FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1947
THE BATTALION
Page 3
|—FROM THIS ANGLE j
by LARRY GOODWYN
Aggie, T.u Cagers Wage Battle of Heads
Well, the Sharecroppers and the
Teasippers got together for an
other one of the perennial feuds
down in Austin last Monday, and
it turned out to be just that—more
of a fight than a basketball game.
Reports from Austin indicate
players on both sides were a lot
more interested in hitting the other
guy than hitting the basket
Four players left the game via
the personal foul route, Garcia
and Voiding for the Aggies and
Madsen and
Langdon for
Texas, while one
more player, A.
& M.’s Bill Ba
te y , departed
from the scene
of battle for
other reasons.
It seems that
Batey and Mad
sen resumed an
old custom built
up through some
50 years of
friendly m a n -
slaughter between the two state
Goodwyn
institutions, namely, indulging in
a head knocking duel.
Apparently the ‘Sip’ in question,
Madsen, had the hardest head, for
Batey was helped from the floor
after the game was only five min
utes gone, leaving three of his
front teeth rattling around on the
boards.
The incident brings to a mind
a similar occurence that took place
at the same Gregory Gymnasium
last year between A&M’s towering
Jamie Dawson and T.u’s Peppy
Blount. Blount now sports a tooth
less grin bearing mute evidence of
the results of the encounter with
Jamie’s head. Dawson, inciden
tally, had several stitches taken
in his scalp where Blount’s three
departing teeth had creased a neat
furrow.
Who knows what the return
meeting of the two teams at Col
lege Station on February 15 will
bring. Apparently the slogan is:
“A tooth for every basket and a
stitch for every shot.”
“Fifteen” for the Ex-Students
The Homer Norton issue is back
in the headlines again and this
time it looks like action will be
taken, one way or the other, before
the week is out. Reports indicate
the Ex-Students Association has
tossed in the towel on Norton and
passed along a recommendation
to the Board of Directors of the
college asking for the coach’s res
ignation.
It isn’t often that an organiza
tion as powerful as the Ex-Stu
dents Association starts hollering
for anybody’s scalp and when they
do, their case is not usually taken
lightly. A National Championship
team saved Norton from getting
the gate in 1939 following a simi
lar battle of words with the Ex-
Students in 1938. This time, how
ever, the “respected veteran men
tor” may not get an eleventh hour
reprieve.
The resolution passed by the
Ex-Students and sent to the school’s
fathers said that they had “lost
confidence” in Norton and that he
can thus “no longer bring full sat
isfaction to Texas A. & M.”
To which we have only this to
say: “Brother, ain’t it the truth.”
Rob Goode Lost for Track Season
Track coach Andy Anderson’s
hopes for a Southwest‘Conference
track title this spring received a
jolt yesterday when it was learned
that Rob Goode, ace Aggie foot
baller and javelin tosser, dropped
from school at the close of the se
mester to serve a short stretch in
the Merchant Marine. Goode will
miss track season but said he
would be back at his old halfback
post when the fall rolls around.
Goode had been tabbed as a real
prospect for SWC laurels this year
and his loss will definitely be felt
by Coach Anderson who still is
smarting under that narrow loss
to Texas last year.
Basketball Contest Coupon
This is the sixth in a series of coupons run in the Bat
talion prior to each conference game played by A. & M. The
game in question is to be played in Houston oh February 12.
This coupon must be filled out and returned to the Student
Activities Office by noon, Tuesday, February 11.
TEXAS A. & M vs. RICE INSTITUTE.
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Address
Aggie Swim Squad
Meets DAC Friday
Coach Art Adamsorj’s Aggie
swimming team begin their season
Friday in Dallas against D.A.C.
and follow up on the next day with
a match with S.M.U. also in Dal
las.
In a pre-season meet with the
tankers from Oklahoma University
here the Aggies came out on top
by a score of 56-19. After long
and vigorous practice periods for
the last several months, Art Ad
amson’s charges are prepared for
the tourney and feature the serv
ices of some of the Southwests
best swimmers, notably Dan
ny Greene, Bob Cowling, Jack
Riley, Jim Flowers, and Allen Self.
