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Picking Arkansas to Take Basketball
Crown; TCU Second; A. & M. Fourth
Oh me, oh me! Prediction time
is just around the corner and we
may as well get it over with. This
time it’s basketball and although
this comer is still patting itself
on the back for picking the South
west Conference football champ
ion, we’re kind of leary on these
basketball selections.
In the first place, very little, if
any, is known about the South
west Conference teams. I have
seen but two teams in action—
Rice and the Aggies—and neither
have impressed me as having a
good first division entry. Mostly,
I’m basing my selections on the
Oklahoma tournament where six
of the seven conference teams took
part, but, at that, it’s not much
to base a selection.
It looks as if the tree-top lads
from the hills of Arkansas will
be the team to beat with Coach
Hub McQuillen’s TCU Horned
Frogs only a notch behind. Ar
kansas has impressed me very
deeply. In the first place, the boys
from the Ozarks always have a
good team and it’s not such a
dumb thing to place your purse
on them. The Razorbacks are bas
ketball conscious and even as far
back as September when the foot
ball season is just getting under
way, the cage game is already on
the scene up at Arkansas Univer
sity.
Just before Marty Karow, the
Aggie cage mentor last year, left
for the Navy he definitely stated
that Arkansas would be the team
to beat in 1942-43. He based that
statement primarily on the fact
that Arkansas would be getting
the best freshman team in their
history for the coming campaign.
And so far, in exhibition games,
the freshmen, plus a couple of
over-sized lettermen, Gordon Car
penter and W. Wynn, have done
rather well, winning seven con
secutive games before entering the
Oklahoma tournament.
So, it’s Arkansas in our books
for the Southwest Conference bas
ketball crown in 1942-43.
However, I do predict taht the
TCU Horned Frogs will be the
surprise of the league. They have
the advantage of playing Arkan
sas twice on their home court and
may prove to be a hard nut to
crack. Coach McMillen has a vet
eran outfit, comprised of quite a
number of lettermen, and undoubt
edly will be in the thick of the
race.
For No. 3 team, I’ll take the
Longhorns of Texas University,
who have shown quite a lot of
ability in recent tilts. Their main
problem is capable reserves and
the loss of a number of key men
through graduation, etc. They did
hold the powerful Corpus Christi
quintet to a five-point victory and
that’s quite a feat in itself con
sidering the number of All-Amer
ican and All-Conference players
that grace the Sailor squad.
Rice Institute should be a notch
behind. I saw them play in a two-
game series against LSU which
convinced me right then and there
that they were of no championship
caliber. Of course, Coach Joe Da
vis’ five could make me eat all
of those words but I don’t think
so. And besides, their dismal show
ing in the Oklahoma tournament
further convinced me that I was
right. A fast-breaking team easily
would top the Owls and I do
mean easily.
Well, now we come to the Ag
gies. I admit this may be too low
a spot to place Coach Manning
Smith’s crew for I’m sure they’ll
upset one or two of the favorites.
But the primary lack of a few
capable reserves and the lack of
height will tell on the Cadets.
Mind you, I don’t mean to say
that the Maroon cagers do not
have any reserves at all. They
do—and good ones at that—but
I don’t think there’s enough to
hold down the job.
The other two spots should be
shared almost equally by SMU and
Baylor. I don’t know much about
either of the teams but from re
ports coming out from Waco and
Dallas, respectively, state that
these teams are very weak, in
deed.
There you have it. It’s a pre
diction purely on the early sea
son records of the respective teams
and may be thorouhly wrong but
that’s the way it looks now. You
may take it or leave it, but don't
say we didn’t warn ya!
