The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, February 05, 1948, Image 3
O Battalion OPORTO THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1948 Page 3 Cagers Fight to Keep Out Of Cellar This Week jHere Somebody will have to get out of the crowded Southwest Coference cellar this week with the four occupants having their own round-robin. Not one of these cellar teams, Texas A&M, TCU, SMU, and Rice, has won over one game. +;■ The cause of this unusual situa tion are the three league leaders, Texas, Baylor, and t , Arkansas, who have taken a combined toll of 10 games from their conference mem bers. Arkansas and Baylor will try to eliminate each other this week when they tangle Friday and Sat urday at Waco. Holding the bottom rung with six straight losses, the Aggies will have a chance to come up a notch when they meet TCU here Saturday. TCU is second from bottom with four losses and no victories. A&M will also get a crack at the next highest SMU Mustangs Fri day. Highly rated at the start of the season, the Ponies dropped two close games to the Razorbacks and one to the Baylor squad by one point. TU handed them a six-point defeat in Dallas last week. SMU holds one lone win on the Horned Frogs, but their loss es have all been to the “Big Three” teams of the league. After playing the Aggies on Fri day, the Mustangs move down to Hoqstoti to meet the Rice Owls, whorank them in conference stund- liiy' ■ , , , WcAm OcOna APPEAR! Vent-A-Hood, the modern kitchen ventilator, gets rid of grease laden steam at the stove . . . before it has time to circulate through the house. Saves time and effort in house cleaning... saves money in redecorating costs. • Install Vent-A-Hood in your present home! • Incorporate one in your building plans! Burgiss-Pugh Over Aggieland Studio N. Gate ings only by virtue of fewer losses. Conference Standings Team Baylor Texas Arkansas Rice SMU TCU Texas A&M W 6 5 4 1 1 0 0 Opp. this Wk Ark. Baylor SMU, TCU A&M, Rice Rice, A&M SMU, TCU Pro Ball Claimed Easier On Player SAN ANTONIO-Professional foot ball is easier than the college brand says Weldon Humble, Rice line star who played with the Cleveland Browns of the All America Con ference this past season. Home for the winter, the 1946 All-American guard plans to play pro football three, more years un less something better turns up. He is considering a coaching career. He scoffed at stories that pro fessional football is rougher than that played in college. “The he says college. Our coach, Paul Brown, uses different teams for offense and defense, which; moans most players are on the bench at least half the game. As a result, they don’t tire themselves out and aren’t so easily injured.” way we play at Cleveland”, 3, “it is much easier than at Coupon holders A-G will be admitted first to Friday’s game with SMU, and H-0 will have priority on the Saturday TCU game. Where Baseball Teams Will Put in ’48 Spring Training BASEBALL men are busy touring the knife and fork circuit these days. But the 16 major league teams’ front office workers are lining up a hectic training camp schedule for their squads. This season marks (he first time that all teams will get off together because of the universal March 1 training date. The above map shows where the teams will pitch camp. Nine clubs will visit Florida, four Cali fornia, two will train in Arizona while one will go to the Dominican Republic. Walker to Be Busy In Diamond, Grid And Court Calling DALLAS — Out at Southern Methodist University they’re won dering how Doak Walker, the All- American footballer, is going to manage this situation: On Feb. 16 baseball practice be gins. Also, on that date SMU starts spring football. And basketball will be at its height. Walker is a star baseballer and also is on the basketball squad*. Well, basketball is played at night and maybe the coaches will let him off from football early enoug;h to practice over on the diamond each afternoon. Now CAM get a gjggggSl^Si | . rebuilt ^ f 231 Iffisisf $134G5 »" ss SSSSTto extra .A Bryan Motor Co. T Club Pics to Be Taken Next Week Ernest Klein, photographer for the 1948 Longhorn, today announc ed that “T” Club members who have not had their pictures taken should report to the A&M Photo Shop according to the following schedule: A to I—Monday, Feb. 9 J to R—Tuesday, Feb. 1(1 S to Z—Wednestay. Feb. 11 “T” Club members who were un able to have their pictures made at the time scheduled above should report to the