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League Cage Race Knotted By Upsets
Baylor, Texas, Rice, Arkansas All
Share in Lead for Conference Title
By The Associated Press
The Southwest Conference basketball race today was
in a virtual tie between Baylor, Arkansas, Texas and Rice.
Southern Methodist University last night upset Rice,
47-46, and Arkansas knocked off Texas, 60-54, to jumble
the standings.
Baylor and Arkansas are now tied for the top on a
percentage basis, but only because-t :
they have played more games than
either Texas or Rice. Each of the
big four teams has been beaten
twice.
A substitute guard, George
Owen, was the hero of the
Southern Methodist victory. He
stole the ball in the waning sec
onds of play and sank a field
goal that gave the Mustangs
their narrow margin of victory.
Big Bob Ambler and Cliff Hor
ton played hob with Texas’ de
fense. Ambler scored 21 points.
Horton got 11 and his defensive
play was brilliant.
Arkansas was never behind as
it rang up its second upset in as
many nights. Once Texas tied the
lead at 16-16. But. the Razorbacks
pulled handily away in the fading
moments of play.
Slater Martin paced Texas’ scor
ing efforts with 17 points. Team
mate Tom Hamilton had 16.
Twenty-four personal fouls
hurt Texas as Arkansas made
good on 16 free throws.
The Rice-SMU game was a wild,
evenly fought affair. The two
teams were deadlocked at the half,
25-25.
A Rice substitute, Paul Vahl-
diek, missed a chance to tie the
score for his team when he failed
to connect on a gift shot just sec
onds before the final gun.
Tall Bill Tom led Rice scoring
With 18 points. Bob Pi’ewitt was
high for Southern Methodist with
15.
Tomorrow Rice plays host to
Texas Christian at Houston.
Santa Anita has been hit by a
10 per cent drop in attendance and
betting.
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DALLAS OP) — Clarence Linz,
who has been operating an ice
hockey club here for four years,
thinks the game at last has caught
on.
For the first time he’s making
money.
Linz says if the present pace
continues he will clear about $15,-
000 this season.
Thes Dallas Texans of the
United States League are draw
ing full houses these days. So
great is the interest and attend
ance that Linz is planning a
sports arena to take care of
10,000 spectators. It will be
used for other sports.
The upsurge in attendance is
not attributed to the fact that the
Texans are high in the champion
ship race either. Linz points out
that in 1947, when Dallas led the
circuit, receipts for the season
actually were $80 less than the
preceding year when the club was
in the cellar.
He says his coach, Lex Cook,
has done a good promotion'job,
aided by Jim Hendy, president of
the league.
Linz reveals that a year ago he
had decided to quit the game here.
He had been losing $35,000 to
$40,000 a season. But the league
wanted to help from its reserve
fund. So he carried on. But he
didn’t have to use any of the
money offered by the league,
iSome of which was his club’s any
way.
February 15 Will
Be Opening Date
For Baseballers
Baseball practice at A&M will
start on Feb. 15, Coach Marty Ka-
row has announced. Karow will
divide time between his baseball
and basket ball teams until the
cage season ends on March 4.
The Aggies’ baseball schedule
is incomplete with several non
conference games yet to be ad
ded. Southwestern Oklahoma
Tech and the nearby Bryan Bom
bers are among teams apt to be
encountered during the warmup
schedule. First conference game
is against Rice in Houston on
March 30.
On the Aggie schedule now are
the following games:
March 24, 25, 26 — Ohio State
at College Station.
March 30-31 — Rice at Houston
April 8-9 — Baylor at Waco.
April 14 — Baylor at College
Station.
April 20 — Texas at Austin.
April 28-29 — SMU at College
Station.
April 30 — TCU at College Sta
tion.
May 5-6 — TCU at Fort Worth.
May — SMU at Dallas.
May 13-14 — Texas at College
Station.
May 17 — Rice at College Sta
tion.
Jim McIntyre, Minnesota’s can
didate for All-American basketball
center, might refuse pro offers and
enter the ministry upon gradua
tion.
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Sports Staff Will
Pick Star of Week
Beginning this week, the Battalion sports staff will
picfk the STAR OF THE WEEK from the athletes partici
pating in all sports at A&M.
