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« Tuesday, February 24, 1953 THE BATTALION Page s PORT 11 0 R T S By GUS BECKER Spring football training was postponed on account of rain yes terday, but will start as soon as the weather permits. Coach George will still have 30 days for spring training since he didn’t begin drills. Once spring workouts be gin they will have to be completed within 30 days. Down in coach George’s office yesterday afternoon was one of the best football players to come out of A&M . . . Joel Hunt. Hunt played for the Aggies during 1925, ’26 and ’27 and led the Aggies to the conference championship in ’25 when lie was a sopho more and ’27 when he was a Gus Becker senior. Hunt said he thought the ’27 eleven was the greatest team he ever played with during his career. The greatest game he played in was in his senior year when the Cadets beat the favorite, SMU and Jerry Mann, 39 to 13 for the crown. After leaving Aggieland, Hunt played professional baseball for the Saint Louis Cardinals. Hunt played three years for the Cardin als and was with them when they won the world series in 1931. While with the Cardinals Hunt was a teammate of “Pepper” Martin the hero of the ’31 series and the fab ulous “Dizzy” Dean. In fact “Old Diz” was with Hunt when he was with the Houston Buffs of the Texas League, a Cardinal farm flub. Head track coach, Colonel An derson, was Fish coach when Hunt was a freshman and the Fish “cleaned up”, that year, according to colonel “Andy.” “Hunt was the coolest ball-car rier I ever saw,” reminesced Colonel Anderson, “he never lost TODAY & WEDNESDAY r I Warner Js i Bros. ) PRESKNT i BORIS !Day I RONABD ; Reagan , '*■**>*<-w Bryan 2'S$79 NOW SHOWING STARTS THURSDAY rTlheir NEW HrfiTj Olrsdrl bi Stnerpliy 6y noimn img -ra r. nm « nuiin mm r Additiontl 0ulo|j<! by , FREO F. FINKIEHOFFE «m) SIO SILVERS A Paramount Plcturi QUEEN NOW SHOWING “THE REDHEAD AND THE COUNT” his head and was always best when the chips were down.” “Every time I carried the ball I was scared,” was Hunts only com ment to Colonel Andy’s remark. While at A&M, Hunts roommate was J. L. “Siki” Sikes, head coach of Kansas University. Hunt tells this one about his former roommate. It seems during the 1927 East-West game, Hunt was playing right half, Sikes was playing right end and the great TCU end, “Rags” Matthews was playing left end. Before every play “Rags” would stand up and wave his hand at the opponents and say “come around this end you All-Americans.” Hunt played right behind Sikes on defense and he asked Sikes, “Siki” why don’t you tell those all-Americans to come around your end?” Sikes turned around and an nounced, “not me, I’m going to leave well enough alone.” Hunt also tells one on Barlow “Bones” Irvin, Athletic director at A&M. When Irvin was a sophomore the Aggies went to play LSU and had to cross the Mississippi river. The playes had been kidding “Bones” about how wide the river was, and that boats took the whole train across the river. Irvin wasn’t a regular that season and was assigned an upper berth. During the night “Bones” had a nightmare and fell from the top berth yelling, “Save me! Save me‘ I’m drowning.” “I’m really glad that the new substitution rule was passed,” Hunt announced, “I think it will, give the boys a better chance to show their ability. Although I got most of my fame from offense, there never was a guy that liked to play defense any better than I did.” Hunt continued, “I believe the boys Avill like it better and the coaches too, when they get start ed.” Besides playing football for the Aggies, Hunt was also a star base ball player, and he said the late “Uncle” Billy Disch of Texas Uni versity almost caused him to go to the Austin school. Hunt had gotten four hits off of “Spot” Faulk the brother of “Bib” Faulk, now the head baseball coach of the Longhoms, when he was still in high school. Faulk was pitching for Austin and Hunt was with Waco. “Mr. Disch came up after the game and told me I did pretty good, ... I had heard of ‘Uncle Billy’ and all the players he had (See HUNT, Page 4) CIRCLE 4-1250 TONIGHT & WEDNESDAY Children Under 12 Admitted FREE When Accompanied By An Adult. LAST Train feW lp:RO *» Bombay ION CHRISTINE USA HALL • [ARSON • FERRADAY —ALSO— mi Black CASTLE Richard GREENE Boris KARLOFF A UNI VfRSM IN TERM AXIOM AV TODAY LAST DAY —Feature Starts— 1:56 - 3:57 - 5:58 - '7:59 - 10:00 NEWS — CARTOON STARTS WEDNESDAY 'Apache , _,WAR"~ I Smoke tm round Cliirti Itotort Bjrbira tm FARRELL • HORTON * RUICK • LOCKHART l MniOCOlPWYM MAYtt HCTPtC Aggies Meet SMU In Dallas Tonight The Aggies return to conference play tonight against SMU in Dal las, after their loss to Houston University. So far, the Mustangs have out distanced A&M in the race for last place with a 1-8 record. The Cadets bring a 3-7 showing to the game. SMU couldn’t climb out of the cellar with a win over the Farmers since they have won only one game. The Mustangs are still danger ous, since their win came over Baylor who is in contention for the conference crown. Houston Wins Houston evened their series with A&M at 1-1 Saturday night by taking a 48-44 win from the cold shooting Ags. A&M couldn’t find the range as shown by three starters gathering only six points between them. Bob Johnson had one, Roy Martin gathered four, and Rodney Ph’tle took one. The game was close and tied several times, but the Cadets were never ahead. The Farmers knotted the count at 20-20 in the second period and 33-33 in the third. Don Binford regained some of his shooting form to tie for top scoring honors with 13 counters. Binford had been badly off form recently due to a hand injury re ceived in practice. Jim Hatton, of Houston, tied Binford with 13 points. Cotton had 11 and Mosher had 10 for the Cougars. Leroy Miksch took runner-up honors in individual scoring with 12 points. Houston (48 Texas A&M (44) fg ft Pf tp fg ft Pf IP Hatton 4 5 4 13 Johnson 0 1 3 1 Kittman 0 3 3 3 Addison 1 6 2 8 Shivers 1 2 1 4 Martin 1 2 5 4 McNutt 0 3 1 3 Pirtle 0 1 5 1 Bell 0 4 2 4 Hrdgrove 0 1 3 1 Pettiette () 0 0 0 Heft 1 2 1 4 Adams 0 0 2 0 Miksch 3 6 5 12 Cotton 4 3 5 11 Binford 5 3 4 13 Mosher 3 4 5 10 McCrory 0 0 1 0 Totals 12 24 2: 1 48 Totals 11 : 22 29 44 Score by periods: Houston . . .13 7 14 15— -48 A&M. . . . 8 10 14 12- -44 Officials: Watson and Park. Free throws missed: Hatton 7, Kittman 3, Shivers, Cotton 3, McNutt 6, Bell 2, Mosher, Johnson, Hef, Addison 3, Miksch 3, Martin, Binford, Hardgrove. Twelve Of Seventeen Pins Highlighted In Mural Bouts With 12 of 17 matches ending in pins, the fifth day of intra mural wrestling was unreeled in the little gym yesterday. In the fastest match of the day and one of the briefest of the tourney Fisher, Sq. 5, pinned Stevens, B Inf., in 54 seconds. Taylor Green, Sq. 7, pinned Harold Craig, Sq. 15, in 4:15 after trail ing in points, 6-8, in the day’s thriller. A&M Soccer Team Downs UofH 6-1 The Aggie Soccer team downed the University of Houston club 6-1 in a Texas International Soc cer League game Sunday. Captain G. Cardenas scored the first goal w-ith eight minutes gone to send the Cadets into a lead they never lost. A&M scored twice again with Cardenas booting both goals. The second came with 18 minutes gone and the third with 32. Casas scor ed again for A&M just seven min utes before the half to give A&M The Cougars couldn’t stop Car denas any better in the second half as he scored two more goals in 22 minutes to give the Aggies all the lead they needed. Panisky of Houston, scored their only goal at the eijd of 30 minutes in the second half. Guy Fdez and Macao Cunning ham wei’e outstanding on defense for the Ags. Juan Letts showed well at the center half position, while Lee Blocker played a good game at left wing. Casas at i-ight inter and Ducos at left half have also been looking good, said Cardenas. The Aggies meet Bryan Air Force Base here next Sunday at 2:30 p. m. John Parker, Co. C, stamped himself as a major contender for the freshman 177 pound title with an impressive win over Villegas, F FA. A promising wrestler, Pai'k- er pinned his foe in 2:26 after leading in points, 8-2. Labhart, A Cml., took Konig, Sq. 2, in 2:37 in another good bout, coming from behind a 2-4 deficit. Hall, A TC, threw Pyka, Sq. 4, in 4:14 in a fine 177 pound bout. A summary of yesterday’s bouts follows: Upperclassmen 123 pound—Cameron, Sq. 4, pin ned Fincher, A Ord., in 2:34; Green pinned Craig; 147 pound—Henson, Sq. 5, pin- ned Cook, C FA, in 3:28; Labhart pinned Konig; 157 pound-Fisher pinned Stev ens; Dodd Sq. 11, decisioned Davis, Sq. 15, 4-0; 167 pound—Hayes, C FA, won a forfeit from Akard, A Arm.; Lee, Sq. 13, pinned Whitley, A Cml., in 3.27; Barr, Sq. 15, won forfeit over Wright, A QMC; Mil- ton, A