Farmers To Meet Strong Longhorn Squad Tonight In Austin
Fish Journey To Capital City
Tonight To Meet Shorthorns
By FRANK SIMMEN, JR.
Already back on' the win trail after their 78 to 43 set
back at the hands of Tyler Junior College, A&M’s best fresh
man cage team in history, journeys to Austin with the varsity
tonight to tangle with the Shorthorns of the forty acres.
Coach Wilkins’ quint, who have only lost one game in
eight starts, will be looking for-f * —
another win when they meet the , . t, , , ,
- - - ty of action. Bill Bybee heads the
Texas Frosh. In a previous game
this season, the Fish; although be
hind at the half-way mark, came
back to score a decisive victory.
Bud Davis, starting center for
the Ags, will be in top shape for
the fray. Davis has been bother
ed lately by a bad ankle, but is
expected to be in fine form to
night to help his buddies defeat
their rivals in Gregory gym at
six o’clock.
Ever improving Woody Walker,
little guard from Woodhouse, who
took Jewel McDowell’s place on the
freshman starting lineup, will hold
down a guard slot in tonight’s
contest along with all-stater Bob
by Farmer of Amarillo. Farmer
has had considerable trouble with
his long shots lately, but in prac
tice the last few days has been
looking exceptionally good.
Dick Bentley, the .Darlington
lad who played such a spectacu
lar defensive game in the last
meeting of the two teams, will
hear the whistle at the left for
ward post. Eddie Houser, anoth
er regular starter who improves
as the days 'go by, will be ready
to go at the other forward post.
A number of second stringers,
who are giving the starters a run
for their money ,will also see plen-
5 Teams in Florida
NEW YORK—<A>)_ Five Ameri
can League teams will prepare
for the 1949 baseball season in
Florida, two will pitch camp in
California, and the World Cham
pion Cleveland Indians will return
to Tuscon, Ariz. Spring training
opens March 1. The Boston Red
Sox will be at Sarasota, Fla., and
other teams will be Detroit at
Lakeland; New York Yankees at
St. Petersburg; Philadelphia A’s
At West Palm Beach, and Wash
ington at Orlando. The Chicago
White Sox will be at Pasadena
and the St. Louis Browns in Bur
bank.
list of secondaries along with Gibbs
and Church.
C. E. Tishler, head of the P.
E. Department has requested
that on Monday, Wednesday,
and Friday, all students please
refrain from playing on the
concrete tennis courts from 4
until 4:45. P. E. tennis classes
use them then.
Henry Kaiser to Build Bandleader
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NEW YORK—hP)— Guy Lom
bardo’s love for speedboats is as
strong as ever.
You’d think a guy who almost
lost his life when his boat cap
sized at 90 miles an hour would
call it quits. But not Guy.
The popular band leader of the
Royal Canadians is teaming up
with Henry J. Kaiser, the indus
trialist.
“Henry Kaiser is building a
2,400 horsepower engine for me”
says Lombardo. “It’s taking
shape at Ventnor, N. J., and if
it’s ready by early April I’m
heading to Florida’s Indian river.
“If it’s everything it appears to
be on paper we’ll really have a
boat that might break the late Sir
Malcolm Campbell’s 141.74 mile
straightaway record.
“I had an Allison airplane en
gine in my Tempo VI when I
crashed and broke my arm in the
Gold Cup race on the Detroit
River last August. But this Kaiser
engine is really two Allisons
hooked together on one crankshaft.
“I’ll drive the boat for Kaiser.
If it does well in the shakedown
run in April I’ll use it in all major
races except the Harmsworth Tro
phy race being revived this year
for the first time since 1933.”
“In the Harmsworth race I’ll
go along with Tempo VI. The
old hull has been built up and
the beat will be stronger than
ever.”
Lombardo is excited over the
prospects of driving the 32-foot
Kaiser job.
The baton swinging boatman and
Kaiser have known each other for
a long time, but it was not until
they watched the President’s Cup
race on the Potomac last Septem
ber that the question of speedboats
came up.
Lombardo went for a ride on
Kaiser’s Fleur du Lac, a semi-
speed craft from which they
watched the race. Kaiser talked
about building a boat and asked
Lombardo’s advice about drivers.
