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AGGIE CLEANERS Bl 1M Upf LOUT * - - - - - AND FOUND •f fwltettor 4. ft H*\*m <" *• letter part «f • <i«r wKm to 4\» Hite In tt m toi tf ll tor* • A A a l# a i- *.1 wiond •tuddMt ftrx of opprocmuon far hi* part la wtaaiaff tto ctom ptonship to4n’t torn atlartod Far Itot to wtat town •uir* fa lafar mgafa Mktoy of «to toaan of Hafaa. tl MtoM itot Ifaffan knrw not wtot Jim was talktaf stoat and a torrfad March «l fan mom ronflrmrd tto scmard a tonUakoay Tto Jotoator* wnm sp^amatlp told Inf sat far tto uausl mwnrd tot wton tto rktto tofan bafaf tto T* tlnb wrifht, back cam* tto fawalry and ly saap*ot on* of all fa pracrfal and sattlod one* ' number wtoa practical Jokas mar* wtth tto powlbl* •*c«pt»on fa tto ahr, so It was with s of a ftttls ram in tto nlfht TUlBlTi: PAID TO NORTON Wtoa Coach Homor Norton mad^ a sfatomont as to his action* tf tto eoaarrlptfan act was passod and took many of toa playrra to also amd* amny frfaads Amony thorn payfaf hiyh tntot* was Oort Biah op of tto Aaatm Tribune who com aaantod: "Pm rather proud of know- would become rary unimportant to my a man today He haa been faat me " a aacraaaful football coach before, with a friendly grin, tot today Hoamr Norton of A. ft M atanda for mom than that, torauae of aoaaothinc to aaid"—and that •omethlnc was: "If tto national emerfency become* so fraee ssto demand c^«nK«.n. th,n *“>> ^ T* ^ The tie fame will be played off Trounce Pharmacy, Campus Theater, And Sub Station Tip Gum Playoff WIN Darifto HawA Third. Aftd Poftrtk Plftfpa fty Unsay Campbell Maarko Bryant's Affie Clean on rolled thro an eadefaatod sea son te.snnei fas second tern TtM- lifht Ldiafue Chaaipfanahip. ftun mny thru their loot three feme*, the Ooanem chalked up tmFrea- •im vktoriee over Affie land Phar macy 114, Campaa Theater 14, and the Sub Sutfah 10-4. tto lal ter two teem* totnf two of the leafoe'* atronyer team* Lipacomb Pharmacy whipped the Campoa Cleaaera while the Sub Sutton waa loamy to the Ayyie Cloanrra to Uke third place. Cam- pua Theater, with only a low to tto Affie (leaner* and a tie with ■■■ CHAMPIONS THURSDAY, AUGUST 22 P PAGE S STEFFENS TO BE MENTOR AT P. M. A. Marl Steffen*, former Ayyie yndkwho reaiyned after coaehiay tto ymet, will Uka ever es toad foot- Academy to an Alamo League foot ball coach at Peacock MiiiUry toll championship fast year in fa- Academy fa Sen Antonio for the vor of tto U. S. Army Air Corps, commy aeo*on He will succeed Dick He wiU graduate from Kelly field Vitek, another Ayyie yrid ymet. August M TRACKSTERS RANKS THINNED 1940 AGGIE FOOTBALL SCHEDULE Sept. M—Ttaas A ft 1. Colley* Oct b—Talae University Oct II—U. C. L A. - •Oct. It—Texas Christian University •Oct. M—Baylor University •Nev t—University of Arkansas •Nov. 9 -Southern Methodist University •Nev. 14 Rice IneMtale * ...... Colley* Station ......... San Antonio Lm Anyefaa, Calif _. Col left SUtion Waco Colley* Station d.....Mtos ..... Colley* Station •Nov. tt—Univomity of Texaa (Tex. Thenkayiviny) * -Southwuet Coafemnce game* No night games scheduled Austin Team Much Better To Win Again Aseerdfaf to Chack Hoamr Nee- tea, tto Tetae Afffae w|l have to to 11 to M per sent bettor this aaaeoa fa order fa do that which haa never toon deae fa this con- fprpf'Ct' T rypt fat .4 * c h it (Ti p m if' * of the Southw««t would to tto Mf- y*et thing that ever hit this acheol fa tto line of sports, hut them am many hard games to to played, with many good taems, and meet of thee* teems am out to "protect tto AyffasT from tto aUnyiny de feats that warn suffered last sea- fa tto T. C. u, 'A i the Afffae repeat?-Them robliftf bkmk§ 0H Uii well u the fast that l'<f Over 125 Here for Coaching School; Session To Be Concluded on the 24th and if tto Sub Station wins, it will throw all three teams in aecond place Affi* Cleaner* combined 7 hita. 6 walk* and a few errors to acore 11-6 win over Agfieland Pharmacy : < Lewis set the Pharmacwta down More than lib kidh school roach with 4 hits Hedypeth and Led •*. junior colfaye nfantor* and aev better scored l apiece for the *ral students returned to cUm here Cleaner*, with Ellis tallying twice ; Monday morning to faarn more for tto losers •hmit that yam* called football Sparger beater Rutherford in a and got a fair maiyht into the way Due to tto sudden illness of Red+out will call a rloae to his tight pitching duel in which only i the rhampiona go about playiny 5 hit* were made, Spuryer yielding the game only 2 for the Aggie Cleaners and Cemch J. G. Keyea, mentor of Rutherford only S for the Campus the state high champions from Lub- Thfater With the acore 1-0, Clean Codl's father, to will be unable to attend school He has one more year of *liyibihty and laying out track career as well as cause a vacant file on the team that will be hard to fill. t Athletics Livelier The summer softball league ha* fr ,’ favor, in the last of the third, been going on for •rveral summers Spuryer doubled, scoring on and yets a little totter each year Schwartaenharh's atngle Ledtot Moro Thic Qlimrrw * ,th lh * e * w 1 rtu,n o1 * ff * m, *‘ t*r Singled Schwartsenbach in U* ntJlC I IIIO 0U11 III Id placed rainy day*, all fames were ,.