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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (May 25, 1940)
t-CJcep' oates BATTALION SPORTS EDITOR George Stidham, Just Another Aggie, But One Much Deserving of All Help We Can Give By Hub Johnson Thursday night at the meeting of the present junior class an other appeal was made for aid in the raising of funds for the hos pitalization and care of George Stidham. Buster Keeton brought the is sue before the class and asked that it be carried to all organizations by the first sergeants and to all ex-students by anyone who cared to write letters in George’s be half. Here is a boy that needs help more than anyone else has ever needed it since the call for the blood transfusions for Lai Wadhwani went out. You can do your part by attending the show in the Assembly Hall this after noon, either at one o’clock or at 2:45. It’s Memory Time Around The Sports Tables and Plans Are Forming for ’JO-’Jl Now is the time of the year when all the sports writers are recalling the eventful happenings of the past seasons. Texas looks back on its many victories this year in baseball, swimming, track, golf, and cross-country; Rice shines up the ole basketball trophy, and Texas A. & M. can only put the rifles and pistols away in grease, hang up the polo mallets and then stare at the Sugar Bowl. It has been quite a good year though and the old saying of the Brazos bottoms of “Wait until next year,” has already begun to echo about the campus. Home-town clubs will tend to play an important part on the building up of A. & M. this sum mer as many such organizations plan social functions and enter tain the prospective fish. The ex-students notice the ac tions of the present students and many times their interest can be stimulated by the moves of the followers. Thursday night the Houston Club met and set the Heights in power with Jimmy Lane elected to fill the president’s chair. “Foots” Bland was chosen to be his able assistant. TEMPLE BASEBALL STAR TO PLAY AGGIE BALL Tommy Carlile has chosen Texas A. & M. as the backer of his abil ity. He is a three-letter man in the major sports and plays a good round of golf. His three top games are baseball, football and track. This makes the fourth man in the last three years that the Ag gies have drawn from Temple. “Pappa” Wesson of the ’37 Wild cat team, Tom Pickett of the ’38, and A. J. Mercer and Carlile of this past year’s squad. TEXAS ELECTS CAPTAINS OF TRACK AND DIAMOND Red Barefield and Fred Ramsdell were elected to head the Texas track team next year and Pete Layden was chosen to captain the baseball squad. Barefield won the 400-yard dash and anchored the University’s re- 6 Jeep 9 Oates Picks Mythical All-Conference Team JUNIORS We appreciate the great number of orders you gave us while we were at college. This contin ued confidence proves that we make a boot which satisfies the men at A. & M. —You have not ordered your boots, Mr. D. Can- gelosi of the College Sta tion Shoe Repair Shop will be glad to take your measurements and for ward them to us. LUCCHESE BOOT CO. —INC.— 101 W. Travis St. San Antonio, Texas TEXAS U. LEADS LIST WITH SIX MEN ON THE TEAM Stone, Alsobrook and Bumpers Place for A. & M. By E. C. “Jeep” Oates About this time of year everyone climbs out on a limb and picks a mythical All-Conference team, a team which they would like to have to fight the rest of the con ference with. Here is the team we would like to have. The rest of the conference could have what they wanted, if they wanted any of what was left. For first base we would take Johnny Hill of Texas. “Ole Chiz- zle Chin” can play the bag with the best and is a dangerous hitter. Jack Stone, Texas, would'be our second baseman. He is the best in the league both offensively and de fensively. Bob Moers, Texas, would be shifted to short. He is a third base- man, but he could play the hot slot or any other place. He is a dangerous hitter, a good fielder, and has enough fire for the whole nine. We would have to have Bob Stone on the team and he plays third, and Moers could shift much more easily than Stone. Bob Stone of the Aggies would take over the hot corner. A good hitter and a good fielder with the best arm in the league for a long- throwing infielder. For a utility infielder we would want Witt of Baylor. He can get the ball and he can slam it out at the plate. The outfield is easy to pick. Dave