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Ag Mermen Defeat Methodist, 42-33 By SKII^ HIM M EN fetcWS htl noon. Aglri* iwlram^r* Tortimft Butler, Halph Ellin, Bill Ktyow *na Vun Adamson swam a 8:45.8 ^ 400»yard relay to outpoint the Methodist men by a 42-33 count Satui'day afternoon in P. L. Downs Jr. NatatoriUm. ‘‘l mOB t capacity crowd saw Mike Muckleroy drop a tenth of a second off the 23.6 60-yard free style record set by A&M’s Danny Green. Muckleroy swam the two lengths of the pool in 23.6, tying tie conference record also held by Careen. ■ The fleet Mustang took the 100- free-style and 60-yard free-style, racking up high point honors for the dual competition. Swimming anchor on the 400-yard r relay Muckleroy almost caught Aggie Van AdamsOn in the final heat.’ Karow in First Billy Karow started off the af ternoon’s action by coming home Football Notice . Ali members Of the 1949 A AM football squad are fo meet at the dressing room under Kyle Field next Saturday^ Coach Harry Stiteler has an nounced. _ A picture of the squad will b« taken In this gym at approx- - imately 6:30 p.m^ March 11, he added. He urged all former; '49 players who are not Mill Jout for football to check with him before Saturday to make ar rangements for a uniform foT the picture. SENIORS Hkve you had that. . . ' FULL LENGTH PICTURE made yet? Do It Now! "SO Years Serving Aggies” $; ■ k / 'h over a half length of the pool in front of Pony anchorman Larry Conner in the opening event of the two team meet. / Van Adamton then upped the Aggies to a 10-4 lead finishing a length add a half in front of Muotang Archie Amerine in the 220 free style event. The tall lo cal lad swam the distance in 2:12.6. In one of the closest diving ex- hibisions ever put on in the lo cal pdol, “Kewpie” Johnson bare ly finished ahead of Bob Hair of the Mustangs and teammate Bud dy Shaffter. Johnson finished the spring board event with a score of 87.3 while Hair, with an 86.8, and Shaffer with an 86.06 came in close behind. And entrants were striving for a large point total with diffi cult dives. Muckleroy Again It was MucTderoy again in the 400-yard free, style swimming the distance in 64.6 slapping the deck just' two feet in front of Aggie Van Adamson. This was Adam son’s first home defeat this sear son. Ellis was only a foot behind Adamson. Bill Sargent, in the 100-back stroke, brought the Aggies up to a two point lead by swimming the two pool lengths in 1:46.2, a length and a. half, in front of Mustangs’ Amarine and Wilson who almost ende<f up in a dead heat. I*. Karow Takes a First , Bringing the Aggie point total up to 32 in the 200-yard breast- stroke, Bill Karow came in six body lengths in front of Pony Jim Dwire and Aggie Tommie] Comstock. ^ His time for the six- pool lengths was 2:39.1. Wilson of SMU garnered five points for the Methodists by swim ming u 5:32.9 -in the 440-yard free style, finishing jus^ in. front of Aggie John Parnell who led most of the race. Conner of SMU captured third. ■'"Going into the final event of the afternoon the Aggies’ were ahead by a 36-33 point margin, but ran the score up to 42-33 by barely capturing the 400-yard free style relay. Wil nos North Gate Three Division Crown Titlists Three new high school cage champions were crowned in the weekend state iftfeet festi vities in Austin. Corpus Christi captured the Class AA Corpus had to break a halftime tie to defeat the highly touted Vef- non five by a 40-34 count. Crouch, Vernon forward, took high point honors by sinking seven field goals and two charities. _ . Sweetwater then lost to Austin in the third place game