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Vorst ars ain-caused slides Icy, some 45 miles er in South Cen- Phe town consists ilies. n were major in- Eurkea and other imunities. Heavy 'rinity Mountains iwer lines from i’s divorce and was digging out ivy snows which y today for the y late afternoon, ng out of Iteno by e with some 200 dcd there since vere San Francis- y of Bakersfield, roads from Reno 1, except U. S. 40 Wednesday, January 16, 1952 THE BATTALION Page 3 AS inutes •aily 7£ff s-— your travel agent 1ENT NDING be washed, women, and r gift boxed. ORE Walt Kelly ^AiNQ u. from ' 1 AIN'T f you „ ^ By A1 Capp Last Game As Aggie Friday Night Co-Captains Get Award cDowell Finishes Basketball Career Jewell McDowell All-SWC Guard Playing for A&M Friday night, McDowell will end his sensational four-year college career aagaisnt the Baylor Bears in the Aggies fourth conference clash of the season. - Season Record Player, pos. Ga. FGA FG FTA FT PF TP Rebounds Davis, c _ 13 159 77 61 38 55 192 133 McDowell, g ...13 205 56 46 26 30 138 45 Miksch, f ...12 104 36 57 31 41 103 130 Walker, g .....13 78 25 26 20 41 70 35 Binford, f .. 13 47 12 10 7 26 31 30 Farmer, f-g 13 40 12 10 6 27 30 ' 35 Houser, f 11 24 6 9 5 31 17 22 Heft, g .... 13 20 3 7 2 25 8 10 Carpenter, g ___ ..... 8 3 1 2 2 4 4 3 Addison, c ... 9 1 1 2 1 2 3 1 Williams, g ..... 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 A&M Totals ... 13 681 229 230 138 289 596 444 Opp. Totals .13 688 218 318 192 244 628 384 Non-Conference Games A&M Opp. 35 Texas Christian U. 65 43 North Texas State 46 47 Oklahoma City Univ. 62 29 Univ. of .Houstoir 38 Conference Games 40 Marshall College 46 A&M Opp. 42 Manhattan College 44 47 Univ. of Arkansas 42 £2 Univ. of Tennessee 60 55 Rige Institute 44 63 Trinity (San Antonio) 44 34 SMU 40 49 Univ. of Arkansas ’ 46 Season Record 5 wins, 8 losses 52 Univ. of Texas 51 SWC Record—2 wins 1 loss. LAST TIMES TODAY "Cattle Drive” —With— JOEL McCREA DEAN STOCKWELL THURSDAY & FRIDAY Northern Italy’s most disastrous floods of the century have al ready cost more than 100 lives and an estimated half billion dol lars. Jewell McDowell, A&M’s No. 1 guard and probably the best in the south, will end his brilliant basketball career Friday night when the Cadets tangle with Baylor in DeWare Field House. For the past three years, since February, 1949, the showy little four-year letterman has been the nemis of high-scoring cagers in the conference. Every one of these little guards either has been slowed or complete ly stopped by the defensive-mind ed McDowell, and most of them will never forget their near frus tration in covering the fiery play er when the Aggies had the ball. Outstanding Ball Handler But game^stalling in its purest and simplest form, dribbling out side, is where McDowell has made his mark. Not once but against every con ference school at one time or an other, McDowell has zealously pro tected a five, three or even one- point margin practically single- handed. It is amazing and a joy to fans how he can watch an opponent guard with one eye and keep the other eye on the second hand of the official clock. ^ Texas, in the Southwest Confer ence tournament, and Arkansas, in the Aggie’s first 1952 confer ence game, were most recent vic tims of the little ace’s dribbling prowess. Texas Slightly Peeved Texas has always had a slight peeve on McDowell. After all-’ Stater McDowell finished the 1947 season with the Amarillo Golden Sandies, he moved to Austin, at the university’s request, to finish his high school education at Aus tin high. He was due to enroll at the Uni versity of Texas the following spring. Mid-way of the fall term, McDowell abruptly withdrew from Austin high and enrolled at Ste phen F. Austin, Bryan. The follow ing February, he enrolled as a freshman at A&M. Started in ’49 In an effort to bolster Aggie eager fortunes, Coach Marty Ka- row put McDowell in the eager lineup in February, 1949. McDow ell played six conference varsity games, scoring 62 points with such defensive aces as Slater Martin of Texas and Bill DeWitt of Baylor guarding him. Fans still talk about McDowell’s two tussles with Martin, Texas All- America guard now playing pro basketball. Martin as a senior found sophomore McDowell to be his match as both guarded each other in 1949 league contests. In the first game both scored nine points—considerably below Martin’s par—and in the second tilt only three points separated the two ace’s point totals. McDowell ranks Martin as the greatest ball player he has ever opposed. And the Aggie modeled much of his future play on what he saw Martin do with the Long