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« e Lagging ’Mural Playoffs In Race With End of Semester “A” Company Quartermaster Finally Defeated in Intramural Competition Platoon System Booed at Times During 1948 NEW YORK, Jan. 5 _(£>)—Col lege football had another good year at the gate and some of the fans had a lot of fun booing the “two platoon system.” Army’s Cadets received a ter rific razzing during their 43-0 rout of Stanford. All Coach Earl Blaik of Army did was play the game according to the rules when he shifted offensive and defensive units. The rules sped up the game under the unlimited substitution setup employed during 1948 but in some games, like the Army- Stanford fray, it made for one sided football, especially when the underdog was shy of enough talent to use 11 players on de fense and another 11 on offense. Michigan had the best, team in the land, according to the consen sus of opinion. The success of the unbeaten Wolverines was a trib ute to Bennie Oosterbaan who succeeded Fritz Crisler as coach. Notre Dame, California, North Carolina and Army also ranked with the top. Notre Dame, how ever, had its winning streak stop ped by an underdog Southern Cali fornia team, the Trojans gaining a surprisihg 14-14 deadlock. Like Michigan, California fin ished unbeaten and untied and met Northwestern in the Rose Bowl. Army came up to its final game with a perfect record but Navy, beaten by every rival on its tough schedule, tied injury-riddled Army 21-21 before 102,500 Phila delphia fans. North Carolina, with Charlie (Choo Choo) Justice leading the way, beat everybody but William and Mary. The Indians figured to be outclassed by the Tarheels yet the rivals played a 7-7 tie. Another major upset was sup plied by Pitt, the Panthers hand ing Penn State its only loss of the season, 7-0. Doak Walker, 'selected unani mously to The Associated Press All-America teami won the Heis- man Memorial Trdphy with Justice second and Chuck Bednarik, Penn’s versatile center, third. By FRANK SIMMEN, JR. Playoffs in Intramural tennis, football, basketball, and volleyball are now in progress and the winners will be de cided around the 17 or 18 of this month. “A” QMC, the out fit that fielded an unbeatable combination in every sport they participated in since the beginning of school last Sep tember, until recently when they* —; , 1 were defeated in tennis by A In- hi h ie quarterfinals A Field and fantry, are leading in team points. They won 20 straight games be fore being defeated. Barney Welch, Director of In tramural Sports, said that the finals in all sports will be decided as soon as possible with playoffs ending somewhere around Jan. 17. Intramural tennis is the only sport now near the final stage. The hotly contested intramural football race is down to the quar terfinals with the fighting Quar termaster corp leading the way. The QMC boys won the pigskin title last year, and are out to grab the championship again. The quarterfinals see the winner of the A QMG-C Infantry tilt play the winner of a game between A Cavalry and E Infantry. D Air force plays the winner of A Inf. and Senior Co. Senior Company and A Inf. both ended up the sea son with one loss and will meet in a game to decide the league champ. The winner of this game will meet B Field Artillery in another quar terfinal game. Basketball is also at a quarter final stage with such teams as A QMC, E Inf., A Field Artillery, A Inf., ASA, and A Vet ready to start play competing for the title. A Inf., E Inf and B Athletics, A QMC and A Vet. meet in games played tonight and yesterday. The winner of the A Inf. vs. A Field Artillery game will meet the ASA boys who drew a tye for the first round of play. Volley ball, another hotly con tested race, also swings into the final two weeks of play. In a game yesterday A Transporta tion met ASA. Today A Chem. Warfare meets the QM team and the winner of that tilt plays C Infantry. A Inf. and the Senior outfit again tied in volleyball and wall have a playoff today. The winner of that game will meet the winner of A Transportation and ASA. Tennis is the only