THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 26, 1945
THE BATTALION
Page 3
3rd Co. Beats Dorm 6 to Tie Up
Hot League B Volleyball Race
B Co. Holds League
A Lead With One
Game Left to Play
By Robert Reese
Third Company got a chance to
even things up this week as they
handed Dorm 6 their first defeat
to tie up the lead in League B
of the volleyball race. B Company
is leading League A with the only
undefeated record left in either
league.
Dorm 6 had been the only team
to beat Third Company, taking
them down in two straight games
earlier in the volleyball competi
tion. Third Company turned the
tables, winning in two straight
games with a hard-playing team of
0. Baker, Garrett, Tergus, Fer
guson, Hodges, and Golden furnish
ing the winning punch. Playing for
the losers were English, Davis,
Khakis cleaned and pressed
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Prater,' Ross, Hightower, and
Grogan.
In other games in League B,
Fourth Company won two straight
from A Company and two straight
from First Company, while First
Company took A Company for two
straight. The Fourth Company
team was made up of Noonan
Prince, R. E. Prince, Gene Hazel
wood, Howard McMillian, Joe F.
Leediker, Wendel Witten, and the
company commander, Scott Hag
gard. Playing on the First Com
pany team that beat Company A
were Caraway, Murray, Adams,
Adair and Bell.
In League A Sixth Company was
the busy team for the week as they
downed Fifth Co. in a hard-
fought battle 3-2 and then went
on to beat Second Company in two
straight. Manning, Berkraslany,
and Goode paced the Sixth Com
pany squad in their two victories.
In the other League B games, B
Company, led by Woods, LaRue,
Bell, and Backer defeated Second
Company in two straight games,
and repeated the performance yes
terday against Fifth Company.
Third Company and Dorm 6 will
now have to meet in a playoff for
League B championship, the win
ner to meet B Company or L
Company of League A for the
intramural championship.
INTRAMURAL VOLLEYBALL
League A
Team
W
L
Pet.
B Company
3
0
1.000
L Company
2
1
.667
5th Company
2
2
.500
6th Company
2
2
.500
2nd Company
0
4
.000
League B
Team
W
L
Pet.
3rd Company
4
1
.800
Dorm 6
4
1
.800
4th Company
3
2
.600
1st Company
3
2
.600
A Company
0
4
.000
7th Company
0
4
.000
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2nd Co. Beats 7th to Take Over Loop
B Softball Lead; 1st Co. and Dorm 6
Advance on Idle 3rd Co. in League A
Second Company won a close
^softball game this week, beating
Seventh Company 5-4 to take over
the League B lead from Fifth
Company who dropped to a second-
place tie by virtue of a 9-4 defeat
at the hands of Company B.
In League A First Company
nosed out Sixth and Dorm 6 stopped
A Company to tie for second place
against the idle Third Company,
who have played only one game so
far.
LEAGUE A
Dorm 6 Stops A Co. 6-3
With Darnell in the pitcher’s box
Team
W
L
Pet.
and Aikman doing the catching,
Third Co.
1
0
1.000
Dormitory 6 again slid into the
First Co.
3
1
.750
winner’s column with a 6-3 victory
Dorm No. 6
3
1
.750
over A Company. Cavitt did the
Sixth Co.
2
2
.500
hurling t and Cooper the receiving
Co. A
1
3
.250
for the losers.
Co. L
1
4
.200
6th Co. Tramples A Co. 18-9
League
B
In a slugfest that saw 6th Com
pany hitting a little harder, Wil-
Team
W
L
Pet.
Hams and Janda pitched and caught
Second Co.
2
1
.667
the 6th Co. ten to an 18-9 win over
B. Co.
1
1
.500
A Co. Friday. Cavitt was on the
Fourth Co.
2
2
.500
mound and Cooper behind the plate
Fifth Co.
2
2
.500
for A Company.
Seventh Co.
1
2
.333
1st Co. Noses Out 6th Co. 4-3
Crouch pitched a good game for
First Co. and was aided and abetted
by a tight defense Tuesday as 1st
Co. beat 6th Company 4-3 in a
close ball game. McMahan and
Janda were the 6th Co. battery.
LEAGUE 6
2nd Co. Slips By 7th, 5-4
Second Company won the League
B lead by a hair as Bostwick did
the mound duties in a close 5-4
decision over 7th Company. Glass
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caught for the winners, while Bar
rera and Stolfe were the 7th Co.
battery.
