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Two TU Gridders Suspended
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KICKING IT AROUND
BY ART HOWARD
Rumors About Dick Todd Coming To
Aggieland Prevalent in Newspapers
This is the time of the year when
sports are at their lowest ebb. Our
basketball team has yet to play its
first conference game here this
season, and the Intramural pro
gram is trying hard to beat the
weather and the semester’s end.
But this is the time of the year
when rumors on coaching changes
are flying ■ a-
round, and new
appoint m e n t s
are imminent.
One of the cur
rent rumors
concerning A&
M is that the
Athlet i c D e -
partment is ne
gotiating with
Dick Todd, for
mer Aggie great
to come here as
a n assi s t a n t
coach. Todd,
veteran Washington Redskin star,
has announced that he will not
play pro ball this fall.
One member of the coaching
staff told me that Norton tried
HOWARD
to get him down here in ’45 and
’46, but was not able to.
Athletic Director Bill Carmich
ael and Coach Harry Stiteler have
been grounded in El Paso, and are
not available for comment.
However, the sports depart
ment hopes that this report has
some foundation. It is evident
that Todd would add much pres
tige and ability to the new
coaching staff, in addition to the
valuable offensive “know how”
he would bring with him. Not
that our coaches aren’t good, hut
Todd would add lots of color to
the staff.
At any rate, we should know for
sure in a few days.
Stiteler’s staff was at least one
man short this fall when “Tug
boat” Jones resigned, and Charlie
DeWare’s vacating made two va-
cent slots. J. T. King, line coach
from Tulane, filled one of them.
At least two Aggie students are
being considered for assistant
freshman coach, and this selection
will also be made within the near
future.
Star Prospect
Lost to Texas
Next Season
By ART HOWARD
Last week Texas University-
suspended two freshman foot
ball players for holding
up a student at gunpoint,
taking $2 from him. The
two players said that it was only
a practical joke, and that they
used a watergun. An earlier report
said that the holdup came after a
beer party, and that there was one
other student asleep in the ath
lete’s car, but that he was ab
solved of any connection with the
affair.
As far as the Battalion knows,
the names of these men have not
appeared in any newspaper. The
sports staff’s Austin correspond
ent, a usually reliable source, re
ports that the suspended players
are: Jim McConkey, 217-pound
tackle from Dallas, and Barlow Hill
guard from Wichita Falls. Reed
Quinn, famed Austin High full
back, was the man “asleep” in the
car.
Hill was on one all-state team
at Wichita Falls, and was counted
on heavily to bolster the Steer for
ward wall next season.
Baylor Bowlers Challenge Aggies
To Match There This Spring
The Batt had already made plans
for holding a bowling tournament
here' in February, and a letter from
Baylor University arrived yester
day challenging us to a match.
As I see it, no respectable Ag
gie could refuse a challenge
from a Baylorite unless it were
for a preaching contest or a var
sity basketball game.
Therefore, the Batt will begin
accepting entries next week for
Ihe playoff tournament to be held
early next month. There will be
either two or three teams of five
men each, depending on the scores
posted in the tournament. Baylor
also challenges our profs to match
their’s, but as no self-respecting
Aggie professor reads this column,
that part appears to be out.
A few details will have to be
worked out before we can send ap
official squad to Waco, but that
can be worked out by the time the
tournament starts.
Baylor has six new lanes (they
already have their Student Union)
and offers to furnish shoes and
free bowling.
We could probably beat them
down here on our alleys, where
each lane has its own “u” factor
angle of drift. This factor var
ies from almost zero on alley
No 2 to 4 inches on No 1, and
3 on No. 3.
While we are on the subject,
how many students know that the
alleys are built over an old “Y”
swimming pool ?
Police threw up a barracade
around Austin immediately af
ter the holdup was reported. They
stopped the car and pushed a
sawed-off shotgun through the
window. There was no report of
any difficulty in making the
arrest.
There had been some specula
tion that one of the parties might
be Bryon Townsend, line-busting
fullback for the Shorthorns this
past season. The Austin-American
denied this, but the ommission of
the names of the two offending
players has only increased the
speculation.
The story, as carried by the
Daily Texan, states that “No
charges were pressed by the vic
tim of the holdup, but the stu
dents were suspended without
prejudice from the University
immediately after the event.” It
goes on to say that both men
would be admitted to Texas at
mid-term, but would be kept on
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DICK BENTLY and ED HOUSER practice their free throws.
