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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 10, 1947)
iilf i ■">1 V' * / r> Si r [I ( rr- 41 )i 1 WEDNESDAY, it I V i A&Mf Return r '’i f : 'The undefeatie [ *■ number three tom talce pn the jTexaLs two previous out,i f downed Baylcjr and i stded scores ajid will i rack up number threej ; With as fine an a 1 mers as is to lie foup A&M iindoubtjy has i „ water polo tfams < and adniitteply th Southwest., Ain Agg^ s taken to Detroit fcjy Nationals last sunn ^ though they Jost tw made an excellent si more experienced t .! by only one goal ei This is the first w \ r I > I that A&M hajs-had since |94 hill ^ r ate \gm ^' rrow i f .\qugtlti igs thik TV by; e fator;( bmorruj' v i«JI besti in tedm thej S ididir Hj a - gamjes, ftp^y v trt- "ames, ft W ingj ag4jn|t ms indl time.- i ijjer ppiod the men are j ail sb ience, but as the se; es the. Farmers have, t of becoming the pol -were before the Wa r • held the National Coll sgia pionship. j j. The A&M; clew has and as can the seen -i-- II- ; ■ ' i — Pate 3 t ?r polo team got s afte: ^rliooin at 5:10 p. PL L. Downs Natatoriiflm. I yp .r the Aggie st Ol it tain good cl|qnji‘ tt tfatiiti' n'it Ck ,Hi- j 5pee4-t<4rl n , !y) thjc seorls BVeldpin^piii so far thisiyear is offense than will be ard to < Last weekend the Ag aq toqk the teasipp'ers nto eam|) to 5 in a 50 foot cour se whici a definite- advantage oir the f teapi since tjie Agg ieS ajre .. to ’practicing* and j layin longer coursq.' There ore Jthtd’tjis 'little choice Ifut to j ick A&M fftr' another, one elided vi( tory. * In that the) water pOloiteti not sponsored by the Atlijeti part mint, coupon bllpks wil be honored and adnt ssiiobi w "I !Posjtio| ; ap' 25 cents’ plus) tax. line -Starting A&M Fisher Kiley Heeman Summers Green Fleming Kruse 1 vimm •A&Mf; Sports Calendar N IS. qxaflj eups w 11 be? A i—most cage will be played by th| this season I MOVIE fci i Revi cod Ami Sn Rai . , , . . J L N- Wednesday: ^T’ Club n|eets in C. E. Lecture room, S p. m. Water Polo Te^m pla)A Ttj at 5 p. m. here. Thursday: Iiitramural cross country meet a|t five p)! n|. Saturday: Varsity ahid : “B” basketball team! play SaM Hous ton Teachers dt HuntsVil|b, 8 l j I ;; *j • 1 Next Week Monday: Water Polfl( Team plays Baylor at Waco, m 7: 30. I Wednesday: Basketbal teams play return match with Sami Houston, here, j ^ jl f|-|. Scribe Places A&M In Grid Cellaf In 1945 Predictions HAROLD V. RATLIFF : Tlie Southwest Conference is due to come up with another! flock of powerhouses in football jnext sea son, judging by! the comparatively Gagers Batting in More Ways .oAL iketball team is strict- as fiir as statis- •rned, baying made . same dumber of field goals, 'o throws, and total points as jit' opponents while winning two It'bf four. games. ; Thei only, department in which le! Aggies are leading is in the iwier fouls committed, with 78. to theif optmnent’s 82. Not counted are technical fouls received in the SE Oklahoma game, Aside from the statistics -the Farmers are away ahead In spite of being a short teatn they have held their own in getting! rebounds off the board. Ahead or behind, tho Aggie quintet Has continued to hustle and fight for the ball. Bill Batey and Billy Turnbow are both only six feet tall, but they aVe the best A&M players under the basket and have been taking the; ball away froi» taller men. Gerie SchrickePs' speciality js shooting fiom the side pf the court and he has made about half of his tries from this difficult, an gle. Schreikel is^atdb good at fight ing Tor the ball atm)fast-breaking <in the offense. rF Two Aggies who have been play ing basketball together on and off ,for the last eight years are Mjke Carcia and Bob Hpvtel. They were both guards for Jefferson High in San Antonio back in ’39 apd ’40. Mike has been doihg alright in v spite of a recent.ill jury but Hovel has not )b een playlhg at top form jis yet. Garcia was voted the most Valuable player law.!year and has i-howp signs oft hitting his old form again this sehibn. One unusual thing about Mike j is thaf when he gets hot and starts