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This is the Aggie Freshman team which defeated Wharton Junior College 52 to 38 Saturday night. JEWELL McDOWELL, left, led the Fish by scoring 24 points. The rest of the team are, in the usual order, EDDIE HOUSER, BUDDY DAVIS, DICK BENTLEY, and BOBBY FARMER. McDowell Leads Fish Gagers To Victory Over Wharton JC By FRANK SIMMEN JR. After a slow start the Ag gie freshman cage team buck led down and dumped the Wharton Junior College bas- keteers by a score of 52 to 38 last Saturday night in Whar ton. Jewel McDowell, the ex-Ama- villo all-stater, led both teams in scoring by racking up 17 points in the first half. Although watched closely by the Pioneers in the sec ond period McDowell came back to rack up 7 more. “The Ears” wasted little time in getting started. When the game w^s less than a minute old he made a long shot to get the Ag gies started off right. He sunk them from the center strip to right under the basket and many times faked and dribbled the ball in to score while being guarded by a couple' of Wharton six-footers. JANUARY... CLEARANCE SALE MEN’S WOMEN’S AND BOYS CLOTHING and FURNISHINGS Take advantage of these tremendous savings now. It’s your chance to build up your ward robe at the loivest prices in years. FOR MEN . . . FINE SUITS TOP COATS SLACKS JACKETS ROBES PAJAMAS SPORT SHIRTS SWEATERS GLOVES NECKWEAR MUFFLERS MEN’S TOILETRIES LEATHER NOVELTIES JEWELRY FOR WOMEN ... DRESSES COATS SKIRTS SWEATERS JACKETS SLACKS ■ SLACK SUITS BLOUSES ROBES WOOL SCARFS TOILETRIES and Special Groups of ACCESSORIES BOY’S APPAREL SUITS . . . JACKETS . . . TOPCOATS SPORT SHIRTS . . . SLACKS . . ROBES BELTS . . . PAJAMAS . . . SWEATERS TEE SHIRTS . . . SOCKS . . MUFFLERS NECKWEAR. 1 A V C-* TV W1MBERLEY • STONE • DANSBV W.O.l/ CLOCRIERS College and Bryan The Aggies started off the scoring when Bentley made a charity shot, but lost the lead soon after that and were not able to regain it until early in (he second quarter. Once Mc- dowell and his men grabbed the lead spot it was no stopping them and they went on to win by 13 points. Buddy Davis of the Aggies and Bob Tomlin of the Pioneers tied for the number two spot in the scoring race with 10 points each. Davis played a bang up defensive game for the Fish, but until the second half couldn’t seem to see the basket. Bobby Farmer, who we learned Saturday night has a terrible tem per, almost punched a referee from Wharton back into Brazos Coun ty. The Amarillo star just couldn’t hold his. temper back after loos-, ing the ball while dribbling down court. The floor was in terrible condition, being too lively in the center. Tomlin was the only man on the Pioneer squad who could hit the hoop. He played a fine de fensive game for the JC’s, and led their scoring with 10 points. The game was a real thriller the first half, but after the Aggies improved their defense in the sec ond period the Pioneers had too much trouble in getting past the Aggie guards. Its a good thing Little Mac was hot, because the rest of his Freshman buddies were as cold as an Eskimo’s igloo. Buddy Davis was the only other eager on the Freshman team that even looked like a basketball player and sometimes during the game it was doubtful if he could make Consolidated’s B team. After a nip and tuck battle in the first quarter, the Aggies pull ed out ahead of the pack and cinched the lead while the game was officially 11 minutes in prog ress. Cagers Beat TCU, Lose To Mustangs Battalion PORT MONDAY, JANUARY 10, 1949 S Page 3 Longhorns Stop Frogs; Bears Master Owls in League Play Although Julius Dolnics, veteran TCU center, kept rack ing up points in the usual manner, the Texas Longhorns slapped down the Horned Frogs in Fort Worth Saturday night 59-46. Three Texas players, Slater Martin, Tom Ham ilton, and A1 Madsen, matched Dolnics in point making. It was two straight for Texas iny conference play, and the second ’ loss in three games for TCU. Twenty nine year old Dolnics scored 17 points, 7 of them on free throws as a tight Texas defense shackled him to some extent in the field. Superior ball handling, mixed with a definite edge in speed afoot brought Texas its victory. Texas’ center, Philip George, did the best' job of handling Dolnics seen in Will Rogers Coliseum here in conference play, and when he fouled out, a substitute sophomore Wilson Taylor, did nearly as well. Dolnics Spark Plug But despite the fly-paper guard ing of the Steer centers, the wily Frog pivot man, managed to tally five field goals, most of them from near the free throw line. Two of his scores came on tip-ins, and only once did he