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Tuesday, December 1(5, 1953 THE BATTALION Page 12111 Man Bowl Teams Stage Rough Workouts The army and air force Man Bowl teams Monday put on pads and staged their first scrim mages. Both teams probably will work without pads today. Each squad was cut to do players Friday. Kickoff time is 2:45 p. m. Thurs day on Kyle field. Tickets are 50 cents, with proceeds going into the student aid fund. The Fish band, Fish drill team and the tumbling team will put on half - time exhibitions. A graded corps pass-by will be held before the game, raid Lt. Col. Taylor Wil kins, assistant commandant. Tickets are being sold by unit athletic officers and the following places, Office of Student Activities, Aggieland Pharmacy, Black’s Phar- marcy, Madeley’s Drug Store, Major’s Cafe, Canady’s Pharmacy, Lipscomb’s Pharmacy, Smith’s Cleaners, Youngbood’s and the Me morial Student Center. Airforce head coach John Salyer sent his squad through a lengthy and spirited scrimmage after spend ing some time on polishing plays and blocking. “They’re looking fine, and we’ve got some pretty good running backs,” he said. Salyer listed the following com bination as the posible starting backfield-Dale West, squadron 17, 150-pounds; David Rochelle, squad ron 25, 155-pounds; James Denaid, squadron 13, 170-pounds; and Fred Wilms, White band, 175-pounds. The air force will use the Y- formation on offense, while the army will employ the T. Both teams have agreed to use a 6-2-2-1 defense. Wea th er Ca n ce h Pistol Team Trip -The, ,A&M . pistol h-a mV hjdrcdv uged air trip to West Point last weekend was cancelled because of the weather. * Eleven members of the team were supposed to leave by plane Friday morning for a match Satur day. , Col. John A. Way, PAS&T, and Capt. M. It. Mitchell were to fly the team in a C-47. Sgt. B. C. Cox, team coach, also would have made the trip. A match with West Point will be scheduled in the spring, Cox said. The Aggies fired a postal match with Washington State Wednesday night. The results, which arc mail ed to each of the opposing teams, will be announced later. Ag Handball Team Sets Three Games The A&M handball team has games scheduled with Rice, ' the University of Texas and Baylor. Dates of the games have not Seen set, said Coach Herman Hegrest. A match had been set tor last Tuesday with Southwest '.Texas State Teachers college but tiad to be postponed. A&M’s team is composed of members of the Handball club. A ladder tournament is held through out the year, and the six highest men at the time of. a match com pose the team. Segrest believes the team will give a fine account of itself this year. There are several sophomores who will improve as the season pro gresses, he said. John Centilli is the club presi dent. Paul Meincrs is the secre tary. PARKING METER WILDLIFE DOVER, N. H. (/Pi — Police were dubious when a motorist told them he had seen two eyes peer ing at him from iiiside a parking meter. Investigating, they found an eight inch snake. TODAY & WEDNESDAY Ybu'ft „« / a sttaaMss srsj. riot/ ciiin d-wdCM • 3'U. Assisting Salyer are Louis Capt worked with the linemen, and Dave and Bob Gosney with the line, Ben Smith and Joe Schero helped out nie Sinclair with the ends and El- with the backs. Connie Magouirk is wood Kettler with the backs. the army’s head coach. The army squad concentrated on Army quarterbacks put on a' blocking and pasing before staging sharp passing exhibition as the a short but sharp scrimmage. Dur- backs polished up some plays us- wood Scott and Norbert Ohlendorf ing wide flankers. 9 • AIR FORCE ROSTER Name Pos, Outfit Wt. Bob Woody E Sq. 2 190 Warren Grant E Sq. 2 190 Bill Sauer E Sq. 3 188 Jerry Keith E Eq. 4 185 James Witcher E Sq. 5 160 Jake Magee E Sq. 7 160 Jerry Pyle G Sq/? 