horns in 1949. All-SWC, NCAA As a sophomore-junior and again last season, McDowell was upami- mously named all Southwest Con ference by the coaches and picked for the District 6, NCAA team. He was most valuable player fpr the Aggies in 1-950 and was named honorary team captain last season when the cadets won their first share of the title since 1923. One of McDowell’s greatest per formances came against the Bay lor Bears, who he will end his ca reer playing against. It was against the Bears that McDowell let fly his long shot from mid-court just barely beating the buzzer sounding the end of the game and breaking back on a cer tain win for Baylor. Has Played 75 Gaines In the 75 varsity games McDow ell has played for A&M, he has only fouled out three times, twice last season and once that year against Oklahoma City University. And Texas’ Frank Womack should feel proud; he was the only eager ever to hold McDowell scoreless. The final game of the 1950-1951 season with Longhorns out to win which would give them a tie for the championship. McDowell and Womack didn’t make a bucker, and each took two free shots in the game. Womack made good both his charity shots, but McDowell missed his two. So Womack made two points that night, and McDowell went scoreless, leaving the game near the end vig the foul route. Possible Replacements Senior Bobby Farmer and Ed die Houser are best possibilities to take over McDowell’s position next semester, but junior Don Heft might get the nod from coach John Floyd. McDowell expects to be called into service as a reserve of ficer within three or four months, but he hopes to get a pro eager offer in the meanwhile. SMU, Rice and Arkansas are other conference schools who play ed the Aggies in the first semester and faced McDowell. Both Texas (See McDOWELL, Page 4) A Infantry, A Win in Grid Tilts By JOE BLANCHETTE Battalion Intramural Writer A QMC and A Infantry moved into th$ semi-final round of In tramural Football play yesterday by grinding out wins over F AF and B Engineers. The semi-finals will be held this afternoon with A QMC meeting B Transportation and the A Infantry squad battling A Armored. A QMC won 13-7 while the Infantrymen were gaining a 13-0 victory. Early in the first half of play Bud Yeager of A QMC broke through the entire F AF squad to gallop 50 yards to the first sup- plymcn TD. The extra-point try failed and the QMC led 6-0. After taking the ensuing kick off on their own 20 the airmen drove to the QMC 40. George Ste vens uncorked his arm at this point and hit Don Strange with a beau- , tiful pass in the end zone and the score was all knotted up. Ste vens soon settled that issue as he' crashed across the pay stripe for the extra point to put the airmen in the lead at halftime, 7-6. (See MURALS, Page 4) Bob Smith Fullback Colson Hugh Meyer Center Winners of the Lipscomb-Colson Award which goes to the co captains of the football team are All-American Fullback Bob Smith and All-SWC Center Hugh Meyer (right). In the center is Flop Colson, who presented the award at the annual Winter Sports Banquet Saturday. Bears Meet Aggies; Seek First Victory Led by last year’s leading con ference scorer, the luckless Bay lor Bears invade DeWare Field House Friday night in an effort to notch their first conference vic tory of the season. Ralph Johnson, last season’s leading conference scorer with 176 points, will spearhead the Baylor attempt to knock off the Aggies. Both squads have lost last con ference starts. The Bears lost to taller Arkansas 54-38, and the Ag gies bowed to SMU 40-34. Johnson this season has taken up where he left off last season. He is second in season scoring with 78 field goals and 40 free throws for 196 points. His favor ite point-maker is a left-handed jump shot which he makes doubly hard to guard against because of his deception. This contest could turn into an TODAY LAST DAY FIRST RUN —Features Start— 1:20 - 3:04 - 4:48 - 6:32 8:16 - 10:00 Brcjan 2*$$79 LAST DAY “Flame of Araby” SMARTS THURSDAY JOAN CAULFIELD and DAVID NIVEN W'T The Lady Says No” individual scoring duel between Johnson and the Aggies’ Buddy Davis. Davis is hot on Johnson’s heels in season scoring with a total of 192 points. Davis leads Johnson in conference scoring, however, with 42 points in three league games. Even if Johnson ■ is blanketed, the Aggies could still receive plen ty of misery from Norman “Moon” Mullins, the unsuperstitious co- captain of the Bears who wears number 13. Mullins last year was the sec ond leading Bruin scorer with 236 points, compared to Johnson’s sea son total of 310. 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