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T> * • f • r •* ► » ^ > (, 4 * H.O.”HU5" JOHNSON BATTALION SPORTS EDITOR Predicting A&M Over Baylor, TU Over Rice, TCU Over Tulsa, and Mississippi Over Ark Up the river today and here’s hoping it’s not as bad as the term is usually applied. Baylor is a bit stronger than most fans believe and will give the Aggies a lot of trouble before the final gun. Reports tell that the Bear squad has tightened up more on the de fense. If this is true, then it must be pretty strong, for against Villa- nova last week they held the East ern powerhouse away from the pay dirt. It might be hard but the Aggies still get the word. Texas University, the only other undefeated, untied team of the league, invades the Bayou City to take on the Rice Owls this eve ning. This will be the largest game played in Houston this season. It could happen that the Owls might with some unseen helping hand send the Longhorns back to Austin with their first defeat of the year. It could happen, but it looks doubtful. Jess Neeley’s boys have master ed the single-wing play and have played three games which turn- en out better than most followers predicted. This is the first time since 1929 that Texas has won their first four games of the season, and here’s giving them the fifth. Up in the Sooner State where they create good terms from noth ing, the T. C. U. Hornfrogs take on the Tulsa Hurricane. Both have gone down to the Aggies and the Sooner squad went down hard, ev en before the third team. The game will be played on Skelly Field, the home of the Hurricanes, and will be played before a crowd of Alumni on Home Coming Day. T. C. U. comes back into the win column on this one. The Arkansas Razorbacks take their passing attack into Tennes see to face the University of Mis- Eat With CHEF JOHN Come by and try our Students Special 25? COURTEOUS SERVICE and GOOD FOOD at CHEF JOHN’S Highway 6 sissippi at Memphis. At the start of the season, the Razorbacks were said to be depending a lot on their sophomore starters. They fell to T. C. U. and then shocked the Southwest by defeating Baylor. This last Saturday Texas did as they pleased, but the Hogs still have a good club. Mississippi turned back Duquesne. We’ll take Miss to keep Arkan sas in the loss column. Southern Methodist takes a rest this week end. To read the pap ers they might need the lay off. They’ll be strong against Texas next week in Austin as they start their league running. Elsewhere over the nation, U. C.L.A. would have to play the greatest ball game of all times to win over Oregon State, but here’s going against the books and pullin’ for the Bruins for their first win; Tennessee should roll over Florida; the Missouri Valley lead ers, Oklahome A. & M. takes an other from Arizona; Notre Dame over Illinois; Tulane after their first win to carry on and turn back North Carolina; and Texas Tech to defeat Marquette. The starting squad used against the Rice Owl freshmen last night by the Texas Shorthorns appear to be the squad which composed the North team in the annual North-South high school tilt. In the backfield was the passing star from Tyler, Walton Roberts. Six men saw service in the pre-season contest. In the stands today at the Bay lor game will be the Texas bro thers who have given the big league baseball followers many a thrill as well as many a mourn, “Dizzy” and Paul Dean. Tedd Lyons, Baylor’s great to the Chicago White Sox, will also be on hand for the tilt. 17 Candidates Report to Pool For Swim Team By J. R. Reeves Seventeen candidates for the 19- 40-41 Texas Aggie swimming team answered Coach Art Adamson’s call for recruits to report at the P. L. Downs, Jr. Natatorium Thurs day night. Adamson outlined plans for the forthcoming swim season. Seven lettermen, several squad- men and a good representation of soph prospects answered the roll call and heard Adamson outline the season. He announced that the water polo team would begin practice every Thursday night starting that Thursday. The boys went through about an hour and a half scrimmage. 'Up from the freshman squad of last year and figured to be or great help to the varsity are Bob Tay lor, distance record holder and John McKey, sprint man. Lettermen who were on hand include Captain Nickie Ponthieux, Earnest Conway, Harold Hensley, George Japhet, Ray Loomis, Bar ton Robertson, and Bubba Reeves. Eddie Johnson, conference back- stroke champion, who was counted on heavily, decided to take up fly ing instead of swimming, and is now well on his way to his wings at Randolph Field. — — SAFE SPEED TO BRYAN RIDE THE BUSSES Whether to see that certain person or to shop, you can depend on safe regular schedule trans portation with us ... Oh, yes, save with a round trip, only 15^. BRYAH-COLLEGE TRACTION CO, INC. Aggies to Meet Baylor in Waco Today Will Be Home-Coming Day For Baylor Bears A&M Enters Game As Heavy Favorites Over Injured Bruins This afternoon at Municipal Stadium the Texas Aggies will tackle Baylor University in one of the headline games of the day. Baylor has dropped one confer ence tilt while A. & M. has gallop ed over T. C. U. in their only conference start. Boasting such players os “Jar- rin’ Jawn” Kimbrough, “Waltz ing Willie” Connatser, and “Dook- ie” Pugh in the backfield, and a forward wall made of Robnett, Pannell, Henke, and