TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1947
THE BATTALION
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ON KYLE FIELD
by PAUL MARTIN
Texas Now Leads Conference
] Bee Cagers Lose To
Texas Shorthorns
The Texas Aggie cage squad was
handed a thorough drubbing Satur
day night by the visiting Texas
Longhorn ag
gregation i n
DeWare Field
House . As a
whole the ball
handling on
both sides was
sloppy, but in
this depart
ment the Ag
gies did better
than the visi-
to r s. This
time the ca
dets just met
a better team
and despite
the fact they
have been
showing considerable improvement,
couldn’t cope with the unerring
accuracy of Hargis, Cox and Co.
Records prove that they were up
against one of the best teams
Track Squad to Have Tough Season
Martin
in the nation though it hurts to
admit it.
Two beautiful long set shots
were made, one by Batey and the
other by Thornton, but entirely
too many were missed. Johnnie
Frankie’s Bee cagers made a bet
ter showing and appeared to have
the situaion well in hand but once
again too many misses proved fa
tal.
Arkansas received its first up
set this week-end and at the
hands of Whitey Baccus’ in
spired Mustangs whom Texas
has already beaten twice. This
leaves the boys from the forty
acres with apparently clear sail
ing. This isn’t a pretty prospect
but another upset could con
ceivably be in the offing. The
Steer quintet will have the ad
vantage of playing on home
floors when the two teams tan
gle on February 28 and March 1
to wind up the season.
Final preparations for the track
■season are getting underway with
activities starting on March 8
when the Aggie track squad tra
vels to Laredo to participate in
the Border Olympics. Col. Frank
Anderson, assisted by Johnnie
Frankie and Ray Putnam, has been
hard at work whipping the boys
into shape despite all kinds of
weather. The schedule is still ten
tative awaiting final approval by
the council. Only one date is still
open and that will probably be fill
ed by either LSU or Baylor on
April 12.
The Texas University squad,
last years champions, has a
head start for many of the
men who made this champion
ship possible are back. S M U
and Baylor are also strong
contenders this year with some
of the best men in the coun
try burning up the cinder
track. All-in-all the South
west has about the best in the
nation in track.
Spring Sports Calendar Almost Full
The spring sports schedule is
fast shaping up and a full calen
dar is in the offing. It was an
nounced that spring football train
ing is to start March 10, baseball
will begin on March 14, track be
gins on March 8, swimming has
already begun and basketball will
be over March 1. The fencing, pis
tol and rifje schedules have not
yet been announced but are ex
pected soon. Golf and tennis are
being organized with good pros
pects so far.
Basketball Contest Coupon
This is the eighth in a series of coupons appear
ing in the Battalion before each conference tilt played
by A&M. The games in question are to be played in
Fayetteville, Arkansas on February 21 and 22. This
coupon must be filled out and turned in to the Stu
dent Activities office by noon Friday, February 21.
Feb. 21 TEXAS A&M vs. ARKANSAS
Feb. 22 TEXAS A&M
Name
vs. ARKANSAS
Address.
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Playing a hard fought game
right down to the closing minutes,
the Texas Aggie “B” team lost to
the Texas University Shorthorns
by a score of 54 to 49 at DeWare
Field House Saturday night.
The “B” squad quickly took the
lead in the opening minutes and
proceeded to chalk up points rap
idly against a weak Shorthorn de
fense. Paced by Peck Vaas and
Jack Miller, the Aggies put 18
points through the basket, to the
Shorthorn’s 4, after but eight min
utes of play.
The Texas defense tightened to
ward the end of the period and
their offense began clicking deep
in the Aggies zone. By the end of
the first period, the Texas quintet
had cut the Farmers lead down to
two points. Score at the half was
28 to 26 with the “B” squad barely
on top.
The second period became a tit-
for-tat affair with one side scor
ing a goal, and quickly following,
the other team would toss one in
to even things up. Both teams were
stressing offense and the ball was
swiftly passed from one end of
the court to the other. Both of
the Texas forwards, Bill Huffman
and Charlie Munson, gave the
Maroon and White defense a bit
of trouble as they kept the ball
down under the goal. Fouls be
came more numerous during the
second half also.
Finally with three minutes to
play and the’score tied, the Short
horns opened up their final drive.
The Aggies defense tightened and
playing became wild for a few sec
onds. But the T. U. team racked
up six points and the Aggies did
not have time to catch up. The
game ended in the Shorthorns’ fa
vor 54-49.
Aggie Swimmers To
Meet T.U. Tuesday
Coach Art Adamson’s thrice vic
torious Aggie swimming team is
scheduled to meet the Texas Uni
versity tankers in Austin Tuesday,
February 18 in a dual meet.
After taking a visiting Oklaho
ma University team to the clean
ers with the lopsided score of
56-19, the Ags journeyed to Dal
las to trim DAC and SMU on two
consecutive nights to establish a
no-loss record as well as break two
pool records.
Saturday the Cadets will meet
the Dallas Athletic Club at College
Station in the P. L. Downs Nata-
torium.
Golf Team Applicants May
Still Apply to Karow at Gym
Twenty-two prospective golf
ers turned out for the first meet
ing of the golf team, Friday af-
Coach Marty Karow shows Don Voiding how to handle the ball
on a pivot.
