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V • • ! r r £ l mmm 22 Varsity Men Make Last Kyle Field Stand t-CJccp' OATES BATTALION SPORTS JrDITOR Coach Karow Gives Banquet for Ball Club; Jack Doran Most Valuable Man Last night Coach and Mrs. Karow gave a supper honoring the baseball players at their home in College Park. Those attending the ultra-swell feed included the baseball team, the coaches, mem bers of the Publicity Department and your writer. Just in case you get tired of eating in the mess hall just step over to Karow’s house and ask his war department for a hand-out. They can really put on a feed bag there. The coaches got together and tried to select the most valuable baseball man, but they came up with two boys in a tie. They were Jack Doran and Charlie Kirk patrick. Every way that could be figured these two seniors came through in a tie. It was finally decided to let them flip a coin and Doran was the one who has been living better or has had more practice in coin flipping. Anyway, Jack won the toss and will get the trophy. Both of these boys have played good base ball and they were both worthy of the honor. What it amounts to is that they were both selected as the most valuable and Doran won the trophy. Dave Alsobrook and Bob Stone, co-captains, have each already re ceived this honor and under the rules they can be given this honor only once. Jude Smith Is Most Valuable in Track; Jim Thomason Is Elected Captain for ’40 Jude Smith has been awarded the- most valuable in track. He was the only man to win ,a first place in the conference meet and was right at the top for total points scored during the season. Co- captain Ed Dreiss was given this honor last season in his sophomore track year. Jude was also most valuable in basketball in the 1938-39 season. Jim Thomason was elected cap tain of the team for the coming year. He was elected by a wide majority. It is thought that Tommie is the first field man to ever be elected captain of an A. & M. track team. If there was one before him it was Honk Irwin, CAMPUS THEATRE 15? to 5 P. M. 25£ After 5 P. M. FRI. - SAT. Irene Dunne in “Theodora Goes Wild” with Melvyn Douglas Latest News - Cartoon LAST DAY Don Ameche in “Gateway” with Arleen Whelan ■also a shot putter, who holds the present conference record. This page will announce the let- termen and numeral men in base ball and track as soon as the Athletic Council meets. Dean E. J. Kyle, chairman, is out of town and the Council will take action as soon as he returns. Some of the basketball players are working out now, and pros pects look brighter than they have for some time. In Bill Dawson, Bill Henderson, R. B. Bayer, and Klutz they have four men and Coach McQuillan tells us that he has a couple of other good boys lined up. Henderson was voted most valuable last season and Cap tain Dawson is plenty good. They ranked one-two in point making, well up near the top, last season. The Intramural Department has taken over all summer sports and plans to offer swimming, golf, ten nis, playground baseball and danc ing here this summer. The swim ming pool will be open to all stu dents and faculty members as it has in the past, but swimming meets for both boys and girls will be held each term. There will be tennis tournaments for both men and women and also mixed. Luke Harrison will be in charge of sum mer sports this summer and will take over the duties of running the softball league. This writer has been in charge of the softball for the past two years, but until now the summer league has been just a get-together-and-play affair. Two or three “juke box” dances are planned, and at the end of the summer it is planned to have a We’re Still Tops In ... QUALITY AND SERVICE Try Us and Compare. 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The football team will have the most representatives, eight, who will get their degrees. .They are Herb Smith, all-Conference end, San Angelo; Bill Audish, guard, Brenham; Joe Parish, tackle, Van Alstyne; Walemon Price, back, New Castle; Joe White, end, Ama rillo; Frank Wood, back, San An gelo; Bill Duncan, end, Henrietta; and Hugh Boyd, end, Jacksboro. Joe Boyd, all-American tackle from Dallas, received his degree at mid-term and now is working in Galveston. Coach Marty Karow will lose seven of his varsity baseball play ers, two pitchers, two catchers, a third baseman and two outfielders. They are Ralph Lindsey, Kurten; Snipe Conley, Texon; Charles Kirkpatrick, Houston; Jack Doran, Midland; Johnny Rice, Sherman; Jack Cooper, Dallas; and co-cap tains Dave Alsobrook and Bob Stone of Brenham