The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, February 14, 1950, Image 3

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    Spring Trainees Clash
ay in First Test
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Rainy we
SDfMEN, JR.
er brought the Ag
ten into the lecture
and lunger the stadium yes-
No official outside prac-
be held tmtil more suitable
_ prevails.
athletic department did an-
the first Maroon and
intrasquad contest will be
d, weather permitting, this Sat
urday afternoon, February 18th,
at 2 p. m.j /v
Coach Hjarry Stiteler is hoping
the weather will take a quick turn
for the .better. He has only 30
days to put the 1»50 Aggies
Hr paces and rainy days
Mike Garcia gets set for one of his famous two hand set shorts
that brought the San Antonio senior back into the Fanner cage
lineup. Completing his butt season of eligibility for the Aggies
this season, Garcia expects to return to hla native “Alamo City”
after graduation.
Mural Wrestling Gets
Underway In Little Gym
By FRANK N. MAMTZAS
° Dazzlin’ rasslin.. rocked the Lit
tle Gym yesterday afternoon as
the Intramural Wrestling program
got underway with 26 Of the 214
"scheduled matches completed. The
only weights represented yesterday
J were the 149-pound division and
the 159-pound division.
In the 149-pound division seven
matches were completed. Lowell
Holmes of the M Band pinned Lew
is Frazier of C Air Force in the
first round to win the match, Gus
. Sanders of A Air Force won over
O. B. Tyler of A Engineers while
Dave Sechelski of ASA lost to T.
T. Hillman of the B Airmen. A
roustabout of a match featured
Alton White's win for A Ordnance,
as he outscored Charlie Ross of D.
Infantry. C Infantry’s Danny
Fleming downed Wayne Toepper-
wem of A QMC, and Jolly John-
i ston of- K Flight flopped John
Christner of A Transportation. Ijn
tho final match of the 149-pourid
'class A Cavalry scored 1 a win when
Frankie Prochaska dropped Ruben
Cook of B Engineers from the
tourney,! .
. Twenty Winners , _
Tho liTiB-pound class dominated
the' largest number of matches
fought yesterday with 20 cadets
emerging winners. Paul Moore of
A Field defeated Fagori Mason of
A Cavalry, Curly Mar«hall of C
Cavalry Won a forfeit over John
May, Jimmy Miller of B Transpor
tation lost to David Haltom of B
Artillery, and Herb Ziober scored
a win for K Air Force when he
downed R. t M. Christian of ASA.
Trahth Nace scored over Dick
Jennison of A Infantry f6r H
Flight's first win in the wrestling
events, F Flight’s Bob Davis
downed C6dy Milligan of A Field,
Scott of B Cavalry lost to Bill
Blevins of the A airmen, Ken Tim
mons of A Infantry bounced Bill
Burkes o.f C Flight, and Alton En-
low from B QMC maitted Willy
Parker of B Field.
B Infantry's J. H. Edwards
pushed Jack Fullerton of H Air
Force out of the running, Joe Jack-
son of D Veit defeated Card Lit
tle of B Transportation, Harold
Springfield scored five points for
A Ordnance as he plunged Grover
Damuth of B Infantry to the:can
vas, Bob Moore of A CAC lost to
Edwin Anderson of the W Band,
and Dariny Perkins of E Air Force
dropped Billy Gunter of A Trans
portation.
A QMC’s Hans Wittenburg clob
bered Ken Stout of A Signal, Max
Word of Dorm 15 pinned E. H.
Trinckman, Harold Chandler of C
Flight polished off Brina. Moran
from D Infantry, while Jesse Hil
liard of D Vet ; lost to Bob Kirk
pf Air Force, and. Otto Yel ton of
QMC matted Stanley Rosenthal
Flight.
30 matches scheduled for to
day, beginning at 4 this afternoon,
the Little Gym , will take another
pounding. ■
Eight JC Teams
Signed for Ag
Tournament
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Eight teams have nlrendy been
invited foci the annual Junim* Col
lage Invitational tournament spon
sored by the Brazos County A&M
Club which will be held In DoWarc
Field House March 1, 2, and 3.
Allen Academy, Tyler, Lon Mor
ris, Amarllllo, and Del Mar have
already accepted the invitations of
fered last Week. Teams to receive
lnvitations| over the weekend In
clude San Angelo Junior College,
Wharton Junior College; and How
ard County Junior College. Eight
more teams will probably be in
vited before the week is out.
Tyler wijll be the probable tour
nament favorite since they are the
defending (champions and the jun
ior college! national champs. Tyler
is leading the conference with sev
en wins and no losses. Tyler also
defeated the SMU frosh 51-50 last
week.