160 David Verble G Sq. 8 187 Bill Moore . _ Sq. 10 185 George McCoy C Sq. 11 190 Pancho Patterson B Sq. 11 170 Fred Wilms B W-Band 175 James Denard B Sq. 13 170 Frank Urbanic C Sq. 13 168 David Korry . B Sq. 14 170 Ralph Pettit . . . .. B Sq. 14 147 Muid Bishop E Sq. 15 185 Cris Mocek B Sq. 15 180 Dale West B Sq. 17 150 Adrien Helms B Sq. 20 175 Don Stacy B Sq. 20 175 James McNeely .. .. G Sq. 21 175 Robert Smith B Sq. 21 186 Carl McGee . G Sq. 22 160 Joe Joeris G Sq. 22 185 Charles Anderson . G Sq. 23 180 Russell Scott E Sq. 24 180 Jerry Jeffery B Sq. 25 150 David Rochelle . B Sq. 25 155 Louis DeHaes . G . Dorm 5 180 G. M. Keller T P. G. Hall 205 G. T. Pruitt E Dorm 4 185 John English B Dorm 4 174 Ross George ... B C. View 175 FINE ALL-AROUND COURT MAN—Joe Hardgrove has picked up 21 points in four games to lead Aggie guards in scoring. A fine ball handler with a good eye for the bas ket on outside shots, Hardgrove shows signs of becoming one of the strongest offensive and defensive players on the squad. FAIT WAY T§ SAVE TIKIS Flighfs Daily to Houston LVo 3H6 pm, 8:26' pm Excellent.connections to NEW ORLEANS, BEAUMONT — PORT ARTHUR. For Reservations — Phone 4-5054 100 Attend Houston Banquet for Ags Over 300 people Friday night attended the Houston A&M club’s annual banquet for the A&M foot ball team in the Shamrock hotel. Football Coach Ray George said, “I never expect to have a team work any harder to give its best, and that’s all we coaches can ex pect of any group of boys.” Morris Frank and A&M Athletic Director Barlow Irvin also made short talks. Dick Gottlieb, presi dent of the Houston A&M club, presided over the program. Dr. David Morgan, president of A&M, W. T. Doherty and J. H. Dunn, members of the board of di rectors, members of the coaching staff and football players were in troduced. Bob Pettit Paces LSU Tigers 1 To 77-56 Cage Win Over Ags BATON ROUGE, La.—Un defeated Louisiana State Universi ty handily disposed of A & M, 77 to 56, here Monday night before 5,000 basketball fans. Bob Pettit, LSU’s 6-foot 9-inch center, raced for a field goal after only eight seconds of play and LSU was never headed. The Aggies, going down to their third defeat in four starts, had difficulty solving LSU’s tight zone defense. In the first quarter A&M made 1.8 points, mostly from the outside, while LSU got 30. After that Center Roy Martin stuck close to Pettit and the Ag gies drew to within 5 points by the middle of the second quarter. However, LSU moved to a 44-to- 34 lead by half time with Forward Don Belcher sparking a drive on a series of corner shots. Pettit, who came into the game with a 39.9 scoring average for three games, shook loose for 27 points and the night’s scoring hon ors. Teammates Norm Magee was next with 21. Rodney Pirtle paced Aggie scor ers with 17 points, followed by Roy Martin with 16 tallies. The Tigers hit on 24 out of 57 shots, while the Aggies connected Intramurals Jake Magee, Sqd. 7, Named Intramural Athlete of Week Senior Jake Magee, a physical edu cation major from College Station, was selected winner as the in- tramural athlete of the last week. He was outstanding on the in tramural field where he took the ball on two occasions and ran 30 yards and 55 yards for two touch downs. ASA squeezed by squadron 2, 2-0 on a safety in a intramural football contest Monday. Jerry Johnson made a touchdown for B infantry and several good runs to help his unit win over a Chemical, 13-0. Early in the f irst half of the ball game, Bill Rowland of A quarter master romped 50 yards for a scoi-e. which helped his unit edge squadron 6 on penetrations, 7-2, after the game ended in a 6-6 tie. Another top play for A quarter master eatou' hi thjfcdaEsfc'half: when. T. J.' Samnwuis CJssed to J. Aliubis for a play which Honvorl for 60 yards. The outstanding play of the game came on the next to last play of the first half