Conference Baseball Season To Open Friday
T.C.U. Will Win Second Place in Baseball
According to Willard Ridings’ Publicity
It may have been known all the
time, but it is news to me to find
T. C. U. taking what honors are
left after Billy Disch’s Texas
Longhorns finish their annual bus
iness of winning the diamond flag.
J. Willard Ridings, publicity shark
of the Fort Worth school, is quot
ed as saying just that.
He says the Frogs will have a
veteran squad and that is true,
but flops are flops regardless of
whether they are veterans or not.
The Frogs will open their con
ference season tomorrow against
a weak team from S. M. U.
Rifle Team Wins Eighth Corps Area
Championship Over Oklahoma A. & M.
C. A. Lewis, W. E. Lewis, Bert
Burns, Stanley Krogstad, and W.
T. Guy got together for the Wil
liam Randolph Hearst trophy
match which is the same as the
Corps Area matches and took first
place with a 938 over Oklahoma
A. & M. which was second with
931. Arizona was third, New Mex
ico A. & M. was fourth and New
Mexico Military Institute was
fifth.
Awards will be given to the
three top teams.
The Aggies have been second in
this match for the past few years,
but this time they whipped out
and grabbed top honors.
The national champion will be
selected in these matches from the
winners of all corps areas. The win
ning team having the highest score
will be placed at the top.
A funny thing is the fact that
the high school teams always have
a much higher score than the se
nior college teams and we have
found out just why this is.
The matches are fired by mail
“Sears Roebuck style”, and tb!
scores are certified by an officer
or instructor. The high-school lads
fire all their targets from a prone
position and thus run up large
scores. The instructor certifies
them and there they are.
It is said that all the high
schools do it and they must con
tinue to do it to have a chance
with schools that do it anyway.
In other words this high-school
shooting is a big laugh and so are
the instructors that certify to a
plain and simple lie.
The sports calendar shows that
the Aggies play Rice in a couple
of baseball games Friday and Sat
urday, the tennis team meets
Wayne University here Friday af
ternoon, the track team goes to
Austin to run Texas Saturday and
the golf team meets someone here
Monday. The freshman baseball
team is due to play this week if
the ground is dry enough.
Survey Shows That
Medical Profs Go By
336 Different Titles
Long known for their two-bit
words and ominous sounding phras
es, the medical professors of in
stitutions of higher learning have
come in for a bit of ribbing be
cause of them.
Western Reserve University’s
Dr. Frederick C. Waite made a
special survey recently and found
that 55 U. S. medical schools have
devised 336 different kinds of titl
es for their 2418 professors.
Here are a couple of stumpers
from his list: “professor of cardio-
vascularrenal diseases” and “pro
fessor of otOrniolaryngology.”
Of the 435 departments of engi
neering in U. S. colleges, 75 per
cent do not require theses for bach
elor degrees.
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Aggies Meet Owls
On Kyle Field To
Open League Play
Coach Marty Karow’s baseball
team will open its conference sea
son here Friday afternoon at 3:30
when they meet the Rice Owls
from Houston. The Owls lost two
and won one to the Cadets last
season, but that one win put the
Aggies out of the running for the
Conference flag.
These same two teams will meet
again Saturday afternoon with the
game called for 2:30.
The Owls will not be at full
strength as Placido Gamos, Frank
ie Carswell and Pepper, three of
their stars, are still tied up with
basketball.
Coach Cecil Griggs has been
playing almost every male student
at the Institute in an effort to
find nine men who can play top-
notch ball. In one tilt he used
almost thirty men in an effort to
find a combination that would
work.
The Owls have lost games to
Grand Prize, a team which the
Karowmen split a two-game play.
A. & M. has veterans at almost
every position. Pugh is new at
first base, but he is a letterman
brought in from the outfield. At
second base Jack Lindsey and
Mar land Jeffrey, two letterman,
still are dividing time. “Red” Bal-
low at short is a new man, brought
in to fill the shoes of Chubby No
len, but it looks like the little man
can hold down the position in good
shape.
Bob Stone is playing his last
year at the hot corner and he can
fill the bill with the best of them.
A new face in the outfield is John
Scoggins, but it looks like he may
be the leading hitter of the team
when June rolls around.
Captain Dave Alsobrook is a
fixture in center and he is the
top center fielder in the league.
Jack Cooper, conference batting
champ in 1938, is in right field.
In “Red” Kirkpatrick and Jack
Doran, the cadets have the class
of the conference behind the plate.
