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Freshman James Addison (28) and an unidenti fied Allen Academy eager juggle the ball dur ing the curtain raiser of the games Saturday. The Fish lost their second game of the season to the Ramblers, 40-47. Photo by Battalion Chief Photographer Sam Molinary A&M’s. high scoring All-Conference guard Jewell McDowell successfully sinks a crip shot after McLeod (33). McDowell led Aggie scorers with out-maneuvering TCU’s top player George 10 points, McLeod scored 13. Three 11s In Mural Playoffs Ry JOE BLANCHETTE Three teams reached the semi final round of the intramural football playoffs Friday afternoon. The other semi-finalist will be found Tuesday afternoon when A Infantry and F Air Force clash. A QMC used a vicious ground eating attack to sink A Vets 6-0, while B Engineers easily swamped A Signal Corps, and E Infantry edged out A Engineers 6-0, al though the latter led on penetra tions and first downs. The QMC depended chiefly upon their ground assault to carry them to victory as their backfield speed sters, Frank Trahan, Bud Yeager, Charley Bruchmiller, and June Clark, pounded the Vet line re peatedly with powerful lunges. -f The first time the suppliers got control of the pigskin, they rolled to a touchdown. They gained con trol of the oval immediately as they received the opening kickoff. Yeager Stopped Yeager took the kickoff and was nailed in his tracks on the QMC nine yard line. Yeager went off tackle for three yards. Bruchmiller crashed over the center of the Vet line for six. Trahan carried for a first down to the QMC 35. A penalty moved the ball to the Vet 45. Yeager swept end to the 30, then Trahan drove off tackle on a double reverse for 10 yards. Bruchmiller moved the hall to the (See ’MURAL PLAYOFF, Page 4) rpiAl r 2*l5d4 DVER5-PUR STORAGE HATTERS monceuK. Lm'twmmvvivm Loupot’s Trading Post-Agents / Deserve It, 1 Guess . . . MY BUDDIES TELL ME I should check the Battalion ads before I go shop ping, see? But I don’t. So what happens? I come back after I’ve spent all my dough and I DO read those ads, see? I COULD KICK MYSELF! If I had read the ads First, I could have saved enough geetus to take a trip up to Tessieland after exams are over. I’ll read ’em NEXT time. You can bet your boots and saber on that! The Battalion Classified 4-5324 Ph. 4-5444 TU Edges A&M Tankers, 5248, In SWC Relays Texas Longhorn tankers edged the Aggies, 52-48, for their second straight South west Conference Swimming Relay .Carnival title Saturday night in Rice Institute’s new pool. Southern Methodist was third with 42, while Rice and Baylor follow ed with 24 and eight points, re spectively. It was the first time that the 0\yls had ■ onioned ; a teUin, • but it wh-snft the 'first timethat'-tllh ■Lhhg- horns had won the meet. Last year in Dallas, they edged the Cadets by the identical score and Southern Methodist was again third, although they scored but 40 points that year. The Aggies won both the 400 yard breast stroke relay and the double medley relay while Texas won the 400 freestyle relay, the 400 backstroke relay, and the only individual event, the diving. Skippy Browning, NCAA diving champion of 1949, led both of his teammates, who finished second and third. In the backstroke relay, Tommy Comstock gave the Cadets a lead which was partly lost by Arlen McKenzie, but Van Adamson came back to again give the Farmers the lead, and footballer Jimmy Flowers swam the anchor length keeping well ahead of TU’s Johnny Crawford, who finished second. Summaries 400-yard freestyle relay—1-Tex- as (Crawford, Montgomery, Wil son,); 2-SMU; 3-Texas A&M; 4- Baylor. Time 3:44.7. 