FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1947
THE BATTALION
Page 3
From This Angle Aggies Break Even In Holiday Contests
LARRY GOODWYN
CONFERENCE BASKETBALL RACE
Just one week from today, the
1947 Southwest Conference Bas
ketball Race will get under way
with all seven members of the
loop slated to see action over
the weekend of the 10th and 11th.
With pre-conference play draw
ing to a close, one team stands
head and shoulders over the rest
of the field, and, unfortunately, it
wears the colors of the Orange and
White of T.u.
The ‘Sips whipped through a
rugged December schedule in great
style, including among their ac
complishments an all -victorious
swing through the East. The
Steers now have a eight won and
one loss record, the one loss com
ing at the hands of the defending
National Champions, Oklahoma A.
& M., 40-39 in the semi-finals of
the Oklahoma City Tournament.
On the Eastern jaunt, the ‘Sips
knocked off Long Island, which
had previously beaten the Okla.
Aggies, Depaul and Canisius, three
topflight cage powers. Off that
performance, Coach Jack Gray’s
club looks, from this angle, to be
miles in front of the rest of the
circuit.
As for the other six teams, a
mad scramble from first divis
ion berths looms. This year’s
edition of Arkansas’ always
good, always tall Porkers is just
as tall as usual, but their early
season record indicates they’re
not up to the standards of the
’38, ’39, ’40 teams.
Baylor, the defending confer
ence champions, has its two high
scoring freshmen of last year,
Jackie Robinson and Bill Johnson,
back to pace the ’47 team, but the
Bears are in need of additional
help to get into the conference pic
ture in this season of vastly im
proved caliber of competition.
Rice, boomed as a pre-season co-
favorite with the Longhorns,
seems destined to be involved in
a three and possibly a four-way
fight for second place. The Owls
have been the big disappintment
in the conference — disappointing
to Rice fans, that is. We don’t be
lieve any residents of this section
are going to shed any tears over
the Owls mediocre record to date.
The big surprise of the current
campaign has been Southern Meth
odist’s scrappy Mustangs. After
dropping their first three games
this season, the Ponies, who didn’t
win a game in conference play
last year, have done a complete a-
bout face to win five straight
games and if they keep improving,
may give the Orange a run for its
money.
The Aggies, with little Bill
Batey tossing them through the
hoop in pleasing fashion^
a little better off than tf ™
tabbed before the seaso:
but still have plenty of
to make up before eras"
the top four. Lack ofj
again is plaguing Mart; '
crew. ,
T.C.U., still searching
its first win of the sea
our vote for the conferen
Hub McQuillen’s bunch
haven’t got the experience
talent to play winning
this league and no relief is
sight until next year.
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Despite winning two games on
the last day from their rivals, the
Southwest Conference took a back
seat to the Big Six Conference in
the Oklahoma City Invitational
Basketball Tournament, Dec. 28-29,
which featured the holiday cage
fireworks in the Southwest.
Kansas, Oklahoma, and Mis
souri finished second, fourth and
sixth respectively, with the South
west’s Texas, Baylor and Rice
nailing down third, fifth and
eighth, respectively.
Oklahoma A&M of the Missouri
Valley Conference, the defending
National Collegiate champions,
won the tourney by beating Kan
sas after having taken the feature
game from Texas, 40-39 in the
semi-finals. Texas blasted Okla
homa 62-65 to win third-place hon
ors and Baylor knocked over Mis
souri, 58-51 for fifth place. Tulane
defeated Rice, 60-57 in the battle
for seventh and eighth places.
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|1, C. H. Hardie and A. L. Bailey who finished first, second and
te, J. Turcotte and L. G. Maxfield, who finished in that order
Basketball Contest Coupon
Below is the first and most important coupon for the Batt’s
season-long basketball contest. Put in the blanks the final
order of finish of the SWC basketball race as it looks to you
now. This portion of the contest will count 50% toward the
final total. The remaining 50% will be divided , up among
the Aggies’ conference games. Before each game, a coupon
will appear in the Batt. The coupon below must be in the
Student Activities office before January 10:
Basketball Team Wins Two Games;
Places Third in Houston Tournament
During the Christmas holidays, the Aggie basketball team whip
ped Stephen F. Austin Teachers College and Texas Tech and bowed
in defeat to Pepperdine College and the University of Houston.
In tournament play at Houston the Aggies trounced Stephen F.
