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Aggie Cagers Drop Last Conference Game To Flock, 53-39
Season Ends With Farmers In
Sixth Spot in SW Conference
SMU Tankers Sunk In “Big D”
Meet With Farmers, 46 to 29
By SCOTTY SWINNEY
Coach Art Adamson’s swimmers added another victory to their string Friday with
a 46 to 29 win over Mustangs of SMU at Dal las. This brought their overall record to five
victories against two defeats.
A&M took the meet with ease, slacking up on the Mustangs after they had enough
points to assure a victory. The Aggies took five of nine possible first places, six of the
seven possible second positions.+
They added to this three third
places to round their points out at
46.
Starting the 300 yard medley
relay for the Aggies, Ed Kruse
fought to a deadlock in the
backstroke with Bob Willard of
SMU. Taking over from Kruse,
Jim Flowers pulled away from
Jim Dwire to give the Ags a
lead of about six feet. Gilbert
McKenzie then took over in the
freestyle portion of the event and
held his own against Don Morti-
more of the Ponies to bring the
Farmers in first and start the
meet with a 5 point lead. From
that time on, the Mustangs never
came close to the Aggies.
Bernie Syfan took a quick lead
in the 220 yard freestyle leaving
Dave Vardaman of A&M and Doug
Conner of SMU to fight it out for
second place. Dave held a slight
lead over Conner for a while, then
Doug pulled ahead and gained the
lead which he held until the
stretch, when Dave pulled back up
to place second by inches.
Danny Green and Mike Muckle-
roy repeated their performance of
the last contest between the two
squads with Mike taking the 50
and Danny the 100 yard freestyle.
Danny wasn’t set for the starters
gun on the 50, thus giving Muck-
leroy the precious added inches
that he needed to win. Mike’s time
of 0:21.8, for the distance set a
new record for the Mustang pool.
It was a different story in
the 100 yard freestyle. This time
the two lads fought it out with
Green coming in on top. First
Danny pulled out in front, then
Muckleroy took over, and finally
in the last 25 yards Danny re
gained the lead to hold it for a
first place.
Facing the hazards of the Ponie
pool was the first and hardest task
of the Aggie divers. The pool has
low beams, is very narrow with
the board facing across the pool,
and to top it off a pipe running
across the bottom of the pool al
most directly under the board.
Overcoming these difficulties
divers Scotty Potter and Earpie
Johnson, both of A&M placed
first and second in the contest
to take the honors away from
the Mustangs who had been giv
en plenty of time to get used to
the difficulties. Johnson dived in
the place of Bill Strait who bur-
sted an eardrum while warming
up for the event.
Another of the Aggie wins, and
the last, came in the 150 yard
backstroke. For awhile it looked
as though Nate King of SMU was
going to give Ed Kruse of A&M
a fight for first, but he soon fell
behind to be nosed out of second
place by Paul Fleming, Ed’s swim
ming mate.
The 200 yard breaststroke saw
Jim Dwire of SMU pull up from
last place to take the event. Jim
swam slow but steady to overtake
Aggies George Dieck and Tiger
Moye, who placed second and third
respectively. In the 440 yard free
style, John Peters gave Doug Con
ner of SMU a race for the tape,
but couldn’t stretch it out enough
to win. Gilbert McKenzie of the
Aggie team came in third.
Coach Adamson swam a strange
group in the 400 yard freestyle
race. Two of the swimmers were
breaststroke men and the other
two were distance men. Jim
Flowers and Bernie Syfan have
alternated at dashes this season,
but not often. The Mustangs took
the event, but had to fight all
the way for it, and their last
seven points to give them a
total of 29.
RESULTS
300 medley relay— A&M (Kruse
Flowers, McKenzie); time: 2:56.3.
220 freestyle — Syfan, A&M;
Vardaman, A&M; D. Conner, SM
U; time: 2:24.2.
50 freestyle — Muckelroy, SM
U; Green, A&M; Fisher, A&M;
time: 0:21.8. (new pool record)
Diving — Potter, A&M; Johnson
A&M; Richards, SMU; points:
233.6.
100 freestyle — Green, A&M;
Muckleroy, SMU; Mortimore, SM
U; time: 0:53.3.
150 backstroke — Kruse, A&M;
Fleming, A&M; King, SMU; time
1:50.3.
200 breaststroke — Dwire, SM
U; Dieck, A&M; Moye, A&M; time
5:39.2.
