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TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1947 THE BATTALION Page 3 ON KYLE FIELBr by PAUL MARTIN Is Basketball Too Rough? Many basketball fans, after watching the wrestling dis plays at some basketball games in the Southwest, are long ing for a return to stricter foul rules. Some advocate a ‘three-foul-and-out’ rule. Foul rules in recent years have> = been liberalized, and rougher play has resulted. Basketball in the East has been noted for its rough play down through the years, while basketball in the South and West has been comparatively clean, in volving little blocking, elbowing, and back-jumping. From here, it looks as though basketball’s ardent supporters are missing the boat in convert ing basketball to football. What can be gained from rough play remains to be seen! Fouls in basketball, just like penalties in football, slow the game to the point where it be comes dull and listless. Too many games are decided by the ability or inability of a team to make its free shots. Shooting free throws requires skill and practice, but ,, ,, - , . when they decide so many ball ** games the rules need to be tight- ” " ow> INTRAMURALS By CUff Ackerman CORPS CHAMPIONS IN PING PONG, FLAG FOOTBALL, HANDBALL “A” Inf., Ping Pong ten keep their winning combination going strong all the way through the schedule undefeated as they beat a team of good players from “C” Field 4 to 1 for the Corps crown! The most thrilling game of the season in all sports took place on ened to remove habitual foulers from the court. The best players will foul unin tentionally, and even the best of ficials will occasionally call a rule infraction on an innocent player. The better basketball players can play for a long time on one foul. Stricter foul rules will speed up the game and remove potential football tacklers from the basket ball courts. A Fair Break For Cage Officials Basketball officiating is im proving, and orchids are in or der for those who supervise cage play. In our Valhalla we would have a large mirror for the use of irate coaches and fans, so that they might see themselves as others see them. This comer can waste lit tle time supporting those people who count an evening lost unless they have heaped ridicule and abuse on an official who can’t or is not in a position to answer back. That National Coaches Meeting Everyone connected with organ ized collegiate athletics is won dering about the rule passed at the NCAA meeting outlawing recruit ing of athletes and prohibiting monetary payment or allowances to athletes by the colleges other than free tuition. Coaches, from the Southern Southeastern, and Southwestern conferences fought this new pro posal bitterly. They are of the opinion that many of the small er schools would be unable to field athletic teams without re- Records and Players, Paints, Varnishes, Wall Paper. CHAPMAN’S Next to P. 0. Bryan cruiting. They are skeptical of the Northern and Eastern Con ference schools really being sin cere in the matter of paying subsidies. Southern coaches feel that blackmarketing and boot legging in college athletes is just beginning. Here’s hoping that a suitable compromise can be worked out. Without the three Southern con ferences, the NCAA would be an empty shell, and then there would be no organization to control in tercollegiate athletics. DR. N. B. McNUTT DENTIST Office in Parker Building Over Canady’s Pharmacy Phone 2-1457 Bryan, Texas vored “G” Inf. team was held to a close decision over “C’-’ Inf. for the Flag Football championship of the Corps. The final score was 0 to 0 in touchdowns, but the pen etrations went to “G” Inf. 3 40’s and 2 20’s to no penetrations for “C” Inf. In the Class B sports Handball took the spot light as the strong “C” Inf. team outclassed an “A” Inf. team 2 to 1. This was one of the hardest fought battles in Class B competition and the entire sched ule made it hard for the “C” Inf. team to walk away champions. SPRING ACTIVITIES TO START WEDNESDAY, JAN. 29 The spring activities in Intra mural Athletics will get underway Wednesday, January 29 with a meeting of all Athletic Officers and assistant Athletic Officers in Room 209, Goodwin Hall at 7:15 p. m. Spirts to be offered at the be- ginnifig of the semester will be Team Handball and Team Horse shoe Pitching for the Upperclass men. The Freshman sports will be Volten Ball and Team Horse shoe Pitching. Volten Ball makes its first appearance in the Intra mural calendar. This game was introduced to the Freshman by the Physical Education Department. Following the opening schedule of sports activities there will be softball, tennis, boxing, wrestling, swimming, and the track and field meet. All of these sports will be offered to both the Class A and Class B teams. In the Open Tournament side of the Intramural program there will be tourneys in badminton, tennis, and golf. The 1946-47 fall and spring pro gram will be brought to a close with two outstanding events. The first of these will be the Apprecia tion Barbecue for the Athletic Of ficers. The final event will be the Victory Ceremony at Penberthy Intramural Message Center when the presentation of the Intramural Banners will take place and the in scription made in the Court of Honor, honoring Athletic Officers of the Championship Units. Senior and Junior High Tourney Set In Feb. for Dallas Two high school basketball tour naments, one for senior schools and the other for junior schools, will be held the latter part of Febru ary at Dal-Hi Fieldhouse in Dallas, under the sponsorship