SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1940
THE BATTALION
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BASEBALL SCHEBULE IS ANNOUNCES
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E.C.Jcep' OATES
BATTALION SPORTS EDITOR
By Jimmie Cokinos, Pinch-Hitting
Aggie Athletes Undergo
Acid Test During Finals
The acid test for Aggie athletes
will be in session all during the
coming week and the profs will be
the coaches in charge. Several of
the promising freshman football
stars are hanging by a thread in
an effort to become eligible for
the varsity team which begins in
spring training the latter part of
this month. As for the varsity
players, they seem to be hanging
on the ropes and are making a
pretty fair stand against the on
ward rushes of final examinations.
But amid all the turmoil and ex
citement that usually accompanies
final examination week, the Texas
Aggie cagers still find time to
go through their daily workouts
with the same old pepper and zip.
Finding themselves in the win col
umn with more than two victories
to their credit—something unusual
for an Aggie cage team—they are
not taking any chances of stray
ing off form and are still having
their workouts.
Sports Will Reawaken
Following Exam Week
With the beginning of the sec
ond semester there comes an up
rising of Aggieland sports. In
tramural activities enter into a
new season. Spring football will
find some 75 athletes striving to
keep the glory that A. & M. gain
ed this past season. And the Aggie
cage squad will be writing finis
to an already successful basketball
schedule.
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Sammy Dwyer Again To Be
Eligible for Basketball
Also coming in with the arrival
of the sports will be the addition
of Sammy Dwyer who has been
on the Dean’s list but who is now
in good grace again. Sammy, be
fore he was declared ineligible last
year, was the “guiding light” of
the basketball team and was the
sparkplug of the Aggie offense.
With Dwyer becoming eligible
for the team Coach McQuillan’s
hopes of beating Texas this season
do not look so dark. Sammy has
a nice eye for the basket and is
good at bringing the ball from
in mid-court to take a crip shot.
He is also a star at “feeding” a
teammate and he follows the ball
like a hawk.
INTRAMURAL
HIGHLIGHTS
By HUB JOHNSON
Intramural games as by the def
inition—games within walls—are
a bit one-sided the later part of
this week with the prof in front
of the room usually on the top
or favorite side.
Freshmen are again reminded
that they must sign for Physical
Education the second semester. If
you are participating in a fresh
man sport or if you are taking
part in intramural activities, you
are still required to sign for the
course.
With the last submitting of en
try cards all organizations and the
First Corps Headquarters entered
teams in Class A horseshoes and
volleyball and all organizations
entered freshman teams in Class B
horseshoes and speedball.
Mr. and Mrs. Elisha J. Farns-
vorth announce the marriage of
heir daughter, Betty Maxine, to
itoy O. Klossner, ’38, son of Mr.
ind Mrs. R. H. Klossner, of Pharr,
»n January 14, at Pharr, Texas,
dr. and Mrs. Klossner are at home
o their many friends at 1211
laplin, Houston, Texas.
Herman G. Cox., ’28, Fort Worth
architect, has been elected presi
dent of the Fort Worth Kennel
Club for 1940. When not engaged
in his hobby, Cox is a partner in
the firm of C. M. Leve and Com
pany, architects and engineers, 314
South Henderson, Fort Worth.
Bruins Prepared
For Cage Contest
With Horned Frogs
WACO, Feb. 2.—Clinging des
perately to slim title hopes, the
Bruins clash with the lowly T.
C. U. Horned Frogs Saturday night
in the first engagement of the
season between the two teams.
Hopelessly entrenched in the
cellar, the Toads will be fighting
to salvage something from a disas
trous season by knocking over one
of the leaders and would like noth
ing better than to upset the Bruins,
who last year made merry at the
expense of a weak Frog team.
After a disappointing start which
found the Bruins consecutive week
end upset victims of S. M. U. and
A. & M., Coach Ralph Wolf’s
charges hit the comback trail to
triumph in four of five games, in
cluding two-game series with both
Arkansas and Rice.
Tuesday night the Bears clim
axed their sensational spurt toward
the top with an overwhelming vic
tory over the Aggies, scoring 68
points almost at will to 36 for the
hopeless Aggies who had previously
virtually eliminated the Bruins at
College Station.
Perched at the top with only one
loss are the University of Texas
Longhorns. The Steers have one
game remaining with Rice and two
with Baylor as formidable foes in
their quest for the championship.
Clinging to the runner-up spot
with two losses are the Rice Owls,
victims of Texas and Baylor.
Looming as outstanding threat to
the Owl title hopes are the Razor-
backs who will invade Houston
with title hopes despite three pre
vious losses.
Although the Longhorns have
the inside track for the title, a two-
way tie is not impossible. Should
Baylor win all of its remaining
games and Arkansas defeat Rice
the Bruins would finish the season
in a two-way tie with either Texas
or Rice.
Aggies Will
Play Seven
Home Games
Schedule of Pre-Season
Games Not Yet Completed
Baseball, America’s greatest
game, made its first pre-season
move here yesterday as the Ath
letic Office announced the official
Southwest Conference Schedule for
1940 for the Aggies.
Eight road games and seven
home games go to make up the
hard assignment before Coach
Marty Karow and his boys.
Rice Institute heads the list of
opponents for the cadets, playing
here March 29 and 30, and the Uni
versity of Texas as in the past is
scheduled for the season closer.
Pre-season games have not been
announced as all games planned
have not been officially scheduled.
A Southwest Conference rule
states that baseball practice can
not begin before March 1 but it is
believed that the date will find the
Aggie squad on the field rounding
back into shape.