Photo Shop on Thurs day, February 12. Sweaters will be provided by the Photo Shop, Klein said. Trials and Tribulations Of Egyptian Olympic Cage Coach By HUGH FULLERTON, JR. NEW YORK, Feb. 5 —<dP)_ If you think you have headaches, lis ten to Neal Harris . . . Neahis the guy who took a leave from Al bright College, Reading, Pa., to coach the Egyptian Olympic bas ketball team and in a letter to col league Ted Meier he relates some of his woes . . . They included setting up. coach ing schools, convincing doubters, establishing three separate train ing bases and supervising them all and digging up some equipment. “All courts are out of doors, and sand,” Harris writes. “The boys play in low tennis shoes or regular shoes with rub ber soles. Right now we are using India soccer balls, which are about as round as an egg. I was hoping some coaches in the states would take pity on me and send a couple of rubber basketballs. We can’t buy them from the states, since there is very strict enforce ment of currency exchange and dollars here are as scarce as rain.” What, no cracks about officiat ing ? This guy can’t be a basketball coach. ★ SPORTS BEFORE YOUR EYES After returning from his Miami conferences about a Louis-Walcott fight, Felix Bocchicchio, who looks after Walcott’s affairs, insisted he wouldn’t confer with Sol Strauss again because “I never get a chance to say anything. He talks too much.” . . . Rumors from the Midwest list Ray Eliot, Earl Blaik .and Bernie Bierman as being “in line” for the Nebraska U. Athletic directorship. But our best source says the job is still wide open. T. U. Swimming Team Lodges Protest Over Resignation of Swimming Coach Football Training Slated February 13 COLLEGE STATION, Feb. 5 — (A 5 )—Spiing football practice under new head coach Harry Stiteler will begin February 13 at Texas A. & M. College. The coaching staff* mapped the schedule in a conference the early part of the week. Line Coach Bill Dubose, Assistant Line and Back- field Coach Thurman Jones and Barlow Irvin, Freshman Coach, Following final confirmation of' the resignation of Tex Robertson as Head Swimming Coach at the University of Texas, members of the University swimming team a- dopted a resolution of protest Tuesday night. Robertson, who is to resign fol lowing the annual Aqua-Carnival February 10-14 after a salary dis agreement with Athletic Director D. X. Bible, was supported by the team in their protest. About for ty-five signatures followed the resolution pledging their efforts toward keeping Robertson in his present position. The situation leading to his res ignation arose from a disagree ment between Robertson and Bi ble over a proposed $1000 increase in salary for the Head Swimming Coach. Robertson, All-American dis tance swimmer at Michigan Uni versity in 1935, and founder of the 13-year-old Aqua-Carnival inform- were here to discuss plans for the 1948 gridiron campaign. All three are new members of the staff. ed Mr. Bible several weeks ago that he was not satisfied with the $1,000 he was receiving for nine months' coaching. He asked that the salary be doubled. Bible refused the raise but a- greed to release Mr. Robertson from his contract if he would re main to stage the fourteenth an nual Aqua-Carnival February 10- 14. This arrangement was accept ed by both parties although the contract called for Mr. Robert son’s employment through June 1. In Robertson’s eleven-year car eer as University swimming coach he has produced eleven Conference champion teams. During that time he has developed fourteen all- American swimmers and two Olympic champions, among them Adolph Kiefer, Bob Tarlton, Ralph Flanagan, Mike Sojka. and one woman swimmer, Jane Dillard. INTRAMURAL OFFICERS MEET Athletic Officers and Unit Managers will meet Thursday, February 5 at 5 o’clock in room 301 Goodwin Hall. • ' 'As- rg lie Si r rt\ recording _« ipv^iS’ t°P Decca nvonica LEW k a Dope u-yhe Gentleman ...a* .nd she Tj^ M0 ^:r Pit chr^ etMonicasingit -. ti has one swell es _ well, let ^, „ ^henitcomes^ci^; ^ me to ^ “Camels ate mV CI "‘" agtee with V 0 "- f> efore! Millions of smo Carne s stnokets Whv more people are , { why , w M ^ Discover lor y ls ar e the Try C tried and compared, Cam who tne l ll , n ce„l “choice ux —x «rrORD — Sisco Claims Drinking Fans Cause Trouble DALLAS, Feb. 5 —<A>)_ There are indications that some of the Southwest Conference folks are not exactly pleased with the lec ture course on the evils of football that Jack