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THE BATTALION
SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 20, 1943
STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
TEXAS A. A M. COLLEGE
The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural an<l Meehanieal College ol
Texas and the City of College Station, is published three times weekly, and issued
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday mornings.
Entered as second class matter at the Post Jffice at College Station, Texas,
under the Act of Congress of March 2, 1870.
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Represented nationally by National Advertising Service, Inc., at New York City,
Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.
Office, Room 5, Administration Building. Telephone 4-64.14.
1942 Member 1943
Plssocided Cb!le6icite Press
H. Sylvester Boone Editor-in-Chief
Andy Matula Associate Eklitor
Sports Staff Tuesday’s Staff
Harold Borofsky Sports Editor Charlie Murray Managing Editor
William Baker Sports Reporter Ed Katten Reporter
Robert Orrick Sports Reporter Charles West Reporter
Claude Stone Sports Photographer Charley L. Dobbs Reporter
Thursday’s Staff Saturday’s Staff
David Seligman Managing Editor Andy Matula Managing Eklitor
Max Mohnke Reporter Fred Manget, Jr. Reporter
R. L. Weatherly Reporter John T. Scurlock Reporter
JF. W. (Tiny) Standifer Reporter James C. Grant Reporter
Special Columnists Miscellaneous
Archie Broodo (Aggie) For Lass-o David Seligman Columnist
SuSu Beard (T.S.C.W.) For Battalion J. W. Standifer Staff Photographer
Advertising Staff Circulation Staff
John Kelly Business Manager Steele H. Nixon Circulation Mgr.
Charles R. West Ass’t. Business Mgr. George Puls Ass't. Circulation Mgr.
INTRAMORALS
by
By Max Mohnke
The Intramural Cross-country
Meet will be run off this afternoon
starting at 3:00 P. M. Five of the
fastest runners from the twenty-
three Aggie companies will ‘do or
die” trying to gain a place among
the five winners of this event.
The entrees for this event will re
port to the officials before 2:45
today. There,, they will sign their
name to the list of companies. Each
runner is to be given a number on
a disc which he will present to an
official as he crosses the finish
line. These discs will be kept in
order, and will be tabulated ac
cording to the place which they
finish in the race—that is, the
man who finishes first will be
given one point, the man coming
in second will be given two points,
etc. The final total of the five men
representing each company will de
termine the winner of the Meet.
The lowest team score cops the
event.
Each company which (figures
among the first five in the meet
will benefit by it in that the num
ber One team gets 80 points; num
ber two gets 70 points; number
three gets 65 points; number four,
60 points; number five, 55 points.
These points are then added to the
final Intramural score at the end
of the semester to determine the
over-all Intramural champion.
The P. E. Department has de
cided to use the “disc” method of
keeping track of the finishers be
cause the meet is expected to be
a closely contested affair- This
semester, as never before, has re
sulted ip an increased effort on the
part of the Aggies to better their
time over the course. The Corps
should support this event, not only
for their own benefit, but also for
the benefit of their company.
—MESS HALL—
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military trainees will be served at
their regular hour.
It has been a previous practice
for the mess hall to serve the guests
of the Aggies with a meal free or
for a nominal charge. Due to the
location of a large number of en
listed personnel on the campus, the
college facilities are strained to
the utmost.
Football Figurin'..
By R. L. Weatherly
We have just come from the
Publicity Department’s files. We
managed to dig out some old clip
pings from past seasons and
gathered the history of the games
of the past between A. & M- and
Texas.
The long rivalry that has been
known throughout the Southwest
between Texas University and A.
& M. College dates back to 1894.
A. & M. and Texa.s played their
first game of football between each
other in Austin. The score came
out with Txas on top. Texas won
the game by 38-0.
The worst defeat that A. & M.
suffered from the Longhorns was
a 48-0 affray that was played in
Austin back in 1898. Texas under
went its heaviest punishment from
A. & M. in 1925 at College Station
when A. &M. came up with a 28-0
win-
The most disappointed team,
most likely, was the Aggie team
of 1940 when they went to Austin
and Texas knocked them right out
of the Rose Bowl and National
Championship with a 7-0 upset. The
inspired Texas boys had put over
a touchdown in the first minute
of play, and from then on A. & M.
could never get started.'.
The Aggies and The Longhorns
go into their 50th year of play this
coming Thanksgiving. Out of the
49 games that the two teams have
played Texas has won 29 and A. &
M. has won 15 games. Four of the
games were played to ties.
