1941-12-02 The Plainsman

              FINAL GAME IN
STADIUM TOMORROW! Uw Plairidmarv •ADAM THE CREATOR"
OPENS TONIGHT
TO FOSTER THE AUBURN SPIRIT
VOLUME LXV ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, AUBURN, ALABAMA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1941 NUMBER 23
SQUIRES' ALL-STAR GAME IS TOMORROW
Players Present "Adam the Creator"
Haas, Jones Star
In Season Opener
Two-performance Run Opens at 8:15
Tonight in Langdon Hall Auditorium
By BUCK TAYLOR
One of the largest casts in an Auburn Players production
in several years will mount the stage at 8:15 tonight and to­morrow
night in the initial presentation of the dramatics
group, ADAM THE CREATOR. This play represents a
gigantic task which was undertaken many months ago. Con­struction
of sets and all types of scenery has been a particular­ly
tedious job, while lighting and sound technicians have had
to work out many difficult effects and unusual changes.
Costumes and makeup are elabo­rate
and have required more than
the ordinary amount of labor.
Much of the credit for all of this
is due the director of the play,
Professor Telfair B. Peet, whose
untiring effort has- been of im­measurable
help to every mem­ber
of the cast.
Robert 6. Haas is cast in the
title role. of Adam; Alter Ego,
Adam's other self is played by
Jack C. Jones. Helen Mosley plays
the part of Lilith, the wife of
Adam, with Mary Carmack Skel-ton
in the role of Alter Ego's
wife. Sara Bailey is cast as Eve.
Admission to this unique com­edy
is twenty-five cents for
townspeople, but is free to all
students who present their ticket
books at the door.
Plans Completed For
Freshman Cake Race
ODK-Hutsell
Event Slated
On Dec. 10 [
The thirteenth annual Freshman
Cake (Race will be run Wednes­day
afternoon, Dec. 10, at three
o'clock, sponsored by Omicron
Delta Kappa, according to Char­les
Flowers, president of ODK.
The race is officially named the
Wilbur Hutsell-ODK Cake Race,
and all freshmen registered in
ROTC are required to participate,
unless excused by the college
physician.
The 2.7 mile course, beginning
at the rat football field and end­ing
at the entrance to Drake
Field, is the same that has been
run in former years. Projected
plans for changing the course to
end at the stadium were discarded
in order that old records might
not be affected.
The record is held by John C.
Ball, ATO, who smashed previous
-marks two years ago with the
time of 14:05.6. Last year's win­ner
was Harry Binford, who
toured the course with a time of
15:29.
Awards to the winner include
a kiss from Margaret McCain,
Miss Auburn, a frosh numeral
sweater, and a mammoth cake.
The next 24 men to finish will
also receive cakes.
The fraternity having the first
four men to cross the finish line
will be presented with a trophy.
Sigma Chi won this award last
year.
Runners will leave the frosh
football field, run up"Thach to
College Street, down College to
Glenn, then to Ross, across Ross
to Magnolia, up Magnolia to
Gay, and from there to Samford.
A trek across to College, from
there to Ag Bottom, and through
Ag Bottom to Drake Field will
complete the jaunt.
PRELAW SOCIETY BANQUET
—Photo by Manning
Fourteen recently elected members of the Pre-Law Society
were honored Thursday with a banquet at the Pitts Hotel. Seated
above, at the speaker's table, left to right, Mr. Charles W. Edwards,
Prof essor T. P. Atkinson, Senator James A. Simpson, Cullen Ward,
Dr. L. N. Duncan, Mr. S. L. Toomer, and Dr. Roger Allen. In the
foreground, reading counterclockwise, are Ernest Page, James
Conrad, Elizabeth Kirk, Clara Ellen Slator, Robert Guillot, Robert
Hart, William C. Hill. Frank Hawthorne, Yetta Samford, John
Glenn, Robert Varner, and Buck Taylor. Not in picture. Jack
Ernest, Henry Park, and Billy Gordy.
Pre-Law Society Honors
New Members at Banquet
Senator Simpson
Guest Speaker
The Green Room of the Pitts
Hotel was the scene, last Thurs­day,
of an informal gathering of
the Pre-Law Society, at which
fourteen men recently tapped for
membership in this organization
were entertained.
Guest speaker for the occasion
was State Senator James A?
Simpson of Birmingham, who was
introduced to the assembled
AN
Interested In
Farming? Notice!
Students interested in Farming
—a Round Table discussion group
will meet Friday, Dec. 5, in Room
301 Samford Hall at 7:30 P. M.
Eight Candidates to Compete In
Annual May Queen Election
Voting Thursday
For Women Only
At Main Gate
The annual May Queen elec­tion
will be held Thursday, Dec.
4. In the morning from eight u t
til twelve the polls are to be open
at the Main Gate and in the after­noon
from twelve until five at
Social Center. —
Only women students may vote
in this election and voters will
not need their student activity
books.
The candidate e l e c t e d will
reign over the annual Spring Fes­tival,
which is presented by the
Women Students and sponsored
by Sphinx, senior women's honor
society.
Last year's winner was Miss
Ann Tatum from Opelika, a mem­ber
of Kappa Delta sorority, and
an outstanding student in secon­dary
education.
Eight candidates will compete
for the honor. The eight girls
represent seven campus sororities
and there is one independent can­didate.
The seven girls not elected
will serve as attendants in the
Queen's court.
The candidates are:
Martha Gerhardt, sponsored by
Chi Omega. She is a junior in in­terior
decorating from Mobile.
She was an ODK - Glomerata
beauty last year and was recently
chosen for the same honor this
year.
Lucile Walden, a member of
Phi Omega Pi sorority, from Ope­lika.
She is a senior in business
administration.
Sarah Culpepper, sponsored by
Kappa Delta sorority, from Cuba.
She is a senior in Home Eco­nomics.
Lea Akans, of Alpha Gamma
Delta sorority, from Birmingham.
She is a sophomore in Commer­cial
Art and was one of the favo­rites
in that section of the Glome­rata
last year.
Ruth Price, independent from
Decatur, is a senior in physical
education. She was second in last
year's election.
Dot Johnson, the representative
of Theta Upsilon sorority from
Ozark. She is a junior in Home
Ec Education.
Annette Jones, of Delta Zeta
sorority, is another junior in
Home Economics. She is from
Newton.
Doris Odum represents Alpha
Delta. She is a senior in educa­tion
from Leeds.
group by Cullen Ward, President
of the Pre-Law Society. \
Short speeches of welcome were
addressed to Senator Simpson,
and to the newly elected mem-hers
by Mr. Charles W. Edwards,
Professor T. P. Atkinson, Dr. L.
N. Duncan, Mr. S. L. Toomer, and
Dr. Roger W. Allen.
Immediately following the ban­quet,
all members and guests ad-ourned
to Duncan Hall where a
splendid a d d r e s s by Senator
Simpson on the subject of "The
Way of Life for a Democrat—
1941" was heard and enjoyed by
a large audience.
The following men were those
recently tapped for membership
in the Pre-Law Society: Henry W.
Poellnitz, Greensboro; Henry B.
Steagall, Abbeville; Joseph C.
Bailey, Jr., Gadsden; Sam G. Bu-ford,
Orrville; Joe Tom Burns,
Wedowee; Harry Dicus, Colum­bus,
Georgia; John Glenn, Ope­lika;
Robert E. Hart, Birming­ham;
Frank H. Hawthorne, Hope
Hull; William C. Hill, Opelika;
Yetta Samford, Opelika; Buck
Taylor, Mobile; Ernest Page,
Greenville, Fla.; and Billy Gordy,
Phenix City.
