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Good Season With
Floyd at the Helm
By FRED WALKER
Bait Associate Sports Editor
The Aggies have only four basketball games left in
, their 1950-51 season, and even if they should lose all four,
Coach John Floyd can still say that he had a good year at
A&M.
Eleven of the 19 games played by the
Aggies have been victories. Last year they
won only ten.
It is highly improbable that the Maroon
and White quintet will drop all of these
games, but then fate plays strange tricks at
times. A&M has not been defeated in De-
Ware Field House by a conference team this
year and the odds say that SMU and the Uni
versity of Houston will not break the record.
And, again, on paper, Rice should be an Ag
gie victim, even though the game will be
played in Houston.
And then comes the big test—Texas. TCU practically
stole the Longhorn’s garters Monday night, but that wasn’t
the story. It doesn’t make a bit of difference how good a team
is, sometime they are going to cool off. The Steers couldn’t
hit the side of a barn in Fort Worth while the Frogs were
hotter than the Copa’s chorus line.
Here’s the point. It is going to take more than ordinary
basketball to beat the Steers in Austin. Floyd beat them here
in a beauty last month and was immediately nominated for
President of the United States by overjoyed Aggies. If he
beats them in Austin, the Administration here better look
to their jobs.
' New Look in Bee-Bop
Here’s a pretty Rood story concerning two of the fore
most basketball coaches in the country—Clair Bee of Long
Island University and Oklahoma A&M’s great “ball con-
trot” master, Henry (Hank) I\ Iba.
As a college coach, Bee took highest satisfaction from
the Blackbird win over Iba’s Aggies in the Garden in
December, 1949. lha had driven Bee nuts, as he had many
another, with his holding, defensive game. Iba seemed
to have his number until the LIU coach got the brain
cells working.
The result was a Bee masterpiece on Iba lines, a 38
■ to 31 win in which the Blackbirds took only 28 shots, and
used only seven men.
“What pointed up that game for me,” recalled Bee,
“was Iba’s remark after he lost. Hank said: ‘That little
so-and-so held the ball on me!’ That was my laugh of a
• lifetime. Imagine Hank complaining about anyone holding
the hall on him!”
Walker
’Mural Wrestling
Off to Good Start
By BAT LeBLANC
A howling partisan crowd of
About 200, densified the area of
the little gym as they watched
thirty wrestlers perform on the
initial day of the Intramural
Wrestling Tourney.
Some spectators were seated or
merched on parallel bar’s, wall-at-
aached judge’s boxes and anything
^ that would elevate them in order
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that they might watch the thirty
warriors.
The top bout of the day was the
finale, which matched Ralph Shan
ahan, B TC, and Atchinson, D Inf,
of the 117 lb. division. Atchinson
won the bout, but Shanahan, made
it rough on the winner who had no
easy task of pinning the slippery
Shanahan.
Ledlow Downs Corbett
In the 157 lb. class, Jimmy Led
low pinned Corbett’s shoulders in
a mat bout that was evenly
matched. Ledlow’s victory came
about, as the results of Ledlow’s
reversal of a loosely applied hold
by Corbett, who had Ledlow mom
entarily pinned to the canvas.
Brown, E FA, outscored Guth
rie, White Band, 6-5, while Burns
of F AF, did the same against
Clark of C Cav. in the 157 lb.
class.
White Band’s Chapmen and Cog-
burn, K AF, won over I AF Beagle
and A Cav James McGee respec
tively, in the 147 lb. division.
Roberts of A Eng, garnered the
largest number of points on the
opening day as he quelled “Jug”
Felton, 14-5. Tabb won a close
scrap over the band’s Eller, 4-1.
Heavyweight Bill Scuddcr of
ASA, threw his weight around to
a good advantage, as he beat op
ponent Martin of K AF.
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Luckman’s Ball
Days Over; Has
Office Job Now
Sid Luckman—eulogized as
the greatest T formation foot
ball quarterback by such
greats as George Halas,
Frank Leahy, Johnny Lujack
and Bob Williams—ended his 12-
year playing career with the Chica
go Bears today and became a vice
president of the club.
The Bears thus became runner-
up to the First National Bank of
Chicago in the number of vice pres
idents on hand. The bank has near
ly 50.
The Bears have at least four
officially—Luckman, technical ad
visor Clark Shaughnessy, the grid
iron nomad appointed last week;
assistant Bear coach Luke Johnson
and old-timer Jim McMillen, for
mer Bear guard and now mayor
of suburban Anitoch and pro
wrestler.—Based on AP Report.
Beat SMU
Wednesday, February 14, 1951 THE BATTALION Page 3
Varsity Baseball
Starts Tomorrow
Varsity baseball practice will
begin tomorrow afternoon at 3
p. m.
Coach “Beau” Bell has asked
that those candidates other than
varsity holdovers and freshmen
numeral winners furnish their
own shoes and a suitable uni
form.
Pro Basketball Beauties
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These are the Arkansas Travelers, a sextet of Hazel Walker, organized the team in 1946 when
lovely young women who play basketball better she realized what kind of entertainment the pub-
than most men. Their coach, captain and star, lie was hungry for.