It has been rumored that A. &
M. has never beaten Texas in Aus
tin. The books show that they have.
In 1902 A. & M. captured their
first win of the Texas-A. & M. tse-
ries in Austin with a 12-0 score. In
1909 the Aggies defeated Texas
5-0 in Austin. The Aggies again
defeated Texas in Austin with a
score of 14-7 score back in 1922.
Texas has defeated the Aggies
twice in College Station. The first
win w,a*s in 1923 with a 6-0 score.
The second win came just a few
years ago when Jack Crain and
Pete Layden joined hands to defeat
the Aggies 23-0. But the Aggies
won the Conference in 1941 despite
the 23-0 defeat.
Last year the Aggies broke an
old jinx, that A.&M. never crossed
the Texas goal line in Memorial
Stadium. Barney Welch took a punt
from the toe of Roy McKay and
went 75 yards through the Texas
team to score A. & M.’s only touch
down for that day.
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FIND THE BALL. Here’s a very
mysterious shot from the Aggie-
Rice tilt. The mystery is that the
ball is not in evidence. There is no
doubt that the ball is there, but
J where? Perhaps you can find it
and tell us.
FLANAGAN reels off gain
against Owls. Marion Flanagan is
here shown immediately after
snagging a twelve-yard pass from
Hallmark. He was brought down
by the Owls backfield but made a
first down on the play. Goble
Bryant, Aggie tackle, is shown
coming up on the play.
NOTE YOUR APPEARANCE
VISIT OUR TWO BARBER SHOPS
OFTEN FOR EXPERT WORK
YMCA-Varsity Barber Shop
Central “Y”
The following is the history of
the two teams:
Year Place A&M
Austin 0
Austin 0
San Antonio 0
San Antonio 0
Austin 0
San Antonio 0
Austin 0
San Antonio 0
Austin 12
Austin 6
Austin 6
Austin 0
Austin 0
Dallas 0
Austin 6
Houston 8
Austin 12
Houston 23
Austin 5
Houston 14
Houston 0
College Station 13
Austin 7
College Station 7
Austin 0
College Station 7
Austin 3
College Station 0
Austin 14
College Station 0
Austin 0
College Station 28
Austin 5
College Station 28
Austin 1 0
College Station 13
Austin 0
College Station 7
Austin 0
College Station 10
Austin 0
College Station 20
Austin 0
College Station 7
Austin 6
College Station 20
Austin 7
College Station 0
Austin 6
1894
1898
1899
1900
1900
1901
1901
1902
1902
1903
1904
1905
1906
1907
1907
1908
1908
1909
1909
1910
1911
1915
1916
1917
1918
1919
1920
1921
1922
1923
1924
1925
1926
1927
1928
1929
1930
1931
1932
1933
1934
1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
1940
1941
1942
Tex
38
48
6
5
11
17
32
0
0
29
34
27
24
0
11
24
28
0
0
8
6
0
21
0
7
0
7
0
7
6
7
0
14
7
19
0
26
6
21
10
13
6
7
0
7
0
0
23
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—CHRISTMAS—
(Continued from Par* 1)
will always be sung for the spirit
of Christmastime-
Work has already started under
the leadership of Marion Lyle and
Mrs. R. R. Lancaster, but more
voices are needed to bring out the
successful harmony of the music.
Service men and their wives, Ag
gies, and the men and women of'
this community—all who like to i
sing—are invited to join in this
special form of Christmas celebra- I
tion.
HITCH-HIKERS GET LIFT
Two Massachuetts Institute
of Technology hitch-hikers recently
got a lift with a lady who sur
prised them with the following
conversation: “You boys are work
ing hard, aren’t you?” she asked.
They nodded vigorously. “Whom
do you have for math?” “Profes
sor Zeldin,” they replied, adding
that he was a good teacher. “Well,
you’d better keep working hard—-
he’s tough marker,” she said. Be
fore they could ask her how she
knew all about Tech and its fac
ulty, she continued, “You see, I’ve
been married to him for twenty-
one years.”
Talent, breaking out anew, has
sired an interesting melody and ly
rics through the medium of Pvt.
Hermilio “Miff” Cadena. Entitled
“Hopin’ and Wishin’ You Were
Near,” the ditty had as godfathers
Sgt. Stanley Samek, Pvt. Hal Me-
lone and one who prefers to re
main unkown until the royalties
start to roll.
