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THURSDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 22, 1945 THE BATTALION Pacre 3 Tigers Bump Marquez 47 m 7 To Win District Eckles and Jones Furnish Punch In Wild Scoring Spree Led by Bill Eckles, a hole pick ing back who crossed the goal stripe four times, and Shock Jones, who caught three touchdown passes and booted five conversions out of that many tries, the A. & M. Con solidated’s power-geared Tigers rolled up a 47 to 7 score to down the Marquez Yellow jackets at Bronc Field last Friday night to take the championship of District 23-B. After a bevy of breaks that fav ored first one side and then the other, the Marquez team struck ter ror to the hearts of Consolidated supporters when they scored via the air lanes at the start of the second quarter. But the superiority was short lived and never again did the Leon county lads threaten. Consolidated struck back quick ly after the visitors had scored. Eckles took the kick off and re turned it to the Tiger 33. On the first down, Eckles sped for 24 yards to the Marquez 43, and then threw a pass to Jones good for 35 yards and a first down on the 8. Winkler made 5, and then the hard hitting Eckles crashed over for the score. The try for the extra point was blocked. The Tigers added another touch down a few minutes later. After holding the Jackets for downs, they started a drive from the Marquez 43. On a fake pass, Eckles went for 15 around end. He then drifted far back and shot a pass to Jones who snared it over the goal. Again the try was no good. Scoring five more times, the Con- soliated eleven had little trouble downing the game Marquez team. Bi-District Honors Hinge On Thorndale Game Friday Night All roads lead to Thorndale to morrow evening as the A. & M. Consolidated Tigers put forth their last effort of the 1945 football season in an effort to win bi-dis trict honors from the Thorndale Tigers, winners of District 24-B. The Tigers were officially certified as District 23-B champs in a dis trict meeting Wednesday night, which was attended by Supt. W. D. Bunting and Coach R. B. Riddle.' The Thorndale attack is built around Blackman, who scored two touchdowns and three extra points against a good Lexington team last week. Four Tigers Make All-District An all-district team chosen by coaches at Wednesday’s meeting included four Consolidated players: Edsel Jones, end; Robert Lee Hunt, tackle; Charles Wilson, center; and Bill Eckles, back. Receiving honor able mention in the selection were Rusty Anderson and Wayne Long. Banquet Is Planned A banquet honoring the Tiger squad^ is being planned by the Col lege ^Station Kiwanis Club. Date and place of the affair have not yet been announced, but it is re ported that tickets will be available to the general public and that places will be provided for dates of the players. Conference Cross Country Meet To Be Held Here Friday The Southwest Conference Cross Country meet will be held this Friday at College Station. Teams from A. & M., Texas u., Rice, Baylor, and individuals from other schools will participate in the meet. The winner of this meet will be declared conference champion and will receive an official conference award. The distance for the event will be the regular 2% mile course, and will start and finish on the intra- — ■-■"-'A OY iftSrTcarl 214 SOUTH MAIN BRYAN, TEXAS By Ed Brandt Battalion Sports Editor Over in Austin, there is a guy who claims to be an intelligent person, but is a T. u. student, and the sports editor of the “news paper” they put out once every day. This little man has been let ting off steam once more, and this time has stuck out his neck just a shade too far and is scheduled to have it chopped off. In his col umn, this lad says, “In six long, bit ter years, all the way back to the days of Jarrin’ JIM Kimbrough, A&M has tasted the fruits of vic tory over their hated rivals only once Rice’s 6-0 decisionr over the Aggies will cause much pooh-poohing over the supposed strength of Homer Norton’s peach- fuzzed collection of youngsters.... any one who spouts off about be ing a top-flight sports writer and sports expert should know better than to make the errors quoted above. About calling Kimbrough Jim instead of John, all that can be said is that the key-chain boy has his head well up and out of sight. Any one who would actually print such a thing is not much short of being a contender for the title of the world’s dumbest man. And as for calling the Aggies a “peach-fuzzed collection of young sters”, this writer wonders what the Arkansas Hogs, Texas Tech Red