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Battalion Editorials
Page 2 THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, JUNE 1, 1954
Little League Baseball
is Good Baseball
College Station officially gets its Little
League baseball park today, after a lot of
people have done a lot of work to make the
new park possible.
These people deserve thanks from every
resident of College Station, but we suspect
the looks on the kids’ faces when they see
their new park will be thanks enough for
the men who donated their time and money
to build it.
Little League baseball is a lot of fun for
the boys who play, and for the men and
women who actively support it by giving
their time.
It also serves as a recognized training
and character building program for the boys
who play. It’s healthy, fun, and brings out
fair play and good sportsmanship.
It would also be fun for the parents and
other residents of College Station. The Little
League program could use support, but that’s
a poor way to get people to come to the
games—they won’t come if they »think it’s
their duty.
But many people do go to Little League
games, and more would go if they would
just go to one game and discover what the*
draw to Little League baseball is.
It’s just plain good baseball.
Little League Schedule
This is the schedule of College Station Little League games for the rest of the sum
mer. All games on this schedule will be pla yed at the College Station Little League park
at 5:30 p.m., except those games marked with an asterick (*), which are night games,
starting at 7:00 p.m. Night games are played on the lighted Country Club Little League
Park in Bryan.
College Station teams are in the American League South, with Ray Oden as presi
dent. The teams are Marion Pugh White Sox, Black’s Senators, Student Coop Orioles,
and YEW Red Sox.
June 1—White Sox vs. Senators
2— Orioles vs. Senators
3— Red Sox vs. White Sox
4— Orioles vs. White Sox*
5— Red Sox vs. Senators
7— Orioles vs. White Sox
8— Red Sox vs. Senators
9— White Sox vs. Senators*
10— Orioles vs. Red Sox
11— Orioles vs. Senators
12— Red Sox vs. White Sox
14— Red Sox vs. Senators*
15— Orioles vs. White Sox
16— Orioles vs. Red Sox
17— White Sox vs. Senators
18— Orioles vs. Senators*
June 21—Orioles vs. Red Sox
22— White Sox vs. Senators
23— Red Sox vs. White Sox* v
24— Orioles vs. Senators
25— Orioles vs. White Sox
26— Red Sox vs. Senators
28— Orioles vs. Red Sox*
29— White Sox vs. Senators ^
30— Orioles vs. Senators \
July 1—Red Sox vs. White Sox
2— Orioles vs. White Sox*
3— Red Sox vs. Senators \
5— Orioles vs. Senators
6— Red Sox vs. White Sox \
7— White Sox vs. Senators* V
8— Orioles vs. Red Sox \
9— Red Sox vs. Senators
10—Orioles vs. White Sox
Ruth Circle
Fetes Sneeds,
Mrs. Brown
The Rev. and Mrs. Bob Sneed
were honored recently by the Ruth
circle of the A&M Methodist
church.
Also honored at the dinner meet
ing was Mrs. Stewart Brown, re
tiring circle chairman.
Twenty-seven members attended
the meeting which was at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. K. R. Bailey.
Those attending in addition to
the host and hostess were Rev. and
Mrs. Sneed, Mr. and Mrs. Stewart
Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Don Dale,
Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Horn, Mr. and
Mrs. N. D. Durst, Mr. and Mrs.
J. J. Sperry, Mr. and Mrs. L. A.
DuBose.
Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Holdredge,
Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Mills, Mr.
and Mrs. Bob Galloway, Mr. and
Mrs. John Kincannon, Mr. and Mrs.
Curtis Holland, Mrs. T. E. McAfee
and Mrs. A. E. Denton.
DIME FINES BOXED
WAUKON, Iowa—(&)— — If
you get a parking ticket in Wau-
kon, don’t rush to the police station
to pay the fine. Patronize one of
the city’s “courtesy boxes”.
The boxes, painted yellow, are
attached to the parking meter
posts. Parking tickets are placed
in envelopes before they are stuck
under the windshield wiper. The
motorist places a dime in the en
velope with the ticket and rops it
into the box.
Buckin’ Horse
Badger
’“Threw
By JACK HEWINS
AP Newsfeatures
LOOMIS, Wash.—Badger Moun
tain was only a horse.
But to Tim Bernard he was the
greatest horse that ever held up a
saddle—as he was to many other
members of the Tribe of Ten Gallon
Hats.
But as long as there are rodeos,
piggin’ strings and association
saddles Badger Mountain will stay
alive in the legends of the bucka-
roos.
The gallant old blood bay was
29 and three years retired from
the dust of the arena when a vet
erinarian dropped in at Bernard’s
ranch here. He had to do a bit of
filing on Badger Mountain’s teeth.
The old campaigner had never liked
the chute, but this time he walked
in quietly to keep his dental ap
pointment and, without fuss or
drama, he died.
This was the Badger Mountain
that used to come blasting out of
the chute like the Devil was pok
ing him with a red hot pitchfork.
He could be had, but late in his
career he still was tossing 97 per-
Mountain
Them A1F
cent of the guys who drew him.
“You can name all the world
champion bronc riders from 1934
through 1946 and Badger threw
them all,” says Bernard, adding:
“All except Nick Knight.” Nick
had his number. He watched the
Badger explode into the arena and
after the second or third jump rear
straight up, then pivot and come
slamming down with a great sweep
of his head. By that time most
riders would be walking away,
slapping the dust out of their
chaps.
