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THE BATTALION TUESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 5. 1944 pPAGE 4 ON KYLE FIELD Notes On Saturday's Scrimmage il is By S. L. “Slim” Inzer U is Battalion Sports Editor Coach Homer Norton really put 'his charges through a grueling scrimmage Saturday afternoon, but the intense heat failed to dim the ^ spirt of the boys. Although the workout was held three hours earlier than usual, the bridders c I came through with plenty of hus- ^tle and fire. J Saturday’s drill gave grand stand quarterbacks plenty to talk r about. As a whole, the team looked better than it has looked at any time during the previous ^ workouts. Several of the boys ,| showed up well in the scrimmage, ^ better than had been expected. 4 In the backfield, some of the ^custanding boys were Paul Yates, < George McAllister, Don Kingery, * James Cashion, and Frank Torno. Yates definitely turned in the best runs of the afternoon, and prom uses to be one of the Aggies’ most : dangerous runners. George McAl- i lister, who has' not shown up well iin practice this fall, looked like ’ the promising fullback of last LOUPOT’S A Little Place . . . ... A Big Saying! ) ~~ If You Have Bonds, Don’t Sell Them ★ ★ ★ It’s just as important to hold on to them as it is* to buy them. ★ ★ ★ Buy Bonds Keep Them ★ ★ ★ and You Back the Attack year. “Mac” was injured during the season last year, and Saturday was the first time he has shown any of his old form. Don Kingery made several nice runs from his right halfback posi tion, showing quite a bit of speed and hustle. Jimmy Cashion turned in some fine passing from his quarterback slot. This boy may develope into a first class passer, for he was throwing the ball»with the coolness of a veteran Satur day. If he continues to improve with his accuracy, the Aggies will once again have a daunted aerial game. Frank Torno also looked good on what few passes he threw. Line play Saturday was steady, although it would be hard to point out any outstanding player. Per haps the most surprising perfor mance was turned in by - Alan Sparkman, the 230 pound San An tonio tackle who stands six inches above six feet. Sparkman turned in a fine performance, showing the Aggie mentors that he could move his frame around with amazing speed. All in all, the Aggies looked like a football team Saturday, but much improving must be done be fore the Southwest Conference football race starts. Plays were be ing run off -with surprising smooth ness for this early in the season. However, these plays could stand a lot of polishing, as could the play ers. The entire line will need much work before they are ready to compete with such teams as they face this year. However, line Coach Bill James took over his coaching duties only the latter part of last week and has not had time to do any work with them. Knowing Uncle Bill as I do, I fe6l confident he will be able to straighten out the kinks and knots in the line and make a first class forward wall. At this stage of the season, the backfield seems to be a little ahead of the line, but this may be partly due to the fact that the line is heafty and must lose some weight. The line will be helped this week when Monte Moncrief returns to the squad. Monte is expected to be one of the best tackles in the conference this season, and may be the man needed to anchor the Aggie forward wall. The largest spring in the world is Silver Springs, located six miles east of Ocala, .Florida. The great basin is 80-feet deep, 300 feet in diameter,, and clear to the very bottom. 214 SOUTH MAIN BRYAN, TEXAS SHOWN ABOVE IS THE 1944 EDITION of the Texas Aggie football squad. These are the boys who will wear the Maroon and White of Aggieland this year. First row, left to right: George McAllister, Mason Matthews, Bene Spires, James Cashion, Tom Daniel, Frank Torno, Don Kingery, Bob Goff, and Arthur Abrahams. Second row: Walter Higgins, % Grant Darnell, Joseph Sacra, Bob Gary, Thomas League, Bill Gray, Bob Butchofsky, Pete Odoms, Bryan Flippo, Paul Yates, and Clarence Howell. Third row: Herbert Ellis, Alan Sparkman, James Mitchell, D. M. Denton, Sammie Brice, Vernon Schmidt, Bill Walker, Mann Scott, Eldon Long, James Allen, Milton Cherno, and Charles Shira. Mem bers of the squad who are not shown are: Mike Demetrios, Damon Tassos, Morton Shefts, Otto Granzin, Monte Moncrief, “Sparky” Eberle, Donald Nichols, and Jimmie Parmer. Ex-Aggie Fights Japs In Burma Capt. William B. Freeman, o’f Bonham, Texas, a Marine Corps fighter pilot who bagged six ene my planes over Guadalcanal in 1942, is flying again aginst the Japanese in the Pacific. The 2C-year-old aviator, who pi loted a Grumman Wildcat in the same squadron with 26-plane-ace Major Joe Foss on “the Canal” and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for his action there last spring—this time with Major Foss as his commanding officer. The unit under Major Foss was the first fighter