Raiders, 0. U. Sooners, and even the high-riding Rice Owls think of that. There is not a “youngster” on the squad, much less a peach-fuzzed one, who isn’t just chomping at the bit for the 29th to roll around. The Longhorns and the guy who claims to be a sports expert over in Austin will find out then just how old, wise, and tough a bunch of “youngsters” can be ! BITE, SUCKER j This column would like to pub- mural football field. Starting time has been announced as 3 _p. m., Friday, November 23. The team entered for A. & M. is composed of Sam Ellis, Jess Hargis, Leighton Lomax, Webster Stone, Bill Hayes, John Holiday, and J. T. Jones. In other meets this year, the Aggie team has won all but one, and that one was lost to Texas u. when it was run be tween the halves of the Baylor game. licly challenge the so-called sports editor of the Daily Texan into a little wager. If Texas u. wins the Thanksgiving game, then Mr. Gal lagher (who is that illustrious sports editor) can have all the space he wants in the Battalion for the game write-up, his story to be published in both the school papers. But if the Aggies come through as they are expected to around here and knock the stuff ing out of the Longhorns, then this writer is to be given all the space he desires in the Daily Texan for the story of the game, the story to appear in both papers. That seems to be a fair enough deal, and only the most timid of the timid Texas u. backers would de cline. How about it, Gallagher, do you accept or do you follow the true tradition of past teasippers and decline it? This office has received many letters during the past week ex pressing how well the corps be haved in Houston last weekend. Not a single one neglects to com ment on how the Aggie section kept quiet when Rice had the ball and was in their huddle. The Aggies made many new friends down in Big H as a result, and it is a compliment to the corps that is well deserved. The yelling was done with cooperation and volume, and for once, someone finally said some thing about the corps that is well received and appreciated. A PERSONAL MESSAGE OF APPRECIATION It is with sincere appreciation that acknowledgement is made to the People of Bryan and College Station for their generous response to the opening of my new DeSoto-Plymouth Dealership in Bryan. We want you to know that we are sincerely interested in helping you take care of your car and will always welcome the opportunity of serving you. We are dedicated to fairness, friendliness and courtesy and to the proposition of serving you efficiently and economically. BRINT MORRIS MOTORS DeSoto - Plymouth — Sales and Service 223 S. MAIN ST. PHONE 2-1311 Basketball The Corps Trip and regular Varsity practice sessions have cut into the number of games in the basketball leagues this week. In the Loop B Circle, A Com pany defeated C Battery 11-8, and E Company trampled A Troop, 19-13. Golden was the high scorer in the A Company game, while Morris and Smith held the scoring honors in the E Co. tussle. D Troop, with Hodges as lead man, sailed by B Battery to the tune of 23-15 in the first League C game of the week. In one of the closest games of the season, D Troop slipped by D Company, 17- 16. Liedieker led the scoring for the D Troop team. Basketball—League A G Company was smashed by B Troop to the tune of 19-17. Cara way and Cruze led the scoring string for B Troop and Watson did some fancy shooting for the G Company team. D Battery turned the tables around a bit, and defeated the B Troop team 22-15. Caraway again led the B Troop cagers, and Curry accounted for a number of the C Battery tallies. A Battery took a forfeit from the Artillery Band, and B Troop climbed to the top of the winner’s column with a 16-10 victory over H Company. League B A Company flashed by E Com- (See INTRAMURAL, Page 4) Aggies- LET’S RIDE THE STEER! “SKIN ’EM ALIVE IN ’45” BEAT T. u.l The Exchange Store “Serving Texas Aggies” Rice Owls Eke Out 6-0 Victory Over Aggies; Daniel Breaks Wrist BOB BUTCHOFSKY TWO VETERAN BACKFIELD MEN will watch the Aggie-Steer classic from the sidelines next Thursday as the result of injuries. Bob Butchofsky, blocking star of the Aggie backfield and workhorse on defense, is out for the season with an injured kidney suffered in the Baylor game. Tom Daniel, pass er and signal caller, received a broken right wrist and is not ex pected to see service. Butchofsky will probably be replaced by Bill Engle and Daniel by Lillard Hart. Chopping Block By Ed Brandt Battalion Sports Editor Playing a brand of football that was way abov£ their heads, the Rice Owls eked out a 6 