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r THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 18, 1943 THE BATTALION Page 3 'longhorns Will Crush The Aggies/' Say Teasippers Two Years Ago Today—Aggies and Steers Sign Non-Aggression Pact, Smoke Peace Pipe Yes, Army, just two years ago today one of the greatest non aggression pacts in the history of the world was signed. The pact was designed to curb unsportsmanlike activities, such as fights, use of defamatory expressions, and de structive pranks, in connection with the annual Thanksgiving Day game between the Longhorns and the Aggies- Representatives of the two schools met at College Station and issued the following state ment: “This seven point agree ment should not attempt to dis courage the keen rivalry that ex ists between the two schools/' The points in the pact ran along these lines: Point one: The two schools agree that they should attempt to have friendly relations with one another. Point two: In order to do so the full cooperation of all students was solicited. Point three: The student publi cations were pledged to uphold the high standards of the pact and the local press was to do the same. Point four: Everyone was cau tioned not to lose their head in moments of weakness (?) and do anything that might disrupt the prospective peace. Point five: Responsible members of the student bodies, meaning up perclassmen, were to take meas ures to prevent acts by underclass men that would be against the pact. Point six: Athletic contests were to be settled on the field, not in the bleachers or on street corners. Point seven: They hoped that “These agreements will serve in definitely to improve athletic re lations between the two institu tions.” That was it, Army, and as you can guess, the pact wasn’t kept very long. The Teasippers said the Aggies violated it first and the Aggies claimed it was the Long horns. We don’t say that it was good or bad, but it was at least a noble experiment, tsk, tsk, tsk. Too bad. T. U. Daily Texan Blows Off Steam In Challenge Reply Steers Say Aggies Attempt to Make Excuse Now for Losing Thanksgiving Day Classic In an article appearing in last Tuesday’s edition of the Daily Texan, the voice of the Texas Longhorns, appeared the following sentiments. Read it, Old Army, and get fight- in’ mad. In a statement coming out of Norton Takes Aggies Into Secret Practice On Kyle Field to Prep for Strong Steers This week the Aggies put up the “No Admittance” sign on Kyle Field and went to work on the plays that might spell doom to the Texas Longhorns. Norton knows that he will be up against a larger and more experienced team, but he also knows just what his boys are able to do. The Cadets have been favored so far by not having any bad in juries, but the Longhorns are hav ing the same kind of luck. As yet it is too early to say what the odds will be, but present indications point to an even bet affair. RIGHT DRESS! FOR THE COLD DAYS AHEAD... New regulation Uni form goods are arriving in special items every service man will need . . . Come in and make your selection while stocks are plentiful. Field Jackets $10.50 Rain and Trench Coats $10.95 to $40.00 Pink Gabardine Shirts $11.00 Dark Gabardine Shirts $7.50 and $11.00 Wool O’Sea Caps $2.00 Zelan Jackets $3.50 to $10.00 (lined or unlined) Wool Socks Wool Scarfs Wool or Leather Gloves 7 1V WIMBERLEV • STONE CLOCKtLRS College Station - Bryan Many and varied have been the reactions to Coach Norton’s chal lenge to the Longhorns, but those who won’t let their feelings get the best of them will agree that it was a fairly smart move to make. Norton will not say just why the challenge was made until later on- THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: THERE IS NO GREATER JOY ON EARTH THAN KNOWING THAT YOU HAVE DONE YOUR JOB WELL. —CONSOLIDATED— Continued From Page 1) dog entries have been the most numerous, although last year a cat took the highest award of the show. Fathers of the children in the primary grades of the school are responsible for the actual staging of the affair, and it is the only Mother’s Club project of the year that is run entirely by the male members of the group. Pets are entered and shown by either adults or children. Each breed of dog or pet will be judged in a seaparate class and ribbons will be awarded for first, second and third •places. A ribbon will al so be awarded for the best in each group. The following classes have been announced: 1. Sporting Dogs: Pointers, Set ters, Spaniels; 2. Sporting Dogs: (Hounds): Beagle, Blood Hound, Deer Hound, Fox Hound; 3. Working Dog: Collie, German Shepherd (Police Dog), Great Dane; 4. Terriers, Airedale, Bull, Pox Irish, Scottish; Toy Chihua hua, Pekingese, Pomeranian; 6. Non-Sporting: Boston Terrier, Bull dog, Poodle, Chowchow; 7. Cross Breeds; 8. Mutts; 9. Trick Dogs; 10. Puppies; 11. Cats; 12. Other pets. Special ribbons will be awarded for the best dog in the show, next best pet in the show, most unusual entry in the show, and the best exhibitor in the show, it has been announced by Judges Flategual and Martin. All proceeds from the affair will be used by the Mother’s Club of the A. & M. Consolidated School for the betterment of the school. Three Marines Get Commissoins Three Aggie-exes nave recently teen commisioned second lieuten ants in the United States Marine Corps. William Perry Brown, Jr., son of Mrs. Thelma M. Terrell of San Antonio, Owen Leo Bergman, grandson of Mrs. Lillie Evans of Carmona, Texas, and Robert Dial Wells, son of Hawes C. Wells of Graham attended A. & M. several years ago. Lt. Wells completed his advanced flight training at Corpus Christi, and Lt. Bergman and Lt. Brown were graduated from the Pensacola school. The new flying officers are being assigned to active duty with a flying Leatherneck squadron. College Station Saturday, Homer Norton, sly A. & M. coach, said that, in order to make the Steer- Aggie tilt a representative game, Coach Dana X. Bible should use only Texas high school players and leave the more experienced Navy trainees at home. “If Texas did not play these boys we would have a chance to win,” Norton is supposed to have said. All we can reply to Mr. Norton’s statement/ is: Your “beardless Wonders” will know they’ve been in a ball game after they’ve faced the Longhorn powerhouse on Tur key Day. Your Kiddie Korps might need more than a kiddie car to car ry them home after 60 minutes of pounding by the Texas line. So we should leave our “lend- lease team of older, more experi enced stars from all over the United States” in Austin, should we, Mr. Norton? On the first two Longhorn teams, Mr. Norton, there are only three non-Texans, and all three are Californians. Sure, they were shipped here through the V-12 program, and Texas was lucky to get Navy trainees instead of Army students, who are not permitted to play, but it’s just one of the breaks of the game. On the present Texas squad there are twenty Navy trainees. Without these boys the Steers would be seriously handicapped, to put it mildly. Yes, it might be an uneven con test if we use the Navy boys, but it would bo more one-sided if we had to use a makeshift line-up com posed from thirteen first, second, and third stringers against your poor little boys, wouldn’t it Mr. Norton? In fact, it would be so uneven that your team would undoubtedly win. Now we wouldn’t want to see that happen, Mr- Norton, even though we have your interests at heart—ugh! The last fourteen appearances of the Longhorns at Kyle Field have found the Steers coming out on the short end ten times, and Mr. Norton is doing his cause no good by getting the Longhorns riled up this time, because there may be unfortunate results. Could it be that there is an un derlying motive in the crafty brain of the Aggie coach? Could it be that the slick Aggie will—if his team, by accident, should win—say that his team was a prohibitive underdog and arose to an upset victory ? Or if the Farmers are defeated, Mr. Norton can always say it was expected, and that his boys were eutmanned and inexperienced. We think Weldon Hart summed the matter up best in his Austin Statesman column yesterday. Wel don said that since Texas is a Navy school and A. & M. is an Army school Texas should elimi nate all the Navy boys from their lineup and A. & M. remove all the Army boys from their lineup. That wouldn’t be so good, would it Mr. Norton? In fact, that would be very bad, because you wouldn’t have any players. We’d hate to see that happen, Mr. Norton, honestly we would, so we’ll be down at Kyle Field on Thanksgiving Day in full force, ready to sweep your “Beardless Wonders” and boot-clicking cadets right out of the stadium. — The Daily Texan. In reply to the writer may I of fer the following thoughts: It wouldn’t make a bit of difference to the Aggie team if every Army man on the team were taken off. The main reason for this surpris ing fact, Mr. Weldon Hart also take notice, is that there are no Army men on the Aggie team. All are regular students, and though they are taking Military Science, a prerequisite for graduation from the college, they are still civilians, having not received any advanced military Training contract. Secondly, when (not if) the Aggies make those Longhorns look like they never played foot ball before in their lives, it will not be a accident and you will know that it’s not an accident if you are still on your feet. Thirdly, you may think that you are the real stuff, that the Long horns are more > powerful than