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I * V, 4 rr ith7- 1 1 J !I|H if i ji • . W «| tr r*" BitUloi S#om Mtof It's Anybody's Race in the Twilight I /eague as Teams Conclude First Week of Play Softball Highlights A we«k ha> already (one by ^nii there ia.atill do aiffn as to the toy team of the Twilight Leagut Of eouree, the Campos Cleageis are ahead of the flock but tM* advantage Is certainly not conaal- idatad.T J | 1 l For with such saores as S-2, 3-}. 7-4, 4-S, and 7-2, the League |r ' hard tuaeeling and t i^s face yet j I after Tie winy moat yf the teams. 1 would give Loupof-* and the ( amiMin flea acre a alight advantage if there wae any. (Elf- lick's slipped on Red Woesarir outfit, bat the boys do hare nwrrH class. Ditto for the Cleaner im Their wins no far hare aot been iasprenaire by may means, but h* long aa yoa ran keep on the tin ning ledgm. why, you're better;(kan expected. The losing teams, Madley’s W^d Campus Theater, have shown that they will give the other tracts plenty of miiu*ry before the comes to an end. The former J<iet to I.ipncomb's and the Paculty,?d|it still sh.iw- d bits of brilliance ^r^n inAheir defeats » ' Meanwhile, the, TheaU*r bh^s. who boast of some of the classiest 'players in | the league, found . the going a bit rough in the first two tflts losing by the small margin of 6-6 in the first and S-l in the second. They’ll come out of it soon...' Kyle Drake’s Lipscomb's Phar macy can well be rated ns the dark horse of the league. Drake’s boys have plenty of class in the infield and outfield but when it comes to pitching—well well just skip that. They won their first game from Madeley’s-by a 7-4 score and lost to the Campus Cleaners by the identical scere. At lastly bet far from least, I give you the Faculty—a team which many said would not last in the high competition ia the leagae today. Those nuppoeedly “fat and forty club’*, aa they are' referred to once in a while, hare shown some of those spry young sters the srt of softball. Tom Ter rell and his bunch of ‘old men’’ hs\ «• come through with s tie and a »in and are now reeling a half game behind the league-lending Campus Cleaners ten. Well, fans, it looks like a free for-gll fight for that coveted Twi light League crown, and like I mentioned a while back. “It’s any bod Sports Squibs From Here and There; Ira Glass Receives Offer to Play with Waco Dons Ira Glass, all-conference seeofid baseman of the champion T4*a* Aggie pm*, has been given an offer by Jerry Fielle of the i ; 4- l n iitiicti*! ' Dons, classy semi-pro entry . . . GUm indicated that he may play witl^ the Dons oa Saturday and Sundays but deemed it hardly pos sibly to play throughout the week s taking 18 hours of school and delivers the midnight mail so the difficulty in that pro position is quite evident . . . l-eo iClass A and B Sports Have Large Turnout for all Tilts Class A softball teams ham bean hanging up some declaim scores in the past few days. Most of the victors hare been on the long end of high tallies. A fourth-inning rally which net ted nine nine was all H Coast Ar tiliery needed to beat E Coast, the final score of the game was 11-d In other class A games C In fantry whitewashed ’ C Replace ment Center 11-0 while B Engi neers walloped A Coast 16-6. M Infantry defeated A Coast 8-1 and G Coast took B Signal Corps 6-2. In the last two games A Cheat Warfare lost to B Field 11-7 and B Coast beat Hdq. Cavalry 11-6. In the Class B softball competi tion both the Artillery and In fantry Bands proved to be luckless. K Infantry took the Artillery Band 17-7 while E Engineers beat the Infantry Band 17-9. The E Coast Artillery freshmen came through in their irpening softball game to overcome the A Signal Corps team 10-6. The 3rd Hdq Field fish outplayed the 2nd CHQ team to win 10-4 while 7th CHQ defeated A Engineers 14-6. Other Class A scores are: Water Polo K Inf. 2, I FA 0 D F A. 3. B Inf. 2 F CAC 1. C Cav. 0 B CAC 1. C Eng 0 A CWS 1, E Inf. 1 C CWS 2. D Inf 0 2 CHQ 2. E Eng 0 ♦ Tennis L Inf. 3. F A. O 3rd Stoop QMC 2, Art. Band 1 F Eng. 1, B F.A. l E CAC 2. F F A. 1 3 CHQ 2. A Sig. 1 A Ord. 2, B Sig. 1 Inf. Band 2, B Ord 1 The remaining Class B scores Saturday, June 2JD Faculty My Chick Hi Baaimr Six.rt- Last Thursday ni light Laague game 1942 Pag« 3 ilight League Schedule Campus Faculty ...... Aggie Cleaners Loupot's Trading HoUck’s Lipscomb's P Campus Theater Madeley’s Pha URSDArg RESULTS Campus Cleaner* jf Lipscomb’s Pharmacy 4 Holick's 3 Loupdt'ft Trading Post 2 Aggie Cleaners I Campus Theater 1 Faculty 7 Madejp^s Pharmacy 2 IONDAY’8 SCHEDULE s. Campus Theater 1... y