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* * I r 4 • I i I ► ^ a & * ? t TUESDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 20, 1945 THE BATTALION P - A S TP Quintet Routs Aggie Gagers In Wild Game 52-U ? Aggies Start Out Fast, Then Drop Behind Fast Moving Soldier Five Aggies Bow To Longhorn Cagers In Lop-Sided Game At Austiii White Leads As Aggies Grab Early Lead; Lewis Twins Provide Army Scoring Punch The A.S.T.P. unit stationed here"* at College Station defeated the Texas Aggies last night by a score of 5-32. The game started off even enough but before the evening was over the A.S.T.P. turned the game into a rout. The first half was all White for the Aggies. The tall center scored 12 of the 15 points that were scored by the Aggies during the first half. During this time the A.S.T.P. had racked up 23 points with the Lewis twins supplying most of tKe fireworks. With the Aggies still in the ball game, the A.S.T.P. turned on the heat and pulled away. The A.S.T.P. showed the Aggies some of the best ball handling they have seen all season. At the half the soldiers retired with a 23 to 15 lead but after the intermission the Aggies rallied and came up to within six points of them shortly after the half. The score at this time was 27 to 21. It was at this time though that the army quintet began to break away from the faltering Aggies and before long had run up a 38 to 24 advantage. Meanwhile, Coach Manning Smith of the Maroon and White had been substituting freely and his charges didn’t seem to be able to work together, causing sev eral bad passes and careless mis takes. The Lewis twins really got hot the second half and they pretty well controlled the ball game, get ting the majority of the rebounds and shooting at will. Especially noticeable was their smooth ball handling. The two boys, who have probably been playing together all their life, handled the ball flaw lessly, and got many set-up shots. Meanwhile, the Aggies, using a fast-breaking offense all evening, scored only in occasional spurts, missing numerous shots, and mak ing several bad passes at times. —DISCIPLINARY— Continued from Page 1 presentation of testimony, consid eration of the case shall be only by Committee members and the Dean of the College. After any Commit tee has concluded its work and made its report in writing, no member of said Committee shall have any further connection with the case, either on rehearing or appeal. Proceedings of Committee hearings shall be strictly confi dential. The Dean of the College is authorized to arrange for repre sentatives of the Senior Class to be present during the presentation of the case. 5. As presiding officer of the Committee the Dean of the Col lege shall have the power to ap prove the verdict or to remand the case for retrial. 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A student charged before the Committee with any offense should consult with the Dean of his School regarding his case. .At LOUPOT’S A LITTLE PLACE 4 - - A BIG SAVING! Aggie Swimmers Are Working Out Now entering the intensive pre competition phase of training, Coach Art Adamson’s tankmen are showing promise, though nothing spectacular as yet. Since the be ginning of the present semester, workouts have been held from 5 to 7 o’clock each evening, with special "emphasis being placed on form and conditioning rather than speed. Several Frogs have been a wel come addition to the team. The most promising of these is Thomas, who will probably be one of the mainstays in the 50 yard sprint event. When questioned as to who will swim the various events, Coach Adamson replied, “I’m still unde cided, but after this week’s time trials, I’ll be in a position to tell who will swim what.” Using com parative times as a guide, how ever, the events seem to shape up as follows: 50 yd. freestyle: Fleming, Syfan, and Thomas. 100 yd. freestyle: Self, Fleming and Syfan. 220 freestyle: Self, Escobar and Heeman. 440 freestyle: Escobar, Riley and Heeman. 100 yd. backstroke: Sawyer, Baugh, and Riley. 100 yd. breaststroke: Lea, Arm strong and Gaines. 100 yd. individual medley: Self. Diving: Southwest Conference champion Alvaro Facio, Matthews, and Webster. So far, only three meets have been scheduled: two dual meets with Texas, and the Conference meet, to be held in Austin April 14 and 15. Arrangements are being made for a meet with SMU, and the Oklahoma City “Y” team, lead by Aggie-ex Danny Green, ’46, may meet the Aggies some time in late March. The whole team seems very enthusiastic, and is planning to go last year’s humiliating ite one better, and hand Texas its first defeat in Conference history. his option the Dean or any Adviser may appear before the Committee to see that the student’s case is properly presented. 8. Charges by specification in writing shall be initiated in the Commandant’s Office and shall be referred first to the Director of Student Affairs who will decide, except in cases of second offense, whether the charges shall be re ferred to the Panel. If so, copies of the charges shall be furnished to the Dean of the College, to the student involved, and to the Dean of the student’s school. The Com mandant or his authorized assistant shall present the case in person to the Committee. Included in the specifications to the Committee shall be the student’s discipline and scholastic records. 