SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 18, 1943
THE BATTALION
Page 3
By Harold Borofifcy Battalion Sports Editor
Flanagan Will Remain Here;
Cadet Cagers Work Daily
According to a headline in last-f-
Wednesday’s edition of the Hous
ton Post Marion Flanagan, ace
back for the Aggies, will not play
in the Orange Bowl game on New
Year’s Day because he has to re
port to the armed services for
duty. How this fact ever came to
light is a mystery to us, for Mar
ion has a deferment until Febru
ary of 1944 and will definitely be
on tap when the Cadets face the
L. S. U. Tigers in Miami. Perhaps
the false statement was derived
from some misunderstanding. Flan
agan had not reported for practice
early this week in order to give
his sore leg a chance to limber up.
Jess Burdltt and Don Deere had
been taking Marion’s place in
several of the plays, and perhaps
the Post boys thought that Flan
agan did not intend to report for
workouts or to play on New
Year’s Day.
Main worry of the coaching staff
is the problem of how to get to
Miami. Negotiations have been un
der way for some time with agents
of the railroad companies, but as
yet nothing definite has been learn
ed. Latest rumor is that an Ex
has offered two B-25 bombers to
transport the team to Florida.
Who knows, it could be.
Through the week the practice
sessions have been getting tougher
and tougher. Coach Norton rea
lizes that the Tigers are not going
to be as easy to beat this time
as they were when they bowed to
the Ags 28-13 in Baton Rouge. If
no information about train reser
vations is obtained by noon there
will be no workout today.
Red Burditt was reported to be
on the sick list yesterday but his
condition has not been made known
as yet. So far the team has been
relatively light-hit by any colds
or flu cases.
Meanwhile the Aggie basketball-
ers, under the guidance of Coach
Manning Smith, have been going
on with their practice. There are
no standouts as yet, but a wealth
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College and Bryan
ofj material in on hand. The sched
ule is not yet completed, according
to “Smitty”, and a number of serv
ice teams will be scheduled to
round out the season. These service
team games will give the boys
the valuable experience that makes
the difference between a good
eager and a bad one when the go
ing gets tough.
Full rosters and schedules for
this year’s cage season will be
released when they are completed.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: TO
ERR IS HUMAN; TO MAKE
THE SAME MISTAKE TWICE
IS UNPARDONABLE.
Bowl Predictions
By R. L. Weatherly
Football season has come to a
close for colleges. There are some
Bowl games to be played off on
January 1, and three high school
games yet to be played, but for that
football season is over.
The Texas Aggies will travel to
Miami to play LSU in the Orange
Bowl in January 1 for the only
all-civilian classic of the day. These
two teams have met before this
season with the Aggies winning by
a 28-13 score. This gives the Ag
gies the edge. Then too, the Ti
gers are minus their versatile
Steve Van Buren. We do not think
that the game to come will be as
offensive as the game played in
October. Both teams know what to
expect from their opponent.
The 28-13 defeat that the Aggies
handed out would tend to make
them overconfident, hut the loss
to Texas University has taken
this overconfident attitude out of
them. We expect the score to be
Aggies 20, LSU 7.
There has been a new Bowl
game added to the post season
games this year. This new Bowl
is the Oil Bowl which is in Hous
ton. The Oil Bowl will pit SLI
against Arkansas A. & M. The
two teams have met before also,
but fought to a 0-0 deadlock. SLI
will enter the game with the chan
ces of winning on their side, but
anything could happen when these
two teams tangle on New Years
Day. We will take our chances on
SLI and predict they will win by
14-7.
New Years Day will find Tulsa
and Georgia Tech in the Sugar
Bowl. The Tulsa Hurricanes start
ed the season with a bang. But the
Hurricanes met Southwestern
when Southwestern had just lost
all their players and managed to
tie them 6-6. This, in our estima
tion, proves that they were very
highly overrated. On the other
hand Georgia Tech had many of
their last year players playing
for them this season and they led
Tech to the Sugar Bowl. It is our
guess that the score will be 14 to
6 with Tech leading the way.
An all-western affair will take
place in the Rose Bowl next year
with Washington State and USC
being the guests. The picture looks
now as if it will be a one sided
game with Washington State be
ing on that side. USC is jinxed
with fumbles this year. All of their
fumbles add to 50 with 29 of them
going to the opponents. This is not
a very good record for a team that
is going to play in the Rose Bowl.
Then too, they are handicapped by
the loss of their first string ends,
one of which was an All-American.
We think that the score will be
Washington State 19, USC 6.
Martin Ruby, a former Texas
Aggie, and Glenn Dobbs will play
for Randolph Field when they meet
Texas U. in the Cotton Bowl New
Years Day. Martin Ruby played
tackle for the Aggies in 1941. He
was hailed as an All-Conference
tackle the same year. Glenn Dobbs,
a Tulsa product, made All-Ameri
can last year, and was given a berth
on the service All-American team
this year. Texas U. will not have
the same team that won the South
west Conference from A. & M. in
the Turkey Day Classic. Many of
their players have answered the
call of their country. If Texas
were playing the same team that
defeated A. & M. we would pick
them to win without hesitating, but
the Ramblers will be in the driver’s
seat when January 1 rolls around.
