-v——. 1r'r; j;, p . 1 ; j Battalion ■ I- -r P 0 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1949 Steer-Sooner Clash Attraction of Wee L • r f By HAROLD V. RATUFF Dallas, Oct. 4—-(AP)—The Texas-Qklahoma footb QB Club Takes Place Tomo bw Night At J game is the big attraction of the southwest this week. It bears strong national implications because Okljahoma is in many quarters as tops in the country. , A Texas is untested but in our opinion will give Oklahi a most interesting afternoon. Wei—71—— s—77-—;—*—:—, 1 would not be surprised to see the other words it meant ari add|- Longhorns win Of course, if they do it might upset present plans of the two schools for continuing the game in Dallas. , Back inp 1947 when bottle throw 's ing marred the proceedings and a lusty demand arose from Oklahoma .to take the game away from Dal las and put it on home-and-home basis, the schools got together and ' decided that after 1953 the con test woiild be lost to this city.' . But last year Oklahoma' finally won a game after eight years and _ . since then Dallas has looked much • better to fche Sooners. We learn frofi an authoritative: source that I i the contract has been extended and probably will be made long-term. That is, if Oklahoma wins again, j. Should the Sooners lose ex-students and followers^of the team probably , . will put up la howl to make it home-and-home. But perhaps this K, time Oklahoma officials won’t! listen . to them. I- The Texas-Oklahoma game as a feature of. the State Fair of Texas is a ^olorful and attractive event. Besides, Dallas has the only stad ium dn the southwest seating 75,- • 000 fans. Teams/can take a licking once ‘ a while with mobs like that 1 ? paying to watch v /' 1/. ' The Southwest Conference has- a better than average share of top football teams. ' It may the • strongest in history ks a whole. A look at the^ club fosters gives ’ you a good idea why this is true. Never before has the conference had so many three-year .varsity lettermen—that is fellows seeking their fourth varsity letters. The .-1 war was the cause. Quite a few rules were suspended durihg the war—such as the sad participation as . ' counting on ..eligibility. The; fresh man, rule continued for' several year? after the war was over. 'This is why Lindy Berry of Tex- Bums, Bo Clash in Br Series Opener Dodgers am inkees willii Herschell Bfegesi, Official to S" 1 1 BY HAROL d the come i Brooklyn’s New York Y to blows agaih tomorrow with the first game of thb 1949 World Series in Yankee Stad ilvery baseball fan remembers ' NeW tiorjal varsity season for the f: i> iw ;perl the: varsity mei 4 of 1945 qt pldy 1 get the exp and 1946. Freghmefn don’t play many games and do n< t irience find training df Incidentally, ^ice has the moit f00 ballm in this category, wif h seven. Southern Methodist has sfx and Baylor and Texas Christian five each. ★ -f-Anent, the ;Texas A&M argpmeilt ill which twoi contemporaries-p-Jolin Clift of the) Denison Herald arid Frank Simmen, Jr., of the Texas A&M Battalion—took me to task for insinuating that Aggieland had n’t been getting good athletes be cause of the hazing and coaching troubled- qf ja: few years -ago: Clift says) our sin is wdij/tipg to be right. A peculiar >vay to loqk at it. John! apparently feels; the same way or; he wouldn’t be arguing that he wa$ correct in his asser tions. Know) anybody who doesn’t want to be right, please? Clift also contends that we wejpe talking aboul? this year wfwjji/we said the Aggies hadn’t gotten top athletes, pointing out that we ,weie attempting to “explain” the 35-0 Aggie losS jio Villanova which was played this year. True, but the fol lows who played for the Aggies came to Aen RHttain. center, of the Battalion staff, is hown is ho presents Gnuly Elms, left, his prize nr belpg one of the 11 winners in last week’s Quarterback Chib contest. At right is Atmar of The P&rker-Astln Hardware Co., who don^wd the prize. game Dodgers Aggies Ranked In 43rd Place By Williamson; Kentucky 1st By RALPHf GORMAN Thb Adgies I lifting of all. Shoved into a miseif- gnitipd ii Paul .Williamsons Sci-jyj 0 jr S a n, pow bbasting of ogs this week* even af- tei} ihakiijg a better than expected | ] n “earned 4p previouls Barnhill’s able fifty^sixth; place In lost j ratings, |Coachi John ,. , Sci- | Hogs are flow bbasting of a niatiofl- enfific Kfltings this week, even af-1 al ranking 1 as the No. 12 team L 1 ia E mparisorj rating qf shiwing against Oklahoma, last! bracket, Arkan^as hnii 0 weeks second team of the nation. 