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The Appeal Commit tee shall have the power to recom mend approval of the verdict or any modification thereof except that no modification shall be made "/V* Mk vmwmwossas 214 SOUTH MAIN BRYAN, TEXAS By Ed Wendt Battalion Sports Editor Having played their last home game last night, the Aggie cagers will invade Fayetteville this week end to pound the hardwood in their last conference tilt. Suffering de feat this past week-end from the Texas Longhorns, ’ole Army is out to make a good showing in their clash with the Hogs. Even though the Maroon and White have have been the underdogs in al most every game this season, they never once showed a lack of that “fighting Aggie Spirit”; conse quently, the pace of the Razorback quint may fail to equal expecta tions. Incidentally, the rooting sec tion for the Aggies in Austin Sat urday night was supported by some twenty-five or thirty exes in the V-12 Training Program there. NEW BASKETBALL RECORDS The Rice Owls brought down the curtain on a record-breaking sea son by swamping the Baylor five 68-26 in a wild scoring spree at Waco Saturday night. Had Rice lost, the defeat would not have affected her standing in the con ference as the Owls clinched the championship by defeating SMU in a battle the previous week-end. Bill Henry’s new conference indi vidual scoring record ended on the 280 mark which is 34 points better than his record of 246 last season. The new conference all season rec ord urged 119 points above the 684 mark set by Arkansas last year, as the Owls closed with a grand total of 803 points. Rice, suffering^ no copference losses, hung the new game scoring record at the 95 point in a mighty triumph over the Baylor Bears several weeks ago. Still a fourth conference record was unleashed when the combined score in the Aggie-Longhorn tilt here two weeks ago rang the 144 point mark. This total stands 3 points above the previous confer ence record of 141. Speaking of the Baylor Bears, it might be worthy to mention that the Bears have announced their gridiron schedule for this fall. The Bears are boasting a strong line which they hope will drive them to victory in their ten booked games for next season. They are scheduled to face the A.ggies on Kyle Field Oct. 27. ARKANSAS TO REPRESENT March 23-24 are the dates set for the play-off of the Western NCAA championship. Rice Institute, win ner of the Southwest Conference basketball crown, will be unable to participate because travel restric tions regarding naval trainees would wreck their team. The Ark ansas Razorbacks, Conference run ner-uppers who have an all-civ ilian team, are the most logical nominees to represent this section in the contest. At the same time that the contest for the Western crown is being fought at Kansas City, a similar battle will take place in Madison Square Garden in New York City to determine who shall boast the Eastern NCAA cham pionship. A week hence, the win ners of the two clashes are sched uled to meet in Madison Square Garden to decide who shall carry the 1945 National Basketball Crown. CONFERENCE BASEBALL Conference baseball practice is due to open officially for all en tries March 1. The Rice Owls boast five returning lettermen which should give them a air-tight in field, as four of them lettered at infield positions. It is a bit’ early to begin sizing up conference teams; however, every manager seems to be faced with a common difficulty—a pressing need for more men with previous confer ence experience. CONFERENCE BASKETBALL STANDINGS Rice Won 12 Lost Percentage 0 1.0000 Arkansas .... 7 3 .7000 SMU 7 5 .583 TCU .... 6 5 .555 Texas 5 7 .416 Texas A&M.. 2 8 .200 Baylor .... 0 11 0.00000 Houston Aggies To Meet Wednesday Nite Tommy Penn, acting president of the Houston A&M Club, an nounces that the first Houston Club meeting of this semester, will be held immediately after mess, Wed nesday, February twenty first, in room 109, Academic Building for the purpose of electing new club officers and to announce that the club picture will be made for the Longhorn. Both old and new students from Houston are especially requested to be present because Houston has always had a large representa tion of Aggies on the campus in the past and it is hoped that it will remain that way in the fu ture. The only requirement for club entrance is that you be a resident of Houston, so all Houston Aggies are urged not to miss this im portant meeting, said Tommy Penn. for a more severe sentence than that imposed. No appeal from the verdict of the Committee shall be heard by the Appeal Committee within less than seven days after the Committee has acted. The stu dent separated from the College will be permitted to return for the appeal hearing. 