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[ Swimming Team Takes Another Victory Over Baylor 40-35 Aggies to Tangle With Baylor Bears in Waco Saturday Night By TRAVIS BROCK Saturday night in Waco the Aggies will tangle with the Baylor Bears in a Southwest Conference basketball game. The Bears will be fighting to hold their present stand ing in the conference, while the Aggies in turn, will be trying to knock off one of the top contenders, which is very typical in the Southwest Conference. 4 : — Baylor is tied for second place with the Rice Owls at the present time, each having a record of seven wins and three losses in con ference play. Arkansas is in first place with eight wins against only two losses. Bill Johnson a returning mem ber of Baylor’s championship team of last season, will not be at his regular guard position Saturday night. He suffered injuries in an automobile accident since these two teams last met and is out of the Bear lineup for the remainder of the season. Finding a suitable replacement for Johnson was overcome when Bill Hickman, number six man of the Bears, stepped into the start ing five to give the Baylor fans revived title hopes. Coach Marty Karow’s Aggies will be in top form for the game with forward Bill Turnbow having fully recovered from an ankle in jury he suffered in the Texas game. Turnbow scored 15 points in the Aggies last game against the Longhorns and 'Will be counted on to help the Aggie offense again Saturday night in Waco against the Bears. This game will also feature a return engagement between John and Bill DeWitt. John has con sistently been top scorer for the Aggies all season while playing the center post. Bill, who was a regular last season for the Bears, stands out with his great defensive play. The first meeting of these two brothers resulted in John col lecting more points than his older brother, but the Bears walked off the court with a 53-47 victory over the Aggies. ^ Probable starting line-ups for Coach Bill Henderson’s Bears will be Hickman and Heathington at the guards, DeWitt and Owens at forwards, and Odell Preston at center. Coach Marty Karow will prob ably send to the court as his start ing five, Bill Turnbow and Jim Kirkland at the forward posts, Jewell McDowell and Gene Schric- kel at guards, and John DeWitt to hold down the center slot. Gametime is eight p. m. The place of the contest is McLean Gym on the Baylor Campus. In the opener at six p. m., the Aggie Fish will take on the Bay lor Cubs. The Fish won over the Cubs in the teams’ first meeting and they are expected to repeat. SOCCER NOW TOP MADRID —(A 5 ) Soccer, not bullfighting, is Spain’s national sport now. While there ate a few hundred bullfighters in Spain, recent sta tistics show that 30,571 soccer players are registered in this coun try. Of this figure, 27,564 are ama teurs, the rest professional. In Catalonia alone there are 879 soc cer clubs, grouping 7,589 players. Texas A & M College Second Annual JUNIOR COLLEGE BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT To Be Held in DeWare Field House MARCH 1, 2, and 3 Sponsored by Brazos County A&M Club — ADMISSION — j Tournament Tickets: Students $2.00 Others $3.00 Prizes: G. E. Combination Radio-Record Player G. E. 8-foot Refrigerator Chambers Gas Range, and 3 Table Radios — This Advertisement Sponsored By— The Exchange Store “Serving Texas Aggies” WALLACE MOON, stellar guard on the Aggie basketball team hails from Bay, Arkansas. On,e of the speediest members on the Aggie cage squad, he has two year of eligibility left. Second Annual JC Tourney To Be Held Here March 1 -3 Texas A&M’s second annual Junior College Basketball tournament will begin in DeWare Field House 9 a. m. Tues day, March 1 and run through Thursday, March 3rd. Tyler Junior College is heavily favored to repeat as tournament champions. The