FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1947
THE BATTALION
Page 3
VN KYLE FIELIY
by PAUL MARTIN
Aggie Cagers Play Rice Institute Owls Here Saturday
Aggie Swimming Team Prospects
Swimming enthusiasts do not view the defeat of the
Texas Swimming Team by 0. U. as much indication of the
real strength of the Longhord aggregation.
Although the Aggies decisively defeated 0. U. and
Oklahoma in turn whipped Texas by three points, there is
little jubilation in the Aggie camp.
In the Southwest Conference^
swimming’ meet points are given
for the first five places. This means
that a team which wins first
place may find another team that
take second and third place far
ahead in points. Such a scoring
system places a high premium on
large swimming squads. The team
with the biggest number of good
swimmers will win the Conference
meet. One or two star swimmers
will not be enough. Points for sec
ond, third, and fourth place are
just as important as winning a
first place.
Swimming meets are judged on
the basis of the total number of
points won, not by the number of
first places won in the various
events.
Coach Karow is anticipating the
beginning of the spring semester
when he hopes to obtain the ser
vices of big Glynn Smith, six foot
five center. Smith, who plans to
enroll here at mid-term, played
freshman basketball at A & M
before the war. He has played
basketball on some of the coun
try’s outstanding service teams,
and is regarded as a capable re
bound man.
If Smith does enroll here and is
able to round into shape, his pres
ence could mean the difference be
tween a losing club and one that
is always near the top. Above all
things that the Aggie cagers have
needed this year, height has been
the one element most lacking.
An 111 Wind That Blows Nobody Good
The T. C. U.-Arkansas dispute
over the “stolen basketball player”
has focussed attention on another
practice that should be elimin
ated—proselyting.
This corner cannot condemn a
director of athletics for attempting
to recruit athletes from over the
state for his athletic teams. On
the other hand, we think it going
a bit too far when rival coaches
set foot on another college campus
and attempt to recruit their op
ponents’ players. That is carrying
things a mite too far.
Baseball Has Its Troubles Too
When the Detroit Tigers baseball
club succeeded in having Hank
Greenberg waived out of the Am
erican League and sold him to the
Pittsburg Pirates, a howl was rais
ed for a tighter waiver rule.
Major league owners, some of
them, are advocating a waiver rule
with teeth in it. They would like
to see a club forced to sell a player
when waivers are asked.
Under the present set up, a club
may ask for waivers on a player,
and then refuse to sell him at the
waiver price.
In the case of Greenberg, Larry
MacPhail of the New York Yan
kees has revealed that he tried on
three occasions to secure the serv
ices of Greenberg but on each
occasion the Detroit Club wanted
to drive too stiff a bargain.
Baseball fans will recall that in
1945 the Yankees got Hank Bor-
owy, pitcher, waived out of the
American League and sold him to
the Chicago Cubs. Borowy pitched
the cubs to the pennant that year.
World War II veterans have re
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for the purchase of homes.
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Over half the farm land in the
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They Will Start For The Maroon and White In Saturday Night’s Game
Probable Aggie cage starters for
the Rice game are as follows: Top
row, left to right, Voiding, center;
Collingsworth, forward; Batey,
forward.
Bottom row, Adams, guard; Gar
cia, guard.
Karowmen Will Strive to Keep
Rice on Lower Rung in SWC
Coach Marty Karow’s Aggie Cagers meet the Rice Owls
in DeWare Field House, Saturday night at 8 p. m.
The Aggies in their last game met defeat at the hands
of the Baylor Bruins. The feathered flock from Rice also
came out on the short end of a 67 to 53 score in their game
with the Texas Longhorns.
4.
College Station’s
Volley Ball Teams
Start Winter Games
The reorganized College Station
volley ball tournament was started
Monday night at the A & M Con
solidated gymnasium with 12 sets
being played. This is the first of
a series of winter sports sponsored
by the College Station Recreation
Council, and will continue for 11
weeks. Plans are in the making for
a complete round robin of sports
under the direction of Manning
Smith, member of the Council at
large, and Gordon Gay, who hand
led the sports events last year.
