The J-TAC (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 15, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 3, 1942 Page: 3 of 4
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1942
THE J-TAC
PAGE THREE.
Sports Sidelines
BY RAYFORD RUSSELL
6
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The Plowboy chances of starting
another long winning streak were
ended when the 111th Medical Reg-
iment threw the Plowboys for a
loss in their 48-45 victory at
Brownwood last'Tuesday night, It
is true that the Plowboys were far
from fop form, but still the loss
goes down ify the records as a
smear' on the otherwise spotless
record for the season. This loss is
offset by the fact that the 111th is
leading in the service tournament
at Camp Bowie. Also tending to
explain the loss is the fact that
'there were several great college
stars playing for the soldiers. It is
also true that many service teams
are vastly superior to most college
teams^ especially whert they have a
collection of former stars on their
team. *
Jack Martin, the big center from'
Burkett, has really, hit his stride
at last. 1 Against Hillsboro Jack
looped 18 points to split high point
honors with J. -W. Craft, who also
collected a total of 18 points. Jack's
play at the pivot position has been
of a constantly improving nature.
His chief asset in offensive play Is
a sort of. hook shot which he uses
with deadly effect. Our prediction
for Martin is that he will be one of
• the steadiest centers on both de-
fense and offense in Junior College.
,, It seems that the rubber shortage
is really going to hit home to the
world of sports. Most of the game?
of paramount interest to the world
of sports require a great deal of
rubber. For instance golf balls,
tennis balls, football equipment of
all kinds, basketball shoes, etc., will
be increasingly hard to get. The
authorities oh- golf estimate that
the present supply of golf balls
will last through 1943. Most other
sport? have a supply o£ equipment
on hand' that will enable them to
cairry on their various activities,
even though they may.£e_ slightly
limited. Many small colleges-, and
CALL A
YELLOW CAB
phone—323—Phone
"Yea, Plowboy"
some major colleges are doing
away with their scheduled athletic
contests .because of the war situ-
ation. One of the colleges on the
football schedule of John Tarleton,
Weatherford, has done away with
all football except that of an intra-
mural nature.
In the Southwest Conference cage
race the most unusual feature is
the surprising show made by the
Horned Frogs of Texas Christian
University, The Froggies rose
from the cellar post where they
have habitually resided foi; the
past several seasons to tie for the
lead with the much favored Rice
Owls. The Owls have one man,
however, Bob Kinney, last year ail-
American and star of the Owl of-
fense who is probably superior to
any other eager in Southwest col-
legiate basketball. The man who is
giving him the most competition is
Bill Henderson, the giant center
from Aggielarid.
The game tonight between the
111th Medical Regiment and the
Plowboys gives promise of being
possibly the hottest affair to be
played in the Tarleton Gymnasium
all year. The soldiers have two for-
mer college stars deluxe, plus sev-
eral ex-collegia^es of considerable
fame. Following their 48-45 loss to
the soldiers last week, the Farmers
should be ready for a real battle.
The Golden Glovep will swing
into full steam ahead next week-
end when the city and district .tour-
naments at Fort Worth swing into
action. This is the district in which
Tarleton boys, if any, will partici-
pate. Several good prospects ap-
pear' on the Gloves list from Fort
Worth, but probably the best of
these contestants will be Joge An-
dras, 1940 state champ in the fly
weight division.
Let's all turn out for the game
tonight and see some real basket-
ball, Let's back those 'Plowboys.
Boogy: Do you know it's a com-
fort to have a head like mine?
Woogy^Yeah, solid comfort.
J- Tac Sports
Ex-Plowboy Athletes
PLOWBOYS AND SOLDIERS PLAY
GAME ON LOCAL COURT TONIGHT
7X7:-'7k -
Hiram Walker, above left, former All-Conference center of the Texas Junior College Conference, and ex-
Plowboy, lias been the leading scorer on the Rice Freshman team of cagers. Walker took off top honors
against the Texas University freshmen with a total of nine points .in a recent contest, pat "Lard-Bucket"
Keith, above right, guard on • the 1941 Plowboy football team, has joined an even bigger' team, Uncle
Sam's Army Air Corps. ,
W.F. WILSON
Watchmaker and Engraver
.. Hearts Hand Engraved
5? and 10c
• Opposite Baxle/a Studio
SHOP AT
COX'S
R. E.COX DRY GOODS (COMPANY
For Quality Clothing'.
. Hill and Bowden
Across from Majestic Theatre
.formerly College Shoe Shop
' Welcome College Students!
