- Pictured above are the member# of the Afgie CroM-Couiltry oquad, 1949 champ# of the South* went Conference. Pint row. left to right, Jerry Bonilen, Ralph Oarmany, Julian Herring, and Julian Herring Wins Houston C-C Contest Slashing their way through a driving rain on the cross country course in Houston, A&M’s harriers took the annual Gulf Coast AAU With ease Saturday morning. A Junior Division, composed of runners of 18 years and under, was inserted with the veterans. Setting the pace .again for the* Anderson, *#, Robert in Hubert, and Asais* Coach Prank r. Jack Jones, Aggies was Julian Herfjng, SWC Cross-Country Champ. Herring edged John Reagan High School’s sensational youngster, Eddie Dhyis who was running in the junior j division, to establish a new Gulf Coast record of 12.16. Finishing in the third and fourth spots were Cadets Jim McMahon and Howard Jones respectively. McSfahon and Jones finished in almost a dead heat. The decision was first given to Jones, but after the judges recon sidered. McMahon was handed the number three spot, Marshall Lazarfne, a freshman with great prospects, finished in the number, five slot !for A&M. Lazarine was running in the jun ior division. Biady’a Alexander Ortiz, an other A&M sprinter, followed close ly on Lazarine’s heels,, to finish In the sixth i position. John Gar- many took seventh at tho finish to give the Aggies seven of the first right positions. Long distance-men from, College Station, Rice, University of Hous ton, Galena Park, John Reagan, Port Arthur? 4 , and Galveston com peted in tne, event. A beautiful (team , trophy was awarded the winner. Trophies were also awarded by Bill Williams to division winners and to runners taking second and third in each division. Herringicopped the senior trophy while Lasiarine took the ninner- up cup in the junior division. A&M amassed a total of 6 trophies. Art Adamson, Aggie swim ming coach, has announced that there will be a meeting of the swimming team and all other students who wish to try out for the team tonight ^t 7 p. m. in P. L. Downs Natatorium. Adamson stated that ^his, meet ing is for the varsity 'team and applies to upper dasspien only. he LIMITED TIME 0NLY1 WASH & CREASE .. $1.50 < Our service is prompt. . . and your , 4 satisfaction is guaranteed!.. ROBESON MOTOR CO. 724 N. Main • Bryan Phone 12-8815 WHAT HAPPENED ? YOU Then Here Is What You Want to Hear CREDIT ■ CREDIT C Not Dead - !! •; V '■ n essing Says n Houston : Houston, Dec. 17 (APJ— Commissioner 0. O. Kessing said here Friday night that the All-America Conference still is in existence and its future will not be determined until jiekt m^nth. ‘T don’t think the so-called Nationaj-American League will jvork,’’ jessing said. “I don’t know how many things will turn out but the All-America Conference is going to hold a meet ing in New York City next month and that meeting will determine thej future of our conference and the new league, too,” he said. The retired admiral said the AAC meeting will be held before the Jap. 19 meeting of the new league. ; Thursday night and Friday he conferred with officials of several AAC clubs but declined to give details pf the meetings. “We’ife required to have a bus iness nieeting in December and this is It,” he said. “We have noi discussed the so-called mer ger vertr-much. Thas situation will be gone into thoroughly at our \Nctw Yqrk meeting.” :‘I doin’t like the new setup at all/’ he said. ‘T have always fav ored having ,two leagues, juffli lik,^ baseball, with a World’s.chapi- pipnshih game at the end of each Mason. | : | Merger of the All-American and National Leagues was announced last : Ifriday in Philadelphia. Plans [for the new lepguct cAil fol' twej divisions, under one colh- missionjer. The Ui-teum National-American lineup'includes only three teams, Cleveland, Baltimore, and San Francbco, from the seven-team All-America Conference. AAC teams which would be abandoned or merged with Nation al League teams are (Buffalo, New York Yankees, Los Angeles Dons and the Chicago Hornets. Wheh the merger was ant- nounced, Kessing was quoted as saying: “This isn’t exaqtly the way I wanted it to be buit it certainly is the bdst thing for football and that itj what counts.” 