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Monday, March 3, 1952 d THE BATTALION Page 3 Aggies Finish Season; Clip Owl Cagers, 56-54 By JIM ASHLOCK Battalion Sports Writer Closing the door on their part in the 1951-52 Southwest Conference cage race, A&M outlasted the Rice Owls in Hous ton Saturday night 56-54. The game did not affect the Ag gies’ standing in the conference, nor was Rice’s spot shifted in either direction. - Resorting to their deliberate style of play and a tight man to man defense, the Aggies slowed down the Rice attack and hampered them in their attempts to pass to their high- scoring pivotman Gene Schwinger. Schwinger was able to tally only 11 points for the even ing, five of these on, free throws.- Big Walter Davis, 6 ft. 8 in. center, and Don Binford, sharp- shooting A&M guard, were the main factors contributing to A&M’s victory. D^ris scored 16 points on 13 fie®®oal attempts and four free tbJPfp, while Binford led the Ca- de'cs in scoring with 19 points. No more than six points separat ed the two ball clubs at any time as the lead changed hands 13 times and the score was tied 13 tinfes. L e R o y Miksch, junior Aggie forward, was the first to score when he dropped in a jump shot in the early seconds of the game. A few moments later it became ap parent that an offensive battle was in the making as Owl guard Maurice Teague fired in a long set shot from the corner. From then on the nets popped consist ently as both teams fought for the lead. But A&M remained one jump ahead to lead at the end of the first quarter 18-17. Davis and Binford kept pouring in the points when they were need ed to provide A&M with a half time lead of 30-28. Rice Came To Life Rice came to life on the sudden scoring sprees of sophomores Don Lance and Teague early in the third quarter. Outscoring the Ag gies 17-14 during this stage of the gime, Rice was able to enjoy a skinny 45-44 lead briefly at the end of the third quarter. Teague and Vance had accounted for 11 ofi the Owls 17 points scored in this quarter. But Davis roared in final period with two quick buckets to shove the Farmers into the lead to stay. Grawunder then committed his fifth and final foul of his college career. Grawunder, along with guard Leonard Childs, is a grad uating senior. Binford Scores Last Rice fought vainly to regain the lead as Teague tied the score 54- all with six minutes remaining. But, with five minutes to go, Bin ford hit a jump shot for the final marker of the game. The Aggies then froze the ball until the buzzer jounded the end of the contest. When asked for his comment on the Aggies cage showing during Ufb past season, A&M basketball tnentor John P'loyd commented: “We had quite a few tough breaks come our way from the very start. Losing these first two jball games to North Texas and the University of Houston hurt our morale a lot, and then we lost Mc Dowell at mid-term and Binford was laid up with a leg injury. All of these things went against us. «But these are reasons, not alibis. ; Jo. don’t have any alibis to make ), our showing.” A&M Fish Lose Opener In the curtain raiser Rice’s Owl ets avenged a one-point loss to the Aggie Fish in College Station earlier in the season by drubbing the Fish 58-44. Experiencing a particularly bad night, three of the six men con stituting freshman coach Larry Hayes’ cage crew left the game via thg personal foul route late in the fourth quarter. The final moments found only three A&M first year men on the flo$r against a full team of Owl ets. Cecil Neely led the Fish in scor ing with 9 points, closely follow ed by Rodney Pirtlc with 8. Tellig- man was top man for the Rice ‘T’ Club Meets Today There will be a meeting of the “T” Association Monday (today) at 8 p. m. in the C. E. Lecture room according to Jack Simpson, president. Intrasquad Football Games Mark SWC Spring Drills Ags Drub Cougar Trackmen In Year’s Open ing Field Meet BASED ON AP REPORT Blues 19, Reds 13 The more experienced Blues swept by the Reds 19-13 in the Southern Methodist University in- tri-squad football game, Saturday. All five touchdowns were con fined to the second half. Quarter back Benton Musslewhite of the Blues broke the game wide open with a 56-yard scoring