Slow-Starting Fish Down Cubs
Aggies Engage
Okies Monday
in Swim Meet
Fish Blast Strong Baylor Frosh Team,
47 - 41, As McDowell and Davis Shine
By PER SIMMEN
Combining a fast break with the height of Buddy Davis,
the Ag Fish came through with another startling victory
Friday night in DeWare Field House to defeat the Baylor
Cubs by a score of 47-41. Buddy Davis led his teammates in
scoring with 22 points. McDowell, who played an outstanding
floor game for the Farmers in his*
last game with his freshman bud
dies, came through with 12 of his
teams 47 points.
Despite an early and very short
lead by the Cubs the College Sta
tion boys came back to run scor
ing crazy making a total of 30
points in the first half while hold
ing the Cubs to only 18. In the
second half though the Aggies had
considerable trouble in holding that
lead and the end of the game
found the young Farmers ahead by
only six points.
“Ears” McDowell played his
regular brand of splendid ball, but
the biggest surprize of all was the
brand of cage play turned in by
the Fish center Buddy Davis.
Davis used his height in con
trolling both backboards through
out the game and pulling shots
out of the bag to lead his team
mates to a victory over the new
Wacoans.
Fleet forward Bill Harris, who
played with Fish Bentley last sea
son at Harlington High School,
led the Baylorites in the scoring-
column with 15 points.
With the game 9 minutes old,
Fleetwood dribbled in, for a crip
when Mac was screened out,
making it 17 to 15. This was the
closest the young Bears came in
threating the Aggies hold on the
lead.
With only a minute to go in the
first half McDowell made a long
shot from his own right corner to
notch the Fish lead by a 30 to 18
count.
In the second half the Cubs seem
ed to have found themselves. Cen
ter Ralph Johnson started making-
shots after he moved away from
the bucket and the protesting cover
of Buddy Davis.
Johnson managed to slip in a
total of 6 points in the second
half while big Bud was busy with
another man. Johnson’t tricky
ball handling and faking made
him a standout on the Baylor
team.
The latter period was filled with
quite a few scares as the Cubs
threatened the Ag'freshmen’s lead
in the closing minutes.
KICKING IT AROUND
BY ART HOWARD
Retiring Sports Editor Gives Last
“Kicks”; New Sports Editors Named
Today is the last time this writer will appear behind the
familiar eight ball, for when the new semester rolls around
I will hand it over to the new sports co-editors, Bill Potts
and Sack Spoede. This being my
swan’s song, I would like to say that
my association with A&M’s coach
ing staff and athletes has been very
cordial, on the whole.
Before leaving this column corn
er, I would like to amend something
which I said last week about Bobby
Goff. It finally came out that
Goode was ineligible to receive the
award of “Most Valuable Player”
because he had gotten it in 1944,
and the donor has stipulated that no
athlete could get it twice in the
same sport.
I do think that Goff deserved
this award, Goode being ineligible.
- . _ However, on closer consideration,
who says that a man cannot be the most valuable member of
a team more than one season ?
Why give repeating lettermen a second sweater—they
One week from this after
noon the Texas Aggie Swim
ming Team will meet their
first opponents on the 1949
season in a dual meet
in P. L. Downs Natatorium when
they meet the stixmg Oklahoma
University mermen.
Last season the Sooners lost
only two of eight dual meets
with other universities in this
area. The two teams that beat
them are SMU, who the Okies
defeated in a later match, and
A&M.
The probable line-up for the Ag
gies is:
Medley relay: George Reeves,
Jimmy Flowers, Danny Green, and
Bernard Syfan.
220 yard free-style: Dave Vard-
aman and Gilbert McKenzie.
50 yard free-style: Danny Green
and Jerry Fisher.
Diving: Bill Strait and Scotty
Potter.
100 yard free style: Danny Green
and Jimmy Flowers.
150 backstroke: George Reeves
and Ed Kruse.
