THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 14, 1945
THE BATTALION
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105 Football Candidates Begin Summer Practice
Eight Lettermen Report to Dimmitt;
Coaches Are Appraising New Material
Bulging biceps with a hint of
speed and weighty shoulders came
under close scrutiny of four Tex
as Aggie football coaches Mon
day afternoon as 105 candidates
reported for summer practice. Dur
ing the illness of Head Coach
Homer Norton, Lil Dimmitt will
direct the practice sessions, as
sisted by Pete Jones and Botchey
Koch, while Bill Carmichael will
work with the boys and their in
structors on maintaining eligibility.
Reporting were eight lettermen
and one squad member of the 1944
team that fumbled away the Con
ference crown. Five additional
lettermen are expected to be out
for. practice shortly. The crop of
new men included 15 ends, 18
tackes, 18 guards, 6 centers, 32
backs, and 7 who did not list the
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positions they played in high
school “We have some mighty
good boys,” Dimmitt said, “and
some that we will have to build
from the ground up.”
One of the bright spots of the
first session was Monte Moncrief
walking around on the leg he broke
in a motorcycle
accident last Jan
uary. With two
years experience
back of him, and
having come to
the attention of
sports writers in
the North and
East through be
ing on the squad
of the all-star ag
gregation in Chi
cago last summer, being invited to
play again this year, and his stel
lar line play in the East-West game
at San Francisco last New Year’s
Day, Moncrief should rank high
with the All-American pickers this
fall.
Other old boys at the practice
session were Bob Butchofsky and
Stubby Matthews, backs; Grant
Darnell, end, who may be shifted
to center this year; Bill Geer,
Scooter Yeargain and Norton Hig
gins, ends; Sleepy League, guard,
and Cush Denton, tackle.
Also expected back before long
are Hub Ellis, center, Tom Daniel,
quarter back, with a possibility
that Morton Shefts, tackle, and Os
car White, end,
will reenter in the
September semes
ter. Bullet Gray,
guard, is in school
and is expected to
come out later.
Some of the
better known
newcomers are:
Jim Winkler of
miET gray Temple, who en
tered last Febru
ary and made his baseball letter.
Winkler was given honorable men
tion for the Associated Press All-
State team, and made his all- dis
trict team at tackle. Warfen Sette-
gast of Houston, son of an Aggie
star tackle of 1915-16, Newt Sette-
gast, and brother of Marion Sette-
gast, end on the 1943 team, anoth
er AP honorable mention All-
Stater, also has been here since
February. Settegast played end
in high school.
There is a trio from Garland
that Coach Dimmitt things will
“go”. These are Preston Shugart,
back, Homer Johnson, center, and
John Motley, back. Marvin Butler
of Kenedy is a big, rangy tackle,
also the son of an old Aggie war
rior; Bob Goode of Bastrop is
noted as a passer and kicker, a
back carrying 200 pounds on a
6:3 frame. There are a couple of
guards from Kermit, Duane At
wood and Glenn Beard, and a tack
le from Eagle Pass, Jerome Gros-
senbacker, with lots of mention in
high school play.
Peewee Smith, Bryan’s All-
Stater, and Joe Daisa, end on the
Bronco team last yeah, will report
in August when heavy equipment
is issued and hard practice starts.
Another local boy, Horace Schaf
fer, end for A. & M. Consolidated
last year, was among the Monday
reporters.
Coach Dimmitt said there were
a number of other good boys, but
that he would have to watch them
for a while before he could say
what they may be able to furnish
in rounding out the Texas Aggie
team this fall.
Summer practice schedule calls
for two weeks of practice, then one
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Pictured above are Lil Dimmitt, left and Pete Jones, right, two
of the men who are carrying on the summer football workouts in the
absence of Head Coach Homer Norton. Not included is the third
member of the staff, Botchey Koch, who joined the staff on June 1.
week of rest, the program to con
tinue in this order until about Aug.
20 when heavy practice will get
under way.
The Aggies have an ambitious
schedule this fall calling for eleven
games, with four to be played on
Kyle Field and seven on the road.
