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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 18, 1950)
Lazarine Wins AAU Cadets In Sugar By RAY HOLBROOK Though one cannot say that the Maroon and White tracksters will win the relay, Coach Putman said, “We are definitely the team to beat.” Other competing team will be Oklahoma A&M and perhaps Okla homa University. However, either the Okie Aggies or' the Texas Ag gies has won with the other fin ishing second during the past three years of competition. Holbrook, Aggie quarter miler two years ago, has been working out for the past two months and will run the open 440 in the meet. He was on the 1948 mile relay which took second at New Orleans and on the 1949 team which finish ed first. Second in 880 In last year’s meet, he took sec ond behind Kansas’s powerful Pat Bowers in the 880 run. Holbrook is doing graduate work at A&M and at one time he held the con ference 440 record. Of the five mile relay members makin the trip, Mitchell is the only letterman. The Deer Park senior looks like the top quartermiler in the conference this season with the graduation of last year’s SWC (See RELAY, Page 4) A&M Pistol Team Has 3-1 Record Coaches Prank Anderson and Ray Put man will take six runners to New Orleans to the Sugar Bowl track meet Dec. 31st. The group will meet in College Station after Christmas and then leave for the meet on Dec. 28th Mile relay contestants are Don Mitchell, Fuston McCarty, Bob Mays, James Baker, and alternate Bobby Ragsdale. Ray Holbrook will also make the trip but he will fun only in the 440-yard dash. One of the recent surprises of the keen competition for the four man relay team was the perform ance of Baker, who just a tew days ago beat out Ragsdale for the fourth berth by running a terrific quarter with what only a short time ago was a pulled-leg-muscle. The addition of Baker definitely strengthens the team, although the choice was' very close over Rags dale, who was placed in the alter nate position. With all members of the quartet turning in better times than last year’s crew,' the Aggie chances of winning and beating Oklahoma A&M’s record of 3:16.4 are good depending on weather physical con dition, and similar circumstances. “ ... Team to Beat...” A&M’s sophomore distance star, Marshall Lazarine, rudely upset the favorite and paced all of the 64 entries in winning the annual Bill William’s sponsored Gulf AAU cross country run in Houston Saturday Under the guiding hand of Sgt. J. E. Cutsinger, the A&M Pistol Team, has a won 3, lost 1 record. The pistoleers of A&M have run up against such rough opposition as New' York State Maritime Col lege, Lawrence Institute of Tech nology, RPI, and will go up to the firing line against Colorado A&M this week. Sgt. Cutsinger’s men racked up a 1,246-1,203 score against NYSMC; they beat Lawrence Tech in a close match 1,290-1,289; and Rennsselaer Polytechnic Institute fell prey to the marauding marks men 1,300-1,195, however, in the first Colorado A&M match, the Aggies lost 1,245-1,339. There are 27 members of the pistol team; in a match, all of them fire 300 shots and the best five scores are used. Perfect score for a match would be 1,500 points. A&M’s sharpshooters have an impressive record in that they won a sixth place in the national intercollegiate pistol match last spring. The Nacogdoches ace ran back in the bunch, but very close to the leaders—John Garmany of A & M and Don Edwards of North Texas. —for the first two-miles of the race. He then took the lead and virtually sprinted the last half- mile to outdistance all competitors arid beat out Garmany, his only close competitor, by five yards. Lazarine’s time was a blistering 12:10 minutes to ellipse the record set last year by Aggie Julian Her ring by 6V2 seconds. A&M Wins Title Edwards finished third with Henry Winston of Rice fourth. Cadets Charles Hudgins, Charles Gabriel, and Amel Omo took fifth, sixth, and seventh, respectively to cinch the senior division team title for A&M Joe Villareal of Reagan High cf Houston was the junior division winner and his school also won the team title in the same division. Galena Park was runner-up and Port Arthur was third. Lazarine’s 1st Win The win was Lazarine’s first vic tory in his short college career which began just this year. He was a regular member of the Maroon and White cross country team this fall which placed second in the Southwest Conference meet last month where he placed tenth in the meet behind three other Ag gies, two of whom were in the meet he, won Saturday. Ag (Algers Set For Bearkats f By FRANK N. MANITZAS Battalion Sports Editor A&M’s undefeated freshman roundballers meet the Wharton Junior College Pioneers tonight at 6 in the DeWare Field House as a curtain raiser for the varsity game which pits the Cadets against the Sam Houston State Bearkats at 8. The Kats are all hepped up boasting a team which in cludes five lettermen, all over six feet in height, to meet the Aggies. Coach Jack Williams doesn’t feel to good about his team, but the Bearkats have lost only one game in five starts this year. 4 Coach John Floyd’s cagers enter Stiteler Affair - ‘Mistaken Identity’ “Someone, possibly mistaking me for someone else, took a poke at me as I was getting out of the cab near the Shamrock and there’s nothing serious about it,” Coach Harry Stiteler repeated yesterday when questioned as to what hap pened in Houston Friday night. Coach Stiteler was .on . his way to a banquet which was thrown in honor of the 1950 Aggie football team and the little-silver haired man himself who in three years of living in the cellar placed the Cadets among the top teams in the Soiith. .. . * Although Houston police were keen to find out exactly what hap pened, Stiteler waved the incident as a “mistaken identity” attack and preferred that the incident be dropped. No one seem to know what hap pened and according to the descrip tion given by Stiteler as to what happened proves that he also knows little or nothing of what the affair was about. The condensed story seems to :• be n that the A&M coach Went to answer a call from another car after he had left the car he was in, then it happened. At the pres ent time the Head Cadet mentor is out of town and will not return far a few days. Mural News Milner gained the right to meet Mitchell in the finals of the Non- Military League by defeating Pur- year, 6-0. The Milner TD was scored on a 38-yard scoring aerial from R. D. Pratt to Molteni. Puryear received the kickoff arid began their offensive from their 20 yard line. Two running plays cost the Puryear team three yards.