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FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 19, 1945 THE BATTALION PAGE 3 AgsStop Baylor To Climb Out Of Conference Cage Cellar Hub Ellis Scores 15 Points to Lead Cadets to Long Sought After Victory BATTALION Believe it or not, but Tuesday night the Texas Aggies finally won a Southwest Conference bas ketball game. This was the first conference game the Cadets have won since 1942, and it was the Baylor Bears who fell victim to the occasion. The Aggies started off playing their usual game and after five minutes the score stood 5-1 in favor of Baylor. At this point the Cadets rallied and had the score tied up at the end of the first half. 15-15. Five minutes after the second half had begun the score was still tied, this time at 20-20. At this point Coach Manning Smith’s boys, led by Hub Ellis, started pulling away and were never in danger. This loss drops the Bears into the cellar of the conference, a position they take away from the Maroon and White. Baylor has four losses in four games while A. & M. shows one win and three losses. Hub Ellis was high point man for the game, shoving 15 points through the hoop on five field goals and five free throws. Charlie Weinbaum was next with two field goals and seven free tosses to gain 11 points. Cotton Howell of the Aggies and Hicks of the Bears each made eight points during the contest. The game was a rough and tum ble affair, 30 free throws being missed during the evening. A total •of 26 free throws were made. Baylor Hicks, f Herod, f Beard, f Compton, f Schraeder, c Gatewood, c Hopkins, c Cox, g Rucker,g Baker, g Lepere, g Quick, g Baylock, g Totals FG FT TP 4 0 8 2 15 0 0 0 10 2 12 4 0 0 0 113 0 0 0 113 0 4 4 Oil 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 10 30 STUDENT CO-OP Bicycle and Radio Repair PHONE 4-4114 A. & M. FG FT TP Cherno, f 1 1 3 Ellis, f 5 5 15 White, c 0 0 0 Parmer, c 0 0 0 Abrams, c 2 0 4 Weinbaum, g 2 7 11 Howell, g 3 2 8 McCormick, g 0 1 1 Cushion, g 0 0 0 Collins, g 0 0 0 — — — Totals 13 16 42 Halftime score: A. & Baylor 15. M. 15, Free throws missed: Howell, Ellis 2, Hopkins, Baker 6, Hicks 2, Herrod 2, Schraeder, Rucker 6, Weinbaum 5, Abrams 2, Mc Cormick 2. —BUY WAR BONDS TODAY— Seed Breeders Meet In Dallas The Texas Certified Seed Breed ers Association held its annual meeting January 12th and 13th at the Jefferson Hotel in Dallas, Texas. The meeting was presided over by Ferris Watson, president, and Dr. E. P. Humbert, secretary of the association and head of the Department of Genetics at A. & M. College. Attending the meeting from Texas A. & M. College were Dr. E. B. Reynolds of the division of Agronomy in the Extension Serv ice, Prof. J. S. Mogford of the De partment of Agronomy, Mr. Homer Rae, Experiment Station Agrono mist, Dr. R. L. Donahue, Exten sion Service specialist, and Dr. Ide P. Trotter, head of the Extension Service. Dr. Humbert presented “A re view of the Texas Seed Breeders Ass’n. during the past 25 years”. Succeeding this presentation Dr. Trotter spoke on “Certified Seed and the State Extension Service”. Then Mr. Rae, Experiment Sta tion Agronomist, gave a talk on “A New Method of Using Le gumes in Cotton Production”. These presentations were followed with “Soil Fertility and the Pro duction of Certified Seed”, by Dr. Jones. DO YOUR PART—BUY BONDS LOUPOT’S A LITTLE PLACE A BIG SAVING! Had the Confederate Army fol lowed up its victory in the fam ous Battle of Bull Run the Con federates might have taken Wash ington without firing a single shot. ACTION-FIT SPORTSWEAR Leather Coats and Jackets Wool Coats and Jackets Brilliantly Styled and Tailored. 7 t T T~\. WIMBERLEY • STONE • DANSBY WTO 717 CLOTRIERS College and Bryan I N T R A M U R A L S By R. L. Bynes B Company, in what was by far the most exciting intramural bas ketball play ' witnessed here in some time, outplayed an ever scrapping B Battery quintet in the semi-final intramural basket ball game played in DeWare Field House 7:30, Wednesday even ing. The score was 28-23. Although B Battery completely outclassed the infantrymen the first half, playing stellar ball all the way, the buzzard busters, (mid way of the third period), fumbled away their chances of remaining in the win column by thumping their opponents with numerous personal fouls in very rough and tumble play. This gave the in fantrymen a chance to score on free shots, and score they did. The game was played in seven minute quarters, two minute rest period between quarters, ten min ute break at half time. B Company winning the tossup, elected to de fend the north goal. Highlights of the first period found Dick Goad, sparking B Battery with two field goals, while Cherno’s under-the-basket play stood out for the infantrymen. White missed the first freeshot of the game and Rippetoe followed through with a field goal, the win ners first score of the game. Score at the windup of the first stanza was a tossup, 4-4. Substitutions for the batterymen in the first quarter were Howell for Brannen, and Parmer for daggers. High-point man in the second period for the batterymen was Howell, with two, while Ralston, Rippetoe and Cherno counted for the victors with one each. The two outfits were also neck and neck at halftime intermission