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Summer sports Softball Eliminations Begin This Week “Leaves Falling Brings Football Season Nearer,” Says Texas U. Star Jack Crain So “Cowboy” Jack Crain is rarin’- for the leaves to fall. Jack Wal ton (no relation to “Prexy we hope) Crain is in ready prepara tion for football season and ac cording to the latest dope put out, the Texas U. squad, sparked by Crain, Layden, and the rest of tea-sipping backs, will be the outstanding team of the year. With all due respect to Dana Bible, we doubt that statement. There is always November 27 for ■the Longhorns to reckon with and according to OUR dopesters, mean ing six thousand fighting Aggies and goodness knows how many Exes, Texas University will meet her “jinx.” Jack Crain who is a mighty fine gridironsman will really be spark ing the Longhorns to a victory . if there is one to be had. To stop an argument before it starts, we’ll just see. BATTALION AUGUST 20 PAGE 3 Sterling And Moser - Key Men Athletic Department Says, “Get Your Ducats Early;” 38,384 Can See Aggie-Texas Battle Make way for a record crowd, on November 27. The hot grid iron struggle is more than three months away but according to E. W. Hooker of the athletic office, the department is receiving a con stantly increasing flood of orders for tickets to the Texas U.-Texas Aggie football game here. Already, they said, ducats had been ordered and printed for tem porary seats in the open end of the horse shoe on Kyle Field. This unprecedented move will make pos sible the attendance of 38,383 spec tators at the game. BIG JOHN BREAKS INTO THE NEWS WITH BETTY GRABLE Latest press releases show Tex as A. & M.’s All-American John Kimbrough attending parties with Betty Grable. John, you know, is going to play the leading part in a “Horse Opera.” An interest ing sidelight on Kimbrough’s movie career is the statement he made to the press in Hollywood. Said John, “I’ve just finished 15 years of education in which Eng lish and public speaking were my chief subjects and I had to come to Hollywood to learn that I don’t talk the language properly. Such is Hollywood.” ATTENTION! SUMMER STUDENTS - - - If you want to save money on your uniform equipment— BUY NOW Prices are steadily ad vancing—so come in be fore you leave and select what, you will need. A small deposit will hold it for you until you return in September and protect you from any price ad vances. Our new stock of uniform equipment is here ready for you to select from We Are Now Agents for the STETSON ARMY HAT Our New Stock Has Just Arrived New Reg. ARROW SHIRTS New ALLIGATOR Trench and Rain Coats Complete New Stocks At Both Stores 7 t T WIMBERLEY STONE DANSBY CLOthlERS College and Bryan The Black Aggies broke their winning streak last week when they played the Brenham Lions. The “Black Aggies,” or the Grand Prize Tigers, are a baseball team made up of the colored employees of the college and are managed by Charley Hadley who works in the chemistry department. These true spotsmen take their game seriously and they really play hot ball. —o— This is the last issue of the Bat talion that will come out before school begins and I want to take this opportunity to thank Mr. Pen- berthy and Luke Harrison who are responsible for the success of the summer sessions. The Juke Box Proms, the tournaments, and the softball games were all the brain-children of these two men. Thanks, Mr. “Penny” and Luke. DIDJA KNOW: . . . that the Texas Aggies start ed playing football back in 1893 but did not take on an intercol legiate schedule until 1894 when they won one and lost two games ? Of course, Texas won that year. . . . that since the Texas Aggies started playing football in 1894 they have participated in 367 games, have won 237, lost 104 and tied 26 for a winning percentage of .681 with tie games figured as one-half game won and one-half game lost. . . . that Texas A. & M. never has lost a post season classic? On Jan. 2, 1922 with the 1921 championship team, they defeated Centre College at Dallas, 22-14; on Jan. 1, 1940 with the 1939 na tional championship team, they downed Tulane at New Orleans in the Sugar Bowl, 14-13; and on Jan. 1, 1941 with the 1940 South west Conference co-championship team, they won from Fordham in the Cotton Bowl at Dallas, 13-12? . . . that the largest score ever run up by a Texas Aggie team was the 110-0 game with Daniel Baker College in 1920? Also that the worst licking they ever took was the 48-0 defeat from Texas Longhorns away back in 1898 at Austin, as usual. . . . that the Aggies won two 77-0 games from Sam Houston State Teachers turning the trick in 1919 and again in 1925. Of the 8 games played with the Bearkats, the Ag gies have won them all. The first one was played in 1919. . . . that the only remaining char ter members of the Southwest Con ference are Arkansas, Rice, Bay lor, Texas University and Texas A. & M.? Oklahoma A. & M. and Oklahoma University were the oth er two original members. Okla homa U. gave up their member ship in 1916 and Southern