Longhorns Take Double-Header, Varsity 56-43, Fish 45-43
TU Frosh Eke Out Last Minute
Win; Walker Shines for Aggies
By FRANK SIMMEN, JR.
The return of lanky Ed Fauk to the Shorthorn cage
lineup was all the Texans needed to slip over a 45-43 decision
over the Aggie Fish last night in Austin. The talented
Houston freshman, who missed the last meeting of the two
teams because of scholastic inability, kept his team in a
tight race scoring 15 points an<14
playing a rugged defensive game
The ex-all stater truly made the
difference in the two squads as
he kept the Fish guards from
working the ball into Davis' under
the backboard and then getting
most of the rebounds right from
under the arms of the Aggies’ lan
ky center.
It was a tight fray all the
way with the score tied seven
times. A last second basket by
James Dowies gave the Texas
Frosh a 23-23 tie at the inter
mission. Little Woddy Walker
did some fancy ball handling,
dribbling and shooting to lead
his teammates to an almost win
over the more fortunate Sips.
With two minutes to go in the
closing moments of the fray the
score was notched at 43 all. Davis
fouled out almost immediately and
Falk made a tip in after the at
tempted free throw by Dickie Har
ris. This was all the Austinites
needed and they froze the ball the
remainder of the game.
Fish Bobby Farmer started off
the scoring for the night when
he made a spectacular long shot
from side court to give the Fish
a two point margin, but this was
short lived, for a minute later
Falk, after taking a handoff
from Klein, jumped high into the
air, twisted, and almost went
with the ball as it sailed through
the hoop. This opening action al
most repeated itself as Farmer
made good a free throw attempt
and Falk came right back for
the Teasippers, after being foul
ed, to notch the score again at
3-3.
It stayed that way for quite a
while until Bob Farmer again con
nected to make it 5-3. This was too
much for the Austin boys so they
called time to discuss the matter,
but this resulted in a burst of
power for the Aggies as they went
quickly ahead sinking four field
goals in five minutes.
The Aggie lead was not threat
ened again until just before the
half. With the accurate shooting
of Farmer, Davis, and especially
Walker the Fish maintained a 23-
SEAT COVERS
17 lead with only 2 minutes to go.
Shorthorn center Don Klein made
a charity shot good which was fol
lowed by field goals by Scarbor
ough and Klein and Dowies to give
the Texans enough to fill the seven
point gap before mid-period.
In the second half fleet guard
Luther Scarborough of the
Shorthorns made a long shot
count, but Eddie Houser quick
ly made it a tie game again
when he took a handout from
Walker to dribble in for a crib.
The score shifted back and forth
from time to time with neither
team being able to get more than
a five point lead on his opponent
during the whole second half.
The Fish guards had consider
able trouble in getting the ball
into reaching distance of Ag cen
ter Bud Davis, who was very
closely guarded by the Shorthorns’
Joe Falk. Eddie Houser seemed
like the only Fish eager on the
squad that wanted to give the tall
center a chance to get his hands
on the ball.
Long shots on the part of the
College Station boys came al-
omst immediately after posses
sion of the ball. A majority of
these were missed and recover
ed by either Don Klein or Joe
Falk of the Shorthorns whose
long reach and accurate coordi
nation gave them possession of
both backboards.
The decision evened the annual
series between the two teams, the
Fish having won in a previous
meeting in College Station by a
score of 56 to 41. This was the
second loss in eight starts for the
Fish and the third victory in six
starts for the Texans.
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A&M
Fg
Ft
Pf
Tp
Bentley, f
...1
1
1
3
Houser, f
...3
1
3
7
Davis, c
...3
1
5
7
Walker, g
...4
4
1
12
Farmer, g
...3
2
3
8
Bvbee, f
...3
0
1
6
Church, f
.0
0
0
0
Gibbs, g
...0
0.
0
0
Totals
.17
9
14
43
Texas
Fg
Ft
Pf
Tp
Falk, f
...7
1
0
15
Harris, f
1
0
3
2
Klein, c
...4
3
3
11
Scarborough, g
...4
2
4
10
Loe, g
...0
0
3
0
Dowies, g
...3
1
2
7
Totals
.19
7
15
45
Score at half: Fish 23, Short
horns 23.
Free Throws Missed: Houser,
{ Davis 2, Walker 2, Farmer 4, Falk
3, Harris 3.
j Officials: Carl Bredt and Gor-
! don Bailey.
