Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-12-18
STOCK JUDGING TEAMS
BANQUETTED AT A. & M.
Faculty and Students Honored young
Men Who Captured the Honors
at Chicago.

Five students of the Texas A. & Nj.
col,epe nicked by twelve experienced
feeders and breeders as the pest
students livestock judging team IN
the United States or Canada were
hanoueted here last night by happy
students and enthusiastic professors
The FIVE bows who defeated all corners
from the United States and Cahaua
at the international Livestock EXPO
sition at Chicago last month were 10
have received hearty reception
when they came home. AS the col
,epe veil leaders said, they were TO
have some fuss made over them'
prt in the meantime came the floods
which delayed traffic on all railroads
and It was impossible for the team
to give any definite assurances as 10
when they would arrive. They came
in eroups of one and two boys and
not together as they at first planned
But last night students and teachers
alike paid homage to the boys VINO
accomplished what was thought the
impossible and for the first time IN
the history of the exposition captured
the championship for Southern col
lege. The honors for the past Few
wears at Chicago have gone to Cana
dian schools, Purdue, Missouri Uni
versity and once to Ohio, but none
of the Southern institutions have ever
been up in &c" in the matter OF hon.
ors. Last year Texas A. & NJ. ranked
| sixth and led all Southern schools,
and this year when William Reed OF
HSterling City, ]. X. G. Fisher of Fort
Worth, E. Gibbons of Kerrville, F. W..
Hoepfner of Houston and T. H. Brown
of Greenwood left for Chicago, under
the chaperonage of Prof. John Z.
Burns, professor of animal husbandry,
they looked determined. Before the
contest began, Ames, Iowa, Colorado
and Nebraska were variously picked
for the winner and the dopesters said
that Texas would do well to land
above fifth. But when the Texas boys
entered the arena they showed the
! dopesters up when the twelve judges,
all practical stockmen, submitted their
final reports, Texas boys had a lead
over their nearest competitors, Mis-
souri, University, of 159 points.
And that wasn't all. Not by long
shot. Mr. William Reed, who halls
from Sterling City, used his weather
eve when looking over the entries,
and he used it so well that the judges
gave him the first prize in the indi-
yidual class. And still that wasn't all.
There was F. W. Hoepfner of Houston,
who had never seen steer until he
entered the Texas A. & M. College
and he placed one by the remainder
of the students from the United States
and Canada and the second honors in
the individual contest reposed with
him when it was all over. Reed made
score of S19 points out of possible
900; Hoepfner 1858; Gibbons ranked
eighth with 1872 points, and Fisher
fourteenth with 712 points.
Prof. E. j. Kyle, dean of the Schoo
of Agriculture, acted as toastmaste
at the banquet last night. The spread
was given at a campus hotel and fit.
plates were laid, being reserved TO
representatives of various classes an
student organizations and prominen
faculty members.
President Charles Puryear, pres
dent of the college, was the frs
speaker. The program was arrange
: with words in an acrostic so as I
complete the sentence, I'VE viii Wi
I the Contest or Bust" 1t was this a
1 titude on the part Of the team tina
! was in a measure responsible for thei
I victory over boys who had better OF
/ portunities in judging work though n
better instruction. President Puryea
assured the team that the colleg
folks felt justly proud of the five VIII
captured the international prize an
1 bespoke for future teams the sam
I success.
1 D. w. Scott of Mckinney, junio
! animal husbandry student, discusse
! will" and he spoke of the futur
; that his class faced. A. A. Lenal
had the word "Win" for his topic, an
| he told how the team of which /
| was a member captured the prize
! the Fort Worth Show this year.
= n. Gibbons, a member of the tear
had the words, The Contest" ar
he told of how the victory was We
r at Chicago.
But it was Professor Burns who