Nick noticed the horse was al
ways ridden with a loose flank
strap—the “bucking strap” fasten
ed behind the cinch. Says Tim,
“How he figured it out I don’t
know, but the first time Nick rode
Badger he asked me if he could
tighten the flank strap. I told him
he could. Badger kicked at the
moon and Nick stayed with him.
“Nick rode him three times, but
he never told another rider his
secret. Once his brother Tommy
could have won the Cheyenne show
if he had known, but Nick played
it square with the Badger.”
Bernard and Leo Moomaw ran a
string of rodeo stock that made
the topnotch shows and Badger
Mountain was just another new
horse in the corrals when they
bought him in 1934 at Douglas,
Wash. The 1,220-pound bronc
bucked first at Waterville, Wash.,
went on to Pendleton and from
that time on was the featured
horse at Pendleton and Cheyenne.
He was unrideable at Cheyenne
and Fort Worth.
There have been a lot of famous
buckers, like Steamboat and Mid
night of an earlier day and Hell’s
Angel and Five Minutes to Mid
night of Badger’s time. The Badger
tossed many men who rode his two
rivals.
Here was a horse that loved its
work and made a game of it.
You don’t teach a horse to buck,
Tim will tell you. He must buck
because he wants to; if he isn’t
a natural bucker he doesn’t play
long in a rodeo string. The fear
some Badger Mountain bucked for
17 years.
But it was always, with his ears
pointed forward—the equine equiv
alent of a warrior’s smile. You
have Tim’s word that this blaze
faced brute was “perfectly gentle.
In his long career he never injured
a rider. Take the saddle off and
anyone could handle him.”
The Battalion
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Farm Service Work
Recognized Nationally
“The work that your farm-ser
vice departments are doing is rec
ognized nationally,” P. T. Montfort
told executives of 12 electric com
panies serving Texas here Tues
day.
Montfort, who is project director
for the Texas P’arm Electrification
committee, was reporting to the
group on activity through the past
year, at the 25th annual meeting
of the committee.
“Farmers generally haven’t re
alized how much they can use elec
tricity,” Montfort continued. Only
when labor shortages became pro
nounced did the farmer begin to
realize that in electricity he had a
real tool—one he could use to good
advantage, he said.
In 1945, for example, only 157,-
838 farms in the state had elec
tricity—a total of about 41 per
cent. Now, however, more than
305,000—or 92 per cent—have it,
Montfort said, and added that he
believed even more farms are ser
viced than the records show.
Dr. F. C. Bolton, president-emer
itus of A&M, is chairman of the
committee. John Shewmake of
Southwestern Electric service, Dal
las, is secretary. Both were re
elected for the coming year during
the meeting.
R. C. Jaska, of the agricultural
engineering department, reported
on research in farm electrification
during the past year, and E. M.
Lewis of Southwestern Public Ser
vice Co., Amarillo, reported on ac
tivities of the Farm Youth sub
committee, of which he is chair
man.
Supplementing Lewis’ report
were Homer Gibbs of Texas Power
and Light, Dallas; G. A. Bales of
Texas Electric Service Co., Fort
Worth; Lamoyne Goodwin of Gulf
State Utilities, Beaumont; A. H.
Gray, Southwestern Gas and Elec
tric, Shreveport, La.; W. F. Ehlers
of Houston Lighting and Power.
Co., and H. O. Robers, Central
Power and Light Co., Corpus Chris-
ti, all members of Lewis’ commit
tee.
‘It Isn’t Worth It’
Sun Tan Cm ‘
Dangerous Kir
The therapeutic value of a sun
tan probably isn’t worth the trou
ble and risk it takes to get one.
That’s the word from the state
health department. They say a
tan is nothing more than a mani
festation of a skin injury.
But these same health officials
are first to admit that a sensible
22 Foreigners
Expected For
Cotton School
About 22 persons from out
side the U. S. are expected to
enroll for the 45th Annual
Summer Cotton school here
May 31-July 10.
Letters of admittance to the
course—necessary for passport pur
poses for those outside the U. S.—
have been written to 15 persons
from Lower California in Mexico,
Professor J. M. Ward of the agri
cultural economics and sociology
department, said. Another five
students are expected from other
parts of Mexico.
One letter has been written to
a textile mill representative from
Drummondville, Quebec, Canada,
and a student from Israel, now
studying in California, is expected.
Total enrollment for the course
—probably the oldest continuous
short course offered by the college
—is expected to fall between 50
and 60, Ward said.
The Summer Cotton School is
conducted to provide training for
persons expecting to enter the cot
ton trade; to growers who want to
learn how to market their cotton
more profitably; and to buyers who
want to review grade and staple
standards or to become more fa
miliar with elements of quality in
cotton, Ward said.
Instruction, with laboratory work
is given in grading, stapling, fiber
quality, and cotton trade procedure,
by men who have had “extensive
successful practical experience in
the business as well as in teach
ing.”
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News
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LT. COL. CHARLES D. Trail ’39
is being transferred to England
with the eighth air force. Mrs.
Trail is the former Miss Billie
Marburger of College Station. They
have three children.
A JOINT short course for the
Texas Association of County Sup
erintendents, the Texas Associa
tion for Industrial Supervisors and
Texas school administrators will
be held here June 21-23, sponsored
by the educational and psycology
department. About 600 persons
are expected.
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