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Baylor Downs Ags in Closing Seconds, 48 - 46 Maroons and Whites Evenly Matched For Today’s Game; Taking Reds by Slight Margin The Maroons and White clash on Kyle Field this after afternoon with the starting gun going off at 2:30. Both teams have been working hard all week and you can be sure of a gruelling contest between Coach Bill Buchanan’s charges and Coach Bill Conatser’s fiery eleven. The weatherman has promised a beautiful afternoon, and if he keeps his word, a sizeable crowd will witness a thrilling ball game. As for the outcome of the game itself, it’s very hard to tell, I’ve been watching both teams under fire and each looks about as good as the other. Both are well-coached, and each has its share of stars. It is almost certain that breaks will win this game, and the team that capitalizes on them will be on the long end of the count. The Maroons go onto the field with a slight weight advantage over the Whites, and although that certainly didn’t prove anything in last year’s battle (the Whites were heavily outweighed then, too, but came through with a 13-7 win), it may tell the tale today, in contrast to last year’s team, the Maroons have plenty of speed 'to go with their power, plus a lot of passing. Coach Bill Conatser’s Whites, who relied on speed to outplay their heavier rivals last year, are again set to give a demonstration of fiery speed and deception. They certainly have plenty of it this year—in fact, a bit more than last year. You can also look for the Whites to flash a respectable aer ial attack with Tom Lamberth of A Field Artillery on the throwing end of most of the passes. So, any pick you take here may be the right one because it’s go ing to be a mighty close battle. On form, however, we’H give the Mh- roon team of Bill Buchanan a slight edge—a very slight one at that. If the battle doesn’t end in a dead lock, it’ll be Maroons 6, Whites 0! Sports Squibs From Here and There; Packed Crowd Due for Rice Fracas Wednesday Night The Aggie basketball team re mews its battle with the Rice Owls Wednesday night, and you ■can be sure of a packed house .... that 36-34 Aggie win last week may prompt the Cadets on to great er glory and spoil the Owl’s champ ionship aspirations .... A. C. Becker, Daily Texan co-sports ed itor writes in his column, “We wonder what happened to Aggie captain, Jitterbug Henderson . . . . He only scored 2 points against Texas .... Could be that the Longhorns are on to him” .... it may just interest some of the boys on the Daily Texan that Billy was out of shape in that game and was playing under strained conditions. Students Like Our Service Careful attention to details, prompt service, at reasonable prices. \ LAUTERSTEIN’S North Gate LOUPOT’S BOUND 1. You can get what you want at LOUPOT’S 2. Second semester books—Best prices or good trade-in on your used books. 3. Mistakes are made—bargains missed—money lost. * Come early and you avoid these conditions. 4. Come in before the best bargains are taken. Loupot’s Trading Post J. E. Loupot, ’32 North Gate Parks Accounts For 20 Markers Henderson Is High Point Man for Ags Scoring 13 Points By Mike Haikin Battalion Sports Editor A rejuvenated Baylor team, sparked by little Dwight Parks, rallied in the final minutes of play to down a valiant and never-say- die Aggie five, 48-46, before a capacity crowd in the DeWare Field House last night. Behind 7 points at the conclu sion of the first half, the Bears, sparked by Parks, who was high point man for the night with 20 markers, started hitting basket af ter basket in the following stanza and wound up with a win. Bill Henderson, with 13 points, was high man for the Aggies, closely followed by Fred Nabors with 10 and Ray Jarrett with 9. Parks may have been the high point man of the evening, but it was Bill Haley’s “money” shot in the final seconds of play that helped the Bears ice the game. With the score 46-45 in favor of the Cadets, Coach Marty Karow’s five attempted to freeze the ball throughout the remainder of the game. They refused three free throws in order to hold onto the ball, but the Bears’ consistent ag gressiveness finally told on the Cadets. With the clock ticking a- away precious seconds, Haley in tercepted an Aggie throw, and jm- mediately made a basket from mid-court. The Bears grabbed an early 9-2 lead, but the gap was soon closed as