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Abb Curtis, Stiteler To Speak At First 'QB Club Meeting By GLENN WILLIAMS Kickoff meeting of The Battalion Quarterback Club for the 1950 football season will be Thursday night, beginning at 7:30 in the Assembly Hall. There will be two principal speakers for this first program which will launch a series of week ly affairs that will continue through the fall grid campaign. They are Abb Curtis and Harry Stiteler. Curtis, formerly a renown South west Conference football and bas ketball official and later director of officials for the Pacific Coast Conference, now is assistant to the secretary of the Southwest Con ference. Stiteler, the head grid coach for the Aggies, will be on hand to re- , cap the Cadets’ 48 to 18 victory over Nevada last Saturday night in Sacremento, Calif.; preview the coming clash with Texas Tech’s Bed Raiders this Saturday night in San Antonio; and answer ques tions of the fans concerning the Aggies and SWC football. Coslett Heads Club Roger Coslett, the Quarterback Club chairman, will introduce the speakers. Stiteler also will bring along the movie of the A&M-Nev- ada battle and will show them fol lowing the question period of the * program. Coslett announced that Curtis, Stiteler and approximately 30 oth er selected guests including col lege officidls and Quarterback Club advertisans w;ill dine with the % Cadet gridders at an informal din- *ner preceding the program at the Assembly Hall. Quarterback Club officials also revealed that they again will spon- » sor the weekly contest. A con test blank will be printed in each Thursday’s Battalion which must be filled out and returned before Triday noon. The winners will be announced either the following Monday or Tuesday but they must • be present on Thursday nights at the Quarterback Club gathering in order to receive their prizes. The number of prizes do be awarded has not yet been decided on. Here are the dates and speakers of subsequent Quarterback Club meetings: Allison Returns to TU . Austin, Sept. 27——Wilmer Allison was named assistant ten nis coach at the University of Texas yesterday. The former Davis Cup star will Assist Dr. D. A. Penick. Twice runner-up in the national singles competition, Allison won the Amateur crown in 1935. LUCKY LICENSE AWARD—$150 “MAN ON THE EIFFEL TOWER” ^UBEBmKBuStK^nMIWiWTOWMiilSBi LAST DAY STARTING THURSDAY thru SATURDAY Humphrey Bogart “IN A LONELY PLACE” FRIDAY NIGHT PREVTJE 11 P.M. Comel$jlP£„ Josette Day • Simone Signoref SAT. NIGHT PREVUE 11 P.M. October 6—Aggie mentor who scouts University of Oklahoma the previous weekend. October 12—Virginia Military Institute scout. October 17—Kern Tips, dean of SWC radio announcers, has been contacted but has not yet accepted. October 26—Baylor scout. November 2—H. C. “Bully” Gil- strap of the University of Texas coaching staff. November 9—SMU scout. November 16—Felix McKnight, an Aggie-ex and former sports writer who now is Managing Edi tor of the Dallas Morning News, has been contacted but has not yet accepted. November 23—University of Texas scout. December 5—Final meeting and Coach Stiteler will be back to round up the 1950 1 SWC football season. The movie of the Aggies’ game the previous weekend will be shown at each meeting in addition to the above speakers. There is no ad mission charge to Quarterback Club programs. Beat Tech Not So Little ■fnH WW>P: Jack Little Don’t let the name fool you. Jack is 6’ 3” and weighs 220, that isn’t small in anyone’s book. Having already played in one varsity game, he is looking for ward to playing this coming Saturday against Texas Tech. Williamson’s Predictions Place Ponies, Steers in Top Ten By FRED WALKER Although the season is hardly more than a yowling infant, Paul Williamson has come up with his second “rating”; this one showing two Southwest Conference teams, SMU (3rd) and Texas (9th), in Adamson Plans Swim Meeting All Freshmen interested in going out for the swimming div ing, or water polo team are re quested by Art Adamson, head swimming coach, to meet Wed nesday, September 27, at the P. L. Downs Jr. Natatorium at 7:30. Upperclassmen who are inter ested and who have never tried out for any of these aquatic sports are requested to be pres ent at this meeting also. Yanks Inch Closer To 17th AL Flag New York, Sept. 27—(A>)_The Yankees inched closer to their 17th American League pennant yester day, reaching the stage where need only one more victory to tie and two to win, as they divided a weird doubleheader Avith the Washington Senators. Washington won the first game, 11 to 9. The New Yorkers got off