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*'il! ^ docL Soph backiitroker Bill Sargent, one of Coach Art Aaamaon’a top four point makera, cornea off of a turn at the end of tne pool and thruata himaelf _ back up the lane. Sargent ia a key member of the medley relay un<l Kometim free-atyle relay In addition hia specialty. ! i oh does a lap on the lo taking points in ; Baylor To NCAA ByUnanimous Vote Waca, Tex., March 8—</P>—The i Baylor Bears, who made one of the greatest comebacks in South west Conference basketball his- ( tory, 'werej. chosen yesterday to isspresent District 6 in the Na- tlonal Collegiate Athletic Associa tion Western Regional Tourna'- : -.i naent at Kansas City March 24-25. Baylor, which has* won two con ference champions and tied for two in the last five years—they tied Arkansas for it this season— was picked Tuesday by the Dis trict Selection Committee headed by Jack Gray, University of Texas basketball coach. Baylor, Arkansas, University of Houston, champion of the Gulf :e, Were the teams for the spot at Kan- City.'- - ' Decision Unanimous Gray Said thfe committee’s deci sion "was Imanimous and that a big factor in the j selection was the fact, that Baylor defeated Arkansas bjfljh'jtimes the teams met during the season. The piece- ton play is picked in the event of h tie] for the ehanT- pionship in football, was cited. Gray also said that the fact Arizona had accepted a bid from Coast Conference, considered pas if the National Invitation Tourna- sity. - Jj meijit in Now York was anotHejr factor. A play-off between the Southwest Conference represen tative and Arizona would have been impractical, he explained, j; Another member of the selection committee, Matty Bell, athletic di-- rector at Southern Methodist Uhl : yersity, said the reason the Uni versity of Houston was not se lected for the place, or for a play off was because it was in a con- ference not as strong as the Southwest or Border Conferences. ' Bel! said also that the Univer sity of Houston did not play ap representative a schedule as other teanis considered, > and did not win any of, its games against major teams played over the coup- try. He added that it was a policy not to have an elimination tourna ment unless absolutely necessary. Baylor is the only Southwestern team ever to win the Kansas City! tournament. It did so in 19481 and: went to the. finals of the Nation al Tournament, losing to Ken tucky, the. Haste I'll NC^A winner. The comrtittee making the se lection was, composed of Gray, Emil Larson of Arizona, commis sioner of the Border Conference and Matty Bell, athletic direct or of Southern Methodist Univer- /P J '.:k V J j We pay the highest prices lor Used Books— We maintain wholesale and retail lists the year round. GET OUR PRICES BEFORE SELLING THE EXCHANGE STORE "Serving Texas Aggies' / > a SEWALL [ ’ ’ I : ' I SEMI-NAMEt; j fy WALL FINISH j T ■ 5 f.D. iT&masnavIe, too Cfa bewashetflgain and zgzin, : . f : LONDON’S Paint Store 2201 College Road Bill Turn from Bern lain of th< Tunihow Chosen Ag Fim Captain ib<iw, senior forward n, I was elected cap- ... ... .... Ij949-. r >(| Aggie has- ...thall team, Coach Marty Ka- r^w annou|ic<,*d last night. This Was the second honor that Turn- bjow had gjairied w|th the Aggie Quintet during the four years that he has playerf on the Ca- J ‘ v The fifst came dur- l|947-48 : season when urnbow wap voted the Most .Valuable Player Award, 'j — ■ M T 'V I. .—-a. 1 '' I I ' ' ~ 11 (■1' fen Spots Held By Six Gtdets On World List leven A&M trackmen garnered 10 j| places on the recently publish- 011 H)4» world list printed in Track anji Field Neiws. And only four of these places were _ held by graduating seniors of last /spring, which leaves six world list platters * this jKu’autiag<n» ^/^ r >-«/-H t Phis world list is a compilatibn the 20 0^ 30 best times in each _ jnt in the: world for a particular year. If the outstanding times num- bgi' as many Ips .30, they are all included, but if in the opinion of the experts only 10 times are out- stnnding, only' those 10 are listed. iBill Napier, who graduated last year, was th(| first Aggie listed. HO was ranked 18th with a 21.1 performance ijn the 220. However, his 20.7 listed with wind ranked sixth. Ray