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Decision on Twilight League to be Made Today National and American Leagues Staging Runaways; Yanks and Dodgers Pace While the executive committee is deeply pondering 1 over the Twi light League question, let’s take an inside look on the status of the major leagues—the National and the American. Baseball, this year, in spite of the war is at tracting a countless number of patrons, and it looks like the ma jors, and the minors, will have a successful year. But getting back to the Ameri can and National leagues. The for mer is up to its old tricks, with one team dominating the league. And there isn’t any use even to mention the league-leaders for it’s those New York Yankees again. Manager Joe McCarthy’s lads were off to a slow start, but lately have been coming through in the old-fashioned Yank style. At pres ent they’re some eight games in the lead, and, there isn’t any sign of a letup. So you may just as well mark the Yanks as one of the. World Series entries. “Wonder-boy” Lou Boudreau, one of the youngest managers in the history of baseball, had his Cleveland Indians hotter than a firecracker at the start of the cam paign, but since then the Tribe has found the going tough and at present are roosting in fourth place. The formerly listless St. Louis Browns have been the sur prise of the league, being instilled in fifth place just behind the In dians. The Browns, not expected to move from the cellar, have come along nicely behind the steady pitching of Eldon Auker and A1 Hollingsworth, and some timely slugging by Walt Judnick and the rest of the Brownies. Meanwhile, the National Lea guers have almost the same situa tion as the American League. The Brooklyn Dodgers, like the Yanks, are turning the league into a run away, being some six games ahead of the up-and-coming St. Louis Cardinals. However, the Bums are experiencing slightly tougher com petition than the New Yorkers. The Redbirds from St. Louis have been winning games rather con sistently lately with the return to shape of their star rookie, Howard Pollet. The left-hander, out with a sore arm most of the season, found himself last week, hurling the Cards to a 3-0 win over the Chicago Cubs. Since then the “Gas House Gang” has been right on the heels of the Dodgers, although six games behind. The rest of the teams are just having a good time of it, with none seeming to have any kind of a threat to make a battle of it with Brooklyn and St. Louis. This corner still contends that those un predictable Cards will catch up with the Dodgers and wind up in the World Series with the Yanks. It’ll be tough going, but Manager Billy Southworth has the material to do the feat. Sports Squibs From Here and There; Roy Bucek to Enter NCAA Track Meet June 12 Roy Bucek, captain and ace hurdler of the past Texas Aggie track team, who, at present is a second lieutenant stationed at Lit tle Rock, Arkansas, will journey to Lincoln, Nebraska, June 12 to participate in the National Col legiate Athletic Association’s an nual track meet . . . Coach Dough Rollins also entered Pete Watkins, lanky high jumper, and Albert Ricks, pole-vaulter and high jump er, but both of these boys are un able to make the trip. WELCOME AGGIES Make Your Impression at the Start With a Fresh Haircut THE Y.M.C.A. BARBER SHOP . IN THE “Y” THE VARSITY BARBER SHOP IN THE NEW AREA FISH WEEK SPECIALS ^=o WASTEPAPER BASKETS BROOMS &=o TENNIS SHOES AGGIE STATIONERY is=o REGULATION SOX ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES AGGIE STICKERS Campus Variety Store North Gate Get the Newest in Both Styles on VICTOR and COLUMBIA RECORDS 1. Whisper That You Love Me.—Shep Fields 2. Sleep Song.—Glenn Miller 3. Strictly. Instrumental.—Harry James 4. Who Wouldn’t Love You.—Kay Kyser. 5. Snootie Little Cutie.—Tommy Dorsey. HASWELL’S Bryan Executive Committee To Give Reply Five Teams Already Entered; 3 More Expected to Enroll Approval or disapproval of the continuation of the annual Twi light Softball league will be de cided this afternoon in a special meeting of the college executive committee. Put On Shelf The Twilight League, which was a most popular enterprise in the former summer sessions, was put on the shelf this year when the huge intramural program was in serted. However, because of a large number of requests made by students and local merchants, the softball league was revived again, and today, the big question will be given deep consideration by the ex ecutive committee. The biggest detriment to the whole enterprise is that it slight ly interferes with CQ, which comes at 7:30. As originally planned the Twilight league was to start at 7 o’clock and to finish at 8. With sophomores and freshmen eligible to play in the league, the above mentioned time conflicted with call to quarters, and, according to some advices would slightly break into the study hours. Seniors and Juniors On the other hand, the fact that over % of the players in the Twi light League are juniors and sen iors and the fact that the league will operate only twice a week gave further credence that the cards are slightly in favor of the continu ation of the league. Five teams have already been recruited and skeleton plans are already in the making for an eight- team league. Of course, the whole idea will be dropped if the execu tive committee gives a negative answer, but, in case the decision goes the other way, it is hoped that the league will get started as