with a score of 7-7. At the outset of the fourth and final period, Howell, and Goad registering some six points be tween them, and maintaining an airtight defense against their op ponents, momentarily supplied that scoring punch for the batterymen, only to see their opponents blank them with the final count of 28-23. The highlight of the game came in the latter part of the fourth period when Cherno, attempting to tie up Parmer, literally tackled him in mid-court. Parmer’s next two foul shots ended both the game and the scoring. The starting lineup of the two outfits: B Company: Cherno, f Ralston, f Tucker, c Rippetoe, g Strange, g B Battery: Goad, f Brannen, f White, c Nicholas, g daggers, g HELP BRING VICTORY BUY MORE WAR BONDS Faculty Volleyball To Start Soon An announcement of faculty vol leyball games to begin January 23 in the gym was received by the Battalion from L. R. Hickman of the M. E. Department. The an nouncement read as follows: “Faculty volleyball for old, young, bald and handsome men. Come out and join the gang for a lot of fun and exercise. The first meeting will be in the Gym Tues day evening, January 23, 1945 at 7:00 o’clock. All faculty men wel come.” —BUY WAR BONDS TODAY— LOUPOT’S A LITTLE PLACE - - - - - A BIG SAVING! SUPERIOR DRY CLEANING Phone 4-4444 Although the Senior Ring Dance and the Corps Ball hit intramurals rather hard over the week end, play was resumed Monday after noon both in the speedball and vol leyball divisions. In the speedball department, E Company, with a cloud of dust and an ever increasing amount of bone crushing play—Butchofsky, Dar nell, and Williams as the big guns —triumphed over A Company by a score of 16-9. A Company re mained scoreless in the first pe riod, while E Company came out on top with a score of 6-0, Wil liams scoring first, Butchofsky sec ond. A Company counted their first marker on a pass play from Wyble to Wade midway of the second quarter. E Company stands far out in front in League B, with four wins and no losses to their credit by tromping A Battery with a 14-2 score. The batterymen’s lone mark er was the result of a pass play midway of the second half. G Com pany remains the cellar champs in this league with two losses and no wins chalked up against them. F Company, turning in a stellar performance all the way, turned back C Company in a very tight game—final count, 5-2. The victors chalked up a score of 3-0 in the first half—McGuirk counting first on a field goal, while B. Krause chalked up two points for his out fit on a pass play at the outset of the second period. Even though the paddle feet from F Company re mained inside C Company’s fifty yard marker most of the way, stout defensive play by Daily, Womack, and Crump, prevented any further score. The vanquished scored on a fourth period pass from Daily to Calloway. F Company is high with two wins, while C Company has been hit rather hard with their three losses. In the volleyball department, B Battery and D Company are knot ted up with two wins apiece, but D Company sustains one defeat, which puts B Battery out in front. Playing the best two out of three, D Company managed to sweat out a victory over G Bat tery in very close, clean and hard- fought play. D Company was vic torious in the first and third pe riods with tallies of 15-3, and 15-11, although the buzzard busters grab bed their lone win in the second period with a score of 15-9. In League A, E Troop grabbed the decision over A Battery on for feit. The boys from D Troop are the big guns in League B with a com fortable margin of two wins and no losses chalked up in their fa vor. Outstanding play by Norfleet and Martin sparked the cavalry men to a 15-8, 15-5 win over C Battery on Wednesday of last week. There are several outfits which have been in the forfeit doghouse either once or twice in the past several weeks. Let us remember that the Intramural Department has worked hard in scheduling the games in such a manner as to as sure each outfit of having a whole team at game time. Try to cooper ate with them by playing each and every game at the scheduled time. It will help both them and your self for each outfit to report on time at each and every one of their respective games. Remember that a forfeit game does not look well at all on an outfit’s record. Volleyball Standings League A Team Won Lost Tied F Company 2 0 0 F Battery J2 0 0 E Company 1 0 0 E Troop 1 1 0 A Battery .. 1 4 0 C Company .0 League B 3 0 Team Won Lost Tied D Troop 4 0 0 A Company 1 1 0 C Battery ... 2 2 0 H Company 1 2 0 G Company 1 2 0 Hart Hall .. 