V
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1947
THE BATTALION
Page
ON KYLE FIELD
by PAUL MARTIN
A proposal for redistributing
the gate receipts at the Cotton
Bowl classic each year is expected
5!<!i!Si[SS!8 ^^ to be made by
t;he Southwest
Conference fac-
l ulty representa-
"f| tives when they
g% a s se m b 1 e for
their s.}prijng
^l|| meeting in Wa
co May 16 and
17.
There has been
some agitation
along this line
already and a
system similar
to that followed
by the Western Conference with
the Pacific loop in connection with
the Rose Bowl game is advocated.
By this formula, the team’s cut
will be split into 11 equal shares
after all expenses have been de
ducted. Each of the teams in the
league gets one share and the
team that participates in the tilt
will draw two shares. The extra
part is tossed in the pot for main-
Martin
tainence of the commissioner’s of
fice.
Under the present set-up in the
Cotton Bowl, the competing schools
split the gate less 15 percent for
stadium rental. However, the
Southwest Conference Association
contributes $5,000 of the take for
the operation of the office of ex
ecutive secretary.
By the new arrangement, the
split would doubtlessly be more
equal among member schools
thus providing a greater incen
tive toward more interest in pro
motion of the project each year.
A plan by which the Cotton
Bowl Association expects to in
crease the take from approxi
mately $125,000 to $150,000 is
to be effected in 1948. By this
new arrangement all seats with
the exception of box seats will
sell for the same price.
Should the Big Nine plan be
adopted, the share of the com
peting schools will be about
$16,600 each and that of the oth
er member schools will be rough
ly $8,300.
Aggie Swimmers Off to Good Start
Art Adamson’s Aggie swim-
ing team seems to be break
ing all recent A&M traditions
by winning four out of four
of their opening meets. This
wasn’t due to luck either for
they competed against some
tough clubs. The Dallas Ath
letic Club had, until they tan
gled with the Ags, never been
beaten in their home pool.
SMU was also taken by sur
prise and perhaps the sweet
est victory came Tuesday by
not only beating the Longhorn
splashers in their own pool,
but breaking a few records as
well.
Two Dallas boys, Danny Green
and Jimmy Flowers have contri
buted no small degree to the team’s
success and both have broken sev
eral records in addition to adding
up the points. Green is a senior
and Flowers is a freshman and
both have had considerable ex
perience on the Highland Park
swim squad in Dallas.
Next on the list is a return
match with D. A. C. in College
Station. Following this, both Kan
sas State and Texas are to visit
College Station on February 26
and March 1 respectively.
The Aggie tankers will wind up
the season at the National AAU
meet in Columbus, Ohio and they
have a very good start toward
copping not-a-few honors when
they go up against the nations
best.
Two years ago the Ags copped
the swimming title from Texas
by the narrow margin of two
points. The final count was 84-82.
The sips split with the Cadets
with one win by each but the Far
mers came through in the confer
ence meet to take the free-style
relay which was the deciding fac
tor. This year the chances look
at least as good but the opposition
is also stiffen.
Action Taken on Sport Racketeering
The sports racket has been mak-
i n g the headlines of late but
whether or not this has been going
on without arousing the notice of
the Athletic board is questionable.
The attempted bribe of Rock
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Jack Riley, winner of the 100
yard free-style against DAC in
th first meet between the two
schools is expected to support
Danny Green against the Mer
men here today.
Gratziona brought the whole rot
ten business to a head and brought
several characters who playfully
referred to themselves as gamblers
under indictment.
This situation has so aroused
the ire of sports fans and officials
that action has been taken in the
Texas House of Representatives to
insure that no incident of that kind
will take place in this state. A
bill proposed by Representative
William S. Jameson has been sub
mitted for committee approval and
seeks to impose a two-to-five year
sentence on anyone bribing or at
tempting to bribe an athlete or of
ficial in a sports event. Some con
gressmen feel that this penalty is
too high but this is about the only
opposition encountered as yet.