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Gene Schrickel Chosen As
Second Star Of The Week
Tigers Win Over
Jewett 45 - 40 In
Playoff Series
By LEON SOMER
Basketball came into the spotlight again this week as
Gene Schrickel of the Aggie cage team was chosen as the
second STAR OF THE WEEK. Last week another Aggie
eager, John DeWitt, was nominated for this honor.
The second Star Of The Week selection was based on
athletic contests held during the4
week of Monday February 7 to
Sunday February 13. During this
week Aggie teams played South
ern Methodist and Texas Christian
in basketball and held duel swim
ming meets with Baylor and Sou
thern Methodist.
Schrickel is a 6’1” guard from
Arlington, and is playing his
last season for the Farmers. He
came to A&M from NTAC where
he played basketball and was
chosen on the second all-state
junior college team. Last season
Schrickel lettered at guard with
the Cadet varsity and this sea
son he was chosen as captain of
the Aggie basketball team.
The selection of Schrickel was was slow in
based on his fine performance in Consolidated
last week’s basketball tilt with
TCU. The Aggie guard counted
two field goals in the last two
minutes of play which enabled the
Cadets to win 39-37^ and to climb
out of the Southwest Conference
cellar. Schrickel was also high
point man in the Aggie-Frog game
with nine points.
Golfers Open
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HOUSTON, Feb. 17 —(A*) Rough
golfing is in prospect for 150 am-
ateu?’S and professionals who began
play in the Houston Open Tourna
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The tournament will be held at * 0U L
the Brau Burn Country Club. The 1
course is spotted with pine trees, 1
narrow fairways and numerous,
traps.
The A&M Consolidated Tigers
won the first of a two out of three
game series for the basketball
championship of District 61B when
they trimmed the Jewett Eagles
: 45-40 in Jewett Monday night,
j The Tigers took an early lead
! and were never headed. Scoring
n the first half with
leading 7-6 at the
end of the first quarter and 17-14
at the half.
The Tigers increased their lead
to 33-23 in the third quarter but
in the final quarter, with 68
seconds remaining, the Eagles
pulled up to 40-42. Jake Magee
then added three points on a gift
shot and a field goal to ice the
game.
Scoring honors for the night
went to Brown of Jewett who scor
ed 18 points. Close behind Brown
was teammate Lagrone with 16.
Red Cashion and Sonny Prewit
scored twelve points each for the
winners. Other Consolidated scor
ers were Magee with nine, Dowell
with eight and McDonald with
These same two teams will
meet again tonight at 8:30 p. m.
in the Consolidated Gym. Should
Jewett win tonight, a third game
will be played in the Madisonville
High School Gym on Saturday
night.
The winner of this series will
represent the district in the Reg
ional Meet in Huntsville on Feb-
Greathouse Signs With
Chicago Cardinals
CHICAGO, Feb. 17 —<A>> Full
back Myrle Greathouse of Okla
homa’s Sugar Bowl champions was | ruary 24, 25, and 26.
signed by the Chicago Cardinals j
of the National Football League, j Mississippi will play three night
Greathouse, 26, is a native of football games next fall, against
Amarillo, Texas, the home town Auburn in Mobile on Sept. 24, Bos-
of the late Stan Mauldin, Cardinal ton College in Boston on Oct. 14,
tackle, who died after a league and LSU in Baton Rouge on Oct.
game last season. 29.
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1949
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Page 5
Thirty
Staged
Keglers Pull Upset,
Defeat Baylor, 10-2
By ART HOWARD
*
Springing a surprise upset, the Aggie keglers defeated
Baylor University, 10-2, last night in Waco. M. L. Lunce-
ford was the star for the night, bowling 630 in his three
games. Lunceford barely made the team in the playoffs,
but his accurate shooting last night pulled both his squad’s
“~ ♦■score and the total team score
ahead of Baylor. Each line was
worth four points, one for each
team victory and one for total
team score. Lunceford’s scores
were: 187, 227, 216 (630).
The match was closer than the
score indicated, with A&M’s total
only 219 pins ahead of Baylor’s.
It looked as if the visitors might
sweep the match when the third
line started, but an early slump
by the first string assured Baylor
of at least one point.
