“Fuzzyball” Is New Game Offered By
Intramural Department, Says Spike White
What will come next we don’t
know, but Spike White tells us
they have a new game at the in
tramural department and he says
they call it fuzzyball. Well, I
have heard of all kinds of ball
games now, I GUESS.
Spike says it is something like
badminton only it is played with
paddles and with a fuzzyball. You
can play either doubles or singles
and there are two courts at the
little gym.
If anyone is interested in find
ing out more about fuzzyball, call
at the Intramural Office and Pen
ny, Spike or “Dew Drop” Hoke
will give you the equipment and
show you how it is done. They
say that eight men can play at
the same time.
Kansas State College officials
will get their heads together in a
few days and decide who their next
head coach will be. A representa
tive from that school was down to
see Marty Karow, Aggie baseball
and assistant football coach, a few
days ago and it is thought that
Marty has the inside track on the
job.
Marty is a good man to lose, but
he is in the business as a business
and it is thought that he will take
the job if it is offered him.
Track Team Is in Bad Need of Runners,
Jumpers, Vaulters, Says Coach Rollins
If anyone can run fast or far
jump high or far, or vault high
or higher they should get in touch
with Coach Dough Rollins down at
the track. He is in need of sev
eral men and he says that he
knows that there are some better
track men up on the campus than
he has on his team.
Dough says that this year a let
ter will probably be easier to make
than any other in future years.
Quarter-milers are very much in
demand since Frog Johnson had
his scholastic difficulties.
The Aggie pistol team will leave
at 8:30 Saturday morning for Aus
tin where they will have a shoulder-
to shoulder match with the De
partment of Public Safety men and
the Austin police. A. & M. and
the Public Safety boys are becom
ing big rivals. A win over the
State boys will be a flower in the
Cadets’ magazine.
1940 Football Teams To Engage In First
Scrimmage Wednesday Evening at 4:30
Coach Homer Norton will send
his spring training teams through
their first game scrimmage Wed
nesday afternoon at 4:30. Visitors
are welcome and invited to attend.
The games will be played every
Wednesday and Saturday after
noons on Kyle Field.
Spring training will terminate
March 12 after the regular full
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game on “T” Day March 9.
Now here is someone who is
getting a little gumption into this
bellowing about football subsidiza
tion.
President James L. McConaughy
of Wesleyan University asks ;
“Have we the right to insist that
a college student cease to be an
amateur athlete if his ability in
any way helps him financially to
get through college?” He also
says that the boys are certainly
not harmed by the aid received in
recognition of athletic ability. Al
so the college, donor of the aid,
is not harmed or the administra
tion would discontinue the policy.
Dr. McConaughy is in favor of
letting a college pay its players
if it wants to and it is OK by
him for other colleges to keep
their sports on a purely amateur
basis.
MR., MRS. DICKEY
OF CAIRO, EGYPT,
PARENTS OF GIRL
Announcements have just been
received by many Bryan and Col
lege Station people telling of the
birth of a daughter to Mr. and Mrs.
Calvin Dickey of Cairo, Egypt. The
baby, who has been named Sandra
Ferial, was bom at the Anglo-
American Hospital in Cairo. She
weighed 6 1-2 pounds at birth.
Mrs. Dickey is the former Miss
Blanch Rose. She worked at the
Feed Control Department and at
the A. & M. library for some time.
Mr. Dickey is a graduate of A. &
M..
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Farmers Beat Hogs, 41-38
Tinker Stars
In Fast Game
Saturday Night
Win Is First For Aggies
Over Arkansas Since ’33
With Tommie Tinker ringing the
basket for 15 points besides play
ing a whale of a game in every
other respect, the Aggies trimmed
the Arkansas Razorbacks here
Saturday night 41 to 38.
It was the first cage game the
cadets had won over the lanky
Porkers since February, 1933. At
that time the cadets beat the
Razorbacks 25 to 21 and repeated
the next night 25 to 23, and those
games were played in Arkansas.
The game Saturday night was the
first a McQuillan-coached team
had ever won from Arkansas, and
it was the first game a Rose-
coached Hog team had ever lost
to the Aggies.
Bill Henderson gave the Aggies
their first two points at the end
of two minutes of play and the
cadets never relinquished the lead,
although Howard Hickey did tie
it up at 33-all after 12 minutes
of the second half had been con
sumed. “Frog” Duncan was the
lad who sent the cadets into the
lead again and although they were
battled hard, the cadets outlasted
the visitors to win.
With Tinker, Henderson and
Dawson banging the bucket at will,
the Aggies built up a 30 to 16 ad
vantage in the first period.
Arkansas changed their tactics in
the second and held the Aggie
sharpshooters to three free throws
for 14.5 minutes.
Tinker was high point man with
15 and was trailed by Hickey of
Arkansas with 12. Dawson and
Henderson each gleaned eight
points.
