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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
As a counteraction the City
Council at a meeting Thursday
night abolished the office of city
attorney and gave the mayor the
authority to appoint, with the
Council’s approval, a lawyer to do
all legal work for the city. Mayor
Anderson appointed Barger to the
new position which he accepted
without pay.
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