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-- . • y- ,T f“ C'lulct co-cftptnht Wray Whittaker (Hxlit) U < i>n- Kratulatnl by heail r»otlmll (XMu4t Harry St I trier after Im'Iiik |ireNented a pen and pencil net award by “l^lop" ('okun, llrazim (Jounty A&M Club (left). (/«>captaln Bobby Goff U NtandlnK to stltcler. Gofflnd Whittaker received auanla at the anmial Football and ('roea prexy next to their Country Banquet. FREE FREE FREE SOL KLEIN .. . Invitea you to come by and inspect his new place of business and have your watch elec tronically tested . . . FREE! LARGER STOCK OF POPULAR WATCHES AND WATCH BANDS New Lines to Include: CLOCKS j • SILVERWARE ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES LIGHTERS ^ - PEN & PENCIL SETS SOL KLEIN Watch Repairing & Engraving (Near Bryan Post Office—West 26th) ' T STUDENT CO-OP ' I • HAS ^ ^ *‘ -v " ; t .. MoGREGOR SPORTING EQUIPMENT - / i 'J'iU . $12.50 TENNIS RACKETS $7.95 $11.50 TENNIS RACKETS .. .$6.96 $7.50 TENNIS RACKETS + $4.95 TENNIS BALLS (can of three).......]....$1.75 \i T . - 1 * ’ ■ , ■ . We also have Racket Press and Covers )" L Come in and see our line of . .. ' McGREGOR GOLFING EQUIPMENT North Gate; rl Collie Station Battalion ^ SPORTS THI RS., FEB. 9, 1960 Page S Coslett Says.. V- i i-i Prof Holds Kid Classes In Tumbling g Have you College Station and Bryan parents ever looked out the window to see junior far a tree or wrestling on the lawn f If you are like most parents you were concerned with his safety, but at the same time you didn’t wish to reprimand him too sternly because you felt that he was only finding an outlet for the natural energy that seems so abundant in children. Thanks to Paul Andrews of the AAM physical education depart ment you can let junior work this energy out of his system and be assured of his safety at the same time. Andrews recently started an elementary tumbling class as a community recreation program for children of ages seven on up. This tumbling class meets every Saturday morning from eight on in the tumbling room under the NurjT1 rand use. £ stands of Field The PE instructor feels that a program such as tjhM will help hysf- your youngsters to cal proweai and pL Itnful onvi hievo phys; . , , , .ice him in a healthful environment for his soc ial adjustments. Andrews says ho will be glad to teach all who care to attend. So if you parents nave any tree climbers of this ake, just send them right on doWn to DeWare Field House this coming Saturday. Leroy Miksch, nigged six-foot, five-inch '‘post” mah from Wael- dcr, is considered the brightest prospect on Texas A&M's fresh- man basket ball teajm. JC State Tourney Includes 23 Games ? < f i _• ■ - -••'vl ir 1* I _ i ; ■ i i.’ ■ : ,• J ;-'L ■ ' j ■ ' ’ Ags Meet Bears, Needing Win; ■ |B|^" ' mita . U' ''i l ' _\ By CHUCK CABANISS ■ Three; days jam-packed Vith 23 basketball games and the presen tation Of 18 prices—this is the schedule that the Brazos County A&M Club has arranged for the third annual State Junior College Basketball Tournament on March 1, 2, and 3. Club president “Flop” Colson has announced that the tourna ment invitation committee has al ready invited five strong junior college fives to the melee. Defend ing state and national champion Tyler heads the list which also includes the only team to down the Apaches this season — Lon MorrisJ Amarillo apd Del Mar of Corpus Christi Junior Colleges and Allen Academy complete the groujp. J Tickets are priced nt $2 for the general public and $1 for students and student’s wives. Ducats can be purchased »from any Brazos County club member on the cam pus and at Colson’s Corner in Bryan, Lipscomb’s Pharmacy in College Station, and the office of Spike White (Student Activities Office) in Goodwin Hall. Can Help Ag Fives Colson explained that the two fold: purpose of having the tourna ment is to increase the interest and support of basketball by local apoJfs spectators and to enable A&M to watch possible hardwood prospects in action. Although the first and second tournaments net ted [ only $36 above 1 the meets’ cost of $3500 apiece, jColsoh said that the club is satisfied with the progress of the program. No programs will he sold this yeah, the North Gate insurance mah explained, but merchants have beep requested to purchase bloc sections - 'of tickets to be given to V h;. flfCno use7 Mary? he’s been like that since he'diecovtred therefe NO CIGARETTE HANGOVER when you smoke Philip Morris" j j if' v . ’ 2 ' Tou don’t have to smoke like a chimney to discover that PHIJ.IP Mows are milder, Idudec’ to your throat. Here's why: Philip Mows it the one cigarette proved definitely less irritsling,' definitejy milder, than any other leading brand*/ l NO OTHER CIGARETTE ^ CAN MARE THAT STATEMENT! m? MORRIS . j t . employees, instead. 