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Tlai'nit will cumpvti- In Hit* K<jrlon 5 toiiriiuin<<nt
In ItyntHvllta tomorrow. The TlRorN dofmtod Mi
lano in two Htralaht Kani«*« to outer the rt'irlonal
l.mirnevi Milano n»<l l<mt only one of 9% kuiiiom
l»etore ^meetlnK (he A AM team. Kront row (I. to
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Sports Day Ducats Now on Sale
With Full Day of Attractions Set
, Ticket* for the March 4 Sportjk|
Day festivities go on sale today.,
"T” Assoeiatioti President Gene
Schrickel has announced. The pros
giam this year is'expected to be
. the best one ever arranged by the
athletes" organization, Schrickel
said. !•' - 1
Tickets will sell for $1.00 and
the purchase of a ticket will adj-
mit the spectator! to all the ath
letic events during the day. All
members of the “T” Association
have tickets to sell, Schrickel add
ed.
Perhaps of equal spectator-valule
will be the halftime entertainment
arranged by! the “T” group. Fea
tured during the intermission ac
tivities will be the highly public
ized Kilgore Junior College Rart-
gerettes. The Kilgore band will ac
company the drill team. .
The Kungerettes arc becoming
increasingly well known through
out the country. In 1040 they per
formed at the halftime of the Cot
ton Bowl extravaganza and this
year the girls were featureil in the
Sugar Bowl intermission show.
Tops on the athletic schedule
for March 4 is the Maroon-White
game which will climax spring
training for the football squad.
The complete program includes:
1:30—SMU vs. A&M Swimming
meet.
2:00—A&M vs. unnamed oppon
ent in tennis.
2:80—North Texas vs. A&M
dual track meet.
4:00—Intra-squad baseball game.
■7:30—-Intra-squad football game.
Floyd Mr
land BUI
Bobby WU-
v. Standing In
James Dudley,
KlrhnrdN, Dick Dowell, and
Dattalion
SPORTS
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Favorites advanced in yeste
day’s intramtiral wrestling mate )-
es with foijr defaults splitting Up
the bouts. Bobby Carlson qf
Infantry advanced on default
thi 149-pound division over Da^
Terry of B Field Artillery, B
Hollow-ell pf B Engineers follow
ed suit over June Clark of A Quar
termaster. I
Lewis Fraser! of K Flight topk
his default \yin in the same clajss
over F. Thurmond of A Air Force
while Kenneth Lewis of the Wh
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1 o Region Flay;
Playoffs Begin
A&M Consolidated! district
champion baskctballers will com
pete this weekend in the Region
5 cage tournament at Huntsville.
The winner of the eleven-team
meet Vill enter the state playoffs
at Austin.
The Tigers won the District
66-B title by taking two straight
contests from fhe v
South Zone com
12 wins and eight loss-
season.
from the winner of the
mpetition In the dis
trict, Milano. The local five’s rec
ord shows
es for the
Consolidated opponents in the
regional tourney are Tomball,
Warren, Crosby, Missouri City,
Anahucc, Lovelady, East Bernard,
New Caney, Lejona, add Sweeney.
The Tigers play Anahuec in the
third contest Friday morning. The
first game between Tomball and
Warren is set for 9:30.
Coach Othel Chnfin will place
a quintet composed of Bohhv Wil
liams^ Lloyd Gay, Jake Megce,
Bill Coonor, and Dick Dowell oh
the court. Dowell is the . team’s
top scorer witl|i 202 points in 17
games
The Bengal*
of 584 points f
have scored a total
Jl' a 29-polnt aver
age per tilt. Tile Consolidated op
ponent* could tally only 601 mark
ers In the same games, averaging
only 25 |N!i- contest.
Intramural Wrestlers
Continue Eliminations
Based, On AP
jRe ports
Pairings for sixteen Class
and B regional basketball tour,
naments have been announced
with the competition slated for
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.
