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m Summer Sports * i £ ✓ -By Dub Oxford- Coach Homer Norton Predicts University Of Texas to be on Top in Conference Flag Race By Dub Oxford Coach Norton, who is in Chicago as a member of the coaching staff and is getting the college-All-Stars ready for their battle with the Chicago Bears made a statement to the press this week. The state ment was a prediction, a rather reserved one, I think. The pre diction—the University of Texas will take the Southwest Conference football crown this fall. Coach Norton is using good psychology. If he had predicted that the Aggies were in top shape and would be in the race fighting regardless of the loss of key men, every team would be on the look out for the Aggies and the chances are that they would be smeared all over the football field. In his press conference Norton was reluctant to predict a vic tory for his college All-Stars. However, he declared, “I think we have a fine squad at Chicago, but I’m not picking us to best those professionals. Those babies are tough. However, I do think we’ll be able to make things interest ing for ’em.” Concerning the conference race again, Norton said you can’t help but put Texas up there, but re member there are no guarantees in this conference. Following Texas he mentioned S.M.U., Rice, and maybe Baylor. It is a bit early for the sports editor to stick his neck out mak ing predictions. I think I’ll wait until after I have seen the Aggies in their fall practice. But I will say this, I think Rice will be the most disappointed team in the conference. Texas Aggies To Get Wealth of Material From Hard Playing High School Footballers The High School All-Star foot ball game at Houston last week end brought forth a wealth of new material for the Southwest conference. Twelve of the fine players will enroll at Texas A. & M. in the fall. As they put it, they elected to go to “the army.” From the combined squads, Tex as A. & M. will get a man from every position except end and center. Here are the high school stars that will come to Aggieland in September: Guards: Norman Brown, all-state choice from Corpus Christi; James Cody, a Dallasite from Woodrow Wilson; Marty Mertz, San Angelo; and Johnny Davis from Vernon. Tackles: Jimmy Edison, Brown- wood; and Clifton Patton, Big Spring. Backs: Ed Dusak, Temple; Ver non Belville, Yoakum; Jennings Anderson, San Antonio; George Wilde, Graham; and Barney Welch, Stephenville. The star of the game, Ray Coul ter, from the Masonic Home in Fort Worth, will go to S.M.U. HOLLYWOOD PRESS AGENTS OUGHT TO GET TOGETHER From Jimmy Fiddler’s column about Hollywood comes the item that John Kimbrough, Aggie All- American fullback and Ann Miller are “eye to eyestem.” Well, that is all right, but Big John was on a fishing trip this week, down Port Aransas way and landed a big tar- poon». Jumping from tarpoon to starlet in about four days is pret ty fast moving. But I guess that John enjoys fishing more than he does Hollywood and if he had his way about it he would still be fish ing. —o— ODDS ’N ENDS Mike Mann, .the Battalion’s sports assistant in the long term dropped me a note the other day . . . Mike is working for the Hous ton Post during the summer . . . Marshall Spivey, Jim Sterling, and Derace Moser planned a camping trip to Colorado after camp, and they were so in earnest that Spivey had his mother teach him how to make pie and flap jack dough . . . We haven’t heard of any violent Young Men’s Majestic* BELTS AND SUSPENDERS 49c ea. For Longer Service! The belts are made of tough top-grain pigskin—lined and stitched! Stretchy rayon elastic web bing makes these suspenders long wearing! Leather ends in clip or button on models. Colorful school stripes’ AGGIE ECONOMY CENTER Bryan, Texas •illness of the trio yet . . . maybe Spivey has added cooking to his many abilities . . . Bill Reber who is just back from the Coast Artil lery camp at Galveston brings this bit of news . . . Martin Ruby, Bill Andrews, Pete Watkins and Bill Henderson all have a house to gether in Galveston and are work ing for the highway department . . . that should put all of them in shape for the coming season . . The high schol all-star football game in Houston was a fast game to watch, but there were too. many stars . . . you didn’t know who to watch . . . Now that the sun is out maybe the Twilight league can get a few games off their schedule. Twilight League To Continue Scheduled Softball Tourneys The Twilight League enters its fourth week of play with a full slate of games. Due to the post poning of games last week because of the rain, the six teams in the race will have to play every day to complete their schedules. The team that survives this week’s play will no doubt come out as the second half champion. The strong Campus Cleaners are still the pace-setters of the race, and the team that beats them de serves to be the winner of the league. Last year this team falter ed in the second half after win ning the first half, but from their performance so far the Cleaner, boys are not going to let this happen. The only team they have trouble with is the Faculty. Their