B Co. Slashes 5th Co. 9-4
With Backer on the mound and
Banman catching, B Company
stepped out with a 9-4 victory
oyer 5th Co. to jump from the
cellar to a second-place tie with
4th and 5th Companies in League
B.
SOFTBALL
League A
—NEIGHBORS—
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trade comprises exports of petro
leum and import of equipment for
the oil companies. Puerto Cabello
is one of the best in South America.
Venezuelan Cities
Caracas, the capital and chief
metropolis of Venezuela, is a mod
ern city. Built on the sloping val
ley on the northernside of the
coastal range, she is one of the
principal industrial and commer
cial cities of the nation. Her colo
nial buildings mark a sharp con
trast with the modern buildings,
the parks, and the well paved
streets.
Maracaibo is the second largest
city and the leading commercial
center of the western part of the
country. Valencia, third in size is
the focal point of a. flourishing
agricultural and mineral district.
Other important citiec are: Ciudad
Bolivar, Maracay, Puerto Cabello,
Cabinas.
Education is compulsory in the
primary schools. Progress in edu
cation has been hampered by lack
of trained teachers. The University
of Caracas offers work in medi
cine, law, pharmacy, dentitry, en
gineering, theiology and diplomacy.
Other schools are located in the
capital for the teaching of agri
culture, commerce, and modern
languages. Museums, libraries,
academies and similar educational
institutions are maintained at gov
ernment expense.
The Venezuelan War Effort
Venezuela’s contribution to the
war effort has been a significant
one. From the oil wells of Vene
zuela under the water of tropical
Lake Maracaibo, flows enough of
this strategic war material to sup
ply the needs of the Allied Na
tions. Aside from the fact that
she produces oil and is thus im
portant in a warring world, Vene
zuela’s location is strategic. Facing
on the Caribbean she is not far
from the eastern part of the Pana
ma Canal. She has broken relations
with the Axis nations, frozen Axis
funds, put interned Axis ships into
inte-American commerce and regu
lated Axis-owned business.
Troop 102
Wins Scout
Swim Meet
Winners of Events
At Downs Pool to
Compete at Hudson
Troop 102 garnered 64 points to
win the Brazos County district
swimming meet staged by the Boy
Scouts of America at Downs Na-
tatorium last night. Troop 411 was
second with a total of 43% points,
with Troop 148 a close third with
a score of 41%.
Winners of the two top places
in each individual event, as well
as the first-place winners in the
relay team events, will be eligible
to enter the Boy Scout Council
meet at Camp Hudson near Hous
ton on August 21. A troop pennant
will go to Troop 102 for their vic
tory in last night’s district meet,
while individual winners will re
ceive ribbon awards.
The meet at Downs Pool was
well attended, with approximately
150 persons witnessing the com
petition. The chairman of the com
mittee which arranged the affair
expressed the appreciation of the
Boy Scouts for the co-operation of
Art Adamson, Carl Tischler, and
W. L. Penberthy for their assis
tance in the project.
First-place winners of the swim
ming events are as follows:
CUBS: 20-yd. free style, P. E.
Darnell; 20-yd. back stroke, Wally
Penberthy.
JUNIORS (Ages 12-13): 20-yd.
free style, Herschel Lester; 20-yd.
breast stroke, John W. Howell; 20-
yd. backstroke, Herschel Lester;
distance plunge; Homer LaMotte;
front diving, Bill Chambers; back
"diving, John W. Howell; 80-yd.
free style relay, Troop 102; 80-yd.
back stroke relay, Troop 12; 80-
yd. medley relay, Troop 102.
INTERMEDIATES (Ages 14-
15): 25-yd. free style, Wally And
erson; 25-yd. breast stroke, Aden
Magee; 25-yd. back stroke, Wally
Anderson; distance plunge, John
Ed Parnell; front diving, Wesley
Stevens; back diving, Wesley
Stevens; 80-yd. free style relay,
Troop 411; 80-yd. back stroke re
lay, Troop 411; 80-yd. medley re
lay, Troop 411.
SENIORS (Ages 16-17): 25-yd.
free style, Bob Wright; 25-yd.
breast stroke, Bill Moss; 25-yd.
back stroke, Bob Wright; distance
plunge, Bill Moss; front diving, tie
Bill Moss and Bob Wright; back
diving, Bob Wright.