Class A, Region 1, offers play
by Abernathy, Memphis, Canyon,
Levclland, Shamrock, Floydnda,
Sudan, and Dumas. Only four
quintets will compete in the Rei-
gion 2 skirmishes. Crane, Ballin
ger, Hamilton, and Merkel.
Region 3 shows Burkburnet,
Bowie, Pleasant Grove, and Bini-
ville, while the Region 4 program
covers tilts among Gaston, Hooks,
Mount Vernon, and Commerce.
Teague, McGregor, Plano, and
Wills Point will tangle to decide
the Region 5 title-winner.
Region fi pits Lnmpnssas, Cant-
eron, Lockhart, and Bfenham ip
contests to determine a champ
ion. and West Columbia, Beau
mont, French, Alyin T aniil Boo-
ville meet In Region 7. ITu 1 flnhl
Class A tourney will he for the
Region 8 diadem with game* In
volving Smith San Antonio, Eagle
Pass. Sinton, anil Mercedes.
(’lass II Hchcdalrs
Class B region* hit the hard
road towards the state playofljs
in Region 1 with 13 teams sjatejd
for action. Squads iir the tourney
are Quitaque, Point TVcck, Cana
dian, Shallowater, Roaring
Springs, Dimmitt, Ropi-sville,
Spade, Knox City, Gruvcr,. Daw
son. Samnorwood. and Adrain.
Fifteen moi-e fives will meet qn
the hardwoods to decide a Region
2 winner. Early, Desdemonia, GiiS-
tine, Clyde, Linan, Evant, Carjl-
ton, Avoca, Coahoma. Hico, Herm-
letgh, Eden, Burkdtt, Eldorado, apd
Bronte are the combines rhie for
play.
Region 3 schedules include Fort
Wild Man of the Ozarks Puts
Hustle Into Maroon Athletics
By SKIP SIMMEX
, walk,” says the slow talker w r ith
i the fast break.
There s a charge, of about $20(0 Moon attended high school at
for all out of state students enter-: Bay unljl he came t o Farmer’s
ing A&M College. But studehtis
and cage fans alike would gladly
refund the entrance fee, plus in 1 -
terest, in the case of Wallace Wade
Moon, A&M’s Arkansas Traveler.
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Wally, a Bay, Arkansas native
has been playing both basketball 1
and baseball for as long as he ca|n
remember. “Probably starteid
when I first found out I could
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North Gate
Heaven on the Brazos. . Having
no basketball and little baseball
facilities at home. Wally shot for
a home-made hoop, and played the
diamond game oh a vacant Jot
with the neighborhood kids. -
Went to Finals
While Moon was competing on
Bay High School’s, quintet, his
group advanced to the state meet
in Little Rock where they lost out
to the home couriers in a thrilling
contest,
Hi* first season in organized
baseball Moon clubbed the old ap-
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pie at a .343 rate. That year his
Jonesboro American Legion team
won the district crown.
Although coming to A&M pri
marily to compete in America's
most popular pastime. Moon has
been just as big a help as far as
the hardwood game is concerned.
Since entering Aggieland as a
i freshman in '47 Moon has worked
:i up to the starting lineup in every
sport he participated in.
- He held down a starting cage
berth most of last season and in
a majority of this years contests.
Patrols the Gardens
Moon also held down regular!
center field duties for A&M’s.sec
ond place baseballers. Moon lied
the conference in doubles and b;.t-
ted cleanup Averaging .296.
Moon, after working up to a
starting berth at the conclusion of
the last cage: season, scored 38
points, 34 of Which were meshed in
conference play.
The 19-year-old out-of-stal er
missed starting only two gan.es
this season, cine of which was pli y-
ed against the j Razorbacks in . lis
home state. "Sjiure wanted to v-in
that one,” c^mmentdti Moon.
Moon is ; exceptionally well
known for his! fancy and tricky
shots. Ohcq In the SMU ga ne
when surrounded by three Mus
tangs under thq hoopi Moon sprang
around, fukipg all tihree invad ng
cagers off guard, throwing the hall
(See WALLY MOQN, Page 4 i
Band took a vjin by default over
,D. W. Davis hf B Flight in the
139-pound division.