With his arm in a sling, Guy
agreed that Kaiser had his man.
Ag Weight-Lifting
Club Recruiting
Probably the youngest club on
the campus is the Weight Lifting
Club. This club was organized at
the beginning of the fall semester
of “48” by Frank Dees, V. E.
Wiesinger, R. O. Bass, and Frank
Thurmond.
At the present time Barney
Welch is a sponsor of the organi
zation. Welch has announced that
the Intramural Department has
! appropriated a fund to send a
1 team to the Gulf A.A.U. Weight
Lifting meet, in Houston, March
1st. They also plan to put on an
exhibition sometime this spring.
The club meets Monday, Wed
nesday, and Friday at eight p.m.
in the gym. Frank Dees stated
that anyone wishing to join the
club would be welcome. The club
has ample equipment and begin
ning courses for inexperienced
weight lifters.
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Rough Action
Seen in ’Mural
Wrestling
Strangle holds are barred
from Intramural Wrestling
but plenty of fast action was
in evidence Tuesday after
noon in the Little Gym.
In the fastest bout of the day,
Walker of ‘D’ Field pinned George
of ‘B’ Air Force in 45 seconds.
Both were in the 149 lb class. Hef
ty and speedy wrestling was seen
as McManus of ‘A’ Infantry flat
tened Black of Maroon Band in 54
seconds of a Heavyweight match.
Longest bout of the day oc
curred when Trammell of “C”
Field and Berger of “B” Air
Force emerged from their reg
ular bout with even points. A
three minute overtime gave the
decision to Trammell.
By classes, here are the after
noon’s outcomes:
In the 149 lb class, Littlejohn of
‘E’ Infantry outpointed Mason of
‘A’ Engineers. Walker of ‘D’ Field
pinned George of ‘E’ Flight. Wallis
of ‘D’ Air Force was downed by
O’Connell of ‘A’ Infantry. Gibson,
Dorm 14, flattened ‘E' Flight’s
Tumlinson. By virtue of a pin,
Battin of ‘F’ Flight was victor ov
er Milligan. Mikeska of ATC pin
ned Gorman of ‘G’ Cavalry. Mc-
Gown of ‘C ’Air Force did the same
to Vittrup of White Band. “A”
Quartermaster’s Yelton outpointed
Mobley of White Band.
A pin by Currie of ‘C’ Infantry
overcame “C” Battery’s Bradley.
Ordinance Company’s White was
winner over Vestiero of ‘C’ Infan
try. Summers of ‘A’ QMC was out
pointed by Bone of White Band.
Moving now to the 159 lb class
Coffin of ‘C’ Infantry pinned
Mays of Dorm 14. Goldon of ‘B’
Vets was victor over Wheelan of
‘A’ Engineers. ‘A’ QMC’s Schu
bert pinned Simpson of ‘A’ In
fantry. Moncrief of ASA did
likewise to Frederick of ‘C’ Cav
alry.
In the 169 lb class, Pfiell of ‘A’
Field pinned Slayton of Maroon
Band and Dees of Dorm 15 was a
point winner over Graham of ‘C’
Flight.
Heavyweight action saw two
pins, White of ‘D’ Field over Ca-
ruth of ‘D’ Flight and McMannus’
win over Black.
Today’s bouts are as follows:
In the 129 lb class, all matches
at 5 p. m.; Dyer of ‘B’ Flight
versus Vincent of ‘A’ Ordinance;
Garcia of CWS meets Hada of
‘E’ Infantry; Ciardy, ‘D’ Flight
against, ‘F’ Flight; Barlow, CWS
meets Martin, ‘B’ Air Force.
Four p. m. bouts in the 139 lb.
section finds Simpson, ‘A’ Infan
try against Leop, ‘B’ Infantry;
Currie, ‘B’ Field versus Dufffb,
ATC; Keelan, ‘C’ Flight meets Cos-
lett, ‘A’ Flight. At 5 p. m., Mason,
CWS versus Seth, ASA; Saunders
‘A’ Field meets Todd, ‘B’ Infan
try; Thurmon, ‘C’ Field against
Kahn, ‘A’ Flight.
