THURSDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 9, 1945
THE BATTALION
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Intramural Basketball Opens With
Good Brand of Play in Two Leagues
The new intramural basketball
competition opened this week with
Dorm 6, First Company, and Fifth
Company coming through with
wins in League A, and Fourth Com
pany winning from L Company in
the only game in League B.
LEAGUE A
Dorm 6 Squeezes By 7th Co., 17-15
Dorm 6 got off to a good start
Monday by winning a close game
from Seventh Company, 17-15.
Both teams played a good brand
of ball, and the outcome was
doubtful until the final whistle.
Darnell, Greer, King, Davis, Buck,
Butchofsky, Matthews, Dietz, and
Moncada played for the winning
Dorm 6, while Kennedy, Andrews,
daggers, Hayes, Summerlin, Van
Wimple, Robinson, Pierce, and
Hartgrains appeared for Seventh
Company.
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Adams, Burnett, Murray,
Claunch, Bishop and Cheek pro
vided the punch for First Com
pany in winning a close victory
over a hard-fighting B Company
team Tuesday. Webber, Backer,
LaRue, and Mijalls played for the
losers.
5th Co. Wallops 2nd Co. 24-7
Second Company could not seem
to locate the basket Wednesday and
lost by the topheavy count of 24-7
to 5th Company. Metcalf, Velitas,
Shaw, Williamson, and Norris play
ed for Fifth Company. Byall, Kohls,
and Hoch were outstanding in the
Second Company play.
LEAGUE B
4th Co. Wins 23-14 From L Co.
With Garfield, Hazelwood, R. E.
Prince, Witten, A. N. Prince, and
Miller pitching them through the
ring, Fourth Company won the
only League B game of the week,
beating L Company 23-14. Darby,
Lee, Bryant, Wiley, Hinkle, and
Harris made up the L Company ag
gregation.
BASKETBALL
League A
Team W L Pet.
First Co. 1 0 1.000
Fifth Co. 1 0 1.000
Dorm 6 10 1.000
B Company 0 1 .000
Second Co. 0 1 .000
Seventh Co. 0 1 .000
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League B
Fourth Co. 1 0 1.000
L Company 0 1 .000
A Company No
Third Co. games
Sixth Co. played.
Gulf AAU Meet to
Be Held in Downs
Pool August 18-19
The Gulf AAU Swim Meet will
be held in the P. L. Downs, Jr., Na-
tatorium here Aug. 18-19, Art
Adamson, Aggie water sports
coach, annonuced today. In the
junior division preliminaries will
be held Aug. 18 at 4:00 p. m., with
finals at 8:00 that evening. Seniors
will go through preliminaries at
1:00 p. m., and finals at 4:00 p.
m., Aug. 19.
Coach Adamson is chairman of
the Gulf AAU and will direct the
coming meet. It has been custom
ary to hold these meets at differ
ent cities in the tiers of counties
adjacent to the Gulf coast and
once before the meet was held at
College Station. Adamson said he
was trying to get the Texas Aggie
pool designated as permanent place
for future competition of the
Gulf AAU.
Junior events are open to any
amateur who has not won a first
place in a district AAU meet in
the particular type of stroke which
he may wish to enter at College
Station, Adamson said. The sen
ior division is open to any swim
mer or diver in Texas who is
registered' as an amateur.
Order of events was given by
Coach Adamson as: JUNIOR—
50-freestyle, men; 100-freestyle,
women; 50-back, men; 50-breast,
women; 220-freestyle, men; 50-
breast, men; 50-back, women;
diving, men, with 4 compulsory and
4 optional dives; 100-freestyle,
men, and 50-freestyle, women.
SENIOR division—100-freestyle,
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Aggie Swimmers Win
Junior Division of
Southwest AAU Meet
Texas Aggie swimmers led the
field, including the University of
Texas, in the junior division of the
Southwestern AAU swim meet at
Dallas Saturday; Texas lodged a
protest which was disallowed, and
final score stood Texas Aggies 23,
Texas 22, Camp Hood 15, Camp
Wolters 12 and Dallas YWCA 8.
