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.”
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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-
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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
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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.
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