A. & M. used only six players:
Duncan, Tinker, Dawson, Hender
son, Varner and Stevenson. Steven
son subbed for Duncan.
Dutch Meyer Says
Frogs Look Good
FORT WORTH, Feb. 17.—One
week of spring grid practice has
almost made Coach Dutch Meyer
forget that his Horned Frogs fin
ished the 1939 season in the next-
to-cellar position, lowest spot since
1924.
“The boys look so good I’m
afraid to believe it!” Meyer ob
served. “We’re going to have two
full elevens with almost equal
ability, which means that our re
serve strength will be much better
than last year. If we don’t climb a
few notches up the conference lad
der I’ll be a very much surprised
coach.”
Particularly pleased is the
Dutchman with a sophomore back-
field of speedsters—Dean Bagley,
quarter; Gus Bierman, left half;
Leslie Curb, right half; and Bill
Ramsey, full.
More than satisfactory, too, has
been the switch of Jack Odle to left
half and Connie Sparks to left
end on the “A” team.
And Meyer doesn’t complain
about a first-string line of six
lettermen and one sophomore that
averages around 210, backed up by
seven relief men who will average
almost 200.
Most of the first week’s practice
sessions was devoted to work on
a running attack. The 66 candi
dates have been divided into two
squads—the Purples and the
Whites^—and two games will be
played each week on Wednesday
and Saturday.
Walton Is Speaker
At Brenham C. of C.
Dinner Friday Night
*
Dr. T. O. Walton was the princi
pal speaker at the annual banquet
of the Brenham Chamber of Com
merce, held Friday night, Febru
ary 16. He was accompanied by
Col. Ike Ashbum, H. E. Burgess,
president of the Bryan Chamber
of Commerce, and a delegation
from Bryan.
Several members of the Texas
Senate and House of Representa
tives, along with delegations from
Houston, Austin, Temple, and sev
eral towns in between were also
present.
Entertainment was provided for
the 400 present by a group from
Fort Worth’s Casa Manana Revue.
The banquet was held in the
American Legion Home by the
Brenham Legion Auxiliary.
BATTALIONS
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1940. PAGE 3
Abolition of Semester Rule Allows
More High-School Boys To Play Ball
AUSTIN, Texas.—For every high
school football player disqualified
under the new 18-year Interscho
lastic League rule, two will par
ticipate who would have been
ineligible under the former eight-
semester regulation, University of
Texsa League officials believe.
“By stressing an age limit, we
lose 1,368 older boys who could
have returned under the semester
rule,” R. J. Kidd, League athletic
director, explained. “On the other
hand, we’ll gain exactly 2,990 who
will still be under 18, but will have
competed eight semesters’ attend
ance in school. That’s an increase
of 1,662 or 54 per cent.
“What we’re trying to do is
make it possible for more Texas
boys to play football without low
ering either education’s or the
game’s standards.”
Kidd also contended that the
quality of players will not be im
paired by the age-limit reduction,
pointing to the fact that only five
of the 22 boys on the 1939 all-state
football squad were 18. Of the re
mainder four were 16, 13 were sev
enteen.
The plan was adopted to elimin
ate friction over the eight-semester
rule that had arisen between 11-
grade and 12-grade schools, since
the latter system objected to the
semester ruling as unfair because
it eliminated students in the
twelfth grade. Under the new sys
tem the number of semester of par
ticipation will be unimportant.
League officials pointed out that
the State Department of Educa
tion has decided on a 12-grade
school system for Texas and that,
therefore, any discrimination
against the system by the League
would be in conflict with the
Board.
EX-AGGIE TOM
BAGLEY MARRIES
LOCAL GIRL HERE
The marriage of Miss Margaret
Sims, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. E.
R. Sims of Austin, and Thomas
Bittle Bagley, of Houston, son of
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Bagley of Col
lege Station, was solemnized re
cently at the St. Thomas Episcopal
Chapel at College Station. Rev.
Roscoe Hauser Jr., rector of the
chapel, read the vows.
As the nuptial solo Mrs. Daniel
Russell sang “Oh, Perfect Love,”
She was accompanied at the piano
by Mrs. Ford Munnerlyn, who also
played the traditional wedding
music.
The bridegroom was attended by
W. L. Hughes of Houston as best
man. Henry Greaser and Lucian
Morgan were ushers.
Mrs. Bagley has lived in Bryan
for almost three years, the past
two of which she served as librar
ian of Bryan Carnegie Library. Be
fore taking that position she was
librarian at the Cushing Memorial
Library at A. & M. College.
Bagley was graduated from A.
& M., and following his gradua
tion was employed by the Brazos
Valley Cotton Cooperative Associa
tion. He later went to New Or
leans, Louisiana, and worked with
a prominent cotton firm. The past
few years he has been associated
wtih Anderson-Clayton Company in
Houston.
