TUESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 1, 1944
THE BATTALION
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G Bat. and E Troop Win First Volleyball
B Company and B Battery uupofs Man
Lead Softball Leagues Team M " ts BA4F
A and G Batteries Lead Tennis
League With Perfect Net Record
In the withering heat of the afternoon, summer intra
mural volleyball and basketball got under way yesterday
with two games in each sport.
Opening the volleyball competition were games between
G Battery and F Company and-f
between E Troop and F Battery.
Both matches were close hard
^ fought sets that required a third
game in each to determine the
winners. G Battery managed to
defeat F Company in the third
' game by a close score of 15-13.
E Troop won out over F Battery
by the same close score.
B Battery got off to a nice start
in basketball game of the season.
m According to the cadet officers and
the battqry athletic officer, the
freshmen of B Battery are confi
dent of winning the basketball
s? crown. Time and games will prove
or disprove that.
With the softball competition
“ eliminating more and more likely
• winners by the day, the B Com
pany Bruisers still lead League
A with five victories and no de-
- feats to their credit. Running the
- Bruisers a close second is A Com
pany with four wins and- no loses.
_ In League B, none of the teams
. have a perfect record. B Battery
is leading this league with three
wins and one defeat to their cred-
_ it.
Both leagues in tennis are be
ing led by two teams with out
standing records. Walking away
with the League B championship
is G Battery with a perfect record
of six! victories. No other team in
the league even approaches this
excellent record. In League A an
equally as outstanding a record
has been set by A Battery. From
all indications the finals will be
played between these two fresh
men teams.
Aggie Footballers
Suspend Workouts
Coach Homer Norton's Aggie
footballers were resting now from
the grueling workouts they have
been going through most of the
summer.
The squad will rest three weeks
before getting down to the regu
lar fall grind, at which time more
men are expected to join in the
drills. The Aggies should be in
good shape when August 21 rolls
around and they start preparation
for the coming fall season. '•
Coach Norton and Lil Dimmitt
are now at Tulsa University in
structing in the coaching school
there.
If You Have Bonds,
Don’t Sell Them
★ ★ ★
It’s just as important
to hold on to them as
it is to buy them.
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Buy Bonds
Keep Them
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and
You Back
the Attack
—SPENCE—
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Program Office will work with and
assist other officials of the college
concerned with the care of the
buildings on the campus.
The first problem of construc
tion with which the office will
deal is the building of the first
section of a wind tunnel for the
Department of Aeronautical Engi
neering.
Offices and functions of the col
lege architect are being consoli
dated with the new program. Phil
Norton, college architect, and his
staff will move soon into the of
fices of the Construction Program
Offices.
A. A. Jakkula, Professor of
Structural Engineering in the Civil
Engineering Department, has been
named temporary vice director of
the Engineering Experiment Sta
tion and moved to his new offices
Tuesday.
The elephant and the donkey
as symbols of political parties were
both originated by the cartoonist
Thomas Nast. The Democratic don
key was first cartooned by Nast in
1870; the Republican's elephant in
1874.
The United States purchased
Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000;
and the Louisiana territory from
France for $15,000,000.
Not one of the 8000 newspapers
published in Soviet Russia carries
crime news, comic strips, or gossip
columns.
A little mental exercise will keep
you from getting a fat head.
The Aggie softball team spon
sored by J. E. Loupot will meet a
team from Bryan Army Air Field
under the lights in Bryan Thurs
day night.
In a previous game, the Aggies
were the victors, and this tilt prom
ises to be a good one. All students
are invited to attend the game
and help cheer the boys on.
We must beware of trying to
build a society in which nobody
counts for anything except a poli
tician or an official, a society
where enterprise gains no reward,
and thrift no privileges.—Winston
Churchhill.
During the British occupation of
Philadelphia at the time of the
American revolution, the Liberty
Bell was hidden beneath the floor
of the Zion Reformed Church at
Allenton, Pa.
War Has Curtailed
Sports In Small
Enrollment Schools
In the past six years 100,000
high school boys have participated
in interscolastic league football,
according to a recent report given
out by Rodney J. Kidd, athletic
director of the Texas Interscolastic
League. Another 85,000 took part
in league basketball.
Of these, Mr. Kidd states that
approximately 65,000 participated
in both football and basketball.
Since 1938 there were 18,226
football players in the league;
LOUPOT’S
A Little Place . • .
... A Big Saving!
IT’S NOT THE HEAT
BUT THE SALT - - -
that perspiration leaves in your clothes which makes
that uncomfortable sticky-when-damp and stiff-
when-dry feeling. The removal of these salts is an
extra service that is included in quality cleaning at
The Campus Cleaners,
Quality Cleaning Removes Sticky
Perspiration Salts
Keep Neat and Military
CAMPUS CLEANERS
TWO
Over Exchange Store
LOCATIONS
Next to, George's
last year 13,848 students participat
ed. The slump has hit the small
and middle "bracket high schools
most noticeably.
Basketball enrollment dropped
from 1,213 schools in 1942 to 706
in '43. 1942 figure is about the pre
war average of participating
schools. In 1944, the number of
participating schools jumped up
ward to 184.
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