Both men are on the starting lineup for the Freshman Basketball
squad.
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Battalion
PORT
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1949
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disciplinary probation for one
year.
This sentence, prohibits partici
pation in any official athletic ac
tivity, initiation into any frater
nity, and all absences will have to
be excused by the Dean of Student
Life at the school.
This ruling evidently prohibits
these men from playing varsity
football next year.
Coach Blair Cherry is reportedly
still interested in getting Hill back
into school, but McConkey’s case
is more doubtful.
Students Are
Invited To
Attend Banquet
The largest banquet ever given
by the Brazos County A&M Club,
honoring the football and cross
country teams of this past season,
will be held in Sbisa Hall next
Friday, January 14.
Kern Tips, one-time sports edi
tor of the Houston Chronicle and
now the dean of Southwest radio
sports announcers, is the princi
ple speaker. Tips is widely
known for his sportscasting* of
Southwestern Conference foot
ball games and programs broad
cast over the Texas Quality Net
work.
Honor guests for the occasion
are the members and coaches of
the football and cross country
teams. Other guests' exepcted are
outstanding members of the Texas
press and high school athletes from
over the state.
All members of the A&M stu
dent body are cordially invited to
attend. Tickets for the affair
can be obtained from Spike
White, George McCulloch, John
ny Longley, J. E. Roberts,
Wayne Stark, Holloway Hughes,
Col. Bill Becker, Gordon McCut-
cheon, Breezy Breazele, Bill Car
michael, P. L. “Pinky” Downs,
and Lucian Morgan.
The deadline for purchasing tic
kets is January 12, and they sell
for $2.25.
Aviator Ignores
Speeding Ticket
DALLAS, Jan. 12 (TP)—The first
suit here against an aviator for
flying too low over the city was
still up in the air today!
Jack Allison Gray, 17, Denton,
who was arrested for flying low
over the Cotton Bowl during the
New Year’s day football game,
failed to show up for his trial
in corporation court yesterday.
H. C. Kockos, the police depart
ment’s one-man air force, also was
absent. He was in Austin on of
ficial business.
Police Judge Frank O’Brien is
sued a warrant for Gray’s arrest.
POPULATION UP 2'/ 2 MILLION
NEW YORK, Jan. 12 —(TP)—
The U. S. population i-ose by al
most 2,500,000 in 1948.
By the year’s end, the United
States had about 148,000,000 peo
ple.
The figures are given in the
statistical bulletin of the Metro
politan Life Insurance Company.
Births totaled more than 3,650,000
just under the all-time high of
3,910,000 in 1947, it said. The
death rate is estimated at just
over 9.9 per 1,000 population, low
est in history.
Corps Football
Champs to Be
Decided Thurs.
Senior Company and “A” Quar
termaster advanced to the last
round of Corps Intramural Flag
Football Tuesday afternoon.
Senior Company downed “B”
Field Artillery 19 to 0. The four
year men took an early lead,
increased it, and held off at
tacks by the artillerymen. On the
first play of the game, Floyd
Groaner cut loose for a 65 TD
“B” Battery ran the kickoff back
to the 25 yard line but Jimmie
Williamson intercepted a pass and
lugged the leather for another
score. There was no question as
to the outcome then but Jack An
drews added another six points
later.
“A” QMC had a tougher time
with “E” Infantry but won never-
the-less, 12 to 6. The slippery field
made ball handling a real chore.
Oddly enough, the night before,
“E” Infantry had defeated the
•quartermasters in basket ball. The
two teams. Seniors and Quarter
masters, will play to decide corps
champs Thursday afternoon.
Mitchell Hall can be firmly
counted as Volleyball champions
now. The Mitchell six has won
Vet and campus playoffs for
three straight semesters now.
Tuesday afternoon they took the
crown of the student teams by
defeating the “D Even” team
from Munnerlyn Village. The
Mitchell men did it in two
straight games.
In the only other event of the
dqy, FFA downed the Austin Club
in Volleyball in the minimum num
ber of games.
Evans Released By
Beaumont Hospital
Walter Evans, quarter miler
from Beaumont, was released from
a Beaumont hospital yesterday.
