THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 4, 1943 THE BATTALION PAGE 3 Varsity Basketball Squad To Hold Meeting On Friday By Harold Borofsky Battalion Sports Editor Mustangs Work On Pass Defense, Will Try to Halt Aggie Aerial Attack in Saturday’s Tilt S. M. U. head coach Jimmy Stew art is currently having more trou ble that he can handle, according to dispatches from Dallas. Besides the loss of Ed Cloud, ace center of the Mustangs, the ponies face the prospect of starting without Olin Gibbons, a boy who has shown plenty of stuff in the backfield and who was hurt in the final min utes of the Texas game last week. Meanwhile, concentrating on the men he does have to work with, the S. M. U. mentor is trying to perfect a system of pass defense that he hopes will throttle the vaunted passing attack of the Ag gies. The Mustangs, who are badly outclassed by the Longhorn run ning attack, do not believe that the Cadets will present as hard an attack on the ground as they will in the air. The Pony coach stated that he hoped to stop the bullet passing of Hallmark and Beesley, the Aggie aces, and that if he could succeed the Ponies would be an even match for the Age on the running plays. Meanwhile, here at College Sta tion, Coach Homer Norton is plan ning to show the Mustangs what it feels to have a bit in their teeth, for the Aggies are going to be all out in their attempt to tame the Broncs. Good news to all is the return of George McAllister to the Ag lineup. McAllister suf fered an injured knee and then a badly bruised back, but will be in top condition for Saturday’s fray. Should the Cadet passing game fail, the Ag coaches are not wor ried. Besides the first string backs, Flanagan, Beesley, Halim ark, Deere, Burditt, and Turner the se cond string boys can display plenty of speed and maneuverability. Cal lender, in the short seconds he has gotten to play, has shown great promise. The Cadets have been taking it fairly easy this week, running over the Pony plays and perfecting our own defense. By now we have al most ironed out any hindrance to smooth play and Saturday’s game should see some nice football play ing on all sides. Longhorns Take Thirteen Spot in Nation, Aggies Sixteen, Notre Dame Still Leads In National football circles this week Notre Dame still reigns supreme. Army, tied by Penn last week, dropped to third place with Purdue taking over second hon ors. The Texas Longhorns took the number thirteen spot and the Ag gies are rated sixteen in the na tion. Back to the Southwest, other games this weekend will see Rice meet Arkansas at Houston in what should be a close and thrill-packed melee. The Owls will be slight un derdogs by virtue of their 58-0 loss LOUPOT’S Watch Dog of the Aggies Mm Interwoven Socks Wear Longer Fortified for longer wear, Interwoven Socks keep up your appearance. Correct colors for all branches of the service . . . and smart new fall patterns for civilian wear. 45c 3 Pairs $1.25 and up 7 t V C^,T\ WIMBERLEV-STONg-pANSB* W707I7 CLOtMERS College and Bryan to the Longhorns, while the Pork ers lost only by 34-0 Texas will be idle this week but head coach D. X. Bible will take no time out. The Longhorns will face the T. C. U. Frogs next week and Bible is frank in saying that he is woried about the game. The Longhorns haven’t won from the Frogs in the last two years, though they have been favorites each time. Odds and ends: The S. M. U. squad boasts only 40 men for a total. So far this year the Ponies have won only one game, taking Rice 12-0. They have lost to Tulsa, NT AC (20-6), Tulane, and Texas (20-0). Last year, when the Ags played the Mustangs at Dallas, the score was 27-20 with the Cadets on top. THOUGHT FOR THE DAY DON’T SOFTEN UP WHEN THE GOING GETS HARD! On October 25 Oregon State col lege celebrated its seventy-fifth anniversary. Head Coach Manning Smith Issues Call for All Players Meeting to be Held in Gym Friday At 6:00 Names to be Taken; Cagers Asked to Report The first meeting of this year’s basketball squad will be held this Friday at 6:00 p.m. in the gym, it was today announced by Manning Smith, head basketball coach. The meeting will be for the purpose of getting the names of all interested boys and organizing the* team for practice. The boys who come out will practice under a schedule until after Thanksgiving, when Coach Smith can devote his entire time to the basketball squad. “What we want to do,” said Coach Smith, “is to get the boys down there, get their questions answered, and get them to practi cing.” “The Aggie cage team has always been one of the most co lorful in the nation and we are go ing to go right ahead as if we were in normal times. We will play the regular conference schedule and will play as many Army teams as possible, for that will give us valu able practice.’’ Qualifications for basketball are the same as for football. Of course none of the Army boys are eligible, but any regular student who is passing at least eleven hours may come out for the team. In- Manning Smith, the Cadets have an able coach as well as a regular fellow. “Smitty”, as he is better known, came to the Aggie coaching staff in 1934 with Coach Homer Norton who had coached him to All-America mention at Centennary College as a quarter back and scat backfield man. His first duties were assistant back- field coach and backfield demon strator. In 1937 “Smitty” became co-coach of freshman baseball and in 1938 he took over the varsity tennis team. Later the same year he had the freshman basketball added to his jobs, so he dropped the freshman baseball work. By 1941, however he was co-coach of all freshman sports except track. Last year was Manning’s first year as varsity backfield coach and Jjead basketball coach, and he made an enviable record at both these positions, at which he succeeded Marty Karow, now a naval offi cer. Last years’ team of cagers, in cluding Cokinos, Dawson, Huff man, Peden, and a score of others, was fast and colorful, leaving this year’s boys a mark to shoot at, so if you want to go out for the team, don’t hesitate. Let’s start right now to win the Southwest confer ence basketball race in ’43. MONTE MONCRIEF, ace Aggie tackle who has proven to be one of the best at his spot though a freshmen at A. & M. Monte hails from Dallas, wears number 74, and tips the scale at 195 pounds. MARINES Let Us Do Your Altering LAUTERSTEIN’S LOUPOT’S A Little Place . . . ... A Big Saving When in Donbt About Your Eyes or Your Glasses Consult DR. J. W. PAYNE Optometrist 109 S. Main Bryan Next to Palace Theatre STUDENT CO-OP Bicycle and Radio Repair Phone 4-4114 B Team Plays Allen Academy Friday The Aggie B team, coached by Lil Dimmitt, will play Allen Acad emy Friday at 3:00 p.m. on Kyle Field. The Cadets are favored, but the Allen boys are expected to give the Ags some stiff competition. Al len lost to Heame Interment in a hard fought game 7-0 and the Ag gies licked Hearne by a score of 18-0. The game will be especially interesting in view of the fact that it will offer a preview on some of the B team boys who are really Radio calendar for Thursday, November 4, 1943: 10:00—Musical Reveille 10:30—News 10:45—Morning Reveries 11:00—Moments of Devotion 11:15—Lean Back and Listen 11:30—Listen Ladies 11:45—Music 12:15—News 12:30—Farm Fair 12:45—Music 1:15—Between the Lines 1:30—Music 2:00—Treasury Transcriptioa 2:15—News 2:30—Music 2:45—Woman’s Program due to go places on the varsity later on. All those who have Friday afternoon off will see a real game of football when these two teams tangle. " < : : '1 J IBl . lilpi* m -i 3:00—Swing Music 4:15—Sport News 4:30 Something to Read 4:45 Singing Cadets 6:00—Music 6; 15—Radio Club 5:30—The Little Show 6:45—News 6:00—Sign-off Capital University's library in Columbus, Ohio, recently received a portrait carving in oak of the head and shoulders of Martin Lu ther, made in Switzerland 88 years ago. The W. K. Kellogg Foundation of Battle Creek, Mich., has recently granted $4,000 to Butler University for loans and scholarship to train medical technologists. —CARMEN— (Continued From Page 1) over them. The entire family have one weakness; they all like to spend their money on diamonds, furs and fancy clothes, thus por traying their true Gypsy character. Flamenco dancing is an art pe culiar to the Spanish Gypsy’s alone. It is light, and requires excellent footwork since a great deal of its movement is in the air. For accompaniment, the usual in-* strument is a guitar with other tempos are made by the dancer who snaps his fingers and slaps his sides. Denison is one of the few colleges or universities that has three branches of the armed services on its campus: the Army, Navy and Marines. LOUPOT’S ARMY MEN Let Us Do Your Altering An Aggie Institution LAUTERSTEIN’S Only 300 Left SAM BROWNE BELTS at HALF PRICE There won’t be any more either, since manu facture has been discontinued. Get your Sam Browne Belt now while they are still available. LOUPOT’S TRADING POST “Trade With Lou — He’s Right With You” m"ti HERB TURLEY, crackerjack Cadet guard. Herb is another boy who has .won a distinctive place for himself in the Aggie lineup. He hails from San Antonio, wears number 67, and weighs 195 pounds. Keep a Record of Your Days at A. & E in Photographs Marines — we can supply you with a drees uniform for portraits—also Ma rine and Army Garrison Caps. A. & M. PHOTO SHOP North Gate — 1 NEED Books? 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