Georgia Over UCLA; Tennessee Over Tulsa;
Texas To Take Tech In Friday Bowl Games
Repeating this corner’s Bowl
predictions for January 1 . . . Rose
Bowl-Georgia 14 UCLA (I fear we
may get stung on this); Sugar
Bowl-Tennessee 20 Tulsa 13; Cot
ton Bowl-Texas 13 Georgia 7; Or
ange Bowl-Alabama 7 Boston Col
lege 0; Sun Bowl-Hardin Simmons
13 Second Army 6; and West 12
East 6 (a surprise) ... I really
am pessimistic on Georgia after re
ports emanating from Hollywood
state that the Bulldog stars are
really enjoying themselves, going
Indians Send
11,000 Men Into
U S Armed Formes
American Indians have sent 11,-
000 men to war out of a total pop
ulation of 400,000 according to a
report by Indian Commissioner
John Collier, and additional thou
sands into war work. Indian wo
men are driving tractors and
trucks, repairing automotive equip
ment, working in laundries and
power plants and rounding up cat
tle and sheep in the West. Indian
tribes have subscribed to nearly
$2,000,000 in War Bonds and
stamps.
New students at Bluff ton college
include a graduate of the Univer
sity of Paris and a Japanese trans
fer student from the University of
Washington.
out with the stars, ect . . . That
stuff just doesn’t go when you’re
after a foot ball victory . . . Most
of the experts are going for Tulsa,
Georgia Tech, Second Army and the
East but I believe that many of
these are going to be surprised . .
. . Coach Homer Norton is in New
Orleans upon the invitation of the
mid-winter sports committee . . .
this corner reported Norton to be
in Dallas and I acknowledge the er
ror . . . sports activities at A. &
M. at present are confined to bas
ketball and intramurals . . . this
is a much different period than
was the case last year when the
Texas Aggies were making final
preparation for the New Year’s
football tussle with Alabama . . .
However, if you do drop down to
the DeWare Field House anytime
from 4 to 7 p.m., you’ll note quite
a lot of action from the basketball
teams . . . Coach Manning Smith’s
crew experience rough and tumble
scrimmage sessions each evening
and many of these prove to be quite
interesting ... it seems that most
of the boys not on the starting
lineup on the Aggie cage team took
an offense on the article published
by the writer stating that the Ag
gies lacked reserves ... So what
did the boys do. ... Not much,
they only trounced the regulars
and by a healthy margin in a recent
scrimmage session . . . Oh, well,
that’s life, I guess . . .
World premiere of the two-piano
adaptation of “Piano Concerto in
A Minor” by Edward Grieg was
presented recently at George State
Woman’s college by Jacques Fray
and Mario Graggiotti.
START THE NEW YEAR RIGHT
WITH A NEW HAIRCUT
SEE US AT THE OLD AND NEW
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BATTALION,
Thursday Mornin, December 31, 1942
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Local TU Student Gives Dope
On Cotton Bowl Game Jan 1
Cagers Work
Hard in Prep
For Game Sat
Reserves Surprise
Regulars With Win
In Scrimmage Tilt
The Texas Aggie basketeers re
sume their home season here Satur
day night when they play host to
the hustling Duncan Field quintet
from San Antonio. The game is
slated to get under way at eight
p.m. at De Ware Field House.
The Aggies under the leader
ship of Coach Manning Smith have
just completed one of their most
successful Christmas trips in re
cent years throughout the army
camp area at San Antonio. They
won three o ftheir five games which
coupled with their previous victory
over Randolph Field gives them
a season standing of four games
won and two games lost.
Perhaps one of the most inter
esting and certainly one of the
most important facts about this
year’s edition of the Aggies is
the ability of every member of the
team to score his share of the
points. One night it’s one member of
the quint who leads the scoring,
and the next night it’s still an
other member. All five starters of
this year’s aggregation have looked
especially good so far this season.
Coach Manning Smith sent his
charges through a stiff workout
last night in preparation for Sat
urday’s game concentrating on the
team’s offensive game; free throws
were also stressed during the pract
ice. In a regulation game the re
serves defeated the versity.
Coach Smith has indicated that
his usual starters will be seen in
action at the start of Saturday
night’s game also. They are Mike
Cokinos, Leland Huffman, Les Pe-
den, Pete Watkins, and Jamis
Dawson.