lone defeat was at the hands of the professors, and Monday evening these two teams played one of the best games of the summer as they deadlocked in a 2-2 seven inning tie which was protested by the Faculty over a decision at third base. BATTALION. AUGUST 13 PAGE 3 P. L. Downs, Jr. Natatorium^ P. L. Downs, Jr. Natatorium is the home of the water polo team and the Aggie swimming squad. It is open in the summer to all summer school students. P. L. Downs Pool Offers New and Modern Features By Brooks Cofer T; It’s a far cry from the old bath tub plunge of the Y swimming pool to the new modern P. L. Downs Jr. Natatorium. Before the pres ent swimming pool was built, the aqua performers took their daily dip in the overgrown bath tub in the Y. It was hard to find the water when you once got in, much less trying to find room to swim. Aggie swimming teams suffered from such a set-up, and in 1933 the modern pool We have today was built. The present pool is one of the best in the country. It is amply equipped with lockers and showers and other facilities for swimming. The heating plant for the water is one of its main features. The water in the pool under these conditions has to be changed on ly once or twice a year; it con stantly is circulating through the heating and purification plant, which keeps it at a temperature of around 70 degrees. The pool activity, besides see ing all the pretty mermaids, is varied. Some fellows take advan tage of the diving boards to show their new form, while others who like the rough side of swimmming may engage in a game of water polo. From a spectator’s view point water polo is not so excit ing, but for the participants things move along quite fast as the ac tion that takes place under water is plenty rough. In case you are a good swimmer and like body punishment you should contact Fred Renaud, who would like to find enough boys to make a team to play a group from Galveston led by Ernie Conway. Recently Completed Tennis Courts to Cut Crowding to Minimum One of the most recent additions to the college recreation field was the six new concrete tennis courts. These new courts are located just behind the project houses and ad jacent to the four old concrete courts. The addition of these new courts is expected to relieve, to a certain extent, the congestion which was always found to exist about the four old ones. Since completion, the courts have been constantly crowded with the ex ception of the several days during which we received our share of downpours of skywater. This just all goes to show what a popular sport tennis seems to be. The new courts were started at the beginning of the second semester last term and were com pleted just a few weeks ago. At present there is a slight shortage of nets but this will be remedied in the very near future. The addition of the new courts brings the total to sixteen but this is by no means too many. With the tennis tournaments getting un der way, it is necessary that the six clay courts across from the gymnasium be kept marked and in condition suitable for play. Texas Areas Used for Cotton Improvement Plan One-variety Cotton Marketing Plan Approved For Four Texas Sections Texas is given four areas in the one-variety cotton improvementumd marketing program for cotton grown in the United States, which the Department of Agriculture announced recently. The areas, with the varieties be ing grown, are: Wharton County— Delta and Pine Land variety; Red River County—Rowden variety; Delta-Lamar area—Rowden var iety; and South Plains area—Pay master variety. All Farmers Eligible “Government classing offices will be set up at El Campo, Clarksville, Paris and Floydada to serve each of the four areas, and growers should receive quick classing,” said M. C. Jaynes, cot ton work specialist of the A. & M. College Extension Service. “All farmers in the program are eligi ble to have their cotton classed, but they do not have to sell it. Their cotton can go into the loan, or they are at liberty to dispose of it wherever they can get the high est price.” Under the plan, up to 225,000 bales produced in 1941 in selected one-variety areas, will be made available to domestic and foreign spinners in even running lots com posed wholly of cotton • from the same areas. The marketing division of the Department of Agriculture will make an agreement with a shipper designated by the growers, who will act as buyer, to take over a Local Sports Fans To See Water Polo Game Next Sunday Sport fans will be treated this next Sunday afternoon with water polo games between a local Aggie team and one from the Crystal Palace in Galveston. A series of games will probably be played with the winner taking 'the best two out of three games. Leading the Galveston team will be Ernie Conway, Aggie swimming star of the past two years. Ernie’s team is composed of star swim mers of the Beach Patrol, and will offer stiff competition since they have been working out during the summer. But don’t think that the local team will be a push-over, for such stars as Bob Taylor, Fred Renaud, and Happy McKey form a nucleus for a strong team. Other members of the College Station