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SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 11, 1943 THE BATTALION Page 3 By Harold Boro&ky Battalion Sports Norton Says Spirit to Win Mode Ags Click Coach Homer Hill Norton of the Texas Aggies, who play Louisiana State’s Tigers in Miami’s Orange Bowl classic New Year’s Day, was a wise old sage last September when he sized up the 1943 football season. How well his predictions came to'ftem prevented some of the new fruition, and how true were his pre-season observations of the Ka- det Kiddie Korps are best demon strated by the record of seven wins, one loss and one tie-game racked up by his youngsters in a season of wartime football. It was on September 15 that Norton told his boys: “Your running game at this stage of training is very pleasing to me. You can win some ball games with a little more improve ment. Now we’ll start in on the passing game, and if you' do half as well with it as you have with the running plays, we’ll give some body a good football game every Saturday. “You boys seem to realize the responsibilty that is on your shoul ders to play the high class of football that fans have come to expect from all teams wearing the Maroon and White of Aggieland. “We must admit that there is a lack of experience on the squad but by the same token, other schools are facing just as serious prob lems in having to mould a team out of boys who never have play ed together before this season. “Some of the Southwest Con ference teams have boys who have played a little bit of college foot ball, but they all are strangers to the various systems of play em ployed at the different schools. “Of course if I had my choice, I’d take experienced boys; but let me tell you right now that I’ve never before seen such determina tion, such willingness to learn, such eagerness to fill the shoes and jerseys of the regulars on the' Aggie teams of years gone by. “When the new numbering sys- Gifts he’ll Handkerchiefs- Pajamas- Scarfs- Ties- Sox Buy a Gift Certificate for Him— He can select he wants after Christmas. Bryan, Texas boys from getting the jerseys of the Routts, Kimbrough, Thomason, Robnett, Boyd, Pugh and our other fine boys, the newcomers were heart-broken. They came out for football with a single purpose to carry on for the fellows they had seen play and had read about— and I may be less optimistic after a couple of games, but I firmly believe these boys we have here will give any team on our schedule the battle of their lives. “Sure they’re green. They’ll be trapped, sucked in, boxed out and run-over. I know that. But the team that does too much of it is going to know it hasn’t been play ing checkers or parchesi. “I’m really agreeably surprised with my 1943 team. They may not play the best football in the world, but they’ll be trying to win every game. They’ll make! mistakes, and those mistakes will roll off and be forgotten when they show the spirit I know is in them—and come back after a let-down with fire in their eyes and the old jinniger in their play. “I look for a fine football sea son, and a type of football that will surprise the skeptics. The very lack of experience in the players is going to cause them to do things on the playing field that older boys would not even dare attempt. Some miscues will be made, there’ll be back-fires galore; but every play will be a thriller. These boys are determined to play their hearts out, and from the grandstand it will be a spectacular season. “From the players’ bench, I’m going to have the time of my life Win or lose the boys are going to be playing football for the les sons it teaches in cooperation, teamwork, good sportsmanship and fine physical fitness. I’m going to play a lot of boys, make frequent substitutions by teams so the youngsters will not stay in there and get hurt because they are too tired to protect themselves at all times. “Anybody who stays away from football this season if they possibly can get to a stadium is going to pass up the greatest entertainment bargain ever offered by the South west Conference. “‘We have found that the Aggies of 1943 have had good high school coaching. They know the fundamen tals and more too. They have been practicing hard, and they have mastered our style of play. They realize no freshmen ever had the same opportunity to letter on a college team, and every minute of practice sees them playing like they are in a regular game. “Most of the boys had spring training in their high schools. The varsity coaches have been