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1 Aggies Meet SMU Here Tonight, TCU Thursday, In Basketball Aggie Cagers Take On Strong Tyler Junior College Tonight Apaches Have Strongest JC Team In State; Davis Develops Sore Ankle By FRANK SIMMEN, JR. Coach Taylor Wilkins will send his undefeated freshmen cagers into action tonight against a strong Tyler Junior College quintet in a preliminary game in DeWare Field House starting at 6 o’clock. The underdog freshmen will run up against five all staters that are now members of*" the Tyler team. Going into the fifth week of conference play, the Tyler cagers are undefeated in seven games and only have one loss against their near perfect re cord. Leading the list of Apache basketballers is Byron Miller, Texas’ most valuable high school eager last season. The young Dallas eager who played with Crozier Tech last season, has topped the Tyler lads in the scoring column in most of the games this season. Is Your . . . VALENTINE Far Away? SEND HER FLOWERS by Wire from the AGGIEL AND Flower Shop North Gate Ph. 4-1212 Another all-stater, Joe Palafox, played last season with the Apa ches, has exhibited some fine floor play this year and should be a real help to the east Texans in their quest for a victory tonight. Pala fox won the outstanding player award in the junior college tourna ment that was held in College Sta tion last year. A Sidney Lanier product of the Tyler squad is Robert Rod riquez, starting center for the Apaches. The young 6’5 ? ’ eager of San Antonio was an all-state product during the 46 and 47 cage seasons. Filling out the list of Apache starters is Champion and Richard son. Champion, another all stater from Crozier Tech, will hold down a starting forward position. Jim Richardson will hold down the other post in the tilt tonight a- gainst the Fish. He is an east Texas product who was chosen on the all-national squad last sea son when the Apaches were parti cipating in the national JC meet in Kansas City. The Tyler quintet lost its first game of the season to the SMU freshmen by a close margin, but since that time have remained undefeated. In one of the wildest scoring contests in Texas history the Apaches defeated the Le- Tourneau Tech cagers in a con test in Beaumont by a score of 108 to 26. The Baylor freshmen five also fell before the Apaches by a score of 72 to 42. The young Bears could not seem to stay together against the Tyler attack. The east Tex ans also ran up a twelve point margin in a game with Lamar Junior College. Jumping over to the Aggie side of the fence we find Buddy Davis with a sore ankle. Coach Wilkins stated that he will start Davis in hopes that his ankle will prove to be alright. He has been tak ing it easy in practice the last few days in hopes that he will see action against the Tyler team. 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Saber—Ignacio Barrios, Gus Mistrot, and John Happ. The meet will consist of three matches in each weapon, the winners being the first to get the required number of points in the respective weapWq 5 for foil and saber, and 3 for epee. Points acquired will count on the final scoring of the teams in AFLA competition. Members of the team who have won individual points in the cur rent year are Ignacio Barrios, 3rd place and 7 points in an open foil meet in College Station, “Speck” Fails 5th place and 5 points and Gerald Monks 6th place and 4 points both in a prep foil meet in Houston. from Moody, Texas is also on the injured list. Sandlin sprained his ankle in practice the early part of the week. Coach Wilkins will probably start Davis at the pivot post, Woody Walker, who showed such dazzling form in the Yearling- con test, at a guard slot; Eddie Houser and Bentley at forwards and Bob Farmer at the other guard posi tion. The Fish will be seeking their seventh straight win of the sea son tonight, having already de feated the Texas, Rice, and Bay lor frosh quintets as well as Allen Academy, Wharton Junior College, and the Sam Houston B team. As a preliminary to the varsity contest between A&M and TCU on Thursday night the freshmen will again perform against Wharton Junior College. The Fish have al ready defeated the Wharton Coun ty lads once this season by a