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Tuesday, January 12, 1954 THE BATTAION Page oni a '5 m ryi Lagers Flay 1 exas ght; Lose to Rice A&Mi’s varsity basketball team, minus two of its best players, to night meets arch-rival University of Texas in DeWare field house at 8 p. m. after losing to Rice, 78-53, in Houston Saturday. The Fish will play the Short horns at 6 p.m. and will be ti'ying for their fifth win in six starts. Saturday they lost to the Owlets, (35-GO, after winning their first four games of the season. The Aggies will be playing with out Guards Rod Pirtle and Don Moon, who have quit the squad. Couch John Floyd probably will start Roy Martin at center. John Fortenberry and James Addison at forwards, and Joe Hardgroye and Pat McCrory at guards. Texas, 64-61 victors over Arkan sas Saturday, probably will start Fred Saunders, 6-7, at center; Billy Powell, 6-5, and Bob Wag goner, 6-7, at forwards; and Gib Ford, 6-4, and Jim Richardson, 6-4, at guards. The Longhorns have a 7-4 season record and a 2-0 conference mark. Saunders has scored 168 points and is fourth in conference scox - - ing. Against Rice, the Cadets trailed Nine Compete For Varsity C j if Places Joe Fagan, A&M golf coach, has nine candidates for the varsity golf team. Bill Franklin, Homer Callaway, John Kubitz, Brad Godfrey, David Vandeiwoort, Bob Bridges, E. W. Williams, L. E. McNauton and Fagan said the order would prob ably change before the season starts. A match with Texas March 30 in Austin opens the Aggies’ cpn- fex-ence schedule. Next the links- inen play Rice here April 2, B-uylor Api'il 10 in Waco, Arkansas here April 24, TCU here May 1 and SMU in Dallas May 4. Home and home matches are be ing planned . with the University of Houston, Trinity university and North Texas State. Matches may be arranged with Nebraska and Oklahoma A&M, said Fagan. Out for the Fish team are T. J. Cox, Marcelino Moreno, James Christopher, Jerry Durbin, Doyle Patton, Gary Fletche, J. B. Riddle, D. Correll and Allen Rice. CIRCLE TODAY and WEDNESDAY libUX, A UNIVERSAI INTERNATIONAL CICTURE LAST DAY few Here Come The Girls” STARTS WEDNESDAY^ All Us scenes filmed in Scotland. ^ Cornwall and on the Mediterranean! Warner Pros, . PRESENT tal LOUIS STEVENSON'S the Muster of PIIANTRAE coio? Sf • •« TECHNICOLOR errol Flynn 'i BEATRICE CAMPBELL-YVONNE FURNEALK ROGER UVESEY-ANTHONY STEEL TODAY & WEDNESDAY TnJin U ay v.i 16-9 at the end of the first quai'- ter and 39-23 at the half. Twice the Owls led by 30 points in the last five minutes of play. Gene Schwinger scoi’ed 24 points for the Owls. Fortenberry put in 15 for A&M, 12 in the last half. The Fish neaxdy pulled their game out of the fire in the late stages but couldn’t quite make up the dif- fei’ence. The Freshmen outscored the Owlets, 21-16, in field goals, but Rice sank 33 free throws to 18 for A&M. Ted Harrod scored 14, followed by Geoi’ge Mehaffey with 13. Fish Swimmers Win First Meet Saturday A&M’s Fish swimming team Sat urday got off to a winning start, sweeping- a triangular meet with Houston YMCA and San Axxtonio Aquatic club in P. L. Downs jr. natatorium. It was the first meet of the sea son for the Fish, who scored 43 points to Houston’s 24 and San An tonio’s 17. Fish Norman Ufer set a fx-esh- man pool record in the 100 yard backsti-oke, covering the distance in 62,6 seconds. The old .mark was 69 seconds. Ufer was the state champion last season at Houston Reagan. A&M’s Dick Hunkier won two events, the 120 yard individual medley and the 200 yard free st,roke. He swam the medley in 1:18.8 and the freestroke in 2:10.3. T ; ■ • SW(! Swimming \ Relays Set Here .' The A&M varsity swimming team Saturday will play host to the Southwest conference swimming relays in P. L. Downs Jr. natator ium. Teams from the University of Tej^-randr'SAtU^lUb v.'itf wYntpete. Tlic meet will begin at 3 p.m., with no admission charge. Events to be held are the 400 yard freestyle, breaststroke, and backstroke, diving, distance medley and double medley relays. Np swimmer will be allowed to participate in more than two events. Scox-ing will be on a basis of 14 