team will be Johnny Waddell, Paul Knapp, Ben Looney, Manny Smith, Gonzales, Huber, and Segel. Last year the two teams played with the local Aggies winning both games, one of which was held in Galveston. Sunday’s games will be held in the P. L. Downs, Jr. Natatorium with the public invit ed to attend free. Men’s Ping Pong Singles and Tennis Matches Are Played The familiar click of ping pong balls and the bulletins on the Y. M. C. A. board brings to light that ping pong matches are well under way. In the men’s singles, Mc- Corquodale and Lozano are next in line before getting to the finals. There are other men on the tourney list but it seems that studies have kept them from playing their scheduled games. The men’s singles tennis matches have progressed well regardless of the inclement weather. Scheduled on the list are Stubbs vs. Coughlin and Ibrey vs. Butler. The win ners of these matches will meet each other for the semi-finals. There have been no doubles games scheduled as yet. portion of the cotton from each area, Jaynes said. The present plan of the department is to pur chase between 7,500 and 10,000 bales in Wharton County; 10,000 bales in Red River; 15,00 in Delta- Lamar, and 10,000 in the South Plains. Should the loan be under the market, Jaynes added, the pur chases probably would not exceed one-half of the estimated amounts. Payments Are Made The program provides federal payments of $2.35 a bale for un compressed cotton' and $2.75 for compressed to cooperating agen cies which assemble the staple and deliver it to domestic or foreign spinners. These payments are to compensate handlers for the ex tra cost involved in employing the new and improved marketing methods required under the pro gram. According to the Department’s announcement the cotton will be handled from grower to spinner in accordance with the latest approved practices. These practices include (See COTTON PLAN, page 4) August 30 Graduation to End Rutherford’s Pitching Record Eggs provide proteins of a qual ity which are easily and quickly digested, absorbed and used in building and mending tissues. It is estimated that over 100,000 people will attend the four home football games at A. & M. this year. By Jerry Gleason " As this summer school session draws to a close, it will likewise bring to an end the formal educa tion for several Aggie Seniors. Among this group will be a W. C. Rutherford, better known to most of us as just Rudy. He hails from Greenville, Texas, and during the regular term he is a member of A Battery Field Artillery. For the past four years Rudy has been earnestly at work trying to achieve his degree in Agricultural Engi neering and when this August 30th rolls around, his goal will have been reached. Upon graduation he expects to go to work for the Soil Conservation Service since he is too young to receive his com mission and be called to active duty. Rudy knows though that “all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy” so as a result he has spent much of his time this sum mer on the local softball dia monds. He is the pitching staff of the Campus Cleaners softball team, winners of the first ses sion Twilight League and favorites to repeat as such this session. While pitching for Campus Clean ers, Rutherford has achieved for himself quite a fine record. He has lost but two games this sea- “Rudy” Rutherford son, one of those to the strong Western Auto team of Bryan whom he later defeated in a return en gagement. During last session s Twilight League Rudy pitched two no hit games and came very near adding to this record on several other occasions. Rutherford has no definite style of pitching. His delivery is the relatively new “windmill” style with lots of speed and plenty of stuff •on the ball. He has a slow ball which is very effective and has been used many times to pull him out of the pinches. Rudy’s pitching record with Campus Cleanei’s runs something like this for the season. He has faced two hundred and eighty- seven batters, allowed thirty-five hits, walked twenty-six, and struck out ninety-one. While earning this record, he has maintained for him self a batting average of slightly less than two hundred which is a fair average for a hard working pitcher. Wayne Todd, manager of the Campus Cleaners club, says Rutherford has been overworked the past three weeks and as a re sult has not been at his best in the last several games. A few weeks ago he pitched in the Bryan Tournament and then a week later started the Twilight League. This should account in part for Rudy’s allowing twenty-eight hits during the tournament and first two games of the league. During last ses sion’s Twilight League, he allowed but seven safe blows. Todd adds though that after last week’s rest due to the rained out games. Rudy should be ready to pitch his best during the rest of the season. 