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SWC Basketball Goes To Half-Way Point A Southwest Conference bas- ■ ketball race that has been shocked ■ by a lusty quota of upsets compar- I able to an ordinary full season Amoves to the half-way mark this ■ week with everybody resting for ■ the big push. Arkansas, Rice and Baylor fin- ■ ally managed to win a game apiece *J last week with Rice furnishing the ■ biggest upheaval in shooting down ■ Southern Methodist 75-69 Saturday ■ night. ■ That just about kicked SMU out ■ of the championship picture, join- ■ ing Arkansas, the pre-season fav- ■ orite. Texas Undefeated [ Texas is the only undefeated ■ team left and the Longhorns will ■ stay that way at least for 10 days because they don’t have another game until Jan. 31. Texas whipped Arkansas 50-42 last week to maintain its upper strata standing. Southern Methodist knocked over A&M 51-44 to shove the Aggies into a tie with Texas Christian for second place, each with a 3-1 rec ord. TCU didn’t play at all last week. Baylor blasted Rice 69-55 for the Bears’ first conference win of the season while Arkansas picked on JBaylor by the same score for the Razorbacks’ initial victory. Southern Methodist and Arkan sas each has lost three games and Rice and Baylor have dropped four apiece. Rice and Southern Methodist hooked up in a bell-ringer at Hous ton Saturday night. Paul Mitchell flipped in a charity shot to tie the score at the end of the regula tion time but in the overtime the Owls pushed ahead easily. The score was tied 16 times in this torrid battle. Hester Clicks Seven-foot Toar Hester clicked to shoot Arkansas to victory over Baylor. The giant of the Ozarks flipped in 22 points. Only one game is scheduled this week and it is an intersectional af fair. Baylor meets Oklahoma City University at Oklahoma City Tues day night. All the other teams take the week off for mid-term tions. Fish Grid Team « .' Awarded Letters ^^^Twentv-nine members of the Twenty-nine members of the 11950 freshman football team have been awarded numerals by the A&M Athletic Council. The team, coached by Perron Shoemaker, was honored recently during the Winter Sports Banquet. Although the Fish only won one out of five starts this past sea son, the team contains some of the best talent in the country. Among the letterman are 15 who were all district men, three all state and one all America in their high school | days. These boys will get their first taste of varsity competition next month when spring training begins. Coach Harry Stiteler sees in the team some good but inexperienced replacements for the graduating varsity lettermen this year. Following are the Fish by posi tion and hometown with the honors each received in high school: Ends: Bert Koegl, Abilene; | Eric E. Miller, all district, Bartlett; Jim E. Morrison, all district, Rock- port; Louis B. Petty, San Angelo; Bobby Price, all district two years, Haskell; Robbie Scott, all district, Harlingen. Tackles: John Gibbens, all dis- ; trict and all state second team, | Uvalde; Donald L. Goodwin, Ar- Battalion SPORTS TUBS., JAN. 23, 1951 Page 5 lington; Durwood Hall, Dallas; Bobby Morgan, Huntsville; Tommy R. Rhoads, all district, Haskell. Guards: William A. Burtchaell, all district four year, all state three years, all Southern one year and all-American one year, New Orleans, La.; Louis E. Capt, all district two years, Uvalde; Geoi’ge Roberts, Dallas; Ben Halley, Glade- water; John W. Neale, Houston; Lawrence Schulze, San Antonio. Centers: Charles Fischer, Abi lene; Robert R. Gosney, all distinct three years and honorable mention for all state two -years, Fort Worth. Backs: John Gavileer, Austin; Donald Criswell, all district two years, Texan; Scott C. Cutter, all conference two years, Oswego, Ill.; Leo Fuchs, all district two years, Cameron; Franklin D. Gibson, all district two years, Pioneer; Hay den E. Mayeaux, all district two years, New Orleans, La.; George R. Perkins, all district, all state and honorable mention all-America, De Quincey, La.; James J. Russell, San Angelo; John Salyer, all dis trict, Austin; and Robert A. Smith, Austin. Talk Is Free In Sessions at NCAA Parley By WILBUR MARTIN Associated Press Staff Cleaning the cuff after the Na tional Collegiate