Metho dist, then a new school, stepped in. In 1922 Texas Christian got in when Oklahoma A. & M. drop ped out and with the five original members make the Southwest Con ference a seven-team loop. . . . that every team in the pres ent membership of the Southwest Conference has won at least one championship in football? Texas A. & M. leads with six clear titles and a tie in 1940 with S. M. U.; S. M. U. is second with four wins and the A. & M. tie; Texas and T. C. U. have three championships each, and Rice and Baylor tie with two each. Arkansas has won the crown once. In 1915, the first year champion ships were awarded, Baylor wen but was disqualified for using an ineligible man and no title was awarded. In 1916 Texas came up cfierlzn r cALoser Jim Sterling, end, and Derace Moser, tail back, will be the only key men coach Homer Norton will have returning on his 1941 Aggie team. The loss of the other nine starters will be keenly felt. Drugstore Cowboy Has Found His Spot - The Marble Machine By David Cofer And now, members of the sport ing world, here is some news. The far-famed drug store cowboy has actually found his sport: not one which he only talks about but one in which he actually participates. Whether you are in Maine or Cali fornia these new players are sweat ing it out, playing one of the roughest of sports. But this new game, if you call it such, is a fun- ney thing. You play against your self, it costs like the devil to play, and it is darn near impossible to win. Here are the odds that you face. A You want to play? Well, let’s go find one of these tables with an all familiar slot. If you want, we can drill oil, sail around the world, drink Seven-Up, or Four Roses if you like it stronger. Now, slip your hard earned nickel in and watch the lights come on. You’ve got five shots or trys to beat this blame machine that will get very sensitive and tilt if you get rough; so take it easy until you get on to the art of making that ball hit what you want it to. The main object, of course, is to beat the machine into giving you some extra games. Free games ■are given sometimes when you top certain score or turn on all of the lights of a given color. But I can see that you have already gone through the half dollar, and have not won a game. Beginners’ luck— there just ain’t none for this game. The best thing now is for you to ally with a professional of this new art; there are plenty hang ing around) and they know exact ly the shot for you to make so as to win. The main thing is to get some one else to help you feed this hungry animal with nickles. Now you have a partner and with a little luck you might play the rest of the day. But be care ful that your legs don’t give way, because standing on them for five straight hours will not help those fallen arches. For you guys that are on the nervous side, take your asprin along if you want to keep from wrecking the whole system, and if you want to keep your money, stay away. The name of these things I’ve been telling you about is the in nocent one that goes like marble machine or better still one-arm bandit without the arm. They meet you in every drug store, honky- tonk, and cafe that you enter; and are always ready. with the best record but their claim was disputed so again no title was awarded. No title was awarded in 1918 due to World War I strip ping the teams and upsetting the schedule. In 1936 Arkansas won but, like Baylor in 1915, they used an ineligible man and that cost them the crown. Oklahoma and Oklahoma A. & M. never won a championship while members. In six years the enrollment of A. & M. has increased from 3,213 to 6,842. E. L. Williams Gives Industrial Education Course at Flying Field E. L. Williams, head of the In dustrial Education department, has just finished giving two weeks of instruction to foreman, superin tendents, and gang bosses at Dun can field in San Antonio. The instruction was given as a part of the Industrial Education Extension department’s state-wide service to employers and men in positions as superintendents. Aggie Cagers Take Aggie Cleaners To Road During The Christmas Holidays The Texas Aggie basketball team will take to the road during the Christmas vacation and make a trip that will carry them as far north as Lafayette, Ind., where they will play the Purdue Boiler makers on December 31, Cage Coach Marty Karow announced this week. On the same trip they will play the University of Kentucky at Lexington, Ky., on Dec. 30; Brad ley Polytechnical College at Peoria, 111., on Jan. 1 and enroute home will stop off at St. Louis, Mo., to play Washington University on Jan. 3, arriving back on the cam pus in time for the resumption of classes on Jan. 5. This will be the first time an Aggie basketball team has made such a long trip and Coach Karow has said he intends to carry a large squad with him so that all may have a look-see at how the game is played in other parts of the country, particularly at Purdue where winning the Big Ten cham pionship is almost a tradition. In discussing his prospects