anything on the face of the earth, but remember this: when you play the Texas Aggies you not only play the eleven men on the field, but the twelfth paan in the stands. If you think you’re going to take it easy on Turkey day, there’s only one thing to do; wait and find out. Football Figurin’.. By R. L. Weatherly Up to date the Southwest Con ference is in one big jumble- The Conference crown is in the posses sion of two teams. ASM and Tex as U. are tied for the front place. The game between the,se two teams, which will be next week, will undoubtedly be the biggest in the Conference this season. The other four teams of the Conference (Rice, SMU, TCU, and Arkansas) are tied at the bottom of the list. Each of these teams has won only one game in confer ence play. The predictions for this week: The only conference game to be played this week will be played in Fort Worth. Rice will move to TCU to see if they can eek out another conference victory. TCU looked very good at the beginning of this season. They triumphed over Arkansas and held the strong Aggie team to a good game. But since then the Armed Forces have called many of their players away, leaving them with some 4-f’s. It is true that they coast the best tackle of the conference in Charley Flow ers, but he cannot hold up against eleven men. Now, Rice has turned the opposite direction. They start ed out like a bunch of girls and have built their team into a nice ball club. It looks as though Rice is the stronger now and we believe they will be the stronger Saturday. We predict Rice 13—TCU 7. Arkansas will take on the Okla homa A ggies this week in Fort Smith. Arkansas has improved very much throughout the season- They and A&M are the only teams in the Southwest Conference that are using players from only their school. Arkansas looked good in defeating the Mustangs last week by a score of 14 to 12. On the other hand Oklahoma has not looked very good this season. They were stop ped by TCU 25-0. We will predict Arkansas to win the game by 13-0. Texas Tech will go to Dallas to meet SMU in a game which we think will be very good. Neither team has anything to speak of, but both are wild ball clubs and will promice some exciting football. Both of these teams have come up with some unexpected wins and losses. SMU lost to Arkansas, while Texas Tech ran over TCU 40 to 20. The game will be a hard one to guesvs, but we will say Texas Tech 20 - SMU 13. Aggie Class of ’41 Receives Captaincy Professor and Mrs. F. W. Hen- sel, head of the Landscape Art De partment, have been advised that their son Fred has been promoted from First Lieutenant to Captain. Captain Hensel received his de gree from A. & M. in 1941, major ing in Agricultural Administra tion- While attending A. & M.‘, Cap tain Hensel was president of the Market and Finance Club, assist ant Town Hall manager, and was a member of the Tennis Squad and Brazos A. & M. Club. Captain Hensel is now stationed at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and is in charge of “A” Battery, 686th Field Artillery Battalion at that post. A woman should always start to whistle when she is happy, when she isn’t happy and when she wants to complain. “Buzz-bzz-Ellsworth-bzz-in the park-bzz-bzzz-at midnight- bzz-and he-bzz-and then he-bzz!” “Oh yeah, well Hallmark-bzz-bzz-and we-bzz-bzz-and then he-bzz-bzz And they say he doesn’t even shave!” Results of Cross Country Announced C Texas University won the first and second places in the Southwest Conference meet which was held here yesterday afternoon, it was announced late yesterday afternoon by Ray Putnam, coach of the Aggie team. Jerry Thompson of Texas won first with a time of 14:29.2 for the three mile run while his partner, Ulmstead, won second. Fred Mason of the Aggies, B. Carey of Texas, L. Raineri of Texas, and J. Bradford of the Ag gies won third, fourth, fifth, and sixth respectively. Eight men were timed because there were only ten to enter the meet. Future Farmers Happenings By Thomas B. Owen, Jr- The A. & M. Future Farmers are in charge of Bryan District training course. The Bryan District met in Bry an last night for the first of a series of training courses. The group met in a general assembly for thirty minutes, after which the officers were divided into groups with our own president Finger in charge of the presidents and vice-presidents. Hunger led the secretaries and treasurers. Tom McNeil, former State Treasurer had charge of the parliamentari ans, and Owen gave the reporters newswriting hints. “The President,” as Finger pointed out in his discussion, “has to be the most outstanding boy in the chapter. A chapter can not function without a leader.” A pres ident should have an outstanding project program along with his leadership ability. He