The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, March 24, 1933 Page: 4 of 4
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BY HARRY VINOCK, '33
Some artists work in stone, others
in paints, some coax forth art from
the trembling strings of the violin, but
Ernie Hjertberg, an artist if there ever
was one, does none of these things.
nie works in flesh and blood. Ernie
takes clumsy, graceless boys and by
the alchemy of patient, unrelenting
coaching makes them into things of
grace and beauty and litheness, sym-
phonies of motion. Ernie has the true
artistic urge toward perfection of form
for perfection's sake. He will work
months and even years with some
hopeless duffer who he knows will
never compete for the team just for
the satisfaction of seeing the finished
product made into something beautiful
and rythmic. Practically all of Hjert-
bers star pupils have been triumphs
of form: Brunson, Greer, Willis, Hol-
3Uy'nBT"y' ?aldry' Hale' "arbour
011 , ,hc' other groats and near
greats of Rice's track history past and
present. The old maestro of the field
n<i cinder path has been called by
many titles; we wish to give him a
new one—Ernie Hjertberg, artist.
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FULL INTRAMURAL
PROGRAM LISTED
FOR SPRING TERM
Tennis Doubles Tournament
Announced—Baseball
League Enlarged
Is
Errues newest triumph is a fresh.
■n-tn name of Vernon Wilson nf
•"'v , ' When Wils" reported
1 resliman cross-country last fall
•ila' form was awful. His strido was
-tiff, he threw back his head and
•"'d he hunched his shoulders
Ullr|' r the patient tutelage of Hjert-
*rg lit- has steadily improved until
i.ist J-ridav, striding as smoothly as a
niac-hmo he ran (he second milo of
,,w hh: "] 4"2. We predict great
things for the boy before it s all over
Gilbert Hermance has announced an
extensive intramural program for the
spring. New sports, just announced,
along with those already in full swing
will make the program the most varie-
gated so far in the history of the
school.
A doubles tennis tournament is an-
nounced for the near future. The plan
is to have the doubles champion of
each department in the school: engi-
neering, architectural, academic, pre-
medieal, pre-law, etc., to determine
their own champion and then for these
champions to meet for the Institute
title.
An important announcement about
the forthcoming baseball league will be
made by next week. From present in-
j dications Hermance aisd that it seems
i that there will be six instead of four
I teams in the league as was at first
contemplated. Those interested in
playing in one of these teams or of
organizing a team should get in touch
with the Field House as soon as pos-
sible.
If enough interest is shown a swim-
ming meet, to he hold the latter part
of April at the Y. M. C. A., is being
tentatively considered.
Instruction in archery is being given
at the Field House every Tuesday aft-
ernoon hv Delwin James. All those
interested in this' ancient and engross-
ing sport are urged to attend. An
archery tournament, open to all Rice
Will be announced in the near
W^oiir, Rico half-miler and the
r,g,nal hard-luck man of the South-
Tn , rtrTe; ShOUld "°m" Ws I sclent,
• n <h s his last year. For two years ' future.
<<• h.,s boon the best 880 man in the
• nferencc, but each time he has fallen ,
of "Id man trouble just before naw in,° ils lllsl weck ,,f
" " conference meet v«h h*t t t I competition with the winner due to b?
- was , pulhd ytrtt !de,ermined b>' lhis *>" * ■ At pros- i
Rice Letters
Nine Cagers
Nine varsity basketball letters have
been announced by J. T. McCants,
chairman on outdoor sports, for the
1932-33 season.
Those winning the "R" were: Cap-
tain Melton Koch of Temple; Joseph
C. Alexander of Houston; Tom Lau-
rence Brummett of Pine Bluff, Ark.;
Virgil Anthony Dixon of Streator, 111.;
Harold Johnson of Smithville; William
Journeay of Houston; James McCul-
lough of Dallas; Albert Metzler of
Houston and Horace Snider of Hous-
ton.
Three of the basketball lettermen are
seniors: Melton Koch, Joseph C. Alex-
ander and Virgil Anthony Dixon.
Five members of the freshman cage
squad received numerals. They were:
Henry Bollman, Jr„ of Houston; Ro-
chester Eaton, Jr., Houston; Floyd
Kelly, Gainesville; Tony Smith of
Houston and Harry Witt of Houston.
Freshmen football numerals were
won by the following: Jesse Atkins,
Becville; John Banks, Dallas; Henry
Bollman, Houston; Carmen Brandon,
Vichery; Arthur Hogge. Houston; Sam
Mays, Greenville; James Meador, Mad-
ison, Tenn.; James Sawtelle, Houston;
John Sylvester, Brownsville; Lee Ty-
nos, Houston: Byron Williams, Dallas;
Harry Witt, Houston and Joe Young,
San Angelo.