440 freestyle — D. Conner, SMU
Peters, A&M; McKenzie, A&M;
time: 5:39.2.
400 freestyle relay —SMU (Con
ner, Willard, 'Mortimore, Muckle
roy); time: 3:33.7.
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Wallace Moon Selected ‘Star of Week’
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MONDAY, MARCH 7, 1949
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Fish Take Owlets In Final
Cage Tilt Of Season, 63-51
By ANDY MATULA
A&M’s Freshman Basketball team closed out it’s 48 -49
season with a 63 to 51 win over the Rice Slimes. The game
preceeded the Varsity tilt of Friday night.
Though the Aggies were winners by a 12 point lead they
had no easy time disposing of the blue and grey freshmen.
While not a tall group, the Ricet'
quintet fielded a fast and tricky
aggregation that continually tried
ot break up the Aggie fast breaks.
Had they started sooner in the
game, they might have won.
Both teams started eager with
neither side able to gain headway
in the opening five minutes. The
Fish lead then, 10 to 7 as the
Slimes hindered the fast breaking
maroon and white team but opened
their defense for work-ins and set
ups.
Within the next five minutes,
the hard charging freshmen
from Aggieland made their mar
gin of victory. Attempting to
take the initative, the Owls
floundered on their passes and
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fumbled their set-ups. This, plus
an alert confusing Aggie of
fense, pushed the score to 21-12
by the end of the first quarter.
The Freshmen Owls re-adjusted
themselves and kept the pace down
throughout the remainder of the
half. Ralph Grawunder, blue and
grey forward proved to be a thorn
in the flanks of his oponents. He
was continually outjumping Bud
Davis under the basket and man
aged to add eight points to the
score before he fouled out early
in the second half.
Then the A&M crew had to put
up with Sonny McCurry, Slime
center who dropped in 19 points
before he left the contest with the
maximum number of fouls. He was
the game’s high point man and
could have been Rjce’s decisive
player if he had remained.
The second half was poorly
played in comparison with the
earlier, part. Still trying to stop
the Aggie fast break, the Slimes
deployed down court most of the
time. This soon lead to race
horse basketball with both teams
over eager. A modified zone de
fense put up by the maroon and
white team kept Rice inert the
early part of the third quarter.
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As Star of the Week for
the week ending last Satur
day, February 26th, the Batt
•Sports Staff has selected
Wallace Moon, Aggie basket
ball player.
The selection by the Sports staff
had to come from only two events
last week. Thursday night, the Ag
gie tankers swam against the
Bears in Waco and then on Satur
day night, the Aggie cage squad
took on the Bear cagers there.
Moon was selected for the
award because of his hustling
play against Baylor Saturday
night. He was the thief of the
court as he frequently stole the
ball from the Bear guards and
dribbled in for crip shots.
The little sophomore from Bay,
Arkansas, was also one of the chief
reasons why the Bears didn’t make
any more points* against the Ag
gies than they did. He earned a
starting on the team only last
week.
Moon was the second highest
scorer for the Aggies. He roped
in a total of seven points in the
Bear tilt, only three less than
DeWitt, leading scorer for the
Aggies that night.
Moon has two years of eligi
bility remaining.
A week’s free pass to the Cam
pus Theater is waiting for Moon
now because of his nomination for
thi@ award.
This week, the Sports Staff will
have two basketball games and a
swimming meet from which to
pick the next Star of the Week.
(Editor’s note: Because of
limited space last Thursday and
Friday, this feature was held
over until today. Another will be
run on Thursday of this week.)
By BILL POTTS
A&M’s Aggie cagers dropped their last basketball game
of the season Friday night to the Rice Owls in DeWare Field
House, 53 to 39. This loss confirmed the Aggies’ spot as
sixth in the conference standings.
It was a game marked by the difference of play by the
Aggies in the first and second'^ ——
halves. During the first, the Ag- proved to be as much of a threat
Reds Blitz White
Gridders, 21 to 14
Coach Harry Stiteler’s maroon
clad squad took its second vic
tory of the spring training session
over his white jersied team Satur
day on Kyle Field, 21 to 14. This
game showed definite improve
ment over the first in defensive
play and general briskness.
Sophomores-to-be supplied al
most the whole show for the
afternoon, scoring four of the
five TD’s and a sophomore pass
ing to a junior for the other.
Gallopin’ Glenn Lippman scored
twice for the Maroons with a
39 yard dash and a one yard
plunge through the center.
