The Brand (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 17, Ed. 1, Saturday, January 30, 1937 Page: 3 of 4
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To Gib's Neck
Receipt of two signed contracts for
football games next fall were an-
nounced this week by G. B. Sandefor
business -manager. This makc3 n
grand total of three opponents al-
. ready on the dotted line to fnce the
Cowboys next season.
First agreement closed was with
Oklahoma City university providing
a two-year scries home-and-homc
with the 1937 game to be played in
Abilene. West Texas State college
has been signed for a game in Can-
yon. The O. C. U. Goldbugs coached by
Toby Greene will play in Abilene
next November 10 and the 1038
match will be played on n correspond-
ing date in Oklahoma City. The Bi-
sons arc slated for October 2 in Can-
yon. Compared with teams of the past
Oklahoma City was" comparatively
weak in 103G but Vndicjatioms arc
aplenty that there will bo a definite
comeback staged next fall. Conch
Green is reported to be building up a
formidable outfit.
West Texas State is likewise ex-
pected to have one of the stronger
teams in the secondary flight of West
Texas football next fall. Last season
they defeated the College of Mines
also downed by the Cowboys in a post
season conflict.
Cagers to Leave
For Canyon Tiff s
Quintet Departs Tomorrow
For Games Monday
And Tuesday
Hardin-Simmons undefeated Cow-
boy bnsketeers will leave by auto to-
morrow for Canyon where they will
meet the tough West Texas State
basketball crew in a two-game series
Monday and Tuesday nights.
Coach Frank Kimbrough will take
ten men. Those announced for tho
trip are: Bill Harris Firman Scrog-
gins Robert Glover Carol Benson
Sam McCollum Alton Terry Blackio
Callaway Bud Reeves Vernon Payne
and Dennis Bevins.
"We stand a good chance to lose"
said Kimbrough when interviewed
Thursday afternoon. The Bisons ac-
cording to all records and reports
will be the most dangerous five en-
countered by the Ranchmen this sea-
son. Although their record is not
without blemish they have played
several more games than the Hardin-
Simmons crew and throughout the
season they have never lost more than
onco to the same team.
Tallest goal shooter for West Tex-
as will be six foot-nine Shackelford
of Childress. His will be the rare
privilege of looking down upon Rob-
ert Glover six foot-seven inch guard
for the Cowboys.
Abilene fans will have opportunity
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Never Saw A
Stayed
Ho never saw a football until he
came to Hardin-Simmons four years
ago. However ho knew what n bas-
ketball was if allowed to look close.
During tho past football season ho
earned his third letter as n regular
on the strongest series of gridiron
elevens in tho university's history.
And 'this winter ho is earning his
third letter as a Cowboy stalwuit of
the cago courts. His name is Firman
Scroggins if you hadn't guessed the
bashful modest and rangy candidate
for graduation in the June class.
In tho fall of 1933 "Scrog" hit the
campus with tho then insane idea of
making tfws basketball team in older
to keep going to school. But those
were the days when uthletcs were
threo sport mon and played busebull
on the side in the summer. He was
promptly ordered to sturt working
out with the strong hefty crow of
freshman grldders. Several weeks
later ho had shown such decided im-
to Denver for tho A. A. U. tourna-
ment. Ho earned his first varsity
provement that he was in tho starting
Big Bill Tilden To Bring Tennis Troup to
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By WEST
Elton Murphy co-captain of the
1936 Cowboy football machine and for
three years ace tackle for the Ranch-
ers will end his life of bachelorhood
and assume the obligations of HUS-
BAND and supporter TONIGHT. If
this Winchcllistic prediction docs not
come true it will be because of un-
foreseen occurrences.
The genial gentleman told your cor-
respondent not less than ten days aco
that he would be the "happiest man"
this evening.
Note: This is a sport column and
when a great athlete gets married
it's sports news SEE.
A very noticeable absence the past
three days has been that of Johnny
McAdou a darn good defensive guard
and a wisecrackcr dependnbly consis-
tent with journalistic ambitions of
some degree.
