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> * m * Ui % r ^ L Red-Hot Gagers After Baylor’s Scalp Next (Hike Hiin Battalion Sports Editor Cage Situation Slightly Altered After Aggie Win Sat; Smitty’s Team Performs Brilliantly Wanted: A big sized man-hole for a certain A&M sports writer to crawl into. After Saturday night’s astounding Aggie basket ball victory, your writer has been the object of many verbal blasts— the double-barreled kind and de- servingly so. For a week or so I’ve been peck ing away at Manning Smith’s team, criticizing them, and telling every body what was wrong with them. At the time, I figured I had the right dope on those boys, but Saturday night—well! I have no alibi—I really figured TCU would win the game although in a very close tilt. Now, the Situation is wholly changed. It’s already a proven fact that Smitty’s lads were very much under-rated and they must be regarded definite threats for a high conference berth if not the title itself. There were still many apparent weaknesses noticeable on the part of the Cadet team, es pecially to those close followers of the cage game but all in all, the Maroon team exhibited the best form of any A&M team seen in the DeWare Field House in many a decade. The five “iron men”, as the story went in most metropolitan papers, truly were iron men. They played forty minutes of grueling basketball and how they withstood everything is an amazement in itself. It is almost obvious that these basketeers, all of whom played sensational ball, cannot hold that pace throughout the cam- Sports Squibs From Here and There; Leo Daniels Shows Ear-Marks of a Good Coach paign, but it seems that Manning Smith will have to depend entirely on them if he has any champion ship aspirations. True, he does have capable reserves, but these will be a decided disadvantage be cause of game inexperience. One factor that was very obvious in pre-season games proved to be a big factor in Saturday’s win. That was—the Aggies can score points and, brother, they did Sat urday night. If you don’t believe it,* ask Hub McQuillan. A big credit for the victory should certainly go to the two tree- top cagers on the team—Jamie Dawson and Pete Watkins, who continually got the ball off the backboard, thus not giving the Frogs any sort of a chance. Mike Cokinos’ ball-hawking was pheno menal and Leland Huffman’s one- handed shots from the side court were short of sensational while Les Peden’s steady playing, espec ially under that basket, helped considerably. Here I’m trying to make one certain man outstanding, but it’s just impossible. When you look at it closely, it was a streamlined machine, working smoothly and efficiently, that really had the Froggies “muffed”, and not those ear-muffs. It’s still a long road to hoe but Saturday’s exhibition certainly in dicated that the basketball for tunes at Aggieland are a bit brighter than they have been in many years. Hardest working of the Maroon- White squads is the supposedly docile Leo Daniels, the All-Confer ence Aggie back this past season .... Leo really has his White team members on line and many have commented the fine coaching turned in by Daniels . . . This writer looked the teams over Sat urday and the way Leo and his boys were going, It made my eyes pop .... From first hand information, it looks like a real battle next Saturday between the Maroons and Whites, with the former boasting a more formidable backfield while the latter a better forward wall .... The backfield combination of Snooks Thomas, Billy Compton, Vance Carrington and Earl Bemus of the Maroons has almost everything including passing, punting and running . . . Rock Roberts, the passing ace from Corpus, headlines the White team and an aerial game is in prospect Saturday .... Kelly Ut ley’s booming punts are also going to be quite on the asset side for the Whites . . . Here’s more about that ear-muff incident Saturday (See KYLE FIELD, Page 4) * ¥ Handball Finalists To Clash Tonight At 9:30 Play Bears at Waco Wed After Scoring Upset Sat “Iron Men Overpower Frogs, 53-26, Before Home Crowd Saturday Sensatic^ial shooting and fine close guarding brought a surpris ing victory to the Aggies over the highly rated conference favorites Horned Frogs here Saturday night, that saw five “iron” men going to route to stack up a 53-26 