Longhorn Boxing Club Will Sponsor
Tournament for College Pugs in Austin
A letter received from George
Hurt of the University Band says:
The Longhorn Boxing Club of
the University of Texas with the
support of its Faculty Committee
and the Longhorn Band, is plan
ning to sponsor a Boxing Tourna
ment for College Boxers under in
tercollegiate and state regulations
at Austin, Texas, probably March
19 and 20.
Hurt says they want to invite
all the capable, eligible boxers
in Texas colleges and universities,
and they want the president of
the boxing club in each institution
to contact Hurt at P.O. Box 1907,
University Station, Austin, Texas.
The tournament will be conduct
ed under incollegiate rules and will
be open only to amateurs whose
physical condition is certified.
Maybe this is a step in the right
direction to start intercollegiate
boxing in the Southwest Confer
ence.
NOTE TO MANNING SMITH:
For crying out loud why don’t
you let someone know when you
are going to have a basketball
game or something. Ten minutes
before it is going to happen is no
help to anyone.
Texas put Baylor in the shade
Saturday night in Waco, and that
game between Rice and the Steers
tonight in Austin should be a
thriller. The winner of that game
will be the conference champion
and the Steers play their best
when the chips are down, so we
are picking them to win the con
ference, and the game against
the Aggies here Saturday night
will just be another game on the
schedule that has to be played.
Green Bay Defeats Washington 21-0;
New York Giants Trim Chicago 14-0
In the two games Saturday af
ternoon Dookie Pugh starred and
Jackson Webster stood out as he
played for all four teams at dif
ferent times.
Pugh looked good in running and
passing. One of his passes to
Conatser was good for 20 yards
and Conatser ran 25 more for the
touchdown. Pugh scored one of the
touchdowns himself and John Kim
brough added the third for the
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Jeffrey and Spivey did the scor
ing for the New York Giants (B
team). Jeffrey worked the ball
down close on passes to Simmons
and Cowley and then went off
tackle for the coupter. Spivey
scored on an intercepted pass,
Pugh’s drive, Zapalac’s drive and
then Spivey carried around end
for the tally.
Yesterday the football team of
1939 received their long-waited-
for luggage. All players, the coa
ches and G. B. Winstead received
the beautiful tan leather bags.
300 Students Watch
Performance of Jeep
The Halliburton electric log
known as the “Jeep” was run
last week in two wells at the
petroleum engineering practice
field for the benefit of petroleum
and electrical engineers and geol
ogy students through the courtesy
of the Halliburton Oil Well Ce
menting Co. Despite the chill
wind, an estimated 300 students
were on the field.
The first demonstration consist
ed of measuring the temperature
gradient by means of a special
electrode which is automatically
recorded at the surface. This
electrical log may be made at sev
eral different frequencies and the
restivity properties of the rocks
may be investigated at variable
distances from the well by varying
the space of the electrodes.
Sand Tests Met By
Bryan Water Wells
Report from the Southwestern
Laboratories of Dallas, which had
a representative present for the
24-hour test of the new Bryan city
wells, states that the specifications
regarding sand were met.
The contract provided that a
maximum of one ounce of sand
per 100 gallons of water was the
limit, and the report was that all
wells showed considerably less
than this amount, in fact only a
trace.
The other specifications, regard
ing quantity and quality, also have
been met, according to the labora
tory report.
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T.C.U. Frogs Break Losing Streak In Aggie Game
LOWLY T. C. U.
TEAM UPSETS
A. & M., 64-55
Bill Henderson Is High
Scorer of Game With 24
After twenty-two straight con
ference basketball defeats, the T.
C. U. Frogs finally won a game
Saturday night when they defeat
ed the Aggies 64 to 55, in Fort
Worth, despite the suberb shoot
ing of Bill Henderson, who tallied
24 points, and Bill Dawson, who
sank 12 points.
For the first time in two sea
sons the Horned Frogs completely
had control of the game all the
way, going out in front in the first
minute of the game and never once
losing the lead. The game was a
rough and tumble affair, marked
with 40 personal fouls being called
and two Frogs and one Aggie be
ing banished from the game on
fouls.
It was a nip-and-tuck affair the
first half, with the count at the
end of the first period being 30
to 24. With the start of the sec
ond half the Frogs pulled ahead
steadily until at one time they led
15 points, but Henderson dropped
in four straight field goals to close
the gap.
In the final two minutes of the
game there was a total of 20
points scored by both teams.