95,g after showing an 85.) for past rfle only face saving chance in| la ti n gs. thi Ag’s statistical fall from thir- tyj-eiglith to a low forty-third is SMT 18th: :hat the Sooners are now 1 The Mustangs of South the All-State pickers?:' Also, didj the fifth team: instead of odist are the next of fh^ S ligh second. appear in WalliamsonlS In the rating which “indicates Rating. Doak \\ alker and cloie vie- freshmarf rule R knW that""some' .'5do“Sichesi| w (™ pa r i80 " of team streng- “nete™. Tot/ 1 life VStSt#1“'" ^”"* 3 |■ thr'fetwttfy’ emr Of Tex- Agpie freshmen of 194S werA men- *4* '/Villanflva 10th . ‘ >"'• as' Christian’ Bobby Fdlsom of ‘tioned by the eoaiches in submitting: . ,1, ' ., , .. Southern Methodist, Joe - Watson , nominations for the All-State L U tiflllf nnf of Rice. Doak Walker of Southern of 1947" , mbn.atgjfegationlis the fall of pow- jl i ; : eiful y n anova ftom third to tenth Simmen argues along much if ^he s l! ot : rational football circles, same line aS Clift so thefle’s no | The! Wlilliamson rating had much of Rice, DoaJt Walker of Sbuthern ’Methodist and a flock of others nbw are after their fourth varsity letters. ' v i State Fair of Tim oct- 8-23 fUN-tistic, ERTEITJUIIMENT The BIGGEST array of TOP SHOWS tvtr offered in the Southwest. *#££ ftRSHmCF every Toe*., Wed., Thun. Stata Fair of Texas DALLAS need of repeating hjs most recent Dla-sb since the above answers him, too. I The best way to (close the argu ment with Simvncfl appears to be j to‘ask these questions: What is the reason for thfl iluhip ! in Aggie football fortunes the past fide or six years. Did A&M hflve the material ‘to win ahd Jf so why didn’t it win?If A&M didn’t haVe the; nfliteritil- to win why did- 11 "’*• I 1 l get it?i . ij McLennan County Club Will Meet effect! or the SWC, as Texas Uni versity, -ated last week as the No. 1 team, was dropped to the No, 3 spot fpllowiag Kentucky and Arniy ifl that qrder. of Arkansas’ over- of last week’s the Razorbacks have ixijerienced the greatest face- whelminj defeat tweiity-f ifth team, Aggjes Improving More Each l eek j Unjesb you’ve seen the Aggies play all three of their p49 foot ,, , ,, ,. ,, ,,,j hall ganes, you may find; trouble "Member of the Waco- MfcLellan | NM‘nir that Hjirry Stitcler’s County^ Cltb elected Club officers WR c u b is improving with every at their fiftt meeting of the; 1949 j, .... , fall semester,” reports W. J. By- 1 l^ h ® monc haven 1 ford, secretary of .the cluo.H L 08ti , a game—except to a Other officers klected' We4 E .; bowl: campion (Oklahoma and B. I’nlbright, president; C. Tf Tra- /dtafloya). Us a good time to vis, vice-president!; E. 0. Cpjflrt ade, treasured; and Fred WaiteVs, sergeant at .arms. Plansl for a Christmas dflnce dur ing the Christmas holidays jwrere discussed. A SDcilal committeE appointed to nage plan.^ fpr. ial gathering to | be held jin boast ol' that record, beqause LSU may brjak it this weiekend. LSU, 14-7; tonqiierer of Rice, didn’t play in fl bowl game last January 1st. No! o heif member of the South- west (O nference has come close to taking on opposition as tough as that! er countered hy the Aggies. Oklahoma and Villanova are among the to / eight teams in almost every lankings system which has been fublished. H ; Consider this comparison: At this point: in 1948, the Aggies hadn’t wofl a game and wgre recovering from 4|2-14 licking at the hands of (OKinhoma. The Cadets couldn’t sedni from scrimmage against the Sooners Ifist year, counting oflee on a kiqkflff return and Igter on a pass interception. Last week, both Aggie touch downs were scored from scrimmage on drives of more than 50 yards. Most of the Aggie mistakes are being made on defense. But the Farmer sophs are learning with eaflh ncjw game. A^t trie Oklahoma game last week, OU Coach Bud Wilkerson prdised the Cadets’ refusal to quit and described them as a team that is going to be very tough later on thfs year. The Aggies, hope to mike Wilkinson’s prediction! come true. I'; posellly “foul play”, dropped from a sp(ot among the upper 25 teams to a lower thirty-third. The Horned Fro^s were dropped again in the “comparison” column froin 92.0 to 90.3J Last of the SWC teams to show (otler than A&M) is Baylor, which holes' a small 0.6 edge over the Aggies in the comparisori ratings, and: ranks only a low fortieth af ter Climbing last week (to a better- nty-< Scientific ! twehty - eiKhth - eonipany Tjexas Tech rated last week in to (eight- the low hundreds, has dropped to the junrecognizables. Rice is next in line for nfltiorjal recognition, but they show a con siderable decrease in gflrr potentialities. After ly one ran. m Floyd Beveni was pitching a no hitter for the Yankees. Bomber fans breathed with every