Holbrook, another ill ring graduaite was ranked ' 10th in the 400 meters with 47.0, which h<» ran in breaking the conference 4' 0 record last spring. r j { Quartermilers Strong Showing A&M’s quartermilc st length last year were two more a;e 440 men, Don Mitchell and Ckmnie Ludvyick, who were tied for the 127th plade with 47.8 Mitchell a one is returning, and the Deer l ark runner jihould climb near the top of this liift in his two remain- hig years hetle. Paul laming, last year’s star fresnmam hurdler, was rated in a t e for the-, 26th place in thje high hurdles and | also ranked in the lows in a tie for third on a 22,7 vrith wind”. Bob Hall was ranked second with his 22.8, but includ ing ( al) ‘‘withjwind” times he rates a tit- with Laming for third pn a Kadera Ranked Ninth George Kadera was the final Aggie placed on the list.. He rank ed ninth in the discus with a throw cf i69’ 2”. ^adera is back tikis jeajr and can be expected to again dominate the conference discus and ^ho|t put events. - j • ■! . ; j ■ mural Boxing contest which stayts today in the! DaWare Field House at 4 p. m. Barney \yelch and Sam Clark will referee with Leighton Lomax, C. K. Esten, and Sgt. Tho mas Marion forming the judges for the bouts. With 215 sluggers entered in this years program, the Intra mural boxing events will have the largest participation for the last two years. The 149-pound class dominates the largest dumber of fighters with 53. Last year, A Infantry won the team title and was followed by B Composite, C Air Force, B Air Force, and E Field Artillery. Eight division will be represented again this year, ranging from 119- pounds to the' heavyweight divi sion (over 379-poundS). Year’s Ch&tnps n last years bouts in- Fincias of ASA in red class, Ralph Pas- Composite f<j>r the 129- pound division, Burt Littlejohn of E Infantry jn the IBO-ppund class, Harold Springfield of A Ordnance dominated tjhc 149-pound division, with |Bo Damuth of B Infantry winning thg 159-pound class. Other wihners were Riley Epps of G Infantry who won the 169- pouud division, Sam ^.iberto of Dorm 3 wa*j t ie (Winner (of the 179- pound class! and'Joe Frank Bell of A Infantry was last year’s heavy weight division winnerJ , Bell and IPastorek are the only champions who have graduated, but Littlejohn land Liberto will be ineligible because of participa tion in thjj Golden C loves this year. | , Bouts in the 149-pou|id division scheduled for today beginning at 4 will pit I Presley Archelger of E Field against Felix Dailey of D Infantry,; Bob Allen cf K Flight against Wi>ndon Bell (of C Air Force, Forhest Snyder! of C In- fintry against, C. H. filler of A Last Winners eluded Ed the 119-pot torek of A Coast ton of D meeting R. V. Mo- 1 E Ti Other boute include Bill Neeley of A CWS coming up against Gene Slaler of B Cavalry, L. F. Dominguez of E Flight pitted against Max White of A Air Force, H Flight’s Doak Neal (trades jabs with Howard Lee of B. Coast, Jim Anderson of D Air Force clashes with John Coolidge of A Cavalry, while Art Heath of E Artillery puts the gloves on against Bill Hallowell of B Engineers. A1 Rie: inger of A Quartermas ter steps in the ring with Billy Neal of 1! Field, Roger Cadwalder of A Flight meets Bill Glover of B Artillery, while R. A. Fitzger ald of the ASA trades punches with George Bargley of Milner Hall, G Flight’s Duncan Welder meets J. R. Stripi ng of A Field Artillery,, with A1 Gomez of K Flight meet ing Jaybird Allen of E Field, and Jim Phillips of A Infantry tossed against O. B. Tyler of A Engin eers. : ' ★ Volleyball Notice Aggie volleyball team clash with the University as’ team in . Au stin March the Texan’s aninual: f Barney Welch, volley said today. Practice will be held to morrow night in the DeWare Field House at 7:80, l e concluded. > T Handbal| Standings Three weeks deep in competitive play, the handball teams of var ious outfits continue to forfeit matches that cost their teams points. Four teams—B Infantry, already been tourney becau: feits. | _ . _ Infan B Vet, D Vet, , and E Vet—have ’ropped from the of excessive for- Leaders in their various leagues are A Athletics ! in League A, ASA in League B, CWS and I Air Force are tied for the lead in League C, while D Air Force shows