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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 24, 1946)
/ ———————I THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 24, 1946 THE BATTALION Paee 3 • • «• On Kyle Field • • \ r By Ed Brandt, Battalion Sports Editor A LONG, LONG WAY With but five conference games left on the schedule, the Aggies have little chance of gaining any of the basketball honors this year, but since November, they have come a long way up that uphill road. In recent years, the Maroon and White cagers have been not too highly looked upon by rival fives, but this year shows that the Ag gies have with them now the one thing they have been lacking for the past three or four years, and that one thing is Coach Marty Karow. Not to bring discredit or unjnstness to the other men who have coached the Aggie quint after Karow left for the armed fbrces, for they have worked wonders with the little material they have had. But with Marty’s return, there is also a return of a certain some thing that has been lacking around the hardwoods here for a couple or three years. That certain thing is the spirit in which Marty works, and that same spirit he spreads to his players. This year, the Ag gies were unanimous choice for the bottom of the heap, but thw are not there. True, they haven’t won all their games, but the ones they have won have been impres sive. And the ones that they drop ped have been by narrow margins. This writer thinks that the Aggie coach and team should be com mended for the swell job they have done so far, and for showing all comers that any game with the Fighting Farmers is going to be one of the toughest on their sched ule. And from a birdseye-view of the remaining games, the Aggies have a better than even chance of winning them. They have improved steadily as the season has pro gressed, and now boast a team that will be hard to beat by anyone. JUST AHEAD As next semester comes in a week, spring sports are more and more coming into tile spotlight. Baseball and track season at Ag- gieland will start officially about the first of March, and the season promises to be a good one for the Cadets. Many high school and amateur baseballers and cindermen have been enrolled in the college, and A&M’s spring sporters should be about the best in the confer ence. Of course, now is a bit early FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE TWO LOCATIONS, situated in the path of your daily comings and goings: 1. Over the Exchange Store 2. In the New Area, Next to George’s CAMPOS CLEANERS “Stay Well Dressed” .. | r — BF ' r Wy hj-t i i 'J5P* USED BOOKS WANTED Our book lists for the Spring Semester are now com plete and we are in the market for many used titles. We pay 50% of list for used books. We also want the following: IC&E MINUSA DRAWING SETS DIETZGEN NATIONAL DRAWING SETS DIETZGEN COMMANDER SETS IC&E LOG-LOG DECITRIG SLIDE RULES 24" T SQUARES 18x24 DRAWING BOARDS I. E. S. STUDY LAMPS Get our quotation before selling elsewhere. You’ll be pleased. THE EXCHANGE (STORE Serving Texas Aggies Aggie Quintet Loses Close Game Saturday To Corpus Christi Naval Air Comets By Charles Osenbaugh The Texas Aggies again had their hard luck late in the game and dropped a close 59-56 thriller to the Corpus Christi Naval Air Station Comets. Both teams took turns at leading all through the tilt but a Corpus break came late in the last quarter when sailor Steve O’Neal found the range for five points giving the Comets a margin the Cadets couldn’t over come. At the close of the game Jamie Dawson and Yo ¥o Yeoman of the Aggies and Navy pivotman, Ove, left via the foul route. This was a fairly wild game in the free throw department with a total of thirty-three fouls being called. Coach Karow presented a new eager to the fans in the person of Football Banquet Will be Held Next Thursday-McKnight Will Be Speaker The annual football banquet for Texas Aggie gridders and their friends will be held in Sbisa Hall at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 31, and Felix McKnight, assistant managing editor of the Dallas News, will be the principal speaker. Coach Homer Norton will an nounce the 1C45 lettermen and will give a preview of the prospects for the 1946 edition of A. & M. College’s entry in the Southwest Conference gridiron sweepstakes. Ford Munnerlyn and S. A. Lipscomb will present the Captains and Most Valuable Player awards, as has been their long-time cus tom; and the Best Blocker award will be made by Bert Pfaff of Tyler, who long has sponsored this trophy. The awards to the lettermen will be presided over by C. W. Craw ford, chairman of the Athletic Council, and Coach Frank Anderson will present the Cross-Country team lettermen. Byron Winstead is toastmaster. One of the outstanding sports writers of the nation, Felix Me 4 Knight has been signally honored recently by election to the Board of Directors of the Associated Press Managing Editors Associa tion. He won nationwide recogni tion for the excellence of his edi torial writing on the Dallas News after joining that publication fol lowing several years as Southwest- Dean and Mrs. E. J. Kyle before their departure for Guatemala. Ticket sales will be limited to the capacity of the banquet room and the public is invited to attend the banquet. A. E. “Pete” Jones at the Athletic Department is in charge of sales, and tickets also may be obtained at $4.25 each from Mike Barron in Bryan and at Lips comb’s Pharmacy, College Station. Fish and Game Club Hears Dr. Turk The Fish and Game club met January 21 at 7:15 p. m. in the Animal Industries Building. Dr. R. D. Turk, head of the depart ment of Veterinary Parasitology, gave a most interesting talk about animal parasites and their rela tion to wildlife. The Club is formulating plans to select a delegate to attend the North American Wildlife Confer ence to be held in New York in March. Morris Backer, a “B” team pro