Athletic Associa tion convention in Dallas: Marty Karow, former A&M base ball and basketball coach, looking fit and feeling fine as baseball coach at Ohio State now, says he’ll bring his Buckeye nine to Texas this spring for a series with Texas, Baylor and Texas Christian . . . wouldn’t guess who’d be named football coach at Ohio State. Mose Simms lobby-gossiping with Jess Neely of Rice and other coaches . . . sporting horn-rimmed glasses these days . . . gives him a distinguished appearance. Jack Curtice, who used to be out at Texas Western, looking just the same before he moved to Utah . . . says it’s really not so cold up there . . . Wilford Moore of McMurry swapping yarns . . . bystanders wondering when he was going to move up to a bigger school . . . think he deserves a crack at big time coaching. Buck Bailey, Washington State baseball coach, and Bibb Falk, dia mond coach at the University of Texas, spinning yarns . . . Texas beat Washington State for the NCAA title last spring . . . Bailey an old Texas A&M gridder . . . good guess is that Falk will be named “college baseball coach of year” . . . he’s won two NCAA titles in a row. W. 0. Hunter, Southern Cali fornia athletic director, sounding sleepy at 3 o’clock in the morning when queried umpteenth time on who’ll be Trojan grid coach . . . and Gen. Bob Neyland, rumored for the job, denying same. 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Baylor 69, Rice 55 Rice 75, Southern Me^X' 0 ' Arkansas 69, Baylor 5r -' This Week’s Sche Tuesday—Baylor vs. City University at OklahT ering in o colors. ; maga- Leading Scorers (Se^ 00 ^ Player McDermott, Rice, c Brown, SMU, f McLeod, TCU, c Dowies, Texas, g Davis, A&M, c Gerhardt, Rice, f Johnson, Baylor, c-g McDowell, A&M, g Freeman, SMU, £ J. D. White, Rice, f G gg lications 78 latest in 72 been the 74 76|inded by 68jictors of 74! was felt 72|letin to 70 63 iriation Leading Scorers (Confif 0 ^®® Player G of tvoe Brown, SMU, f 26 of the Freeman, SMU, g ....28 K-th* McDermott, Rice, c ....22 \18 62 Fromme, TCU, f 23 13 59 Harris, Baylor, f 22 .14 58 Johnson, Baylor, c-g ....24 10 58 Dowies, Texas, g 23 9 55 Davis, A&M, c 19 16 54 White, Rice, f 16 21 53 Scaling, Texas, g 19 15 53 The Human Race J.R &JL&00MER 15 A WHIZ IN THE OFFICE WHEN IT <35/- /% umuiWHtNii c COMES TO TURNING ( ^ A FAST SUCK- ^ amid -riiaWSJJtiQ A BUSY STREET. the quarry had quietly pulled out. There was no enemy contact Wednesday night except for a mi nor patrol clash near Yoju, 40 miles southeast of the abandoned South Korean capital of Seoul. A few Korean Reds were en countered in the same general area, north of Kumyangjang and Ichon. U. S. intelligence officers said the apparent absence of Red troops in force south of the Han River, which twists around Seoul, may mean the Chinese have made a large-scale withdrawal to the north. There was speculation that the Chinese are awaiting political de velopments in the United Nations, meanwhile using Red Koreans to patrol the no-man’s land into which U. N. patrols have been poking all week. But Allied air power gave the Reds no rest far behind the lines. Warplanes plastered military tar gets throughout North Korea. The town of Chunchon was wrecked. More Russian-type planes were thrown Into the air war with Yak night fighters attacking American B-26s on night intruder missions Wednesday night. It was one of their few appearances in the Ko rean war. No damage was caused by the enemy planes. A strong Allied patrol powered its way through slight enemy op position to retake the town of Ho- engsong, 10 miles north of rub bled Wonju and 33 miles south of the 38th parallel but withdrew shortly afterward. American planes made a heavy air attack on the town Thursday, indicating the Reds had reoccupied former positions. Strongest Com munist forces in the Hoengsong area at last reports were North Korean Reds. 1 in Hits Mill Over Eur College Station a year rk i You probably recall .1 Gehrmann and his frustrated rival, Fred Wilt, finished in what seemed to be a dead heat in the 1950 race, and the dead heat generated the hottest argument since the first Louis-Walcott fight. London, Jan. 25—(A*)—Millior"'" Europe are sneezing and runn. temperatures and some thousand —mostly the feeble