Representative Jameson stated
that to his knowledge, Texas does
not have a statute under which an
offender could be punished.
Former Aggie Heads
USMA Rifle Team
William L. Webb, Jr., cadet sen
ior at the United States Military
Academy, West Point, has lead his
cadet rifle team to eight matches,
seven of which they emerged from
triumphant.
Cadet Webb is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Lloyd Webb, Post, Texas,
and attended A. & M. College for
two and one half years. He was
appointed to West Point in 1944
from the 17th district of Texas.
After graduation from West Point,
Cadet Webb intends to enter the
Corps of Engineers.
P.E. Professional
Club to Be Formed
Formation of a Physical Educa
tion Professional Club will take
place Wednesday, February 26 at
the first meeting which will be
held at 7 p.m. in the gym.
At this meeting, to be conduct
ed as an open forum, a committee
will be appointed to formulate a
constitution and nominate officers.
Voting on the proposed constitu
tion and final election of officers
will take place on a later date to
be set at this meeting.
Purpose of the club will be to
promote interest and disseminate
information in the field of Physical
Education. Membership is open
to all students majoring or minor-
ing in Physical Education.
Tigers Lead Local
Volleyball League
The local volleyball league is
now in its fifth week of competi
tion with Grady Elms’ Tigers out
in front of the other eleven teams.
Contests are held each Monday
night at the A. & M. Consolidated
School. Because of the large num
ber of teams in the league, games
are scheduled for 7, 8 and 9 p.m.
Here are the schedules for Mon
day night, February 24. At 7 p.m.
Carl Tishler’s Giants take on Nor
man Anderson’s Dodgers and Ray
Hickman’s Pirates meet O. G. Har
vey’s Athletics. At 8 p.m., the |
Cardinals, managed by L. G. Jones,
are matched against Grady Elms’
Tigers, while Benny Zinn’s Indians
tangle with Bill Cowser’s Braves.
The last rounds start at 9 p.m.
when the Cubs, under H. W. Bar-
low come up against L. Barryman’s
Rebels and Jo Jo White’s Red Sox
will try to take W. M. Dowell’s
Yankees.
Intramural Open Handball Champs
Three Aggie Clubs
To Hold Tourney
The recently formed badminton,
handball and fencing clubs of A&M
are slated to travel to Houston to
day for a meet with Houston
teams.
This will be the first appearance
of the badminton and handball
clubs out-of-town but the fencing
team has already had one match in
Houston in which they lost to the
Houston Fencing club.
This time the Aggie mask and
toilers will take on the Galveston
fencers managed by former Aggie
Dick Baird. The badminton club
will meet the Houston Badminton
aggregation and the handballers
will meet the Houston YMCA club.
Recreational Chairman W. M.
Dowell announced that a bus had
been chartered for the purpose and
that some 25 contestants would
make the trip.
Texas and SMU Win
Over Baylor, TCU
Two SWC cage tilts took place
Wednesday night with Texas ad
ding another notch by downing
Baylor in Austin 70-52 in a i'un-
away and SMU trimming TCU
59-52 in Fort Worth.
Texas played host to the fourth-
place Baylor Bruins in Gregory
Gym and was never even threat
ened by the Bears once the game
got underway. On one occasion
the score stood 24 to 6 in favor
of Texas. This was quite different
from the match in Waco when
the Baylorites held the Steers to
a 45-38 final count.
Hargis once again paced the
Longhorns with 17 tallies while
Bill Johnson was high point man
for the visitors with 13. This plac
ed Hargis as the highest indivi
dual conference scorer with a to
tal of 148 points, replacing A1
Williams of Arkansas who has 141
points.
SMU barely eked out a 59-52
win over the TCU Frogs and had
to fight for every point. The Chris
tians led 32-31 at the half and in
the closing minute of the game
trailed by only three points, 55-52.
