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BATTALIONi) SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2 PAGE 3 Intramurals Class B Cross Country Training Starts Monday; Four in Doghouse With Hub Johnson “Haw, the Hogs are here again,” and so it goes, Fred Thomsen brings the Arkansas Razorbacks from fiar up in the Ozark mountains to try their hand at the Texas Ag gies. Today they’ll be playing the greatest game of their year and the Aggies will be faced with the weekly occasion of playing a fight ing team with little to gain except for a great moral victory and nothing to lose but the game. If the Razorbacks turn the Ag gies back today, the one game alone will give them a feeling of success for the season. In the stands the twelfth man under the direction of Buster and Foots will change their ways a bit and try to please all concerned. Last week only the Aggies saved Stop!! .. that after game fatigue Sandwiches - Ice Cream ^Cold Drinks - Candies Pipe and Cigarette Tobacco GEORGE’S South Station Boxing Club Elects Officers At First Meeting In the first meeting of the A. & M. Boxing Club this week Mason Jonas was elected president for the present year. Rex Blankenship was elected vice-president; Bill Taylor, treas urer; Gus Link, secretary; and Gordon Kerr and G. N. Bogel were placed in charge of public ity. Official recognition of boxing as a minor sport at A. & M. was discussed and those men interest ed in the sport are anxious to re ceive such notice. In the past boxing has taken a back seat in the sports field at A. & M. biit plans started last year to bring it to the front are to be continued. H. C. Spencer of the Engineer ing drawing department is the faculty sponsor of the club. the limb from flailing all the way off in the Southwest league pre dictions. Today might tell the same story, for here they are. The Aggies over Arkansas 21 to 7. Rice 19 to 7 over Texas A. & I. T. C. U. to win from Baylor 14 to 7. Texas to send S. M. U. back to Big “D” with a 14 to 13 defeat. The last two may sound a bit out of line but the Mustangs have yet to show 'a great ball club and the Texas Longhorns hit a surprise package last Saturday. T. C. U. played a hard game and a mean bunch of boys, the same the Aggies met, in Tulsa and the Bears were high on spirits. Others here and there are Okla homa A. & M. over Creighton, Stanford over U. C. L. A. to give the Bruins their sixth loss, Notre Dame over Army by a big margin to remain one of the top of the nation, Tulsa over Detroit, Ohio State over Indiana, Cornell over Columbia, and Minnesota over Northwestern. Tonight, win, loose, or draw, the talk will be of S. M. U. and the coming corps trip. If the Mustangs win today, it will be the spark to reset them on their way to the top. If they lose, they will take to their own small field seeking a win to prove they are not out for good. By Bob Myers The training period for Class B Cross Country will start on Mon day, November 11. This will al low two weeks for training before the run which is scheduled for Sat urday, November 23rd. Each man must train at least five times to be eligible for the run. The training period will be from 4:00 P.M. until 5:30 P. M. Monday through Friday of each week. Rifle Shooting for Class A will be started in the very near fu ture, so it’s time to be getting those seven men lined up. B Field Artillery played fast, hard basketball to down G Field Artillery 10-8 in their fracas this week. Shea and Holmes led the win ners with the small sum of three points each. The score doesn’t show the closeness of the game as well as do the fouls. Most of the points scored were made on free throws. B Engineers burned their bridges behind them and stopped A Cav alry 3-0 in a handball game. Suth- erland-Flowers, Houser-Stearman, and Noblitt-Law were the firebug combinations for E Company. One for the books came about on the basketball court when 4th Corps Headquarters and F Infantry met. After a hard fought game, both scores added up to the same fig ure and it was necessary to play an over-time period. It seems that both teams were still equally de termined to win and two more “sudden death” additions were marked up before the “foreign legion” took the game 12-9. Boyd of the losing side was high point man with a total of seven. Another overtime game of bas ketball was played between A Coast Artillery and B Cavalry when time ended with both teams win ning team 10-10. Fast teamwork and accurate shooting on the part of Hardin put the game on ice for A Battery. FORFEIT DOGHOUSE 2nd Corps Headquarters. A Infantry A Coast Artillery Artillery Band We hear that there are some pretty good intramural men over in 2 C. Hq. Wonder why they don’t come down for a game or two? Handball saw H Field Artillery downed by A Signal Corps 2-1. Oliver-Castleberry, Benish-Storm were winners for the victors while Cokinos and White managed to gather in a match for H Battery. C Engineers took their hand ball game from F Infantry when Gray-Anglin and Callinger-Volts won two matches. Pelatre and Whalen accounted for F Company’s match to end the game 2-1. , Warnke paced A Chemical War fare to a 13-11 victory over E Eng ineers by racking up 8 points in a fast clean fought game of bas ketball. The score was 4-5 at the half and saw both teams make a gallant try for a win in the second period. “Fish” from the Infantry Band took a game of touch football from A Cavalry 6-0 to win their league. Myers Weather Permitting, Arkansas Fray Will Feature Passes, Tricks Aggie Poloists In Hard fnntflst Baylor Out For First