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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 8, 1940)
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1940 THE BATTALION Get Your VALENTINES NOW BEAUTIFUL ASSORTMENT @ 50, 100, 150, & 250 CAMPOS VARIETY STORE Following our usual custom, we wrap and pay postage anywhere LIPSCOMB’S PHARMACY V i CONFUCIUS SAY: MJIfi “Aggies most likely to get uniform he want in Uniform Tailor Shop” Rif You will find our uniforms on the best-turned-out men on the campus. gilfl FISH SLACKS UNIFORM JUNIOR UNIFORMS ICE CREAM PANTS “Made by Mendl and Hornak” TAILOR SHOP North Gate carries a conviction of quality. Four generations have known and enjoyed this drink; Millions of times a day, people the world over experience the thrill of its taste and the refreshed feeling that follows. " mm THE PAUSE THAT R E F ^ Bottled under authority of The Coca-Cola Co. by BRYAN COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO., INC. 9 rV / uk J/ Bib E.C.Jeep' OATES BATTALION SPORTS .EDITOR F. M. Law, Former Battalion Editor, Commends Paper Of Today For Its Stories Dr. F. M. Law, President of the- Board of Directors, has written this column and commended The Battalion for the stories that were written concerning the football ban quet. He says they were good plus. “More power to The Battalion and its editors, of whom I was one in 1894,” said Dr. Law. The Aggie grid team is popular in every part of the world, as •can be seen from the fact that peo ple in all parts of the globe write in for pictures of the cadets. The latest comes from Hideo Uno in Honolulu. He wants pictures of Kimbrough, Thomason, Moser, Boyd, Herb Smith and Marshall Robnett. * T. C. U. lost their 20th straight conference basketball game the other night when S. M. U. gave them another licking. Fred Wolcott, Rice Flyer, Again Makes All-America Track Team in Two Events Aggies Boost ’40 Schedule To 9 Games Play University Of Tulsa In San Antonio Oct. 5 Coach Homer Norton announced yesterday that the Aggies had added Tulsa University to their 1940 grid schedule, bringing the total to nine games for the sea son. The game will be played in San Antonio on October 5. The Aggies played Tulsa last in Tyler two years ago and the cadets defeated them by a 20 to 0 score, however Tulsa has great ly improved their team since that time. Fred Wolcott, the speed demon- of the Rice Institute track team, was given the 110-meter and the 200-meter hurdle berths again on the All-American track and field team picked by Dan Ferris, and is one of the seven men to be named for more than one event. Right at this time there is noth ing going on in sports except the frays between students • and profs. Who will win? . . . well, you guess. Most of the athletes are coming through in fair shape, but this column has seen many students packing their trunks durin’ the last few days. It looks like the track team has suffered the worst blow. “Frog” Johnson was drop ped for the count before the bell could ring. “Red” Cecil will prob ably be running the 440 in addi- U. T. Team Is Favored In Baseball Baylor and A. & M. Tossup for Second By “Jeep” Oates Not far off is the sound of the hickory meeting horsehide. Again this year it appears that the baseball race will simmer down to a three-way dog fight between Baylor, A. & M., and Texas. Texas will again be the favored team and the Aggies and Bruins will be a tossup for the second slot. A. & M. will have a veteran team again this season and will be strong at every position except first base. Lefty Bob Williams left that position open when he graduated last spring and went in to the pro circles. Bill Henderson and Lefty Moon will put on a fight for that position and if neither of them produce, Marion Pugh will move in from outfield. Coach Karow hopes to be able to keep Pugh in the outfield, however. At second base the cadets will have Jack Lindsey and Marland Jeffrey, both lettermen. Chubby Nolen will probably hold down the short field duties and Bob Stone will be at third base for his third season. The outer garden will have Pugh and Jack Cooper, two of the league’s top hitters. The third man will come from one of the infield positions if Bama Smith comes through. Behind the plate the Aggies will be the best fortified of any team in the conference. Jack Doran and “Red” Kirkpatrick are num ber one and two. The pitching staff is the big problem. There are three letter- men hurlers, but it was in this de partment the Karowmen were weak last season. Roy Peden and Ralph Lindsey were the best of the lot last year and they are expected to be able to go this season. Walter “Sam” Bass, hampered with a broken hand last season, may be in shape to burn the ball across this season, but he still hasn’t proven himself. A new addition to the hurling corps is Charlie Stevenson, a husky - - ----1 FOR Eye Examination And Glasses Consult J. W. PAYNE n DOCTOR OF OPTOMETRY i ' Masonic Bldg. Bryan, Tex. Next to Palace Theater -tion to the sprints this spring. Derace Moser went under the doctor’s knife Tuesday night. He is resting well and will be able to be out for track when the first meet comes along. Just another appendectomy. “Mose” will get out of spring football practice though, and he is envied by most of the gridders. Bully Gilstrap, assistant coach at Texas, has already hung up the 1940 grid championship in Austin. He says that Baylor, S. M. U. and A. & M. will be the teams to beat and the Steers play them at home. The Steers won all their home games in ’39, so . . . yeah, SO WHAT . . . The Aggie basketeers meet the tall Razorbacks from the Ozarks here Friday and Saturday nights of next week. $55,000 PURSE POSTED FOR 1940 FAT STOCK SHOW $27,000 In Prizes Offered Student Contestants FORT WORTH.