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Managers of Twlilight League Teams To Meet Tonight at Adm. Building at 8:00 The Twilight League makeup and plans will get under way tonight when the managers of the various teams en tered meet in the Batt office of the Administration Build ing at 8:00. It is of utmost importance that every manager or a rep resentative of the team in question be present as rules and plans for the Twilight League will be discussed. Don’t forget, managers, the meeting is tonight at 8:00 in Room 126 Administration Building. Be sure to be present. The beginning of the school term and other difficulties con fronting the executive committee has made it impossible for them to pass on the Twilight League question, but Dean Bolton has made assurances that it will be decided before this week is out. Most of the members feel sympa thetic toward the whole plan and some have even asked your scribe to keep up the interest in the deal. At this time there are quite a few boys that are doing a jam-up job in organizing this Twilight League. Orchids to every one of you, but let me warn you that this plan is not approved yet, and many of us may have a letdown yet. The prospects do look bright, but there’ve been “upsets” in many sports and enterprises before and there may be one waiting for us here. So let’s not count our chick ens before they’re hatched, but just work on with the Twilight League until somebody says, “No dice.” Sports Squibs From Here and There; Coach Norton Expresses Thanks to Corps for Gift Coach Homer Norton took time out from his duties yesterday aft ernoon to thank the Cadet Corps for their grand gesture in pro curing him the beautiful onyx desk set . . . “It’s about the nicest thing Colorful rich fabrics tail ored for comfort with all way stretch seat. Grip per fasteners. Pre shrunk . . . fast colors. B.V.D. Shirts in low “V” neck for sport shirts. Doesn’t show. 400 550 600 CXOCHICR* College and Bryan that I ever received,” Coach Nor ton quipped, “and I thank the corps, yell leaders and coaches from the very bottom of my heart.” . . . The Cadet Corps chip ped in to buy Norton an onyx desk set which, by the way, was pre sented to him College Night last Thursday . . . Here’s one for Rip ley . . . Leo Daniels and his bride- to-be Ruth Smith, secretary in the Agricultural Engineering Depart ment, were born on the same day, both being 20 years old . . . They will be married Sunday, June 22, instead of June 21 as reported by the column last Saturday . . . 36 Aggie football stars are en rolled in the school, ready to com ply with the new speed-up pro gram ... it was reported earlier that only 33 were at school, but check-up disclosed that three more registered in the past few days ... Laddie Liska, freshman football ace, was the latest one to sign up . . . Others in school that were unreported include Red Roman, squadman back, and Jimmy Knight, guard from LaGrange . . . There’s still a possibility that more will enroll before the dead- EYESIGHT IS PRECIOUS Any step you can take to guard it is a sound investment For EYE EXAMINATION AND GLASSES Consult DR. J. W. PAYNE OPTOMETRIST 109 S. Main, Bryan, Tex. ^ ^ PRIORITIES HAVE LIMITED THE SUPPLY OF WATCHES Inspect Our Fine Watches Before It’s Too Late Expert Watch Repairing CALDWELL’S Bryan \ GENERAL ORDER No. 11 KEEP NEAT IN SPITE OF THE HEAT We Offer Prompt, Inexpensive Service LAUTERSTEIN’S ’Mural Dept Working Out Plans for Season’s Opener Battalion Sports Tuesday, June 9, 1942 Page 3 Plans are running smoothly for the bigger than ever summer in tramural program that is to have its opening Monday, June 15. The Intramural Department, headed by W. L. Penberthy, has been working hard and late trying to make the program as attrac tive and interesting as possible for everybody. As has been previously announc ed, the sports scheduled to com mence Monday are: Class A and B softball, Class A tennis and water polo, and Class B swimming and volley ball. Each softball league will have 11 or 12 teams, and each organi zation will play 10 or 11 games. All softball games are slated for 4:15 p.m. The tennis matches which will be played on the concrete courts every week day will take place at 4:15 and 5 p.m. Volley ball games are scheduled to be played on the new courts just west of the clay tennis courts at 5 p.m. The swimming and water polo events will begin at 8 p.m. on week nights in the P. L. Downs Nata- torium. There will be nine swim ming meets and eight water polo games per night. W. L. Penberthy, assisted by Carlton (Spike) White, are plan- —DISTRACTIONS— (Continued From Page 2) Benchley and Osa Massen. “You’ll Never Get Rich” is the story of a musical comedy direct or, Astaire, who joins the army to avoid complications which his di rector has gotten him into. Rita Hayworth plays the role of one of the dancers in the Astaire show. Fred spends most of his time in the army locked up in the guard house but manages to win his free dom and his girl by conducting a gala musical show for the selectees of the camp. The double talking of Cliff Naz- arro and the antics of Robert Benchley provide ample humor be tween the dancing numbers of Rita and Fred. Music includes several catchy tunes, high-lighted by Cole Porter’s songs. The Lowdown:—You can get “hep” on this one. The other feature at the Campus is “BOMBAY CLIPPER,” with William Gargan and Irene Hervey. The action of the movie takes place almost entirely on board the China Clipper. Gargan as a news paperman, runs across a shipment of diamonds and becomes involved in discovering what foreign inter ests are trying to steal them. Gargan almost loses his pretty