Box Score
T. C. U. (64)
fg ft pf tp
Abney, f
5
2
2
12
Barron, f
5
2
3
12
Monroe, g
2
0
4
4
Tankersley
4
5
2
13
Holt, g
4
3
2
1
Groseclose, f
1
3
4
5
Duckworth, g
1
1
3
3
Best, g
2
0
0
4
Totals
24
16
20
64
A. & M. (55)
fg ft pf tp
Adams, f
1
0
0
2
Lang, f
2
2
2
6
Duncan, c
1
1
2
3
Dawson, c
4
4
4
12
Henderson, f
10
4
4
24
Varner, g
1
2
3
4
Tinker, f
1
1
3
3
Smith, g
0
1
2
1
Totals
20
15
20
55
Sugar Bowl Pictures
Loaned to Y.M.C.A.
Interstate Theaters have lent the
College Y.M.C.A. their pictures of
the Sugar Bowl game, M. L. Cash-
ion, secretary of the Y, has an
nounced.
The film will be shown Tuesday
afternoon at 3:30 and Tuesday eve
ning at 6:45. All the football
players and members of the Ath
letic Department have been invit
ed to attend free.
This film is one made specially
for Interstate Theaters and has
never before been shown outside
their circuit. It was lent the Y.
M. C. A. to run only on the con
dition that all the college’s foot
ball players and Athletic Depart
ment , members be allowed to see
it free, and this condition has been
fulfilled with the mailing out of
140 invitations to them to attend.
Picture Contest
Winners Selected
Winners of the recent snow scene
contest sponsored by The Aggie-
land Studio and conducted for it
by The Battalion have been an
nounced by judges Bill Murray,
Phil Golman, and Don Andrews.
They are as follows:
First price (a Junior Brownie
camera) goes to R. D. Kenny of
D Coast Artillery for his picture,
a nature study. Mike Beckman,
a graduate student, takes second
place (the prize being a Baby
Brownie) with his human inter
est picture. L. H. Packard of B
Chemical Warfare Service wins
third price (a book on photo
graphy) for a picture showing good
work. And to C. B. Dominy of A
Engineers goes honorable mention
for originality of his picture.
Stated the judges: “There were
so many pictures turned in, and so
many good ones, that we had a
hard time determining the winners.
We wish everyone could have had
a prize.”
Others who turned in some of
the leading pictures in the contest
are as follows: Philip Atmar,
James S. Boyd, Max Melcher, and
N. B. Yearling.
The four pictures judged best
will be published in the February
issue of The Battalion Magazine.
Contest entrants may get back the
photographs turned in from Phil
Golman, Battalion staff photo
grapher, at 37 Legett.
BATTALION,
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1940.
PAGE 3
Aggie Tankers Get Back
After Break-Even Trip
Coach Art Adamson and his Ag--
gie tankers returned home Sun
day after a break-even trip to
various schools and clubs of the
central and north-central section of
the country.
The first opponents for the
cadets were the Sooner tankers
who fell under a score of 50 to
25. The Aggies took over from
the start and continued to hold
the spot throughout.
Ty Hall won the 440, and the
220 while Johnson won the 150
backstroke and Hensley carried off
the 50 and the 100-yard freestyle
dashes. The relay teams won both
the 300 and the 440-yard relays.
Fall to Merimac
Traveling on to St. Louis the
Aggies met their defeat at the
hands of the Merimac Patrol of
the downtown ‘Y\ This was the
first water polo game of the trip.
Johnson and Hensley set the pace
for the Aggies but were held back
by Capt. Eddie Schroeder of the
patrol. The score, 9 to 2.
Illinois U. Victorious
Registering a double win, the Il
linois University swimmers and
water poloists handed the Aggies
a 4 to 3 defeat in the water game
and a 45 to 39 defeat in the events.
Hall again carried off the 440
and Hensley won the 50-yard free
style while the relay team claimed
the 440 event.
In the water polo game, fate
was against the Aggies as well as
the seven Illinois men and Hensley
was pulled from the water in the
first half. The Aggies were then
forced to play with only six men
until the start of the second half
and yet the cadets held the host
scoreless throughout the time of
the handicap.
Senior National Champs Win
The Senior National Champions
of water polo ran up a score of 13
to 5 on the Aggies and remained
undefeated by a collegiate team.
The goalie was said to be the
only difference in the two teams
and it is said that he might en
roll here next year.
Here also many coaches of other
schools in that section of the coun
try were on hand and issued invi
tation for the Texans to play
there next year.
Split With Iowa
Iowa State claimed the winner
of the swimming meet while the
Longhorn Cagers
Invade Aggieland
Late This Week
To the home of the fighting
Texas Aggies comes one of the
top quintets ofthe Southwest Con
ference. The orange and white
basketeers from forty acres over
Austin way will invade Aggieland
late this week for their slated fray
with the Cadets. This game along
with two others to be played the
same night will wind up the bas
ketball season for the year in this
conference. The other two games
are Arkansas vs T.C.U. at Fayette
ville and S.M.U. vs Baylor at
Dallas.