If it is all the same to the pow
ers that be, the melodists offer
their tune for introduction at the
Thanksgiving Dance. Whatever is
decided, this column wishes the
boys all the best with their brain
child.
Again, with the talent, and Cpl.
Morton Reifer comes into mind.
Mort, long a favorite among his
buddies for his dialecticianing and
characterizations is scheduled to
play the lead in a Radio Club show
one Sunday in the near future.
Not because he is one of our
boys, but because he is a fellow
artist (he even reads “Variety”),
we wish this lad well, also. Many
is the time that his getting ahead
has been predicted; he should, he
needs one.
Undoubtedly the victim of an
error, S/Sgt. Bernard Kirsch is
on the lookout for the chap who
might have picked up his watch.
Bernie says that he makes no de
mand for the watch, all he wants
is the pawn ticket.
The Mystery of Maggie’s Draw
ers, or Who Put Them on The
Line, Anyway is solved, much to
the satisfaction of the column. In
true journalistic fashion, we re
fuse to divulge the informee, but
it may be revealed that the first
initials of the last names of the
pranksters were Pvts. Mel Tracht-
man and Henry Zmijewski (gesund-
heit).
We are amazed that such stolid
citizens as Hank and Mel would
stoop so low for a laugh that they
would hold up womankind to the
ridicule of the public. Still, as Hank
said when he tripped his grand
mother, “Anything for a laugh.”
Song title for Cadena to work
on: “Move the Patrolwagon Closer
to the Curb, Officer, Mother Can’t
Make the Step,” or “Duck Into the
Roundhouse, Daughter, the Dastard
Can’t Corner You There.”
Haply as it may be, the eagle
Tessie Talk...
By SuSu Beard
Hooray! the huge score for last
weeks game did belong to the
Aggies—in fact, it all belonged
to them, v/hich is twice better. To
all the girls who went to Houston
last week-end the
main joy was that
it was just like
old times with
the Ags. Hun
dreds o f boys,
hundred of girls,
and no one un
happy. This start
ed with the block-
traffic yell prac
tice Friday night.
SuSu Then concerning
the similiar yell practice Saturday
morning, might I say that it was
impressive the way the Rice
agitators were neatly shoved
back in their places by the whole
body of A. & M., so peacefully and
without disturbances. Now for the
game, which was the best. Just
for example, it’s not denied that
the greater majority of T.S.C.W,
girls tend to be rather lazy, but
there’s not one of them that doesn’t
love standing for hours, yelling
themselves breathless, for the sake
of ye’ college spirit.. Dancing and
—Friday night only added to the
glory of it all. The Plant, Heath,
Tune Inn and so on, listing every
place, was crowded with spirited
Aggies and their dates. Yes, ev
eryone was in the mood of the
hour as they should have been, so
it truly was like ole’ times with
A. & M.
Our Freshmen presented their
semester play last week. As al
ways, it was a fairy tale, so being
light in mind, each performance
was crowded with varied ages of
boys and girls. Girls ranged in age
from two to fifty-two, whereas
boys ranged in age from two to
ten. Those attending went to see
the play, solely.
Another College picnic was held
last Tuesday night in Lowry
Woods. Naturally, those attending
took advantage of the opportunity
to again lose themselves in their
enormous plaid flannel shirts,
which have been restricted for cam
pus wear. By the way, in the event
that you might not know what
Lowry Woods consists of, it’s the
group of trees behind Dormitory
Row, in which you don’t venture
after dark—owls, and watchmen!
Saturday night there will be the
Freshman — Sophomore Turkey
Trot. Not conveyed by the name,
it’s to be a formal dance. The two
classes are giving the dance joint
ly, primarily, because the freshmen
seem to know all the men, however,
in defense of the Sophs, I’ll say
that isn’t true. (Commission basis).
Ever so many of the girls are ex
pecting Aggies to come, likewise,
ever so many girls are hoping Ag
gies will come, so will all these
boys try to make this dance a suc
cess? In other words, be our extra
added attractions.
Sincerest ever an’ yours til then,
SuSu. *
finally got around to screaming in
our direction the other day. Prior
to said screaming, there were many
bold promises made as to what our
cohorts would do on that happy
day. We are proud to relate that
only 50 per cent of the organiza
tion staggered through the gates
late. Impetous youths, all of them,
but we love them all like brothers.