We expect Randolph Field 13—
Texas U. 10.
PUBLISHED BY THE ARMY SPECIALIZED TRAINING UNIT STUDENTS
Editor-in-Chief Pat Bradley p re88 club Rep Marvin Raff
A.S. T. U, Year Book Sales Soar
Editorial. . .
Christmas is but a week off, and for most of us it will
be our first one away from those we love. Down deep in our
hearts we all hope that by this time next year all of us will
be back home acting as if we had never left home. Those of
us who are lucky enough to go home will find that there
still will be a spot at the Christmas table. Perhaps Dad is
an officer serving somewhere overseas, Brother may be doing
more than his share in Italy or the South Pacific, or even
Sis doing he rpart in the WACc, WAVES, or SPARS.
Moments like these will add up on that personal score sheet
of yours that your are personally going to settle with the
“Supermen” and the “Sons” of the Rising Sun.” That is sure
going to be one sunset we are going to enjoy watching as
it cringingly fades below the horizon.
MY OLD LADY
(Dedicated to Ed Schiefelbein)
By Owen D. Baker
If he walks down the street
With his head in the air.
With a smile on his face
And that wave in his hair,
Wit ha look on his face
As if he hadn’t a care ....
That’s my old lody!
If he walks ’cross the lawn
Saying “Hi” to the fish;
If he sits at the table
And takes half of each dish;
If he dreams of a ranch
More’n anyone could wish . . . .
That’s my old lady.
If he rides on a horse
And seems well at ease;
If he finds some good friend
He can worry and tease;
If he loves the outdoors
With the rivers and trees . . . .
That’s my old lady.
If he stands near ahe mirror
And tries on his hat
With a slouchy appearance
And a grin on his map;
And I thinks he’s swell
And mean it at that
Then that’s my old lady!
Trainees To
Play And View
Basketball Games
According to an announcement
today by Capt. Jack Kimbrough,
Regimental Special Service Officer,
in addition to the already func
tioning ASTP basketball team, rep
resenting the entire unit, company
basketball teams will be formed
for inter-company competition,
with regularly scheduled games to
be played at the A. & M. gymnas
ium, and possibly a trophy award
ed to the company with the best
record. It is hoped that men in
the companies participating in the
night’s competition will be permitt
ed to attend the games, which
will be played after the regular
Call to Quarters at seven ’©clock.
The college athletic department and
Capt. Kimbrough are already ar
ranging a tentative schedule, and
the eleven companies are each
promising to put a winning com
bination on the courts. There will
also be changes made in the ASTP
team from time to time, as new
and better talent crops up.
“THEY FLOAT THROUGH THE AIR,” not with the greatest of
ease. Above photo shows a trio of ASTU trainees crossing a ditch
vie the “grapevine” on the A. & M. obstacle course. We don’t be
lieve the middle man will quite make it.
DR. N. B. McNUTT
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LOUPOT’S
An Aggie Institution
Demand Exceeds
Expectations; Late
Comers May Be
Disappointed
With the sale of the ASTU Year
book already past the halfway
mark, Business Manager, Pat
Blanford, today stated that many
persons who are putting off buy
ing the book until after the holi
days will find themselves disap
pointed since due to war restric
tions only a limited number can be
printed.
At the same time he announced
that any GI feeling the pinch of
Yuletide expenditures merely had
Select a name for the ASTU
Year Book and win five dollars.
Need a Sawbuck for those little
extras? Here is your opportun
ity to win yourself a prize. The
Year Book staff has announced
a contest for a suitable name
for the Year Book. You may win.
The rules are easy. If you buy
a Year Book or have bought a
Year Book you are eligible.
Write your name, room and dorm
on the same paper that has your
suggestion for a name for the
Year Book. The judges will be
the staff and two regimental
officers. In case of similar
names that person who has the
earlier date on his Year Book
receipt will be declared winner.
If you haven’t done so already
go out now and subscribe to the
ASTU Year Book then take a
flyer on that five spot.
to sign that he wanted a book
and could pay for same after pay
day at the end of the month.
Almost two thirds of the first
company have made purchases and
in several sections every man in
the section has bought the Year
book.
At the same time, Business Man
agers for other companies have
been appointed, John Cohen will
handle sales in the third company,
Rex Gardiner and Doug Powers
in the fourth and John Pool is bus
iness manager of the seventh. Any
| one interested in buying a book
in those companies should contact
the above men. Also any section
interested in having their picture
taken for the year book should
make arrangements now.
Editor Pat Bradley announces
that while there has been a good
response to the request for pic
tures of ASTU life at A. & M., he
is still interested in getting as
many pictures as possible. The
pictures should be glossy prints
and the person submitting same
should have his name, room and
dorm on the back of the picture.
Just an M.E.
