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Plywood Boat, Motor Given Away at Fish-Game Meeting By THERON D. CARROLL Approximately 150 persons at tended the free barbecue given by the Brazos County Game and Fish Protective Association at the Bry an Fairgrounds Thursday night. Barbecued venison and pork with all the trimmings was the main bill of fare. Highlights of the program were the showing of two wildlife films, “Realm of The Wild,” and “The Heritage We Guard;” the lucky number drawing for a twelve foot marine plywood boat and a two horsepower Evinrude outboard mo tor, won by ’Charles Nemec of Bryan; and the introduction of two local game wardens, Seth Taylor of Normangee and William Kincan- non of Bryan. The Fish and Game Club of A&M pledged the cooperation of their club with the newly form ed association and invited the association members and their guests to an open house to be held by the college club this March. J. P. Yeager, President of the association, extended a member ship invitation to all local sports men who are interested in re-es tablishing and maintaining an ade quate supply of fish and game in Brazos bounty. Dues are three dollars per year. ★ Mrs. Doris Steele, wife of A. L. “Jack” Steele, Wildlife Manage ment senior, proved that it’s not always the man of the family who “brings home the bacon.” On a Christmas holiday visit with friends of theirs near Kerr- ville, Doris bagged a 5-point buck with one shot. “It was the biggest thrill I’ve ever had,” said Doris. Jack’s only comment on his wifes good fortune was the criticism that “She aimed too long.” Jack fired three times at his buck scor ing three clean misses. ★ Dr. V. A. Young and Dr. 0. E. Sperry of the Range Management Department collected a ^ point and a 4 pointer on a two day hunt in Sutton County. Dr. Sperry said that they were after venison instead of trophies and so they selected the smaller animals. He also commented on Dr. Young’s marksmanship, say ing that he made a beautiful running shoulder shot at seventy five yards. Dr. Sperry carried a Remington 12 and Dr. Young- was using a 30- JO Winchester. Don Leutney, Garner Fuller, and yours truly caught twelve nice sheepshead and two speckled trout at the old causeway in Galveston on the last Sunday of the recent holiday rece&s. Garner accomplished a rather unusual feat in landing a four and one-half pound sheephead on a three and one-half ounce fly rod using an 0-1 hook. The fish were taken on live shrimp on an out-going tide. The 1948 hunting season comes to an official close on January 16, with the end of the quail sea son. The next legal season for taking any game bird or game animal in Brazos County opens May 16, with the summer squir rel season. Cottontails, jack rabbits^ crows, Cooper’s Hawks, blackbirds, and armadillos are some of the unpro tected birds and mamals that may be legally taken in Brazos County the year-round. Aggies Engage Owls Thursday In Cage Match A&M’s basketball game will carry their one won one lost record in conference play to Houston Thursday night for a game with the always tough Rice Owls at the Rice gym at 8:00 o’clock. Coach Joe Davis’ Owls have won four and lost eight in their cam paigns this year. Baylor’s accur ate shooting Bears turned the Fea thered Flock from Houston back in the only conference game that they have played. That score was 63-47. Two sophomores have played plenty of ball for the Houston team this year. They are guard Charley Tighe of Houston and forward Joe McDermott of Lufkin. McDermott has been operating from the pivot position and, although still suffer ing from inexperience, he possess es a hook shot that is almost im possible to stop. Still the leader of the Owl cage forces is center Bill Tom. At six feet seven inches, Tom is the giant of the conference since the de parture of George Kok from Ark ansas. Tom has averaged 15.6 points per game up to the game with the wily Bears in Waco. John DeWitt, the 6’5” sopho more center from Waco, has de veloped into the scoring leader of the Aggies in the two con ference games played this year in Ft. Worth and Dallas. Against the Horned Frogs of TCU he racked up 15 points and scored nine against the Mustangs of SMU the next night. JACK BARNETT, COACH GAYTHOR NOWELL, and BART HALTOM stop for the cameraman before starting practice at the Bryan Country Club