Evans suffered cuts on the head
and body and a badly bruised right
leg when his car struck a horse
and overturned in a ditch full of
water near Beaumont Friday night.
He was on his way home to visit
his parents.
Evans earned his freshman num
eral last year on the freshman mile
relay quartet. Col. Anderson, Ag
gie track mentor, considers him a
good prospect for the varsity mile
relay team for the next three
years.
Aggie Cagers Meet Rice Owls
In Houston Tomorrow Night
Owls Expected to be Out For
Revenge After Baylor Defeat
Golden Gloves Physical
The date for registering for
Golden Gloves at Allen Aca
demy gym has been changed
from Tuesday to Thursday af
ternoons because of last minute
and late entries to the district
tournament.
Boston Pros
Moving Club To
Yank Stadium
NEW YORK, Jan. 12 —(TP)_ A
new peace offensive was reported
under way in professional football
today amid talk that Dan Topping
is ready to pull his New York
Yankees out of the All-America
Conference.
The New York Herald Tribune,
quoting an “authoritative source”
said it had learned Topping plan
ned to dissolve his football inter
ests and rent the vast Yankee Sta
dium to the Boston entry of the
rival national football league.
Ted Collins’ Boston Yanks, af
ter a series of financial reverses
obtained permission last month
to move their NFL franchise to
New York.
Yankee officials refused to con
firm or deny the newspaper report.
This concession on the part of
Topping, one of the key men in
the AAC setup, may pose a fresh
talking point for peace when di
rectors of the warring major foot
ball leagues gather in Chicago lat
er this month.
The AAC bigwigs open their
meeting in Chicago Jan. 18, two
days before the scheduled get to
gether of the NFL. The AAC af
fair earlier had been set for New
York in February.
A peace move, initiated by the
younger All-America group, fell
flat just before Christmas.
Five delegates from the AAC
went to Philadelphia to seek an
agreement in the cold cash war
that is costing both sides heavi
ly. But the rival factions couldn’t
come to terms.
According to the Herald Tribune,
Topping will announce dissolution
of the Yankees at the Chicago
meeting.
High Schools Will
Play Baseball To
State AA Title
DALLAS, Jan. 11—UP)—
Baseball finally has been giv
en its rightful place in Texas
high school sports.
The Interscholastic League has
put it on a championship basis and
the game should boom.
Starting this spring, there will
be state races in the City Confer
ence and Class AA, regional cham
pionships in Class A and bi-dis
trict titles in Class B.
This may be a blow to the
ardent football coaches who think
all other sports should be su
bordinate to their game. Not
content with playing football 4
months out of the year, they
want to have spring training at
the same time as baseball and
track.
With baseball on a champion
ship basis, they can’t afford to
subordinate it and undoubtedly the
clamor for return of spring train
ing will die down.
★
That the Interscholastic league
is going into the baseball situation
with the same interest as football
and basketball is evidenced in the
fact that a dozen baseball clinics
will be held in the state this
spring, with professional ball play
ers doing the instructing.
Baseball has the poorest coach
ing of any sport sponsored by
the Interscholastic League. It
has been something of a step
child, with an assistant football
coach or some member of the
faculty who used to star at
“town ball” doing the tutoring.
Now, there will be no excuse for
poor coaching. The men who can
show them how will be available
and emphasis will go on the sport
in view of the championship as
pects.
On two different occasions, two
kickoffs have been run back for
touchdowns in a Washington Red-
skin-Philadelphia Eagle game—in
1942 and 1947.
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A&M’s improved basketball team will journey to Hous
ton tomorrow night to play the once defeated Rice Owls. The
Owls lost their opener to a strong Baylor five last week and
are out to revenge on the Aggies.
The Aggies to date have played two conference games,
beating TCU in their opener and-*—; : : —
dropping the next contest to an im- a bly start at the guard positions.
proved Pony squad. Coach Karow
is expecting a tough battle with
the Houstonians, but says his squad
is ready.
Probably the man who will deal
the Aggies the most trouble is tall,
versatile Bill Tom. Tom, a six foot
seven inch eager hails from Dallas
where he starred in high school
basketball. He scored 277 points in
last season and has already rack
ed up a total of 194 for this sea
son.
Another Owl eager who will
deal the Farmers trouble is Da
vid Cook, a Lufkin eager who
lettered at Rice during the ’42
and ’43 seasons. Tommy Hudgens
a 24-year old vet, a junior this
year, is the Owl rebound special
ist.