Apaches have won their second Junior College State Championship4 and with such an array of high school all-staters there is little Regulation Uniform Slacks! $19.50 High back green elastique serge slacks Drop belt loops — zipper fly — all sizes Get those elastique Slacks you need today at one of Waldrop’s two stores. NEW SHIPMENT JUST ARRIVED Co. MENS CLOTHING SINCE 1896 BRYAN COLLEGE STATION doubt that will have much trouble repieatirig. The tournament will officially begin Tuesday morning when the Phillips and Tyler Junior Col leges start off the action. Lon Morris and Laredo will clash at 1 p. m. Tuesday with Blinn JC and San Angelo taking to the hardwoods that night at six. J. E. Roberts will act as general, ■chairman for the tournament with Flop Colson in charge of tickets. The housing of players will come under the heading of Harry Boyer. Newt Hielscher will direct the is suing of awards, trophies and prizes. Aggie cage mentor, Marty Ka row will again act as tournament director with Mike Barron handl ing the program duties. The tournament will be run in a double elimination manner with teams dropping out of the real race having a chance to redeem themselves in the consolation di vision. Other teams participating in the JC tournament include: Amarillo Junior College, John Tarleton, Al len Academy, Schriner, Henderson, Wharton JC, Howard County Jun ior College and Lamar JC of Beau mont. Tourney teams are due in some time Monday afternoon. They will first report to the housing office to receive room assignments, linen and room keys. The squads will be guests of the A&M athletic de partment for the Aggie-Arkansas tilt to be held Monday night. Dorms 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 11, and 14 will be used to house the cagers. A committee of two boys from each home town will greet the cagers upon their arrival, but any Aggies who would like to greet his home town friends of the JC teams are cordially invited to join the welcoming committee. LOUIS FIGHT OFFERED PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 25 —(A>> Night Club Owner Frank Palumbo yesterday offered Joe Louis a $300,000 guarantee to fight Lee Savold for the heavyweight title in Philadelphia “some time this summer.” Palumbo, who doubles as co manager of lightweight King Ike Williams, gave Louis 24 hours to accept the offer. fV€ axe A New Service For The Battalion’s Readers . . . Prints of photographs appearing in The Battalion now may be pur chased from the Student Activities Office . . . — FOR ONLY — 75c each PLACE YOUR ORDERS AT THE Student Activities Office Second Floor GOODWIN HALL Roster for Saturday’s Scrimmage (Editor’s note. This roster is tenative and may be changed prior to game-time.) Game time is 2:30 Saturday. MAROON SQUAD No. Player 11—Dick Gardemal 15—Delmer Sikes 17—Bobby Dohoney 20—Glenn Lippman 24—Charlie McDonald 26—Lucky Parks 39—Kenneth Shobe 35—Bill Tidwell 33—George Roberts 42—Doyle Moore 44—Robert Shaeffer 50—Jim Flowers 54—Hugh Meyer 56—Pat Diffie 62— William Rush 60—Elo Nohavitza 64— Bob Davidson 65— A. J. Dugas 63— Denny Hutson 71—Sam Moses 73—Dick Scott 75— Alex Strobel 76— Russ Hudeck 80— Carl Hill 81— Jerry Grossman . 82— Clinton Gwin 85— Jack Jones 86— Edsel Jones 87— Jaro Netardus 88— Jack Breid WHITE SQUAD No. Player 17—Jim Cashion 11—Don Nicholas 16—Gerald Bowen 24—John Christensen 26— June Cl?irk 20—Charlie Royalty 27— Augie Saxe 28— Karl Hollier 35—Bernard Lemmons 37—Paul Yates 42—Gary Anderson 22—Frank Torno 46—Rodney East 44—Don Pfefferkorn 50—Jim Fowler 57—Van Heatherly 56—Bob Bates 61—Edward Holley 63— Mickey Spencer 60—Carl Molberg 64— William Hasson 69— Herb Sauer 73—Percy Burk 72—Bill Pratt 65— James Little 75—Murray Holditch 70— Dwayne Tucker 82— Charley Davidson 84— Cedric Copeland 80— Charles Hodge 81— Dorbandt Barton 83— Walter Davenport 