200 yard breast-stroke: Gene
Summers and Dick McKenzie.
400 free-style relay: Jerry Fish
er, Jimmy Flowers, Bernard Syfan
and Danny Green.
Jimmy Flowers, ace breast strok-
er on the team, will swim in the
free-style events because he is
recuperating from a cold. Bill
Strait may not participate in the
diving due to a pulled muscle
JIMMY FLOWERS, Aggie
swimming star, will swim the
dashes instead of the breast
stroke against Oklahoma next
Monday afternoon. This will be
the first meet of the season for
the Cadet tankers.
Goodbye, Eight Ball
already have one? Team captaincy
is supposed to be given only to
graduating seniors, but several
Aggies have been selected more
than once.
Bert Pfaff of Tyler gives a tro
phy for the best blocker and, if I
am not mistaken, he does not re
strict it in any way.
But I think that the Aggie
coaching staff, which makes the
selection (with restrictions), would
use their own 1 judgment in passing
this trophy around, unless there
were only one logical choice for the
award.
It is a fine thing for a local
firm to give an award to the
players. But if any restriction
is placed upon it which prevents
it from being what it is called,
“Outstanding player or blocker,”
I believe that the Athletic De
partment should give its own
trophys.
I would like to make" it easier
for Potts and Spoede by explain
ing a few things about the sports
department. We have been criti
cized both verbally and in print,
for our coverage and our editor
ializing. I have personally talked
with most of the letter-writing
critics, and invited them to join us.
Invariably they are too busy to
come help us. We make our mis
takes up here, but we don’t run
any closed shop.
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Football Schedule
For ’49 Released
A ten-game 1949 football sche
dule against the same foes Texas
A&M encountered in 1948 has been
announced by Athletic Director
Bill Carmichael.
The Cadets will play their first
home night game ever on Saturday
Sept. 17 against the Villanova
Main Liners of Philadelphia. Villa-
nova is one of the five 1949 Bowl
game winners on the Cadets’ slate.
Each of the Aggies’ four home
games is against a bowl winner,
SMU, Baylor and Texas being
! \
Bears Outlast Aggies, 53 to 47
By BILL POTTS
Too many missed free
throws cost the Aggie bas-
ketballers a possible w i n
over the conference-1 e a d -
ing Baylor Bears in DeWare
Field House Friday night. While
leading at only one time during
the contest, the Cadets were al
ways well in the game except for
a few minutes during the second
half when they were 17 points
down. They pulled up to within five
points of the Bears before the
last five minutes of the contest
w®re played but could never get
the other visitors to Kyle Field
in 1949.
The complete 1949 Aggie sche
dule:
Sept. 17—Villanova at College
Station (night.
Sept. 24—Texas Tech at San An
tonio (night).
Oct. 1—Oklahoma University at
Norman, Okla. .
Oct. 8 —LSU in Baton Rouge,
La. (night).
*-Oct. 15—TCU in Fort Worth.
*-Oct. 22—Baylor at College
Station.
*-Oct. 29—Arkansas at Fayette
ville, Arkansas.
*-Nov. 5—SMU at College Sta
tion.
*-Nov. 12 — Rice Institute at
Houston.
*-Nov. 24—University of Texas
at College Station.
*•—denotes Southwest Conference
games.
Battalion
PORT
MONDAY, JANUARY 24, 1949
Page 3
any closer and lost by a score of
53 to 47.
Bill Turnbow played inspired
ball all night and led the Ag
gies with 14 points in the scor
ing department, but missed five
gratis shots that qould have
made a lot of difference. His
team mates also missed enough
to take the Aggies total of miss
ed up to nine.
The Bears leading free thx-ow
maker and top scorer for the night
was Don Heathington, their big 6
foot 3 inch forward who made
seven gratis ones in seven at
tempts. He was trailed by Odell
Preston who failed to make one in
seven attempts.