able to devote all their time to the single squad in school at this time, where as in other years the varsity coach es worked with the older boys and the freshman coaching staff handled the great mass of novices. This year there is no separate freshman squad, they’re all varsity. “The serious, hard-working at titude of the boys shows a deter mination on their part to give Tex as A. & M. College a team to re member.” Now that the season is almost over it is clear that these boys did represnt a true Aggie team. They will be out there with the same spirit to win on New Year’s Day in Miami, when the Orange will will paced with people who want to see a real Aggie team. We won’t disappoint them. PUBLISHED BY THE ARMY SPECIALIZED TRAINING UNIT STUDENTS Editor-in-Chief Pat Bradley Managing Editcr Len Sutton Press Club Rep Marvin Kaff Colonel Welty Reorganizes A.S.T.U. Editorial. “Do You Remember ... ?” All of us can relate numerous experience which have served as boosters to keep us aware of the fact that we are soldiers doing our individual duties, whatever they may be, to the best of our abilities so that this war will be brought to an early termination with the least possible destruction of constructive civilized objects, thoughts and ideals. One such incident which recently sparked our spirits and has repeatedly worked its way into our thoughts whenever we felt like idling along for awhile, occurred on the Houston- bound Sunbeam some time ago. While engaged in conversation with several friends we heard a voice “Do you remember what daddy looks like? Do you think you will recognize daddy?” This was the wistful expression of a war-mother who was talking to her young son whom she was taking to visit his father in the Air Corps. The little fellow could only look back at his mother with an inquisitive wrinkle lining his little forehead. Yes! Your child, your brother’s child, your neighbor’s child, and even your own mother’s youngest child is growing up some where in these United States to be a total stranger to your presence. What are we thinking of now? There is only one thing that should be in our mind. Let us resolve to act along those lines which will help bring back all those fathers and brothers and sons and daughters as soon as possible. When things look difficult for us here let us think “Do you remember what daddy look like?” HELP BRING VICTORY . . . BUY WAR BONDS TODAY! LOUPOT’S An Aggie Institution STUDENT CO-OP Bicycle and Radio Repair Phone 4-4114 Local ASTU To Play Baylor ASTU G I Quintet Heads Waco Way Tonight Building his team around a group of 8th company basketballers who have been playing for the past month, Captain Jack Kimbrough, Regimental Special Service Officer states that they are now ready for real action. About a month ago Trainees, Gibbs, Barrick, Stream, Coleman, Manker, Mullaney, Taft, Swank, Goeppinger and Buck all of the 8th company started a basket ball squad. To former footballer and basketballer Captain Kimbrough they looked mighty good. With the help of A. & M. Head Basket ball coach Manning Smith, he organized a fast stepping team who will show their wares tonight at Baylor Uni versity. Their opponents will be the Baylor U. ASTP team and the two service teams will be a part of a double header featuring Baylor U and the WACO Army Flying School. This will be the first inter ASTU game for the Trainees and there will be a large turnout of local G'Is who plan on taking in the affair. Other members of the quintet are Dawson, 11th Co; Huffman, 1st Co; Frye, 4th Co; Coleman, 4th Co; and Foreman, 7th Co. Gardiner, Powers, Cohen, Asso. Editors Because of their exceptional handling of their Company’s news as well as their untiring efforts in making this ACTU NEWS sec tion more enjoyable to the local Trainees, Editor in Chief, Pat Bradley and Press Club Represen tative, Marvin Kaff this week ap pointed Doug Powers and Rex Gardiner both of the 4th Co., as well as John Cohen of the 3rd Co., Associate Editors. Powers and Cohen will assist the Editor in making up the paper at the same time continuing with their company newscasting while Gardiner starts next week on a series of “Know Your Campus” ar ticles. This series will acquaint the new Trainees with the spots of interest and recreation around the A. & M. Campus. Dining Halls To Have Xmas Trees A bit of the Holiday spirit will prevail in the dining halls of Sbisa and Duncan with Christmas trees giving the pleasant seasonal at mosphere. According to Lt. How ard Picket former Special Service