Hendersonr, Nabors, and Jarrett each sank field goals and Jarrett sank a gratis shot. The Aggies then grabbed a lead of 15-12 on shots by Henderson, Peden, and Cokinos. It was 20-14 in the next few minutes, with the half finally winding up, 24-17 in favor of the Cadets. Dwight Parks sank a field goal to open the second half and the parade was on. Haley, Parks, and Arnett contributed 5 points in the space of 1 minute before Jarrett, Nabors, and Henderson added field goals to extend the Aggie lead to 32-24. Parks then started getting hot, and with three minutes left to play tied the score at 38 all. Peden and Henderson added gratis BATTALION JANUARY 17, 1942 Page 3 INTRAMURALS By DUB OXFORD Next Sports Class A: Volleyball With the semester closing, and keeper of the records Dewey Hoke, will have the final standings in both class A and class B intra murals as soon as the basketball and speed ball playoffs are com pleted. These will be run in The Battalion soon. Drawings have been held for the playoffs in class A basketball and all the leagues have been played. The only sports now going on are the above mentioned basketball and speedball. The new sports offered next semester will be ping pong and volleyball for the upperclassmen. Horseshoes and handball will take the limelight for class B. These new sports will begin about a week after the second semester has be gun. Oxford FORFEIT DOGHOUSE Class : F Coast Artillery, Speed- ball H Replacement Center, Speedball Infantry Band, Speedball. B Replacement Center, Speedball B Field Artillery, Speed- ball Class B: Horseshoes Handball lately. G. Coast Artillery played a tight game with B Cavalry. The game was so close that the Coast men won by a one point margin, the final score being 4-3 in favor of the Coast Artillery. B Infan try and 1 Headquarters Field Ar tillery played a game that was almost a tie, but the Infantrymen broke loose in the last half to score three points. The Artillery men scored no points in the match. M Infantry beat A Signal Corps 10-3 in an overwhelming victory. C Infantry mixed a powerful team with excellent playing and beat D Field Artillery 9-4. A score of 7-4 put 2 Headquarters Field Ar tillery in the win column. The upperclassmen from the Field Ar tillery whipped the members of C Troop Cavalry royally. Although the 7-4 score is not large, the match betwen the two teams was almost a grudge battle. Four Stitch Man Sparking A Battery Field to a decisive win over D Cavalry in the football quarter finals, Rusty Heitkamp played the whole game with an injured forehead. Display ing the essence of fortitude in con tinuing to play, Rusty found out after the game was over that it was necessary to take four stitches in head. Heitkamp is now‘known in his battery as “He-man” Heit kamp. Close Speedball Matches There have been quite a few close speedball matches taking place Three Intramural Champs Crowned In One Day; E-FA, F-FA, D-Eng Winners Three intramural championships in one afternoon was the order of the day when E Field Artillery won the handball championship, F. Field Artillery won the ping pong championship, and D Engineers the tennis crown. The class A handball match was highlighted by the superb playing of the members of the Artillery team. Simmons and Maroney of E Field were paired against Burks and Terrell of the C.W.S. The sec ond teams was composed of Don nell and Taylor of E Field against Overbeck and Swain of A C.W.S. Keeny and Pyatt supplied the re maining team for the Chem hoys while Crowder and Lehman were the members of E battery’s third team. The Chem boys tried to mix a powerful test tube full and down the Buggy Boys, but the Field Artillery just kept the caissons rolling. The final score was E Field, 3; A C.W.S. 2. D Engineers Tennis Champs In the final class A tennis match between D Engineers and the In fantry band, which by the way was a hard fight all the way, D Engineers came out winner with a 2-1 score. Both teams fought each other to a finish. D Engineers took the first set 6-2, 6-0. Then the Infantry Band came back and tied up the game by winning the second set 6-0, 6-4. The final set, which won the game, D Engineers took 6-0, 6-3. Members of the Infantry band team were: Bobby Stephens, T. N. Inglish, R. L. Shulte, J. L. Bell, K. T. Chapman, J. K. Stalcup, Bob Gossett, and K. G. Varvel. The winning team members were: T. W. Brown, J. K. Shurley, W. C. Kinzback, W. Oggar, D. R. Bur- rus, H. Legrand, D. McCance, and V. D. Wood. shots, while Jarrett, Nabors, and Peden added field goals to bring the score to 46-38. However, the Bears added 10 points in the last two minutes of play to win 48-46. West Point of Air Changes Fire Trucks From* Scarlet to OD Randolph Field, Texas.