—A grand purse of more than $55,000 has been post ed for various exhibitors and con testants at the Southwestern Ex position and Fat Stock Show, in Fort Worth, March 8-17, John B. Davis, secretary-manager, has an nounced. The premiums include approx imately $27,000 for livestock ex hibits and student judging con tests; $20,000 for rodeo contest ants and special events, and 8,460 for horse show. Livestock entries will close February 17. The Fat Stock Show has sent out a call for all the sheep-shearers of Texas for a statewide cham pionship shearing contest to be held March 8-17. The contest will be a feature of the world championship rodeo and horse show twice daily and prizes of $180 will be awarded, including a purse of $50 to the state champion. L. F. Aston, contest director, said the shearers will be graded on points, using the rules established by the Chicago Flexible Shaft Company. Rodeo tickets are now available lad with a great record from his freshman year. If he comes through as expected he may be the top twirler, but there have been many critics to shake their heads even when he was striking out 12 and 15 men a game. Many of the old baseball followers don’t think he has the follow through to win con ference games. Coach Karow thinks his team will be a contender, but also knows that as long as the “old man,” Coach Billy Disch, is at Texas the Steers will probably have the best team in the circuit. A. & M. will play three games before they open their conference schedule. The three pre-season games will be against Texas A. & I. at College Station, Tulsa Uni versity at San Antonio and Uni versity of California of Los An geles on the Pacific coast. Follow ing the Pacific coast game the Aggies will start into a six-game schedule with members of the Southwest Conference. Estimate On Cost Of Highway Thru College Requested An estimate on the cost of Brazos County’s section of the College Station-Snook-Lyons road has been requested by the State Highway Commission. This road will probably pass through the North Gate across the railroad tracks and by the polo field, pass ing through the communities of Snook and Lyons, and finally in tersecting highway 36 between Sommerville and Caldwell. This request was made in order that appropriations could be made for the work on the road that will become a part of Highway 230. Preparatory orders will be made for the signatures of the members of the commission. It is thought that construction will begin soon after the appropria tions have been passed. People of this and adjoining counties have been active in pushing the move ment for the needed road. Most active in the drive for this project have been Judge Ware and Gibb Gilchrist, who were in Austin re cently conferring with Brady Gen try, chairman of the Highway Commission. The Brazos County Court has already obtained the right-of-way for the section of this county, ex cept that part which must pass through A. & M. College property. However, officials of the college have pledged this strip as soon as the route is definitely decided upon. and plans for the annual world championship classic for cowboys throughout the nation will slip in to high gear this week with the arrival in Fort Worth of Verne Elliott, Johnston, Colorado, rodeo manager. Auditions for speciality acts for the two daily rodeo per formances have been started. At least eight West Texas cities have begun plans to participate in special day events and a roundup of home-town talent. The home town talent programs will be presented in the amusement build ing each morning. These towns are working on plans to participate with delegations and entertainers: Graham, Throckmorton, Coleman, Stamford, Brownwood, Jacksboro, Mineral Wells, and Electra. AGGIES Visit Our MILITARY DEPARTMENT EVERYTHING GUARANTEED TO BE REGULATION AND COLLEGE APPROVED A REMINDER OF THINGS YOU WILL NEED Slacks $12.50 $7.50 Caps $3.50 $3.95 Shirts, Arrow $2.25 Shirts, West Point Bombay _..,$2.00 Aggie Coveralls $2.45 $3.95 Same Browne Belts $2.25 $3.50 Webb Belts 35<t Freeman Shoes ..$3.95 $5.00 Florsheim Shoes $8.95 All Kind of Insignia ..10^ up Dress Ties 50# $1.00 Sta-Ties 50< Shoe Polish 10£ 25< Bedroom Slippers $1.50 $1.95 Tennis Shoes 79£ up BULLOCK & AKIN “Friendly Store Where Prices Talk” $800 Donation To Kirby Loan Fund The student loan funds of the Association are in receipt of the sum of $803.41 following a recent sale of timber from land given several years ago by the Honor able John Henry Kirby. The land PAGE 3 involved, a full section, comprises State Forest No. 3, under the di rection of the Texas Forest Ser vice, of which E. O. Siecke is direc tor. Proceeds from the sale of timber from this tract go to the student loan funds of the associa tion, according to the terms of Mr. Kirby’s gift. WELCOME NEW STUDENTS TRY OUR FINE SEA FOODS DINNERS AND SANDWICHES COLLEGE COORTS COFFEE SHOP (SUCCESSOR TO VAN NOY) V. V. Mercer, Manager SPECIAL FRIDAY AND SATURDAY Vegetables California Lettuce, 2 large heads ..09 Carrots, large bunches, 3 for 10 Avacodos, nice size, each 09 Winesap Apples, large, 1 doz. 15 All other vegetables and fruit on market. Market Armour’s and Decker Bacon, 1 lb. 25 Lamb Chops (Genuine), 1 lb. 30 Lamb Legs (Genuine), 1 lb. 28 Pure Pork Sausage, 1 lb. Roll 15 Fresh Oysters, pts. 30 A. & M. Fryers & Hens, also Crab Meat, Fish and Oysters for Lent. 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