11. Findings of any Committee, together with the report of the Ap peal Committee, if any, shall be forwarded to the President for final action. The Dean of the College shall prepare for the approval of the President such regulations within the scope of this policy as may be necessary for carrying out its intent. Gibb Gilchrist. Young trees, like young boys and girls, need plenty of food and water for proper growth. Burned over woods are dry and sterile. Conservation and Safety Courses To Be Given Feb. 19 Eighteen conservation and safety subjects stressing possible short cuts under present-day manpower and equipment shortages have been adopted for the short course for motor vehicle fleet operators to be held here from February 19 to 23, W. R. Horsley, chairman of the short course committee, declared. Lecturers before the short course, the first of its kind ever held in Texas, includes officials of the Automobile Manufacturers As sociation, Interstate Commerce Commission, Texas Department of Public Safety, National Safety Council, Center for Safety Educa tion of New York University, In stitute of Public Safety of Penn sylvania State College, American Trucking Association, Texas State Board for Vocational Education, representatives of Texas trucking and industrial concerns and the Texas A. & M. College. Evening sessions will be held as needed to complete unfinished to pics and to hear special speakers, Horsley said. Enrollment at the short course will be limited to 32 individuals se lected by cooperating Texas auto motive and safety groups from superintendents and assistant su perintendents of motor fleets, chief mechanics, dispatchers, driver in structors, transportation officials, and others in the motor transpor tation industry. State agencies cooperating with the Texas A. & M. College in staging the short course are the Texas Safety Association, Texas Department of Public Safety and Texas Motor Transportation Asso- Norton Declares Aggies Will Take Backwater To None Under an overall sports program after the war Texas A. & M. Col lege will not take backwater from anyone, Coach Homer Norton told the February meeting of the Braz os County A. & M. Club Monday night at the Bryan Country Club. Under the Norton plan all agencies will cooperate to induce promising baseball, basketball, track and oth er material to come to the College. Along with these sports efforts of the past mainly directed toward bettering the football team will be intensified, Norton added. E. E. McQuillen explained pro visions of a proposed constitution al amendment known as House Joint Resolution No. 36, which would divide funds heretofore re served for the A. & M. College and the University of Texas among all the state schools. The club went on record as opposed to this amend ment. The local club elected Chas. W. Crawford general chairman of the annual muster to be held April 21, with other committee members to be selected by him. Texas Aggies are encountered not only on every fighting front but in every service, Lt. Col. D. S. Buchanan declared in telling of the muster held last April 21 on Guadalcanal which was attended by 56 former students of the Col lege. The oldest and the youngest of the group hailed from Brazos county. Wherever they are, Aggies are “selling” their school and their state to any audience they can get to listen, he added. In the past some good spasmodic individual work in interesting foot ball prospects in Texas A. & M. College has been done, but these efforts have not been carried in the field of other sports because there was no money to do it with, Coach Norton pointed out. About the time the Kyle Field stadium was cleared of debt and such a plan could be launched the war came on. Coach Norton gave details of the formation of a master commit tee composed of some 15 to 20 for mer students who had served on the athletic council. This commit tee is headed by Tyree Bell of Dal las, great football star of three decades ago. It will be the duty of this coipmittee to act as inter mediary between the athletic coun cil and the coaching staff on one hand and all the clubs of former students in contacting prospective athletic material. After giving de tails on its operation, Coach Nor ton declared, “We’ll get our share of the good boys if the plan has the concentrated support of every local club and former student.” M. E. Prof. Leaves For Puerto Rico W. I. Truettner, A. & M. pro fessor of mechanical engineering, left Saturday to report to the College of Agriculture and Me chanical Arts of the University of Puerto Rico where for the next nine months he will be on leave as visiting professor of mechani cal engineering and curricula con sultant. Holder of baccalaureate and mas ter degrees from the University of Michigan,' Professor Truettner has been connected with the Mechani cal Engineering Department of Texas A. & M. College since the fall of 1930. The saplings of today are the timber trees of tomorrow. Fire kills saplings and injures lumber. If we are to have timber for future needs, our young trees today are valuable and are worth protecting. yiCTORY BUY UNITED STATES WAR BONDS AND STAMPS Graner and Wooten Set Pace for Steers; Ags Confused by Defense; Many Bad Plays Saturday night in Austin the'fteam back in and they found that Texas Aggies were snowed under by the Texas Longhorns to a tune of 70-35. This was the second win of the Longhorns over the Aggies this season. T. u. climbed into a 7-0 