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Cubs Hand Fish 1st Shellacking, 47-37 By R. EDWARD GORMAN It was the Baylor Cubs, sparked by a guard the size of jockey Ed die Arcaro, who snapped the three game winning streak of Aggie Coach John Floyd’s Fish quintet in a one-sided contest last night in Waco, 47-37. The game was hardly 30 seconds old when the bespectacled Tommy Strasburger, energetic little guard from Temple, found the ring and net from about ten feet out and counted his first of eight field goals for the night. At that point the aggressive Cubs took a two point lead and were never forced to relinquish it, except for narrowing it to one point early in the second half. Telltale Errors Errors and miscues were to be found in abundance in this meet ing of two freshmen teams, and the Aggie Fish turned in more than their share. It could hardly be called a game of ball control, teamwork, and adept ball handling for the Fish, when these characteristics, so im portant to basketball, were display ed by the Cadet first year men only at brief intervals. That old “click” that has been so prominent in recent wins over Lon Morris, Wharton, and the Rice Owlets was not noticed in the Farmer lineup. For Coach Bill Henderson’s be ginning cagers, the 17 year old Strasburger was as cool a star as a coach will ever want. Possess ing only mediocre speed, and hardly classed as a standout in ball handl- First Loss . . . Baylor Cubs (47) Player, pos. Fg Ft Pf Pts Walker, f 113 3 Shelton, f :.. 1 2 5 4 Johnson, f 0 1 1 1 Brown, f 10 2 2 Dunn, c 2 4 4 8 Strasburger, g 8 4 3 20 Cole, g 2 5 4 9 Totals- 15 17 22 47 Aggie Fish (37) Player, posw Fg Ft Pf Pts Dwyer, f 5 3 5 13 Gallemore, f 2 0 2 4 Addison, f 1 3 3 5 Darling, f 0-121 Martin, c 2 0 4 4 McCrory, g 2 14 5 Williams, g 10 2 2 Baker, g 0 12 1 Davis, g 10 0 2 Totals 14 9 24 37 Halftime score: Cubs 23, Fish 14. Free-throws missed: Cubs 7, Fish 15. Bryan 2'8879 NOW SHOWING JAMES STEWART BARBARA HALE m ing, the small Temple cage mer chant contains within him a mag nanimous desire to participate in the.nation’s most attended sport. Handicapped by his glasses, Strasburger crushed three pairs in a recent game, but still showed the invincible will to play and win. Eight field goals and four free- throws was the record of this poor- boy’s Jackie Robinson, to total 20 points for game scoring- honors. A&M’s Ronald Dwyer led his teammates in the scoring division with 13 points, while James Addi son and Pat McCrory tied for sec ond with five apiece. —Beat TCU— Simpson to Lead Ag Track Team Jack Simpson, senior let- terman pole vaulter, was elected captain of the 1951 Aggie track team by the 15 track lettermen yesterday af ternoon on Kyle Field. Last year Simpson was the SWC leading pole vaulter. His best mark was 13’ 10” at the Kansas Re lays where he placed second. In the conference meet at Austin, he copped third place in this event with a jump of 13 feet. Originally from Dallas, Simpson is now living in Grand Junction, Colorado. When in High School he set a new city record in the pole vault in 1945, and later, in the state meet that year, won the broad jump and placed in the high jump and pole vault. Simpson, class of ’49, is a veteran of two years naval duty. Cte/i With Leading the conference with three straight vic tories among which were wins over the favor ites—Arkansas and SMU—the TCU Horned Frogs will invade DeWare Field House Saturday night, for what may prove to be a crucial game in the SW'C race. Among the top Frogs coming include, front row, Bud Campbell, John Ethridge, Harvey Fromme, Johnny Taylor, and Bill Elliott; second row, Jim Knox, Richard Allen, Bryan Kilpatrick, Tommy Taylor, and Johnny Swain; and third row, Kenneth Miller, William Harri son, Coach Buster Brannon, Ted Reynolds, and George McLeod. Cadet Five Edges Bears In Overtime Tilt, 55-53 By RALPH E. GORMAN A&M’s game-hungry cage quin tet looks forward zealously to its Saturday night meeting with TCU, SWC leader, after