The J-TAC (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 14, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 11, 1930 Page: 3 of 4
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Snappy Sport Shots
By Sammy Fan
Nineteen hundred and thirty has
been here for nine days, and with it
arrives a, series of basketball games
with strong college teams, Tht Ok
lahoma Baptist University Bisons
will be "hard nuts to crack" if they
have another team like the one
, Sammy saw in action last yeari
Sehriener,, Institute had an un-
y defeated football ttani this year.
They played a fairly representative
schedule. In six games under Coach
"Bully''' Gilstrap, former. Texas
University Star, they have lost but'
six games. We would like to play
them next year.
There is some rumor about a
game of basketball with the North
Texas Agricultural and Vocational
College .Hornets. We wonder???!
Our basketball team looks like a
team which will bring us another
state championship.' Cowan wai
high' point roan in the last game
with Daniel Baker.
Sammy ventures to say that
Cannon Welch, Howard Grubbs,
"I>est" and Russell Saunders are
real footballers. They were the best
in the post-season clashes as well as
having splendid saesonal, records.
Mr, Fan,will sign off. ..
Gym Boys
Wel„ well, yreMg. all. back again,
none the worse off except for sleep.
Not a single 6ne of the ,Gym boys
married as was expected.
If we. Could only tell you ill of
the happenings during the holidays
we are afraid there would be noth-
ing in the J-Tac except "Gym
Boys." Then too, most of it would
not (16 to tell. , .
John Wesley must not have gone
over so big at his home, for he,
'• stayed only six.days there and the
t remaining time in i Stephenyille: '
• One "of the Gym Boys - accidently
saijv Dan's.NewYear resolutions.
TJieyran j s followsf ;, „
' 1. Another year spall not pass- by
■:<a$d-&nd :jnef ;a -wagle._m^n.
. '.2/1^11 take # bath dnep!ia.;i|ojjth
, whether it,or. not.^ ,
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P ORTS
Tennis Club Organizes
John E. Oliver, coach of tennis
in Tarleton for 1930, called for a
meeting of those interested in form
ing a tennis club on Monday after-
noon at 4:f£. .About twenty-five
boys answered his call and will
comprise the group from which
the varsity tennis team will be
picked. Included in this group,
are many high school, county and
district champions, who will make
excellent material for our team.
One letterman, Robert" Parks; re-
ports'for the team.
, A schedule is being arranged for
the playing hows of each member
of this club and as ' soon as the
work being done on the two courts
is completed, daily workouts .will
be in order. The courts have been
retopped with clay and levelled off,
eliimnating a\bad .place , in the
north court. They should be in
excellent shape in the near future.
Strong competition, will be faced
by .the team this year s Besides the
annual state championship junior
college meet, dual meets are being"
arranged with several senior col-
leges.
If you can play tennis at all,, join
the club and work out' for the team.
How do you suppose the ex-mem-
bers of "B" Company would feel
toward us ? AH of you heard what
Willie Roten, last year's Captain,
said about us the last time he was
here.. He. meant every word of it
too. , i'
So far, we have the best record,
with the exception probabbly of the
Videttes. We have carried the lit-
tle blue pennant more weeks .than
any other company. ,
Our sponsor couldn't be better.
She has more company spirit right
now than we have. You may be
sure that she will do her part to-
ward helping us win, . '
What do .you say men '• With the
cooperation of everyone and plenty
of that old fighting spirit, we just
know that our company 'can't be
beaten, Let's get- going.—Lieut.
Gresham. .
Calculus Sharks
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v*;\ drink only Jbeer wjtd.i
jj.S'V1 '• •''V1?V 1 ■ > 1A T" •
' ' 5. , I 'will/ke^p-. my. finger nails
, ' polished the rest of ,tfee*: as .1
, ■ hayo for the past few days.
Roy'"^reiyar ^bors'-wants to
knQW if the'song,;"Pass jAround the
>j5ottle," is V Christinas C^rpl.. . •'
' v Earl Erasmus-Rudder sub'iiiitted
the following smoke house poem:
' "My* name is Earl Rudder,
My face it' is -fair': : . «•
; Step right up girls,
I'ni the answer to your prayer. '
"I am a nice looking chap,
Am very popular it.seems
Girls, don't miss your chance;
i I ,am the one of your dreams."
, ' We. hope' that IVlr.'^Rujldeiy will
give us several more of his. Beauti-
' fui poems in the hear future.
We Wonder
If we will ever get our debts
. paid up ?
If you are getting tired of read-
ing this? (
If; Tarleton going, to,, win. an-
other state championship' in 'bas-
ketball?
