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. ? V •- r r >• • • . ■ 7 . • H • L‘, »' V*V : i i . J j ; Top E Flight, 20.1 By FRANK N. MAI D Infantry edged E 80-18, in a tfirea minute ,den death” overtime peri the Intramural Basketball pionship. Tex Averett of the" fantry scored the final two points that gave the paddlefeet the vic tory. Bobby Dohonet of E? Flight and Newt Bornior of D Company tied for top scoring honors with seven points each. Tex Averett was third With six points. Scrambling little Sammy Pro- vensg of the . Air Force was the big gun In the entire affair. Throughout the entire ball game . the lead kept changing and the * Air Force lead the Infantry 8-5 at the half. ' The. third quarter ended in a tie, AllVl Vi«sa«e «|vsae* vilUCHJ III n v isj. 9-0. The fourth quarter also endeo ie, 18-18. Three minutes of ip a tie. 18-18. Three minutes of fast ball with many heartbreaking shots rolling out of thfe basket ended with the same score, 18-18. After! two minutes and thirty two seconds of “sudden death” Tex Averett on a pivot shot from the right field and not more than six teen feet from the bucket sunk th^ winnihg field goal that will have D Infantry talking for a long time. . El Infantry Spiders (20) FG FT PF TP Mike-Linder r 2; 0 14 . Tex Averett 2 2 0 6 Newt Bonner 3 13 7 Val /Bennett ft 2 2 2 Felix Bailey 0 12 1 Totals 7 6 8 20 t I E Air Force (18) I FG FT PF TP Lou Wood yl 10 4 2 . Bobby Dohoney 3 12 7 Jwqk Shugart ........ 12 2 4 Sapi L &-bvenza 2,1 4 5 Jefry Houser 0 0 0 0 Bill Mayo 0 0 5 0 4 17 18 L " - v nents ,rc f> Bonner, Under, Mayo L Officials: Burr Layen and Sam Clark. , | Mitchell Football Champa Mitchell Hall won the non-mil itary flag football championship by defeating Dorm 15 in the final found, 7-0. Sam BosweH slashed over for the touchdown after the Mitchell teani had swept tbe en tire length of the field in eight plays to set up the score. Dan Grunt kicked the extra iioinlL The score came in the last three plays of the game. The half had ended with Derm 16 leading by two pene tration!. ' John Harris quarterbacked the Dorm 15 team to a probable win until the second half started where Mitchell started running the ball SirarESEK who threw an Incomplete pass on the last play of the game. the last play of the game. Kiwanis Schedule Baseketball Race lay when Charles La the floor at Tuesday’s Kiwanis Club members heard qf plans for the fourth annual Invi tational Basketball Tournament, to be played at the A£M Consolidated High School gymnasium Friday and Saturda; Mbtte took luncheon meeting. Drawings will match the follow ing teams in opening play Friday: Bedias vs. Snook; Somerville vs. A&M; Navasota vs. Caldwell;. Pott vs. Cypress-Fairbanks. Elimina tion for both championship and consolidation titles will continue Friday night, Saturday afternoon and Saturday night. Both session and tournament tickets will- be available, LaMotte said. *3 i : Cadets Ch; onight at ;;' ' 1 ' 'i : : i' • li- 1 '! j ' • ' ;• * ■ ■ i - ■ ; {• • ‘! | -- m i ■ • T - A&M will face the league-lead ing Arkansas Razedbacks at 8 tonight in Deware Field House, and the contest can materially af fect the standings in the still- young 1950 SWC campaign. Preayel Askew’s Porkers are how atop the loop ladder, tied with Baylor, with a single win over Texas and no losses within the conference. A close 53-67 loss to ’49 NCAA champion Kentucky in Little Rock last week has add- ' ed to the stature of the Hogs, who ' also sport a 42-41 win' over power ful Tulane. No freshman.game has been set us a curtain opener; the Fish tilt with the Baylor Cubs at Rosebud, 0 f f' Bill Turn bow Cadet Forward Gerald Hudspeth Porker Forward UTj ABNER Street Scene School Suffers Damage When Heater Explodes