turning back the highly keyed Baylor Bears 55-53, in an overtime contest that was one of the most breathtaking bouts to be played in a SWC gym for many a day. Perfect records will be at stake when the Christianmen from Fort Worth journey to DeWare Field House Saturday to vie with a Ca det quint that is making- more than just a bid for the conference title — they’re putting up a big fight and what’s more, they’re get ting in most of the punches. Baylor’s Rena Marrs Gymnasium contained a packed house of screaming, yelling, and frenzied bi partisan fans as the lead changed four times and deadlocked six times in the last half. Miksch Scores Win Lean and lanky Leroy Miksch, is duly credited with the victory over Coach Bill Henderson’s Bears for his one handed push-shot from the free throw line which set the score at 54-53 for the Aggies with only 33 seconds remaining in the over time period. All-conference guard Jewell Mc- Battalion SPORTS WED., JAN. 10, 1951 Page 3 Consolidated Stomps Buckholts By CHUCK NEIGHBORS A&M Consolidated in a game sparked by the shooting of Joe Motheral, Billy Blakely and Bobby Williams, ran over a tired Buck- holts team last night in the Tiger gym by a huge 63-28 score. The inspired Tiger team ran their number of games won in con ference play to four and in doing so scored twice as many points as they had so far against any other team. v Blakely was high man for the Consolidated cagers with seven tal lies to his credit for a total of 14 points; Motheral was second with one less point than Blakely at 13; Bobby Williams was third highest scoring a total of 12 points. • Sharp comes to College Station next Friday night to meet the Con solidated team in their sixth con ference tilt. The go against Sharp will be the mid-point in the Tiger’s conference season. last times today “PEGGY” THURSDAY & FRIDAY wins With only one returning letter- man from last years team, the Ti ger hoopsters have done pretty well considex-ing the necessity of breaking in new playei-s. Fg Ft Total Motheral 6 1 13 Blakely 7 0 14 Williams 5 . , 2 12 Jackson ....... 4 1 9 Bonnen 4 1 10 Anderson 2 1 5 —Beat TCU— Football Crowd Less in 1950 As'compared to the previ ous year, attendance at A&M football games took a drop last season, but was up one per cent over the 1948 crowds which saw the same home schedule as last season. Over 306,501 pei’- sons saw the Cadets in action in 10 games this season. The Southern Methodist game at the Cotton Bowl drew the largest crowd with 75,457 people watch ing the game. A&M’s excursion to the West Coast, however, proved to be the fluke as the Nevada crowd numbered only 7,518. Official figures for the Presidential cup Game were not obtainable. Here is a numerical picture of the football season attendance: Home Games—90,450 Texas Tech 16,912 Virginia Military 15,746 Texas Christian 17,807 Arkansas 14,839 Rice Institute 25,146 Out-of-Town—216,051 7,518 36*566 65,169 31,341 75,457 Nevada Oklahoma Texas Baylor Southern Methodist LAST DAY •«!« ™ EiOLFn TODAY thru SATURDAY FIRST RUN —Features Start— 1:40 - 3:45 - 5:50 - 7:55 - 10:00 Screenplay by HOWARD DIMSDALE Directed by CHARLES LAM0NT Produced hr ROBERT ARTHUR TCU Cagers Romp on Owls For 3rd Win Fort Worth, Jan. 10—<7P>—TCU broke one record, tied another-and took first place in the Southwest Conference basketball race last night by swamping the Rice Owls, 87-66. It was a new one-game scox-ing record for the Fx-ogs, breaking the mark of 81 set earlier this season against Abilene Christian College. The 153 points scox-ed by the Frogs and the Owls tied the Southwest Conference record set by Univer sity of Texas and Arkansas in 1946. Harvey Fromme and George Mc Leod paced Coach Byron (Buster) Brannon’s winners with 24 and 17 points, i-espeetively. Center Joe McDermott was high for Rice with 19. 