If Texas can shoot the Owls in
their game tonight at Austin, they
can claim a tie for the champion
ship by defeating the Aggies; how
ever, a loss by the Steers retires
them to second place and gives
the title to Rice. And in this con
ference anything can happen.
In the last A. & M. - Texas
game, which was played in Austin
Wednesday, “flashy” bounding
Bobby Moers was kept well bottled
up by J. T. Lang. Four more bot
tles will do the trick Saturday.
Aggies retaliated with a 9 to 3
win in water polo later that eve
ning.
Hall again lived up to his record
and carried off the 440 as well
as the 220 and Johnson was the
150 back. The relay team claimed
the 300-yard event.
The Cyclones blew over when it
came time for the water polo game
and left most of the game in the
hands of Roger Adams who made
all three points for the Iowa team.
Sooner Aggies Lose
As in football so it was also
in swimming for the Oklahoma
Aggies dropped the meet to the
Aggies 34 to 40.
The traveling squad was made
up of Coach Art Adamson, John
son, Hall, Ponthieux, Hensley,
Conway, Couch, Robinson, Ketel-
sen, and Japhet.
Ten Veterans Report
For Baseball at T.C.U.
FORT WORTH, Feb. 24.—Ten
lettermen and some nine sopho
mores will report to Coach Ho
ward Grubbs this week-end as
preliminary work starts on T.C.U.’s
1940 baseball entry.
Only two lettermen from last
year’s fourth place squad are miss
ing, and strong soph replacements
are expected to put the Frogs in
the thick of the conference race.
Shortstop is the post that is
worrying Coach Grubbs right now.
Rusty Cowart, who lettered at
short last year, will be out the
early part of the season because
of a knee operation.
The Frogs will play a number
of practice games in March, tak
ing on the Fort Worth Cats for
a two-game series. Their confer
ence schedule opens at home Fri
day, March 29.
Former Director
Now on Farm Board
Byrd E. White, Dallas attorney
and former member of the board
of directors of the A. & M. College,
has been notified of his appoint
ment as director of the third.dis
trict of the Farm Credit Board,
with headquarters at Houston, in
a telegram from A. G. Black, act
ing governor, in Washington.
Nominations for the post were
submitted in December by the 300
national farm loan associations
in Texas. Mr. Black selected Mr.
White from a field of the three
highest nominees. His appointment
is for a three-year term, suc
ceeding S. F. Britt of Shamrock,
Wheeler County.
The Farm Credit Board has im
portant powers in directing the
operations of the Federal Land
Bank, the Federal Intermediate
Credit Bank, the Bank for Co-op
eratives, and the Production Cred
it Corporation, with business ag
gregating more than three billion
dollars.
Pistol Team Loses
To Austin Police,
Beats Harvard
The A. & M. Pistol Team went
to Austin last Friday with the ex
pectation of running into strong
competition from the Department
of Public Safety team, but it was
the Austin City Police shooters
that beat them. The Austin Po
lice team won with a score of
1122 while A. & M., the Depart
ment of Public Safety and the A.
& M. second team trailed with
scores of 119, 1115 and 1175 re
spectively.
In the slow fire, C. A. Lewis
placed second with 197, Gene Shiels
took third with 196 out of a pos
sible 200 and Bob Shiels was
fourth with 195.
In individual score in team
match L. C. Kennemer was tops
for all teams with 289 out of a
possible 300 and C. A. Lewis was
fourth with 284.
C. A. Lewis and L. C. Kennemer
were third and fourth respectively
in the individual grand aggregate
with Lewis getting 481 out of a
possible 500 and Kennemer get
ting 477.
AGS BEAT HARVARD
In their match of February 24
the cadet marksmen beat Harvard
University of Cambridge, Mass.
1391 to 1176 while the Aggie fresh
men beat the first-year men of
Harvard 1274 to 981.
The varsity match was a walk
over as the lowest Aggie outpoint
ed the highest Harvard scholar by
15 points.
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By HUB JOHNSON
By Myers Batting for Hub
The playoff for the class B
touch-football championship be
tween E Engineers and G Infantry
was won by the Engineers to the
tune of 7-0. In the semi-finals E
Engineers won over G Coast Artil
lery and G Infantry defeated B
Infantry. Both of these games
were won on penetrations, showing
that the top teams were real cham
pions. Members of the winning
team were: Pearl, Kasorak, Hard
wick, Hudson, Sutherland, Casa-
nove, Dixon, Andrews, Carradine,
Henrikson, Flowers, Dedman,
Yancey, and Whilden.
In class A touch-football, we
have a semi-final game between
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