McDowell And Davis Picked Unanimously For All-SWC Monday, February 26, 1951 THE BATTALION Page 3 Jewell McDowell, the Aggies magical ball- handler, has again been a uanimous choice for All-Southwest Conference basketball hon ors. The basketball honor roll, which was chosen by the conference coaches, picked two of the six players unanimously; both were Aggies; one was McDowell and the other was Walter “Buddy” Davis. When there was a tie for one of the for ward positions, the team turned out to be a sextet. Ralph Johnson of Baylor was a five-vote forward pick while Jack Brown of South ern Methodist and Harvey Fromme of Texas Christian tied for the other forward position. The other guard was D. L. Mil ler of Arkansas. Nothing New This is not the first time that the 5’ 9” McDowell—who was the shortest man among the choice six—has been thus decorated. Last year he was unamiously selected on the AP (Coaches’) and Col legiate Sports Writer's All-SWC fives. While an equally popular selec tion for LOOK’S and COLLIER’S All-District G (NCAA) teams, Mc Dowell was also named by the United Press to their All-American Honorable Mention staff. Locally, he won the basketball’s Most Valuable Player Award for 1950. Points * Even though somewhat restric ted to scoring under A&M’s new ball control style, McDowell has nevertheless still ben able to drop through 267 points over seasonal play to be the 8th ranked scorer in the conference. In conference competition alone, McDowell has been able to gar ner 129 points to stand 7th among the top ten in-the SWC. Last year, the speedy guard meshed 325 markers during A&M’s 24-game schedule, an average of 12 points per game. m Ucm,omy kr Venida COAT HUNG FIRST THEN THE TROUSERS Be first In your house in adopt this sensible new idea in Clothes Hang ers’ SCIENTIFICALLY DESIGNED TO FIT YOUR EVERYDAY DRESSING HABITS. Keeps garments neater. Beautiful walnut finish cellulose plastic. Chrome swivel hook. Sturdy I piece construction. A unlguO lifetime conven ience for men and women. Postpaid anywhere. Individually boxed. $2.93 ea.. 3 for $8, 6 for $13. Send for yodrs today! MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE! THE RIESER (0., Dept. w 119 W. 40th St., New York 18, N.Y. McDowell A&M’s six feet and eight inches of bas ketball terror, Walter “Buddy” Davis, has been unanimously named to All-Southwest Conference honors by the basketball coach es of the loop. Picked with Jewell McDowell as the only unanimous choices, the big Aggie center has at last “arrived.” Mythically acknowledged throughout the season as the best center in the conference, Davis’ ability has now been •given the verbal nod by seven coaches. Voting on the team were Coach es John Floyd of Texas A&M, By ron Brannon of TCU, Bill Hender son of Baylor, E. 0. Hayes of SMU, Presley Askew of Arkansas and Don Suman of Rice. The towering junior is the tall est man on the team which boosts the SWC sextet to an average of six feet two inches. Defensive - Offensive Star Davis, who has developed into a defensive star as well as an of fensive maniac, has yet to be out played on the backboards by a conference opponent, and while yet a big man, his heighth only serves as a blind to his skillfull ball handling. With 279 points scored in sea sonal play, Davis is tied with Tex as’ Jim Dowies ranks as the Con ference’s No. 5 scorer, while the 143 tallies in conference competi tion rates him the 4th position among scoring leaders. Last year Davis, as A&M’s only starting soph, scored 237 points during the full season and 108 ill loop play to gain for himself Honorable Mention on both the Collegiate Sports Writers’ All- SWC and COLLIER’S All-District 6 (NCAA) teams. 2nd All-SWC Team The second team—as picked by the Coaches—was made up of for wards Joe McDermott of Rice and Jim Dowies of Texas; George Mc Leod, TCU, center; George Scaling, Texas, and Fred Freeman, SMU, guards. > Fish Lose To Owlets; Meet Shorthorns Next By JIM ASHLOCK Batt Sportsi Staff Recovering from a 53-40 defeat at the hand of the Rice Owlets in Houston Saturday, ^.