By Mike Haikin
Battalion Sports Editor
Rice and Arkansas Due to End Up in A
Tie; Possibility of Playoff Is Slight
The Southwest Conference bas
ketball race is slowly but surely
coming to a finish, with only a
week or so of play 'remaining on
the schedule. As the results now
stand, it is almost certain that Ar
kansas and Rice will wind up in
a two-way tie, and according to
the conference rules, they are de
clared co-champions. However,
there could be a slight alteration
of these rules should the Razor-
backs and the Owls agree to a
playoff. Whether the conference
will permit that is another ques
tion, but it would certainly pay
off if they would give the go-
ahead sign. Just imagine what kind
of a crowd a three-game series
would draw in Houston. Too big
to talk about it!
Rice and Arkansas are on top
of the ladder, but much credit be
longs to the Texas Aggies and the
Texas Longhorns. The Aggies can
take a bit more credit because they
directly whipped the Owls and in
directly had much to do with the
downfall of. the Hogs. It was an
almost fatal series that Arkansas
had here a week or so ago. They
won their games, but suffered the
loss of a couple of key men. When
they faced the Longhorns, then,
they had only five men to accom
plish a neat job. The first night
they were e tended all the way
by the Steers, and it was easy to
see that they were cracking. Sat
urday night, it happened. Texas
broke away with a big lead, and
Arkansas did not have enough re
serves to catch up.
Rice has a game with Texas and
S.M.U. left, while the Razorbacks
face T.C.U. in a two game series.
Both should win their games, but
Rice may have trouble with the re
juvenated Steers, who seem to have
gained a tonic through the play
ing of Malcolm Kutner. At any
rate, it’ll probably all end up in a
deadlock, but should they attempt
a playoff, we’ll still say Rice, and
this time with ease.
Mike Cokinos and R B Bayer Combine With
Henderson to Give Aggies Double Victory
Coach Marty Karow’s five, who
suddenly found themselves this
week-end, journey to the North to
face the T.C.U. Frogs and the
S.M.U. Mustangs before returning
home for their final engagement
of the year. The Ags found S.M.U.
an easy opponent, but had lots of
trouble from the Frogs. However,
a little but sure-footed eager, Mike
Cokinos, sparked the Cadets to
their third victory of the year.
Also give a lot of credit to R. B.
Bayer, a boy who really made a
grand comeback after a slow start.
Heretofore, it has been Bill Hen
derson all the way, but the tree-
top Aggie star got that needed
help which brings out victory. Bill
was not in the best of shape either
night, and that’s the reason for
his unusually low score Saturday
night. Howevre, he is back in shape
again, and expects to hit a new
high while on the road.
Sports Squibs From Here and There; Date
Of Aggie-Steer Cage Tilt Reset to March 3
. . . The rate of the Texas Aggie-
T.exas Longhorn basketball game,
scheduled to be played at College
Station March 4, has been ad
vanced to Tuesday, March 3, by
mutual consent of both coaches
. . . With the opening game of the
annual high school tournament in
Austin on March 5, both Coaches
Marty Karow and Jack Gray had
planned to be on hand ahead of
the opening game so agreed to the
change of dates . . . Pete Cokinos,
brother of the inimitable Mike,
kept shouting at Hub McQuillan
throughout the game in a sarcastic
manner—“Hey, Hub! Little men
can’t play in the Southwest Con
ference, huh! . . . And then there
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Aggies Triumph
Over TCU Frogs
Saturday, 33-27
Cokinos Stifles
McQuillan’s Five With
Superb Ball Exhibition
In one of the roughest and hard
est fought contests ever witnessed
in DeWare Field house, Coach
Marty Karows Aggie cagers down
ed the T.C.U. Horned Frog bas-
keteers last Saturday night by a
score of 33-27. Both teams were
eager for a victory on account of
the fact that Coach Hub McQuillan
of the Frogs was coach of the Ag
gies for many years.