intramural sport that is almost ready for final play. A Comp, and A Inf. meet in a fray and C Inf. meets D Vet in the other game. The winners of these games will meet in a final game to decide the championship. A big intramural program is planned for next semester. A com plete list includes handball, horse bably tennis. Fish Cagers Meet Wharton jC; Official Schedule Completed By FRANK SIMMEN, JR. The A&M Freshman basketball squad will play their third tilt of a twelve game schedule this Saturday night when they meet the Wharton Junior College cagers in Wharton. A twelve game freshman slate has at last been completed with all games except one offi-* dally scheduled. The Fish will meet Wharton Junior College this Saturday and also Feb. 10 in Col lege Station on the same date that the varsity plays TCU. The Tyler Junior College cag ers are set for a tilt with the young Aggies on Feb. 9, but an other game is on tab; as yet nothing is official as to the other 20% DISCOUNT SALE 30% DISCOUNT SALE 50% DISCOUNT SALE NATIONALLY KNOWN BRANDS IN EACH DEPARNTMENT MEN’S SUITS FROM OUR REGULAR STOCK Marked Down 20%, 30%, and 50%> Worsteds — Twists — Gabardines MEN’S ALL WOOL GABARDINE TOPCOATS Cravenette Waterepellent. Marked Down 40% MEN’S ALL WOOL SLACKS— Worsteds — Sharkskins — Gabardine Marked Down 20% All Wool Flannel Slacks Marked Down 30% MEN’S ALL WOOL SPORT COATS— Marked down 20% and 50% MEN’S FINEST LEATHER COATS— Marked Down 50% MEN’S NATIONAL BRAND SHIRTS— Marked Down 20%, 30%, and 50%;. MEN’S ALL WOOL SWEATERS— Marked Down 20%, 30%, and 50%. MEN’S JAYSON PAJAMAS— Marked Down 50%. MEN’S BOTANY ALL WOOL SCARFS— Marked Down 50%. MEN’S NATIONAL BRAND SOCKS— Marked Down 20%, 30%;, and 50%;. MEN’S SPECIAL SELECTION OF TIES— Marked Down to Sell 3 for $1.65 All Other Ties in Stock Marked Down 20%. LADIES DRESSES — Marked Down 50%. LEON B. WEISS College Station Next to Campus Theater game. The Fish to date have played and won two games. NoV. 17 found the Allen Academy boys going- down before the Freshman squad by a score of 56 to 46. Two weeks later the Aggies overpowered the Sam Houston B squadders in a game in College Station. Ten games remain on the slate at the present time. Two games with Tyler, Texas freshman, Rice freshman, Baylor freshman, and the two clashes on tab with Whar ton Junior College. Coach Wilkins says his squad is in pretty fair shape with the exception of George Skipper, tall center from Houston who is out with a broken leg. His leg will be out of the cast in another month but he will be a lost to the squad for the remainder of the season. Another Houston eager, Bob Church, who was suffering from an attack of the flu just before the holidays, has fully recuperated and §hould be in top form for the battle with Wharton this Satur day night. The schedule for Texas Aggie Freeshman Basketball Squad: Jan. 8—Wharton Junior College, there. Jan. 13—Rice Freshmen, there. Jan. 21—Baylor Freshmen, here. Feb. 5—Texas Freshman, here. Feb. 9—Tyler Junior College, here. Feb. 10—Wharton Junior College here. Feb. 16—Texas University, Aus tin. Feb .26—Baylor Freshmen, Waco March 4—Rice Freshmen, here. Texas Mines Coach Meets Live Wires EL PASO, Tex., Jan. 5 <7P)— A football coach was knocked un conscious yesterday when he tan gled with something a bit more violent than an opposing football team. Rosas Moore, freshman coach of the Texas College of Mines, touched some high voltage wires while removing Sun Bowl pen nants from a steel light stan dard at Kidd Field. Moore fell 30 feet from the stan dard but apparently was not seri ously hurt. He regained conscious ness shortly after the fall but was unable to explain what happened. The pennants adorned the big light standards for the New Year’s day Sun Bowl game be tween the College of Mines and West Virginia. ;fi: i i:: Frogs Upset Mustangs 58-52 In League Play Arkansas Plays laylor in Game At Fayettville TCU Overtakes Ponies in Last Three Minutes of Game for Win a ■ m m m wmmm The man with the flashy tie is J. T. KING, the new Aggie end coach. He is coming here from Tulane University, where he served as line