McAdon who still has another sea-
son's eligibility spurned the appeal of
the classroom when registration got
under way Wednesday and departed
for Ids Wink homo where he will
start work for the Shell Oil Co. It's
with no small degree of regret that
wo tell of his departure.
Your correspondent expects to
spend some time each afternoon
from date until indefinitely spy-
ing on tho frosh baskcteers as
they observe their dribbling exer-
cises from day to day. The rea-
son for this intensive attention is
to confirm or completely disprove
the veracity of certain icports
coming from Head Couch Kim-
brough." With all sincerity the Cowboy
boss says that he has uncovered
something new in the lino of goal
shooters one who actually
pushes the sphere down through
tho hoop. This marvel of the
cage floor comes to us in the per-
son of Grady Osborne a native
of Tell Texas. "He is the only
man that I have ever seen jump
off the floor and drop the ball
from both hands through the-
basket" says Kimbrough. It i3
understood that the athletes has
to be in perfect "condition a re-
markable provision for an easy
"out" and the little tale does not
stand without concrete evidence.
We are hoping and waiting!
While on the subject of basketball
it seems our duty to call to tho at-
tention of all sportsmen on the cam-
pus that the local floors have been
noticeably bare of all the stumbling
and wild shooting that characterized
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Ball 'Til He Hit College;
To Letter.. That's Scrog gins
lineup. Ho went on to curn the
freshman numeral.
"Scrog" says tho most notable
thing he remembers about his sopho-
more year was the cage trip mado
numerals that year 1934-35 in foot-
ball and basketball.
"The Cowboys put up their best
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Feature Big Name
Chapin Satch Richards Plaa
Are Included In Galaxy
Here In March
Tennis aspirants of West Texas
will have an opportunity again this
year to witness tho court game as it
is played by professional experts. Big
Bill Tilden number one tennis player
of the nation by reputation and his
troupe of four have been contracted
for an Abilene appearance on the
night of March 10.
Accompanying Tilden on this coast-to-coast
tour will be Alfred Chapin
Jr. Taro Satoli Japanese Davis Cup
star Vincent Richards and Martin
Plaa racket wizzard from the lawns
of France.
Screen Indoors
The exhibition matches will be
played on an indoor court the definite
place to be picked by locals where
the floor will bo covered with a spe-
cial green canvass.
Bill Tilden 2nd has long been one
of the chief exponents of the net
gamo in America and foreign fields
and is the chief attraction of the
group. Although their names are not
so familiar with the court fans of
the nation as "Big Bill" who is known
to practically every youngster by the
time he picks up his first racket and
ball each member of the supporting
cast packs a sizeable array of titles
and honors annexed throughout the
world during recent years.
Others Famous
Richards is known as the world's
foremost vollcyer and boasts 32 cham-
pionships. Plaa often dubbed the
"Court Jester" has claimed victories
over Ellsworth Vines Tilden Rich-
ards and many others. At present he
enjoys the distinction of being rank-
ed among the top four in the world's
pro division.
Taro Satoh the up and coming
courtman from the land of the Rising
Sun is predicted by many authorities
of the game to be destined for cham-
pionship honors. He is the first na-
tive of the Far East to successfully
cope with netsmen of tho West.
Alfred Chapin Jr. not only holds
records as a racket wielder but be-
tween matches wins laurels with tho
cards at a bridge session.
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N. T. Greek Club Names
New Officers For Year
Officers recently elected for the
New Testament Greek club for tho
spring semester included: Almon
Norris president; J. W. Arnett vice-
president; Ruth Carter secretary;
Loyal E. Brown treasurer; A. B.
Moselcy chaplain; Mrs J. W. Arnett
reporter; and J. A. Short sargcant-at-arms.
The club meets at 10 on the first
Monday of each month.
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Obadiah is the shortest book in the
Old Testament. It means "servant of
Jehova."
battle in gridiron history in 1935 at
Wichita when they held tho Rose
Bowl bound Mustangs to a 12 point
victory margin" is Scrog's unswer to
an inquiring reporter's query.
He declared the hardest football
game of his career came last fall
in tho Cowboy opener against Baylor.
