THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1940
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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
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-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.
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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
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