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BY ART HOWARD
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Last night’s against Sanvf
Houston was a har<t ; one to lose.
The Aggies playpd . i good game,
but could not; hit,; the basket in
the last few Minutes when it
I counted. They had \a five-point
lead with five mm||ites remaining,
but couldn’t sfeeih it6 hit another
quick shot or.
‘Sc
■'which would
have meant th^fMni
Everybody and his. brother was
undler the basket 1 asliTurnbow, De-
Witt, and Mobjey tried for tip-ins,
but the ball iwottwt go. Then
“Shorty” Watjcina si.'put his team
a h e a d w i t'h
some long show
and Acke-fr
Hanks made hts
only two hat-
keta to keup |
them there, if
John DoWi|t
played his h«|t
game of t hf*
year, tjolh do-
fensivaly a md
nffonaively, lie
was a bit iniii*
get I at the start
of the Neas<t|l, ,.
hut luat olgljl ; tiiiw vimi
he was the .nit* [ p HOWARD
standing Aggie M player on the
court. m 1
Hut It st ill looks liken mighty
lean year for A&M in hnaket-
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There was a/ruuiftt going nrourtd
that A&M 'would t'liooHe to play
Texas U. iiLt^e jtlo.tfcon Bowl' next
Thanksgiving.; Toucan ^spike that
right noiv. Bill Carinichad told me
that we woul(Vd«fihi|dy play here,
c also saul that an addition
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to owning that film. I . or per
haps they wilt show the 47 game.
This Year;
Gol. Andy, Aggie
is moaning over the
Track Coach,
moanjng over the lack of shot
putters. He had kn abundance j of
heavers all set for* this season,
and they have , floated away. Bob
Smith is ineligible scholastically,
and Frapklin Young is going to
graduate! at mid-term, Gene Sal
mon, a freshniian standout last
year, failed to return to school.
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Batt office at iftmtogic times this
last week, for I hoard that Jimmy
Floweirs inis biren looking for me
with blood in Hitt pyt*. J
It jMearn* us If he didn't like a
paruKruph which want NomethinK
like this: “Nut whal is known un
miner, Flowers Hun bean
a rigid
known
brfofu
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Only,iyou ml
In going U>
dnys,
.IIhchr<l|^n eignr shorl ly
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1 take ft all bark, Jimmy,
lit 4*e Khgelklng, he
\ jfathf* In .a few
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Whlli' we'r# .fn the wntery
tmll; n mention might he mnde
of s certain football ;|>luy*r who
nskcd why hisj name never got In
the Bait. (He dljl letter). I told
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By FRANK 8IMMEN, JR.
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him the <i>nlyi tithe h* did any
thing wawin tllte Oklahoma game
wlich Be kicked twice
avaragi
will Igcl plenty o
golf season starts.
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Dawsor
new llO-gaugc shotgun yesterday,
the press box : is expected. It will
be nothing fancy, just something
to last until thp; iietadium is en-
Jarged. '
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end coach lor T\5, is going to
show picture^ of tha A&^l-Texas
game at a dinner InjTemple next
Monday night. it seems to me
as if they Wouldh't even admit
use op
said he
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ijlcDOWKLI., looked imprcMlve
the Fish game againut the
riirkat Bees last night. He wan
ijmmd In scoring only to Buddy
DuvIn, and N|iarked his team's
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urnstilc Records
■Hay Be Broken For
Sports in 1949
The A&M Freshman basketball team led by Buddy Davis
soundly trounced the Sam Houston B squaddehs 58 to 34 in
a, game here last night. The Aggies simply wouldn’t miss in
the early stages of the game and quickly took a 11 point
lead before thW junior Bearkats could score.
J ^The visitors, led by fleet ; Bob
Jochec who racked up a; total of 12
points, just couldn’t get started.
The Bearkat’s offensive structure
seemed to click in spots, but the
whole squad seemed to fall apart
on the defense.
The Fish had just as tough a
time keeping their defense to
gether. The cagers could not stay
together ip spots, but they came
through, with the needed help of
Davis, almost every time in get
ting tbe ball off : the backboard.
Jewel McDowell started off the
Aggie scoring when he took a
handoff from Houser to dribhle
in f6r a crip : shot while the
game was only;two seconds old.
From theh on out it was the
Fish’s4ame. Hie scoring came
fast and furious with Davis, Mc
Dowell, and Houser doing most
of the shooting^
The young Cadets managed to
grab a 27-15\ halftime lead and
Shortly afterwards Coach Wilkins
took out his first stringers and
evened the gaimj up.
