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THE BATTALION
■THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1940
They Direct Ex-Student Activities
.Above are shown several members of the board of directors of the
A. & M. Former Students Association, at a recent corps dance. In the
group left to right are N. H. “Paul” Riveire, ’26, of Fort Worth; Cap
tain Victor A. Barraco, ’15, of Houston; Association president C. P.
Dodson, ’ll, of Decatur; George G. Smith, ’30, of Waco; and G. Gra
ham Hall, ’13, of Houston. They were at A. & M. to attend the meeting
of the Former Students’ Board of Directors.
Polo Team Shows Early-Season Form
In Trimming Lampasas by Score of 4-3
After an unsuccessful trip to
Oklahoma, the A. & M. polo team
came back toward earlier form
and defeated the Lampasas team
here Sunday, 4 to 3. This team
features W. D. Gillen, a business
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man of Lampasas, and his two
sons.
Mr. Gillen has specialized in
breeding a small horse for polo.
He uses a cross of a thoroughbred
with a Shetland and obtains a fast,
stout, but small pony. One of
these ponies was played for three
periods (ordinarily two periods is
the limit of play for a pony) and
turned in an excellent performance,
at one time out-running the field
to score.
While Gillen played the outstand
ing game for Lampasas, he was
ably supported by the two boys
and Braid.
Score
A. &
No. 1
No.
No.
No.
Period
M.
Williams
Culbertson
Barry
Jones
McDonald
1
2 3
Lampasas
Gillen W.D.
Gillen D.
Gillen C.
Braid W.D.
4 5 6 Total
A. & M 2 0 1 1 0 0 4
Lampasas 0 110 10 3
Goals—Williams 1, Barry 1,
Jones 1, McDonald 1, Gillen W. D.
2, Gillen D. 1, Gillen C 1.
Umpires — Hays, California;
Wing, Army.
A survey reveals that Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute men prefer
brunettes—not blondes.
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An Aggie Institution
How Boxing Finalists Felt As
They Were Waiting For Bell
By Martin Howard
With the boxing finals taking
place last weekend, sixteen Aggies
awaited their turn to appear before
a large crowd and to pit their skill
and strength against that of their
opponents. Let’s put ourselves in
their places and see how they felt
during the whole exciting affair.
You are in class trying to study,
but unable to forget that tonight
you have to fight for the intra
mural championship. The very
thought sends chills through you
and makes you feel weak and ner
vous. Later your friends ask what
time you fight and wish you luck,
while you are secretly hoping they
won’t see you stretched out on the
canvas, and realizing that you will
need lots of luck, preferably a
horseshoe in each glove.
You know that when the moment
comes for you to box you will be
thrust into the ring with a formid
able rival and no one can help you.
No excuses will do, no sudden mir
acle will prevent the relentless bat
tle. No one will fight for you now;
your own stomach, which feels sick
and shaky, must take his blows;
your own arms, which feel tired
and thin, must defend you and
punch for you.
As the evening comes and your
bout draws near you are afraid,
trembling, unnerved. You want to
shout, to run, to hide. But your
friends are watching and counting
on you; to behave cowardly before
them would be too great a dis
grace so you grit your teeth and
tighten your stomach and go to the
center of the ring for instructions.
You don’t hear the referee give
his speech; it seems a foolish re
petition of what everyone knew
long ago, and besides, you are
sizing up your opponent and begin
to feel a quiet, cool desperation.
Back to your corner and then
the bell. You find yourself bounc
ing out toward your man with a
suddenly acquired feeling of power,
of a sudden relief from nervous
tension. You move too busily to
think of the crowd, of how you
look, of how scared you were. It’s
American Institute
Of Nutrition Honors
Dr. P. B. Pearson
Recognition was recently accord
ed the nutrition work done here by
the election of Dr. P. B. Pearson
to membership in the American In
stitute of Nutrition. Dr. Pearson is
professor of animal nutrition in
the Department of Animal Hus
bandry.
The membership of the American
Institute of Nutrition is restricted
to between 250 and 300, and is de
pendent upon several years of in
dependent meritorious research.
This is the first instance that a
member of the staff of A. & M.