Other bountg in the 149-pound
class centered around Alton
White’s win for A Ordnance over
Jolly Johnson of K Air Force,: „
Bobby French of B Field laid out j «or th K 080 " Heights, Forrestoh,
John Wallace of C Field for the | Sprmgtown, Community (Nevada),
needed count, H. D. Thompson of I 2F,v® son ' Dum-armlle, K r u in,
D Field defated G Sears of A ; ” hitewneht, Richland. Penelope,
Field on a Hip of a coin, and i Midway, Prairie Vjkllev,
Johnny Harrison of t) Infantry j ’ a e J r ’ ,e y- Calvert, and Byeijs.
dropped Charley Wyatt of the Ma- Cayuga, Waelder Play
roon Baud. Sixteen quintets will strive to
T .v. . e D u eraSP the Re ^ ion 4 croWn ’ lnclud -
In the 139-hound division Boh injr pj t . kt on. Troup. Maud, Quin-
Lincecum of A Cavalry lost to . i atlj Q u it ma n, Dodd Citv. -Mould
GayW Jones of A Transportation. Enterprise, Buda. Central Heights,
and Diek Batten of F Air Force Blaamhurg, White Oak. Blossom,
outpointed of R. D. Westcott of I , New Diana, Malakoff, Yantis,
Air Force. | ' I an(i Cayuga.
The 169-pound class furnished Region pits Tomball, Warrqn,
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seems to have a very bright fiitur
iner and with such talented |
Is Bill Ka-
Karow
swlm-
Coarh
Adamson can be exported to force “Tex” Rob-
>n’s lainghorn splashers right down to the
for the loop championship.
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Karow Takes SU
For the second straight week
Bill Kurowt one of Art Adum-
son’s more proficient sidnshcrs,
has iwon the nod of Tlic Battalion
sport* staff for the top norform-
unca of the past week (Fob, 13-
18), !
'nu* award for the week of Feb.
Ii-l| was shared by Khrow, Van
Adiimson, and Bill Sargent, for the
triois fine record settiiig time in
the; 300-yd. medley relay. This
past week's honors go: to young
Knifow for his 100-yd, breast
stroke victory which also set a
new pool mark
Week
Kiirow’s time in Ids win
1 jOd.fi, a tenth qf ai {second
than the previous standard posted
h.y Johnny Crawford! of Woodniw
Vfllson High Sihool of Dullus In
The College Ktatlon bittt,*q*fiy
stroke artist didn't Ktop wltk^Just
nj single win, howryer. Ilq' took
the 50-yd. freestyle! wilhr *| 25.1
thne and participated in two first
place relays. ! v. !
He and his teamhittes Adiimson
atid Sat gent overwhelmed the vis.
ifing Memphis naval airmen in the
300-yd. Medley, and then Karow
No Onej Likely to Attempt Two
Post Seasonal Tournaments
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the best matches of the day with
four matters ninning their opnon-
ents in record, time. Ralph Gay
Crosby, Missouri City, Anahuec,
A&M Consolidated, Lovelady, East
Bernard, New Caney, Sweeney,
New York, Feb. 23—(AP)
—Right now it doesn’t appear
that any of our leading Col
lege basketball teams will seek
double trouble this year by
trying to win both-tjie NationalTn-
vitation Tournament ' r and the
NCAA. . j
It’s . probably just qs well, a*
’taqit ensly, as they say. In fact,
such a double triumph! never has
been accomplished, although , it’s
bei)n tried by some of the better
teams oVer the last dozen years.
Kentucky, with ail all-star cast
anj.i a fine record, tried it last
yehr, and was only h^If success
ful. Adolpli Rupp’s teiam got it-
und tommy Butler to oquali the
cdnfti’ewo record of
400-yd, freestyle rela, ‘
Only a sophomore this season
Adsnmim Joined Ralph Fdll*
“ ‘ ) equal; the
!,l44.(l in the
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Khiovv, a* well us dome of hi*
talented ftiermen teammatM, can
axpaitt to becomu widely recog-
Hired as an outstanding swimmer
if he maintain* III* current show
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Cage Box Score
A&M
DeWitt, F
Martin, F
Turnbow, F
Gartia, F
Daviis, C .
