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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 8, 1946)
*V *, A THURSDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 8, 1946 THE BATTALION ‘ » - r i m ♦ 4 ► > v * r :: On Kyle Field :: by U. V. Johnston A few weeks ago we were speaking of the cost of staging football games at different times and places, and this past week we were looking over an old Ath letic Financial statement of the University’s and ran across some interesting figures on the 1915 season. That year the athletic department started the season with $32.06 and finished with a $3,931.12 indebtedness. From these figures it would seem that athletics were not nearly so pro fitable then as they are at pres ent. During the season of ’14-’15 football was the only sport that paid for itself, and this sport did not make it through the season with very much to spare. The Rice-T. U. game that year had a total rate receipt of $218.05, and T. U. had given Rice a three hundred dollar guarantee. This gave T. U. a net loss of $81.95, which looked like a very sad day for the boys who paid the bills. The Baylor game the same year also gave the T. U. athletic coun cil a headache, as it also came out in the red. That game was even worse than the other, as it lost better than $75.00. The game with Oklahoma University that year prevented the athletic de partment from going completely bankrupt, as it showed the very big profit—according to the stand ards of that time—$3,574.30. This however is not the net profit as the expenses of the game had to be paid out of this amount. The A. & M.-T.U. game played at Austin on Nov. 25, 1920 broke all existing at tendance records with the huge crowd of a little better than 20,000. This attendance, according to our standards of today, is nothing to brag about, but at that time it was a very formidable showing It did not hurt the feelings of the athletic council either, as an attendance of that size netted the schools as much as all the other games togeth er. In the twenties a game of the size of the last A&M Cotton Bowl Game in 1941 was unheard of... In ’42 when the Aggies played Alabama there was an attend ance of a little more than 30,- 000, and the gate receipts were slightly more than $100,000. These figures give a little of the history of the development of sports in this part of the country, and show that it has become a much more profitable business during the past 25 years. COLLEGE STATION STANDINGS Standings: Aug. Team Won Tigers 2 Indians 2 Cubs 2 Pirates ......1 Yankees ....1 Giants 1 5, 1946 Lost Pet. 0 1.000 1 .666 1 .666 2 .333 2 .333 3 .250 NOTICE!! The Exchange Store will be closed all day SATURDAY, AUG. 10 for Inventory u, ... V ■ ••••.I- THE EXCHANGE STORE “Servin Texas Aggies” ! if Mural Softball Gets Warm As Season Draws to Close By Cliff Ackerman This second half of the Intra mural summer sports program has been fast and furious, and with one week to go the league leaders will have plenty of com petition in holding their top po sition. In the New Area Dorm No. 3 is leading with Dorm No. 12 right behind. This league could easily end in a tie when these two teams meet again. Pitchers like Patterson and Huff for Dorm No. 12 slated against the smooth pitching of Dickson can prove to be anyone’s game from start to finish. In the Old Area there is an other close league with Puryear leading the race and Mitchell and Bizzell bidding for their share of the wins. Players like Giesek and the “nothing ball” pitching of Crew will do their part in helping Puryear hold the lead. Catcher Drake and firstbaseman Schemuck for Mitchell will be playing heads-up ball to make Pur year earn what they get. It will be Bizzell, a team that has had some hard luck, that can cause some upsets with the fast field ing of , shoftstop L’Hommadieu and third baseman Perry. Puryear only played one game this week and defeated Dorm No. 15 8 to 4. The losing pitcher was Grafa, the winning pitcher Crew. Mitchell won three games this past week. First to fall under a hail of hits was Dorm No. 15 to the count of 12 to 7. Next game was a hitting battle in which Dorm No. 16 was defeated 14 to 10. Leftfielder Andrews led the batting for the winners with 4 OLD AREA LEAGUE Team Won Lost Pet. Puryear 4 0 1.000 Mitchell 4 1 .800 Bizzell 5 2 .714 Milner 3 3 .500 Dorm No. 15 2 4 .333 Dorm No. 17 1 4 .200 Dorm No. 16 0 5 NEW AREA LEAGUE .000 Team Won Lost Pet. Dorm No. 3 6 0 1.000 Dorm No. 12 5 1 .833 Dorm No. 7 7 4 .333 Dorm No. 9 1 5 .166 Dorm No. 1 1 5 VOLLEYBALL LEAGUE .166 Team Won Lost Pet. Dorm No. 15 3 0 1.000 Dorm No. 16 1 0 1.000 Dorm No. 12 1 0 1.000 Dorm No. 17 1 1 .500 Dorm No. 9 1 1 .500 It’s Time to Order NOW SENIOR PINKS and JUNIOR SERGE Neatness demands expert tailoring in your Made-to- Order Uniforms. SMITHS Cleaning and Pressing