With the return of Baylor to foot
ball play, the Maroon and White
gridsters will meet the other six
Southwest Conference teams, and
will also play the North Texas
Aggies, Texas Tech., Oklahoma,
Louisiana State and the University
of Miami in a postseason game.
—MEXICO—
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tion, and can.be compared in im
portance to Pittsburgh in the
United States. This is in northern
Mexico.
At the opposite eend of Mexico
is the state of Yucatan, a penin
sula. It is a strange land of jun
gles and white limestone, of Mayan
ruins and underground rivers. Be
cause of its mountain formations
there are few navigable rivers in
Mexico. Most of the rivers are nar
row and swift. The widest river is
the Rio Grande; the most impor
tant is the Panuco, which carries
oil to Tampico and the Atlantic.
Three of the highest volcanoes
in the world rise out of the great
plateau. Orizaba at 18,209 feet is
the highest and is almost perfect
in outline. Popocatepetl, best
known, is a smoking volcano but
is not dangerous. The slight earth
quakes which shake Mexico City
when this volcano rumbles do lit
tle damage because the city is built
over a filled-in lake and therefore
has an elastic quality of give and
take. Ixtaccihuatl, third in height,
is extinct.
Because of her coastline, Mexico
is vulnerable to attack from Eu
rope and from the east—especially
from Japan. She has 1,600 miles
of seacoast on the Atlantic, with
the ports of Vera Cruz and Tam
pico first in importance. Her west
coast along the Pacific, including
the Gulf of California, is 4,200
miles long, with the port of Aca
pulco the most important and most
popular for bathing and deep sea
fishing.
Mexico’s Economy
Mexico’s weqlth comes from her
mines. The country is one of the
most highly mineralized sections
of the world and has one of the
greatest variety of vegetation in
the world for her size. Mexico pro
duces well over half the world’s
silver. Mexico is the second lar
gest producer of rubber in the
western hemisphere, Brazil being
the first. She is now expanding
the production of guayule rubber.
Mexico is also increasing her out
put of silver, antimopy, lead, mer
cury, zinc, and graphite, of which
she is already one of the world’s
foremost producers.
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Culture and Art
After Mexico’s thirty years long
social revolution, which was the
forerunner of the social revolu
tions in Europe, Mexico is at peace
with herself, although she is at
war with Japan. Out of this social
revolution, has come a great ren
aissance of art. From her paint
ings, which critics say makes of
art a living reality, has come pre
dictions from critics and art col
lectors that Mexico may be the
birthplace of a culture in the New
World, as Italy was in the old.
Mexican art has come out of Mex
ican character and the Mexican
way of life. The country itself with
its unusual beauty has given Mexi
cans a love of beauty and of con
trast and of color. Since the days
of the Mayans ,they have been
fine craftsmen and their love of
life and of music gives their work
an unusual vigor and vitality.
Mexico’s Politics
There are 27 states in Mexico
and a Federal District which can
be compared to the District of Co
lumbia of the United States. Mex
ico City, located in the Federal
District, is not only the capital, but
also the most important and the
largest city.
Mexico’s constitution is based
on the principles of representation
in two houses, the Deputies and
the Senate; a Supreme Court as
the ultimate authority of justice;
and a chief executive—the Presi
dent of the Republic. Mexico’s cur
rent president, Avila Camacho,
took the oath of office on Decem
ber 1, 1940. His campaign slogan
was “Govern for all.” This is a
difficult principle to carry out on
account of the differences in cli-
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mate, soil, peoples, customs, and
dialects. Besides the direct descend^
ants of the Spaniards, the popula
tion includes mestizos and pure In
dians.
Education in Mexico is rising,
and literacy in the country has
risen in the past few years to
about 55 per cent, representing an
encouraging advance. In the field
of public health, the government
is making vast strides, featuring
a plan of rural medicinal service
which has been a huge success.
Under this plan, doctors are sent
as.soon as they graduate from the
universities to rural sections to
work for several years. They com
bat the prevailing diseases in the
rural communities and at the same
time are launching a program of
preventive medicine.