1 ,}! I-Stars w Rrn Washington— , A > i—Officials esti mate about 500,000 old bricks will be removed in rebuilding the White Housej but many of them will be put back. The bricks are slightly larger (than today’s standard size. — AT -t VARNER & SON JE Buy Now & Pay AFTER Christmas . Now you can have a grand holiday. . - . EASY TERMS WELRY NORTH GATE — OUR ONLY STORE If You Want to Charge It, i Don’t H E Y ; SANTA CREDIT Say So. Us, We STORE If You Can Always Reppsses Your Carcass. i PHONE 4-4884 WiA Over Browns In Shamrock Bowl Houston Dec. 17—UP—All- star power and a mud-swamp ed field proved too big a'hand- icap today as the All-America Pro Conference champion rdand Browns bowed, 12-7, in Shamrock Bowl football game charity, steady rainstorm, which reached its peak just before game time, trimmed attendance to a scant 10,000, and turned the field in Rice Stadium into a vertiable lake. At the game’s end, grimy playera were washing their handa from a pool ort the 50-yard line, All the scoring, oddly, came dur ing the first half when the rain storm turned briefly Into n true Texas electrical storm with a dis play that took some attention from the game. Hllppin’ and Sliding The all-stars slipped and slid to the game’s first score late in the first period on a 09-yard march directed by the West ( oust golden boy, Frankie. Albert of the San Francisco Forty-niners. It was Albert’s unerring passing to Chet Alutryn of the Buffalo Bills, Buddy Young of the New York Yankees and Lamar Davis of the Baltimore Colts that put play on the Browns’ 11. From there, Mutryn alternated bucking the line with Joe Perry of the Forty-niners, with Mutryn getting the counter. Albert's kick was blocked. The Browns imnfediately jumped into the game with a searing 60- yard spring from a delayed buck by Marion Motley, the former Ne vada star. He was hauled down from behind on the all-star 25 by Pete Layden, great Texas U. back, now with the New York Yankees. Then, the Browns moved all the way to the all-star one-yard stripe before the stout line held for four downs and took over. But it was a futile all-star stand. Two plays later, after-the Browns took over on the all-star 40 from a kickout by Texas Tom Landry, Otto Graham pitcher a perfectly executed 40-yard touchdown aerial to fullback Dub Jones, .almost (See ALL-STARS, Page 4) Owls Picked To Win in Cotton Bowl Tilt Jan. 2 New York, Dec. 17—(AP) —Coach Jess Neely’s Rice In stitute Owls, hustling champ ions of the Southwest Confer ence, have been chosen by James J. Carrol, St. Louis betting commissioner, as the football team most likely to succeed in the cream of the Bowl games on Jan. 2. That is, the man from Missouri, whose odds on sporting events generally are accepted as a nation al criterion, has decided that the Texas eleven should subdue North Carolina in the Cotton Bowl by the day’s widest margin. He makes- Neely's “T" opera tives eight-point favorites over the single-wing Tarheels, whereas he adjudges the undefeated Oklahoma Sooners only seven and one-half points better than Louisiana State in their Sugar Bowl tussle. Possibly the most significant of Carroll's quotations, however is the six-point bulge he gives the California Bears over jOhio State in the Rose Bowl. Evidently, word has reached St. Louis that the coast conference finally has “caught up” with the big ten after having taken it on the chin for three straight years at Pasadena—two years ago by 49-0. Kentucky is quoted at three points over Santa Clara in the Orange Bowl at Miami, while Missouri and Maryland are listed all-even in the Gator Bowl at Jack sonville. It is somewhat difficult, -on the record, to account for Rice’s bet- ter-than-a - touchdown favortism over a North Carolina team which boasts two such stars as Charlie Justice and Art Weinejr and which ; battled Notre Dame 646 foi - a half. The Cotton Bowl rivals played only ohe mutual opponent, Louisi ana State, and both lost to the Bayou Tigers—Rice by 14-7 and North Carolina by 13-7. Nothing in that to make a bettor go overboard on the Owls. It might be that Rjice’s-: reputa tion has benefited by that terrific showing Southern Methodist made against Notre Dame in the same Cotton Bowl two weeks ago. Rice trounced the Methodists 41-27 earl ier in the season. Also, the Institute boasts a calla-carrier of its own named Rote,—Tobin, cousin of SMU’s Kyle. Aggies’ mite-siaed guard, dribbled past |the Abilene Christian Wildcats’ Dee Nutt (10) and went on for lay-up shot in the AA’M-ACC basketball game in DeWare Field ouse Tuesday night. The Aggies’ Johtn DcWitt (11) keeps an nidentified Wildcat away from the ball. ouglas Takes Over UofA Coach’s Job Fayetteville, Ark., Dec. 18—(AP)—Arkansas, unable in recent years to keep pace with Southwest Conference raz- zle dazzle football, Friday reached into the wide-open proffes- fional ranks for a new head coach. Otis Douglas, right-hand strategist to Coach Earle ((preasy) Neale of the Philadelphia Eagles, was