| inr b the game for the Cleaner* bock, took the “toll” on the kickoff and ran off plays for the opening hour of the annual Texas A A M College Free Coaching School He diagrammed a senes of plays, run player* and use tome of the Aggie and "Dough” Rollins went into the subject of traok That evening at 7:30 o’clock. Coach “Hub” Mc Quillan ruled ov*r the basketball teas ion. Schedules for Tuesday called for more football talks by Wilson, Sikes and Keyea, while Dimmitt concluded his training senes. Rol lino will have another track session and McQuillan will have another basketball clinic. Tto Tuesday night program railed for Wilson to dem onstrate some of his plays with A. ft M. fa • member 4 Beuthweet rtore ape fas writer*' •erne nightmares that return fa haunt them «bHy fa tto Tto flail 4 the two blocks will he tto Dallas r<> trip wton urn pfay ft M U. This fa tto faarn m has to heat. Tto ae*-* I ii tto |nt 4 playing fa Aaatta on Turkey-day After Jinx breaking that faek place aeaeen and seeing tto Tvaaa- A. ft M gam* 4 lita. anything fa to to expected. Until tto final game, Homer Norton’■ 1340 team will “faet to playing cat game at a time lito tee did faat year." played off acrording to schedule, with Campus Cleaner* coming out m thf lead for the first term, snd Agg4 Cleaner* leading this last half 4 the summer TTie games, pfaved late in the afternoon, at tracted large number* of fan* It's L«en faid there is nothing new under th* sun well, maybe, but the Aggie' sun this summer has at least seen a great deal more than ever before so let * check M tivity then before The summer Than Ever Before lt« Margaret Hoi ling ahead Ttor** Just about tim* for a quick look backwards at what's happened this summer before we rk>«C our honk* and our eye* for a too-ahort, two-week* siesta Ath* letK* have been livelier this sum hack over them, just for instance V recreational program, under the direction of Luke Harrison, has sponsored enough athletic contest* to include everyone with any de sire to get soene exemae A tennis tournament per term, tdo swim- ledbetter was caught off aecond to retire the side ami the acore re mained 3-0 the r**t of th# game Dookie Pugh's Lipscomb Phai-' macy slugged out an N-.S victory over Earle Hawthorne* Campus Cleaner* to put the pharmacist* in third place Trailing 2 4. the phar manats scored Stump, Pugh, Car den and Smith ia the third to take the lead The Cleaner* picked up another run in their half of the third, hut were still short Lip scomb picked up 2 more in the fifth, and then held the Cleaner* scoreless to win the game Jimmy Walker’s Sub Station heat Aggie land Pharmacy 5 2 to keep ming meets, and a golf tournament above the .MIO percentage mark have been promoted and have met The pharmacist* ran in 2 tallies in lotoi Mo4m V*v Ivy with CowAdeace I MEN’S SUITS ■1!? s Owwflfy fa iff hi with great success. The beat-known ; activity sponsored by th»a program hag been the Saturday night Juke Bot Prom, which needs no further description It is hoped this pro gr»m can be continued next sum mer with earn greater success Other item* of interest--* goodly eleventh annual short courae from August IN to 24. with Homer Nor ton and Dutch Meyer leading the discussions And. as usual, football began to stegl into the limelight With predictions being made and newa photographer* visiting the I campus — A. & M. FOOTBALL TEAM ESCAPES . CONSCRIPTION Authorised sources at A. A M a*ld that moat of tto Aggie foot ball squad that fast tea son ranked aa tto nation's No 1 team, would to exempt from tto proposed fail Itary conscription Advanced military students In senior ROTC Mtoo's would to •* einpt under provletons of the Burke- Wadsworth fall now pending in ngreoe, source* eaid. 3tan of tto Sugar Bowl cham piona, mcludiag All-American John Kimbrough, James Ttomueon. Wll Item Conatapr, Tommie Vaughn