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Bernard Syfan Chosen Star Of Week For Swim Roles As the Star of the Week, the Sports Staff has picked Bernard Syfan of S'an Antonio. Syfan is a distance man on the swimming team and is in his last year of eligibility. He is Coach Adamson’s outstanding varsity dis tance man, and also turns in a very creditable dash when called upon. In the opening meet of the season against Oklahoma Univer sity, Syfan won first place in the 220 and 440 yard freestyle and swam a leg on the 400 yard freestyle relay event which the Aggies also won, giving him a total of 11 % points for the meet. Against Baylor, Syfan swam only one race, the 220 yard free style, and that he won easily giv ing him 5 points. Then against S MU the following week Syfan again won the 220 yard freestyle as the Aggies trimmed the Ponies. When the tankers took to the road to meet Texas, they alter ed their usual swimming lineup, BERNIE SYFAN and Bernard swam the anchor position on the two relays in stead of the distances. The first relay was won by Texas, but in the 400 yard freestyle relay, Sy fan anchored the winning team, which unofficially broke the con ference record for that event. After swimming a very good race at Austin last Thursday, Sy fan accompanied the team to Lou isiana where he did his bit to set up the Aggie victory in that meet by placing second in the 220 free style and first in the 440 yard freestyle. It was in the 440 that Syfan really stepped out and made himself the choice for Star of the Week. In this event, he stepped out and set a new pool record with a time of 5 minutes 32.3 seconds, breaking the old record of 5:47.6. Last week’s meet brought Ber- nie’s total for the year to 34 1 / 2 points and also, keeps up his stand ing. of not having finished an in dividual race without gain i n g points for his team. Sharpshooters Will Not Return To Compete in Annual JC Tournament The two sharpshooters who es tablished most of the individual scoring records in the first annual state junior college basket ball tournament last year will not re turn to compete in the second tournament here next week. Sydon (Rocky) Hrachovy and Charley Whitten performed for Blinn JC of Brenham and Paris Junior College, respectively, last season. Now Hrachovy is on the Texas Aggie squad and Whitten is a Starter at East Texas State. Hjachovy, a comparative “shor- tie* at 6-1, scored the most points, 72; compiled the best point-average for players en gaging in more than two games, 18; received the most free throws, 33; sank the most free throws in one game, 8; received the most free throws in one game, 13, and looped 11 field goals in one game for secpnd high honors in a single game department. Whitten, a 5-11 guard, played in only two games. He meshed 30 Where the Art of Cooking Has not Been Forgotten MENU points in one game and averaged 20 per game before his team was eliminated. Among other records that play ers in next week’s tournament will be shooting for is the mark of 15 field goals made in one game by Charley Whitten. In the free throw department there is one record that can only be equaled. This is a six for six free throw mark that was made by D. W. Hawkins, then playing for Wayland JC. McMurry Sets Pace In Bridge Tourney Edgar McMurry took top honors in the bridge playoffs Tuesday night in the YMCA Lounge with a total of 4510 points in 16 hands. Each of the 20 contestants played four hands with four different partners during the night. Although McMurry won only 3 of 4 matches, he amassed enough in those three hands to come in first,. .Second place went to Frank Simpson, who tallied 4250 points for his efforts. Simpson and Guy Norfleet, the sixth-place winner, were the only two men to win all four games. It. C. Lyons and Tommy Split- gerber made the highest total for a four-game stand, marking up oyer 2300 points. This score gave both players enough points to put them on the eight-man squad to represent A&M in the national intercollegiate match. Other team members selected were James Bothwell, Clifford Mc- Gown, and Royce Brimberry. There were several other good players whose bad hands or weak partners kept them from making the regular squad. H. M. Moore, R. L. Blakeney, and G. B." Whisen- hunt were among these. Whisenhunt and Moore will be alternate players in case that some of the team members fail Thursday, Feb. 24 Broiled Redfish, Maitre d’ Hotel Chicken a la Morengo with Rice Stuffed Peppers with Creole Sauce HAM ’N ’49 Schedule Rated Best In Buff History HOUSTON, (Spl.)