College has been elected to mem
bership in the Institute and the
election of Dr. Pearson reflects a
growing recognition of the nutri
tion work at this institution.
Dr. Pearson is a Fellow of the
American Association for the Ad
vancement of Science, and a mem
ber of the American Society of
Animal Production, the Biochemical
Society, the Society for Experi
mental Biology and Medicine, and
the Texas Academy of Science.
■strange how suddenly everything
fades away but the man you’re
fighting, how he’s the only thing
you see or think of till the fight is
over.
Your arms are • more powerful
than you thought possible; you
hardly notice or feel any blows he
lands, their only effect being to
make you a little tired and dizzy.
And when the last round comes you
fight on in spite of being tired
and arm-weary because you have
a new determination, a new cour
age, that carries you forward.
After the fight you feel a glow
ing sense of satisfaction for a test
bravely met and for the thrill of
competition. Your breath soon re
turns, and with it your good spirits
and probably you say, “Boy, that
was fun!”
Track Greats To
Compete At Annual
Texas Relays Meet
Indiana University, Big Ten
track stronghold that produced Don
Lash and other greats of the cind
er paths, will be back at the Texas
Relays April 6 after a two-year
absence.
Coach E. C. “Billy” Hayes has
officially entered seven Hoosiers
in events ranging from the 3,000-
meter run to the mile relay. In
diana is rated particularly strong
in the two-mile relay and will be
co-favorite in that event with
George Pepperdine of Los Angeles
and Oklahoma University.
Coach Hayes was honorary ref
eree of the ’37 Relays when Lash,
then an undergraduate, set the
present Relays 3,000-meter record
of 8:37 in a spectacular race with
Wayne Rideout of North Texas
Teachers. This year Lash and Ride
out again will run in this event as
special entrants.
Longest official entry list re
ceived to date was from Ralph
Higgins of Oklahoma A. & M.,
who sent in the names of 28 Cow
boys including Don Boydston, great
sophomore high-jumper who is ex
pected to threaten the world’s rec
ord. Boydston barely missed a new
record height of six feet 10 inches
at the recent Southwestern Expo
sition Meet in Fort Worth.
Higgins’ men will enter all the
special events and university class
relays except the hurdles and
sprint medley.
Michigan State College, of East
Lansing, Mich., has informed Di
rector Clyde Littlefield that a five-
man team will be here. The Spar
tans will concentrate on the sprint
medley.
College class entries have been
received from Ashland of Ohio,
Butler, East Texas State, Loyola
of Chicago, Loyola of New Orleans,
Oklahoma Baptist, George Pep
perdine and Stephen F. Austin.
Early high school entries came
from Boling, Dallas Tech, Edge-
wood, El Campo, Garland, Harlan-
dale, Highland Park, Jeff Davis
(Houston), Karnes City, Kauf
man, LaGrange, North Dallas,
Robert E. Lee (Goose Creek), San
Antonio Tech, Smithville, Staples,
S. F. Austin (Bryan), Terrell,
Thomas Jefferson (San Antonio)
and Tivy (Kerrville).
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A.&M/S BIGGEST
HORSE SHOW TO
BE ON APRIL 13
The seventeenth annual horse
show at A. & M. College will be
held on Saturday, April 13, on the
show grounds just north of the
college on Highway 6, according to
a recent announcement. In recent
years the shows have been handled
and managed by Major W. R. Ir
vin with consistent improvement
in the number of classes and inter
est in the show. It is Major Irvin’s
hope that this year’s show will be
the biggest and best of all, as this
will be the last show under his
management. He has already re
ceived orders which will transfer
him to Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., later
in the year.
Letters are now being sent to
horse breeders and fanciers in
Texas, and it is expected that many
of the better known stables and
owners will enter horses in the
show. The A. & M. Horse Show has
an outstanding reputation in the
state for being one of the most
colorful and successful of the.
state’s smaller shows.
The event for this year has been
tentatively planned to have 24
classes, but other will be arranged
provided there is sufficient demand.
Six entries will be required to form
a new class. Beginning at 10
o’clock, Saturday morning, April
13, seven classes will be shown.
