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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 . . .
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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.
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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-*
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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. Cokinos G Belew
Nabors G Parks
Henderson C Frivaldsky
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