Karow said he is pretty much in the dark as to his 1941-42 team since this will be his first year as varsity cage coach at Texas A. & M. “All jobs on the team are open,” he said. “I have talked to several junior college players who promised to come to A. & M. and I hope they do for I would like to take them along on the trip we plan,” he added. Marty succeeded “Hub” McQuil lan, mentor since 1935, who resign ed to go to Texas Christian. Since he has been at A. & M., Marty has been backfield coach in foot ball and head varsity coach of base ball. Aggie Gridsters In Preparation For All Star-Pro Game Of current interest to Aggieland is the fine showing last year’s stars are making with the College All-Stars, who are training for their game with the Chicago Bears. An article from their headquarters in Evanston, HI., had this to say about Aggie stars: “James Thomason, Texas Aggie halfback, was used at quarterback in a combination which included George Paskvan of Wisconsin, a starter at fullback, and Charley O’Rourke of Boston College and Herman Rohrig of Nebraska at the halfbacks. “Marion Pugh, the Texas Aggie quarterback who has been bothered with a sore leg, was promoted to the left half post on a top rank ing combination which included Art Jones of Richmond at right half, Milt Piepul of Notre Dame at full back and Bob Paffrath of Minne sota at quarterback. “Ernest Pannell, Texas Aggie tackle, has shown himself to be a first string man as well as a starter. Fred Hartman of Rice alternated on the No. 2 line.” On the local front of football there is the annual free coach ing school. Coach Norton of course will miss the school since he is one of the all-star coaches. But the school still will have outstand- In Lead; Campus Cleaners Second By Jerry Gleason Last week saw the Twilight League go into the home stretch as fifteen games were played. Most of the games were make-up games from the previous week which had been postponed due to the rains. The league schedule will be com pleted this week and a double elim ination of the top four teams will be started. As yet, the exact date of the play-off has not been de cided but it will be necessary that all back games be played as soon as possible so that the elimina tions may be started this week and finished before the middle of next week. Out of the fifteen games play ed last week, six of them were de cided by one run margins and two were shut-outs. The Seaboard Life vs. Aggie Cleaners, the Sea board Life vs. Faculty went extra innings to a decision and the Campus Cleaners and Faculty end ed in a tie. The Aggie Cleaners took the league lead last week as they start ed a winning streak that has thus far carried them to six consecu tive wins. The streak was threat- Five Day Coaching School Will Offer New Sports Courses LOOKING FOR A WAY TO CUT COSTS? Use our expert cleaning and pressing service to preserve your clothes and keep them looking new! CAMPUS CLEANERS Above Exchange Store 1941 Texas Aggie Football Team Has 10,838Lbs. of Candidates By Dub Oxford That famed “Thin Red Line of the Texas Aggies,” a statement which dates back to World War I is not as thin as it sounds judging from the lengths and breadths of the players mentioned on the 1941 tenative squad roster. In fact, the Aggies will blot out a consider able portion of the turf when they first trot out on the field Septem ber 27 to play the Sam Houston State Teachers College Bear Kats. Coach Homer Norton is expect ing a shipment of more than five tons of football talent to arrive September 5 to start practice. The tonnage is divided among some 57 candidates who average 188 pounds each and six feet tall. More than three of the five tons is wrapped up in 39 linesmen who total 7,540 pounds. Reducing that draft number figure to a one man basis I found that each linesman -f-averages 193 pounds. Stacked one on top of each others head the team would tower 350 feet into the air, or the equiva lent of a 35 story building. Simple mathematics and the use of a slide rule reduces that to an average of six feet. The whole team totals 10,828 pounds and they could be easily put in a cattle car, but would have very little room to run around. Going further into averages, they average 20 and one-half years in age. Vieing for tall man honors on the team are Jamie Dawson who is six feet six, and Leonard Joens who scrapes the clouds at six feet five. Euel Wesson, a tackle, and Bill Henderson, an end, and Jim Montgomery, a tackle tie for third place with a heighth of six feet four. Leonard Joeris also takes heavy man honors onjthe team. He weighs 240 pounds. Euel “Poppa” Wesson takes second heavy man •honors with a 230 pound weight. The twelve end candidates aver age 178 pounds and have an aver age height of six feet three inches. Ten tackles who average 211 pounds each and are six feet tall make quite a formidable group of football players. The thirteen guards merely hit the scales at a 189 pound average, but the four centers are below them with a 178 pound average. Eighteen backfield men