There will be an important
meeting of the society tonight at
7:00 P. M., in Room 325 of Broun
HalL All members are urged to
attend.
Pi Kappa Alpha Wins First
Place in Decoration Contest
Mrs. K. Brown
Wins Private
Home Contest
Pi Kappa Alpha was selected
for first place in the fraternity
decorations, sponsored by Blue
Key, and the home of Mrs. Kirt-ley
Brown received first place in
the private home decorations,
sponsored by Alpha Phi Omega.
PiKA was awarded a 17 inch
trophy just before the leadout
dance at Graves Hall last Satur­day
night, the presentation being
made to Joe Gandy, PiKA presi­dent,
by Ed Allen, Blue Key presi­dent,
with "Miss Homecoming",
June Adams. Mrs. Brown has
been presented with a combina­tion
radio and record-player by
the Frederick-Williams Furniture
Co.
Runner-up in the fraternity
contest was Kappa Sigma, and
third place went to Alpha Psi.
Second place in the private homes
contest went to Mrs. John F.
Main, 108 Ross, who received six
theatre tickets from the Tiger
Theatre. The four runner-ups,
who received two theatre tickets
were Mrs. E. W. Burkhardt, 337
Payne; Mrs. M. W. Williams, 302
Samford; Mrs. R. C. Mullins, 108
South Gay; and Mrs. C. M. Ches­hire,
171 W. Glenn, y
PiKA was also winner of the
contest in 1939 and runner-up in
1940. __
Mrs. Brown's decoration con­sisted
of a string of clothes across
the yard and a placard with the
phrase "Wash Up Clemson".
Colonel Waterman
Praises Corps
For Exhibition
'The men of the ROTC gave a
performance on the football field
Saturday that could only be
equalled by West Point. The
music, marching, cover, facings
and cheering held the spectators
spellbound. Such an exhibition
by 1500 men is due to the pride
of the men in their own Auburn.
That is just a part of the Au­burn
Spirit'. Every alumni who
saw the Cadet Corps thrilled at
such a panorama of military pre­cision.
'The credit for arranging the
details to make the ceremony and
cheering impressive to the spec­tators
is due to Colonel Watts,
Joe Gandy and their able as­sistants."
Sincerely,
John J. Waterman,
Colonel Field Artillery.
Freshman Class
Meet Thursday
In Langdon
Grant and Moore
To Speak Before
Business Session
Capt. Porter Grant and Bill
Moore, president of the student
body, are to speak at a meeting
of the Freshman Class which is
to be held Thursday, December 4,
1941, at 7 o'clock in Langdon Hall
as announced by class president
John Spencerv
Spencer said that this meeting
is to be held for the sole purpose
of establishing closer friendship
within the class and to give to the
class a clear idea of the proposed
freshman project. Freshman class
officers have held several meet­ings
during recent weeks and have
appointed committees which have
been functioning in the behalf of
the meeting. These are composed
of Luther Taylor, Vice-President
of the class, and Henry Beale
Dawson, Secretary of class, to
contact all fraternities; Miss Katty
Wright, historian of class, to fur­nish
the publicity to the women's
students of A.P.I.; Ed Cadenhead,
representative of the Executive
Cabinet from the Freshman Class,
and Bill Rodgers, Treasurer of
the Ffeshman Class, to see that
all necessary signs are made and
placed in the proper places; Joe
Dearman, Fred Sumners, and
Charles Prestly are to furnish all
other necessary publicity.
In addition to the business
meeting, a-program of entertain­ment
has been planned. Miss
Helen Johnson, popular girl sing-ger
of The Knights, together with
a trio composed of Bobby Adair,
Billy Hill and Bobby Hill, are to
sing and play. Miss Johnson is to
be accompanied by Billy Tamblyn
and will lead the class in a group
sing.
SKIT NIGHT
COMMITTEES TO
MEET TONIGHT
Lamar Blalock, senior vice-president
and chairman of the
Control Committee for the senior
class Frat Skit Night, today an­nounced
meetings of the Control
and Sub-Committees of the proj­ect
at 215 Samford, tonight at 8.
Tickets for the skit night will
go on sale tomorrow morning, and
may be obtained from the mem­bers
of the ticket sales commit­tee,
including Malcolm Cain,
chairman, Frank Hutchins, Leon
Marr Sahag, Herbert Fleming, Ed
Gilmer, Martha Gardiner, and
Nelle Gilchrist.
All-Stars to Meet
Unbeaten PiKA's
Battle to Be In
Stadium at 3:30;
Lineups Announced
By BILL MARTIN
The most outstanding Auburn
touch football players of 1941
will be on display in the Auburn
Stadium tomorrow afternoon
when Pi K A, frat champions,
meet the Frat all-stars at 3:30 p.
m. These two teams are meeting
in a benefit game sponsored by
Squires to raise funds to light
Samford Hall clock.
Pi K A defeated A.T.O. last
Friday to win the 1941 crown,
and will carry an undefeated, un­tied,
and unscored on record into
the stadium. The players are de­termined
to keep their slate clean
at an$ cost and will be fighting
demons to protect it. The cham­pions
say that they are going to
hand the all-stars a licking that
they will long remember, but the
all-stars will have something to
say about that. The all-stars pos­sess
two full teams made up of
the best players in the fraternity
circuit and will have a world of
talent at their command. At a
meeting last Friday, they elected
Charlie Stuart as their coach, a
gesture not often equaled as
Stuart is an independent, and
elected Joe. Grant, another inde­pendent,
as assistant coach. At
the same meeting, Jimmie Mc-
Cauley, star A.T.O. tailback, was
made captain, and will make a
capable leader for the fine aggre­gation.
At the conclusion of a highly
successful season of intramural
football, the intramural board met
and selected the players who had
shown the greatest playing ability
throughout the season and these
players, whose names were an­nounced'in
Friday's Plainsman,
will all be ready to go when
things get under way at 3:30 to­morrow.
Just before the game,
certificates of honor will be
awarded the all-stars for their
merits of the season and a trophy
will be presented the Pi K A fra­ternity.
_
Students Attending
To Be Excused i
From Classes
Squires will this year sponsor
the annual All-star touch-football
game between the all-stars and
the PiKA team. The un-beaten,
untied, unscored on PiKA squad
will meet the pick of the frater­nity
and independent teams at
3:30 tomorrow in the Auburn
Stadium.
Dr. Duncan announced today
that all students having classes
and desiring to go to the game
may do so without receiving cuts
on their records. AH that it is
necessary for the student to do is
to sign his name with his school
on the ticket stub that is taken up
at the gate. Excuses will come
out through the Deans' offices.
Squires' major project for this
semester is the lighting of the
clock on the tower of Samford
Hall. To raise the necessary
money they are sponsoring the
annual game between the All-stars
and the fraternity champs.
Materials for the lighting have
been ordered by the Department
of Buildings and Grounds, and de­tailed
plans of the construction
features have been made. If the
materials are received as they
should be, the lights will be in
operation by the beginning of the
second semester. That is, they
will be burning if the restrictions
of the OPM are lifted.
As an added feature at the
game Miss Auburn will present
$25 in prizes to spectators at the
game. These prizes have been do­nated
by merchants of Auburn.
Certificates of merit will be
awarded to the All-stars partici­pating
in the game, and a trophy,
testifying their part in the game,
will be given to the members of
the PiKA squad.