score. From start to finish, the Frogs were completely outclassed by fire floor play and great hustle. It took the combination of Daw son and Watkins under the basket Huffman and Peden to down the Frogs. The Aggies used the zone defense to bottle up the Frogs that resulted in long shooting and wild passing. The team that held the tall Arkansas team to 25 points in the Oklahoma tournament, only to make one more point against the Aggies, 12 of these being free throws. Dawson started the ball rolling first, and 10 minutes of play saw the Aggies leading 14-5. From then to half time, the Aggies in creased their lead that saw jt at 29-11 at mid-point. The Aggies came out in the second half, scor ing first, and Humphreys, after five minutes of play, scored the first points for the Frogs; the score then being 35-13. With ten minutes gone, the Aggies were leading 43-19; five minutes to go, 49-25. Scoring honors was shared by Watkins and Huffman of the Ag gies with 14 each; Humphreys led T.C.U. with 10. A.&M. (53) FG FT PF TP Peden, f 1 4 0 8 8 Watkins, f 7 0 2 14 Dawson, c 3 13 7 Cokinos, g 5 0 1 10 Huffman, g 6 2 1 14 Totals 25 53 T.C.U (26) FG FT PF TP Chronister, f 0 0 10 Conrad, f 11 1 3 Blackmon, c 2 0 2 4 Humphreys, g 5 0 3 10 McHenry, g 5 3 2 9 Pelto, g 0 0 10 Pattee, g - 0 0 2 0 Totals 11 4 12 26 Officials: Dusty Boggress and Frank Kimbrough. Free throws missed: Dawson 4, Co kinos, Chronister 2, Peden 8, Watkins 2, Blackmon 2, Pettee, Huffman, Humph- eys. Half time score: A.&M. 29; T.C.U. 11. Maroon-White Game, Saturday, Kyle Field, 3 p.m. Benefit Army- Navy Relief. 254. Introducing the "Benzoin Kid” Red Roman, Ass't Trainer, Was Top High School Grid Star By Mike Haikin The genial Daniel Webster de fines “benzoin” as a resinous juice of a tree of Java having a fragrant odor and used in cosmetics and in cense but Lincoln Roman, the red headed trainer assistant to Lil Dimmitt has another word for it. “Benzoin,” says the inimitable red-head from Houston, “is the life-blood of an athlete. You gotta have benzoin in order for the boys to stick together. And I’m just the guy to give it to ’em.” Colorful Personality And so the story began—a story of one of the most colorful person alities on the A&M campus. It wouldn’t take much figuring to dis cover that culprit for all one has to do is just take a jaunt down the gym and there’d be Roman splotching his favorite benzoin on one of his athletes. So much does Red go for that “benzoin” that the boys around the gym have ironically named him as the “Benzoin Kid,” a trade mark Roman adorns atop his black cap. But a few details about our hero before we settle down to his train ing room exploits, probably more discussed by the athletes than their actual sport. First Home, Training Room Lincoln Roman, who refers to Houston as his second home, the training room, of course, being his first habitat, ranks as one of the top running backs turned out by John Reagan High School. No sooner had Roman received that coveted sheepskin than who should be on his tail but Aggieland’s gen- At any rate, Dimmitt’s flowery ial Lil Dimmitt, and with a flurry talk soon convinced Red that A&M of words here and there, he soon was to be his school and from there convinced Red that A&M, after all, he and a great majority of the was the best place to secure an Heights patrons believed that honest education. Of course, Dim mitt added, he would have to play football once in a while, but that shouldn’t interfere with his studies. someday Roman would attain all the glory he had in high school and more so. He came to A&M in the See RED ROMAN Page 4) Bruins Have Lost Two Games While Ags Hold Conference Lead The Texas Aggie five travels to Waco tomorrow night to engage the twice defeated Baylor Bears in a contest that will see the Aggies trying to keep a clean conference record, and the Bears trying to stay in the running. Coach Bill Henderson’s Bears dropped their conference opener to T. C. U. by a score of 35-31. While the Aggies were upsetting T. C. U. last Saturday night, the Bears bowed to Texas, 41-34. The Bears started very slow against the Longhorns only to come back the last half to make an interesting game of it, coming within four points of the lead. The Baylor Club lacks the ex perience and height to be consid ered as conference favorites. Their hopes