must be able to influence the chapter mem bers to cooperate. The secretaries and treasurers of the chapters are working branches of the chapter organiza tion. The secretary has charge of all official correspondence, such as reports, writing for information and exchanging ideas with other chapters in his area. The treasurers have charge of all financial affairs of the chap ter. The treasurer should have an official treasurer’s book in which to record all receipts and disburse ments. The treasurer meets with the financial committee to regu late dues and to outline a budget for the chapter’s funds. Tom McNeil pointed out, “The parliamentarian is the officer who maintains the order of the meet ings- Too little attention is placed upon the selection of this office^. When anything comes up about the order of business or when some one is not using the proper parliamentary practice he is the one the president consults.” A reporter must have a nose for news. A good reporter can trans form a dry, lifeless incident into a live story that everyone will en joy. News writing is the reverse of theme writing, in that you must put the most important facts first to catch the reader’s attention and conclude with the minor details. A news story must be so written that any of the latter paragraphs might be ah ending. The editor might not have room for the whole story; if this were to happen he could cut the story off at any paragraph and the reader would get the full value of the article. Intramural Cross ountry Meet To Be Held November 20 Each Company Will Enter Five-Man Team Before 2:45 Saturday An Intramural Cross-Country Meet will be held Saturday after noon, November 20, at 3:00 p- m. by the Department of Physical Education. The cross-country run will be over the same course that all Aggies have learned to know so well—the regular P.E. course located just west of the Southern Pacific tracks. Each company entered has an equal chance at coming home with the bacon, as every company will enter a five-man team instead of just relying on one fast man to cop the event. As the men cross the finish line, they will be given a number which corresponds to their place in the event. After all of the men are in, each company will present its five numbers to the officials who will then total them up. The company which has the least total among the five men will win the meet. The cross-country meet goes hand-in-hand with the regular In tramural program, as the winner of this event, along with the next four companies in line, will receive points to add to the ones that are given in connection with other In tramural sports. The company fin ishing first in the event will amass a total of 80 points, with 70, 65, 60, and 55 points being given to the companies placing second, third, fourth, and fifth respective ly. This is an excellent opportunity for a corilpany which has a group of fairly fast men to boost their score on the final Intramural rec ord. The men who are going to par ticipate in this Cross-Country meet should report to the Gym not later than 2:45 on the day of the run —GYPSY— (Continued From Page 1) The Amaya tribe, originally from the gypsy caves of Granda, Spain, traveled to South America in 1938, where their success was signalized by having a theater named after them. The large sums of money they make, as it does with most Gypsies, slips away except for in vestments in diamonds and fursJ for which Carmen has a passion. Lounging about the house in Pajamas, she sometimes wears over them a covering of mink or chin chilla. The dictionary has no definition of flamenco dancing but the 85- pound incendiary explained to an interviewer: “You cannot reason it out. It is a gypsy dance, or many kinds of gypsy dance, to the music of a guitar. When you hear that flamenco music it is as if all the Gypsies were dancing since time began. Your body dances too.” Both reserved seat tickets, and general admission seats will be on sale at the box office tonight. From all reports, Mis Amaya has been especially popular with servicemen. for the purpose of organizing for the event. The meet is to begin promptly at 3, and everyone should make it a point to report at the specified time. More and more men are running the course in “excellent” every day, which signifies that the men will be pretty well bunched together by the time they reach the finish line. In a case of this kind, each man will act as a “pacer” for the next man, which will no doubt bring the time down to a new low for some of the men. STUDENT CO-Or Bicycle and Radio Repair I’hone 4-4114 When in Doubt About \our Eyes or Your Glasses CONSULT DR. J. W. PAYNE OPTOMETRIST 109 S. Main Bryan Next to Palace Theatre DR. N. K. 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