400-yard breast stroke relay—1- TeXas A&M (Comstock, McKenzie, Adamson, Flowers); 2-SMU; 3- Texas; 4-Rice. Time 4:39.7. 400-yai-d back stroke relay—1- Texas (Crawford, Hoff, Gilbert, Grover); 2-Texas A&M; 3-SMU; 4- Rice. Distance freestyle medley relay —1-SMU (Farrell, Muckleroy, Am- erine); 2-Texas; 3-Texas A&M; 4- Rice. time 7:39.9. Double medley relay—1-Texas A&M (Blundell, Comstock, Adam son, Sargent, Flowers, Ellis); 2- Texas; 3-SMU; 4-Rice. Time, 6:21.7. Diving — 1-Browning (Texas); 2-Davis (Texas); 3-Lyvers (Tex as); 4-Slocum (SMU); 5-Johnson (Texas A&M). Beat SMU Bryan M TODAY thru WEDNESDAY NOW SHOWING v . Ag,PonyCagers Clash Tuesday In Perkins Gym By FRANK N. MANITZAS Battalion Sports Editor Tomorrow night in Perkins Gymnasium on the South- ! ern Methodist campus, the Aggies will be hustling for their ; fourth consecutive Southwest Conference victory against the i highly favored Mustangs. In the other conference game, to be played tomorrow ! night, the Rice Owls will meet Baylor at Houston. A&M and Texas are now tied for the conference lead, | each having won three games. The* Longhorns have scored 157 points while allowing their three oppon ents to garner 151. Coach John Floyd’s Aggies have held their three opponents to 128 markers while scoring 145 themselves. Although the Longhorns are sup posed to be a fast break team, and their coach Jack Gray claims that ball control basketball is ruining the game, the Steers froze the ball for the final four minutes in their 42-39 victory over SMU. Best 5 in Years Led by veteran letter man Jack Brown and sophomore starlet Fred Freeman, the Ponies will be pitting their best team in recent years against the Cadets. Holding a 9-6 season record and a 2-2 conference slate, the Dallas five will be a team similar to that which the Aggies defeated Saturday. SMU, like TCU, also likes to run with the ball. In defeating the Horned Frogs with the ease which they displayed Saturday evening, A&M broke TCU’s conference winning streak and also their scoring record. Har vey Fromme, who hud been aver aging 18 points in each conference game, was held to four points by the excellent defense work of John DeWitt. McLeod Unable to Score George McLeod, one of the top scorers in the league with 496 points, fer , 14 v:ga,mes, scored 1*3 bpjnts 1 , but was nevpr able to score with his fabulous hook shot. Buddy Davis and Marvin Martin were largely responsible for guarding McLeod. A&M, on the other hand, was dis playing their top ball-control form, and instead of running with the Horned Frogs as Coach Buster Brannon was hoping the Aggies would have to do, the Cadets slow ed the visitors down. But the game was well received by the audience which was solidly packed in the field house. Saturday’s game placed A&M among the top six defensive teams in the nation, and cinched the Ag gies as the top defensive team in the conference. The Aggies have allowed their 14 opponents an aver age of 47.5 points for game, while holding their three conference foes to 42.6 points for game. Rice, who didn’t play Arkansas during the weekend because of fog gy weather which kept the Owls’ chartered plane from landing in Fayetteville, meets Baylor in Houston in the other scheduled conference game tomorrow night. Battalion SPORTS MON., JAN. 15, 1951 Page 3 Williams Leads Tigers to Easy Win Coach Othel Chafin’s A&M Con solidated Tigers took their fourth straight district win, knocking the edge off Sharp’s qnintet to the tune of 57-27 last Friday night in the Tiger