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-'P ',;i ti biggie Basketball for ACC Invasion ' - ft ' 'ttr» L- v.. . ■ BY HAROLD GANN A&M’s hardwood-haunters, who returned from a nine-day tour yes terday, will begin preparations to day for their first home game of the 1949-60 cage campaign against Abilene Christian College in De- are Fieldhouse Monday night. ACC will invade Aggieland ,to raise the college basketball cer tain for fans of the Bryan-College Station area. \ The Wildcats, featuring the great jump-shot of Dee Nutt, will face A&M again on Tuesday night. Game-time for both contests, is set Ifor 8 p. m. The Aggie hoopsters will play three home games before Christ mas, Tour in January, , and two in February. Next week will b« a busy one for them; after playing ACC here Monday and Tuesday, they will travel to San Antonio to face Arizona University Friday bight 711 and Trinity Saturday night. £ ^ ' < ACC will serve as a means of \ comparison for SWC hoop fans, since TCU’s sophomdrish quintet has downed the Wildcats on two occasions, ^ Eastern Trip Helped Although the Cadets did not reg ister a victory in them four starts , on foreign courts daring the East ern trip, they are four times the better ball club when experience and nway-fromihoifie playing on . strange courts are jtakln into con sideration. . , f * Coach Marty Karfow’s basketeers SE-E R.U.R. . ■ ■ • • 1 •?* y ^ Presented by Aggie Players Guion Hall December 8 & 9 opened their season against L Blackbirds, one of the East's i powerful teams, in Madison Sq Garden December 2 and were featec, 66-52, before sclme 14 spectf tors, possibly the grei crowd ever to see an Aggie roiirjd- ball t»am in action. 'Jl. Aftir throwing off the “jitter S” f whicli generally accompany atom that jdays in the Garden for' tjhe first [time), the Aggi the Blackbirds on even terms ing tie last 13 minutes of play Ito chop 11 27 point deficit djown to 14. Davis, McDowell Score | Sharing high point honors! lor the Cadets in the LIU encounter were John Davis, 6’8” sophomore from Nederland, and Jewell Dowell, hotshot second-year- from Amarillo; each chalkediup points. ^ Two nights later A&M bowed Niagra University, 53-50. in falo’s spacious Municipal Auditor- ipal 'J.* ium, 'pic Cadets were ahead of the event ral victors until a NU play er sa: tk a free shot to knot the is sue with ohly qne minute and thirty seconds remaining, McDowell was high-point man of thV game with 18 chunters. Dav is collected 11 and John DeWitt, leading Aggih scorer last year with 248 : points^ grabbed 10. Ags Faced Bitiiitens Immediately after the Niagra tussle, A&M hopped a train for the Midvest and St. Louis where they tangled with St. Louis University, the second team in the nation last year, and lost hy the narrow margin of 51-56. Sharing high-point honors for the J .ggies were DeWitt and Davis with 14 points each. Missing the slervi:es of All-America “Easy Ed” McCuuleyr St. Louis pulled into the lead seven minutes after the fray had gotten imderway and neve 1 relinquished it. n Against rig Monday BY FRANK SIMM Newly appointed freshman cage mentor Leslie Peden and his Fish squad will journey to Jack son v Monday night to open the llty'J Freshman schedule against strong five from Lon Morris . ior College. .{ Lorj Morris has already ddmjon- strated its prowess by splitting n two game series with the strong Tyler JC Apaches, 19)19 imlio|nal junior college champions. Peden, catcher last seasort the l[)cs Moines baseball jchib the Western League, succeeds T|ay- lor^Wilkins as the new freshnan basketball mentor. Starring for A&M*in this school's greatest athletic era, Peden played •four years of baseball and basket ball for the Maroon and White starting in '39. He was voted [the most valuable player on ithd Des Mointjs squad last year !anq has been sold to the Chicagoi Cub in the Pacific i Coast, j franchise j League. 