stop the onslaught. The Aggies will have a layoff for about two weeks for final ex ams before they start back to play ing. INTRAMURAL HIGHLIGHTS By HUB JOHNSON Battery E Field Artillery is ac claimed winner of the Class A water polo championship... The ‘ole’ intramural outfit used a crew of eleven men to down the 3rd Com bat Train squad. Last year the same team played in the semi-finals but was topped by A Cavalry. This win puts a new light on the upperclass standing for the time being, with another Field Ar tillery team creeping into the top places. * * * * Games for the remainder of the semester are lacking so as to give all the time one might need to “cram”, but immediately after the resuming of classes week after next the finals in Class A touch- football and handball will com mence. This might be a help to some of the teams or it could be a hindrance, for it still remains a reality that new and old students come in at mid-term and more of the same also leave for one reason or another. * * * Again it is called to the at tention of the freshmen that they must register for Physical Edu cation for the second semester un less they have already been credit ed with the course. Those fish who are taking some sports activ ity for credit or those engaged in intramural games are required to register. * * * A note to the managers from “Mr. Penny” thanked them for the cooperation during the past semes ter and wished them luck on their finals. This is passed on to the students as well. BATTALIONS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1940 PAGE 3 Coming Up and Going Out Baylor Cagers Meet T.C.U. Team Saturday WACO, Feb. 1—The Baylor Bears hope to improve their place in the Southwest Conference bas ketball standings here Saturday night when they go up against the T.C.U. Horned Frogs. Coach Ralph Wolf’s charges had no rest this week following their tilt with the Texas Aggies and put in a busy week polishing up their offensive tactics to throw at the Homed Frogs who have failed to show any scoring power in their loop games. The Bruins’ defensive play was up to par in the Aggie game, and the Bears had no trouble finding the basket on most of their shots. The Bear mentor brought in sever al new offensive formations to be used in the T.C.U. battle. Saturday night’s game will be the last conference game for the Bears before meeting the Texas Longhorns in Austin Feb. 10 and will give the Baylor five a whole week to get ready for their all-im portant tilt with the powerful Tex as quintet. Gray foxes, formerly observed rarely except at night, now are seen frequently crossing Texas roads, Game Department biologists report. — Expert Radio Repair STUDENT CO-OP Phone No. 139 North Gate Save Money On VALENTINE CANDY Read— Ag-gieland Pharmacy’s Ad. Saturday Bill Buchanan and Jude Smith, much alike and much different. Smith was a transfer from Tarleton a couple of years ago and will complete his playing this year. Buchanan is also a transfer, coming from Weatherford Junior College. He lettered as an end on the football team last fall. Although not likely to make the grade in the cage sport now, he will see much service. Smith is the only married man on the quint. He is also a track letterman. FORMER STUDENT CLUBS BASK IN GLORY OF PAST FOOTBALL SEASON KERRVILLE Mountaineers from all over the Hill country in the Kerrville sec tion, are expected to be present at the Kerrville Country Club on the night of February 10. Chief at traction of the occasion will be a showing of the Sugar Bowl movies. The pictures will be accompanied by a member of the Aggie coaching staff and Association Secretary E. E. McQuillen. Luke L. Ballard, ’05, Kerrville, is chairman of the Ar rangements Committee and an at tendance of one hundred and fifty or more is expected. AUSTIN ’20, motion pictures of several of last fall’s fotoball games were shown. The meeting was opened by J. W. Williams, ’18, Dallas Club pres ident, who then turned the program over to A. J. Phillips Jr., ’38, sec retary-treasurer of the club and chairman of the arrangements committee for the occasion. A feature of the occasion was the attendance of a large number of younger A. & M. men. The Dallas Club meets regularly each Friday noon at the Adolphus Hotel and plans to hold one night meet ing each month from now until summer. 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Club will entertain with a dinner fea turing the showing of Sugar Bowl Game movies at the Driskill Hotel in Austin Saturday night, February 3. In addition to the pictures, Col onel Ike Asburn and Coach Homer Norton will appear on the program. Ladies are invited and many out of town guests are expected. CORPUS CHRISTI The Corpus Christi A. & M. Club will entertain Coach Homer Norton and see movies of the Sugar Bowl Game at a smoker to be held at the Plaza Hotel in Corpus Christi on the night of February 2. FORT WORTH With Homer Norton, John Kim brough, Joe Boyd and Marion Pugh as honor guests, and with movies of the Sugar Bowl Game as an ad ded attraction, some 500 A. & M. men, their ladies and guests of the Ft. Worth A. & M. Club attended a banquet and show at the Fort Worth Elks Club on the evening of January 24. Following a welcome from club president N. H. Riveire, ’26, the meeting was turned over to toastmaster M. J. Miller, ’ll. Short talks were made by C. P. Dodson, ’ll, president of the Asso ciation of Former Student, and by Coach Norton. Introduced were All- American footballers Joe Boyd and John Kimbrough, as well as Fort Worth’s own Marion Pugh, Asso ciation secretary E. E. McQuillen, ’20, and others. Attendance at the party was swelled by the presence of dele gations from many surrounding cities including Abilene, Stephen- ville, Gatesville, Decatur, Paris, Dublin, Handley, Dallas and others. DALLAS Four hundred members of the Dallas A. & M. Club attended a stag smoker at the Adolphus Hotel last Friday night. The principal speaker of the occasion was Felix McKnight, ’32, Associated Press sports writer. Following McKnight’s talk on Southwestern football and brief remarks by Former Students Asso ciation Secretary E. E. McQuillen, J Of the Big Ten universities, Pur due University has a higher per centage of university-owned hous ing accommodations than any other school. 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