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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 13, 1946)
Wednesday Afternoon, February 13, 1946 The Battalion Page 3 On Kyle Field :: By Marion “Dookie” Pugh Battalion Sports Editor It looked like the good old pre-war days Monday as approxi mately 100 football hopefuls answered Coach Homer Norton’s call for spring training. Fact is, it looked somewhat like Old Home Week as such gridders as Willie Zapalac, “Bloody” Tullis, Calvin Dupree, Dennis Andricks, Ed Dusek, Babe Hallmark, Dickie Haas, Leonard Dickey, and a hbst of others donned the head-knocking pads. Coaches Homer Norton, Bill James, Marty Karow, Botchey Koch, Manning Smith, and Johnnie Franke had something like smiles on their faces as they watched the potential Routts, Kimbroughs, and Boyds file out onto the field. Yes, it looked pretty good—but let’s not forget that the same thing is happening to every other school in the country, and that the Southwest Conference is going to be rougher than ever next fall—and brother, that means rough. The big problem was finding enough equipment to suit out all the boys. During the war new equipment was next to impossible to get, and as yet the situation hasn’t eased up. In fact, we can’t even get old equipment repaired! So, if you drop down to take a gander at all that beef, don’t get excited when you see several “eager beav ers” running around in their birthday suits. If you would care to get a glimpse at all these fine-looking men start second-guessing the coaches this early in the year, you will find practices getting under way between 4:00 and 4:30 every after noon. to Aggies Meet Baylor Bears Here Thursday Switch in Schedule is Arranged to Avoid Conflict With Religious Week Aggie Swimmers Meet T. u. Friday The draft-depleted Texas Aggie swimming team will meet the highly touted Texas university nators at the P. L. Downs Nata- torium Friday afternoon at 3:00. The Aggies took a terrific beat ing from Uncle Sam during the past year, losing three of their star performers to the armed forces. In spite of this, Coach Art damson thinks that A. & M. can give the T. u. boys a good run for their money. Leading the University team are such boys as Demmer, who was 50-yard and 100-yard freestyle expert in 1943, and Bollinger, another Navy transfer, who is medley and freestyle conference champion. Leading the Aggies will be Al len Self, conference 440-yard Attention of local basketball fans is called to the fact that the game to be played with Baylor in Waco, Feb. 14, has been transferred to College Station and the one sched uled to be played here on Feb. 19 has been transferred to Waco by mutual agreement. Owing to the fact that Church Week will be held at the college champ last year, and Manuel Es cobar, 220-yard freestyle champ ion. Little Bubba Reeves, a two- year letterman in diving, who is just back after at hitch with Un cle Sam, will display his wares in the diving department. Matthews will also be in there on the board. Other splashers to watch are J. A. Boyle, breast stroke, and Jack Stephens, sprinter. Returning lettermen are John Heeman, individual medley; Jack (Continued on Page 4) next week the change was made to avoid any conflict with that program. Currently Baylor is leading the conference and a loss to the Ag gies in either game would throw them into a tie again with Arkan sas who also has to play the Aggies a pair of games here to close out their year. Should Arkan sas win both from A. & M. then Baylor will have to win all their remaining games to cinch the title. They have lost but once and that was to Arkansas. Arkansas has lost to Baylor and TCU in a surprise upset. Fans are warned to come to the games well in advance of the 7:30 time since capacity crowds are ex pected for all games. Pete Jones, Aggie ticket manager, had to close the doors in the face of almost 300 fans when Texas played here last week. J You lust THINK you’re touching aluminum/ mister! I iiw Pick it up ... in your bare hands . . . any thing made of aluminum. Your cigarette box. A saucepan. The foil on a choco late bar. You’re not touching aluminum. You never have, never will. The reason is very simple. Aluminum is constantly covered with the thinnest of thin “skins”. It is Aluminum Oxide. You can scrape it off, but it re-forms immedi ately. In a split second. This—the scientists at Alcoa’s Alumi num Research Laboratories learned many years ago . . . but they didn’t stop there. They wanted to know what could be done to this “skin” . . . how it could be made thicker, thinner, harder, porous ... so that Aluminum products could be more useful and serviceable. Out of this Alcoa research on the “skin” of aluminum have come many new things. Aluminum pistons of porous “skin”, to hold oil. 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