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BATTALION SPORTS EDITOR
NINE MEN SURE TO MAKE
BASKETBALL LETTERS AFTER
SEASON OF MANY UPSETS
Nine men, Bill Henderson, Bill
Dawson, Woody Varner, J. T.
Lang, Jude Smith, Billy Joe
Adams, Charlie Stevenson, Harold
Duncan, and Tommie Tinker, are
due to letter in basketball. Only
two others, Bill Buchanan and R.
C. Adams have played in any con
ference games.
There were many upsets made
and three conference records
broken during the season. Arr
kansas broke her own record of
74 points in a single game when
In the midst of things,.,
MANSFIELD SHOES
As welcome as a golf champ
arriving home. As up to date
as an AP wire flash. And as
fresh, at the end of the day
or night, as a good miler
WIMBERLEY • STONE OANSBY
CLOCMERS
-fshe beat S. M. U. 75 to 40 on Feb.
9.
The champion Rice Owls scored
609 points in their 12 conference
games. Arkansas formerly held
the high-point record with 568
points.
Rice and A. & M. rolled up a
new record for total points in a
single game when the Owls beat
the cadets 67 to 54, in Houston, for
a total of 121. The previous rec
ord was held by T. C. U. and Rice
with a total of 119.
Player making most points in
season—Wilkerson, c, S. M. U.—
162.
Player making most points in
single game—Wilkerson, c, S. M.
U.—29 (11 FG, 7 FT), against T.
C. U. Feb. 21 in Fort Worth.
Player making most field goals
in season—Wilkerson, c, S. M. U.
—■57.
Player making most field goals
in single game—2 tied at 11 —
Wilkerson, c, S. M. U., against
T. C. U. Feb. 21 in Fort Worth;
J. Freiberger, c, Arkansas, against
S. M. U. Feb. 9 in Fayetteville.
Team making most points in
season—Rice, 607. (New confer
ence record).
Team making most points in
single game—Arkansas, 75, against
S. M. U. Feb. 9 in Fayetteville.
(New conference record).
Team making most field goals
in season—Rice—243.
Team making most field goals
in single game—Arkansas, 33,
against S. M. U. Feb. 9 in Fayette
ville.
Team making most free throws
in season—two tied—121—Rice,
Baylor.
Team making most free throws
in single game—Baylor, 18, against
Rice Jan. 27 in Houston.
Team making fewest points in
season—T. C. U., 451.
Team making fewest points in
single game—three tied on 24
points—Arkansas against Baylor
Jan. 19 in Waco; S. M. U. against
Texas Jan. 9 in Austin; T. C. U.
against Rice Jan. 12 in Fort Worth.
Team making fewest free throws
in single game — T. C. U., 2,
against Arkansas, March 2, Fay
etteville.
Most points by both teams in
single game—121— Rice 67, A. &
M. 54, Jan. 23 in Houston (New
conference record).
Fewest points by both teams in
single game—55—Texas 31, S. M.
U. 24, Jan. 9 in Austin.
Greatest margin of victory—41—
Texas 69, T. C. U. 28, Jan. 20
in Austin.
Best offensive record—Rice,
average of 50.58 points per game.
Best defensive record — Rice,
average of 40.08 points per game
by opponents.
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Cadets End
Season With
Thrilling Tilt
By Gene Oates
All’s well that ends well, it is
said, and the basketball season
certainly ended well for the Ag
gies Saturday night as they blast
ed the “holier than thou” Texas
Steers 53 to 52 when Charlie
Stevenson sunk a field goal from
mid-court two seconds before the
gun momentarily out blasted the
yelling of the crowd.
The smell of battle was in the
air when the varsity teams came
on the floor because the Aggie
fish had just finished making fools
of the Texas Yearlings. Hender
son started the scoring with a
two-pointer, the first of his 20
points. Lang followed to give the
cadets a 4-0 lead, but then Houpt
tied the score with two goals. With
Dawson and Henderson hitting the
basket from all angles and getting
support from the other members
of the team, the Aggies forged
ahead and held a 33 to 22 ad
vantage at the half.
Texas began to close the gap
when the teams came back after
the rest and in ten minutes the
score was 44 to 43 in favor of the
cadets. It was also at this point
that Dawson fouled out. Things
began to look black for the Ag
gies, but they were really only
starting to fight. Tinker really
went to town on messing the visit
ors up and he fouled out with the
score still in favor of the cadets
by one point. Stevenson replaced
him with six minutes left.
