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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1950)
Cadet Cagers Left Monday for Clash By HAROLD GANN • A grotip of 10 Cadet cagers ' left yesterday; afternoon fpr Port Worth whore they will tangle with TCU’s sophomore-studded Homed Frogs in Will Rogers Coliseum tonight at 8 p. m. The Aggies went through a light workout yesterday in an ef fort to whip back into top form. The talent- still was in the boys, but that “burning yearning” for a conference crown was lacking. The cellar-dwelling Rice unit played jan Important role in de- — feating the Ag’s -hopes with a ,62- 62 victory in Houston Saturday. Besides handing A&M its_,worse conference defeat, Rice also ruined the Cadets chances of a l first place berth, forcing them into 1 fifth position. • - ] A&M 1, TCU 0 \ T«ca^ University joined Rice in upsetting the dope bucket by edging ' SMU, 47-46, in an over-j time tilt • in Austin. Other games last week which shaped this week’s standing were: Arkansas 62, Tex as A&M 46; SMU 65, Rice 48; TCU 51, Texas 38; Baylor 60, Rice 59; and Arkansas 62, TCU. ' 43. - A&M downed the Frogs, 49- 45, in- DeWare Field Hcjuse Jan uary 6 in both teams? second game of the season. TCU was very stub born ini this contest, and the Farm ers didn’t have the game on ice till 1 the last three minutes. The lead exchanged bands 11 times. By clowning the Frogs, A&M .picked up its fifth victory of the entire campaign;'this total equal ed the number the Ags won throughout the entire ’48-’49 sea- 1 son, ; DeWitt Paced Ags John DeWitt, who led his team ' with 1|5 against SMU the night before, again clplined iAg high point honors with 17 counters, George McLeod, H’5” Purple cen ter, slapped In 19, to reign, at : that time, over HWC scorers. ■ i Currently, he is tied for fifth nositUin with Jewell McDnprell. The two 1 court-titans have 120 points! each. > An A&M victory over TCU would] shove them into third place if Texas takes the measure of Bnylol in' Austin. Arkansas, the original favorite, Mays' host to Rice tin Fayetteville, completing tonlgRt'-s card of SWC pjav.'A TCU )vin would move the Frogs intp a deadlock with idle SMU for. siecond position. Frogs Undefeated at Home Coach Bustefr Brannon’s Frogs haVenu: droppfed a single garrie orr: Kqme-grounds. this cantpaigb, In’ Fart Worth they have ‘beatiij SMU,] Baylor, Rice, and Texas. '• (Jgajrd Harvey Fromme, 6’ 3” sophomore, pat*es TCU pointmak- ers wtth 214 points in season play. - McLeod, a 6*5” pivot man, has 206. fn loop play, Fromme is in , 10th position with 96. i To nil my Taylor, six-foot sopho- i iyiii more, will be at the rei guard past; at the forwa will be 6’ l" Ted Reynolds, other sophomore, and 6’ 4” GdMe Schmidt, a senior who is the ohj t veteran on the team. Commenting on the Aggie'!' fateful flop Saturday night, Martf Karow said, “Davis and DeWitt made only eight points betwe' i them and when this happens ' U ' couldn’t beat ,any team.” TCU’s Sophs, Next Ag Foes, Stilt Red Hot Fort Worth, Feb. 21 (Spl.) Call ’em “homers” if you like, Ur that’s exactly what TCU’s soplio- morish cagers are. Boasting " best full season record (13-7) the conference, Coach Byijdn (“Buster”) Brannon’s basketed s have been world beaters at boms Official statistics of the Fro? 20 games to date, including eigl conference games, reveal tty haven’t been defeated in nine ’F< Worth appearances. Add to t victories over SMU in Dali ACC in Abilene and East TVkhs State in Commerce and you’ll f r’ the youthful! Frogs haven’t ty 1 defeated within K 200-mile rad of Fort Worth. In nine home appearances Frogs have averaged 67.8 poi per game to pnly 40.0 for the • IHisition. They’ve connected 40.6 per cent of their field gou in these Fort Worth showiiyrs i even committed ’. less perso u»l fouls, averaging only 14:1 pi game to 17.3 for tty' other teams Playing out the -“homer” strii (Seo TCU HOPHH, Pago 4) BaJta lion SPORTS KICB. 21. 1050 npleting (he follow through DeBerry of San Aagelo, DeBerry is one of several timing the Cadet tennis his two-handed backhand U nber one singles player for i)p-fllght sophomores who are thin year. Soph-laden Tennis earn Faces Okies A&M’s sophomore-studded var sity tennis team will play their first match nf the 1950 net cum- pnigi against Southeastern State of. Durant, Oklahoma on the clay courts opposite the P. L. Downs Natntorium this afterhoon. Matetyime halt been set at 12 p. m. by W. M. Dowell, Agglei ten nis roach. Thu top three seeded Aggies ai*e sophomore*, and should consider ably raise A&M’a fifth ranking In the SWCJnst year. The team is paced by R. 0. De Berry from San ’Angelo who rank- Real Thief Needed To Rob Ag < Garcia £tt die Lafert* SENSATIONAL NEW FLORENCE GAS RANGE ink lUSWE I- VA9 v/ T v • - 1 .