The All-stars, who met with
the intramural officials Friday,
selected Charlie Stuart as coach
for their squad. At the same meet­ing
Jimmie McCauley was elect­ed
captain of their group. With a
(Continued on page 4)
Ranks Depleted, Cabinet And
Glomerata to Play Thursday
Cheatham, Crimmins,
And Gafford Will
Hardly Play ~
By A. SPEC TATOR
Minus the services of Tommy
Harmon, injured in his recent pic­ture,
the Glomerata Graft Wave
will nevertheless trot out a fear­some
array of pigskinners for the
fracas with the Executive Cabi­net
Senators, which is tentatively
scheduled for Thursday afternoon
at four o'clock on a battlefield
yet to be named.
It is expected that Lloyd Cheat­ham,
Francis Crimmins, and
Monk Gafford will dot the Graft
Wave lineup, although the Cabi­net
is contesting eligibility.
"Alfalfa" Meadows, editor of the
Glomerata, maintains that these
men are eligible because their pic­ture
will appear in the annual,
but, pending ruling by the intra­mural
department, has released a
lineup omitting these players.
"All of the team is expected to
star Thursday," said Meadows, "in
view of the calibre of competition
we are facing."
The Glomerata squad averages
357 pounds, and boasts such stars
as ends Bob Ralston and Al Lucas,
both of whom turned down pro­fessional
football offers to school
at Auburn instead of Duke; guards
Banks Griffith and Dozier Corr,
who have thrice met and defeated
army tanks in equal combat; cen­ters
Horrible Harry Huff and
Daring Doug Nettles; fullback
Dale Wise; Dunk Liles, quarter­back;
and halfbacks S. D. Collier
and Alfalfa Meadows, who can
hit a humming bird's tongue at
fifty paces with a football. Sub­stitutes
are Wiley Fancher, Bill
Lynn, "Check" Stephens, Don
Wariowetscz, Stan Kollumiteski,
and Frank Salvionatti.
Harry Merriwether, member of
both outfits, has yet to declare
allegiance.
Captain and coach of the Sena­tors,
Tom Bullington, has not
been reached for a statement, but
is rumored to be having consid­erable
difficulty finding players
for guard and center positions, as
no one cares to play in the Huff
vicinity. It is thought that Pete
King will handle center, with Ann
Pafford and Nelle Gilchrist at the
guards, but frosh John Spencer
and Ed Cadenhead may be called
upon to perform.
Star-studded lineup for the
Senators includes backs Bulling­ton,
Homer Wright, Bill Moore,
Charles Flowers, Bobby Haas, and
Roy Fuller, any of whom may be
drafted for line positions, as well
as ends Birdlegs Martin, Cullen
Ward, Henry Park, and Merri­wether,
if he performs for the
Senators instead of the Graft
Wave.
Only weakness seen in the Sen­ators'
lineup is in the slender ap­pendages
of Martin, 97 pounds of
dynamite from Auburn, which is
more than balanced by the un-slender
ones of King. Stretcher
bearers are yet to be named for
the classic.
Page Two THE PLAINSMAN December 2,1941
That Auburn Spirit—Out of Hibernation
In the school year's first edition of The
Plainsman, an editorial entitled "To Foster
the Auburn Spirit" explained the reap­pearance
of that phrase in the masthead
of the paper, and stated that the Auburn
Spirit was not dead, that it had just gone
into hibernation for a year.
This football season, one of the most
disappointing at times, and yet one of the
best of all times, offered proof for the
world to see, that that statement was cor­rect.
In spite of the necessity of holding pep
rallies as far West as the stadium, in spite
of OPM's no-lights order, in spite of five
football defeats, in spite of all the odds
against it, the Auburn Spirit made a come­back
that was no less than miraculous.
The members of the Tiger squad recog­nized
that comeback—and appreciated it.
Perhaps it helped them to. improve their
playing week-end after week-end, and to
finish in a blast of Glory against the
Tigers from Clemson.
The college authorities saw it, and of­fered
more cooperation to the students in
the way of donating a thousand dollars
worth of floodlights for the night rallies.
The military department saw it, and'
had the whole cadet corps to perform for .
Saturday's game, in line with that Spirit.
And the students recognized it, and
rode on with it, played it up, rehabilitated
it, and crowned it with a modern that it
had needed to thrive in a school the size
of Auburn.
And so the Auburn Spirit is back from
its hibernation, and like Solomon, arrayed
in all its Glory!
A Plea for a Final Dance Set, Mr. Morgan
Auburn was graced this week-end with
one of the most successful dance sets of
the school's history.
Last year the annually held final set of
dances—the Senior Ball—was abolished,
because of the lack of "student support" at
the Opening and Mid-Terms.
That lack of student support was ex­plained
when people realized this week­end
that the reason was not support, but
inferior bands.
So why not re-establish this year the
Senior Ball?
It shouldn't be hard to book an even
bigger name band, this far in advance.
And even seniors could find some young
lady who would be willing to give them a
date, this far in advance, for that sort of
week-end.
It could be made the biggest and best
of the year. The tradition of a Senior Ball
could be re-established in Auburn.
How about it, Social Committee?
Name Bands, More Dancers, No Floor Space
Two points were well proven by the
second set of "big time" dances of the year
on Auburn's campus this week-end.
First, that a "big name" band, that of
Tony Pastor's being the closest thing to it
that we've seen in Auburn in several years,
will really draw the paying customers.
And second, that if Auburn does have
a name band for its dances, there isn't any
place on the campus large enough to handle
the crowds that will come to hear the band.
The two "day time" dances of the week­end
were successful only because at them
one was able to dance—they weren't at all
crowded.
All of which proves a point which we've
argued over with Social Committee Chair­men
and college officials for three years.
The point that Auburn students aren't anti­social
when it comes to dancing—that they
aren't too broke to pay cash to attend
dances, but that they'll pay only when they
are sufficiently enticed by good music and
a big name band.
And it proved another point, one that
college officials have been arguing with
governors and legislatures for years—that
Auburn needs a huge auditorium—one like
the one called for in the Master Plan.
Dr. Duncan says that he firmly believes
that Auburn'U get that auditorium—under
the next Governor.
Bouquets and Brickbats for the Beauty Ball
A mixture of bouquets and brick-bats
must be tossed in the direction of those
responsible for t h e ODK-Glomerata
Beauty Ball. While it is true that the bou­quets
out-number the brick-bats, these
last must be included.
It was a most successful dance. There
was a large attendance, but not the massed
struggle that many of Auburn's dances
tend to become; there were most of the
"Flowers of the Plains" present; and there
was an undoubted improvement in the
method of selection—by judges instead of
by who knows whom. These are the bou­quets,
and all who attended the dance
know that they are deserved.
The brick-bats are two in number. First:
There seems some justification for the
charging of admission, but there is very
little excuse for demanding that a student
plunk out a dollar in order to be one of the
favored few to attend the selection of the
beauties who will represent us all. This
year's plan removed the one dollar poll
tax that was charged, in effect, last year;
but there seems no particular reason why
those who engineer such occasions couldn't
go even farther. Second: While there is
no doubt that the system of judging is a
better method of ascertaining beauty than
voting, there is doubt mat the judges could
possibly be entirely free from prejudice or
personal interest as long as the judges are
brought into daily contact with the judged.
Other schools bring judges in from the
outside, off-campus world. ,
* They invite well-known artists or peo­ple
supposedly versed in the recognition of
feminine pulchritude to come to their cam­pus
and select their most beautiful girls.
Why couldn't Auburn do that? Of
course, no system of selections of beauties
is so perfect that everyone would be satis­fied.
Naturally if some sorority completely
shorted out in the final lineup, to at least
some of "their members the system would
appear unfair, but we think the idea of
outside judges would eliminate the worst
of this.
