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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1934)
I . •v THE BATTALION '' 1 ' : % Tr ■ v, Farmers Defeat Arkansas Quintet Second Game 35-23 Y\ f Both Teams Are Eliminated From Conference Race Merka Hi^h Point Man in Sec ond Game; Johnny Davk and Taylor Wilkins Out- ataiiding. After failing by only one point to tie the Univernity of Arkansas razorback* in the first game of the two game series Monday night, the Aggies came back strong Tues day flight to trounce the same Razorback quintet by a score of 35 to 23, after having held a de cisive lead all during the game with the exception of the time when both tea^ns were tied at five all- The score of the Monday night game was Arkansas 23. A and M 22. In the first game, both teams were cold and played slowly ami sluggishly during the entire first half, the score being knotted at 7 points each at the intermission. Then after the second half start ed, Moody and Poole of Arkansas made their shots count and slowly but surely forged ahead of the < a- dets. At one time, with only about aeven minutes left to play, the FRESHMAN CACERS DEFEAT TRINITY TEAMOTHOUSTON Fish Run String of Victories To Seven Out of Nine Play ed by Trouncing Trinity | Episcopal Team 134-17. Razorback Guards Who Saw Action On Aggie Court By easily defeating the Trinity Episcopal team of Houston 34-17, Monday afternoop. the Texas Aggie Freshman cagets ran their win column to 7 games out of 9 played this season. Thh only (oases suf fered to date by. the Freshmen have both been given by the strong Allen Academy quintet of Bryan. In the game with Trinity Episco pal, Coach ••Bull" Marcum’s quin tet took an early lead and kept it during the entire let^th of the game. At the first quarter the score was 10-4; at the half, 20-6; and at the third quarter, 24-4). During the last < quarter. Trinity tallied to make eight points but otherw ise did not] seriously threat en the first year Cadets. Kd Lee. Houston, stellar forward and Pete Dowling, also of Houston, tail center, were,’the mainstays of the victory for tbe freshen. The next game for the Aggie Freshmen will be held Monday Razorbacks held an eight point ( afternoon in Memorial gymnasium lead, the score being 23-15. At this where the "Fish*’ will play the tiihe the Aggies, led by Taylor fourth and last gdme of the aeries Wilk ins, began a rally and brought against Allen Academy, the score to within on<* point of the leading Razorbacks. With only „ eV en minutes of play the count thirty seconds to play, an Aggie wa . H f„r a f r w seconds at 5 all. try for a field goal, the making of Kxcellent guarding by the Aggies, which would have put the Cadets sthrs being Joe Merka. Taylor in the lead, circled around the loop Wilkins, Johnny Davis, snd Monte and after seeming to balance forj t amuehael, held the Raaoibaixs Bryan High Captures Annual District Cage Tournament Saturday Bryan High School won the Dis trict 17 interscholastic league bas ketball championahip last Saturday ! in Memorial gymnasium in the an nual district cage tournament. After dsawing a bye in the first round of the morning, Bryan start- ' ed out strong in the second round of the day and defeated North Zulch 35-29, to win the right to play in the final contest with Cald well High School. After playing a tight game. Bry an won the final Saturday night from the Caldwell team by a 26- 17 score. In this game, Stabler, Staldings and Alexander starred for Bryan while Houston, a guard from Caldwell, took over indivi- j dual honors of the day with a total ! of 9 points. Counties represented in the meet were Milam, Grimes, Burleson. Robertson. Leon, Ffreestone, Mad ! ison, and Brazos. Matty Bell, head ] of the department of physical edu cation at A and M. assisted by oth- | er members of the Aggie athletic : staff, were in charge of the meet. I Farmers Meet Golden Bears in I*ast Basketball Road Trip of Season at Waco. Pucker Mowell a few seconds fell on the outside. Arkansas recovered the ball and held it until the whistle blew end ing the game. Tuesday