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Rice Drops Aggies In Exciting Match Fish Rack Up Win Over Bolts Jewell McDowell Leads Fish To Fourth Straight Win 56 ■ 45 * By FRANK SIMMEN, JR. In a complete reversal of form, the fighting Texas Aggie Fish cage team showed they had the stuff in defeating the Rice Institute boys in a game played in Houston last night by a score of 56 to 45. Jewell McDowell led the Fish team to its fourth straight victory of the season, but this time* he had a little help from his fresh- work, but was able to slip only man buddies. Davis, who turned in a fine defensive game for the Fish, showed the fans that he was in the fight. He was in the game all the way and when he fouled out late in the lastlast quarter you could tell that the Fish missed that tall frame finder the backboards. “Ears” McDowell played one of the finest floor games this writer has yet to witness on a basketball court. The young Amarillo eager trickled, dribbl ed and faked himself into the limelight last night, leading his team defensively and racking up a total of 18 points. When it comes to scoring we can’t leave out Ralph Grawunder and Sonny McCurry of Rice who together scored 40 of their team’s total of 45 points. McCurry, a youth from Wharton, helped his team out under the hoop, but when Davis was in there to give him some trouble, he slackened down. * It took the Freshman only 15 seconds to put their first score across. It came when McDowell stole the ball and dribbled in for a crib shot. Fifteen seconds later “Overworker” Houser took a pass from Mac to score again. Another 15 seconds found Farmer making another long shot for a third mark er. This put the Agiges ahead and their lead never was threatened the remainder of the game. Just after the midway mark Davis stole the ball and raced down court putting the ball, his hand, arm and half his shoul der into the rim of the basket. It could easily be seen that he hit his stride the second half, but he fouled out before he could build up his point total. - Bentley did some fine defensive four points through the loop. Bob Church, who was playing before the home town folks for the first time, also looked good the short time he was in the game. The only thing that really hurt the young Farmers was their de fensive setup. Time and again an Owl eager would break through and make a score that could have been prevented if the defense had been a little tighter. Eddie Houser, who, after serv ing three meals in the mess hall yesterday, also showed the Hous ton boys he was out to win. He made three field goals and two free shots for a total of 10 points to place second in the Aggie scor ing race. Bobby Farmer, the long shot specialist, couldn’t seem to make his long shots click last night, but he really showed his de fensive ability in batting down Owl scoring attempts. Morris Frank, Sports Editor of the Houston Post, when he saw “The Jewell” play remarked, “That kid’s another Eddie Wopecke.” Ed die is an ex-All American from Yale. A man in the press box was heard to say, “It’s a good thing that boy is not playing for the varsity now—he would have faked Bill Tom right out of his gym shorts.” But, of course, DeWitt didn’t do bad when it came to handling the tall Rice eager last night. Pictured above is Buddy Davis, the Fish eager who turned in a fine performance in last night’s game against the Owlets. Da vis, who is fi’8” tall, played fine defensive ball and controlled both backboards while in the game. Corps Football Flag Taken By “A” QMC in Tight Play Oliver to Loyola? PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 13 (A 5 ) Senior Company and “A” Quartermaster clashed in one Jordan Olivar, a resourceful young) whale of a football game Thursday afternoon before the coach who led Villanova into bowl games the past two seasons, today considered an offer to become head coach at Loyola University of Los Angeles. MIDWAY CLEANERS Special Rates on Cash & Carry TWO DAY SERVICE Satisfaction Guaranteed MIDAWAY AND COLLEGE ROAD Quartermaster took the game and the Corps football crown. Both teams, winners of their leagues and up through the semi-finals, were keyed up and4—; 7 anxious. Play was not rough but w ith a drop kick, it was plenty rugged. Both teams suffered injuries during the tilt. In the scoring end, the results was tied, 7 to 7. But the QMC team won on penetrations; they had three 40 yard and two 20 yard thrusts to Senior Company’s single 40 and 20 yard penetra tions. The hard hitting “A” Company tallied first in hopes of sewing the game up early. Taking a handoff from Bill Thomas, Sammy Thomp son galloped around end for a touchdown, going 16 yards to score. Bob Schubert came in with a rare specialty to convert the extra point Grand Opening . . . of the new CREAMLAND In Its New Building NORTH GATE - COLLEGE STATION Saturday Evening, January 15, 1949 THE PUBLIC IS INVITED REFRESHMENTS SERVED For a long while it appeared that the Sdniors would be shut out. In fact it looked that way until the game’s last play when Guinn Fergus pitched a pay dirt pass to Jim Desmuke. Not relying on lick ing, the Seniors made their extra point with another Fergus pass, this one taken beautifully by Dutch Hartman to make the