Then, too, think of the good publicity
for the school and for the Glomerata.
JS.
Th& Plairumarv
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My Ideal Girl
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By D. W. (HAPPY) CANNON
(With Apologies to Winchell)
The only time she stays up all night is when she has a toothache.
. . . marriage in her opinion is something sacred . . . If she wasn't
true to the guy she cared about she would never sleep . . . When she
sees a girl snubbing others she doesn't consider it being sophisticated,
but downright rude . . . She is familiar with all the latest styles, but
cannot afford them.
You never see her sitting in some "joint" drinking and trying
to appear interested in a man old enough to be her father . . . If you
see her at six in the morning, she isn't on her way to some hot-spot,
she's on her way to mass . . . She thinks a sweater is something you
wear at a football game, not to a night club . . . When she goes to the
theatre, it is to see and hear, not to be seen and heard.
The only Daddy she knows is the one who married her mother . . .
She never did the rhumba and her name's never been in a Broadway
column . . . Photogs have never tried to get her picture with her dress
to her hips; that would be a waste of time . . . She doesn't like to be
called a "dame" . . . Two highballs are enough for her . . . She always
goes home with the fellow who brought her.
She thinks phony eyelashes look exactly like phony eyelashes . . .
She never bothers people for their autographs . . . Nobody from the
fashion pages ever writes up what she wore at the opening night,
and anyway they'd never see her because she sits in the balcony . . .
She smells sweet, not because of any perfume, but because she washes
her neck . . . And here's something: when she says she loves you
it comes from the heart, not from a Cuba Libre. ,
Her vocabulary of cuss words is limited . . . She reads the best
books and understands them, not just an occasional True Story.
No. She's definitely not in the Social Register . . . She hates double-talkers,
double-crossers and double Scotches . . . To her, "going on
the wagon" means a hay ride with the boy friend and the gang . . .
You won't find her father rated in Dun & Bradstreet's either; in fact
she may not be listed in the phone directory.
Her fingernails never grow claw-length because they'd get mixed
up in the typewriter keys . . . When someone says "heels" she thinks
you mean parts of-shoes . . . She doesn't go slumming on "Second
Ave.", she lives there, and (in conclusion I merely wish to add this,
she's alive and waiting for "Old Happy".
Letter to Martin
Mr. Martin:
You are to be commended for your clever diagnosis of the Monte-vallo
situation! To say that it was difficult to obtain a date because of
being on The Plainsman staff is putting it mildly, and had the friend
not (on the fourth "call") denied the charge that I was affiliated with
the aforementioned Rag, I probably would have spent a most lonely
evening in that thriving Metropolis—thanks to you.
Why don't you pay Montevallo a visit?
Jimmy Pasteur
Mixed Accents . . .
At this writing there are five staff members talking at the top of
their voices in five different accents. One is an army brat—Sports
Editor John Pierce, whose home at present is Louisiana, but has been
in the past, just anywhere, from Germany to Fort Benning. One is
John Scott, Jr. Only the Good Lord knows where he got his accent.
One is Columnist Eddie Bermingham—from Wyoming, with a definite­ly
Yale tune in his vocal organs. One is Miss Estelle Gains, at present
from Birmingham, but who must have spent years up Nawth. And
the fifth is Willie Hayes, colloquially speaking, from Maplesville, an
Alabama town with a brogue definitely of its own.
Maybe that's what's wrong with our columns.
Duke and West Point
Two names familiar to the ears of Auburn students of recent years
are those of one Miss Searight and one Mr. Stanley Ott.
Recent pictures of both of these people have come to our attention
in two different (very different) publications.
Miss Searight is the daughter of Major Searight, who was stationed
with the ROTC Corps at Auburn until last year. Miss Searight is a
student at Duke, but spent considerable portions\ of her vacations
during the past two or three years with her family in Auburn.
A picture of the front page of an issue of the Duke "Chronicle"
last week featured Miss Searight in a "Sadie Hawkins Day" pose,
cheerfully chasing one of Duke's male students with intent to catch.
Stanley Ott, a former Auburn student, is now a cadet at West
Point. An army brat, Ott had ambitions military, and made the grade
to the Point a year ago. A photograph in "Life", showing cadets
marching to class, pictures Mr. Ott in uniform, square in the middle
of a right file.
PI ains Talk
By HERBERT MARTIN
Editor'* note: The opinion* expressed
In this column are those of the writer
and are not to be construed as the edi­torial
policies of this paper.
If those dances this past week­end
weren't a financial success,
we'd better start having Jake Gil-roy's
Stump Jumpers and holding
the dances in the stadium. Due to
OPM cost curtailment, we can
award no orchids, but the social
committee and chairman Jim
Morgan are first in line for the
award when the ban is lifted.
* • •
The music was terrific, the me­chanics
of entering handled with­out
a bungle, and more good old
boys and girls of late years, as
well as a few minister-hitched
couples, were around than you
could shake hands with at a po­litical
rally.
* * *
Of course, the floor was a bit
crowded. In fact, you had to wait
for an earthquake to be able to.
move. In fact, it would have taken
a Monk Gafford to make any
progress through that human
heap. In fact, any idea of filling
a no-break was as silly as chew­ing
corn shucks, but it was a
jolly good dance anyhow, and the
currency must have rolled in.
* * *
Off to a slow start because of
polio, Auburn's "Miss" elections
are regaining their own. A "Miss"
election is defined as that time of
year when a girl who wouldn't
nod to you most of the time be­comes
a clinging vine, and sees
the Real You. Any similarity be­tween
these and condidates is
just one of those things, and is
not to be noticed by right-minded
people.
* » *
Actually, though, although a
few of the candidates were a bit
more friendly on Monday and
Wednesday of last week than on
Tuesday and Thursday of the
week before, the supporters were
the ones who really-opened up.
It was a great show, and one you
will have plenty of chances to
watch before you leave this place.
" * * *
The two elections last week
were not an unusual week's quota.
As a matter of fact, they are
so numerous here that the girl
who is not elected either "Miss"
or "Queen" in four years had bet­ter
start reading the magazines,
because her best friends won't
open their mouths.
* * »
There were a couple of unusual
things about the "Miss Auburn"
elections, though. Over three
hundred more students voted than
did at the same election last year,
and there were just 107 votes be­tween
first and last. And it was
closer than that. Betty Barnes
may have placed third in total
votes, but if sincerity of approval
could have been counted if would
have been a photo finish.
Her supporters -didn't just check
once, or at least a great many of
them didn't. Markings ran to as
many as four checks by her name
per ballot, and expressions of "100
per cent" and "All the way" were
common.
* * •
Just to prove something every­body
knows, we blew a police
whistle as we entered the Glome­rata
office the other day. It caus­ed
more confusion than a Navajo
Indian in a Chinese laundry.
Someone flipped out the lights,
the staff dived from windows and
hid in waste baskets, and "Alfal­fa"
Meadows, editor of the book­let,
maintained loyally, "I didn't
do it, so help me! I never stole
nuthin' in my life! Nettles done
it! He's the guy you're looking
for!" The Nettles mentioned, bet­ter
known as "The Mole", is bus­iness
manager of the annual (?).
That is what is known as a
sorry situation, as the feller said
when he spilled beer on the
duchess.
* * *
Present plans call for a Glome-rata-
Executive Cabinet football
fracas Wednesday afternoon 'at
four. In spite of the fact that
rumored late additions to the staff
of the yearbook include Monk
Gafford, Lloyd Cheatham, Nick
Ardillo, John Chalkley, and
Francis Crimmins, we'll take the
Senators over the Graft Wave,
53-6.
