The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, March 02, 1948, Image 3

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AROUND
DALl-AH, Tex., March 2 <VPu_
Ipr Arizona Uiiglo here
week: for the right to repre-
.eittithe Southwest in |>bst8eason
kfctbalPpompetiti( n. ^
flnounctment of a three-game
es> between the champions of
e Southwest and lordei confer,
ncek wasimade yesterday at Fay-
tte^illtj, Ark. Eugene Lambert,
on of'Arkansas and chairman
El the District National Interdol-
giate Athletic Association Selea-
if>iv,Committee, revealed the play-
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The firsit; two games of thq series
Other Teams Come Through
Schedule As Ray Cominu^
Twp settled teams fell yesterday in the opening fount
play inAhe Junior College Tournament here. Corpus, see
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MIAMI, Fla., March 1 —!
Okay, now wc can playj Uiseball.
ill be played here in the Southern Loach Lay Bpaiies figures tjtc
(ethodist* gym March 12 and 13. a good pitching prete-
! a: thiird igame is needed it will Pft *n John Hall, a rookig fixpn
played March 15. Winner of the Mobile who isn’t even listed on the
ybflijwiill represent this section r<> fjf| r in lh® £ rfce “.
play'
in the regional NCAA tournament
in Kansas City March l‘J-$(>.
Baylor, | Southwest C|)nference
champibnClost an early season de
cision to A rizona, t>4-5d. | i
The playoff was arrapged by the
Sixth NCAA District Committee.
Jack 'Gmy,, University of Texas,
tning found of
play inAhe Junior (Allege Tournament here] Corpus, seeded
No. 4,. fell to powerful Lamar of Beaumojnt and favored
KangerlJunior College took b 70-39 beating at the halnds of
i ’■ T-i" 1 —r I Paris. .
| j « Other results of yesterday’s
Igames were: Wlayland beat Tarle-
i ton 45-35; Blinn topped lion Morris
j 64-47; NJAC, et|ged out Allen Aca
demy 56-47; favlored Amarillo took
, a <>1MI win. from Hillsboro.
| Earlier in the day Kilgore edged
1 McNeese 50-41, knd the NoL |2 team,
i Tyler, handed Texas Lutheran a 79-
! 38 loss. 1! '! • '
| Games starlet) this morning and
will continue through today
tomorrow. ' M j
1'ickets will be sold at i
for each session, morning
noon, and evening. The
session starts at .6 p.
Touyiament and coitsbla t i o n
awartra will be made tomorrow
When Connie Mack, who hjijis night. The third place game will
been suffering from a told, drove ' start at O p. m„ the consolation at
from St. Petersburg to West Palm 7:30 p. m., and the tourney cham-
Beach and then stayeti through tjhe,' pionship game at 9 p. m
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Motley
ings, Texas Tech, and
Many
when the Swimming tlfeam gpt
hi Austin last Saturdiy. Aithdui
it was a voifse beafcii g than hfe;
should ha ^e kaken, id was !n6| p
bad as tbcj score indicjiited. ■
.In. spite of the 54|-39 odtc >r «
the meet was lost by jpnly alict a] '1 i
of “points. Wkat many (people d< i o
know is turn Coach. Art Ailaiis ji
was getting reidy' ttt [put' D .n x
Green ant) Bernife Syfan in the 4' (■
yard free stj le )eveiatl|if that vgif"
» have giVei the tfeam a (last|cl'ai <
for a wiin
If Syfain
first and
team had
been ours
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at least ei tie
But lexas;
than it v|a s
that la^-ditch ex
Green had
sect nd, ajjid the
,he meet woi^lt
bji ope or |vyo poiintjs,
took imiore plj)c):i
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hot hayd won the mjeet.
But perhaps it waff for tjh
after alii On the trip bic
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before kxjuting weak Baylor, and no
doubt their coacH was burning a
fire under them tp make them get j
tjl!| shaiw. ! j • 1
At the same tfime it would be
hard for Art Adapison to work his
men much hardeir They workout
iir the pool | nearly eifery day and
Art restricts their week-end jaumts.
