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Wednesday, January 21, 1953 THE BATTALION Page 3 Allen, Wharton, Stars Stage Big Show Friday DeWare Field House will fea ture an outstanding- basketball game between the Allen Academy Ramblers and Wharton Junior College Pioneers Friday night. The March of Dimes benefit game will also feature Several sports celebrites in the pre-game show. They will include Solly 5 Hemus, St. Louis Cardinal Short stop and lead-off man; Jack Little, A&M All-American tackle; Don Rhoden of Rice, another All-Am erican; Ray Graves of A&M, Bill Athey of Baylor and Darrow Hooper, A&M’s Olympics perform er. College President M. T. Harrington, president of the college, will welcome the guests and spectators during the pre-game show. The Wharton Starlettcs, a group of 48 girls, who do precision drills and dances, will begin at 7:30 and the game itself will get underway a p- proximately an hour later. Television and theatrical stars Little Vivian Altfeld and Orion Wymer, along with Louise Taylor, Starlettes director, will highlight the half-time show. State Champs The Allen ramblers are defend ing Texas Junior College Confer ence state champions and have scored 8G8 points in 13 games this year. Their opponents, Wharton Pion eers are the defending national junior college champs. A member of the largest athletic conference in the nation—2.3 teams, divided into four zones stretching from Texarkana to Am arillo—the Ramblers copped the Zone 2 title and then went on to win the state championship in a tournament played in Waco last year. Short Team Rambler coach Leslie Robinson, who in 20 years of coaching has never turned out a team who won- lost record was less than .500 per cent—has a group of “shorties with his tallest man standing only 6-3. His starting five only aver ages 5-10 but they have scored 10 wins in 13 starts this season. They have gone through the first half of the conference sea son undefeated. Roy West, junior college all-state, leads the Allen Scorers Name EG FT PF TP West ... 89 58 34 236 Brophy ... 66 34 52 166 Castorena ... 61 31 47 153 Hewera ... 38 35 36 111 Nesbit ... 27 29 24 83 Miller ... 12# 9 15 33 Krug ... 11 7 21 29 Holmes ... 7 8 8 22 Meador ... 4 10 22 18 Blakely 1 4 7 Withers . 1 4 10 6 Hanington ... 1 2 5 4 Totals..... ...320 228 278 868 4-1181 TODAY LAST DAY —Feature Starts— 1:40 - 3:45 - 5:50 - 7:55 - 10:00 ffAPPZ Soccer Team Meets Texas Here Feb. 8 The A&M Soccer team will play host to the University of Texas squad here Feb. 8. In their most recent game the Aggie soccer team blasted Allen Academy 10-0. JENIFER JONES “Song of Bernadette” THURSDAY — FRIDAY “Beware My Lovely’ Chorles lindo BOYER • CHRISTIAN JOURDAN NEWS CARTOON STARTS THURSDAY STRANGE fascihatwh starring CLEO MOORE HUGO HAAS scoring attack with 236 points for an average of 19.6 per game. Wharton walked away with the championsh i p in the Region XVI tourna ment staged in Tyler and this gave them the right to com pete in the national tour ney at Hutch- Kan., a which they also took Graves top honors. Coach Johnnie Frank, former freshman coach at A&M, is now coaching at Wharton and was named 1952 junior college coach of the year by the Texas Sports- writers Association. He has six members of his national champion ship club back and can start a team averaging 6-5. Both the Ramblex’s and Pioneers use a fast-break, so another high- scoring game is expected Friday night. Babcock Elected Aggie Club Prexy C. L. Babcock of Beaumont was re-elected president of the Aggie Club in their annual meeting in the Memorial Student Center on the campus last week. H. C. Heldenfels of Corpus Chxisti was elected vice-president and Homer Adams of College Sta tion was. re-elected seci'etary- treasurer. Elected to the executive commit tee for the coming year were Price Campbell of Abilene, Norman E. Buescher of McAllen, C. A. Chip- ley of San Antonio, Chaides H. Fleming of Foxt Worth, Clyde Murphy of Wichita Falls, A. G. Pfaff of Tyler and James W. Wil liams of Dallas. Individual Statistics Player FG FT RB PF PTS AVE High Miksch, f 107-44 65-39 : 100 23 127 14.1 19 Binford, g -144-44 43-35 32 30 123 11.2 21 Pirtle, f ... 99-32 26-15 39 32 79 7.2 13 Johnson, f 66-26 18-13 21 19 65 5.9 21 Addison, c 36-14 34-22 53 20 50 4.5 12 Martin, c ... 