A&M’s first team, Don Bos
ton, Wally Dixon, Bill Klabunde,
R. C. Lyon, and Claude Lee
chalked up games of 817, 810,
and 838 for a total of 2465. The
second squad, Brad Holmes, Em
mett Trant, R. L. McClure, Mar
vin Hagemeier, and Robert Wil
liams hit 775, 767, and 721 for
an aggregate of 2263.
With Lunceford’s help, the third
team of Harris Cox, Fred Wilson,
Floyd Henk, and A. B. Harris fin
ished with 676, 717, and 763. for
a 2156 total.
Baylorite Bill Sprecher took
high game honors for the night
with a 228 game, beating Lunce
ford’s best effort by one point.
But the best game of the night
was a practice nine-strikes-in-a-
row 255 line by Bill Klabunde.
Aggie R. C. Lyon gave A&M
one extra point by hitting 198 in
his first game, when the Baptists
trailed in total team score by
only 20 points. Lyon did not hit
that good the rest of the night,
but his other two games of 157
and 183 gave him second high
score on the A&M team.
Wally Dixon also hit a nice 198
final line, at a time when the Ag
gies were losing their lead uncom
fortably fast. His 524 earned him
third-place laurels on the Aggie
roster.
Another five-hundred man was
Claude Lee with 508. A curve
ball expert, Lee had trouble in
the second game and posted a 152.
Several other keglers had trouble
with the strange, slick . alleys.
Holmes, Harris, and Hagemeier
were also plagued with inopportune
splits.
Undoubtedly the worst hand!-
’Mural
Bouts
By Wrestlers
Nearly 60 wrestlers squar
ed off in the Little Gym Wed
nesday afternoon as the larg
est number of bouts to date
were run off in Intramural
Wrestling.
Fastest time of the afternoon
was .when Saunders of “A” Field
pinned Todd of “B” Infantry in 53
seconds. Savage action was seen
in the 179 lb class as Hughes, ‘B’
Engineers, pinned Cotton of 'B’
Vets in less than two minutes.
Here are all the results by
classes:
Martin, ‘B’ Field, flattened
Barlow, CWS in the 129 lb class.
Last years winner in that weight
Carlson of ‘C’ Infantry, won over
Cooper of ‘C’ Cavalry on points.
In the 139 lb class, Keeland of
‘C’ Air Force pinned Coslett of
‘A’ Flight. ATC’s Duffie scored
on points over ‘B’ Field’s Currie.
Clark, ‘D’ Flight, was pinned by
Penn of ‘F’ Flight. Seth of ASA
lost to Mason of CWS. Simpson,
‘A’ Infantry, pinned Leon, ‘B’ In
fantry.
One lone event in the 159 lb
class saw Eubanks of ‘A’ Cavalry
win over Arnest of ‘C’ Cavalry on
points.
The 169 lb field found Sykes
of ‘D’ Field outpointing Moran
of ‘D’ Infantry. Lee of CWS
defeated Turner of ‘A’ Signal.
Mims of ‘E’ Engineers was pin
ned by Crowell of QMC; Ramb-
lin, ‘A’ Signal did the same to
Oliver, CWS. On- points, Leisner
of ‘A’ Infantry scored over Holl-
man of ‘A’ Engineers. Lantham
of ATC pinned McDaniel of ‘B’
Engineers. ‘C’ Infantry’s O’Con
ner outpointed Dykes of ‘C’ Field
On a pin, Faulk of ‘C’ Air Force
beat McCullough of ‘E’ Engi
neers.
The largest number of bouts oc-
cured in the 179 lb class. Baugh
of ‘A’ Signal flattened McConnell
of ASA in an overtime, Vornfall
of CWS outpointed Kaplan of
‘E’ Flight. Cotton of ‘B’ Vet was
pinned by Hughes of ‘B’ Engineers
and Braden of ‘A’ Field allowed
Bennet of ‘C’ Infantry to press
him for the count. Rogers of ‘C’
Cavalry pinned Hughes of ‘B’ Em
gineers.
Sullivan of ‘B’ Engineers out
pointed Crumoine of ‘B’ Infan
try. Jones, ‘E’ Infantry, pinned
Bowlman, ‘B’ Vets and Kadel,
Ordinance, did likewise to Jekel
of QMC. Liberto of Dorm 3 flat
tened Breadle of ‘F’ Flight. Or
dinance company’s Berryman
outpointed Daily of ‘B’ Vet.