vs. Holick's 4... y vs. Aggie Cleaners .4... Trading Post w L T Pet. GB 1 0 0 1.000 V, 1 0 1 .750 yi 1 0 1 .760 . * 1 1 0 500 i 1 li 0 .500 i l 1 0 .500 i 6 2 0 .000 2 0 2 0 .000 2 Campus Cleaner^ Lipscomb’s Phar Madeley’s Pharr Faculty vs. Ixn Diamond 6 Diamond 7 Diamond 4 Diamond 9 Daniels, who's taking that fatal art: INTRAMDRALS By Mike Ml reeled off, and the faaa were treat ed to some fast and furious bibs of action. AU the teams are show ing lota of that old .pint and hustle, and plenty of tkgll packed contests are forecast ad the sea- aon The league Teadfeagl Campus Cleaners outfit continue^ to set a blistering pace mindful of the Brooklyn Dodger* aa they pounded out a 7-4 decision over Lipscomb's Pharmacy. The game. w*s tied up at 4-4 until the third tinging when Jack Grantham covers} himself with glory by smashiaf a home rua into left field with! two men on base to win the ganag for Cam '• Jill ) .. The Faculty or “Pat* and For ties,” “Has Bee ns,’’ and fSlow and Easies” as they arr >ometim.^ called proved thema^e* to be neither by smashing «ut a 7-2 win over Madeley’s Pharfog^y. Behind the excellent pitching of«Ckrl Tiah- ler, the “Ten Old. Men" bunched 7 hits to account for victory. Grady Elms was the atuiger of the evening with a perfect gverage of two hits for two trips tq the plate. Holick's scored two rpna In the last inning to eke opt *a 3-2 vic tory over Loupot'e. Wi^ 1 in the final inning Logpot’s held 2-1 lead, but the 'Hpiick beys capitalised on a Ixnjpot error tp push over the two ruhs “which won' |tka game. |!|H Loupofs 3-2; Cleaners Also Win Aggie Cleaacre shoved the C pus Theatre dub into a tie for cellar championship when they ga> nexed a hard fought battle by score of 8-1. Campus Theatre bUd the lead for most of the game a score of 1-0, hut the Aggie Cleaners pushed ewer a run in third inning, aad then with bases loaded Ed Sturcken sim to drive in the two winning naaa. Play in the league will be ro-* sumed Monday night with the Al lowing games oa tap: Holick’s Lipscomb's Pharmacy, Fatuity Lou pot’s, Campus Cleaners Campus Theatre, Madeley’s Phar macy vs. Aggie Cleaners. Health Service Gives Cold Pills I The health service at the versity of Minnesota has adngn- istered standard cold remodioe students in an experiment to i* termine their effectiveness. Some participating students, al though they were not aware of* it, took only ordinary sugar pills ln< stead of the regular cold p lla They were asked to check whet kef the treatment had helped the c kid Thirty-five per cent of tNow treated with sugar pills repot te< “improvement,” doctors said. Recreational offiee a are remind- t particular outfit. When the recre ed to tarn in an 9I tabetics! list ational officers entered their or- BroWn and whites that lead' in popularity again this se^-j son. lyeat yourself to a pair.: Enjoy jthc lift yon get from; their.humlsotni Spring-like! #' r 11 freshness. Select yours nonf.J sUp Surngty. has been running arodnd like a chicken with his head cut off J . I he’s been quite busy in greparation for his un-coming marriage . . . Ditto for Mias Ruth Smith, the bride-to-be . . . The date is set for Sunday. June 21 . . . HaiA Fold berg. the end who was switrhed to tackle in a decent shakeup by Coach Homer Norton, has a good chance to develop into a four-sports man . . . He’s al ready lettered In football, basket ball, and baseball, and was a fair hand St track while attending ( school in Dallas . . Looking good ! in recent Twilight League games ^include such atheletes as Horace Jennings and Grantham of Campus Cleaners, Jack Taylor of Loupot’a Willie Aapatar and Bud Rideout , of the Campus Theater, Clay At kins and Mike Cokinas of the Lip ! scomb's Pharmacy, and Doc Quirf* rnberr> and Grady Elms of thP Faculty . . . The team- atill h a week from tajay in which to tura in their final permanent ron terj. . . After next Saturday, n« player ran be dropped or picked up 4 . . Okay, so the Cards lost one to Brooklyn . . . The season isn’t over yet . . . Those Red-birds will catch up with the Bums . . . Just watch their fire! Sw immiag B CAC 36, 3 CHQ B E F A 22. 6 CHQ 19 L Inf 34. C R.C. 11 A Cav. 20. B Eng. 14 D Eng. 27. G CWS 21 I F A 26, C Cav. 22 Inf Band 27, E CAC 14 A CAC 24. I Inf 21 A Inf. 25. G CAC 15 Volley Ball E R.C. 2. D Inf. 1 D CAC 2. 1 Hdq F A. 1 B F A. 2. A F.A 1 G F.A. 2. F Eng 1 I) Cav. 2. H F.A. 0 C F.A. 2. E CAC 0 5 CHQ 2. F Inf. 0 F CAC 2. 