48-14 30-17 33 27 45 4.5 12 Heft, g .. 36-11 17-14 10 18 36 3.3 7 Moon, g ... 26-7 9-4 11 17 18 3.6 ' 8 Hardgrove, g . 15-3 18-11 12 11 17 2.1 8 Murray, f ... 5-1 4-3 3 4 5 0.8 3 Gallemore, f . ... 4-0 5-4 5 1 4 0.7 3 Williams, g _ ... 2-0 4-2 1 6 2 0.3 2 McCrory, g ... 9-0 2-1 2 9 1 0.1 1 A&M Totals —. 599-196 277-180 322 212 572 52.0 68 Opp. Totals 626-218 327-205 329 194 641 58.0 67 Hogan Steps Out; Fleming Fires 68 PALM SPRINGS, Calif., Jan. 20—OP)—Golf’s famed Ben Hogan stepped out of the lead in the $10,000 Thunderbird Country Club invitational tournament late to day. A little knowm professional, Pete Fleming of St. Andx-ews, Ill., moved into the front, with a 36- hole score of 133. Aggie Cagers Face Owls Saturday Wight TODAY ONLY rHf price of fame in the J CIRCLE 4-1250 Children under 12—FREE when accompanied by an adult. TONIGHT LAST NIGHT All even in conference play and 5-7 in season games, the Aggies have a light schedule the next two weeks befoi’e starting down the sti’etch of Southwest loop compe tition. The only game set for the next two weeks for Coach John Floyd’s Aggies is the Rice Owl-Aggie game in Houston Saturday night (Jan. 24). Next game after that is Feb. 3 against SMU at College Station. Miksch-Binford The Aggies, paced by Leroy Miksch and Don Binford with ex cellent help from Sophomores Rodney ' Pirtle and Bob Johnson, knocked off the loop-leading Texas Longhorns, 51-42, before the home folk last week but the Texans stayed off the top only one day, what with Arkansas defeating Rice handily in Fayetteville Sat- turday night. r The Ags hit 42 percent of their shots against Texas, sinking 15 of 37 from the field while the-cool Longhorns managed but 10 of 50 for a 20 percent shooting mark. Defensive Battle The Aggie-TU game was a tei*- rific defensive battle, neither team getting an .abundance of good shots. Top individual tactics were by Pirtle, Johnson and Don Heft holding George Scalings, TU’s hot- shot, to one field-goal, and the Work of Leon Black in holding Binford of A&M to three early In that game the t Ags took an early lead and held on by some 10 points throughout the game, leading at two times by 13 points. Leads Scoring Miksch, the Waelder senior who came off a sick bed to lead the scoring attack against Texas with 13 points, paces the Cadets with 140 points and a 14-point average. He has missed two games with in jury or sickness. Binfoi'd, the Wellington, Kan., junior, is second in scoxing with 135 points and an 11.3 avexage. He’s played all 12 games. Pirtle, of Coleman and Johnson of Dal las, have showed exceptionally well thus far, both o'n defensive play and play-making. They’re next to the leaders in scoxing, Pix-tle hav ing 86 points and Johnson 75. The Aggies have taken Arkan sas and Texas at home and have lost to Baylor and TCU on the i-oad in SWC games, proving fux-- ther that the Southwest confer ence is more of a home, loop than other major loops over the coun try. The Aggie February schedule winds up the season. After playing Rice in Houston Jan. 24, A&M’s schedule is as fol lows: Feb. 3 SMU at home; Feb. 7 Baylor at home, Feb. 10 Texas at Austin, Feb. 14 Rice at home, Feb. 16 Arkansas at Little Rock, Feb. 21 Houston at Houston, Feb. 24 SMU at Dallas and Feb. 28 TCU Hogan and another veteran, Dutch Harrison, took the. lead yes terday with 7 under par 65s. But today Hogan and Harrison shot 69s to go into a tie with three other pros at 134. Bracketed with Hogan, and Har rison were Jim Turnesa, Jimmy Demaret and Lloyd Mangrum. The 65s of the last two tied the coux - se record, hung up yesterday by Ben and the Dutchman. Fleming, 35, formerly from Hot Springs, Ark., gained prominence 10 days ago when he led the field in the first round of Bing Cros by’s tournament at Pebble Beach, Calif. His 34-32 today over the par 36-36—72 course was good enough to put him on top going into the final round of the 54-hole tournament, tomorrow. Hogan remained the star attrac tion in this, one of his rare tourna ment appearances. He gave the gallery a thi'ill at the 18th gi'een wheix Ixe approached the pin and stopped 12 feet away and then sank the putt for an eagle three. It was a good finish for the Texas ex-champion. He had been playing straight and true over the 6,600-yard coui'se but was unable to get the putts down during the afternoon. Byron Nelson of Texas, another ex-champion making an infrequent appearance, shot his second straight 68 for 136. National Open champion Julius Boros added a 69 to his first xound 70 for 139. Also at 139 was former U. S. Open champion Lew Worsham with a 71. Ed Oliver headed a pro-amateur team that included baseball star Ralph Kincr to win the best ball competition. The team had scores of 54-59—113 and Oliver collected $1,000. Season Recoxd: Won 4, Lost 7. 