coach. New Aggie Mentor Developed Goff, Dohhyn In High School By ART HOWARD A&M will have a valuable addition to its coaching staff for spring training when J. T. King, ex-iine coach at Tulane, starts working on the Aggie ends. King was signed up over the holidays, spent a few days here, and returned to Louisi ana to make moving arrangements for his family. King will be a boon to the sports Grid Yankees Sign Landry to Contract NEW YORK, Jan. 5 —hP)— The New York Yankees of the All- America football conference have signed three new college players. They are fullback Tom Landry of Texas, halfback Jerry Williams of Washington State and Guard Ken Sinofsky of Nevada. The Yankees beat out the Na tional League Giants for the ser vices of Landry, who. scored the second touchdown for T e x a s against Georgia in the Orange Bowl Saturday. writers, for he likes to “shoot the bull” about football. He is not a complete stranger on the campus, for two of the Aggie backs were his pupils in high school. He coached Bobby Goff in Kenedy, Texas, in 1939, and Jim Dobbyn in Enid, Oklahoma 3 years ago. He first became acquainted with Stiteler and Bill Dubose when his Kenedy team played nearby Corpus Christi several years back. From there Kipg went to Enid where he produced several top high school squads. Henry Frnka drafted him when he went to Tulane three years ago from Tulsa University. King probably should have come to A&M sooner so that he could have brought some of his high school athletes with him. When he saw the Sugar Bowl game between Oklahoma U. and North Carolina last Saturday, four of his former proteges were on the starting OU roster. Commenting on that game, King said that it was a lot duller than had been expected, and was not the type of clash you expected when you shelled out $4.80. He added that Jack Mitchell ran with the ball 12 straight times at the start of the game, probably be cause he was afraid of someone else fumbling. Something of a football player himself, King played at John Re gan in Houston, and later was a guard at Texas University. King will fill the gap in the coaching staff which Thurman (Tugboat) Jones vacated last summer. His hands will be full during spring practice with one of the largest groups of ends at A&M in several years. In addition to quite a few re turning lettermen, he will have the Recreation Council V-Ball Managers . Meet Thursday There will be a meeting of all prospective managers of volley ball teams in the Recreation Coun cil League at the office of Stu dent Activities at 5:00 p.m. Thui’S- day. Teams from the Military De partment, Agronomy Department, Biology Department, Goodwin Hall, Physical Education Department and the North Gate have already entered the play which will start the latter part of January. The sport is open to all College Sta tion residents. Games will be play ed in the Consolidated School gym nasium every Monday night. Per sons or departments interested in playing or in entering a team may contact “Spike” White at the of fice of Student Activities. Play will be between teams represent ing Campus buildings, departments, business firms, or areas. job of developing several outstand ing freshmen ends, and at least one of the ineligible squad. Wheri he starts back from Louis iana with his family King will have his two sons, four and eight years old, in tow. Harry Stiteler and Bones Irvin also have sons in the same age bracket, and if the coaches do as well as expected at A&M, their sons may be playing together at Consolidated. The Arkansas Razorbacks will entertain the Baylor Bears in Fay etteville tonight in the second Southwest Conference basketball game to be played this week. The win and loss record of both teams has been none too impres sive so far this season. The Bears have won five games and lost six while the Hogs have taken only three of nine games played. Baylor has already stamped itself as the team to beat in the Southwest Conference by trounc ing Texas 49-36 in the Okla homa City All College tourna ment last week. The Longhorns are expected to give the Baylor team the most trouble in