High scoring honors for the eve
ning went to Big Bill Henderson
as usual. But this time he was
forced to share the honor with dim
inutive Mike Cokinos. Both Hender
son and Cokinos hit the strings
for a total of eight points for the
evening.
Standout of the Aggies was Mike
Cokinos. Time and again he stole
the ball away from the larger
Frogs and broke up serious scor
ing threats. His airtight guard
ing of Frog Ace Bob McHenry lim
ited that worthy to a measly three
points for the evening.
T. C. U. got off in front when
Humphries dropped a free throw
through the strings when the game
was but thirty seconds old. This
turned out to be the only time
during the evening when the Frogs
were in front, although the score
was deadlocked several times.
At halftime the score stood at
20-16 in favor of the Aggies. For
the first five minutes of the sec
ond half there was no further scor
ing but then both the Frogs and
the Aggies began sinking shots.
With but three minutes of play
remaining, the score read 27-25 in
favor of the Aggies, when Mike
Cokinos went on a scoring spree
to tally six points for the victor
ious Aggies.
Texas A. & M.
Jarrett, f
Bayer, f
Peden, f
Henderson,
Nabors, g
M. Cokinos,
Hoffman, f
Watkins, g
Fg
3
3
0
2
3
3
0
0
Ft
1
0
0
4
0
2
0
0
Totals
T. C. U.
McHenry, f
Humphries, f
Powell, f
Pelto, f
Blackmon, c
Monroe,g
Barron, g
Pattee, g
Totals 10 7 27
Halftime Score: A. & M., 20; T. C. U.,
Aggie Cagers Take Road to Face
TCU Frogs in Return Game Today
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FEBRUARY 24, 1942
PAGE 3
INTRAMURALS
By
DUB OXFORD
Tonight at 9 p.m., Mr. Penny
will hold forth in the big gym
with a demonstration of wrestling.
Mr. Penny is an avid wrestling
enthusiast and participated in
Gridsters Hang Up Togs Wednesday; Norton
Summarizes Strength and Weakness Team
By Mike Haikin
(Battalion Sports Editor)
Completing one of the most suc
cessful spring football sessions in
a long time, Coach Homer Nor
ton’s Aggies will hang up their
grid togs Wednesday with gleam
ing prospects of another great
and winning year for the ’42 sea
son.
Climax Training Sat
The Aggies climaxed their
training with their final intra
squad game of the year Saturday
in their sports attraction. The men
demonstrated many different types
of defense during the first half
and culminated with an offensive
exhibition in the following stanza
that swept the Reserves off their
feet. The final score wound up
42-0.
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ton expressed that, although he
didn’t expect his Ags to win
another championship, they cer
tainly won’t he any pushovers.
“We’ve still got a lot of work
ahead of us,” the mentor added,
“but when we iron out most of our
kinks, we should give a good ac
count of ourselves.
Tackles Weak
Summarizing the whole ’42 set
up, Norton indicated that the back-
field was the strong point of the
team, while the tackle berths were
the weakest. “We have abun
dant material as far as the back-
field is concerned, but only one
experienced tackle on the whole
squad,” Norton said.
Bob Tulis is the only tackle who
has had any experience, and he
served as a reserve last year.
Others in the running for the open
post are Don Stout and Jim
Wilson from the freshman team;
and Jim Montgomery, a holdout
last year. From these Norton
hopes to select an adequate tackle
but prospects are still bloomy in
that respect.
The ends, too, are slightly weak
ened by the graduation of All-
Conference Jim Sterling, but in
Bill Henderson and Boots Sim
mons, Norton has two fine exper
ienced wingmen. Add to that Tru
man Cox and Pete Slaughter, who
have sparkled throughout the
spring session, Nute Trotter, Floyd
Hand, and Hank Foldberg from
the Fish Team, and the mentor’s
troubles are almost over. Of the
latter three, Foldberg has been
especially proficient with his line
blocking gaining much praise from
End-Coach Dough Rollins.
