Wednesday, March 18, 1953
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Rice
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Rice
Houston
Univei'sity of Houstoxx
College Station
University of Texas
Austin
Uixivei'sity of Mixxnesota
College Station
Univei'sity of Minnesota
College Station
Baylor
College Station
Bx-ooks Army Med. Center San Axxtonio
Bi’ooks Army Med. Center
San Axxtonio
Saxxx Houston State
Huntsville
Texas Christian
Fort Worth
Texas Christian
Fort Worth
SMU
Dallas
Sam Houston
College Station
Rice
College Station
SMU
College Station
SMU
College Station
TCU
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Rice
Houston
Rice
Houston
Baylor
Waco
Baylor
Waco
Univ. of Houston
Houston
Univ. of Texas
College Station
Univ. of Texas
College Station
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best ard, secondbase, Lester
ipinion. ield, land Jerry Laste-
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Morgan believes the Owls will
have more consistent batters, but
will lack long ball hitting. He has
no big man on the pitching staff,
but thinks he will have more depth
of average college hurlers. There
will be lack of experience at short
stop and fir-st base and the out
field will be green according to
the Rice coach.
All-SWC Players
A tentative line-up for the Owls
will be Parke Davis, who made All
SWC last spi-ing as a utility man,
and a regular outfielder, who
shifted to catcher and will be the
man behind the plate. Davis hit
.344 last season, scored 22 runs
and batted in 17.
“Pinky” Nesbit, a sophomore
looks like the first sacker, al
though Leroy Fentesmaker and
LaVon Cox will get trials at this
position.
At second base, Willie Witt a
senior, two letterman is certain to
get the starting nod from Mor
gan. Witt batted .224, scoring 14
runs and batting in seven last
year.
In the hot corner for the Owls
will be Tommy Reckling, a junior
letterman who hit .253 last season,
scoring 12 runs and driving in 17.
Shortstop Undecided
The shortstop position hasn’t
been decided yet and Morgan will
use the early games to try dif
ferent men out. In the race for
short are Ed Clayton, Jed Dun-
gan, James Evirett and Jed Shaw.
Monte Robicheaux, a freshman
last year and considered a good
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Cadet Tennis Team
Tops SE Oklahoma
Despite the windy weather and
threatening clouds, the A&M ten
nis squad, led by Eugene Letsos,
walloped the Southeastem Okla
homa tennis team, 7-0 hei'e yes
terday.
Letsos, used his powerful fore
hand to come behind in the first
set to beat Ray Dean Fryex-, 7-5,
6-2. His serves and volleys deter
mined the second set of the match
for Letsos.
Aggie Tommy West came back
in the third set to take Cecil Dun
can, Southeastern’s number two
man 6-1, 7-9, and 6-1.
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Ronald Wolff of the Aggies
met with little opposition while
whipping Jack Armstrong of
Southeastern in straight sets, 6-1
and 6-0.
A&M’s Jack Jacobson easily de
feated Southeastem’s Gordon
Wright, 6-1 and 6-1.
Aggie Jack Bessellieu beat Jack
Armstrong in straight sets 6-1,
6-0.
Letsos and West overwhelmed
Duncan and Fry, despite the high
winds, in two sets, 6-2 and 6-4.
Throughout the match, Letsos
made shots which brought ap
plause because of their accuracy.
Aggies, Wolf and Jacobson, had
no trouble in their doubles match,
beating Southeastern’s Armstrong
and Wright, 6-1 and 6-0.
C. R. Dyer, coach of the South
eastern Oklahoma tennis squad for
the past six years, has had four
collegiate championships, one tie
and one loss.
“This year’s squad is much
weaker,” observed Dyer, “because
the armed service has acquired
many of our top players.” Next
on Southeastern’s schedule is the
University of Houston in Houston.
“I don’t know how we will come
out against Rice,” Aggie tennis
coach Dowell commented on the
first conference tennis match
against the Owls, “we’ll just have
to wait and see.” The Aggies will
meet the Owls here March 28.
TEAM CAPTAIN—Bill Munnerlyn will be on first base
when the Ag-gies meet the Owls on the Kyle Field diamond,
Thursday afternoon. Besides playing first base, Munner
lyn will probably be the lead-off man in the Cadet batting
order.
Fish Square Off for Titles
Today In ’Mura l R ing Scraps
NUMBER ONE—Gene Letsos, will
lead the Aggies against the Rice
Owls in the first SWC tennis
match. The Aggies have not lost
a match this year, winning 14-7
against Oklahoma University and
7-0 against Southeastern Okla
homa yesterday.
Soccer Team Bows
In Champ Tilt
The A&M soccer team bowed,
4-2, in a 30 minute overtime to
Busy Bee pii 4jja,n Antonio in the
state championship game Sunday.
With the sc4>re tied, 2-2, dur
ing the overtime, the Aggies lost
ace goalie G. Fernandez because
of fighting. The Bees then surged
through the crippled Cadets for
the winning goals.
