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O Battalion OPORTO THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1949 Page 5 KICKING IT AROUND BY ART HOWARD Leahy Gets Panned in Coast Papers; A&M Not Prize Catch in Grid Circles Coaches Harry Stiteler and Bones Irvin, along with publicity man Dub King, returned by train yesterday from El Paso after be ing stranded there by weather. They spent a week on the coast attending the American Football Coaches Association meeting in San Fl Athletic Director Bill Carmi chael finally had to take a train when the weather threatened to keep the plane grounded in the Texas border city. In addition to the regular rou tine meetings, this group had sev eral interesting experiences. Not the least of these occurred when Bones Irvin and Dub King had din ner with SMU’s coaches, Matty Bell, Rusty Russell, and McAdoo Keaton. A drunk was raising a disturb ance by singing “Sweet Adeline” in a very drunken manner. King said that he sounded like one of Spike Jones’ interpretations, with out music. So Irvin and Dub started sing ing the Aggie War Hymn to drown him out, and all three of the Mustang mentors joined in— singing as loud as the two Ag gies. Matty Bell, if you remem ber, is a former Aggie coach. One surprising incident happen ed during a banquet honoring Oosterbann as the coach of the year. The master of ceremonies was recognizing some of the fa mous men there, who would stand up, reecive their applause, and sit down., But when it came to Frank Lea hy, he walked over to the micro phone and started making an im promptu speech. .It was rather dull and quite long, and one of the sports writers went out for a smoke. When he came back 15 min utes later, Leahy was still going strong. This writer askea the man next to him if he had missed any thing of note. “Not a thing,” was the reply. This story was carried in the papers, one of the few times a big-time (winning) coach ever received such bad personal pub licity. ★ ★ ★ This reporter also asked about bookings of future games with big- name teams. A great number of intersectional tilts are arranged at this meeting—about the only time the coaches all get together. It seems that we are not the prize catch of the year in the bookie department with that noth ing-nine-one tag. on our trousers. We don’t have the name to insure a large turnout at other schools’ home grounds, and we cannot guar antee a large gate here on Kyle Field. But plans have been made whereby A&M may add a big opponent to its schedule in ’50, and our expected prosperity will take care of us from then on out. Eagles to Houston NEWARK, N. J., Jan. 13 DP)— Mrs. Effie Manley, owner of the Newark Eagles, formerly operated in the Negro National League, an nounced yesterday that the team had been transferred to Houston, Tex. Arthur (Otts) Zahn, head bas ketball coach at George Washing ton University was a top star as a player at the school from 1930 to 1933. CONGRATULATIONS United Appliances, Inc. Our distributors in Brazos Count yfor TIPSAWS for Gibson and Ferguson tractors, on their new store at College Station. May they continue to grow and expand, C=SIOI~5=> TIPS ENGINE WORKS Manufacturers since 1899 Austin, Texas Pictured above are the members of the A&M student body that will compete in the district Golden Gloves Meet tonight, Friday, and Saturday nights at Allen Academy gym in Bryan. From left to right are ROYCE BRIMBERRY, L. L. LOMAX, CURLEY MARSHALL, JIM MORRIS, HAR OLD WILLIAMS, and) C. B. OVERTON. Aggie Thinly Clads Favored To Cop Title Again In ’49 By BOB WIMBERLY Conference champs for two years, the Aggie thinly clads look like a good bet to capture the crown again this season. With quality and quantity in all directions, a crowd of re turning lettermen, and a fine group of sophs, Col. Frank Anderson and Ray Putnam have much cause for joy. Aggie victories in the confer ence cross-country meet and the Sugar Bowl mile relay are two good indications that the stout armed and fleet footed Farmers will have a nice collection of blue ribbons by the time summer rolls around. Now let’s look and see who’s heads will bear the laurel wreaths when the last tape is broken in the ’49 Southwest track and field carni val. In the sprints are Bill Napier, Bob Hall, Red Wilson, Bill Rich ardson, Charley Royalty, ‘Penguin’ Henry, and Bill Cardon. Napier, Hall, and Wilson were regulars on the 440 relay team last season, and Napier was a consistent point win ner in the 100 and 220. Richardson, Royalty, and Henry all won Fish numerals last year and show lots of promise. Cardon is the top high hurdler and may double this year in the short, flat races. Webb Jay and Bob Goode, outstanding dash men in ’48, have both run their last