District Golden Gloves Meet
To Be Held At Allen Academy
Tournament to Be Staged Next Week;*^ 7, ^T~
Aggies Are Expected to Enter Team Choose
Outstanding
State Player
By FRANK SIMMEN, JR.
The annual Golden Gloves tournament will be held in
Bryan'January 13, 14, and 15 at the Allen Academy Gym
nasium. This tournament is open to all Aggies who have an
amateur status at the present time as well as to other ama
teurs in this district.
The district tournament will be>;
held in the Allen Academy Gym
nasium and the regional tourna
ment will take place in Temple.
All Aggies who are intei*ested in
getting in a little boxing exper
ience, and are eligible for competi
tion, are asked to fill out the entry
blank below.
The Texas A&M Golden Gloves
team is expected to be very strong
but its real strength will not be
known until all entry blanks have
been turned in.
Winning boxers in the district
meet at Bryan will go to Temple
for the regional meet to be held
there January 28, 29, and 31.
Those winning there will then
go to the state meet at Ft. Worth
and then to the national meet
which was held in Chicago last
year. Those boxers going to the
national meet will have all ex
penses paid.
Entry blanks have been distri
buted to Bamey Welch in the In
tramural Athletic Department and
in the Batt Sports Department.
Anyone desiring additional infor
mation should contact either of
these^two offices.
The Bryan district tournament is
composed of Brazos, Burleson,
Grimes, Madison, Robertson, Wal
ker, and Washington counties.
Reseeding Planned
For Kyle Field
Kyle Field will have a new coat
of grass in the next few weeks,
according to W. F. Fitts, care
taker. He said that grass seed has
been ordered, and that operations
should start before the spring se
mester.
New seed was planted last year,
but the Bermuda grass was mixed
with another type, and the field
retained its beaten and barren
look in spite of ample watering.
That and the dry weather made
the grass spotty and grey.
It is not known whether or not
this operation will prevent spring-
training workouts on the field, al
though it is presumed that it will.
Much of the wear and tear on
the grass was the result of the
varsity’s workouts on Kyle Field
during secret practice last fall.
The Battalion has positions
open' on the sports staff for
interested persons. Those inter
ested should see Roland Bing
in the Student Activities office.
Aggie Golden Gloves Entry Blank
Name
Weight Age
Address
Box Number.
(Room number and dorm)
Experience :
(Number of bouts) (Years of experience)
Have you had Golden Gloves experience?
If so where, when, and how many bouts won?
Fill in the above blank and bring it to The Battalion
office, Goodwin Hall.
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Next to Campus Theater
Balloting is now underway
to select the outstanding foot
ball player of the year in Tex
as high school football. Every
member of the Texas Sports
Writers Association has been
contacted by mail in the last
few days and asked to turn in
his ballot so that the winner
can be known by January 14.
So far, three Batt sports writers,
Art Howard, Sack Spoede, and
Bill Potts, have participated in the
voting. They were unanimous in
selecting Claud Kincannon, great
back from Waco high school, as
their man. They readily agreed
with each other that Kincannon
was probably the greatest passer
in the state this year, and that he
rated the nod because his running
and kicking were above average.
The boy athlete receiving the
greatest number of votes in this
balloting will be an honor guest at
the annual banquet of the Univer
sity of Houston Ex-Students Asso
ciation. Last year Byron Townsend
of Odessa won the award.
Any high school player in the
state is eligible for the award. He
can be a lineman or back and from
t tit
GEORGE KADERA reclines under the diathermic apparatus
for treatment of a pinched nerve in his right shoulder. A&M’s star
discus hurler, Kadera will be ready to resume workouts in a few days.
His friends claim that he hurt his shoulder while throwing
firecrackers.
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Battalion
PORT
THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1949
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AM Consolidated Will Hold
Cage Tournament Next Week
any class school—city conference,
class AA, class A, class B or six-
man football.
The third annual A&M Consolidated Invitation Basket
ball Tournament sponsored by the College Station Kiwanis
of the selection A&M Consolidated High School Gym-
Eagles, Top Pro Grid Team,
Put Up for Sale at $250,000
PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Jan. 6+
(/pi — The champion Philadelphia
Eagles of the National Football
League were put up for sale Wed
nesday—and Owner Alexis Thomp
son said he’d take nothing less
than $250,000.
Thompson, recuperating from an
appendicitis operation, authorized
Gen. Mgr. Charles Ewart to handle
the sale.
Thompson said at New York “I’m
ready to sell if the price is right.”
He added:
“My figure is no less than
$250,000 and no higher than
$300,000. The difference will be
settled on the basis of new
equipment we’ve purchased and
ticket sales for next season.”
“I have empowered Ewart to act
for me in connection with sale of
the Eagles, but when it comes down
to closing any deal, the final ap
proval will be given by me.
The Eagles won the NFL cham
pionship last month defeating the
Chicago Cardinals in a snowstorm
7 to 0.
Thompson said “No one has ap
proached me, personally, with an
offer to buy the Eagles.”