Sisco is now giving in Texas. It isn’t that they favor what the well-known official is con demning but that they think per haps he’s talking too much. For their information, Sisco has had approximately 150 invitations to speak. He has made about a score of appearances. It appears his discourse is exceedingly popu lar. And Jack certainly is qualified to speak and can give them the low-down. He’s even been offered pay for his talks but won’t accept any money. Sisco believes a lot of good has been done. “The groundwork laid by the sports writers in backing me up (he was voted ‘Southwest ern of the year’ for his efforts) and the reception to my talks in dicate to me that we are on our way toward ridding the game of evils that would wreck it,” he says. “I think every stadium should prohib/t drinking or even bring ing liquor on the premises and Inter-Squad Swimming Duel Won By 1 Point Bernie Syfan’s Fins barely out-pointed Danny Green’s swimming team 38-37 last night in the P. L. Downs Jr. Na- tatorium after running up an early lead. Approximately 100 fans witnessed the intra-squad meet. The Fins took first place in five events and the Greens copped four. -4 Coach Art Adamson said the squads matched evenly and the outcome was supposed to rest on the outcome of the final 400 yard relay. But George Dieck came in first in the 100 yd. breaststroke and gave his team an unexpected five points which proved to be the margin of victory. When the final event of the night came up, the Fins had the match won with an eight point margin, for the relay was worth only seven points. Gene Summers paced Dieck all the way and finished second by a few feet. Johnny Heeman came through with first place in the diving event. Bill Strait matched the winner on even terms until the last dive when that all gambling should be ban ned.” The official said quite a few places needed to work out a better policing job. “Some of them do not have enough cops in the first place,” he declared. “And the po lice who are there don’t pay at tention to business; they watch the game and let official abuse run.” Sisco told about this occurrence: It was halftime and he was seated on a bench near the sidelines. Sev eral men back of him who ap parently had partaken extensively of bottled spirits uttered threats and curses. One said they would give him a licking when the game was over. ★ “A policeman was stanumg near by,” related Sisco. “He said noth ing. I don’t know but that he wanted me to take a beating. I finally got up and told the men, ‘I’ll be right back here when the game’s over. I’ll give you a chance to give me a licking if you still feel like it.’ I came back to that very place when the game was over. The men all had gone.” SOS BELIEVED TO COME FROM MISSING AIRLINER MIAMI, Fla., Feb. 5—(A > >—Faint SOS signals ending in the word “Tiger”—believed possibly from the missing British airliner Star Tiger with 29 persons aboard— were established today as originat ing from somewhere north of the Leeward Islands in the Carribean Sea. The mysterious signals, first picked up by an amateur in Ohio last night, have been heard by military and civilian communica tion centers along the entire At lantic Seaboard. he failed to cut the water cleanly. In the closest match of the night Danny Green beat the other team captain, Bernie Syfan by inches in the 50 yd, free style. Green took an early lead but Syfan gained back all but the needed few inches. In the 220 free style, Dave Vard- aman outlasted Riley to come' in eight yards ahead. This intra-squad meet was held to get the team ready for the com ing match here this Saturday against the Dallas Aquatic Club. ★ _ Coach Adamson was well pleased with the showing his team made as a whole. Although some of his' men did not do as well as expected, others turned in their best per formance of the season. Diving Coach Emil Mamaliga promised Heeman lots of work on the board between now and Satur day. Heeman looked good on the board but lost his balance a couple of times before hitting the water. RESULTS (Listed in order, 1st, 2nd, 3rd) 300 Medely—Fins First. 220 Free Style—Vardaman, Ri ley, Helbing. 50 Free Style—Green, Syfan, Westervelt. Diving—Heeman, Strait, Ben nett. 100 Free Style—Green, Syfan, Fisher. 100 Backstroke—Spencer, Kruse, Reaves. 100 Breaststroke—Dieck, Sum mers. 440 Free Style—Helbing, Siedel, Nicks. 400 Relay—Green’s First. Total: Fins 38, Greens 37. FREE! 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