AgTankers Win Triangle Meet Over NWLS And Memphis Navy
Cadets Cop First Place With
44 Points; Louisiana Second
Coach Art Adamson’s Aggie Swimming Team won its
third swimming meet of the season Saturday night in Nat
chitoches, Louisiana when it defeated Northwestern Louisi
ana State College and Memphis Naval Air Training Com
mand.
The Aggies won the triangular-t
meet with a total of 44 points, yard medley relay with a time of
Northwestern Louisiana State was
second with 37 points and the
Memphis Naval team brought up
the rear with 18 points.
The Naval team was given the
nod as the probable winner before
the meet because it is the holder
of the National Service Swimming
championship, which it won last
year.
The 400 yard Medley Relay pro
ved to be the payoff for the Ag
gies. The outcome of the meet was
still in doubt up to this event,
which was the last one of the
night.
McKenzie of the Aggies got off
to a four yard lead on his lap,
Fisher kept the lead intact, Sum
mers lost a little on his lap, and
then Green put on a spurt to come
in first by. two yards over the
team of Louisiana. This gave the
Aggie team the necessary points
to come out ahead in the meet.
Diving was the most disappoint
ing event for the Aggies. Quaint-
ance of Louisiana had little trou
ble in taking first place in that
event. Right behind him was his
team mate, Gaston. Hohen of the
Navy team copped third place and
Strait of A&M placed fourth.
Previously, in a meet with Bay
lor, Quaintance had defeated Bul
let Manale in the diving event.
Manale is expected to win the
Southwestern Conference diving
championship this year.
The Aggies won five first places
in the meet. Jimmy Flowers won
the 100 yard breaststroke event
with a time of 1:10.6. Danny Green
won the 100 yard freestyle swim
in 55.4 seconds but was edged out
in the 50 yard freestyle by Bill
Stovall of Louisiana.
The Aggies also won the 300
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3:19.3 seconds. Swimming for the
Aggies in this event were Kruse,
Flowers, and McKenzie.
Only one new pool record was
set for the Northwestern' Louisi
ana Demon’s pool. Bernie Syfan
swam the 440 yard freestyle event
in 5:32.3 seconds. The old pool
record was 5:47.6 seconds.
. Previous to this meet, NW Lou
isiana had defeated Baylor and
Tulane in dual meets.
RESULTS IN
NACHITOCHES
300 yard Medley Relay. Time:
3:19.’3. A&M (Kruse, Flowers, Mc
Kenzie), Memphis Navy, NSC.
220 Freestyle. Time: 2:27.9. Gunn
(NSC), Syfan (A&M), Machael
(Navy), Myrtle (Navy).
50 yard Freestyle. Time: 24.6.
Stovall (NSC), Green (A&M),
Fisher (A&M), Branch (NSC).
Diving: 137.8 points. Quaintance
(NSC), Gaston (NSC), Hohen
(Navy), Strait (A&M).
100 yard Freestyle. Time: 55.4.
Green (A&M), Gunn ()NSC), Ma
chael (Navy), Fisher (A&M).
100 yard Backstroke. Time: 1:09.
Branch (NSC), Stovall (NSC),
Kruse (A&M) Bingham (Navy).
100 yard Breaststroke. Time:
1:10.6. Flowers (A&M), Otis (Na
vy), Summers (A&M), Hohen
(Navy).
440 yard Freestyle. Time: 5:32.3.
Syfan (A&M), Gunn (NSC), Vard
anian (A&M), Myrtle (Navy).
400 yard Relay. Time: 3:57.9.
A&M, (McKenzie, Fisher, Sum
mers, Green), NSC, Navy.
Final Score: A&M—44, NSC—
37, Navy — 18.