Ag Stars To Vie
With Fem Pros
From out of the North come,
not the hordes of Genghis Kahn or
Attila the Terrible, but Hazel
Walker’s Arkansas Travelers, the
shootin’est, rootinest, ballhandling
set of women that ever set foot on
a basketball court.
That’s only half of it. Who are
they going to play? Why, who else
but Peck Vass and his Ex-Aggie
All Stars.
Yessir, tonight at 7:30 in the
Lamar Junior High School Gym,
John Floyd and such Aggie greats
Wally Moon, Taylor Wilkins,
Breazy Breazeale, Jamie Dawson,
Charlie Beard and Homer Adams
will take the floor against Hazel
Walker and her famous troupe.
Massacre time has been posted
as 7:30 p. m. to keep the odds,
mounting in favor of the women,
from getting out of hand. What?
Women beat basketball team com
posed of men like this? And play
ing with men’s rules? Never!
Look Out Men!
Don’t be too sure. This isn’t just
any six girls who play the game
for lack of something better to
do. These women are professionals
who have made a hobby out of eat
ing all-star teams for breakfast.
Hazel Walker’s name and fame
is known throughout the United
States, Canada and Mexico for her
phenomenal records in basketball.
She is better known to the sports
world as Miss Basketball for she
Top Aggie Gridders
Not In Spring Gear
“Bruisin’ Bob” Smith, Darrow
Hooper and Yale Lary, three
mighty big names in Aggie foot
ball, will not participate in Spring
training this year. Believe it or
not, their services are more val
uable elsewhere.
Lary, who was invaluable as the
Aggie punter last year, as well as
doing plow-horse chores on defense
and offense, will begin working out
with the baseball team tomorrow.
He claims baseball as his major
sport.
The track team is beckoning
Smith and Hooper into action.
Smith, the nation’s third leading
rusher last year, will go into the
field events as will Hooper, a
good quarterback whom Head Foot
ball Coach Harry Stiteler hopes to
make into an even better end.
Great Hitter
As a freshman at A&M, Lary
played center field and batted .366.
As a sophomore he was switched
to first base and had a seasonal
batting average of .294, with four
home runs to his credit.
Playing ball this past summer
for the Columbus (Tex.) Redbirds,
Lary batted .346 and cracked eight
home runs. He made all-tourna
ment in post scaspn play with a
.375 average while batting .500 at
Brenham to make all-tournament
there, too.
Hooper, a 6-5 athlete from North
Side High School, P'ort Worth,
holds the national high school shot
putt record of 59 feet, 10 1/8
inches. In his freshman college
year he bettered the SWC shot putt
record of 50 feet, 2 1/4 inches. No
varsity weight man in the confer
ence was able to touch 50 feet last
spring.
Smith first became interested in
football through going out for the
track team as a student in junior
high. He participated in several in
tramural events last year.
All-American Cage Candidate
Fans Rate McDowell Highly
By JOHN DEWITT
When the subject of basketball
comes up in the Southwest Confer
ence, there can’t have been too
much said without mention and
Bell Led Baseballers
Open Practice Feb. 15
A&M’s 1951 baseball team will
begin training Thursday afternoon,
with but 15 days remaining before
their diamond prowess is put to
the test against the Brooke Field
Medics of San Antonio on Mar. 2
and 3.
As in spring grid training, more
than 70 candidates are to report
for the first day of practice and
Coach Bell hopes to have the ros
ter cutdown to playing and travel
ing size by Feb. 25.
In addition to the regular con
ference games, A&M has scheduled
10 “warm up” contests which will
include an invading nine from the
Big Ten.
A&M has its first full-time coach
this season in A. C. “Beau” Bell
who captained A&M’s first South
west Conference championship
team in 1931. Bell, a major leaguer
for eight years, replaces Marty
Karow who doubled last year as
baseball and basketball coach. Ka
row has returned to his alma
mater, Ohio State.
Minnesota Big Foe
The University of Minnesota is
scheduled to play two games here
this year. State intersectional
foes include Brooke Field Medics,
University of Houston, and Sam
Houston State.
Here’s the schedule:
praise for A&M’s All-conference
guard, Jewell McDowell.
The regular season is only a
little more than half gone, and
already McDowell has been chosen
by Collier’s Magazine as one of
the nation’s 30 cage stars to re
ceive All-American consideration.
So SWC fans can see that this lad
is as important to the Aggies’
cage hopes, as the wheels are to
an automobile.
Twenty-one year old Jewell hails
from Amarillo, Texas, where he
gained a reputation with the
Amarillo High Sandies. At the
1947 High School State Tourna
ment in Austin he was just about
the nearest thing to a one man
show the State Tournament had
ever seen and fellow Amarillans
.will tell you that McDowell is the
-best basketball player the Sandies
ever turned out.
Family Man
Mac is married and has a three
year old daughter, Julie, who is
his pet subject for conversation.
His wife, Patsy, is an attractive
young lady you’ll see if you happen
to visit the Campus Cleaners.
