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Friday, February 16, 1951
THE BATTALION
Pago 5
Cage Campaign No
Longer a Problem;
Frogs, Ags to Win
By RALPH GORMAN
Battalion Sports Editor
Last night in Fayetteville, Coach Presley Askews Raz-
orbacks downed a supposedly formidable Louisiana State
quintet 64 to 50 and proved to the Southwest Conference
doubtfuls that the Hogs are yet to come.
Showing a win-loss record in conference
play of four and four, the long tall boys from
up in the Arkansas hills have come to life
and from this corner, we are saying that the
new Hog cage team is not to be defeated be
fore 1952.
And with that we find ourselves out on a
limb, but we feel that ours is the strongest
limb ever to support a sportswriting Nostra
damus. So why not venture out to the weak
part and just see how far we can bend it.
Read along with us while we take a quick
look at the ramble-scramble SWC cage cam
paign and we’ll give the Conference fans food-for-thought in
our forecasts.
Yey, we’ve got it all figured out. So there shouldn’t be
any need for the jamming of field houses for the remainder
of the season, unless the fans just want to see a good show.
Now, we are asked, who is the 1951 champion?’, and to
that we quickly reply the team who wins the post-season
play-off between Buster Brannon’s Horned Frogs and John
Floyd’s Aggies.
To College Station partisans this bit of “news” should offer much
relief, for some had thought the Cadets to be on the down grade after
losing to Arkansas last week.
With the Hog-Aggie cage bout we quickly recall the words of
A&M’s roundball mentor some weeks ago, when he said, “All 1 hope
for is to split the series with Arkansas, and I’d gladly do that without
even going on the court against them.”
MSC Sponsors
^egler Contest
Again Saturday
For the second week in row
the Memorial Student Center
bowling lanes will sponsor an
all day bowling contest tomor
row for the student turning
in the highest score for Saturday’s
bowling.
Originated by Chris Gent, assist
ant director of the MSC, the week
ly contest offers a prize of about
five dollars value in an edible item
for the day’s high score, while the
runner up will be the] “victim” of
a comical prize.
In last week’s contest Tom, Lath-
em, sophomore from Abilene, top
ped the day’s keglers with a high
game of 224 and Warren McRey-
nolds, sophomore from Houston,
knocked down 219 pins for second
place.
Last week’s prizes were a white
cake with a chocolate bowling ball
for the high game and a stack of
one dozen flapjacks for the run
ner-up.
Jimmy Rose, manager of the
bowling lanes, plans to make this
a weekly event with the awards
being made at 10:30 Saturday
night.
The 10:30 presentation would
give those who plan to attend one
of the midnight shows ample time
to be there before the show begins,
Rose concluded.
A&M’s top basketball scorers
are both married. Guard McDowell
has a baby girl. Center Walter
Davis has no children.
We Agree, Coach Floyd
So we like to agree with Floyd
in his pre-season wish, as it seem
ed that only he could foresee that
the Razorbacks were to turn into
winning quintet. Look at the rec
ord with us and see that the Hogs
have turned down four of their last
five opponents, and the fifth one
was the heartbreaker to the Ag
gies in DeWare Field House.
Some will wonder just why
Coach Jack Gray’s Longhorns are
not included in the playoff series.
In answer to this wonderment we
see them the fourth ranking team
—immediately behind Arkansas.
Following the Steers, who are
now tied with TCU for conference
honors, we can see in the tea leaves
that Coach “Doc” Hayes Mustangs
will end the season with a five-
seven rating in the win-loss col
umns.
Those now in the cellar shall
never find their way to the sun
light again and they shall be con
tent with what they have.
This Is It
For a quick review of what we’ve
predicted, it’s this way:
TCU, now showing a six-two rec
ord, will win easy over Rice to
morrow night in Houston; will con
tinue to take Baylor and SMU by
slim margins in Will Rogers Coli
seum; but will find the pill much
too large to swallow when they
journey to Fayetteville. Thus, the
Froggies end the season with nine
wins and three losses.
