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Aggie Cager s W:in Over Horned F rogs 39-37 Fish Drop Wharton 61-36 By TRAVIS BROCK Superb play under the baskets by Dick Bentley and Buddy Davis aided the Aggie Fish cagers to a easy 61-36 victory over Wharton Junior College last night in De- Ware Field House. Building up a two point lead in the first fifteen seconds of play with a field goal by Bobby Farmer and another field goal by Eddie Houser increased this margin to four points with only one minute of playing time gone. Landers broke the ice for Whar ton with a push shot from the foul circle, but the rally was short lived when Buddy Davis began hitting the basket from all angles. The Fish jumped into a 11 point lead midway of the first half with shots from far out by Farmer, and Raymond Walker and a nice tip-in shot by Davis. Five minutes before the half time period, Wharton began to find the range of the basket, with 2 field goals 'by Landers and an other by Young, to pull within seven points of the Aggie Fish. This short rally began to fade as Davis regained his sights to add three more points to his total. Two field goals by Bill Bybee and Bill Gibbs just before the first half ended gave the Fish a 36-21 margin. Increasing their lead steadily from the start of the second half with Davis contributing eight points in the first nine minutes of play, the Aggie Fish had gained a 22 point margin. Fish coach, Taylor Wilkins, be gan to send in his substitutes at DeLUXE CAFE SERVES THE BEST IN FOOD 1 he Bryan Home of the 1 exas Aggies this time and until the final whis tle it was a rough and tumble bat tle with numerous fouls being call ed against each side. The Pioneers could not break through the tight defense set up by the Fish and their shots were mostly from far out. Showing smoother ball handling and bettfer play under the baskets, the Fish looked considerably bet ter than they did with the Tyler Junior College five the night be fore in DeWare Fieldhouse. FRESHMAN SCORING Fish Fg Ft Pf T Gibbs, g 1 0 0 2 Walker, g 1 2 1 4 Bredthauer, f 0 0 0 0 Farmer, g 3 2 2 8 Bybee, f 2 0 2 4 Churclx, f 1 0 1 2 Houser, f 3 0 . 3 6 Clover, f 0 1 1 1 Bentley, f 4 1 2 9 Davis, c 7 5 1 19 Sandlin, c 0 1 2 1 Ecrette, g 0 0 1 0 Johnson, f 1 1 2 3 Ogletree, g 1 0 1 2 Parks, g 0 0 0 0 Totals: 24 12 19 61 Pioneers Fg Ft Pf T Burns, g 1 0 1 2 Landers, g 6 2 0 14 Irvin, f 1 2 0 4 Lurker, f 1 1 2 3 Cecil, g 2 2 2 6 Young, c 1 3 3 5 Supack, g 0 0 1 0 Struska, f 0 0 0 0 Olson, f 0 2 4 2 McFadden, g 0 0 4 0 Totals: 12 12 17 36 NEW RAM OPPONENTS NEW YORK Once-mighty Ford- ham meets Army on the gridiron next season, in the Ram’s back-to- the top program. It is the first meeting between the two. Yale and Scranton also will be played for the first time by the Fordham eleven. Other opponents are Kings Point, Georgetown, Rutgers and NYU—holdovers—and Boston Col lege, to be met for the first time since 1942 and Syracuse for the first time since 1909. Aggie Tankers Meet Mustangs Tomorrow at 3 The Texas A&M swimming team will meet their second Southwest Conference foe when they go up against the SMU team at the P. L. Downs Natatorium, Saturday af ternoon at 3 o’clock. The Aggies will go into the meet a slight favorite after holding the Oklahoma Sooners to a closer de cision than did the Mustangs, but a break either way could mean the difference between victory and de feat. Should the SMU coach decide to swim Mike Muckelroy in the 50 and 100, a good race is in the off ing between him and the Aggie dash star, Danny Green. Against the Sooners, Mike swam the 220 and 440, and it is unknown as yet which races he will swim against the Aggies. Probable lineup for the Aggies will be: 300 medley relay: Kruse, Flow ers, McKenzie. 220 freestyle: Syfan, Vardeman. 50 freestyle: Green, Fisher. Diving: Potter, Strait. 100 freestyle. Green, McKenzie. 150 backstroke: Kruse, Fleming. 200 breaststroke: Flowers, Sum mers. 440 freestyle: Syfan, Vardeman. 