The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, February 05, 1948, Image 3

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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-
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Conference Standings
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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“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.
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