Seniors
Intercl
Slated
>red In
Races
m 14-15
The dates for the! annual interclass
meet have been ftfiwtely «et for April
14 and IS by CoachjHjertberg. From
present indications tie Seniors are the
favorites to win with the Juniors fig-
ured to furnish some stiff competiiton,'
while the Soph* ana Fish will prob-
ably bring up the ijear in that order.
The Class of '33 will make every ef-
fort to win the met and maintain its
perfect record of either having won or
tied the meet for four years. Last
year was the only time that the Class
of '33 did not win the meet when an
inspired group le^ by the redoubtable
Dick Balflry collected enough points to
tie the me$t with the then Junior
class.
The order of events has been tenta-
tively announced by Coach Hjertberg
to be as follows: Friday, April 14: 100-
yard dash, 440-yard dash, mile run,
high hurdles, 440-yard relay, high
jump, javelin throw. Saturday, April
15: 220-yard dash, half-mile run, two
mile run, 220-yard low hurdles, mile
relay, broad jump, pole vault, shot put,
discus throw.
Owen Wister Literary Society
Sponsors Rhodes Dunlap Recital
The Owen Wister Literary Society
is sponsoring a recital to be given by
Rhodes Dunlap at Autry Ht'usc, Thurs-
day, April 20, at. 4 p. m. Admission
price will be 50 cents.
The program includes the following
selections;
Sonata Opus 78, F sharp major, Bee-
thoven; Two Impromptus, Schubert;
Two Etudes, Nocturne F. Minor, Fan-
taisie— Impromptu, Chopin: "Hark Hark
the Lark," Schubert-Liszt: "Deux
Pieces Gaies," Tchereprine; "Hunt the
Squirrel," English folk song arranged j 27.
Tennis Teams
Begin Inter-
Squad Match
Varsity and Freshman tennis will
swing into intensive action starting
this week-end. Tennis practice has
been in progress intermittently for the
last few weeks in a more or less unor-
ganized state, but, starting Saturday,
April 25, organized practice starts with
a series of matches between two teams
composed of members of the varsity
squads under the opposing captaincies
of Quinn Connelly and Winthrop Car-
ter, co-captains. The teams, as an-
nounced by Coach Jake Hess, are as
follows: Blues, Quinn Connelley (cap-
tain), Henry Holden, Fred Alter, Bill
Francis, Robert Allen, Dave Furman.
Grays: Winthrop Carter (captain),
Wilbur Hess, Otto Nachlas, Walter
Scott, Edgar Smith, Alden Lancaster.
The matches will start promptly on
Saturday afternoon at 2, and spectators
are promised some interesting action.
All Rice students are expressly in-
vited to witness the matches. Plenty
of seating space will be provided by
means of the newly-constructed bleach-
ers about the Varsity courts. The pur-
pose of the series will be two-fold: To
maintain interest among, and to give
competition to, the players and to show
the students what kind of a team may
bo expected.
Coach Hess has officially designated
Quinn Connelley, Winthrop Carter,
Henry Holden and Wilbur Hess as the
ranking first four of the team, which
four will represent Rice in intercolle-
giate matches unless displaced by some
member of the second four. In order
to establish the second four (the re-
serve squad) a round-Robin tourna-
ment will be initiated starting March
Members of the Second Four can
tht: fHkBh' duiuMi to retain their con*
ference title, hut believes that his own
have a very good fighting chance.
Texas this year is stronger than Rice
on paper, but only time can actually
pr0e this.
The schedule to date is as follows:
April 15 and 17, T. C. U. and S. M. U.,
respectively, at Fort Worth and Dallas,
respectively; April 22, Tulane, at New
Orleans; April 29, Texas, at Austin. A
meet will be held with Baylor at some
date to be announced later if Baylor
definitely decides to sponsor a tennis
team. Also it is almost certain that
six or seven varsity men and Coach
Hess will compete in the Houston In-
vitation during April 3 to 8.
Besides the first four, the following
men are out for the Varsity; Edgar
Smith, Jimmie Wax, Freddie Alter,
Walter Scott, Otto Nachlas, Bubba Al-
len, Allen Lancaster, Dave Furman and
Bill Francis.
