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Aggie Swimmers Have Good Chance At Conference Title; Meet Next Week Rumors Have Now Hit Athletics . . . Some more of these rumors have found its way into this corner but they are a wee different from the traditional E.R.C. rumors that have been flying high around Aggieland for the last several weeks. This one is about the football season of next fall, if there is one. The rumor that is referred to is the chance that the Aggies will not play the Baylor Bears next season. Rumors from the Baylor campus say that football up there is doubt- fuL As yet, the Bears have not-f- started spring training and have little hope of doing so. Baylor has lost two coaches in the last month or so; Frank Kimbrough and Bill Henderson. Kimbrough was head coach of football and Henderson left after coaching the basketball season. As yet these coaches have not been replaced and Ralph Wolf, Baylor athletic director, is said to have stated that they would not be replaced for some time. So wheth er or not the Baylor Bears will be going again next fall, is yet to be determined. Hope so! Arkansas has been the scene of getting another football coach and in doing so they are determined to get a better football team than what they have been fielding the last several years. The school is trying to receive permission to ob tain a grid coach at a rate of $12,600 per year. Boy, that is some sum to pay for a victorious foot ball team, or I should say, one part of it. For it takes more than a high price coach to begin winning football games. Arkansas has fielded a poor team in the last several years and there was some talk of getting the Texas Tech school in the Southwest conference and leave Arkansas out. I guess the bankers of the Hogs began to wake up and get some thing started in their world of foot ball. But it takes more than a high salary coach to produce a winning football club. One thing is the material that goes to make up the team will bear the most important factor in the winning combination. Arkansas has had many football players to go to a Texas school and play foot ball here in preference to the Ra- zorback school, while others have found their way into other schools of other states. We’ll have to wait and see if the combination of the high paid coach and some Arkansas material will produce a winning club. The Razorbacks have always staged a strong basketball team every year and for the last seVeral years have taken a part of the title at different times. The tall boys have been many on the Pork ers’ lineup. So far nothing is set tled in the matter of a coach, but something is likely to come for ward any day. Rice Owls Travel To New York For Tourney In Madison Square Garden Playing in Madison Square Gar den the 22nd of this month, the Rice Owls will represent the South west Conference in New York when they clash with the Brooklyn team, St. John’s. The St. John team has won 18 games this season while dropping two. Rice closed its conference schedule here a couple of weeks ago to cinch a tie for the South west Conference title. Texas is the other co-champion and will be traveling to Kansas City for their tourney. Last night the Rice Owls met the Sam Houston Bearkats in Hous ton to get some needed competi tion to stay on edge for the New York trip. Coach Davis will stick to his regular line up which is David Cook, John McDonald, for wards; Bill Tom Gloss, center. Har- Do You Know What You Ought to Know In America at War? Here’s a new kind of quiz—based on the things that are happening in this wartime world. Try it on your family. What are U. S. battleships named after? Cruisers? Destroyers? Sub marines? Aircraft carriers? Battleships are named after states; cruisers after cities; de stroyers after Naval heroes; sub marines after fish; the new car riers after famous battles. Can you sell your car to the government ? No. But if you want to donate it to a government agency, write old Lambert and Bill Commins, guards. to the chief of bookkeeping and warrants section, Treasury De partment, Washington, giving a full description of the car. When your soldier or sailor son comes home on furlough, what must he do to get his share of ra tioned foods? He should go to his rationing board nearest your home and get certificates which will entitle him to the same quantities of rationed goods as you get. Why is chewing gum included in all three meals in the Army’s “K,” or combat, ration? Gum keeps the mouth moist, which is particularly helpful to troops in dry areas. It also acts as a cleanser for teeth when tooth brushes can’t be used, and it is a good substitute for cigarettes in reducing nervous tension. (Smok ing is, of course, prohibited in actual combat.) How many flying hours must a woman have to her credit to be eligible for the Women’s Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron? Five hundred. How many Americans were in our armed forces at the end of 1942? Seven million, of whom over 1,000,000 are in the Navy.