bride-to-be, Irene Hervey, because of his constant risk-taking to pro tect the diamonds. But, when the plane arrives at Manila, the crooks are apprehended and the couple again get together. The Lowdown:—Good and peppy. line, June 12, arrives . . . Coach Art Adamson, coach and instructor of swimming, invites anyone who can swim to come out and try for the swimming team . . . the tank ers are slated to enter quite a few meets this summer . . . Aggie baseball stars seem to have caught on to the ways of the semi-pros without too much trouble . . . John Scoggin and Les Peden are serving quite a few notices playing with the Waco Dons . . . Les won a game a few weeks ago by hitting a double with the bases jammed. . . . Meanwhile, Sam Porter, for mer Aggie first baseman signed up with a Class D team at Hamil ton, Ontario, and in his second game hit a triple, two doubles, and a single to help his team win a 9-8 slugfest . . . Incidentally, Porter’s single pushed over the winning run . . . Cullen Rogers, Aggie outfielder, is playing ball with some semi-pro outfit, but at present, haven’t heard anything about him ... Leo Daniels jumped into softball right away and is going great guns with Varner’s at Bryan . . . Brooks Cofer, Batt edi tor, is Varner’s shortstop, and from the reports of John Sidney Smith, Bryan Eagle sports editor, is doing quite a good job around the keystone sack . . . The office here was blessed with some female visitors yesterday afternoon, but the editor had priorities on that deal . . . the boys were absolutely distracted . . . It’s still a fight to the finish between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the St. Louis Card inals in the National . . . they’re slugging it out toe to toe but the Brooks are still 7 games ahead . . . This corner will still take the Red- birds for a long shot . . . Don’t say we didn’t warn you. ning to sponsor some big tourna ments for the students. As yet they have not announced the type of tournament they have in mind. This is the biggest Intramural Program ever planned, and the Intramural Department is hoping that the student body will co-ope rate in making the program suc cessful. Twilight League Still Uncertain For This Summer Madeley’s Pharmacy Enters Team; Swells Ranks Of Contenders To Seven Teams The ranks of the Twilight Lea gue contenders were swelled to seven yesterday, when Madeley’s Pharmacy served notice that they would have a team entered in this year’s competition. It is hoped that the faculty too will enter a team, and possibly the naval and marine contingents. Plans for the starting of the league have been delayed due to the fact that the executive com mittee has not yet granted per mission to hold the tournament. However, E. L. Angell, executive assistant to the president, has given his assurance that imme diate action will be taken by the executive committee on the Twi light League. It is expected that the commit tee will approve the popular sum mer-time attraction, and the lea gue is slated to get under way in the very near future. A meeting will be held tonight to make final plans for the league opening, scheduled for the 15th of this month. In addition to Madeley’s Phar macy, the other six teams in the league are Aggieland Pharmacy, Lipscombs Pharmacy, Aggie Cleaners, Campus Cleaners, Cam pus Theatre and Loupot’s Trading Post. Civil Service Opens Applications for Job As Traffic Controller The United States Civil Service Commission announces open com petitive examination for the posi tion of Trainee Traffic Controller (Airway and Airport), $1800 a year, for employment in Region Four, Bureau of Federal Airways, Civil Aeronautics Administration, Headquarters, Fort Worth, Texas, (Comprising the States of Arkan sas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Tex as, and that part of Louisiana west of the Mississippi river), accord ing to Anna V. Smith, postmis tress. The age limits for this position are 20 to 45. The maximum age limit does not apply to persons granted military preference. Competitors will not be required to report to any place for a writ ten examination, but ratings will be assigned based on information in the application subject to cor roboration. Applications may be filed with the Manager, Tenth U. S. Civil Service District, Customhouse, New Orleans, Louisiana, until fur ther notice. Further information and appli cation forms may be obtained from the Secretary, Board of U. S. Civil Service Examiners, at any first- or second-class post office in the States of Arkansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, and that part of Louisiana west of the Mississippi River, from the Manager, Ninth U. S. Civil Service District, New Federal Building, St. Louis, Mis souri; the Manager, Thirteenth U. S. Civil Service District, Post Of fice Building, Denver, Colorado; or from the Manager, Tenth U. S. Civil Service District, Custom house, New Orleans, Louisiana. College enrollment in French classes has dropped 23.5 per cent, and in German 11 per cent, since last September. Dr. Will Durant, philoscrpher and author, speaking at University of Pennsylvania, said he believes President Roosevelt will be re elected to his fourth term in 1944. Chapter houses are maintained by 3,881 academic fraternities and sororities, a recent checkup re veals. Joe Vajdos. Aggie Track Workhorse. Due To Duel It Out Again With T U’s Mac Umstattd By Russell Chatham Track season in the Southwest Conference has been over for al most a month now, and the Aggie tracksters are just marking time after having made it their most successful season in years. The Aggie team this year had a number of individual stars. Am ong them was