Student “heat cops” police dor
mitories to hold down fuel con
sumption at Mount Holyoke col
lege.
A CWS and E Eng advanced to
the semi-finals in Class A hand
ball by defeating B CAC and C
Inf, respectively, by identically the
same score of 2-1 in both matches.
F. C. Keeney and E. E. Baker took
the first match for A CWS, with
N. N. Miertschin and J. C. Haral
son taking the other. W. S. Potter
and H. C. King took the lone match
for the losing B Coast.
In the E Eng’s 2-1 victory over
C Inf, J. P. Hampton and H. F.
Olexa took o»e match for the En-
By Mike Mann
Once again the old nemesis of
intramural sports is coming into
the foreground. The officials re
port that the forfeit situation is
going from bad to worse. In a
number of the sports the number
of games forfeited daily greatly
exceeds the games actually played.
great number of games were
not played a few weeks ago when
the motion picture company was
on the campus. The intramural of
ficial however, made allowances
for these unavoidable delays and
expected the turnout for the re
mainder of the semester to be
more normal. As a result of the
movie delays, the program has
had to be crowded into the last
few weeks of the term.
Many vital and deciding games
are yet to come and, from present
indications, more than a few teams
will be dropped from the compe
tition merely because of a forfeit
ed game. No recreational officer
or group of Aggies want their out
fit to miss a championship just by
fault of a single forfeited game.
This is exactly what has happened
to some teams and will happen to
many more if a little care is not
exercised.
Nicky Ponthieux, intramural di
rector, urges all recreational offi
cers and their junior assistants to
keep in close contact with their
first sergeants in order to receive
any notices coming from the In
tramural office. All notices of re
scheduled and postpoined games
gineers while B. T. Flowers and
R. B. Huff won the other. Win
ning the lone match for the losing
team was W. V. Crozier and E.
M. Cumbie.
Class B’s intramural races
surged toward the finish as C Re
placement Center advanced to the
semi-finals in Class B volleyball
race when they defeated 3rd Hdq.
F. A. 2-0 and D F. A. reached the
quarter-finals in Class B volleyball
by downing I Field 2-0.
are sent out at least one day in
advance. This gives the recreation
al officers ample time to make
plans for the game in question.
If it is seen that there will be dif
ficulty in keeping the schedule the
Intramural office should be con
tacted at once.
The sports in which forfeits
have been unusually high this w;eek
are Class A football and Class B
ping pong with the latter sport
taking the lead. Cold weather can
not be blamed for failure to play
the ping pong games. All of these
matches are played in the YMCA
and a comfortable playing area is
provided.
Tuesday night a forfeit took
place in a quarter-final match of
the Class A handball championship
race. Here we have concrete evi
dence of a forfeit costing an or
ganization a chance at a sports
crown and a point in the college
race.
With only about three weeks of
Intramural activity remaining in
the current semester, each and
every outfit should make a real
attempt to play all the games on
its schedule. Many important
games are yet to be played and a
number of sport championships are
still at stake—waiting for the best
team to pull them in. Does your
outfit have the best team?
Only three games were played
in Class A football during the
middle of this week. Two of these
bouts ended in scoreless ties with
penetrations being the deciding
factor. •
3rd Headquarters Field Artillery
and D Coast Artillery played to a
0-0 tie with the Field boys win
ning the game by virtue of a 20-
yard line penetration while the
best the Coast squad could do was
to chalk up a lone 40-yard cross
ing.
A Signal Corps fought hard but
could not keep the E Field Artil
lery gridsters from entering the
danger zones. The score was 0-0
but one 20-yard and two 40-yard
penetrations won the game for the
Artillery-men. The other grid en
counter found American Legion
meeting H Infantry in hard-fought
battle which ended in a 6-0 score
with the Legion team on top.
By Dillard Spriggs
Tomorrow, New Year’s Day,
marks the seventh annual playing
of the Cotton Bowl in Dallas with
Texas University representing the
Southwest conference against the
rambling Wreck of Georgia Tech.
