The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, March 23, 1928 Page: 4 of 6
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THE THRKtHM—HQUtTOH. TEXAS
ALL ENIRIS Di
ILLMMS RELAYS
PLACE IN EVENTS
One First, One Third, and
One Fourth Taken by !
Six-Man Squad
The six-man track squad entered in
the eleventh annual Illinois Relay
Carnival came through in splendid
fashion to place in every event en-
tered.
Willis, lanky runner who was count-
ed as Rice's fifth best mller, displayed
remarkable ability in winning the 1500
meter race. He came from behind on
the laBt lap to lead Toole of Ohio by
ten yards at the tape. His time of 4
minutes, 13 V4 seconds, proves him
capable of a 4:24 mile.
Bracey also made a splendid indi-
vidual showing. He placed third in
the 75 yard dash, behind Elder of
Notre Dame, and Grady of Kansas.
The distance separating Bracey and
the winner was but a few inches, and
the winner tied the existing world's
indoor and outdoor records to lead
him.
The relay team was unused to the
small indoor track with a continuous
curve almost and a great number of
laps. In spite of handicaps such as
these and the excellent competition
offered, the Rice four finished in
fourth place, while a new carnival re-
cord was established.
The trip to the relays which re-
sulted so gratifyingly was a result of
loyal Rice supporters raising funds
necessary to send the six men and
Coach Claude Rothgeb to the Illinois
Indoor track at Urbana. Coach Roth-
geb's alma mater has an envious re-
cord in staging indoor meets early in
the season, and the time of the vari-
ous events is usually excellent.
Willis' first place and Bracey's third
were excellent showings when one
considers the fact that Bracey is a
elow starter and is at his best in the
220 yard dash.
Willis is a consistent performer in
the mile and while his time for the
odd meter race was exceptional, he
TRIP TO BAY PLAINED
BY GIRLS' GLEE CLUB:
APRIL 0JSET AS DATE
The Girls' Glee Club has set April
9 as the date for a trip to the bay-
Plans for the outing were discussed
! at the meeting Tuesday night; labs
and afternoon classes were casually
eliminated from the program of the
day.
Since the club has been holding its
meetings on Tuesday nights instead
of Friday afternoons, there has been
a marked increase in pep and attend
ance, an average of 25 being present
at the meetings. Even Elizabeth En-
nis, treasurer, will admit that a fav-
orable change has come over the
girls.
promises to develop into an able miler.
SIXTEEN QUAUFY IN
GOLF TOURNAMENT
Illig Turns In Card of 76 to
Lead Field
THREE TEAMS TIE
IN CAMPUS RACE
East Hall, South Hall, and
Town to Enter Play-off
The Intramural basketball schedule
was completed Tuesday night with
three teams tied for the top position.
The team not finishing in the money
was the West Hall entry.
East. Hall Terrors and the boys
from Town continued in a deadlock
for first place, each breaking even
in a pair of games. East Hall lost to
South, 20 to 11, and won from West
45 to 15, while Town dropped one to
West, 31 to 25. and earned a decision
over Johnny Blair anil his South Hall
Team, 20 to 8.
Bush Jones was right Tuesday nite
in the East-West affair, and amassed
a total of 18 points. If Bush continues
his shooting in the play-off, Blair and
Gammill will have to look to their
usual high-scornig honors.
Coach Ashtiruft is well pleased with
the way the season's schedules ended,
and foresees much interest in the
play-off series. The time of the series
will be announced soon by a notice
posted on the bulletin board.
The present standings of the teams,
with the contested game won by West
Hall earlier in the season thrown out,
follows:
P. W. L. Pc.t.
East . . 4 2 2 .500
South . . i> S 3 .500
Towju . . ti :i 3 .500
West .
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SLIMES LOSE TO
"SHOCKERS" 29-19
The qualifying rounds in the golf
tournament for the school champion- j
ship have been completed, with six- i
teen men having qualified. Illig play-
ed nice golf to turn in a card of 76,
while Dan Smith, Greenwood, and
Sturgis also had impressive scores. ;
Besides these, the other qualifiers
are Davidson, Tally, Varner, Blake,
Cohn, Baker. Masterson, Barnard, ;
Darling, Gammage, Lykes and An-:
drews.