by a score of 49-42. South San Antonio was topped by Canyon, 49-25, in a nm-away contest for the Class A title. The Canyon lads took an early lead and hung on to it the rest of the one-sided fray. Beaumont’s French Righ then eeked out a 45-43 win over Bird- ville in the third place contest. Kiltrack of French High meshed the hoop for 13 points to walk off with high point honors for the (See TITLISTS, Page 4) : Arrow’s smart solid color shirts in broadcloth or oxford give your wardrobe welcome variety and reflect ydur good taste! They come in regular, wide spread, button-down and many other collar styles—every shirt care- "brics. fully tailored of fine fab $3.65, $3.95/ $5 ARROWshirts & TIESX UNDIRWIAR HANDKERCHIEFS SPORTS SHIRTS m hurdles record-holder Bob Hall (wearing jersey m ) turned sprinter Saturday afternoon and is shown Ng the |century in 10 flat with teammate Buddy Shaeffer T.-m hind him. In the next pictur s) wins j the qugrtermile with, a 49-1 timi it a clean sweep for the Cadets h> , — slot, Alex Ortiz ia about to snap the tape in-takmg Ron Mitchell (dark e as .Aggie Bernard y taking second, j In North Kyle Field, that Col. against broad jump in which tb while the was the Aggie* wer igles failed to four evehts. Led by bib George Kadera And soph Paul Leming, who scored two first apiece,: the local boys built up * lead to start with and added to it throughout the meet Kadera took his pet events, the shot a&d discus, with Slack Of NTSC second and in doing so got off one of Ms best puts, throwing the shot 47’ Leming came throojgh in the a wet track wi on his heels Jnd will be awfully throojgh in RAL itht weight divisions will coniv the ’50 intramural boxing ram scheduled to begin Wed- *y afternopn in the DeWare flouse. The eight divisions range from the 119-pound to the heavyweight closs -pounds aijd over.| i|4proximately 200 Aggie^ will e ampeting i!n the annual slug- ij, Said Bajtnoy Wtlch, intra- d director land referee of the mg boxing tournament and hton Lomax. Thpre is one to be chosen for the judges 1} i j Welch added 1 of the ifights Will consist )r6e one-minute rounds, st year’s contest finished with If I ' Out bf thfe right fchamp- ned last' yeafr iWity' two I but hot all Of the re champions .have .Outered tourney this season. , -- r inrters in last year’s bouts iir- Igs^of in iivf iiOp, Burt Littlejohn of £ In- E asketball Notice All 1950 varsity basketball pi »yers are to meet at DeWare Ffeld House ,at 5 p.m., March to elect a i team captain and hive a squad picture made, Giacfi Marty Karow has an- unced. Karow urged every member ol the cage team to pass word oi this meeting to the other hi sketball players in order to huttfe a complete turnout for tl e picture. Bearcats End Apache 73-71 Victory for Stale nning -Don Mitchell’s 49.1 with Bermtfd indicates the j _ strong in the <40 and mile relay. Mitchell looked good easily' coasting home fir ahead of any N nth Texans. Ortiz Surprises Alex Ortiz turned in a prising and Vifrjy creditable winning by five yards in 1: He didn’t look like the sa who finished li ist tn the intra-squad meet recently. H this race on a heavy track be Iffi :k be a hint to the future, Ortiz will plug vei*jr 'efficiently that Wife 880 gap on the team. Biggest surprise .By HAROLD GANN A spirited Lon Morris cage quin tet ended Tyler’s alarming string of victofies Saturday night Tyler by taking a thrilling 73-71 victory from the favored Apaches before 2,700 persons in DeWare Field House to complete the final round of the third state-wide junior bas ketball tourney. It was the most thrilling of the 69 games staged in DeWare