Shifting now to the 169 lb class
at 4 p. m.; Moran, ‘D’ Infantry
versus Sykes, ‘B’ Field; Oliver,
CWS, meets Ramblin, ‘A’ Signal;
Lee,CWS. against Tanner, ‘A’ Sig
nal;. Mims, ‘E’ Infantry versus
Crowell, ‘A’ QMC. At 5 p. m. Dy
kes, ‘C’ Field meets O’Conner, ‘C’
Infantry; McCullough ‘B’ Engi
neers against Faulk, ‘C’ Flight;
McDaniel, ‘B’ Engineers versus
Lathen, ATC; Hollman, ‘A’ Engi
neers meets Leissner, ‘A’ Inf.
All 179 lb bouts will be at 5
p. m. Braden, ‘A’ Flight meets
Bennett of ‘C’ Infantry; Kaplan
‘E’ Flight against Vornkoh, C
WS; Cullivan, ‘B’ Engineers ver
sus Crumoiue, ‘B’ Infantry; Bow
man, ‘B’ Vet meets Jones ‘E’
Infantry; Kadil, ‘A’ Ordinance
against Jakel, ‘A’ QMC; Hughes,
‘B’ Engineers versus Cotton, ‘B’
Engineers; Daily, ‘B’ Vet against
Barryman, ‘A’ Ordinance.
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PORT
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1949
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Marty Karow, Aggie cage mentor, is shown above with student
manager Jim O’Connell. Karow is explaining to Jim, with diagrams,
the right way to blow up the basketball that’s to be used in tonight’s
fray against the Longhorns.
Swimmers Underdogs in Meet
Against Longhorns Thursday
By SCOTTY SWINNEY
Once again the Aggies take the role of the underdog,
when the Swimming team goes to Austin Thursday to battle
the Longhorns in their first meeting of the season.
Texas is loaded with outstanding swimmers and div
ers this ye.ar, and at present are favored to take the
conference title again, but the Ag--*“
gies are out to show the Long
horns that they are going to have
to fight to keep their standing.
This meet is sure to be pack
ed with close duals, for the Ag
gies, though not as deep in talent
as the Steers, have a few stars
of their own, who don’t like the
taste of defeat. Probably the
most outstanding dual will again
feature the swimming of Danny
Green.
Danny will fight it out with Ed
Gilbert who won a place on the
Olympic squad last summer, and
is now considered the best dash
man in the conference. Green may
not beat Ed in the 50, but might
easily surprise him in the 100. One
thing we may be sure of is that
the lad from Texas won’t have an
easy time of it.
Syfan will also meet a tough
foe, when he swims against Jim
McCann, the TU distance star.
This year Jim has consistently
turning in good times, and has
been clocked at 5:15 in the 440
yard freestyle. This is about ten
seconds faster than Syfan’s best
time, and Bernie will have to put
on some extra steam to take him.
There is a lot depending on Da
vid Vardeman to pick up vital
third place points in the 220 and
440. There is a good chance that
Syfan will win the 220, and if
Vardeman takes third, it will help
the Aggie scoring considerably.
Another good dual should come
in the 220 yard breaststroke
when Gene Summers races the
Southwest Conference breast
stroke champion, Hylmar Kar-
back. The Longhorn is a heavy
favorite to take this event, but
Gene is greatly improved, and
anything can happen when the
Aggies and the Longhorns meet.
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Squad 15 to 12
The Aggie fencing lost a
close match to the Corpus
Christi YMCA in Houston
last Saturday, 15-12.
The Aggies won both the foil
and epee events by a score of 5-4
but lost the saber bout 7-2.
Standouts for the Corpus Christi
fencers were Robinson, former sa
ber champion of Annapolis Naval
Academy, and Hadden, graduate
and three-weapon man for Yale
University. Both set up the very
impressive record of 6 won, 1 lost,
with Hadden having a tie in epee.
The statistics for the Aggies
showed Gerald Monks and J. C.
Fails high percentage men with 2
wins to 1 loss. Next came Ignacio
Barrios with 3 wins to 3 losses in
fencing both foil and saber. Fol
lowing were Gus Mistrot, fencing
foil and saber, and John Happ,
fencing epee, and saber, with 2
wins and 4 losses. Alvin Hope was
unusual in that he scored two ties
in his three epee bouts.
