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-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.
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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
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•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.
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