gym. Sharpshooter Bobby Williams found the hoop successfully for 22 points, while red-hot Billy Blakely tallied 16 markers for the high-flying Consolidated team. Consolidated’s B squad tore through a weak Sharp B team for a 30-8 win High scorers for the Kittens were Jimmy Richards and Pinky Cooner with nine points apiece. The Tigers take the road to Rockdale next Tuesday night to play the game which will mark the mid-point in district competition for the College Station cagers. LAST TIMES TODAY “Ma and Pa Kellie Go lo Town” Tuesday & Wednesday Pet. 145 128 1.000 157 151 1.000 222 182 .750 211 181 76 102 159 194 148 180 .500 .000 .000 .000 Season Standings Team W TCU 9 SMU 9 A&M 8 Texas 7 Rice 5 Arkansas 5 Baylor .• 5 Conference Standings l earn W L Pts. Op. A&M 3 Texas 3 TCU 3 SMU 2 Arkansas 0 Rice 0 Baylor 0 Last Week’s Result SMU 60, Arkansas 45. TCU 87, Rice 66. A&M 55, Baylor 53. Texas 42,, SMU 39. A&M 39, TCU 36. This Week’s Schedule Tuesday—Southern Methodist vs. A&M at Dallas, Baylor vs. Rice at Houston. Saturday — Southern Methodist vs Rice at Houston, Baylor vs Ar kansas at Fayetteville. Leading Scorers (season) Player G F TP McDermott, Rice, c 79 46 204 McLeod, TCU, c 72 52 196 Brown, SMU, f 66 51 182 Dowies,, Texass, g' 67 44 178 Davis) A&M, o 71 34 176 McDowell, A&M g 69 36 174 Johnson, Baylor,, $-g , 66 , «31? 163 Gerhar'dt, Rice, f 60 42 162 Freeman, SMU, g 60 ! 38 158 Mullins, Baylor, g 52 43 147 Leading Scorers (Conference) Player G F TP Fromme, TCU, f 23 13 59 Freeman, SMU, g 18 15 51 McLeod, TCU, c 18 14 50 Brown, SMU, f McDowell, A&M, g 14 19 47 16 10 42 Johnson, Baylor, £ 16 10 42 Dowies, Texas, g Scaling, Texas, g 16 9 41 15 10 40 Davis, A&M, c 14 12 40 McDermott, Rice, c 13 10 36 Graham Leads AC to Victory Los Angeles, Jan. 15—(TP)—Quar terback Otto Graham, scoring two touchdowns, led his American con ference teammates to a bruising 28-27 triumph over the National conference yesterday in the pro- Bowl postseason football game be fore 53,676 fans in Memorial Coli seum. 3rd SWC Win TCU (36) Fg Ft Fromme, f 1 2 Reynolds, f 3 1 Allen, f 6 1 McCloud, c 5 3 Ethridge, g 0 1 Campbell, g 0 0 T. Taylor, g 3 1 Swain, g 1 1 Pf Tp 3 4 3 7 1 13 1 0 7 Totals 13 10 19 36 A&M (39) Fg Ft Pf Tp Dewitt, f 3 2 4 8 Martin, f 16 2 8 Davis, c 3 15 7 Williams, c 0 0 10 McDowell, g 4 2 3 10 Heft, g 14 16 Totals 12 15 16 39 Half-time score: A&M 25, TCU 15. Free throws missed: Fromme, Reynolds, McCloud 3, Ethridge 2, J. Taylor, Swain 2, Davis, McDow ell 2. Officials: Shaw and Park. A&M’s Buddy Davis (16) takes a rebound away from TCU’s George McLeod (33) during the Aggies third straight conference victory Sat urday night. The Cadets upset the Horned Frogs, 39-36. Photo by Battalion Chief Photographer Sam Molinary John Dewitt of the Aggies ties the ball up with TCU’s Ted Reynolds while Reynolds’ team mate Harvey Fromme looks away. Fromme is the top scorer in conference play with 59 points. A&M Fish Downed by Allen By JIM ASHLOCK Meeting defeat for the sec ond straight time, A&M’s Fish quintet bowed to under dog Allen Acadamy 40-47 in the preliminary game Satur day night in DeWare Field House. James Addison got things rolling for the Fish with a field goal while the contest was only one minute old. This quickly developed into an eight point lead with the Fish exhibiting excellent ball control and team play. Allen was held scoreless for the first six and a half minutes of play, being unable to find a weak ness in the Fish defense. With twelve minutes remaining in the •first period, Allen finally found the range, , and before the Fish could