&M’s fresh man cagers prepare to meet the Texas University Shorthorns at Austin tomorrow night. In Saturday’s game they at times exhibited slight improvement over their showings in previous contests, yet the moments of cool ness and teamplay were too few in number to aid the fish, who trailed continually throughout the entire game. The victory for the Owlets enabl ed them to close ou their season with a record of five wins against seven losses, with the Eight Down... Aggies (45) fg ft Pf tp DeWitt, f. .. 1 1 5 3 Farmer, L... 0 0 0 0 Martin, f 1 1 5 3 Miksch, f.... 1 0 3 2 Davis, c 5 2 5 12 Walker, g.... 2 2 1 6 Heft, g 0 0 0 0 McDowell, g • 5 9 3 19 Totals 15 15 23 45 Rice (42) fg ft Pf tp White, f 0 1 1 1 Dickens, f.... 1 4 5 6 Gerhardt, f.. 4 4 4 12 Grawunder, f 0 1 4 1 McDermott, c 8 3 3 19 Teague, g.... 0 0 5 0 Tighe, g 1 1 2 3 Childs, g 0 0 5 0 Bellamy, g\. 0 0 4 0 Totals 14 14 33 42 Officials— -McAlistei and Shaw., Free Throws Missed —Grawunder 2, Gerhardt 6, McDermott, Dickens, DeWitt 3, McDowell 2, Davis, Walker, Miksch. Halftime Score- 15. A&M 26, Rice Davis OU Tankers Defeat A&M Setting three pool records, Okla homa University defeated A&M’s swimmers Jiere Friday, 45-30. Stoval, speedy Sooner sprinter, beat Aggies Doji Blundell and Tom my Butler to "OBtabliah' a 50 yard free style pool record of 23.3. New records were also sdt by Bob Hatcher, a swimming the 200 yard breast stroke in 2:33.3, and Lees, breaking previous backstroke marks with 2:25.2. The Aggies suceded in captur ing first place in only three eVents, the 220 and 440 yard free styles, and the 440 yard free style relay. Two of these! first, the 200 and 440, were captured by Van Adam son, while Ralph Ellis, Don Blun dell, Tommy Butler, and Bill Ka- row, Ag 440 relay quartet, beat out a 3:56.3 to gain first in this event. NOW II O W I N G QUEEN 8 II NOW OWING Men Could Tame These Proud. Savage Beauties'! Color by CINECOLOR i, nrRT 1 COHEN • Directed by GREOO TALLAH Produced by ALBLK1 pronijCTlONS, 1st. Fresectda* Tie Cinched At A&M; May End Tied By 3 The last week of the Southwest Conference basketball race arrives with A&M certain of a tie for the championship and just one game away from an undisputed title. It has been a long, long time— 28 years to be exact—since A&M gained any cage glory. That was the last championship won by the cqdets. They haven’t even shared a 1 crown since then. But it’s no lead pipe cinch that the Aggies will get more thaw a piece of the championship this time. The last A&M game is with Texas, that bitter rival, and it’s on Texas’ home court. I’lay-off Maybe Should A&M lose, two more teams could tie the Aggies for the title. Texas would be one of them and either Texas Christian or Ar kansas could be the other. Arkan sas has the toughest row to hoe. The Razorbacks must beat both TCU and Rice. But those games are in the Arkansas bailiwick and the Porkers right now are the hot test team in the conference. If A&M wins the title it will play in the Western Regional NCAA tournament at Kansas City. If there is a tie for the title, there will be a play-off to determine the Kansas City representative. It will not be to decide the conference championship, however. Season Standings Team W L Pts. Op. Pet. T G U 15. 8 1304 1131 .652 A&M 13 9 971 995 .582 SMU 13 10 1276 1185 .565 Arkansas ..12 10 1020 1006 .545 Texas 11 12 1123 1104 .478 Rice 8 13 1262 1296 .381 Baylor 8 16 1246 1297 .333 Conference Standings Team W L Pts. Op. Pet. A & M 8 3 462 437 .727 TCU 7 4 570 513 .636 Texas 7 4 530 505 .636 Arkansas ..6 4 460 451 .600 SMU 5 6 588 550 .455 Rice 2 8 536 550 .455 Baylor 3 9 611 687 .250 This week’s schedule: Monday — Arkansas vs. Texas Christian at Fayetteville. ....Tuesday—A&M vs. TeT..mmbz Tuesday—Texas vs. A&M at TODAY thru WED. FIRST RUN —Features Start— 1:23 - 3:10 - 4:44 - 6:31 8:18 - 10:05 Srm Helmet ROBERT HilHON • STEVE BBODIE • IMS EDWtRDS NEWS — CARTOON Austin, Rice vs. Southern Metho dist at Dallas. Thursday—Rice vs. Arkansas at Little Rock. Friday—Texas A&M vs. Univer sity of Houston at College Station. Leading Scorers (Conference) Player Johnson, Baylor, f Scaling, Texas, g Davis, A&M, c 50 McDermott, Rice, c Brown, SMU, f 51 McLeod, TCU, c 48 McDowell, A&M, g .... 