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Fish Basketball Squad Goes To Wharton Saturday Night Aggie Trainer Has Hands Full Healing Athletes’ Sprains * By FRANK SIMMEN, JR. Aggie Athletic Trainer Blaine Rideout can boast of holding three track records. The 31-year old Navy veteran moved to College Station from Denton last year where he was assistant coach of football, basketball, and head track coach at Denton High School. Blaine and his twin brother 4- Wayne won world recognition for their middle distance running at North Texas State College from 1937 to 1940. The young trainer ran mile laps on two medley re lay teams, and the 880 on another, which set the still-standing world’s record. Rideout graduated from Tus cola, Illinois High School after setting a state mile record of 4:29. He cut the time to 4:08.5 at Memphis on May 11, 1940. His twin brother, Wayne, is now in the Rio Grande Valley in the life insurance business. The Navy cut short Blaine’s coaching career, but it led him to his present vocation of physical theraphy. He was attached to the 4th. Marine Division, and saw ser vice on Namur. Iwo Jima, Saipan and Tinian in the Pacific. He was discharged from the Navy in ’45 after two and one-half years with a Chief Pharmacist Mate’s stripes. He spent two years at his old alma mater before coming to Ag- gieland last fall. Rideout doesn’t have to worry about what to do with his week ends here, for he is gone most of the time. He accompanied the football team on every one of its trips ,and promply changed to basketball when that sport arrived on the scene. Much of his time is taken up taping sore ankles, / giving foot baths, spraying throats, dressing cuts and bruises, and giving mas sages to ailing muscles. Rideout also has several types of heat treatments available. The most modern of these are the dia thermic and infra-ray heaters, which heat from the inside. Intramural Play Nears Finish; Mitchell Wins Vet Volleyball “E” Infantry crashed into the intramural basketball quarter-finals Wednesday night as they defeated “B” Ath letic 23 to 15. The Infantrymen proved to be a fast finishing team. While managing to score only six points in the first half to 12 for “B” Athletic, the* Jack f Q°uh : ey E wPtMTpoints^put! 10 play a11 three £ ames - In the on a spurt in the /Second half to win the ^ame. H. l L. Jones was high point man for the athletic crew. Mitchell took the Veteran vol leyball championship by down ing Dorm 3 in two straight games. The second game was a close one with the score tied 14-14 at one time. Mitchell then quickly added two more points to win the game. This marks the second straight time that Mitch ell has taken the volleyball cham pionship. In two quarter-final volleyball games among Corp teams, “A” Transportation tangled with “A” ASA and won after being forced other game “A” Quartermaster, which has had a fine intramural season, defeated “A” CWS in two straight games. “C” Infantry and “A” Infantry will meet for the Corp tennis championship. Both teams won ,their - semi-final matches Wednes day afternoon. “C” Infantry down ed “D” Veterans in straight sets and “A” Infantry defeated the Day Students, two games to one. Red Auerbach, coach of the Washington Capitols of the Bas ketball Association of America, was a member of the 1939-40 Geo. Washington U. cage squad. Aggie Golden Gloves Entry Blank Name Weight Age Box Number Address (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. wm UMUift, SOMETHING SPECIAL! Buy a Suit From COURT’S ~€&c£tiaiwe. North Gate GET EXTRA PANTS FOR ONLY $5 from same material . . . or different pattern. ORDER NOW Take advantage of this offer $5 for Extra Pants Freshman Cage List Is Cut To Twenty Players By FRANK SIMMEN, Jr. The freshman cage team will meet Wharton Junior College in a game tomorrow night in Wharton. The strong fish five will have a real bat tle on their hands when they meet Coach Johnny Frankie’s quintet. Coach Taylor Wilkins has cut his freshman basketball squad for the second time this season. The young mentor has decided to keep 20 boys on the official list. “The squad has shown a mark improvement since they came back from the holidays and have looked better than they ever- looked before.” said Coach Wilk ins when asked about his teams chances in tomorrow night’s tilt. The freshmen lost by a slim four- point margin in a practice game with the varsity squad Wednesday afternoon. Buddy Davis, who will be counted on heavily in the fray tomorrow night, outscored varsity center John DeWitt under the hoop. The varsity took an early 12 to 2 lead but it was shox-t lived as the freshman soon caught up and tied the score 23-23. In the latter part of the game the freshmen went ahead by a 34 to 31 margin but failed to keep the lead in the closing minutes. The official cage squad now includes: Gibbs, Davis, Bybee, Glover, Brethauer, Walker, John son, Wood, Smith, Berry, Sand lin, Skipper, Houser, Farmer, Ogletree, Talley, Church, Ecrette Parks and Leonard. Another eager who will stay out with the squad is Wescombe (Rabbit) Jones. Jones is ineligible