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THE BATTALION ~ - Page 3 Ag Trackmen In Sugar Bowl Meet Dec. 31 Seven Texas A&M trackmen will participate in the annual Su gar Bowl ti'ack meet at New Or leans Dec. 31. Col. Frank Anderson, veteran Aggie coach, announced that A&M will be represented at the Mid- Winter Sports Carnival by James Blaine, mile, from Imperial; James Baker, open JJlAyard dash, Dallas and Glenn Blake, high hurdles, Lampasas. In addition there will be an Ag gie mile relay four-some composed of Carol Libbcy of Alvin, Gerald Stull of Beaumont, Wallace Kleb of Houston and Terry Vetters of San Antonio. Blaine, Cadet distance ace, is a three-times cross-country champ and is the Southwest conference defending two-mile champion. He is favored to crack the SWC 2- mile record next spring. Baker, although through with his collegiate eligibility, will run the open quarter. He had one of the nation’s better times last year when he ran the 440 in :47.6 at Baton Rouge. Baker is expected to near that time at New Orleans be cause of his amazing ability to round into top form early. Blake, who placed third in last December in the high hurdles, turned in a final tune-up race this week in : 14.fi. Following the holidays the Ag gie trackmen will oegin pushing training for the regular track sea son featured by a four-way/'meet in Dallas May 1. botweBn A&M, Texas 1 , SMU and the Southern '€afifoTnia' Trojans, defending NCAA champions. Thursday, December 24, 1953 Indiana Bounced by Oregon State, SMU Loses to OCU, Short Hits 37' NEW YORK—OB)—A change in the rating of the college basketball teams appears to be in order to day following top-ranked Indiana’s first defeat of the campaign and Kentucky’s sixth straight victory without a loss. After whipping the Oregon State club 76-72 in overtime Monday night for their sixth triumph, In diana’s Hoosiers bowed last night to the Northwestern team 67-51. Meantime, Kentucky’s Wildcats won their own tournament with a 73-60 decision over LaSalle of Philadelphia. The defeat was La Salle’s second in eight games. Wade Swede Halbrook, Oregon State’s 7-foot-3 sensation, paced the Beavers with 21 points while Don Schlundt, 6-10 Indiana cen ter, was held to 19 after dropping in 34 Monday ight. Kentucky’s Lou Tsioropoulos held La Salle All-America Tom Gola to five points for three quar ters, but he finished with 16 when the defenses relaxed late in the game. Cliff Hagan scored 28 for Ken tucky. In the consolation game, 13th-ranked UCLA defeated Duke 72-67 after being as far behind as 14 points. North Carolina State, ranked No. 9, defeated little Rio Grande In North-South Tussle Sports Banquet To Honor Grid Team January 16 The eighth annual Winter Sports Banquet honoring the Texas Aggie football and cross-country squad- men will be held Saturday, Jan. 16. The dinner-meeting, sponsored jointly by the A&M athletic de partment and the Brazos County A&M club, will begin at 7 p. m. in Shisa hall. The public is invitel, and ladies arc welcome. Tickets are $2.50 per person and may be purchased in College Station at the Aggieland Pharmacy and Lipscomb Pharma cy. In Bryan tickets are on sale at three clothing firms — Conway, Waldrop and WSD. Mail orders may be sent to W. W. Meinko, Box 1558, College Station. Speakers will be Louis E. Throg morton, vice-president and director of the Republic Life Insurance Co., Dallas. His topic will ho “Goal posts”. W. N. “Flop” Colson will be toastmaster. The annual awards to Coach Ray George’s Aggie footballers and to Col. Frank Anderson’s harriers will be made at the banquet. The affair attracts some 500 persons. The Brazos A&M club and ath letic department banquets, held separately prior to 1947, were combined in January, 1947 and have been held jointly since that date. In order to enable more former students to attend the club officers and class agents conference of the Former Students Association will he held the same weekend. Those planning to attend this conference may purchase banquet tickets from Dick Hervey, executive secretary of the FSA. MUD SPLATTERED HERO—Rodney LeBoeuf, Port Ne elies Indians’ end, is carried off the football field in Port Neches by two unidentified happy spectators after the Indians conquered the Big Springs steers, 24 to 13, in the AAA championship high school game. The game was played on a muddy field and throughout the game rain and sleet fell, hampering the players. (AP Wirephoto) Sports Roundup Iowa’s Evashevski Known For Banquet Speaking By GAYLE TALBOT NEW YORK—VP)—It is doubt ful that the football banquet sea son which is now approaching its peak across the land, will produce a more forthright speaking guest than Forest Evashevski, the Iowa coach, whose team played that memorable 14-14 tie with Notre Dame. We have not been advised of Evashevski’s one-night rates, but if the remarks attributed to him by Tom Mercy of the Flint, Mich. Journal after a recent high chool gathering in that city are a fair sample, then the former Michigan blocking back is worth all the tariff to bear. No quibbler is the Hawkeye pedagogue. After agreeing that some evils had crept into the