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A -I * f ? * « » 1 • ■ c HO.’HUD" JOHNSON BATTALION SPORTS EDITOR Arkansas Razorbacks With Win Over Old Miss Invade Aggieland for 2nd League Win “The Eazorbacks are slated for the cellar”, “They won’t have much this year”, “The sophs will be carrying the load for Arkansas in 1940”. These and many other simi- Ip ! A good watch is worth repairing! Our expert work is much less expen sive than buying a new watch! Drop by today for an estimate. C. W. VARNER Bryan and North Gate Attention Freshmen BUY YOUR Regulation 18-oz. Army Serge SLACKS NOW!! Prices Advancing on Woolens — Our Price Remains The Same Slacks have polo back, 22-inch bottoms, strictly tailor made. $7.50 Pair J. C. PENNEY COMPANY, Inc. “Aggie Economy Center” Bryan, Texas * M-Tlill ASSlkVVIiLY HALL DARRYL F. ZANUCK'S Production of MARYLAND ♦ GREATER THAN "KINTUCKY"! IN TECHNICOLOR! with WALTER BRENNAN "Kentucky i" great liar FAY BAINTER j BRENDA JOYCE JOHN PAYNE CHARLIE RUGGLES MARJORIE WEAVER hattie McDaniel of "Cone With The Wind" fame Directed by HENRY KING ’ A 20th Century-Fox Picture SIGNATURE Wednes. - Thurs. October 30 & 31 3:30 & 6:45 each day lar quotations floated through bull sessions, newspaper offices, radio broadcasting studios, and the grandstands as football made its appearance in September. Saturday, a great Arkansas team turned back the Old Miss on its roll to the top with a last per iod scoring spree. Twice the Hogs have gone down before Southwest schools and once they left the field on the top side. The win was credited over the Bay lor Bears, the team which has played the greatest ball against the Aggies this year. Saturday the Razorbacks again climbed back on that road which they traditionally travel—“The passingist team of the nation.” With a close score of 21 to 20, Arkansas gave word to the Aggies that they would not be just an other hurdle in the last stretch. Last year the Aggies traveled into the Ozark State and though the ugliest girls we ever saw, were the prettiest girls in Arkansas, the Hogs outplayed the cadets all four quarters, home we came with the bacon and thankful that it had not been another of the years when the aggies did not win in Arkan sas. The year before, here at home— On Kyle Field—the Aggies fought long and hard to win the contest. This year might be the changing of the tide and thus the changing of the route. This game might be the cross road of the season. Old Miss rated high on the list of great teams of the nation, but the Ark ansas Razorbacks just couldn’t be depended upon to go down. INVESTIGATION OF SMU TICKET SALES DEMANDED “True to each other as Aggies can be. . .” Yesterday at 8 a. m., 600 tickets to be sold to Aggies for their dates to the Southern Methodist game in Dallas next week-end went on sale. At 8:30 the last one had been sold to the cadet who was fifty- fifth in the line. We can realize that some were freshmen prob ably buying for numerous upper classmen but of the others, we can’t say. The largest number sold at any one time was 44. Forty-four tick ets to one student. If all tickets were to be used as means of ad mittance the slate would be clear, but already they have made their appearance on the campus at high er prices. All holders of coupon books are advised to secure their tickets as soon as possible. In answer to the Texas game, it can only be said that all tickets are sold and no others will be re- cived here except for holders of coupon books. We took a spill on the calling of Saturday’s games. T.C.U. went down to Tulsa after the Sooner team scored early in the opening quarter and held out to please the alumni, Arkansas topped Missis sippi one point to drop one of the greatest teams of the country, and Rice Institute set Bible’s first threat down 13 to 0. Friday night in Houston the Rice students were up and the Texas students were low in their feeling. The next day the Owls were up and the Longhorns were as their boosters, still down. It was a great game of football for the Bayou boys and they now rate high in the eyes of the Southwest cal lers. Those we actually called right were, Tulane over North Carolina, Tennessee over Florida, Notre Dame over Illinois, and Texas Tech Arkansas Plays 4th League Tilt Against A & M Sat. Razorbacks Fresh From 21-20 Victory Over Touted Old Miss With a high flying banner, the Arkansas Razorbacks come here this Saturday to face the Texas Ag gies in their fourth conference duel of the year. Last Saturday the experts set back in the dark corners at the final gun of the Mississippi-Ark- ansas game. The Razorbacks had come from far behind to top the high ranking squad with a 21 to 20 score. Arkansas scored early in the fray, but held the lead for only the first quarter. In the second Ole Miss crossed twice and marked up a third in the first two min utes of the second half. From then on they held the upper hand and it looked hopeless for the Hogs. Neal and Hamberg passed the Mississippi boys wild on their touchdown drives and Lawhorn plunged into the