85— John Walker 88—Dick Calendar 86— Crouch S Battalion PORT FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1949 Page 3 Charley Gehringer Headed For Berth In Hall Of Fame NEW YORK — Sometime early in March, Charley Geh ringer, former Detroit Tiger second baseman, will be elected to Baseball’s Hall of Fame at Cooperstown, N. Y. That Charley will get the honor by an elimination pro cess is hard to understand. He may not have hit in a class with Rogers Hornsby (.358 for 23-f years) but he ranked right up there with men like Eddie Cdllins (.333 for 25 years) and Frankie Frisch (.316 for 19 years). Gehringer, in 19 years as De troit’s peerless Second baseman, compiled a .321 lifetime mark. In 1937, when he led the Ameri can League in hitting with .371, he was voted the league’s most valuable player. In January, Ken Smith, secre tary-treasurer of the baseball writers’ association of America, sent a ballot to each of 153 mem bers of 10 or more years’ stand ing. The veteran writers were supposed to name candidates for the Hall of Fame in the 1949 elec tion. The one hitch was that the player elected would have to ap pear on 75 per cent of the ballots. To be voted to the Hall of Fame 114 votes were necessary. Gehr inger just missed on the first bal lot. He got 102. “In accordance with the rules,” states the second ballot, “the names of the 20 candidates receiving the highest number of votes are plac ed in nomination. Members of 10 years’ standing are authorized by the Permanent Hall of Fame Com mittee to vote for any five of these 20 nominated candidates. Any player appearing on 75 per cent of these final ballots shall be elec ted.” The poll is restricted to these 20 nominated player’s: C. Gehringer, 102; Mel Ott, 94; A1 Simmons, 89; Dizzy Dean, 88; Jimmy Foxx, 85; Bill Terry, 81; Paul Waner, 73; Hank Greenberg, 67; Bill Dickey, 65; Harry Heil- mann, 59; Rabbit Maranville, 58; Gabby Hartnett, 35; Joe Cronin, 33; Dazzy Vance, 33; Ted Lyons, 29; Hack Wilson, 24; Ray Schalk, 24; Charley Ruffing, 22; Ross Youngs, 20; and Tony Lazzeri, 20. (Figures are votes received on SMFET VfAY Prompt Courteous Service PHONE 2-1400 Bryan DYERS'FUR STORAGE HATTERS merican first ballot). The votes here go to Gehringer; Mel Ott, who hit 511 homers and batted .304 in 22 years with the New York Giants; Bill Dickey, who hit. 314 in 17 years with the New York Yankees; Harry Heil- mann, four-time American League batting champion, and Hack Wil son, whose 56 homers in 1930 for the Chicago Qubs are tops in Na tional League history. We’d probably vote for the en tire group of 20 nominees but rules are rules. Gehringer and Ott look like certain additions to Coopers- town. This time a year ago we said Heilmann, now a Detroit Tiger broadcaster, looked like he de served the honor. When Harry led the American League in hitting back in the twenties his competition came from Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, and George Sisler, all Hall of Earners. His top batting marks were .394, .403, .393 and .398. And it makes you stop to won der. How can they leave a hitter like Heilmann out of the Hall of Fame? But the baseball writers— those with 10 or more years’ mem bership—have been doing it. FOR THOSE WHO DEMAND THE BEST . . College Shoe Repair North Gate Adamson Shifts Team, But Wins Over Bruins Easily By SCOTTY SWINNEY Coach Art Adamson received his fourth ducking of the season yesterday, when his tankmen defeated Baylor Uni versity 40-35, in a meet held at Waco. This was t]ie Aggies second win over the Bruins this year. A&M won the 300 medley relay to give them an early lead of 5 points. The race was4 started for the Aggies by back- the Aggieg already had the meet stroke swimmer Ed Kruse, who gave the Farmers a lead of five feet. Aggie breaststroke man “Tig er” Moye took over from Kruse and ran the lead up to 