Teams Selected For
JC Tournament To
Be Held in DeWare
Texas’ Junior College Basket
ball tournament will get under
way March 1st, lasting three days
until March 3rd. Sixteen Junior
Colleges have received invitations
and all sixteen have accepted. The
sixteen that have been invited are
as follows: Tyler Jr. College from
Tyler, Texas, Lamar of Beaumont,
Amarillo J. C. of Amarillo, Paris
J. C. of Paris, Frank Phillips of
Borger, Clifton of Clifton, Lon
Morris of Jacksonville.
Blinn of Brenham, San Angelo
J. C. of San Angelo, Schreiner of
Kerrville, John Tarleton of Steven-
ville, Howard County J. C. of Big
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’Three faces that should help brighten the football scene for the Aggies next fall are shown
above. KENNETH SHOBE, GLENN LIPPMAN, and Backfield Coach DICK TODD are inspecting
one of the shoes used in spring drills. Both Lippman and Shobe were outstanding in scrimmage held
on the practice field Saturday.
/. D. Hampton To Lead Aggie
Distance Aces This Spring
It is about time a few words
of praise be tossed in the di
rection of J. I). Hampton, who
is so modest his achievements
on the cinders have gone al
most unnoticed.
The frail-looking tall blonde
from Brady was undefeated, un
tied and almost unextended last
fall as the pacesetter of the
Texas A g g ies’ championship
cross country team.
Hampton showed his heels to
the field in meets with Oklahoma
A&M, Oklahoma University, North
Texas State and University of
Texas over two-mile courses. He’
finished first in the Southwest
Conference cross-country meet ov
er a 2.6 mile dirt road course. An-
Spring, Wharton J. C. of Wharton,
Henderson County J. C. of Athens
Allen Academy of Bryan, and La
redo J. C. of Laredo.
The tournament will be held at
DeWare Fieldhouse. There will be
two games played in the morning,
three games in the afternoon and
three games at night. Pre-tourna
ment favorites according to their
past records and competition would
appear to be Tyler J. C., who was
the first team to defeat the Aggie
Freshman Squad, Lamar and Am
arillo Junior College, who both
bring fine records to the tourna
ment.
J. D. HAMILTON
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Installs Officers
The new officers of the Saddle
and Sirloin Club Carl Kemplin,
president; Tom Borgen, vice presi
dent; Charlie Rankin, secretary
and treasurer; Bubba Day, report
er. Mr. F. I. Dahlberg, sponsor;
took over at the club’s meeting
Tuesday night.
The Cattleman’s Ball will be
held March 19tfi with music fur
nished by Jesse James and all The
Boys and with all A. H. and D. H.
majors and minors invited, Ran
kin said.
.. The Little Southwestern Live
stock Show this year will be held
May 6 and 7, coinciding with the
All' College Day program.
All sophomore, junior, and sen
ior students may attend the bi
monthly meeting of the Saddle and
Sirloin Club which are held the
1st and 3rd Tuesday of each month,
other large group of runners tried
to beat him in the Gulf Coast AAU
cross country run at Houston last
December, but again the six-foot,
141-pound Aggie came home first.
Six races, six first places.
Hampton’s best time for two
miles is 9:29; for 2.6 miles 12:45.
Now he has his sights set on
taking first places in the con
ference mile and two-mile-events
this spring. With Texas’ Jerry
Thompson gone, J. D. may ach
ieve his goal.
Those who have watched Hamp
ton run during the past six months
are willing to concede him the two
mile title, but they fear teammate
Carroll Hahn may crowd him in
the mile.
This is sure to bring a rise from
policemen and saleswomen. J. D.
enjoys being on his feet most of
the. time! He asked for and was
given a job as table-waiter in A
&M’s spacious Sbisa Hall. He’s on
his feet, fetching food for' Aggie
athletes several hours daily. He
each
al-
runs more than ten miles
week and uses “ankle express”’ al
most entirely for his transporta
tion.
The Aggie distance runner was
second in the regional mile his
junior year at Brady high school.
During his senior year, he won
the district and regional mile
and placed third in the state
meet. He was third in both the
mile and two-mile in the 1948
SWC meet.
