THURSDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 23, 1945
THE BATTALION
Page 3
Many Promising Candidates Report
As Norton Renews Grid Workouts
Aggie Stock Jumps As Three Lettermen,
Three Squadmen From 1944 Don Cleats
Sixty additional football candi
dates reporting Monday to Head
Coach Homer Norton and assist
ants, with a like number left over
from practice sessions of last
spring and early summer, have
given rise to a belief that the Tex
as Aggies may be among the lead
ers. in the Southwest Conference
championship chase this fall.
These boys, including three let
termen and three squadmen from
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College and Bryan
1944, will hold two practice ses
sions until the end of the current
semester when they will officially
enter school, Coach Norton said.
Meantime, football candidates now
in school will practice about two
hours after classes each day.
Reporting today were Hub Ellis
of Kilgore, center; Tom Daniel of
Kerrville, quarterback; and Oscar
White, end from Rising Star, letter
winners from last year. Squadmen
also reporting for first practice
were Vernon Schmidt, tackle from
Troy; Frank Bless, back from Hon
do; and Bobljy Broyles, guard from
San Angelo, whose bad knee kept
him on the bench,last year.
Other lettermen now in school
are Stubby Matthews, San Antonio,
back; Bob Butchofsky, Ysleta,back,
of 1943 and 1944; Grant Darnell,
Tulsa, Okla., end,' of 1943 and
1944; Bill Geer, Fort Worth, end, of
1943 and 1944; Norton Higgins,
Galveston, end; Scooter Yeargain,
Dallas, end; Sleepy League, Ham
ilton, guard; and Monte Moncrief,
stellar tackle from Dallas, letter-
man in 1943 and 1944, who is now
with the all-star squad in Chicago
preparing to meet the champion
Green Bay Packers of professional
football.
Squadmen from last year who
have been showing up well in sum
mer practice include Cush Denton,
tackle, from Harlingen.
Among the new men reporting
today were the following:
Ralph Daniel, Jefferson; John
Feagan, Sweetwater; Bob Magee,
San Angelo; Jim Williams, Pt. La
vaca; Harold Zeitman, Dallas, who
lettered in track here last spring;
Ben Wyatt, San Angelo; Bob Sloan,
San Benito; Bobbie Beal, Crockett;
Arch Jacobson, Melvin; Paul Teas,
Dallas, former Lubbock High
School and St. John’s Academy,
Wisconsin star; George Joseph,
Jefferson; Bill Townsend, Coushat-
ta, La.; Bob Bradley, Alta Loma;
Ppwee Smith, all-state back from
Bryan; and Gerald Stewart, Mel
vin.
Centers—Tom McKenna, GI from
Ennis; John Knight, GI from Dal
las, who won an A&M Fish letter
in 1941; and Buddy Hines,Coleman.
Guai’ds—Bill Hart, GI from
Beaumont; James Clotiaux, Beau
mont; Charles Hughes, Beaumont;
Gur Daniel, Abilene; Marvin Niel
son, Dallas; Dick Cummings, GI
from Saratoga; C. B. Brewster,
New Orleans, La.; Dick Taylor,
Jr., Barbers Hill, and Oliver Bark
er, Coleman.
Tackles—Lawrence Paytne, Ft.
Worth GI, who won his A&M Fish
letter in 1941; Jess McDonough,
Henderson; Lester Millican, Ysle-
ta; Ed Kruse, Taylor; Ashbel Gil
liam, Hondo; Tom Davis, Jeffer
son; and Bobby Jones, Dallas.
Ends—Kenneth Dismuke, Sweet
water; Libdy Chandler, Dallas;
John McConnell, Atlanta; Lilliard
Hart, Tyler; Jim Mortensen, Crys
tal City, who won an A&M letter
in track last spring; Bill Mabe,
Falfurrias; Bill Looney, Sulphur
Springs.
Several of the newcomers as well
as some from summer practice
played in the all-star games rec
ently at Abilene or Wichita Falls.
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Dickey’s Return
Will Help Solve.
Tackle Problem
Coach Homer Norton considers
most of his worries about starting
tackles were solved with the re
turn of Leonard Dickey to the Ag
gie camp after three years in the
Army. With Dickey on one side
and Moncrief on the other, the
Aggies will be strong in the mid
dle of the line.
Backing Dickey and Moncrief
are several freshman tackles with
good reputations in high school
play, in addition to Cush Denton,
squadman of 1944, and Grant Dar
nell, letterman at end the past two
seasons, whom Norton has worked
at tackle in spring and summer
training.
..-Norton was so perked up over
Dickey’s reporting Wednesday that
he said he regarded Dickey as “one
of the finest tackle prospects the
Aggies ever had”.
