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Payoff Punch Tonight; Aggies Tangle With Owls The Corps, I believe, means a lot down at DeWare Field House when the Aggie cagers play a tilt, and tonight , they might mean the dif ference between victory and de feat. The Rice Owls are coming to Aggieland trying after a victory that might mean the conference title; or at least half of it will be assured if a win is made. Last year the Cadets dumped the Owls’ apple cart by scoring the biggest upset of the season when they downed the Birds in Houston and put them co-champions of the conference. The Owls would like nothing bet ter than win out over the Cadets at Aggieland and also to show the Corps that their noisy gym doesn’t help to win ball games. But broth er, they are wrong. I know that on paper the influ ence of the stands doesn’t add up, but the games are not played on paper. It’s a psychological reason and it will work. This writer would like to see it work tonight. After their tenth conference win that will bring them a tie for the conference, the Owls will be the strong favorite. So the spotlight is focussed at Aggieland tonight for the outcome of the conference title. Also Bill Tom Gloss will be try ing to break the conference scoring record set by Dwight Parks of Baylor last season. Lee Huffman will be in there running for a place in the scoring race. With those stands full and no remaining standing room, an Ag gie win would not surprise Kyle Field. Men of the Corps, go down and let those Institute boys know that the Corps does mean some thing. Rice football squad is not going to work out this afternoon for they will be coming up to see the best game of the season. And probably this will be the best of the season and the last at Aggieland. Go down and see the final game! INTRAMURALS Softball is just around the cor ner, and that corner isn’t very far away either for the opening date is Monday. It will all begin at 4:00 on the old drill field in the old area and only class A will be rep resented because of scheduling dif- diculties and the difficulty of an organization having more than one team out in the same evening. There will be the same number of games played by the Class A con tenders as were played last year by both classes. Each team will play 10 games within its league and of course the winners of each league will continue playing until it is eliminated. wish. Each period will be 45 min utes in length and those who wish to make up intramural games are to meet on the south end of Downs Natatorium at either 4:00 or 4:45. Speedball will begin to be a part of the P. E. classes in the very near future just as soon as the P. E. department can get enough speedballs. In order to develop more interest in speedball and to give the boys an opportun ity to hear the rules and regula tions from somebody that really knows how to play it, the P.E. department had Mr. Penberthy, the department head, to explain all of the rules and regulations. There is still some misunder standing about making up intra mural games in the evening for those who cannot make their week ly required game. Makeup periods will be at 4:00 and 4:45 every even ing of the week. Monday through Friday. The periods will consist of swimming, basketball, volleyball, another simular sports. You may even run the cross country if you SUPPORT FOR LIFE Brcvs 'arc 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.** th» underwear hr every-day wear ece T ♦ r r^. College and Bryan I It has been rumored that some body has finally beat nine minutes in running the cross country course. Everybody that boasts of having a low score can make an account of himself when the times are re corded and posted. These will start next week sometime if pos sible arrangements can be made. Thursday afternoon if you were down on the speedball fields and saw the game between 4th CHQ and MG Cav. you will get a very good conception of how speedball should be played. G. Moncada, Jr. Intramural Manager for 4th CHQ has gathered from the 4th CHQ many expert Soccer players from Latin America who are students here at A. & M. In the game the 4th CHQ attack, led by Caro and Delatorre, w&s constantly hitting the forward wall of the MG Cav that the Cav were forced under the shadows of their own goal practical ly the whole game. The Cav did break through twice though and once they scored their only touch down which netted them their only 2 points of the game. The Latin American boys, using noth ing but Soccer combinations could carry the ball within the five yard line before the strong defense of the Cav. stopped them. The Corps Headquarters boys then changed their tactics to the air and scored their two touchdowns netting them the winning score 4-2. Lets get those softball teams