This year’s game promises to be
a thriller from start to finish;
Georgia Tech has long been known
for its razzle-dazzle type of play
and especially so this year, and
the Longhorns boost of a fine squad
of scat backs and a fair to mid
dlin’ passing attack.
Season’s Records
Right now lets dig down into
the season’s records of these two
teams, and we find that the yellow-
jackets from Tech possesses by for
the better one. First of all, there’s
their victory over Notre Dame,
which is always one of the strong
est teams in the nation: then there’s
the Navy, who had a better than
average team on the field every
He’s Done It Again!
Loupot to Sponsor Top
Notch Basketball Team
Loupot’s done it again!
After sponsoring an A-l soft-
ball club this summer, J. E. Lou
pot, prosperous local business man,
is now planning to sponsor a top-
notch basketball team, headed by
such former Aggie stars as Bill
(Jitterbug) Henderson, former
two-time all-conference ace; Char
lie Stevenson, ace baseball hurler
as well as exceptional basketball
player; and Weldon Maples, Cul
len Rogers, Boots Simmons, Pete
Slaughter, footballers, but all ca
pable cage hands, plus many other
prospective stars.
Loupot stated that the team has
a game scheduled in Houston and
that it will play all comers. There
is. a distinct possibility that the
team will take on Coach Manning
Smith’s Texas Aggie crew in an
exhibition game in the very near
future.
Bowling Costs Are
Coming Down
The cost of bowling is coming
down. The Office of Price Ad
ministration has cut back charges
to the September, 1941, levels, plus
an allowance for recent increases
in costs, for the benefit of 16,-
000,000 patrons of the alleys. The
regulations bring about a national i
average reduction of one cent for
every three games of league bowl
ings and one-half cent a game in
open bowling. Each proprietor
must post his ceiling prices be
ginning January 22. At the same
time, maximum charges for pool
and billiards were fixed at the
highest levels existing in March,
1942.
game, and not to be forgotten is
the Alabama Crimson Tide, the
team that plays Boston College in
the Orange Bowl at Miami. All of
these teams went down in defeat
as Georgia Tech rambled on its
way.
Then came the last game of the
season against Georgia U. to
decide the parcipant in the Rose
Bowl. Of course, that game is his
tory by now, but by way of clari
fication Georgia Tech rambled
down hill to defeat for the first
time by the lopsided score of 34-0.
That’s why Georgia Tech is play
ing in the Cotton Bowl instead of
the Rose Bowl.
The story of Texas University’s
climb to the Cotton Bowl is far dif
ferent than that of the wreck from
Georgia Tech, but nevertheless it
is as interesting. The Longhorns
had an up and down season with the
Thanksgiving game being their
crowning glory. The Steers started
their season off strong with lop
sided victories over Corpus Christi
and Kansas State, and then jour
neyed to the mid-west only to be
defeated by the weak Northwest
ern Wildcats, which incidentally
was the only victory the Wildcats
won all season. The Longhorns
seemed on their way to an unde
feated season until they ran up
against the Horned Frogs from
T. C. U. at Fort Worth and were
adminstered a 13-7 upset licking.
However, the Steers showed they
were of championship material
when they defeated a determined
and high spirited Aggie team,
12-6.
Tech Has Advantage
By comparative records Georgia
Tech holds the distinct advantage
over the Longhorns, but somehow
such comparisons won’t always
work out when the respective teams
meet. The Longhorns finished their
season with a blaze of glory, and
they have no reason to quit now.
They have everything to win and
nothing* to lose; that’s the spirit
which is very likely to carry them
through to victory. The Longhorns
were bothered all season by the in
ability to find someone capable of
I holding down a starting position
for the whole season. This was
especially true in the backfield, but
now Coach D. X. Bible has found
two men who can hold their jobs
down—Max Minor and Spot Collins.
It was Tviinor who scored the first
touchdown against the Aggies, and
who played a magnificent game all
day long.