1 If Coleman is still ^sfe^ittiB^'Si
If Mr. Wilson stays'up allinight,1
every night? ,•
■ If "Happy" Sanders knows what
color red flannel is?
If Gotland Johnson's hair is, red ?
; If Lomax got a "permanent" at
home?
If IVJa.dge Yeager. wiH per & ]he
Dean of Women? ' -. ■
The Calculus Sharks have not
been heard from very much this
year, but we are in this school one
hundred per cent strong. The cal-
culus is not hard under a competent
tractor, such as Mr.' Mc, The
pai't-ithat 'is! the hardest " is"' tie , al-
gebra, trigonometry and other sub-
jects of mathematics that we should
have mastered, before now, but to
our sorrow, we find" that such is
not the case. Considering all of
our'.shortcomings, we feel as if we
have, made 9 wpnd^rful rcpord4. Ask
Mi*; ■l^c$,weeJny, .he may havfe "a de-
cidedly different idea about ' the
?^0'n*e^of'our sMrks^Gie^cFe; said
that one of1 his instructprs told
,the )i|t^M th^jr ij^efdi ^nptvpi^pare
a lesson for the first recitation
after lilie holidays;' Giesecke, could
not remember the subject, there-
fore, he played: safe by pot prepar-
' ing* any of them. Snjart- boy!-
W.e. (heard -spiperone, sfate -that
the Lord made the Chinese langu-
age for practice, and then he made
fe£ilp.ulus;,,. ^e, -qxf inclined to be*-
lieve the' same. But just the samej
we-consider it-to be the most in-
. terfistiag .subject, that we aye, ex-
posed to. .We might also a^dd that
it is one of the most important, be-
ing one of, the basic subject of all
engineering • courses. J^'y^u hap-
pen tOj.s.e.l^Jiiht'in'sb'me toom in
the w^'%oUrs ;of;-the morning, you
can- ~ebfelu(i'C-flsat it is some seri-
ous miiided '. engineer struggling
with a -hard assignment in mathe-
matics.; '
; If you 'want a few snap courses
for next semester, just register for
a few. courses. in the highly de-
veloped art of mathematics! !You
may become another Einstien.
Nothing- Much
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This article, if you will allow me
to call it such, was not intended
for. any" special . purpose. , It. is
merely to fill a little space. It has
',ho beginning, end, style, form, or
to be honest, it is practically noth-
ing. You had might as well quit
reading now for you will not get
any • benefit out of this "article."
Yet, yon will keep right on reading,
simply because you are eurious.
You know, courrosity killed the cat,
but what we want to know is, what
was the cat looking' 'for. -ITo.t get-
ting?' off the subject at,all, but this
studying interfers with my college
education. This lias .no end, but
here is as. good a place'tp-sign off
as any. Some people go to college
to get an education, others to edit
.th§.school paper. - ■: ;
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,"I just bumped my crazy.bone;"
To "B" Company
Listen-fellows, we have a com-
petition here iij 3 ffijW days. Most
9f. the old men know what this
means, but spme of you freshmen
haven't realized! j,ust how much that
"excellent company" pennant means
to us^ t-"B" Company has been,hold-
• Jn^, ttiaji. fanner almost as long qS
aijybody can remember. ' Do you
want , to be in the company that
loses it ? I'm. sure, that -you dorrt.
Let U^ Rep^jr Shoes
MEWSOM SHOE SHOP
BELKNAP STREET
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not have that small picture
'1 enter g'edt--
,/ i -j' fk ■
Jt will make ai* ideal -remebrance
. • ' to the folks.
This article would never h'aye had
to be written if-x—But that is
,the stpry. At the time of this writ-
ing, it i® midnight, the tempera-'
ture is in the neighborhood of noth-
ing less nothing; the writer is
sleepy and- still has - some studying
to do, but the J-Tac must go to
press. ..The. staff .does ;not get to
eat, sleep, or study until all of the
material is in to the printer. We"
Want the student body to remem-
ber however, that the staff is per-
fectly, satisfied with their positions
and work. Here is the place that
:the "if" comes in. If the students
Would turn in articles, .bits of gos-
sig, jokes, questions, or any other
thing which you think would be of
interest, the staff would not have
to work at such unheard of hours.
The staff appreciates all that the
students do to help make the J-Tac
a better paper. Any ideas that you'
have to make a better publication
"will be considered and appreciated,
The special editions of the J-Tac
will come out in the, near future.