Adamson released his schedule
which still has two open dates but
these will probably be filled by
that time.
Aggie Swimming Team Schedule
Feb. 7. D.A.C Dallas
Feb. 8 S.M.U Dallas
Feb. 15 Open
Feb. 18 Texas U Austin
Feb. 22 D.A.C. ...... College Sta.
Feb. 26 Kan. St College Sta.
Mar. 1 Tex. U College Sta.
Mar. 8 SW A.A.U Dallas
Mar. 15 S.M.U College Sta.
Mar. 21-22 SWC
Mar. 28-29 N.C.A.A Seattle
April 4-5 Nat’l A.A.U., Columbus
Volleyball League
Team of City In
Three-Way Tie-Up
The Pirates, Red Sox, and Tig
ers continued their winning streak
Monday night in the College Sta
tion volley ball league. Each has
won three games without a loss. In
the next bracket, the Cardinals,
Rebels, and Yankees have won two
and lost one, while the Athletics,
Braves, and Cubs each have one
victory against two defeats. On
the bottom are the Dodgers, Giants
and Indians without registering in
three starts.
These 12 teams play one another
each Monday night at the A & M
Consolidated high school gymna
sium. Two sets are run on the
hour from 7 to 9 p. m. The volley
ball tournament began January 20
and will be continued through
March 31.
Results of Monday night’s sets
were: Red Sox over Athletics, 15-8,
15-13; Rebels won from Dodgers,
15-3, 15-5; Tigers defeated Yan
kees, 15-6, 15-10; Cubs nosed out
Indians, 10-15, 15-13, 15-12; Pir
ates also came from behind to
triumph over Braves, 12-15, 15-12,
15-13; and the Cardinals took the
Giants, 15-13, and 15-12.
LEADING SCORERS
Name—
Robinson
School
Baylor
27
11
81
13.5
Kok
Ark.
28
7
74
ts.s
Hargis
Texas
27
8
69
17.2
Williams
Ark.
20
11
68
17.0
Tom
Rice
25
14
62
12.4
Voiding
A&M
22
12
51
10.2
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Saturday’s Game Homecoming
For Aggie Jitterbug Henderson
Owing - to omission of the words “February 8” in the
story appearing in Saturday morning papers about the Tex
as Aggie-Houston Y M C A basketball game, a large num
ber of fans showed up at DeWare Field House last Sat
urday night only to find it all dark. The game was scheduled
for this coming Saturday, February 8, and will be played
at 8 p. m. as part of a double-bill starting at 6 p. m.
The main game will be a home-4
coming for the fabulous Bill (Jit
terbug) Henderson, the top ath
lete in all of Texas Aggie sports
history. While a student at Texas
A&M the “Jitterbug” won a total
of 11 letters in varsity sports,
three in freshman sports and was
named on the All-American track
team in three events—the high
jump, javeline and shot put. The
previous record was nine varsity
letters won by Jules V. (Siki)
Sikes, present line coach at the
University of Georgia.
Henderson is now in the life in
surance business in Houston after
rejecting an offer of $6000 to play
end for the Miami professional
football team last Fall, and the
larger offer of $8,000 to play pro
basketball at Sheybogan( Wis.)
this Winter. Jamie Dawson, Aggie
center of last season, is playing
there this year. Says Henderson
about turning down that money,
“I have been in sports ever since
I have been big enough to walk
and in all that time I never was
hurt to any extent that might leave
a permanent injury. I got through
a war out in the Phillipines and
never got nicked. I figure the
Good Lord is just about tired of
looking after Old Bill and I'm
going to pass up any professional
sports. I’m just going to settle
down and start making a living for
my wife and baby and may play
a little basketball just to keep in
good physical shape but no tough
pro sports for Bill any more.”
In the curtain raiser booked at
6:00 p. m., the Aggie Bees will
meet the Air Corps Training Com
mand team from San Antonio, and
that team probably will go up
against a team that should give
the varsity trouble. Players are
from all of the nation with Long
Island University, Marquette, Uni
versity of Wisconsin, Oklahoma,
Otterbine, Muhlenburg, Akron,
Kansas State, Rippon, New Hamp
shire, Texas Tech and The Univer
sity of Kentucky all represented.