On the other hand, Georgia Tech
should be very much ready for
the Longhorns because they will
be on the rebound from that de
cisive defeat handed out to them
by Georgia University’s Sinkwich
and Co. Also one cannot forget
Clint # Castleberry, the freshman
ace who received much mention for
All-America, nor can one forget
the line which held Notre Dame
to six points and Alabama score
less.
Picks Texas U
However, yours truly believes
that “everything to win and nothing
to lose” spirit will carry the Long
horns through to an upset victory
in a game which is rated as a
toss-up by most experts. The score
should be 12-7 with the tea-sippers
on top.
Whew! And the Aggies Say They’re Short of Coaches
Who Said Something About o Four Sports
Letterman? Dimmitt's o Four Sports Coach
A CWS and E Engineers Advance
To Class A Handball Semi-Finals
By Mike Haikin
Your writer harped quite a bit
on the 1942 season in last Tues
day’s edition, but one thing I did
forget to mention, even casually,
was Lilburn (Lil) Dimmitt, the
all-around Aggie coach and train
er, who certainly deserves much
mention when you talk of the
Cadet fortunes throughout the
1942 season.
Responsible for Success
Certainly, he of all the coaches,
had as much to do with the success
of the A&M athletic program this
year. In the first place when the
fortunes of war engulfed Marty
Karow and Dough Rollins, some
one had to take their place. Head
Coach Homer Norton didn’t have
very far to look for their right
behind him was the always ambi
tious Lil Dimmitt.
So Norton shoved the job of pi
loting the baseball team right in
Lil’s lap. Oh, sure Lil did have
some experience with baseball here
and there, but the 1942 edition of
the Aggie baseball team had but
three regulars returning. Now,
what in the world could any coach,
especially one who has not worked
with the diamond game for quite
a while, do with such scant ma
terial. But, fans, Lil did IT! He
not only developed a champion
ship nine but he was responsible
for turning one of the best base
ball teams in the history of the
conference—and with only three
regulars serving as nucleus.
Oh, yes, it was all Lil Dimmitt.
I know. I made every trip with
the team last spring and made it
a point to watch how Lil works.
He continually worked with the
youngsters, corrected their mis
takes, and gave them pointers that
had plenty to do with their fine
showing.
Also Trainer And Coach
And if you think that’s all the
round-faced Beaumont product con
tributed to athletics here, why,
you’re off the beam. In the first
place, Dimmitt was still the A&M
trainer, a job he has had since he
came here in 1935. But again Nor
ton had to go to Lil for help. The
A&M varsity eleven was in dire
need of coaches since the departure
of Karow and Rollins had filled a
noticeable gap in the coaching
ranks. So Norton took Manning
Smith, coach of the freshman foot
ball team, and added the former
Centenary All-American and pres
ent cage mentor to his staff.
Now, the big question was: Who
was going to handle the freshmen?
That was a silly question to ask,
someone mused. Just look around.
What’s Lil Dimmitt for? Coach
Norton snapped his fingers as if
he had forgotten something and
turned around and looked straight
at Lil. Dimmitt sort of smiled as
if to say, “ok, ok, I getcha, coach-
er. When do I start?”
Takes Over Fish Gridsters
So Lil Dimmitt took over a
bulky freshman squad which he
himself had gathered from high
schools all over the state. Along
with his assistants, Euel Wesson
and Bill Buchanan, former Aggie
grid stars, Dimmitt,' who turned
out quite a few high school grid
champs back in the good ole days
at Beaumont, he developed the
strongest freshman team since
drainer jDtPwntf
John Kimbrough and Co. ran wild
back in 1937. It won three games
while losing one. Their only loss
was to Texas Yearlings in Austin,
played in rain and mud, which
made the chief Dimmitt weapon—
the pass—very ineffective.
That was quite a record, consid
ering Lil hasn’t coached football
since 1935.
But the former Georgetown ma
yor, banker rancher and potential
movie star (oh yes, Universal did
give him a good looking over)
wasn’t through. No sooner had
the clamor of the football year
(See DIMMITT, page 4)
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