lead before he Aggies could scratch. While the Texas first team was in the ball game they continued at this furious rate. Lit tle Don Wooten was especially out standing as he sank several long shots from almost the center of the court. Playing a pressing type of defense, Texas stole the ball numerous times from the Aggies before they could get it down the court. This confused the Aggies a great deal because they could not get the ball into scoring po sition, The Texas first team, play ing flawless ball, was relieved by the second team which did not score while they were in the ball game. This fact brought the first Tutors For Math Courses Secured Announcement has been made through the Office of Student Per sonnel which is under the direc tion of George B. Wilcox, that there is now available on the campus a tutor for those subjects which deal directly with mathematics. A tu tor may be hired to give help in Algebra, Trig., Analytics, Calculus and Mechanical Engineering 101 and 102. There is also an instructor for drafting and engineering draw ing. It is suggested by the Student Personnel office that help be ob tained in any courses with which a student shows weakness. This may mean that more of the funda mentals will be learned so that the advanced courses may be entered into more easily. Any student de siring to obtain a tutor should con tact the Student Personnel Office on the first floor of the Academic Building. New Electric Welder Given to Mechanical Engineering Shop The Harnischfeger Corporation of Milwauke, Wisconsin, has do nated a 200 ampere Rotating Type P. & H. Electric Welder to the Mechanical Engineering Depart ment for use in their welding class es. The Haimischfeger Corporation is one of the largest manufacturers of welding equipment, and in ad dition they manufacture draglines, cranes, overhead cranes, etc. In presenting this machine they called attention to the new devel opments in welding and the im portant role played by welding in the war production. Ships, planes, guns, torpedoes, bombs and the like could not have been produced in sufficient quantities to meet the war needs had welding not played such an important part. —CHANCE— Continued from Page 1 dustry and agriculture. Dean Kyle also expressed the belief that there are scores of men and organiza tions in Texas who will be willing to underwrite research projects of the foundation which may total millions of dollars. Have you any idle land? Grow trees. they had cooled off considerably. Weinbaum did most of the scoring from out on the court for the Ag gies. The rest was done at the foul line with Ellis leading there with five free throws. Oddly enough, two of these were made after the game was over. Ellis was fouled in the last seconds and before he could take his shots the gun went off ending the game. The court was immediately filled by spec tators and under these trying con ditions Ellis made his final two shots. Although the Steers had cooled off, the half ended with the score 33-15 in their favor. During the half there were yells given by both sides. The Aggie yells were led by a couple of Aggies in the Naval .V-12 unit stationed at Tex as. The game was well attended with the huge Gregory gym almost filled. There were quite a few Ag gies there, some of them seniors showing their new boots for the first time at tealand. After the half the Steers came roaring back with Graner showing the way. Nu merous times this boy, a letterman last year at S.M.U., went through the entire Aggie team to a lay up shot under the basket. His bril liant playing earned him the honor of high point man of the game with 22 points. Just as Texas dou bled the Aggies in points during the game, Graner doubled the Ag gie high point man, Weinbaum. While Graner was chalking up his 22 points for Texas, Weinbaum was dropping in 11 to lead the Aggie scorers. The second team of Texas alternated with the first most of the second half. The first team was never as hot, however, as they were the first five minutes of the game. Because of their pressing and ganging up on one man, Texas had a gra'nd total of 20 personal fouls called against them. The Aggies made 15 of these for an excellent percentage. This game closed out the season for Texas while the Aggies have t .o games left to play, both with Ar kansas at Fayetteville next Friday and Saturday nights. Box scores: Texas Longhorns f.g. f.t. p.f. t.p. Graner, f 8 6 0 22 Risenhoover, f 0 0 0 0 Wallace, f 3 0 2 6 Horneyer, f 0 0 1 0 Bell, f 0 0 2 0 Johnson, f 0 0 2 0 Cleary, c 7 2 4 16 Watson, c 0 0 2 0 Crowly, g 3 2 4 8 Wooten, g 8 0 1 16 Ward, g 0 0 2 0 Wilemon, g 1 0 0 2 Totals ...30 10 20 70 Texas Aggies f.g. f.t. p.f. t.p. Goad, f 0 0 2 0 Ellis, f 1 5 1 7 White, c 1 3 3 5 Weinbaum, g 4 3 1 11 McCormick, g 2 1 0 5 Fincannon, c 0 0 0 0 Hall, g 1 1 3 3 Collins, f 1 2 0 4 Adams, g 0 0 0 0 Shefts, g 0 0 0 0 Horneyer, c 0 0 0 0 Voss, g 0 0 0 0 Totals ...10 15 11 35 LOUPOT’S A LITTLE PLACE - - - - - - A BIG SAVING! When you are in the New Area, there’s not a better place to go than - - - GEORGE’S CONFECTIONERY The Coffee is excellent — The company good — The music relaxing. 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