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THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 24, 1946
THE BATTALION
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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
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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.
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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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