Field House throughout the tournament’s three-year span. The lead changed hands 14 times and was knotted on only five occasions. Jack Henderson, who led the Bearcats ilrith 19 points in the semT-finals, gave his team the vic tory when the 5’ 9’’ forward sank a lO-fodter with 45 seconds re maining in the spine-tingling’ tilt. Beartqts to Nationals Lon Morris, which is now seek ing national honors, Was bpbirid 69-71 witfr A-rntnute and 30 seconds Henderson's goal that ruined Ty ler's chances of taking its second’ straight College Station tourna ment. ,1 , j It was la remarkable win for Lon Morris, a team that didn’t boast a man over 6’2” pitted against a irangy crew of terrific tallsters and game-savvy guards. , Henderson grabbed 22 points to reign as ; high-point man. Royce Ray, 6’5”; Apache forward, made 19, and Kite teammate, hook-shot specialist O’Neal Weaver (6’5”) collected 18 along with Tommy Hancock, 5’ 7”' Indian guard. Ahead Most of Way Alberto Renta, little Bearcat guard, vyaji one of the stars as he cracked sijx field goals—most of them coming from outside the key hole—and five free shots to gar ner 17. Lon Morris surprisingly jumped to an early lead and wat passed only once during the first half, Battalion SPORTS ‘ ihiift.fr r Win Streak With , — I 5- . of the meet came in, thq IpO-yard dash when low hurdler Bob Hall turned sprin- remaining in the first Ijatf, huf quickly dropped I behind a fain and went into halftime trailim '■ 82-87.) The Apaches, sparked |y Ray’s nifty set-tehots and Weaver’s eon-* sistently accurate hooks passed the tiring Bearcats with line’'mini utes left) Lead Sec-Saws Then the lead bounced pack and forth between the teams with coni stant regularity, keeping the crowd 1 on its feet for the remi jinder of the game. I ’ ^ The new foul-out nils, vfliicli has been devised by 1 ■ to irnaipent officials, was responsible fori keep, ihg the game at it? best because star-players would have left the game long before the final whistle. Under the new ruling a pjjayer, on committing his filth .IfOuL served tinje. in a pcnalt; ■ box oh the sidelines. ir''chfplnit!inig (his foul in the first half, s® would have to remain from the contest' for three minutes. New Rule Saves Gs me For every foul above four bej- fore the final four minutes of thfe second stAnza, he was d< stined V) remain two minute? in i he boit, which was in reality th< players’ bench. j . ! A player committing his fifth foul within the’final fotri minutes of play had to spend 5ne minj- ute on the bench. If a j layer re entered the lineup afte 1 serving time, he would be waive ! back to the penalty box when committing another foul. “Potato” Rameriz, Lo:i Morrii’ crafty center, fouled ep ht timei, his fifth coming late in the first half. ,... -1 The two finalists contributed all the members of the; all-tc urnamerit team. Rafneriz and Rents were se lected from Lon Morris »nd Tyler placed Weaver, Ray, an 1 Tommy Hancock, a guard who was picked the most valuable tdurnanent play er. ‘t J c* k .N'j Solid Cblor Shirts ay Arrow *3.65 up sure you hava plenty of these- najw Arrow solid or shirts on hand! Good looking and practical to your wardrobe, these Arrows are Sapforized-labeled, of course — 6nd specially cut foi* body-conforming fit. Come in for yours NOW! 7 t T WIMBERLEY-STONE- IE-^N^ W7 „ _ CLOrKlERS COULXOC * fikXAN SAB ARROW UNIVERSITY JC Edge Crown Tyler (71) . Hayer— Weaver, F Pariberton, Oropa, F Ray, C 4 Champion, G Hancock, G Browning, G i Totals Lon Morria (71) Player-;- ! Alford, F Ousley, F Renta, O’ Crejws, C Henderson, (} Rameriz, G . ...:.:...27 |l9 22 73 Tyler 