* * *
Coming tid-bit on the gridiron
menu will be the Plainsman
Panther-Glomerata Graft Wave
tilt which will be played as soon
as enough stretcher bearers are
available.
* * *
Teh, tch. . . . student reporting.
. . . "And there he was buying
bread, without a drop of likker in
the house!"
* * *
Did you notice the miner's cars
in Life pictures of the strike? A
Packard and a Ford with a pas­sion-
pit. Big business is surely
treating labor foully. Of course,
these cars belonged to miners
still working, but the strikers
must have been in the same fix.
* * *
Karrie, the Kampus Kwiz Kid,
asks, "If a flea on the fly flapped
a fly with the flu, what should
the fly that was flapped by the
flea with the flu. . . . do?" A. . . .
Avoid crowds.
It Sounds Reasonable
By JOHN PIERCE
With football again on its way
out like a dinner guest with the
silver it is high time we stepped
in and cleared up a few things
which have been lying around
for some time, as things will often
lie around.
There is one matter in particu­lar.
That is the Tulane-Auburn
game, which around here is still
regarded as the most doleful,
event since the dogs ate Peter
Rabbit. There have been reports
around hinting that it was the
heat which wilted up the Plains­men
to the tune of 0-32. After a
little research we are inclined to
agree with the reports. With the
weather on the level it could
never happen again.
Get this data. It is plenty re­liable.
Auburn romped on Villa-nova
by 13 points and the Wild­cats
edged Detroit, 7-6. Detroit
put it on Marquette by the same
count, Marquette took Wisconsin,
by 28-7, the Badgers outdid Pur­due,
13-0, and Purdue dropped
Pitt, 6-0. Pittsburgh thumped
Fordham, 13-0, and Fordham
whipped TCU, 28-14, the latter
outfit upsetting Texas by 14-7.
Texas walked through LSU by
34-0, the Bengals dropped Flor­ida,
10-7, Florida outdid Georgia
Tech, 14-7, Tech edged Ken­tucky,
20-13, Kentucky took West
Virginia by 18-6, and West Vir­ginia
blanked Kansas, 21-0. Kan­sas
gave it to Kansas State, 20-16,
State upset South Carolina with
a field goal, the Gamecocks knock­ed
off Clemson, 18-14, and we'll
slow down at this point to point
out that any fool can see Auburn
as being exactly 184 points better
than Clemson.
Well, Clemson romped on Bos­ton
College, 26-13, and B.C. de­feated
Temple by a cozy 31 points.
Temple rocked Holy Cross, 31-13,
Holly Cross took Brown by 13-0,
Brown dropped Yale, 7-0, Yale
slid by Virginia, 21-19, the Cava­liers
kicked V.P.I, over by 34-0,
and V.P.I, edged Georgetown by
three points. Now you may not
believe it, but Georgetown knock­ed
off Mississippi, 16-6, and it is
more than hearsay that the Rebels
took Tulane by a 20-13 count.
So there we are. Figures,
whether statistical or feminine,
seldom lie. They show Auburn in
reality to be a better team than
Tulane's Green Wave by a good
322 points. Now will you believe
the sun wasn't fooling around be­hind
any clouds on Oct. 4?
We are protesting to Commis­sioner
Mike Connor today.
And One More Thing
Another notable situation in­volved
the official in the Auburn-
L.S.U. game—the one who failed
to dish out a penalty when State's
Giacone received the snap from
center and faded from mid-field
to the Bengal 25 in an attempt to
pass. At that point three Auburn
linemen socked him and he tossed
the ball into the air while stand­ing
on his head.
With the officials there was
evidently no question of the ball's
having been thrown away. It was
just an incomplete pass, regard­less
of the fact that Mr. Giacone
(Continued on page 4)
December 2,1941 THE PLAINSMAN Page Three
Social Week-end All Dancing
Homecoming Dance
And Prom Featured
Tony Pastor And
Orchestra Is Band
For Week-end
Harry Merriwether, of Atmore,
president of the junior class, es­corting
Frances Ellis, of Centre,
led the annual junior prom Friday
night, part of a week-end of
dancing to the music ,of Tony
Pastor.
Following Merriwether were:
Jim Butt, vice-president, and
Mary Tinsley; James Smith, secre­tary,
and Aleen Mook; Mariott
Lufking, treasurer, and Vera
Parkman; Margaret McCain, his­torian,
Billy Duncan; Pete King,
vice-president of the Executive
Cabinet, and June Adams; Homer
Wright and Tom Bullington, jun­ior
representatives to the Execu­tive
Cabinet, with Ann Beeland
and Jean Black, respectively.
Saturday night, the official
Homecoming dance, was led by
June Adams, "Miss Homecoming",
and Ed Allen, president of Blue
Key. The dance featured a joint
leadout of Blue Key and the "A"
Club. Just before the leadout,
"Miss Homecoming" presented Pi
Kappa Alpha fraternity the lov­ing
cup award for the best Home­coming
decorations.
For the dances Graves Center
Auditorium was decorated with a
huge blue backdrop depicting the
theme of the dance. The back­drop
featured a large orange bill­board,
at which two students were
looking, above which raised let­ters
spelled "Junior Prom". The
billboard read "Homecoming, Au­burn
vs. Clemson".
The tea dance Friday afternoon,
and the morning dance were held
in the Girls Gym on Opelika Road.
Applications to Be
Received for Civil
Service Positions
The United States Civil Service
Commission announces that ap­plications
will be received until
further notice for the following
positions: Inspector (General Con­struction),
$1620 to $2300 a year;
Assistant Inspector (General Con­struction),
$1440 to $1800 a year;
and Mechanic's Helper (for filling
the position of Handyman), $1200
to $1620 a year.
These examinations are an­nounced
to fill present and future
vacancies in the Mobile, Alabama,
Engineer District.
Certain specific experience is
required, information regarding
which may be obtained from the
secretary, Board of U. S. Civil
U.D.C. SPONSOR
ESSAY CONTEST
An essay contest is being spon­sored
by the United Daughters of
the Confederacy. The prize,
which is being offered by Miss
Delma Foster of Prattville, will
be ten dollars, and all essays"
must be in the hands of the Di­vision
Historian not later than
April 1, 1942. The prize will be
given to the college student sub­mitting
the best essay on the sub­ject,
"The Part My County
Played in the Confederacy".
Essays must not contain more
than 2,000 words and the number
of words in the manuscript must
be stated at the top corner of the
front page. All manuscripts must
be typed and fictitious names
shall be used, with the real name
and address sealed in an envelope
on outside of which is the fictit­ious
name only.
No prize will be awarded with
less than five manuscripts sub­mitted
on the subject.
The winning essays in the con­test
become the property of the
Alabama Division of the U. D. C.
Division Historian of the Ala­bama
Division is Miss Delma
Foster, Prattville, Alabama.
Society
By E. GAINES
Wife of API Trustee
Board Member Dies
Mrs. T. D. Samford, Sr., wife
of a member of the A. P. I. board
of trustees, died at her home in
Opelika last Friday.
She is survived by her hus­band,
T. D. Samford, Sr., U. S.
District Attorney for the Middle
Alabama District; three sons,
William J. Samford of Washing­ton;
T. D. Samford, Jr., and Dr.
Millard W. Samford of Opelika;
and a brother, Col. Millard West-cott
of Montgomery.
Samford Hall was named for
T. D. Samford, Sr.'s father.
SOUNDS REASONABLE
(Continued from Page 2)
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So we interviewed this guy.
The results were as fruitless as a
hat tree. He was firm.