Scrog barely recuperated from a mid-
summer appendicitis operation and in
poor physical condition said that
every down seemed like an hour of
torture.
Six feet five inches in his stocking
feet tipping tho scales at 190 Scrog
looks liko a slender polo in his street
clothes. But underneath is a speedy
bundle of rangy muscle ever alert
and in tho right place whether it be
on tho hardwood courts or gridiron
greenswards.
As to tho future Hardin-Simmons'
versatile two-sport athlete has not
made a definite decision. He is plan-
ning to enter the finance business
after graduation or may turn to the
coaching profession.
SPORTS IN OTHER CAMPS
By S. J. WHITE
From this department now in tho
middle trivium of the first station
north of the north pole in tho north-
west corner of the north room just
north of the north wing it looks like
Texas university is willing to hand
out the money in double handfuls to
sco an old time revival of her Long-
horns. This fact was first revealed
when the nthletic board of the Steers
agreed to offer Dana X. Bible enough
to give up the No. 1 slot in tho coach-
ing department of the Nebraska
Cornhuskers. Bible is rated as one
of five best coaches in America.
Not satisfied with the fifteen grand
that they must put out for the ser-
vices of Bible each year the Texas
officials have in their whole-hog or
none campaign allowed sky-limited
sums to go on the books as the salar-
ies of the assistants (assistance to
Scroggins). x
Bible requested the services of the
coach of the foremost high school
team of Texas Blair Cherry. Cherry
has tonched the Amarillo Sandies to
a championship so many times that
it has become n convention. It is
generally conceded .that Cherry will
receive about one-third as much as
Bible.
It is reported that Ted Twomey
Longhorn line coach last season has
conferred with Bible nbout an assist-
ant's berth. About tho only thing
that leaves a doubt for this depart-
ment is whether or not a group of
coaches each capable of holding down
the head coach position will co-operate
sufficiently to keep down dissen-
tion in the ranks.
Happiness wagged its tail among
the students of the University of
Texas when tho report was released
that this great array of coaches had
been hired.
Colorado State College baseball
players are playing table tennis
(ping-pong to us) to get in shape.
Coach Andy Clark said that this game
develops tho muscles of the eyes. "The
effort to follow the rapid motion of
the little whito ball" Clark said
"should be n natural conditioner for
baseball players in their batting."
And then there is the age old story
of the pre-med student that cut one
lecture on "Properties of Milk" and
the next day took an exam over the
subject. The full story will be re-
lated by tho Master Mind upon re-
quest. Back-breaking Bozinas has set fear
in the hearts of professional wrest-1
lors for 16 years. Since Nick landed
in Americn" twenty years ago and
started "playing around" in tho Bos-
ton Y. M. C. A. he has continuously
climbed to the top of the ear-pulling
ladder.
Nick was born in Bayna Greece
but when ho was but a small boy he
began living for the day when he
would bo wrestling on American
mats. His first realization of this
dream came with an invitation to
meet a boy from Harvard college in
an amateur bout. "Since that day I
have been interested in college wrest-
ling" Bozinas said "and I find that
there arc many college wrestlers that
can lick the best of professionals."
Tho tough Greek does between ten
and fifteen miles of loadwork daily.
This practice was started by Dutch
Mantell of Amarillo. Nick asked
Dutch if ho coulld use him on his
wrestling card in tho Panhandle city
but it was discovered that tho young
ster from Greece weighed 180 pounds.
After a few loud adjectives Mantell
mado it clear that ono must weigh no
more than 105 pounds to grunt on
his mat. Upon Mnntell's recommen-
dation Bozinas started his road work
with fifteen miles daily ami has con-
tinued tho training with relentless
efforts. It is estimated that Nick has
run 50000 miles sinco ho has been
training.
Not only has Nick coached many
boys and caullfloured several ears
but has contributed tho Back Break-
ing hold to tho gamo. It required two
years to perfect its technique.
New Spring shades in I. Miller Silk
Hose Cornelian and others at
MINTKR'S exclusively in Abilene.