This honor will be bestowed upon the athlete who, in
the opinion of the members of the sports staff, does most
toward helping his team win.
This award is open to either freshman or varsity play
ers in any major or minor Southwest Conference sport.
Arrangements have already been made for the winner
each week to receive a week’s pass to the Campus theater
and arrangements for some other awards are pending.
This award is open to the same man more than one time
and he may receive it at any time thesports staff thinks he
has earned it.
Winners will be announced on Thursday of each week
on the sports page. The time of judging is from Monday
until Sunday of each week and the winner will be picked the
following Monday.
This award is being originated by the sports staff in
the belief that this will give recognition to many excellent
members of Aggie athletic teams that would not otherwise
receive any recognition for the time and service they devote
to Aggie athletics.
Arkansas Upsets Texas, SMU
Edges Rice in Wild Battles
AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 8 UP)—The high riding Arkansas
Razorbacks upset the dope bucket here last night when they
won their second consecutive game of their current roadtrip,
this one from the University of Texas cagers by a score of
60 to 54.
The Razorbacks, outplayed the Steers throughout the
game, took the lead in the open--*
ing seconds of play when Cliff
Horton hit a short shot.
Texas trailed for fifteen min
utes. Then Tom Hamilton knot
ted the score at 16-all, but the
tie was short-lived. Five sec
onds later and the Hogs were
again out in front.
At half time the Arkansas quint
led, 29 to 20.
The Razorbacks had consistently
outplayed the Steers, working the
ball in for close shot after shot.
Slater Martin, ace Steer scorer,
was held to a pair of field goals
in the first half, but found the
scoring target more consistently in
the second. He added 5 field goals,
but they were not enough to halt
the rampaging Razorbacks.
Bob Ambler, 6-foot 8-inch Hog
center, proved unguardable and
rang the bell for 21 points on 8
field and 5 free throws.
His opposites, Centers Philip
George and Wilson Taylor, each
accumulated 4 personal fouls in
the first half and were forced to
play under wraps the rest of the
way.
The Texans pulled up to with
in a point of the Hogs with four
minutes of play remaining, but
never led. The Razorbacks soon
amassed a neater advantage.
They capped it off when Ken
Kearns slipped under the basket
for two consecutive shots with
no one near him in the final
minute of play.
ToAi Hamilton,’ with 16 points,
was within a tally of tying Martin
for Texas’ scoring honors.
Each team committed 19 per
sonal fouls but the game was not
rough. Officials Johnny Morrow
and Carl Sears were calling ’em
doSG.
DALLAS, Texas, Feb. 8 (TP)—
SMU’s Ponies clipped the wings
of the Rice Owls here last night
47 to 46 in one of the wildest
games ever seen on a southwest
basketball court.
Six times the lead changed
hands. The last time was the best
for SMU. It came with less than a
minute to go, when little George
Owen, substitute guard, created his
moment of glory.
He stole the ball at mid-court
and dribbled like a madman for
the basket. It plopped in and gave
the Mustangs their precious point
advantage.
Seconds later, Rice had its
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chance to tie up the game. But
Paul Vahldiek, an Owl substitute
guard, was not equal to the occa
sion. He missed a free throw.
The Owls got the rebound and
made three long, wild shots as
the crowd of 1,500 stood and
shrieked. The shots missed and the
game was over.
SMU won the hard way, over
coming an 11-point deficit which
the Owls inflicted on it through
the first ten minutes.
Sheer courage paid off for the
Mustangs. Through the early part
of the game, Rice appeared much
the better team. The Owls oper
ated their floor game smoothly,
controlled the rebounds and were
deadly with long shots.
But SMU kept driving, kept
plugging. Finally, determination
paid off.
Magically, the Mustangs became
a great team and outplayed and
outfought the Owls the rest of the
way.
The teams were tied, 25 to 25,
when they took the floor for the
second half.
Coach Doc Hayes of SMU start
ed Bill Gillespie in place of Center
Johnny Zatopek.