167 Pounders
Bohmlcr’s pinning of McDowell
was the feature of the 167 lb. divi
sion. Harper, B Cav had a rough
task in downing Shivers of A QMC,
as did Lovingfoss, F AF, in his win
over A Sig Sanders. Eubanks of
Puryear displayed fine wrestling
tactics in disposing of Davis of B
Cav.
Only two bouts took place in the
177 lb. division. Hulan has to call
upon his resei've strength to eli
minate his fighting adversary by
the name of Richerson. Hulan pin
ned Richerson in a long four min
ute struggle.
Pierce held Cobble’s shoulders to
the mat for the count in the other
bout between the 177 pounders.
Beat SMU
Mar. 2
Brooke Field Medics
College Station
Mar. 3
Brooke Field Medics
College Station
Mar. 14
University of Houston
College Station
Mar. 17
University of Houston
Houston
Mar. 20
Sam Houston State
College Station
Mar. 22
Brooke Field Medics
San Antonio
Mar. 23
Brooke Field Medics
San Antonio
Mar. 28
University of Minnesota
College Station
Mar. 29
University of Minnesota
College Station
Apr. 3
Baylor University
College Station
Apr. 6
SMU
■ College Station
Apr. 7
S M U
College Station
Apr. 9
TCU
College Station
Apr. 14
■ Rice
College Station
Apr. 17
Sam Houston State
Huntsville
Apr. 21
Texas University
Austin
Apr. 27
TCU
Fort Worth
Apr. 28
TCU
Fort Worth
Apr. 30
SMU
Dallas
May 4
Baylor
Waco
May 5
Baylor
Waco
May 11
Rice
Houston
May 12
Rice
Houston
May 17
Texas University
College Station
May 18
Texas University
College Station
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The new Aggie ca&e coach, John
Floyd, rates tops on Mac’s list of
coaches and the Aggie star says
that Floyd will do great things
for basketball at A&M. Like the
rest of his teammates, Jewell was
a little slow in picking up the new
type of basketball Coach Floyd
brought to Aggieland, but he
wasn’t slow in making the oppon
ents sweat when the cage season
got under way.
Jewell might be called the Ag
gie’s playmaker, but he might
also be called their defensive ace,
or their top pointmaker. His of
fensive feats somewhat overshad
ow his defense, but the man he
guards is usually well satisfied to
make five or six points in a game
for Jewell considers it a bad night
if his man makes more than three
Jield goals. Little wonder he’s been
labeled by many top ranking sports
writers as the best all-around bas
ketball player in the Southwest.
Prior to this year McDowell’s fa-
vbrite shot was a one-handed push
shot which he served with deadly
accuracy from all court positions.
This year, however, fans were sur
prised to see him switch to a two-
handed style. Any concern that
McDowell followers might have
had about this new shot was soon
erased when the scrappy little
guard proved that he could find
the net with two hands as easily
as one.
A season’s total of 227 points,
95 of which are in conference com
petition, places Jewell among the
top Southwest Conference scorers.
Last year Jewell was unanimous
ly selected on the AP (Coaches)
and Collegiate Sports Writers’ all-
conference fives. He attained even
greater heights when chosen for
Look’s and Collier’s All-District 6
(NCAA) teams and the United
Press’s All-American Honorable
Mention.
was selected on the All-American
teams ten times, a record which
stands during her 14 years in ama
teur basketball.
Records, Records
She has won the national free
throw championship six times and
has held the international champ
ionship for two years. Her record
—in the latter competition—of 49
out of 50 tries has never been
beaten in national tournament his
tory.
During the past season, Miss
Walker and her "Travelers” play
ed more than 200 games through
out 42 states and Mexico. In con
tests against men—always playing
with men’s rules—the women emer
ged victorious 75% of the time.
Man vs Woman
At half-time tonight, Miss Walk
er will challenge any-one in the
Gym to a fast game of foul-tossing.
Not many takers are expected.
Introducing the rest of The Ar
kansas Travelers: Pat Johnson, 5’
11”, Edgerton, Ohio; Phyllis White,
5’ 11”, Enid, Oklahoma, All-Amer
ican six years; Flo Reed, 5’ 3”,
Yantis, Texas; Georgia Mullins,
6’, Olive Hill, Kentucky; Margie
Arends, 5’ 11”, Kramer, Iowa, pro
fessional model; and Dorothy
Jones, 5’ 11”, Mount Vernon, Ark
ansas.
With the exception of Cecil
Neighbors, principal of Crockett
Elementary School, all the “poor
males” playing for the All-Stars
will be Ex-Aggies or students now
in school.
Preston “Pee Wee” Smith, Carle-
ton Batten, Frank Tucker, Norman
Francis, James Conrad, Ridley
Briggs and James Linack will com
plete the Aggies line-up.
All-Star mentor Peck Vass has
promised a good game to the pub
lic. He further stated that when
the “old-timers”—such as Neigh
bors and Wilkins—wear out, the
youngsters will come through with
a good speedy style.
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