0 2 0 —AGGIE— (Continued From Page 1) the right engine. We were getting a little power from it, but not much. “Of course, as soon as we left the other B-25’s, the Germans ganged up on us. Six of them con centrated on my plane, making pass after pass, five of them altogeth- However, the Mitchell dished out as much as she took. Both Sgt. Emile J. Borel, 20, Franklin, La., the engineer-turret gunner, and Sgt. Chester H. Walkup, 20, Tex- line, Tex., the tail gunner, sent Mel09’s down, trailing smoke, for probable victories. “Then, suddenly, they just went away and left us,” Lieutenant Wolf says. “I’ll never know why, be cause we were a sitting duck for them. Maybe they got discouraged. Anyway, they headed for another formation. “We managed to catch up with our flight and tried to drop our bombs, but our bombbay doors stuck halfway open and then our landing flaps came down to a 45 degree angle—both because of the damaged hydraulic system.” The crippled Mitchell limped along, the lowered flaps forcing it to fly with its nose stuck high in the air. Over the Mediterranean on the way back to Corsica, the bombardier, Flight Officer Edward M. Harris, 20, 616 Brussel St., Clif ton Forge, Va. (parents), and 116 W. Harris Ave., San Angelo, Tex., (wife), got the bombbay doors open far enough to salvo the armed, and therefore dangerous, bombs. “Our flaps came up for a while,” Lieutenant Wolf remembers, “and then they fell down again when we were about ready to land. We pumped our wheels down and land ed without trouble, but it was pretty hard for me and my co pilot (Second Lieutenant James L. McNulty, 25, 1215 Hawthorne St., Minneapolis, Minn.) to believe it was all over. “Our B-25 was a wreck, but it brought us home.” The narrowest of narrow es capes on the plane was experienced by the radio operator and waist gunner, Sergeant Joseph H. Brus- tolon, 20, Mystic, Conn., who had a German machine gun bullet pass through the flak vest he was wear ing without touching him. “We were all just lucky that day,” is the way Sergeant Brus- tolon sums it up. To which the en tire crew adds “amen.” League C Team Won Lost Tied B Battery 2 0 0 D Company _...2 1 0 G Battery 1 1 0 Band 0 2 0 Speedball Standings League A Team Won Lost Tied F Battery 2 0 0 B Company 2 1 0 B Battery 1 1 0 H Company 1 2 1 G Battery 0 1 1 League B Team Won Lost Tied Company 4 0 0 A Battery 2 1 0 A Company 1 1 0 C Battery _.0 1 0 G Company _...0 2 0 League C Team Won Lost Tied F Company 2 0 0 D Company 1 0 0 Band 1 1 0 D Troop 0 1 0 C Company 0 3 0 Of the 167,935,000 acres com prising the land area of Texas, ap proximately 35,000,000 acres, or one-fifth of the State, are covered with some type of forest growth. LOUPOT’S A LITTLE PLACE A BIG SAVING! Leonard Warren, Young Baritone, To Appear On Town Hall Jan. 26 Leonard Warren, a brilliant young American baritone will be presented by the committee on Stu dent Activities on January 26 at Guion Hall at 8:00 p.m. He was bom in New York and educated in its public schools and at Columbia University. Warren was headed straight for a business career until his vibrant voice, a “natural” if ever there was one, compelled him to become a singer by profession. He has been singing as long as he can remem ber—for the fun of it—at house gatherings, at summer hotels, at parties and wherever young peo ple gathered to join in song with out benefit of musical scores or even a rudimentary knowledge of musical notation. The rough-and- ready school of singing was War ren’s only preparation for a glee club engagement at the Radio City Music Hall, which lasted for three years and served to awaken his in terest in the more serious aspects of music. Warren says that his knowledge of music was only “passing fair” when he won the Metropolitan Au ditions of the Air competition in 1938. He astounded the judges with his magnificent voice. After this he went to Milan, Italy as a pro tege of the Metropolitan Opera Association. There the young bari tone learned seven operatic roles. On Friday, the 13th of January, 1939 he made his Metropolitan Op era debut in a minor role in “Si mon Boccanegra,” back in this country. This season at the Metropolitan Opera, Leonard Warren has been heard in leading roles exclusively. He attracted nation-wide attention almost at the start of the opera season when, on a few hours’ no tice, he stepped into the title role of “Rigoletto” for a broadcast per formance in place of Lawrence Tibbett, who had become suddenly ill. H. R. Knickerbocker will be pre sented on a Town Hall program on April 17. He was expected to appear in the latter part of this month, but the presentation had to be cancelled because he was still suffering from war wounds. The State of Virginia is called “The Old Dominion.” —REGISTRATION— Continued from Page 1 during this semester, with the ap proval of the dean concerned. Per mission is to be secured orally, and no petition is needed for it. Companies A, C, G, and E, In fantry, will drill on Tuesday. A, C, and G Batteries will also drill on that day. E Troop and Third Company Band are the others to drill on Tuesday. On Thursday, B, D, F, H Companies, Infantry, will drill. Also, B and F Batteries, and D Troop, and the First and Sec ond Band Companies will drill on Thursday. Changes in curricula and di rections for registration are also included in the bulletin. VALENTINE'S day isn’t so far away. We have a beautiful assortment of Valentines and Valentine Candy BUY EARLY! The supply is limited. Make your se lection now and we will hold it and mail it at the proper time. AGGIELAND PHARMACY “Keep to Right at the North Gate and You Can’t Go Wrong” DO YOUR PART * BUY WAR BONDS Attention Residents of College Station: A. & M. ALTERATION SHOP at North Gate will give you two-day service on altera tions on civilian clothing of all types—Dresses, Pants, Shirts, Coats, Children’s Apparel. Our Needlework Is Done By Experts it SPANISH LESSONS OVER RADIO WTAW f MON., WED., FRI. AT 7:15