THE BATTALION
TUESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 5. 1944
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ON KYLE FIELD
Notes On Saturday's Scrimmage
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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
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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.
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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.
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