Buddy Shaeffer scored the other
Maroon touchdown from the one
foot line in the last moment of
the first half. Shaeffer kicked the
extra points for the dark jersied
teams too.
Augie Saxe of Beaumont scor
ed one of the White’s tallies,
when he scurried around left
end from the Maroon 12. End
Charley Hodge of Dallas added
both points after touchdowns
for the white team although he
was wearing a red jersey.
Quarterback Delmer Sikes, a
standout passer for the day, hit
Cedric Copeland for the final score
of the day in the last quarter.
Sikes was one of the outstanding
passers on the ineligible squad last
fall, along with Dick Gardemal
who was on the Red team Satur
day.
Jimmy Cashion bulls-eyed on the
first nine passes that he let fly
with in the scrimmage session.
Passing and pass protection were
both improved from the earlier
intrasquad game. Sikes was having
trouble finding time to spot his
receivers at the start of the game
but this was corrected in the sec
ond half, Gardemarl, Cashion, Sik
es, and Don Nicholas were doing
the chunking, with Lippman fad
ing and throwing one.
Potter Announces
Phy sics Meeting
The Physics Department will put
on a program in connection with
the All College Day Open House,
Dr. J. G. Potter, head of the Phy
sics Department, has announced.
All students itnerested in parti
cipating in this program are in
vited to attend an organizational
meeting Tuesday at 5 in Room 39
of the Physics Building, Potter
added.
gies played the Owls on even terms
all the way and lead at five dif
ferent times. The score was all tied
up at seven different times during
that half.
The Aggies were leading the
Owls with 15 seconds to play
but Joe McDerott sank a crip
shot for the Owls and the half
ended, 22 to 21 in favor of the
feathered flock. Most outstand
ing was the way the Aggies
drove in and aroqnd the Owls
to sink crip shots. They were
vicious and good.
When the teams took the court
for the final 20 minutes, it looked
like a different ball game. In the
first four minutes, the Owls gar
nered six points while the Aggies
were able to make one, that at the
hands of Jewell McDowell on a
free shot. Two minutes later, the
Aggies’ score had climbed to 27
and the Owls had made only one
field goal but that was as high
as the score was that second half.
From then on, the Owls practically
had the court to themselves.
When John DeWitt, Aggie
center that held big Bill Tom to
six points in the first Aggie-
Owl game, fouled out with seven
minutes to go, the roof practical
ly fell in.
Up to that point, DeWitt had
done a good job of guarding the
tall Owl, but Tom had still man
aged to gather ten points to his
credit.
One of the reasons that the Owls
had less trouble with the Aggies
Friday night than they did the
first time the teams played was
because Tom played farther out
from the basket. Because of this,
DeWitt could not play in front of
him so much. When this happened
the ball was fed to Joe McDer- :
mott more and consequently, he Cook 2, Foley
as Tom. He and Tom ended the
game tied for scoring honors with
15 each.
Bill Turnbow played one of
his best games of the season for
the Aggies Friday night. Always
a jumper, it was Turnbow who
pulled a lot of rebounds off the
boards when he was not expected
to. Also surprising was the num
ber of gratis shots that he sank.
Turnbow missed one and hooped
in six.
Three Aggies, forwards Gene-
Schrickel, Bill Batey, and J i m
Kirkland played their last game
for the maroon and white Friday
night. They are graduating before
another cage season rolls around.
LAST GAME
Aggies
F g
Ft
Pf
Tp
Turnbow, f
2
6
2
10
Batey, f
0
0
1
0
Martin, f
0
0
1
0
Hrachovy, f
0
0
1
0
Kirkland, f
0
1
0
1
DeWitt, c
3
5
5
11
McDowell, g
1
1
0
3
Miller, g
0
0
0
0
Schrickel, g
2
1
4
5
Mobley, g
2
0
1
4
Moon, g
2
1
2
5
Totals
12
15
17
39
Rice
Fg
Ft
Pf
Tp
McDermott, f
6
3
2
15
Switzer, f
1
2
4
4
Gerhardt, f
1
1
0
3
Tom, c
7
1
5
15
Tighe, g
0
0
0
0
Vahldiek, g
0
0
1
0
Cook, g
4
5
2
13
Foley,g
1
1
2
3
Totals
20
13
16
53
Free throws missed. Turnbow,
DeWitt, Schrickel, 3, Moon, Mob
ley, McDermott 3, Gerhardt 3,
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