to a rour-run start in the second tilt and took a 10 to 7 decision— after coming close to losing this, too. This was the Yankees 96th vic tory of the season, just one less than the highest total the Detroit Tigers and Boston Red Sox can attain. The Red Sox, idle today with 91 victories, have six games to go, in cluding two against New York. Detroit, which divided a double- header with St. Louis, has one more victory than the Sox and five still to play. Beat Tech m r I LAST DAY THURSDAY & FRIDAY the first ten. The first ten teams, as rated from performances of the last two weeks are 1), California, 2), Ken tucky, 3) Southern Methodist, 4) Michigan State, 5) Tennessee, 6) Stanford, 7) Georgia, 8) UCLA, 9) Texas, 10) North Carolina. Going further down this list we find TCU listed 11th, Texas A&M 22nd, Baylor 39th, and Arkansas 53rd. Other Texas teams (non-con ference K stand thus: Texas Tech 42nd, North Texas 68th, and Hous ton 99th. California’s AVin—First Williamson placed California first on their 27 to 9 victory over Santa Clara. This loss didn’t lower Santa Clara’s position much though as they fell to 19th, still above the undefeated Aggies of Texas and Oklahoma. Kentucky’s Wildcats moved into second spot by gaining a hard- fought 14-0 victory over LSU. Again a defeated team rates above several undefeated ones as LSU fell no further than 15th. SMU, Michigan State, and Ten nessee round out the top five with wins over Georgia Tech, Oregon State, and Mississippi Southern, respectively. Williamson thodght the lopsided Tennessee score was enough to warrant the Vols fifth position. Last Five, Lush Weekend The last five teams of the honor group, Stanford, Georgia, UCLA, Texas, and North Carolina, had a lush weekend. That is all except Texas, who strained to beat Tech 28 to 14, and North Carolina who barely squeaked by North Caro line State 13-7. Th upseets of the week, accord ing to Williamson, were Georgia over Maryland 27 to 7, VMI by William and Mary 25 to 19, and Wyoming over Baylor 7 to 0. An oddity arises from these upsets. A pre-season slate saw William and Mary as one of the two teams to beat in the Southern Conference. VMI, three touchdown underdog, trounced William and Mary. Wil liamson rates VMI 41st in the na tion, placing this “up-setting” elev en below such teams as Tulsa, San Jose, Syracuse, Cincinnati, and San Francisco. It just goes to show you that you can’t believe the dopesters. Taking a look at some teams that play the Conference “hog- hiders” we see that Mississippi (TCU, Oct. 28) is , rated 13th, LUS (Rice, Oct. 7) is 15th, Santa Clara (Rice, Sept. 30) is 19th, Van derbilt and Oklahoma A&M (Ar kansas, Oct. 28; TCU, Sept. 30 and SMU, (Oct. 14) are 24th and 28th, respectively. Mississippi State Baylor (Oct 7) is 33rd, Tulsa (Arkansas, Nov. 25) is 37th, VMI (A&M, Oct. 14) is 41st, and Texas Tech (A&M, Sept. 30, TCU, Oct. 14, Baylor, Oct. 21, and Rice, Nov. 4) is 42nd. Droping way down the list we find North Texas ([Arkansas, Sept. 30) 68th and the University of Houston (Baylor, Sept. 30) 99th. Oklahoma, Pittsburgh, Purdue, Ohio State, and Missouri meet Southwest Conference teams, but they have yet to play and are not listed. Next week practically every football team in the nation will swing into action, and a good many that are rated high this week will probably take a tumble. A good many that occupy comparatively high positions have either lacked competition, or ha\ r e moved up over better teams that were idle. The real story begins next week. An IRVING AUEH FRANCHOT TONE Production ► Also Starring JEAN WALLACE ^ _ PATRICIA ROC and BELiTA fre-ruT Novtl "A Battle cl Ner*eJ" to GEORGES $IM!*!!% Sr ERVIN* RLUN • Directed Or BURGESS MCSJ^piTN ™ - Screen Play Hr HIRRV BROWN jlirtrfe&a Sr RVH HC.nim / | MANITZAS Pickings Go to Pot; Only Ags, SMU OK By FRANK N. MANITZAS Battalion Spprts Editor Experience is the best teacher, and from now on, the University of Texas Longhorns will not be getting our vote, not by such a large margin anyway, for the coming football games. A predicted 54-0 victory for the Steers went to pot, as the Orange and White eked out a 24-14 win over Texas Tech last week end. Other predictions which we made that went the wrong way included Wyomings’ upset over Baylor, 7-0, and Oklahoma A&M’s 12-7 win, also an upset, over the supposed darkhorse of the SWC, Arkansas. Only the Texas Aggies and the SMU Mustangs played close to form. A&M, pre dicted to be a 21 point favorite, over Nev ada won 48-18, and SMU took Georgia Tech, 33-13, which was close to the forseen, 26-14. No explanations are offered, only that we