Two weeks ago, James P. Clark,
former Democratic city chairman,
said he and a group of Philadelphia
businessmen had made an offer for
the club.
The Eagles owner said he never
met Clark and added flatly:
“The rumor that the deal for the
Eagles is almost closed is still just
rumor.”
Announcement wx me . T r
is expected to be made at some H&Slum Oil January 14-15.
date after the 14th of January. Trophies will be awarded to first, second, and third
place teams in the meet. Awards
will also be made to members
chosen on the all-tournament team.
The teams entered this year
are Somerville, lola, Madison-
ville, Navasota, Richards, Milano
North Zulch, Leona, and Lott.
First round games will be as
follows: Navasota vs Milano,
Leona vs A&M Consolidated,
Madisonville vs North Zulch, and
Somerville vs Ida. Somerville
and Consolidated are favorites in
the tournament along with de
fending champion Navasota.
Few basketball fans who attend
ed the tournament last year will
forget the final game when Nava
sota defeated A&M Consplidated
in the second overtime period 46-44.
Coach Boot Simmons’ cagers
are off to a fast start this year
with two victories over Navasota
and one over the Bryan “B”
team.
District competion for the Tig
ers got under way this week with
a game at Normangee last Tues
day night and one at Centerville
tonight.
Bears Beat Hogs 41-37
With Last-Half Rally
Mathias First ^ ears Show That They Are Out
In Sullivan
Balloting
NEW YORK, Jan. 6 (A 5 )—Bob
Mathias, the 17-year-old marvel
from Tulare, Calif., who won the
Olympic decathlon championship at
London, has been voted the James
E. Sullivan Memorial Trophy as the
outstanding United States amateur
athlete for 1948.
The award, most coveted in the
world of amateur sport, has been
given annually since 1930 to the
amateur “who, by performance, ex
ample and good influence, did most
to advance the cause of good
sportsmanship during the year.”
Mathias, now a student at Kiski
Preparatory School at Saltsburg,
Pa., was given 201 first-place votes
out of 525 ballots cast by sports
leaders throughout the country.
Harrison Dillard, the great
Negro sprinter and hurdler who
won the Olympic 100 meters at
London, placed second to Mathias
with 119 first-place votes. Dil
lard also ran second last year,
when the award went to Jack
Kelly, the Philadelphia sculler.
VERDEUR THIRD
Third in the voting was Joe Ver-
deur, Olympic breast-stroke swim
ming champion from Philadelphia,
chosen by 77 selectors; fourth,
Henry Wittenberg, New York
City’s peerless wrestler who won
the Olympic 175-pound title, 64
votes; fifth, Bob Kurland, tower
ing center of the Phillips Basket-
Title
(A*) Busy
Saddler to Defend
NEW YORK, Jan. 6 -
Sandy Saddler will defend his
world featherweight championship
February 11—less than four month
after he won it.
His foe in the 15-round title
fight at Madison Square Garden
will be the one from whom he
snatched the crown—Willie Pep.
BILL BATEY, Forward
Bill has been looking good in
recent workouts with the varsity
and is fighting hard for a posi
tion on the starting five. A 6
foot letterman from Moulton, he
led the Aggies in scoring last
year with 250 points.
Cleveland Indian pitching star
Gene Bearden led the American
League hurlers in his first season
with an earned run average of 2.43.
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Four Arrested For
Attempting to Fix
Basketball Game
NEW YORK, Jan. 6 —<A>t Four
men were under arrest on a brib
ery charge today after a college
basketball player told authorities
they tried to get him to “fix” a
game.
District Attorney Frank S. Ho
gan said the arrests last night,
following four months’ investiga
tion by New York City detectives,
came after David Shapiro of Brook
lyn, co-captain of George Wash
ington University’s cage squad,
had reported the bribe offer to him.
Hogan praised Shapiro, a 25-
year old GI law student who won
four battle stars in World War II,
for his courage and honesty in
working with the district attorney’s
office until the arrests were made.
Charged with violation of a sec
tion of the penal law covering
bribery of participants in amateur
sports and with conspiracy were:
Joseph Aronpwitz, 35, a cloth
cutter, of Brooklyn, N. Y.
Philip Klein, 24, a linotype op
erator, also of Brooklyn.
Jack Levy, 40, of Miami, Fla.
William Rivlin, 43, of New York.
Hogan said Shapiro told him
that the four men had offered him
$1,000 to make certain his team
lost to Manhattan College at Mad
ison Square Garden last night by
a lopsided score.
Manhattan, an early 7% point
favorite, rose to a 13-point favor
ite before game time. Shapiro
didn’t score a point in the game
and fouled out on five personals.
Van Brocklm May
Sign With Rams
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 6 —(A 5 )—
The Los Angeles Rams expect to
add Norman Van Brocklin of Ore
gon to an imposing stable of quar
terbacks for their national pro
football league 1949 season.
In passing the Oregon Webfoots
into the coast conference co-cham
pionship with California and into
the Cotton Bowl, Van Brocklin com
pleted 68 passes out of 139 in 10
games for a 48.9 per centage.
