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t S' * 4 t W » • D 4 Ags Renew Series Against Baylor Ionite Aggies Must Stop Baylor’s Dwight Parks If They Hope to Triumph in Tonight’s Game After a 13 day respite from conference competition, the Tex as Aggies finally get back into action as they tangle with the Bay lor Bears at Waco tonight. The last time these two teams tangled, one of the most thrilling games of the season was reeled dff. As per usual the valiant Ag gies went down in defeat, but not before they gave the home town fans their money’s worth. Coach Marty Karow’s five will undoubtedly go into the fray as decided underdogs, but there is a good chance for them to win the game. As you may remem ber in their first meeting, the Bears’ main offense centered around diminutive Dwight Parks who hit the meshes right and left for 19 points and the game. With out him, the Bears are a listless ball club, as was shown in their game with Rice last week. Stopping Parks is another ques tion. The little Elkhart eager was stopped but once this year, with the result being a 73-36 thrashing by Rice. If the Aggies can hold Parks to, say 10 or 12 points, there is a good chance for the Aggies to be on the long end of the score. The same can be said about the Aggies. It seems that the Cadets can’t get anywhere without Bill Henderson. Sure, the other boys, like Ray Jarrett or Fred Nabors, get on a spree once in a while and hit the hoop for a number of points, but we will have to ad mit that without Henderson the Aggies probably wouldn’t even come close to these conference teams. So the main concern of the re spective A. & M. and Baylor coaches will be to devise some method of stopping the high scor ing aces of the two schools. Which one it will be is a burning ques tion among Aggie basketball fans, but Coach Marty Karow has al ready shown that he is able to fig ure out a defense for high scor ing aces, Bob Kinney of Rice for example. I’m not saying the Ag gies will win, but they have a swell chance—about a 60-40 any way! Sports Squibs from Here and There; Maroon And White Banquet to Come Off Fri or Mon The banquet for the Maroons and the Whites will be held either Fri day or next Monday . . . every thing ,but the medals are ready :and these are expected to arrive from Holland’s Jewelry Company in San Angelo this week . . . the annual. Sports’ Day, sponsored by the T. Club, will come off Feb ruary 21 ... a baseball game and an intra-squad football game will be the feature of the day . . . Don’t forget the date—February 21 . . . the Aggie freshman swim ming team elected Lewis Albert Stein of Brownsville, captain of their team for the current school year . . . Stein swims the 100-yard backstroke event and Coach Art Adamson expects to see him de velop into a fine tanker before he is through . . . Four of Temple High School’s brighest college pros pects decided in favor of Texas university . . . they were Wayland Hill, triple threat back; Kenneth Baker, end; Ed Heap, tackle, and F. G. Martin, guard ... Of the four Martin looks the best . . . *B.V.lO eW/ I Give you SUPPORT FOR LIFE | •' Brevs" are made to give gentle but firm support. An elastic-core cotton insert at the crotch yields gently with every body movement and always returns to its original shape Neither wear nor washing destroys the lasting support of 'Brevs.” the underwear for every-day wear 60c ♦ t r~» t*n MBgftLEY stbNE OAM$9V Ed. Ogdee and Vance Carrington, two of the stars of the Maroon and White game earlier this sea son, have given football a fling . . . In mentioning the first team selected by Coach Homer Norton, we forgot to refer to the guards . . . they are Weldon Maples and Ray Mulhollan . . . those two are sure starters next year, but will get plenty of competition from Felix Bucek and Wayne Cure . . . The Aggie polo team has had to cancel some of its trips because of the tire shortage . . . Just to end this column with a ray of sun shine, I, for one, again would like to mention Ed Sturcken, the Aggies’ new smashing fullback . . . just come out and watch him for a few minutes . . . he’s better than good. 7t 5 Wimbepl TkDTJj? CLOCKICRS | College and Bryan s ♦Reg. U. S. Pat. Off. = Battalion Sports FEBRUARY 3, 1942 Page 3 Lil Dimmitt-the Jack of All Trades -Learned Coaching Profession by Simple Observation Aggie Swimming Team