for the freshman team because of an excess of hours but will stay with the freshman team to pick up some experience. The young eager played some fine ball in high school and is expected to be of some value to Coach Marty Karow next season. Taking the post for tomorrow nights game will be Bentley and Houser at forwards, McDowell and Farmer at the guard slots and Davis at center. All the boys appear to be in top shape. The freshman five will be seeking their third straight win of the season, having defeated Al len Academy and the Sam Houston State “B” Squad in opening tilts. Went, Evans Sign Pro Contracts EL PASO, Tex., Jan. 7 <A>)— Texas Mines’ little All America tackle, Ray (Sugar) Evans, and star fullback, Fred Wendt, had pro fessional football contracts today. Evans, who usually cleared the way for Wendt’s spectacular runs, signed yesterday with the Cleve land Browns of the All-America Conference. Wendt, who set a new individ ual rushing record last season of 1570 yards, signed with the Chicago Cardinals of the Nation al League. Evans was chosen the outstand ing player of the Border Confer ence the last two year-s and was rated one of the finest lineman in the Sagebrush circuit’s history. Wendt, who started out to be an end, reached his peak last sea son when he sparked the Miners into the Sun Bowl New Year’s Day. Gagers to Start League Play Tonight Farmers Open Battle to Stay Swimmers Open COACH . HARRY STITELER inspects the operation scars of Aggie center HULIN SMITH. Last season Smith was hobbled by an injury cartliage and did not see much action, so the Athletic De partment arranged for an operation during the holidays. Smith will not be well in time to participate in spring training, but should be ready next fall. S Battalion PORT FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 1949 S Page 3 Out of Cellar With SMU, TCU By LEON SOMER The. Texas Aggies will begin Southwest Conference competition by playing two games away from home this week-end. Tonight the Cadets take on the fast improving TCU Horned Frogs in the Will Rogers Memorial Colliseum in Fort Worth. Saturday night Coach Marty Karow will take his team to Dallas to* meet Southern Methodist. Coach Buster Brannon’s cagers already have pulled the first upset of this season by defeating SMU 58-52 last Tuesday night in the opening Southwest Con ference game. Tonight TCU will be out to notch their second victory at the expense of the Farmers. A&M has been off to a slow start this season, taking only three of twelve games played. Two of these victories were over Southwestern Oklahoma Teach ers and the other was a win over Abilene Christian. The Cadets have been working out hard all week, hoping to find a combination that will stop the Frogs who showed plenty of hustle and determination in Tuesday night’s win over the Mustangs. Pacing the Frogs in that game was their 29 year old center Julius Dolnics who led both teams in scoring for the night with 21 points. Six games are on tap for this weekend involving Southwest Con ference teams. Five of the six contests to be played are confer ence tilts. In the only other game tonight Texas plays SMU in Dallas. The Freshmen Expected To Bolster Baseball Squad This Season By BILL POTTS Its not long until another spring rolls around the corner and when it happens, another baseball season will be here. Marty Karow, combined basket- ball-baseball coach, will start the boys practicing even before the current basketball season is over. He will have only five lettermen returning- from last years’ team that finished in the runner-up spot next to Texas. Four of the return ees, Cotton Lindloff, second base- man, Russel Mayes, third base- man, Bobby Fretz, first baseman A1 Severance is in his 13th sea son as head basketball coach at Villanova College. The Largest . . . ELECTRICAL APPLIANCE STORE in Bryan— Come in and see us for large or small appliances: RADIOS . . ELECTRIC IRONS STUDENT LAMPS FLOOR LAMPS PRESTO COOKERS COFFEE MAKERS KELVINATOR . . HOT POINT —and many other usefuls— * UNITED APPLIANCES FARM & HOME STORE & AGGIE RADIO Phone 2-1496 Mines Upset Tech In Border Loop LUBBOCK, Jan. 7 <£>)—.Texas Mines flashed a warning to other Border Conference basketball teams not to regard it so lightly. The Miners upset Texas Tech’s Red Raiders last night, 57-53, with little Kayo Perez taking starring honors. Perez scored 17 points and it was his tricky ball handling that enabled the' Miners to stall suc cessfully in the final two minutes of play. The University of Arizona staved off a last quarter upris- ing.