Results of Monday’s games were:
Grady Elms’ Tigers defeated Ben
ny Zinn’s Indians by scores of
15-13 and 15-11; W. M. Dowell’s
Yankees won from Howard Bar
low’s Cubs 7-15, 15-9 and 15-7;
Ray Hickman’s Pirates bested Carl
Tishler’s Giants 15-6 and 15-9;
Luther Jones’ Cardinals finished
ahead of Bill Cowser’s Braves 15-9,
14- 16 and 15-8; Orin TfelVey’s
Athletics led Norman Anderson’s
Dodgers 15-9 and 16-14; and Jo-Jo
White’s Red Sox outlasted Lloyd
Berryman’s Rebels 15-13, 5-15 and
15- 5.
Residents of College Station who
Rice copped a 56-49 win from
Baylor and the Aggies have de
feated the T. C. U.’s Horned Frogs
for their only win.
Coach Karow is expected to start
Batey and Collingsworth at for
wards, Voiding at center, and Gar
cia and Adams at guards.
Conference teams have been
watching high scorer Bill Batey
like a hawk in the past few games.
While their attention has been cen
tered on Batey, Voiding and Garcia
have been finding the basket for
the Aggies with increasing regu
larity.
All coupon books will be valid
for the A. & M. vs Rice basket
ball game next Saturday night,
January 25.
Prior to the varsity game, the
Aggie Bees, coached by Johnnie
Frankie, will meet the Rice B
squad. Game time is 6 p. m.
Andre Mertens
CONFERENCE STANDINGS
Team—
W.
L. Pts. Op.
Pet.
Texas
4
0
230
173
1.006
Arkansas
4
0
235
196
1.000
S. M. U
2
1
171
144
.667
Tex. A. & M
1
2
134
168
.333
Baylor
1
3
199
218
.250
Rice
1
3
212
231
.250
T. C. U
0
4
179
227
.000
want to play volley ball, badmin
ton, (the next sport on the list,)
or engage in other activities to
be started in the near future are
requested to get in touch with
Manning Smith or Gordon Gay.
As many teams will be organized
in each sport as people who wish
to participate, Smith said.
Hargis Leads Cage
Con. in Scoiing
Bill Batey, Aggie cage forward
who held the position of leading
scorer in the Southwest conference
has relenquished it to Johnnie Har
gis of Texas u. who ran a close
second until the Texas-SMU tilt
when he took over the lead.
George Kok of Arkansas still
retains the lead among SWC cag
ers for conference games. Hargis
runs second with another Arkan
sas man, A1 Williams, trailing by
one point. This places Arkansas
in the lead with 235 points scored
in four games and Texas with 230
in the same number of tilts.
Kok has 74 points to his credit
giving him an average of 18.5 per
game and Hargis has 69 with a
game average of 17.2. A1 W i 1-
liams of the Porkers heads the list
in free throws with 28 points in
47 trys but Jackie Robinson of
Baylor leads in percentage with
14 completions in 17 attempts giv
ing him a percentage of .823. For
the teams as a whole TCU takes
honors with a .672 percentage.
Rice has the most fouls chalked
against it with a total of 68 and'
A&M is last with only 40 called
in the last three games.
Leading individual scorers in the
SWC are as follows:
Season
Player— G F TP
Hargis, Texas,f 84 47 215
Batey, A&M,f 75 40 190
Kok, Ark.,c 75 33 183
Tom, Rice,c 68 43 179
Williams, Ark.,f 59 56 174
Johnson, Baylor,f 65 37 167
Tomlinson, SMU,f .... 47 39 153
Conference Games
Kok, Ark.,c 28 18 74
Hargis, Texas,f 27 15 69
Williams, Ark.,f 20 28 68
Robinson, Baylor,g 17 14 48
Martin, Texas,! 20 3 43
Tom, Rice,c .’. 17 66 40
Dolnics, TCU,c 17 6 39
Tomlinson, SMU,f ...... 13 9 35
Voiding, A&M,c A 14 5 33
Lloyd, SMU,f .\l2 9 33
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