A&M, though recently dropped to
second place, will find sweet re
venge over a hot-and-cold Mustang
five when they play host to SMU
Tuesday night.
Continuing on in the victor’s
circle, the Floydmen will drop Dan
(See PREDICTING, Page 6)
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Large Crowd Sees
’Mural Wrestling
By JOE BLANCHETTE
Batt Sports Staff
The little gym was literally
packed to the rafters yesterday
afternoon to witness the card of
21 wrestling bouts offered on, the
Intramural Department’s “grunt
and groan” agenda.
147 Pound Class
Chapman of A Signal managed
to pin Snell of B AF in 2:45 of
the scheduled five minute bout.
Jim “Buzz” Barry of A Transport
battled Kohutec of G AF for 2:55
before he pinned the airman. Tor-
bett of Company 2 wasted no time
in nailing Collins of Company 9
to the mat in 1:40.
Hall of the Maroon Band made
even shorter work of A AF’s
Shankles as he grounded the air
man in 1:25. Sheply of B QMC
managed to garner a 7-4 decision
over Ollie Moak of F AF. Don Bull
of D FA lived up to the name of
“Bull” by bulling his way to a
4-0 win over Hill of E FA.
Anderson of A Infantry pinned
Dave Chambers of A TC in 2:45.
Ramming of C AF pinned Black-
well of A Engineers in 2:10. Brad
ford of A CAC wrestled with John
son of A AF for 4:43 before he
flattened the airman’s shoulders to
the mat.
White of A Ordnance spun Fred
dy Blackstock of B TC to the floor
in 1:25. Jones of C FA grappled
White of A QMC to the canvas in
4:40.
Bob Waggoner of A Transport
received a forfeit from Welch of
B FA when the artilleryman failed
to meet his 148 lb. weight.
157 Pound Class
Willie East of A Signal and An
derson of the White Band battled
for the scheduled five minutes and
at the finish the two battlers were
deadlocked at 8-8. East failed to
return for the overtime two min
ute period and Anderson was
awai’ded a forfeit.
Don Buchner of B FA pinned
Fitzgerald of ASA in 4:06. Moore
of C Infantry pinned Carter of
A Signal in 1:30.
Yates of L AF, the returning
freshman champion, turned in the
fastest win of the afternoon as he
threw Melton of B QMC to the
turf in one minute. Joe Jackson
of D Vets scored a 4-2 win ovfcr
McNeill of A Chemical.
Charley Bragassa of L AF
roughhoused Adams of B AF to the
canvas in 3:20. Moore of C Infan
try drove Carter of A Signal to
the canvas in 1:30.
Heavyweights
French of A Engineers tossed
Bennett of B CAC to the matting
in 2:20 of the proposed five min
ute battle. Fred Klatt of the
White Band pinned Ed Holley of
E AF to the floor in 3:48.
Ralph Hartman of A FA threw
and pinned Joe Wallace of A Ar
mor to the mat in 3:25.
Stoddard of B FA decisioned
Kennedy of the Maroon Band 2-1.
Meet SMU Tomorrow
Ag Mermen Y ie
Fonies in Dallas
By JIM ASHLOCK
Batt Sports Staff
A&M’s swimming team will meet
it second conference opponent Sat
urday afternoon at 3:30 when the
Aggie tankers engage SMU at
Dallas.
Each of the teams has won two
dual meets. A&M, who placed sec
ond at the SWC relays at Rice, has
victories of 55-20 over Baylor and
42-33 over Northwestern State of
Louisiana.
The Mustangs scored wins over
St. Louis University and Memphis
Naval Air Station. The Dallas
swimmers also placed third behind
A&M in the relays, which was won
by Texas.
Butler, Flowers—Captains
Coach Art Adamson and Assist
ant Coach Emil Mamaliga plan
to take 15 swimmers to Dallas with
them Saturday. The Aggies will be
led by Tommy Butler and Jimmy
Flowers who were elected co-cap
tains Wednesday night.