line for the needed feet and the final score. But the credit goes to guard Simming- ton for the three perfect place ments. T.C.U. claimed their first win in League play over the Porkers but the Hogs came back to run over the Baylor Bears. Texas made the Ar kansas squad look sick as they ran ove'r 21 points to the Razor- back’s nothing. But back they came! Arkansas can still pass even though sophomores are the foun dations on which the attack is based. The Aggies can pass and they can play good ball against the passing attack but there is still the inspired game to be played. Last Saturday Arkansas play ed that type of ball in the final period! Whether or not they can keep this feeling at its height re mains to be seen come this Sat urday. Any yet they won’t have to play this kind of ball to win. As the Bears traveled to Arkan sas they were missing Wilson in their first game for keeps and may have been in low spirits, but the Hogs hit and they hit hard. Twenty first downs to the Ag gies’ nine was the way the’ books read last year and yet the cadets won top heavy. The Ozarkers are high in the praises of the Arkansas team. Saturday will either raise the picture. fwlyu the cry or set the Hogs far out of the picture. Baylor Frosh Test Strength ofTCU Pollywogs Thursday The surprising Baylor Freshmen gridders get another stiff test of their strength here Thursday when they run up against the T.C. U. Polliwogs. The Cubs handed the Kilgore Jr. College Rangers their first setback since 1938 in a stirring upset last week, but can be rated no more than even choices against the T.C.U. eleven which defeated N. T. A. C. 14-7 in their season's grid opener. Coach Jim Crow, who predicts the game can go either way, has had the frosh gridders scrimmaging the varsity in an effort to prepare them for the expected tough comp etition. There are only 34 boys out for the Baylor freshman team and the Cub Mentor’s chief worry has been in finding reserve line men out of the handful of gridders capable of playing in the forward wall. over Marquette. The other called right was the Aggie win over Bay lor. On the red side—outside of the conference were U.C.L.A.-Oregon State, as the Bruins went down for their fifth loss; and Arizona- Oklahoma A. & M., as the Miss ouri Valley leaders lost out on the desert and under the lights. (Continued on Page 4) Bring your dirty clothes down now and get them ready for this week-end LAUTERSTEIN’S North Gate Brains Behind Razorbacks m ig :#8I Coach ha/d capta/a/s BATTALION TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29 PAGE 3 Intramurals Corps Trip Causes Postponements; Forfeit Doghouse Bare For 1st Time By Bob Myers Since the Aggies follow trad ition, most of them left a day early for the Waco corps trip and left the intramural department with few games. A minimum of games was scheduled originally and this number was reduced considerably by postponements Total games played amounted to one handball in class A and three touch foot- b|all, one swim ming, and one basketball in class B. Highlight of Friday was the fact that our new ly inaugerated “Doghouse” was bare for the first time. ■ L -F ■ Myer« B Chemical Warfare freshmen outswam headquarters Cavalry to add another notch to their guns by a top heavy score of 23-13. In the “barn”, H Infantry “Fish” took a 15-14 game of basketball out of the fire of C Cavalry by call ing on the services of Olsen to the tune of twelve points. The only game of class A was played in the handball courts and was decided in favor of A caval ry when Ward, Adams, and Bres- nen-McCauslin won a match apiece from the H Infantry players. Fin al score—2 - 0. G Infantry freshmen football ers won a no score game from A signal Corps on penetrations. A 13-0 game between B Engin eers and A Chemical Warfare end ed before the little “test-tubers” could rally and score. First year cadets from D Engin eers came out on the long end of a 7-0 game of good football from E field artillery. A & M Maintains No. 3 Rating In National Polling By Paul B. Williamson Notre Dame stays at the top of collegiate football for bumping off Illinois 26 to 0 in a week of “story book” finishes. Cornell holds to se cond place for coming behind to beat Ohio State 21 to 7. Still at third in the Williamson Ratings is Texas A. & M. for downing a hard- fighting Baylor 14 to 7. As suggested last week, the Ag gies had to use every trick in their repertoire and 60 minutes playing by their All-Americans and near All-Americans to skin by those hard-fighting Baylor Bears of Coach Morley Jennings. Jennings’ squads always are tough, the pro duct of an old-timer if there ever was one who has been at his Waco post far longer than any other Texas coach. Although we called the turn on the Comell-Ohio State game, Tom Harmon, Forest Evashevski and Company of the Michigan Wolver ines were too much for the Penn State Quakers, who were on the short end of the 14 to 0 score. We missed that heart-breaker. The Williamson System was practically alone in picking Dart mouth 7„ Harvard 6; Oregon State 