When asked why he always
sprints ahead of the pack at the
start of a race, Hampton answer
ed, “I have a bad habit of watch
ing the heels of any runner ahead
of me . . . and it throws me off-
stride.”
Hampton hasn’t been off-stride
in a long time!
ODESSA SIGNS MONCHAK
ODESSA, Feb. 21 —OP)_ Alex
Monchak today was signed as play
ing manager of the Odessa Oilers
in the Class D Longhorn Baseball
League.
Monchak last year hit .289 for
Austin of the Big State League
and led second basemen in fielding
in that league with an average of
.971.
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New Sign in Y
To List High
Bowling Scores
A new sign will soon be seen
over the “Y” bowling alleys. Con
tributed by Wayne Start, Memor
ial Student Center director, it will
list the best scores of the week,
month, and year. Every student
bowler is eligible to have his name
placed in this “Bowling Who’s
Who.” The only requirement is
that he have another certifying
witness, and that he signs his full
name on his score sheet.
It is hoped that this placard
will be ready by Wednesday
night so that the bowling team
will set the first marks in its
weekly practice session.
Claude Lee, top Aggie bowler,
made his bid for high score too
soon when he rolled a 254 game
last Friday.
W. C. Hill and T. C. Corbett,
alley proprietors, have agreed to
SPORTS DAY
Ervin Bilderback, president
of the A&M T Association, has
announced that Sports Day will
be held March 12. Attractions
of the day will be an intra
squad football game and a ten
tative baseball game. No track
meet will be held because of the
conflicting date with the Bor
der Olympics.
Prepare For
Finish Fights
Intramural Wrestling starts its
final round today as quarter-finals
get underway this afternoon in
the Little Gym.
After a week of preliminaries,
fast action is expected as the field
of each class narrows down these
next few days. Semi-finals will be
held, Wednesday and finals take
place Friday afternoon.
Right on the heels of the
grunt and groan competition
comes the hit and run tourney
. . . boxmg. Entries are due in
today and weighirig-in will take
place Tuesday and Wednesday.
Here are Friday’s results in
wrestling:
Only one bout in the 129 pound
class and in it Sheffield, “E” Field
pinned Vinson of Ordnance in just
a minute and fifteen seconds. It
was the afternoon’s fastest time.
In the 139 pound division, all
three matches were won on points.
Mason of CWS, Thurmond of “C”
Field, and Keeland of “C” Air
Force were victors over Simpson
of “A” Infantry, Saunders of “A”
Field, and Duffie of ATC.
In the 169 pound class matches
La them of ATC pinned Vehon
of “A” Cavalry. Faulk, “C”
Flight, beat Oliver, CWS, on
points. O’Conner of “C” Infan
try was floored by Pfeil of “A”
Field. Sykes, “B” Field, was
flattened ' by Vicks of College
View.
Bonnot of “C”> Infantry and
Winter of “A” Infantry put on a
catch as catch can show in the 179
pound class with plenty of fast
and rugged action before Bonnot
pinned his opponent in five sec
onds less than ; two minutes. Jones,
“E” Infantry, took a long time to
pin Kadel of Ordnance. Vohnkahl
of CWS lost on points to Pate of
“F” Flight. Sullivan of “B” En
gineers was a similar victim of
Wilhelm of ASA.
In the three Heavyweight bouts
McManus of “A” Infantry dropped
White of “D” Field in a minute
and seventeen seconds, the second
best time of the afternoon. Bland,
“F” Flight, pinned Wilhelm of
“D” Field, and Cobb of “B” Flight
was flattened by Grubbs of “B”
Engineers.
INDIVIDUAL HONORS
For a team that didn’t win a
game all season, the Texas Ag;gies
set some kind of record in the indi
vidual honors department. Eight
Cadets were mentioned on various
all-Southwest Conference teams
and three Aggies were on the hon
orable mention listings for all-
America teams.
make changes in the sign, listing
the name and score in the correct
division.