20 feet when he handed it over to Jim Flowers, who swam freestyle. Jim then ran away from Jud Williams to give the Aggies a 50 foot lead at the finish line. Sam Sorrell whipped out on an error by Gilbert McKenzie to take first in the 220 yard free style. Gilbert led Sorrell all the way to the 200 yard mark, where he thought he had finished. When he discovered his error, it was too late to catch Sam, but he made a good effort, finishing a close second. Jerry Fisher gave the Aggies a third place in the event. In the 50 yard freestyle, Bay lor’s Gene McCoy and Tom Wynn swept the first two places, with Gene Summers of A&M coming in third. The diving was similar to that of the first meet between the two teams, with “Bullet” Manale again showing very good form to take first place away from the Farm ers. Scotty Potter came in second in points, but was diving unoffi cially. Second place, therefore, went to Bill Strait with the next most points. Third place went to “Earpy” Johnson. Danny Green gave the Aggies their second first place of the meet, when he swept to a win in the 100 yard freestyle closely followed by his teammate Ber nard Syfan. Third place was tak en by Gene JVIcCoy, who touched the bank immediately after Ber- nie. Baylor took its fourth first place of the meet when Andy Odom out distanced Ed Kruse of the Aggie squad to win the 150 yard breast stroke event. It was anybody’s race to the very end, with Ed coming in .2 second behind Andy. Paul Fleming of A&M captured thmd place in the event. George Dieck put on the steam in the 200 yard breaststroke to take first place with a 45 foot lead over the nearest man, who was his teammate John Shep pard. Baylor’s Wyatt Heard was 75 feet behind Dieck for a poor third. The Aggie’s last first place came when Dave Vardaman took the 440 yard freestyle. For the first 200 yards of the race, it looked as though Sam Sorrell of Baylor might have a chance to win, but then-Dave pulled away from him, and John Peters, also of A&M, pulled up to contest Sam for sec ond. Peters came in third after barely being nosed out by Sorrell. When the last race came up, The Largest . . . ELECTRICAL APPLIANCE STORE In Bryan— Come in and see us for large or small appliances: RADIOS . . 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Jim Flowers took over from there and picked up two of the seven feet needed by the Ag gies, but the lead was too great, and Baylor finished with a lead of 5 feet to give them 35 points against the Aggies 40. RESULTS: 300 medley relay: Time; 3:25.6. A&M (Kruse, Moye, Flowers). 220 freestyle: Time; 2:41.6. Sor rell, Baylor; McKenzie, A&M; Fis her, A&M. 50 freestyle: Time; 0:25.0. Mc Coy, Baylor; Wynn, Baylor; Sum mers, A&M. Diving: Points; 121.3. Manale, Baylor; Strait, A&M; Johnson, A &M. 100 freestyle: Time; 0:55.5. — Green, A&M; Syfan, A&M; McCoy Baylor. 150 backstroke: Time; 1:51.8. Odom, Baylor, Kruse, A&M; Flem ing, A&M. 200 breaststroke: Time; 2:52.3. Dieck, A&M; Sheppard, A&M; Heard, Baylor. 440 freestyle: Time; 5:45.7. — Vardaman, A&M; Sorrell, Baylor; Peters, A&M. 400 freestyle relay: Time; 4:08.4 Baylor (Williams, Odom, Wynn, McCoy). “It’s Brooklyn in ’49,” says Bil ly Meyer, a man whose opinions are respected by fellow NL pi lots. cMotatofa CAFETERIA r ■ 3 ’'Where the art of cooking has not been forgotten” MENU FRIDAY, FEB. 25 Broiled Trout — Lemon Butter Fried Shrimp, Remoulade Sauce Shrimp a la Creole Veal Pot Roast Philadelphia Pepper Steak SATURDAY, FEB. 26 Fried Trout — Tarter Sauce Meatballs and Spaghetti Seafood Cutlet, Sauce Neuberg Roast Pork with Dressing and Stewed Apples Roast Prime Rib of Beef Curried Veal, Sumatra Chicken Pot Pie SUNDAY Broiled Redfish - Lemon Butter Fried Shrimp, Remoulade Sauce Fried Chicken Roast Turkey & Dressing Broiled Minute Sirloin Steak Roast Prime Rib of Beef Turkey a la King on Toast