extra point. But for the penetrations, the score would have been tied. In an only Volleyball game Thursday, “A” Infantry quickly pounced on. “A” Transport : to take the win in straight games 15 to 13 and 15 to 6. This will bring “A” Infantry against “A” QMC (for about the third time in the playoffs) next Tuesday, January 18 when Corps Volley ball champs will be decided. S Battalion PORT FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1949 S Page 3 Aggie Mile Relay Team Flies To Truman’s Inauguration The Texas A&M mile relay team left College Station yesterday for Washington D. C. where they will take part in a track meet to be held at Washington University. Accompanied by track coach Frank Anderson, the team boarded a train for Dallas in the morning and then continued the trip to the capital city on an American Air lines plane. The relay team was invited to take part in the meet by the Washington Evening Star. The mile relay race is to be a, part of Inauguration Week ceremonies for President Truman. This will be the second meet that the mile relay team has taken part in this season. At the recent Sugar Bowl track carnival the Aggies defeated teams from Okla homa A&M and the University of North Carolina. The time for that race was 3:21.4, however, the track at the Crescent City was wet and Former Editor Of 4 Batt’ Joins AP Cal Brumley, former editor of The Battalion and reporter for the Amarillo Globe-News, has joined the editorial staff of the Dallas bu reau of the Associated Press. Brumley was editor of The Batt in the summer and fall of 1944 and went to work for the Amarillo paper after graduating from A&M in February of 1945. He majored in agricultural economics. stf e? way TAXI Prompt Courteous Service PHONE 2-1400 Bryan TCUCagersOutTo Break Hogs Jinx FORT WORTH, Jan. 14 —Six teen years ago—on Feb. 3 and 4, 1933, to be exact—the TCU Horn ed Frogs last beat Arkansas’ bas ketball Razorbacks in Fort Worth. The Frogs took both games—29 to 19 and 30 to 26. Captain of that 1933 team was a senior named Byron (Buster) Brannon. Monday night, a Frog quintet coached by that same “Buster” Brannon will try to do what no TCU basketball team has been able to do during the 15 seasons of Brannon’s absence—beat Arkansas in Fort Worth. Now in his first year as the Frogs’ basketball coach, Brannon has already given new hope to Frog cage fans disspirited after several dismal seasons. In winning one-third of their 12 non-conference games this year, the Frogs by mid-season had won as many games as the 1947 and 1948 teams won during both entire seasons combined. From that point, they went on to upset SMU, 58 to 52 in the sea son’s opening Southwest Confer ence game. Arkansas has generally been rated along with SMU, just behind Texas and Baylor, the conference favorites, and Frog fans are hop ing for another upset like the Frogs scored against the Mus tangs. slow and the Cadet team hopes to better their recent New Orleans tims on a dry track at Washington. In tomorrow’s meet the Farm ers will run against teams from Pemv State, Villanova, and Seton Hall. Coach Anderson plans to use the same starting team that won the Sugar Bowl meet. This quartet will be composed of Don Mitchell of Deer Park, Ervin Bilderback of Dallas, Ray Holbrook of Baytown and Connally Ludwick of Dallas. Mayfield Elected Fowl Club Prexy Bob Mayfield was elected presi dent and Bill Doran was elected vice-president of the A&M Poultry Science Club for the current se mester. Delvin Barret was elected secre tary-treasurer, Grady Scroggins was named reporter and John Lew is will represent the club on the Agriculture Council. Ed Parnell was elected to be the club’s advisor replacing Lee James, who is re entering the armed services. A baby chick show will be spon sored by the club for Ag-Engineer- ing Day May 7, club members have decided. Senior Ag Meeting Set for January 18 The meeting of graduating agri cultural seniors announced for Jan uary 17 has been changed to Jan uary 18, according to Dean C. N. Shepardson of the School of Agri culture. The group will meet at 4 p.m. in the Agricultural Engineering Lec ture Room. Professor V. M. Faires, who has charge of post graduation studies, will discuss the opportunities of this program with graduating sen iors. Attend CHURCH First Baptist Church Sunday College Station —INVITES YOU TO ALL SERVICES— Sunday School 9:45 a.m. Morning Worship .... 10:50 a.m. Training Union 6:15 p.m. Evening Worship .... 