this season’s basketball race. Tonight against Arkansas the Bears will be favored to success fully open the defense of the con ference basketball crown they won last year. Despite the loss of their star performer, Jackie Robinson, who was forced to give up basket ball at the beginning of the season because of a calcium growth on his knee, the Bruins should not en counter too much trouble from the Hogs. Returning from last year’s Baylor team are guards Bill Johnson and Charles Devereaux, forward James Owens, and cen ter Don Heathington. Owens and Johnson led the Bears in scor ing last season. Last year Arkansas, with George Kok and A1 Williams, gave Baylor a lot of trouble but this season both tree-top cagers are gone. Tak ing over Kok’s center spot is 6’7” Bob Ambler. Ambler is currently leading the Razorbacks in scoring and is rapidly rounding out into a fine player. THIS WEEK’S SCHEDULE Wednesday—Arkansas vs Bay lor at Fayetteville; Friday—Texas vs Southern Methodist at Dallas, Texas A&M vs Texas Christian at Fort Worth; Saturday—Texas A& M vs Southern Methodist at Dallas Rice vs Baylor at Waco, Texas Christian vs Texas at Fort Worth, Arkansas vs Phillips Oilers at Lit tle Rock. By The Associated Press Texas Christian rose up and walloped Southern Methodist 58-52 last night in the Southwest Confer ence basketball inaugural. The surprise victory, TCU’s first over the Mustangs in years, was not an easy one. Playing their first conference game under Coach Buster Bran non, TCU’s Horned Frogs manag ed only to stay in the game in the first half. With two minutes to play SMU’s forward Jack Brown cracked three field goals to put SMU ahead 33-25 at the half. With 29-year-old center Julius Dolnics leading the way, the Frogs rallied in the second half. After tying the score at 42-42 and 48-48 they went ahead 51-50 with three minutes to go. They never lost the lead. Dolnics led TCU scoring with 21 points. SMU was paced by Brown with 17 and forward Bob Prewitt with 16. To rub it in, TCU’s freshmen made it a clean sweep for the pur ple by drubbing the previously-un- beaten SMU Colts easily 58-39. Tonight Baylor takes on Arkan sas at Fayetteville in the only con ference game. TRINITY BEATS CORPUS SAN ANTONIO, Jan. 5 WP>— Speedy reserves sparked a second- half spurt which gave Trinity Uni versity a 53-41 victory last night over Corpus Christi Tarpons in Trinity’s basketball opener. Pete Murphy led the winners with 15 points. Bill Clark’s 17 was high for the Tarpons. EL PASO, Tex., Jan. 5 (#)— Texas College of Mines eked out a 44-43 victory over West Texas State last night by stalling away the last four minutes and snuffing out a last-second scoring effort. Ventura Irrobali scored 15 points to pace the Miners, who led 25-19 at the half. Bill Kitchens, who split West Texas scoring hon ors with John Braden at eight each, sparked the West Texas' rally. Battalion PORT WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1949 Page 3 Kern Tips To Speak At F ootball Banquet Sports enthusiasts who attend the Brazos County’s an nual football banuet in Sbisa Hall on Jan. 14th will be privi leged to hear a man with one of the more illustrious sports and business careers in the Southwest. He is Kern Tips of Houston.-* Col. Frank Anderson (left), Aggie head track coach, and his assistant Ray Putnam hold a conference around the latest track trophy to come to Aggieland. The gold cup was won by the Aggie mile relay team when they captured first place in the Sugar Bowl meet December 30. Harrison Dillard Makes Comeback As Athlete of Year NEW YORK, Jan. 5 (£>)—Har rison Dillard, the nation’s premier hurler and one of the world’s fast est humans, was named today as the athlete who made the out standing comeback of 1948. The Baldwin Wallace track man was cited for his remarkable 100- meter victory in the Olympics fol lowing his failure to qualify for hurdles in the Olympic tryouts. Dillard’s feats earned him 14 first place votes, six seconds and three thirds from the 96 partici pating sports writers in the year- end Associated Press poll for a first place total of 57 votes. Stan