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Friday, February 8, 1952 THE BATTALION Page 3 Floyd Talks to His Boys Coach John Floyd talks to the Aggie quintet during a time out in the hotly contested battle against TCU Wednesday night in De- Ware Field House. Around the clock are Don Binford (55), Woody Walker (22), Buddy Davis, Don Heft, LeRoy Miksch, Trainer Bill Dayton, and Coach Floyd. The Shot Goes Wide One of the few times during the night, TCU’s McLeod gets away from Aggie center Buddy Davis. However, Miksch (77) and Walk er (22) were quick to recover and stop the field goal attempt. Davis is shown on the left with Don Heft (44) in the background. TCU won 52-41. Carpenter Stops Frog Frog guard John Ethridge (20) moves fast in an effort to get past alert Bill Carpenter (11). Cadet guard in the final minutes of the A&M-TCU conference battle Wednesday night. Glenn Darling, pictured over Carpenter’s shoulder, is moving in fast to help. Binford Blocks McCleod When half the first period was gone, McLeod plowed into Aggie Don Binford in trying to cut under the basket for a crip shot. Mc Leod fouled. Later he ended the first quarter with four fouls and sat on the bench during the second stanza. Reynolds (26) watches. Aggie Five Meets Bears in Waco Saturday Nile TODAY & SATURDAY —Feature Starts— 1:28 - 3:24 - 5:20 - 7:10 - 9:12 By BILL STREICH Battalion Managing Editor The Aggie basketball team, suf fering from a three game losing streak, travels to Waco Satur day night in an effort to regain the win column against the Baylor Bears. A&M is now in the third posi tion in Conference standings be hind second place SMU. Texas and TCU are tied for the number one spot in the standings. Jewell McDowell led the Ag gie cagers to victory against Bay lor in the last meeting of the two squads, Jan. 18 in DeWare Field House. The Aggie guard poured 23 points in the basket enabling the Aggies to win by a 47-36 score. NEWS — CARTOON PREYUE TONIGHT 11 P. M. WEDNESDAY thru SATURDAY NEWS — CARTOON PREYUE SATURDAY 11 P. M. SUNDAY thru TUESDAY LAST TIMES TODAY “On the Riviera” SATURDAY SATURDAY PREYUE Sunday & Monday Remember February 14th St. Valentine’s Day Your MSC Shop has a wonderful selec tion of fancy can dies at prices to fit every pocketbook. Russell Stover’s, King’s, Whitman’s — All beautifully packaged to make a hit with your favor ite. Gift Wrapped or Wrapped for Mailing Free! MSC Gift Shop Distinctive Gifts for Every Occasion McDowell, however, has graduat ed and the Saturday night game looms as almost an even match, although A&M will probably be a slight favorite. Ratings Get Jolt Since the mid-January meeting between A&M and the Bears, pre season conference ratings have received a jolt. The Aggies have fallen from a second place tie with TU, (both had a record of three wins and one loss) down to third place. Texas, however, has not lost a game since that time and holds a first place tie with TCU. Baylor, on the other hand, has slightly bettered its record by de feating Rice while losing to Ar kansas and Texas. Following the first Aggie-Bear game, Baylor was in a cellar tie with the Owls, own ing a one won, three lost record. Saturday night, Coach John Floyd will probably start Walt “Buddy” Davis at center, Ray “Woody” Walker and Don Heft at guards and LeRoy Miksch and Don Binford at forwards. This was : the combination which started for A&M against TCU Wednesday night. Baylor Line Up Baylor coach Bill Henderson is due to counter with Ralph John son and Davis at forwards, Fleet- wood and Hovdc at guards and Bill Harris at center. Evidently the Bears are putting in a lot of work this week in an effort to knock off the Aggies. Bill Henderson, Baylor basketball coach, was a sideline spectator Wednesday night in DeWare Field House for the Aggie-Frog clash. Fighting Foursome Due to see considerable service for the Aggie team during the Baylor game are Ed Houser, Bill Carpenter, Bill Williams, Glenn Darling and Bobby Farmer. Hous er, Carpenter, Williams, and Darl ing along, with Walker played the last three minutes and 44 sec onds of the TCU game, exhibiting tremendous hustle and spirit al though A&M was behind 50-31 when the Aggie regulars left the court. During the remaining minutes of the game the foursome put on quite a show for approximately 3,500 spectators in DeWare Field House. Time and again Houser broke up Frog plays while Carpen ter, Williams and Darling confus ed the TCU players with their hustle and drive. Houser’s playing Wednesday night may win him a starting pos ition against Baylor. In the last minutes of the TCU game he scor ed six points, helping consider ably to close the gap in the score. If the Aggies can win Satur day