hitting, tlie rest of the tgam begins tp click too, (Two Aggie players, Sam Jenkins t Time Saturday h small number of letteridjen being : arid Buddy Moore, have Wen fight- Icst. ... I ;jitg. it out for a fWward starting Some are shedding Hears for post. Both men have been playing champion Southern MeijhJjdist bit pod; ball and may Continue to al- rlustangs ternate the rest of the year. Itely take I Coach Marty KHrbw has had a' er, Cecil! little! trouble at the centc- pnsi- ihedding pern M 1 fjrom here it appears! the ought to be able! to adequ ejare of themselves. Cei J Sutphin,.: guard Earl 0' 5 JJ Sid Halliday and Dick Rdi, lt , , ’l! blocking back Bob' Hams# are lost j wit i 34 points* but his defensive . n I. firom the, starting team,, 4ut|lt|ftck-1 ^oi k has not been as'go.n! as ex- r 1, ! field., returnees I are ! Do4 ^ftlker.- PWtiWf. Don Voiding and Bubba bT? Pauli Page and Di|ck McKlisimck | 'D Hamson have been snubbing in jpos Kyle, for Kampermnn,. jljut neither of in are able' to hit the basket as fP|j 1ENE SCHRJCKEL, 6’ 0” left), and Bl’BBA WILLIAMSON, are being counted on to help the Aggie offense. Schrickel, who playw the guard 1 position, ipade 9 points) in thie last game. Tall Williamson alternates between the (-enter and forward position. A&M Basketball Season Statistics (Including game of December 8) G' Bill Turnbow, f 4 Sam Jenkins, f 4 Bubby Moore, f 4 Abb) Hovel, f ! , 3 Rqfu!) Williamson, f-c 4 Bob {£ am per man, c 4 Djon Voiding, c 4 Mike! Garcia, g I , 4 Bill Batey, g,f 4 Ollie Schrickel, g 4 Joe Pettit, g \ \ Bill Townsend, g Totals t’G Lfp FT A \ ik, lends j tipri. Big Bab Kanipernmn is scc- (iijq and ohd high scoter on the Aggie ^eam djil ■5 ’ 4mm— r - MOVIE PI | Re\ w/lij ,>Wide Selee G.E. & SM ill! OJEC el An Ex Page anji Dick while from frephmejn co HOME Perrin El Paso . /■ Reagan !' San Antonio Port Arthur 34 Dallas ” - 8 El Campo 15 .} San Aintonio 4(11 Moulton 21 I Arlington j 0 Dallas 2; ; Coushatta, L 183 Texas A&M 183: Opponents dt KoUj, probably the butstaiding new 1 thefri are jablc^tc prospect in the league. SjllU will 'Veil as Big Bob. have plenty of good xiiliids tjackles back frijim the 19-i Texas Christian, howeV hke THE team. 0Aly and •squad. Keystone Eastman )|KS 8MM— !' ! '• l ■- . i tfittn) (; ; Ap611o j » ' Universal 4* ton Caffey, Alan Pike, John Cooke, F, looks Carl Knox and Wayne Pitcock are ’Mural Champs Are Of Handball Club :*j |J j ,• ri J - - : ) ,F . , . 'I . | • .. j|. Thh; champs haVe been erdwned, wiheing two .fast games 21-9, 21- in thft Intramural doubles handball 12. Eyery participant in the final tournament as Bill Rippetoe and iijund of the tourii# was a mem- Burr Lane tasted dqfeat at .the b(-r of the A&M FjandlKiJl Club, hands-jcf ^qwq|H| Scheumack and 1 1 ' This Is the sucqnd doubles title Preston Connally. . fqr Scheumae^ is housemaster The! champion's’teamwork spell- of Puryear HhB.; He teamed up ed dieter for the, losers as) they, with Cbrtrally after they played dominated the match throughput, ‘ ejtch other last year. Play Bearkat* In ' First erf Two-Caihe. 11 The Ti jcsik j Aggie team, sport tig two wins and j two losses in non-conference pli date, leaves Saturday after no bus to take on the Sam He Bearcats in Huntsville tl Johnnie Frankie's Fish leave earlier by car to Sam Houston Bees in a pre-view to the varsity clash. Vaam Houston dumped the Ride Owls in the season opener tp es tablish themselves as one of the stronger teams. On the following week they bowed to Texas Uriiver- sity 56-44, Texas, rated one olf the top contenders for S[WC honors this year, iS favored to repeat. In thjs lightj this gamp may prove a measuring stick with whidh to compare the AggieS with' the Lohghornk and Owls. Coach Marty KarovV’s squad, eleVen strpng, is-considered in im proved physical condition, and wilj haVe a four-day peribcj in which to j recuperate following 1 the defeat Monday night at ithe hands of the East Texas Lions. Rice and SMU will be idle on that date. Texas plays North Tex as; State in Austin, : tCU tangles with Bradldy Tech ip Peoriji, Illi nois in the second game of their northern jaunty