The weekly honors will be
changed every Sunday, and the
monthly high score will be post
ed the first of every month.
All members of the bowling
squad are requested to be present
for Wednesday’s practice session,
as squad pictures will be taken at
that time. Eliminations will also
start for selection of two squads
to represent A&M against Baylor.
No word has been received as yet
from the challenge to Rice.
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Tyler’s Apaches Repeat Over I
Aggie Fish in Rematch, 52 - 28
By FRANK SIMMEN, JR.
The Aggie Fish cage squad just couldn’t cope with the
rough playing that the Tyler Junior College lads were ex
hibiting last Friday night in Tyler when the Fish again fell
before the talented cagers from Tyler by a score of 52 to 28.
The game seemed to be another case of outclassed abili
ty. The freshmen from Aggieland-f
couldn’t handle the smooth, and in cated
some cases, rough playing on the
part of the Tyler quintet.
Tall Tyler center Roger Rodri
quez, playing under the hoop, was
continually fouling. The tall all
stater knocked Woddy Walker in
the face with his elbow and Buddy
Davis ended the fray with a nice
shiner.
Bill Bybee, ever improving Ag
gie forward, led the Fish attack.
Bybee made a number of start
ling hook shots to pace his fresh
man buddies in the scoring column
with 12 points.
Rodriquez started off the scor
ing for the night when he made a
field goal from around the circle.
Farmer came right back and sank
a long shot to tie the game.
With five minutes in the first
quarter, the fray was all tied up
again, but it didn’t stay that way
long. Within the next fifteen min
utes of court play, the Fish were
only able to sink two field goals,
while the Tyler lads increased
their score to 21 points from the
accurate shooting of Champion and
Palafox.
In the second half the Tyler
team repeated their actions of the
first Fish-Tyler fray when they
started fast breaking. Palafox,
taking scoring honors for the night,
made a total of 22 points, mostly
from quick handoffs on quick
opening plays.
Through the combined efforts of
Rodriquez and Richardson, who
kept Davis from playing his usual
brand of ball under the basket, the
Tyler lads ran up another one
sided score. The Fish were just
simply outclassed from start to
finish.
The Tyler lads had a neat setup
under the basket. Rodriquez, play
ing under the hoop, tipped to Mil
ler, who hit Champion at side
court, who in turn threw to Pala
fox and Champion. These two
worked the ball down the hard
woods on fast, quick opening
breaks, with Palafox doing most
of the shooting.
the one sided affair. The
referees, who were not members
of the SWC Basketball Officials’
Association, must have liked to
watch a rough and rowdy fray for
at times during the game it looked
as if a gang fight would break out.
The night before, the Tyler cag
ers outscored the House of David
by some fifteen points. Some con
sider the H. of D. five to be the
best amateur quintet in the state,
for this was the eighth loss for
them since 1941.
This Saturday night the Fish
journey to Waco to meet the Bay
lor Cub cage aggregation for a
second time. In their first meeting
of the season, the Aggie Fresh
men scored a 47-41 triumph over
the Waco lads.
Poor officiating further compli-honors.
Bridge Tourney
Play-Offs to Be
Held Tuesday
Playoffs in the National Inter
collegiate Bridge Tournament will
be held Tuesday night, February
22, at 7:30 in the YMCA, Grady
Elms, assistant director of Stu
dent Activities, announced yester
day.
Eight players will be chosen at
that time t# represent A&M, with
an additional two alternate mem
bers. The first round of the , offi
cial tournament must be staged
Friday, February 25. Because of
the limited time, no applications
are needed for the preliminaries
tomorrow night, Elms said.
All entrants must report to Art
Howard in the Ex-Servicemen’s
Lounge of the YMCA by 7:30
Tuesday. Only undergraduate stu
dents of A&M are eligible to enter.
A&M will be competing against
12 other major colleges in the U.
S. for a district title, and the. win
ners of the four district matches
will then compete for national
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