_ A. Gaffney, S. C. school teacher,
returned the free textbooks, ex
plained that all the pupils had
“quit to get married.” There were
five pupils in the grade, all 16 to
18 years old.
Aggies Leave
For Game With
Texas Steers
Will Encounter Ponies
And Frogs During Week
The Aggie cagers leave for
Austin in the morning for their
first game with Texas, which will
be played in Gregory Gym tomor
row night before an expected
crowd of some 6,000 fans.
Texas has led the league most
of the year, but were displaced
by Rice after the Steers were
licked by S.M.U. the other night.
That defeat will make the Steers
just double tough. They play their
best when the chips are down and
they are down now as Texas knows
that they must win all of their re
maining games if they are to win
the conference flag.
In Bob Moers, Slue Hull and
Houpt, Texas offers three of the
best players in the conference, and
in Moers they offer one of the
best fan-pleasers in the country.
He is a showman from way back,
but at the same time he is play
ing some pretty fair country ball
on offense, even if he is from the
city of Houston.
After playing Texas, the Aggies
go to Ft. Worth where they will
meet the T. C. U. Frogs, winners
of no conference games so far.
Saturday night and then journey
over to Dallas and play S. M. U.
on Monday night. A. & M. is the
only team that T. C. U. has a
chance of beating and the Frogs
will be gunning for them. The
cadets beat them earlier in the
year at College Station. A. & M.
also beat S. M. U. earlier in the
year at College Station, but the
Ponies will be hard to ride in Dal
las after their win over Texas.
Coach Hub McQuillan will take
practically his entire ball club to
all three of these games.
The Aggie freshmen will also
play tomorrow night against the
Texas Yearlings and rumors say
that the Yearlings are very strong
this season.
A. & M. will end the season here
March 2 when Texas invades the
cadet haunts.
Sophomores Now
Allowed To Join
Accounting Society
At a recent business meeting,
the Al & M. Accounting Society
unanimously voted to permit all
sophomores majoring in accounting
and statistics to become a member
of the society effective for the
term beginning this month.
Prior to this term it has been
the custom of the society to ac
cept only the junior and senior
majors of accounting. However,
due to the increasing interest
shown by the sophomores and al
so to increasing enrollment in the
accounting school, membership to
the society has been made available
to the sophomores. All eligible
sophomores are expected to take
advantage of the newly-adopted
custom.
Initiation of all new members is
now being planned by the com
mittee in charge, and all members
will be advised as to the date and
place of the initiation.
Due to the increase of the so
ciety’s membership two banquets
are being planned this year instead
of the usual one.
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INTRAMURAL
r HIGHLIGHTS
By HUB JOHNSON
It was a wide-open day yester
day at the Intramural Office and
on the various fields as new sports
for each class got under way and
these already on the books were
continued with the change of
weather.
The odor of liniment, the smell
of perspiring bodies once again
filled the gym as the first wrest
ling matches of the year came off
last night. Thirty-nine of them
to be exact. The outcome of ail
these matches will be given next
time.
The water polo championship
moved E Battery Field Artillery
up nearer the top of the list. Yet,
still at the upper peak is C Field
Artillery with F Engineers tied up.
each claiming 245 points in four
sports.
In the 230 bracket with four
games are E Field Artillery and
A Chemical Warfare; and I In
fantry and A Field Artillery each
claim a tie on the third place (or
would you call it fifth and sixth ?).
each having 225 points.
Handball and horseshoes yester
day as the new ones for the fish,
and volleyball and horseshoes were
the strangers for the upperclass
men; although, the old horseshoe
slingers could hardly be called
strangers as for the past week and
a half the shoes and the poles
have been ringing in all the out'
of-the-way spots. Back of Hart
Hall there is always a pretty good
game as well as over the new
dorm area. And while speaking of
the new dorm area, someone asked
the other day when they were
going to stop calling them new
dorms. It’ll probably be when
they begin to fade a bit.
Tom Ackerman, will be in top
shape and promises a great show
for the Minor Sports Days.
Further plans will be discussed
at a meeting of the captains or
representatives of each team in a
meeting that will be announced in
the mess halls.
Glen Duncan, the past manager
of C Field Artillery, is now heard
from on the West coast where he
is pushing one of Uncle Sam’s fly
ing birds around. He’s actually
gone to the Air Corps.
Three of the teams have been
heard from regarding their oppon
ents for the Minor Sports Days
to be held this semester.
Major Burnett, coach of the polo
team, says his team will have a
worthy opponent to cross mallets
with on the selected day. Captain
Enslow, coach, and Bob Shiels,
captain of the pistol team are for
the plan one hundred per cent and
will have as their opponent one
of the outstanding teams of the
state. The third sport is that of
fencing. This team, captained by
A month after she was divorced
from Robert Vestal, 17, Lucille
Stanton, 14, of Houston, Mo., be
came a bride for the second time
when she was married to Ray
Johnson, 21.
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