City Barber Shop
•We Appreciate Your Business"
Across from Western Union
Ride The City Bus
Economical Service for 5c
15 Minute Service to the College
WHERE EVERYONE IS,
SATISFIED!
The Brick Kitchen
MEET-THE 'GANG AT
STONE'S CORNER
PLOWBOYS
BARBER SHOP
East of Stone's Cafe
•
Haircuts........25c
Shave 15c
•
THANKS, CALL AGAIN!
It Pays To Be Neat!
I \
THE COLLEGE CLEANERS
J. C. PENNEY COMPANY
Tarleton's Bargain Store
"B A X"
BETTER PHOTOGRAPHS
Plowboys Down Rams
By 64-26 Score on
San Angelo Court
Breaking a jinx that has existed
since San Angelo dropped the Plow-
boys in 1938, namely that San An-
gelo is double tough on her home
court, the Plowboys took the Rams
64-26. The Rams held the Plow-
boys for the first few minutes but
the farmers broke lose in the sec-
ond quarter, and their lead was
never, dangerously^-threatened. fol-
lowing this.
Billy McClellan went on a scor-
ing spree to rack up 21 points and
high point honors for the contest.
Bill accounted for most of his shots
on fast breaking crip shots. This
game was the best that the Plow-
boys have turned in since their vic-
tory oyer the North Texas Aggies.
The first string was still off from
top form. Bobbye Savage seems tp
be still far from top shape with the
stomach trouble that has pulled his
playing and scoring average down
a very great deal. The Rams' Ipss
dropped their standing in the con-
ference race and leaves the PIow-
ys with a spotless conference
recprd.
llie defensive play of Joe Jones
was one of the outstanding features
of the entire game. J. W. Craft
was off on his passing and shoot-
ing for the first time this year to
any appreciable extent. Jack Mar-
tin turned in a nice game off the
pivot position. Jack has been con-
stantly improving on his follow up
for the conference. The Plowboys
still have one contest left to be
played. This scrap will take place
in the Tarleton gymnasium later on
in the season. If the Plowboys
should lose this game, it would not
throw the Rams into the Champ-
ionship; but it would give Hills-
boro a temporary tie with the Plow-
boys, until their next contest, for
the lead in conference race.
BOYS!
Betty Jo Johnson: I'm going to
join the ambulance corps. All
those goodlooking, helpless men.
Wow!
' Girl Angler: I want your best
silk line for catching big fish. ,
Floorwalker: Stockings on the
third floor, Miss.
Recently the former Dorothy
Flesher cooked her first chicken,
for her new husband.
"What did you stuff it with?"
he asked as he began to carve.
"Why, darling, it was already
stuffed," Dorothy replied.
Douglas Pitts: I've gotan awful
lot of electricity in my hair.
Gwynne Apperson: I don't doubt
it. You always did have such
shocking things on your mind.
Mr. Ferguson: Don't you think
our son George gets his intelligence
from me ?
Mrs. Ferguson: He must have.
I've still got mine.
• After a baby has grown out of
long clothes into pants, after it
has acquired freckles and so. much
dirt that well-meaning relatives
do not care to kiss it between
meals, it becomes a boy.
A boy is nature's protest to the
scientist's hypothesis that .there
is no such thing as perpetual' mot=
ion. He is a man, minus pride,
ambition, pretense,. ,greedy and
about 110 pounds. When he grows
up, he'will exchange romance, en-
ergy, bashfulness, and warts for
these other possessions,
Boys are not ornamental; they
are useful. Were it not for the boys
the newspapers of the country
would go undelivered and unread,
and a thousand circus elephants
would starve for the taste of a pea-
nut. Boys are also useful in run-
ning errands. The zest with which
a boy does an errand is equaled
only by the eagerness with which
an old-fashioned minister ap-
proaches the conclusion of his ser-
mon. With the aid of five or six
adults a boy can readily do all the
errands for a family of two.
The boy is a natural spectator;
observing in his passion. He
watches parades, fires, fights, ball
games, dogs, ice wagons, hand or-
gans, and aeroplanes with the
same fervor. But he will not Watch
a clock, The man who invents a
clock that will stand on its head
and sing a song when it strikes
the hour will confer a great boon
on millions of families whose boys
are forever getting home to din-
ner about supper time—if then.
Boys axe not popular except with
their parents, but they have many
desirable potentialities. One of
them is the fact that they will
grow up to be men some day. An-
other is their trustworthiness.
You can rely absolutely on a boy
if you know what to rely on. Trust
him to get into trouble, and he
will never disappoint you.