This year there has been the largest
turnout of Freshmen tennis players in
the history of the Institute, which fact
is very gratifying to the authorities in
charge of Rice athletics. Also, for the
first time in Rice history, Freshman
tennis will be organized. Starting about
the second or third week in April a
tournament will be inaugurated for the
purpose of ranking the men. Some
promising material is out, and every
effort will be made to develop it to
replace the men who will be lost by
graduation this year. The Freshman
squad contains sixteen men and is as
follows:
Bill Lorimer, William Warren, Ben
Arnim, C. R. Whiteside, John Averill,
Hayden Daniel, Robert Fitzhugh, John
Staples, Beadle Moore, Robert Wynne,
Franklin Jones, Johnny Armstrong,
John Yeager, Ralph Fite, Sears and R.
T. Eaton.
Tracksters
Show Form
InTryouts
While nine of the Rice varsity men
traveled to Fort Worth with Coach
Hjertberg to enter the track meet, the
remainder of the squad had their usual
weekly time trials.
Tom Driscoll won the 100-yard dash
in 10 seconds flat. The race was won
against a strong win. Hutzler and Cof-
fee followed Driscoll in, respectively.
Driscoll also won the 220-yard dash,
with Hutzler again second. The time
was 22:4.
In the 440-yard dash "Dqc" Metzler,
running this distance for the first time
this year, won in 52:6. Chapman, a
freshman, came next in 53:6.
by Rhodes Dunlap; Eighth Rhapsody,"
Liszt.
The handball singles tournament is
Crystals fitted that do not fall out.
! 15. O. Kreiter, Kress Bldg.
Watch repairing' It will B O. K. if
from B. O. Kreiter, Kress Bldg.
challenge the low ranking man of the
First Four, and, if successful, will then
♦aki their positions in that august
body.
Coach Hess is not too optimistic about
Co-eds Organize
Baseball Team
Under the auspices of Rice Y. W. C.
A. and Girls' Tennis Club, art indoor
baseball team was organized. Those
serving on the committee to get the
team fully organized and coached are:
Ruth Provine, Christine Atkinson and
Burnis Flood. The first practice will
be Monday, March 27, at 1 p. m. at
Hermann Park. All interested should
be there ready to play.
What are believed to be the earliest
Christian church paintings yet dis-
covered—found recently hi Syria —
have been placed on exhibit at Yale
university.
STEAM TABLE LIGHT LUNCH SERVICE
PLATE LUNCH FEATURED AT 25c
Everything Found in Better Drug Stores
RICE DRUG CO.
"AN INSTITUTION OF SERVICE"
1 Block South of M. L Bldg.
Hadley 2866
bad I \
was
| ont if scorns that the winner will
spiked heel, sustained in tho 1
Rice-Texas-A. and M tri* ■* f. ! emerge from among these men: Pasehe,
But this year Rav rounds i,Ito thJ"™-! 1 Smith' Wilson in ,he «PPer bracket,
•'" ' perfect shape and he should I a"d R<-indl 1,1 the l«wer br acket.
•now* the boys a thing or two. A race 1
, 8oi,,$F 'ouI ways to see will be : I
tl.di between Harbour and Adams, the
<-xas Hash who last year was right on
t>" heels of his teammate Schiller,
•■'■Men the latter set a new conference
",rd the half. Adams and Harbour
meet throe more times this season
Y'.*l week at the Fat Stock Show Ray
■U-OW first blood when he led Adams
' the tape in .sizzling race.
Texas Steers
Take Honors!
In Stock Show
Eifflil Owls Grab Six Firsts To
Grab Second Place in
Cinder Meet
An epidemic of pulled muscles rob-
the Owls, at least for the present. I
>' two promising prospects in Rich- |
• rd Ballanfant, sprinter and hard-luck I
wader, and John Cashmnn the t-.11 ! , . ■ „ . , . ,
handsome architect v.hn had boon Liist Rroup of e.«ht
rountnri m f I ,„„ ' ' ee<" Rice tracksters journeyed to Fort
ounled on for the -MO and the mile | Worth
relay. Ballanfant's loss will be bal-
anced to some extent by the retun
to
eomnetition of John Coffee, a member
• f last year champion sprint relay
I''1'- .-.omc 'if hi.s teammates were
Fort Worth doins their bit. "Smoky"
••laerner was nonchalantly flinging the
•'"'••vr mere 190 feet. And he's im-
i-i-ovinc steadily every weck. The big
'■iichinan, a real athletic marvel, will ;
hit 200 feel or better befc
i 'bnbly
loses his collegiate career this
by automobile and train to
cover themselves with glory by win-
ning second place in the annual Fat
Stock Show track and field meet.
The meet was won by Texas Un.i- j
versily with 391-2 points. Rice placed ;
second with .'36 points, Oklahoma A.
and M. third with 341-2 points and T.