Sterling plus many other stellar performers, the Aggies are all set to carry out the predictions and thoroughly trounce an ailing Bruin squad. A. & M. is in great shape and the Frog encounter left them uninjured ex cept for a few bruises and sore places. Baylor, minus this year’s Jack Wilson and a fellow named “Bul let Bill” Patterson of a couple of years ago, bounded over Villanova in San Antonio last Saturday 6 to 0. They are ready for this chance at the National Champions of 1939 and every indication points to a game filled with all the thrills and chills of the gridiron. It will be defensive play against powerful offensive outbursts when the Baylor Bears meet the Texas A. & M. Aggies in the feature grid game of the Southwest Con ference at Waco. Today’s tilt will be the annual home-coming game at the Baptist school and some 21,000 persons are expected to jam Muny stadium to its capacity to witness the long awaited battle between the Bruins and the Aggies. Baylor came back strong with some of the greatest defensive play in the history of the school to turn back a stubborn Villanova eleven 7-0. This win meant more to the Bears than just another vic tory because it showed them that they could carry on without the aid of Jack Wilson, their star tailback who is out with a kidney injury. The Aggies swept past T.C.U. 21 to 7 last Saturday and will enter the ^ame heavy favorite over the Bears, but the Bruin coaches are plugging the offensive play of the Baylor gridders and if they can hold on to the ball long enough, the A. & M. team might be in for a surprise. The Baylor offensive play looked somewhat better against Villanova last Saturday night in San An- tonio and the Bears have put in a hard week working with their ov erhead game. Jimmy Witt, Dwight Parks, and Bill Coleman have all been working overtime on their passing chores and the Bears are expected to really open up with a passing barrage against the Cad- ets. Defensively the Bears have just as good a ball club as the grid critics said they would before the start of the season and Baylor coaches are hoping that the Bruins turn in another great defensive game this weekend. Year Aggies Baylor 1899 33 0 1901* 0 46 1901* 6 0 1901* 6 17 1902** 11 6 1902** 22 0 1903* 16 0 1903* 0 0 1903* 5 ‘ 0 1904** 5 0 1904** 10 0 1905** 42 0 1905** 18 5 1908 5 6 1909 9 6 1911 22 11 1912 53 0 1913 14 14 1916 3 0 1917 7 0 1918 19 0 1919 10 0 1920 24 0 1921 14 3 1922 7 13 1922 0 0 1924 7 15 1925 13 0 1926 9 20 1931 33 7 1932 0 0 1933 14 7 1934 10 7 1935 6 14 1936 0 0 1937 0 13 1938 6 6 1939 20 0 *—Three games played. -Two games played. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26 PAGE 3 James Witt, back, a two year letterman who is playing the best ball of his career in his last year with the Bears. He has stepped in and carried most of the offensive play since Wilson went out. He is 21 years old, five feet eleven and weighs 175 pounds. He is a real triple threater and comes from Longview. He was said to be one of the best defensive backs in the loop last fall. Intramurals D Field Artillery Shades C Chem Warfare 25-14; Doghouse Full Again By Bob Myers In a game of basketball that started out very slow and ended in a burst of speedy playing, D Field Artillery made 25 points to overshadow C Chemical Warfare’s 14 in one of Thursday’s night games. C Company took the jump and tried a shot; the “buggy boys” were on their toes and took the ball down the court for two points. After the first goal, the game was even up dur ing first half play It was during the second period that B Battery got organized and started on their scoring spree. The Chem boys checked them a little in the last quarter, but “too tall” Crane Lawson of the Field kept batting their shots back out of the danger area. Reagan of D Battery was high point man with 10 points. FORFEIT DOGHOUSE C Infantry 2nd Corps Headquarters 3rd Corps Headquarters C Cavalry 2nd Headquarters Field Artillery A troop Cavalry’s position in last issue’s house of dogs was due to a mix-up in postponement cards and has been straightened out so as to clear their record of the forfeit. “Fish” Tomme brought glory to F Engineers in a touch football game with A Infantry when he got through for a 103 yard touch down run. The final score was 12- 0. C Chemical Warfare redeemed themselves somewhat for their loss on the basketball court by defeat ing Headquarters Cavalry 3-0 in a tennis game. Another 3-0 game came when E Field Artillery won over C Cav alry. Landon, Hudson, Biggs, and Parker won their matches while White and Crowder got theirs the easy way. Machine Gun Cavalry found the range on A Field Artillery and downed them 14-12 in a basketball game that had three stars* Ruth erford hung up nine points for the losers, but couldn’t outpoint the Hasse-Holder combination that clicked for the Cavalry. Handballers Rohrer-Woodbum, Spurger-Cathey proved too much for 1st Corps Headquarters when G Infantry took them 2-1. Aono and McColluck played a good game for the losers and accounted for their one match. Derrick and Drumwright led B Engineers to a 14-10 victory over K Infantry in a well played game of basketball. Everyone was in the spirit of the contest and had a fine time in spite of the fact that one team had to lose. Wilson May Not Be Lost To Bears For Whole Season