- 1 , ~ ’ - By SKIP SIM MEN “Pretty Boy” Floyd, notorious gangster of the thirties, robbed more than fifteen Federal Reserve member banks in his career as a bandit and bank pilferer.- eTjbis late public enemy number 'Ope would probably have been the ppily human capable of stealing; Ntlie hall from A&M’s top ball handler, senior Mike Garcia. ^ Garcia, marked for his ball- handling ability since taking up the sport in early childrood, one of the; Aggie cagers tii placed 1 ' oh an: all-district school team three consecutive sons. - The 25-year-old physical 1 e< tion major led the Thomas Jejf son basketballers of San An to a district championship straight years. His last y« schoolboy competition, the American lad scored over 20 in a regional championship against San Marcus, althloug team lost the close battle. Combat ; Engineer in 1 Garcia has been picked on tournament : teams ih the YS state meet in Houston and tty Latin American tourney. Graduating from high schc ’42 While tjhe United States involved in ; World War IX, G|S for MjftS 0 N AMZ t r A T I 0 N I I With yaur N A ! •r MONOGRAM Freshma n Ou intet Geared For Bearcat Contest Here Tonight By FRANK N. MANITZAS uyV ' • jf, . ■ j I' .w At 8 tonight in the DeWare Field House the Fish basketball team will be oat to square mat ters with the Lon Morris Bear cats for the 57-49 drubbing j ace. quired at the first of the season at Jacksonville. Although the Fish scored the same number of fhM ; goals il that made the about when the 23 fouls to 14 for the eppomttMi. Leroy Mikaeh, who leads Die m scorers with 111 points, out early in this afray Max Montegut and Jimmy pynhed the Aggies. High volunteered his services and re ceived training as a combat en gineer. ! Overseas the likeable San An tonian served in General Clark’s Fifth Army in Africa anety later took part in the invasion of Sal erno and Anzio. Di ring his three years ip the army Garcia participated in; four majer European battles, serving in Italy, Yugoslavia, Austria, Switzerland, Prance and Germany. . His lone comment about his edl 21st in the nation among the juniors during his last high school ye|»r. DeBerry Paces Team he 5’ 9” court whirlwind gen- erates an uffective all-around gamo, and draws much comment from irnuis fans with his unor- t ho d o x, two-handed backhand silks. DelU'try will start at the number one .ainglss poet and may provide one-half of the first string doubles team If Coach Dowell needs him later. laying in the! second singles shit is Bobby Duncan, 5* 8” sopho- more from Corpus Chriati. Dun- cap's court game consists mainly of stubborn defensive play, pat- tej-ned Similar to Bobby Riggs’ style. x Tate Powders Pill r ive-foot - eleven - inch Royce Tate, also from Cofpus Christi, will hold down the number three position. Tate likes to powder thje pill with driving backhand and forehapid smashes, using a lot of tppspinJ > owe 11 hadn’t announced his dciuhles combinations at press time. He said. “My dhojee will depend on Southeastern State’s strength.” \" Dbwcll will . pick two Of the fojllowing men to complete his starting alignment: Dick Hardin i Amarillo, Allan Aaronson of Cotulla, and Aaron Cohen of Shn Antonio. Frlcfi O* low os' 8109.95 ! . L Improved top stove cooking! Thonk* to tho oadHtivo VITA-FIAME Bunior you con cook foslor with lots gas. Burner tiffs off... right .as a fnothor... washes like a dish. Pols and pahs stay cloaner. too.! Only Florenco can 9 iv * Y ou ,h e VITA-FLAME Burner plus many other fa mous ^features! 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As a fresl tnun participating un der the war-time rules.-Garcia won the Lipscom > Most Valuable Play er Award aid was chosen bn the SW Confere ice All-Star team that (See GARCIA, Page 4j) have pla stronger ish throui might easily be it the Fish will Since the move and ponente than the tha m the favorites hut be up to par and according to mah Gena Schriekel, they are In the best of shape fop the' game. Among some of Coach O. P. Adams victories for the season are wins over last year's Nation al Junior College Champiotie—Ty- 4rtys of Pitris. 