dash in the third quarter. In the traditional Mustang fash ion, four of the five scores came on passes fired by four different players—Malcolm Bowers, Sammy Stollenwerck, Musslewhite and Hayes Gilliam. Purple 20, Whites 7 Gilbert Bartosh sparked his Purple team in a rousing rally for a 20-7 intrasquad victory over the Whites as TCU ended 18 days of spring footboll practice. The three hour game-condition scrimmage also climaxed a two-day coaching clinic under the direc tion of TCU’s Coach Dutch Meyer. About 100 coaches' attended the clinic. The Frogs battled in a cold, drizzling rain all the way and it wasn’t until late in the afternoon that the offensive units began to click for yardage. Orange 27, White 26 Texas, the team that couldn’t even buy a pass last year, fired a high-powered aerial attack to score five touchdowns in the final intra squad scrimmage of the spring training season. The orange-shirted Steer squad overcame a second half loss 26-6 to win over the Whites 27-26. Little Bunny Andrews paced the day’s throwers completing 10 out of 13. Sophomore Glen Dyer ac counted for the other white scores hitting Carlson Massey twice, Dyer completed all five of his passes. T Jones scored two of the orange tallies, both from two yards out. Bob Raley fired an underhand pass to Gilmer Spring for another then drove over himself for one yard and the final score. Blues 25, Gray 0 Janies Heflin, wealing Bill How- ton’s old number 84, caught two Dan Drake passes for touchdowns to spark the Blues in a win over the Grays in Rice’s intrasquad battle Saturday. A member of last year’s fresh man sprint relay team, Heflin caught four passes for 84 yards. Drake completed six of 13 passes for 89 yards and his replacement, Atchley Proctor, hit three of six for 28. Operating in his unusual bone cracking style, Don Rhoden was brilliant as a linebacker in Coach Jess Neely’s seven-diamond de fense. Other Blue standouts were John Hudson, R. J. Schroeder and Sam my Ward. Consolidated Cagers Fall to Wells by 38-30 The A&M Consolidated Tigers lost to Wells 30-38 in the second round of the Huntsville Regional tourney. in Huntsville. The loss eliminated the Tigers from the tourney and closed out their cage season. A&M’s track star. Hooper won both the shot put and discuss event against U of H Saturday afternoon. He tossed the shot 52’ 214” and threw the dicuss 156’ 5 Zi MadisonviUe, Lovelady Win MadisonviUe donned the Class AA crown while Love- lady emerged with the Class A championship Saturday night as the curtain rang down on the Regional 3 basketball tournament at College Station. Joe Lindsey and Douglas Wood- erson, each scoring 13 points, led MadisonviUe to a 46-43 victory over Jacksonville in the ClassAA finals. Lovelady, riding to the title slot on Montie Driskell’s 13 mark ers, rolled over Troup 37-28 in the finals for Class A. By RAY HOLBROOK Battalion Staff Writer Smashing their way into the 1952 season, the powerful Aggie j track team of Col. Frank Anderson | and Ray Putnam downed the Uni versity of Houston on Kyle Field Saturday to the tune of 115-21 for win number one in a try for their second straight undefeated season. Besides being 1951 SWC champ ions, the Ags won 10 straight meets for A&M’s first undefeat ed season. Showing depth and talent in nearly every event, the Farmers won or tied for first in every event but one, the 100 yd. dash, won by Houston’s Sam McWhirter in fine 9.7 time. The tie came in the high jump. A&M shut the Cougars out completely in 9 of 16 events and in 3 more UH could score but one point. Bless Top Man Outstanding performer of the day and high point man was Ag senior Billy Bless from San An tonio, who won the 220 in 21.6, (See BLESS PACES, Page 4) ‘Tune in BOGART BAGAli, Flash! . . . Flash! . . . 1ST BULLETIN REPORTS LEON B. WEISS Boyett St. —ARRIVING— Spring and Summer Slacks / You’re Invited to Preview LEON B. WEISS Boyett St. COMPARE FAD with any other KING-SIZE cigarette ■'■’"Trap-', T. ■ t v ' r.'ty : H •w' ii ,•4 ■■ a u- v u*^ j*> .p A k - r . Lp r ' / C yzr nz™ We’re Favorites With BETTER DRESSED MEN because we fit ready to wear with CUSTOM CAKE Frush with 19 with Pahmeier lecting 16. 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