Here are the players and the coaches who will
travel to Dallas tomorrow to meet the underdog
Methodist mermen in the Pony swimming pool
at 3:30 p. m. From left to right on the front
row are: John Parnell, Carol Jones, John
Noyes, Bill Sargent, Don Crawford, and Paul
Shaffer. Second row: Jim Flowers, Tommy Com
stock, Don Blundell, Van Adamson, Ralph Ellis,
Tommy Butler, and Coach Art Adamson. Back
row: Bill Singleton, John David, Wayne Strick-
ler, James Baker, Marvin Seth, Robert Johnson,
and Coach Emil Mamaliga.
Ellis Leads Off
Fish Quintet Host to TU
Freshmen Saturday Night
A&M’s Fish and the University
of Texas freshmen will make up
their delayed basketball game Sat
urday night in DeWare Field
House.
Icy roads prevented the game
being played as scheduled Jan. 31
when the varsity teams played
here. Tip-off will be at 7:30, and
the doors will be thrown open to
all who care to attend.
Fish Started Strong
The Fish started the season
strong, winning their first games
from Lon Morris Junior College,
Wharton Junior College and the
Rice Owlets. But after stumbling
before the powerful Baylor Cubs,
37-47, the A&M freshmen have
never been able to recover. They
have gone winless in their last
five games.
The Yearlings apparently have five losses. But when A&M and
a well proportioned team, with TU meet in athletic contests, any-
height and speed evenly distributed, thing can happen.
Yearling Lineup
The starting lineup consists of
Gib Ford, 6’ SVz” 190 pound pivot-
man from Amarillo, Don Lowery,
6’ 1” guard from Stephenville,
and Glen Moore, 19 year old guard
from Lockhart. Forward slots are
filled by the two youngest members
of the quintet, Billy Powell, 18
year old San Antonio lad, and Paul
Mohr, who hails from Scotts Bluff,
Nebraska.
TU Better Record
The record of the TU frosh is
somewhat better than that offei'ed
by A&M’s first year cagers, who
have dropped the last five to build
up a total of three wins against
Why Officiating is Tough
Cincinnati, Feb. 16—(TPi—Dan
Tehan, veteran basketball official,
gave six reasons yesterday why the
men who call the fouls are having
such a tough time of it.
They are:
The Pressure on coaches to win.
The fans who bet on the games.
National ratings. .
Post-season tournaments.
Games being played off. the cam
pus.
The difference of officiating in
various parts of the country.
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The fish are due to climb from
the rut in which they have been
running throughout the season
since the beginning of the year.
Although the team is loaded with
individual talent, the necessity of
team work is lacking, thus throw
ing the fish off balance and into
the losing column.
Leading off for the Farmers
will be Ralph Ellis, Bill Sargent,
Van Adamson, Tommy Comstock,
and Bill Karow.
Ellis, who hails from Dallas, is
the Aggies ace sprinter, while Sar
gent, who calls Fort Worth home,
performs the duties of backstrok-
er.
Comstock, junior industrial edu
cation major from Houston, and
Bill Karow, son af A&M’s former
cage and baseball tutor, will be
called upon to meet the breast
stroke challenge.
Adamson Sparks Team
Sparkplug of Coach Adamson’s
aqua team is free styler Van
Adamson. At present Van, who is
the son of Aggie tank mentor,
is holder of the Southwest Confer
ence 200 yard medley champion
ship, and has established pool rec
ords all over the state.
Besides these five mariners,
Coach Adamson can also call upon
free stylers John Parnell, But
ler, John Noyes, and Carol Jones.
Other reservists ready for immedi
ate action are breaststrokers Flow
ers and Wayne Strickler, and back-
strokers Don Crawford and Don
Blundell.
SMU Winless
Texas A&M has engaged SMU
10 times since Adamson became
Aggie coach in 1934, and A&M
has won all of these duals. But
SMlI is expected to give the Cadets
a hard battle and even turn the
tables on A&M Saturday.
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night when SMU comes to Aggie-
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