1 i, number! two alnglM performer for the Aggies, > to his opponent during practice In DeWare Field in halls from Corpus Christi and boasts a tight Botut'IT' Bobby Duncan return* a drive House. Du scan _ defensive style game which enetMiimges mistakes by his Competition Under Special Rules Set By CHUCK CABANjlBS Nationwide attention may be fo cused on College Station, March 1, 2, and 3, as the top 16 junior col lege quintets in the state; compete for the Texas title under a special set of personal foul rules. A penalty system similar tb that used in hockey is to be employed during the 23 games scheduled for the DeWare Field House court in the three-day session. Details of the system have been wprked out by Marty Karow, tournament di rector and Aggie cage tutor. When news of the special rules Intramural Wrestling Continues Fast Action When today’s matches are com pleted, the quarter-final brackets in the Intramural wrestling will be complete. Bouts will be featured in the 129. 149, 159, 169, and 179- pound divisions. The heavyweights saw the most action yesterday with eight grap- plers coming through to gain pos itions in the quarter-final slots. Charles Smalling of C Field Ar tillery won his third straight match when he pinned Don Nowlin of E Air Force. Bobby Bland of H Air Force pinned Danny Waddle of A Cav alry, Henry Vorpkahl of A Chem Warfare lost to Jack Kanowski of D Vet, while Charley Jackson of A Const matted Dick Hightower of O Flight, and Dqn Grubbs of E In fantry defeated Madison of H Transportation. Heavies Compete Other heavyweight winners in- eluded J. W. Wilhelm of D Field who dowped Guy Jackson of C Cavalry, Kelly Anderson of C In fantry who dropped E. C. Urban of A Engineers, and B Cavalry’s Ken Rogers, who outpointed Leon Scott of the Maroon Band. Descending the ladder of weights to the 179-pound class, three win ners were advanced yesterday to the round pf eight. R. C. Gelsckc of B Transportatiqn defeated Fred Placke of the Maroon Band, A In- M- BANK HOLIDAY ."’Tt A *’ „ h ‘i- \'. ’ • •’ \ . , \ " The banks of Bryan and College Station will be closed Wednesday,! February 22, 1950 in ob- servince of George Washington’s birthday, legal holiday. • T NATIONAL BANK NATIONAL BANK T STATE BANK & TRUST CO. E STATION STATE BANK fantry’s Pat Holmes pinned L. W. Henshaw of B Flight, and Howard Krose °f B QMC outpointed Billy Rand of K Air Force. Golla Tops Brandt _ Pete GOHa of A Field continued his winning ways with a victory over Chris Brandt of the A Airmen in the 169-pound divisioh. Other results in the same weight included Charles Winter of A Infantry downing Bill Adair of A Air Force and Ralph Gay of A Ordnance dropping Leroy Bacica of Uty Chem Warfare. . y Joe Villeteal of D Vet Kenneth Baker of A Transpoi tion, and Dick Vehon of A Cavaf defeated J. H. Mlddletpn Flight. Hob Schubert of A QMC (See INTRAMURAL, ^ago 4) r was sent to Wilbur Martin of AP and Ed Fite of UP, the two sports writers expressed opinions that the whole country would be Interested in developments as the rules un derwent game competition tests. All the coaches who have he4k questioned were In favor of the special regulations. - Ij Karow explained that the results' of the tourney play under the rules will be sent to the NCAA rules committee for Its consideration. In the ’48 JC meet players were allowed to talk wtth their coaches on the side of the court during timeouts, and the next winter this same rule became a standard pro cedure. perhaps the local ^tourna ment can score another first this year. Rules Explained Here’s the way the special rules will work. During the first half if a player commits his fifth per sonal foul he will be banned from play ; for three minutes. After serving the required time on the sideline, he will be allowed to re enter the contest. Fbr each foul above five in the first 20-minute period the same penalty will be applied.. If a play er Commits his fifth, sixth, etc;, foul'with less than three minutes remaining in the first half, the re mainder of the unserved penalty time on the side line will not be carried over to the second half. Daring the first 16 minutes of the second half when a player is charged with his fifth or higher personal foul he will be banished to the sidelines for two njilnutes. Fcir point honors in that game went to Buster Alford of the JC firo. who^hod previously registered