1 Miksch: Stands Out husi less ; major, played North-South ding the parade of freshman standouts is Leroy Miksch, 6’5” Cente* from Waelder. Miksch. a _ ? 1 We pay the highest prices for Used Books — ' t We maintain wholesale and retail lists the , year 'round. i ■ i" GET OUR PRICES BEFORE SELLING ■ i •« 1 THE EXCHANGE STORE ^ ‘Serving Texas Aggies ’ _j ■ ■ L • ^ ' J. Paul Sheedy* Switched to 1 Because He Flunked The I Wildroot Cream-Oil 'inger-Nail Test. ^ in the All-Star game last Aug ist. ['« [•[ Jim Bthnoih, another Panhandle pros )ect, joins the ranks of Aggie baskctballeis amj at present is/ hold ng down the right guard post on the Fish team. At the other guaixi slot is. Don Heft, 19-year- old eager from Palacios. At the forward positions are a pair of fast, shifty ragers, each just an inch short of six feet. Jimmy Velvin of Longview holds one forward post down while Don Garrett, ! Ft. Worth product, is stationed at the other. Bess; Mpntegut Available Richard Bess, 6T” all-stater from French High in Beaumont, and Max Montegut, starter on last year's Texas City state champion ship team head Coach Peden’s list of able reserves. At present the squad is composed of twenty-five men, four football ers included in the group. Coach Peden egpects to cut his squad down to ifour full teams sometime in the niear future. The Fish schedule. Dec. 12—Lon Morris at Jack sonville. : Jan. 4r—Whart6fr*JC at College Station. Jan. 5--Allen Academy at CoW lege Station. Jan. It—Baylor Cubs at Rosebud. Jan. 14—Texas Shorthorns in Austin. ■ Jan. 18—Rico Owlets at College Station. Feb. 3—Baylor Cubs at Waco. Feb. 4f-Wharton JC at Wharton. Feb. l[p—Baylor Cubs at College Station. Fejb. 18—Rice Owlets in Houston; Fob. 21—Lon Morris at College Statjon. : Fdb. )28—Texas Shorthorns at College Station. v j:/, : : ij . . 1 • j t | • ■ • j . »• YOU’D never guess to see Rim now, but just two weeks ago _ there was a sad, forlorn look in Sheedy’s beady eyes. People picked on him because his hair looked like he was moulting. Not a gal on campus would even carriqn a conversation with him. Then he bought bottle of- Wildroot Cream-Oil hair tonic and he’s been a gay old bird ever aince. Non-alcoholic Wildroot containing Lanolin keep* hair neat and well-groomed •Jl day long. Relieves annoying, dryness, removes the loose. te;ly dandruff that can make you a social outcast. So if your hair is giving you trouble, set your corpse for the nearest drug tr toilet goods counter and get a bottle or tube of Wildroot Cream-Oil hair.tonic. And astr your barber for professional ^plications. It's the best treatment your hair cadaver get. £ o/ $27 Burroughs Dr., Snydtr, N.Y. Wildcoot Company, Inc., Buffalo 11, N. Y. - ■ ' . ii''i ......Jv J. Aggie 1950 Football Schedule Reported VMI, a newcomer on the Aggie! scheidulb. and Arkansas will meet! the Cadets in night games on Kyle Field iti 1950, Athletic Director Barlow Irvin has announced. The Nevada opener at Sacramento Cali'. oji Sept. 23 and the annual Sanj Antonio game with Texas Tech °d[ Sept. 80 are night affairs, giving tee 1950 Aggies four games under the lights. The 1950 schedule: Shpt. j 23—Nevada U. at Sacra- menjto, Calif. Sept.' 80—Texas Tech in San Antmid 0:t. 7 —Oklahoma Univ. in Nor man, Otsila. 0:t. 14—Virginia Military In stitute at College Station. Ofct. ;21—TCU at College Sta tion 0:t. 28—Baylor at Waco. Nov. 4—Arkansas at College Sta- tio'4 [ *• Nov. iljl SMU in Dallas. Nov. M8—Rice at College Station. Nov. po—Texas at Aii&tin. Now Now Now New and Used AUTOMOBILES j FINANCED : x I „ ■ I-v Phone ^-1232 Flop Colson Travis Nelson ■ !. >1585 in L'l-,' v'.;' -h College Station Representative — Loupot’s ■ ■ • . . ‘■•‘v • • , ■ ■ ; ?r. v *-r • : . 