Borrowing Lt. Lynn Surles from
Bergstrom Field, former Western
Conference 200-meter freestyle
champion while at Northwestern
University, and competing under
the name of the “Texas Swimming
Club”, Texas came back Sunday to
defeat the Aggies in the senior
division 39 to 26, though Allen
Self of the Aggies was high point
winner with 13 1-2 to Lt. Surles’
12 .
Texas’ protest of the Aggies’
Saturday victory was on the
grounds that Tom Syfan, who
swam on the Maroon and White
winning 200-yard freestyle relay
team, had not participated in the
forenoon qualifying trials. Accord
ing to Art Adamson, permission
had been given by other coaches,
including the one for the University
of Texas, for certain participants,
including Syfan, to stay out of the
preliminaries.
The two-day aquatic carnival
was held in the Love Field Officers’
Club pool in Vickery Park.
Summary of final junior events
shows Allen Self, Aggies won first
in the 100-yard back stroke in
1:11.8, and the Aggie team winning
the 200-yard freestyle relay fin
ished in 1:47.6. Other Aggie
placings were: fourth in 150-yard
medley relay; Jack Riley, second,
in 100-yard freestyle; and Jimmy
Allen second in 100-yard breast
stroke.
In the senior division, Allen Self
finished second to Lt. Surles in the
100-yard and the 200-yard free
style event, and he swam a leg on
the Aggies’ winning team in the
400-yard freestyle relay. Self’s
time in the 200-yard event was
5:01,. and the relay team finished
in 4:04.9.
Van Adamson, 15-year-old son
of Coach Art Adamson, swimming
unattached, was fourth in the sen
iors’ 400-yard freestyle race; and
in the junior division was second
in the 200-yard freestyle event.
Clubs finishing back of the “Tex
as Swimming Club” and the Texas
Aggies in the senior division were:
Midland AAF, 16; Camp Wolters,
12; North Camp Hood, 10; and
Dallas YMCA, 5.
Tigers Drop
First Game
To Indians
After winning the first half of
the city softball competition with
an undefeated record, the Tigers
started the second half Wednesday
with a 4-2 loss to Bill Manning’s
Indians.
The game, originally scheduled
for Monday and rained out, was
the first game of the second half,
and found the Tigers minus a
good deal of their first-half talent
as a result of some sharp trading
of players by managers of the
other teams. Captain Manning of
the Indians mixed a fast ball with
a slow, reverse-spin pitch which
kept the Tiger hitters popping up
to the infield, while the Indians
bunched their blows well to make
them count.
The Yankees will play their first
game against the Military De
partment tonight, under the man
agement of Jim Prewitt, who has
taken over the supervisory chore
from Col. Frank Anderson. The
Orioles—also playing under a new
manager in the person of Ed Gar
ner—will take on Tommy Ter
rell’s Pirates Friday in College
Hills, and the Tigers will attempt
a comeback against the Military
Department on Monday.
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XXSPORTS*
1st, 3rd, 6th Companies Win Loop A
Football Debuts; 4th Leads League B
women; 100 J freestyle, men; 50-
breast, women; 400-freestyle, men;
100-breast, men; SO^-back, women;
diving, men, with 5 compulsory and
5 optional dives; diving women,
with 4 compulsory and 4 optional
dives; 100-freestyle, men, and 50-
freestyle, women.
Beaumont Football
Star Is Expected
To Enroll at A&M
Expected on August 19 for foot
ball training is Bill Hart, former
Beaumont High and Lamar college
football star. Hart made his ‘ap
pearance on the campus last week
to investigate his football oppor
tunities and his course possibilities;
and according to him, he is ex
tremely pleased with his choice
of Texas A. & M.
Hart was a star lineman at
Beaumont High for three years
with two years’ experience follow
ing lineman as guard and block
ing back at Lamar College. After
those two spectacular years at
Lamar, Hart entered the army and
continued to make a spectacular
record. He received his discharge
with a sergeant’s rating, the Sil
ver Star, the Purple Heart, and
numerous citations for his exploits
in the “Battle of Germany”. He
was taken prisoner during the
“Battle of the Bulge” and spent
siv or seven months in a Nazi pris
on camp before being released.
Hart made his exit from the army
weighing 200 pounds. He has three
years of varsity football ahead of
him at A. & M., since he did not
finish his sophomore year at La
mar before going into the army.