The following is the schedule as
released:
March 29-30—Rice, here.
April 4-5—Texas Christian, here.
April 11-12—Southern Methodist,
Dallas.
April 13—Texas Christian, Fort
Worth.
April 16—Rice, Houston.
April 20—Texas, here.
April 26-27—Baylor, Waco.
May 4—Southern Methodist,
here.
May 11—Baylor, here.
May 17-18—Texas, Austin.
Ninety-five per cent of the Cor-
ell University students have a re-
gious preference.
American Youth
Orchestra To Be
Professional Body
The All-American Youth Orche
stra of 109 persons being recruited
through the National Youth Admi
nistration’s State office for Leopold
Stokowski’s Latin-American trip
next summer, will be a paid, pro
fessional organization, according to
a message received today from Mr.
Stokowski.
The famed orchestra leader ad
vised N.Y.A. administrator Aubrey
Williams that he plans to continue
the orchestra after its planned two
or three months’ “good will” tour
to South and Central America, re
plenishing it yearly with new
youthful talent, and providing a de
gree of recognition for the orche
stra that may make it almost a
“musical Olympics”.
The 51 state offices of the N.
Y. A. are still receiving applica
tions in large numbers, and pre
liminary auditions have already be
gun in several states to select the
best musicians. Applications will
be received up to February 15,
from young people, N.Y.A. or non-
N.Y.A., about 15 to 25 years of
age. Many thousands of applica
tions have already been received.
Applications for membership in
this group are on file in the Stu
dent Labor Office and open to
any student of A. & M., student
employment director Ormond R.
Simpson has announced.
Municipal Engineering
Department WiU Offer
New Courses Next Term
The department of Municipal
and Sanitary Engineering has been
authorized to repeat one under
graduate course in the second
semester, MSE 406, Sanitation and
Public Health. Three graduate
courses will also be offered for the
first time: MSE 509, “Industrial
Hygene” (2-2), three hours credit.
This course deals wtih occupational
hazards and diseases, industrial
poisons and dusts, methods of air
examination and factory sanita-
Oklahoma Aggies
Have Outstanding
Basketball Record
STILLWATER, Okla.—Most re
markable characteristic of Coach
Henry Iba’s Oklahoma Aggies this
season is their ability to win on
the road, a performance that
stamps the 1939-40 Oklahoma A. &
M. College varsity as the great
est college basketball team turn
ed out in Oklahoma during the last
decade and gains it second rank
ing in the nation at present.
The Aggies to date have won all
but one of 16 games, and 13 of
these 16 games were played on
foreign courts. Oddly enough, the
only contest lost by the team was
played away from home, a 30-34
decision to the University of Kan
sas at Lawrence.
Since that loss to the Jayhawkers
early in the season, the Aggies
have won 12 games on the road
and three at home. The away-from.
home record includes an impres
sive list of victims, beginning with
a sweep of five games during a
tour east in December with vic
tories over City College of New
York, La Salle College of Phila
delphia, Duke University, George
Washington and Loyola University
of Chicago.
Then, the Aggies bowled over
four stiff opponents at Oklahoma
City, Texas Christian, Southeast
ern (Okla.) Teachers, University of
Arkansas and Texas Tech, to gain
the Oklahoma invitational tourney
championship.
Just recently A. & M. downed
Drake University at Des Moines,
Creighton University at Omaha
and Washburn College at Topeka to
take over undisputed leadership
in the Missouri Valley conference
as the only unbeaten member in
the league.
In winning 15 straight games
from New York City to Omaha,
Nebraska, the Aggies have bowled
along with an offense averaging
37 points a game while holding op
ponents to an average of 26 points
a game. Point total are 588 for
A. & M. to 422 for their oppon
ents.
University of Vermont has a
special student ski patrol to super
vise the running of ski races and
to aid injured skiers.
tion; MSE 510, “Industrial Wastes”
(2-0), two hours credit. This deals
with amounts and characteristics
of the commoner industrial wastes,
their efforts upon sewage treat
ment problems and methods of
treatment; and MSE 511, “Public
Administration and Epidemiology,”
(4-0), credit four hours, this course
covers the organization and func
tions of federal, state, county and
city health departments and the
principles of epidemiology.
FOR THE FIRST TIME!
Single Commemorative A. & M.
DINNER PLATES
Mag Be Purchased
No. 1. Gathright Hall
Erected 1876
No. 2. Civil Engineering Bldg.
Erected 1909
No. 3. Sbisa Mess Hall
Erected 1912
No. 4. Academic Building
Erected 1912
No. 5. Guion Hall
Erected 1918
No. 6. Agricultural Building
Erected 1923
No. 7. Kyle Field Stadium
Erected 1927
No. 8. Cushing Memorial Library
Erected 1929
No. 9. T. O. Walton Hall
Erected 1931
No. 10. Administration Building
Erected 1932
No. 11. Veterinary Hospital
Erected 1932
No. 12. Chemistry Building
Erected 1933
These beautiful plates are made by Wedgwood in England on Ivory Queensware. They
will make an excellent gift for Graduation, Birthdays, Wedding or Anniversaries and
are ideal Mother’s Day gifts
ORDERS mi RE TAKEN TWO WEEKS ONLY
BEGINNING FEBRUARY 12
Plates Will Be Delivered May 10th
SEE DISPLAY AT THE EXCHANGE STORE
Jack Calhoun
Hall No. 13
STUDENT REPRESENTATIVES
J. G. Wortham Roy Grobe
Project House No. 12
No. 26, P. G. Hall
Edgar Butschek
Project House No. 16