INTRAMURALS
By
Cliff Ackerman
Boxers and Wrestlers Begin
Weighing-In Monday
♦
The 1947 Intramural Boxing and
Wirestling program got underway
Monday afternoon, February 17
as Class A boxers and Class
B wrestlers started weighing-
in. Three days have been set aside
to weigh-in the large number of
contestants. Eight weight classes
will be represnted in the tourna
ment, 119 and under, 119 to 129,
19 to 139, 139 to 149, 149 to 159,
159 to 169, 169 to 179, 179 and
over.
ter noon at DeWare Fieldhouse.
The team’s coach, Marty Kar
ow, said the chances for the
team’s success are good this year
with this number of men turning
out. He asked that all men in
terested in joining the team and
who have not yet done so see
him this week at the gymnasium.
The tournaments are open to all
students of the college. Veterans
will enter in the Class A matches.
The program will be run on a
single- elimination tournament
plan, the same as used in Golden
Gloves tournaments.
The organizations interested in
points must enter at least 5 men in
any weight class to receive the 50
participation points. However, any
number less than that may be en
tered.
On Wednesday, February 26, at
5 o’clock wrestling instructions will
be given to all men who will be
entering the contests in either
Class A or Class B.
The contestants will square-off
Monday, March 3 in the first bouts
of the 1947 Intramural Boxing-
Wrestling Tournament. This will
be the beginning of a two ring cir
cus of boxing and wrestling that
will continue for over a month.
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Aggie Cagers Swamped By
Longhorns Here Saturday
Texas A&M’s Aggie cagers suffered their sixth defeat
of the current season in DeWare Field House Saturday-
night at the hands of the visiting Texas Longhorn aggrega
tion. The final score was Texas 69, A&M 40.
With Longhorn guard A1 Madsen opening the scoring,
the Steers forged ahead 12 to 3 in the first five minutes of
play. A rally by the Aggies brought them up to within three
+points of the visitors lead and this
the nearest they came to
Nominations
Asked For
Dempsey Award
Jack Dempsey, former World’s
Heavyweight Champion who is to
give the “Outstanding Athlete
Trophy” to some Aggie for the
current school year, has written
asking for nominations to date so
that they con be mentioned in a
roundup for SPORTS MAGAZINE
in an early issue.
With football and cross country
finished and basketball practically
in the stretch it is about time to
start thinking of the candidates
from those sports. Give a thought
to who you think is the Outstand
ing Athlete to date and send in
your nominations to the Sports
Editor of the BATTALION. Any
one who has been on any of the
recognized teams is eligible for the
trophy.
An election, based on these nom
inations, will be held later in the
spring and it is important that
these names be submitted soon.
Track Schedule
For 1947 Season
(Tentative)
March 8
Border Olympics Laredo
March 15
Texas University Austin
IME&i'cli 22
Ft. Worth Stock Show Ft. Worth
March 29
Texas Relays Austin
April 5.
Rice & Texas U. Corpus Christi
April 12
Open Open as yet
April 19
Rice and Baylor College Station
April 26
Drake Relays Des Moines, Iowa
May 3
Oklahoma A&M Unset as yet
May 10
Texas University Collee Station
May 17
Southwest Conference Meet Waco
was tne nearest they came
threatening the leader. Voiding
made a goal, Garcia dropped one
from the sidelines and a moment
later Bill Batey made a beautiful
long one-hand set shot. Smith
came through with another but
then the Steers took over. Paced
by Hargis and Cox, the Longhorns
tallied 37 points by halftime to the
Cadets 18.
Cox was hign-pomt man for
the visitors with 15 tallies while
Smith paced the Farmers with 8
points. Tom Hamilton contribu
ted for the Texans with seven char
ity tosses completed in eight trys.
The Aggies came to life in the
final four minutes of play by
raising their score 9 points to 6
chalked up for the Steers. With
ten seconds left to play, Jack
Fitzgerald dropped in one last
bucket for the Longhorns.
TEXAS A&M
Player— Fgr Ft Pf Tp
Batey, f 3 14 7
Jenkins, f 0 0 4 0
Weinbaum, f 9 12 1
Voiding, f 10 2 2
Turnbow, f 115 3
Kamperman, 1 2 10 5
Smith, c 3 2 2 8
Adams, g 2 0 2 4
Moore, g 0 2 12
Gareia, g 2 2 4 6
Thornton, g , 10 12
Totals 15 10 27 40
TEXAS UNIVERSITY
Player—
Hargis, f ...
Goss, f
Martin, f ...
Wagner, f ...
Langdon, c .
Hamilton, c
George, c ...
Madsen, g .
Fitzgerald g
Cox, g
White, g
Fg Ft
6 4
Pf
2
1
1
3
1
2
2
3
2
1
2
Total 24 21 20 69
HALFTIME SCORE: Texas A&M 18;
Texas University 37.
Free Throws Missed: Langdon 3 ; Batey,
Smith, Moore 2; Turnbow, Kamperman,
Gafcia, Hargis, Wagner, Hamilton, Mad
sen, Cox, White 1.
Officials: Shunatona, referee ; Bedford,
umpire.
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