links. Both players are members of the Aggie Golf team. A&M Golfers Off To Early Start Although official practice for the ’49 Aggie golf team won’t start until February 15, most of the top divot diggers have already been working out regularly. Gaythor Nowell, A&M’s unofficial coach, said that all prospects for the squad should contact him at the Bryan Country Club. Nowell is more optimistic than + Aggies To Field Tough Squad In Golden Gloves Tournament Eight Boxers to Represent Aggieland in District Meet s Page 5 Battalion PORT s TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1949 Kern Tips Will Be Principle Speaker At Football Banquet The Brazos County annual football banquet will be held in Sbisa Hall on January 14 This affair, honoring the past season’s football and cross country teams and their dates, promise to be the largest banquet ever given by the Brazos County A&M Club. This year the club was fortu nate in having Kern Tips as its principle speaker. Tips is a Houston sports announcer who broadcasts of Southwest Confer ence football games and his sports programs on various Houston radio stations. Also at one time Tips was sports editor of the Houston Chronicle. Tickets for the banquet are still on sale and may be obtained at Lipscomb Pharmacy, Aggieland Inn. and at W.S.D. Clothiers in Bryan. Tickets may also be pur chased from Spike White, George McCulloch, Johnny Longley, J. E. Roberts, Wayne Stark, Holloway Hughes, Col. Bill Becker, Gordon McCutcheon, Breezy Breazele, Bill m'ost coaches this early in the sea son, and expects A&M to have a fine season, with at least an even chance to hang on to the confex-- ence crown which it won last year. Already tramping the fair ways are Bart Haltom, Johnny Henry, and Jack Barnett, all of whom are returning lettermen. Haltom has hit his stride in a JANUARY CLEARANCE MEN’S SUITS MEN’S SLACKS Were $32.50 .. Now $25.00 Were $..8.95- .... Now r $ 5.95 37.50 .. Now 25.00 10.95.. Now 7.30 39.50 45.00....- ..Now 26.33 -Now 33.77 12.95.. Now 8.65 49.50 .. Now 36.15 13.95.. Now 9.30 60.00 ... Now 45.00 14.95 .... Now 9.95 65.00 ..Now 48.75 15.00.. Now 10.00 85.00 ..Now 63.75 15.95.. 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These men will receive free green fees, and the use of practice balls. In addition, the varsity will be given new balls to use in the toui> naments. Intei'ested golfei’s are in vited to get in touch with Nowell for further information. No schedule has been prepared for the squad yet, but exhibition matches with several non-confer ence schools are expected to stai’t the season in March. As usual, Texas will furnish the bulk of opposition for the Aggies. Last year these two squads were in a photo-finish for the flag, and this season A&M will have to play in the Long horn’s home lair in Austin. Baylor and TCU will he A&M’s other two out-of-town foes, with Rice, Arkansas, and SMU slated to play here. Arkansas has lost its star, Bubba Smart, and should be an easy mai'k by pi’eseason esti mates. The Hogs were the golfers who nearly cost A&M its title by taking all but one match in Fort Smith last season. Aggie Coaches And Athletic Director Stuck in Phoenix The Athletic Department was minus one director and two coaches yesterday after Bill Carmichael, Harry Stite- ler, and Bones Irvin phoned in to say that they were grounded because of bad wea ther in Phoenix, Arizona Sun. The trio was flying hack from San Francisco where they attend ed the annual conferences of the National Collegiate Athletic Asso ciation and the National Football Coaches’ Association. Authoi'ities at Phoenix advised all light craft in the western states to stay on the ground because of the bad weather which moved in Sunday in that area. The craft, an A&M plane piloted by an Easter- wood Field pilot, will definitely re main there until better flying weather. Whether the members of the athletic department will re main thei’e with it or catch a train on back depends upon how long the weather remains bad. ent this aftei’noon from 12 to 4 o’clock at Allen Academy gym to register and get examined. All members of the team will meet this afternoon around 5 o’ clock to have a group picture taken. Carmichael, P. L. Downs, and Lu cian Morgan. This year E. E. McQuiilen is chairman of the program commit tee and Sid Loveless is in charge of the ticket