game, he said thus: “Some football reformists on college faculties make me sick, though. Most of the ones who seem to know just what should be done to cure all our football ills are men who never played the game and don’t understand the sport. “The first thing most of them want to do is to take emphasis off | winning. They list that burning desire to win as one of the evils of athletics. If you don’t emphasize winning, there’s only one thing left to emphasize, and that’s los ing. If it ever comes to that, then they can put the game up for grabs and I’ll get out. I’ve got a rich father-in-law, and 1 can al ways live on him. “I’d just like to say this to you football players — the greatest thing to be learned from playing football is the desire to win. Much has been said for being a good loser, but it’s much easier to be come a good loser than a gracious winner.” Evashevski attriauizd much of his team’s success the past season to three Negro sophomores from Steubenville, Ohio — guard Calvin niure 3 omorrow Hod, CUJ Life, Hospitalization, Polio EUGENE KUSH IMionc 4*4666 Aggieland Pltey. Bldg. North Gate Jones, end Frank Gilliam and half back Ed Vincent. “I’ve never known any other players to have such utter dis regard for bodily damage as those three,” their coach declared. To give some idea of Jones’ masculinity,, Evashecski related an incident during a practice scrim mage where another of his players made the mistake of looking up while going down under a punt. “As he gazed upward someone guillotined him,” Evy said. “I could tell he was in trouble by the sound of the impact and the snap ping of bones. The boy iay on the ground writhing with pain, and Jones trotted by. He stopped and looked down on him and without, cracking a smile said, “Don’t just lie there, boy. Do some push-ups until the doctor gets here.” Two Titles on Line In Saturday’s Tilts Two state championships go on the line Saturday when Class AA Huntsville and Ballinger meet in Temple and Class A Luling and Ranger meet at San Marcos. Huntsville will throw its herald ed passing attack, featuring Quar terback Joe Clements, at the Bear cats. Ballinger, the “come-back kids” of the year, features a pow erful running attack. Both Coaches Predict Win MIAMI, Fla. ( /P)—A free scoring ground-air duel is in prospect for the 50,000 fans expected to turn out Christmas night for the North- South college all-star game—the first of the big postseason football classics. North Coach Stu Holcomb of Purdue predicted a score of 28-21, without picking a winner. South Coach Andy Gustafson forecast an even higher score and declared the South will win on Zeke Bratkow- ski’s passes. The teams battled to a 21-21 tie last year. Previously, the South had won three games, the North one. Gustafson named Georgia’s Brat- kowski yesterday as his starting quarterback and it’s a good bet the Rebels will pass two plays out of three. “The Brat” has been worked almost exclusively in pass formations from the split T. Starting at ends will be two of the nation’s top aerial receivers— Bratkowski’s teammate John Car- son and Wayne Hopkins of Baylor. Roy Evans of Purdue will quar terback the North team. With him in the starting backfield will be three other Big Ten players all noted for their running ability— Dusty Rice, Iowa; Harland Carl, Wisconsin; and Ke Miller, Illinois. “We’re loaded with fast run ners,” Holcomb said, “and natural ly we’ll use them. We’ll do some passing too, but we can’t hope to match the South throwers.” Gustafson said the South would pass at least 50 per cent of the time and added that his main hope for victory rests in Bratkowski, “one of the greatest passers I’ve ever seen.” Joining Bratkowski in the South’s No. 1 offensive backfield will be halfbacks Harol Lofton of Missippi and Bob Bowman of Wil liam & Mary, and fullback Byrd Looper of Duke. The teams will! use the old two-platoon system. These will be the starting of fensive lines: South: Ends, Carson and Hop kins; tackles, Jack Perkins, Navy and Julian Boyd, Missouri; guards, Steve Eisenhower, Navy, and Crawford Mims, Mississippi; cen ter, Ed Beatty, Mississippi. North ends, Don Penza, Notre Dame, and Ken Buck, College of the Pacific; tackles, Dave White- aker, Purdue, and Jim Balog, Mich igan; guards, Eearl Meyer, Kansas State, and Menil Mavaraides, No tre Dame; center, Jim Schrader, Notre Dame. The North squad elected Rice, Carl and Penza as co-captains. 92-77 but was unable to check the high-scoring Bevo Francis, who connected with 34 points. In the other part of the double-header, Wake Forest edged the Peoria Caterpillars, AAU champions, 58- 57. The double-header at New York’s Madison Square Garden turned up with a surprise when New York University upset Utah State, last year’s Holiday Festival champions, 86-67, with Boris Nachamkin counting for 27 points. Two field goals in the last quarter by Jim Young gave Santa Clara a 62-60 decision over St. John’s of Brook lyn in the other contest. Oklahoma City, ranked No. 16, turned back Southern Methodist 69-59 with Arnold Short scoring 37 points for a new school mark. 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