selected by university officials to succeed John Barnhill, Arkansas mentor since 1946. Page 1) Lj Johnson of Arizona ti S AJtsirsStk I SXr Wit IS i— tiite, Kehneth Sutton handed the, Cadets a! 29-25 halftime advantage. With Davis ruling over both back boa rids, the Aggies jumped far ahead in the second period. They led 54-36 at the midway point in the half and their largest margin was 26 point# with a score of 07* 43 in the closing minutes of the fray. Karow’s eager# were out front of the faUt-ibreaking Wild cat! only twice, and both of those occasions ware in the first Tour minutes of the cbptest. Bill Turn- bow, Ag forward, made the !first impressiion on th# scoreboard when he limned both of his gratis toys- es. FRIDAY NI0HT’8 GAME Texas A&M (97) FG FT l»F TP Turnbuw. F Garcia, F te f f •LJCvv ilv> r t.*.. Martin, F . Davis, C ... Sutton, C . wmZfa williams, u Miller, G i . Totals L Trinity U. (49) Recko, I? .... Kackiela, F ... Chadwell, F . Lutz, C VonZee, C Murphy, G ... Austin, G Sosnowski, G Daniels, G .. 1 0 0 3 1 12 1 l,i 2 0 2 4 0 0 * 0 7i 0 9 0 1 l 1 ■if l l ! 1 6 0 8 2 31 2 13 0 5 the onc- tjhp minutes old. Davis » free throw to give the liegd again but two fieldefs sent the out-of- stater ahead 6-3 and there they ]i Stayed. T ^:" Wallace Modn, Agg|ie starting guard, made good on two chapees at the free! shot line to make, the score 6-5 but that was the est the Maroon and White ci ever came after that. 1 Arizona jheld a 49-42 advantage eight minutes before the em) of the game but aMiuir df two-pijint- evs by MilDowell and layups approximately dine imd a minutes tb play, Opjpnrtunities Missed The Cadeta throw away ,— . scoring opportunities after IthHt and tne wildcats painataklhgly protected their lead but still bfnku Aggie pressing ‘da isy la. of victory. 1 ! • i' !•-' 2 23 21 G FT I'F 4 !4 ;|4 2 4 3 I ES!! * US IS COMING TO TOWN FREE GIFTS FOR YOU - lUljSDA Y, 10 • 12 A. M. - 2 - 3 P. M. WHERE ? ? ? TAYLOR’S N. Gate : : V i'- ’ • ‘ j ■ KB: . j I # STORE ^ College Station Barnhill, an active coach for 21 pars, dropped his coaching duties ursday to become athletic direc- . Friday he recommended selec tion of Douglas as head football coach for three years at a Salary o' $12,000 a year. University 0 'ficials unanimously accepted his ri commendation, but did not men tion salary figures. In Los Angeles, where Douglas was with the Eagles fpr yesti)r- diy’s NFL title game with the LA Hams, he said he would accept the j- S'.* through the femwi fo the margin .Mil fens* for easy layups to Incr Schoolboy ill fuj Football ip •’ Roundup rm-it 1 {[• I ;j The state Class AA schoolbiiy championship playoff wlli be play ed at fhe TCU stadium in Fort Worthy nget Friday afternoon in- tween the Wichita Fajls Coyotes and the Maroons from Austi 1. A neutral fib Id was selected sin^e both ttams wanted to have the playoff in their own stadium. In [the Class A championship playoff between Mexia and Little field, the time or place for the event has hot yet been selected. | Wichita Falls movc)d pn the ground Saturday afternoon with !a tremendous attack that 1 ate up 222 yards against tthe Highland Paijk Scots. ~Thc Coyotes intarcept ' five of the Scotties’ parses, two of which set upi touchdowns for the Coyotes. The .running of Tpmnfy charging e of a minutes of afternop|r Fields sod Bill Wagoner placed Widbitn Falls team ! into, thejr state championship game in tl)e last'twelve years. Austin’s big, hard Maroons took advantage of [a. break in the first two ’ play to score, Friday against the Port Arthur, YelloW- jackets. The Maroons, although they were outplayed throughout the game, defeated the Yellow- jackets, 26-14. lj For the second time this season Eddie Cannon’s point after touch down kick paid off with big di' id- ends. Cannon’s kick Friday after noon in Memorial Stadium gjuvu the Mexia Black Suts a 7-6 victory ovir the Uvalde, Coyotes. iLittlefield'# big] Ivard rum ihg Wildcats thumped the GarUtiii 'Pndarella KidH", 27-13 to tain entry Into the finals of the Tn|(i* Clrift* A football ehanipiojiH i| ), The Wildcat*, literally run 1 \it the Owls with a net gain nf 290 yards to H« yards. T«n Ballei.:|»f Littlefield scored *11 of the tfnto tjouchdoW'USf ELRY BULOVA WATCHES DIAMONDS TlJ DOUGLAS 21 J—$67.50 $1.Q0 Weekly GODDES OF TIME 17 J—$37.50 51.00 Weekly »W GOLD ! I K . f 56.00 WeeWy SON CLASP Sunbeam Appliances »|.00 w^u, YELLOW.GPLD .. l| tt66.qo •S ’.(Hi Weekly MIX MASTER $39.50 *U* *1206 j 50c Weekly Charlie Potts “Next td City National Bank” RHINESTONE NECKLACE $11.50 j: 50c Weekly j! . rf J d»FrEE MASTER $12.95 50c Weekly