committee. Heading the genera larrangements commit tee is Lucian Morgan. Loveless reminds those wanting tickets that January 12 is the dead line for purchasing tickets to the banquet. By FRANK SIMMEN JR. The Texas Aggie Golden Gloves team with eight mem* bers signed up has been working out the last few days and should be in fair shape for the district meet which will be held in the Allen Academy gym Thursday, Friday and Satur day of this week. An outstanding ring specialist who is in the heavy weight class is Dick Scott, tackle on the Aggie football squad. Scott hails from Sherman Texas and won two bouts out of four in Golden Gloves com petition last year. There is one fighter from Aggieland that fights in the light heavy weight section. He is Harold Williams of Beaumont who has the best won-lost column of any Aggie boxer. The 21 year old Beaumont lad won 16 out of 21 bouts in 45, 46, and 47, and is heavily favored to represent this district in the regional meet in Temple. Three Aggies are scheduled to battle it out for the welter-weight title in the district meet this week. They are John P. Hill 150 who box ed in the Air Fox-ce during the war, won 10 out of 12 bouts. He leads the other welter weight con tenders with four years experience. The lad who is expected to give Hill his toughest competition is Charles Knight. Knight weighs in at 159 and was Annex intramural champion in the welter weight class. The young Poi’t Ai’- thur candidate has boxed for the last three years and when in Jun ior High in Port Arthur he won the city championship while only 14 yeai’s old. John Dexter, the 18 year old freshman saxaphone player, tilts the scales at 159 also. Dexter has had no Golden Gloves expei’ience before. Royce Brimberry, who will box in the bantam weight class is the lightest man on the Aggie squad. The 20 year old fighter has had no experience in the Golden Gloves field, but is expected to be a real threat to the Allen Academy box ers in the bantam weight class who are sure of winning the title. A Greensboro, North Carolina boxer Robert L. Jones, who weighs 133 is the only Aggie signed up for the bantam weight class in the district meet. Jones has had quite a bit of exper ience in boxing; he won 3 bouts as a novice in 1940. All boxers are asked to be pres- Winter Track Expected to Attract Many European Stars NEW YORK —(dP)— The langu age of the starting gun is univer sal. That’s a good thing, this in door track season. Because foreign athletes from four countries will toe the mark along with the U. S. board pound ers in the big track carnivals this winter. All five of the distance-run ning invaders— Will Slikjhuis of Holland, Gaston Reiff of Belgium Marcel Bengtsson and Erik Ahl- den of Sweden— placed among the top five finishers in the Lon don Olympics although only Reiff won his event, the 5,000 meter run. Hansenne is the only one of the quintet who has run here before but Marcel treated his last trip like a joy ride and did little serious running. For this trip, assures Dan Ferris, secretary-treasurer of the AAU, Marcel and the others are in serious training. Most invaders in the past have been hampered also by the strangeness of the board surfaces but Ferris says the present crop has been busy run ning on boards overseas. If the invaders are ready to give the wood runs a real try it seems unlikely that very many American runners can keep up with them in distances from 880 yards to three miles. Bcntsson and Hansenne prefer the shorter distance. The other 3 are best at two and three miles, but all five have beaten the 1500 meter time of the U.S.’s fastest active miler — Don Gehrman of Wisconsin’s 3:52.2. Slikjhuis has the fastest recent time, 3:49.6, about a 4:07 mile, and the others are within a second of that. Ahl- den clocked 3:48.2 in 1945 but he night, Ahlden again will run two miles, with Bengtsson dropping down to 1000 yards. New York will see them in the Millrose Game Jan. 29 and three times after that. The running schedules of the other three have yet to be prepared. Still a sixth Olympic ace will come to America for the outdoor season, if present plans are car ried out. Czechoslovakia’s mag nificent Emil Zatopek, who ran away from the London 10,000 meter field and just missed scor ing the only double when Reiff nosed him in the 5,000, is ex pected to run. Zatopek declined an indoor