In the Cotton Bowl, where Sou
thern Methodist beat Oregon, 21-
13, Van Brocklin completed eight
out of 19 for 145 yards and one
touchdown. He is a 6 foot, 1 inch,
192-pouiidei' from Walnut Creek,
California.
Platoon Substation
Will Be Curbed By
New Rule Changes
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 6 (A*)—
Football rule changes aimed at
liberalizing free substitution, while
curbing “bench quarterbacking,”
were proposed to the National Col
legiate Athletic Association today.
The advisory rules committee of
the American Football Coaches’
Association recommended that
free substitutions be permitted be
tween plays when possession of the
ball changes from one team to the
other, as well as when time is call
ed out. A coach at present may
send in players in batches (the so-
called “platoon” system) only
when time has been called.
Also recommended by the ad
visory committee was elimination
of the present rule permitting
substitution of a man after every
play while the clock is running.
“Such a change would help eli
minate quarterbacking from the
bench,” commented Coach Tuss Mc-
Laughry of Dartmouth, a member
of the committee.
The change would permit substi
tution of a player only when time
has been called.
To Defend Their SWC Crown
By The Associated Press
The Baylor Bears made it clear last night that they in
tend to hang on to their Southwest Conference basketball
crown.
The Bears bore down hard to wrest a 41-37 victory from
Arkansas at Fayetteville. The score was tied many times
♦during the game—including 20-20
at the half—and Arkansas was
leading when the final whistle was
but minutes away. Then Baylor
rallied.
The game followed the pattern
of the only previous conference
joust, being just as hard-fought as
Texas Christian’s narrow 58-52 vic
tory over Southern Methodist at
Fort Worth Tuesday night.
Arkansas jumped into a lead
over Baylor on a field goal in the
first few minutes of play by center
Bob Ambler. Ambler paced Ar
kansas to an eight-point lead in
the second half but then was eject
ed on personal fouls.
A field goal by Don Heathington
put the Bears ahead 38-37 as the
game end neared. This was quickly
followed by a free throw by John
son and a final field goal by Bill
DeWitt.
There is no Southwest Confer
ence play tonight. Tomorrow night
Southern Methodist entertain's
Texas and Texas Christian takes
at Fort Worth.
ball Oilers, 36 votes, and Mrs. Al-
line Banks Sprouse of Atlanta, the
nation’s leading women’s basketball
star, 28 votes.
Only the six candidates were on
the ballot submitted to the selectors
after the field had been sifted by
the Sullivan award, committee at
the annual meeting of the Ama
teur Athletic Union here.
On a 5-3-1 tally of first-, sec
ond- and third-place votes, Ma
thias received 1,491 points, Dil
lard 1,087, Verdeur 749, Witten
berg 629, Kurland 392 and Mrs.
Sprouse 301.
The trophy will be presented to
Mathias at a luncheon here on Feb.
20, the day after the National AAU
Indoor Championships at Madison
Square Garden, in which the Cali
fornia phenomenon may be a com
petitor.
In citing Mathias for the award,
the AAU said:
“His extreme modesty and his
terrific competitive spirit have en
deared him to all followers of sport, on Texas A&M
Best Hard Luck Story To
Rate Prize In Tournament
MIAMI, Fla. —(A 3 )— There’s one fishing competition in which you
can win a prize if you lose.
It’s the Metropolitan Miami tournament and more than 300,000
anglers are expected to participate.
The $15,000 worth of prizes includes a tough luck trophy awarded
by Author Philip Wylie to the unfortunate fisherman with the best
hatd luck stoi i y. \ _
Among the more cherished awards are four perpetual trophies
—for the heaviest sailfish, the longest sailfish, the heaviest white
marlin and the heaviest jackfish.
The 106-day tournament runs into April and is open to everybodj
—there is no admission fee—and the eager school boy with dime store
equipment is just as eligible for a prize as any elaborately outfitted
wealthy sportsman.
Already entered are rod and reel experts from 44 states, the Dis
tinct of Columbia, Europe, Canada and South America.
How do you win the tough luck trophy?
Well, Collins L. Carter, of Albion, Mich., got this award at the
last tournament when a shark bit off the tail of a white marlin he
was about to boat after an hour’s struggle. The bite was estimated
at 13 pounds and the remainder of the fish weighed 10-7 pour.dsw--
The ultimate winner of the class scaled only 104 pounds, but
mutilated fish are not eligible so Carter joined the tough luck group.
The first tournament was held in 1936. The idea was started by a
group of sportsmen-businessmen in Miami and Miami Beach who
formed an association known as Anglers, Inc., to encourage sport
fishing in the metropolitan Miami area. All members donate their
services and refuse to accept prizes.
The tournament committee say the rules are kept as simple as
possible. All catches must be made unaided on rod and reel and must
be weighed in at one of 53 official weighing stations. Thirty one dif
ferent species of fish may be entered.
Just in case the avid angler needs encouragement the committee
points out that of 58 world records charted between 1874 and 1947
no less than 20 of the top fish were taken in Florida waters.
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