race for A&M but their absence will not cost the team too many tallies. Bob Hall and Bill Cardon form the backbone of the timber top ping department, Hall in the lows and Cardon in the highs. Bob was a close second in the Conference last year, and has an excellent chance to win this season. Bill will also see action in the lows. Don Cardon, a Member of last years famous mile relay team, is also working out for the longer hurdle race and will probably be right up front in the best of competition. Our pride and joy, the mile re lay quartet, has already demon- strated its ability. Ray Holbrook, Connely Ludwick, Erwin Bilder- back, and sophomore Don Mitchell formed the team that won the Su gar Bowl mile relay. Don Cardon, Fuston McCarty, Walter Evans, and Englehart provide satisfying depth in the quarter ranks. The ’46, ’47, and ’48 Conference 440 king, Art Harnden, has graduated and his loss will be felt, but not to the extent that the boys in the orange and white think it will. Twice around the track is right down the alley for 880 men Char ley. Clark, Bob Atkins, and Web ster Stone. Stone placed in the Conference half-mile in ’48 and was a member of the Aggie cross country champs last fall. In the long ones, J. D. Hampton, Carol Hahn, Webster Stone, Julian Herring, Manuel Ortiz, Jesse Pe rez, and Lee Wilson stand out. All of these boys were on the cross country squad, and Hampton is probably the best miler and two miler in the loop. These men are going to give everybody a hard time this year. Out in the field we find big George Kadera throwing every thing in sight. George took the Southwest shot and discus titles last spring and will probably re peat in ’49, but he will miss the able assistance of Franklin Young, who also took points in the shot. Football end Ed Hooker will lend support in the platter toss. An other pigskin pierformer, guardi Hugh Myer, will do a little spear tossing this spring. Another scorer in the ’48 Con ference tussle, Bulldog Cole, will continue his athletic antics into the broad jump pit. The Dewdrops, “Penguin” and Bill Henry, should also show up in the distance leap. A half dozen fine vaulters give assurance of many counts in that departpient. Leland Tate, last year Conference co-champ, finishes his eligibility this year, as do Leroy Bodeman and Jack Quiry. Johnny Davis, Elmo Wade, and Jack Simp son are top flight athletes who will be around for awhile. High jumpers, are an all too rare item at Aggieland this season. No definite representative has been found yet, but at least two compe titors are hard at it. Elmo Wade, a ’48 Fish numeral holder, has cleared six feet, and versitle Bill Cardon is capable of lifting his frame six feet, three inches above the ground. Of all the aforementioned track and field men, only two are not holders of either a freshman num eral or a varsity letter. This, coup led with the fact that no less than nine of the returning lettermen placed in the ’48 Southwest Con ference meet, give hope of a hap pily victorious year, rich with rib bons won, finish tapes broken, and smiles of gratitude from coaches and students alike. But the grati tude will be there, win or lose. Underdog Aggie Gagers To Play Rice Tonight Owls’ Bill Tom Expected To Be Aggies’ Biggest Trouble Cage Finals Set As Other Sports Shape Up Intramural p 1 a y o f fs are narrowing down this week and next. Corps Football win ners will be decided this af ternoon when “A” QMC plays Senior Company. The Basketball champ of the Corps won’t be learned till next Monday night. Then “A” Infan try will play “E” Infantry in the big gym; game time is set tentatively at 9 p. m. It was not until Tuesday night that “A” Infantry got into Basket ball finals. Then they beat “A” ASA, 28 to 12. Both teams were evenly matched till after half time when the score was 9 to 6, favor of the infantrymen. After that the paddlefeet ran away as their cen ter, George Hickman, dropped in 12 points. Hickman had been score less till then. The Vet Medicine Flag Football team won over Austin club by a conversion point Wednesday after noon; the score was 7 to 6. Mon day afternoon, the two teams had played a deadlock of 7-all. Ace Jordan scooted around end for Aus tin’s only TD but missed the ex tra point. A hideout pass from Hunger to Studdard worked for the vets; Hunger kicked the extra point. In Volleyball, “A” QMC down ed “C” Infantry in two straight games. Senior Company beat ‘A’ Infantry, two games to one. These were both quarterfinal games. Now “A” Infantry must play “A” Transport, the winner of that game will play Senior Company, who in turn will battle “A” QMC for Corps Volleyball Championship. In another Volleyball game, AS- CE wasted no time on FFA and downed them in two games. Basketball