to 0 win over the Aggies last Saturday in Houston before a sellout crowd of some 30,000 finger-nail-chewing fans. The Cadets led in every department, including the bad breaks column, but just couldn’t manage to get over the double chalk line to kill the Owl 6-point lead. Three times the Farmers lost the ball in side the Rice 30-yard line on fumbles to halt potential scor ing threats. But the worst break of all the many was the injury suffered by Tom Daniel in the second quarter. The bullet-passing quarterback broke his right wrist, and was in the game for but one play during the entire last half. The injury to Daniel not only handicapped the team for the rest of the Rice tilt, but may prove to be the downfall of the team on Thanksgiving. Dani el is an excellent passer and one of the smartest signal callers in the conference. If he is out for the Texas game next week, the Ag gies will have only that much harder battle on their hands to take the strong Longhorn club. play, Rice took over on downs, and the Aggies once again got a bad break. Defensively, the Aggies literally tore the Rice line to pieces. Only 154 yards were made against them, and all of those came the hard way. Every man on the squad play ed his hardest, and hustled his best. The ends were especially strong, as few yards were made from the flank. The Cadet pass defense was not the best it has been this sea son, but with Rice throwing as many passes as they did, a few were bound to connect. Both the Aggies and the Owls had a touchdown called back, the Aggies for the pass receiver catch ing a dead ball, and the Owls for clipping on the touchdown play. On the Aggie play. Daniel threw a pass to end Dan Foldberg, who let the ball slip through his fin gers and fly into the air. Bob Goode reached up to clutch the ball and cross the goal standing up, but the referee ruled the ball dead and the pass incomplete. After the for revenge after last week’s shel lacking at the hands of the re juvenated Longhorns, and will take this game, but only after fighting all the way. Rice was primed, as it had to be for last week’s game, and the long trip to Fort Worth will be too much f6r them. SMU 21, Baylor 14 Again, Doak Walker will spark the Ponies’ to a conference win. He is my choice for best all-around back in the SWC and his passing and running should be to much for the Bears. Even though Baylor has the home field advantage, they will lose a hard-fought, but out-classed tussle. “Eastland”, Texas, is in west Texas. “Southland, Texas, is in north Texas. ilHE MOST HONORED WATCH ON THE CAMPUS THE WORLD’S MOST HONORED WATCH WINNER OF 10 WORLD S FAIR GRAND PRIZES, 28 GOLD MEDALS AND MORE HONORS FOR ACCURACY THAN ANY OTHER TIMEPIECE By Frank Cawthon Tulsa 27, Arkansas 9 (Thursday) Tulsa has a good, powerful ball club, while the Hogs have almost nothing. This should be an easy victory for the boys from Okla homa, and they should have Hog meat instead of Turkey for Thanksgiving. TCU 13, Rice 6 I’m sticking my neck out, but I believe that the Frogs will be out A POINT WORTH REMEMBERING By trading with the Campus Cleaners you are spending your money where it will help Aggies the most. Owned and operated by the Former Students Association, Campus Cleaners’ profits are used for the betterment of your school and the perpetuation of those good old Aggie traditions. CAMPUS CLEANERS “Stay Well Dressed” XXT’ORKING in his laboratory at the University of Wurzburg, Roentgen discovered the x-ray. That was November, 1895. This year, 1945, is the 50th anniversary of that dis covery and also the 100th anniversary of Roentgen’s birth. Within the space of fifty years x-rays have come to benefit mankind through the part they play in science and medicine. Equally important, though less well known, is the part they have come to play as an inspec tion tool in industry. It was Dr. William D. Coolidge, working in the G-E Research Labo ratory, who developed the high-vac uum tube—second only in importance to Roentgen’s original discovery— which increased x-ray efficiency in medicine. And his sectional tube with its cascade principle has made possible high-voltage x-rays for industry. Using this sectional tube, the G-E two-million volt x-ray, developed by Dr. E. E. Charlton and W. F. Westendorp, makes it possible to see through twelve inches of steel. And it can radiograph an eight-inch steel casting 78 times as fast as the smaller giant of one million volts. General Electric Company, Schenectady, N. Y. Th« bast investment in the world is in this country's future. Keep all the Bonds you Buy. GENERAL ELECTRIC 9&3-107F-211