S/Sgt. Erwin Schwartz was in
vited to change his residence to
company headquarters, where he
will be awakened every morning
to the satisfaction of everyone. It
is not that F/Sgt. Virgil Fulton
wants to be hard on the lad, but
that Schwartzie is a valuable man
in these parts, and it would not do
for him to arise late. To him, for
the entire company, we say “Cou
rage, old man.”
We wonder whatever became of:
F/Sgt. Walter Staggs; the foot
ball tournament; Pvt. Morton Breg-
man’s moustache; our Fraternity
pin; snow; the practice of sleeping
until noon; Sgt. Harvey Neber-
gall’s car; our Miami tan; Pvt. Ed
Meyer’s Betty; our own Betty;
Phyllis, Josephine, Helen, Gloria
and Vivian, not to mention Desde-
monia; the 40-hour week; Alfred
Landon; our desk at the “New York
Times.”
Just about this time last year,
we were dizzily planning toward
our annual Fraternity Convention.
It was to be in the Hotel New
Yorker, and we had made the for- j
tunate bargain of a fifth of good -
scotch for less than five rocks. And [
it turned out to be quite an affair, j
too, but that is another story. The
point is that now we settle for a
glass of brew and a juke box. The j
old general was very, very right.!
Of* £<
ovjclown on
Qampus distractions
By David Seligman
“Bringing Up Baby” is scheduled
for the Saturday preview and Sun
day showing at the Campus Thea
ter. In the leading roles are the
stars of “Philadelphia Story,’’ Ka
therine Hepburn and Cary Grant.
Also in the cast is Charlie Ruggles.
The story concerns a doctor, played
by. Grant, and a girl, Hepburn,
with whom he is in love- The big
problem seems to be a pet lion
owned by Hepburn who dosen’t hold
Cary in great esteem. Though a lit
tle old, the show has a good cast
and should prove enjoyable.
The Lowdown: You’ll find it en
tertaining.
Showing at the Campus as the
Monday feature only is “Top Ser
geant” with Leo Carillo, Andy De-
vine, and Elyse Knox. The part of
AEF I play in training men for
this war is the fundamental theme
of this picture. There is also a
murder angle. The story hangs to
gether. There are opportunities for
wonderful sham battle scenes which
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OPENS 1:00 P. M.
LAST DAY
WALTER WANGER’S
SPECTACULAR TRIUMPH
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V Mbs OF TEXAS A. & M.
RICHARD QUINE
GWYNNE
NOAH SZcKY, JR.
Martha O’DRISCOLL
harry davenport
william frawlcy
EDGAR BARRIER
bob MITCHUM
, bill stern
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Original Story, Norman Reilly Re'n«
Directed by JOHN RAWLINS c
Produced by WALTER WANGER
A UNIVERSAL PICTURE
Last Showing Starts YtSO
SATURDAY PREVUE
SUNDAY
Gary Grant
Katherine Hepburn
— in —
“BRINGING UP
BABY”
Starts 9:30
MONDAY ONLY
Andy Devine
Leo Carillo
Don Terry
— in —
“TOP SERGEANT”
are included in the reels, although
they look like something from
newsreels. Andy Devine and Leo
Carillo are a pair of corporals who
spend a large part of their time
in the guardhouse. Don Terry is
the top sergeant of a company of
engineers. His brother is killed by
a gangster. The latter joins the
army and, as might be expected,
ends up in Don’s outfit. In due
time the killer makes a false move
and Terry closes in on him. He gets
him in the end; not, however, be
fore much death and destruction.
Elyse Knox gives feeble feminine
support.
The Lowdown: This soldier is
weak in the knees.
The weekend attraction at Guion
Hall is “Cowboy From Manhattan”.
This is a pleasing comedy notable
for providing Frances Langford,
songbird of stage and radio. Fran
ces is top-flight singer of popular
(See DISTRACTIONS, Page 4)
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IS ALWAYS ou 0l
Tax Included
Box Office Opens at 1:00 P. M.
Closes 8:30
Saturday—Double Feature
“COWBOY FROM
MANHATTAN”
— with —
Robert Paige and
Frances Langford
— also —
“A YANK ON THE
BURMA ROAD”
— with —
Barry Nelson and
Loraine Day
Plus Musical Varieties
Saturday 9:45 Prevue
also Sunday and Monday
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