3rd Straight Win It was the Frog’s third straight conference triumph and was the third consecutive loss for coach Don Suman’s club. The Purple meets the Aggies Saturday at College Station in what should prove to be one of the beest conference tilts of the year. Texas Christian has defeated two of the top three teams who were supposed to lead the conference this season. They blasted South- ern Methodist, 57-46, and Ai’kansas, the pre.-season favorite, 42-31. Coach John Floyd’s Aggies were ranked to finish in second but the Horned Frogs seem determined to stretch their SWC recoi-d to four straight. A&M has downed Rice, 51-39, and last night edged Baylor, 55-53, in overtime. Beat TCU Hogs Fall Again As SMU Wins,- 60-45 Dallas, Jan. 9—(TP)—SMU hand ed Arkansas their second straight Southwest Conference defeat in a row with a 60-45 win last night. The Ponies were paced by swift Fred Freeman, who tossed in 21 points for game seoi'ing honors, followed by teammate Jack Brown with 17 points. Big Bob Ambler, the Bazorback’s 6’8” center led his team with 14 points. A good defense line and sharp shooting helped the Mustangs to their second conference win in three games. Only a loss to TCU mars their conference record. SMU jumped to an early 13-0 lead before the Hogs could score, and with 10 minutes of the game gone, SMU. led 24-9. Leads Fish Scorers Dwyer—Fish Quintet Star Has Musical Talent; Plus By JIMMY ASHLOCK Many times . when an. athlete proves outstanding in a sport, he also possesses hidden talent of which his fellow teammates are not conscious. Such is the case of Ronnie Dwy er, the star of this yeai'’s Fish bas ketball team. Unknown to the other members of the team, Dwyer has musical talent rvhich he has somehow kept hidden up to this time, being able to play both the bass horn and the violin. He also trys his hand at singing, but this is no seci’ct, much to the disgust of his fellow players. Fair Catch Liked By College Coaches Dallas, Jan. 10—(A*)—College football coaches are generally agreed that television has hurt at tendance and that the fair catch rule should be restored to the game. Incomplete results of a ques- tionaii-e cii’culated by Lou Little of Columbia, chairman of the Coaches Rules Committee, showed strong sentiments on these two points. On almost all other ques tions, opinion was divided. Replies show that thei’e has been little change in the elapsed time of games due to liberal substitu tions and the “platoon” system and indicate no definite trend toward either tightening or further, liber alizing the substitution rule. Most successful of the recent rules changes was barring the use of the x’ough forearm block by of fensive players. Another rules proposal which re ceived considerable support was to have a uniform way of starting the time clock after every play “if it can be arrived at.” Beat TCU Dwyer came to A&M from Wel lington, Kan., where he was active in sports throughout jjis high school cai'eer. Although- the six foot three inch, eighteen year old has 1‘eceived his chief recognition in basketball while attending col lege, nimors say that while in high school he was much more out standing at the fullback position on Wellington High’s grid team, excelling running, passing, and kicking. He was voted honorable men tion on the all-state football team, and was named to the 2nd team of all-Arkansas Valley selections. However, while serving on the Wellington basketball team, he was under the direction of John Floyd, the present Aggie cage mentor. Dwyer was also placed on the All- Arkansas Valley quintet. This no doubt accounts for his coming to A&M and his familiarity with Floyd’s style of play. Dwyer holds a starting berth at guard on the Aggie fish team, and is an unusually good ball handler and dribbler for a freshman. His best shot seems to be a jump shot from the free throw circle ai’ea. He obtains a great deal of spring in his legs which renders him val uable also in rebounding. In Fish games up to this time he has scoi'- ed 21 field goals and 8 free thi’ows for a total of 50 points, making him high point man for the sea.son. Beat TCU Play Fair, Get There When Traffic is Heavy The