65 Houston 59 58 NW Louisiana 58 68 E. N. Mexico 48 60 Trinity 55 52 Col. A&M 65 35 SMU 57 49 Axlzona 66 54 Texas 58 44 Baylor 60 56 Arkansas 48 (2 overtimes) 36 TCU 67 51 Texas 42 Schreiner Institute Needs New Grid Coach KERRVILLE, Jan. 21 —0P>_ Schreiner Institute will look around for a football coach and athletic director to succeed Claude Gilstrap, who x’esigned to become football coach at Ailing- Cotton Bowl Gets Baseball Touch The next time a football goes into the stands during the Cotton Bowl, the person catching it may have the privilege of keeping it. President Otto Eisenlehr of the Cotton Bowl Athletic Association is the fellow who would put a touch of baseball into the post season gridiron classic. It happen like this: In the 1953 Cotton Bowl game between Texas and Tennessee, one of Gib Dawson’s point-after-touch- down kicks went high into the north end zone.' The fan who caught it didn’t want to give it up. But under SWC rules it isn’t permissable for the fans to keep a ball that lands in the stands. There was consideraible grum bling when the fan was forced to give the ball back. Eisenlehr thought it might be a good idea in the case of the Cotton Bowl to make an exception and let the fans keep the footballs that land in the stands. That’s the way it is in baseball, although, of course, a baseball costs piuch less than a football. So Eisenlehr is going to talk it over with his organization with a view toward putting a touch of baseball into the thing. TCU Upsets Conference; Beat Rice 69-60 HOUSTON, Jan. 21—UP) —Big Henry Ohlen, withJBl points, led TCU to a 69 to 60 Southwest Conference basket ball upset over Rice last night. The Frogs had lost to Rice by 19 points in the pi’e-season con ference tournament at Dallas and their victory tonight prevented the Owls from climbing into a first place tie with Texas. Ohlen, a tight Frog defense, and the second half effoi’ts of Captain Richard Allen made the difference. Allen, finished with 17 points, made 12 in the second half and most of those at times when Rice was pressing closely. The lead changed six times be fore TCU took a 41-40 advantage with 15 minutes to play. Rice tied at 41-41, 49-49 and 51-51 but could not pull in front. Guai'd John Swaim broke the final tie with a set shot and Ohlen followed with a tip. Dial Selected New Business Manager Pat Dial, employee of the A&M agricultural experiment station the past 18 years, is A&M’s new busi ness manager of athletics, accord ing to Barlow Irvin, Athletic Di rector. Dial replaces C. D. Ownby w'ho retired last week after completing 25 years service with the college. Ownby has opened a public ac counting business in Houston. Dial left the experiment station last September and joined the ath letic department as assistant to Ownby. He began duties as head business man for athletics Jan. 16. Bevo Scores 38 Points As Rio Grande Wins TROY, O., Jan. 21—CP)—Cedar- ville stalled and played “possessive ball” in an unsuccessful attempt to stop the nation’s top college basketball scorer but lost the game when furious fans forced them to play regular ball. Rio Grande won the game, 66-29, and its Clarence Bevo Francis scored 38 points. The stalling tac tics did lower Francis’ game aver age of 50 for 22 games. Francis, who recently set a new national scoring mark, now had 1146 points for 23 games. Rio Grande had been averaging 100 points a game. LOUANNS DALLAS MATINEE DANCE EVERY SUNDAY 2:00 P. M. to 6:00 P. M. Greenville Ave. & Lovers Lane HOLDEN* Edmond O'BRIEN Alexis SMITH ■ F-.-V', V'U' V t*rV; • V • A ■ TURNING. POINT i S SHORT — CARTOON STARTS THU RSI) AY June ALLYSON ^ van JOHNSON iSlte —Also—• “CAPTIVE CITY” Starring John Forsythe Joan Camden