pitch. Lavagetto blasted a high (one from Bllvens against the left-field boards ta/ drive in two runs, break up the ball game, and break Sevens’ heart. Neither Lavagetto nor Bevens is in the major eaglies today. ((Remember Al Gionfriddo? Be was the littlfl Dodger outfielder who ran a country mile to rob Joe DiMaggio of a homer, to rob the Yankees of th!e ball gami^, and to fdree the series fo go into the seventh dnd final ^ame. Gionfriddo is now with Montreal and out of the majflfls. I . ^ f(Shea Sparkled i ' ' i Remember the standout pitch ing of Spec Shefl, top American Geague hurlef in ’47? He’s still with the Yankees but will probably riot see action because of a sore pitching arm. Shea had little to do with the Yankeqs success this ^ear. Everyone remeiflbers Hugh Cas- This week, the instead of ■ i brought at ’ nigit TU Over OU In regard to the prophesies ol this! week’s gridiron melees, Wil- liarjison goes against the beliefs of mare amateur prognosticators, He picks Texas University to have an edge over high-ranking Arkansas is picked, again we say virtue of their surprising Win TCU, to be ten points favorite their battle with the Baylor rs in Waco. As the Aggies wind up a long- j term meeting with the LUS Tigers thi|> week in Baton Rouge, the ( Beflgals are expected to be repeat ers) in the “win” column. TCU is expected to appear in the ail-important winners gallery | in their meeting with Indiana tflis teams, TCU, only half-ltd by Lin dy Berry and suffering frob sup- Meyer to Protest Illegal Hog Tactics . j [ Fott Worth, Tex., ! Oct. 4 <^P>—, , , A ,, Coach Dutch Meyer of Texas Chris- i week-dnd, as the mid-west team( is tian Umfl’ersity bitterly condemtt- ra fked in the early hundreds with- ed yeSterday-'-rhe way the Arkan- nn earned comparison of 80.3. sas University^ Hazorba-ks played The Rice Owls meet with New football. He is going to protest to I Mexico for their game this Sat- tlie Southwest Conl'erenk*. ! unlay and have a decided advantage “Someone has to v do something in ® 8 ^ oys sta f* a^i effort to protect tl[e players, shov/n little possibility in so I’m going to do what I can,” he said, Arkansas beat TCIjJ 27-7' in Sat urday’s conference game. Meyef complained! of elbowing ,. , ... by the Arkansas players and illeg- rapked as follows: ai use, of hands. “We’ve never had any similar ex periences in games With! other con ference members,” MSeyer sflid, “but within the last three yflars in games With Arkansas we haVe suf fered a broken jaw, x crushed cheekbqne an(l num^rois liess ser ious injuries from (elbow blows,” getting into the winner's bracket. S5)IU stands idle for a week with gam<| scheduled and a much needed rest. he top teams in the ratings were We said. - rUse: of the elbdWs ..., I want it stopped. We could retal iate it if they’d throw a few play ers out of the games.”' Meyer said he would matter, with president ler of TCU and then w ri Stewart, executive seen Southwest Cqnferenjce. Stewart, questioned disfcuss the M. E. Sad ie James H. tary of the Said he had not received Meyer’s ot Id ihave no received and protest. He sflid he ;woi|ld (have no statement ufltil it ji upon it his office has act Linebacked Orein! Brdwriing sufr fered a fractured che^k bone Saturday’s game. Meyer said End Mo Center Max Eubanjkjs afl back Lindy Bei-ry also the game' with cut tips, Arid facial bruises] - He said all of thje _ plained of being e|boV' Arkansas plflyers. •flifl Bailey, (Quarter-' e out of e teeth AGGIES . HENRY A i\ Why Go to Bryan to Buy SIGN CANVAS J J*. Henry A . MILLER, 1 has just v Money, time — I . Miller Hardwalrje ! YOUR SIGN CANVAS t tR, North Gate, College nation what you nee® r * 1 until last Saturday at Nomnan b® Hadn’t played a total of 111 mln- ites of college football.-He (lid-pot ilay a ddwn! in the Villanova ot fexas Tech games and siw only- Tnited service as the Cadet*’ third- k in 1948: String, Most irterback in II joys would have red of i riding the bench lopg ago and quit the game. Not Nicholas. He could Have graduated last June, but he decided to give it One last tfy. • to give! , it One last tfly Now he (may become one of ib top T-qflarterbacks in the SW( T-quarterbacks in the b^ore tpe season ends. * grewf up Nicholas grew; up in Fort Worth, played high school football for th® Mineral (Wells Mountaineers, no* , calls San Antonio his home. T \ ' i : His liffl-long ambition was to play * football for Texas A&M. ; ! His dream almost failed to cofli® through-jvbut it did and the Ag gies think he’s great after his * The femme you know newofKC’* t does favor favor the gi Ite Burley “Troct Y Xf iium it mt ugo nuwnho vtGo