The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 17, 1944 Page: 3 of 4
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Eleventh Platoon
Victorious in 3rd
Battalion Game
Third Battalion held a picnic at
Herman Park Saturday, Aug. 12.
Liquid refreshments were served
and a soft ball tournament provided
the recreation for the afternoon.
The first game of the afternoon,
between the 11th and 12th platoons,
resulted in a 24-9 win for the 11th.
Machia and Pittard comprised the
battery for the 11th while Miller
and R. E. Thomas comprised the
battery for the losing 12 platoon.
The second game found the 13th
platoon victorious over the 14th by
a score of 8-7. Rosenberg pitched
and Puckett caught for the 13th
while the 14th saw a double battery.
Ottea started on the mound for the
14th and was relieved by Vogt.
Smith and Ottea were the two who
saw action behind the plate for the
14th platoon.
The final game, a play-off be-
tween the winning teams of the
first two games found the 13th pla-
toon victorious over the 11th, 9-4.
The battery in this game was re-
peated for both platoons.
BUY
WAR BONDS
and STAMPS
&
Ladies Ready to Wear
Staff Elect All-
Star Girl Team
The coaches and sports staff of
the Thresher wish to announce the
selection of its all-star team com-
posed of players from each of the
girls teams in the league. The origi-
nal idea was to select a regular
team composed of the best pitcher,
catcher, etc. of the four teams, but
after consulting the records we
found that we had four good pitch-
ers and were relatively weak at
some other positions. Another factor
which we had to take into considera-
tion was that most of the players
did not have regular positions. After
considering these ana several other
difficulties we decided to choose the
ten best players and not to assign
them to any definite positions.
When the voting was over and
the smoke of battle had cleared
away we found that we had picked
eleven players instead of ten. As
is the custom in picking all-star
teams, we have more players from
the champions than from any other
team. This is a very natural occur-
ance because if the winning team
had not the majority of outstand-
ing players they would not have
been the winning team. The rest of
our squad is divided up according
to the place their respective team
took in the race.
The following are our choices for
the best players of the past season:
Mollie Alexander, Joyce Pounds
Hardy, Mary Jane McNair, Virginia
Arnold, Joyce Berwick, Mary Jo Mc-
Ginnis, Ellen Picton, .Maurine Bell-
noski, Margie Repass, Ann Martin,
and Alice Picton Craig.
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AMBITION
... No bird soars too high if he soars
with his own wings. — William
Blake.
* * *
He that resolves upon any great
and good end, has, by that very
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to it.—Tryon Edwards.
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Owls Sign For
Games This Season;
Eight Home Games
By Joplin and Gould
The football team has an un-
usually long and hard schedule this
season. With the signing of the last
game this past week Coach Neely
finished up an elevep game card.
This year we will have the most
attractive home game show of Rice's
football history. This first game
should be a warm up for the game
that follows. I think this second
game is going to be about the tough-
est we will play all season. If we can
get past the first few games without
any injuries we should be able to
come through the rest of our grind
without too much trouble.
The Blue and Gray are going to
call upon a lot of green men along
with the regulars. Our whole suc-
cess as team depends on how these
men show up in their first year of
college football. Walmsley has de-
veloped into a passer 4 of no mean
ability as was shown in the All-
star High School game. Nemir has
broken away for several nice gains.
He runs hai'd and shows promise of
developing into a real good player.
With the football team between
practice sessions, the spotlight is
focused upon the work done by
George Walmsley and Bill Taylor at
the North-South High School All-
star game held last Friday night at
Wichita Falls. The strong South
team, led by Walmsley and Taylor,
came through with a 19-7 victory.
Walmsley's passes to taylor were
responsible for two tallies and set
up the third South score.
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elections—
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publication must turn in a signed
slip from the editor of that publica-
tion showing that he has worked the
required amount, which is sixteen
weeks on the staff. The treasurer of
the Student Association and of* the
Junior and Senior class must have
credit in B.A. 200, or knowledge
equivalent to that as approved by
the registrar.
Election expenses must be lim-
ited to $7.50 for general election,
primary and nin-offt and $3.50 for
class elections, primary and run-off.