The Aggies won’t be without
material either. Starting for the
Farmers will be Jim Kirkland, the
converted B-squadder, will take
the post at right forward. The oth
er Aggie forward, Bill Turnbow,
will be a big boost to the Aggie
defensive setup, if he can keep
from fouling out.
Schrickel and Jenkins will prob-
Jenkins, who will leave Aggieland
in a couple of weeks, was team
captain of the Aggie squad last
season and has been turning in
some fine performances this year.
The NTAC transfer, Gene Schric
kel, who won a varsity letter last
season will start at the other
guard position.
John DeWitt, the Waco eager
who started last year on the
Freshman team, has turned in
some very fine playing exhibi
tions this season and will start at
the center slot.
A total of five games are on
the schedule for this week, all of
them conference tilts. Baylor met
SMU last night in a game in Waco.
Saturday night, three games will
be played with Arkansas meeting
SMU in Dallas, TU taking on Rice
at Austin, and Baylor playing TCU
in-Waco.
Last season the Owls defeated
the Aggies two times and in both
tilts the score was close. Last years
conference champs, the Baylor
Bears, will meet the Farmers in
their next home game to be play
ed in College Station January 21.
Baylor Outlasts SMU Rally
For 44-37 Victory in Waco
WACO, Texas, Jan. 12 CP)_The-*
Southern Methodist Mustangs
pranced into Waco Tuesday night
and put on their familiar annual
winter show of scaring the life
out of the Baylor Bears.
After being roundly outplayed
one half by the Bears, defending
Southwest Conference cage
champs, the Ponies caught up with
the lazy Grizzlies in the second
half and made Baylor pull all its
tricks to take a 44-to-37 verdict.
It was the third straight con
ference win for the Bears, but this
one they won the hard way. They
previously had mauled the Arkan
sas Razorbacks and Rice Owls.
Brown, who had netted only
three points the first half, tossed
ten big counters through the hoop
in the hectic final half and was
the night’s top scorer with this
thirteen points.
He was trailed narrowly by
Baylor’s Don Heathington, a
blond flash who accounted for
twelve points. The Bears’ James
Owens had a total of ten.
SMU made a roaring comeback
midway of the second half. Baylor,
with a 10-point lead at halftime,
was hanging onto its lead in spite
of some erratic passing.
Then Brown started hitting the
basket from all corners, with Pre
witt and Charlie Lutz contributing
a field goal occasionally. With
Baylor holding a 12-point margin
at 32 to 20, Bi-own looped in six
counters by himself.
Before the startled Bears
could stop the onrush, the Mus
tangs had tied the game at 33
to 33, for the first time. Brown’s
basket from the righthand corner
was the tying goal.
With some three minutes left in
the half the Bears roaded away to
their biggest margin of the first
half, 24 to 10. Baylor had what
appeared to be a safe 24-to-14
halftime lead.
When the contest got hot in the
fading last half Baylor’s unpre
dictable James Owens started lop
ping in badly needed points for the
Bears. But it was Brown’s last-
half performance that thrilled—
and alarmed—the sell-out crowd of
3,400 partisan Bear fans.
Brooke Patients
Play for Health
By HUGH FULLERTON, JR.
NEW YORK, Jan. 12 (A>>—Word
from the West Coast i ( s that Leib
of Iowa rang the bell* with the
college baseball coaches as speaker
at their dinner.
Television fight promoters will
use the Aragon arena in Pitts
burgh to stage shows this winter
with Jack White as matchmaker.
Weather note: Convalescent
patients at Brooke General Hos
pital at Fort Sam Houston, Tex
as, were playing baseball just
after New Year’s Day. It’s con
sidered good informal psycho
therapy.
Willard Nixon, the pitcher who
was signed by the Red Sox for a
big bonus last spring and farmed
out to Scranton, Pa., is back in
school at Auburn until spring
training time.
The basketball association of
America Publicity Dept, reports
that Pat Kennedy lost S'/z
pounds while refereeing a recent
Rochester-New York game. Pat
could blow out that much air in
a couple of toots on his whistle.
Eddie Hickey, St. Louis U. bas
ketball coach: “We don’t use a
zone defense, but it’s silly, if you
find a fast man getting away, not
to have a switch planned.”
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