—This Week Magazine. The University of Buffalo has established a course in military German. Students of the College of New Rochelle (N.Y.) have enrolled in a class in postwar rehabilitation and construction. Keep That Military Appearance YOUR HAIR IS IMPORTANT Come By Today for a Fresh Hair Cut Aggieland Barber and Beauty Shop North Gate —SAVE WHILE YOU SHOP— THE CAMPUS VARIETY STORE Has a Good Line of SHOE POLISHES SCHOOL SUPPLIES LAUNDRY BAGS : RAZOR BLADES HARDWARE PICTURE FRAMES North Gate S. M. U. and Baylor Helps Aggie Chances By Caro Costas Last Tuesday afternoon’s victory of Coach Adamson’s Texas Aggie swimming team over a determined and strong Longhorn team showed great hopes for the Aggies to take the Southwest Conference swim ming meet. This meet will be held in Austin next Saturday night in Texas U. natatorium and it will be a meet worth witnessing, as both Aggies and Longhorns are determined to carry away with the meet and the title. So far the Aggies boast of hav ing two victories over the Long horns in the only two meets in which they have met this season. In their first meet they thoroughly outswam the tankers from the For ty Acres by a margin of about twenty points. Last Tuesday after noon the swimmers from Texas traveled all the way from Austin for a return meet and they brought along a strong and determined team with the hopes of evening the series. The Aggies faced a strong competition, as two of Tex as’ mainstays participated in this second meet; Demmer and Deppe. Demmer outswam Danny Green, the Aggie swimming star in the 100- yard free style. At the end of the meet the scoreboard showed the Aggies carrying away the meet, thus making it two straight vic tories of Coach Adamson’s tankers over the Longhorns. Coach Adamson is placing his hopes that swimmers from Baylor and S.M.U. will take part in the meet and take away from Texas some points. Demmer from Texas and Danny Green from A&M will give the public attending the final meet between these two schools plenty of thrills, as they are out standing swimmers in both squads. The 100 yards free style event will be the highlight of the meet. Danny Green and Demmer will face each other in their last meet. In the first meet between the schools Dan ny Green won that event, breaking the Southwest record, but in the second meet Demmer nosed out Green in the most exciting event of the afternoon. This time Dem mer came in under the Southwest Grass and Weeds Present Serious Fire Threat Now Dead grass and weeds are at present a serious fire threat in Texas, Marvin Hall, State Fire Insurance Commissioner, said to day. Hall based his statement on fire marshal reports filed with the department. These reports show an excessive number of grass fires during the past few weeks. The heaviest grass fire loss re ported since the first of the year was estimated at more than $45,- 000. ,Tt was started by a small boy and spread to baled cotton in storage. At least two Texas deaths in January resulted from grass fires, while fire alarms as a result of burning grass and weeds number ed three times those of all other causes. Grass hazards, according to the reports, exist in practically every city and town in the state. In addition, extensive grass fires have been reported in rural areas. These range from valuable pasture lands in central and western sec tions of the state laid barren by grass fires, to the heavily tim bered sections of East Texas where vital timber has been destroyed. Timber fires have become increas ingly serious. “Our local fire departments are doing a splendid job,” added Hall, “in combatting the threat of grass fires. However, they need our in dividual assistance in preventing unnecessary fires. Many depart ments are supervising the burning of grass on vacant property fn order to eliminate as many haz ards as possible. “The spring winds will add to the seriousness of grass hazards. For the next few weeks we need Conference record but it does not count as official. Next time they meet will be in the conference swimming meet and Danny will seek to beat Demmer and estab lish himself as the 100-yards free style swimming champion in the Southwest. He boasts of holding the 220-yd. record in the confer ence. Green is considered by the Texas U. swimming coach as the best tanker in the Southwest. Other tankers upon whom Adam son places his hopes in bringing to A&M the swimming crown are Griffin, Kiel, Lapham, Cowling, Stein, Winters, Heany, Henderson, Goodman, Cowley, and Baus. Four ExAggies Now Stationed At Lubbock Air Field Four former students of Texas A. & M. are now stationed at South Plains Army Flying School, where advanced glider students are being trained. They are Capt. Marvin Jefferson Birdwell, First Lieut. Jack H. Dixon, Second Lieut. Rich ard L. Vickrey, and Second Lieut. Charles Rick Owens. Captain Birdwell is the son of Mrs. Florence C. Birdwell of 1226 S. College Road, Bryan, Texas. He was commissioned in 1924 and was field auditor of the AAA, U.S.D.A., at College Station for four years before entering the service. Lieut. Dixon is the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Dixon of Little Elm, Texas, majoring in engineer ing at Texas A. & M., graduating in 