find shooting room under the basket. Martin and Madsen, Texas’ twin tornadoes, combined with the beefy Hamilton to subdue the resurgent Frogs. Slick passing, dribbling and faking by the first two", and a deadly hook shot by Hamilton did the damage. Martin and Madsen each contributed a cheap basket to the Texas total in the second half by stealing the ball and racing the length of the court to score. Texas Mines Beats H-S, Texas Tech DALLAS, Jan. 10 (TP)—Signs of a definite pattern are still miss ing from the scramble that makes up the Border Conference basket ball race. As customary for the past three years the University of Arizona Wildcats are at the top. This time their lead is built on the insecure foundation of a single win. Texas Tech was the victim of a surprising upset fashioned by Texas Mines. But the Red Raid ers are still favored. The new Arizona team looked like a potential champ when it forged into an 18-point lead over Hardin-Simmons. It barely stood up when the Cowboys turned on the heat and at one time came within five points of a tie. Texas Mines stole the week’s headlines by upsetting advance calculations and defeating both league favorites, Tech and West Texas. It pays a return visit to both schools plus Hardin-Simmons this week. Tech faces two of its strongest challengers, the Miners in Lub bock and West Texas in Lubbock. This was the third straight win for the young Aggies in as many starts. The Fish take on the Rice Owlets in a game in Houston this Thursday night. The junior Owls lost a close contest to Lamar last Saturday night but have a better team than their won-loss column shows. 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Attesting to the thoroughness and fairness of the all-state selec tions through the plan followed by the Sports Writer's Association, 8 schools that did not even win their district championships got men on the all-states. They were Bracken- ridge (San Antonio), Crozier Tech (Dallas), Milby (Houston) and Alamo Heights (San Antonio) in the City Conference, South Park (Beaumont) and Marshall in Class AA and Shamrock and Lockney in Class A. Waldo Young of Monahans was the most popular selection in class A with 21 votes. THE ALL-STATE TEAMS: City Conference Bob Thomas, Arlington Heights, end. George Pontikes, Lamar, end. Bill Georges, Arlington Heights, tackle. Dick Self, Brackenridge, tackle. George Windrow, Jefferson, gd. Louis Drozd, Crozier Tech, guard Edwin James, Milby, center. Donald Carpenter, Milby, back. Bill Forrester Woodrow Wilson, back. Frank Bowman, Alamo Heights back. Robert Snow, Arlington Heights back. CLASS AA James Garner, Amarillo, end. Charles Saxe, South Park, end. Charles English, Port Arthur, tackle. Don Thompson, Odessa, tackle. Bill Athey, Waco, guard. Bobby Hudgins, Amarillo, guard. Hugh Roeder, Pt. Arthur, center. Tom Stolhandske Baytown, back. Claud Kincannon, Waco, back. Gahlen Dinkle, Marshall, back. Marvin Vincent, Denison, back. Farmers Lose To SMUAfter Holding Large Early Lead Eight of the twelve players on the Villanova College basketball squad are from Philadelphia, all four of the others from nearby New Jersey. JOHN DeWITT paced the Ag gie Cagers in their two games against TCU and SMU with a total of 24 points. He is the only sophomore on the first team. Fourteen Schools Warned to Watch Recruiting Tactics SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 9 —<A>> Fourteen member schools of the National Collegiate Athletic Asso ciation have been warned to clean up their high-pressure recruiting of athletes by March 1. They are “clearly not comply ing” with the NCAA’s year-old “Sanity Code” regulating such matters, compliance c o mmittee chairman Clarence P. Houston re ported to the NCAA Executive Board. He did not name the of fenders. His report, given last night, also said that “Comparatively little in vestigation will be needed in these cases, as (their) answers to ques tionnaires admit violation.” Some 32 other schools, he said, gave answers which stirred doubts. Their questionnaire answers, he explained, were “such as to re quire more information in order to make a determination of their com pliance.” The sanity code, adopted by the NCAA at a New York meeting last year, is intended to end the recruiting of star athletes by prom ises of financial or other assist ance. Houston, of Tufts College, said “The great majority of active mem bers of the NCAA” appear to be “well within the requirements of the code,” and conducting their athletic programs “on a sound and ethical basis.” In another report at last night’s meetings, Dr. Floyd R. Eastwood informed NCAA