points for fix-st place, 10 fox- second, 8 for third, 6 for fourth, 4 four fifth and 2 for sixth. Freshman Walter Penherthy won the 100 yard bi-eaststi-oke ixx 68.1, and Tom Bax-low placed second in the 120 yard indivdual medley and 100 yard backstroke. The A&M team of Ufex*, Pen- bei’thy and Edwai*d Kasper won the 180 yard medley relay in 1:45.2. The Fish also took third in the 160 yard freestyle x-elay with a team of Willianx Taylor, Bill Parsons, Georg-e Boyett and Gayle Watts. Boyett and Taylor won second and thix-d in the 40 yard freestx-oke. Jimmy Cashion and Kasper placed second and third in the 100 yax-d freestx-oke, and Bob Martin won second in diving. Banquet Set For Friday 1, Night The “T” Association Friday will hold its annual banquet immediate ly prior to the A&M-TCU basket ball game. The.banquef is planned for 6:30 p. m. in the Assembly room, of the Memoi’ial Student Cen- ter - ../a:..,, 5L.- *■■*.■■&**. A&ut After tlie DaskftbafFgafft^OTKm^ formal dance/■Vv’i 11 ft'fe- sociatiqiy niepxbfei\s;*it^lVe-AS^«si)biy; room. Corps nxembers of the associa- tioix may attend the banquet and dance xion-x-eg, but not the basket ball game. Sbisa To Be Site Of Sports Banquet ' Awards to A&M football squad- men Saturday wil be one of the highlights of the annual winter sports banquet for the football and cross-county teams to be held at 7 p. ni. in Sbisy hall. Louie E. Throgmorton, vice- pi-esident and director of the Re public Life Insurance company of Dallas will speak on “Goalposts.” W. N. Colson of Bryan will be the master of ceremonies. The banquet is sponsoxed jointly by the athletic department and the Brazos County A&M club. Tickets arc $2.50 pci" person and are on sale at College Station aiid Bryan bus iness houses. TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY Faulk Wins Three Bowling Gaines Joe Faulk Auto and Appliance store won three games from Con- V'ay & Co. Thursday xiight at the MSC howling lanes to come within one game of the All Star league lead. Ted Ritchey, high game and se ries bowler fo rthe night, led Stu dent Co-op to a two game wiix ovei- Rivex-side. Ritchey x-olled a 158, 173, and 238 for a 569 series. Season Standings: Conway &‘ Co. Faulk’s Student Co-op Coca Gobi 24 Rivex-side 1814 Cai-roll’s 14 McAllister’s 12; , 4 Kennedy’s 7 Won Lost ...31 11 ...30 12 ...28 15 ...24 18 ...is^ 23'4 ...14 28 ...12:y a 2614 ... 7 35 Consolidated To Try For Second Title A&M Consolidated high school’s basketballers go after their second tournament next week after winning the K i w a n i s club-Consolidated tourney for the second straight time last week. The undefeated Tigex-s will com pete in the Navasota invitational, which starts Friday, Jan, 22. Undefeated Consolidated raced to a 48-23 win. over Somerville Sat- ux-day night fox- its second stx-aight Kiwanis club toux-nament champ ionship. The Tigers also put thx-ee playex-s on the all-toxxmament team. They were Fx-ed Axxderson, David Bonnen and Biobby Jacksoxx. Twelve teams are to pax-ticipate in the Navasota toux-ney, which be- gixxs Friday afternoon and ends Saturday night. They are Hemp stead, Waller, Navasota, LaGrange, Klein, Bedias, Cleveland, Tomball, Snook, Cypress-Fairbanks, Schul- enbux-g and Consolidated. Hempstead Won Last Hempstead won the toux-nament last season, with Waller the run- ixei’-up. In Saturday night’s title game, Andex-son scoi*ed all 10 points to give the Tigei*s a 10-0 first quai-- ter lead, and they coasted in. Con solidated led at the half, 25-7. Cy Woods of the Yeguas was high scoi*er with 14 points. Jack- son and Anderson scored 12 each for the Tigex-s, followed by Pinky Cooner with 11. Tigers Dowxx Waller Consolidated defeated' . Waller, 58-31, in the first ropnd, and down ed! Katy, 48-20, ’in the semifinals. Soiherv.llle-%utpoihted Calvert, 340.- 26, and Cypre^-E^h;l^apk^,^54-43. % Ifh-kYKe e&if^OTati)^nU?bracket, Hempstead .^sed. Cafvert, Sift* wiii^ke-c^K^e tmn wllagp-: xdnship. ' r ‘ f Seleeted to the all-tournam.