and Holland, respec tively. Johnny Rice will accept his commission in the army as second lieutenant and in the Quar termaster Corps. The track team will be hit light ly, losing only Co-captain Ed Dreiss, San Antonio; Jude Smith, Houston; Co-captain John McLean, Calf Creek; and Micky Hogan, Waco. Dreiss was the leading point-maker for the thinly clads of A. & M. and Smith was sec ond. Basketball will miss the services of Jude Smith, Houston; B. J. Adams, Bellaire; Thomas Tinker, Mt. Vernon; and captain D. B. Varner, Cottonwood. In addition to being basketball captain, Var ner was Cadet Colonel of the Ca det Corps and the outstanding mil itary student. In addition to these, the minor sports teams will be hit a heavy blow. The tennis team will lose the services of G. P. Mitchell, Gal veston. He has been the captain and leading player this year. Coach Art Adamson’s swimming team will lose Ty Hall, Dallas, one of the leading swimmers in the con ference, and captain John Couch, McKinney. The pistol team, two- year national champions, will lose the services of captain Bob Shiels, Dallas; Bill Lewis, College Station; Bert Burns, Port Arthur, and L. C. Kennemer, Longview. Virgil Jones, all-Conference guard on the grid team in 1937, will receive his degree as a doc tor of veterinary medicine. BATTALION THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1940 PAGE 3 ROMINGER AND BAIRD PLAGE IN FENCING MEET Adding the finishing touches to their Southwest competition for this year Jim Rominger and John Baird, two of the Aggie fencers, entered the Galveston Open Indi vidual Tournament last week-end and returned with two second places and a trophy. They were two of the 35 com petitors who gathered at the island city for the meet in connection with the Oleander Festival. The ancient sport was a reminder of the means of defense during the days of Jean Lafitte’s rule of the island. Rominger who lost his confer ence epee title in Austin earlier this month lost his final match to Vanderwall of the Galveston Club. Bail’d, after winning the confer ence sabre title, lost his final match to Morgan of Dallas but was awarded the sportsmanship trophy of the meet. Angleton Experiment Station Holds Gulf Council Meeting The second annual meeting of the Gulf Council of Agriculture held at the Angleton station of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station May 18, sponsored a pro gram attended by the negro county agents and other workers of that region. J. H. Williamson, district agent, Prairie View; M. V. Brown, negro county agent, Angleton; and C. H. Waller, state leader, Prairie View, participated in the meeting which afforded an opportunity for the negro county agents to contact the several lines of work being conducted by the Angleton station. FINAL BALL with a good import ed orchestra. With some 2,000 students here each summer there should be a sports program offered. In fact, an organized program should have been started long before now. There are a large number of boys in dormitory 12 who are grad uating and have little to do the rest of the year. There are also many athletes in that hall who will be needed next year and who are going to have to do some cram ming to pass their exams so they will be eligible. One of the first ways you can start being good ex-students is to be considerate of those boys who will be repre senting your school on the athletic fields next year. Maintain as much peace and quiet around the hall as possible so they can get in some cramming. INTRAMURAL HIGHLIGHTS By Bob Myers Three more softball games will see the close of a very success ful Intramural program for this year in the class A division. Two semi-final play-offs are still on the calendar and includes one be tween A Field Artillery and A In fantry and another between G. Coast Artillery and A Engineers. G Infantry stepped out of the league play Tuesday by defeating 1st Headquarters Field Artillery in a 5 to 2 game that was filled with spectacular plays on both sides. Texas Christian Frogs Announce Awards For 2nd Semester Sports Forty varsity letters and 32 freshman numerals awards in sec ond semester sports competition were announced in Ft. Worth by Dr. Gayle Scott, chairman of the Tex as Christian University faculty committee on athletics. Varsity “T’s” went to 10 boys in basketball, 15 in baseball, 6 in track, 5 in tennis and 4 in golf. Freshman numerals went to 7 boys in basketball, 8 in track and 17 in baseball. The complete list of T. C. U. awards: Varsity basketball: Ben Abney, Mac Best, Buddy Barron, Jack Billingsley, Leonard Cannaday, Woodrow