the way League D, C Infantry holds the first place slot in League E, B Field and B QMC remain in tie for the lead in League F, ., .. ... ,. leader in League G is E AirjForce, . | and A QMC holds the winners pos- More players are needed for the! ition in League H. i I Bradley, Ohio State Head AP Cage Poll Schedules Set For SWC Nines By THE ASSOCIATE D PRESS An 78-game schedule has been mapped foil the six basiball teanis of ihe Southwest Conference with a block of intersection al tilts in cluded. Texas A&M plays series with Ohio State, Oklahoma and Min nesota, Southern Methodist takes on Ohio State, Texas Christian engages Oklahoma A&M and Tex as plays Oklahoma. ' Texas also has games with San Antonio of the Texas League and Milwaukee of the American Asso ciation. Southern Meth odist plays Dallas of t|he Texas League. A&M plays Houston of the Texas League and Uayloj’ has two i-aiiies with Temple of : the Big State! League. Season Opens Thursday The first game on the schedule is set with Hardin-Simmons in Dallas. 1 University of Texas,) the defend ing champion and also defending National IjICAA champion, comes up with another strong leant de spite loss | of eight letter,mob in cluding filjst baseman Tom Ham ilton; who signed a professional contract last week. In pitching, Texas looks very strong with Mur ray Wall! Charley Gorin, Jim Ehrler and Frank Womack. TtU Back Strong .van buried in twentieth pos- New Yor, March 8——T h <y comeback stories of the 1949-SU college] basketball season were; written by Bradley and Ohio State. The final. Associated Press poll of ^ the season Tuesday showed; Bradlcjy’s bounding Braves of Pe oria, 1(11., the consensus choice of 206 spoils writers and broadcas ters. Th ; Buckeyes are second. That’s quite a jump from the po sitions; these teams held in the fi nal balloting a year ago. Bradley struggjleq in seventh while Ohio! State y ition. Kentucky, last year’s winner/ wound up third this time. > . | Njne tf the top ten teams all ready [are engaged for post-season tournament competition — the Nat tional j Ir vitation Tournament or that bf the National Collegiate) Athletic Association. The other team, [UC LA, has a good chance to make (the NCAA- By Wide Margin Bradley (27-3) drew 90 first- place kotfs and 1,802 points in the final pol to lead by a wide mart gin.- ’it. was the , third straight week (the Peorians topped the list. Texas Christian hi turning lettermen an prospects j from the last year.) Baylor ha lettermen back, but Methodist ( has ten, in 1 hint Kyie Rote, one pro prospects in the and Led Weher, a top pitcher. Rice hate 15 men who have seen service biit is lean on catchers. ( Texas A&M looks li compctitibn for Texas termen, including shortstop! Guy Wallai eight fc- somc fine reshmen of orjly four Southern eluding bril- of the top conference. pitchers and te tfic major with 11 let- ll-conference Ohib State (19-3), the Big Tcrt , held on to second position with ! ,4q6 points. So, [if this cross-section of opin ions boiled from the nation’s ex pert observers stands up, it will be' Bradlev and Ohio State in the NCAA finals. Thcj Braves’ first objective is the NIT, ! which starts Saturday at Madison Square Garden. Then, ip order t to get their chance for the NCAA crown, they must play—and beat-j-the winner of the Big Seven Conference on March 20 at Kan sas City] if they are to represent District p in the NCAa Western Regiojnal: competition March 24-25. Bucks to NCAA Ohio State will be in New York for the Eastern NCAA Regional tourney, March 23-25. The survi vors of the eastern and western sections will- battle March 28 at Madi son Square Garden for thjr Siatloeal [crown captured last scii- Son by Kentucky’)! Wildcat!). Adolph Rupp's Kentuckians (25- 4), who (captured the southcaneijn laurels' iiast week, moved f r o m fourth tli third in the poll, with 1,294 points. They displaced Hbly Cross, which got 1,238. The Crii- sjiders b°wed to the Columb a Lionp last week for their first set back! in twenty-seven games. In fiftji place, after being eighth Area (Leaders Chosen To State FFA Contest Representatives to the State Invitational Contest at Huntsville March 18 were chosen at the Area III FFA Leadership contest in Bryan Saturday. The Leadership