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SWC Basketball Race Ends In Three Way Tie Arkansas, Baylor, Arizona And Rice Will Meet in Play-off By LEON SOMER The scrambled Southwest Conference race came to a close last Saturday night as Rice defeated the Aggies to throw the final conference standings in a three-way tie be tween Baylor, Arkansas, and the Owls. Each team ended the season with nine wins against three losses. The team that will represents— the Southwest in the National Col lege Tournament in Kansas City on March 18 and 19 will be deter mined in Dallas Wednesday and Thursday nights when the three Southwest Conference winners and Arizona of the Border Conference get together for a play-off. In the first round games tomor row night Baylor will play Ari zona at 7:30, and Rice will meet Arkansas at 9. The winners of these two games will then play on Thursday night to determine the Southwest representative. Bill Tom, six foot seven inch* Rice center, took scoring honors in conference play with 222 points and also led the season scorers with 394 points. Possibly the real leader i'nconference play was' Jul ius Dolnics, TCU center, who played with a losing team. During conference play the Frogs won only one of twelve games played, but Dolnics was still able to take second place in scoring with 196 points. He also topped the free throw shooters by making good in 62 of 72 at tempts. Slater Martin of Texas, who last week became the first Southwest Conference eager to make the All- Conference team four years straight, broke the individual scoring record when he dropped in 49 points against TCU. The old record of 41 points was held by Bill Henry, former Rice center. FINAL STANDINGS Team W L Pet. Rice 9 3 .750 Arkansas 9 3 .750 Baylor 9 3 .750 Texas 7 5 .583 S.M.U. 5 7 .417 Texas A&M 2 10 .167 T.C.U. 1 11 .083 SWC SCORERS Player TP Ave. Tom, Rice 222 18.5 Dolnics, TCU, 196 16.3 Martin, Texas 177 14.8 Prewitt, SMU 164 13.7 Hamilton, Texas 151 12.6 * Heathington, Baylor 150 12.5 Ambler, Arkansas 149 12.4 DeWitt, A&M 143 11.9 Brown, SMU 135 11.3 McDermott, Rice 135 11.3 Kearns, Arkansas 111 10.1 > Jack Graham, leading homer hitter in the Pacific Coast circuit last season with 48 and now a St. Louis Brownie, holds a private pilot license. Consult Dr. Carlton R. Lee OPTOMETRIST With Your Visual Problems 203 S. Main — Bryan Phone 2-1662 FOR EYE EXAMINATION AND GLASSES Consult DR. J. W. PAYNE Optometrist 109 South Main St. Bryan, Texas All-Staters Selected From High Cag ers AUSTIN, March 8 —<A>) Basket ball champions of Texas in the Class AA, Class A and Class B divisions each placed two men on respective all-state teams. The all-state class AA team in cludes: Jack Mosher, and Bill Chouke, Texas City; Charles Galey, and Jim Wilson, Lubbock and Roland Elledge, Brownwood. Members of the all-state class A team include: Leroy Green and Sam Rasco, of Memphis; Richard Bess and Guy Broussard of French (Beaumont) ; and Ben Mayo of G'aston (Joiner- ville). The all-state class B team in cludes: O’Neal Weaver and Leon Black, Martin’s Mill; Derrel Murphy, Shallowwater; Floyd Dickens, Big Sandy (Livingston); and LeRoy Miksch of Waelder. Texas City is the Class AA champion. Martin’s Mill won the Class B title and Memphis is the Class A champion. The all-state teams were named yesterday by sports writers fol lowing the state tournament here. Where Major Leagues Are Training TEXAS SWIMMERS HERE Texas University’s swimmers will be the guests of the Ag gies in a duel swimming meet in Downs Natatorium. Seven p. m. has been set as the time that the meet will begin. Texas beat the Aggies decisively in an earlier meet in Austin. COMEDIAN, TOO SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — OP) — Paul Courteau of the Springfield Indians of the American Hockey League, besides being one of the finest playmaking centers in' the circuit, also is noted for his “ice” comedian routine. During a re cent Springfield game, when the Indian goaltender was injured and had to leave the ice for repairs, Courteau kept the crowd enter tained with his antics. PHILS HAVE 5 OHIOANS PHILADELPHIA —(A 5 )— Five players from Ohio are included on the Phillies’ roster. They are Pitchers Ed Heusser of Cincinnati and Don Johnston of Chillicothe; Shortstop Eddie Miller of North Bend and Outfielders John Mayo of Youngstown and John Blatnik of Lansing. GRIMM BOUDREAU A barefoot basketball league is thriving in Honolulu. Right for Going Places THE TETSO ASHEVILLE $10. Your eye will tell you the Asheville is a per fectly proportioned Stetson. Your hand will tell you the weight is nice and light. And your mirror will tell you it’s the best-looking hat this side of the Mississippi. Come see it today. rilaklropft(8. Bryan and College Station Aggie Fish Stand Out In Southwestern AAU Meet SCOTTY SWINNEY A&M has a bright future in