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
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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
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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
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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.”
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