48 Dowies, Texas, f Fromme, TCU, f 47 Fg Ft Tp 67 42 176 50 54 154 50 43 143 53 37 143 51 38 140 48 39 135 48 33 129 46 34 126 47 31 125 LAST TIMES TODAY “Pretty Baby” TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY wmmmmmmmm. MFUmSTPICTW THAT EVER CROSSED tIejbig DRINK! majority of the wins coming late in the season. Ronnie Dwyer, speedy fish guard, was the games leading scor er with 20 points, all on field goals. Dwyer’s 14 buckets, coupled with James Addison 13 tallies, was the chief factor which kept the fish in the game. Stepping onto the hardwood for the last time this season, the fish will engage the TU Shorthorns Tuesday night at Austin in a pre liminary to the varsity tilt. Powell Leads Led by their 18-year old center, Billy PoayoU, the Shorthorns humbl ed the fish 49-30 only one week ago. In this, their final game, the Frosh will attempt to close with only one defeat to marr their rec ord, this being handed them by Schriner Institute. JJMEgSAi.lNUENAtiaNAL RELEASE Aggie Netters Rally for Tie With SE Okla. The A&M tennis team came from behind twice Friday in DeWare Field House to gain a 3-3 tie with the South- eastern Oklahoma netters. Playing their first home match of the season, the Aggies fell be hind at the start when Eugene Letsos, playing the No. 2 singles, lost to Southeastern’s Harlow Bin ning 6-4; 6-2. Royce Tate, No. 3 singles man for A&M, won a close match from Bruce Blake, 4-6; 7-5; 7-5 to tie the team match up at one match each. The Aggies fell behind again when Dick Hardin, playing in the No. 4 singles‘slot, lost in straight sets to Oklahoman Kenneth Lewis, 6-1; 6-4. The match was evened up at 2-2 when Aggie Ray DeBerry, No. 1 singles player, won a hard match from Rick Green, 6-1; 6-8; 6-1. The No. 1 doubles duo of Tate and DeBerry downed Binning and Blake of Southeastern, 6-4; 6-8; 6-4. This match was probably the closest and most interesting of the day. Hardin and Letsos, the No. 2 Ag'gie Doubles combinatiion, drop ped the final to Green and Lewis, 6-3; 4-6; 6-3. TU Last Step To First Aggie Title Since 1923 By FRED WALKER Ball Assoc. Sports Editor The tough Texas Longhorns, a team which could prove to be poi soned earth to the Aggie’s bed of roses, will be the last door that A&M must open before a South west Conference championship can be polled into College Station since ’23. Only this one basketball oppo nent, the Texas Steer, is the only possible thwart to a 28-year-old A&M dream. For the first time in almost two decades the Aggies have had at least a chew from this section’s basketball clover, and if the for midable Longhorn can be roped and hogtied, A&M can have the patch down to the last leaf. Ags Won First Game When these two teams had their initial meeting this season, the Ag gies handed Texas its first confer ence loss of the year, and slapped the Steers into a three-way tie with TCU and themselves. A&M won that game 32-29 by “controlling” Texas as if they had a leash on the Longhorns and keep- NEW..UNUSUAL HAND CARVED Genuine briar, hand carved pipe imported from France. Real bone horns, glass eyes and a 'wild steer's" expression. Regu lar curved stem shape ... a mas culine Texan’s pipe with scientific spiral filter. Perfect gift. Real collector's item. Ours ex clusively in the U.S.A. . . only $3.50! A. HARRIS & CO., Dallas 2, Texas Please send me carved steerhead pipes at $3.50 each. Address City Stale I""] Check Q] Money Order Q] Cash Add 150 for shipping on orders under $9.95. ing the scoreboard clear of a tally for over ten minutes. As usual, though, the so-called Texas “jinx” needs to be cleaned up. Back in 1934 A&M went over to Austin and kicked Texas in the seat of the pants. Ever since, the Steers have been bouncing the bas ketball off the Aggies like a yo-yo, for that was the last Maroon and White basketball victory in Austin for 16 years. Aggie fans are again saying “This is the year”! but as long as Texas can field men like G'eorge Scaling and Jim Dowies, the bags can’t be packed for a Kansas City trip. Scaling-Dowies Lead With 154 points, Scaling, a 5’ 11” sophomore flash, is the No. 2 man in the conference scoring, while his seasonal total of 257 rates him the No. 7 position. Onq of the fastest players in the conference, Scaling- has been righteously called “the most promising player in the Southwest.” Dowies, with a 126 conference points to his credit, is the 8th rank ing man in that division. He is tied with A&M’s Walt Davis for the No. 6 spot in seasonal totals with 279. The 6’ 3” forward, along with Scaling, was named to the All-SWC team this year. 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