Mexico at War
Mexico has thrown herself whole
heartedly into the war effort of
the Americas. She has been work
ing closely with the United States
through the joint Mexican-United
States Defense Commission, formed
just after Pearl Harbor. Her army,
navy, and air force have been in
creased and strengthened, and her
ships and plans are carrying on a
constant patrol over the Pacific
and Caribbean Sea. They have an
airforce squadron which was train
ed in the United States fighting
the Japs in the South Pacific, and
reports show that they are doing
a fine job of it.
To insure complete utilization of
all resources for the war, the gov
ernment controls the agricultural
and industrial production. Mexico
is stepping up production of steel,
chemicals, fibers, alcohol from su
gar, oil, rubber, and foodstuffs in
important quantities. The United
States has helped Mexico to im
prove her railroads and to speed
up production of war materials by
exporting large quantities o in
dustrial and mining machinery to
Mexico.
—JOHNSON—
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During his long career as head
of boys’ club work, Mr. Johnson
conducted many groups of Club
boys to the National 4-H Club
Congress at Chicago, and to the
National 4-H Encampment at
Washington. But his activities Were
On last Monday, June 11, Ath
letic Officers of the various com
panies met with W. L. Penberthy
to map out the intramural program
for this summer.
The Athletic Officers of the
Corps, in whose hands lies the
responsibility as to the success
of the entire program are as fol
lows; T. R. Walker, “A” Co.; A.
S. Mijalis, “B” Co.; C. E. Haass,
“C” Co.; N. V. Cole, “D” Co.; R.
C. Wilson, “L” Co.; C. T. Caraway,
First Co.; C. F. Ray, Second Co.;
H. J. Tuffly, Third Co.; R. E.
Prince, Fourth Co.; R. E. Burch,
climaxed when he headed a group
of 24 Texas club boys on a tour
of Mexico from May 28 until June
7 last. Several years ago he con
ceived a plan of taking a number
of representative Texas 4-H Club
boys to the southern republic as a
gesture of friendship and to create
a closer understanding between
the youths of the two nations. Two
boys from each of the 12 Texas
Extension Service districts were
selected on the basis of leadership,
production and character to make
up the party. Although in failing
health, Mr. Johnson worked un
tiringly in laying plans for the
journey and courageously made
the long trip to Mexico City. There
he saw his hopes realized when,
with the cooperation of Minister
of Agriculture Marte Gomez, and
Director Hector Lazos of the Na
tional School of Agriculture at
Chapingo, a corresponding num
ber of students at the school join
ed with Texas club boys and fra
ternized with them during the four
days’ stay at the national capital.
In June, 1923, Mr. Johnson mar
ried the former Eula Jackson of
Pasadena who survives, together
with a half brother who resides at
Goose Creek and a sister in Cal
ifornia.
Fifth Co.; J. F. Evans, Sixth Co.;
H. B. Smith, Seventh Co.; and M.
V. Dietz of Dormitory Six.
The program will consist of sev
en events: Volley-ball, Basketball,
Softball, Tennis, Touch Football,
Track Meet, and a Swimming Meet.
Teams from all of the organiza
tions are expected to participate
in at least six of these events, and
in case all seven are entered, the
number of points made in the six
highest events are used in de
termining the winner of the in
tramural flag. In addition to these
events a Handball Tournament,
with doubles, singles and open en
trance will be held, but due to the
fact that men from two organiza
tions may play together in dou
bles, it will not be counted to
wards the intramural flag.
Mr. Penberthy states that the
lack of additional outside activi
ties during the summer will foster
greater interest in Intramurals and
thab> he has high hopes for this
new season.
Entry cards were given to the
Athletic. Officers and should be
turned in by Thursday night at
six. The first contests to be reeled
off will probably come on either
Tuesday or Wednesday of next
week. It is hoped that the regular
schedule and the playoffs can be
finished two or three weeks be
fore the end of the semester.
Organizations will be divided in
to two seven-team leagues; these
leagues will be announced as soon
as all entry cards are in. As has
been the custom in the past, Intra
mural Medals will be given to the
champion team in each sport, in
cluding the open handball tourna
ment.
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