Eighty Guests
Attend Poultry
Visitors Day
Last Tuesday Dr. D. H. Reid and
his Poultry Husbandry Department
welcomed visiting poultry men
from all over the state to the Poul
try Short Course visitors day. Over
eighty hatchery men, vocational
agriculture teachers, and members
of affiliated fields attended for an
interesting and instructive day.
The programs held in the Agri
cultural Engineering Building were
planned to give as complete cover
age of the poultry men’s questions
as was possible in-the one day. In
the morning session, under the di
rection of R. M. Sherwood, six
speakers talked on topics of major
interest. Among these were C. G.
Schietinger, who emphasized the
duty of the hatchery man to his
community; G. B. Winstead, who
advised honesty and attractive
ness in poultry advertising; and
Dean C. N. Shepardson, who com
pared careful cattle breeding with
poultry breeding and suggested
that the same care in choosing
stock should be used in both fields.
Other speakers were H. H. Drumm,
Prof. R. B. Thompson, and R. B.
Jones.
In the afternoon session, of
which S. A. Moore was chairman,
Jones outlined the improvements
developed by the U. S. Department
of Agriculture, Joe Fechtel warn
ed of smaller markets where bet
ter quality will be essential to
sales, and Prof. Thompson advised
his audience to use the long pro
fits they are getting now to im
prove their building, both for the
health of their produce and the at
titude of customers and the com-
wins
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Tigers Win Again, as Pirates
and Military Pluck Orioles
Aggie Band Meets
Coach Norton at
Railway Station
That good old Aggie Spirit really
showed itself when Coach Homer
Norton was greeted by the Aggie
Corps and Band at the Southern
Pacific station Friday.
Both the Coach and Mrs. Norton
were visibly moved, and both ex
pressed their appreciation for the
reception and the flowers sent by
the cadet corps to the Coach at
the Mayo Clinic, where he under
went a serious abdominal opera
tion.
The Coach, a little grayer aruond
the temples, but showing a good
tan, announced he would have to
take it easy until September; he
also added, “Oh Labor Day we will
be on the practice field.”
Coach Norton will spend from
the latter part of this week until
September 1 at the coast.
Ex-Aggie Prof Gets
Lieut. Colonel’s
Leaves from Clark
Promotion to lieutenant colonel
and the honor of having the new
silver leaves pinned on by General
Mark Clark, the U. S. Commander
in the Mediterranean Theater were
the recent happy experiences of D.
W. Williams, who is on leave from
the position of head of the Animal
Husbandry department of Texas
A. & M.
Colonel Williams, in an interest
ing letter to his family, reported
that he was flown from his sta
tion in Austria to Verona, Italy
where General Clark, just returned
from the States, had summoned the
outstanding officers in his cpm-
mand to personally announce pro
motions and other honors. Colonel
Williams was one of but 8 officers
in his command receiving promo
tions on this occasion. During the
ceremony, General Clark spoke of
Colonel Williams’ fine work and
had much to say of Texas A. & M.
Colonel Williams is one of sever
al college staff members who col-
unteered for service as experts in
the several fields required by the
U. S. Army occupying forces. Go
ing overseas in December, 1943,
Colonel Williams has played an
active part in planning the agri
cultural program of devastated
Europe.
The most recent experience re
ported by Colonel Williams was a
trip into Germany with a Nobel
prize winner, an expert in produc
ing gas from wood, who is engaged
in developing meat substitutes and
ersatz foods which, Colonel Wil
liams reports, do not taste too bad
and are of much importance in the
tremendous task of feeding the
people of Europe.
Commentihg on some of the
European farming practices, Col
onel William writes, “These farm
ers do it the hard way. Most of the
wheat is cut with sickles and bound
by hand. The women over here are
a husky lot and the bulk of the
farm work is done by them. They
use oxen on the carts and the cows
Ray Perryman’s Tigers beat Col. Frank Anderson’s
Yankees 7-3 Friday to maintain their lead in the city soft-
ball race. In the other game of the simultaneous double-head
er which featured Friday’s community picnic, Tommy Ter
rell’s Pirates came from behind to overtake a long lead by
Oden’s Orioles in the last inning and went on to win in an
extra frame. On Monday, the Military Department won
from the Orioles 12-4.
four-bagger. The Orioles went out
in their half of the extra inning
without reaching first base, and
the Pirates won the ball game
when Lamb went down on an error
and scored in a very close play of
Hickerson’s hit.