Jumping into an early 1-0 lead
on A. Casas’s goal, the Aggies
saw their lead drop as the Bees
stormed back to tie the score at
the end of the first half.
E. Urbanowich of San Antonip
staked his team to a 2-1 lead early
in the second half, but captain
Guillermo Cardenas sent the game
into overtime with a goal ten
minutes before the end of regular
play. The game was played be
fore 2,000 fans in San Antonio’s
Brackenridge Park.
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Sixteen freshman boxers square
away this afternoon in DeWai’e
Field House in quest of intramural
championships in a Fite Nite pre
view. The bouts begin at 5 p.
m. Ten of the finalists Were de
cided in semifinal matches yester
day. All upperclassman champion
ships will be determined on Fite
Nite, March 24.
Today’s slate of fish title bouts
is as follows:
123 pound—Gonzales, Co. I, vs
Allen, Co. H;
130 pound—Horton, Co. I, vs
Pinson, Sq. 17;
137 pound—Greer, Sq. 17, vs
Tank Squad
Readying For
SWC Meet
Swimming Coach Art Adamson’s
swimming team is making final
preparations for the three-day
Southwest Conference swimming
meet starting March 19 in Hous
ton. The lop-sided victory over
the Baylor Bears during the
Sports Day activities furnished a
much-needed spark of confidence,
Adamson said today. He expects
his young team to put up a good
battle in the four-team meet be
cause his team has more depth
than probably any other team for
this season.
Scheduled to be held in the Rice
pool, the Southwest Conference
swimming finals will have teams
representing Texas A&M, SMU,
Baylor and Texas.
The team record for the season
shows the victory over Baylor,
while losses to SMU, Northwestern
Louisiana twice topped the Aggies
in swimming matches during the
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Sinclair, Sq. 24;
147 pound—Chewning, Sq. 17, vs
Dischler, Co. F;
157 pound—Pearson, Sq. 20, vs
Geardina, Co. H;
167 p?iUnd—Owens, Sq. 21, vs
Burton, Co. C;
177 pound—Fisher, Fish Band,
vs Wheeler, Co. C;
191 pound-—Fortich, Fish Band,
vs Barnes, Co. A;
Semifinals in upperclassman 191
pound and 123 pound were also
held yesterday. As a result of
these bouts Caldwell, B Inf.,
meets Blockex - , Sq. 6, in the 191
final, axid Condon, A Inf., takes
on Alexander, Maroon Band, in
the 123 pound finale.
Allen Greer and Delmer Owens
scored the most convincing wins
of the day to set the stage for out-
standing bouts in tomorrow’s fin
als in their classes.
Greer, thunderous puncher with
both hands, floored Francis, Sq.
20, in the second round with an
explosive series of lefts and rights
to the face. He had taken the first
round by a wide margin, showing
a powerful left lead to the face
followed by right crosses.
Owens scored a second round
TKO of Liddy, Sq. 20, to gain
the 167 pound finals.
Showing lots of savvy and a
good defense, along with a strong
uppercutting offense, Alvin Sin
clair punched his way to a decision
over Reynolds, Sq. 21. He meets
Greer in the 137 pound final.
(See MURALS, Page 4)
Farmer Cagers
9th In Defense
At Final Listing
Finishing ninth in the nation in
team defense with a lusterless 6-
15 season record is hard to do,
but A&M’s scrappy ’52-’53 bas
ketball team did just that.
One of the four Southwest Con
ference teams which finished in
the first 15 defensive leaders, the
Aggies held their foes tn an aver
age of 57.2 points in 21 games.
SWC champion TCU ranks high
est, holding sixth place with a 55.6
mark. Rice is 11th with a 57.9 rec
ord, and Texas is 13th with 58.6.
Baylor finished 16th. Only 15 of
the nation’s major basketball
teams can show a mark below 60,0
in games through March 10.
Tall, LeRoy Miksch, widely nam-"
ed in All-SWC balloting, led the
Cadet’s offensive punch, grabbing
fifth place honors in season scor
ing and sixth in conference scor
ing.
He scored 249 points during the
season for a 13.1 average and
pumped in 133 in 11 conference
games for a 12.1 mean.
Gene Schwinger, Rice’s All-Con-
fei’ence selection, led both SWC
season and conference scoxing. The
stringbean Houstonian amassed
423 points during the season for
a 20.1 average. Schwinger is the
only SWC player among the na
tion’s top scox-ei’s, ranking 35th.
Ai-t Barnes, SMU, and soph
Mux-ray Bailey, Baylor, are the
only other conference represexxta-
tives among offensive leadei’s.
They x-ank 12th and 14th, x-espect-
ively, in fi-ee throw pex-centage.
Barnes sank 72 out of 90 for 80
per cent and Bailey dunked 78 of
98 for a 79.6 mark.
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