representatives that college football went through the 1948 season without a single fatality. Dr. Eastwood, professor of Education at Los Angeles State College, said it was the fourth time since 1941 that American colleges finished a season with no deaths directly or indirectly re sulting from the game. In two games against the Wash ington Redskins in 1940, the Phil adelphia Eagles could gain only 54 yards by rushing the ball, but they gained 554 yards in the air. Coach Marty Karow’s cagers split their opening two games over the weekend, beating TCU 58 to 42 Friday and falling before a Mustang splurge, 55 to 37 Saturday night. The Aggies were underdogs in both tilts, bua deserved the rating only in the second half of the SMU game. A single point separated the two+ teams at the mid-point of the game but the Methodists made 34 count ers to 17 for A&M in the second half. The visiting Farmers ran up a quick 14-2 lead before SMU could get started, but made only four points while the hosts were making 17 on the shooting of Jack Brown and Bob Prewitt. The Mustang rally kept on go ing in the second half, netting 14 points to three for A&M in the first six minutes of play. This was the first win in three starts for the Mustangs, and gave A&M a one and one record. A&M’s scoring was spread out, with John DeWitt pacing the squad with nine points, followed by Kirk land with six. Bob Prewitt, for ward for SMU, led his team with 13 points, and sparked their win with his floor play. It was a different story against the Horned Frogs. After TCU pulled a surprise win from SMU, it looked as if the Aggies might come home winless. But Karow’s Krew played a head up floor game in racking up its easy 58 to 42 win. Three players, Billy Turnbow, Jim Kirkland and John DeWitt, split 42 points be tween them to lead the Aggie at tack in Fort Worth. A&M’s inexperienced squad used its fast-break to score set ups under the basket. They also swiped the ball on the Horned BOX SCORES SMU 55 Fg Ft FI Tp Brown, f 4 2 1 10 Prewitt, 4 5 1 13 Zatopek, c 3 2 3 8 Salmon, g 3 3 3 9 Lutg, g 2 5 2 9 Owen, g 1 0 1 2 Wilson, c 0 0 0 0 Cannady,f 2 0 1 4 Martin, c 0 0 1 0 Penn, g, f, 0 0 0 0 Gillespie, f 0 0 0 0 McKnight, g 0 0 0 0 Total 19 17 13 55 A&M 37 Fg Ft FI Tp Turnbow, f 2 0 5 4 Kirkland, f 3 0 3 6 DeWitt, c 4 1 0 9 Schrickl, g 2 1 4 5 Jenkins, g 0 3 3 3 Hrachovy, f -.0 . 2 2 2 Batey, f 2 0 2 4 Mobley, f 1 1 - 1 3 Martin, f 0 0 0 0 Moon, g 0 0 0 0 Miller, g 0 1 0 1 Allen, f 0 0 0 0 Wallace, g 0 0 0 0 Total 14 9 20 37 JANUARY CLEARANCE SALE CORDUROY Yd. $1.69 TWILL-BACK VELVETEEN Yd. $2.29 VELVET..; Yd. $2.19 MILLIHEN WOOL PLAIDS FLANNEL & CREPE $1.49 to $2.99 Yd. MILLIHEN 100% WOOL GABARDINE Yd. $5.98 MILLIHEN DUVETYNE 100 % WOOL Yd. $3.98 P MITTS (Beauty SHOP OPEN 8 A.M. TO 6 P.M. Phone 4-1169 E= * > ' SOUTH SIDE COLLEGE STATION Half-time score: SMU 21, A&M 20. Free throws missed: SMU— Brown 2, Zatopek, Salmon 4, Wil son. A&M DeWitt 2, Schrickel, Hrachovy 2, Mobley. Officials: Bill Keeling and Ad Dietzel. A&M Fg Ft FI Tp Turnbow, f' 4 5 3 13 Kirkland, f 7 0 2 14 DeWitt, c 5 3 5 15 Schrickel, g 1113 Jenkins, g 2 2 0 6 Hrachovy, f 112 3 Baty, f 10 0 2 Mobley, f 10 12 Total 23 12 14 58 TCU Fg Ft FI Tp Kudalty, f 2 0 4 4 Moran, f 10 0 2 Dolnics, c 8 6 4 22 Schmidt, g 2 13 5 Hendrick, g-c 3 0 2 6 Young, f 0 0 2 0 Craig, f 112 3 Burton, g 0 0 5 0 Total 17 8 22 42 Halftime score: A&M 26, TCU Free throws missed: Kudalty 2, Craig 2, Hendricks 2, Schmidt, Mo ran, Turnbow 4, Kirkland 3, Hra chovy 3, Jenkins 2, Baty 2, Mob- Icy. Officials: Abb Curtis, W. H. Keeling. Frog’s poor passing, and Turn bow and DeWitt collaborated under the basket to give A&M its win. Only one Christian player, cen ter Julius Dolnics, was able to penetrate the Aggie defense. He made 22 points, more than half of his squad’s tallies, and kept the Frogs in the game with his back- board work. John DeWitt was the high scorer for A&M in both games, scoring 15 points against TCU and nine against the stiffer Mus tangs. Jim Kirkland, surprising performer on the Farmer squad, came in second with 14 and six, respectively. Next on tap for the Cadets is a tussle with the Rice Owls in Hous ton next Thursday. Both teams are expected to be in a cellar-fight with TCU at the season’s close. Rice lost to Baylor Saturday night in its conference opener. JANUARY CLEARANCE We suggest that you stop in and take advantage of the many savings on— Men’s Suits and Top Coats Slacks Sweaters Sport Skirts Jackets and Dress Shirts Nationally Known Brands at Genuine Savings! CONWAY & CO. “Your Clothing Store” 103 N. 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