duct. The small forward scored six points and proved the best floor man playing at times. Backer made a couple of nice “steals” as well as dribbling and passing well. Corpus men took high scoring honors with Dan Watson, George Ziegenfuss, and* Steve O’Neal mak ing 17, 16, and 15 respectively. “Little Dawg “Dawson supplied 12 for the Aggies to lead in the basket department. Yeoman tipped in 11 and Peck Vass, Homer Adams, and Oscar White turned in eight each. A. and M. jumped into the lead at the outset of the game on two free ones from Dawson and from there on the lead was constantly changing hands, five times in the first half. Jake Tooney and John Raf ferty were the officials. A. and M. held a 32-25 halftime lead. E. L. Angell Wins Bronze Star for Service in AMG News was received recently that E. L. Angell, assistant to the pres ident of A. & M. College, had re ceived the Bronze Star medal in recognition of his work on General Eisenhower’s staff. Mr. Angell was a Lieutenant- Colonel in the American Military Government in the European The ater of War. Campus Study Club Hears Book Review Mrs. F. B. Clark and Mrs. E. R. Alexander were hostesses to the Campus Study Club Tuesday after noon at the YMCA at College Station. At the close of the business meet- ern sports editor of the Associated i n g j conducted by Mrs. P. B. Pearson, Mrs. Clark introduced Press. For his untiring services to the various war loan drives, Mr. McKnight was awarded the Cham ber of Commex*ce medal for civic enterprise and has been honored otherwise by various organizations. He is the Texas A. & M. College representative on the Dallas Cot ton Bowl committee, a former stu dent of the college, and much in demand as a speaker. He will be remembered here as toastmaster at the farewell banquet honoring to make predictions of the South west Conference, for anything can happen between now and the time the race officially gets under way, but from a birdseye seat, the Ag gies seem to have what it takes. No reports have come in yet as to the strength of Coach Art Adam son’s swimming team but the con ference champs will be ready when the time comes. A story has come in from Austin that the T. u. pre war coach, Tex Robertson, is back at his old post and is gunning for recapture of the tank title from A&M. The army probably paid him more there than his swimming season can afford. Miss Edna Burkhart, reader’s ad viser at the A. & M. Library, who reviewed “They Changed Their Skies”, by Latetia Osborne. The setting was th^ capital of Honduras. The story* tells of the romance of two Americans, Ralph Hewitt and Isabel Gresham, who work at the American Legation there, and of Pepita, the Castilian girl, who complicates the romance, wins the American and returns to the United States with him. It was also the stoi’y of Dona Elena, mis tress of Casa Lopez, and her house hold; of her son, Armando, who was educated at Harvax*d and pre ferred to practice medicine in the United States; and even of Maria, the cook, and her small son, Juan Ramon. Eventually, Dona Elena’s son returns to his native land and Biology Club Sees Veterinary School The annual tour of the School of Veterinary Medicine was featured in the regular bi-weekly meeting of the Biology Club Monday night. Sixteen members made the trip which extended through the de partments of Bacteriology, Pathol ogy, and Physiology. At the next meeting, set for Monday, February 14, the club will begin formulating plans for the publication of the monthly Texas Academy of Science magazine. fails in love with the American girls. As the story ends, she is looking forward to a future under the skies of Honduras. Cowboy boots and ten gallon hats, straight from Texas were presented to the mayor of Metz, France, by Lt. Gen. Walton W. Walker, of Texas. THE STATE FARM INSURANCE COMPANIES AUTO — LIFE — FIRE U. M. Alexander, Jr., ’40 (Kraft Insurance Agency) 215 S. Main, Bryan Phone 2-2629 PENNY’S SERENADE By W. L. Penberthy Some time ago I heard of an incident that happened when Coach Manning Smith was making a name for himself at Centenary College. As the story goes Cen tenary was playing a mighty good team and the go ing was pretty rough with neith er team being able to do much with the other. Centenary was on the offense and Manning was call- :§ ing signals. He || had called the | play and was in the tail back po sition with the Penberthy referee standing a short distance to his right rear. Just before he started calling the signals for the snap of the ball he turned his head and with a grin said to the referee, “I hope this one wprks.” Surely one of the foremost ob jectives of sports is to teach the ones who take part, not only to be calm and collected when the situ ation is tense, but to take the ups and downs of the game in good grace. None of us like the griper who is always unhappy over the play of an opponent or the work of the officials, but we enjoy the player who puts everything he has into the contest and at the same time shows he enjoys the contest. When something humorous occurs we get a kick out of seeing him laugh. The same is true of those with whom we associate and work. We all have our troubles and cares, but the burden is made none the lighter by our carrying a sad look around with us. A couple of nights ago I talked with a fine lady whose husband lay on his death bed. Her heart was broken but she retained her sense of humor and looked on the bright side of things. Some folks let the least thing get them down while others never let anything change their cheery outlook—God bless them. We may not be able to choose what changes and breaks may come to us in life, but we can cer tainly choose the spirit with, which we meet them. A 3$ stamp commemorating the 100th anniversary of Texas’ admis sion to the United States, was sold for the first time anywhere, in Austin, Dec. 29, 1945. 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