N. Gate Phone 4-4444 hits for 5 trips to bat. For the losers Broun led with 3 hits for 4 trips. In their third win Mitch ell stopped Milner to the score of 8 to 2. Bizzell won three games and ran up a new scoring record for three straight games by their hard slugging. They outslugged Dorm No. 16 to the tune of 21 to 9. Their next victory was over the up and coming Dorm No. 17 team to the count of 16 to 13. The following day it was a fast vic tory over Dorm No. 16 by a 12 to 1 score. Dorm No. 15 took their only win of the week by a close played game with Milner to the score of 11 to 9. After their defeat by Dorm No. 15 Milner came back to outplay Dorm No. 17 to a 12 to 2 count. “Old Men” of Dorm No. 17 Win One Dorm No. 17 finally came through with a win by defeating Dorm No. 15 by a score of 12 to 11. The score was 11 to 5 when Dorm No. 17 came up for their last bat in the 7th inning to get 9 hits and 7 runs off the pitching of Day and Schaeper. Galberth, hard hitting firstbaseman for COLLEGE Your Child Nay Need Cash To Help Him Through College Financing your child’s college education may present no problem whatever when the college time comes. Perhaps ample funds will be on hand. Perhaps not. If ample funds are not available out of your income and savings at that time, the values of your child’s _ in surance policy may prove a God-send to both you and the child in helping him complete his college education. If you do have ample funds available, the insurance policy can be kept in reserve and used lated. An insurance policy on your child will serve as a protected savings plan which will provide cash or col lateral values to help your child meet at least part of his college expenses or to help him launch his business or professional career. Think of the satisfaction that will be yours in the knowledge that your child was not denied the benefit of a college education through any lack of foresight on your part. CENTRAL TEXAS DIVISION COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FORD MUNNERLYN, ’26, District Manager ASSOCIATES Sidney L. Loveless, ’38 Harry Hooker, ’35 M. M. (Rip) Erskine H. E. Burgess, ’29 Ray Smith THE AMERICAN GENERAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY Houston, Texas COLSON & COMPANY AGENTS W. N. (Flop) COLSON INSURANCE OF ALL KINDS Over Aggieland Studio Phone 4-1132 — Res. Phone 2-7679 Battalion Tigers Win Over Pirates to Go Into First Place The Tigers won their second game of the last half of the Col lege Station softball league last Friday afternoon from the Pirates to take over first position in the league. Riddle, pitching for the Tigers allowed the Pirates to hit 6 times for their 3 runs. Karrow was the losing pitcher, allowing the Tigers to hit 10 times for their 9 runs. The only double play of the game occured in the 5th inning; Fly to Potts for the Pirates. The Tigers got three 2-base hits; Denton, Perryman and Bearden slugging one each. The Cubs playing their third game won for the second time from the Giants last Wednesday afternoon, July 31, on the College Park diamond. Jones, R. was the winning pitcher allowing the 'Giants, to hit 3 times for their 2 runs. Rogers pitching for the Giants, allowed the Cubs 5 hits for their 6 runs. The longest hit of the game was a home run for the Cubs by Terrell in the 2nd inning. Stiles slugged out a tripple in the 7th inning for the Giant’s longest hit. The Giants won their first game of the last half of the seas on last Monday afternoon from the Yankees by a score of 10 to 0. Rogers pitching for the Giants allowed the Yankees 4 hits. Jay pitched the game for the Yankees allowing the Giants 9 hits. The longest hit of the game was a home run by Richardson for the Giants in the 3rd inning. The only double play of the game occured in the 5th inning for the Giants: Adams to Spriggs. WTAW to Carry Boy’s All-American Baseball Game Sat. The Esquire All-American Boys Baseball game on Saturday, Aug ust 10, will be broadcast over WTAW at 12:30 P. M. This is the third game of its kind, and it will be played at Wrigley Field, Chicago. Harry Wismer, ABC di rector of sports will give the play by play description, and Johnny Neblett will provide the descrip tive color. The players for this game were selected on the nominations of sports editors throughout the country, and then final selections were made in run-off playing. The 32 boys who were selected will be divided into two teams, one representing the East and the other the West. Ty Cobb will coach the team from the West, and Honus Wagner will direct the eastern team. Entries for Swim Meet Due Monday Entries for the Intramural Swimming Meet are due in not later than Monday, August 12th. The meet will be held Thursday night, August 15th at 7:30 at the P. L. Downs Natatorium. Events will be held in the 400 foot relay, 100 foot back stroke, 