—“Fire- engine red” will no longer be an apt simile, at least at the “West Point of the Air.” Orders have been issued that the three fire trucks here must be painted olive-drab, even down to the chromium plate, to conform with other army vehicles. Crude and Unique Experiences Crowd Life Of Jim Parker, Little Manager of Big Athletes By Mike Mann His official name is James Hen ry Parker, but it’s just “Jimmy” to his hundreds of friends in Ag- gieland. Jimmy nas been the man ager of the football team for the past three years—issuing, clean ing, repairing and storing the mul titude of gridiron equipment. Jimmy was born in Royce City, Texas, on March 10, 1920, and at tended school in Garland, Texas. While in high school there he was athletic manager, obtaining val uable experience which was later to bear fruit. Came to A. & M. in ’37 Parker came to A. & M. in Sep tember, 1937, and immediately be gan working in the athletic stock room. He has been working with the track team since his freshman year but did not begin with football until the spring session of 1939. In the fall of 1939 Jimmy was of ficially appointed manager of the football team—a post he has held ever since. He has worked with other sports but prefers track and football. Baseball is the sport Jimmy best likes when he takes an active part in athletics. He has no particular hobbies, for, since he has been in Aggieland, he has not had much spare time, especially during foot ball season. Parker has traveled, lived, slept, and ate with the Aggie gridsters for the past three years. He has been with them on the field; look ing after their equipment and seeing that it was in the best of condition at all times. Jim has been one of the gang and all of the footballers have adopted him as a “brother.” Unique Experience Speaking of traveling, Jimmy had a unique experience early in the football season of 1939. The Aggie traveling squad was due to leave for California to play the Santa Clara Broncos. The Cadet Corps was seeing the team off and the duffle bags containing the uniforms were being tossed on train. Just before the train pulled out two of the bags fell out of the car and a freshman succeeded in throwing one back on the train. The other bag was left and Jimmy was told to jump off and get it. The train was supposed to be held up for him but it pulled out before he could get back. Jimmy’s heart sank—his chance to make his first long trip with the squad rapidly fading away. Coach Marty Karow, who was not making the trip, was at the sta tion with Gus Bates, a squadman. Karow told Jimmy to jump in Bate’s car, a ’39 red Ford convert- able, and they would catch the train. The trio beat the train to Navasota and Hempstead but could not stop it. In the meantime, H. B. McElroy, of the A. & M. Publicity Office, had wired to Houston to have Coach Norton hold the train as long as possible. However, Parker reached Houston before the train pulled out. It took a fast 100-mile dash to enable ifim to make his first trip with the squad. He has said the most disappointed he has ever been was that night at the station when he saw the California- bound train vanishing into the darkness. Parker received his B. S. degree, majoring in Rural Sociology and had almost enough Physical Edu cation for a double major, in August, 1941. The 1941 Agge football squad presented Jimmy with a life-time Scheaffer pen and pencil set last Christmas as a token of their appreciation of his services. He has said that he en joyed working with the boys and athletic coaches more than going school. Going to Air Corps Jimmy will be leaving A. & M. very shortly as he has enlisted as a Flying Cadet in the U. S. Army Air Corps. He has passed his physical examination and is wait ing to be called up for training. Asked what he planned to do after he got his wings, Jimmy replied, “Well, I guess I’ll get a few Japs.” Best of Luck, and Keep ’em Fly ing, Jimmy Parker! WHEN IN DOUBT ABOUT YOUR EYES OR YOUR GLASSES' Consult DR. J. W. PAYNE OPTOMETRIST 109 S. 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