1 Bill Turn bow, 6’1” forward, is th« nnw; experienced player oft th« ’49-’50 Aggie edge squad. Turn bow waa an all-state perfamier for Perrin high NrhonI In 1946 and haa named three I niters since enmlng to AftM. In *46 he inut the team's number two acorer and wan hailed for hln nplrifed play. The ISO-pounder ako ranked nee- ond In neorlng f or the Maroonn last winter, denolte a flow Mart. He net the Individual Mingle game neoring record for the Cleveland municipal arena (27 points) In a game with BaJdwtn*Wallaec la December, 1947. Hi Ag Water f •j" X' Defeats Baylor, Battalion SPORTS FRIDAY, DEC. 9, 1949 Page 5 Griffin Cracks Mark in Second Harrier Win Doyle Griffin, Longview iunior in C Air Force, won the intamural cross country meet for the second conseci* tive time Thursday afternoon. Griffin set a new record for the event, 8:06, breaking the mark of 8:08 he established in winning last, year. Trailing Griffin by some 27 sec-', ends was the second runner, Trey Edwards, junior from Monahans, running for B Infantry. Third place) was won by an A Infantry man,; Jack Turncott of Kingsville. The order of finish for the re-i maining runners listed in the top ten places was as follows: {{V R, H. Gay, A Ordnance, Nacogdoches; (5) Richard Scott, B Athletics, Murchison; (6) Russel Derril, B QMiCj; (7) Richard Wright, A QMC, FlOrasville; (8) G. P. Staterwhitc, A kSA, Port Arthur; ($) M. C. Whjitener, A Infantry, Carthage, and (10) Layton Dieakiel, C In* nM»wy. : - • i infantry won tha team title i large margin with A QMC >nd ond A ASA close behind in BY FRANK BIMMlft-ji of water polo team t'sub- verged victorious' by a 4 to 0 -j The Farmer aqua team racked up ita first victory of the season In outpointing th« hard Bean. Making three poin Tint half and oije in tha Ags were never threatened; Aggie goalie Tom Comstock only handled the ball three titee during tHe hot contest. Despite the opposing eft lylor goalie Tom “Plug tggie w Farmer distant man Van son led his teammates by || i'| J I \dam- :oring two points, one: in the first half and the remainiiag telly with only three minutes to play. Adamsbn shot nine times,^overthrowing only once, finding U difficult, as did his teammates, to get past the strong arms of Bear goalie Ware.; Another Ag Soph. “TigetP Sar gent-, -iq twelve attempted shots washable to slip across only onv, but the Aggie defensive setup kept the Rayloritea bottled Up the whole ghrae. Gilbert! McKenzie add ed the fourth: Cadet counter. Sargent slipped actoss the firsi; tally on a right hand roll shot af ter faking right guird B. Scar borough out of posit on.' In the clear and coding in fronji dai f H 1 Van Adam.- and the left side of the pop] son took a long pass from Karow at half court, and after faking two Baylor swimmers out of positiop drabbled in for the score. ; It wasn’t all as easy, as it soun< ed though as Baylor goalie Wa jumped up in front of the goal coverin making it aim Adamson to put ■ '.I almost covering the whole net ible fol lost i ■push the mpo e bal ss: 11 through the basket. After his [third try at pushing half his body and the ba 1 into the basket, Adamson finally made it. Gilbert McKenzie made the next ■ f pointer for the Ags on *a frorit roll shot after taking a short pass from right guard Ralph Ellif. Adamson made his second tally for the night and the. last for,the Cadets in the second half Billy Karov- and senior Paiil Fleming, two capable swimmerk played outstanding defensive bail for the Ags. Both boys stolp the ball a number of times and together set up two Aggie scores. third spot. LEARN AimONEHUNC From Amerinja’a Foremost Auctioneers ;| j; . J Invest in the Future Two; Week term t Write: beginning December 27th National j Auction Institute ao • 1 - Box 68 College Station, Texas . > . 11 . , I 1 . • ' . • 4! —1- '4 ' a x h£'\"' vl;. m. % , J pi Mi M fe# mmm pit#;.: ... te si p stir 'tf&M ! , : •- n LIKE jCHESTEKFIBLD. 1 wmm mmmm THEY': BRAND.'* r v>. 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