The Southern Invitational Box
ing tournament will be held in the
University of South Carolina field
house on March 24, 25 and 26.
’Sips Favored As Cagers Meet
For Second Time This Season
By BILL POTTS
Tonight at eight o’clock in Gregory Gym in Austin, the
Aggie basketball team will meet the Texas Longhorns in
their second and final meeting of the current SWC race.
As in their first encounter with the Longhorns, the Ag
gies will be the underdogs. This time they will be doubly so
because of their defeat at the - * — ,
hands of the Texas Boys, 50 to 41, whose language with his elbows
the last time the teams met.
Texas has been defeated twice
since meeting the Aggies, and both
losses were at the hands of the
Arkansas Razorbacks. These de
feats knocked the Longhorns down
is very fluently exhibited, usual
ly manages to stay in games the
whole forty minutes, despite the
fact that there are two officials
on the floor.
Coach Jack Gray is expected to
tion but can probably be heard
over one of the local Austin sta
tions.
into third place in the conference use very few players besides the
standings. fi ve named above. The only other
The Aggies split two games last player who got into the first game
week, losing one to Southern against the Aggies was center Wil-
Methodist and winning the other son Taylor.
from the TCU Frogs. I The S ame tonight will not be
Probable starters for the Ag- (broadcast over any local radio sta.
gies tonight will be John DeWitt
at center, Gene Schrickel and
Jewel McDowell at the guard
slots, and Marvin Martin and
Bill Turnbow at the forward
posts.
Trainer Blaine Rideout has been
working on Turnbow’s ankle which
was injured in the last game with
Texas when he was thrown against
the east wall. Whether Turnbow
will be able to go much on it or
not is not known now. If he isn’t,
Wallace Moon will probably per
form in his place.
For the Longhorns, the starting
five will probably be the same that
started against the Aggies in De-
Ware Field House week before
last.
Slater Martin and A1 Madsen
will start at guards, Tom Hamil
ton and Vilbry White at for
ward, and Phillip George at cen
ter.
Tonight’s game will present an
other opportunity to see whether
DeWitt can stop Hamilton’s deadly
hook shots. In their last meeting,
he couldn’t be stopped.
A1 Madsen, “the little sports
man,” is expected to again spark
the Longhorn attack. Madsen,
Buryi Batey Plans
To Coach Football
Buryi Baty, mid-term graduate
of Texas A&M, plans to join the
ranks of Texas high school foot
ball coaches in August.
Baty, whose home is Paris, Tex
as, has been an outstanding passer
at Texas A&M for the past two
seasons. Last year he turned in
one of the best single-game passing
performances of the Southwest
Conference campaign by complet
ing 15 aerials for 229 yds against
SMU. He also tossed the pass that
Charley Wright caught on a
touchdown play covering 72 yards
to bring the Aggies a 14-14 tie
with Texas.
In 1947, Baty led the conference
in net yards gained from passing
in conference games (40 of 84 for
477 yards). He received his degree
here at mid-term but will do
graduate work this spring in addi
tion to helping coach the Aggie
backs.
Aggie Bowlers To
Meet Bears Today
The Aggie bowlers left this af
ternoon for Waco where they will
compete with the Baylor keglers
tonight. A&M’s chances for vic
tory were hurt yesterday when
George Chew, second highest scor
er in the playoff, had to drop out
of school following the death of
his mother.
Three teams of five men each
will represent the Aggies against
the favored Baylorites. On the
first team are Claude Lee, Robert
Williams, R. C. Lyons, Wally Dix
on, and Don Boston.
The second squad will be com
posed of Brad Holmes, Emmett
Trant, Bill Klabunde, Marvin
Hagemeier, and R. L. McClure.
Although the second team made
lower scores than the first squad
in the playoffs it may outscore
them in the meet tonight.
Fred Wilson, Floyd Henks, M. L.
Lunceford, Harris Cox, and A. B.
Harris will make up the last
squad for the Aggies.
Baylor is favored to win be
cause of the greater popularity of
bowling there and their better
alleys.
Wally Dixon has been the stand
out in practice this past week,
shooting a 608 three-game series
Monday night. Claude Lee, the
top man on the squad, has also
been posting some high averages
lately.
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