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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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sewed up with a 12 point lead
over the Bears, but the Baylor
squad won the last one to pull
them up within, five points of
the Aggie squad.
Richard Rouse of A&M and Jud
Williams of Baylor fought for the
lead in the first leg of the 400
yard freestyle relay, with Rouse
taking a slight advantage at the
end to put the Farmers into a
small lead. The second leg saw
Andy Odom pull up even with Tie
Davis of A&M to keep the Bears
in the race.
Tommy Butler lost out to Tom
Wynn on the third leg, giving the
Bears a seven foot advantage as
the swimmers went into the last
100 yards. 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.
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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