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• * • . . • Aggie Swimming Tearn Swamped By Longhorns At Austin 51-24 SACKIN’ UP SPORTS SACK SPOEDE Scrimmage Due Tomorrow As Spring Training Moves Into Second Week Tomorrow afternoon the Aggie football squad will have its first full game scrimmage of the spring training session. Over seventy- men will probably take part in the scrimmage and the teams are not likely to be too well defined. Andy Hillhouse, Bob Smith, Jim Dobbyn, and Bobby Goff Popular Records a FOR EVERY TASTE i Far Away Places —Dina Shore Here I’ll Stay —Buddy Clark Lavender Blue —Dina Shore Buttons and Bows —Dina Shore I Love You So Much It Hurts —Buddy Clark I’ll String Along With You —Doris Day Sun Flower —Frank Sinatra Columbia records Better Homes Appliance Center 314 N. Main Bryan PHONE 2-1642 are not likely to see any action in the contest tomorrow after noon. All these men are on the hospital list at present. Unless something is done with the mounds of dift on the turf within the stadium in the mean time the practice session will like ly be held on the practice field by the stadium. Holding the practice in the stadium would spot Lipp- man and the rest of the scat backs the advantage of being able to play hide and seek behind the dirt. They don’t need it. So if you plan to watch the practice tomorrow, come pre pared to sit on the ground or stand up. One backfield that should see plenty of service will probably have Jimmy Cashion at quarter, Lippman at left half, Paul Yates or Kenneth Voss at full, and Doyle Moore at right half. One line will probably consist of Jimmy Flowers, or possibly Bob Bates, at center, Carl Mol- berg and Mickey Spencer at guard, Tuck Chapin and Dwayne Tucker at tackles, and Cedric Copeland, and Wray Whittaker at ends. Whittaker may not be able to go due to injuries, how ever. Rodney East is a new hand among the backs out on the spring training site. East is from Brack- enridge high of San Antonio and at present is running at the right half back position. Members of the Aggie varsity football coaching staff have other things to do besides coach the members of the squad every afternoon, as can be seen above. Much of their time is taken up before practice each day in devising new strategy to surprise the football foes of next fall with. From left to right, Line Coach BILL DuBOSE, End Coach J. T. KING, Head Coach HARRY STITELER, and Backfield Coach DICK TODD. Conference Relay Records Are Unofficially Broken in Meet Last night at Austin the Aggie Swimming Team lost their second meet of the season to a strong Texas University squad. Bob Cone of Texas took an early lead over Kruse in the backstroke portion of the 300 yard medley relay, and before reaching the finish had lengthened-t 1 it to about ten yards. Hylmar Kar- on the turns. The first length was Hogan Not Able To Leave El Paso Yet EL PASO, Feb. 18 —(A 5 )— Doc tors’ orders yesterday cancelled plans of Golfer Ben Hogan to go home from an El Paso hospital. Instead, the links star will have to remain here at least several days longer, his wife, Mi's. Valerie Hogan, said. He was injured in a highway collision Feb. 2 near Van Horn, Texas. Radio Repair... ... is our specialty The Radio Shop One Block west of Post Office on W. 26th St. “A member of Philco Service” BRYAN PHONE £-2819 COMPLETE REPAIR ... on all makes and models of radios Also BATTERIES FOR YOUR PORTABLE The finest Shirts you’ll find at the low price of— §2.89 Made to sell at from $3.50 — $4.50, these Shirts are available to us on a consignment basis. White . . . Fancy Patterns All Sizes . . . Varsity Collar Styles DON’T DELAY — THEY’RE GONG FAST The Exchange Store “Serving Texas Aggies” s Battalion PORT FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1949 Page 3 S High Grades Feature Work Of Athletes In Fall Term Every member of Texas A&M’s+ varsity football, basket ball, base ball, track, tennis, swimming, golf and cross country teams has clear ed the mid-semester grades hur dle. In addition, all Aggie athletes who were ineligible for parti cipation during the 1948-49 sea son because of the transfer, rule or low grades last spring have passed the required number of scholastic hours for the fall term. Only grades casualty at Texas A&M during the fall semester was Homer Dear, freshman halfback from Fort Worth. Can a modern-day college ath lete participate in sports and . still make exceptionally high scholastic marks? Examine these midterm grades of Texas A&M athletes and you have the ans wer. Paul Leming, freshman hurdler from Beaumont, all-American last year in high school track, seven A’s one B. Glenn Lippman, freshman foot ball star from El Campo (major ing in engineering) six A’s one B. George Kadera, sophomore from Houston, SWC discus and shot put champion and member of football squad, six A’s, one B. Gene Schrickel, captain of varsity basketball team from Ar lington (majoring in landscape architecture), one A, five B’s. Jim Cashion, senior football player from College Station, five A’s, two B’s. Alex Strobel, sophomore foot ball player from Baytown (major ing in electrical engineering), three A’s and two B’s. Glen Williams, sophomore bas ketball player from Amarillo, seven A’s one B. Many other athletes at Texas A &M, all of whom spend six after noons weekly participating in sports, posted similar grades. It can be done! bach lengthened the Texas lead to a distance of about fifteen yards over Jim Flowers in the breast stroke. This was too much lead for the anchor man Bernard Sy- fan to make up, and TU took an early 5 point lead. Texas’ time in the 300 yard medley was 3:08.1, unofficially breaking the Conference record. This will not stand however, for • this record can only be broken in the Conference Meet. This record has been held by Texas A&M since 1947. Jim McCann took an early lead for the Longhorns. This lead was lengthened to a distance of ten yards over Dave Vardeman, the nearest Aggie swimmer, and