During his army days, Hart
played with and against some of
the nation’s outstanding pro and
college gridders, and he is of the
opinion that he is a better football
player today than he was during
his high school and Lamar days
He prefers the position of a block
ing back or quarterback with A.
& M., although he isn’t bad line
material by any means
According to Bill Scurlock of
the Beaumont Enterprise, “Hart is
rugged and is known to
Three games in League A and
one in League B opened what prom
ises to be one of the most inter
esting sports of the summer, as
touch football made its intramural
debut this week. Sixth Company,
First Company, and Third Company
won their first games in League
A, while Fourth Company won by
a big margin in the only game in
League B.
LEAGUE A
6th Co. Trounces 5th Co. 12-0
Sixth Company displayed a pow-
Engineers With
Experience Are
Needed by U. S. C. S.
The United States Civil Service
Commission has announced a con
tinuing need for mechanical and
aeronautical engineers in the Fed
eral service. Most beginning salar
ies are $2,900 or $3,640 a year, plus
overtime pay, although some posi
tions are filled at higher salaries;
and most positions are in Wash
ington, D. C. Engineering experi
ence is required for these positions
although appropriate education
may be substituted for part of
the experience.
Mechanical engineers are wanted
to serve as ordnance engineers,
heating and ventilation engineers,
and plumbing engineers. Ordnance
engineers are wanted by the War
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the design and improvement of
guns, rockets, rocket launchers,
fire control mechanisms, and other
material. Experience as an ord
nance engineer, or as a mechanical
engineer who has worked on ma
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qualifying. Heating and ventilat
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gineers are wanted for design and
layout on heating, ventilating, and
plumbing systems for naval shore
establishments of the Navy’s Bur
eau of Yards and Docks, and for
Veterans Administration hospitals.
To be qualifying, experience must
have included actual design and
layout work.
Aeronautical engineers are
needed by the War and Navy De
partments and by the National
Advisory Committee for Aeronau
tics and the Civil Aeronautics Ad
ministration. Some of the many in
teresting types of work in which
they are engaged are: design and
development of new or improved
types of aircraft or aircraft equip
ment; wind tunnel testing; stress
analysis of airplane structures;
and research and development on
ultra high speed aircraft and self-
erful aerial offensive in winning
the football opener from Fifth
Company by a 12-0 score Mon
day.
1st Co. Wins Close One
First Company managed to get
in a Sunday punch in the last
minutes of Tuesday’s game with
A Company and came out on the
long end of a 6-0 count. This game
was hotly contested throughout,
and both teams showed good of
fensive play.
propelled missiles. Experience must
have been in aeronautical engineer
ing.
Interested persons who are not
now engaged in war work should
write to the United States Civil
Service Commission, Washington,
25, D. C., for the illustrated folder
Team
W
L
Pet.
“Mechanical and Aeronautical En
First Co.
1
0
1.000
gineers Are Needed in Federal
Third Co.
1
0
1.000
War Agencies.” No written test is
Sixth Co.
1
0
1.000
required for these positions. To ap
A Company
0
1
.000
ply, applicants should get Form
Dorm 6
0
1
.000
57 from the nearest first or sec
Fifth Co.
0
1
.000
ond class post office or civil serv
League
B
ice representative, fill out the form
Team
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L
Pet.
completely, and send it to the
Fourth Co.
1
0
1.000
United States Civil Service Com
Second Co.
0
1
.000
mission, Washington 25, D. C. Fed
B Company
No
eral appointments are made in ac
L Company
games
cordance with War Manpower Com-
Seventh Co.
played.
mission policies and employment
stabilization programs.
3rd Co. Beats Dorm 6, 6-0
In another close game, Third
Company skimmed into the win
ner’s column by a 6-0 defeat of
Dorm 6. Third Company looks like
a hard team to beat this year, as
they boast an exceptionally good
pass defense.
LEAGUE B
4th Co. Smears 2nd Co. 27-0
A fast Fourth Company team,
led by Prince and Koenig, piled
up a 27-0 decision over Second
Company Tuesday. Second Com
pany put up a scrappy battle, led
by King, but were outclassed in
the scoring department.
TOUCH FOOTBALL
League A
PENNY’S SERENADE
By W. L. Penberthy
football oomph. He is one of the
best all-around football players
turned out in Beaumont in quite a
number of years and he certainly
isn’t going to hurt the Aggie pig
skin chances. And if the Aggies
didn’t know it, they got an “A”
student and quite a catcher in base-
possess | ball.