The Sari Angelo Rams have
dropped to third place receiving
tWo losses! at the hands of the
Paris Junior College Dragons, 42-
41, 62-61. Paris is another team
that will probably be invited to the
coming tor rnqy. The Dragons have
won their list three games to jump
into second place.
Howard County of Big Spring
holds second place in the Western
zone of the conference. The Whar
ton Pioneejrs under the able tutor
age Of Johnnie Frankie are cling
ing to the runner-up spot ih the
South Texjas Junior College con
ference.
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SPORTS
Tt’ES., FEB. 14, 1950 Page 3
count the same as clear ones.
If the weatherman so desires,
the Cadet gridmen will be back
outside for Tuesdays drill.
AAM’s untried quarterbacks are
going to get lots;of work during
spring football
Don Nicholais and Jimmy Cash-
ion have completed their eligibility,
and little Dick Gardemal, number
one engineer of the Cadets' T-
attack in 1949, is going to miss at
least ten days of drills. So none of
the first three quarterbacks of 1949
are available. \
Gardemal recently was released
from the Hospital after a bout
with tonsiUUs. He dropped seven
pounds during the illness and de
cided to have his tonsils removed
later this spring.
Bo In early workouts it has been
Delmer Slkqa of San Antonio, Ray
Graves of Stephenville and big
Darrow Hooper of Fort Worth al
ternating at quarterback. Bikes
was a aquadman last season.
Graves In a tail, highly promis
ing youth up from the freshman
team. He is considered one of the
sharpest passers on the squad and
la a much batter runner than aty
Aggie quarterback of recent years.
Hooper also shows promise as a
passer. “He's certainly a fine look
ing prospect,” com|inentcd Coach
Harry Stiteler. Darrow can throw
the ball, catch it and run with It.
He may wind up kt end, but I
don’t see how we can keep from
playing somewhere.T
Dairy Judges Place
First at Cowtown
The student dairy cattle judging
team of Texas A&M College placed
first in the Jersey division with
a score of 850 points out of a
possible 1050, at the Southwestern
Exposition and Fat Stock Show
in Ft. Worth.
The team, which competed in
the intercollegiate c o n t e st,
coached by Prof. A 1 L. Darnell, is
composed of Jack W. Birkner of
Bay City, C. B. Smith of Kirby-
ville and A. P. Trevino of Mexico
City.
The contest was; supervised by
Rufus Peeples of Tehuacana and
judged by D. T. Simons, field-
man of the American Jersey Cat
tle club.
Following the A&M team in
placing, was Texas Tech with
three placings, Louisian^ State
University and the University of
Arkansas. The Arkansas team was
first in Guernseys. Jack Birkner
placed fourth In the judging of
Jerseys.
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Two senior contribution* to the flashy Farmer
Gilbert MoKInxie, Industrial Education major from
George Dierk, physical ed major from the “Capital Clt
two lads comprise an important two-some In Art Adiuni
proved aggregation.
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Unbeaten Holy Cross
Stays At Top Of Heap
New York, Feb. 14 -^-Although
it finds the going tougher each
week, unbeaten Holy Cross con
tinued to reign as the nation’s top
basketball team in the Associated
Press poll today.
Victorious in all 20 games, the
Crusaders had all they could do to
come out ahead of Bradley Univer
sity (21-3), nosing out the Peoria
Bears by 37 points to remain on
top for the fifth straight week.
Holy Cross drew 56 first place
votes from the 14 ballots cast by
sports writers and broadcasters
throughout the nation to only 16
for Bradley. The latter, however,
commanded enough second, third
and fourth and fifth place votes to
give the all-conquering Worcester,
Mass., five quite a scare. The point
total read Holy Cross 986 to Brad
ley’s 949.
Ohio State (15-3) big ten leader,
advanced to third place. They at
tracted eight firatplace votes to
wind up with 754 votes. This was
enough to beat out St. John’s (20-
2) of Brooklyn. The Redmen also
drew eight first plaice votes but
received only 631 points to finish
fourth. ..._•
Kentucky (17-4) ! climbed from
seventh to fifth with 485 points
while Long Island University (17-
2) retained iU( sixth position as
Duquesne dropped trom third to
seventh. The Dukes *(18-1) picked
up only one first place ballot to
six for Kentucky and five for LIU,
and - finished With '451 points to
458 for the Blackbirds.
North Carolina State (18-4)
Western Kentucky ' (19-4) and
UCLA (17-4) rounded out the top
ten in that order. The wolfpack got
seven first place votes to five for
Western Kentucky and three for
the UCLAns. They ! also led in
points, 365 to 325 | for the Hill-
toppers and 322 fpr the Pacific
Coast five.
Cadet
Are Sd
'ivordsmen
nd 9 Third
second and third place in a fenc-
‘new&ssjssEsw
except the Aggi.
rs topped the Fis)
ton
the meet without
from any
freshman
group.