32, Lon Mor- Totals |. Half-score: ris 27. Free-throws missed: Tyler (9)— Weaver 2, Oronda, Browning, Champion, Hancock 4. Lon Morris (8)—Alfordi 3, Ousley 2, A Renta, Henderson 3. ! ’ 1 •! Officials: Breazeale and Segrest. Badgers Nip Pioneers Amarillo’s; Badgers edged Whar ton’s Pionegrs, 62-51, 1 for third place honors. Sharing high-point honors were Amarillo’s Bill By bee and Wharton’s Tortimy Ir vin with 17 points each. The West Texans, who held til ‘ ' 27-25 halftime lead, had a six point lead with seven minutes re maining, brit almost didn’t hold back a final Pioneer thrust. Box Score Amarillo (52) Player— FG Bybee, F 6 Bridges,. F | 4' 0 Travis, F 6 Schrickram Carter, C Rogers Baucum, G Thurmond, Totals Wharton (5 Player— Cecil, F . Kelsey, F 3 2 3 0 0 FT !i i 1 2 0 0 3 4 2 2 2 2 1 Graham, C .. Fcimtes, C .. Buniett, G BurtoP, C .. Po^yell, totals 17 Half-score: AmarUl ton 26. Free-thtows 11, WWartoi Officials: hand. runner-ups and pions hi ’48, 48 victory from College quintet finals. i 4 ...-. 0 1 % s f 0 1 2 2 7 0 I 0 1 10 17 1 2 9 winn 1 < Aim looking fpr all yaar. •••. i .> Bob avjm came back to the 220 da»h and took aoeomd, hut It li aaauraei jha'wHto"'" the .future for l hurdle ejverit which furlong. In an lexhibltion rpci not count) towards the ( totij, Jerry Bonnen too! mile with a 10:08 time, Jttk Johles. Eagle Sprint Rela North t'exas' sprint in a fine time of 42.6, ‘ &M foprsome by 10 ve A fine pro! winner in this eve] boya for North ’ Luthe)r Fambro, broa ner arid Second: in the Jeromje Zabojnik, 22P Johnny Slack, 1 second li discus, a!nd javelin. Also quite encouragini fine performances of Jr and Don I Graves in the clearing 12* 6” ftotri a tray. And If Simpson on his _ winning toss in the jayeliri, pe wifi points in that event th Buddy! Davis, who basketball court last out and | tqok the 6’ 11%’’. Aim the At nial winners hi the m their prize erient ag With foub new boys, Don Cardon, Place, ve m- stani were x r '4 Were the Simpson JSw 1 camic hnd 'Crcii ary bf Other ’ £—• t . i„„„ , 11H”. 1 ' ’ ■ Pofc vault—1. Jack Don Graves, AAM, : $t 1216^; 2,, Luther minded: A brecht and Amarillo second Disciix A AM; 2. 4”. Lrriiar Takes Consolation Lamar’s Car [finals, last year’s toui-nament cham- k a decisive 68- tKe Blinn Junior in the consolation relay—1. Nt iwell, [Ray Itei ard Smith, and Jerome sre shared Jim Fred- nals. High-point fiknreT« we; between three ,14 for the winners and Bob Davis had an ejpml mimber for the losers Player- Bond, Harrin Bertra Brady, Kilpatrick, C ... J. Frederick, C B. Frederick, C Gilson, G .....L Wills, G . Babbitt, G , Totals 4 30 Bliqn (46) Player— FG Davis, F |.. i .i..4 6 Dolan, F 1 Waltiu-, F .0 Alford, F 3 Lovett, C 2 Nagel, C 1 McMillan, G 2 Wilson, G 2 jfrnec, g 2 Hungerford, G 0 ^Totals .. 20 Half-Score: Lamar 4) Officials: Garland and FG FT PF TP o TTnue,-Si * 12’. I throw—l.GeOi, Johnny Shirk ARM; 2. Ray Renfro, 120-yard high hi 'Texlu. i. Rich- Cnbojnik); b,. Ha 11 ’ ; Do flat. 1. Paul th, NT; i,: ij-.TI' I - i • 1 880-ya A AM; 2 220-ya - Leming, » NT; 24 rd lew hnrAote-l. Pqul A AM; 9 Luthrir FkmbK Message to the JUNIOR dt ASS wif* to bring: to your attention that this is the ear lit sudfCessioi that HuLICk’S have served the needs of senior boot weavers at Texas A. & M. Wb as buildi the whr profits e< l urge that we firm IhAVe service s when be made given priority to the mior boot; even during s were sea iways the se iterials were Scarce and more Other lines of leather goods. )U to call early as possible so b serve you to the best of ouT ability. 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