The expense account must be turned
in before eight o'clock of the morn-
ing of the election 6r the name of
that candidate will be removed from
the ballots. It may be turned in to
any member of the election commit-
tee before the time of the elction.
Candidates are asked to ad with
the Thresher.
If any member of the student as-
sociation has any question as to the
proper qualifications for any 'office,
any member of the Student Council
will be glad to clear up any prob-
lems that the prospective candidate
might have.
By Mildred McCall
With one football training period
over and another slated to begin
soon, it is about time we start to
look seriously at the prospects for
the coming season. Of one thing we
can be certain—that the team will
be doing its best for us every min-
ute of playing time. This is obvious
when we remember their willingness
to go through an extra training ses-
sion last month in spite of what
might be termed, with a mild degree
of accuracy, hot weather. If the sup-
port we give them this fall when the
chips are down anywhere near
equals the example they have set us,
we will have gone a long way to-
ward achieving a proper expression
of school spirit.
The outlook for this fall is defi-
nitely better than it was for last
year. More experience and more
speed tells the whole story. Of
course, I am still feeling encouraged
from the public scrimmage several
weeks ago. In spite of numerous
ragged spots the team is beginning
to look good. An over all improve-
ment is blocking coupled with better
following of interference by ball
carriers gives our offense added
power. Especially noticable in this
line was the work of Dave Parrish
and Bill Scruggs.
Also looking good in carrying
out tjieir assignments were Milam
Towns, Bob Zelman, and Dan Dav-
enport—whom, in spite of evidence
to the contrary, we never mistake
for Bill Taylor.
Something New etc.
But with the coming of football
season something new is being
added to this column—with your
cooperation. I, for one, am very very
tired of sitting out on the well-
known limb alone. Therefore I am
inviting you all to climb out too.
The idea, "briefly, is this: every
week there will be a box in the
Thresher office, plainly labeled, in-
to which every student on this cam-
pus is requested to drop his predic-
tions for the following Saturday's
games—any or all games in which
conference teams participate^ These
predictions will be asentbled on
Tuesday afternoons and the results
printed in this column of the Thresh-
er the following Thursday.
1944 Football Schedule
And just so that you can begin
to think about the games and pre-
pare to work out your predictions,
here is the Rice Institute Football
Schedule for 1944:
Sept. 30—'Randolph Field, Houston
Oct. 7—L.S.U Houston
Oct. 14—Tulane New Orleans
Oct. 21—S.M.U Houston "
Oct. 28—Texas Houston
Nov. 4—Texas Tech Houston
Nov. 11—Arkansas .... Fayetteville
Nov. 18—-Texas A. & M. Houston
Nov. 25—T.C.U Houston
Dec. 2—Southwestern Houston
Both the Randolph Field and S.-
M.U. games will be played under
the lights, the latter being the first
night game for the Southwest Con-
ference. Homecoming day will be
November 18, with Texas A. & M.
furnishing the opposition.
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Two Teams Drop
From Intramurals;
3 Games Saturday
Two teams have been eliminated
from the intramural Softball sched-
ule, leaving a total of seven entries
to finish out the tournament. The
Rally Club II team and the Sopho-
more Birddogs have been withdrawn
from the playoff.
Only one game was played last-
Saturday afternoon, with the Slip-
pery Slimes forfeiting to Rally Cluib
I and the F. O.'s walloping Brechth-
tel's team to the tune of 24-3. The
Slippery Slimes, wh.o won their first
game by a big margin, were unable
to muster enough men to play.
Johnny Phenicie pitched the pow-
erful F.O.'s to their easy victory
over Freddie Brechtel's team. The
Brechtel bunch were handicapped by
the loss of their regular pitcher and
were never able to stem the tide
of F. O. hits.
This Saturday, Rally Club I meets
Tommy Roach's team, Brechtel's
plays the Esquires, the Croomers
play the F. O.'s, and the Slippery
Slimes draw a bye.
i Resolve to be thyself: and know
Resolve to be thyself: and know,
that he who finds himself, loses his
misery.—Matthew A mold.
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you get out of it just what you put
into it.—but you'd never recognize it.
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