12 High School All-Stars To Play Football for A & M Rice Owls To Get Next Largest Group Of Boys Last Saturday night in Houston two fine football teams met in Rice Stadium and fought a mighty gridiron battle. The members of the two teams were the stars of last year’s Interscholastic League High School football and were coached by Fritz Chrisler of Michi gan and Jess Neely of Rice. Wit nesses to that game were able to get a bird’s eye view of what col lege football teams will offer in the next few years. Twelve of the boys, on those two teams have selected Texas A. & M. as the school in which they wish to further their football training. Ten of them selected Rice Institute and six selected our age old rival over Austin way. Five others were undecided as to what school they would attend. Those boys selecting A. & M. as their school were: Guards Norman Brown, 184 pound all-state choice from Corpus Christi; James Cody, 195 pounder from Woodrow Wilson of Dallas; Marty Mertz, 192 pound er from San Angelo, and Johnny Davis, 181 pounder from Vernon. Tackles: Clifton Patton, 210 pounder from Big Spring; Jimmy Edison, 187 pounder from Brown- wood. Backs: Vernon Bellville, 170 pounder from Yoakum; Ed Dusak, 6 foot 3 inch 200 pound all-state choice from the runner up Tem ple Wildcats; Jennings Anderson, speedy 184 pound all-state choice from Brackenridge of San Antonio; George White, 181 pounder f rom Graham, and Barney Welch, a great ball toter from Stephenville who was named on many all-state teams. There should be no doubt in any one’s mind about the ball carrying ability of big Ed Dusak. Last year at Temple he rammed and pile- drived the Wildcats into the state finals, He was not stopped even in this game but by himself, he could not match the power of his opponent. Out of this group of twelve boys, it is impossible to pick out one and say he is the best. They have all achieved excellent records in high school and they all hope to carry that record further here at A. & M. We have all heard about them and many of us have seen them play. In last Satur day’s game in Houston they all proved they were college material. Many of them played the entire game and were fortunate enough to be on the victorious team which, by the way, was the North. In the last few minutes of play the North All-Stars turned on the power and scored two touchdowns and a safety to win the game 14 to 0. The pre-game favorite was the South All-Stars and they did out play the North throughout but they were unable to stop the North ern powerhouse in the fading min utes of the last quarter. Superstitious? Well So Is The Coaching Staff of Texas A&M By Dub Oxford Everybody has superstitions and the coaching staff of Teaxs A. & M. is no exception. The head coach, Homer Norton, has as his superstition the wearing of the same suit whenever the Aggies play a ball game. An ironical note is that he did not wear the suit on the day Texas A. & M. played Texas University. And you know the results. Another note on superstitions is that two cadets always stood in the same place at yell practice. The night before the Texas game they did not stand in the same spot. The next time we play Texas they swear to stand in one place only. Continuing with the coaching staff, “Uncle Bill” James who is a very quiet and easy going man, never changes his seat during a game and never takes a drink of water or soft drinks. And dur ing the stress of a gridiron bat tle frequently goes out to talk to the officials. John Wesley Rollins, better known to the football players as Dough, has no superstitions. He just merely worries about the team. Concerning Marty Karow, the baseball coach, he always crosses the plate with a bat be fore the team goes to bat, and he will never change a winning com bination. When Marty is in ac tion he is a show in himself. He fairly boils when things go wrong. But he forgets all his anger when the game is over. A quiet and easy going fellow with a distinct Texas drawl is Charlie DeWare, freshman base ball coach. Charlie also has no superstitions but he is quite fidge ty during a game. But then again, all coaches are that way during a game . Jovial Lil Dimmitt, the baseball coach, is well liked by all who have met him and he almost has a trademark. Whenever he gets excited he has a habit of stutter ing. In fact, he has been known as “stuttering Lil.” Lil is very superstitious. He likes to have the same water boy at every ball game and even helped pay the way of the boy out to the Pacific coast to keep from changing boys when the team was in a winning streak. The head swimming coach Art Adamson has a peculiar supersti tion. He doesn’t like green as a color. That ought to be hard to take for the water in the pool is usually green. And he ought to know what a hot time it is when ever there is a swimming meet. He carries two stop watches in his hands and mumbles to himself about all the mistakes made. There they are—Superstitions. Make what you want out of them. A Short Story About B.V.D. SHORTS You’ll cheer the freedom giving comfort found in B.V.D.’s famous “Briefs,” for they boast the exclu sive “All-Ways Stretch” seat and special built in support feature no other garment of this style has. Pair them up with a B.V.D. Mesh V-Neck style undershirt. BRIEFS 50ft SHIRTS 500 7 t V WIMBERLEY STONE DANS6V W.vDX/ CLOChlERS College and Bryan We’ll Clean & Press Your Clothes FOR THE Juke Box Prom CAMPUS CLEANERS Over the Exchange Store