.Probably what (the team needs
to work on more than anything is
jfturns/’ Jack Riley, Danny (Green,
'Spd Bernie Syfan have perhaps the
Wst on the squad. But some of the
Avimmers .lost a few feet oh their
turns in Austin. Turns and starts
are almost as important as swim
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A few of AwM’s opponents
this year have h4d breaststrokers
who swam almost the whole
length of the pool underwater.!
It js about a second faster that
way, but the effect on the swim*
me* is not worth the effort;
Coach Adaihsqn figures that the
(“oxygen deficit” caused by swim
ming undcrwatei will slow the
jehrlins
A. C. TffUtch” Lonborg, Chicago,
NCAA thajirman, handled arrange-
y
Baylor has a slight advantage in
statistiaf pver the Border confer
ence chain >ion. The Bears lost only
one gkhvej|n 12 conference tilts and
this by three-point margin.
Arizand’ lost four of D> eonfer-
ened; gaKnes, ami for the season lost
eight: aiifj w
entire dog racing program, Coalh
A1 Simmons came uji with this
highly original remark: ‘Mr. Muck
is a remarkable man.’ |
Notre Dame's Frank Leahy,
who just ended a week’s visit
here, spent most o)( his time
fishing, swimming and dodging
folks who wanted to! talk about
football. N. : is i ■ I
Chances: are that Citation, the
Flamingo winner, will be giveii a
rest and won’t start more than:
once before the wood pietnorjal. The
other Calumet derby hopefuls Will
won 19. Baylor’s season *<> to Kentucky vvh?n Ben and
record was 19 victories.against five Jones divide their forces*
defeats!. |:| . Before he started north to 'n^se
The AniWfiVe will hold a min- he t l,ou » h , o«the bdl for
ute .heighth advantage over the ‘ asl w H.« k * Willie Pcp-Hun.bcfto
Bears. I* averages six feet, two Sierra fight, Promotfn fKay) Kgm,
Morris! [Udall, tallest player on
the Arizona five at six feet, four
inchf.'S, tpps Arizona in individual
Son. Othe s in the starting lineup Laleah Saturday wh.s the hat w,,rn
are Junior Crum, Link Richmond. H ^ rsR Llmel ' ^ Chaffer, u^ife
_x.:„ ,r . - . joi the owner of the famed Cpld-'
istream stud. ^ 1 ( ! i |
i It was a wide-l)rimmed affair
next winter.
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• One sight that attracted almiost
scoringlblth SsVpoints’fprthe'sea- f‘ s . much aUention as Citationj at
Mrs. Sam Jenkins was award
ed a combination radio-phono
graph last night. Her husband,
captain of A&.M’s basketball
team, accepter! the radio for her.
TOUAT’S GAMES
1 p. m.—Allen Academy vs. Cor
pus Christi. 1 jS ’
6 p. m.—NT AC vs. Lamar.
7:39 p. m.—Amarillo vs. Paris.
9 p. m.—Tyler vs. Kilgore.
SUMMARY <)F YESTERDAY’S
RESULTS
Blinn—Lon Morries
in whining the Southwest Confer
ence chainpioiiship to 12.1 for the
pppbrgtidn.
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FretLEnkje, Jr., son of the coach,
and Billy (Mann.
Don Hielathington, Baylor center, . . . ,
led Bear' Scoring in conference play ma J e to re|,re ^‘"! ».™ ce c ". ur ,f’
with 126!))0i.As* wlth il «reen hedge around the
The Bears averaged 50.0 points ^ “u
fh.. rnnfer. s'de, little fur and feather horses
galloping around the brim aihd
even a red odds board in the ‘in
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polo team, favored to win the |na-
tional title after it belted »|ver
Pnnceton in a first-round match
here last Friday,! has Been tabbed
the ‘‘Cabarta Cowboys’ by fans;
The kids, John Mather, IHok
j Knight and Jack Evans, vi’ho| go
, around in' high-licpied boots {uid
j five-gallon hats,, played together
two years at NeyV Mtxico Military
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Lon Morris (of Jacksonville and
the Blinn Burejane rs of Hrenhani
bejtan hostilities at 9 o’clock in
the morning. Blinn upset the slight
ly favored Beatcast 54-47.
Sydon Hracjhovy was the prin*
ciple reason for the Blinii win,
The tali pivdt-man tallied 23
points the hard way—hp sank 11
field goals.