score of 52 to 41. Frankie McFadden, who was at A&M until the early part of De cember, has since transferred to Wharton and is playing on their cage team at present. McFadden, who was having schoolastic trou bles at Aggieland, is catching up on some back hours that he needs at the south Texas college. Bob Tomlin of East Bernard, who led the Pioneer attack in the first Fish-Wharton tilt, is the leading eager on the Pioneer 'squad. Tomlin, who is 6’6”, scor ed 10 points in that contest as well as leading his team de fensively. In this contest the Fish squad will not have the services of their star guard Jewell McDowell, who has moved up to the varsity. The voung Amarillo eager racked up 24 points to lead the scoring as well as pace the Aggies floor play in the last meeting of the teams. FOR THOSE WHO DEMAND THE BEST . . College Shoe Repair North Gate Here are the Volleyball Champions of the Club Leagues in Inlramnrals for the past Fall Semester, The A.S.C.E. team. In the front row, left to right: R. W. Claunch, B. E. Davis, W. Hill, and J. 1). Pitcock. In the back row, same order: A. Charles, R. L. Schodde, and H. P. Buckner. Not present when the picture was taken were A. R. Buckner and E. E. Seewald. S Battalion PORT WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1949 S Page 3 Low Scores Posted in Bowling Playoffs; Barrett Tops Field Scores in Monday night’s bowling playoffs were all low, with no kegler able to post a 150 average. Donald Barrett came closest with a 3-game total of 438, an average of 146- Strikes were few and far between for most of the bowl ers, with the exception of Marvin.Luceford, who racked up 4 strikes in a row his last line for a-* * 188-game. But a bad middle score of 111 kept Luceford’s total to 433. The only other four-hundred game was made by Harry Vaughn, who hit 418. Two of the bowlers with the smoothest form, A. B. Harris and Vernon Smith, both had hard nights and hit below their par game. The ironical part of the night was that Lyon, a non-entrant, was averaging 180 on the vacant fourth alley. Lyon will be given a lane in Friday’s playoff if all of the alleys are not filled. Eight of the 12 bowlers in Mon day’s playoff still are holding on to their tentative squad positions. However, several good keglers are still on tap for Friday’s session. Wednesday, February 16 has been selected as the tenative date for the tournament with Baylor, but this date may be changed if facilities will not be available there at that time. An announcement of the squad roster will be made in Monday’s Batt, and team members will be asked to attend a practice session that night. Eyes Examined and Glasses Fitted By DR. JOHN S. CALDWELL —Office— Caldwell’s Jewelry Store Bryan, Texas % Vj' ^ J#* WATCHES DIAMONDS JEWELRY R. L. McCARTY Jeweler — N. Gate Aggie Soccer Team Opens Practice In Need of Sponsor This semester the A&M Soccer team begins its activities with a five game schedule. The Aggies have coming games with Oklahoma A&M, Oklahoma U., Allen Academy, Texas U., and a team from Galveston. Team work outs will be held on Monday, Wed nesday and Friday at 5:00 p. m. behind the baseball diamond. The team is open to anyone wishing to play soccer, and new uniforms, which have just arrived, will be issued to the players dur ing the next workout. At the present time the team is interested in getting a sponsor. Spring Events Set for ’Mural Calendar Intramural wrestlers continue to weigh in this week for their events that start next Monday afternoon. Over 160 entries have signed up so far. This afternoon, a wrestling dem onstration will be held in the little gym at 5 p. m. All bouts are sche duled to begin at 4 p. m. next week but Corps Athletic Officers should check their schedules on drill days for changes. There are eight classes in In tramural wrestling. Last year’s winner in the 149 lb class was Don Kutch. In the 129 and 139 lb classes, Bob Garcia and Bob Carlson were the title holders. Joe Flescher won the 149 lb di vision and Rudy Koenig annexed the 159 lb class. The 169 lb defender is Jack Scott and Ken Rogers plans to defend his championship of the 179 lb division. G. B. Klatt was the 1948 Heavyweight winner. Team Handball schedules have not been announced; Monday was