Alsobrook of A. & M. would hold down left field. He can cover lots of acres on defense and at the plate he hits at around a .400 clip. And so many of his drives clear the fence for four-base blows too. Clarence Pfeil and Charlie Haas, both of Texas, would be the other two ‘outer gardeners’. They are both fast and fair hitters. Pfeil has probably the best arm in col lege baseball. Haas can go from first to home on anything but a bunt. We would take Don Looney of T. C. U. for a reserve outfielder. The best catcher in the league, we think, is Freddy Everett of Tex as. Bryce of Baylor is a good re ceiver, but we will string along with Freddy. Give us “Pretty Boy” “Lefty” Bumpers of A. & M. and Atchison of S. M. U. for a pair of pitchers. With those two and the rest of the team you can have your Melvin Deutsches, Frank Goldens, Bill Dumkes, et al. Give us this ball club and we will fly the pennant without losing a game. lay team while Ramsdell is the man who just last week was grant ed another year of eligibility. BATTALION SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1940 PAGE 3 BASEBALL SQUAD NAMES PUGH AS ’40-’41 CAPTAIN The Aggie baseball nine elected Marion “Dookie” Pugh their new captain for the 1941 season in a vote at the baseball banquet held at Coach Karow’s home Wednesday night. Pugh, outstanding football and baseball player for Paschal High School in Fort Worth, came to A. & M. in 1937 and he has earned two letters in football and two in base ball while representing the Aggies. His consistency and spirit have aided the Aggie cause many times in the past, and the baseball team of next year should be one of the finest aggregations in recent seasons, with Pugh at the helm. Votes were cast for four men put up for the captaincy, but Pugh won by a wide margin, and the de cision was met with the utmost approval of the entire squad. By Martin Howard Battery F Field Artillery won the Class B water polo cham pionship Thursday when it squeez ed out a close, hard game from the .Artillery Band by a score of 2 to 1. With the semi-final matches de cided, Class A baseball is ready for the championship game and it should be a thriller. A Infantry earned its right to play for the top honor when it downed A Field Artillery with a five to nothing count. G Coast Artillery will be the other team since it won over A Engineers by a margin of ten to nothing. In the Class B divi sion E Engineers beat 1st Head quarters Field Artillery 17 to 12. HOWARD SHELTON CHOSEN VICE-PRESIDENT OF ’41 CLASS Howard Shelton, six foot all district grid and cage player from Hillsboro, was elected vice-presi dent of next year’s senior class Thursday night. He will assist Tom Richey who was chosen for the top office. The University of Texas School of Law is the largest state uni versity law school in the United States. Mfa AUWU ASSHAVHLY HALL Aggieland Pharm. Presents Many- Athletic Awards In just looking around to see where all those athletic awards and trophies come from, we found that the Aggieland Pharmacy pre sents the awards to the most val uable athletes and captains of the four major sports. This past season Aggieland awarded captains’ awards to Herb Smith, Walemon Price, and Joe Boyd in football; Durward Varner in basket ball; John McLean and Ed Dreiss in track and Bob Stone and Dave Alsobrook in baseball. Their trophies for most valuable went to John Kimbrough in football, Bill Henderson in basketball, Jude Smith in track and Jack Doran in baseball. These awards were started some 13 or 14 years ago and during that period there have been many pre sentations. They are gifts that con tinue through the “lean years” as well as during the championship seasons. It is estimated that the cost of the awards for the 1939-40 season was somewhere in the neighborhood of $200 to $225. Two matches in ping pong shov ed the sport, which is on proba tion here, nearer its conclusion. The Milner Hall team beat 2 Hq. F. A. and B Coast won over F Field Artillery. Both matches were in the Class A division and B Coast looks like the team to watch for the title. McCarthy, Ozier, and McCorquodale have been practicing regularly for the tourna ment and have plenty of stuff on the ball. Since ping pong is in its first season here in many years, inter est has been slow to develop, however, it is rapidly gaining fav or among the Aggies and may yet find its rightful place as a fasci nating indoor