7:15 p.m. A CORDIAL WELCOMES AWAITS YOU Grid Game To Be Less Rough, More Exciting PALM SPRINGS, Calif., Jan. 14 (Ah—There won’t be much differ ence in the matter of wholesale substitutions running on and off college football fields next fall, but the game will be a little more ex citing and a little less rough. Such were the deductions today as members of the intercollegiate rules committee headed homeward after another tussle to improve the grid regulation book. Th6 highly controversial free substitution rule rated top atten tion. Admittedly, according to Wil liam J. Bingham, of Harvard, chair man, this provoked hot debate in closed door sessions during the snowbound four-day session. But coaches accusal of push-button op erations were curtailed in one re spect and given free rein in anoth er. Here are the new statues on the subject: / Coaches will not be permitted to send one player at a time into the game while the clock is running— a practice that brought on the push button term. That’s out. They will be able, when the ball changes hands, to send in as many players as desired on either team. But subs must be in and ready to play while the clock is running and before the custom ary 25-second period elapses from the time the referee placed the ball in position. Those are new edicts. They can still send in as many players— platoons included—while the clock is stopped. They can still replace DeWitt, Schrickel Lead Cadet Rally By ART HOWARD A&M lost a thrilling game to Rice in Houston last night. Although an early slump put Coach Karow’s squad in a hole, John DeWitt helped them climb out of it and go ahead twice before the scoreboard gave them a 54-53 loss at the final gun. This game will probably be the most exciting contest of the year in the Southwest Conference. With only 40 seconds to go, Gene Schrickel took a downcourt pass from Sydon Hrachovy to sink an easy lay-in+- shot for the final score of the night. But the 2,000 fans never sat down in those final seconds, with that lone point separating the two squads. Striving desperately for a win, the Farmers opened up their fast-breaking game t o full throttle, and Rice followed suit. Tension mounted as possession of the ball changed ends of the court several times as the clock ran itself out, and two tie-ups at midcourt ended the game. The almost-winning A&M rally started in the last two minutes of the second quarter and continued up until the end of the game. Rice took advantage of several Cadet misplays, and the hot shooting of Switzer and McDermott to run up a 30 to 29 lead. DeWitt and Mar tin both sunk charity shots, and Martin, Jenkins and Baty made a field goal apiece to come within four points of the hosts at half time. From then on there was never more than four points separating one injured man and at such junc tures they can field as many fresh players as fancy dictates. Encouragement to offense is contained in these rules: A player can elect to run back a punt from scrimmage if the ball is caught in the end zone. This used to be an automatic touchback and the ball was placed in play on the 20-yard line. If a punt receiver gets nailed in the end zone, back of the goal line, it still goes as a touchback and the ball goes to the 20-yard line. If he is tackled on the one yard line, that’s where it goes into play. Passing behind the goal line was encouraged. A new rule says if a legal forward pass is incom plete in the offensive team’s end zone, it is to be ruled an incom- pleted pass instead of a safety, as the old college rule stipulated. An intercepted pass, in or out of the end zone, or a recovered fum ble, in or out, naturally goes for a touchdown for the opposing team. Curbing the tendencies of a play er to toss the ball ahead a few yards and out of bounds when he fumbles, the committee ruled the ball must be placed back in play at the point where the man fum bled instead of where the ball went out of bounds, as heretofore. If the ball goes out of bounds behind where he fumbles, however, play begins back there—where the ball went out of bounds. CORKT’S ~£#c£tuiiwe C£btAiKL~* North Gate TAILORED CLOTHES ARE DISTINCTIVE ORDER YOURS NOW FOR SPRING the two squads. Bill Turnbow put the Aggies ahead for the first time with a sensational shot. His approach to the basket was blocked by Big Tom, so he jumped, made a com plete turn in the air and sank the ball on his way down. But the Owls surged back into the lead on two long shots by for ward Bob Foley and a tip-in by McDermott. Kirkland, Turnbow, and DeWitt hit their marks to tie the score, but Turnbow fouled out with nine minutes to go. DeWitt followed soon after. With much of their height gone, the Aggies still managed to match the Birds point for point by play ing a fast break, close man-for- man defense. Gene Schrickel made most of the points for A&M’s bid in the last few minutes, but con stant fouling and bad passes kept them at bay. DeWitt clearly outshaded Tom both under and away from the board. He kept the tall Rice cen ter from making his tip-in shots, while making 15 points himself to lead A&M in scoring. His backboard play kept A&M in the game. The officiating also came in for some harsh words, with several questionable decisions in the vital closing seconds. Sam Jenkins and Jim Kirkland were the only Aggies who failed to hit their quota ,of. shots for the night. But Avhat hurt A&M more than anything was the poor chari ty throw average. But it was encouraging to see the Aggies come up from behind on a sustained drive to almost topple the Owls away from, home. Marvin Martin was the most improved man on the squad last night. Although not potent at the hoop, Martin was a vital factor in holding down the Rice height after the Aggies had lost most of their height through fouls. BOGUS BILLS IN US SAN ANTONIO, Jan. 14 —UP)— The Secret Service says a “very dangerous and deceptive” bogus $10 bill is being passed in San Antonio. Charles A. Ellis, agent in charge of the U. S. 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