chances of your having a traffic accident when driving in heavy traffic is very high. If we wish to x'each our destination safe ly, we must constantly be alert to all that is going on about us. Be courteous and cautious in your driving, and play fair with your fellow drivers on the high ways. DV «/2’l5&4% DYERS" FUR STORAGE HATTERS Loupot’s Trading Post—Agents Dowell added the 55th point on a chax-ity shot as the clock ran out. Miksch wasn’t the only Cadet who can be lauded for pulling the Baylor game out of the fire, for it was John DeWitt who meshed the net with a beauty from the corner to tie the game at 46 all and send the contest into a five minute over time period. Bill Harris’ bucket and gift toss and Gox*don Cari’ington’s charity shot sent the Bears zooming out in fi'ont 50-46 as the overtime started and then 6’8” Buddy Davis dx-opped in three quickies to establish an other Cadet margin 52-50. Bears Open Fast Only a few minutes after the opening whistle sounded the Bears found the range on their home court and led the Floydmen 8-2 to finish the first half holding the same seoi’ing lead 26-20. The Aggie cage mentor appar ently spoke “softly and carried a big stick” dui’ing the halftime pe riod, for it was in the fast and furious second half the renaissance occuri’ed. Bobby Farmer’s fi’ee throw nai’- rowed the Bear margin to five points and Bruin scoring aces Ralph Johnson and Harris retaliat ed swiftly to garner a nine point lead, 33-24, their longest of the game. Aggies Born Again At this point the “rebirth” took place and the Aggie defense stood like the Tower of Babel allowing the Beax-s only two field goal at tempts in the following eight min utes, while McDowell, DeWitt, Da vis, and Don Heft narrowed the lead to 32-33. A&M’s aggi’essive cagers showed complete conti’ol of the ball as they captured same with deftness that would make Houdini look like a piker, and they led for the first time in the evening, 37-34, with but eight minutes showing on the clock. Fishery Director To Speak Tuesday Dr. Gox-don Gunter, director of the Institute of Maxnne Science at Port Aransas, will speak on the history and development of the fishei’ies and fisheries biology of the Gulf Coast at the Fish and Game Club meeting Tuesday. The meeting will be at 7:30 p. m. in the lecture x’oom of the Agx’i- cultural Engineering- Building. ■ Although they trailed by two points four more times before the game ended, the Farmei’s contin ued to show that they were the team-of-the-hour, as they cleaned both backboai’ds and moved with the speed of a Saberjet—not allow ing the Bears time to set up the de fense that they had displayed in the early minutes of the game. Teams Shoot Accurately Accurate shooting can be ci’ed- ited to both teams, as the Cadets meshed 19 of 51 field goal at tempts and garnered 17 of 22 from the free throw line. Baylor made good on 18 of 49 field goal at tempts and cashed in 17 of their 20 charity tosses. Davis Virtual Star Without a doubt, Aggie center Buddy Davis was the commander of the court as he turned in a ter rific night, counting 22 points and claiming ownership of the back- boards, garnering 17 rebounds from either end of the court. Davis led both teams in scoring and re bounds. Baylor’s Harris earned scoring honors for the Bruins with 17 points, while Johnson got 12. Mc Dowell and DeWitt followed team mate Davis in the scoring division with 14 and 13 points respectively. —Beat TCU— Too Close • • • Box score: A&M (55) ■ fg ft Pf tp Martin, f .. 0 1 3 1 Miksch, f .. 1 0 0 2 DeWitt, f .. 5 3 3 13 W. Davis, c .. 8 6 3 22 McDowell, g .. 4 6 4 14 Walker, g .. 0 0 0 0 Heft, g .. 0 0 3 0 Farmer, g .. 1 1 2 3 — — — Totals .19 17 18 55 Baylor (53) fg ft Df tp Mullins, f .. 2 5 2 9 Johnson, f .. 5 2 3 12 Harris, c .. 7 3 2 17 Hovde, g .. 1 0 5 2 D. Davis, g .. 2 2 .2.. 4 Carrington, g ...... ..2 5 9 Miles, g .. 0 0 3 0 — — Totals ..18 17 22 53 Halftime score: Baylor 26, A&M 20. 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