1941. Lieut. Vickrey, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Vickrey of 1511 Bosque Blvd., Waco, majored in civil engi neering. He was commissioned in September of 1942 at Lake Charles, La. Lieut. Owens is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Owens of 1835 South 10th, Abilene. Also an engi neering major, he received his com mission as a reserve officer at Foster Field in Sept, of 1942. BATTALION Saturday Morning, March 13, 1943 Page 3 INTRAMURALS By John Stout With the softball season get ting underway the speedball mar vels are completing and deciding their league winners. Thus far no definite league is cinched by any one team. In all eleven leagues their are at least two, and in most cases three, teams that can win the championship of their lengue if only the right results turn up. In these 11 leagues there are still about eight teams that are undefeated and untied last game that they will play next week will decide the championship unless there is a tie, in which case the run-off for that league will be determined the following week. The leagues, with the exception of the postponed games, should be completed next week. The champ ionship race will be underway shortly thereafter. I Field, the undefeated-untied league champion unless B Coast Artillery decides differently. There were three teams in this league Feet Match? If Not Join Mismated Club Dallas.—If your feet require dif ferent-sized shoes, you can join the Mismated Shoe Club, formed here. The informal organization is de signed to relieve the pinch under rationing regulations. It started when a Dallas woman told the Dallas County War and Rationing Board that she ought to have six pairs of shoes a year instead of three because she wears a No. 5 shoe on one foot and a No. 7 on the other. For her, the annual ration of three pairs of shoes would mean only a pair and a half, she explained. One Hundred Pairs of Shoes Have Been Worn Out On P. E. Cross-Country By John M. Stout “Say, Joe, what time did you make it in today?” “Oh, I don’t know. Around 10:20 I believe.” “Well, all I can say is that you’ve beaten me. I cleared the mark in 13:10. Say, look at those guys; some of them are still coming in. There’s Jim. He used to be a track star in high school. I wonder what’s wrong.” “Too many cigarettes, I guess. Say, how far is that course any way? First they told us that it was 2% miles, then somebody said it was two miles. Finally they said it was a mile and a half, until somebody measured it in a car. They claimed it was a mile and six-tenths. Just how far is that anyway?” Well, ole army, that’s the situa tion every evening. You guys that make it in less than ten minutes really would like to know how far it is so you could judge yourseH. To settle such arguments about the length, the course was measured and checked. Starting at the baseball pitch er’s mound on the practice field where most of the P.E. classes have been timed, and crossing the concrete ditch and around the sig nal tower to the right, down by the creamery and on around on the regular course it is 8,935 feet, 6 inches—just 40 feet short of 1.7 Pomona college in Claremont, Calif., will train 200 aviation ca dets in a basic premeteorological course. to be extremely careful in prevent ing grass fires, and in keeping fires that are started from get ting beyond control.” INVEST IN VICTORY! Our boys can take the War to the enemy, if we back them up with ships and tanks and guns! But that takes money! Help your Government to put the tools of war into the hands of our soldiers by purchasing War Savings Bonds and Stamps. And remember . . . just one Bond can’t lick the 'Axis any more than just one gun! It takes millions of Americans buying War Savings Bonds and Stamps every pay day! Bonds cost $18.75 and up . . . and \«y pay you back one-third more in only 10 years! Stan^ ost lOtf, 250, and up . . . soon total the price of a Bond if Dought regularly. Help our boys on the fighting fronts wherever they may be! Buy War Savings Bonds as an investment for yourself and your country. miles. Back up 20 feet the next time you run it and call it 1.7 miles. This means that 39,700 linear miles have already been covered by the cadets that are taking P.E. and are running. Stretching this distance out it would be over 1.6 times around the world or to Den ton and back 80 times and be in Ft. Worth on your way back on another trip. The equivalent to 111 pair of shoes have already been worn out. This means that it cost the corps $55.10 per week for ten nis shoes. There are lost 250 gal lons of sweat every week. For you engineering queers here are a few edges for you. An aver age boy of 150 pounds would be doing 1,340,000 ft. of Work per run, or the equivalent to 1,724 BTU’s of energy lost, assuming no heat transfer. This means that if a 150 pound boy runs it in 9 minutes he would be rated at 4.5 horsepower; 10 min.—4.0; 12 min. —3.3; 15 min.—2.6; 20 min.—2.0; and 24 min.—1.6. The average rated horsepower for tke class is 2.4. If you are running the course in 15 min. you are averaging 8 min., 50 sec. per mile;, 10 min.