muster, another goal the score was tied eight all. The Aggie freshmen partially re covered their lead a moment later, but Allen quickly snuffed out the sputtering flame and added fuel to their own fire. During those remaining four minutes Allen stretched their lead seven points, the half-time score reading Allen 27, Aggie Fish 17. Halftime Refreshes Fish A halftime rest seemed to re fresh the Fish as they resumed play with the fire and coolness they had displayed during the early stages of the first period. Addison once again started the scoring, and seven minutes later his free throw locked the score at 28-28. But the Freshmen’s hope of vic tory was short lived. Less than minute later,' Allen once again found the range and climbed to the top. In a vain attempt to drive ahead, the Fish seemed to forget the ball control and team play in which they had been drilled so consistently, and resorted to indiv idual measures. Allen took ad vantage of the rattled condition and controlled the ball until the final horn. Score: Allen 47, Fish 40. Two things were apparent in the Fish defeat, the weakness of their defense and rebounding ability. Up to this time, in previous games, Addison and Roy Martin, the big Fish center, had been the predom- SPORTalk... The NCAA Sanity Code bit the dust during the weekend in Dal las .. . We sacrificed the Sanity Code to save the NCAA is the opinion being expressed by the na tion’s sports leaders . . . the be lief was that retention of the con troversial errant members would have disrupted the organization . . . . E. D. Mouzon of Southern Meth odist succeeded D. W. Williams of A&M as vice-president of District 6 . . . other new tnembei’s to the NCAA committee include Jack Gray of Texas and Matty Bell of SMU . . . Navy’s 14-2 upset victory over (See SPORTalk, Page 4) AT THE EXCHANGE STORE “Serving Texas Aggies” inate figures in cleaning the back- boards. But with Martin collecting four fouls in the first half, Fish Coach Don Binford was forced to hold him on the bench for the major part of the second period. The loss of Martin proved to be fatal as Al len proceeded to take control of the backboards. The sinking man-to-man defense, which the Fish have executed to the highest efficiency in past en counters, proved effective for a short while only, with Allen drop ping in many long ones. Allen players driving in for crip shots likewise brought to light the vul nerable spots in the freshman de fense. Dwyer Unable to Shoot Ron Dwyer, the versatile jump shot artist, was unable to find the hoop throughout the evening as he was forced continually to shoot from lohg range. This added Td the plight of the .freshmen;" for Dwyer’s showing has proven to be the deciding factor on several past occasions. High point man of the evening was Addison, with sixteen points, followed by Dwyer with eight. Aggie Fish (40) Fg Ft Pf Tp Gallemore, f 0 0 10 Davis, f 0 0 0 0 Addison, f 6 4 2 16 Montgomery, f 2 12 5 Martin, c 2 3 4 Harris, c 0 0 0 Williams, g Ill Dwyer, g 2 4 1 Darling, g Oil Swatzell, g 0 0 1 Totals 13 14 13 40 Allen Academy (47) Fg Ft Pf Tp Graham, f 113 3 Barrett, f 0 0 5 0 Pridgeon, f 5 0 2 10 DeZavala, c 13 5 5 Carswell, g 6 2 2 14 Chambers, g 2 0 3 4 Ficky, g 5' 1 4 11 Totals .20 7 24 47 Malftime score: Allen £4, A&M 17. ' ' Free-throws-missed: Martin 3, Addison 2, Darling 2, Dwyer, Mont gomery, Chambers 3, DeZavala 2, Barrett, Graham, Carswell. Officials: Wilkins and Segrest. Beat SMU The Manhattan Shirt Company, makers of Manhattan shirts, neefti wear, underwear', pajamas, sportshirts, bedchwear and handkerchiefs^