night they will still be in the (See AGS-BAYLOR, Page 4) Tigers Will Play 44-B Baseball The A&M Consolidated High School Tigers will com pete in baseball District 44-B again this spring against Bas trop, Berton, Dime Box, Fay etteville, Round Top, Carmine, Smithville, and Somerville. The Tigers went on to win bi district honors last year after going through undefeated in dis trict play. It is expected that the Consolidated nine will be just, as rough on all competition this year. Minus the services of their top ace Roland Jones, the Tigers will have Joe Motheral and Pinckney Cooner to make up for the loss. Jones is now a member of the Uni versity of Texas freshman baseball team. Motheral is now playing basketball for the Tigers. A&M Fencers Go to Galveston The A&M Fencing team will go to Galveston Saturday to enter the Open Electrical Epee and Open Sabre events in a tournament to be held in the Galveston Menard Park Youth Center. Although the Cadet fencers are known to be weak in the Sabre competition, they are doing strong and well balanced in the Epee event. Captain John Gottlob will head a team composed of returning let- termen Chuck Massey, Bobby Jones and Ted Fields. TCU’s Ted Reynolds is not to be denied two points despite the efforts of Don Heft, Cadet guard. TYPEWRITER Sales — Service — Rentals — Supplies Bryan Business Machine Company ROYAL TYPEWRITERS VICTOR ADDING MACHINES 209 N, Main St., Bryan Dial 2-1328 Bell Expects 118 Baseball Prospects By HUGH PHILIPPUS Battalion Sports Writer With the turn out of 118 col lege prospects here at A&M, it’s quite apparent that “ole king horsehide” is about to take over the spring athletic spotlight. Yesterday at the first meeting of the “spiked-shoe” athletes, Coach Bell ■ found that his char ges were composed of 59 varsity and 59 freshman. The Varsity will draw their uni forms on this coming Tuesday and Thursday, so they’ll be ready to take to the diamond Feb. 15. The Freshmen will draw their uniforms the 22nd, and will start their work outs that same day. Nine Returning Lettermen Coach Bell said that he had nine returning from last year’s NCAA tournament contenders. Among these are catchers A1 Ogle- tree and Martin Hamilton, and pitchers Bob Tankersley, Sid Good- low and Sam Blanton, who was not eligible last year. The infielders who return with a varsity letter this year are Bill Munnerlyn, 1st, Joe Ecrette, 2nd, ■ and Henry Candelari, 3rd. While Yale Lary, one of A&M’s most ver satile athletes, returns for the out field. Charles Leissner, who is up from the ’51 freshman squad is about the only known prospect at pre sent to fill the big shoes of Guy Wallace, who graduated last year. After basketball and spring foot ball, two more contenders will turn to the diamond for their ath letic ambitions. These are Don Heft and Joe Shero, up from last year’s fish squad, who are expect ed to look toward the short stop | spot. Need More Pitchers As for the pitching staff, Coach Bell said that it is another of the weak'spots, and he is hoping that a few good prospects will show up from the large number of boys turning out. Pat Hubert’s place at the head of the Aggie throwing staff is one of the big question marks running through Bell’s head. Bell will be looking toward Mel vin Work, another riser from last year’s freshman squad, to fill Pat’s pitching chores, if it’s at all possi ble to fill the All - American moundsman’s place. Another returner expected out after the ending of basketball, is Bobby Farmer, who lettered year before last, but didn’t come out last year. The sound of horse-hide popping into the well worn pockets of gloves, along with the crack of bats will be filling the air all over the campus from now one until the end of school. Every open shot around the dor mitory area will be filled with prospects for the 1952 Aggie Dia mond Men, for a large number of the Corps will be out along with the usual number of Hart Hall boys. So with the old American sport’s song—“Take me out to the Ball Game,” coming into it’s season— the sound of diamond chatter ris ing from the Kyle Field area, and the thrill bearing order—Play Ball —baseball takes it’s rightful spot at the head of every sports page. ‘ANGELS IN THE OUTFIELD” “KENTUCKY JUBILEE” DR. M. W. DEASON Optometrist 313 College Main (Formerly Corky’s) 8:00 to 5:00 Ph. 4-1106 LEGAL HOLIDAY Tuesday, February 12, 1952 being a Legal Holiday, in observance of Abraham Lin coln’s Birthday, the undersigned will ob serve that date as a Legal Holiday and not be open for business. FIRST NATIONAL BANK CITY NATIONAL BANK FIRST STATE BANK & TRUST CO. COLLEGE STATION STATE BANK BRYAN BUILDING & LOAN ASS’N. 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