THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 6, 1946
THE BATTALION
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Softball, Swimming, Picnicing
Included in Local Council’s Program
Activities of the College Sta
tion Recreation Council will get
under way next week with a com
munity picnic planned, two softball
leagues organized, swimming class
es holding first meetings, and reg
istration of dancing classes about
completed, it has been announced.
One hundred and fifty have sign
ed for the dancing classes that are
planned to get underway as soon
as final registration is held. Any
one desiring to enter those classes
may call Mrs. G. B. Winstead at
4-7694 for details. The classes are
open to any one in the community.
Mrs. Doris Ann Hayes will be
in charge of the classes, which are
the first in this activity that have
ben sponsored by the Recreation
Council. Present plans are to di
vide the classes into Adult, High
School, and Junior High School
groups, with other classes planned
for children under ten years of
age.
It is hoped to get these classes
underway next week and it is urg
ed that any one desiring to enter
do so at once so that final plans
for size of classes can be com
pleted.
The first community picnic will
be held Wednesday, June 12, and
will be followed by monthly get-
togethers of this type. Picnics are
under the direction of J. Gordon
Gay, J. D. Prewit, and Luke Pa-
trenella. This was one of the most
popular activities of the Council
last year and plans are made for
more elaborate ones this year. The
first picnic will feature two soft-
ball games, with the Cubs versus
the Pirates and the Indians versus
the Yankees.
More than 100 swimmers have
registered in the beginners, inter
mediate, and advanced swimming
classes, according to Mrs. G. W.
Schlesselman, chairman. Registra
tion in all classifications are still
open. The classes will be taught
by Art Adamson, swimming coach
of A. & M. College and will be held
in the Downs Natatorium on A.
& M. Campus.
The advanced class will meet for
the first time at 11 o’clock Mon
day morning, June 10, beginners
will meet at 11 o’clock Tusday and
the intermediates will meet at 11
o’clock Wednesday. It is urged
that all who have Registered and
any others who desire to enter
the classes meet at these times so
that all classes can get underway
without delay.
Present plans are that the ad
vanced class will meet each Mon
day and Thursday, beginners each
Tuesday and Saturday and Inter
mediates on Wednesday and Fri
day. This schedule is subject to
change due to the large enroll
ment.
The boys softball began Tuesday
and will meet each Tuesday and
Thursday morning at 9:30 o’clock,
on the drill field to the rear of
Duncan Hall. This is for the boys
under 12 years of age.
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The groundwork for the sum
mer sports program will be laid
this afternoon at a meeting of
the house masters, team captains,
and members of the Physical Edu
cation Department. The purpose of
this meeting is to get the machin
ery in motion to form teams for
competition in summer sports.
The Physical Education Depart
ment at present has plans drawn
up for an Intramural softball
league, a volleyball league, and
matches In tennis. Each dormi
tory and living area is to have a
team for each sport.
The emphasis will be placed on
these three sports to start, but if
enough people request them, other
tournaments will be planned. C.
G. (Spike) White, the head of the
Intramural Department, will help
interested persons form any type
or kind of sports activities that the
facilities permit. The Physical Ed
ucation Department’s sole reason
for existing is to help the students
in athletics, and they are willing to
help at any time. They have the
facilities to handle everything
from horseshoe pitching to a golf
tournament, and if the students ask
it any or all of these will be ini
tiated.
Outside of the Intramural but
still in the Phys Ed Dept, is the
swimming pool which is open to all
students from three to six each af
ternoon. The pool is also open to
students and their guests on Sat
urdays and Sundays at these same
times.
There will be enough facilities to
keep nearly everyone busy on the
campus, but for those who have
to go elsewhere for their recrea
tion, there is the Bryan .Country
Club on the highway to Bryan and
the miniature golf course across
the street from the Campus Thea
tre. The Country Club may not
have the best course in the world,
but I would be willing to bet that
it furnishes more surprises. If
there are enough interested in this
so-called entertainment, the Phys
Ed Department will try to organ-
ilze a tournament.
This program is entirely volun-
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tary, and it will be up to each
individual as to how big a part
he will take in it. The program is
for every student on the campus,
so all you guys and gals come on
out and we will make it the best
of all the preceding programs.
Aggies Place Two Players
On All-SW Conference Team
Edrl Beesley, pitcher, and Hub Moon, right fielder;
both outstanding players for the Texas Aggies, were placed
on the Associated Press All-Conference baseball team for
the spring season of 1946.
Jackson of Rice, making 57
trips to the plate and hitting 25
times led the conference in bat
ting average with a .438. Moon
of A&M was second, making 54
trips and hitting 23 times to come
out with an average of .425.
Redding of Baylor; Zomleffer
and Layne of Tu were placed on
the team by a unanimous vote.
Powell and Jackson of Rice and
Moon of A&M lacked one vote
Softball League
Starts Tomorrow
With Six Teams
The College Station Softball
League gets underway tomorrow
night at 6:00 p.m. when the Cubs
meet the Yanks for the opening
game at the College Park diamond.
When the two teams meet for the
season opener W. R. Wright will
be the manager for the Cubs and
C. O. Spriggs will be at helm
for the Yanks.
The league is made up of six
teams with each team made up of
approximately 22 players each.