Officer, now assigned to the 5th Co., “this will be the first Christ mas away from home for many trainees and the familiar sight of a Christmas tree may make them feel they have not been altogether forgotten.” Lt. Callahan 8th Company C. 0. Lt. Charles Callahan formerly M. T. instructor of the 1st Co. and lately with the 5th Co. has been appointed Commanding Officer of the 8th Student Training Company, ASTU 3800, according to announce ment from the Commandant's of fice. Lt. Callahan has been a very popular officer with all the com panies who have come in contact with him and his many Trainee friends wish him the best. ODE TO A FLUNK Owen D. Baker Of all the weeping and wailing As the flunked ones heard of their fate. They cried to the profs and the teachers; Some prayed, but their prayers were too late. The questions were there all un answered. The papers, with ink, were blood red. “Oh why didn’t I study last week end Instead of just staying in bed?” They cried to the profs to have reason; “I can’t flunk this course don’t you see? I never will make enough grade points; Oh what’s going to happen to me?” The profs curve the grades in wild fashion, But they can’t pass them all you can see. ‘Cause passing a course without study Is something that never shall be! ^Announces Captain Hopkins as Adjutant ASTU 3800 Regimental Com mander, Colonel M. D. Welty this week announced that the 1st to 8th companies will be the 1st Bat talion and under the command of Lt. Col. Perkins while the remain ing companies will be the 2nd Battalion and commanded by Lt. Col. Horne. At the same time Cap tain Robert Hopkins will be Regi mental Adjutant. Colonel Welty P. M. S. & T. and Post Commandant prior to the ASTU Unit coming to A. & M. now has several thousand ASTP train ees stationed here under his com mand as well. The Colonel came to A. & M. from Newfoundland where he was stationed at an Infantry base. He was born in Greensburg, Pennsyl vania. He entered West Point in 1906. Graduating from the school of Infantry, he was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant and assigned to the 3rd Infantry division. Imme diately after receiving his com mission, he was stationed at Jolo, Philippine Islands. July 1. 1916, Coloney Welty was promoted to the rank of 1st Lieut enant and made aide-de-camp to Brigadier General Henry A. Greene. In 1917 he was promoted to the rank of captain. In the \same year he accompanied General Greene to Camp Lewis, Washington, as his aide in the 91st division. On May 8, 1918, the Colonel was appointed as a temporary colonel and from the summer of 1918 until the sum mer of 1919 he served with the A. E. F. in France. He returned to the United States in 1919 and in November of that year was made a Lieutenant Colonel. During the 1920s he served as P. M. S. & T. at Penn State, and as instructor in -the Minnesota National Guard. He was commis sioned as Colonel of Infantry du ring this period. He was a student at the Army War College in 1928- 29. Following War College he com manded at various posts through out the country and in 1940 was assigned to command the impor tant Newfoundland Base Command with headquarters at St. John, 4th Company Plan New Year’s Eve Ball Call to Quarters at seven o’clock on New Years Eve may have its consolation after all! For, on New Year’s Night Old Sbisa Hall, be decked in her holiday finery, will be the scene of the Fourth Student Training Company Ball. Distinctive music for the occa sion will be furnished by the ASTP-ORCHESTRA. Through various campus organi zations at several neighboring col leges and universities arrange ments are being made to have dates for the dance. Among other places, there will be girls present from Rice, Southern Methodist Uni- vehsity, Texas U., Baylor Univer sity, and Texas State College for Women. Sgt. Myron Greenberg is Chair man of the Dance Committee; Pfc. Oscar Wolf heads the Finance Com mittee; Len Michelman is Secreta ry; and Doug Powers is Publicity Directolr. Some fortunate fellow in the Fourth Company will receive gra tis a set of tickets to the Ball. The Dance Committee is eager to find an appropriate name for the fro lic, and requests any member of the Fourth Company to place his suggestion in an envelope addressed to Sgt., Myron Greenberg, Chair man of the Dance Committee, Post Office Box 4296, South Station, College Station. A committee will judge the names submitted and the fellow whose suggestion is chosen will receive the set of tickets. Deadline for entries is Saturday night, December 