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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1946 THE BATTALION Page 3 Looking at the Aggies . From This Angle LARRY GOODWYN Ringing Down the Football Curtain Well, the curtain has fallen on the 1946 football season and for many an Aggie supporter who had hopes of great things from this year’s aggregation, it wasn’t any too soon. But, looking back over the 10 games played since September blew in, it can be said that things weren’t tooooo bad. The Aggies won four and lost six—admittedly not very impressive for a team that was supposed to fight it out with Rice and Texas for the title — but the Farmers did finish fourth in the loop, one game be hind Texas and two behind Rice and Arkansas. Those conference wins over Baylor, T.C.U. and S.M.U. are not to be sneezed at, and the Aggies certainly acquitted them selves well in holding Oklahoma to a thin 10-7 win. Individual honors did not befall any of the Aggie regulars prob ably because of the team’s poor won-and-lost record. The exclu- s i o n of Howell, Stautzenberger and especially Monty Moncrief from the all-Southwest Conference selections was a real surprise — one which we’re still trying to figure out. "Concerning next season’s chan ces—we’ve got just one thing to say—its high time we found the combination to beat T.U.! Give Aggie Cagers Time; Then Judge With conference basketball com petition scarcely a mpnth away and pre-conference play already in full swing, the local sports spotlight has definitely switched to the hardwoods. The question on everybody’s lips is, of course, “what kind of a team are the Aggies going to field?” The answer? Well, from this angle, it looks like the present bunch will be better, much better, than last year’s, but just how much better remains to be seen. . The team has more natural abil ity than any that has graced De- Ware Field House for many a moon. Despite the more or less unimpressive showing against North Texas, Wednesday night, Adams, Jenkins, Batey, Kemper- mann, Kluttz, Garcia and Collings worth look like they might devel op into a formidible crew before the season has progressed very far. } The passing and backboard work in the North Texas game left much to be desired but it must be remembered that the Eagles had two games under their belt before playing the Farmers. With a little more practice playing in actual com petition, there is no reason to believe the passing and rebound work won’t pick up. Collingsworth, Jenkins and Batey were the only Cadets hitting the cords with any regularity at all— Garcia and Kempermann appear ing noticeably off form, but again, it must be pointed out this was just the first game and more must be seen before any definite judge ment can be passed on the team’s conference chances. Speaking of the conference, a typical dog-eat-dog race, with about three or four teams having a fighting chance for the title, ap pears in the offing. Texas is strong (they took North Texas to the cleaners two nights in a row by margins over 20 points). Rice as usual, will be in the thiqk of things and the loop’s dark horse looks like S.M.U. The Ponies fin ished sixth in the circuit last year, but reports from up Dallas way in dicate the Mustangs have a team that is vastly improved. Arkansas, which usually produces teams av eraging in the vicinty of six feet four inches, is an unknown quan tity, while Baylor and T.C.U. are in the same boat with the Aggies— in the building stage. At any rate, things should be interesting along S W C hard woods this spring, so bring your smelling salts, get a firm grip on yourself, and prepare for the fireworks. SAE Meets Tuesday “Cyclone Combustion”, a film produced by the Wright Aircraft Corporation, will be shown Tues day evening, December 10, at 7:30 p. m., at a meeting of the Society of Automotive Engineers to be held in the ME lecture room. In addition to the film, a talk will be given on the Lockheed P-80 by Terry Clark, president of the chapter. This plane is powered by the Allison-GE turbojet. New Service A 4-Day Watch Cleaning Service 2 Day for Staffs t 1 Day for Mainsprings Crowns and Crystals IT’S CONVENIENT TO BRING YOUR WATCH TO T. C. HINMAN JEWELER Lauterstein Bldg. North Gate Aggies Leave On Eastern Cage Journey North Texa; Trims Aggie Cagers,59-49 A spirited, headsup North Texas basketball team made the Aggies’ 1946 cage debut a dismal one Wed nesday night at DeWare Field by staging a furious last half assault that netted the Eagles a well-earn ed 59-49 triumph. The game was typical of most early season contests with work under the backboards spotty on both teams and shooting erratic on the part of the Aggies. A mil lion fouls, more or less, were com mitted, only half of which were called, and the game was thus, rough from start to finish. The Aggies’ ball handling