The Tigers started in typical
fashion by scoring two runs in
their first turn at bat and scored
three more in the third and two
in the sixth to maintain a com
fortable lead. Andrews led the bat
ting attack with three out of three,
while a tight defense and steady
pitching by Dahlbery and Lloyd
held the Yankees scoreless until
the sixth, when they put on a three-
run rally.
The Pirate-Oriole fray was one
of the most exciting ball games
played thus far. The Orioles start
ed the scoring with a single tally
in the third inning. In the fourth
the first three Orioles walked, fil
ling the bases. Develle and Oden
scored on Brison’s hit, and Lan
caster and Brison came in on an
error. The Yellowbirds scored
again in the fifth to take a six-
run lead. The Pirates came to life
in the sixth when Guthrie opened
with a single. McGhee went to
first on an error, and consecutive
safeties by Terrell, McCoy, and
Lamb started the runs pouring
across, stimulated by an infielder’s
error on Hickerson’s grounder, to
cut the Oriole lead to 6-5. In the
seventh, Stiles went to first on
an error and came home on a triple
by Terrell, who was out in a close
play as he tried to stretch it to a
The Military Department scored
in each of the first three innings
Monday and went wild in the sev
enth to score seven runs. The Ori
oles could not find their batting
eye, and trailed the Soldiers all
the way through.
The league-leading Tigers face
a tough game tonight when they
take on the dangerous Indians. If
the Tigers should win, Terrell’s
Pirates will have a chance for clear
second place by winning from the
Yankees Friday evening. The rapid
ly-improving Military Staff will
take their crack at the Tigers Mon
day.
CITY SOFTBALL
Team
Tigers
Indians
Pirates
Military Staff 2 2 .500
W L Pet.
3 0 1.000
2 1 .667
2 1 .667
Yankees
Orioles
1 2
.333
.000
PENNY’S SERENADE
By W. L. Penberthy
Back in 1926 we took our foot
ball team to Dallas to play SMU
in the State Fair. It was a corps
trip, so almost the entire student
body was present. The teams were
pretty evenly
matched but we
definitely o u t -
played SMU in
every stage of the
game but came
out on the small
end of the 9-7
score. All of the
A. & M. support
ers were heart
sick over the out
come of the game
—it was one of
those kind of
games. After the game, I think
I am safe in saying that every
one from the head coach on down
made a solemn resolution that if
we won only one game the follow
ing year it would be the SMU
game. The following fall both
schools had great teams and there
Penberthy
live in a part of the house in many
places. In the summer the cattle
are kept far up in the Alps and
then in the early fall moved back
to the barns.
“The winters are very rugged.
They speak of 20 and 30 below
zero and snow for 5 months with
depths of 5 to 10 meters.”
One night, Colonel Williams
writes, he was duty officer and at
about 1:30 a.m. some trucks re
ported to his headquarters with 9
tons of gold and silver coins and
bullion just unearthed in a walled-
up portion of a cave.
was a tremendous amount of in
terest in the game—state and
national. Before the game when
Coach Bible called our team to
gether for instructions he looked
at his men and said, “Men I need
not say a word to you. I can see
by the look in your eyes that you
are ready.” That day we defeat
ed a fine SMU team 39-13 be
cause we were ready.
In the present war ye hear of
many high ranking officers who
at the beginning of the conflict
were lieutenants. We may be
prone to think that these promo
tions were due to pull but I am
convinced that for the most part
these men had “something on the
ball.” True they might have been
at the right place at the right
time but if they had not been
ready for the promotion it would
not have come. The old saying
is that “opportunity knocks but
once” but if we are ready one
chance is all we need.
It has been my observation in
officiating that the official or the
team that waits until the day be
fore a game to start getting rea
dy usually does a poor job on
the day of the game.
We never know when \he gold
en opportunity may come so it
behooves us to get the best train
ing possible and pay the price in
hard work so as to be ready when
our chance does come.
munity. Roy McDonald and E. G.
Albers also spoke. After each
speech there was a discussion to
supply special information to the
visitors.
L. Jurcak and Reid both com
mented that the day was very suc
cessful, both for the Poultry de
partment and for its guests.
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