—By far the best schedule of Major league ex hibition games in the history of Houston, with a parade of some of the greatest stars of them all, will be seen in Buff Stadium this Spring. Brooklyn, the World Champion Cleveland Indians, the New York Giants, the St. Louis Cardinals, the Pittsburgh Pirates, the Chica go White Sox, the Chicago Cubs, all will make their appearance. That means such greats as Stan Musial and Harry “the cat” Bre- cheen of the Cards, Lou Boudreau and Bobby Feller of the Indians, Walker Cooper, Johnny Mize of the Giants, Ralph Finer of the Pirates, and Jackie Robinson of the Dodgers will be seen in action here. Also, there is a generous sprinkling of night games, so that more fans will be able to watch the Major Leaguers. Advance reserved tickets now are on sale at Buffalo Stadium and may be ordered by mail. Games in which Major League teams will play cost $1.75, those between Minor Clubs cost $1.25. Orders, with P. O. money orders or cashier’s checks attached, should be mailed to the Houston Baseball Association, P. O. Box 1691, Hous ton, Texas. to show up for the tournament, which will be held Friday night at 7:30 in the YMCA. The tournament will be compos ed of 18 pre-delt hands, and each hand will have a proper bid. A failure to make the correct bid will count against the bidders and for their opponents. Visitors will be welcome to watch the tournament. Wally Hood, ^r., is a New York Yankee pitching rookie. His father hurled for Brooklyn in the twen ties. KELLEY’S EGGER Italian Pork Daube with Spaghetti Beef Stew a la Dutch Friday, Feb. 25 Broiled Trout, Lemon Butter Fried Shrimp Renoulade Sauce Shrimp a la Creole, Rice Veal Pot Roast Philadelphia Pepper Steak 49c (2) Eggs 49c Scrambled in Full Cream (1) Slice Virginia Ham (2) Hot Biscuits Jelly Served G to 10 a.m. Daily KELLEY’S COFFEE SHOP “Good Food — That’s All” Hays And Bland Head Wrestling Finish Finals to Be Held Monday Night Following Cage Game Rice Dumps Steers 65 to 49, Baylor Beats Ponies, 47 to 38 HOUSTON, Feb. 23 (A>) —Rice couldn’t miss in the second half Wednesday night as the Owls knocked the University of Texas Longhorns out of the Southwest Conference title picture, 65 to 49. After trailing twice by nine points in the first half, Rice drew even, 21-21, at the intermis sion and took complete control to win going away in the final period. Gerhardt, McDermott 2, Foley 3. DALLAS, Feb. 23 <A>)_Baylor University whipped Southern Methodist 47-38 here Wednesday night in a Southwest Conference basketball game. The victory was Baylor’s fifth straight over the SMU Mustangs. The Mustangs led most of the first half, but Baylor’s Bears roared back to take a 22-to-21 halftime lead. It was Baylor’s seventh confer ence victory against three defeats and kept alive the Bears’ anemic title hopes. opportunity to draw into a first- Don Heathington led the Bears place tie in conference standings with 18 points. Jack Brown was by defeating league-leading Ar- high pointer for the losers with kansas here Saturday night. 17 points. Texas G F P P SMU G F P P White, f ...1 0 2 2 Prewitt, c .... ..4 1 3 9 Hamilton, f ... ...3 7 4 13 Salmon, g .... .1 1 1 3 George, c ....0 0 4 0 Penn, f .0 0 2 0 Madsen, g ....8 5 3 21 Brown, f .6 5 2 17 Martin, g ....4 5 1 13 Lutz, g ..1 3 3 5 Taylor, c ...0 0 3 0 Cannady, f .. ..0 0 1 0 Womack, f ....0 0 1 0 Martin, g .... ..0 0 1 0 — — — — Gillespie, g .. .1 0 1 2 Totals ...16 17 18 '49 Owen, f ..1 0 0 2 Rice G F P P Zatopek, f .... .0 0 0 0 Switzer, f ....4 2 1 10 Wilson, c ..0 0 0 0 McDermott, f . ...5 4 3 14 McKnight, g .0 0 0 0 Tom, c 8 5 2 21 Young, g .... ...0 0 0 0 Cook, g ....5 1 2 11 — — — Foley, g 2 2 3 6 Totals 14 10 14 38 Tighe, g 0 0 0 0 Baylor G F P P Gerhardt, f 1 1 0 3 DeWitt, f .... ...2 1 3 5 Vahldiek, g 0 0 1 0 Heathington, g- ...5 8 4 18 Proctor, g 0 0 1 0 Preston, c .... ...0 3 5 3 — — —. Owens, f .... ...6 0 3 12 Totals ...25 15 13 65 Hickman, g .. ...3 0 2 6 Halftime score: Texas 21, Rice Srack, c ...1 1 1 3 21. Pulley, f ...0 0 0 0 Free throws missed: Switzer, — — — — Totals 17 Halftime score: SMU 21. 