The elimination matches have start-
ed and the school champion should be
determined by the end of tbe month.
Following this tournament, a series
of eliminations will be held which will
determine the personnel of the 6-man
team which will represent Rice in the
conference race.
Coach Ashcraft announced that
matches had been scheduled with A.
and M. and with Texas, but that def-
inite dates had not yet been set. The
conference meet will be held in Aus-
tin during the second week in May.
The Owl golfers have a good chance
of carrying off the title, if they're
right; however, all conference schools
boast formidable teams, especially
Texas and A. and M.„ and the Owls
will have strong competition.
T. E. ELUS, '26, IS MADE
LABORATORY MANAGER
OF NEW YORK CONCERN
The advancement of another Rice
graduate in the field of engineering
comes as welcome news to Rice stu-
dent's and alumni.
T. E. Ellis, graduate in chemical en-
gineering of the class of 1926, has
been made manager of the works
laboratory of the Roessler and Has-
slacher Electro-Chemical Company of
Niagara Falls, New York.
The Rossler and Hasslacher Works
employs some 900 workmen and over
30 technical workers. It is said to
be one of the largest plants of its
kind in the United States.
Marks First Defeat of Fish In
Seventeen Games
The Slimes marred an otherwise
flawless basketball season Tuesday
night by dropping their semi-final
game in the City Championship series
to the Houston School of Electricity
by a 2!l to If) score.
The Greenies did not play the type
of game of which they are capable,
seeming unable to hit their usual
stride. Out of the seventeen games
played s6 far, this is the first one to
,be lost by the downy Owlets, who
won the title in the City League with
a perfect score.
The squad this season was small,
despite which the Slimes enjoyed the
most successful season in the history
of Rice. Stoppel, Hess and Schpack,
forwards; Banner, center; and Mc-
Carble and Hastings, guards, compris-
ed the entire group of Green Owls.
These boys are practilally all mak-
ing good grades in their courses and
will boost Rice's chances of a cham-
pionship team in 1929 considerably.
RICE STUDENTS
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PETE SEZ
Tomorrow Is the big day when thou-
sand* of uttle goobers will lose their
lives to satisfy the craving of a law
relay spectators. About 'steen doses
little glass containers will lose their
lifebood to satisfy the thirsting popu-
ace. and innumerable white olad men
will move in contusion on a green
field. Why? The Bice Relays will be
relaying, and I'm relaying some advice
to relay yourself out to Rice field and
take a look-see at the circus.
Milt Eckert kindly informed me that
this column was the biggest pile of
hooyah, bull, no-account blah that
ever was published. I neglected to in-
form Milt that there was a certain
type of moron who desired to teed
his eyes and what brain he might boast
of on such blah. Wuz afraid he would-
n't understand, or if he did, that he'd
feel hurt.
oleanlng the sacks on his blow thru
■ Book. |
Funny thing is that Gramp faced,
Detroit on Sunday afternoon and went!
rather well for three Innings. Trouble j
i was that Sice had no respect for their ;
former teammate.
'
Pete wonders it Mr. Ankenman is!
responsible, and if so, why is the $1]
which would have admitted the two
aforementioned persons so darned im-
portant to the Buffs?
watching the tumbling team do a tow
of their fancy stunts on n mat, so he
took advantage of the canterfield posi-
tion to do a few somersaults himself.
He got away with the somersaults
but tbe ball got away tram Hank. On
top of all this misfortune Hank got a
sore back.
Intramural sports have been occu-
pying a lot of fellows recently. Of the
basketball league. Murray Gamill of
town has about the most uncanny |
luck of any player. Murray sinks them
1 without looking when he is "hot" and
certainly deserveB the title of
"Lucky."
i
I Joe Knipple got a circus catch in j
• the Buff-Rice game that was more j
surprising to Joe than to any one else, j
A line drive headed iu the general di-!
rection of right field and Joe raced
back towards the fence with his hand
in the air when, lo and behold, the
ball caught in it!