Conference A & M To Try To Maintain Winning: Streak of 16 Games The Texas Aggie polo team will cross mallets with New Mexico Military Institute on Jackson Field Sunday afternoon at 2:30 p.m. in a game that is expected to be one of A. & M.’s most exciting clashes this fall. New Mexico, long considered a power in intercollegiate polo, will send a hard-riding crew against A. & M., but the maroon and white are slight favorites to chalk up a victory. The same lineup that routed Lampasas earlier in the season is slated to start for the Texas cad- e t s with Norris McGowen of Shreveport at number one, the ev er-hustling Carl Maloney of Gol iad at number two, Bill Braid of San Antonio at number three, and Captain Sid McDonald holding down number four position. Dwight Barry and Lee Rice may see action during the contest. T. A. Williams, letterman from San Antonio, is out with a broken bone in his foot, but he should be ready to go before the end of the season. New Mexico will probably be sparked by the veteran Florida back, King, and that stellar for ward from Hawaii, Von Temsky. One of those things happened on the football field when G Coast Artillery and B Infantry fresh men met. It seems that one of the wide-awake players on the Coast team intercepted a pass and was well on his way to pay dirt when a referee’s whistle was blown on the adjoining field. It was at this point that the player stopped run ning, threw the ball down land started wondering what it was all about when the rest of the players caught up and started a mad scram ble for the ball. Fortunately the break didn’t lose the game for them because they came out on top 6-0. Win Sat. With TCU The Baylor Bears, turned back in their two conference tilts this year, hope to make the grade to day when they invade Ft. Worth for their annual tussle with the T. C. U. Horned Frogs. Coach Morley Jennings’ gridders gave a good account of themselves against the easy-going Texas Ag gies last weekend before they went down battling to a 14 to 7 count, but they just didn’t have the scor ing plays to go with the brilliant defensive work turned in by That Good Old Baylor Line. The Baylor eleven is still rely ing on sophomores Jack Russell, George Koch, Milton Crain, W. B. Godbold and Lewis Self to take care of some key positions in the starting lineup and it looks like they are just now hitting their stride. From now on out, the Bears will be picking up steam as they roll along and should give the rest of the ball clubs in the loop a run for their money. Baylor coaches disregarded the Horned Frogs’ loss to Tulsa last Saturday and told the Bruin grid ders that they were expecting the T. C. U. eleven to be stronger than ever, and the Baptist footballers would have to play the same type of ball they turned in against the Aggies if they finish on the long end of the score. T. C. U. has won the last four games that the two teams have played in Ft. Worth and the Bears will be out to put an end to the home lot jinx and chalk up their first league win in three starts. Perhaps 50 per cent and cer tainly 25 per cent of the country’s population has impaired vision be cause of vitamin A deficiency, says Prof. Robert S. Harris of Massa chusetts Institute of Technology. Enrollment at Los Angeles City college, restricted because of crowd ed campus conditions, is down 12.8 per cent. (Continued from Page 1) list is All-American John Kim brough, the Haskell Hurricane. He is assisted in the work of keeping A. & M. on top by a blocking back that is worthy of any praise, Jim Thomason. Lines that hold are hard to find but the six giants that tumble defense for Aggie ground gainers are men that every coach in the nation would gladly have around. Guard positions are well taken care of on the Aggie juggernaut by Marshall Robnett and Charley Henke. When it is possible to make a tackle, these two are usually in on the play. Jim Sterling, left end for A. & M., carries more punch and foot ball talent than any other end in the conference. He has consistent ly played high caliber ball since he pulled on a maroon and white uniform. Sterling’s mate on the other side of the forward wall is “Boots” Simmons, a fast improv ing offensive player. Around 12,000 spectators are to file into Kyle Field, and Lutcher Stark’s Royal Bengal Guards of Orange, Texas will present a half time exhibition of precision drilling and fascinating uniforms. The Ben gal Guard is unequaled for it’s brilliance and military appear ance by other high school organ izations of this section. Fred Thomsen, Hog mentor, has built himself a reputation as coach of the “passingest team in the na tion” and he is bringing a large bag of tricks to use on Aggie de fenses that have weathered storms of goal-line rushes. His success is depending on aerial offense and Arkansas is likely to toss the pig-* skin far and wide in an effort to bring the mighty Texas Aggies down from the ranks of the un defeated. Oldest agricultural college in the United States is Michigan State, established in 1853. AGGIE MILITARY SHOP AGGIELAND GROCERY Stop By For A Snack CAMPUS CLEANERS UNIFORM TAILOR SHOP North Gate — Mendl & Hornak DOBYNE JEWELER HOLICK’S BOOT SHOP AGGIELAND STUDIO CAMPUS VARIETY OAKWOOD SERVICE STATION ZUBIK & SONS J. C. PENNEY CO., Inc. “Aggie Economy Center” NORWOOD’S “Buy Thom McAn’s” COLLEGE COURTS COFFEE SHOP BLACK’S PHARMACY LAUTERSTEIN BRYAN MOTOR COMPANY Ford Dealers C. W. VARNER, JEWELER Bryan - College ADAMS-FRANKS INS. AGENCY R. C. Franks STUDENT CO-OP Radio Repair A. J. 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