Duckworth, Robert Grose- close, Guy Holt, L. A. Monroe, and Dennis Tankersley. Varsity baseball: Ben Abney, Richard Allen, Billy Bilderback, Ronnie Brumbaugh, Glen Cowart, Bill Crawford, Woodrow Duck worth, Herman Hoover, Durward Horner, Don Looney, Paul Sorrels, Connie Sparks, Dennis Tankersley and Ralph Tankersley, and Preston Thompson. Varsity track: Bob Cook, Robert Groseclose, Jim Nicol, Howard Pope, Gail Smith, and P. C. Tay lor. Varsity tennis: Jack Billingsley, Dick Poll, Joe Russo, Edgar Shults, and Dick Vickery. Varsity golf: Benton Beasley, Kyle Gillespie, W. F. Rankin, and Ed Revercomb. An 1-8 final game between the Artillery Band and F Engineers saw the Band boys come out on the long end of the 5 to 2 score. In previous games F Company has been on top of some one sided scores but apparently they met their match in the third inning of play when the opposition came through with their five runs. General Reading Fund Boosted $75 By Contributions The College Library has receiv ed a contribution of $50 from the Houston A. & M. Mothers’ Club and $25 from Jesse Jones, federal loan administrator, Dr. T. F. Mayo, librarian, has announced. Following is a letter receiv ed by the library from Mrs. W. R. Knight, librarian of the Houston club: “I am enclosing a check for $50. “As we were late in establish ing our library committee, we are happy to do this much. “This office is new in our club and I am sure we will have more to offer next year. I have thor oughly enjoyed holding the office of librarian. “I am sending an additional $25 for the library fund that I have just received from Mr. Jesse Jones.” The contributions are being ad ded to the General Reading Fund, built up by voluntary contributions from the A. & M. Mothers’ Clubs of Texas and other contributors, for the purpose of purchasing more of the best fiction and non-fi c tion works. Sufficient money is not ap propriated for the A. & IVl. jj. brary by the state Legislature. Burns Selected To Head Fort Worth Fat Stock Show Ex-Aggie John C. Burns, tall and affable native Texan who typifies the Southwestern cattleman, is the new president of the Southwestern Exposition and Fat Stock Show. He was elected at the annual meeting of the stockholders and directors recently. Burns has been a leader in the improvement of the cattle industry for many years. His major interest has been livestock since he as a boy worked cattle on his father’s DeWitt County ranch. He grad uated from Texas A. & M. in 1904 after serving on the first livestock judging team that represented the college that year at the Interna tional Livestock Exposition in Chi cago. The exposition leader was head of the Animal Husbandry Depart ment at A. & M. from 1907 until 1920, when he branched out as a field representative for breeders’ associations. Subsequently, he was general manager of the Texas Live stock Marketing Association, and during the past seven years Burns, as trustee and general manager of the S. B. Burnett Estate, has been boss of the 6666 Ranches in Texas. Burns’ aim is to build a bigger and better stock show in Fort Worth each year, while maintain ing the pace set by his predecessor, the late Van Zandt Jarvis, who helped organize the first show in 1896 and saw the institution be come one of the three largest ex positions of its kind in the nation. In a quarter-final game, Koetter pitched a no-hit game for A Engi neers in defeating G Infantry by a narrow margin of one point. The game had been tied one to one from the first to the sixth in ning when Sullivan crossed the plate for the single run that spell ed victory. Two quarter-final games com pleted the softball schedule for the day when G Coast Artillery took M Infantry 4 to 1 and A Field Artillery won from B Infantry 8 to 3. A nine inning game between A Infantry and the Artillery Band was the outstanding game of the day ended in favor of the “paddle- feet,” 5 to 4, when Parker got on in the ninth and was brought in by a team mate. Sociologists Hold Annual Barbecue The annual Rural Sociology De partment barbecue was held one afternoon last week at Cashion’s Cabin and over forty-five students and professors of the department attended. Besides enjoying the excellent barbecue, those attending discuss ed the prospective jobs in the field of rural work, and the business of the Rural Sociology Club. The Rural Sociology Department is fast becoming one of the larg est departments in Texas A. & M. and the professors have taken an active part in the state rural so ciology activities, thus bringing much attention to this division of the college. Going to Class