... by KAFF
Sorry, but not much cheer for
print today. The first period grades
are out, and also the usual ac
companying, but now too late la
menting and repenting, cries of
woe and “have pity, Prof.” Yet
there are still 37 more schooldays
in which to redeem our strayed
brethren (and ourselves), and you
all know “We have not yet begun
to fight.”
To add to our depression, our
basketball team lost, and came back
with such glowing tales of life in
ASTP at Baylor, that we can cer
tainly understand a little thing like
53-32. Imagine being off from ten
to eleven each night for a few
breaths of fresh air on a campus
abounding with beautiful, comely
Texas Co-eds!!—Meals served by
waitresses in the dining hall, and
oh those “meals”!
But there is always tomorrow,
and perhaps we will feel better
by then. And then too, there ia
Just Ramblin’
Round
Even though this column never
rates even as high as 4-F with
me, (P.S. I write for the column.)
I’d like to take this opportunity
to express 'my appreciation to
some of the other writers of ASTU
news. The column of the STAR
unit “3801 Sparkles” is always
worth reading too . . . It’s about
time some of us thought a little
more seriously about the ASTU
yearbook. It’ll be just as good as
we make it and no better. Thanks
again O. D. Baker for your poetic
efforts. I’d like to read some of
your letters to your best girl . .
. You can take the boy out of the
country but not the country out of
the boy. That’s good in some ways
and not so good in others when it
comes to following army rules
and regulations . . . Almost every
day I think of a song that was
popular not so many years ago
“Time Changes Everything.” Boy,
how true that is today! The future
is postively unpredictable. Think
back a few months. Did you have
any idea that you would be where
you are now? Sometime after this
mess is over and people have be
gun to live in a normal manner
again, I will purchase all the
phonograph records that were pop
ular as the days and months roll
ed away. Then when I play them
I’ll remember things that happened
when those songs were popular.
A guy will want to cry then he’ll
laugh; he’ll want to get drunk
and then he’ll wish that he hadn’t.
It’s a great life, even if a guy
does weaken fast—especially, right
after he gets in double harness
(hearsay) ... Well men a lot of
us won’t be home this Christmas,
and maybe not the next, but when
It’s all over we’ll be glad we had
a part in beating H out of Japan
and Germany no matter how'mea
ger our contribution will have been.
The very best that we can do isn’t
enough, but don’t let it be said
that you didn’t do your part when
you had the chance. The quicker we
get it over with, the quicker we’ll
get back to normal living again.
Hearken sportsmen your Christ
mas problem is settled. Don’t sweat
your sporting goods store for
twenty pattern, don’t give up in
despair and dash out your cerebral
matter from top of the Petroleum
building. Just drop around room
115 and let the probocis lads show
you the new Crocker, portable, col
lapsable, pocket fitting duck blind.
Twenty four hours of perfect com
fort is guaranteed. Ask the man
who owns one.
Now when you were a pi-oblem
child and got in ye old cookie jar
did you always wonder if the ma
ter would notice the strayed cook
ies or did you wonder if they would
At Ease., by Martin
After quite a lapse of time, I
have again decided to take up the
pen and do my bit to aid the cru
sade for . . .hmm . . .just what
are we crusading for? Oh well, it
doesn’t matter much, it sounds
good anyway.
This new P. T. is really the
thing. One thing I’m really going
to have to practice is how to exe
cute the command . . one . .two
. . heads . . up, while doing an exer
cise that calls for me to bend over
and touch my toes. Just a word of
warning to future sections running
the 1.3 mile run. If a school bus
with little children goes by and the
kids lean out the window to say
“hello,” just ignore them. Return
ing a friendly greeting is frowned
upon during the run.
This system of whistle to desig
nate the correct uniform for for
mations is a fine thing. Wouldn’t
we feel foolish falling out for chow
with barrack’s bags, and rain
coats as some of the fellows were
suggesting in the halls?
always Daisy Mae and that lovely
creature who adorns that C. E.
building!!!
'Bye Now!
give you a tummy ache. If still in
doubt refer to Ken Fickes as he
will settle all doubts.
We are all happy to note that
com has gone up sixty cents a
bushel. There is absolutely no
doubt but what the occupants of
room 120 will soon be driving big
long station wagons around before
long. (Pen.)
The last statement that Crockett
made before going into utter se
clusion was that he is off women
for life, even Bryant’s favorite
grease monkey. “I’ll take a good
mallard over any monkey,” quotes
he, “however I will admit that I
don’t use precious twenty pattern
stalking monkeys.”
Incidentally, war stamps or a
v/ar bond to a friend is the very
best gift that you can give for
Christmas.
ANSWERS
TO ACTD QUESTIONS
1. Douglas C-54.
2. Three.
3. 1931.
4. The Prince of Wales, Oct. 4th.
5. Right.
6. Land of the Rising “SCUM”—
Japan. i
7. Rice
8. June, 1917.
9. Wrong—it is not Sidney or
Melbourne, it is Canberra.
10. It is not Absence With Out
Leave as people are prone to be
lieve—official designation is Ab
sence With out Official Leave.
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