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.
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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
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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.
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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
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Austin, Rice vs. Southern Metho
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Thursday—Rice vs. Arkansas at
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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
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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.
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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-
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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.
In the last A&M-TU meeting,
Scaling led Texas scoring with
nine and Dowies was second with
six.
Completing the starting line-up
will probably be 5’ 10” Frank Wo
mack at the other guard position,
6’ 6” Don Klein at center and 6’
bVz” Joe Ed Falk on the other for
ward post.
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