The Mustangs immediately took
control o fthe game, getting 5
points before Rice could score a
field goal. Then the game grew
tighter than ever; the score be
came tied, then SMU would get
ahead. Rice would punch its way
back to a tie and then to the lead.
They were the men who had the
points when the Mustangs needed
them most.
Prewitt put the Mustangs ahead,
45 to 42 when Guard Harrold
Samon made a beautiful fake and
bounce-passed to the tall forward
who was waiting under the basket.
But Rice rallied an dwent into
the lead, 46 to 45, with less then
a minute. Then Owen pulled his
blameless act of thievery and
drove in for the winning basket.
Fencers Meet Corpus Y
Corpus Christi’s YMCA will fur
nish the opposition to the Fencing
team from Texas A&M in Hous
ton, Saturday February 12. The
Aggie fencers met the Baylor
Bears in a match in Waco last
Saturday.
All three fencing weapons will
have matches in Houston. These
weapons include foil, epee, and
saber.
Texas A&M’s varsity football
coaching staff is now composed of
two former Aggie backs, Harry
Stiteler and Dick Todd, and two
former University of Texas lines
men, Bill DuBose and J. T. King.
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PORT
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1949
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Page 5
Danny Green and Bernie Syfan
Perform in Only One Event
Opponents Try Everything
But They Can’t Stop Vince
(TP) Newsfeatures
DENVER—Vince Boryla, University of Denver center, plays with a
losing basketball team but ranks among the highest scoi*ers in the
nation. That’s quite a trick under any circumstances.
Its especially surprising in Boryla’s case, for he is one of the most
feared—and most closely guarded—players in college basketball.
Boryla gets the works whenever the ball is thrown in his direction.
Vince’s record made him a marked man from the beginning of his
first season with Denver. As a freshman at Notre Dame, he broke
the Irish scoring record.
During the war, the Army sent him to Lowry Field in Denver and
while stationed here he played two seasons with the Denver Nuggets
of the American Basketball League (AAU). Both years he was picked
on the AAU All-America team. He also was chosen on the U. S.
Olympic team.
Boryla’s pivot shot, equally accurate with the right or left hand, is
one of the slickest maneuvers in basketball. At first the colleges tried
putting two men on him, but he sailed along at a 21-points-a-game
clip. His best night so far was against St. John’s in New York, when
he scored 36.
By SCOTTY SWINNEY
The Texas Aggie swimming team crashed into the win
column in their series of dual meets today by virtue of a
crushing 51 to 24 victory over the Baylor Bears. This gave
the Aggies a .500 average due to an earlier defeat at the
hands of the Oklahoma Sooners.
The Aggies got off to an early*
Taken during a game with Regis College of Denver, this picture
shows how opponents respect Vince Boryla’s shooting ability. Fight
ing to keep the Denver ace from getting off a shot are three players,
with a fourth coming up to help. No. 17 throws a hip, one man tries
to tie up the ball from the rear and the player at left is guarding
the direction of the basket. Vince made 16 points anyway.
Battalion Sports Quiz
1. What Southwest Conference teams have been National
football champions, and in what years did they win this award ?
2. What former Southwest Conference athlete is the hold
er of two World track records and what are these records?
3. In which case, a line drive in baseball, a tee shot in golf
or a serve in tennis, would the ball travel faster?
4. Which league leads in number of World Series victor
ies and how many have each league won?
5. What was the only Southwest Conference team to play
in the Rose Bowl; in what year, and who won the game?
(This is the first of a series of sports quizzes that the
Battalion sports staff will run in the Tuesday edition each
week. These questions will be made up by the staff and
answers will be on this or on another page the same day.)
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Calendar
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9
Basket ball game 6:00 p. m.
Texas A&M Freshmen vs. Tyler
Junior College.
Basket ball game 8:00 p. m.
Texas A&M vs. Southern Meth
odist.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10
Basketball game 6:00 p. m.
Texas A&M Freshmen vs.
Whai’ton Junior College.
Basket ball game 8:00 p. m.
Texas A&M vs. Texas Chris
tian.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11
Spring football training be
gins.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12
Fencing Meet— Texas A&M
vs. Corpus Christ! YMCA at
Houston.