about 5 yards ahead of teammate, Don Smith. Bernard Syfan, the Aggie ace in this event was replaced by John Peters, who finished last. Vardeman finished third to give the Aggies their first point of the night. The race everyone was expect ing and waiting for with much anticipation came to pass when Danny Green met the Texas star, Ed Gilbert in the 50 yard free style. Danny held Gilbert until the first turn, where Ed took the advantage and came down the stretch to tie with Green for 2nd place. Gilbert repeated in the 100-yard freestyle by taking the advantage Aggie Cagers Rest For Final Contests With only three games left in the cage season of 1948- 49, A&M’s basketball squad moves into ten days of inac tivity after their 56 to 43 defeat at the hands of the Texas Longhorns. And then the Aggies will rush through the remaining games of the conference season within a week. A week from tomorrow, the Farmers have their last road tilt of the season with the Baylor Bears in Waco. Then on Monday, they come back to school to play host to Arkansas. Rice comes to' Aggieland Friday, March 4, for the last game of the season. At present the Aggies have played nine games, winning two and losing seven. TCU has furn ished the Aggies with their only scalps of the year. Texas and SMU have both beaten the Aggies tyuce. Coach Marty Karow had the team playing a close to the chest “control the ball” game in Austin Wednesday night. This type of game was paying off. In the first half Texas attempted to work the ball in. In the second half, how ever, Vilbry White, the fine bas- ketballer from* the little town of Prairie Lea, started looping his jump push shots into the bucket. Guard Jewell McDowell of the Aggies gave a good account of himself in the game. Slater Martin who is undoubtedly one of the greatest defensive guards in the country as well as being a wheel on the offense, held Mac to five points in the tilt. This, however, is above the average the man he guards generally makes. Martin made only eight points over Mc Dowell. Aggie Tankers To Meet Northwest Louisiana State The Aggie Swimming Team will travel into Louisiana tomorrow for a meet with Northwestern State College of Louisiana. It will be a fighting Aggie squad trying to regain the vic tory trail, after their defeat by the Longhorns last night. In this meet the Aggies will have a slight edge, but only very slight. NSCL beat the Baylor Bears by a score of 49-24, while the Aggies beat the Bear aggregation 51-24. This is the only means of com- pai’ison between the two teams, and through it, the Ags gain their slight margin. There is definitely one very good swimmer on the Louisiana squad. His name is Bill Stovall, and it seems that he can and has been swimming any and everything except the breast stroke. There may he others for the Aggies to look out for, but only this one is known about. The team will leave the college early in the morning’, and the meet is to be held tomorrow night. a dead heat, but at that point Gil bert took his lead, and held it. Dhnny, in the stretch, almost caught the Longhorn speed mer chant, and for awhile it looked as though he had. Green came in to place second, followed by Don Smith of Texas. In the 150 yard backstroke, Bob Cohe swept out to an early lead, lengthening it to 15 yards at the halfway mark. He kept on pulling away from the pack, and at the finish had a lead of 25 yards to take an easy win. Ed Kruse gave the second Texas man, Marcus Yancey, a race for the second position, but the Long horn pullied away from him. Ed came in 3rd followed by Paul Flem ing also of A&M. Heber Helvinston started off fast in the 200 breaststroke, pacing the pack, but was soon overhauled by Gene Summers of the Aggie squad. Summers then took over the lead arid stretched but to pull away by ten yards. George Dieck, following Gene’s lead, swam into second place after pulling up even with the other Texas man Bostwick. Helvinston, who dropped back to fourth place was given 3rd after Bostwick was disqualified for an illegal turn. The Aggie 400 yard freestyle team made one of the best sHbw- ihgs of the night, when they broke the old Conference Record for the event. Their tiriie was 3:48.6, but will not be classed as a new record, because the only place a Conference Record can be made is in the Conference Meet. The record stands at 3:50. Gilbert McKenzie started the re lay for the Aggies and gave Fisher a nice lead. Then Jerry stroked out and added to the lead over Fowler, Texas’ second man. Green added more yardage to the lead, as did Syfan, who swam the anchor position for the Ags. By the time the finish wris reach ed, the Aggie team had a pool length lead, and that was the race. RESULTS 300 medley relay—Texas (Cone, Karbach, Montgomery); time, 3:08.1. 220 freestyle — McCann, TU; Smith, TU; Vardeman, A&M; timej 2:22.8. 50 freestyle — Gilbert, T U; Gfeen, A&M and Cambell, TU; time, 0:23.7. Diving — Cambell, TU; Rains, TU; Potter, A&M; points, 294.8. 100 freestyle — Gilbert, T U ; Green, A&M; Smith, TU; time, 0:53.4. 150 backstroke—Cone, TU; Yan cey, TU; Kruse, A&M; time, 1:40.5. 200 breaststroke — Summers, A&M; Dieck, A&M; Helvinston, TU; time, 2:47.9. 440 freestyle — McCann, TU; Montgomery, T U ; Vardeman, A&M; time, 5:11.5. 400 freestyle relay—A&M (Mc Kenzie, Fisher, Green, Syfan);' time, 3:48.6. Few Ball Carriers On ’48 Aggie Team When Harry Stiteler, head Texas A&M football coach, said he didn’t have any bricks who could “go” last season he wasn’t kidding. Only two Aggie backs, Bob Goode and Bobby Goff, scored from scrim mage, and only twice did an Aggie ball carrier gain more than 22 yards on a running play. Attend CHURCH Sunday First Baptist Church College Station —INVITES YOU TO ALL SERVICES— Fellowship Hour . . 9:15 a.m. Sunday School 9:45 a.m. Morning Worship .... 10:50 a.m. Training Union 6:15 p.m. Evening Worship .... 7:15 p.m. JOE TRUSSELL—Song Leader DR. L. 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