night both teams start ed out considerably faster than they did Monday night but the Ag gies showed a complete reversal of form and took the lead at the be ginning of the game and never once let the Razorbacks come into the lead in score although after to only three field goals in each half and these were made by long shots from deep iqte the court. The tip-off was controlled exceptionally well by the lanky Aggie center, Merka and this, tbgether with the fact that Max Tohiine held com plete control of taking the ball off the back-board kept the ball into the hands of the Aggies most of the evening. The score at the half in the second game was A and The Aggies split a two-game series with the Razorltacks on their home court on Monday and Tuesday nights. Arkansas won the first game 23-22 and A and M was victorious the next night to the tune of 35-23. On the right is J. L. Howell. 6 feet 5 inches tall, a reserve end on last year's championship Razorback footl>all team. On the left is Paul Rucker, 6 feet 5 inches tall and weighs 195 pounds, an all-conference foot ball jwrformer at end. Upper center is Klstner Beall, Coach Rose's only senior guard. I>oWer center is John Fulton, 6 feet 1 inch tall, a fast floor worker. Heinen Hijfh Point Man in Individual Participation Race The first ^beck-up of the year<> on the race lor individual high- poinl man in intramural partici pation saows J. E. Heinen, Dallas, of Battery ••L", Field Artillery, in the had with Poricy Ragle, Oiney, The Texas Aggie basketball team will make its last road trip of the season Saturday as the Farmers go to Waco to meet the Ba>lor Bears in the second game with Coach Ralph Wolfs quintet. The Aggies won the first game player! at College Station by a score of 3(k-14. The Bears, who started out at a slow pace, have steadily been improving and after going into the games as the underdog gave two upsets by defeating Arkansas in one game and Texas University in another. Starting for the Bearn will likely be Abe Barnett and Bennie Clark, forwards; Captain Jimmie Parks and Wilfong. guards; and Frank James, center. For the Aggies. Tohiine and Davis at forwards; Merka at cen ter; and Wilkins and Carmichael at guards will likely start the game. ' of Company “A’* Signal Corps a close s**cond. The leaders in the company and individual struggle -till rave three months in which lo make points. h - (X)NFKRENCE BASKETBALL STANDING (Including Tuesday games) W L Pet. T C U 8 • 2 800 Rice b 3 624 A snd M 5 4 565 Arkansas 5 5 506 Texas 4 5 445| S M U v 3 4 375 Baylor 2 ’ 8 200 This Weeks results: f Monday nighi. Arkansas 23. A and M 22. Tuesday night: A and I*. 35. T C U 39. Baylor 33. Rice 45. Texas 36. Games this week: Friday: At Austin, Texas Chris tian vs Texas University. Saturday: At Waco. A and M vs Baylor. At Dallas, Rice vs S M U. DAVIS FLYING AIRMAIL Friends of W. E. “Sweetle" Davis, who graduated from A and M with the class of '32, will be in terested to learn that he is now flying the airmail from Dallas to Kansas City. JUST ARRIV ED A BRAND NEW ASSORTMENT OF LATEST SPRING SAMPLES Come down anti let us help you pick out your new Spring Suit. UNIFORM TAILORS • Mendl North Gate * ■ — Hornak Arkansas. 23. M 15, Arkansas 8. High point men in the first game were Moody of Arkansas, 8; Poole and Wilkins, each 6. In the second game, the Cadets took all honors for high point men. Merka leading with 10 and Tohiine and Davis coming second with 8 points each. FIRST GAME A ami M (221 Loading is like building a fire u a pipe, son. f.t. pts. In five places at once —by te/cp/ione I . j ! i * Conference telephone serv ice — a new telephone convenience—enables a number of people far apart to talk together as freely as though gathered around a table. This fosters quicker interchange of ideas in business — saves time and money — expedites decisions. For example: an executive wishes to discuss plans with his district managers. His tele phone is connected simulUir.eoush with each of \ theirs —all can talk, all hear everything that is said! 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