400 freestyle relay: McKenzie, Fisher, Clevenger, Green. PROMISING CENTER A boy who never played a down of freshman football for the Texas Aggies figures in the plans of the Cadets for the next three seasons. He is Pat Diffie, promising fresh man center from Gladewater. Dif fie suffered a shoulder injury while drilling with the South stars in preparation for the 1948 all-star high school game in Abilene. An operation has put the injury back in shape and Diffie will take part in spring drills. The New- CHARLIES FOOD MARKET COLLEGE STATION NORTH GATE — FRIDAY AND SATURDAY SPECIALS— THE OLDEST GROCERY STORE IN THE NEWEST BUILDING . . 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Also reporting will be 14 players who were ineligible or injured last fall, and 53 from last fall’s great Freshman team. Head coach Harry Stiteler and his coaching staff have the work laid out for them; it promises to be one of the toughest coaching jobs ever attempted in the South west Conference. The squad will be heavy in numbers and maybe in weight but it’s light in exper ience. Assisting Stiteler will be back- field coach Dick Todd, line coach Bill DuBose, end coach J. T. King, and Freshman coach Bones Irvin. Also slated to aid him will be six former Aggie gridmen of previous years. These are Marion Flanagan, Monty Moncrief, Burl Baty, Clovis Olsak, Martin Ruby, and Milton Routt. Here is the list of candidates as of Thursday: ENDS Wray Whittaker, Houston; Ced ric Copeland, Waco; Andy Hill- house, Alvin and Dick Callendar, College Station, lettermen; Dan Speers, Belton; G'eox-ge Kadera, Houston, Charles Davidson, Port Arthur; Dorbandt Barton, Fort Stockton and Ed Hooker, Hender son, squadmen; Carl Hill, Denison and Walter Davenport, Marlin, 1948 ineligibles; Charles Hodge, Dallas; Jack Jones, Breckenridge; Edsel Jones, College Station; John Gentilli, Del Rio and John Walker, Eagle Lake, freshmen. TACKLES Jimmy Flowers, Dallas; Dwayne Tucker, Waco and Tuck Chapin, San Antonio, lettermen; Dick Scott, Tyler; Murray Holditch, Blooming Grove and Percy Burk, Nacogdoches, squadmen; Alex Stroble, Baytown and Averill Da vis, Nederland, 1948 ineligibles; Sam Moses, Lockhart; Russell Hu- deck, Houston; Bill Pratt, Corpus Christi; Johnsa Phares, Lufkin; James Little, Big Spring; Bob Boyles and Charles Thornborrow, Pampa; Bob Cline, San Benito and Currie Meyer, New Ulm, freshmen. GUARDS Max Greiner, Beaumont and Carl Molberg, Fredericksburg, letter- men; Mickey Spencer, Pasadena, and A. J. Dugas, Port Arthur, squadmen; Bob Davidson, Port Arthur; William Rush, Lampassas; Eddie Holley, Arlington, Va., Herb Sauei', San Antonio; Elo Nohayit- za, El Campo; Fred Fulgham, Pas adena and Denny Hutson, Port Arthur, freshmen. CENTERS Bob Bates, Fort Worth, letter- man; Hulin Smith, Grand Saline, squadman; Hugh Meyer, Gaines ville and Pat Diffie, Gladewater, Madeley’s Pharmacy FOR VALENTINE CANDIES See South Gate StfETH^F Prompt Courteous Service PHONE 2-1400 Bryan The Largest . . . ELECTRICAL APPLIANCE STORE In Bryan— Come in and sec us for large or small appliances: RADIOS . . ELECTRIC IRONS STUDENT LAMPS FLOOR LAMPS PRESTO COOKERS COFFEE MAKERS KELVINATOR . . HOT POINT —and many other usefuls— UNITED APPLIANCES FARM & HOME STORE & AGGIE RADIO Phone 2-1496 injured in 1948; James Fowler, Temple; Van Hetherly, Lampasas; Richard Cummings, Rice and Dan ny Perkins, San Antonio. BACKS Bobby Goff, Kenedy; Kenneth Voss, Gatesville; Jimmy Cashion, College Station and Charley Royal ty, Freeport, lettermen; Paul Yat es, Fort Wox-th, 1944 letterman and Bobby Dew, Corsicana, 1947 letterman; John Christensen, Gal veston and Frank Torno, Cameron, squadmen; Robert Smith, Houston; Dick G'ardemal, Port Arthur; John Hill, Mexia; Charley McDonald, Port Arthur; Delmer Sikes, San Angelo; David Duncan, Austin; Bobby Dohoney, Hillsboro; George Roberts, Austin and Doyle Moox-e, Austin, injux-ed or ineligible dur ing 1948 season. Glenn Lippman, El Campo; Au- gie Saxe, Beaumont; Homer Dear and Yale Lary, Fort Woi'th; Jerry Crossman, Houston; Jim Dobbyn, Abilene; Bernard Lemmons, Ozona Clarence Lawson, Wichita Falls; Gary Anderson, San Antonio; Ger ald Bowen and June Clai'k, Cor sicana; Robert Shaeffei’, El