11. Each Sunday at welve noon WTAW will present Sgt. Myron Greenberg, baritone of the Fourth Student Training Company, in a fifteen minute program of popular songs. He 1 will be accompanied by Will Eisner at the piano. Sgt. Greenberg is from New York University, and has had con siderable experience in radio. Eis ner is a LeHigh University man; he had his own band while an un dergraduate at LeHigh and is now playing with the ASTP-ORCHES TRA. A.V.M.A. Meeting Thanks a million Lichte and anyone else who helped get Dr. Hall for the AVMA meeting Wed nesday night. Men who missed the lecture lost out on some stuff you don’t get in books .... Correction, Bob Kokernot may or may not take the fatal step Christmas .... These letter exams are coming thick and fast these last few days. Guess that’s better than putting them off ’til right after Christ mas. Men we have a poet in our midst as you probably already know. It is O. D. Baker .... Our basketball team made a nice show ing Thursday nght . . . Get Don Williams to tell you about the time he took that airplane ride—the time he broke his shoulder in the process ... No trips to Nacog doches lately? Shucks our morale, will be torn down if we don’t do something. Ah, but there is Christ mas to consider. Wouldn’t it be nice to hang up a G. I. sock the night before and find it chuck full of 3 day passes the next morning .... We have a couple of Singing Cadets in our outfit who will help put on a good program Dec. 14. Let’s turn out that night and show them we appreciate good singing. I see in the Batt, in the “Looking Back” column, that the college hos pital was packed to accomodate the numerous cases of flu in an epidemic in progress here at that time. Ha! we had a three weeks vacation that year. What a Christ mas, what a ball game in the Cot ton Bowl. Penny (South Akard Street) said the Fordham boys were sure rough. The column must be short tonight as our guest wri ter just stepped out for a short— drink of water. Let’s keep on the ball around here and convince the officers of the organization that we can get militarv. Don’t e-ot the idea that we have to be flying carbureters. Two Day Pass For Christmas Trainees with homes within tra veling distance and men who have friends near the campus will be given passes from Friday evening December 24 till 2030 Sunday, De cember 26. So announced Regimen tal Adjutant Capt. R. Hopkins. He warned that traveling conditions would be very overcrowded during the holiday season and Trainees should allow themselves plenty of time to get back to A. & M. before their pass was up. Newfoundland. He came to A. & M. College of Texas in 1941 as P. M. S. & T. May of 1943 saw Colonel Welty pre sented with the Distinguished Ser vice Medal for work done in found ing bases in Newfoundland. The new Regimental Commander will be assisted by Captain Robert Hopkins, Adjutant; Captain Jack Kimbrough, Speical Service Office, Lt. Otis Cardwell, Personnel Offi cer and Lt. Wm. Williams, assist ance Personnel Officer. HELP BRING VICTORY . . . BUY WAR BONDS TODAY! 12th Horticulture An annual affair that draws the attention of both young and old, military personnel and civilians, agricultural students and engineers will begin Monday, December 13, j at one o’clock, and will continue I through Tuesday. Needless to say, | by now vou know that a. treat of natural beauty under the title of THE TWELFTH ANNUAL HOR TICULTURAL SHOW is in store for you. Though this year’s wartime show is to be stripped of some of the finery of non-ration days, it will be the first show to include the de hydration of fruits and vegetables as well as the various machines used in processing them—this to culture in war. Just to keep in line culture in war. Just tokeep in line with what everyone likes to see, there will be tropical fruits, sub tropical fruits, apples of all vari eties, pecans, and a host of other delicacies. So gather your pennies and buy a healthy body and rosy cheeks through the medium of fruits in the products laboratory of the Agricultural Engineering building. A pleasant hour can be spent there observing Nature’s gifts to health, happiness and contentment through horticultural products; and a real ization can be attained of what ahey are doing to keep our fight ing men alive—through dehydra tion. E&BEyggaa asaEsaaEgii aa—as HIltDi Every One AGGIES and SERVICEMEN Plan your Christmas Gifts now before leaving for the holidays and avoid the last minute rush. —We have a large assortment of Gifts for everyone— HAS WELL’S — IN BRYAN —