"I call 'em as I see 'em," he
said.
And with that he turned
around, grasped the leash on his
seeing eye dog, and strode off.
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KAPPA SIGMA
The Kappa Sigs gave a breakfast after the Friday night dance for
the Chi Omegas. Hot chocolate and doughnuts were served. Mrs.
Helen D. Williams, house mother, was in charge of the refreshments.
THETA UPSILON
Iota Alpha chapter of Theta Upsilon will entertain their members,
pledges, rushees, and dates with a "sweater swing" Saturday after­noon
from four until six at the Girls' Gym, with the Auburn Knights
furnishing the music.
Beulah Crawford was recently elected president of the pledges,
along with Katherine Hamilton, vice-president; Mabeth Piper, sec­retary;
and Addie Louise Jones, treasurer.
Pledges of Theta U. are Hazel Pow, Betty Simpson, Beulah
Crawford, Doris Williams, Mabeth Piper, Sue Hall, Jo Ellen Towns,
Charlie Faye Nixon, Katherine Hamilton, Betty Nunnally, Jean Mc-
Curdy, Maxine McClendon, Addie Louise Jones, and Louise Pollard.
LAMBDA CHI ALPHA
The Lambda Chi's celebrated. Homecoming with a house party.
It is rumored that the first records put in the record-player Friday
night were worn thin by the time they were finally removed.
The date list included: John Sanders, Ann Dees; D. W. Moody,
Frances Galloway; Marion Smith, Dorothy DeShazo; George In-stone,
Lucky Dell Scott; Tommy Wood, Louise Hardin; Bob Jordan,
Olivia Ward; Bob Dabney, Frances Foley; Tom Brown, Josephine
Willis; Jack McNamee, Mary Flo Miles; Warren Nesbit, Betty Lou
Loehr; Ralph Adams, Alibe Brummell; Luke Johnson, Ann Hub­bard;
Jack Skewes, Ruth Atkinson; Ray Sisson, Carrie Smith; Joe
McClurkin, Carolyn Hancock; Albert Williams, McWhorter O'NeiJl;
W. G. Darty, Ruth Scanlon; Jeff Bagwell, Betty Jane Collins; Palmer
Bell, Eleanor Boykin; Gene Bridges, Hannah Chafin; Mike Baldwin,
Edna Smith; Chico Henry, Martha Hicks; Bill Barham, Rosemary
Bruns; Carl Schmidt, Erin Batson; Charles Flowers, Jule Tisdale;
Fred Griffin,"Frances Baldwin.
CHI OMEGA
Alpha Beta of Chi Omega will give a formal faculty tea next
Monday night from seven until nine in the chapter room in Dormi­tory
Two. The president, Miss Ann Pafford, will serve.
The Chi O's will hold open-house for ten campus social frater­nities
Sunday from four until six in the chapter room in honor of
the sorority's pledges. Decorations pertaining to the holiday season
will be used.
DELTA SIGMA EPSILON
The Delta Sig house was crowded last Saturday when thirty-five
alumni were present for both the buffet lunch and supper. During
Christmas the alumni and the actives are planning a joint social
in Birmingham.
On Saturday, Dec. 13, the fraternity will celebrate Founder's Day
with a formal banquet. Later they will give a house dance. After
the Pi Kappa Phi formal Friday night the Delta Sigs will honor the
Pi Kappa Phis and dates with a breakfast in the chapter dining room.
YARDSTICK
By JOHN PIERCE
Lt. MR. Panell
Announces Plans
For 1942 Rifle Team
At a meeting held last week,
plans for the 1942 Auburn Rifle
team were formulated, Lieutenant
M. R. Panell announced today.
This will be the first team to
represent the entire ROTC unit
since 1937 when this sport was
abandoned.
Possible plans for the team in­clude
trips to Tuscaloosa to meet
the University of Alabama rifle
team and to Atlanta to meet both
the teams of Georgia and Geor­gia
Tech.
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Lt. Panell also stated that let­ters
may be given to the boys
making the team.
Anyone enrolled in either the
Engineer or F i e l d Artillery
branches of the local ROTC unit
may participate in the tryouts.
WHY STOP NOW?
As we made our way through the post-game mobs Saturday after­noon
there was one outstanding peeve that seemed to be on the mind
of everyone there to back Auburn, and that was, "This is a helluva
time for the football season to end".
And no one has said or thought that more times than we. Here
we have an Auburn team on a visible upgrade all the way, ever
since the Tulane defeat. There were decisive losses to Southern
Methodist and Tech, there were losses to Georgia, now chosen as an
Orange Bowl participant, and to Mississippi State, undisputed con­ference
champions, which were far from decisive. There was a tie
with L.S.U. which was all Auburn but the score, and there was a
win over a Villanova team which hadn't been so. decisively beaten
in over two years. Now comes the bombing of Clemson, defeated
only once previously and in line for a Bowl until Jim Samford's
touchdown started off the rout.
Auburn followers would give Samford Hall for another crack at
Georgia, or Tech, or SMU, with the team they saw Saturday.
Why stop now? Hell, the Plainsmen have just gotten started.
AN EASTERN ALUMNUS COMMENTS
Mr. Ed Bukofzer, ardent alumnus of the class of 1900, writes to'
Coach Meagher and we print some excerpts from a copy which serve
to back up everything we've been trying to put over about this
1941 team.
"We here in this 'neck of the woods' were certainly thrilled over
the Auburn-Villanova game. Not only are your boys a bunch of
great football players, but they are also gentlemen in every sense
of the word. . . . and it goes without saying, that Auburn men
everywhere are very proud of the 1941 team.
"We here in the East look forward to seeing the boys and meet­ing
all of our old friends and we trust that you will have an
Eastern game on your schedule whenever it is possible".
We saw Mr. Bukofzer in Boston last year and this year in Phila­delphia,
and if you've got any ideas that distance from Auburn dims
the ardor of the alumni then you just haven't checked up. No matter
where an Auburn team plays the alumni are always there, and
whether from the East, the South or the West they all have similar
ideas about the teams and coaches. , |
A GREAT GUY
You may not have heard as much about this boy as you have
about some others. He hasn't been mentioned for any All-Conference
selections and he hasn't made any headlines. In fact he has yet to
start a game for Auburn.
But he's a member of the squad who's gone a long way toward
putting into this 1941 team the fire and spirit that's made it famous.
We're speaking of Vic Costellos.
Vic has had one handicap, his weight. The roster lists him at 160
pounds, which isn't much weight for a guard. As a result he has
played only as a reserve at that position. Yet he's been one of the
most valuable squadmen of 'em all.
Because whether in the ball game or on the sidelines Vic has
been all for Auburn, for its team, for its athletes, and his pep and
desire to win have been instrumental in keeping the Plainsmen on
top despite some losses that would have taken almost everything
out of just about any other squad.
You can't realize the value of a player like Vic Costellos. Those
kind of values won't be listed in statistics tables or in newspaper
laurels. —
But they can.mean more to a football team than five All-
American players.
(Continued on page 4)
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FEATURE PICTURE
Ultra-modern comedy with a
background of literary bohem-ianism
brings four stars to the
screen in "The Feminine Touch",
which will be shown Wednesday
and Thursday at the Tiger The­atre.
Rosalind Russell, Don Ameche,
Kay Francis and Van Heflin
create a "four-cornered" triangle
in a plot of conflicting emotions.
The supporting cast includes Don­ald
Meek, Gordon Jones, Henry
Daniell, Sidney Blackmer, Grant
Mitchell and David Clyde.