Paso; Billy Tidwell, Hearne; Mack Stoel- tje, Beaumont; Kenneth Shobe, Corpus Christi; Lucky Parks, En nis; Don Pfefferkorn, Lockhart; Karl Hollier, Port Arthur; Des mond Jones, Orange axxd Fred Bredthauer, Brenham, freshman. Schrickel Leads Aggies to Loop Win Over Frogs By SACK SPOEDE A&M’s basketball team won the f i g h t to keep out of the conference cellar in their battle with the TCU Horn ed Frogs at DeWare Field House last night when they edged the Froggies, 39-37. For the second night in a row the Aggies were unable to break 40 in their scoring efforts. This time: how ever, the opponents were also not so hot at hitting the bucket. In fact, if one Frank Kudlaty had placed the ball in the net in the first half as he did in the second, the Aggies would not be feeling so good as they do today. At half time, this tall forward left the court with exactly no points to his credit, but returned in the second half to put three field goals and four free throws into the bucket, at the east end of the gym, to end the game with 10 points and second high scoring honoi’s. If it takes tall boys to win basketball games, then the Ag gies lost the game last night, fpr the TCU boys were tall, though somewhat in the broom stick category. Food must be getting mighty scarce out where the west begins. Boys way over six feet tall were playing at the guard position for the Toads. J. J. “Daddy” Dolnics, the lead ing scorer in the conference, pro tected his lead in the conference with 17 points but was having trouble at the stax*t of the game in getting the ball. In the first half, he raised the scoi’e of the Frogs from three to ten points all by his lonesome. Team captain Gene Schrickel led the scoring and provided the spark for the Aggies in the clinches. At one point, in the latter part of the game, with Aggies yelling to hold the ball, Gene gambled and sank a long shot to provide the winning mar gin for the Aggies. A&M’s last four points were made by the lad from Arlington to bring his total for the night to nine points. Bill Batey, leading scorer for the Aggies for the two seasons pro ceeding this, was a surprise start er in the place of Jim Kirkland at a forward position. Dick Todd, Texas A&M’s new backfield coach, caught xxxore of Sammy Baugh’s passes than any other member of the Washington Redskins last season, fielding 37 for six touchdowns and 550 yards in total gains. • RECORDS • RADIOS School & Office Supplies ALL YOUR NEEDS HASWELL’S thing to the Ft. Worth team in the half for they returned to tie the count at 21-21 after only six minutes of the second half had gone. Bill Turnbow, regular starting forward, was limited during the game due to the ankle injury he received in the Texas game last week. , Texas University will be hosts to the Aggies as the Farmers play their next game Wednesday at Austin. After the Texas game the Cadet cagers go to Waco to play the Bears on February 26. They will then close out the season with Failure of both teams to score two home games, Arkansas on within the first two minjutes of February 28 and Rice on March 4. play indicated that the score Aggies Fg Ft Pf T would probably be low. Bill Mo ran, a 6’4” forward, broke the scoreless deadlock when he sank Turnbow, f 1 0 3 2 Batey, f Kirkland, f 1 1 0 3 1 0 0 2 a long shot. Gene Schmidt sank Martin, f 0 1 0 1 a free throw a short time later DeWitt, c 3 2 3 8 to make the score 3-0 in favor McDowell, g 3 2 1 8 of the Frogs. Schi’ickel 4 1 3 9 John Dewitt, Aggie center, broke Moon, g 2 2 2 6 the ice for the Aggies after the gaxxie was three xninutes and fif- Totals 15 9 11 39 teen seconds old, when he banked TCU Fg Ft Pf T a shot into the bucket. Little Jewel Young, f 0 0 0 0 McDowell put the Farmers ahead Kudlaty, f 3 4 1 10 with a crip shot. Although they Dolnics, c 6 5 3 17 tied the game up in its later stag- Schmidt, g 2 2 4 6 es the Frogs were never able to Craig, g 0 0 1 0 take over the lead again. Moran, f 1 0 1 2 At half time the score was Bux-ton, g 0 0 3 0 19-12 in favor of the home team. 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