contest included Chapter Conduct ing, Farm; Demonstration, General FFA Quik, and Public Speaking. AT OL-K MODERN ALLEYS! Her e’s one way to spend a perfect eve ning. Drop in and relax for a few hours playing one waiting for alleys. Refreshment bar. Bryan Bowling Center •VV. * last week, w4« North Carolina State (24-5), fi-esh from chalking Up its fourth straight Scfuthern Conference championship. Same Ten Teams There were other changes but the same ten (teams remaijned in the select category. Defeats by Akron! and Balawin-Wallace were instrumental in dropping Du- quesnb (22-3) from fifth to sixth. UCLA (22-3) slipped frorb sixth to seventh after dividing ( w i t h Southern California. Western Ken tucky! (24-5) skidded from seventh to eighth. St.'John’s of Brooklyn (22-4), the 01)0 top-ten team to go without a first place vote, ousted La Salle of Philadelphia (20-3) from ninth place. Still heading the second ten was Villanova i (25r4). San Francisco (19-f>), now getting primed tb de fend its NIT crown, climbed from thirteenth to [twelfth, and Long Island University (20-4) jumped ;from fifteenth to thirteenth. s ♦ : ! I I Boxers Accept Invite to Meet Two of Aggieland’s outstanding boxers, Leighton Lomax and Har old Williams, have received and accepted invitations to the Bank ers Tournament to be held in Houston tonight sponsored by the Gulf' AAU. Loinax, outstanding bantam weight from A&M, won a regional Goldbn Glove title this ydgr, but could not entpr the state (compe tition because several fingers are missing from bis right hand. Lo max is considered one of . (he top light boxers in the state. Another coach and an acered- itable ring master himself, Harold Williams, will) meet the eXj-heavy- weight Golden Glove champ of Texas/ James Hoff. Hoff, a Rice Institute student, lost out; in com petition this year when |'pe was deciaioned by Tom Adamkj in the finals. [ Ffcddie Fibres and a group of Allen Academy boxers Will ae- (•ompany the ringsters to Houston for the top amateur clasrip of its kinq. Four tojp boxers arej chosen ip pach class! to fight and prizes afe awarded to the top jtjvo per formers. j : ' Lb'max will meet Felilx! Baker, this; year’s Golden 1 Glove! bantam weight champion of Texas), in his scheduled match. Lomax, a jun ior : Ag major has boxfcd and coached boxing since hb entered A&M in the fall of ’47J ,| Harold Wijlliams has probably the best past record of any boxer to enter Aggieland. Williams, alo(ig with Lomax, coached the Bryan YMCA Golden Glove team. McDowell Renamed Star of the We 1, Again capturing the ijltar of i eek award for his outstandn he Week award for his outstanding cage play, is Jewell McDowell, A&M’s first All-Conference player in recent years. McDowell collected 19 ppihts last Tuesday night in the TU-Aggie fray sinking seven field gogls (and five charities collecting high ppint honors for both teams that night. His next competitor was confer ence leading tallier Tom Hamilton. TU’s great post man was seaond with 18 markers. The little Amarillo product had only one foul to his credit; pro bably the most peculiar thjng about McDowell’s. play this season is the unbelievably low amount of fouls he has had called against him. In full! season play .thikj 5’ 9” cages had an ’average of less than 2 fouls a game. All-Conference Selection j| “The JewelV’ first ful of conference competition, he (hade every AllJConference selection and usually by a unanimous yutc. Not only ite the Panhandle pro duct noted for his scoring ability, but tabbed by some as the great est defensive artis; Slater Martin. jorm till part of Huffman, jintet, Mc- •s down to i of which Guarding Franl) the time and then both guards on „ T Dowell kept both a total of seven three were charitie: Over the full si Dowell has avera a game to rhnk thj ference scoring. Ho field goals and 81 24 games for a to In twelve confere re gamps, Mc Dowell scored 156 points on field goals and 34 average of 12.0. n play Mp- 13.8 points in the.con nected tes throws in of 33F points. re _ 61 arities for an A Frog last year| McDowell has another season and fla half of com petition remaining (pt^Aggieland I YOUR SENIOR RING I LET US SET A DIAMOND IN THE SHIELD YOUR SENIOR RING Siam iL Stones ; fcr' P * m $55 r