Reuben Joehre wgs runnel-up in
the scoring department for Coach
James Atkinson’s Buccaneers with
13 counters, wjhile Moor MieMillaii
contributed 11 points U> the Blind
score.
Alberto Renjta led Lon Morris
poin/makers with a 13 pojnt total.
He was closely followed by Milford
Bunoughs who scored 12.
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isianie star Jerry Thompson
Until- attitude w
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schedule than
' ’hoy hi ve been hanij er-
wea her too, bul on
tj we’ ia\f‘ bPWn sloped
>y ths workii|g.over of our
track is heii^g reeondition-
epai iltioii fprlthe Texm Re-
!; month, and the team has
1 abjl«! tc| wo/k out op thd
loir to the Steers
e |osk of lobby Whisen Hit, •
sthle mile champion,
fit! ik iiudigihle because
gstlc di faculties.
Allen Lawler
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Set aeflOn because
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('l.\lli' Littlefjeld hope s f r or
votkout were for nought
vjhpn 1 heaVy Vain i wept
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PfM, h}\ -Dalton Al-
foriiier Ai'gie, has)] been
t-gncli of Uu\University of
bij]tijbiill ti\m, accdrding
Eduikd director of lithle
Uni’ 'ersjty.V '!
kpdkit t iiieij yearn at jV'&M,
is A footbpll ba\k and a
pi.eheijnnd outfiiHclcjr. Hu
hind pi re r (|f tlfc iProfut^ional
liti.icls ill I layers of
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l)(v g»d-s.
lllef bias
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the Brooklyn •
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Nanie$; of all visiting Junior
CoUegCj basketball players are
on file;] in the Student Housing
Office.!iroom 101, Goodwin Hall.
Texas Lutheran—
Tyler
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Notre Dame Stops
\YU Wi" Sh-eH
4jp:vv yoiA, Ma
Second-seeded Tyler Jqnior Col-:
lege dumped Texas Lutherkn into.
the loser’s bracket by.a 79-38 count!
in the second tnoinitig Lilt? t • - f
Ever) member of Coach Floyd <
Wagstaff’s squad saw action dur
ing the cohtekt.
Acker Hank’s took scoring hon
ors in the game with 18 points^ {
Hanks was the eager who flipped j
I in 13 charity tosses in a tilt against
the Aggie Fish-Bees last month.
] Les Taylor hies bed 12 points for
the Apaches and Herbert Richard
son added ll.
Center Maryiq Mace led the Lu^
v ’ the runs from Sequin wjth 1U mark-
v els.
Raymond Payne of NT AC) ertmes down after misslnk a
ui the NT AC-Allen Aeaih-my game last night. liKk Idoqi
and Louis Wills, right, get ready to go for the ball,
the game EMM? after fighting off a late Allen rully.
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TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 1948
lijlaydd ! Aviths the Fort
iktH Mi ridlan. Missii sippi,
dbil( ,-Al; ibaiha. While
MeH tiiijro he -pitci
itout against Mentgom-
an fa,, uid two olhel' one-
git nimjsj
U 948, itllK rt’directed physical
Hl
^r^rtljap)'. Ourijigjithe war, lv,‘ was
Mntcu it on the* physical
sjta ,ff it Fort Sill, Jklu,
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sports writer^ arc :
McNeese—Kilgore
Adriah Bur|c sparked Coach Jim
my Parks?' Kilgore Rangers to a
Ml a r g h 2 <A )| - -
TiT » isn’t a sijnglie unbeaten 'col
lege basketball learn iti the nation
today. ! jl i j* I. :
The last Of the! Mohicans, New
York UAs VioleH fell with a dash.',^41 decia'i J‘ore*r J*qh7McNce^
j ^ f « re the fight.aiw fury of .\otre (>f Lake Chai .j^ s iQ the first after-
Madison ..quare Gaitrlen, M()()n tilt. Bui;k tallied HI points as
the Rangers] overcame a 5-poiitt
halftime deficit.
Jackie Do la ml paced scorers for
the Louisiana;entry with II points;
Dame in
64-59, last night.
NYU had ruri up 19 straight] vic
tories and wasj orjly three g^mes
away from a perfect season |mtil
the Violets bunipod head-on with
their Notre Dame jinx.
