Friday, January 16, 1953
THE BATTALION
Page 3
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By BOB BORISKIE
Battalion Sports Staff
The Texas Aggie cagers tonight
at DeWare Field House will meet
the Texas University Longhorns
in a basketball double-header.
The Aggie'freshman quintet will
meet the Texas Shorthorns in the
curtain raiser at 6 p.m., with the
varsity squads scheduled to take
over the court at 8 o’clock.
Miksch Back
With the prospect of Lex-oy
(Hawk) Miksch back in the line
up, the Ags will be battling to
chalk up conference win number
two, while Texas will try just as
hai-d to protect their hold at the
top of the confex-ence ladder by
walking off with their fourth
league win.
Opening conference play last
week in Waco against Baylor with
a 60-44 loss, the Farmers roared
back by weekend to down the
strong Arkansas Razoi-backs in a
double-overtime game by a 56-48
score. In the Arkansas game, the
all-around play of the Aggie squad
was exceptional, with very sharp
ball passing, dribbling, and shoot
ing.
Never hurried or flustei'ed by
the Hog tendency to immediately
drive for the basket as soon as
they got the ball, the Cadets play
ed a slow, cool basketball game
and watched the high-gear Razox - -
back .machinery collapse from
sheer lack of momentum.
The Tuesday night game with
TCU resulted in a Horned Frog
67-36 win over the Aggies, but the
Lary Inks TL Contract
Yale Lary, former Aggie all
Southwest Conference football and
baseball stai’, has been signed to
a 1953 professional baseball con-
tx-act with Beaumont of the Texas
League.
Beaumont’s pi’esident, Allen
Russell, said that he would give
Lary an oppox-tunity to complete
Work for his degi’ee at A&M.
illness of Miksch made his great
rebound work under the baskets
sorely missed. His return to the
line-up tonight, and the fact that
the Aggies are always double
tough at home will tend to in-
ci-ease chances for a Farmer win.
Coach John Floyd has several
other players who have not been
at peak form because of slight ill
ness, but hopes to have everyone
in shape to play. However, Don
Moon, highly capable Aggie soph
guard, is still out of competition
with an injury.
Sophs Look Good
One of the brighter sides of the
basketball picture for Floyd has
been the fine basketball turned
out by soph member’s of the squad.
Forced to depend heavily on inex
perienced material this season, he
has had sevei’al players to show
ti’emendous basketball ability in
their first year of vai-sity play.
Moon, outstanding soph guard,
had nailed dowxx a spot on the
starting five with his gi’eat hustle
before suffering an injury in De
cember.
Rodney Pirtle, soph forward, is
a starter who shows marked im
provement with each game. His
ball handling and dribbling in the
Arkansas game was superb, and
as he gains further game experi
ence, the added confidence may
well produce the type of play
needed for all-SWC consideration.
At center, Roy Martin has im
proved with every game, and when
he begins to hit the basket consis
tently, he will add real scoring
punch to the Aggie attack.
Bob Johnson, soph forward has
speed and finesse on offense that
is very pleasing to Floyd. John
son will play some very capable
ball for the Aggies before he has
used up his eligibility.
Other soph players on the squad
who are playing good ball and are
on call for increasingly frequent
use are Pat McCrory, Joe Hard-
CHS
First
Tigers
Loss,
Suffer
32-26
Badly crippled by the loss
through illness of high-scoring for
ward Joe Motheral and hard-driv
ing guard Fred Anderson, A&M
Consolidated’s Tiger's suffered their
first district loss last night, a 32-
26 drubbing by Snook in the Tiger
Gym.
Motheral and Anderson were
both out with the flu and guard
Byron Andrews, though out of
school all day, played with a touch
of flu. Coach O. V. Chafin has
been absent from practice all week,
also with the flu.
Bobby Jackson, the two year let-
terman center who does a fine job
of controlling rebounds, led the
scorers with 14 points, but the ab
sence of the two starters showed
Two-1*la toonKilled
Ags Seem Pleased
The two platoon system of col
lege football is gone. It came to
an end suddenly Wednesday when
the National Collegiate Athletic
Association voted unanimously to
kill the free substitution rule.
Players leaving the game during
the first and third quarters can
not re-enter until the following
quarter. Free substitution can
still take place during the last four
minutes of the second and fourth
quarters.
Dalton Faircloth, freshman foot-
jail coach, said “The new ruling
f.’ill surely be of advantage here.
With this rule, A&M will be more
equalized with other teams in the
tonference. It may hurt the brand
of ball to some extent, but not
enough to make much difference.”
Joe Boring, defensive ace last
year said, “I like the rule. The
boys will have to be in better shape
to play. Also the boys that play
will be the best all-around boys
and not the specialist.” This is
very much in line with the opinion
of most football coaches.
Said halfback Pete Mayeux, “We
have been playing this type of ball
to some extent for the past two
years. We will be quite a bit
ahead of other schools. The only
thing I don’t like about the rule
is the danger of injuries.”
The two platoon system was le
galized in 1941. A rule change
then permitted free substitutions
of entire platoons when the clock
was not running, and individual
substitutions while the clock was
running.
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up in the box score. Only two oth
er players scored over one point,
David Bonnen with six and Byron
Andrews with four. Ed Ptacek
dumped in 13 points for Snook.