Adequate Guards
As to the subject of the guard
posts, Norton looked half serious
and half-smiling. “I hated to
lose our starting guards, Les
Richardson and Roy Bucek, but
figure that Weldon Maples and
Ray Mulhollan should make more
than adequate replacements. In
cidentally, the work of Maples has
been praised time and again, and
the boy should have a great sea
son next fall. Supplementing these
(See GRIDSTERS. Page 4)
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open to all up
perclassmen and
[freshmen enter
ed in the wrest
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Oxford But credit will
be given only to those freshmen
who have signed up for the sport.
Evidently the “Bleed” set
forth by this columnist did some
good. Today there are only three
teams in the FORFEIT DOG
HOUSE. Seldom is there an ex
cuse for a forfeit. And they can
be completely abolished if we only
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Impressive In
Win Over Texas
With an impressive score of 55-
38, the Texas Aggie swimmers de
feated the Texas Longhorn aqua-
men in a dual meet in Gregory
Gym pool Saturday night. The
Cadets took eight firsts in the ten
contests held in the meet.
Bob Cowling made an outstand
ing showing in the meet. In the in
dividual contests he took firsts in
100-yard individual medley and the
100-yard breast-stroke. In winning
the latter race Cowling came with
in nine-tenths of a second of break
ing the present conference record
for the event.
“Happy’ McKee came through
to win two individual contests—
the 50-yard and the 100-yard free-
styles while Bob Taylor took the
220-yard and 440-yard freestyle
races.
A trio consisting of Captain
Ernie Conway, Freddie Renaud and
Cowling took the honors in the
300-yard medley relay event.
“Happy” Loomis, Taylor, McKee
and Renaud came through to win
the 440-yard freestyle relay.
Henderson In
Top Shape After
Illness Last Week
The Texas Aggie cagers journ
ey to Ft. Worth tonight, to resume
their feud with Coach Hub Mc
Quillan’s T. "C. U. Horned Frogs.
The Frogs are* out to avenge the
licking which the Aggies admin
istered to them in their clash here
last Saturday night, and with the
Aggies out to make it two in a
row, the game should turn out to
be a real thriller.
The Frogs are one of the best
balanced teams in this year’s con
ference race. No one man on the
team can be called the sparkplug,
since all five starters are just
about neck and neck insofar as
the scoring column is concerned.
However, Bob McHenry, flashy
Frog forward, comes pretty close
to leading the purple-clad cagers.
Only the superior defensive work
of Mike Cokinos kept the Frog
ace from tallying plenty more
points than he did last Saturday
night.
Captain Bill Henderson who has
been the Aggie standout through
out the current season is expected
to be fully recovered from a slight
illness which handicapped him in
last weeks tilt, and will lead the
Aggies into tonights clash.
Little Mike Cokinos, whose de
fensive tactics have dealt oppon
ents much misery in the past, is
once again expected to provide an
interesting evening for the Horned
Frog ball handlers.
Texas A. & M. T. C. U.
Jarrett, f
Bayer, f
Henderson, c
Nabors, g
M. Cokinos, g
McHenry, f
Humphries, f
Blackmon, c
Monroe, g
Barron, g
Ags Break Jinx In
Austin! Swimmers
Down TU First Time
For the first time in 10 years,
the mighty Texas Aggie tank
men beat a Texas university swim
ming team. This renowned vic
tory came last Saturday night as
the Aggies torpedoed the “S. S.
Texas University” by a score of
55-38. Adding happier news, the
Aggies still have the edge on the
Tea Sippers in that the T.U. swim
mers have never beaten the Aggies
in water polo.
The victory for the Aggies was
due to the superb swimming of
high point men Happy McKey,
Bob Cowling and Bob Taylor.
These men won two individual
events apiece and had a big part
in winning the relays.
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