The remaining classes will be
shown in the afternoon, starting
at 1:30.
As stated, other classes may be.
added for sufficient reason, but
the classes for showings now plan
ned are: polo pony model, three
gaited saddle horse, colt, five gait-
ed saddle horse, draft, stock horse,
hunt team, ROTC horsemanship,
children’s three gaited, rescue race,
three gaited saddle, reserve of
ficer’s charger, fine harness, jump
ing, ROTC jumping, ROTC charg
er, cow horse reining, ladies’ three
gaited seat and hands, five gaited
saddle, bit and spur, canter club
seat and hands, polo pony race,
and plantation.
Ass’n Director
Ed Dreiss, ’13,
And Aggie Sons
BILL, ED AND YOUNG ED
Edward Dreiss, Jr., ex-Aggie of
the class of ’13, has a double in
terest in A. & M., springing from
both his own past attendance and
from the attendance of two sons
in school at the present time. In
the picture above he is flanked by
son Bill Dreiss, freshman petro
leum engineering student, and on
the right by son Edward Dreiss,
who will heceive his degree this
spring in petroleum engineering
and who is rated as one of the
best hurdlers in the Southwest Con-
ference.s
Mr. Dreiss was recently elected
a director of the Association of
Former Students by the San An
tonio A. & M. Club to fill a va
cancy caused by the transfer of
Major E. E. Aldridge from San
Antonio to the Philippines. Ed
Dreiss was a member of the Ross
Volunteers while a student at A.
& M., and won letters in both base
ball and track. He was captain and
one of the organizers of the first
baseball team at A. & M. He is a
past president of the San Antonio
A. & M. Club and for many years
has been an active and loyal son
of the College. He is a brother of
Franz Dreiss, ’ll, of San Antonio,
who also has a son at A. & M. Mr.
and Mrs. Eddie Dreiss live at 519
Adams Street in San Antonio.
So there are no more frontiers?
Nothing but fronts.
The impotence of the Red army
suggests that Hitler went to war
on the wrong front. Nothing, of
course, is to be done about it, ex
cept a purge of the live astro
logers.
General Electric Likes Their Work
E. W. BOEHNE, ’26
E. W. Bohne, ’26, won his sec
ond Charles A. Coffin Award for
distinguished service to the electri
cal industry and the General Elec
tric Company in 1939. He received
a similar award in 1936. The re
cognition is in the form of a cer
tificate, citation, and cash hon
orarium. Boehne was one of 22
G. E. employees so honored.
Boehne is with the General Elec
tric Company in that organization’s
Philadelphia plant and was given
the Coffin Award for his work
and contributions in the design of
the Magne-Blast Breaker. In 1936
he was runner-up for the National
Eta Kappa Nu Award for the out
standing young electrical engineer
in 1936. He lives at 4508 Cedar
Lane, Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania. He
has been with the General Electric
Company since graduation, except
for a leave of absence to take his
master’s degree at Massachusetts
Tech.
A Newark, N. J., finance direc
tor received this note from Archie
Miller: “Please send me a tax bill.
I’m earning good money, my chil
dren are being educated in the pub
lic schools, and it’s my duty to
help maintain them.”
Alleging that his wife admitted
she had been married twice before,
but he discovered she actually had
six previous husbands, Charles E.
Gill was granted a divorce in Wa
bash, Ind.
A. F. Dickerson, ’10
A. F. Dickerson, ’10, manager
of the Illuminating Laboratory and
Lighting Sales of the General Elec
tric Company, with headquarters
at Schenectady, N. Y., is receiving
the congratulations of his friends
on two counts. He has been given
the Charles A. Coffins Award for
outstanding service to his com
pany and to the electrical indus
try during the past year; and he
continues to receive congratula
tions and national acclaim for his
outstanding work in illuminating
the Golden Gate International Ex
position. The illumination of the
Golden Gate International Exposi
tion has been filmed in technicolor
by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and is
now being shown throughout the
nation under the title “NIGHT DE
SCENDS ON TREASURE IS
LAND”. The film pays a warm
tribute to Dickerson’s illuminating
magic.
The hunting season may be ov
er for deer—but not for delegates.
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