Henderson made the score 48 to
45 for the cadets, but Hull came
back to make it read 48 to 47.
Lang sank a field goal, but Texas
came right back with another.
Henderson sank a gift shot to take
a 51 to 49 advantage, but Cutner
tied the count at 51-all with a
bucket. Hull forged ahead for the
Steers when he made good on one
of two free throws.
The timekeeper had the pistol
cocked and ready when the last two
shots were made. The Aggeis were
controlling the ball someway.
There would be a fog of players
and then a cadet would come out
of the heap with the ball and shoot.
The oval was passed back to
Charlie Stevenson in almost mid
court and the little man placed a
perfect shot through the mesh
to put the Aggies ahead 53 to 52.
Houpt tried a desperate shot from
under the Aggie basket just as the
gun fired, but it went over the
backboard, and then hell broke
loose in the stands as the large
crowd of civilians and the sur
prisingly few Aggies went crazy.
There were three shots made
during the last 39 seconds and it
was hard to tell whether you were
witnessing a wrestling match, foot
ball game, battle royal or just
what.
The Aggie team played its best,
Henderson and Dawson were hot;
Texas was playing for all they
were worth, but the cadets were
just too much for the visitors.
Henderson’s 20 points moved
him up to fifth in the conference
for the year and Dawson pulled up
to seventh.
It’s baseball and track for the
Aggies from now on until the end
of the year.
One-point victories—one — Rice
42, Texas 41, Feb. 27 in Austin.
This game determined the confer
ence championship. A. & M. 53,
Texas 52, Mar. 2, College Station.
Two-point victories—Rice 36, S.
M. U 34, Jan. 13 in Dallas; Bay
lor 45, Rice 43, Jan. 26, Houston;
A. & M. 51, S. M. U. 49, Jan. 20
in College Station.
Overtime games—one—S. M. U.
45, Texas 42, Feb. 16 in Dallas.
Games won by home team—28.
Games won by visiting team—14.
Leading Conference Scorers
(All totals over 100. Last sea
son there were but six players
scoring more than 100 points; this
season there were 13.)
BATTALION
TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 1940
PAGE 3
Swim Club
Loses To San f
Antonio Y
By Hub Johnson
The San Antonio Y.M.C.A. and
the A. & M. Campus Swim Club
split the bill here Saturday night
as the Alamo city team won the
meet and the cadets were the win
ners of the water polo game.
Varsity swimmers and water po
lo players acted as judges, and
members of the club who are
swimmers but not on the varsity
team finished the competition.
Downed by twelve points in the
swim meet by the ancient city’s
‘Y’, the A. & M. Swim Club turned
on the heat and showed them the
class of water polo played by the
ordinary run of swimmers here, as
well as the varsity team. The
water polo score was 6 to 0. Hedges
counted for' four, and Taylor and
Rogers marked up one each.
Results of the swimming:
300 medley relay: SA ‘Y’ (Scott,
Smith, Smith); Campus Swimmers
(Ewing, Stephens, Renaud).
50 yard free style: Clemem (SA)
McKey (CC); Winters (CC).
220 free style: Taylor (CC);
Rogers (CC); Don Smith (SA).
100 free style: Clemens (SA);
Swan (SA); Renaud (CC).
100 back stroke: Ewing (CC);
Spencer (CA); McKey (CC).
Diving: Hedges (CC); Richards
(CC).
100 breast stroke: Scott, R (SA)
Scott, F (SA); Stephens (CC).
440 free style: Taylor (CC);
Smith (SA); Rogers (CC) .
400 relay: San Antonio ‘Y’
(Smith, Swan, Smith, Clemens);
Campus Club (Ewing, Duelle, Re
naud, Taylor).
Officials for the meet were
starter, Johnson; judges, Hensley,
Webb, Snow, Rollins; timekeeper,
Hensley; scorer, Smith.
Gus Clemens was the captain of
the San Antonio ‘Y’ and Robert
Taylor captained the Campus Club.
Pistol Team Extends
Its Streak of Wins
The A. & M. pistol team contin
ued to protect its national title
last week with victories over Illi
nois University, State College of
Arkansas, and Penn State College.