C. U. fourth with 17 points.
Considering the size of the team '
entered the showing of the Owls was
phenomenal. Rice won six out of the
thirteen events, and made one sectfod
place, one third place, and a fourth ,
nririg. It will be very interesting to
place to complete the scoring for the ;
• bow hp eomes out aeainst the crack I a/ternnon' Thc 0wls placed or won
'<• s- U hurler. Blair, who in recent ' cver>' event that thc'V e"ter®d ex-
irials has tossed the i m?lin 198 feel ! copl the 440-ytel dash. Holloway won I
• the 220 and placed third in the hun- .
We were K n« to nrcdic- : drcd: Harbour won tho half from his ;
'ions as to the outcome of the confer- urch*r,val- Adams ol Texas; John- |
■ track meet this year, hut on sec- : f;on P,ai;etJ second in the shot-put and
ond though we won't. Last yea,- thi-- fourth in lho discus; Petty won the
lepartnienl doped that either Rice ! throw; 0rin 11111 C0PPed ,hc '
in the two-mile
si
doped
would place second
md win by one point, nr wouldn't, and
! h\ one point. Rice did and won
•he meet by one and a sixth points,
but this autumn Rice's second in the
two-mile was nullified and the title
went tr, Texas by one point. So, you
"e. we were right both ways. We
' .lined a great deal of prestige thereby.
discus
high jump; Weldon R. "Mike" Hale
soared 23 feet 11 3-4 inches to take thc
broad jump, and to top the day off the
mile relay team composed of Hollo-
way, Schulze, Harbour and May out-
ran a field made up of Texas Univer-
sity and Texas A. and M. to take the
classic mile relay in the time of 3:26.8.
The Fat Stock Show was not a regu-
and we have no desire to'jeopardize it. la,'ly schedu,et* meet for tllc' Owls so
However, from present indications it
* again se^ms to be a three-cornered
iight between A. and M., Texas and
Rice, with the other schools as more
or iess interested lookers-on. Because
the large number of sophomores
who will enter competition for the first
time this year things are a bit unset-
tled, but here's about how things stack
up. Texas seems to be the favorite
with a veteran team boasting great
strength in the distances and middle
distances. A. and M. will boast a strong
, t sophomore squad leavened with a few
veterans, strong in the sprints, dis-
tances and weights. Rice will be strong
in all events except the hurdles, the
440 and perhaps the distances. With
Waring's heartening 4:31.8 in the mile
during last week's -trials Rice's dis-
tance hopes begin to look up. S. M. U.
with three outstanding man: Walstead,
Sprague and Baxter, will be strong in
the hurdles, weights and pole vault,
while T. C. U., with Casper, Spear-
man and Chappel, will completely dom-
inate the hurdles and probably edge
in on. thc mile, the broad jump and the
high jump to take points a(|r#y?,from
Texas and A. and M.
It is fortunate that the lesser schools,
in a track way, are strongest in those
in which Rice is weakest and
all men making the trip had to pay
their own expenses up there and back,
which, for some of the boys, was a
considerable sacrifice. Coach Hjert-
berg accompanied the squad; he donat-
ed the use of his automobile for the
trip.
Pan-American Consuls Speak
Before Spanish Club Banquet
The Spanish Club banquet, which had
been postponed from March 16, was
held last night at the Mexican Inn at
1209 Main street. Interesitng speeches
were given by Pan-American consuls:
Mr. Ambrosoni, tho Argentine consul,
and Mr. Fernando Rueda, the Mexican
vice-consul. Miss Olivia Gonzalez gave
a very interesting reading. A Mexican
orchestra furnished the music.
her opponents for the title strongest,
namely the hurdles. Strange as it may
seem, T. C. U. and S. M. U,, and per-
haps even Baylor and Arkansas, are
due to be the deciding factors as to
whom the title will go. Now, with
all that information you .are invited to
make out yotfr own dope sheet and
hand it in to us. We may offer a
nickel-plated hamburger to the most
accurate guesser. Maybe.
In India, the fakirs present a spectacle to tourists.
Two lovely performers break bottles and lamp
chimneys before thc eyes of thc audience,and throw
the jagged pieces into a bo* already filled with
broken glass. Tliey step barefooted into thc box
and do an Oriental dance la the glass without in-
jury.
EXPLANATION:
The performers toughen their feet In a strong so-
lution of alutn water and thoroughly rub tbera
with pulverized resin before they appear. They
throw the freshly broken glass around thc edges of
the platform. The glass on which they actually do
dance is very thick, heavy, and filed or ground so
that thc sharp edges are rounded off- The girls
just pretend to dance on the sharp glass.
Soubce: "Magic Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions"
by Albert A. Hopkins, iinnn & Co., New York.
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