hope that TU is weaker than pre-season dopes—excuse me—dopesters predicted, and that Arkansas and Baylor will have to do a little hustling to win any of their games this year. TCU, who downed Kansas 14-7, weaker than the 20-0 score predicted, may prove how strong the Okie Aggies are this weekend when they meet at Stillwater, Okla. Baylor will be given another chance to win a game when they meet the team ranked 99th in the nation, the University of Hous ton, at Waco. A&M may showup the Longhorns at Alamo Stadium this coming weekend if they could win by a larger score over the Red Raiders, and SMU can prove its toughness if the Ponies muster a win over Ohio State. TU continues on its supposed easy win road when it meets Purdue at Memorial Stadium, and Rice will open its season in a new stadium against Santa Clara who lost to California last week. Arkansas should look better against North Texas State this coming weekend, but we’re not pre dicting anything yet. A Word From Other texans From another collegiate (?) mean to the state, not only in newspaper, The Daily Texan of TU, everyday life, but also in the sports we saw a little something which world. we thought was quite humorous; You see, last week, we won our too funny to keep to ourselves, game by a much larger score than so we thought we would pass it on. was expected which is more than T PWW no relation to the can be said for the Lon g hoi ' ns Charley Lewis, no relation to tne TEXAS here). We team with the line TU has, plus all Acres “They say the Aggies are going to fare better in football this year. Let’s hope so. “A friend of ours, late of LSU, got quite a boot out of describing how the Tiger coach had his first stringers working out outside the stadium last year while his subs shellacked the Sharecroppers. “Do they HAVE to be called TEXAS Aggies?” the publicity it has received during the year of its expected great season, didn’t show that mean old Texas Tech team its clippings' and make them run. It might have helped, and it couldn’t hurt any. Not that we are trying to say that LSU didn’t out- score us last year, 35-0, but that you are playing the Tigers this year, and although they are not as strong as last season, we hope you Charley, we can only answer you do better, and if you do lose, drop like this. It is a shame that after around, we’re saving clippings on all the time you have spent in your team. Texas that you can not yet ap- By the way, Charley, we plan to predate what the TEXAS Aggies BEAT TEXAS Tech. George White Knows What’s Right Our hats off to George White for November 18—Aggies get long his article in the September 6 issue awaited revenge on Owls on Kyle of the Dallas Athletic Club News Field, Raborbacks out-tough Pon- magazine. ies at Little Rock > and Me y er With a story headed, “Sports grins again at Texas’ expense at Broadcast”, White stated, “new Fort Worth. coaches, scarcity of lettermen add November 25—Mustangs too to probability of upsets in the un- smoot h f or Bears in Dallas, and predictable Southwest Conference F r0 g S turn tables on Owls at this season.” Houston. “Keep an eye on the Texas Ag- gies,” continued White, “it has November 30- Psychologically been a decade since they basked in buoyed Aggies battle Longhorns the spotlight as co-champions; to stalemate at Austin, eleven years since Jarrin , Jawn December 2—Strong closing Rice Kimbrouph powered the Maroon team ekes out on Baylor at Waco and White to a national title and and Rusty’s Mustangs stomp out victory in the Sugar Bowl. This that purple annoyance in Cotton could be their year.” Bowl. lor at Fayettiille. looks too good to be true, but dictions than we did last week, and ference teams to finish in this or-' der. A&M 5 0 1 .917 Texas 4 1 1 .700 TCU 4 2 0 .667 SMU 3 3 0 .500 Arkansas 3 3 0 .500 Rice 1 5 0 .167 Baylor 0 6 0 .000 we’ll see to it, that .he gets the biggest and best steak that he has ever eaten. Beat Texas Tech And he also gives the reasons why: October 7—TCU over Arkansas at Fort Worth. October 14—Arkansas over Bay lor at Fayetville. October 21—Aggies surprise Frogs at College Station. SMU beats Rice at Houston, and Texas takes Arkansas at Austin. October 28—A&M beats Baylor at Waco. Texas too much for Rice at Houston. November 4—Farmers continue march against Arkansas at Col lege Station. Frogs trim Bears at Fort Worth, and Texas breaks SMU at Austin. November 11—Aggies upset Mustangs in Cotton Bowl, Arkan sas has joyous homecoming against Rice, and Texas will be too much for Baylor at Waco. Detroit Keeps Pennant Hopes Alive With Split Detroit, Sept. 27—(A 5 )—Detroit kept its