Waco, Tex., —The kitchen was wrecked, doors were blown off and the roof pushed up when a’ new prater heater blew up yester day in the lunch room of son school eight miles from here. No one was in the building. Gas Company representatives said a thermostat apparently failed to work. - '1 . S ah’ll. miss thet WAL -TM ASS TO' v«v IT IS WIF shadows —here, todav-gome TOMORr*OW. HE WARKfT NOBODY, AN' HE DIDN'T NO BODY- BUT, AH'CL HIM OFF WlF SOME MOORNF FUL MOOSlC- By A1 Capp isiiiir r® LIU, CUNY Still At Top Of Heap Now York, Jan. 11—<(iPi—Cincin nati and Auburn wefre toppled from the unbeaten ranks! but it was Tulsa which provided last night’s surprise in college basket- bajl. Tulsa turned in a 42-36 victory over Wichita, a team which fig ured to breeze. Wichita previously had beaten the Oklahoma Aggies and Oklahoma City Univ. But Ken Dobbs held Wichita’s Star, John Friedersdorf, to four points. DuQuesne ended Cincinnati’s 17- game winning streak, counting 11 from last season, 60-54, and Geor gia Tech shattered Auburn’s eight- game streak, 65-49. Long Island and CCNY, ranked third and seventh in: the A P poll, cemented their claim to high ranking. Long Island wipped St. Louis, 58-42, in a Madison Square Garden doubleheader after CCNY had swamped West Virginia, BO SS. Nebraska upset Kansas, 57-56 in a big seven game. Texas Christian upset Southern Methodist, 62-50, in the Southwest Conference while San Francisco whipped Santa Clqra, 50-36. Virginia Tech upset George Washington, 71-59, in the South ern Conference. ’b^alpha^fe- s will be ad- scheduled for last night, was call ed off and as yet has not bedn | rescheduled. There will be no break! of the student: body cal groups; students misted on a first come, firki served basis. However, all students must show their ID cards and stu dent activity stub in order to see tK^ game, ^ V ^ Askew May Mian The Ozark Ians’ coach may miss the tilt as he was reported hqp| tulized over the weekend wit! influenza attack. Definite woi this mutter is not available, hoiv ever. ! •] ‘; ;. ;[ Probable starting line-up for tbe , Kazorbacks, who nave won oijly four while dropping elgf so far, will be Gerald and Jim Cathcart at the D. L. Miller and Jack guards, and John Boi center. Big Bob Ambler, 6’ 7” and Norman Price, 6’ 3” might replace Miller fqd niiller in the line-up. Ambl soph las first string a|i a but has been both juries and the new system the Porkers have to this winter under them coach. v ■** i I - ■ I* Porkers Change Style ! Askew, upon taking the Arkan sas coaching reins that season, switched the Ozark five to the bail control system made famous by ’ Hank Iba’s successful Okla homa A&M Cowpokes. Reports in dicate, however, that the. Razpr- backs were again utilizing fafet- break, shootiag-from anywi basketball in their outstanding formanee against the’ Kent Wildcats of Adolph Rupp,. Black Baron. Ambler will probably replace Boigsmiller if the faster style play is to be used by the visitors. Hujis- peth, six-foot guard, is the ohly Arkansasan now included in the top ten full season scorers for the loop, Of coupqe, the Porkers have played fewer! games than mbsit of their league-mates, and this fact would naturally handicap in- r : W! ingH< re Co m : . lit point | * to competa rs from his hop 3 1. ■ ^1. i { TW',' 4 I DAY, JANUARY 12, 1950 »t*te. 1, with n 2ftn IlMairiM H.HIon All aha should to tom!, la m MiM a.M. o< tho day tofon auMlosUaaH !• DIRECTORY Texas A&M C or Mail 50c to STUDENT PUBLICATIONS Texaa A&M College College Station, Texas o=g<«cs=o -On Smle at Annex— SNACK BAR A NEWS STAND SMALL HOUSE on large corner lot. City utilities. Price even you can afford. Lakeview Acres, South HyWay 6, Wm. T. 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