Get behind your class or company
and srive to publish the best edi-
tion possible. ,
,-The basketball team of 1929 is
one that can be classed among the
best eyef put out by Coach Wis-
doni, It was composed almost en-
tirely of letter.men of 1928. Tead
by the Consistently starring. Jess
(Ironhead) 'Davis this'team made
a total of 635 points, while the
scares of their opponents was 464.
On Jeiiuary, seventh and eighth
nineteen hundred twenty-nine the
Tarleton eagers met the Oklahoma
Baptjst University 'Bisons in a
hard game. These games were both
iost by a large score because it was
too early iii the season to meet such
a strong team, as were these boys
from Oklahoma. ' ,
On January the fourteenth and
fifteenth the Plowboys won two
games frotn the Weatherford Coy-
otes. ^January the eighteenth and
nineteenth were the dates of two
very hard, games with Abilene
•Qlmsti'sln .College, which games
w^re lost by: the Plowboys by' very •
close scores. Two more games were
played with Weatherford College
on . January th^ twenty-fifth and
twenty-sixth., Tlje first was won by
Weatherford in a very closely con-
tested dual. In1 the second game
Tarl'eton won by- a score of forty-
four to twenty-one. Tarleton won
two games from Texarkana on
January the-thirtieth and thirty-
flyst, but on February the fifth arid
seventh Tarleton lost to the Daniel
Baker Hillbillies in two very fast
and hard; gaines. The. basketball
season was concluded by the vic-
tory over Randolph in a four-game
se/ies.''The Plowboys won all four
by\-l|irge s'corts. The'stars of- the
1929 basketball season Jwere, Henry
Ls)ter> Bodie Hunter, Captain Jess
Davis-, ;R< ,D, Hendricksoh,; and
is'}£tnar^ iSpearman.- ' . ;J:7"
-'John Tarleton C-Qllegc'was vefy
Js?wed'ias':hit^ih^'and'?wrestHng iifr-
structor, , E. pO-. Bacon instructed • %
group1: of ^mbitioiis *, athletes ! ijntil^
they ^ecaijie.&ue mat artists. Three
exhibitions Vferj given by thi^ bahfd,
'f -'men, ^and- all ol them were en-
jvy^d by a.,large crowd of enthusi-
astic "rooters.' The following wen
appeared before the public in more
or less ' bloody, battles:""Wesley
Thomas, Lewis Cromwell, Capt. El
fieorge Strfiigler,.Willianj
Elliott, Robert, W°pd,; Francis Nes-
ter/'Cope Wilson, Weldoh Couch',•
Virgil Burnett, Vestal Payne, Gor-
don Pierce, and Chesley Forsyth.
For . the first time in history of
Tarleton golf was taken up in the
spring ^>f 1929. Robert Parks, Ken-
neth Foote, and Maurice Price were
.the Representatives at the meet last
year. They placed: third in a large
field of competition.
Ri}be^t;Farks'won'the tennis sin-
gles . of the Texas Junior College
Athletic Association in 1929, The
doubles team did. not* coma out so
well, but they put up a hard fight.
They were Robert Parks and Jim
Bridges, .
The track team oL' 1929 was very
Su£<;essful ,in the conference meet
lield. a;t tht T. C. U, athletic field.
The Plowboys chalked ,ui> 58-«points
OF 1929
while their closest rival was Paris
Junior College with 26 points. The
captain of the team was.E. I. Ba-
con, who was a great factor in that
victory; One record was broken by
a Tarleton man. Elmo fiance low-
ered the one-half milt record from
2:4 to 2:3 and 7-10.
> The football season of 1929 open-
ed with a loss to the Daniel Baker
Hillbillies. The team was composed
almost entirely of freshmen who
had nev.er played together before.
Captain Earl Rudder, Floyd Bres-
enham, and Dan Sadltr were the
letter men around which the 1929
football team had to be. built. The
A. C. C. Wildcats took the next
game from Tarleton with a score
of 19-0. Both A. C. C. and Daniel
Baker were very powerful teams
and wert too much for the more in-
experienced Plowboys; The first
conference game: of the season
came with Hillsboro: The game
ended in a 6-6 tie. The T. C. U.
Pollywogs were the next team to
be met by Tarleton. The score was
Tarleton 0, T. C.' U. 28. The next
team to'fye met by the hard-fighting
Farmers was Howard Payne. The
Yellowjackets made 32' points to
Tarleton's nothing, In a heart-
breaking game for Tarleton fans
the-S. M. U. Colts defeated the
Plowboys 31-0. The student body
at this | time showed very little
spirit. Their attitude was changed,
by a 19-0 victory over Gainesville.
The 1929 - football season closed
with a loss to Randolph 6-7.