Notre pame had whipped ,VYU
11 times in 14 tries prior to]last
night and the Irish made it |2 in
15 with a relentless attack tired
by the great Kevin O'Shea. /
LamaiMCorpus
Christi
In the fingl afternoon tilt; La
mar of Beau(mont, a late entry jn
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is but ohA of tlio many qneislwins tel^jiwone
aiT) x-ulled Upon tp answer. ' f i | |t 1|
ut of t If oil work bus always Iken to antie||)ate
iaii(ls for personijel ,( , . to detpniiiu| jpyliat
Ini jlilionaljctinipmentimist bo providt d{ wliut] pew
itructibn will be necessary to hai die tlieleon-
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! itirefni planning in emy pltise d telpi|idne
k requife^lthei services of many qualified Jinen.
The hahdsome; 123-year-old (San ; the tourney sjeorej a sjtirpiising 54-
Franciscan captivated a roaring 33 victory (over Corpus Christi
crowd of 18,455 ivijth ope og the Junior College,
finest exhibitions seen in tlio big 1 Scoring Was evenly distributed
arena 'since the i>eerless per^irm- on both Sqgads.j The Cardinals’
ances of famed Hank Luisetti more ] Charles Shojitaw shared the to(i
than ..a decade agd. ■; snpt in the scoring with Gray Ear-
It-Was not only the 18 poinfs he gn; (>f ( orpus Christi. Both cagers
scored tq tie NYU's Ray L^mpp tallied 10 pojnts.
for high scoring honors, ft w# the . Am,
grace and drive : h P Exhibited. Way land—Tarietou
- whether spearing rebounds or ^driv
ing in for layups, )t was he* who In; one of the best games of the
started the surge in the final; five night, Wayland fought a last-pe-
minutes that broke fhe cdntestwuk rimi rally by Tarfeton to win 45-
open. NYU wa? leading, |5-54, 35. The tall Tarleton plowboys held
when O’Shea tapped in the rebound the lead in the opening period be-
that put the Irish id front for good, fore Wayland caught up and went
L ahead to stay.
(•enter raid Yopng led the
Wayjland Pioneers with 15 points;
but it Was liis defensive work
which stopped the Plowboys. A,
The Plowboys were the fastest
team in the gym last might, but
they couldn't hit their snots while
the Pioneers were burning the j
hoop.
J. D- Hawkins of Wayland, e.se-
ond highest scorci 1 in the state, tal
lied 1,1 points llast night.
A mar illo—Hillsboro
Amarillo had one of the most
potent squads on the floor lakt
night as they, ran up a quick Scope
in the half before coasting to a
69-39 victory at the expense of
Hillsboro, Junior College.
Two players on Amarillo’s team,
Pat Babb and Whit iPatc, scared
most, of tjhcir team’s points. Both
men are 11 nthe upper ten scotiers
in the ^tate. Pate, made 19 and
Babb 18.
The 'Badgers from Amarillo ran
gpup a 40-16 score at the halftiniie
before Hillsboro could get started,
High-scoiei' for Hillsboro Wasj
Jim Fartjuhar with 10 points, fal
lowed by Ed Bassinger with 8J
thei»,ithis growing business (iff?
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Sam Houston State can share the
Lone Star Conference champion
ship held by North Texas State and
East Texas State! ( by . walloping
Trinity University; tonight. |
North Texas defeated Easf Tex-1
as, 52-49, last night, assuring cadr
of a share of Ihe championship aft
er Sam Houston lost to Southwest
Texas State,] 81f7j0. Until |outh-
west Texas gpset them, thcl Bear-
kats from Sam Houston had a
chance to take the title with no
strings attached. |
Tonight's game at San Antonio
finishes up tpe conference rkce as
far as the three leaders are con-
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Paris—Ranger
The Diagons of Paris Junior
Colldge became the second club fo
hit the “70” circle by overwhehln-
ing Ranger 70-39.'
, t’harles Whitten of Paris bewil
dered the Rangers and amazed the
fans by jsinking 15 field goals dur
ing the tilt. His 30-point tothl is
the highest individual score com
piled iu the tournament thus far
ajnd in DeWare Fiellihouse this sca-
son. 1 ■ - j j.
Jinimy Crawley tallied 19 points
to lead the losers in that dehatt-
ment.
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