and aged—haw died in an influenza epidemic whid appears to be reaching its peak ii a number of countries. The United Kingdom seems tc be hardest hit by the highly in fectious disease, which sweeps through communities with startling! suddenness, laying low a large pro portion of the population. In some continental countries — notably Belgium, Germany, Denmark and Sweden—the ill ness appears to be waning. But it is flaring up in Czechoslovakia and Poland and is reaching epi demic proportions in Spain. In many regions of Britain schools are closed, theaters are em pty, and transportation and indus try have faltered. Health officials fear the disease may spread and that it may sweep into the popu lous southern half of England which has, unaccountably, been rel atively free of influenza. The “influenza belt” in Britain extends from Tyneside on the northeast coast, where the disease is believed to have made its entry from Norway, to Merseyside on the west coast, including the city of Liverpool. Almost universally, hospitals are overcrowded and doctors overworked. Sufferers are being told to go to bed and cure them selves with remedies offered by drug stores. Public health officials every where are emphasizing that it has been a mild form of the disease, de spite so many cases. 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Brin- ley, chairman of Texas A&I Col lege and Physical Education, pre sents his views in the January is sue of the Interscholastic Leaguer that inter school football at the ele mentary level be abolished. Dr. Brinley stirred controversy with an article in the December is sue. He said the elementary program is not justified “because it deals with a vulnerable age, it will not produce a better high school player, it is undemocratic at this level, leadership is poor and it is not conductive to good posture.” Now he challenges elementary schools to develop football funda mentals through other forms of physical activity more beneficial to all. Hundreds of inquiries poured into Dr. Brinley’s office after his first article. Many took opposing views. Among these is Sports Editor Jake Trussell of the Kingsville Record who pointed to Kingsville’s thriving grammar-school gridiron program and said the game was great for the kids. This week he turned pollster, coming up with nine viewing the elementary game favorably, two against it, and two of no opinion. Brinley, a former all-Rocky Mountain tackle and a great fan of high school and college football, re- rrs the it 1935 dex that i A sumers’ 1950 up to 1.6 per cent ning of the Kor er prices were major groups of it up the budget of t| come family. The rise between Dec. 15 was led cent advance in food pr was the greatest movi Budget Call k In A dTH GATE sumed his argument in the January Leaguer with these points: Football, a sport which demands too much specialization, has too little carry-over value. Football tends to go to the ex treme. “If a little is good, more is better,” is an illogical conclusion that leads to disaster. / Football is not a natural motiva tor. Nature provided play to devel op the physical capacities of the organism, but competitive football does not follow these natural pat terns. Elementary football provides for exploitation. “Who are the people most interested in the promotion of football on the elementary level?” asks Dr. Brinley. “Is it not the coaches, sports writers, and ‘town promoters?” “Sometimes the future of the youngster becomes secondary to other motives,” he charges. Values can be found elsewhere. Most of the benefits derived from football in the elementary school could be better supplied by other means. “Emphasis should be placed TODAY & WEDNESDAY Directed by^WllllAM A. WELLMAN | An Eagle Lion Films Re-Release -ii: THURSDAY & FRIDAY 400Miles of Frontier Fury! feltased Ita lilel Artists on developing the fundamental skills necessary to all sports.” Dr. Brinley cites examples of such activities as: running, jump ing, throwing, catching, kicking, suspension, and dodging—and more specifically, all types of games, contests, relays, lead-up games, and sundry skills. QUEEN last day Eye Witness” WED. & THURS. itl ito-ihe evm.iN' ms OFCDMFANy# AGGIES ... 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