workhorse Joe Va jdos, then a sophomore,. standing 5 feet 10 and weighing 140 pounds. Joe, while perhaps not as spectac ular as some of the boys, always put in a good day’s work in every meet by running the 880, the mile, the anchor lap on the mile relay, and sometimes the two-mile run. His schedule varied from meet to meet, but the 880 was his special ty. The Intramural Departmental Managers are working hard to complete the immense job of scheduling all of the coming in tramural games. The departmental managers are headed by Dave Meyer, C Coast, and “Pinky” Wilson of D Engin eers. These two are the senior managers for the current year and will be assisted by a bevy of jun ior assistants. The entire Class A program, from the time entry cards are turned in until pictures are made of the champions, will be ram- rodded by Wilson. The same post will be held down by Meyer in Class B sports. Wilson will be assisted by three juniors, each of whom will be in charge of one sport. The junior managers in Class A and the sports they 'will have charge of are: David Gillory, G Coast, water polo; Harry Blankfield, C Cav alry, tennis; and John Fulbright, G Coast, softball. Meyer’s assistants in Class B and the sports they will run are: Joe Crownover, C Chemical War fare, swimming; Johnny Mouser, I Field Artillery, softball; and Le- land Anderson, D Engineers, vol ley ball. Twilight League Teams to Hold First Practice This Evening All teams entered in the Twi light League will begin practice this evening at 7 o’clock. Although no action on the disapproval or approval of the league was taken by the executive committee, the cutting down process will begin today. Should the league be ap proved, Saturday is the day all rosters must be in. Fifteen play ers constitute the limits of each team. The league plans to start Monday, June 15, should the execu tive committee vote in the affirm ative on the question. Managers are urged to assemble their teams on the drill field op posite Law and Puryear Halls as soon as possible if not today. Wabash college officials have announced formation of the Wa bash college forum, a movement in popular “off-campus” education in which principles and problems of American citizenship will be discussed. STAY WITH LOU He’s Right With You This seemed unfortunate at first, because the conference record holder in the 880—bird-legged Mac Umstattd of Texas—was still around. Umstattd defeated Vajdos every time they met, after a close race, until they hit the conference meet in Dallas. There it looked as if Umstattd would win again. In his usual man ner, he built up a good lead with a sizzling first lap. But, on the second lap, Vajdos closed up the gap and put on a finish that caus ed the blond Texas flash to wilt and drop behind. Joe won by a good three yards in the time of 1:56.2. It was the most thrilling and surprising race of the day. Umstattd had lost the 440-yard dash—an event he had been favor- The remaining junior managers will take charge of other sports as soon as the leagues open. At the present time these men will have charge of the various open tournaments to be conducted by the Intramural Department. These juniors are: Travis M. Kirkpatrick, B Coast, Norris Miertschin, A Chemical Warfare, Howard Hicks, H Infantry, J. H. Lindsey, G Field Artillery, and W. H. Bart, B Chemical Warfare. The junior managers have just been awarded their sweaters which are awards from the Intra mural Department for their serv ices as Sophomore Managers last year. These awards were received yesterday and are being issued. At the present time the staff of departmental managers are work ing on the schedules which will be ready in time for the opening of the program Monday. The man agers, some 20 or 25 of them, have received over 400 entry cards. This number means that between eight and nine hundred games will have to be scheduled in leagues and assigned a time and place at which to play. ed to win—earlier in the after noon. Both defeats gave him am ple claim to the title of “biggest flop” of the meet. If Umstattd was tired when he started the 880, he was no worse than Vajdos. Joe had previously won third in the mile run, but was disqualified for accidentally bumping another runner off the track. Vajdos also ran the anchor lap on the Aggies’ third place mile relay team. It would probably be hard to convince Umstattd of the fact, but Joe Vajdos is practically flat- footed. His arches have troubled him for several years and he runs with them taped up. A painful callous on the ball of his left foot also made matters worse, but ap parently didn’t slow him up any. Joe hails from Karnes City and Hobson, a. little town ' near there. He got his greatest thrill in track by winning the high school 880 at the Border Olympics in Laredo, while he was a junior in high school. He still holds the record there—2:04—some eight seconds slower than his time at Dallas this spring. In his senior year, Vajdos won third in the mile run in the State meet. Texas U. almost got Joe. He even had a room reservation there, but changed his mind on the ad vice of his high school coach, J. W. Johnsom Joe gives his high school coach, and Coaches Dough Rollins and Ray Putnam here, much of the credit for his success on the track. Fish and game is Vajdos’ major, and as he puts it, he hopes to graduate if he ever passes English 104. Both Vajdos and Umstattd are scheduled to be around next spring, so the feud between them promises to have a hot renewal. A Loupot Trade Is Money Made Aggieland Studio Joe Sosolik, Proprietor PHOTOGRAPHS OF DISTINCTION Official Photographer For The A. & M. 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