Jack Wilson, Baylor’s great trip- le-threater from Paris who went out of action with a bruised kid ney in the Denver game, was up again this week and was meet ing classes at the Baptist school. He is still dividing his time be tween the school hospital and the classrooms, but indications are now that Wilson may be able to come back and play some football this year. It will all depend on how rap idly he recovers from the injury that has held him back since the second Baylor game. Wilson said yesterday that he was feeling better all the time and was beginning to get the urge for the pigskin sport again. “It is tough to have to be out when you love the game as much as I do, but it just couldn’t be helped. It is one of those things that happen, but this was the year that I wanted to play most of all. The sport fans have been swell send ing in letters and gifts and I want to thank everyone of them for the My era D. W. Williams Is Godfather Of Intramural Athletics at A & M One of the unheralded and un--f sung heros of the intramural world of sports is D. W. Williams, head of the Animal Husbandry Depart ment. In addition to his many activities in this capacity, he still finds time to promote the part of A. & M. extra-curicular activities that he has watched grow since 1922. It was in 1922, during the re gime of Dana X. Bible, that Mr. Williams first became associated with the intramural department and he has served as faculty ad visor since that time. Williams received his B.S. degree from Ohio State in 1915 and his M.S. from the University of Illin ois in 1919 before coming to A. & M. as an instructor in animal hus bandry. He served Aggieland in this capacity until 1922, at which time he was promoted to head of the Ajnimal Husbandry depart ment and took on the additional duties of faculty advisor of in tramural athletics. Since then, when the advisors meet three times weekly, many changes have been made in the department. W. L. Penberthy has been made director, the competi tion has been divided into class A and B, and an extensive pro gram has been set up to take care of the expansion of the school. Many years have passed since Mr. Williams took his job and have seen the constant improve ment and increasing efficiency in intramurals that today make his job easier. For today the big job of the faculty advisors is to see that the students are satisfied and that the department of intra mural athletics are provided with adequate finances and equipment. courtesies they extended me.” The only change noticeable in Wilson is the loss of weight. He’s down to 178 pounds now but is gradually picking the poundage up and should be back to his normal playing weight in about ten days. Jack doesn’t know what to do about the Bruins’ game with Tex as A. & M. this coming Saturday. He would like to see the game but thinks it would be too much of a strain. Right now, he plans to listen to the game over the radio, because if he were sitting on the players’ bench it would be just too much of a temptation. Besides backbone, another thing equally lacking, altogether too gen erally, is self-respect. TCU Tackles Tulsa Hurricane Sat. in Oklahoma FORT WORTH, Texas, Oct. 26 —A victory-hungry Texas Chris tian football team will move into Tulsa, Okla., this week-end with the firm conviction that it has seen the worst. “Whatever that Golden Hurri cane of the University of Tulsa throws against us, it can’t be any more potent than was that attack of North Carolina and Texas A. & M.,” Coach Dutch Meyer opines. “And you can bet that we’re going to get set in that second quarter next Saturday. We’ve had 42 points scored against us in the last two games, and all of these were made in the second quarter!” When the Horned Frogs played Tulsa last year in Fort Worth they were a much kicked-around ball club. They had won only one out of six starts. This year Coach Meyer’s boys have won two out of four and have given a pretty good account of themselves, ev en in defeat. The statistics show that, off ensively, the 1940 Frogs are much stronger than last season. De fensively, they have been a bit weaker. There will be plenty of work this week on tackling fun damentals. Too many Aggies and Tar Heels broke away for good gains after Frog tacklers should have had them down. T.C.U.’s air game is as deadly as ever. The passers have com pleted their forwards to a .528 clip in the four games to date, picking up a total of 404 yards by the air route. Six touchdown passes have been thrown. The ground game, on the other hand, has been slowing down each successive Saturday. Against Cen tenary the Frogs made 246 yards net rushing; against Arkansas, 168; against North Carolina, 82; and against Texas A. & M. only 17. That is why there is a lot of rocking and socking on the Frog practice field this week, as Coach Meyer tries to work the kinks out of his power game. Connie Sparks is leading the Southwest in punting, with an av erage of around 42 yards, while Frank Kring is not far behind, with an average of around 38. So Coach Meyer is not worrying about the kicking. — FEATURING.... COLLEGE COURTS COFFEE SHOP OPEN 24 HOURS East Gate - Opposite Main Entrance i! flLUMBER BUILDING ■Hsupmis NOTICE TO NEW HOME BUILDERS Come by and see our quality merchan dise We. can help you save money on your home. PARKER LUMBER CO. Bryan