If You Don't Believe It
Just Ask Pap&
Da<l was looking for a ijnilch cow
one day when he met a man that
asked him to come to ,his place to
see his best cow. So dad went alofig
with him. When they arrived at
their destination, the man pointed
toward a long, lanky, hungry-look-
ing old cow and said, "There she
is, and I just want $20.00 for her."
Dad looked her over and decided
that if he could get her for less, he
might buy her. Well, dad bought
her for §16.09 to be exact. The old
gentleman told dad that the good
old critter would not kick unless
you failed to milk in the bucket. As
I was bad about milking on the cat
and other animals, that was the
first thing dad told me when he got
home with the old cow. But I was
determined to put one by her; so,
as the good-natured old house cat
came around, I put a white stream
in his left eye. I was just fixing to
praise myself for1 the good shot
when the old cow slapped me just
behind the left ear,. I have not milk-
ed .since, and if the butter does not
melt and run off the dish I will not
milk that old eow again. ,
T.T.P.-T.T.S. Banquet
On Tuesday-evening, January 7,
the T.T.gs and ■ T.T.Ps enjoyed
their annual banquet at Mel's Cafe;
1 The'twp .clubs. twith'^ theirfaculty
a'dyisers Ipft,t|ia. doprjitpry at s^y-:
.en o'clock. _ v
The president of the T:T,Ps Was
tdast^astsr^^iS^fi^. :^&:|>r$yiaed ^
very interesting: ^^'aihusin^vproi
gram. Two of the interesting num-
bers of the. program were talks by
the two faculty members. 1
The'menu was a very delicious
one:. ;
F?uit; cocktail, one-half spring
chicken on toast, creamed peas,
tomatoes, cream sauce, creamed
potatoes, pineapple salad with
cheese and chcrries, hot rolls, cof-
fee, apricot pie a la mode.
The. evening's program was clos-
ed with "On Ye Tarleton." Every-
one agreed that the banquet was
a big success.
Those attending the banguet were
the following: — ?, the
members of the „T.T.S and T-T-P
clubs and their faculty advisers.
Askus
"Just comb your hair the light
way and it, won't'Show."
The following questions were
handed in this week, and the staff
will endeavor tp answer them.
Question: Why was David Smith
'nicknamed "Dumb?" ' -
Answer: We do not know, but
we believe that he was nicknamed
"Dumb" because he is tongue tied
around, the co-eds. '
* Question: Who is the most favo-
rite freshman, co-ed? ■
Answer: From all appearances
every co-ed is the favorite—of
someone.
Question: Canyourreadthis? '
Answer: Wecannot.
Question: If a hen lays one egg
per day for one year, how many
pounds of eggshells does it take
to pave a street one mile long 1
Answer: Ask the poultry depart-
ment and then the. other depart-
ments.
Question: How would you punc-
tuate the following sentences:
I saw a five dollar J),ill blow a-
round the corner. ' , o
Answer: I, would make a . dash
for the bill. V v
. Question: Cain y.ou^,punctuate the
fjjdiowjjQjji, $ ia^hatithat..;.
is Apt is' not that .is) it is it not-
Answer: That, that is, is that
thaft is hot is, not that is it, is it
riot? , ' ■.') > , ,
, If at this late hour there is any-
one left, who does hot believe in
■Santa Claus, let him ask Miss
Glover about the kindly old gentle-
man who always remembers good
little boys and girls. There is no one
who received a lovelier gift than
that which the J-Tac 'staff gave
"her, and she wishes to take this
opportunity to express to the staff
members her thanks and appreci-
ation for the beautiful and useful
gift, a lovely reading lamp. She is
sure that there is not to be found
in Tarleton any organization, of
any kind that is more agreeable to
work with than the J-Tac staff. She
wishes for each of them the hap-
pitst and best New Year that they
have ever, spent.
Duane Ross
Boycelrwin
THE VARSITY SHOP
Courtesy — Service — Quality
Phone 244
, Boype "Honk" Irwin, captain of this'year's team, and Duane Ross,
star forward of the 1929 team, are the only two lettermen returned for
this year's team; Both are playing fine basketball and should be the
J Texas, and Stephenville High School sent R6ss to Tarleton,
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;v-H0WDY,'STUDENTS
ND FACULTY!
GLAD YOU ARE BACK!
In a few more days; our stock will be complete for
your inspection for 1930.—B. Bushey. 1 '
THEB.&EST0RE
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The J-TAC (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 14, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 11, 1930, newspaper, January 11, 1930; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth140078/m1/3/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Tarleton State University.