Swimming Meet 3:00 p. m.—
Texas A&M vs. Southern Meth
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lead with a win in the 300 medley
relay. Paul Fleming started for
the Aggies, and came in a short
distance behind. Then Billy Moye
took over and gave the Aggies a
forty foot lead, which was length
ened to one hundred feet by Dan
ny Green, the anchor man. After
that impressive start the Aggies
held the lead for the rest of the
meet.
In the 220 yard freestyle, Ber
nard Syfan and David Vardeman
both of the Aggies pulled out to
an early lead. Then Syfan pull
ed away from Vardeman to win
by 20 feet.
Bullet Manale, of Baylor, show
ed form today that won the ac
claim of the spectators in the Na-
tatorium. He won the diving com
petition with seemingly little ef
fort, and on some of his dives,
there’ were bronx cheers from a
gallery packed with Aggies; how
ever, these weren’t directed at
Manale, but at one of the judges
who was giving him what the
Aggies thought were low scores.
For his final dive, Manale im
pressed the people with his skill
by performing a difficult for
ward \/i flip with a double
twist. At the height of his dive,
he gave the impression of a pret
zel in mid-air.
McKenzie, of the Aggies, fought
Baylor’s McCoy for the lead in
the first % of the 100 yard free
style only to see him pull out to
a slight lead in the final length
and win-for the Bears.
The biggest fight of the after
noon came in the 200 yard breast
stroke between two Aggies. Jim
my Flowers and George Dieck
(left the Baylor entry far be
hind and had a private duel all
the way. The lead changed hands
several times during the course
of the race, with Flowers taking
the lead on the turns. In the
straightaways, Dieck would al
ways fight back and take a lead
over Flowers.
On the final turn, Flowers took
over the lead and put on a spurt
to nose Dieck out at the finish.
Flowers recorded a time of 2:54
against Dieck’s 2:54.2. The Baylor-
ite was over a pool length behind
the two Aggies when they touched
for the finish.
Another close race came in
the 440 yard free-style, this time
between John Peters of A.&M.
and Sorrell of Baylor. Sorrell
took an early lead at the start
and stretched it to a scant two
yards.
Peters then pulled up from be
hind to pull into the lead by a
head. From that point on, the two
men swam stroke for stroke with
Sorrell taking a slight advantage
coming off the last turn for the
sprint to the finish, and winning
by a slight margin of 0.2 seconds.
The 400 yard freestyle relay,
again found the Aggies winning
easily without the assistance of
their regular anchor man, Danny
Green. Tommy Butler led off for
the Aggies and gave up a slight
lead to the Baylor lead man.
R. W. Rouse pulled up even
with the Baylor entry in the
second position, and from that
point on, the race belonged to
the Aggies. Gene Summers took
over and handed McKenzie a
lead of 6 yards which he length
ened to 8 at the finish.
Although the Aggies won easi
ly, the Bears took high point hon
or's. McCoy counted for 8 points
and Sorrell for 6 points to lead
the scorers.
Following the leaders were Sy
fan, Fisher, Kruse, and Flowers
of the Aggies, and Manale of the
Bears with 5 points each.
Results:
300 yd. medley relay — Texas
A&M (Fleming, Moye, Green),
time: 3:23.8.
220 freestyle — Syfan, A&M;
Vardeman, A&M; Sorrell, Baylor,
time: 2:30.1.
50 freestyle — Fisher, A&M;
McCoy, Baylor; Summers, A&M;
time: 0:25.7.
Diving — Manale, Baylor; Pot
ter, A&M; Strait, A&M; points:
102.1.
100 freestyle — McCoy, Baylor;
McKenzie, A&M; Wynn, Baylor,
time: 0:56.8.
150 backstroke — Kruse, A&M;
Odom, Baylor; Fleming, A&M.
time: 1:52.6.
200 breaststroke — Flowers, A
&M; Dieck, A&M; Heath, Baylor,
time: 2:54.
440 freestyle — Sorrell, Baylor;
Peters, A&M; Gaines, A&M. time
5:50.3.
400 freestyle relay—A&M (But
ter, Rouse, Summers, McKenzie).
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