are pinned on Hailey and Edwards for their offense. Much promise has been noticed this year in .the sophomore from Livingston, Nook Rowe. The Aggies expect to start and finish with the five boys that went the route against T. C. U., racking up a 53-36 win here last Saturday night. As they did against T. C. U., the Aggies probably will use their height that will have much to do with the final outcome; their ex perience will be of great help also. Baylor is inclined to use the slow-break, set plays type of offense, with guards breaking through. On the other hand, the Aggies favor the fast breaking and working the ball in type. ’Mural Banquet Held in Sbisa Hall Tomorrow Night Tomorrow night at 7:30 o’clock the Physical Education Depart ment will hold its annual intra mural banquet in the Banquet Room of Sbisa Hall. The banquet is held for the Recreation Officers of the Corps and for their Junior assist ants. Each year it has been a pol icy of the PE department to an nounce the results of the intra mural season at this banquet; but this year, due to various unex pected difficulties, the results will not be made public until later. A large crowd of Recreation officers, assistants, and invited guests is expected, but any officer or assist ant who can not attend is advised to inform the Intramural Office at once. Master of Ceremonies for the program will be W. L. Penberthy. One of the highlights of the ban quet will be the presentation of awards to the outstanding Recrea tion Officers. Mr. Penberthy stated that, as usual, the annual cere monies will not include any great number of principal speakers. He said, however, that there would be one principal speaker, but his iden tity, as yet, has not been an nounced. Norton Requests Presence of Gridders Coach Homer Norton requests the presence of all football squad- men, freshmen, numeralmen, and cross country lettermen at Sbisa Hall Banquet tonight at 7:30 for a dinner and get together, at which time awards will be presented. BATTALIONA- Tuesday Morning, January 12, 1943 Page 3 Tickets Going Fast For Benefit Fracas Tickets are dwindling rapidly for the annual Maroon-White foot ball tussle in benefit of the Army- Navy Relief and indications point to a nice crowd next Saturday af ternoon. Ducats may be obtained at the following places: Loupot’s Trading Post, Aggieland and Lips comb’s Pharmacies in the old areas and George’s Confectionery in the new area. Meanwhile, both the Maroon and White squads settled down to hard work after almost a week of light drills. Uniforms were issued to 50' men, 25 on each squad, and contact work was featured by the two squads. As things stand now, it is al most a certainty that again, as of years back it’ll be a battle between pass and power. The Whites, headlined by Johnny “Rock” Rob erts of I Field Artillery, lean to ward the aerial weapon, while the Maroons, boasting a bevy of line- plungers including Bill ‘Snooks” Thomas and Vance Carrington, the star of last year’s 19-0 Maroon vifctory have power plus. The board of strategy, notably Cullen Rogers and Weldon Maples of the Maroons assisted by Wayne Cure, Jake Webster and Boots Sim mons on one side and Euel Wes son, assisted by Leo Daniels, Willie Zapalac and Pete Slaughter on the other side are confident of victory for their respective sides. This goes on further to clarify the fact that this game is expected to be the top one of the past three years. Officials have been selected from the Physical Education Depart ment but W. L. Penberthy, direc tor of PE, has not yet made a def inite statement as to who will actually call the game. First Sergeants in each organi zation will be given tickets to sell for the game and cadets may obtain from same any time during the week. X IIIGHUTES* bys-Tflihe Tffann Climaxing today’s Intramural games will be the bout between E Battery Field Artillery and A Chemical Warfare Service to de cide the Class A handball champs of the college. This match will take place on the handball courts in the little gym at 9:30 p. m. this eve ning. Both teams have fast, experi enced men and a furious hard- fought game is expected. Two Field Artillery upperclass men teams were slated to meet yesterday afternoon in the final match of the Class A football elim- inations but wet weather caused the game to be postponed. It will