was bad and as Coach Marty Karow put it, “we just weren’t hitting our shots.” Those two facts just about sum up the reasons for the defeat. Showing up well on the attack were Bill Batey whose one-hand push specialty netted him 15 points and second high point honors for the night, John Collingsworth, who bucketed 11 counters and Sam Jen kins who dunked nine more. But most of the glory was haul ed in by two North Texas pro ducts, lanky center, Hopkins who had six foot plus frame in the Ag gies’ hair all night and dropped in 20 points on the side, and speedy Bill Canble who led the Eagles’ decisive second-half assault and finished the night with 14 points. Hopkins hogged the backboards all night, getting about half the re bounds and his 20 points were good for high point honors. The Aggies hopped into a early 2-0 lead when Batey dunked a one- hander and the score was tied at 2-2 and 4-4 before the Eagles pull ed away to 7-4 and then upped it to 15-8 and 21-9 before the Aggies could find the range. Mike Garcia entered the game and started the fire with a long set shot, Jenkins followed with two free tosses and Batey added a tip-in to cut the margin to 21-15 before Bell swish ed one for the Eagles. However, the Aggies hadn’t cooled off—yet. Collingsworth hit the cords with a long one-hander and Kemper mann added a pair of gift heaves to make it 20-23. In the last two minutes of the first half, Collings worth looped in two goals and a free toss and Batey dropped one while North Texas was gathering only two points and the teams left the court at intermission with the Farmers enjoying a 26-24 lead. Things looked good as the sec ond half opened with Batey hoop ing another one-hander but Hop kins and Canble got hot to ac count for seven quick points to send the Eagles into a lead they never reliquished. The Eagles managed to stretch their advantage to 40-34 with seven minutes gone in the second half before the Ag gies made their last serious bid, pulling to within two points at 40- 38 on two free tosses by Collings worth and Jenkins crip shot. But Hopkins, Canble and Co. got busy to up their lead to 48-39 with six minutes left. The Aggies man aged to crawl up to 47-52 with two minutes left, but a hot last minute bucket parade by the Eagles clos ed out the game at 59-49. s Farmers Play Five Games In Four States On Jaunt With a rather unimpressive showing against North Tex as on their record, the Texas Aggie basketball team today was looking forward to embarking on an extended tour through the East and Midwest. The trip, one of the most extensive ever attempted by an Aggie team, and the first since the pre-war days, will carry the Cadet goalers through four states for five en gagements in five days. The squad, 14 strong, will leave- Saturday morning on the Southern Pacific and will arrive in Troy, New York, Monday morning. Mon day night, Coach Marty Karow sends his charges against Sienna College in a game played as part of a double-header scheduled in Troy. Immediately after the game the team again hits the road to fill dates with Moorehead Teachers INTRAMURALS Cliff Ackerman The current volleyball and bas ketball Class A season is draw ing to a close with playoff games for the college championship scheduled for the -coming week. The Corp Volleyball Crown went to “C” Field as they outplayed “E” Inf. 2 to 1. “C” Field, led by the driving spikes of Tittle and the drop spikes of Davis brought the winning points in. Stevens and Luther were outstanding in the set-up positions and on blocks. For the losers Kiel and Jaudce were outstanding along with the fast and hard driving spikes of Nelson. The score by games looked like this: 15-6, 9-15, 15-3. The Col lege Championship lies between “C” Field and Dorm. 15, winners of the Veterans leagues. BASKETBALL In the veterans leagues the im portant game of the past week was the playoff in League A be tween Dorm. No. 3 and the Vet Village team. Dorm. No. 3 came out on the long end of the score 32 to 23 in a well played game. Thompson led the winners by run ning up 14 points, while Lucas and Bowen helped the score and played good defensive ball. On the losing team Parrish was out standing as he scored 13 points. Johnson and Crew set up the de fensive pace for the Vets. Playoff games to decide the Corp and the Veteran championship teams will be played as scheduled in the big gym: 7:00 oDrm. No. 3 and Puryear; the next two games will be at 7:45 and 8:30 between A Coast, E Field, A Inf., and the winner of League “B”. The following week the college championship team will be decided as the winning Corp team meets the winning Vet team. TENNIS The class B tennis will come to an end before the holidays. In the semi-final matches “A” Sig. beat “G” Inf. and the other match “A” Eng. meets “C” Inf. and the winner of that match will play “A” Sig for the College