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.
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