at no Lota Morris basketball team to keeping up a terrific record with a 84-5 mark at tho last count. Tho main reason for this is Aueril- lo Ramirez who has sunk 151 fWd goals aad 60 charifcr ■ shots for a total of 868 points. Ram- faros was one of highest scorers in the last junior college tourna ment held at A*M, and R is ex pected that he will be the only ‘ ef last year’s all-tourns- m» to return this year Bearcats favored e Bearcats probably an the Fis! Lawton, Oklahoma, and The first four meritioned teams defeated the Bearcats In return tilts, and only the Baylor freshmen have defeated the Lon, Morris quintet without feeling the cjsws of the Bearcats. . The Fish have split games With Scott Dropped In Semi-Finals y ■ i Fort Worth, Tox., Fob, 21 <A*i- Tom Adams, 186, Abilene, three* time light-heavy weight champion, clubbed James Hoff, 190, Houston, to a bloody pulp In picking up the 1906 Golden Gloves heavyweight crown. Earlier fat the evening defending champion Hoff took a wild slugfoat from Dick Scott, 197-pound Aggie football guard, to go into the fi nals. Adams took a TKO over Andy Bagleton, 184, Fort Wprth. in 16 seconds ef the third round In the other semi-finals. ! Alfred Flores, 126, of Bryan was the third champion crowned on the program, winning the feather weight crown with a one-sided win over Lloyd Densman, 126, Waco- Flores topped Billy Djckerson, 127,. Brownwood, by a decision in the next-to-the-last round! i Campbell Woodman, 176, the third Bryan fighter to' gain the semi-finals, lost a badly booed de cision to Michael Woolsey, 17214; of Fort Worth as the Cowtowner advanced to the finals. the Rice Slime, Allen Aeadedur. the Baylor Cuba, defsated the Wharton Pioneers twice, and mat defeat at the hands of the Texas Shorthorns and Lon Morris. Tonight’s Starters Included among the probable starters for Lon Morris tonight will be their high scorer—1 ires, Alford, Jack Henderson, Alberot Rente. Meet ’of the ing squad is short with Alfsrd b«- ing the tallest at 6’ 2”, and the I x* thers averaging around 5’ Miksch, Montegut, Don I immy Vclvin, Wally Bleyl, ID”. Jimmy Vclvin, Wally Bleyl, Jae Gulledge, Don Garrett, and a newcomer who showed up surpris ingly well in Houston—Bob Foo- shee—form the list which Coach Schriekel will peck the starting quintet. Montegut, a forward from Tdx- as City, trails behind Miksch for high point honors. He plays a well rounded game, especially from the forecourt on the offenne. The coast product can be expect ed to come through in the ctinehee as he did in the Baylor Cub game connecting with two consecutive free shots to give the Fish a win. Garrett and Velvln, both of whom started off fast at the first of the season in the scoring col umn, have replaced their shooting eye with a little classier bell handling and better work off the backfaonrds. ! Garrett waa also at his best in the Baylor Cub meeting where be scored 10 markers and proved tn he one of the better players un der the backboards along with teammate Mikacjh. ! For the team as a whole, it’s come a long way. Shooting abil ity has been sharpened ia all the players, and temperntentetky, a filg move forward has boen mads. Cosch .Schriekel has dons eMSi- Isnt work in patoMng up the.lit tle holm omitted by the former coach Lm Pedsn. who also did. n bang-up job with the Fiah (hir ing the first semester. But the real test will be bouncing off the hardwoods of DeWare Field House tonight st 8. Notices Issued Far Soccer, Baseball All students Interested In play ing on the soccer team are to meet at 8 p.mi Wednesday, Feb. 22,'In the YMCA lounge, R. V. Mendosa had announced. Mendoza said that a team cap tain will be elected and the group will decide definite days for prac- 1 ' A. . Freshman baseball players ore to report to DeWare Field Houae by 3 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 22, to pick up (their equipment, a member of the aithletic department luta an nounced. the final five minutes of each con- Ktest a eager committing his fifth Y^ce SPECIAL RULES, Pago 4) Student Let ns help combine the ' ' ' " ■ flowers most flattering to her personality. 1. f. . UVi Floral Concessi ‘See Your Dormitory Representative” on 4 j'i ° * ' '■tV - - v il | ' !•- ’. v (•: : ‘ • *. *. ’ IVo things eveiy college iran should know! w J: iT Thin in n Father. The kin you lm* U> touch, (cunly old character. 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