13 18 Baylor 47 22, Free throws missed: Prewitt, Penn 2, Brown 4, Cannady, Mar tin, DeWitt, Heathington 2, Pres ton, Hickman. S Battalion O PORTS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1949 Page 5 EMIL (AL CAPONE) MAMALIGA can still be recognized even without his greatest prop, the cigar. Aggie Diving Coach Has Never Competed In Diving By SCOTTY SWINNEY Ohio has given one of her native sons to Texas, and he is located at Texas A&M. This son is Emil Mamaliga, who came to Aggieland in the fall of 1947 as diving coach and physical education instructor. Mamaliga was born in Canton, Ohio, and it was there during his sophomore year in high school that he swam his first race against competition. That was the year that his high school went into a three way tie for the top high school team of the country. Emil was swimming breaststroke on the team. Before leaving high school competition to enter Ohio State, “Mammy” made the All-Ameri can High School squad in the breaststroke. Then at Ohio State he kept up his swimming and further made a name for him self as a tankman. As a junior in college, Mama liga placed second in the 200 yard breaststroke at the Big Ten Con ference Meet, and as a senior plac ed third in this event. Also while in college, Emil placed 5th in the Intercollegiate Meet as a breaststroker, and was again 5th in the same event in the International AAU Indoor Meet. His senior year at Ohio State, they took all possible championships. This marked the first time any team had made this record, one which Ohio State has twice since repeated. There may be those who wonder about a diving coach who wasn’t a diver himself, but Mamaliga has some very good points to qualify him. He learned how to teach the boys the best in diving practices under the tutilage of Mike Peppe, who is recognized as the world’s best diving coach. Under him, Emil was taught to analyze divers, and diving techniques, and also how to show the boys what they are do ing wrong. ‘Mammy’ is, according to all reports, married to a very won derful lass from Chicago, whom he met there while in the navy. He is also the very proud fath er of a four year old boy, who answers to the name of Paul. Some of the veterans who ser ved in the Pacific may have seen him before, for Mamaliga was in on the invasions of the Phillipines and Okinawa. The most amazing thing about the Aggie swimming team under the leadership of Art Adamson and Emil Mamaliga is the fact that the two coaches get along fine and work very well together. This is outstanding because Emil is an Irishman, and Art is an English man. No other team can make that statement! GOLFERS MEET IN HOUSTON HOUSTON, Feb. 24 —(£’)— Top amateurs were here for competi tion in the Houston Country Club’s thirty-first annual invitation golf tournament. Ed White, Houston, the defend ing champion, topped the list. Frank Stranahan, Toledo, Ohio, British Amateur champion and former titlist of the Houston Invi tational, was also among the com petitors. ANSWERS TO SPORTS QUIZ *I\IW sexoj. Coi) qDIAU(UIS ^UE.1^ C6) spuooas ot a^nuim i (*8) lasdn CD XBJ*) 5jOBf C9) Xqsuuojj ioSo^ Cs) 1261 Cl) 9S (’8) UBouaxuy Cz) spuooas 08 seqnuuu gx CD Battalion Sports Quiz (1.) Man’s fastest time in going from the foot of Pike’s Peak to its summit, a distance of 12.5 miles, is about: 10 minutes; 15 minutes 30 seconds; 25 minutes 30 seconds (2.) Has the American or National League won the majority of the All-Star games? (3.) Brooklyn’s Dodgers played in the longest major league ball game in history when their game with the Boston Braves lasted: 24 innings; 26 innings; 28 innings. (4.) Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in: 1923; 1927; 1932. (5.) In 1924 a Texan in the Major Leagues hit .424 to top the all-time records. He was: Ty Cobb; Babe Ruth; Roger Hornsby. (6.) What Southwest Conference Basketball coach was an All-American performer in that sport at the school where he is now coaching? Joe Davis; Marty Karow; Jack Gray; Bill Henderson (7.) Man o’ War was beaten only by: Upset; Regret; Black Gold. (8.) The average horse can run a mile in about: 1 minute 40 seconds; 2 minutes 5 seconds; 2 minutes 50 seconds. (9.) Who holds the record for the total yardage gained through out their collegiate career: Frank Sinkwich; Red Grange; Glenn Davis; Dick Todd (10.) The first college to broadcast a football game was: Harvard; Cornell; Duke; Texas A&M. it, “We should’ve stayed home.” Williams also posted the second top score of 175, beating Claude Lee’s best by one pin. Emmett Trant was second to Williams in total score with 489, and his line of 172 was fourth high for the night. Several members of the squad could not make the practice ses sion because of impending quizzes. Absent were Wally Dixon and Don Boston, while Marvin Hagemeier was on the sidelines with a case of “bowler’s thumb.” Claude Lee and R. C. Lyon, both member of the first team, hurt their averages considerably in last night’s practice. Lee dropped from an average of 180 to 166, and Lyon from 171 to 162. Harris Cox, Fred