The last few minutes of the
game were marred a lot by travel
ling on the part of the Bears who
seemed to think they were playing
football instead of basketball. The
Aggies were much better in their
dribbling but didn’t pass the ball
enough.
Sam Jenkins, the Aggie co-cap
tain who was playing his last
game for the Cadets Friday night,
did himself proyd against the
Bears. His ball handling and pass
ing were above reproach and at
various times, he nearly faked the
Bears out, of their uniforms with
his tricky sidesteps and breaks.
Sam graduates this semester.
The Bears started off the fire
works with eight points before
the Aggies were able to rack
up their first bucket. Gene
Schrickel started the Aggies’
scoring with two points after
three minutes and 45 seconds
had elapsed.
Tall John DeWitt hit again a
minute and a half later with a
long one from the left side. The
Bears however, kept things in their
hands and matched shot for shot
until the Aggies started a rally
after eight minutes had been play
ed.
Schrickel sank a long one from
the left side and Red Owens
matched it with one from right
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under the basket. Then came the
big drouth of the Bears and the
Aggies got hot. Turnbow made one
of two free shots and John De-
Witt got one gratis.
After the Bears had tried for
the Aggies basket and failed,
Turnbow put a long one through
the hoop over his shoulder to make
it 16-17 in favor of the Bears.
One minute and fifteen seconds
later, “Wild Bill” Turnbow got
wilder and sent the Farmers
ahead with a crip shot on a pass
from Schrickel. Then Jim Kirk
land sank a free one to put the
Farmers two points ahead.
The Aggies lead didn’t last long
because Bill Johnson came back to
tie up the score with a shot from
just back of the foul line. Then
Heathington put the Bears ahead
again with another of his free
ones and the Aggies were never
able to catch up again.
During the last five minutes of
the first half, the Aggies were able
to make only two points more,
both ’ of those by Batey on free
throws. The Bears, meanwhile,
made seven. The halftime score
was Baylor 27, A&M 21.
The Aggies started off the sec
ond half just as they started the
first, like a bunch of cold polar
bears with mittens on. It took three
minutes and twenty seconds be
fore they could get their first
bucket, that one by Kirkland.
Meanwhile, the Bears had raised
their score four points to make it
31 to 23.
The Aggies basketballers then
folded up and that looked like
the game. In the next four min
utes the Bears collected 11 points
while John DeWitt made the
only two for the Aggies and
the score read, Bears, 42, Ag
gies, 25.
Then came the best rally of the
night for either team, this one on
the part of the Aggies.
Jenkins stole the ball from Hea
thington and made a bucket after
Turnbow had just sunk a free one.
Preston made a free one for the
Bears and that ended the Bruins
scoring for awhile. During the
Bears’ scoreless period, the Aggies
rolled up six more points on shots
by DeWitt, Turnbow and Schrickel.
Heathington tipped in one for
the Bears and Mobley matched it to
run the score up to 45-36.
Turnbow and Schrickel made two
more fast ones and that was as
close as the Farmers could get to
the Bears during the second half.
From then on, it was each team
matching points with the other un
til the final minute. Baylor pulled
one more point into the lead on a
free shot by Preston and that was
the ball game.
BOX SCORE
BAYLOR G F P P
Owens, f 6 2 3 14
HeathinKton, f 6 7 4 19
Preston, t 16 4 8
Hickman, g 0 0 10
Pulley, g 10 12
B. DeWitt, g 0 14 1
Johnson, g 4 1 2 9
Totals
18
AGGIES G
Turnbow, 'f 4
Batey f 0
Kirkland, f 1
Martin, f 0
J. DeWitt, c 4
Jenkins, g 2
Schrickel, g 4
Mobley, g 2
Totals
17
Free throws missed: Baylor (6), Owens
3, Johnson 2, Preston 1; Texas A. and M.
(9), Turnbow 5, Kirkland 2, J. DeWitt 2.
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