is an American sport originated here. Durocher Fined $500 By Chandler CINCINNATI, Jan. 13 (A>)_Leo Durocher, manager of the New York Giants, and Freddie Fitzsim mons, former Boston Braves coach, were fined $500 each by baseball commissioner A. B. Chandler to day. The men were found guilty of negotiating a contract for 1949 while Fitzsimmons still was a member of the Braves Club. The New York club was fined $2,000 for violating the tampering rule. CMUCT’S North Gate Order NOW for Spring Congratulations... TO AGGIE RADIO & APPLIANCE CO, North Gate, College Station On the Opening o[ ipiTuwrir i ii i■miiwin iihi iimhiiimiiiiw Their New Store COMPLIMENTS OF J. A. WALSH CO. WHOLESALERS & DISTRIBUTORS 3215 McKinney Ave. HOUSTON, TEXAS PREPARE NOW fa, cmUMfy MS ptpf •Sr. We have ’em... The essentials of your courses highlighted and packed .into a nutshell, \ for quick thorough review! 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General 1.25 uoo' ':S ! 1.25 1.50 PRICES SUBJECT TO CHANGE The Exchange Store '’Serving Texas Aggies” By LEON SOMER A strong Rice Institute cage team will play host to the Texas Aggies in the Houston City Auditorium tonight. The Cadets will be several points underdogs against the Owls who are expected to finish high in this season’s conference basketball race. Rice has played one conference - * tilt, losing to Baylor in a game played in Waco last week. The Ag gies invaded the northern teams of the conference last weekend, win ning their first game from TCU on Friday night 58-42 and then falling to SMU 55-37 the follow ing night. Leading the feathered flock tonight will be Bill Tom, a 6’7” center who has beein going great guns for coach Joe Davis this season. Tom has led the Owls in scoring for the past two years. In addition to Tom, Coach Davis probably will start Vahldick and Foley at guards and Switzer and Cook at forwards. Switzer was second to Tom in scoring last sea son. Also expected to see much ac tion against the Farmers are for- wards Joe McDermott and Tommy Hudgens. McDermott was a star of last year’s freshman team and has shown a great deal of promise on this season’s varsity squad. Coach Marty Karqw will prob ably stick to the same lineup that started against TCU and SMU last week. This starting five will have Bill Turnbow and Jim Kirkland at forwards, John DeWitt at center, and Sam Jen kins and Gene Schrickel at the guard posts. Jenkins has only two games left to play as he is graduating at the end of this month. , Tonight’s game is the only tilt that the Aggies will play this week. Next week the Cadets will enter tain the Baylor Bears in DeWare Field House. The Aggie Fish will play the Rice Blue Bolts in the opener which is expected to begin about 6:15. Probable starters for the Fish are Jewel McDowell, Eddie Houser Buddy Davis, Dick Bentley, and Bobby Farmer. The varsity game starts at ap proximately eight o’clock. Louis Wants To Defend His Title In June of 1949 NEW YORK, Jan. 13 (A>)_Joe Louis wants to defend his heavy weight boxing championship next June against the winner of a fight between Ezzard Charles and Lee Savold. This was disclosed last night by Col. Edward Eagan, chairman of the New York Athletic Commis- son, who said the brown bomber had assured him he will fight one more time. Eagan injected this semi-official announcement of the champion’s plans into the after-dinner infor malities of the New York boxing writers’ annual function. The writers gathered for the principal purpose of honoring Ike Williams, the busy lightweight champion from Trenton, N. J., and Dan Morgan, 75-year-old veteran fight manager. Williams received the Edward J. Neil Memorial Award as the man who did the most for boxing in 1948. The award was set up in memory of the former Associated Press boxing writer and war correspon dent who was killed during the Spanish Civil War. Williams also received a special ring magazine medal as “boxer of the year.” Morgan was given the James J. Walker award for long and meri torious service to the sport. Charles, the Cincinnati sniper who has been fighting in the light- heavy class, and Savold, the pater- son, N. J., heavy who is in Eng land, haven’t been matched. Dice have been found among the ruins of every ancient nation. Weather Report From W.S.D. Clothiers CONTINUED COLD . . . FOLLOWED BY WARM MEN IN COZY B.V.D. BASQUE PAJAMAS You’re warm as toast, snug and cozy in B.V.D.’s warm BASQUE PAJAMAS. They’re tailored for good looks, smartness... . But they’re made for sleep too, comfortable sleep. Rich colored knit tops, long sleeves, and well tailored broadcloth pants. You’ll want a couple of pairs of these while they’re ON SALE at this Reduction. 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