Musial, St. Louis Cardinal outfielder, was runner-up to Dil lard with 46 points. For boosting his batting average from .312 to a league-leading .376, and pacing the loop in runs batted in, runs scor ed, hits, doubles, triples, total bases and slugging average, Mu sial received 11 first place nomina tions, six seconds and one third. Tony Zalej who regained his world’s middleweight title by- turning the tables on Rocky Gra- ziano (he later lost the crown to Marcel Cerdan), took third place with 34 points. Tips will be principal speaker at the banquet honoring the Texas Aggie 1948 varsity football and cross country teams. Tips is many things to many people. To the rabid Southwest football fan, he’s the best darn ed sports announcer in the coun try, bar none, and they can’t see why he hasn’t been national net work all these years, but are glad he stays in Texas. To the old timers around The Houston Chronicle, he’s one of the best sports editors they ever had, nutty enough to throw a good job overboard and take a trip across the briny deep for a leisurely tour of Europe, then versatile enough to come back a year later and land a top job in that upstart radio in dustry. To the N.B.C. vice president in charge of station relations, he was one of the most efficient station managers in the 151 sta tions allied in the National Broadcasting Company network, a real executive that J'lBC hated to lose from the family. To Ro- tariansj he is an illustrous past president of the Houston Rotary Club, now an honorary member by virtue of past service. Kern Tips is that rare individ ual, a native Houstonian, bom on August 23, 1904. He was active in YMCA work as a youngster, and was a member of the Houston Y’s basketball team in the early 20s. In high school days, he worked as a cub reporter on the old Houston Post, covering the police beat. He was graduated from old Central High school in 1922, then attend ed Texas A&M College for a year, the Rice Institute for another three years. He went from school in 1926 to the sports staff of the Houston Chronicle, and later took over as sports editor. More than 1,000 Syracuse Uni- J versity students are being taught to ski on the campus during the winter. ' MIDWAY CLEANERS Special Rates on Cash & Carry TWO DAY SERVICE Satisfaction Guaranteed MIDAWAY AND COLLEGE ROAD Kern Tips got a taste of radio in 1926 with a 15-minute sports program on one of Houston’s early radio stations, and in 1930, soon after the opening of Station KTRH inaugurated a nightly newscast, known as “The Star Reporter.” This continued - through 1933. Byk that time, he had decided to cast, his lot with the radio industry, but took a European tour first, in 1934. Upon his return to America, Kern Tips worked briefly with the St. Louis Cardinal organiza tion assisting them in setting up a publicity-public relations de partment. While there, he re ceived an offer to join the staff of Station KPRC in Houston, and became manager of that sta tion in April, 1935. In the fall of 1935, as a result of his sports and radio background Kern Tips was asked to become a Humble Sportscaster, a post he has held with distinction ever since. Texans in the service in the far isles of the Pacific, on the white cliffs of Dover, and in the CBI theater, all heard an old friend’s voice when the Armed Forces Ra dio Service piped the Texas U-Tex- as Aggie Thanksgiving classic overseas for several years. During the war period, Kern Tips was active in this organiza tion of the Houston-Harris Coun ty Office of Civilian Defense, and became director in mid-1943. He has been active in civic af fairs on committees too numer ous to list, and served as chair man of the Council of Social Agencies for a year. Kern Tips left radio January 1, 1947 to enter the broader field of general advertising, becoming a senior partner, executive vice pres ident, and director of the Houston advertising agency of Fran^e-Wil- kinson-Schiwetz & Tips, Inc. DVEfcS'FUfc STORAGE HATTERS merican CtlApfjft r 2-SS85’ SOMETHING SPECIAL! Buy a Suit From CORKY'S ~&?C££iuiewe. 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