-by Hardin-Simmons to take a 50-43 decision in a conference tilt. West Texas State’s game with New Mexico at Albuquerque was postponed because of a city power failure. Two games are scheduled to- night. Texas Tech plays New Mex ico A&M at Las Cruces, N. M., and Hardin-Simmons plays Arizona State of Tempe at Tempe, Ariz. Tomorrow, Hardin-Simmons and Arizona State of Flagstaff play at Flagstaff, Ariz., and Texas Tech meets New Mexico at Albuqurque, N. M. Leon Blevins paced Arizona with 15 points. Julius Stagner was high for Hardin-Simmons with 13 points. Guard James Hill led a strong Texas Tech rally in the second half, scoring 14 of his 16 points in this period. Lost An 6 E’ WASHINGTON, D. C., —(/P>— The Washington Lions of the American Hockey League recently made a deal with Springfield whereby the two teams exchanged players—and the Washington team lost an “E”. The Lions lost the vowel when they sent W’alter Ba- bey to Springfield in exchange for Johnny Baby. and pitcher, and Jim Calvert, cat-- cher, were on the starting nine. The fifth, Alvis Nixon, was a re lief pitcher. Returning squadmen from last year include Bruce Morrise, a promising pitcher, Danny Green, outfielder, Johnny Blazen, out fielder, Drego, catcher, and Her- schel Maltz, first baseman. Coming up from last spring’s fish nine will be the most promis ing crew of freshmen to don base ball uniforms at Aggieland in a long time. Coached by Charlie De- Ware, the fish team compiled one of the best records ever made by- an Aggie freshman team. They won 13 and lost two—one defeat coming near the beginning of the season at the hands of the Sam Houston State Bearkats, and the other from the Texas Shorthorns in their final game. Karow can expect to have an other team of sluggers this spring if the Fish team’s record means anything. They finished last spring with a batting average of .314, and eleven members of the squad were clouting the ball above the .300 mark. Guy Wallace was the big gun of the Fish last year and much is expected from him. He finish ed the season with a prodigious .434 batting average, and on top of that, was the classiest short stop on an Aggie fish team in many years. Right behind Wallace was fifst baseman Bill McPherson with*- a batting average of .391. The leading home run hitter for the fish was Blanton Taylor. The centerfielder divided his time be tween baseball and spring football training, but still managed to hit j 13 homers and ended the season I with a .343 average. Six men tossed for the fish last spring and the workhorse of i the lot was Pat Hubert, who led them all with five wins. Right ! behind Hubert was Truett Mob- j ley with three wins. J. B. McCoy was the oldster of the crew and he ended the season with two victories and no losses. Red Wiggins, who also hit the win column twice, Harold Higgins, who won his only start, and Larry Ludtkc complete the pitching staff. These pitchers had plenty of good men to back them up last season and most of them are back again this year. Experience is the only thing they need. With the replacements mention ed plus a host of other stellar players that made the Fish team what it was, Karow is going to have plenty to pick his starting nine from. Where the Aggies will end up in the conference race this spring is hard to say, but you can bet on one thing, they’ll be close to the top. Three basketball stars are play- I ing their last season for George j Washington U. They are Maynard 1 Haithcock, Dave Shapiro and Bill Cantwell. MIDWAY CLEANERS Special Rates on Cash & Carry TWO DAY SERVICE Satisfaction Guaranteed MIDAWAY AND COLLEGE ROAD A1 Saenger To Preside at T Club Banquet A1 Saenger of Houston, ’32, will be toastmaster at the third Annual A&M Club Of ficer’s meeting at College Sta tion January 14, 15, and 16. Friday night, January 14, at 7 p. m., the annual “T” Banquet, hon oring varsity and freshman foot ball players and the cross country men, will be the highlight of the evening. At this time letters, a- wards, and “T” Medals will be given to persons participating in all forms of athletics during the fall. Kern Tips has been invited to make the principal address, Dick Hervey, former Student Associa tion secretary announced. The following day, Saturday, sport films will be shown. The athletic department is making then- entire film library available for the showing of whatever picture members of the group wish to see. At the officers forum, scheduled for 9 p. m. Saturday night, Jan uary 15, problems peculiar to the individual offices will be discussed. The following Sunday morning, breakfast will be served the guests as a courtesy of the Former Stu dents Association, Hervey said. Beauty Only Hide- Deep NEW YORK—CP>— Donor is probably the homeliest of racing thoroughbreeds, but the son of Challedon has banked $261,910 for his owners on the track. However, he was so bony and unattractive as a two-year-old, none of the grooms wanted to rub him down. And he could have been claimed in his first race, which he won, for $3,500. 