Championship. CROSS COUNTRY The Upperclass and Freshman cross country meet will take place on Saturday, December 14, at 2:30. All entries are due in Wednesday, December 11, by 6 o’clock. College at Louisville, Ky. on Tues day night; Bradley Tech in Peoria, 111, on Wednesday night; St. Louis University in St. Louis on Thurs day night and the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Ky. on Friday night. That’s quite an order even for the best of teams, and the Aggies, loaded as they are with relatively unexperienced players are going to need all they’ve got and then some to emerge unscathed. Appearing especially difficult is the assignment Friday night against Kentucky University. Kain- tuck has always had a reputation for turning out tall, terrific teams and indications are that this year is no exception. Athletic Council and Former Student Group Will Convene Sunday J. P. Hamblem of Houston was yesterday appointed chairman of a committee of former students of A. & M. to discuss the “situation in athletics” with the athletic council at 10 a. m. Sunday. The combined groups wil ^convene in College Station. This announce ment was made by Carroll M. Gaines, president of the Former Students Association. Other members of the group are George V. Holmes of Gonzales, Lt. Col. Tom Dooley of McKinney, Luther E. Bell of Dallas, and Sid V. Smith, president of the campus veterans’ organization. No ‘Fire Norton’ Attitude “We are not going into the meet ing with any ‘fire Norton’ attitude or any other radical ideas,” Mr. Hamblen said yesterday. “There has been widespread disappoint ment among ex-students of A. & M. with the football season jjust closed. We plan to meet with the athletic council to discuss intelli gently any problems, and to try our best to do what we can to remedy them. For the disappoint ments of the past season, we at tach no blame to any one person or any group.” “There are a series of conditions contributing to the past season, foremost of which we believe to be the fact that the A. & M. team, due to crowded conditions at the college, was some 120 practice hours behind the remaining teams in the Southwest Conference,” Hamblen continued. “We have the powe ronly to re commend to the athletic council. 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Tackle—George Connors, (N.D.) Guard—Alex Agase, (111.) Guard—Weldon Humble (Rice) Center—Paul Duke (Ga. Tech.) Back—John Lujack (N.D.) Back—Charley Trippi (Ga.) Back—Felix Blanchard (Army) Back—Glenn Davis (Army) Also 2nd team back, Bobby Layne, (Texas) Honorable Mention includes: Monte Moncrief, tackle; Odell Stautzenberger, guard; Buryi Baty, back of A.&M. All Conference End—Gene Wilson (S.M.U.) End—Alton Baldwin (Ark) Tackle—Weldon Edwards (T.C.U.) Tackle—Charles Lively (Ark.) Guard—Weldon Humble (Rice) Guatd—Jim Wright (S.M.U.) Center—Dick Harris (Texas) Back—Bobby Layne (Texas) Back—Clyde Scott (Ark.) Back—Carl Russ (Rice). Back—Huey Keeney (Rice) Also Second team linemen: , Monte Moncrief and Odell Stautzenberger of A.&M. Aggie Cagers Better But Improved Play in SWC Makes Going Rough in ’46—-Karow “We’ve got more talent this year than anytime since the war, but unfortunately, so has everybody else.” Such was the comment of head basketball coach, Marty Kar ow as the local 1946 basketball season got under way. Looking over his chances for the 1946-47- season, Karow said his present crop of cagers is hand ling the ball better and hitting the basket a little more frequently than at the corresponding time last year, but the veteran mentor has tened to add that it was still too early to make any definite com ments about the Aggies chances in the Southwest Conference race, especially after the disappointing showing against North Texas. “Texas and Rice, as usual will be strong,” Karow advised and added, “and look out for S.M.U. The Ponies have rounded up some good players and are a cinch to improve their standing of last year.” As for the other teams in the league, Karow declined com ment, saying, “we’ll find out soon enough.” As for his own team, Marty had this to say: “The team is not com posed of a bunch of tree-toppers. The squadas a whole will average about six feet with the first team checking in at about six feet one inch. As for experience, Adams lettered last year and Kluttz let tered in ’42 while Jenkins, Kem permann and Batey have only ser vice experience. Jim Kirkland and Peck Vass, both of whom lettered last year as Freshmen, are the only other mem bers on the squad with experience at A. & M. ’46 Aggie Cage Slate Dec. 9 Sienna College, at Troy, N.Y. Dec. 10 Moorehead Teachers at Louis ville, Ky. Dec. 11 Murray Teachers, at Paducah, Ky. Dec. 12 Bradley Tech, at Peoria, 111. Dec. 13 St. Louis, at St. Louis, Mo. Dec. 14 Kentucky, at Lexington, Ky. 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