squadron to ope rate from this island after its seizure in March. But just as the planes are en tirely different from those on Guadalcanal—lean Corsairs in stead of chubby Wildcats—so is the war. There have been na Jap aircraft in this area for many months. As aresult, Captain Freeman and his flying mates are attach ing bombs to their fighters for at tacks on Kabaul and Kavieng. “It’s the old story of using a race horse to pull an ice wagon,” Cap tain Freeman says. “But I guess it can’t be helped. There’s nothing else to do.” Main targets of the Corsair at tacks are enemy supply and ammu nition dumps and anti-aircraft gun positions. “On Guadalcanal I never thought I’d be fighting a war like this, nor under such comfortable living con ditions,” said Captain Freeman. “Here we fly only every other day. Our huts are screened and cool. The food is almost like stateside.. Were it not for the heavy ack-ack over Kavieng, this life could pass for peacetime duty.” Captain Freeman enlisted in March, 1941, shortly before he was to graduate from Texas A. & M, won his wings in April, 1942, and on October 1 reached Guadalcanal, where he was to fly seven days a week for several months. He is the son of Mrs. Bess Freenman of Bonham. On October 25 he flew as part of a flight of only 14 Wildcats which got in the air to meet a Jap attack in which they faced odds 'of more than 10 to 1. Eight Amer ican planes were put out of com- 1 mission, but the Marines blasted them down more than 20 Japs in return, one of which is on Captain Freeman’s record. The fliers’ living quarters were pyramidal tents—set up on bare ground—which were often ruined from enemy shrapnel and once by a large Jap task force which pumped 16-inch shells onto the beachhead for hours November 12. “The tents weren’t of much value to us then, anyhow,” the Texas pilot says. “We were in our foxholes—and wishing the things were deeper.” Commissions and Wings Received By Aggies Exes Two former students, Lloyd W. Adams, ’45, and R. S. Carroll, Jr., ’46, were recently commissioned second lieutenants in the Army Air Forces after completing bombard ier training at Carlsbad, New Mex ico. Lt. Adams is the son of Mr. and Mrs. O. B. Adams of Tyler, Texas; Lt. Carroll, the son of Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Carroll of Crowell, Texas. Secretary to Dean Is Wed Friday Night Miss Anna Burney and Dr. Harry Hammen Lutz were married on Fri day evening, at seven o’clock at the home of her mother, Mrs. P. H. Burney in College Station. Dr. Darrell D. Gray, assistant pastor, of the First Baptist Church in Bryan, officiated. Only members of the immediate family were pre sent. Mrs. Lutz is a graduate of Bay lor University and secretary to Dr. T. D. Brooks, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Lutz is from Baltimore, Maryland, a graduate of A. &M. College and is now on the staff of the Depart ment of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery. Dr. and Mrs. Lutz will reside on Suffolk Avenue, Oakwood. The Salmon River in the Saw tooth Mountains of Idaho, is known as the “River of No Re turn.” Flat bottom boats can navi gate it downstream, but no boat has ever been able to pull up stream. Aggie Ex Named N.A.W.B. Chairman War Food Administrator Mar vin Jones has named E. R. Duke as chairman of the National Agri cultural War Board, succeeding Col. Everett R. Cook,'who resigned to take a position with the State Department. Until this appointment, Duke was manager of the Dallas office of the Federal Crop Insurance Cor poration. He is a native of Texas and a graduate of the Texas A. & M. College, getting his B. S. degree in Agriculture here in 1923. For many years he was a county agent with the Extension Service. i Sweet Clover Is A Valuable Soil Crop Value of sweet clover as a soil building crop is plain to a Bailey County farmer. He followed the winter legume with potatoes which brought him $19,872 from 39 acres of irrigated land. The farmer is W. T. Millen of the Liberty community. He still has 11 acres of potatoes to. harvest. Millen planted the clover upon the recommendation of County Agricultural Agent J. M. Hancock. He grazed it during the winter months, then turned it under. Returns in 1944 are considerable larger than in 1943, since the pro duction is up about 15 per cent, and the price also is better. Miller received $2.94 per hundred pound sack and estimates he will clear about $10,000 on the crop. About 60 per cent of the crop was sold to the Army and the re mainder offered on the market at Muleshoe. Millen does his own washing and grading. Women and teen-age boys and girls from Mule- shoe and nearby small towns con stitute the bulk of his labor sup ply, according to County Agent Hancock who has directed farm labor recruitment and placement in the county. Hartford, Conn., is known as the largest insurance center in the world, with forty insurance com panies located there. HELP BRING VICTORY BUY WAR BONDS