200 foot breast stroke, diving, 300 foot free style, and 300 foot med ley relay. Dorm No. 17, led the hitting with 3 hits (one a homerun) for 4 trips to the plate. Dorm No. 3 in the New Area League proved their leadership by rotating the pitching duties between Dickson, Neumann, and Crouch to win their three games of the week. Crouch won the first game when Dorm No. 7 was defeated 9 to 6. The next day it was an easy victory over Dorm No. 1 to the tune of 6 to 1. Their third win of the week was a fast defeat of Dorm No. 9 with Dick son pitching the league leaders to a 16 to 1 victory. Close behind Dorm No. 3 comes Dorm No. 12. Their first win of the week was over Dorm No. 9 to the long count of 22 to 1. Huff was the winning pitcher. Dorm No. 1 was the next to fall under the hard slugging of Dorm No. 12 to the score of 11 to 2. Dorm No. 7 was the next victim to the score of 7 to 3. Giblin and Brandt each got a homerun for the losers. For the winners cen- terfield Price led the batting with 2 hits for 3 trips to bat. Dorm No. 7 outslugged Dorm No. 9 in a wild scoring game to the count of 18 to 14. McGowan was the winning pitcher. —TEN AGGIES— (Continued from page 1) Agriculture at Chapingo, Mexico, will also be attended by the follow ing staff members: Dean C. N. Shepardson, Dean of Agriculture, Dr. G. W. Adriance, Head of the Department of Horticulture, and G. B. Winstead, Director of Informa tion for the college. “This trip is a continuation of an international good will program between Texas A. and M. and the Mexican School of Agriculture tjiat started in the Spring of 1945 when the Sears Roebuck Foundation pro vided for a good trip in coopera tion with The Texas Experiment Station for 4-H boys to go to Mexico. In the Fall of 1945 their return visit was made by a group of Mexican students from the Col lege at Chapingo, at which time the original suggestion was made for a return trip to A. & M. students”. Dean Shepardson says. Before entering Mexico, the A. & M. members will meet a Mexi can delegate of two professors and three students from the National School of Agriculture, at Browns ville, Texas, Sunday night, where they will be given a dinner by Cal Johnson, public relations man for Sears Roebuck and Co. The inspection tour proper gets under way when a Mexican recep tion group meet the Aggies at Matamoras. The itinerary for the trip includes stops at Matmoras, Reynosa, Monterrey, Victoria, Val les and Chapingo. On this journey the Aggies will inspect irrigation projects, dams, citriculture areas, sugar mills, banana and coffee plantations, and the Mexican School of Agriculture. Concentrate when you open your book—A. & M. Handbook. dnesday 77 stops are an^V ^^Tl constructed fro! propriated by thvA»%?*' rectors upon requev Gibb Gilchrist. The L<eP $> Company, of Dallas, 0 ^ contract for the softbtP A stops to be completed at v ^ cost of $5,000. V. The athletic department structed a wooden model so time ago for experimental p poses. They found their mo to be efficient. The porta back-stops being built by The clone Company are very simi in form. They are in three ei foot sections, and made of he galvanized wire. Construction such as to have a canopy eff upon the ball. Designated un : ground concrete holders are be set about the campus for backstops to slide into. U completion of the softball sea they will be taken into stora By having portable back-stops area will again be free for ot sports. Eight of the new back-stops to be used on the new area d? field, two west of Law and P year Hall, one South and West Dean Marsteller’s Home, and are to be held in reserve unti later date. Included in the $75,000 exp ditures for enlargement and provement of recreational fac ties are: enlargement of Grove, twelve new tennis com and improvement of the int mural football fields. Watch the headlines in y^ text books. They indicate the ’ portance of the parts.—A. & Handbook. sSMcritagl ’j WRITING PAPERS ^ror a bridge prize ... guest prize ... thank-you gift . stationery is always appropriate And when you select Montag’s Writing Papers you have a wide choice of distinc tive packages at practically any price you prefer to pay They are always attractively packaged for any special occasion. 7k our stationery department THE EXCHANG STORE ANNOUNCING The Opening of the Aggie RIDING AND BOARDING STABLES The place is 4 miles south from the East Gate of the College on High way 6 South. Turn left at the Sinclair Station and enter the first open gate on the right. We are now in position to rent horses and accept boarders. By October 1st it is anticipated to have a quarter track, polo field, jump course and roping arena available to the public. For further information write . . . AGGIE RIDING AND BOARDING STABLES P. O. Box 1497, College Station, Texas or, better still, come out and visit us.