of the Southwestern AAU. Both tournaments are open events and are expected to attract teams from all sections of Texas as well as from neighboring states. The meet for junior teams will be held Friday and Saturday, Feb. 21 - 22, and the senior high school tournament is set for Friday, Feb. 28 and Saturday, March 1. Inquiries concerning the tourna ments and all entries should be mailed to Dave McCoy, Southwest ern A.A.U. Basketball Committee Chairman, 605 N. Ervay, Dallas. Forrest “Whitey” Baccus, bas ketball coach at SMU, and E. O. “Doc” Hayes, coach of the Crozier Tech Wolves, defending champions in the Texas high school Class AA cage race, are both members of the AAU committee aiding Chair man McCoy in plans for the two events. The senior high school tourney will include three divisions of com petition, one for Class AA schools, another for Class A, and the third bracket for Class B. Deadline for entries in the junior event is Feb. 14 and in the senior event Feb. 21. Trophies will be awarded to win ning teams and runners-up in each division of the senior tournament and in the junior meet. All-tour- CONGRATULATIONS! •k(/Ar "n;.> lo o °’°o>o 0 ^ % A/p, FORD MUNNERLYN, District Manager Associates: Sidney L. Loveless Harry Hooker M. M. (Rip) Erskine Ray Smith Weldon L. Maples H. E. Burgess The American General Life Insurance Company HOUSTON, TEXAS COLSON & COMPANY Agents W. N. (Flop) Colson Insurance of AH Kinds Over Aggieland Studio Phones oTficeTll?2^Res^7679 Bob Cowling Four Cage Tilts On Tab This Week The Texas Aggie cage squad will lie idle next week until Sat urday when they will play host to the thrice-defeated Rice Owls in DeWare Field House. Neither of the two teams have a good record to date, but the Owls have dropped all conference tilts, beaten by Texas and Arkansas, the two top teams. The unvictorious but still dangerous Owls have a match slated for Wednesday night with Baylor prior to taking on the twice-defeated and once-victorious Aggies. Other games this week include two between Arkansas and Okla homa A. & &M. on the 22 and 24, and Rice and Baylor in Houston on the 22. Conference Standings Teams Won Lost Pet. Arkansas 4 0 1.000 Texas 4 0 1.000 SMU 2 1 .661 A&M 1 2 .330 Baylor 1 2 .330 Rice 0 3 .000 TCU 0 4 .000 nament teams will be selected at the close of each event and awards will be presented to the five out standing players in each meet. Bob Cowling Is Favorite to Set New Conference Swim Record With a list of breast stroked championships as big as bis thick muscular arms, Bob Cowling re turns to Southwest swimming cir cles with his mind set on breaking the Conference record in the 100 yd. breast stroke, which he failed to accomplish by only tenths of seconds during his two varsity years before the war. Before leaving A. & M. for serv ice overseas with the army in France and Germany, Cowling was the mainstay of coach Art Adam son’s butterflyers. In 1942, he won both the breast stroke and the individual medley Conference titles, and in 1943 took the breast stroke title once more. In addition, the 24-year-old Houstonian holds the TAAF record for the 100 yd. breast and numerous Southwest ern and Southern AAU titles. In 1942, Cowling was one of a squad of four which represented A. & M. at the National Intercollegiate championships. Still relatively out of condition, and suffering the effects of near ly four years without competition, Bob swam the breast stroke leg of the medley relay against OU last week in record time, but dropped the 100 yd. race to newcomer Jim my Flowers by a hair. The Conference record in the 100 yd. breast stroke, Cowling’s specialty stands at 1:07, which he has bettered in practice already. And if the water doesn’t dry up in the Gregory Gym pool, A. & M. will have another record to its credit by the end of the season. Terminal leave bonds are non- negotiable and nqn-transferabje. However, they may be used to pay premiums on National Service Life Insurance. AGGIE SPECIALS 10 ACRE FARM, four room house, 8 miles from Bryan $2,500.00 HOUSE, li/ 2 miles from College on Bryan Road, with no sewerage $3,400.00 PRE-FABRICATED House, at Munnerlyn Village .-.$3,100.00 HOUSE in good neighborhood in Bryan, needs few repairs, has 2 full lots— with house ....$4,200.00 BRAND NEW house with hardwood floors between Bryan and College will sell for for O P A Ceiling of $5,190.00 Also many other new or Pre-War, frame or brick, houses located in Bryan or College Station. Drop by and see us JAMES W. JAMES, JR. Class of ’39 Room 10, Commerce Building (Over Creamland) BRYAN, TEXAS 2-7065 2-6499 A SUGGESTION THE UNPLEASANT HOURS OF LINE-STANDING MAY BE RELIEVED IF: 1. N0N-G. L STUDENTS- Buy now. Begin today. Our official lists are complete 2. G.I. STUDENTS- Bring your orders and secure books, etc., Friday and Saturday, January 24-25. Don’t wait until everybody wants in. We don’t have that much space. 3. DELAY PURCHASE OF LONG LISTS- Of Architectural and Veterinary Medicine materials. In most cases they are not need ed for a few days. BEGINNING MONDAY, JANUARY 27, OUR DOORS WILL BE OPEN FOR THE BUYING RUSH, SEASON FROM 7 A. M., UNTIL 10 P. M. WE HAVE AMPLE STOCKS of 85 to 90 percent of all books to be used. Back orders are expected February 15. Drawing Sets, Dis secting Sets and a few Veterinary Medicine items are scarce, but shipments are expected soon. Slide Rules are virtually non-exis- tant, and we wiU have no dictionaries until early March. Please hear with us and remember we are doing every thing in our power to help you. THE EXCHANGE STORE “Serving Texas Aggies”