Last night’s loss gave the Tigers
a 4-1 district record and vaulted
Snook into the district lead with
a 5-0 mark. Consolidated now has
a season mark of 13 wins and two
losses, their other defeat being a
30-25 setback by Lovelady.
Spurting to a 16-8 halftime lead,
Snook had trouble in the second
half as the Tigers rallied to out
point them, 18-20. The Tigers sore
ly missed Motheral’s height on the
backboards as Snook continually
pulled off rebounds.
Snook also annexed the B team
game, 31-21, as three Tiger start
ers sat out this contest with flu.
Harry Kovar of Snook and M. Gar
cia of Consolidated paced the scor
ers with nine points each. Snook
led, 17-9, at the half.
Sharp is the Tigers’ next op
ponent, with the game scheduled
for Jan. 20*% Sharp. This game
will complete the first half of the
district campaign,' with six more
district contests on the schedule
after this one. The Tigers figure
to have little trouble with Sharp
since they slaughtered them, 12-22
last Thursday.
I$ox Score:
A Game
Consolidated (26) Snook (32)
fg.rt.n.tp. fg.rt.n.tp.
Andrews
Carroll
Jackson
Bonnen
Cooner
1 2
0 1
1 4
0 1
1 4 Ptacek 6
1 1 Nedralek 0
0 14 Junek 4
0 6 Marek 3
1 1 Jakubik 0
.Lewis 0
Kovar 1
1 13
0 3
1 8
4 6
2 0
Totals 8 10 3 26 Totals 14 4 11 32
Halftime score: Snook 16, Consolidated
A&M 8.
grove, Jerry Nelson, Steve Row-
ley, and Cecil Neely.
Players of previous varsity ex
perience, who are either lettermen
or squadmen are James Addison,
fine junior center who can also
play outstadning ball at forward;
Don Binford, junior forward who
is having a great year after being
injured most of the last basketball
season; Bill Williams, junior, who
can be called on to furnish steady
ing play during tight game situa
tions; Ken Murray, junior forward
who uses his height to good ad
vantage on under-the-basket plays;
Don Heft, senior forward who has
been a bulwark on the court in
keeping the team functioning as a
cool defensive unit; James Galle-
more, junior forward who is a
very effective rebound man; and
Leroy Miksch, senior forward who,
if he has recovered from the ef
fects of the flu attack to play to
night, will pull in a large, share
of rebounds.
Sports Banquet
Tommy O’Brien, veteran
sportscaster from radjo sta
tion KIRM, Beaumont, will ad
dress members of the A&M
football and cross country
squads at the annual winter sports
banquet.
The banquet, sponsored jointly
by the A&M athletic department
and the Brazos County A&M club,
will be held at 7 p.m. tomorrow
night in Sbisa hall.
These awards are the Lipscomb-
Colson award for the co-captains,
Jack Little and Ray Graves and
the most valuable player; the Bert
Phaff award for the best blocker;
the A. M. Waldrop award for the
best lineman and the Dallas A&M
club award.
Newt Hielscher, Bryan insurance
agent, will be master of ceremon
ies at the banquet during which
time four awards will be given to
Aggie gridsters.
Musical entertainment will be
under the direction of Miss Betty
Bolander, pianist, of the Memorial
Swimmers Travel
To First Tourney
The A&M swimming team,
boasting eight lettermen, goes to
Waco Saturday to compete in the
fourth annual Southwest Confer
ence swim meet, the first competi
tion of the season for the Cadet
swimmers. Results of the tourney
have no bearing on conference
standings.
Don Crawford, senior letterman,
is the 1953 varsity captain, and
Gayle Klipple and J. E. De Vill-
biss are freshman co-captains.
They were elected by a squad vote
yesterday afternoon.
Klipple, an A&M Consolidated
graduate, won the 120 yard indiv
idual medley for the second conse
cutive year last year in the state
high school meet held here. He
was second in the 200 yard free
style event.
Conference Champs
SMU, last year’s conference
champion and winner of the meet,
and Texas are expected to give
A&M the most trouble. Texas will
have the brilliant Skippy Brown
ing, Olympic- and NCAA diving
champ. The Steers won the meet
in 1950 and 1951 and were second
last year to the Mustangs.
Aggie lettermen back from last
year’s team which finished third
in the conference title meet, are
Crawford, Wynne Snoots, Sherwin
Rubin, one of the best all-around
swimmers on the ’52 team, Johnny
Broker, Casbeer Snell, Richard
Black, James Burns, Bert Koegl,
and divers Bobby Johnson and
John Cameron.
Fish Captain
Dickey Weick, last year’s fresh
man captain and 1951 state high
school breast stroke title holder,
is expected to add strength to the
team. Other team members are
Tommy Davenport, Bill Siebens,
John Speich, Wayne Strickler,
Donald Horne, Lee Pepping,
Franklin Gajewsky, and John Beu-
telschies.
The loss of such men as Van
Adamson, captain Ralph Ellis,
John Parnell, Don Blundell, Bill
Sargent, Tommy Comstock, and
Carroll Jones is expected to hurt
considerably.
(See SWIMMERS, Page 4)
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