Farmer, O
McDowell, G
FG FT 1»F TP
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of A Ordnance pinned Charles and Leonard. Region 6 offers Beft- j sejf knocked off in the quarter-
Winter of AJInfantry and Dick ram, Bartlett, Florence, Waelder. finals of the invitation affair, los-
Round Top—Carmine, . Coirfoit, inijr to Loyola of Chiqaco by the
Kg Wells, San Antonio Sam lloqs- | convincing margin, of 67-56.
tom Yancey, and San Felipe. Wildcats Dropped Ags
Eight teams tangle for the. Re- L
gion 7 title, Pettus, Santa Ro.ta. I
Vehon of A Cavalry matted Ken
neth Baker of A Transportation 1 .
Pete Golla of A Field downed Sam
Rice of C Cavalry with a quick
arm lock, and Bob Schubert of A
Quartermaster ninned Hampton
Oliver of Chenh. Warfare.
Holmes Wins Match
Pat Holmes of A Infantry pin
ned Howard Kruse of B QMO af
ter tossing him around in the 179-
pound division! while Ken Timmons
of A Infantry defeated W. R,
Green of ASA in the l&U-pound
class.
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All. Iioxing and volleyball en-
The Wildcats then went on to
Pleasanton, Industrial High (Vqn-
derbilt), Rockfort, Bishop. Louijie,
Benavides, and Agua Dulce> The
final tournament in Region 8 liifts
con) petition between Clint, Pyojte,
Marfa, Balharhen, Grandfalls, Van
Horn, Iraan, and Alpine.,
Volleyball-Softball Entry Blank
Any rocogfiizied campus organisation is eligible to participate In
the softball and volleyball prqgrams, according to director Barney
Welch. Rntrifa must be turned In by March 6 to tho Jntramural
Dept, or s!tu(ient jjvctivitie* Office, Welch said, j
Please enter the
poftball
(yes or no)).
i ,
(yes or no*l
Club in Intramural
{(Signature of offic
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Boxing finals wfll be held in tjhe
gym at the Annex beginning at 4
o’clock Saturday afternoon.
win (he NCAA crown biy defeating
the Okkvhdma Aggies, 46-36.
jUtah tried it in 19jl4, without
mqlice aforethought. The Utes had
Helen eliminated from tifie invitation
tournament-- by the qigni-present
Kentucky quintet when they were
called upon to substitute for Ar
kansas in the Western {NCAA pjay-
oljfs. Two Arkansas players had
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;T7ie Utah lads made the most
o? the opportunity, winning the
riigionals and then (Idging out
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fair. although it took consola
tion honors with a victory over
DePauj. Immediately after the
latter game the squkd flew to
Oklahoma City whqr^ it lost to
Kansas, with which It had split
in two previous games, i in the/
NCAA district playoffs. ’
Houser,’Jp ...
Suttdfi, G ....
Partmouth, the Eiaqtern chaqipibn,
for the national crown.
] To give another indication pf r
their .class the Utes then Came Wrillc ^
back here to whip ,St. Johns, the
ihvitatibn tournament chaijipions,
ill a Red Cross game.
In 1940 the Oklahoma AKiries,
who had run up a string! of 25
straight victories during the sea
son, also were overly ambitious,
With the result they didn’t have
qny luck in either of the two tour
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Hank Iba’s team was defeated
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TCU
Fromme, F
Ethridge, F
Reynolds, F
Knox, F ....
McLeod, C
Schmidt, G
Taylor, G .
Campbell, G
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Flree throws missed: Fromme 1, j
Konx 1, McLeod. 2, Schmidt 2, Tay- ;
dtir 2, Tjurnbow 3, Davis 1, Me- j
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