The pitching staff of veterans
Walter Bass, Roy Peden and Ralph
Lindsey is bolstered by Lefty
Bumpers and Charlie Stevenson,
two boys who should win lots of
ball games.
In games to date the cadets
have split with Grand Prize, won
from Randolph and lost two to
Beaumont.
Just who Karow will put on the
hill is a guess, but he will prob
ably start Bass Friday and Stev
enson Saturday.
Rice may start one team Fri
day and have an entirely differ
ent one Saturday.
INTRAMURAL
HIGHLIGHTS
HUB JOHNSON
A week’s vacation should have
been enough but it seems as though
many outfits took another day.
As a result more forfeits and
double forfeits were rendered than
actual games played.
Something new seems to be un
der way for an Engineer soft-
ball team. Gunter Koetter is
planning on leading his A Com
pany Engineers against a team
from a Houston softball league.
The plans are to play the game
in Bryan some night soon.
This was tried by Jack Fugate’s
Aggie Cleaners this summer when
they traveled south to play a
church team in Houston.
Tonight the semi-finals in both
classes of boxing come off with 26
good bouts for the bill.
Jacobs, 159 champ, will meet
some of the toughest blows yet
this year as he defends his title
against Lippard . . . Howard, the
Boxing Club president, will face
an eager and sly Castleberry al
so in the 159 class . . . Kerr, who
has been wrestling and boxing
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THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1940
PAGE 5
Cadets of “West Point of the Air”
Vie with Grey-clad Corps at U.S.M.A.
Close-up view of one of the platoons of Flying Cadets passing
in review during a recent military ceremony held at Randolph Field,
Texas, the “West Point of the Air” and home of the Army Air Corps
Primary Flying School.
In addition to being taught to fly a plane, each Flying Cadet
must also learn the rudiments of close order drill. Commanded by
Cadet officers chosen from the upper classmen at Randolph Field,
these future pilots of Uncle Sam’s planes compare favorably, on the
parade ground, with their grey-clad brothers of the United States
Military Academy at West Point, N. Y.
New classes of Flying Cadets begin their training at Randolph
Field every six weeks. While in training these picked young Ameri
cans between the ages of 20 and 27 receive $75 per month, uniforms,
board and lodging and other services.
A. & M. Rifle Team Wins Hearst Trophy
At Eighth Corps Area R.O.T.C. Match
The A. & M. rifle team won the
Eighth Corps Area National R.
O. T. C. Rifle Competition, the
William Randolph Hearst Trophy
for 1940.
The team riot only fired the
highest team score in the match,
but also the second highest indi
vidual score was fired by a mem
ber of the Aggie squad. The
number one Aggie team, three
teams being entered, won the first
place, with the number 2 and 3
teams placing seventeenth and
eighteenth respectively, in a field
of twenty-three teams.
The colleges which entered
teams in the match were these:
Texas A. & M., Oklahoma A. & M.,
University of Arizona, New Mexi
co A. & M., New Mexico Military
Institute, John Tarleton Agricul
tural College, Colorado School of
Mines, and Texas Technological
College. The Aggie team’s win
ning score was 938; highest indi
vidual score was 191.
The William Randolph Hearst
match is held each year in the
Eighth Corps Area. The trophy
in intramurals for the last four
years faces Golden in the 129
classic with Riordan and Pendle
ton battling it out for the sec
ond spot ... In the heavyweight
class Joeris takes on Blessing, the
only fighter of the class who has
actually fought and won a fight
this year (he defeated Russell),
and Smith goes up against the
heavy wrestler Carson . . . Davis
and Florence and Bownds and Mc-
Larty fight it out in the 149
class, and next to the 159 division,
these should be the best of the
evening . . . For places on the
179 branch, Ramage tangles with
Smith and Reeves goes up against
Holzheauser . . . Newton and
Harvey throw them in the 139
with Kielman and Lowry in the
second . . . Casey goes to fight
and not bat this time as he takes
on Taylor, and Hernan fights
Blankenship in the 169 classics . ..
already in Class B, Grigsby and
Cain are standing by waiting for
the finals as they were the only
two entered in this weight.
A close-out in horseshoes was
the height of the program Tues
day afternoon and yesterday many
of those games scheduled were
cancelled due to the swimming
meet. A Engineers defeated L
Infantry 3 to 0 with Nalley, Val
entino, Fuqua, King, Prejean, and
Koetter throwing the curved shoes
for the castle boys.