The Buccaneers topped the Flab
with a score of 5-1. Again a wore
la not Indicative of the actual oon-
teata. Bach touch the Buccaneers
won was earned only with the
maximum effort,
The varsity team on the other
hand started out cold, nut then
beat the qorpue
team with! a ecore
heated up to
srwf ymca
•-up for the
faeiey lead*
flMlng th*
lonke work*
Maeaey Leads Off
The A&M vanity line-u
i Ult waa C. O. M
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ddle slot end Q. I*. Mon
Ing the anchor alot.
Maaney won two out of three
bout*. Thl* wat the flint major
meet he has fought In. JtmniN won
one and dropped one end Monk*
finished the bout with a 2 out Of
8 win record, j
In the preliminaries the Flah
“ekunked 1 ’ the Rice triplets with a
eoore of 5-0. After the bout the
Owle were walking around with |a
“wa hoppened” look. Th# fluey
Fish team surprised every one with
this win.
Fish Male* Sweep
The line-up for the vie tori
Fish was Bill Bentley, who
his only bout, Jim Mooes, who Wl
two out of two, and Qutnqey Berli
who also won hie two with no se
ious threat.
Defending Champion Cindermen
Readying for March 4 Opener
By RAY HOLBROOK
The Texas Aggie track team,
SWC champion last spring, is
readying for the defense of its
title. First. ’Ag meet is March 4
on Kyle Field with Nortli Texas
and ten consecutive meets follow,
climaxed by the conference meet
in Austin, May 12 and 13.
. Last spring the Aggies sustained
their greatest loss by graduation
since the early forties, but up
coming sophomores will'bolster the
team considerably to make it again
a powerful aggregation. Since Tex
as and Rice will field strong squads
this year, it would be hard to pre
dict the Aggie chances of making
it four championships in a row,
but one can be sure they'll be in
the thick of the fight.
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OutHtandlng performcra who will
return from last year’s champion
ship team arc J. D. Hampton, con
ference record holder In the mile
and two mile; Julian Herring, sec
ond in {the, mile in ’49 and number
two man in the Aggies’ one-two
distance punch; Bob Hall, confer
ence low ! hurdle record holder;
Gieorge Kadera, conference discus
and shot champion (Longhorn
George Pejtrovich edged him In the
shot last (spring after Kadera had
taken the weight titje in ’47 and
’48), and Don Mitchell, tho only
returning quartermaler from last
year’s champion mile relay.
Other Lettermen Back
Other returning lettermen who
will help make the 1950 team one
of the best are Jack Bond, sprints;
B. W. Terry and Don Cordon, mile
relay; Ed Hooker, discus; Jack
Simpson, pole vault and high jump,
and Jerry Bonnen, two mile.
Sophomores will play an impor
tant part in Coi. Andy Anderson's
sepeme of things this year. Es
pecially strong because of these 1
boys will be the high and, low
hurdles, the distances, and the ihigh
jump.Paul Leming, Billy Bless, and
perhaps lt»on Graves and Buddy
Shaeffer should be the class of the
conference in the high and "low
hurdles ajong with Hall in the
lows. Shaeffer, together with Gary
Anderson, is a fine sprint pros
pect, also;
Three men from last fall's con
ference cross-country champion
ship team who will help A&M in
the mile snd two mile are Jim Mc
Mahon, J&cfc Jones, and John Gar-
many. The i Aggies’ chief distance
rival will probably be TU’s Tom
.Rodgers whom Julian Herring nip
ped for first in the conference
cross-country meet In November.
, j , Graves, Davis Threats
! Graves and Buddy Davis will
•‘Ears” Makes Uni and Stops Uni . . .
McDowell Is Good Argument
That Height Not Everything
(See CHAMPS, Pago 4)
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By FRANK E. NIMMEN, JR
One of the chief arguments that
one doesn't have to be u tall man In
basketball today is Jewell Mc
Dowell.
If all the 6-foot-plus young men
who have been faked out of their
gym shorts by the mighty midget
from the sandy slopes, were layed
end to end, it would make an im
posing row of lightly clad, heavily
embarrassed forwards and centers.
And "The Jool” is possessed not
only with a shifty dribble and a
telescopic eye, but a knack of
sticking with hotshot scorers like
an adhesive plaster, thus reduc
ing their box score to a long string
of zeros, with the possible ex
ception of the personal foul colurnn.
McDowell is currently one of the
chief contributors in keeping
Coach Marty Karow’s 49-50 cag-
ers from the realms of basketball’s
type of depression.