Boy, page Rivers Patout; we got
some instruction work on how to look
clumsy without hurting yourself.
Oh yes, Cecil Keith wants every*
body to lay off rassing tbe pitchers
as he says they work plenty hard.
Oil Reservoir!
Cecil "Lefty" Keith can't get over
tbe umpire in this Buff-Rice game.
Cees would lay the ball over the pan,
and the umpire would fall to ruminat-
ing on what a nice curve ball it was.
"You sure got a nice curve ball, young
fellow," he'd say, and come out real
loud on the ball end of it so that a
couple of fellows got walks as results.
Keith got so peeved at the admira-
tion of the old fellow that he advised
him to quit admiring the curve ball
and call a few right for a change.
Fight 'em, Podunk!
Joe Rogers was rather nervous in
the Buff game, but it wasn't his fault,!
and Pete believes Joe is going like a j
house afire when the Conference gets
under way.
Hode Furman will be one sweet lit-
tle fielder and first sacker when he
gest to hitting, if Kerr's opinion is
correct. Hode has only collected
twice in about 11 times at bat so far
this season, but In amateur baseball
he usually hits very nicely.
Stella says he's due to get right in
these Texas games this next week
and feels that he is goiug to collect
four in the two games.
Pete's got. a tall bone to pick with
this Houston Buff crowd. Just who
is responsible for the penny-pinching
policy which the Buffaloes put into
effect at West End last Tuesday, Pete
doesn't, know, but it's a fine state
of affairs when the sports editor of
the Rice school paper isn't allowed
iu the park jinless he pays the grand-
stand admission fee.
It really gripes one when he hauls
three baseball players down to the
park, and back, and is treated like a
tramp for his pains. Even the regular
business manager was excluded be-
cause there were no comps, so th( '
story goes. I
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Grandaddy Woods, last year Rice i
pitcher, was one of the heavers to
face Rice, and was treated rather i
roughly for his pains. Three hits and j
as many runs were garnered off th^
slants of Grandpa with Danny Allnoch
Country Barnes showed the finest
bit of headwork in the whole of last
Tuesday's contest when he raced in
from short to cover home while both
Danny and the pitcher were covering
a high fly ball.
Everything has to end. even the tail
of a bull, or the tale of the bull, so
Pete's resigning on this one.
Seems as if Hankus Grant has been
ASHCRAFT POSTPONES
GYM EXHIBITION DUE
TO CONFLICTING DATES
Due to the fact that the annual
Sophomore dance, and also, the Rice-
Baylor debate will be held on Friday,
March 30, the gym exhibition by
Coach Ashcraft's P. T. classes, which
was originally planned for that day,
has been postponed until a later date.
The P. T. exhibition is going to be a
"wow," and we're all looking forward
to it. Furthermore, fellows, the girls'
classes will go through their tricks,
too.
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ARROWOOD TO SPEAK
The Rice class of the Second Pres-
byterian Church, on Main, above Mc-
Gowan, extends to all those interested
and to the students of the dormitories
especially, an invitation to be present
at the meeting Sunday, March 25, at
10 a. m., at which time Dr. Arrowood
of the Rice faculty will deliver an
address.
We sell fountain pens. Kress Bldg.
Lobby.
Les Hlboux French Club mat Mon-
day uIkUI at Autry House with tba
biggest atfnrtaitflt since time be can.
There were two reasons for this
orowd: a new poster on the bulletin
board, and a Trip to Parts by mas
Topban of Junior College.
Scenes of Parts were flashed on tbe
wUls and Mlas Topban spoke about
them. Some vocal selections ware
given by Mrs. Hoyt, who is going to
teach voice in Houston.
After tbe program a salad course
was served to visitors from tbe Junior
College, San Jacinto Hlgb School, tbe
Dorms, and to tbe regular members.
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Watch repairing. B. O. Kreltsr,
Kress Bldg. Lobby.
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