It won’t be long now until foot
ball season will be starting and
everybody is looking forward to
it. During the season we will have
many important games, and will
hear many inquiries of the coaches
as to the “frame of mind” of the
players because every fan of today
realizes the importapee of “frame
of mind’ ’in the outcome of the
contest.
If I were asked what is meant
b y “frame o f
mind” I would be
prone to reply
that it was the
degree of enthu
siasm the play
ers had for the
sport and the
contest coming
up. The team that
Hhas a lot of fine
enthusiasm for
the sport is a
happy one and
hard to beat be
cause in my opin
ion enthusiasm gives the team a
little added something that can
not be put there in any other way.
AMC Rumor Factory Turns ’Em Out
Ideas and Opinions on Atomic
Power Take Campus by Storm
By I. C. All
The rumor factory at Texas A.
& M. College is once more going
at full blast. Within the last five
days, production has been upped
more than 10,000 per cent. This
is a substantial figure in itself,
but it is steadily rising.
The latest product to come off
the assembly line is a fantastic
tale of an atomic bomb the likes
of which have never been seen be
fore. The stories concerning this
bomb range from atomic powered
rocket ships to automatic, self
writing atomic fountain pens.
Bill Holbert, geology major from
Houston, says, “As the atom is
smashed upon detonation of the
fuse, the energy released is of suf
ficient power to create a crater
3,657 meters in diameter and 23,-
187 meters deep. This makes a
larger hole to fill, consequently
gives the atomic bomb more power,
as more debris must be had to
fill the crater.” As Mr. Holbert
is a very intelligent man (?), his
theory is very logical, to say the
least.
One of the most fascinating opin
ions yet expressed was that of a
Senior Liberal Arts student. His
views were, “Just think, this is
History, man!!!” Yes, this is his
tory, and one of our own LA’s
thought up the idea all by him
self.
With the coming of atomic power
has also come the occurrence of
miracles. For the first time since
Universal Pictures came down to
old College Station to make “We’ve
Never Been Licked”, Dr. Smith’s
Physics 204 class stayed com
pletely awake.' The whole period
was spent in violent discussion of
the atomic theory, in which E. R.
Daniels and Clyde Cecil were fin
ally worn down by the broadness
of Dr. Smith’s knowledge. The good
doctor just politely told both of
these brilliant (ha ha) students
that it is utterly impossible to have
an atomic powered vehicle that
would chase only beautiful girls
by remote control.
Frog “Sleepy” Morris over in
Fifth Company has just given to
this writer a complete set of plans
for an atomic powered escalator
to be installed in the Academic
Building. He claims that by the
installation of an atomic escala
tor, every man on the campus will
be able to wait that extra five
minutes in the mornings before
starting for their classes in that
building.
Jlut officially, and not from the
rumor factory, comes the plan of
engineers to harness atomic power
in the peace-time world for a fuel
more economic that has ever been
thought possible. In the present
internal combustion engine, more
than half of the heat energy
created is lost either by friction or
exhaust. But with atomic energy
as the source of power, engines
will be up to 96 per cent efficient.
To illustrate, it is thought possible
to develop a fuel that works on
the atom theory with enormous
energy output. With this fuel, one
teacup of it will furnish the heat
to sail a battleship of the largest
size round-trip from New York to
Honolulu by way of the Panama
Canal.
Look forward to a future of
atomic powered machines. The
whole world will be revolutionized
by this development, and we will
think nothing of taking trans
oceanic trips in less time than it
takes to buy the ticket.
Penberthy
I have witnessed any number of
contests where an enthusiastic, in-
experinecd team defeated a much
more experienced team that lacked
enthusiasm.
It is hard to estimate the im
portance of enthusiasm in our
every day life, but in my opinion
our happiness is pretty much in
direct proportion to our enthu
siasm. I know a person who has
a job in which he is not enthu
siastic, must work about twice as
hard to get it done and misses a
lot of fun. It seems the things we
are enthusiastic about just come
easy.
I think Charles Kingsley summed
it up very well when he said: ”We
act as though comfort and luxury
were the chief requirements of
life, when all that we need to make
us really happy is something to be
enthusiastic about.”
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