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koetball race gobbles fnto its lin-
al-week with
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the lead and better than fair
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Southern Methodist, Arkansas
and Baylor finished last aleek’s
hectic schedule’ in a three-way
deadlock for first, place.
A 57-48 victory over Arkansas
Saturday night gave Southern
Methodist a snare of the lead and
, cheated the Razorbacks out of a
sure share of the conference crown.
Baylor grabbed a share of the
lead with a 57-42 decision over
Texas Christian Saturday night.
Arkansas, had protected its
slight advantage over the rest
of the loop earlier in the week
with a 61-38 victory over Rice.
The Owls also lost another one last
week, winding up the season with a
41-55 loss to Texas.
Baylor had stayed in a title
contending position, by dumping
Texas, 43-41, earlier last week. In
another game, Texas A&M dawn
ed Texas Christian, 60-58.
Three games Tuesday, night
will wind up the conference season
and iPavc to the ! District!
NCAA selection committee the
problem of picking a Southwestern
representative for the regional
meet at Kansas City next month.
Baylor and Southern Methodist
will try and eliminate each other
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from the championship chase
Texas meets arch rival Texac
A&M, and Arkansas, squares
against Texas Christian.
A Texas Christian victory wovdej
leave just one team—Baylor
Southern Methodist—atop 1
standings at the finish. An Arki
sas win would split the champit
ship between the. Porkers a.
Baylor or Southern Methodist.
Southwest . Conference Season
Standings: - i !-
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TCU .. .13 10 .656 1221 |l20-i
Bay. .A......12 11 .522,1117 126! I
Texas 12 11 .522 1126 IlOf
Ark 11 12 .478 1094 113!!
SMU ........10 12 .455 1153 11141!
A&M ........10 13 .435 1219 1170
Rice ...... 8 i6 .348 1238 1320
Conference Standings:
Ark _.,7 4 .636 573
SMU 7
Baylor .... 7
A&M 6
TCU 5
Tekas 5
Rice\ ........ 2
.636 581
4 V.636 573
5 .545 598
6 .455 698
6 .455 518
10 .167 613
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SPORTS
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Power ‘ hitting was quite evident Saturday afternoon as
baseballers engaged I in an intra-squad tilt. Hollis Baker
connects with a toss in the first inning and drives the hor
pellet, out of the park. ■ ■,
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runner J7D. Hampton( second from right)
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elected co-captains
Saturday. Scanning
the 1950 A&M track
the nuigaslne with
the two leaden! are Coach Frank Anderson; an
other strong point-gatherer in the field events, /
Jock Simpson, anti Coach Ray Putnam. The track
team opens Its season this Saturday against the
NTSC Eagles on Kyle Field. The dual competi
tion will he part of the Sports Day activities.
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ast But Not Least’ Adage
Aptly Applies to John De Witt
] By SKIP SIM MEN
Basketball !was not n now sport
to the DeWitt family whin the
youngest brother, John, began
playing around on the Waco hafd-
woods, for it seems the whole fam
ily whs connected jwith the sport
at on|e time; or other.
Hailing frbm the centralj Texas
city and darn proud of it^ John
DeWitt, A&M’s prized forward
has been shifted almost to! every
position on the basketball and
baseball team during His two years
of collegiate athletic participa
tion.
It sieems the whole neighborhood,
including the: three DeWitt, [Broth
ers, rigged up a basketball court
in John’s back yard. “We used
to play almost every day.’l com
mented John, “summer and win
ter”. f
His first real cage competition
came in high schocjl when the not
ed Waco product placed ! three
straight yeajrs on an all-district
team. “The Whole team mjade it
my second year”, said Johp? “we
didn’t lose a district tilt that! year”.
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Consolidal
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Huntsville, Feb. 27- (A>l
A&M Consolidated Tigers
their opening game in the
5 meet here Friday af ernoon,
bowing to Anahuac, 28-2!
score was tied at intermission, 11-
11. Dick Dowell was outstanding
for A&M.
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Chicago, Feb. 27—(Ah—
tional Collegiate Athletic
ence Council Friday cleared
ton College for immediate,
mont participation, but
five other violators of its
code ineligible for NCAA e
Dallas, Feb. 27 - (Ah—Tyler ! Ju
nior College sacked up the Sopth-
woatern Junior College basketball
championship and by boating Da-
mar oif Unaumont tonight :un fin
ish the season undefeated,
The Apaches clipped A
State, 65-47; Schreiner 74
63-31, and San Antonio, 41-30, to
run their .string of conferc
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Paris won its oply start! beat
ing Tarleton State, 59-47, tb hang
on to second* place.
Houston, Feb. 27|—(Ab—The Uni
versity of Houston is the champion
of the Gulf Coast basketball con
ference and Trinity, Midwestern:
and North Texas share second
place.
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Dallas, Feb, 27 l-(Ab—A ! couple
pf games this wcc)k will officially
[end tho Toxaa Conference basket
ball season, but iti| really been all
bver for sorpe time,
Abilene Christlaiji Collegej which
pllnched Us third [straight chant
bionship nearly two weeks
finished its confer,ottse season 110
fented last Week b.V beating How
ard tfayne, 64-51. It was tpe third
straight yeap th<v wjildcata h*d gone
undepcatod In loop play, i
Howard payhc; had already
clinched second and Austin bollego
third.
ago,
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Worked Under Hupp
One of Johnny’s bilggest thrilW
came as a senior in high school,
when the then 6’ !p” lad was;
coached by the famous Adolph
Rupp of the then national cham
pion Kentucky Wildcats in an All-
Star game played before a packed
house in El Paso.