Other games were H Infantry’s
forfeit to Machine Gun Cavalry,
M Infanry and 2nd Combat Train’s
double forfeit, and B Signal Corps
2 to 1 win over D Cavalry.
is usually in the form of a plaque
with a service rifle and other
shooting equipment in bas relief
around its outer edges. These
trophies won by Aggie rifle teams
in these meets add greatly to the
military prestige of A. & M. and
form an important part of the
school’s military history.
The members of the winning
Aggie team are: Charles A. Lewis,
William E. Lewis Jr., Stanley F.
Krogstad, Bert H. Burns, and
William T. Guy.
New Uniform Blouse
Now Being Displayed
A uniform blouse, cut to the
newly authorized pattern, is now
on display for the cadets in the
window of J. B. Lauterstein’s Mil
itary Supplies Store at the North
Gate.
The new regulation concerning
the tailoring of the service coat
was issued by Col. George F.
Moore, Commandant, a few days
before the holidays and this is the
first coat made according to the
new specifications for the corps
to see. The pattern for the new
coat calls for a bi-swing back, and
the model on display has a piece
of silk-webbing across the back
of the shoulders to allow further
action.
The purpose of the new design
is to make the coat more comfort
able as well as improve its appear
ance. The Commandant has ruled
that old style blouses may either
be worn until no longer serviceable,
or be altered to follow the new
specifications.
Dallas Utility Firm
Interviewing Seniors
J. B. Norvell, assistant secre
tary in charge of personnel for
the Dallas Power and Light Com
pany, and Mr. Davis, another com
pany representative, have been on
the campus for the past few days
interviewing senior students in
electrical engineering, mechcanical
engineering, and accounting. The
interviews were arranged under
the supervision of Lucian Morgan,
head of the placement bureau.
The work of the placement bu
reau in arranging such interviews
between students and prospective
employers is only a small part of
the work of the bureau. Mr. Mor
gan has now gathered into folders
the personal leaflets of those se
niors who had them made, and the
placement bureau is now prepar
ing to send' these departmentalized
folders to companies in Texas
which need to employ men. More
than 400 of the graduating seniors
had personal leaflets printed.
Oklahoma Aggies Down Fellow Texas
Aggies With Smashing Tennis Defeat
With the gravel tennis courts
too wet to play on, the Texas Ag
gies and Oklahoma Aggies moved
over to the concrete ones yesterday
and the visitors plastered a shut
out against Coach Manning Smith’s
Texas netters. The Oklahoma Ags
won all four singles and the two
doubles matches.
The Texans were at a loss on
the faster concrete and the Okla
homans took advantage of their
faster game.
In the singles Counts trimmed
Mitchell 6-2, 6-1; Karlovich beat
Givens 6-love, 6-2; Malayhy turn
ed back Giles 6 love; 6 love; and
Williams beat Campbell 6-3, 6-1.
In the doubles, Counts and Wil
liams teamed to beat Mitchell and
Givens, 6-2, 6-4. In the number
two doubles, Karlovich and Malay
hy paired to trim Adams and Krez-
dorn, 6-1, 6 love.
THANKSGIVING TO BE
NOVEMBER 21, SAYS
PREXY’S SECRETARY
Illinois Wesleyan University’s
football manager believes in tak
ing no chances—so he recently
wired President Roosevelt:
“I and hundreds of other foot
ball managers over the country
would like to know the exact date
for Thanksgiving in 1940.”
A presidential secretary wired
back: “The date will be November
21, 1940.”
MR. H. P. SMITH OF THE
Texas Agricultural Experiment
Station will lecture on “Mechani
cal “Cotton Pickers” in the as
sembly room of the Textile Engi
neering Building on Thursday,
March 28 at 10 o’clock. Mr. Smith
is regarded as an authority on
this subject and everyone inter
ested in this field is invited to at
tend.
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The Texas Cadets will come
back Friday afternoon and try
their luck against the strong Way
ne University team which is play
ing a series through this section.
Wayne was undefeated in compe
tition in 1939.
Coach Manning Smith is hoping
that the weather will permit the
use of the gravel courts for this
match as well as all the remaining
ones.
E. B. “ERNIE” MEYNARD, SE-
nior engineering student, was re
cently featured in the Southern
Pacific Bulletin, the official or
gan of the Texas and Louisiana
Lines of the S. P. Along with his
picture was given a short sketch
of his achievements at A. & M.,
which include being on the list of
“Who’s Who Among Students in
American Universities and Col
leges”.
His Stars
of the
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