7 CHQ 1 . B Cav. 2. G Inf. 1 l) Inf 2. A CWS 0 C Eng. 2, Inf. Band 0 B Sig 2. Art. Band 1 of all apperrlamamt in their or ganizationa to the 4i itramural De partment as noon as possible This list m to include alt kpperrUnnmen regardless of whetUr they play ia- tramurals. As the intramugi 1 activity in creases we find th}l an “unnecua- sary rril’’ is extregr Hy prevalent Even this ear\y iq£ 1 he season in mates of the Fofr ht Doghouse number 11 teams. '< nly one team made the Doghouse.'! 1 the first two days of play but i*ithe third and fourth days of actij feiteera" have jui ganixations in each sport beiore the opening of the season they had received indications from their men th*t they would play all games. It is gseleaa for a team to en ter an iatramural sport If it does not intend to make a reasonable attempt to meet its assigned sche dules. When a team 4»rfeiU s game another bunch of men have wasted time and energy in an ef fort to keep the date. Forfeits, in the majority of cases, are inex- Trade With Ixhi HE IS RIGHT WITH YOU FORFEIT H ity the “for- cusibie and can be avoided with a to 1L minimal* of effort. 1 .et's try to keep ou| of Forfeit Daghouse as + much as humanly pouaible. HOUSE (LASS A: B Replacement Corps Dance Saturday Night. $1.10 Cetner, Polo Season To Start June 28; Braid Is Captain Forty-Five Candidates Report to Coach Lt Bill North for Practice Sessions ’ softball H Replace medt Center. water I D ('oast ArtilUy. softball. E Replaeemnt Center, tennis. I) Cavalry, tednis. F Giast Artijlfry, tennis. Order* have been accepted to supply |he Louisiana State uni versity library with steal stacks for 50.000 Additional book*. Let Us fie Your Headquarters IF or Corsages x j Place your orders early so they wilb malje the 7:30 delivery ( jl .6 Bryan Floral & Nursery Bryan Phone 2-1216 It Center, CLASS B: E Replaced softball. 51 A * Replace nag it Center, softball. 4 5 Corps softball. } | F Infantry. H Infantry. M aMmmiag. Hamming. Georg* V. Kendall, dean of Wa bash college, has been commission ed a lieutenant colonel in the army. Dr. Wallace Atwood, president of Clark university. Ul a nationally known geographer. '* More than 1.500 Dniversity of Michigan students *re receiving military training as * part of their [/ college Work. cxecKitas SHOR DEPARTMENT B. Align, Owner j i College and Brvan .1 i ' * J Harvard university will receive $750,000 from the estate of an attorney-philanthropist who died recently for “training young men fog the federal service of the gov- ment of the United States.” ernr p-— GET YOUR HISTORY 306 BOOKS LOUPOT’S X 4 WE WIU MAKE SMALL LOANS • ■ | ' TO STUDENTS I j i On Very Little Security See Us For New and Used Books jj . , ■ : j P ollege Book Store Next Door (to A. M. Waldrop * Polo season is around the cor ner. Beginning June 28 there will be a game every Sunday evening on the new Aggie Field. Interest in polo should run high this sum mer as football and baseball are out of the way. Prospects for the coming season are exceptionally good. Forty-five candidates — including freshmen and upperclassmen—have reported to Coach Lt. North. Bill Braid who played last year In the num ber three hole has beea elected captain for the summer season. Clyde Raley was re-elected man- a^dr and Marty Mertz chosen as sistant manager. Returning letter- men are Braid Raley and M. C. McGowen—two year lettennen— and Jack Buie who has lettered once. Besides the returning letter- men the following players from last years varsity have reported: Dyke Gillin, Lee Woods, Marty Mertx. Joe Merit, J. T. Westbrook, Dick Harding, Clark Irving, Andy Jones, Bobbie Harris and Tye Powers. Coaching the Texas A. A M. polo team is Lieutenant W\ G. North who assisted Major J. P. Stevens In coaching the team laut fall. Lt North expects an interest ing summer season and will do all Such a large dence of a lack her of men shows evi- fficient num- play in a H <a |. that is possible K> {bring outside teams here to cla^i with the Ag gie team. All men who a#i interested in horses and who li ve ridden are invited to come and try for the team. It is esji cially stressed that you do not ha^i to be a mem ber of the Cavalry » play on the team. Any membkg of the cadet corps is eligible if >r the squad. Anybody who is te crested should report to Lt N rj. The student body (if Cornell uni versity 7; includes one “genuine America*”—an Iroquois Indian— and natives of 46 foreign coun tries. ii In the early day* of Ohio Wes leyan, football players were not permitted to go on out-of-town trips without written permission from their parents. Corps Dance Saturday Night, $1.10 9 / C. 1 C*| / 6. /Vo»«'esi in Htfth *stvlm on VICTOR and COLUMBIA RECORDS 1. THE MOLE 3 « Harry James 2. 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