B, the water- polo semi-finals are going strong with F Field Artillery winning from G. Coast Artillery 7 to 0. A quarter-final game ended when the Artillery Band sank A Field Ar tillery 3 to 1. “Jack Crain and God” Yarn Wins In Writers’ “Tall Story” Contest Yarns spun into legends by sports writers, foreign correspond ents and the “back shop” won top honors in the national Tall Story contest sponsored by the Indiana University chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, honorary journalism frater nity. Grand champion honors went to David Velie of Monroe, Wis., free lance writer and former Milwaukee Sentinel and Chicago Tribune re- portex-. Second place was won by Ed F. Smith of the Jackson (Mich.) Citizen Patriot, and third by Basil L. Walters, editor of the Minneapolis Star-Journal. The ten winners, announced at the chapter’s annual Gridiron ban quet, represent seven states and the District of Columbia. The winning “tall story,” selected by judges Irvin S. Cobb, Arthur Robb, editor of Editor and Pub lisher, and Lowell Thomas, follows: When Jack Crain, stellar back- field man of the University of Tex as football team last fall, made a last-minute dash through the en tire Arkansas University team for a touchdown, and the Texans kicked goal for a 14-13 victory, a Dallas writer submitted this lead: “God and Jack Crain today de feated the Arkansas Razorbacks by a score of 14-13.” The Dallas managing editor quickly shot back this memo: “please check on the rumor that Coach Fred Thomsen of Arkansas has Protested the game. He feels that God is ineligible in the South west Conference under the fresh man rule.” A FEW TIPS FOR THE COLLEGE SWAIN; MUST COMPLIMENT PARTNERS Swains who date the girls at Rus sell Sage College, Troy, New York, at prom-time, should remark at least once in the evening on the beauty of their feminine partners. And that’s not all, for the Sage- ites have decreed the ideal prom man shall: Be tall and handsome; go down the receiving line with ease and refrain from such remarks as Pleased to meetcha,” or “Gee, it’s swell out, isn’t it?”; dance divinely; refrain from smoking on the dance floor; dx’ink punch “as is”:—no spiking; send his date an orchid for the prom and tea roses for the post-prom dance, unless otherwise directed. He shall not dash off to exchange a dance with an eager look of UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HONORS WINNING TEAMS Tuesday was the red letter day for many University of Texas athletes as the council awarded “T”s to the championship baseball and track teams for the 1940 sea son. After reclaiming their South west Conference Pennant and add ing a 9 to 8 win over the Aggies, fifteen men were listed as award winners. Letters went to Fred Everett, Joyce Rawe, Melvin Deutsch, Udell Moore, Bill Dumke, Charlie Still, Ned McDonald, Johnny Hill, Bobby Moers, Jack Stones'^ Charlie Haas, Clarence Pfeil, Leslie Couch- er, Pete Layden, and Bill Eckert. Just a week before the Univer sity claimed the baseball flag, the Owls surrendered the cinder title on the Rice track in Houston and Texas claimed its second major sport for the year. Members of the track team to receive letters include Ralph Baggett, Morris Barnfield, Harold Barnes, J. Gaxdand Adair, B. F. Bryan, W. R. Davidson, Preston Flannigan, David Edmunds, Boyce Gatewood, Lonnie Hill, Harold Hafernick, Jack Hughes, Douglas Jacques, Tommie McSpaden, Cole man Pack, Nelson Puett, H. Clay Price, Fred L. Ramsdell, Charles Robei’ts, J. W. Smith, W. H. Seay, Joe Sparks, William C. Stewart, Carlton Terry, and manager Wil liam M. Sansing. newly acquired freedom; he shall suggest they leave in ample time to reach a restaurant before curfew rings; refrain from commenting that his tux or tails were borrowed or rented; limit his conversation to comprehensible topics; attempt no experimental psychology on his prom miss; not lose the hat and coat checks; leave his fraternity pin in possession of his hostess for at least one week; make a date for the following week-end. After Prof Has Finished . . . Drop in for a bite or a drink. You’ll always find some of the “gang” a- round — and a moment of mental and physical stimulation will send you off to do that next study job easier and better. CASEY’S Confectionery A hational dairy association has judg e d a University of Tennessee stud e ht as the champion cheese judg e r of the nation. PICTURES ARE PERPETUAL. Give brother, sister, or sweetheart that Everlasting Gift . . . A PHOTOGRAPH FOR GRADUATION AGGIELAND STUDIO JOE SOSOLIK, Prop. 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