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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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