Buddy Davis is qpickly living up
to his pre-soasop rating as one m
the best cage j prospects in the
southwest,; Davit, not only played
u Imng op defensive game, but led
Ids ty a inmates offenslvelyby ruck
ing up a total jof 14 points, and
no doubt ho could have seortol over
thirty,'
The Nedoilniul flwsl. al I
proved he .’tml.j got off his
under the lump, He rmislslunt
buttered il.nvn ileaiknl scoring wt\
tempts and with his long teuth In
and under the basket. He also
preyed that, even tlmdgh being II
feet 8 Inches, htj didn’t! need to be
right under the hoop to score.
"Wo.Kly Walktir," the Woodhouse
workhorse, Stsolproved n big help
to the freshmail 1 cagent. His tricky
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Squad Falters
Lead-Catching
SACK SPORDE
For the third time in four games the Te
ketball team lost a lead in the last five minut.
This time it was to the Sam Houston State
Huntsville in the game played last night, in
House. As the clock made its final motions
Jiread “Visitors 58, Aggies 50.” 4 / ||
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JOHN DeWITT played his best
game of the year for the maroon
and white last night while mak
ing 16 points. His scoring in the
last few minutes almost pulled
the game out of the fire.
Boxing Bouts To
Be Held at Allen
“All Aggies are invited to parti-
th«
Major sporty should continue to
for an [prosper during 1949. Major I.cu-
»f !• yards , . . hut he j gie baseball is looking forward to
publicity once' n^w attendance records for the
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was d 0 ' 11 ? to
iope he will not
shoot apy athlete jiist: because he
doesn’t Want tp come to A&M.
Jack Crook,; also a news hound,
announces that he recently shot
a five-point buck (on toy lease).
Isow’, Jack, tell them about the
$21 firie you had to pay when
that shotgun i|yod borrowed was
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meat.
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fourth straight yitar. Several rea-
stjns appear to*l>^: |
[Seven managerial changes; the
continued slugging,of Stan Mesial
of the St. Louis Cardinals and Ted
Williams of the Boston Red Sox;
miore night games-—and television.
[However, as video branches out
it* may continue to hamper minor
league teams, within range of ma
jor league cities with TV.
jin football, Michigan, Notre
Dame and Army should have pow-
eitful teams. A team that will near
wptching in the East is Cornell,
loaded with brilliant sophomores
aOd’ juniors.
In horse racing Citation, the
j n^wi Man o’ War, will become the
[.first thoroughbred to pass the mil
lion dollar mark jn money won.
Ope of the good 3-year olds will be
Mr. Busher, a Kentucky Derby
contender.
[It will take more’ than TV and
a| pew heavyweight champion to
rpviye boxing. Champion Joe Louis
a | hollow shell of his former self,
is overdue to lose his crowd—if
ho fights again—but as yet no
body has shown tip who Can de
throne him. 1 ,
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BOX SCORES
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STATE FAIR SETS MARK
DALLAS, Dec. 16 —UP)— The
State Fair of Texas drew almost
2 000,000 persons this year and
showed a iiet profit of $42djt)0p.
Pj-esient R. L. Thornton last
n ght reported to stpekholders that
l>j>th profit and attendance set new
records, /
NAME
Houser
"Johnson
Brcthauer
Bentley
Bybee
Woo<l
Church
Davis
Talley
Satidlinl
J McDowell
Walker
Ogletrce
Farmer
Gibbs
Glover
Olin
McDopald
Tochec
Kirkpatrick
Iguina
Cadwalder
Nowak
Steus^y
Wilsop
dribbling and fine shooting netted
the young Farmers six points. Bob
by Farmey also turned in a fine
performance last night. The young
Amarillo eager, although scoring
only four points, kept the Bearkat
offense in a complete state of con
fusion.
The { second string cagers did
n't look too well in the second
half, although, Sandlin turned in
a fine berfotiinance under thd
haNket. Their had passing, crum
pled defense, and pour shooting
cipgtc in the Golden Gloves tourna
ment to be hold here in Jan
Frank Navies; said yesterda
ment to be hold here in January,"
sterday. Na
vies is in charge of the district
In the first half only three off-
the Bearkats had broken into the
scoring column. They were Celling,
Phillips, and Watkins. Several of
the other Huntsville players broke
into the scoring section in the sec*,
ond half.
Starring for the night was Aggie
center John DeWitt, six foot five
sophomore from Waco. Keeping up
the good defensive work that he
has been doing all season, DeWitt
also seemed to decide to do a little
scoring on his own last nighh . j
Besides making 16 points for
the Aggies, he also held former
Junior College All-American Ac
ker Hanks to a total of four
points for the evening.
James Kirkland opened the scop
ing for the Aggies within five sec
onds after the opening toss*up of
the ball by Umpire Bill .Wallace,
[with a crip shot,
boqts to be hpld at Alien Academy
on January 14, 15, and 16.