when squadron 6’s Rusty Crowley dropped back and faked back to a half back then ran his own right untouched for 96 yards and a touchdown. James Lewis and James Emm- rich each scored 12 points to, spark dormitory 4 to a 39-9 decision over Mitchell hall in intramural basket ball at the Grove. Dormitory 2’s Burnett and Long- brake each scored seven points to help their team win over Post Graduate hall, 20-13. A&M Wrestlers Ready for Season The A&M wrestling team has been working out since September for.next semester’s schedule. Home-and-home matches with the University of Texas and Baylor have been scheduled,, said Coach J. W. Griffith. The Aggies also will enter the National Collegiate Athletic association tournament in Norman, Okla., March 19-20. Meets with SMU and TCU also may be set. About 20 players, including nine lettermen, have been practicing. Lettermen are Bob Beattie, Dick Cappel, Bill Gilbert, Jerry Pyle, Rudy Henson, Conrad Webb, John ny Johnson, John Huff and Xavier Gonzales. Buddy Smith was high man for dormitory 2 with six points. Bowling Squadron 23’s Jim Dockery, Ed ward Wyatt and Max Walker bowl ed a 444-340 win over squadron 25’s team. High men for the squads were Wyatt with 170 for the winners while Jack Lyle made 116 for Squadron 25. Squadron 22’s Bernie Spath bowled a neat 150 to help his unit defeat sqladron 21, 441-384. Don Poole was high man for squadron 21 with 144/ A. M. Koehler bowled 168 to help squadron 17 beat squadron 19, 419-365. Hembree was high man for squadron 19 with 120. In horseshoes squadron 7 blanked squadron 3, three matches to none; squadron 14 defeated squadron 15, 2-1; company 1 blanked company G, 2-0; and squadron 5 won over squadron 4, 2-1. on 21 out of 52 attempts. Wednesday night the Aggies en tertain Texas Tech at DeWare Field House, with the Freshmen taking on Allen Academy in the curtain-raiser beginning Game Statistics A&M (56) t'O at l IT 6. PF TP Fortenberry . . . 1 0-0 5 2 Addison 2 5-1 5 5 Ellis 0 0-0 1 0 Ellis 0 0-0 1 0 Martin 6 5-4 5 16 Pirtle . ...... . . 6 6-5 i 17 Hardgrove . . . . i 0-0 i 2 Moon i 7-3 5 5 McCrory . .... -i 0-0 3 8 Boring ........ 0 1-1 0 1 Totals . 21 24-1-1 26 06 LSU (77) J G FT PF TP Belcher (5-5 1 15 Clark 1 5-3 4 5 Pettilt S 17-11 3 27 McArdle 7 12-7 3 21 Magee 7 12-7 3 21 Laughmiller . ., O 2-2 0 2 McMeilly 0 1-1 1 1 Sebastian . ... 1 0-0 0 2 Totals . , . 24 43-29 16 77 Score by periods: A&M 18 16 11 11- -56 L S U • ■.... 30 14 14 19- -77 Tigers Take First Place In Bryan Tournament The Consolidated Tigers swept past'-fk-ree oppo rrenfcs -to^eafftnre the AA, A. and B bracket title in the fifth annual Bryan Chamber of Commerce basketball tournament held Friday and Saturday in Bryan. In the opening, round Friday aft ernoon, the Tigers breezed past Spring Branch, 42-35, with Fred Anderson looping in 15 points to walk off with scoring honors. John Cooper, with 14 points, led the los ers. . .Saturday ■morning' .in the semi final round, Consolidated downed El Campo by a 51-37 margin, with Bobby Jackson scoring 15 points to lead Tiger scorers. High point man for the game, however, was El Campo’s John Paul Appling with 19 tallies. An unusual aspect of the game was the fact that only five Tigers saw action in the tilt, and the other four players, Roland Beasley, Pinky Gooner, J. B. ’Carroll and Anderson each chalked up nine points in the four-way tie for run ner-up honors. The final game of the tourna ment turned out to be the real thriller, with Jackson popping in a free throw with four seconds left in the game to give the Tigers a hard-earned 28-27 win over Bren- ham. With the score deadlocked at 27- 27, Brenham had possession of the ball and played a stalling game for a full minute and a half, wait ing to get a last second shot at the basket for the win. 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