Cml., won a forfeit over Tate, Sq. 2; Meyers, A TC, pinned Bragassa, Sq. 14, in 4:39; 177 pound—Hall pinned Pyka; Holt, A Eng., decisioned Sanders, B FA, 6-4; Freshman 147 pound—Shaw, F FA, pinned Garrett, Fish Band, in 2:05; Ar cher, Co. D, pinned Mays, Sq. 18, in 1:21; Roots, D FA, won forfeit over Andi'ews, Co. B; Roberts, Sq. 24, pinned Northern, Sq. 23, in 2:15; 157 pound—Turner, Co. C, won forfeit over Gonzales, F FA; 177 pound—'Parker pinned Vil legas; Holstein, Sq. 24, decisioned Cunningham, Sq. 20. Pictui'es of intramural champ ions will be taken at 5 p. m. Wednesday in the intramural of fice,’said Barney Welch. He urged (See INTRAMURALS, Page 4) NEWS — CARTOON 100% Wool . ♦ . . SUMMER SERGE FINEST ON THE MARKET Combined with FINEST QUALITY TAILORING Made especially for you . . . make our Summer Serge Uniforms the outstanding and most de manded on the campus. ORDER TODAY 1 WEEK DELIVERY — We Have Added — Custom Tailored SLACKS AND SUITS in Popular Shades and Fabrics ZUBIK’S Uniform Tailors 105 N. MAIN NORTH GATE Maroon Mermen Splash T o 94-88 Squad V ictory The maroons splashed their way to a narrow 94-88 win over the whites in an Inter-squad Swim Meet at the P. L. Downs Jr. Nata- torium Saturday afternoon. Art Adamson, A&M Swimming Coach, evenly divided the varsity, freshmen and high school swim mers into two squads, but the whites were severely crippled by the illness of star varsity back- stroker Don Crawford. They fought a strong but losing battle down to the last event. However, producers of the big gest splashes and most extraordin ary flops were Bill Tutor, soph swimmer, and David Percifield and Irmin Stawicki, freshmen perform ers, in their version of diving as it shouldn’t be done. Their comedy diving was very popular with the spectators. Snoots Wins Winner of the first event, 100 yards Backstroke, was Wynne Sndoots (V) maroon squad. He was followed by Tommy Daven port (V) white, while Caid May nard (V) maroon, came in third. The second 100 yard backstroke event was won by Tom Barlow (HS) of the maroons, Sherwin Rubin (V) maroon, finished second and Roland Baird (F) white, was third. Winning the first 100 yard breaststroke event was Ricky Black (V) maroon, second was Wayne Strickler (V) white, and third was Wally Penberthy (HS) maroon. The second breaststroke race was won by George Parr (F) maroon, who finished ahead of Henry Goff (F) white, and Ben Allen (F) white. Weick Takes Freestyle Dick Weick (V) put the white squad into the win column when he splashed home fiiist in the 100 yard freestyle event, finishing ahead of Gayle Klipple (V) ma roon, and John Speich (V) White, who was third. First place in the second 100 yard freestyle race went to John Beutelschies (V), maroon, as Paul Wottering (V) maroon, came in second and Hugh West (V) white, was third. Low board diving was the next event on the program, with Sta wicki (F) maroon, nailing down first place. Percified (F) white, finished second, and Joseph Satel (F) maroon, was the third place winner. Snoots Wins Again The 200 yard backstroke race was won by Snoots (V) maroon, while Devenport (V) white, was second, and Barlow (HS) maroon, finished third. Winner of the 200 yard breast stroke event was Strickler (V) white, finishing ahead of second place Paul Wallin (V) white, and third place Black (V) maroon. Diving again took over the spot light as the high boat'd specialists matched form and ability. John Cameron (V) white, was judged winner, as Paul Shaffer (V) ma roon, took second, and Tutor (F) maroon, was third. Weick (V), again splashed his way to a white victory in the 440 yard freestyle race. He was fol lowed to the flags by Klipple (F) maroon, and Spich (V) white. Diving Honor Seen Taking over the pool for a ses sion of comedy diving, Tutoi', Per cifield and Stawicki kept the swimming fans laughing at their amusing diving positions and the huge splashes produced when they hit the water. Winding up the afternoon’s sche dule of events was the 300 yard medley relay, won by the white team of Baird, Allen and West. Finishing second was the maroon team of Rubin, Parr and Wottring, and another maroon team, William Thiessen (F), Robert Rand (F), and Bert Koegl, came in third. IF YOU ARE HAVING LAUNDRY TROUBLES, TRY . . . CAMPUS CLEANERS * QOU * RE , f T£ A^ ,^- r : d Plan to see H. S. 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