The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, August 22, 1940, Image 3

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AGGIE CLEANERS
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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
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CHAMPIONS
THURSDAY, AUGUST 22
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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
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