—5:33; 9:30—5:35; 9:00—5:18. All of these foolish figures came from the fact that there are 2,923 boys running the course twice a week and have been running for four weeks. Oh, yes, a pair of tennis shoes will last 360 miles of running if you are lucky. That’s a round trip to Ft. Worth or DaHas. I Field, B Coast and B Signal that were pulling for the championship of the league until B Sig and I Field met Thursday afternoon. In the first 15 seconds of the game Quenton Harvey scored a touchdown with a pass from Otto, who received the ball from Beck- ley. Later in the first period the Signal Corps scored on a fumble made by the Field, tying up the game 2-2. When the Signal Corps kicked off, after the touchdown, they scored three more points with one of those seldom-heard- of field goals on a kickoff. The Signal Corps led at half time 5-2. They kept this three point mar gin until the Field rallied with two touchdowns. The first one came from a pass to Clark from Back- ley. The second, just a few sec onds later, with a pass from Otto to Harvey. There was a double foul made at the beginning of the fourth period, and both teams took advantage of it by scoring one point each, bringing the score to 7-6. This score did not change until just a few second before the game was over when Sims, of Field, scored the final points of the game by a touchdown. Im mediately after the touchdown the Field team was kicking off to Signal Corps teams the Signal Corps, in all of the excitement, fouled Fredy Wolters. Wolters {jot a free kick but missed as the game ended, 9-6 in favor of I Field. Flowers was also one of the de ciding factors as he proved his ability by driving the Signal Corps team back on many of their of fensive plunges. Oh yes, for you boys of I Field, you’re got the scrap of your life next week when you meet B Coast, for confident ially, are good. The newly constructed basket ball courts should be ready during the early part of next week. All of them are not expected to be completed then, but if weather- permits they will be completed as soon as possible. ' Sometimes next week in this column league standings for the Horse Shoe leagues will be pub lished. It has been whistled around that the commando course is be ing dusted and polished off. I wonder why? Something tells me there is some connection between that and the P. E. class. Oh, yes, if you can’t run the P. E. Cross Country in less than 15 minutes don’t worry about the commando course for you’ve still got a lot of running ahead of you. Ag Diamond Hopes Become VeryBright Team Works Out Daily For Opener The Southwest Conference base ball race will open March 26 when the Rice Owls will clash with the Aggies in a two game series to be played at College Station. This year the conference race will be around three teams as the remain ing three teams of the conference have withdrawn from the confer ence for the duration. Texas A. & M., Texas U., and Rice will be the nucleus of this year conference championship race. The Aggies, last year conference champions started training the first of this month under the new tutorship of Coach Homer Norton. They were blessed with the re turning of seven elttermen of last year’s championship team. Their hopes rest upon such stars as Peden, Rogers, Daniels, Newberry, Carden, Glass and squadmen, and new members of this year Aggie nine. When the conference rolls again they will be favorites to repeat as Southwest champions pro vided they show the same form that was characteristic of them during the conference race. Hit ting powerj fine fielding and good pitching staff were the main fac tors of last year Coach Lil Dimmit Aggie nine successful conference schedule. They defeated the Long horns two in a row, the last two games played in Austin and whose outcome gave the Aggies the base ball crown. Texas U. lost most of last year runner up team members such as Houpt, Tankersley, O’Reagan, Hat ton, and many others. They will be seeking to return the baseball crown to the Forty Acres where it has reigned for long years. As in past years they will be the team to beat as Rice, the other con testants, is not a serious threat to either team. Texas U. lost the two most important games of the conference last year in their own backyard and with that the champ ionship. Rice is the remaining team that will make up the nucleus in this year’s conference and Coach Cecil Gregg will put a team that will represent Rice Institute in the conference and will seek some victories over both A. & M. and the Longhorns. They have only three remaining lettermen, up on whom the team will be built. Coach Norton of the Texas Ag gies and Coach Cecil Grigg of Rice booked some non-conference games with teams that will com pete in the Houston Post Semi-Pro baseball championship. They also are planning to engage as many army camp teams as their sched ule permits. Texas U. has not yet been heard from in regard to sched uling non-conference games. The conference schedule as it was approved by the three schools stands as follows: March 26-27—Rice at College Station. April 2-3—Texas at Houston. April 9-10—A&M at Austin. 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