In a lone heavyweight match,
Bland of ‘B’ Air Force won on
points over Reckoff of ‘A’ Signal.
Second Half Longhorn Attack
Proves Fatal to Aggie Cagers
By TRAVIS BROCK
Striking like a bolt of lightning in the second half of
play with almost perfect shooting by Vilbry White and Tom
Hamilton, the Texas Longhorns downed the Aggies 56-43
last night in Gregory Gym.
Texas jumped into the lead in the first thirty seconds
of play with a field goal by stouts
Tom Hamilton. Slater Martin and i were from the foul line.
A1 Madsen each added two point
ers to give the Longhorns a six
point lead after five minutes of
play in the first period.
Bill Turnbow broke the ice for
the Aggies with a field goal from
close under the basket after six
minutes of play had elapsed.
Wallace Moon and John DeWitt
found the range then, to bring
the Aggies within three points
of the “Sips.”
Play in the first half was slow
with both teams not being able
to hit the basket much, but the
Longhorns left the court at inter
mission leading by a slim margin
of 19-17.
Texas began to open up in the
last half with a fast breaking
offense that slowly increased
their slim two point lead into
a 16 point margin midway of
the second half.
It was the long looping one
handed shots by White that really
told the difference in the last half
of play. Held scoreless in the first
half, White began hitting the hoop
early in the second half with great
accuracy to gain second high scor
ing honors for the Longhorns with
14 markers.
High point honors for the night
went to Tom Hamilton of the
Longhorns with a total of 17, while
Bill Turnbow of the Aggies fol
lowed a close second with a total
of 15 points. John DeWitt of the
Aggies and Vilbry White of the
Longhorns tied for the runner-up
spot with 14 points each.
Jewell McDowell, the Aggie
Sophomore Flash, could not find
the range of the basket from the
court, but totaled five points by
the free throw route. McDowell’s
point total slowed the Aggie of
fense, but his defensive play
against' the high scoring ace of
the Longhorns, Slater Martin, was
great. Martin was able to sink
only nine points during the game
and a large percentage of those
In 1948, when they won the Na
tional League pennant, the Boston
Braves had the lowest percentage
in the league for hitting home
runs at home.
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cap the Aggies had to put up
with was the abstainance from
smoking while bowling in Bay
lor’s student center.
On the Baylor ledger, Spreech-
ed led his team with 553, followed
by Gene Clark with 521.
Low game honors on the Aggie
team went to Fred Wilson, with
a 110 score.
Tentative plans call for a return
match with Baylor here on March
19. An attempt will be made to
arrange a match with Rice in the
next few weeks.
One of the sidelights of the
trip was the hearty welcome ex
tended by Baylor’s checkroom
manager, Buddy Tinsley, Bear
All-Conference football player.
Another great defensive game
for the Aggies was played by Wal
lace Moon, who held A1 Madsen,
the little boy with a thousand el
bows, to only seven points. Moon
also aided the Aggies offensively
by dropping in three field goals
for a total of six points.
A win over the Aggies last night
gave the Longhorns a clean sweep
of the games played this season
between the two teams. Texas hav
ing deefated the Aggies in their
pi’evious meeting 50-41 in DeWare
Field House.
BOX SCORE
A&M
Fg
Ft
Pf
Tp
Turnbow, f ..
5
5
4
15
Batey, f
0
0
0
0
DeWitt, c
5
4
3
14
Schrickel, g ..
0
1
4
1
McDowell, g ..
0
5
0
5
Kirkland, f ..
0
0
0
0
Moon, f
3
0
3
6
Martin, f
0
0
1
0
Miller, g
1
0
2
2
Mobley, g
0
0
1
0
Totals
....14
15
18
43
Texas
Fg
Ft
Pf
Tp
Hamilton, f ..
5
7 '
- 2
17
Martin, f
3
2
4
8
George, c
3
1
4
7
Madsen, g ....
1
7
3
9
White, g
7
0
0
14
Kelley, f
0
0
1
0
Womack, f ....
0
0
3
0
Taylor, c
0
1
1
1
Totals
...19
18
18
56
Score at half: Texas 19, A&M 17
Free Throws Missed: Turnbow
3, DeWitt 3, McDowell, Hamiltor
3, George, Madsen 2, Womack
Martin.
Officials: Mike Williamson anc
John Radford.
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