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.
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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.
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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.
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