organized before we go down to the diamonds and have some real games this year. Sociology Majors Take First Two Places in Contest Two A. & M. Rural Sociology majors received the first and sec ond places in the recent State Pub lic Welfare examination given by the State Department of Public Welfare in twenty-one examination centers in the state of Texas. R. F. Mitchell, a graduate stu dent in the Rural Sociology De partment, made the highest grade in the state, and J. L. Robertson made the second highest grade. Of the nine men called for inter views for immediate placement in the State Department, three came from the College Station examina tion center. The first Aggie yearbook, the Oleo, was published in 1898. Cadet Gridsters Tangle in Inter-Squad Game Today; Training Stops Thursday BATTALION Players Show Marked Improvement Over Early Season Form; Game Time Today, 3:3(? Riflfi T6&ITI Again today at 3:30, Kyle Field will see the prospects of the 1943 grid team in action .when the Maroon team tan gles with the Whites in another inter-squad game. The boys have been steadily improving their passing game and ball handling, however the team members have yet to come up to season form. This week the Whites, composed of men not so exper ienced, trounced the Maroon team, more experienced players, Comets Have Downed Every SWC Team This Year Lieut. Jack Gray’s Corpus Christi Naval Air station basket ball team is one of the greatest teams ever to show its stuff in this part of the country, yet it will have to be content with the title of the uncrowned champion of the Southwest. The Southwest conference teams will agree to giv ing N. A. S. this title because the Naval Station team has beaten all the conference teams a total of nine times without any losses by scoring a total of 461 points in these games. The Naval team is also elimin ated from gaining any National honors because of a 48 hour leave limitation on athletic teams from the base. In addition to the victories over the Southwest conference teams the Comets have also rolled over other army air fields for seven victories making a total of 16 straight wins in whic hthey have scored 892 points compared to their opponents 563. This is almost an average of 56 points per game while their opponents have an av erage of only 38 points per game. The Comets have seven more games scheduled for this year. Among scheduled opponents are two games with the Pensacola Na val Air Station and one game with a professional basketball team. Baylor Faces Longhorns Tonight; Bears Trim S M U The Baylor Bears toppled the strong S.M.U. five in a thrilling 40 to 34 upset in Waco Thursday night. This victory for the Bears makes the Southwest conference cage race closer than ever. The Bears gained their revenge from the Mustangs in Thursday’s game after S.M.U. swamped Bay lor 71-44 the week before. The Bears stayed in front of the Mustangs throughout the game, al though the high point man was Tom Tomlinson of S.M.U. Ivy Miller and Gordon Hollon came in with 10 points to be the leading men for Baylor. Although this win left the Bears still in the cellar, if they beat Tex as Saturday; S.M.U. and Baylor will be in a tie for the cellar posi tion. •while before it has been the other way. The Maroons have been showing. The Maroons have been in their passing and running game. Little Dickey Hass has been turning in some nice sprints and passes also. Vernon Bellville, a come back from last years’ club, shows much talent in the backfield. Some other stand outs include Dick Hill, McForest, Ed Strucken, Bar ney Welch, Morty Mertz, and Knight. Many of the White team will be moving up to the Maroon team soon with their hustle and fire. Only a few more days remain and the spring training will come to a close. Many uncertainties re main in many minds whether foot ball will be a sport at Aggieland next year or not, but if they do, these boys will be ready to make any team stand up and look. While other Southwest Conference schools are thinking of dropping from the race, the Aggies are still hoping to remain. By Guillermo Moncada, Jr. When the Texas Cage team went North, they were the leaders of the Southwest Conference but some thing happened there that might be the cause for their losing. Many scribes around have said the rea son for their losing was their roughness. When the Longhorns played at College Station, I didn’t see any of the rough stuff in excess. The Longhorns and Aggies play very rough when they tangle but there wasn’t anything like the play that Jinx Tucker of the Waco News- Tribune writes about. Now Jinx is sorta of partial about his teams and anyone that says Texas University around him better back away. But there is something to his writings that no one can dodge. The facts are there. Here is