the closing day for entries. Ath letic Officers will be notified of times and dates. So far only two dates have definitely been set for Intramur al events this spring. Wrestling gets underway on Monday the 14, and Boxing will start on February 28. Boxers must get their entries in by February 21 and will weigh in on February 22 and 23. Closing date for entries in soft- ball and horse shoes is February 15. Vet softball will likely begin Students A-M Get in First; Doors Open to All at 7:30 By LEON SOMER The Southern Methodist Mustangs invade College Sta tion tonight in the first of two games to be played in De- Ware Field House this week. Tomorrow night Texas Chris tian will engage the Aggies in another conference tilt here. Both varsity games will begin at eight o’clock. Monday night the Southwest Conference cage race was thrown wide open by the defeat of Tex as and Rice, two teams that had been on top of the conference scramble as the result of Bay lor’s loss to Arkansas last week. Four teams are now definitely in the running for the champion ship. These teams are Arkansas, Rice, Baylor, and Texas. Baylor and Arkansas, with five wins and two losses, now lead the confer ence race. Close behind these two teams are Texas with four wins and two losses and Rice with three victories in five games played. Against the Cadets tonight the Mustangs will depend on their two high scoring forwards, Jack Brown and Bob Prewitt. In Mon day night’s 47-46 win over Rice these two cagers scored a total of 27 points. The Aggies will rate as several point underdogs against a Pony team that has already defeated Marty Karow’s cagers once this season. The Farmers’ chances for an upset tonight were dealt a blow Saturday night when forward Bill Turnbow was injured in the Texas game. Turnbow probably will see only limited action against both the Mustangs and Frogs. The Aggies’ hopes for victory against SMU will rest largely on the shoulders of center John De- Witt and guard Jewell McDow ell. DeWitt is now in second place in the conference scoring race with 84' points. This total is only five points less than that made by Julius Dolnics who is the present leader. In the other conference game tonight, TCU travels to Houston to meet the Rice Owls. The feath ered flock will be favored to de feat a Horned Frog team that has won only one conference game this year. Student coupon holders whose initials are A through M will be admitted first up to 7:30 in to nights game. After that time students will be admitted on a first come first served basis. CONFERENCE STANDINGS School W L Pet. Baylor 5 2 .714 Arkansas 5 2 .714 Texas 4 2 .667 Rice 3 2 .600 SMU 3 4 .429 A&M 1 5 .167 TCU 1 5 .167 LEADING SWC SCORERS Name T.P. Ave. Dolnics, TCU 89 14.8 DeWitt, A&M 84 14.0 Heathington, Baylor 84 12.0 Ambler, Ark. 83 13.8 Prewitt, SMU 77 12.8 Hamilton, Texas 69 13.8 Brown, SMU Tom, Rice 68 11.3 67 16.7 Owens, Baylor 66 9.4 Kearns, Ark. 56 9.3 White, Texas 56 11.2 ALTERATIONS Yes, we want to do your alterations and repairs. ... All broken zippers need not be replaced with new zippers. Some may be repaired at a nominal cost. SEE US FIRST AND SAVE MONEY Knitted Cuffs and Bottoms of Jackets replaced. >f Zubik & Sons Uniform Specialists North Gate earlier than Corps competition this spring. On Tuesday, March 24, entries for open golf and open tennis, as well as Swimming and Diving must be in. April 14 is the closing date for track and field entries. May 5 is the last day for entries in the Open Weight Lifting meet. No dates have been set for Fight night; Track and Field meet, Open Badminton Meet, and Open Weight Lifting Meet, nor has any date been set for the Appreciation Bar- B-Q and the Victory Ceremony at the Penberthy Message Center. Sports Calendar AVEDNESDAY, 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. Wharton 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 Christi YMCA at Houston. Swimming Meet 3:00 p. m.— Texas A&M vs. Southern Meth odist in P. L. Downs Natator- ium. TO GIVE YOU MORE fsPEP r POWER tEcmw Charlie Cade, Jr. LINCOLN — MERCURY South Hwy No. 6 Bryan Going Somewhere? Travel Refreshed Ask for it either way ... both trade-marks mean the same thing. 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