The cadets shot a 1403 against
Penn. State when C. A. Lewis
counted 293 out of a possible 300.
Penn State plugged the cardlboard
for a 1259.
C. A. Lewis was high point man
with a 285 as the Aggies walloped
Illinois 1361 to 1274.
It was 1371 to 1169 for the ca
dets over the State College of
Arkansas. Bert Burns, with a
270, reached the top five for the
first time this year in this match.
Player, pos., Team
fg
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tp
Wilkerson, c, S.M.U.
...57
48
162
Kinney, c, Rice
...56
24
136
Moers, g, Texas
...53
28
134
Bryski, f, Baylor
...49
33
131
Henderson, g, A.&M..
...51
28
130
Hickey, g, Ark
...46
32
124
Dawson, c. A,&M....
...50
23
123
Frivaldsky, c, Baylor.
...44
20
108
Carswell, g, Rice
...43
22
108
Creasy, f, Baylor
...33
39
105
Vaughn, g, Baylor
...48
7
103
Hull, f, Texas
...41
20
102
Houpt, c, Texas
...42
17
101
Take the top five
men
and
you
CADET PLAYERS TO
PRESENT RADIO PLAY
The Cadet Players, A. & M.’s
newly organized but progressing
dramatic club will soon present a
play over station WTAW accord
ing to station manager John Ross
er. The club, which already has
three plays under production will
meet Wednesday afternoon for the
purpose of selecting voices for the
radio production and for instruc
tion in radio acting by Mr. Rosser.
The first play over WTAW will
be presented some Sunday morn-
| ing soon and will probably be one-
half hour in length.
have The Battalion’s All-Confer
ence Basketball Team.
Student Welfare Committee
Meets With Bolton Thursday
Dean F. C. Bolton, Chairman
of the Student Welfare Commit
tee, has announced that the regu
lar monthly meeting of the com
mittee will be held on Thursday,
March 7, at 6:15 p. m. He requests
that all members notify
his office by 10 a. m. Thursday
whether or not they will attend
the meeting. His telephone is
4-5734.
“Little Army”
Murders Texas
ish, 30 to 14
It was 30 to 14 in favor of the
Aggie Fish when they got through
with their slaughter of the Texas
Yearling quint Saturday evening
here. R. B. Bayer, fish star,
almost licked the Yearling by him
self with his eleven points.
With Bayer doing most of all
the point-making the Fish built
up seven points before the Year
lings made a point, after playing
ten minutes. Four quick buckets
put the young Steers back in the
running, but the “little army” went
to hitting again and held a 17 to 8
advantage at the half.
After the half the Fish took up
again where they had left off and
held the Yearlings scoreless for
ten more minutes while Gibson
was building up points for the
Fish.
The Texas freshmen never had
a chance in the one sided slaugh
ter.
INTRAMURAL
HIGHLIGHTS
By HUB JOHNSON
Good weather prevailed through
out the week-end and the results
were that for probably the first
week-end the Friday and Monday
games have not had to be cancelled
due to old man weather.
Tomorrow night the wrestling
finals come off with eight match
es of each class. This means 16
good matches, starting at 7:30,
and the way they have been run
this year ought to finish them up
pretty early rather than late.
Semi-final matches were run off
last night and will be finished to
night and as usual in the referee
ing togs will be MY. Penny.
In the San Antonio ‘Y’ vs the
Campus Swim Club there appear
ed many of the win spots. Among
these were Taylor, who carried
off the 440 and the 220 free styles
in this week-end’s meet here, and
who claimed 100 breast, back, free
stroke crowns and was acclaimed
the individual star of the fish
swim meet.
Hedges, who starred in the water
polo game against the San An
tonio team and who carried off
the diving, claimed the 100 breast
stroke and the diving contest in
the fish meet.
With wrestling finishing up his
week, the boxers are rounding and
pounding into shape for the many
matches to start Thursday or Fri
day. Over 200 have been classified
and are awaiting the timekeeper’s
whistle to start—two hundred
competing for sixteen crowns.
Frederick the Great had the coat
sleeves of his soldier’s uniforms de
corated with buttons to prevent
nose wiping on the sleeves.
Confucius Say—
. . . Boys who have dates
down for Coast Artillery
Ball and Corps dance
should keep them in the
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