^ 1 ^ team wei-e Woods and Jack Griffin of Somerville, Tommy Towns, of Calvert, Marvin Dibbens of Hemp stead, Pete Z'aBbrqski of Cypress- Fairbanks, and Andex-son, Bonnen ana Jackson of Consolidated. ’Mural Highlights Magee Selected Tops Again Senior Jake Magee, a physical education major fi-om College Sta tion, repeated as the top intra mural athlete of the week. Mag-ee was selected for his brill iant imns of 65 yards and 40 yax-ds against A ordnance for two touch downs to help squadron 7 win 20- 0. Ed Henmig threw two touchdown passes, made a 60 yard run and helped set up the thix-d touchdown as A athletics romped over squad ron 11, 20-6. Hennig tossed a 40 yax-d pass into the waiting- arms of Sam Row land who ran 40 xxxoi-e yax-ds for the first touchdown. Bexxefield to Palm On the last play of the half, squadron ll’s Johnny Benefield threw a 60 yard pass to Ed Palm, who made a brilliant catch after the ball was juggled momentarily. Merit of squadron 11 careied twice fox- a total of 40 yards to the five yard line. After a penalty had nullified squadx-on ll’s touchdown, Johnny Winters, squadron 11, faded deep and threw a 30 yax-d touchdown pass to the waiting- Poncho Pattex-- sou for their only scox-e. Hennig Throws for TD Hennig threw a 40 yax-d* pass to Bob Briggs for the scond touch down fox- the athletes. Late in the final half, Jim Mor rison broke loose through center for 40 yax-ds and the final score. Tigers Beat Somerville, Win 10th Straight The Tigers of A&M Consolidat ed high school last alight made it 10 stx-aight basketball wins, de feating Somierville, 42-29, in the Tiger gym. Consolidated’s B team notched a 32-23 victor ovex- the Somerville B team in the 1 , curtain-raiser. The Tigei*s begin play Friday in the disti-ict 25-A western zone, meeting Bellville at home. Bobby Jackson paced the A team with 16 points, and David Bonnen scored 9. Howevex*, the hig-h scox-- er was Somei-ville’s Cy Woods, who accounted for 17. Norman Floeck led the B team victory, scoring 13 points. Rich ard Scott scored 12 for Somerville. Consolidated led 13-10 at the first quax-ter, 21-15 at the half, and 32-19 at the end of the thii'd quax-- ter. The B team led 11-9 at the half. Jake Magee intex-cepted a pass on his own 45 and ran 55 yards to score and help squadron 7 defeat B infantry, 12-0. Squadron 21 blanked company A, 12-0, in another game. Company F’s Arnold© Ramirez, Herman Veselka, Phil Spears, Gene Haddox, Don Webber and Bob Blanchard won the freshman tennis chaxxxpionship by defeating- com pany L, two matches to one. Webber and Blanchard defeated company L’s Jerry Jones axxd Bud dy May, eight games to four. Spears and Haddox won over Charles Ernest and Chaxies Shre- ves of company L, 10-8 while Ram- ix-ez and Veselka lost to Ken Joyce and Bob Park, 8-3. The final basketball tilt of the season saw the American Veteri nary Medical association club beat the Meteox-ology club, 33-18. Cadwalder Scores 12 High man for the AVMA was Rodger Cadwalder with 12 points. Company l’s Bill Shepax-d bowl ed a brilliant 202 to help his xhnit win the freshman bowling champ ionship Saturday by defeating squadron 22, 529-527. Company I has won two prior games with a score of 500 or bet ter. COIN SOLIOATKIi (18) f(. fl. <P. Beasley . . 0 1 0 1 Cartoll . . i 0 1 ' 2 Cooner 1 0 1 1 Garcia . . . .1 0 0 2 Jackson , ... . . . H 0 1 12 Floeck . , 0 0 1 0 0 o 12 Oden . . . O 0 0 0 Bonnen .. -t 0 0 8 TOTALS . . .23 2 3 48 .SOMKUVILLK (28) fg ft. fl. I|>. Lewis •> 1 0 5 Hdridge . . 1 0 1 2 Kogcrs . . u 0 2 0 Scott .. 1 u O 2 Woods . . 3 0 1 6 Harper . , 1 0 1 2 Griffin . . 2 “ O 0 TOTALS Score by quarters: . .10 3 5 23 Consolidated 10 15 • 10 13- —IS Somerville . . 0 7 (5 10- —23 Free throws missed: Beasley, Cooner, Jackson, Somerville: Woods 2. Officials: JDe Witt and Lynch. John (Jocke) Conlan, National League umpire, was an outfielder for the Chicago White Sox in 1934 and 1935. COLOSSA > ? JANUARY UTII THROUGH THE 23RD . . 50% RedoiTioii On ,, . ★ PIPES ★ STATIONERY ★ VIKING GLASS ★ JEWELRY AT THE Gift Shop MEMORIAL STUDENT CENTER HOW THE STARS GOT STARTED WILLIAM HOLDEM ELEANOR PARKER JOHN FORSYTHE — Stari smoking Camels yours©/#/ Make the 30-day Camel Mildness Test. 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