Major W. S. Van Dyke II di­rected
the picture and Joseph
Mankiewicz produced it for M-G-M.
Heflin, a comparative new­comer
to the screen, played oppo­site
Katharine Hepburn on Broad­way
in "The Philadelphia Story".
Miss Russell the Wife
Miss Russell portrays the attrac­tive
wife of Ameche, who is a
college professor, scientifically
opposed to jealousy. He writes a
book to support his theory and it
is bought by Heflin, playing a
New York publisher, with Miss
Francis as his aide. v
The picture is based upon an
original screen play by George
Oppenheimer, Edmund L. Hart-mann
and Ogden Nash. The lo­cales
range from a fresh water
college to New York, ending up
at an island cottage.
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Page Four THE P L A I N S M AN December 2,1941
Auburn Dumps Favored Clemson, 28-7; Ends Season -
Ty Irby Races 59
Yards for One Score
Plainsmen Score in Every Quarter;
Gafford Takes Waterman Trophy
By JOHN PIERCE
The Plainsmen swung from the ground up Saturday after­noon
as they closed out their 1941 football season with a 28-7
jolting of Clemson's favored Tigers before a homecoming
crowd of better than 12,000. v
If there was anything lacking in the Auburn machinery
nobody noticed it. The visitors were in the game only twice,
once when they walked onto the field for the opening kickoff
and later when Booty Payne and Charlie Timmons led a 70-
yard march in the third period for
the only Clemson score.
An eleven-man football team
did it for the Plainsmen. A hard
hitting line, outweighed by over
ten pounds to the man, ran circles
around the opposing linemen
while a backfield utilized great
running, kicking, passing and
blocking to roll up gains totalling
260 yards and otherwise hold the
Clemsons in their own territory
during the greater part of the
afternoon.
Auburn Scores Early
The scoring, briefly, came about
as follows: Jim Samford counted
the first touchdown early in the
game as he rushed through to fall
on Payne's fumble behind the
Clemson goal.
Capt. Lloyd Cheatham passed
23 yards to Aubrey Clayton, who
received on the seven and crossed
from there for the second. Ty
Irby romped through the right
side of the line and the Clemson
secondary to go 59 yards for the
third. Ty added the fourth as he
hit the center for 13 yards in the
final period.
The Clemson score came in the
third period, following a 70-yard
drive, with Tuffy Timmons carry­ing
for the touchdown.
The Plainsmen Tang up nine
first downs, gained 209 yards on
the ground, 51 through the air
and had_ a 40 yard punting
average. Clemson had six first
downs, 82 yards gained rushing,
29 by forwards and punted for a
43 yard average.
New Backfield Clicks
A new Auburn backfield, made
TODAY
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TIGER
up of Gafford at tailback, Rey­nolds
at fullback, Irby at wing-back
and Cheatham at quarter­back,
was made to order for the
day's work ahead. It was Ty Irby
who stood as the offensive star of
the day, running 23 times for a
157 yard total. Ty had been doing
the same kind of running _since
the Georgia game and topped" off
his junior year with his greatest
performance. His were sheer pow­er
runs and the Tigers could do
nothing to slow him down. The
59 yard race for the third score
stands as the longest gain from
formation of the season for Au­burn.
His second touchdown was
made through the middle and took
him through a Clemson team
which could ride him and slow
him down but no more.
For all around backfield play
the honors went to Monk Gafford,
whose name has suddenly be­come
a watchword to Auburn
followers. It was his brilliant
punting which set up the first
touchdown and his first for 81
yards stood as the best made by
an Auburn back since Rufe Deal
booted one for 86 in Atlanta two
years • back. He carried the ball
14 times and gained 43 yards, al­so
playing outstanding ball in the
safety position. Following the
game he was presented with the
John J. Waterman trophy after a
vote of nine sports writers had
tabbed him the outstanding play­er
on the field.
Capt. Lloyd Cheatham, playing
in a dual role for the first time
since last year's Florida game,
ended his college grid career with
as fine a performance of blocking
as has been seen this year. The
Clemson players called him a "su­perb
blocker" and knew they had
seen him at his best, or hoped so.
Aside from the path clearing
duties he took time out to move
into the right halfback position
and throw two passes with two
completions, 48 yards and six
points the reward. His touchdown
heave to quarterback Aubrey.
Clayton caught the latter on the
dead run with Fagan Canzoneri
there on one side to escort him
the seven yards to the goal.
Jim Reynolds ran only seven
times from his fullback position,
gaining a net 18 yards, but was in­strumental
not only as a blocker
but in his defensive work. His
opening tackle of Clemson's Tins-ley,
the hardest of the game, set
the Tigers on their heels from the
start. Their heralded pass attack
could connect but twice in 14 at­tempts
over the Auburn secon­dary.
Plainsman Line a Unit
The Plainsman line was again
a unit, outcharging and outhitting
the Tiger forward wall and break­ing
up offensive plays before they
could materialize. Grimmett, Ed-dins,
Cornelius, Williams, Ferrell,
Chalkley and Samford were the
starters, from left to right, and
all turned in fine performances.
As is usually the case when a
line plays a good game, one can't
pick out any individual members
for praise without injustice to the
others, but credit must go to the
two senior members playing their
final games. They were Johnny
Chalkley .at right tackle and Jim
Samford, right end.
Samford *played his best game
of the season, lighting the after­noon's
fireworks with his recov­ery
in the Clemson end zone for
the first score and continuing
with a slam-bang defensive game
which put him head and shoul­ders
above his famed opposing
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PiKA and Terrells
Win Division Crowns
PiKA Team Untied,
Unbeaten, Unscored
On After Finals
. By BILL MARTIN
Friday afternoon the Pi Kappa
Alpha touch football team won
the campus fraternity champion­ship
by defeating the strong A.
T. O. team, 14-0, this being the
identical score of a game between
these two earlier in the playoffs.
This win brings a brilliant finish
to a highly successful season for
Pi K A, one that has seen them
go undefeated, untied, and un­scored
on, and gives them the
right to play the frat all-stars in
the Squires benefit game Wed­nesday.
On Saturday morning,
Terrells, reputed to possess one
of the finest aggregations on the
campus, took over West Glenn to
win the crown in the independent
division. Terrells, also undefeated
this year won this game by the
score of 14-0.
The Friday game was a color­ful
battle between two fine teams
and was an even-stephen affair
except for two spurts by the
winners. About the middle of the
first quarter, a Pi K A drive cul­minated
when Rock Reid took a
{•pass from Bobby Harris and dash­ed
over for the score. The try for
the extra point was no good. The
rest of the scoring took place in
the second period when Harris
tossed to Davis who made a "Don
Hutson" catch and crossed the
goal line to make the score read
12-0 in favor of Pi K A, and again',
they failed to convert. Later in
this period," A.T.O., who was deep
in her own territory, fumbled be­hind
her own goal and a Pi K A
man recovered to widen the mar­gin
two more points. Thus the
final score, 14-0.
Leading the way for the win­ners
were all-stars Bobby Harris,
Rock Reid, Luther Brown, and
Gene O'Reily, along with the fine
all around play of the whole team.
The A.T.O. standouts were
many and stars were showing all
over the field. Master cogs in the
other fighting machine were Jim-mie
McCauley, Johnny Richard­son,
and Slick Jack Ford, who
was hurt during the first half and
was not able to return to play,
but this injury will not keep him
from participating in the All-Star
contest on Wednesday.
During the half of this game,
the great nine piece band of A.
lock, who spent the greater part
of the game picking himself off
the ground.