12 Winners MIAMI —.GP>— Trainers of, 12 Kentucky Derby winners will sta ble their horses this winter at Hia leah. They are B. A. Jones (Law- rin, Whirlaway, Pensive and Cita tion), Jim Fitzsimmons (Gallant Fox, Omaha and Johnston), Max Hirsch (Bold Venture and Assault) Ivan Parke (Hoop, Jr.), John Gav- er (Shut Out) and Hollie Hughes (George Smith). HEY AGGIES! We’ve just moved into our' new building! Visit us at our new location. TAYLOR’S Variety Store (At the New North Gate) Steers will be several point favor ites over the Mustangs. In Martin and Madsen they have the finest guard combination in the confer ence. Tomorrow night the Aggies will be in Dallas to play the Ponies while Texas moves over to Ft. Worth to meet TCU. Rice plays its first conference game in Waco Saturday night against Baylor. This will be the second game for the Bears who trimmed Arkansas in Fayetteville Wednesday night. The only non-conference game left to be played this week finds Arkansas traveling to Little Rock to meet the strong Phillips Oilers. BILL TURN BOW, a six loot one inch letterman forward from Perrin, is one of the starting five for the Aggie cagers this sea son. He ranked second in total number of points scored last season and has consistently been one of the most dependable play ers on the floor this season. He has one year of eligibility re maining. Women Pro Golfers To Play in PGA DALLAS, Jan. 7 The top women professional golfers in America will compete in a new di vision of the Texas P-G-A tourna ment here May 2-8. The tournament director, Gra ham Ross, announced acceptances for the women’s division of the tourney had been received from Patty Berg, Mildred (Babe) Zaha- rias, Louise Suggs, Betty Jameson and Helen Dettwiler. The DAC country club pro said final plans for the $11,500 P-G-A tournament would be made at a meeting this week end. It will be played at the Tenison Park municipal course. Byron Nelson is the defending champion in the tournament. Ross said the Roanoak ace will defend his title, won last year in El Paso. The tournament will open with a 36-hole qualifying round for the national P-G-A. On the second day, the pros will stage a doubles eyent. The third day’s feature will be a pro-amateur event. In this, the women golfers will play, Ross said. Then,- the entries will begin the 72-hole stroke grind, winding up on Sunday, May 8. Dire Plans BUFFALO—CP)—Tom Rocky of the Buffalo club in the American Hockey League is an undertaker in the off-season, but before his teammates discovered it they got quite a scare. Rocky drove up to the Buffalo training camp in a hearse he uses in his business. The squad was sure hockey was quite that rugged a game. Tallest player on the Villanova College basketball squad is John Holland, six-seven. Workouts As Season Nears This could be the year for A&M to break the Longhorn’s strangle hold on the Conference Swimming crown, but Coach Art Adamson is not overly optimistic. He lost only two important men off of last year’s edition. Dash star Jack Riley graduated, and Johnny Heeman used up his eligibility. But Texas has retained most of its powerhouse from last year also, losing only Jack Tolar. To lar specialized in diving, but also captured points in the short dashes. It remains to be seen whether Campbell of Texas can take Tolar’s place on the board. For the last two years A&M has beaten Texas in dual meets, only to lose the all important conference meet. Danny Green, one of A&M’s all-time swimming greats, will be back for his last year of com petition. Green has a corner on both the 50 and 100-yard dash conference records. This season he also expects to try for points in the individual medley (back- stroke, breaststroke, and free style). Perhaps the second most im portant post on the team goes to Jimmy Flowers. The husky foot ball player is fast in the breast stroke and free style, add may fur nish the margin of victory for his team. Art is expected to use his talents in two relays, in addition to the breaststroke. Next on the list of point-getters is Bernie Syfan. Syfan is good in both distance and dash races. He has been working out on the 1500 meter distance swim, the new ad dition to the conference events. Syfan will also handle a slot on the 400-yard free style relay. Gilbert McKenzie and Paul Flem ing will team with Syfan in the distance swims. Texas has its greatest power in the breaststrokers’ post, with three top men. It will be up to “Tiger” Moye, Gene Summers, George Diek, and Arlan Mc Kenzie to swipe some points for the Aggies, in addition to Flow ers. Summers will also compete in the individual medley. Ed Kruse, Reeves, and Buddy Fisher will handle the backstroke chores for the Aggies. Our admitted weak spot is in- diving. Heeman was rounding in to fine form last season, and his loss will hurt A&M in that event. Bill Starit, Scotty Potter, and Howell Johnson have been work ing on tthe high board, but it is doubtful any of them will be able to garner many points this season. Adamson will throw his squad into action on January 31 here against Oklahoma U. in a warmup fray. Then the weak Baylor Bears visit here on February 2nd. The Aggie squad has been work ing out most of the semester, and should hit their form early. Many of the swimmers were on the championship Water Polo team, and are ready now. JOHNSON’S UPHOLSTERY SHOP SEAT COVERS Plastic — Straw Convertible Tops Back of Eagle Office BRYAN TAX Prompt Courteous Service PHONE 2-1400 Bryan Radio Repair... ... is our specially The Radio Shop One Block west of Post Office on W. 26th St. “A member of Philco Service” BRYAN PHONE 2-2819 COMPLETE REPAIR ... on all makes and models of radios Also BATTERIES FOR YOUR PORTABLE