soon as possible. Five Teams Entered Merchants who have already en tered the league included Aggie- land and Lipscomb Pharmacies, Campus Cleaners, Campus Theatre and Aggie Cleaners. If the league is approved it is hoped that the faculty, who incidentally won the crown last summer, and some team from the Navy or the Marine con tingent can be recruited. Further plans for the Twilight League will be discussed as soon as the executive committee reaches its decision. BATTALION. INTRAMDRALS By By Mike Mann JUNE 4, 1942 Page 3. Honored Tonight mmmmm ESS® HEAD COACH HOME/Z HORTON Banquet for Recreational Officers And Ass’ts to be Held Tonight at 6:30 The Intramural Departmental banquet for recreational officers and their junior assistants will take place this evening at 6:30 p.m. in the banquet room of Sbisa Hall. W. L. Penberthy, director of the huge forth-coming intramural pro gram, urged all managers and their assistants to be present at the banquet tonight. “Important matter concerning the program will be discussed this evening,” Penberthy quipped, “and it is my wish and desire that ail you fellows who head the intra murals in your organization present at the feed.” Recreational officers are regard ed by Director Penberthy as the backbone of the whole intramural program, and it is primarily thru their efforts that intramural ath letics have had such a big si cess at A. & M. For the first time in recent history of Louisiana State univer sity (data on conditions during the Civil war not being available), women far outnumber men. W L Penberthy, Intramural Director. Starts 17th Year Here By Mike Mann Assistant Sports Editor His monicker is W. L. Penberthy but he’s just “Mr. Penney” to thousands of Aggies—present and past—who have become acquainted with him through their physical education courses and their intra mural activity. Penberthy’s offi cial title is professor of physical education and director of intra mural sports. “Penney” is a native of Ohio, be ing born in the town of Massillon, one of the towns which pioneered in the great American sport of football. He attended high school at Elyria, Ohio, and from there he went to Ohio State university. After staying there for six years he graduated in 1926 with a de gree in physical education. He taught classes as a student pro fessor during his last three years in college in addition to his regu lar work. Immediately upon graduation from Ohio State, Penberthy was brought to Aggieland by Dana X. Bible, then coach of the Texas Aggies. He was made assistant professor of education under John ny Bender, a famed Nebraska ath lete, who was also freshman foot ball, basketball and baseball coach For Sale 110 Pair Fish Slacks L O U P O T S at A. & M. “Penney” was made director of intramurals, which, at that time were conducted on a battalion basis with competition being solely between the different battalions, seven in number. Bender resigned as head of the P. E. department in the spring of 1927 and Penberthy took over his position. In the fall of 1927 the present form of competition be tween companies was inaugurated and has been in operation ever since. An idea of the growth of the in tramural program may be seen in a comparison of the statistics of the year “Penney” took over the department and the year 1940-41. In 1927-28 with a total of 2,375 (See PENBERTHY, Page 4) LOUPOTS an Aggie Tradition THANKS FOR YOUR OPENING BUSINESS Plenty of books left and still have a lot of titles. CHECK YOUR BOOKS NOW All refunds must be made tomorrow— No refunds after June 5 LOUPOTS With the summer session get ting under way, the Intramural Department is planning to open its program early next week. The program will begin with five sports—swimming, water polo, softball, tennis and volley ball. All of these will be open to both Class A and Class B participants. Large leagues are being plan ned in the softball event—enabling each team to play about 10 or 11 games before the end of the com petition. An attempt is being made to schedule all volley ball matches for 5 p.m. to bring about a larger and better representation in that sport. Recreational Officers and their Junior assistants are reminded to attend the first Intramural ban quet of the year which takes place this evening at 6:30 p.m. in the banquet room of Sbisa Hall. Mr. Penberthy has announced that open tournaments will be staged in various sports if suffi cient interest is shown by the stu dents. The sports under considera tion at the present time are: golf, tennis, ping pong, horseshoes and handball. Both doubles and single matches are planned in all the above sports with the exception of ping pong. An open, swimming meet is also being considered by the depart ment. There will be no distinction between organizations or classes in these “open” contests. That is, upperclassmen and freshmen will play in the same matches and mili tary organization membership will have no bearing on the contests. Shakespeare Replaces English Survey Course The English department has substituted English 212, Shake speare, for English 231, English survey course, this summer. This change is expected to meet the students approval as Shake speare’s ability as a great play wright will be emphasized and the course will be presented in a more interesting manner. Students at the University of Tampa are being paid commissions by the city to collect delinquent taxes from 11,000 persons. 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