sport. It develops precise timing and steady nerves and many authorities claim it is a beneficial exercise for the eyes be cause it requires the eye to make so many back and forth move ments so rapidly. Yes, we hope ping pong is continued and that more boys will take it up next year. Ex 4-H Club Elects Next Year’s Officers At a meeting of the Ex 4-H Club Thursday night Walter Britten was elected president for next year. Other officers elected are Noel Yarling, vice-president; J. B. ‘Bugs’ Tate, secretary-treasurer; and Gordon Grote, reporter. The club is still rather small, but plans were made to encourage all Ex 4-H club members on the campus to join next year. The club had regular monthly meetings throughout the year at which important topics of the day were discussed by outstanding in dividuals of College Station. Mr. Johnson, State Boys’ 4-H Club Read er, showed many interesting motion pictures of outstanding 4-H pro jects carried on throughout the state. The most outstanding social event of the yar was the club dance held early in the spring. All library books are due May Fish Production To Be Main Subject Of Summer Course How fish-production can be in creased in farm ponds and tanks will be the main subject of the fisheries field course this year, un der the Department of Fish and Game and in cooperation with the Texas Game, Fish and Oyster Com mission, according to a recent an nouncement by Dr. Walter P. Tay lor. The many ponds and streams in and around Brazos County are the “laboratory” where students will spend most of their time. Truck, boat, limnological equipment, sein es, and microscopes are to be some of the tools at the disposal of Dr. K. Bonham, who will conduct the course. Students will be able to live at the college and spend most of their time in the field. There will be no special costs. At least one trip to a fish hatch ery to study methods of culture is on the schedule. ORCHIDS! FOR HER At the Junior Prom and Final Ball ORCHID CORSAGES §3.00 and $3.50 —Also— Gardenias - Carnations and all Seasonable Corsages WE DELIVER Phone B-672 J. COULTER SMITH August 18-24 Is Date for Annual Coaching School The Eleventh Annual Free Coaching School for coaches and athletes will be held at Texas A. & M. August 18-24. This coach ing school is one of the finest of its kind and the outstanding coaches of the country will con duct the various courses. The football courses will be headed by Homer Norton, Head Coach of the Aggies; J. V. “Siki” Sikes, End Coach, University of Georgia; Jack Sisco, Coach of the Lone Star Conference Champions, North Texas State Teachers Col lege; and J. G. Keyes, Head Coach of Lubbock High School. “Siki” Sikes is the former Aggie coach and Aggie athlete, and he won nine letters in football, basket ball, and baseball while at A. & M. J. W. Rollins, H. R. McQuillan, and Marty Karow will conduct courses in track, basketball, and baseball respectively. Lil Dimmit will also give a course on preven tion and treatment of injuries, and W. L. Penberthy will teach physi cal education and intramural sports. Harry Viner, member of of Southwest Football Officials As sociation, will hold discussions of football rules. The courses will run consecu tively and this will give the visit ing coaches and athletes a com plete schooling in the many sports offered. Motion pictures of the National Championship Aggies will be shown, along with the pictures of the fundamentals of football, base ball and track. The state and nationwide empha sis on fish and game restoration lends special importance to this course, especially in view of the announced AAA benefits for the construction of farm ponds under appropriate conditions, and on wat er facilities developments under the Extension Service, Soil Con servation Service, and other agen cies. “Texas should easily and soon take high place among the states interested in restoring and increas ing fish and game resources”, said Dr. Taylor, “and trained men will be needed to make the program work. Every farm should have its home supply of pan fish, if not of bass.” City Council Abolishes Job of City Attorney In a letter to Mayor Frank G. Anderson Thursday, J. Wheeler Barger announced his resignation of the position of City Attorney. This action came as a result of Barger’s moving out of the city, automatically making him ineligi ble for his office. 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