Chalkley was in to take part in
more tackles than any lineman on
the field. His performance was no
better than any others he's been
giving, as they've all been at the
same peak. Auburn loses a great
tackle in Mr. Chalkley, who's
started the past nine games and
has been in outplaying some of
the best in the South during the
better part of every game.
Lou Chateau was doing the
converting again Saturday, plunk­ing
through four straight to make
his season's total 10 successful
kicks jn 11 tries.
T. O., led by a pretty majorette,
took the field and was cheered
by the many spectators ior the
show they put on.
The -Saturday . morning game
brought forth another champion,
a repeater from last year, as Ter­rells
out-scored West Glenn in a
highly interesting game. Terrells,
who has been overlooked some­what
this season, broke forth and
showed why many acclaim them
as the campus' best team. Frater­nity
and independent included,
by handing the scrappy West
Glenn lads a 14-0 setback. The
way the scores came in this fray
was almost identical with the way
the markers were made in the-'
other championship encounter of
the week. Terrell's Jumping Joe
Grant intercepted for Terrells on
the W. G. 22 yard marker and put
the ball in scoring position. Fol­lowing
two incomplete passes,
Charlie Stuart connected to Grant
for a first down on the 12, and
then countered another first down
by passing to Beazly on the 1.
The touchdown came on the next
play on a pass to Grant. In the
second half a lightning play that
carried 50 yards saw Beazly
scamper over after taking a pass
from Stuart. Both extra points
failed to materialize. Terrells,
much in the manner in which Pi
K A scored, registered a safety in
the second quarter to make the
final score read 14-0.
The field was again full of stars
and both teams deserve a world
of credit. Playing in all-American
form for the winners were Charlie
Stuart, Joe Gant, Gordan Wood,
and Claude Layfield, who receiv­ed
a badly wrenched knee in the
second period and had to be car­ried
from the field.
Dick Wasson, a flashy back,
was the top man for a valiant but
losing West Glenn team.
SQUIRES ALL-STAR
(Continued from Page 1)
few days for practice before the
game, they are preparing for the
meeting.
Activities will begin at 3:30,
with the awarding of the certifi­cates
and trophy to the members
of the respective squads. Then, at
approximately four o'clock the
game will begin. At the half Mar­garet
McCain, Miss Auburn for
1941, will award to the spectators
the prizes totaling twenty-five
dollars of merchandise at stores
in Auburn. Then, the last half of
the ball game.
All members of Squires are
selling tickets to the game. These
may also be purchased at the
table-.by Main Gate and at the
game.
The Pre-Med Club will meet
Thursday night, Dec. 4th,- at 7:30,
in Ross. Dr. Rothmel, county
health officer, will speak.
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Ramsay Hall. Reward for return
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Phone 9116. 12/2-9
FOR RENT—Room for one boy.
Available at once. Mrs. J. J.
Hodges, 337 E. Magnolia: Phone
229-W.
Captain Lloyd Cheatham Leaves
The Field—for the Last Time
Clemson Game
Was 28th As
Starter—and Last
There wasn't much applause
when Auburn number 66 walked
slowly off the field in the fourth
quarter of Saturday's game. At
that time the Auburn team was
heading for another touchdown
and all eyes were turned toward
the Clemson goal.
But it takes no stretched imagi­nation
to say that had the 12,000
spectators noticed Capt. Lloyd
Cheatham leaving his last game
there would have been a prolong­ed
roar that would have outdone
any demonstration of recent years,
a roar for one of the most polish­ed
backs in Auburn football his­tory.
It was his 28th game as a start­er
and it was another fine per­formance
in a long series which
has established him as one of the
nation's greatest. Back in 1939 he
started the game against Georgia
Tech and- became a fixture from
then on. This was his second year
as an All-Conference choice, his
second year as the number one
blocking back in the South.
Lloyd started his football career
as a fullback at Carbon Hill High
School, playing under Shot Senn,
an Auburn graduate. It was be­cause
of Senn that he turned to
Auburn when his high school days
were up.
A fullback his freshman year
here, he was shifted to quarter­back
as a sophomore when .Coach
Meagher saw his potentialities as
a blocker. First notice came to
him in the Auburn-Boston College
game of 1939 when he intercepted
a B. C. pass and raced 80 yards to
put Auburn into a seven point
lead.
Last year he was a big factor
in Dixie's most famous backfield,
made up of Dick McGowen, Rufus
Deal, Carl Happer and himself.
He came into prominence strictly
on his blocking merits, but show­ed
'em all he could do other things
when he switched to fullback
against Florida and caused a
Gator coach to point him out as
"the best fullback I've seen all
year".
He was chosen on the Atlanta
Journal All-Conference team, one
famous for its habit of putting a
blocking back in a blocking back's
position. Later he went to 'Clin­ton,
S. C, to receive the Jacobs
trophy annually awarded to the
best blocker in the South. "For
unselfishness and interference",
the trophy's inscription starts,
and it all describes Lloyd's play
to the final degree.
This year he's been Auburn's
top player, figuring as the key to
the T 'formation which high­lights
the Plainsman offense. He
was named last week to the
United Press All-SEC, was yes­terday
voted the best blocker in
the conference by Associated
Press, and is due for plenty of
additional honors in the month
to come.
His football won't end here.
He'll participate in Montgomery's
Blue-Grey game and has an eye
on the professional game. Last
year the Brooklyn Dodgers, think­ing
him a senior, drew him in the
pro draft and the past week-end
.brought a feeler from the Chicago
Bears.
Renowned also as a baseballer,
he still has another season with
the Plainsmen at his centerfield
position. Last spring he led all
batters in percentage with .369,
in hits with 31, in home runs with
three, in runs batted in with 20,
and in runs scored with 25.
He receives an Education de­gree
in June and after that, "I'd
like to play both pro baseball and
football."
"The best team I've played
against?" he says. "Well, it's hard
to pick between the Tennessee
of 1939 and Boston College of last
year."
He also has difficulty in nam­ing
outstanding players as there
have been so many good ones,
but names backs Black of Missis­sippi
State and Migdol of Man­hattan,
and linemen Shires and
Suffridge of Tennessee and Elrod
of Mississippi State as among the
best.
Eight years of football are be­hind
this guy, but those who know
will tell you he's just starting. An
athlete 'who can handle himself
like Lloyd has a real future on
the money part of it all.
YARDSTICK
(Continued from Page 3)
fAND A GUY WITH A HEART
And this is about a boy who has been making the headlines, but
headlines which probably haven't meant much to him.
Clarence Harkins, potentially one of the greatest backs in the
conference, was hurt on the second or third play of the Tulane game.
Since then he's been hurt a dozen more times, and he's spent all but
a very few minutes on the Auburn bench. It's seemed that every
time Hawk has gotten over one injury there's been another.
But there hasn't been a harder trying player on the squad; a
player with more heart, a player who's missed playing any more
than he. They're all hoping the injuries will leave him alone next
year, his last. And if they do you'll see some backfielding such as
you haven't seen in a long time.
DOROTHY McGUIRE
. . . popular star of John
Golden's hit play"Claudib/"
says Merry Christmas to
her many friends with the
cigarette that Satisfies.
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Milder Better-Tasting
... that's why
^Ghesterfield
. . . it's his cigarette and mine
Ihis year they're saying
Merry Christmas with Chesterfields.
JTor your friends in the Service
And for the folks at home
What better Christmas present
Than these beautiful gift cartons
Of 10 packs, 3 packs, or 4 tins of 50.
Nothing else you can buy
Will give more pleasure for the money.
Buy Chesterfields
For your family and friends
Beautifully packed for Christmas.
Copyright 1941, Luxor A Minu Toucco Co.