Boys, are abstemious, seldom
eating except when awake. They
are also very durable. This ac-
counts for the fact that the world
is still populous, A boy, • if not
washed too much and if kept in a
cool, dry place for a while after
each accident, will survive fire-
works, broken bones, swimming
holes, hornets, runaways, fist
fights, pirate bands, Indian mas-
sacres, and nine pieces of pie at
a sitting. If only some method of"
making a boy's clothes as durable
as he is could be discovered, life
would become more attractive for
boy growers. — Grace Elizabeth
Taylor in Scholastic Magazine.
Druggist: Sure, and I hope you
enjoy the sermon.
Botany Teacher: Where do we
find mangoes? 1
Pupil: Where woman goes.
Tarleton Wins By
56-23 Score Over
Decatur Baptists
The John Tarleton College Plow
boys played their poorest game to
date in their 56-23 victory over the
Decatur Baptists. The Baptists
made us.e of two very tall men,.un-
der the goal to give them an of-
fensive advantage from the height
angle; The airtight' defensive play
of thfi-Farmera and.their. brilliant
floor play was all that saved them
from defeat;.
Coming from an, exceeding hard
game against the North Texas
Aggies, the Plowboys were physic-
ally (and mentally far below the par
they had established previous to
,therN.,T. Ai C. game. The offen-
sive* play especially seemed to suf-
fer from the sluggishness that
seemed to have replaced the speed
and hustle that spectators havo
become used to seeing in the 1942
edition of -the Plowboys.
Evidence of -this slump is es-
pecially to be seen in the drop in
the scoring of forward Bobbye
Savage which dropped from twenty-
five points against) the North Tex-
as Aggies to a lonely one point
against the'Decatyr cagers. Sav-
age missed only four shots during
the entire game against N. T. A.
C., none of which were short shots,
compared to several crip shots
which he missed against the Bap
tists. Most of the other boys wero
also off top form.
One of the prettiest shots of
the night was made by reserve
guard'Billy jRiee. The-shot was a
set shot from about twenty-five
feet out from the goal, and manag-
ed to drop through the bucket, bare-
ly flicking the net. Billy McClell-
an was the closest to top form of
any of the regular five. He con-
tinued to shake loose down the
court on fast breaks to account for
several field goals.
J. W. Craft did some fancy shoot-
ing on his own hook to pull tho
enemy defense open for McClellan
to break through. Craft sank sev-
eral shots on backhand flips from
the back left court that were really
beauties. Jack Martin, center, turn-
ed in a rather nice defensive game
but he seemd off his regular form
in playing the offensive pivgt posi<
tion. Jack has been steadily im-
proving all season and he should
be back in top form very' shortly.
Savage seems to have finally
weakened urjder the strain of try-
ing to play in every game and at
the same .time to throw off a
stomach trouble which has been
bothering him. Joe Jones seemed
to have slumped in his defensive
and floor play. There are two boys
who showed up among, the fresh-
men exceedingly well. They were
"Red" Hennech and Floyd Griffith.
Thesp*' two boys turned in * swell
games. "Red"' appeared to hi
superior in floor and defensive play,
with Griffith looking best on the
offensive end.
One of the fastest improving
Plowboys Defeat
Hillshoro. Indians
By Score of 64-30
The Plowboys added, ppe .more to
their string of conference victor-
ies Saturday night when they chop-
ped the Hillsboro Indians by a count
of 64-30. As this game was play-
ed on the Indians' home court, this
is a very impressive victory for
the Farmers.
The Indians are running closest'to
the Plowboys in the conference
standings, with wins over N.T.A.p.
and Decatur, both of • which are
relatively tough.
High point honors for the night
were split between two Plowboys;
Jack Martin, center, and J. W.
Craft, guard, who netted 18 points
each. Playing the pivot position,
Jack "racked up most of his shots
on fakes to the left, ending in a
pivot to the right followed by a
one-handed push shot, and on fol-
low up shots taken off of the back-
board. J. W. Craft netted most
of his shots on breaks toward the
goal from his guard position.
McClellan was third in. scoring
honors with a total of 11 points,
most of which were accounted for
on fast breaking, one-handed flips.
Savage played a nice floor game,
and Joe Jones' passing and defen-
sive play was above par.
The Plowboys will have to tackle
the Indians once again, but this
time they will have the advantage
of playing on their home court.
This game will be played later in
the season. If the Indians continue
to do as well in the conference race
as they have been doing up to now,
the game between them and the
Plowboys here wil decide the zone
championship, and also it will decide
who will tackle the other two zone
champions.