Dickey has two years of eligibil
ity remaining. He had a good rep
utation on the Aggie freshman
team of 1940 and lettered in 1941
though the Aggies then had two
veteran tackles in Martin Ruby,
late of the great Randolph Field
team of 1944, and Euel Wessan.
A native of Alto, Dickey came
to the Aggies from Kilgore Junior
College where he lettered in foot
ball and track, handling weights
in track events. He is listed in the
Aggie dope sheets of 1941 as 6
feet, 2 inches tall and weighing
210 pounds.
Among these were Bob Goode,
Bastrop; Lilliard Hart, Tyler; Guy
Daniel, Abilene; Warren Sette-
gast, Houston; Ashbel Gilliam,
Hondo; Pewee Smith, Bryan; Ken
neth Dismuke, Sweetwater; Bill
Looney, Sulphur Springs; Dick
Butts, Thorndale; and Jim Wink
ler, Temple.
Coach Norton is expecting some
other good boys to report this
week, including two or three with
good high school records. He also
scans the discharge from armed
service notices for some of his
boys with one or more years of
eligibility remaining.
Church Notices
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
R. L. Brown, Pastor
9:45 a. m. Sunday School
10:50 a. m. Morning: Worship
6:15 p. m. Training Union.
7:15 p. m. Evening Worship.
All are Invited to attend all these serv
ices. You will be most welcome.
COLLEGE AVE. BAPTIST CHURCH
203 N. College Ave.
J. H. Landes, Pastor
9:45 Sunday School
11:00 Morning Worship Service
6:15 Training Union
7:30 Evening Worship Service
A cordial welcome awaits all who
attend this church.
THE FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH
Corner Twenty-Seventh and S. College
F. J. Smythe, Pastor
10:00—Sunday School
11:00—Communion and Worship
6 :00—Recreation Hour
7:00—Christian Youth Fellowship
8:00—Communion and Sermon
A cordial invitation is extended to all
who desire to worship with us.
CHURCH OF CHRIST
R. B. Sweet, Pastor
Sunday, 9:45 Bible Classes; 10:45 the
Morning Worship; 7 p. m. the Evening
Worship.
Wednesday 7:15 p. m. the Prayer Meet-
CATHOLIC STUDENTS
Sunday Mass 10:00 a.m.
Confessions, Sunday before Mass.
ST. THOMAS EPISCOPAL CHAPEL
Rev. Hugh Farrell, Chaplain
Sunday Services
Holy Communion 9:00 a.m.
Coffee Club 9:30 a.m.
Morning Prayer or Holy Communion
11:00 a.m.
JEWISH RELIGIOUS SERVICES
(Y. M. C. A. Chapel)
Every Friday evening, 7:00 p. m.
AMERICAN LUTHERAN
CONGREGATION
Y.M.C.A. Assembly Room, Campus
(2nd Floor of Y. Bldg.)
Rev. Fred Mgebroff, Pastor
Sunday School at 9:45 a.m.
Divine Service at 7:15 p.m. 2nd and 4th
Sundays.
Office hours in Lutheran Student Serv
ice. Pastor’s office in the Y. every Wed
nesday.
Radio broadcast: Wednesday, 3:45 to
4:00 p.m. over WTAW, 1150 Kc.
A. & M. METHODIST CHURCH
AND WESLEY FOUNDATION
Rev. R. C. Terry
Sunday:
Church School—9:45 a. m.
Morning Worship—10:50 a. m.
Wesley Foundation—7 p. m.
Wednesday:
Choir Practice—6:45 p. m. J
Wesley Fellowship and Midweek Devo
tional—7 p. m.
The A. and M. Methodist Church is one
block east of the Post Office at the North
Gate.
A. & M. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Norman Anderson, Pastor
Sunday School 9:45 in the Y.M.C.A.
chapel.
Morning Worship 11:00 in the Y.M.C.A.
chapel.
Student League 6:30 on the lawn east
of Guion Hall.
Summer Vespers 7:30 on the lawn east
of Guion Hall.
A feature attraction at the Southwestern Gulf AAU swim meet
held at Downs Natatorium on August 18-19 was the Pleasure Pier
girls’ swimming team from Port Arthur.
Shown above, left to right, are Rae Wheeling, who swam the
50-yard breast and 50-yard freestyle events; Beverly Farquahar, 50-
yard backstroke; Jeanne Dawson, 50 and 100-yard freestyle; and
Jody Richardson, 50-yard freestyle and 50-yard breast stroke. Another
entry, not shown in the picture, was Billy Yarbrough, whose spec
ialties are the 50-yard freestyle and 50-yard backstroke.
The Port Arthur Pleasure Pier swimming club is coached by N.