Opens Tenn Tour February 7 Five Dual and One Triangular Meet on Line For Art Adamson’s Men Coach Art Adamson’s Texas Ag gie tank team will make their annual spring tour starting Feb. 7 with a dual meet with the Dallas Athletic Club nators in Dallas, but then instead of making the cus tomary northern tour, they will swing through the South and take part in five more meets, one of them a triangular affair. On February 9 they will swim the Alabama Polytechnic Institute (Auburn) at Auburn, Ala.; on Feb ruary 10 they meet Emory uni versity at Atlanta and then the next night swim the Georgia Tech team in the same city. From there they move on to Knoxville, Tennessee, where they compete against the University of Tennessee, on February 12, and then over to Lebanon, Tennessee, for a triangular meet with Castle Military Academy and Vander bilt university on February 13. After that meet they will return to College Station and get ready for the Southwest Conference sea son. No water polo games will be played on the tour since a swim meet will be held each night and both sports by one team would work too much of a hardship on the swimmers. Aggie hopes are fairly bright this year with Bobby Taylor, 220- 440 and 100 backstroke champion of the Southwest Conference still on hand. Jimmie Kiel, Guy John son, Richard Weirus and Fred Renaud also will take part in the 220 and 440 events. By Mike Haikin “O-ooh! My shoulder. Get the sun lamp over here, Lil. How about my ankle? It sure needs tarping, Lil. Lil! Lil! Come on, Coach, let’s rub the soreness out of my muscles.” No, those are not groans com ing out of a hospital, but are reg ular exclamations coming out of the A. & M. training room, and the man behind the scene is none other than Lilburn J. (Lil) Dimmitt, one of the best known and most fascinating persons in the state of Texas. Jack-of-All Trades Everyone has heard of a per son who is known as the “jack of all trades,” but you really don’t appreciate one until you’ve met and talked with Lil Dimmitt. Yes, Lil Dimmitt—the Mayor of Georgetown, the banker, the insurance man, the rancher, the trainer, and the coach of foot ball, basketball, track, and base ball—has had his finger in every thing imaginable. But first, let’s start from the beginning and look into the career of the man who today tends to the business of tak ing care of A. & M. athletes, both physically and otherwise. Lil was born, reared, and edu cated in Georgetown. He partici pated only in high school athletics, never engaged in sports while at tending Southwestern university. He loved all kinds of athletics, but was too small to participate in these. He learned the fundament als of basketball, football, base ball, and track, not from actual experience but from observation. To get ahead with the story, Lil left the university after three Ag Baseball Coach INTRAMDRALS By Mike Mann Class A Speedball and Basket ball tournaments are drawing to a close and the champions in both events will be decided by the end of this week. H Replacement Center came through to trounce I Replacement in an eighth-final cage match with a 22-8 score. In another similar game I Infantry defeated D Engi neers 11-8. Hdg. Signal Corps took B Field Artillery in a quar ter-finals game by a score of 15-7. In the closing games of Class A Speedball, A Chemical Warfare FORFEIT DOGHOUSE Class A: Speedball K Infantry 3rd Hq. Field Artillery 1 Corps Headquarters B Field Artillery Because of dangers of excess eye strain, children should not learn to read until 6% or 7 years old in the opinion of Dr. Helen A. Field, professor of education at Univer sity of Pennsylvania. whitewashed Hdq. Cavalry with a 20-0 score. D Cavalry took C Field Artillery 14-2 while D Coast Ar tillery beat G Field Artillery 6-1. All intramural participants are reminded of the start of Class A Volleyball today and Class B Aggieminton tomorrow. Class A Horseshoes and Class B Horseshoes and Handball will begin shortly and schedules will be sent out this week. Intramural players are reminded that Volleyball will be played on the new courts west of the clay tennis courts and Aggieminton will be played on the old Volley ball courts under the west side of the stadium. Horseshoe games will be run off at the same place as in previous years, under the east side of the stadium. The Intramural Department has