water sports as few people will deny after seeing the Southwestern AAU Meet at Dallas this past weekend. Two members of the Aggie Freshman squad, swimming as individuals without team representation, did very well for themselves and made the oldt—; ; school very proud of its fledglings, swimming team The two were Van Adamson and Billy Karow, both of College and proteges for some time of Coach Art Adamson, Van’s fath er. In adding to the laurals which he has already obtained, Van cap tured the Southwestern AAU 300 yard individual medley crown out distancing veteran Bob Cone of Texas University. As if it weren’t enough to win the crown as a col lege freshman, he went still fur ther and clipped some two seconds off the old record with a new time of 3:41.8. This also set a new rec ord for the Dallas Athletic Club Pool. Cone led young Adamson in the backstroke portion of the event, but Van shortened the lead when it came to the breast stroke, and in the free-style pulled up and away like Cone was standing still. Adamson also added to the stars when he came in third in the 440 yard free style behind Texas’ speed merchants Ed Gilbert and Jim Mc Cann. This speaks very well for the ability of the young Aggie and his future usefulness to the Aggie SMITTY’S College Grill (North Gate) HOME COOKED LUNCH 65c ENCHILADAS - STEAKS Billy Karow, son of Coach Marty Karow, and the other Ag gie freshman to make his mark in the trials, came home with two third places to his credit, one in the 220 yard breaststroke and the other in the 150 back- tsroke. Karow, like Adamson, has stud ied for several years under Coach Adamson. Both boys were out standing high school swimmers, and last summer aided the College Station Swimming Team in win ning several victories. The two lads were required to swim as individuals with no team affiliation because of a South west Conference rule, which sta tes that no member of the Con ference can enter the AAU Meet with any team affiliation. HORSES TO DOGS MIAMI —6P)— R. B. (Bud) Car- roll races horses and greyhounds with equal success. There are 8 horses in the Carrol stable, cur rently stationed here at Hialeah, and he has 30 greyhounds running at Miami dog tracks. Yale hockey coach Murray Mur doch played 600 consecutive Na tional Hockey League games for the New York Rangers and is kno&n as the “Ice Iron Man.” » Mel Ott led the National League four times in home runs. • RECORDS • RADIOS School & Office Supplies ALL YOUR NEEDS HASWELL’S S Battalion PORT TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 1949 S Page 5 Two New Events In Intramurals Start This Week Spring activities in Intramurals move outdoors today as Vet Soft- ball teams begin their annual com petition. All games this afternoon start at 4:30. Two leagues of eight teams apiece make up the Vet competition. In the meantime, final plans are complete for the 157 boxers who signed for Boxing to start their bouts Wednesday. Originally slat ed to begin Monday, this event was put off three days to give en trants more time for conditioning. Of the entries, more fighters have signed up for the 159 pound class than any other. The 139 pound division is next popular. Only three fighters signed up in the lowest weight class, 119 pound and eight heavyweights are sche duled for bouts. Fight Night has been set ten- tively for March 23 in DeWare Field House. Handball reaches its final stages this week with two leagues tangled up. “G” Infantry leads B League and “A” Infantry is tops in C League but all games are not yet complete. Slated for top playoffs and winners of their i-espective leagues are ASA, CWS, and “A” Air Force. They won out in A, D, and E Leagues. Next Monday afternoon, Horse shoes and Corps Softball swing in to action for this year. AMERICAN LEAGUE The Indianapolis Capitals of the American Hockey League recent ly scored 23 goals in two consecu tive games, they established a new league scoring record for a pair of contests. The old record was 22 goals, set by Providence last season. John Woudenberg, tackle of the San Francisco ’49ers of the All- America Conference, has started every game his team has played— 42—in the three years. Volleyball Loop Standings Standings of the College Station Recreational Council Volleyball League are shown as they were on March 1: NATIONAL LEAGUE Team W L Military A 4 o Military B 3 1 Goodwin Hall 3 1 Swayframes (CE) 2 2 Electrical Engineers 2 2 Graduate Students 2 2 Animal Hus. & Genetics 0 4 B&A and Ag. Eco. 0 4 AMERICAN LEAGUE Agricultural Exp. Sta. 4 0 Administration Building 3 1 Military C 3 1 Independents 2 2 Architects & Aero Dept. 2 2 Mechanical Engineers 1 3 Science 1 3 Physical Education Dept. 0 4 TOWN TO GET PURE WATER —IN 1950 AIGLE, Switzerland—CP)—T h e citizens of this little market town in the Rhone Valley are finally go ing to have drinking water free of