Jack Parkinson, Kentucky, is rated
among the best players ever at
that school and is touted for All-
America when he gets back from
service.
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SWC Basketball
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A&M ....
.. 5
L
55
225
45.0
Opp
99
53
251
50.2
Arkansas
.. 4
85
65
235
58.7
Opp
78
40
196
49.0
Baylor
... 6
112
77
301
50.1
Opp
110
83
303
50.5
Rice
.. 5
95
61
251
50.2
Opp
108
70
286
57.2
S M U
.. 4
87
52
226
65.5
Opp
68
44
180
45.0
T C U
.. 6
98
65
261
43.5
Opp
129
82
340
66.6
Texas
.. 4
92
46
230
57.5
Opp 1.
62
49
173
43.2
CONFERENCE STANDINGS
School— Won Lost Pet. P.F. T.P.
Arkansas 4 0 1.000 63 235
Texas 6 0 1.000 62 291
S M U 3 1 .760 45 226
Baylor 3 3 .500 39 301
A&M 2 4 .332 73 266
Rice 1 4 .200 101 251
T C U 0 6 .000 100 261
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Aggie Cage Squad Fails To
Break Longhorn Record
The Aggies went down to their fourth conference defeat
against two victories Monday night when Marty Karow’s
crew bowed to Texas’ Longhorns, 61-41. Eight-thousand
‘Sips turned out in Austin’s Gregory Gymnasium to see the
affair, which was a succession of fouls, rough-play and sloppy
ball-handling.
Long-John Hargis, the Steer-f-
All-American candidate, provided
the fuel for the Orange triumph,
swishing through 19 counters to
lead the night’s scorers. The Ag
gies’ recent addition at center,
Lynn Smith, canned 17 points to
pace the Aggies attack.
The farmers hopped out into a
quick 4-0 lead, but Texas, with lit
tle Roy Cox showing the way,
promptly wiped it out after anoth
er trade of baskets and the Orange
Bees Tangle With
Tough Army Squad
Judging from the roster of play
ers just received at Texas A&M
College it appears that Coach
Johnnie Frankie’s Texas Aggie
Bees are in for a busy evening
Saturday when they meet the Air
Corps Training Command from
San Antonio in the first half of
a double header at 6:00 p. m.
Coaches never can tell who will
show up when they book a service
team and in the case of the Air
Corps team Frankie certainly drew
“a pig in a poke.”
Here is who his Bees will have
to face: Bob Wessenberg, Mar
quette; Frang Groff, University
of Wisconsin; Perry Reall, Otter-
bein; Steve Marchak, Mulenberg
College; Jack Parkinson, Univer
sity of Kentucky; Calvin Moore,
Akron University; Bill Price, Uni
versity of Oklahoma; Dick Hood,
Kansas State; Roy Nelson, Rippon
College; A. D. Harner, Texas Tech;
Riehard McHarg, University of
New Hampshire; and William Kor-
man, Long Island University.
That group is studded with All-
America talent with top man pro
bably Parkinson from Kentucky.
Coach Adolph Rupp, Wildcat men
tor, rates Parkinson as one of the
best players he ever has coached
and is anxiously awaiting his dis
charge from the service. During
the Texas High School Coaches
Association meeting - at Corpus
Christi last August, Coach Rupp
frequently referred to this boy in
his lectures to the Lone Star
coaches.
Unfortunately for local fans only
even-numbered coupon book hold
ers will be admitted to this week’s
games, and no cash admissions will
be sold.
was never headed. A&M was
hampered by the loss of their
high-scoring Freshman forward.
Bill Batey, who left the game af
ter five minutes, minus three front
teeth, a result of a collision with
A1 Modsen, Texas guard.
In defeat, the Aggies had one
improvement to point to, profic
iency around the backboard. With
Smithy Voiding and Garcia doing
the major portion of the work, the
Aggies managed to grab over half
the rebounds despite Texas’ super
ior heighth at the center and for
ward positions. But ability to con
nect from the field paid off for
Jack Gray’s Longhorns in no un
certain terms.
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