faint pennant hopes alive yesterday, coming from behind to gain an even break in their double- header with St. Louis. George Kell’s double with the bases loaded in the eighth inning climaxed a four-run rally that gave the Tigers a 5-3 victory after the Browns had won the opener 3-1. Beat Tech Night school classes in Shorthand, Typing and Bookkeeping will begin October 16 at 7 p.m. For further information call 3-6655. McKENZIE-BALDWIN BUSINESS COLLEGE 702 South Washington Avenue Bryan, Texas LAST DAY FIRST RUN —Feature Starts— 1:48 - 3:51 - 5:54 - 7:57 - 10:00 CAIAMOUWI netV«H I ■pAttrs*] News—Cartoon STARTS THURSDAY FIRST RUN RevengeoritheOpen Range! TKlk William Elliot? Walter Brennan Marie Windsor m PEPU8UC PICTURE Charles, Louis Raring to Go; Louis Favorite New York, Sept. 27—(AP) —Joe Louis and Ezzard Charles, their hard training finished, exercised lightly at their camps yesterday and were reported ready and raring for tonight’s heavyweight title fight at Yankee Stadium. Promoters were resigned to a gross gate of under $200,000. This would be, roughly $62,000 less than was paid to see Willie Pep lose his featherweight toga to Sandy Saddler three weeks ago. The fight will begin at 9 p. m. (CST). The odds remained a steady 2- to-1 against Charles in man-to man betting—what little there was. It was said that 5 to 1 could be obtained against Charles’ chances of winning by a knockout. Ezzard’s supporters were understood to be grabbing some of this, figuring it to be an overlay. Ezzard, himself, gave out a fiery statement in which he de clared that the odds were ridiculous and that “I expect to score a tech nical knockout no later than the 12th round. Joe can be chopped up like any other old guy.” ® New York, Sept. 27—UP)—Joe Louis is picked to beat Ezzard Charles by almost tito thirds of the sports’ writers covering the heavyweight title fight tonight at Yankee Stadium. Thirty of the 48 writers polled by the Associated Press picked Louis to win. Most of them favored the Brown Bomber by a qnockout. The other 18 liked Charles. Battalion SPORTS WED., SEPT. 27, 1950 Page 3 Military Bowlers To Compete In MSC By B. F. ROLAND “Rank hath its privileges,” but not on the bowling aleys. That’s the byword for four teams in A&M’s Military Bowling League, which begins tonight at 6:30 on the Memorial Student Center lanes. Army officers, Army non-coms, Air Force officers, and Air Force non-coms have temporarily broken relations and declared a kegler’s war. Heading the Army officer’s team is Lt. Col. Leonard F. Walker. “We may start on the botom, but final victory shal be ours,” he insists. Members of the “Bulls”—their of ficial nickname—are in addition to Col. Walker, Lt. Col. E. F. Sauer, Lt. Col. M. T. Bowden, Lt. Col. Walter H. Parsons, Maj. W. A. Burruss and Maj. W. J. Hyde. Air Korps Team Secret Although Air Force officers have not announced their team, they aren’t expecting to be grounded to night. Lt. Mulheisen, captain of the team, intends to have a com plete lineup of AF brass by game- time. M/Sgt. R. J. Schroeder, captain of the Army non-coms, is as con fident as his superior officer, Col. Walker. He only smiled wickedly when the Army officer captain made his prediction. Team members for the Army non-coms are, in addition to Sgt. Schroeder, M/Sgt. J. E. Milheisler, M/Sgt. T. F. Marion, M/Sgt. James Wilson, M/Sgt. G. N. White, SEC T. L. Heller, SEC J. H. Caballero, and M/Sgt. William D. Davis. Air Korps Has “HCM” Air Force non-coms have made all predictions “highly classified material” and haven’t ventured a guess on their bowling outcome. Heading the flying sergeants is M/Sgt. R. W. Stewart. Other team members are M/Sgt. E. M. Donaw- ho, M/Sgt. T. C. Black, Tech Sgts. R. T. Martin and J. D. Sherman, and Staff Sgt. E. R. Watson. The Military League claims to be the first bowling group organ ized under the auspices of the MSC.. Rank respect will go down the alley as the four teams meet tonight. Question: When do the Ross Hall secretaries bowl? Dr. Carlton R. Lee OPTOMETRIST 203 S. Main Street Call 2-1662 for Appointment AGGIES ... Have you tried our values?? • SUMMER SERGE • PANCHOS ® PINKS ® MQ43 JACKETS • FATIGUES ® O. D. PANTS © COMBAT BOOTS « COVERALLS THE PICK-UP SHOP 418 N. Main Bryan Campus Interviews on Cigarette Tests Mvmber 3...the fucker News—Cartoon a "One question.,* Where do I flick my ashes?" D on’t think our neat-pleated friend with the drape- shape doesn’t know the score! He’s plenty hep to all those tricky cigarette tests! If you’re in the groove, they’re not fooling you, either. 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