issued the following schedule for instructional periods (game credit will be given only to those taking intramurals): Tuesday, Feb. 3, 7 p.m., big gym, Handball, chalk talk. Wednesday, Feb. 4, 5 p.m., little gym, Handball demonstration for Calisthenics at 6 - - Spike White Exercises With Ags Each Morning Will wonders never cease? Taking calisthenics along with the cadet corps is Spike White, as sistant intramural director of the college. Spike arises at the first peep of dawn and begins his “daily dozen.” If Spike misses his “formation,” his “ram slips” read, “Pay Mrs. White one dollar.” Field and Coast Artillery. Thursday, Feb. 5, 5 p.m., little gym, Handball demonstration for Infantry and Engineers. Friday, Feb. 6, 5 p.m., little gym, Handball demonstration for all other organizations. years and immediately jumped in to the ranching business where he stayed until the drought took the last “blue shirt” he had. Other men would have been dis couraged but not Dimmitt. With a group of his friends, he organ ized a bank and served as a cash ier for two or three years. In 1921, Lil decided to run for mayor of Georgetown, and no sooner had he done so, then he was easily elected. “Why, shux, it was nothing,” said Dimmitt. “Half of the town was kin to me one way or the other, while 99 per cent of the colored people voted for me, so how could I miss?” Helped High School Coach While he was a $40-per-month mayor, he got a job helping coach in Georgetown High School. He worked in all kinds of sports, and succeeded in each admirably. “My greatest thrill in helping coach Georgetown High was the time we beat Main Avenue of San Antonio. They were one of the bigger schools and were expected to give us a real licking. But we fooled ’em. The thing that tickled me most was that Bruce Layer played for them. What did he play? He claims he was a half back, but I think he was the water- boy.” Following his short career in politics, Lil acquired the job of head coach at Beaumont High School through the great efforts of one Pete Cawthon, former Texas Tech coach. Starting in 1922 (See DIMMITT, Page 4) Parks, Henderson Duel Expected toHighlight Game Cadets Out for Bear Scalp After Two Point Defeat in Last Meeting of Teams With remembrance of that last minute two point defeat in their previous encounter adding fuel to the flame of re venge, the Texas Aggie basketballers left this morning for Waco where they meet the unpredictable Baylor Bears to night. With the Aggies hot for revenge, and the Bears fight ing to stay in the upper bracket of the conference, the game promises to be one of the most-* Buy At LOUPOT’S thrilling to be reeled off in the current season. Last Saturday night the Ag gies took on the Sam Houston Bearkats in their first game after a week’s layoff. Sparked by “Jit terbug” Henderson, who racked up a neat total of 25 points during the evening, the Aggies won handi ly by a score of 53-42. This was the second time the Aggies met the Bearkats this sea son, and served to further the belief that they are a very medio cre ball club without the help of Captain Bill Henderson. In their early season clash, the Aggies, playing without the services of Henderson, went down to a stun ning 50-33 defeat. Last Saturday night, with Henderson in the line up, it was the Aggies all the way. Upon the lanky Henderson’s seemingly uncanny ability to drop the leather through the strings seem to depend the fortunes of the Aggies. And when the tall Hous tonian gets hot he really sizzles, as last Saturday night’s 25 points will testify. For tonight’s encounter the Ag gies have spent plenty of time readying their defense to stop diminutive Dwight Parks. The tiny Baylor speedster sparkplugs the Bear attack and is as elusive as a jackrabbit on the court. Plus his terrific speed and elusiveness Parks’ exceptional ability to sink shots from seemingly impossible angles makes him one of the hard est men in the Southwest Confer ence to stop. Together with Sparks, the Bears will couple Jimmie Marino,, the ball hawk from Chicago, a lad who can make it plenty tough for the oppo sition to held the ball, as the Ag gies will testify from experience in their previous encounter. Probably starting lineups for the two teams are as follows: A. & M. Baylor Jarrett F Haley Huffman F Arnett M. 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