probably be play ed W e d n e sday afternoon and the two teams to par ticipate will be B Field Artillery and I Field Artil- Mik. Mann lery. Both of these squads have reputations as teams which take to the air fre quently with deadly passes. Playoffs in Class B ping pong will begin early this week with a number of top teams expected to see action in these bouts. One of the last regular games played was a league playoff match in which C Engineer freshmen beat the “first-year kay-dets” of 1st Head quarters Field Artillery by a score of 3-0. Other last-minute matches in ping pong saw C Infantry take Headquarters Signal Corps with a 2-1 score; A Chemical Warfare beat H Infantry 2-1; K Infantry defeat G' Field Artillery with a 2-1 tally; K Infantry blanked D Replacement Center and F Infantry shutout D Engineers by similar scores of 3-0. The high-point of the annual In tramural program will take place in Sbisa Hall banquet room to morrow at 7:30 p. m. at the Intra mural Banquet honoring the recre ational officers who will graduate soon. This annual banquet is al ways a successful affair and a good turnout of recreational officers and others is expected. W. L. (Penny) Penberthy, head of the Physical Education department, will head the affair. A number of the college officials are expected to be pres ent. Class A tennis playoffs have been momentarily stopped because of inclement weather but things will get underway as soon as the situation improves. The department is trying to get this phase of the program played off as early as possible. Class A Football Finals Postponed; To Be Played Wed Tonight at 9:30 two class A in tramural handball teams will come to the end of the road—the finals. These teams are A Company Chem ical Warfare and E Battery Field Artillery, who were victorious in their semi-final matches last week. In their semi-final clash A CWS defeated the E Engineers squad by a 2-1 count. The day before the Field Artillery team had taken 8th Corps Headquarters into camp by the same score. The final game promises to be close, with either one of the two evenly matched squads capable of coming out the victor. The A CWS team features Keeny, Burks, Griffin, Baker, Haralson, and Miert. No reserves were used in their semi-final clash last week. Playing for the Field Artillery squad are Crowder, Esser, Lehman, Baker, Simmons, and Brin; with Hudson, Maroner and Pittard in reserve. Finals in other sports are also soon to be played. The class A Football finals which will be played Wednesday, is going to be strictly a Field Artillery affair, the two finalists being B Field and I Field. It looks as though either way the outcome goes the Field (See PLAYOFFS Page 4) BOOKS TO SELL? TRY LOU! Loupot’s Trading Post is Buying Books for: Barne & Noble, New York Wilcox & Follett, Chicago College Book Store, Col umbus, Ohio College Book Store, Los Angeles Prices Range From 25c to $2.50 Per Book LOUPOT’S Trading Post J. E. Loupot, ’32 North Gate Maroon-White Game, Saturday, Kyle Field, 3 p.m. Benefit Army- Navy Relief. 254. Big Sports Weekend Set For Next Saturday; TU Tilt Is Top Attraction It’ll be a big weekend for sports minded fans next Saturday after noon for everything in the way of athletics will be on hand that day. No. 1 attraction of the day, of course, will be the feature South west Conference basketball tussle between the Texas Aggies and the Texas Longhorns. The Ags demon strated last Saturday night against TCU that they’re no “breather”— in fact many basketball experts re gard the Maroon team a definite threat for the title. Next in line comes the charity gridiron clash between the Maroons and the Whites at 3:00 o’clock on Kyle Field. This will pit two se lected groups of intramural foot ball aces gathered from all over the school against each other. All proceeds will go in the benefit of the Army-Navy Relief Fund. Last, but far from least, will be the polo game attraction between the Aggies and a strong Lamesa team. It’ll be the first of a two- game series and everything points to an interesting tussle between these two exponents of the mallet game. DON'T FORGET the MAROON - WHITE FOOTBALL GAME For the Benefit of the ARMY-NAVY RELIEF Saturday, January 16,1943 Kyle Field 3 P. M. Tickets on Sale at: GEORGE’S LOUPOT’S LIPSCOMB’S PHARMACY AGGIELAND PHARMACY PRICE: 25 CENTS K