- A pitch-out on the third play netted 18 yards to the 35 but was not sufficient for the first down. Company 10 racked up five pene trations as compared to Company 7’s one and went on to win t|ie contest, 7-0. Company 6 ran, wild in downing Company 2 20-6 while Company 11 blasted Company 9, 20-0. C Infantry • advanced into the semi-finals of the Intramural Ten nis Leagues by. stopping A QMC in three straight sets, 5-3, 5-2, and 5-1. Gorman, Jarvis, Smathers, Snyder, Steen and Moore turned in the victories. The C Infantry netters will op pose A Infantry in the semi finals. In the horseshoe contests of the afternoon A AF dumped A Signal, 2-1; A Infantry stopped C Vets, 2-0; B CAC throttled A Engineers, 2-0; and A CWS dropped A Ord nance, 2-0. to New Orleans and tho Sugar Bowl track during the New Year’s Day festivities are, row, James Baker, Bob Mays, Fuston Mc- , and Don Mitchell, who will form the mile and top row, Coach Ray Putman, Alternate Bob Ragsdale, Manager T. K. Niland, Ray Hol brook—140 specialist, and Coach Col. Frank An derson. Holbrook will run the quartermile un attached, having already graduated from A&M. the fray with the worst intersec i tional record of the Southwest Conference, having lost five games I and winning only two. One of the ; victories, however, was over high ly touted Canisius, who has yet to | lose a game after the hustling un predictable Aggies upset them 55- 54. Canisius has met two other conference teams since the Aggies and won both times over Texas and Southern Methodist by sizable margins. In their first two home appear ances, the Aggies have failed to click, but this may be the night. Bad breaks plus sharp-shooting from the outside sank the Cadets when they tangled with the South west Texas Bobcats in their home openers. The Aggies’ main trouble seems to be centered around the Cadets Laud TIL Isbell, SMU Quarterback Larry Isbell of Baylor, who threw four touchdown passes to beat Texas A&M 27-20, was rated almost unanimously by the Texas Aggies as the most val uable player they faced in 1950. The boys of Aggieland rated the conference champions,. University of Texas, as the best all-around football team they had met all sea son as well as the best team on de fense. The SMU Mustangs, who bowed to the Aggies after an even ly-matched game 20-25, was rated by the Aggies as the best offen sive team they played'. Oklahoma, who closed the season as the nation’s No. 1 team, rated second to SMU on offense and third to Texas and Baylor as the best all-around team. Oklahoma also was rated third by A&M for its defensive play. A&M showed considerable re spect for the second-place Bears Hy rating them third on offense and third as an all-around team, "hiit the Bruifts : didn’t-grit a single vote for, its defensive play. Although A&M rated Isbell as the best all-around opponent for 1950, Kyle Rote of SMU was pick ed by the Aggies as the best back. All-American Rote made the im- 9 pressive record of 126 yards in 27 tries against the Aggies, connect ed on four out of five passes for 64 yards and caught three passes for 49 yards. The. Mustang star pushed over two touchdowns and kicked twice for 104 yards. The A.&M team hasn’t forgotten one Paul Giroski, 250-pound tackle from Rice Institute, either. Giroski was practically a one-man line when the Owls played A&M, stopping Ag gie runners repeatedly. All-Ameri can Bud McFaddin of the Univer sity of Texas was a close second to Giroski fftP' the title of “all- around lineman.” To be paradoxical, McFaddin was the only player who made the Ag gies’ all-opponent offensive and de fensive team, too. The big player was practically unanimous for starting guard on both teams. University of Texas placed three linemen, on the offensive team, but not a single backfield Long horn made the team. Baylor had three men on the starting team for offense—two on the line and Is bell in the backfield. Following are the all-opponent selections, for the offensive team as selected by Texas A&M: Ends: Harold Riley of Baylor and Ben Proctor of Texas; tack les: Ken Jackson of Texas and Bobby Collier of SMU; guards: Bud McFadin of Texas apd Walter Bates of Baylor; center: Dick Hightower of SMU; quarterback: Larry Isbell of Baylor; halfbacks: Kyle Rote of SMU and Gil Bar tosh of TCU; fullback: Leon Heath of Oklahoma. Selections for the defensive team, all-opponent, were as fol lows: , . Ends: Bill Howton of Rice and Bob Moorman of TCU; tackles: Paul Giroski of Rice and James Weatherall of Oklahoma; guards: Bud McFadin of Texas and Bill A they of Baylor; linebackers: Lee Stonestreet of Rice and Don Men- asco of Texas: halfbacks: Val Joe Walker of SMU and James Mott of Baylor; and safety: Bobby Dillon of Texas. fact that although they gain more rebounds, they fail to shoot gs much as their opponents. The most predominate shot in the SWC last year was the hook shot which was used inclusively by TU’s Tom Hamilton and A&M’s Marvin Martin, who has been ac claimed by Southwest sports writ ers as a smooth player who is slow. Buddy Davis, A&M’s 6’ 8” center, has been on a slump all year and has yet to produce the quality of hustle that is needed to place the Aggies among the top. In the Cadets’ home openers, bad officiating was predominate bn both sides with a grand total be ing distributed to both sides. 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