invitation, but said he would be happy to give our cin ders a try. He is a colorful strider who ig- i nores all the rules of running ; form—he even breaks the tape 1 the wrong way. Ho grimaces and | twists his body throughout a race, 1 running as if he is in great agony. . But he is a tremendous athletic machine. To face the invading challenge, : now that Gil Dodds has quit, are ■ Gehrmann and Southern Califor nia’s Roland Sink and a few oth ers for the miles and Curtis Stone in the two mile. Rhode Island’s Bob Black, cross-country champion is available for longer distances along with Fred Wilt, w r ho was on the Olympic team. WILLI SLIKJHUIS Sports writers are needed for the Battalion sports page. Any student interested should contact Roland Bing in the Student Activities Office. since has shown a liking for a longer piece of ground. Ahlden fin ished fourth in the Olympic 5,000. Slikjhuis finished third in both the 1500 and 5000 while Han senne and Bengtsson were third and fifth in the 800. The two Swedes will make their U. S. bows on Jan. 21 at the Phila delphia Inquirer Games, Bengtsson running the mile and Ahlden will double that distance. In the Bos ton K of C games the following MARCEL HANSENNE Likes 800 meters best There’s an Art To Dry Cleaning And we’ve perfected it! Newest equip ment, expert cleaners and pressers, extra care with every garment assures you the cinest dry cleaning in town. Send us your clothes today. CAMPUS CLEANERS "Over The Exchange Store" Steers, Bears Tied for Lead In Cage Race Baylor and Texas went into a tie for the lead in the cur rent Southwest Conference basketball race last Saturday night when they defeated Rice and TCU respectively. These two teams, predicted to battle it out for the conference crown, started off last week when they did as expected in winning their first two starts. Baylor defeated Arkansas in their conference opener Wed nesday night and Texas de feated a strong SMU team in Dallas Friday night. The Aggies broke even on their two day road trip up north by defeating TCU and taking a licking at the hands of SMU. E'er their efforts however, they rate third place in the con ference standings after their first two conference games. The Mustangs of SMU and the Horned Frogs of TCU are tied for fourth place in the conference after both meeting Texas and los ing. The Christians lost to the Ag gies w&ile surprising SMU with a defeat in the upset of the week. SMU has one win, that one being over the Aggies. Arkansas and Rice are tied for last place in the standings,, all because of Baylor. The Bears- played them both last week and had little trouble in winning. Five games are on the schedule for this week, all of them confer ence games. Baylor meets SMU tonight in what should be a bang- up battle. They play in Waco. Thursday night, the Aggies tangle with Bill Tom and the Rice Owls in Houston and it will be a hard one for the Aggies. Saturday night, three games will be played with Arkansas meeting SMU in Dallas, Texas taking on Rice at Austin, and Baylor playing TCU in Waco. SEASON STANDINGS Team— w. L. Pts. Op. Pet. Texas 11 2 708 605 .847 Baylor 7 6 592 603 .538 SMU 7 8 807 786 .467 TCU 5 10 743 815 .333 Rice 4 8 666 704 .333 Texas A&M 4 10 687 713 .286 Arkansas 3 CONFERENCE 8 482 589 STANDINGS .273 Team— w. L. Pts. Op. Pet. Baylor 2 0 104 84 1.000 Texas 2 0 109 90 1.000 Texas A&M 1 1 95 97 .500 SMU 1 2 151 145 .333 TCU 1 2 148 169 .333 Arkansas 0 1 37 41 .000 Rice 0 1 47 63 .000 LEADING SCORERS (SEASON) Player and Team- Siater Martin, Texas, g Jack Brown, SMU, f Bill Tom, Rice, c . Bob Prewitt, SMU, Tom Hamilton, Texas, c.. Julius Dolnics; TCU, c y Jim Kirkland, Texas A&M, f. John Zatopek, SMU, c LEADING SCORERS s; J Don Heathington, Baylor, c... Gene Schmidt, TCU G. . 93 . 78 . 80 . 60 . 65 . 50 . 45 . 53 . 62 50 F. T.P. 26 212 202 194 180 179 152 147 146 140 139 (CONFERENCE) Player and Team— G. F. T.P. Julius Dolnics, TCU, c 20 20 60 Bob Prewitt, SMU, f 18 15 51 Tom Hamilton, Texas, f 12 7 31 Jack Brown, SMU, f 12 6 30 Heathington, Baylor, c 9 11 29 Gene Schmidt, TCU, g 10 8 28 Slater Martin, Texas, g 13 2 28 Charley Lutz, SMU, g 9 9 27 Bill Johnson, Baylor, g 10 7 27 Frank Kudlaty, TCU, f 11 3 25 A1 Madsen, Texas, g 8 9 25 CORET’S ' C Z&UUWe. CflbifaZtCL-. North Gate Fine Gabardine Deerskin Flannel Your Choice for Spring Tailored for You