average 182 pounds and they also are six feet in average height. In fact, the Texas Aggie team will hit the six foot mark in an average of heights. But here is an interesting side light. All the work of the statis tician has been in vain. These weights were taken from the 1940 roster and by now the players are heavier and probably taller. Please pass the adding machine. A week full of talks on foot ball, basketball, baseball, track, intramural sports and prevention and treatment of injuries is the schedule for approximately 150 high school coaches who are expected to attend the annual free coach ing school at Texas A. & M. Col lege, August 18-23. Highlights of the five-day course will be football which will take up approximately twenty hours of the class work with Barton (Bochey) Koch, Baylor line coach; Howard (Bull) Lynch, coach of the state champion Amarillo Sandies; Marty Karow, Texas A. & M. backfield coach; and J. W. (Dough) Rollins, Aggie end coach, passing out the instruction. In addition, Ab Cur tis, Southwest Football Officials Association member, will discuss and interpret the 1941 rules for the coaches and any fans who care to attend the 10 a. m. Wednesday session when he speaks. Lil Dimmitt, Aggie trainer and head baseball coach, will cover the subjects of baseball and treatment and prevention of injuries; Rollins, also Aggie varsity and freshman track coach, will cover that sport and Karow, also varsity cage coach at A. & M., will discuss basket ball. Physical education and intra mural sports will be on the pro gram for two one-hour periods with W. L. (Penny) Penberthy, head of the Texas A. & M. physical edu cation department, giving the lec tures. All high school coaches are in vited to attend the course which is free, except for a small charge for a room in one of the college dormi tories. -fened last week in two different games as the Cleaners were forced to go into extra innings to push across the winning runs. The Campus Cleaners took un disputed possession of second place as they downed three out of their five opponents and tied another. They are one half game out of first place and must meet the league leading Aggie Cleaners in the deciding game for the league championship this week. Seaboard Life won three of its five games to tie the Faculty for third and fourth place. These two teams along with the Campus Theater and North Gate Project House will be battling to stay in the first four places. The two games which the Faculty have tied must be replayed to a decis ion and these could eliminate them from the play-off. The worst surprise of all was the loss of five straight games last week by the Campus Thea ter. The Theater boys started off good and led the league the first of the term but they slumped last week and really lost the ground in the league standing. They will have a chance to win the flag, if there is one, provided they can win their games this week and then come through in the elimina tions. The scores of last week’s games were as follows: Faculty vs. Cam pus Cleaners, tie; Aggie Cleaners 5, N. G. Progect House 4; Sea board Life 5, Campus Theater 4; Faculty 2, N. G. Project House 1; Campus Cleaners 3, Campus Thea ter 2; Aggie Cleaners 4, Seaboard Life 3; Seaboard Life 3, Campus Cleaners 1; N. G. Project House 5, Campus Theater 2; Aggie Clean ers 9, Faculty 3; Seabea'd Life (See SOFTBALL, page 4) ing instructors as Baylor’s Bochey Koch and Howard Lynch, Ama rillo High Sandies coach, will be on hand. Other Aggie coaches will complete the staff. Also, Ab Cur tis, Southwest Conference official, will interpret the new rules. Til Reveille Wayne King Had To Be You Artie Shaw Yes Indeed! Teddy Powell I Guess I’ll Go Home To Dream The Rest Tommy Dorsey Chattanooga Choo Choo Glenn Miller The Cowboy Serenade Glenn Miller to Be IllgpJ l b The summer ping pong and men’s singles and doubles tennis tourna ments are rapidly drawing to a close. All games and matches are to be completed this week and the winners determined. The ping pong tournament has reached the semi-finals with Wil liams vs. McCorquodale in the up per bracket and Gillette vs. Daniel in the lower one. The winners of these two matches will meet in the finals to determine the ping pong king of Aggieland. In the men’s tennis doubles, Whall and Holden have to play Levine and Gillette in the upper bracket semi-finals and the winner of course will advance to finals. In the lower bracket, Walker and McCorquodale were advanced to the finals by means of a forfeit. The tennis singles have not mov ed along quite as fast as has the doubles play but will catch up this wek. The upper bracket is in the quarter-final stage with Harold Ivey slated to play Pat Biggs and Gillette to play Purnell. The EDGEWORTH • Light in Weight! • Right in Style! Men’s Fine MARATHONS* 2.98 As smart as the season and as distinctive as vintage wine! This soft, comfortable light weight has a hand tailored brim edge and narrow band— complete style appeal in every line! 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