However, Pony forward Bryan
Lloyd came through with two
buckets at the crucial moment to
clinch the bout as well as third
place in the conference. Whitey
Baccus also managed to keep alive
the hopes for being runner-up in
the race.
The Intramural open handball championship of the fall semester
of 1946-47 was won by Duffy Stanley, left, and George Tubb. Tubb
also won the open singles and is entered in the boxing events this
spring.
INTRAMURALS
Cliff
By
Ackerman
Wrestling Demonstration Will
Start Wrestling Tournament
A wrestling demonstration will
be staged at five o’clock on Tues
day, February 25 in the little
gym for all men either Class A or
Class B, that will participate in
the Intramural Wrestling Tourna
ment. The demonstrations will
consist of take-downs, holds, and a
discussion of the rules.
The turnout for boxing and wres
tling has been good. Brackets will
be drawn as soon as possible and
posted in the Intramural office.
During the first two weeks of the
tournament 40 to 50 bouts will be
staged each afternoon starting at
4:15.
Softball
After many weeks of cold and
rain, spring is here (we hope) and
once again it is softball season.
The Veterans leagues will get
started soon, then followed by the
Corps. All Class A games will be
started at 4:30 so as to get in sev
en innings of play before supper
time.
During the first part of the sea
son it will be impossible to have
Intramural officials on each of the
games, because of the great num
ber of men necessary to handle
boxing, wrestling, handball, tennis,
horseshoes, and badminton running
simultaneously. It will be up to
the Athletic Officers or Team Cap
tains of the two teams to provide
umpires.
Badminton
The Badminton open tournament
is ready to get underway with a
large number of contestants. The
brackets for both the singles and
doubles matches are completed and
posted in the Intramural office.
Notices have been sent to the first
round of play and from the looks
of the participants its going to be
a tough race through out the tour
nament.
Softball Coaches
If your team wants some team
competition here’s a chance for a
real work-out. The Intramural
Managers and Officials have a
softball team that will meet your
team in a practice game. If inter
ested contact Bud Denton at the
Intramural office.
CONFERENCE STANDING
Records and Players, Paints,
Varnishes, Wall Paper.
CHAPMAN’S
Next to P. O. Bryan
School
Won Lost Pet
Tp
Opp
Texas
9
0
1.000
560
401
SMU
7
2
.770
513
432
Ark.
6
2
.750
454
414
Baylor
4
6
.400
527
551
A&M
2
6
.250
354
434
Rice
2
6
.222
455
522
TCU
1
8
.110
412
521
Construction
is underway
on
nearly $37,000,00 in contract
awards for new Veterans Admin
istration hospitals or for additions
to existing hospitals.
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PREVIEW TONIGHT
11:00 p. m.
SUNDAY and MONDAY
Aggie Swimmers T(
Meet DAC Saturdaj
Aggieland’s four-times victor]
ious swimming team will meet the
Dallas Athletic Club Mermen in a
duel meet in the P. L. Downs Nat-
orium Saturday afternoon at 3
p. m.
Feature of the meet will prob
ably be the distance race between
Danny Green, senior Aggie swim
star and D. A. C.’s 15-year-old|
flash, Winant Wilson.
This is the second match be
tween the two teams as the Ags
swam against them in Dallas on
February 7, in which the Cadets
won by a score of 41-34. In this
meet the Farmers beat the Dallas-
ites for the first time in history
in their home pool and also handed
the Mermen their first defeat of
the season.
Green will probably swim in the
free-style along with Allen Self
and Jack Riley. Flowers specializes
in the breaststroke, and Spencer
and Kruse carry the ball in the
back stroke.
Aggie Tumbling Club
Getting Underway
Tumbling as a sport is once
again beginning to flourish on the
A&M campus. A club for this pur
pose has been organized by the
Physical Education Department
and meetings are held every Tues
day and Thursday in the DeWare
Field House at 5 p.m.
Veterans Administration now
has about 130,000 employees eligi
ble for veterans preference. They
comprise 60 per cent of all VA
employees, male and female.
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