Henry HaJto, Charie# Henke, Jack Kimbrough An4 Mbrland Jeffrey. firet year of contracts i who may apply for con exemption, now include a, Ernest Pannell. a, Marion Pugh, Lee II Robnett and Wil familiar names in the the first to take an early lead but from double wingback, that he said helped hit team to its state titls in li»W All of hi* talk was from the offensive side of th# game, but he took up the defensive angle Tues day morning Puny Wilson, coach of the Sam Houston State Teacher* College Rearkata, while npt roach of the Lone Star ("hamptons last year, was the coach of the second place team and the team which caused a national upset by defeating Rice . last season Puny, a former Aggie "great,” apent most of his period in outlining what he deems as ba i sic principle* of coaching and gave j the visiting coaches many valuable | pointer* in instilling the will t* win jin playeri “After all,” W ilson said, “there are two basic ideas in football and players who are now attending school All aeasions are being held under the Kyle Pieid Stadium and are open to anyone wishing to attend “Quarterback*" have a rare chance to sit ia on the inside fuothall and hear how coaches go about turning out the play* the fans seen on the fields on game day* In closing tto practice far the past year, Norton made no pre dictions far tto coming aaaaon hut left it entirely up te tto player* Ha aaked them to work hard during the summer and return on tto first Tuesday m September in tto same physical shape that tto team did last aaaaon, and after seeing the many who were on the campus at one time or another during tto summer, tto Cadets can see that they are playing with and for their coach even wton he isn't out there with them In Answering tto qua*t ion as to the style of offense te hr used this season, the Aggie mentor stated that a scouting of tto opponents would determine whether tto Ca dets would take to the air or play tfte ball on the ground. Hia plana include a set of plays that will be able to cope with aay situation that may anae One of theae play* wtllj undoubtedly include a passing at tack by John Kimbrough much the j same as the one which he threw Tto Texas Gama Department any* million* of fish egg* have base destroyed this year by anglers wading near tto banka 4 streams STANDINGS W L Pet Aggie Cleaners ..... A 0 1.000 (>mpua Theater ....4 1 800 Japacomb Pharmacy 4 2 00A Campus Cleaner* Sub SUtion 3 2 «00 Campus Claanena ...2 4 333 Ag'land Pharmacy 1 6 IBB Faculty + 0« 000 Mill ASSEAVISLY HAM. were able to do no more damage, j those are for every player to carry while the Sub Station scored 1 in j out their assignments on ^e 4- tto first and second and cinched fensive and tackle the ball carrier tto game with three tallies in the ' on tto defensive “I look for three trait* in my players, and when I find those I Tto TawmCfaT fatol hi yaw mA fond, *oi escaHaaca 4 'obo( cmd vk'l 1 O* wobimon c as math as 3 do#» 'o acanamv. A* far tfyfa — fat year eves fait vov * fast « AN* oa rer •e..-ia*. fourth Todd scored 2 run* for tto winner* The Aggie ('leaner*, using H Kite 3 walks ami 4 error* to ttoir av erage, chalked up a 10-4 win ever tto Sub Station te win tto tongue championship Runs were evenly divided among the winner* with Hough being tto only man 4o score twice and Melcher tto only man that didn’t score Vickery ecored 3 of hi* team * 4 run* for tto fate Because of lack of a full team, Dor Samuelaon’s Faculty was forc ed to forfeit to tto Aggiefand Phar macy Tto teacher* borrowed aome i, however, and played a prac tice game, winning 4-1. Tto only game left uaplayed la the tie between the Campus The* tor and the Sub Station Although will definitely decide second, third and fourth place* If th# theater wine, they will take eeannd. Lipacomb third and tto Bub Bte tkm fourth However. If the Sub Station win*, all three teams will be tied for secdfcd place fa tto lea gu# liam Da Aggie AU jaa eligible for tract* Much of Summer School’s Success Due to Harrison One of tto most interesting sum mer term* in tto history of A A M ia about to become ‘'remember when”, bul it certainly shouldn't go without leaving ita thanks to those who gave it ita pleasant mo menta And no one will argue when it's said that toke .Harrison is largely responsible for those mo menta What did this summer have that other* didn’t* Pint, of course, the mg an offense and. like Poach; Juk , ^ Prnma ^ matanUy Keyea, promised more in hia later notations to tto Saturday lectures night problem; also there have