Wilson and A. B. Harris, the three low men on the squad, had equally bad games last night and called it a draw. The Aggie challenge to Rice has not been accepted as yet, but ap peared in yesterday’s issue of their school newspaper. Notice of the acceptance will be made in the Batt. It has been a long and hard struggle for 14 wrestlers who will fight for the championship in their class. The hard est struggle of all came yesterday afternoon in the Intra mural semi-finals. Two real titantic battles came off in the Heavyweight class. First bout was between Bill Hays of “A” Field and Don Grubbs of “B” Engineers. Both men strug gled upright in the ring for two and a half minutes before Grubbs forced a take-down. Hays won the match on points. This was but a warmup for the other Heavyweight bout that pitted Fred Klatt of White Band against Bob Bland of “B” Air Force. Bland had the weight on Klatt but couldn’t force a quick deci sion. The match went into three overtime periods leaving each con testant weak and sweaty. Bland emerged victorious after 14 min utes of fighting. Bland and Hays will then battle it out for heavyweight title. Otto Yelton of QMC made the quickest fall of the afternoon over Harold Springfield of Ordi nance. Yelton took his opponent down in a minute flat and gets a chance at the championship of the 149 pound class. Two lightweights in the 139 pound division put the fastest show of the day. Bobby Carlson, ‘C’ Infantry, won a decision over Jack Mason of CWS. Neither wres tler stayed still very long and spectators saw action galore. Cliff Pfiel of ‘A’ Field lost a close match to Bill Lee of CWS. Lee went the whole five minutes and won on a two point to one decision. It was a 169 pound fight. Dere Keeland was a point win ner over Frank Thurmond. In this tight the lead changed hands several times tor the two 139 pound lighters. An evenly fought match saw Don Trammell oi' ‘C’ Field beat Leo Mikeska of ATC in the 149 pound class. Law Hall’s Ben Lampkin pin ned Wylie Wooten of Ordinance in three minutes and forty seconds and advance to the finals of the 159 pound class. Another winner in that class was Bob Schubert of QMC who pinned Ernest Trenck- mann of Law in five seconds less than three minutes. In the 169 pound class, “A” In fantry’s Jake Leissner pmnecj Al onzo Vick from College View in two minutes and a halt. Ken Rogers of “C” Cavalry goes to the finals by virtue of his win over Joe Pate of “F” Flight. Pate, noted for his air plane spin, tried this hold on Rogers but was unable to make it effective. A match determined by hard fighting and brute strength was between Hershel Jones of "E” Infantry and Dick Baugh of “A” Signal. Jones won on points. Of the wrestlers advancing to the finals, four are following an old route they took last year. Don Kutch of “C” Field won last year’s 119 pound class and fights again this year. It’s the third straight year in wrestling for Bobby Carl son in the 139 pound division. He was champion last year. Ken Rogers will defend his title in the 179 pound class that he won last year. Fred Klatt was Heavyweight winner in 1948 but lost out yesterday in the heavy weight semi-finals. The finals will be fought Mon day night after the basketball game with Arkansas in the De- Ware Field House. Bowling Team Has Bad Night; Bob Williams Tops With 198 Robert S. Williams of Dorm 16 temporarily holds the high score record in the YMCA bowling race. His 198 was the best that the “Cream of the crop” could muster last night. This score is not expected to last long. The entire team was off last night, with several games coming dangerously close to the+ century mark. As one bowler put Aggie Golf Team Prepares for ’49 SWC Campaign Texas A&M golfers are giving par some regular poundings on the Bryan Country Club course as they warm up for the 1949 conference campaign. The Aggies are defend ing Southwest Conference champ ions. Twelve Cadet hopefuls are now working out daily at the Country Club course. The Aggies’ starting foursome for early season matches will be determined soon by 54 holes of medal play. Travis Bryan Jr. broke the Bryan course record this week when he posted a 61. The prev ious record, a 63, was also held by Bryan. Among other Aggie golfers who have turned in low scores are Mon- ta Currie and Bart Hal tom of Bry an, John Henry of Ennis, Gene Darby of Pharr, L. R. Mays of Corpus Christi, Jack Andrews of Fort Worth, and Jack Barnett of Eastland. SUMMER SERGE Yes, order it now! Easter Holidays soon will be here. 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