what he writes: “The Longhorn team seemingly SHAVE HITLER w SAVE AMERICA zn buy An estimate taken at A. & M. shows that out of 2,359 dormitory rooms over 2,100 have radios in them. Seeking New Men Practices Held From Monday Through Friday Although at present, the Aggie rifle team is in extreme need of members, they are still keeping up with their regular practices from eight in the morning until five in the afternoon every Week day. So far the team consists of only fif teen men and Captain Williams, their coach, stated that the bottle neck is in the shortage of reserves. If any Aggie is interested in join ing the team, he can report to the Armory where firing practice is held. During the past two or three years, A. & M. has been proud of its crack rifle teams because though they have had very keen competi tion the Aggies have come out on top in over three-fourths of their matches. J. H. Crossland, W. T. Jones, and W. R. Obenour have dis tinguished themselves in their prac tice and as time goes by, this trio shows a great deal of improvement which will develop this group into one of the top-notch shooting ag gregations in the country. As their coach said before, the only need now is more boys to help the pres ent leaders improve so they can cope with any competition. had the title in the bag . . . but the tactics of the University of Texas basket ball team caused much anger among rival teams. Arkansas was the only one which made its anger public. “Baylor players were greatly peeved at the methods adopted by the Texas team in its game here, and Edwards had to do a good job at controlling his temper to keep from swinging on a Texas player that had taken jabs at his nose throughout the game. Edwards went out on fouls, while the Texas player was not ‘caught’ in his more serious infractions. In fact, the Texas team, by the manner and methods it used, became the Brook lyn of the Southwest Conference. “S. M. U. and T. C. U., very good teams when at their peak, ‘laid’ for Texas. T. C. U. defeated Texas Saturday night in a very close game, putting the pressure on the Longhorns Monday . . . S. M. U. went out and gave Texas a dose of its own medicine. S. M. U. be came as rough as Texas had been all season. It was a wild and wooly game and S. M. U. won it. “If Texas loses the title it ap parently had won, it can charge it up to mistakes made in earlier games—mistakes that were not necessary—the mistakes of getting too rough with opponents. The op ponents did not like it, and they decided also to get a little rough; and when they did it was very rough on the championship chances of the Longhorns.” Rough Play By Steer Might Be Reason For Falling From Conference Lead ^ ^1 SUITS — Cleaned and Pressed ...40c SLACKS-- Cleaned and Pressed ...20c BLOUSES- Cleaned and Pressed ...,20c —Cash and Carry— All Kinds of ALTERATIONS FOR BETTER WORK SEE o=3=ir —mr=TGi -'--lEso i AiiTmATrii UWTERSTEIft ^ IS | & Saturday Morning, February 27, 1943 Page 3 New Physical Education Program Really Doing Away With Stiff Backs By Thomas Boog Many are the moans and groans heard around the campus lately, and the cause of the sore leg and back muscles are the new and strenuous Physical Education pro gram now being introduced here at Aggieland. The new course is open to one and all; in fact, every man physically fit is required to take the course. So every after- Students Pledge Fall Cooperation TowardsWarEffort Students of 30 Midwest colleges and universities, meeting at Carle- ton college as a Midwest Student Victory Assembly, ended their two- day session by repledging fulPsup- port to the war effort and to post war inter-nation cooperation. Stating a realization that com plete and final Allied victory is the absolute prerequisite for any future progress of all peoples, the delegates went on record as en dorsing all measures and actions which lead to defeat of fascism by establishment of a complete war economy at home and by the build ing of real military and diplomatic unity among the United Nations. The assembly demanded estab lishment of a United Nations war council to function now and in the immediate postwar period, to bring about a unity of command, distri bution of war materials, and com plete inter-allied confidence. Recognizing the need for thor ough over-all national planning in production and supply, manpower supply, technical and educational mobilization, and economic stabili zation, the delegates gave strong: support to the Tolan-Kilgore-Pep- 1 per bill now in the house of rep- 1 resentatives. Definite measures to alleviate persecution of religious and racial groups were advocated, and abol ishment of the poll tax was strong ly recommended. The assembly concluded with a resolution that this war shall re sult in a just and permanent