A. (Nicky) Ponthieux, captain of the 1941 Aggie swimming team and
formerly instructor in physical education at Texas A. & M. College.
Jimmy Allen Is High Scorer in Gulf
AAU Swimming Meet at Natatorium
With a first and a second in both
senior and junior divisions, Jimmy
Allen, A. & M., with 16 points was
high scorer in the Gulf AAU
Swimming Meet held in the Downs
Natatorium Saturday and Sun
day. The water events were spon
sored by the Texas A. & M. Col
lege water polo team under the
direction of Art Adamson, Aggie
swimming coach.
There was a triple tie for second
place with 15 points made by Col
leen Gowen of University Park, and
Lt. Lynn Surles of the Texas
Swimming Club with three first
places each. Billy Yarborough, Port
Arthur, with 14 for one first and
three seconds, was fourth.
Van Adamson of College Station
came in first in the men’s junior
220-yard freestyle event Saturday
and was second in the 440-yard
freestyle for men Sunday. Capt.
Billy King of Bryan AAF was
third in senior diving Sunday; T.
P. Fenelon, A. & M., was third in
senior men’s 100-yard breast
stroke; Jack Riley, A. & M. got
third place in junior men’s 20-
yard freestyle. Bob Wright and
Gene Summers, A: & M., each had
a third place.
• In the women’s classes, Martha
Bonnen of College Station, copped
three thirds and one second, and
Sue Scofield of College Station, had
two seconds and one third.
Following are results in Satur
day’s junior events:
Men’s 50-yard freestyle; T. E.
Gowen, University Park; D. F.
Pierce and C. R. Upham, Texas
Swmming Club. Time 26.
Women’s 100-yard freestyle: Bil
ly Yarborough, Port Arthur; Sue
Scofield and Martha Bonnen, Col
lege Station. Time 1:18.5.
Men’s 50-yard back stroke: J.
L. Allen, A. & M., T. E. Gowen,
University Park; G. R. Summers,
A. & M. Time 33.7.
Women’s 50-yard breast stroke:
Indians and Yankees Head
City League, Play Friday
Bill Manning’s Indians looked
more and more like the team to
watch during the second half of
the city softball play, as they
steamrolled Tommy Terrell’s Pi
rates by a 10-3 count this week.
Prewitt’s Yankees won from the
Orioles 13-7 and Perryman’s Tigers
gave the Pirates their second
drubbing by a 7-1 count to round
out the week’s contests.
The Indians took an early lead
last Thursday in College Hills,
scoring three runs in the first in
ning and two in the second, while
the Pirates ran two across in the
first. The Indians added two
more in the fourth and three in
the fifth to sew up the ball game.
Captain- Manning mixed a slow,
reverse-spin pitch with his fast
Wynela Ray, Austin; Rae Wheeling
and Jody Richardson, Port Arthur.
No time secured.
Men’s 220-yard freestyle: Van
Adamson, College Station; Jerry
Endicott, Dallas YMCA; Jack Ri
ley, A. & M. Time 2:41.5.
v Men’s 50-yard breast stroke: Ro
bert Walker, Dallas YMCA; J. L.
Allen, A. & M; T. E. Gowen, Uni
versity Park. Time 33.9.
Women’s 50-yard back stroke:
Colleen Gowen, University Park;
Billy Yarborough, Port Arthur;
Martha Bonnen, College Station.
Time 39.7.
Men’s diving: Lynn Surles, Tex
as Swimming Club; Jerry Babin,
Port Arthur; James Jones, Texas
Swimming Club. Surles points
(See SWIM MEET, Page 4)
ball to hold the Pirates - to two
hits, while Schaefer was being hit
hard by the lindians.
The Pirates again showed up
without their batting eye Monday
in College Hills', and dropped their
second game of the week to the Ti
gers by a 7-1 score. Tischler turn
ed in a good mound performance
for the Cats, while the Tigers
bunched their hits off Bass and
Terrell to make them count.
The Orioles started strong Tues
day evening, scoring four runs in
the first frame off four errors, a
walk, and a single by Catcher
Barnes. The Yanks came back with
three runs in the second, and went
ahead with four more tallies in the
fourth. They added five scores in
the fifth to sew up the ball game.
Lloyd hurled for the Yellowbirds,
while Gray shouldered the mound
duties for the Yankees.
In a doubleheader feature of the
community picnic Friday evening,
the Orioles will meet the Military
while the Yankees take their crack
ath the Indians at the drill field.
The Tigers and Orioles are sched
uled for Monday on the College
Park diamond.
CITY
SOFTBALL
Team
W
L
Pet.
Indians
2
0
1.000
Yankees
2
0
1.000
Tigers
2
1
.667
Pirates
1
2
.333
Orioles
0
2
.000
Military
0
2
.000
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