Albert Little Writes
To Mr. Blanchard
Editor's note: This letter was re-
ceived by Mr. E., A. Blanchard,' pro-
fessor of mechanic art and aeronau-
tics, from an ex-student. <
March Field, Calif. .
50th Squadron.
Dear Mr. Blanchard:
Thanks for the nice letter full of
compliments. Makes a fellow feel
pretty good when he knows people
like you believe in him.
I'm stationed here at March
Field with the 50th Pursuit Squad-
ron. We are flying P-40's. They
are pretty swell ships to be so old.
My Squadron is on the interceptor
command. When we get news of
strange planes off the coast, we-go
out and meet them. We haven't
seen any of those little slant eyed
devils yet. Hope to get a crack at
one of them one of these days.
Mr. Blanchard, I'm sorry but I,
don't know for sure where any of1
the boys are. Last I heard of Bill
Borders, he was in Florida. I heard
that H. L. Phillips and Dan Holi-
day were in Oklahoma pity. That
is about the extent of my know-
ledge.
I hear that the dra^t has about
cleared out all the profs, and stuff
up there. They will be pulling you
in pretty soon. I don't see how you
have stayed out this Jong with your
knowledge about motors and mach-
inery.
Thanks again for the nice letter.
Give my regards to all my old
friends.—As ever, Albert H. Little.
The Plowboys will take the court
Tuesday night in their own gymn-
asium for the first time this year
against a team that is favored to
beat them. Their opponent will
be the 111th Medical Regiment
from Camp Bowie at Brownwood.
The reason that the Plowboys will
be the underdogs is that the 111th
defeated them in a game at Brown-
wood last Tuesday evening. This
was the first loss of the season for
the Plowboys. The Plowboys took
the lead in the opening minutes of
the , game, but the soldiers quickly
overcame this advantage and kept
the lead for the remainder of tho
game! The soldiers were led in
their offensive efforts by Wilson
"Deacon" White, former all South-
west Conference eager from Bay-
lor, who netted 14 points, and Ben-
nie Lindley, former Mineola cage
star, who accounted for 13 points.
J. W. Craft took off top honors
for the - Plowboys with twelve
points. The Plowboys were in their
worst form of the season as they
had just finished eating an extra
large 'supper as the guests of
Company D, 142 Infantry unit, a
former Stephenville National Guard
unit in which are several ex-Tarle-
ton boys.v The Plowboy passing
and defensive play was far be-
low average level and this was^just
too much to give to as good a team
as the soldiers in the way of an
advantage* None of the boys were
up to top form. The hustle was as
good as ever but the boys did not
seem up to form either physically
or mentally.
The 111th is the leading service
cage team at Camp Bowie and the '
game is certain to be a close one.
This was tlie first defeat of the
season for ,the Plowboys;' and
though it did not affect their spot- s
less conference record, it did drop
the Farmers from the ranks of the
unbeaten for the current season."
The price of th£ game is nearly as
attractive as the nature of the two
teams who will be playing. It was
formerly the custom to charge 50c
for the College gameb; but in an
effort to attract larger crowds, the
price- has been dropped to the small
amount of twenty-five cents per
game.
It is not often that two teams as
good as the two meeting tonight
are playing close enough to us for
us to see them; so let's all turn out.
The probable starting lineup for
the Plowboys will fc>e Savage and
McClellan at forwards, Martin at
center, and Craft and Jones at
guards.
Question: What are the gend°rs?
Answer: Masculine and femine.
The masculine is divided into tem-
perate and interperate and the
femine into frigid and torrid.
"My, but Frank is getting round
shouldered! (
"Too much study, I guess!
"Study nothing! The trouble with
him is that he's been kissing too
many short girls."
boys on the squad is "Pete" Max-
well, the tall boy from Talpa. Pete
has a natural eye for the basket,
but he has been hampered by an in-
jury he received in football. Gor-
don "Sap" Ross played a greatly
improved game at his guard posi-
tion. It is> to be expected that if
the reserves continue to improve,
the team's chances at winning the
zone championship and entering the
State Playoff will be greasy im-
proved. „ -
Majestic
Theatre
Tuesday and Wednesday—
"Obliging Young
Lady"
with
Joan Carrol and Edmond
O'Brien
Thursday and Friday—
"All Through The
Night"
with
Karen Verne and Humphrey
Bogart
Saturday—
"All That Money
Can Buy"
with
Edward Arnold and Walter
Huston
Sunday and Monday—
"Jdhnnie Eager"
with - '
' Robert Taylor and Lana
Turner
' lirffi' .-2 .a-..' fy—.r.tv. ■"."'."in..' ■
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