peace. Colleges represented were Augs burg, Beloit, Carleton, Concordia, Cornell, Drake, Eua Claire Teach ers, Grinnell, Gusta^us Adolphus, Iowa State, Iowa State Teachers, La Cross State Teachers, Lawrence, Luther, Macalester, Mankato State Teachers, Moorhead State Teach ers, Ripon, River Falls State Teachers, Rockford, Rosary, St. Cloud State Teachers, St. Olaf, South Dakota State, Winona State Teachers, Superior State Teachers, University of Minnesota and Uni versity of North Dakota. noon the Intramurals Field is the scene of feverish activity as stiff and ancient Seniors and five-year men bite the dust right alongside the Frogs and Sophomores. One of the most"' remarkable things of the whole course is how the instructors, who are much old er than their stooges, can stand the gaff while the mighty muscle- bound Aggies pant and groan un der the strain of the exercises. The two-hour course starts out slowly, the instructors making the poor students do only arm and leg exercises for almost an hour. Of course, they give you all a thirty- second rest period about half way through. Then when you think you are just about recuperated, there comes the cry, “Now the next ex ercise will be as follows,” and off you go again to the cry of “One, two, three, four,” and so on until the E.D.’s are sprawled about the field in various stages of fatigue. Finally the instructor takes pity on the stooges, and tells them that that’s all for the day. But brother, don’t get all het up; he’s just kidding. That’s just the warming up exercise. The real thing is still to follow. So then when you see all the others of the class taking off toward the road, you know that the cross country is coming up. So every one drags himself off the ground and toddles off after the rest. First you cross the highway, and then head for the horse barns. You’re feeling pretty good and you tell yourself, “this ain’t so bad after all,” as you speed up to show the stragglers how fast you really are. But by the time you get about half way round the two mile course you begin to realize that those in structors have some trackmen set ting the pace. Then your legs begin to get heavy, and all the guys you have just passed breeze by you wide open, and you think maybe you aren’t so good after all. Then only a little way ahead of you is the final goal, and pretty soon you stagger up to the starting point, with just enough strength left to drag yourself back to your hole. And all the time you’re thinking how rough the cross country was, but then you think of the com mando course that you’ll be taking soon, and you realize that what you’ve had so far is nothing com pared to what lies ahead of you. But what makes you forget all this is when you think of all the guys now fighting all over the world who are thanking their lucky stars for having had such courses, to prepare themselves for the ordeals that they met successfully. So, after all, even though P.E. is rough, wouldn’t you rather be in condition when you come face to face with that Jap or German? Jap Pay-Off How a “pay-off” of 50,000 yen was made by the Japanese govern ment to the Nipponese “under world” in the early part of the century to prevent altercations with American visitors that might have led to war then was related recent ly by Albert Bushnell Hart, profes sor emeritus of history at Harvard. “I got the story from an attache of the American embassy in Japan soon after the incident occurred, and I don’t believe it ever has been told,” said the 88-year-old, white- haired professor. “I was in Japan at the time the ‘good-will fleet’ sponsored by Pres ident Theodore Roosevelt stopped at Yokohama. “Shortly before the fleet landed, a representative of the undercrust of Japan—the underworld gang— went to officials of the government and said in substance: ‘There will be hundreds of Americans coming off those ships and circulating about in this area. What’s it worth to keep us from starting trouble?’ “My information was that the Japanese officials said it was worth 50,000 yen to them to prevent any outbreaks that might possibly lead to an ‘incident’ with the United States . . . They weren’t ready then. “The 50,000 yen was paid over to the gang leader, and there was no trouble when the fleet landed. “Subsequently, I went to the American embassy and asked some one there if the story I had heard was sound, and he informed me there was ‘something to it’.” “It was mighty cheap for the Japanese government to get off that way,” said Hart. “And it’s not impossible the gang which was ‘paid-off’ had something to do with events that led up to Pearl Har bor.” Join the Battalion staff, and help make your newspaper a better newspaper. BRYAN FLORAL NURSERY Tasty Corsages for Your Date DELIVERIES LEAVE BRYAN AT 4 P. M. Phone 2-1266