7, U.C.L.A. 0; Tulane 14, North Carolina 13, and Louisiana Normal 7, Centenary 0. Other good picks in higher cir cles were Duquesne over Manhat tan, 10 to 6; San Jone over Santa Barbara 13-6; Mississippi State over North Carolina State 26-10; Carnegie Tech over Case, 14-0; Colorado over Wyoming, 62-0; Kansas State over Kansas, 20-0; Texas Tech over Marquette, 20-13; Minnesota over Iowa, 34-6; Mon tana over Gonzaga, 13-10; Neb raska over Missouri, 20-7; George town over N.Y.U., 25-0; North western over Indiana 20-7; Prince ton over Rutgers, 28-13; Tennes see over Florida, 14-0; Duke over Wake Forest, 23-0; Washington over California 7-6; Navy over Yale, 21-0. We anticipated the closeness of some of the scores and the top heaviness of others. Some of last week’s ratings were so close that the following ties, within a rating point or so of each other, are vic tories for the System: Doane6, Hastings 6; Morris Harvey 7, Da vis Elkins 7; Georgia 7, Kentucky 7; Michigan State 0, Santa Clara 0; Texas Mines 0, Tempe Teachers 0; Washington State 6, Oregon 6; San Diego State 0, Fresno State 0. Prize of the week was Rice 13, Texas 0. Texas went into that game at Houston undefeated and untied this season. Rice was in and out. After mopping up Louisiana State one week end, the boys from Rice came back to New Orleans to get cleaned by Tulane, which had lost three in a row. Arkansas surprised everybody by its 21 to 20, point after touch down, triumph over powerful Ole Miss. The Razorbacks scored twice in the closing minutes and big Mil- ton Simington’s unerring toe kick ed the extra point for the victory. Louisiana State scored early in the fourth period to upset Van derbilt 7 to 0. Tulane rolled out a story-book finish with less than two minutes to play to come through for the System 14 to 13 over North Carol ina. Tulane’s Tom Glass blocked a punt, and when A1 Bodney had started his touchdown run, Glass took out the only threatening Tar Heel. Perfect Team 1*0 1 Notre Dame 99.5 2. Camell U 99.0 3 Texas A. & M. 98.7 4 Minnesota 98.3 5 Michigan U 97.6 6 Tennessee 97.0 7 Stanford 96.8 8 Northwestern 86.6 9 Boston College ... 96.2 10 Clemson 95.8 14 So. Methodist 94.0 10 Auburn 92.9 22 Tulane 92.1 23 Rice 91.7 28 Texas 91.0 30 Tulsa 90.6 31 Indiana 90.4 34 t. a U 89.9 39 Arkansas ....89.0 43 Mississippi 88.8 49 Alabama 88.0 50 Illinois 88.0 53 Santa Clara 88.0 59 Baylor 87.2 64 Okla. A. & M. 86.9 75 Texas A. & I. 85.7 80 U. C. L A. „ 85.4 LOOK YOUR BEST VISIT Jones Barber Shop North Gate Aggies Defeat Baylor In Waco At Homecoming A & M Scores In Second and Third Quarters; 14-7 Win A homecoming crowd that bols tered attendance to approximately 22,000, saw two great teams meet beneath an overcast sky Satur day when the Texas Aggies defeat ed the Baylor Bears 14-7 at the Municipal Stadium in Waco. The score does not show the game as it really was and can’t catch the breathless moments when the Aggies let the ball slide to the ground for a free for all with the Bears. A. & M. has played much better ball than they displayed in this game and will have to recapture their former ability in order to take care of the coming games that really count. Scores for the Cadets came early in the second quarter after a cease less first quarter drive. Conatser carried the mail in a sweep around Baylor’s right end. Pugh’s accurate kicking made the conversion. The second score of the game was made on a pass to Henderson in the third quarter. After receiving the pass, Henderson shook two Bears and headed for the goal line. A conversion by Webster ended the Aggie scoring for the game. Jimmy Witt locked on to a pass and scampered 23 yards for Bay- 3im 'BfirKTHAH^ m mij OCT. 30-31 NOV. 1-2 WED • THUR • FRI • SAT • Aggieland Pharmacy “Keep to the right at the North Gate” Need A Haircut? Then try us — one call and you will never go elsewhere. AGGIELAND’S FINEST BARBER SERVICE Y.M.C.A. Barber Shop and Varsity Barber Shop lor’s touchdown and then held as Bob Nelson converted. During the last few minutes of play the Aggies played careful ball and stayed on the ground un til the final gun was fired. Chemist’s Meeting— (Continued from Page 1) The work of these two organiza tions is of immense importance, as the methods of analysis and def initions adopted affect the sale of fertilizers, feeds, drugs, foods and aid in preventing their adulteration or misbranding. Probably a billion dollars or more 1 of commodities af fected by these methods of analy sis or definitions are sold in the United States. Palace Wednesday - Thursday Friday - Saturday LET’S GET DOWN TO MIRTH! *§1hi&e uotik PALACE Special Prevue 11 p. m. Sat. Night, Nov. 2 only The^# story of football’s most color?! character! with PAT O’BRIEN Also Will Be Shown Nov. 6-7-S-9 PALACE Sunday - Monday - Tuesday Nov. 3-4-5 Randolph Scott Kay Frances in “WHEN THE DALTONS RODE” ON THE GRIDIRON IT IS A. & M. ALL THE WAY For Your Uniforms It Is The Uniform Tailor Shop All The Way You can not go wrong when it is “Tailored by Mendl & Hornak” UNIFORM TAILOR SHOP North Gate