In that game the Aggies’ Jew
ell McDowell and “Ijeppy” Pala-
fox, Little AlLAmetrican eager
from' Tyler JC, teamed together
to defeat the Rupp-coached group, 1
Bill, John’s brother, is a regu-j
lar for the Baylor Bears. It seems
quite a pecularity, but the DeWitt
brothers turned in [the poorest]
scoring games when the Bears and
Aggies clashed this season.
In the first meeting of the two)
DeWitt’s, John sank two points]
and Bill came through with eightJ
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In the second clash of tho tw<]
brothers, Bill collected four mark!
era while the younger John sank
a total of three. The Aggies wort
in both contests.
Another DeWitt Contribution
David, oldest of the three Da|
Witt brothers, and another three!
year all-district performer for
the Waco Tigers, played uguinsi
John in a Fish-Cub clash in ’47. j
John spent throe months of Iasi
summer playing semi-pro ball fo]'
Fergus Falls,,a little wooded comf
munity deep in the heart of north*
west Minnesota.
The traveling outfielder canW
home with a .310 battibg average,
leading his tca/nninteis in home
runs and RBI's, '"hut hltm In strike
outs” added John reluctantly.
An uccompliished backstop in
schoolboy baseball, DeWitt was
chosen on AP’s All-State nine bis
senior year in high school.
Rated Top Soph
Rated by many sports writers
as the top soph prospect ip the
conference last season, DeWitt fin
ished the season with 248 points,
an average of 11.9 points a game,
to finish first among his team
mates and eights in the confer
ence.
The 6’5” lad drew t^uch praise
for his outstanding defensive work
last season against (taller and
more experienced centers like Bill
Tom of Rice, Tom B am ilt° n °f
the Longhorns, and Bob Ambler,
Hog pivot man.
DeWitt contributed last season’s
top individual performtince for the
Cadets sinking tWo clarities and
twelve two-pointers for a total
of 26 markers against Arkansas’s
last years conference champs.
She Goes To Tori'
At present DeWitt’s main fem
inine attraction is attending Texas
Teeh. where she is secretary Of
the Junior Class. It seems the two
met in high school and have been
going together for quite some time.
“Nothing definite” wps his lone
comment.
Majoring in animal husbandry,
John said, “Guess if I ever stop
playing ball. I’ll bujj’ myself a
farm or ranch somewhere in the
heart of Texas, and ido a little
farming.”
For his one and only[ pick as the
most outstanding eager ever com
peted against, John [quickly re
plied “Slater” Martin! of Texas”.
“He can dribble; he’!i fast, and
can he shoot!” “About the same
style of player as McDowell.”
Baylor, of Course
Although sitting on the bench
iii the closing minutes of the Bear
tussle, John also thinks the Bay
lor game was the mpst thrilling
contest. “That’s the
game I've ever had an
with," remarked DuW
Capable of lettering
well us baseball: and
DeWitt set n\ 446 intramural roc-
ord year before last When he ran
the quarter mile in 51,3.
"Too many things mine up in
the spring,” commented John. "It
would he all right if I didn’t
have to attend classes
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BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
March 1,2,3 - DeWare Field House
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Sponsored 0y '
Brazos County A&M Club
Tournament Ticke
Adults: $2.00
WEDNESDAY & TH1
Gen. FuMic 50c
Students 25c
Door Prices Nightly
ts: (All 23 Games)
Students: $1.00
Admission to looming, AJftemoon, Evening Sessions
AY: FRIDAY:
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Session
Session
$1.00
50c
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3 Ladies Suits—$70 each
3 Men’s Suits—$60 each
3 Pairs British Walter Shoes—$17.95
Shakespear Reel & Rod
3 Halicrafter Radios
Many others
Session
Session
Former All-American Perron
Shbemakcr in the new freshmai
football, basketball, and bi
coach. Athletic Director Bari
“Bones” Irvin . Has announced.
Shoemaker, who starred at the
University of Alabama m the latt
thirties, is working with the var
sity in spring football training,
but will begin his Kish diamond
tutoring when the' grid practice
ends on March 11/
The husky, 231- pound coach
made Grantland Rice’s All-Amer-
ica squad in 1937 as a junior line
man for the Crlmsan Tide. TW
Red Elephants played in the ’38
Rose Bowl against California and
in his segior yeag Shoemaker
made the All-Southeastern Con
ference team on the basis of his
terrific defensive end play-
Shoemaker originally graduated
from South Park High in Beau
mont. and in World: War II he was
again working side by side with
Texans, this time in the 36th
Infantry Division : in the Italian
and French campaigns.
In between his graduation from
Alabama and his wartime service
he : was varsity ejnd coach and
head basketball coach at the Uni
versity of Chattanooga (Teiin.)
After his release from the ser-
fof five years. He played* profes
sional baseball in the Souti eastern
and South Atlantic leagues
the same period.
during
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vice, Shoemaker returned to Chat,
tanooga for a year and then held
tho end coaching jdb under Dixie
ell at the Urifyermity of Ida-
fall he switched to the
_ staff of Ray "Bear"
Wolf at the University of Floridg,
The six-foot-three .native Texan
negotiated with hejad football
coach Harry Stiteler and Irvin
while the men were attending the ■
National Coaches Conference ift.
New York City recently. He has ’
been working with the varsity
gridders since spring workouts be
gin.- Spectators and players alike
can verify Stiteler’s words that
Shoemaker “will add a spirit and
fire to the team.” J , .
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Los Angeles, Feb. 27.—(A*>—
Tho Los Angelos $urhs Saturday]
acquired 235-pound tackle Jim
Winkler of A&M fpr a back and
a tackle in a deal with the Sun,*
Francisco 49'ers. Me is on Army
duty but is expedted to be re
leased soon. Back Hillary Chollet
of Cornell and Taqklc Clay Mat
thews of Georg' ” '
players traded.
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