tubercular germs. For more than 30 years, the town of Aigle has protested against infected water released from the great tuberculosis sana torium at Leysin, in the mountains above Aigle. A government analy sis of drinking water drawn from springs at a lower level showed as long ago as 1915 that tubercu lar germs were present in the wa ter. At regular intervals for over 30 years, the Aigle town council has demanded that the Leysin authori ties install a water purification plant at the sanatorium. The work was never undertaken because of its prohibitive cost. The Leysin au thorities have finally agreed to begin the erection of a purification plant by 1950. Outfielder George Stone of St. Louis led the American League batters in 1906 with .358, the only rookie ever to top the circuit’s hitters. JAY CAVALL led the Aggie bowlers last week with a 256 game and averaged 201 over a six-game session. His 256 game is the highest posted on the “Y” alleys. TU, Rice Accept Challenge From Aggie Bowling Squad Texas University and Rice Institute have been added to the Aggie Bowling team’s schedule, according to Art Howard manager. TU will be represented by the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, intramural champions. Rice has agreed to post at least two -♦teams for home-and-home games ’Mural Boxing Scheduled For Wednesday Spring activities blossom forth in Intramurals this week in keep ing with the weather. One sport concludes action but two more start competition. Team Handball has its finals Tuesday afternoon. Action in this sport has been going on .for the past two weeks. Boxing, .originally, scheduled to begin this afternoon, has been set back to Wednesday afternoon. All bouts will be held in the DeWare Fieldhouse. The events had been postponed for one week due to the Junior College Basketball Tourney. Because of so much activity, box ers have not been able to get into shape. They have been given tv/o days’ grace by the Intramural of fice. About 160 entrants have been received for this year’s matches. Boxing bouts, in contrast to wrest ling matches, consist of three rounds. Each round is of one min ute: duration with one minute rest between rounds. In case of no knockout or TKO, winners are de cided by three judges placed about the ring. Preliminary bouts will be run off this week and the finalists will tangle the following week. The date of Fight Night, when champ ions in each class will be determ ined, has not been decided yet. Softball, considered the most popular spring sport, opens its sea son today and tomorrow. Corps Softball starts today and Vet soft- ball opens up tomorrow. PHILS/ TWIN BIRTHDAYS PHILADELPHIA —(£>)— Two p hilade lT, hia Phillie infielders and two catchers celebrate birthdays on the same day. Infielders Bobby Blattner and Bert Haas were born Feb. 8, 1920 and 1914, resepec- tively. Catchers Stan Lopata 'and Andy Seminick have September 12 birthdays. Lopata was born in 1925, five years after Seminick. in the near future. In addition, Baylor is scheduled to appear here on March 19 after having been beaten 10-2 in Waco last month. A&M is tenatively scheduled to meet Texas on March 27 in Austin, with a match at Ag- gieland later on. The acceptance of the challenge came from George Christian, sport editor of The Daily Texan, who also indicated a desire for a single and doubles match in addition to the regular team contest. On the YMCA alleys, Jay Ca- vali posted the highest alley score yet recorded, 256. Cavall made two splits in the fourth and fifth frames, and then shot six straight strikes. He also aver aged 201 for six games. His 256 took high honors away from Wally Dixon, who held it with 237. Major LuncefdM shot a 214 game Sunday, and Dixon and Bubba Williamson also broke 200 during the week. ; The most improved bowler on » the team is Fred Wilson, who : has been averaging 160 after > buying his own ball. The next regular practice ses sion for the Aggie Bov/ling Team will bd held Wednesday at which time the Baylor meet will be dis cussed. Pat Kenneday, chief official of the Basektball Association of America, rates the Washington Caps’ Fred Scolari as the player with the “fastest pair of hands in basketball.” THREE FOR WOOLFORD MIAMI —CP)— Woolford Farm became the first stable to win three Hileah ianaugurals when Delegate flashed home in the track’s opening feature this sea son. It was Delegate’s second straight Inaugural victory. Adu lator won for Woolf ord in 1944. Moi'e than 1,000 students will obtain ski instruction at the Syra cuse University ski school and j lodge this winter. Dashing for the office, of strolling on the avenue— you’re dressed right for the bright city in this smooth and snappy Stetson. The sleek, graceful lines of the Whippet will help you go places in style. ? t t *r\ WIMBERLEY - STONE • DANSBV W.O. L/ CLOCKIERS College and Bryan