J. Y. “ftfaT* Bikes, University of two tournaments, two Georgia end coach, took up the have found food player*. They should know what to do; how to do it; then do thoae things properly " He gave a few ideas about form an oAtftlY HALL I UK Of UMTS... WITI (MMORIS riuari Saint or Scrowboff subject of end play fa offense using tto single wing formation He ex plained the part of the wing backs fa end play and gave aome dia grams for bis ideas Treatment and preventma of in juries waa tto subject covered by Aggie Trainer Lil Dimmitt. who ia a recognised authority oa that phase of all a porta He demon stratad several of his ideas and advised tto coache* to take aa good car* of ttoir boy* for practice sessions as they do on game day*. During tto afternoon Coack Marty Karow dtomaaod baaefc Assault and battery eases are Mt numerous op day* df low humidity according te Dr. Oliver H. Ohmann. a Clewland pbyebol ogiat tfaMwaft P44M-CI >OAN GEORGE BRENT ISA MIRANDA "Advinturi Ttia» quad are also military con- rangy tackle being boomed aa a likely AU-Amorican candidate this seaaoa toa had three year* national guard service and twe year* basic ROTC work. On* kriilfant sophomore half hack prospect, Woodrow Bondo 4 Beaumont fa eiigifa* for tto draft He fa ovor tl yean 4 age Chip Routt, g likely regular tar -J kk, fa tto only regular eligible for tto draft, tto sources said President T. 0. Walton fa fa Washington now attempting te get more ROTC contracts for A. A M Tto sources eaid there are not enough contracts now available to ppiy all applicants Only a few weeks ago other sources bad released a story point tag out that tto football team would be wrecked if the army saw fit to call up three-year ROTC men for active duty. Should tto nation fact war, tto contract* which now exempt ROTT students would likely • them fate tto regular army. Tto Uatverafay 4 Arkansas also fa aa ROTC aehool and many 4 tto football player* are two i throe-year veteran* NY A Renident Center To Be Kntablished By Sopt 1 tto National Youth Administration, fa cooperation with tto United State* Air Carpa, will have Mteblfahed an NY A Resident Center at Duncan Field, located seven miles south west 4 Ban An tonio One hundred boys will have an opportunity te receive train fa* fa airplane mechanic* and twenty- five boy* will receive work experi ence and training a* truck driver*, deriral worker*, cook helper* and waiters Boys between the ages 4 17 and 24 inclusive who are aaompte] oat 4 aehool and are interested fa being eaaigned to this project should immediately write to W. 8. Birdwell, Jr., NY A Dfatrlct Direc tor, Aaatta. Mr. Birdwell sti that to would to glad to supply 41 tto tafonaatioa requited rag ii« thl* particular profact, and that to fa very anxious that loral I have aa opportunity to obtain and tratatag in swimming meets, and a golf tour nament All have found enthu siastic support from tto student*, and it is expected they will to con tinued next summer All of theae activities, plus the summer softball league, have been directed by one man, 4f»eial!y called the Director of tto Hummer Recreational Pro gram, but much better known aa Lube Hia bom* fa fa Ciaco, Eastland county and to haa been going te A. ft M 4f and on since 1934 He received bis degree fa Physical Ed ucation last mid-term and fa now working on • master's In Sociol ogy Hobbies, of aourae, are sports, and to plays 41 kinda equally well He also claims te have tried every kiad 4 job poaaibly, at one time or another, but hopes to make re- creational or phyeirai education work hia permanent business. While here at A. A M to has assisted largely fa extra-curricular work, tntramurals, etc. fa tto type of person #v eryoae ran work with—unkurriad, easy-tempered, friendly, and real ly interested fa hfa work Tto big gust trouble fa fa trying to find i Iota of territory between tto swimming pool, intra mural office, golf courae, tennis courts, and tto Y*, fa addition to rlaaaoa He * tto fellow tickets for tto da tto music, keep* tto •porta records and aetodufaa up U date—in fact, to’s tod a finger in almost everything that’s happened this summer except tto i August norther. Ha’s done a fab, and whatever to goes tor*, toll certainly take along tto wovtod with. Crawford -"March SUSAN AND GOD RUTH HUSSIY JOHN UftftOU • RITA HAYWORTH NIOEl BRUCK • BRUa CABOT RITA QUIOifY • ROM HORARY tees* Her *v *■** to* • San* CekteoM *•? te SsUMiOeaant tefamS te OWSa* WED. ft THI R8., AUG. 2R-2f 7:30 P. M. 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