COWBOYS NAB NINE IN ROW
DEFEAT RATTLERS 59 TO 41
The Hardin-Simmons Cowboy cag-
ers remained undefeated today after
walloping the St Mary's Rattlers 59
to 41 last week for their ninth consec-
utive win.
Frank Bridges little St. Mary's
coach resorted to his usual bag of
tricks in nn nttempt to snatch a vic-
tory from the taller and more ex-
perienced Cowhands. The Ratlers
were very much in the game for
nearly n half hour by using a "sleep-
er forward" and four-man defense.
Andy O'Briotti did most of the
goaling for the San Antonio quintet
fro mhis stationary position under
the basket. He rolled up a total of
25 points on ten buckets from scrim-
THE BRANDING IRON
(Continued from page 1)
of them is making an occasional
catch. Tho Fish girls is what if you
hadn't guessed we're talking about.
As is apparent in the following their
catch is relative po'or:
Slime June (Spaghetti) Brahaney
has hooked Ellison.
Slime Zona (Gets Mad) Horn giged
Ody Crowcll.
Slime Jean (Sickly Prospective
Cowgirl Grin) Christopher Ed
Cherry.
Slime Mildred Pender and Paul
White.
Down at the corner the other day
your correspondent received ample
aid in drawing up this aggregate of
IDEAL COUPLES:
Krauss Tola Carpenter.
Guy Butch Johnson.
Hinrichs "Ukelelah" Merchant.
Waters Tugboat.
Warren Pauline Gleason.
Bomar Bagwell.
Frost Thomas.
The neat well-dressed little feller
who used to be a more familiar face
around these parts Stormy Shelton
is back in school 29 hours credits
and all. Reason: "I just had to come
back in order to use my free bid to
the junior-senior banquet which I had
to pay for last year."
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mage and five free tosses. It was
enough to give him high point honors
over Carol Benson of the Cowboys
who tallied 19 points.
The Hardin-Simmons team was off
to a commanding lead early in tho
contest but the Rattlers struck back
with a stubborn battle that left them
only four points shy of the Cowboys'
total at the half the score being
2G-22.
Littlo difficulty was experienced by
the Ranchers in working the ball
through the St. Mary's four-man de-
fense but they were troubled consid-
erably in finding the basket. H-S U
tacked up 24 field goals and missed
fully that many crips.
The box score:
St. Mary's
Todd f ..
O'Briotti f
Holcomb c
fg fp pf tp
2 2 2 G
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2 25
2 2
3 G
4 2
0 0
1
3
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0
Richtcr g
Roy g
Smith g -
Totals
Hardin-Simmons
Benson f
17 7 14 41
fg fp pf tp
..8 3 0 19
Terry f
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113
3 4 7
2 0 G
1 0 15
0 0 0
0 0 0
13 5
0 1 2
Bivens f
Harris f
Scroggins c
Glover g-c
Callaway g .
Hunt g
McCollum g
Reeves g
Payne g
Wood e .
1 0 0
0 0 0
Totals
24 11 9 59
Referee: Dalton Hill (ACC).
IN ABILENE IT IS
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Phone 6277 "Of Course" 4th and Chestnut
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YOU DRINK
Enjoy Coca-Cola in your homo. Pure as
sunlight. Never exposed to human touch
until the bottle ia opened.
Automatic machines fill sterilized bottles
and seal them airtight. Nothing you eat or
drink is more caiofully protected.
ICE-COLD COCA-COLA IS EVERY PLACE ELSE
IT BELONGS IN YOUR ICE-SOX AT HOME
COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO.
ABILENE TEXAS
Mid-Term Swells
Athletic Cohorts
Two Transfers Three Fish
Join Purple and Gold
On Registration
Registration saw a swelling of the
athletic roster to the extent of two
transfers nnd three freshmen.
Junior college transfers include L.
G. Wilkins from Kilgore Junior col-
lege a back and David Revcs tackle
from Amarillo Junior college. Last
year Rcves was a freshman at the
University of Arkansas.
First year men are O. A. Parker
an end with plenty of height to bene-
fit the frosh cage crew who hails
from Ozona; Mason Inman football
center from Winters; and Grady Os-
borne elongated basketball player
from Tell.
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