Arkansas meets LaSalle CqHhge jin Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Baylor dashes with the Urjiyersity of St. Lpui)s in Sf. Louisi “ Handicraft Group Will Meet Friday u. m 1 n equipped with climber* ike (hfis® used bj}' telephone Hn^nen cr b^ Turf Conference Slated Next ivior The; Sepond Annual .j( onfc on Turf in the Southwest wil held on the campus J? nuary through 14, according ito Vletpr Schember, Chairman of Ihe Turf Association. jl j Daily sessions, discussing thfe lation off soil to groyvtti of t rodent arid insect controll, tuid eases knd other 1 relate))! tjopicS be open to the public,/! To aid in the ihiprotemept turf ip Texas, a research progAap is being investigated under J ationj. 1 'i on lawns and || | oil in. 11/ mto ITJN j i; rocks at their — tty pl^ wa pm ■■§ lip As basketball become* more a big-time larger crowds, the ers is becoming a national paat- tirae. Because of the latur; of the gajme, altitude is (c stn s: ed as to breed teams of i)n*p tlh|H^ a coach would be expected tjo smipjon the street andj invite to joir pis basketball squad without inqu r ng whether or not! the project copra move faster than a slb^w walk. This fondness for h si| iht < o ild turn a confest between p ayerg in to a contest between si outs he scout producing the tallent gli y'rs being the winner, of course. H !rb Graffi^, in writing for the Den m- ber issbe of Esquire, s|ig?est tlat, to combat this menace jfo hard v o< classic^, shoiteri playefS *ith<r be .|j|»ly CQijjie mit with an agregitior flitted to ‘Mrr-h.nd.cp thi, M becaiise of this lack of height, i taMlst man on the A&M team i six foyt four and there are only fo pf tjiese, Bob Kampelrman and |Hb ( ■ , jujPtaKl irt whin tangeling with the tall ivages from Southeastern Okla- )ma Teachers College. | Texas University boastls six foot Bven itch center Johrt Langdon flile TfU has six foot eight inch along with three Aping six foot four ‘ ark, H ild Frafi Arkaifs; ttire The Handicraft Group of the Campus So(‘i|jil Club will meet FH-j day, December 12 at 9 a.m. in stead of Tuesday at the home of Mrs. Richard E. Callender, 209 j ment pf turf is cordially invito Lee Ave.j South Oakwood. I attend the conference.” ' sponsorship of this agtoc gfowiiig of betjtcr turfs cemeteries, airfields, 'ana f| greens is the Ipurposc Of the vestigation. t “Anyone interested in (he betler- CliL lie Photo Lens, We$ton, 'eters — Argus, East- i i :! man, Still. (pam|2ras. .- 111- Sizes-r wTOSHOP ^prth Gate ::±c I ii mm : 5< ■nrnnrrrmtttmmm r "1 SR iM llil i^* lost. The Frogs \viH have a great! line and a buorfield: geared to Pete Stout and Lindy Berry, two of the best in the country) j. Rice is probably the hardest hit of any with eleven letter men, more than half of them regulars, leav ing the Owl campus. c, Raylor loses eight but plenty re turning. The Beark right now look like first-division finishers. Texas A. & M. sees a dozen let- tprmen depart withij few good pros pect); coming up from the fresh men. Things don’t, |look any better ( fiir A&M next season than they did last campaign. ; Arkansas loses tyn but only four of them were starters. Clyde Scott returns and that’s'la fine start on : rebuilding the biackfield which | loses only Aubrey Fowler among fhe regulars., • Texas will lose to n lettermen, in cluding Bobby . Layne, Max .Bum- ! garuner and guards Joe Mitchell and Joe Magiiola,; With the big, capable squad Tejxas had, that (loe in’t selm like qn excessive loss .except for Layne.) You just don’t replace baicks like) Layne without loss! of strength, j Since the fans w) wpy by next, fall we feel safe predicting this 19(18 finish: j l. Tejxas Christian. I 2. Southern Methodist, I 3. Texas. j| 4. Baylor. iji 5. Arkansas.! jl 6. Rice. 7. Texas A. & M. • [: i- iX 11 forget it apy- in !: ) TEX TAN r :L: -t-v I ^"-.r Everyone of the 13 passes thrown by Frarik Sinkwich for ( eorgia in the 1942 Orange Bowl game found receivers—nine were caught by teammates and four by T(T' players. Men’s Finely Tailored Suits I j ' Are Our Business L ■ 1 ■' , ! at . . 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