1 The local or ganization pays the gas and oil expenses of team to College Sta tion, buys the meals while the team is on the campus, and ar ranges for the beading facilities for each man. Trophies will be presented the championship, rui)ner-up, third place, and consolation winning team. Sixteen quintets will open the play on the fir^t day and los ers will form the consolation brac ket. The rest will fight it out for the state title. - Medals for Top Players Members of thei winning team will receive gold basketballs; the runner-up squadmpn will be a- warded silver basketballs. A tro phy will also go to the winning coach. The tournament officials will select an all-tournament team at the completion of the play. Each person who buys a ticket to the meet will get a chance at the prizes to be given away each (See JC TOURNEY, Page 4) Consolidated Plays IVIilano Team Here A district basketball champion will be in the making tonight at 7:30 as the A&M Consolidated Tigers tangle on the hardwood of the Consolidated gym with a Mi lano quintet in the firstj game of a three game play-off. The Tigers, north zone winner of District 66-B, will play the sec ond game of the series in Milano, Feb. 14 at 7:30 p. m] Half time activities of this game will be marked by an exihition by the A&M College tumbling team, an nounced Jim Hill, team coach, to day. If a third game is necessary it will be played in Somerville. — } CROW-FLUE STOP i L Regular 51 li ! 19 9/10 SAVE! wo Best Ethyl 219/10 ■\ . li Brands Sealed Oil Good Bulk Oil j; -. • 4 i ! ‘ 2 qjs. for 25c i i ; i, _.ew-Flite HOUSTON HIGHWAY $ ... Between Skyway and Sanitary Dairy on S. Hwy. 6 i Tomorrow night will find'the re cuperating Aggies, playing on home ground, seeking their second skinning of the Bears. The two schools, tied at present with SMC and Arkansas for the corifer- ence number one spot, will face each other in the second of three athletic events staged Friday night on the Aggie campus. The Fish basketballers will com pete against the Baylor Cubs in a for a swimmei Northwestern of J “Down just a little, but net That’s the motto of the four 1 SWC eagre teams, each with a record and each with a chance to go into the league lead after week' end play. ^ Still a Chance Still fighting for , ah.rc, if no J r" Tbs Bears, league »ys, and out- Waco. a Hck- tern- vored of the the Farmers for r whole notch in the seaeon scoring sen ; f! Bulwarking the Ag swim team are the above four aquatic performers, (left to right) Bill Sar gent, Van Adamson, Ralph Ellis, and Bill Karow, All four of the mermen are counted on for valu- Razorbacks Announce Track Tutor, Morrlss aMe points by swimming coach Art Adamson. They wlil be seen In action tomorrow' night against the Northwestern Louisiana squad In th^ P. L. Downs, Jr. Natatorium. ft markers., night Mdthodist I is still burled scoring race. Aggie Fish pitted againlfct a stronger frosh group of cAgemen from the Bruin city in thi first game on the DeWare' Field "House deck. Miksch Ready a 56-35 setback earlier in the season to the six-game win ners from Baylor, the Aggies are expected to be fully recuperated hoW that their 6’ 5” center, Ifroy Miksch, is well on the road t^fu recovery. faekter product, Miksch con- W —'HMli | A tributed thirteen points Saturday night and captured high point h«n- I the night-before contest the Cubs in last weekend's I tition. - j The Fish, to dste* have won one and lost one In loop competition to: other SW Conference freshman teams- After sher '' SLinrns in a curtain A&M-Klee varsity »' then drubbed from Bnylor. wore crow Swimmers See Action Action then shifts to the other portion of the big brick structure Lubbock end Clark streets the {AAM campus where the Ag dmmers continue aquatic cont rition against Northwestern of E uisisna. This will be tlie second meeting of the two swimming aggregations; the first being held last year in Louisiana with the Aggies finish ing on tbp of a lopsided score. Karow, Ellis, Adamson and Sgr-j gent! stand guard in case the ond stringcra get Into trouble the Wildcats of the south. Ail four swimmers round out a dangerous Aggie team, willing, if not to sink any opponent, j— Based <^i AP Reports Johnny Morriss, well known high hurdler of thel930’s, yes terday was appointed head track coach and assistant football c^ach at the University of Arkansas. He succeeds Hobart Hooser, who re signed recently to take a similar post at Florida. Morriss resigned Tuesday as track coach at Southwestern Lou isiana Institute, Lafayette. La., where he served for two-years. He is a graduate of SLI {where he lettered in football, basketball and track. ★ Charley Parker, a senior from San Antonio, Wednesday was nam ed captain of the University of Texas 1950 track and field team. The University of Houston bree zed to a Gulf Coast Conference basketball championship last night by whipping Trinity University, 80 to 49. ★ ; I I' , 1 . *1 Hornteby signed a Rogers year contract last night to age Beaumont in. the one man- ie Texas Lea gue. Salary terms wefe not re leased by Guy Airy; owner of the Beaumont team, f / ' Hornsby, former Major League slugging star and one-time man ager of four different big League teams, will report to 7 Beaumont, March 3, opening of spring train ing for the Expoi tel-s. The native Texan succeed^ Marvin (Chick) Autry, who died last month of a heart ailment. —WE GIVE YOU ALL THIS AND BpORE— • Cleaning — h j/ Alterations — Patches — . ! ] / CAMPUS CLEANERS Above the Exchange Store you EVER had! Moyt>« yo» don't jump Kric* at MgS wSwt yow waor Sotl'Soad Shoot, but it look Ma yow eouM. Thay At to woN, took to paej, ond waor to long yowR ogrwa •tay'ta Ag bad tpatt dtaat yaw awar had. Comm fe. 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