Third In Marker Race
The young Amarilloan is now
lodged in the number three posi
tion in the season scoring race,
not far behind Rice’s Joe McDer
mott. Surprisingly enough “Ear”
scored most of his markers against
such nationally top teams as NYU,
St. Louis University, and Niagra
University in the east, and Ariz
ona, Stanford, and UCLA in the
west.
Sinking 100 field goals and 61
charities, McDowell is far ahead
of the rest of his Aggie team
mates. Jewell is not as surprised at
his big point total as most of his
fans, since the 20-year-old eager
led his junior high league and high
school district in scoring before
he departed^ from v Amarillo . in
quest of higher education.
,He entered Amarillo High School
in the fall of ’45. Just making the
second team ip his first year in
high school was somewhat of a dis
appointment tq the five fest, nine
incher. "The second season I made
the second tcapi without any trou
ble, and got tf play quite a bU,"
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triangle drive-in
said McDowell.
Mu(lc the llradlinm
The third and final year of high
school com petition was tho big
year for tfic fast and Shifty cage
hand. That) was the year he made
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Jewell McDowell
the AP All-State selections, rank
ed third in the statewide scoring
race, and was picked the outstand
ing defensive artist of the seasdh.
"Didn't oven start the first part
of the season," said Mac, "but
finally made It.”
Then his first real public test
came in the state meet in. Austin.
Advancing easily} to the semi
finals, Amarillo High met real op
position from the j"Alamo City’s
leading high school'cage aggrega
tion.” Thomas Jefferson slipped ov
er a one-point winhing margin in
the closing minutes of play, though
McDowell collected almost half of
his teams points.
Picked as Most Valuable
Besides being picked as the mast
valuable player by the Amarillo
Globe News, he was chosen to
participate in the '47 All-Star con
test “In that one Freburger (who
had tallied 46 in an earlier game)
only outscored me by three points,"
said Mac. Marrying just after
high school graduation, Mac and
his wife Patsy are now proud par
ents of a baby girl.
Starred for Fish
Continuing his point-piling abil
ity with the Aggie Fish last sea
son, McDowell scored 68 points in
(See MAC, Page 4)
Coming To Guion Hall
0Mh?.M4Ve/ f.
A&M Consolidated
In District Tilt
The A&M Consolidated Tigers
meet the Milano Eagles in the sec
ond game of a three game playoff
for basketball champion champion
ship of District 66-B, at 7:30 to
night at Milona. !\"
Consolidated took the first game
of the series 28-23 last Tuesday
night, at the Consolidated Gym.
The A&M College tumbling team
will perform at half-time inter
mission, Coach Jim Hill, announced
today.
Consolidated’s junior high team,
the Kittens, won the second place
trophy at the Navasota Junior
High Basketball tournament, ac
cording to L. E. Boze principal.
This' was the only eighth grade
team in the tournament, all oth
er teams being nipth grade, teams,
71 l.1
This was the fifth time in a row
that the Aggies have beaten the
Owls in fencing competition.
the clean-up position.
For the final* the Aggies met
the well-trained Buccaneers with
Prank
Carroll Bell and
first and second slots
Frank Ragusa
taking the
for the Aggies. Monks 1 stayed
his anchor Slot.
The Buccaneers Upe-up wss
sparked by Jack Baird, the 1949
state foil rhampian, Owen Hoahau-
aer, and BUI Brown.
In this final go-around the Gal
veston boys revsrasd ths Rice score
and cams out with a 5-0 win over
the Agjfies.
. In the ladies* division, the Cor
pus Christi women's team cam* out
on top. The St. Joseph's Hoapttal
woman's team also put in an ex-
cellent display of fencing st ths
meet.
Ags May Meet
Volleyball Unit
That Plans Tilt
All students Interested In work
ing uut or possibly competing
against a former national cham
pionship volleyball team from
Houston haVe been urged by Bar
ney Welch, Intramural Director, to
meet him at DeWare Field House
at 8 Thursday night. ..
Welch reported that he had been
contacted by Ray Roegnik, direc
tor of the Central YMCA in Hous
ton, and the two men have com
pleted arrangements for a game
between the 1948 National AAU
volleyball champa from the Bayou
City and a strong Fort Worth unit.
The match between the two vete
ran aggregation will be played at
3 p, m., Saturday, Feb. 19, In the
local field house, Welch said.
Welch said that he felt .interest
would be big in the match as
many Aggies had seen the smooth
working Houston, team compete in
the Gulf AAU meet which was held
here on the campus year before
last,
Although the head of the intra
mural program on the campus
wasn't sure whether the two visit
ing teams would engage Aggie
teams in game competition, he felt
there was a strong possibility of
this. He added that he w’as sure the
opposing groups would desire help
in practicing, and this would pre
sent a fine opportunity for Aggies
to test their skill against some of
the nation’a top performers.
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