All weights will he entered in
this open ■ cion teat, and winners
will rereive transportation to the
regional bom* al Temple.
Entry blaijlts can bo obtained
from the Battalion office, or by
contacting WmvIch ln ; Bryan, He
said that an altem|it. will he made
to give medtiU In the wlnnera in
eaeh division,'
IIEFF.NHE LEAK RUMORED
WASHINGTON, Dec, 111 - i/Pu,
(longfeaslonal spy Inyektlgators
disefosed today they ui'e looking
into a chnrgt 1 that seepets of the
Norden Bomwdght were slipped to
the Russians 10 years ago by a
civilian who jttill is on the arrny’a
payroll.
hampered their game quite a bit.
Fouls wore! committed through
out the fray; a lot of which the
officials did not call. The Fish
picked up nine points off of Bear
kat mishaps while the Sam Hous
ton cagers racked up a total of six
points via the Aggie charity route.
“Cotton 0 Watkins soon tied the
score up for the Bearkats with the
same 'type shot Several seconds
later, Sam Jenkins, the captain of
last yhar’s Aggie cage squad, was
injured, when ho slammed his head
against the court floor and had tq
bo removed from the game, He
re-entered the game later; how
ever, although still limited, in ef*
feetivenuM*. [j ? ■
In Ihe first quarter, (he Ag
gies look an elegpn to nU lead,
only lo he unable to go heyond
that store unlil the Hearkata had
moved their acore up to sixteen
points,
Mam Jenkins finally broke the
Jinx with a merry throw donated
by the Houstonitea, only to have
the Farmers stuck at that .point
until Sam Houston had a score of
21 points.
From that time until the end of
the game the Aggies Climbed back
into the fray and even took [over
the lead in the last quarter, At
halftime the score was 28-25 in
favor of the Bearkats.
After moving up to within one
point of their opponents in the
last half several times, DeWitt
and Jenkins collaborated to put
the Aggies out in front 47-42
■hfe
Hcorebojard
uraafiB
with only five
ing in the game.
) This js the poinLwhete _
gies began to pull weir fadit
There can be no rjaflection L-
Aggie team who folight as bM
ever in the last minutyi. b«t tn
hit a cold spell while the Htt
team became wartn. AjlM
probably have a hot streak at the
close of a game sometime
Moon?
a game
future.
If an alibi for
wanted, the inju
Bill Batyy and Sa
in the game.’ Sa
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suffered
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Houston Joes
C
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Team to Play
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Junior College 48*0 in the norilii
Texas Junior (jbllqiifIfq ifereil^lH
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arkats by two
whole,* tho play
im*ked the l>eat df
the possible excep-
Ohriatlan gamp.
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but this 1 week thei teaih Iquiid It-d^
self without the chgmpichishjip. The
eligibility fommittao of.the J»)nipr
College Athletic Cdnfttreiice m it in
Wnc»t last Htindayfand dMgivd a
WlmrUm plsyer, Eugene (irecr, in-
ellglhle rtfter NnVnrro prbtityted
the gnme last Fridayf The iimligl-
bllity brought alitdit the vaneella-
Hon of Wharton's ihainpionahlji of
the cohferenee. ^ rir
Ray Waller, president of (he
ronfenince imitouijcetl that Green
was deglared after CtlaCh Johnnie
Frankie of Whsrtjim bad ,imu i h,•
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nd pljay of fa of the
ivktrrO laat Friday
romtAlHee that the leaitt’s fUr
halfback played B-team and far-
slly foolbsll n( Texas A&M In
1946-47, Grech Waa foUh
heavily to bolshir ,;the
bnckfield (his yei
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an a half doitni former
to f fill; This week the
av»l to.Conrite where
ijneit Henderson Jtinldr
tn December 29 they
Jijmlnr Colloge in tlty
wl |jt Ualvpaton. . i
jHiji y»n ■ Wharton Junior (kil-
llki^tn* jinkMIM the sixth best
JH|nw 1 Go hgt team In the nation
by thf Will ainsqn poll. Two of the
pl« ( vi*rsj guard Ervin Mueg*
(ok- Hill Morrow, we ;«
8 Junior College' A I*
4lni'flein niece nd tram,
lit# ■ '
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e Big Ten, Maybe
ICAG >, Dec. 16 (A*!—Mich-
^tate i ’oljegc was a new mem-
| the Wosiem Conference to-
put nqbody—especially puz*l- '
J )tba|l (jbaches—knew ’ juist
the big nine would start
ming acitively as the big ten,
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Cristinas is the time of the year when people all over the wc
with their family and friends. May this prove to be a joyous c
New Year bring an abundance of good health and prosperity
COLLEGE STATION STATE
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