The teams are composed of Col
lege Station residents and there
are still openings for anyone who
is interested. Anyone living in
College Station is eligible, both
students and permanent residents;
however students living on the
campus are not eligible as there
will be a softball league formed on
the campus for them.
The steering committee backing
this league is made up of three
of the men from the community:
Frank Anderson, Ray Perryman,
and Lamar Fly. This committee will
handle all gripes and arguments
pertaining to the games. Any and
all problems should be turned over
to one of those men either in per
son or by mail, and they will handle
them.
YANKEES—C. O. Spriggs, Mgr.,
L. E. Winder, Cecil Bearden, La
mar Fly, James Vincent, Breazeale,
Slick Leonard, John Stiles, R. C.
Terry, Dicky Yarnell, Satch Elk-.
of being unanimous.
The all conference team for the
1946 baseball season was also the
slugging team for the season ex
cept for Bobby Layne and Hobbs
Williams who were replaced by
Bishop of Rice and Szekely of Bay
lor. The team with these two men
in place of Layne and Williams
had a team batting average of
.378. Of the power men of the
ins, Joe Davis, C. H. Rartsdell,
Dempsey Guthrie, John Lancaster,
A. C. Magee, Tom Ferguson, L.
C. Fakin, Joe Motheral, Robert
Bland.
VS.
CUBS—Sol Wright, Mgr., Ray
Perryman, J. D. Prewitt, Pluto
Wilson, L. E. McCall, Grady Elms,
Roy Hagler, Bill Blair, Bobby
Wright, Roy C. Garrett, George
Warner, Lloyd Berryman, Ike Dahl-
berg, W. S. Guthrie, H. Cordova,
Louis Mair, Rohrbacher, Lucien
Morgan, Clyde Lenz, W. S. Man
ning.
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TIGERS—N. Anderson, Mgr.,
Bill Echols, M. Smith, Jo Jo White,
Callender, N. Anderson, Jr., Bill
Guthrie, W. D. Bunting, Spike
White, Howell Gandy, Cowboy Mil
ler, Dickie Birdwell, Gene Brock,
H. W. Barlow, Howard Potts, Ed
Stark, Billy Hensel, T. W. Chen-
ault, Robert T. Hunt.
VS.
INDIANS—Ed Garner, Mgr., J.
E. Roberts, H. T. Holland, Jr., El-
vin Street, Charles Smith, Irvin
Lloyd, C. W. Carter, Ray Hickman,
Roy Bucek, Shelby Cain, Herschel
Burgess, C. H. Wilson, E. H. Temp-
lin, H. Cintrone, W. R. Horseley,
N. L. Kelley, Lee Thompson, D. B.
Gofer, Jr., Kalczyk, Sergeant Man-
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conference Bishop of Rice, a pitcher
led the pack with the impressive
average of .454. However, Bishop
only had 33 official hits for 57
trips to give him an average of
.438. This team is all powerful at
bat, but it is weak afield. The
team made a total of 35 errors for
the season to drop their fielding
average to .944, however with
the power this team could show at
bat a few errors in the field would
go unnoticed.
The lineup for this slugging
team finds Bishop of Rice pitching,
Chandler of Baylor catching, Pow
ell of Rice IB, Redding of Baylor
2B, Jackson of Tu 3B, Zomleffer
of Tu SS, Szekely of Baylor LF,
Ferguson of Tu CF, and Moon of
A&M in RF. With a team like this
and the pitching of Layne and
Beesley a coach would have about
all he could ask for in the way
of baseball material.
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Chemistry Finds Better Way to Descale Steel
One of the most bother
some problems in the met
al industry is the removal
of scale from the surface
of stainless steels and
other alloys. Scale is a
thin film of metal oxide
which forms at high tem
peratures during fabrica
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other metal-forming
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Several years prior to
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public announcement at that time
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war work.
Process Development
In developing the process, a group
of Du Pont Chemists found that
small amounts of sodium hydride,
dissolved in molten sodium hydrox
ide, effectively removed scale with
out attacking the base metal or em
brittling it. However, the problem
then arose of finding an efficient and
economic means of obtaining the
sodium hydride. This was accom
plished by developing an ingenious
apparatus for forming it directly in
the molten sodium hydroxide (700°
F.) from metallic sodium and gaseous
hydrogen.
Metal chambers, open at the bot
tom, are placed along the inside of
the descaling tank and partly im
mersed in the bath. Solid sodium is
introduced into these chambers, and
hydrogen gas bubbled through. The
sodium hydride formed is diffused
uniformly throughout the molten
caustic.
Practical Application
The metal to be descaled is im
mersed in the bath which contains
1.5 to 2% of sodium hydride. Scale
is reduced to the metallic state for
A typical layout showing arrangement of equipment for sodium hydride descaling. The usual treating
cycle comprises sodium hydride treatment, water quench, water rinse and acid dip for brightening.
the most part in from a few seconds
to twenty minutes, depending on the
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The hot metal is then quenched in
water, and the steam generated ac
tually blasts the reduced scale from
the underlying metal. A water rinse
and a short dip in dilute acid com
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This process has been called the
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cleaning of metal surfaces in decades.
It is representative of what men of
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