Austin 58 to 53 and defeated Texas Tech by a 51 to 46 score to gain
third place in the Houston tournament. Pepperdine, winner of the
Houston tourney, won from the Aggies to the tune of 53 to 36 while
in a separate game played on December 28, the University of Houston
whipped the Aggies by a 62 to 41 score.
Leading scorers for the Aggies
were Bill Batey, forward, who on
good nights has been dropping bet
ter than twenty points through
the hoops, and G'arcia, guard, who
has consistently scored in the
neighborhood of ten points per
game and in the Pepperdine game
was high point man with six
teen points. In the Texas Tech
game Batey was high man with
21 points, he was alsj/X^g^point
man in the Stephs^ F _
game. /
Voiding, C^fingsworth an( j
Adams, the y -<"c )1; } ier three Aggie
starters, h§^. e b een playing steady
ball ang improving with each
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Aggie Cagers Play
Brooke Army Medics
On Saturday Night
Marty Karow’s Aggie Cagers
take on the Brooke Army Medical
Training Center team from Ft Sam
Houston, Saturday night in .De
ware Field House at 7:30 p. m.
Little is known concerning the
previous record of the army team,
but in past years most of tjne bas-
feitiau cMsr ir and abound >2™.
Antonio have dealt the Aggies
plenty of misery. San Antonio is
noted for its many army teams
and competition among these clubs
is so keen that nearly any of them
can be expected to put up a tough
fight.
The medical training center has
been expanding until now it has
thousands of men in training. With
that many men to pick from,
capable coach usually can come
up with a fair ball club.
Members of the Aggie basket
ball team were vacationing from
December 28 to January 2 and
may not appear as sharp as usual.
Coach Karow has indicated that
'he will start Batey and Collings
worth at forwards, Voiding at cen
ter, and G'arcia and Adams at
guards.
This will probably be the Ag
gies last game until the opening
of the Southwest Conference race.
On January 10 the Aggies journey
to Fort Worth for a game with
Hub McQuillan’s T.C.U. Horned
Frogs and on the following night
they take on Coach Whitey Bac-
cus’ S.M.U. Mustangs in Dallas.
The first conference game to be
played in College Station will be
January 15 when the Baylor Bears
come to Aggieland.
FOUR STUDENTS ATTEND WORLD MISSIONS MEET
Four A. & M. students, Tommy
Gould, Leonard Holder, Jesse
Ward, and J. M. Jones, attended
the third quadrennial Youth Con
vention on World Missions, held in
the War Memorial Auditorium in
Nashville, Tennessee, December
27-30.
The group left for Nashville on
December 26 and returned from
the convention on December 31.
No Game! Wet Ground
Baseball has long been pla
gued by wet grounds and cold
weather’s causing postponement
of ball games. Last Friday
night. Coach Marty Karow’s
thoughts must have wandered
back to his baseball coaching
days as the A&M—LSU bas
ketball game was canceled be
cause of “a wet floor”.
The floor in the Sam Hous
ton Coliseum, where the game
was to have been played, is
tacked onto the ice arena used
by the Houston hockey team.
A differential in outside and
inside temperatures caused the
floor to sweat. After repeated
sweepings and large doses of
resin failed to help, the basket
ball game was canceled.
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Willie Zapalac, back,
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Batey Heads SWC
Basketball Scorers
Although the Aggies haven’t
been grabbing any headlines with
their basketball abilities of late,
one member has crashed into the
limelight on the basis of his in
dividual performance.
He’s Bill Batey, the Aggies lit
tle ace of the one-hand shots. Ba
tey has poured 154 points through
the hoop in the Aggies 11 games
this season to lead all scorers in
the Southwest Conference.
John Hargis, T.u.’s towering
shotmaker is in second place, far
behind Batey with 136 points. No
other member of the Aggie squad
is among the first ten leading
scorers.
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RESULTS OF HOUSTON TOURNEY
Final Standings
1. George Pepperdine College.
2. North Texas State College.
Scores of Games
A & M 58 S. F. Austin 53
A & M 36 Geo. Pepperdine....53
A & M 51 Texas Tech 46
As a result of the season’s play
so far, the Farmers have lost more
games than they have won. This
was attributed to a disastrous
road trip in which most of the re
gulars came down with injuries
and colds. Now that the team
is back at full playing strength,
play has been better and the Ag
gies have been giving a good ac
count of themselves.
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