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Page 3 Tuesday, December 7, 1954 THE BATTALION Ags Try Comeback Wednesday p^ l p*" re Students 18-16 Against Dangerous Tulsa Squad Varsity Runs Through Long Offensive Drill By JERRY WIZIG Battalion Sports Editor Still needing plenty of polishing, and showing it, the Aggie basketball team tries to bounce back against Tulsa university here Wednesday night after an opening loss to the University of Houston last Thursday. Striving to get the improved play from his “front” men that the Cadets must have in order to win, Coach John Floyd sent his varsity through a long offensive drill yesterday. v Afterward, John DeWitt hustled his freshman team over a thorough workout schedule. The Fish open their sea son at 6 p.m. Wednesday against Arlington State in the first Aggie court doubleheader of the year. “Tulsa has an ‘old’ ball club that’s small, and a ‘young’ Aball club that is big but not ready,” Floyd said. “They’re going to be rough. “I’ll say this, though—our ball club is going to be better than it was against Houston.” Floyd added, “If I can’t get them to hustle, we’re not going to win.” The Cadets drilled against a team of varsity reserves, concen trating on breaking clear close to the basket. At times toward the end of the workout, soph George Mehaffey and soph guard Roger Harvey were hitting fairly regu larly. Harvey and junior Tommy Saw yer, 6-1 alternated much of the time at guards with co-captains John Fortenberry and Pat Mc- Crory. Don Bilbrey, the transfer from Cameron junior college, was play ing the post, with Mehaffey and Bob Gattis the forwards most of the time. Bill Brophy, who start- Tulsa, which finished third in the Missouri Valley conference last year, is sparked by 6-4 Bob Pat terson, a senior forward who scored 482 points last season. Patterson was the fifth leading scorer in the MVC with a 16.7 av erage in 10 conference games and averaged 16.6 in 29 games. Martinez, ISlorvell Win A l Pistol Meet Aggies Joe Martinez and Frank Norvell won the two- man team match in the Alamo City Invitational pistol meet held in San Antonio Saturday and Sunday. Each shot 10 rounds of slow, timed rapid fire. Norvell also won second place in marksman class total ~ score and second place in tim ed and rapid fire, marksman class . Martinez was second in slow- fire, marksman class. The pistol team practices at 7-9 p.m. Mondays and Thurs days, 1-4 p.m. Tuesdays, Wed nesdays and Fridays. Anderson Top Ag Fencer At Austin Walter Anderson won second place in the saber division and third in epee to lead Aggie per formers in an individual meet of the Amateur Fencing League of America in Austin last week-end. Other schools with entries were University of Houston, Rice, SMU, Houston Fencing- club and the Gal veston Buccaneers Fencing club. Aggies competing with Ander son were Bill Fink, who was sixth in i^iber finals, Johnny Shanks, who reached the semifinals in foil and Ted Castle. mmmim SAVE YOUE MONEY SAVE YOUE CLOTHES CAMPUS CLEANERS TOPS FOR TULSA—Bob Patterson/slick-shooting senior forward helps give Hurricane Coach Clarence Iba a con tender for Missouri Valley conference honors. Iba is a brother of Oklahoma A&M coach Hank Iba, who coached John Floyd at the Stillwater school. Floyd also was an assistant coach there. Patterson has a fine fall-away jump shot and is a good rebounder. CHS Plays After Four A&M Consolidated basketball teams meet a familiar opponent tonight, traveling to Caldwell for A and B games there after losing four games over the week-end. It will be the third time the Tigers have met Caldwell this sea son. Friday night, CHS lost A and B games to the Hornets, 39-19 and 34-24. The A team beat them in their season opener. The B team, which played three times in two days, also lost two games in the Tomball Invitational tournament. They bowed to Spring 54-26 in the first game, and lost 43-15 to Tomball in the second. Welburn, Blieden Lead Ag Bowlers Drummond Welburn and Joe Blieden took top honors in A&M Bowling club competition Thurs day night. Welburn had the high game, a 223. Blieden rolled a 549, the high series. Team matches with Washington university, a Houston team and Trinity university are to be ar ranged. Caldwell Defeats Against Caldwell, the A squad held a 17-17 halftime tie, then scored only two points in the sec ond half, on free throws. Center Perry Schwierzke led the Hornets with 16 points. Guard J. B. Car- roll and forward Joy Ray Perry man scored five each for CHS. In the B game, the Hornets, sparked by forward Frank Sebesta, built up a 16-6 lead at the half. Sebesta scored 15 points. Forwards Don Patton and Bobby Potts led the Tigers with 8 each. At Tomball, guard Bill Hall and center Winford Purdue scored 10 points each in the loss to Spring, who reached the tourney finals. Guard John Turner’s 5 points were high for the Tigers in the loss to Tomball. Both tourney foes were A teams. Friday the Tigers will meet Rockdale in an opening round game of the Bryan Invitational tournament. Second baseman Bobby Avila fig ured in the scoring of 164 runs for Cleveland. During the World Se ries he failed to drive in a run and scored only once. 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CIFTS, kRKAY* Books clothes C,IFTS ' SERViV TEXAS Bones creaked and profs groaned as the architecture de partment professors defeated a team of their students 18-16 in a basketball “thriller” Friday night. Richard Vrooman led the fac ulty attack with five points. Bill Sheveland was high point man for the game and sparked the student team with six points. Played in 10 minute halves, the game ended 14-14 at the 20- minute mark, so the teams play ed a three minute over-time pe riod. The students had rushed to a 14-2 lead at the end of the first half. K. F. Robinson, a prof and the official score keeper, may have explained it. “There seemed to be a feeling in the last pari; of the game that grades might suf fer if the score wound up in favor of the students,” he said. Two students, Paul Kennon and Jerry Jeffery, had to relieve some of the “winded” profs in the last part of the game, said prof Melvin Rotsch, the official timekeeper. Vrooman, F. D. Lawyer, G. K. Vetter, T. R. Holloman, H. W. Gooding, Bill Wagner and Jack Lemmon played on the faculty team. On the student team were Sheveland, Charles Willis, Don Burrows, Eugene Pelech, Kirby Keahey, Key Kolb, Cecil Stew ard, Tommy Short, John Cain, Ed Reeder and Gerald Cunning ham. Ag Football Team Will Be Honored A&M’s varsity football team will be honored at a dinner-dance in the Emerald room of the Shamrock hotel in Houston Thursday night. The players and their wives or dates will be honored guests at the affair, given by the Houston A&M club. Hour of Conditioning Clubs Work Hard For Bowl Game By RONNIE GREATHOUSE Battalion Sports Staff ■ / The 12th Man Bowl teams trudged off the practice field yes terday with heavy feet and heaving sides gfter an hour of wind sprints and conditioning exercises. “Beat army,” was the cry heard in the air force camp. “You boys keep it up, and we’ll beat ’em,” air force coach Elwood Kettler told his squad. Billy Huddleston, backfield coach of the air force team, declined to single out any outstanding players. “They all look good, and they’re a fightin’ bunch,” said Huddleston. “There are a lot of prospects.” Army’s head coach, Bennie Sin clair, who will play in the East- West Shrine game, was pleased with the way his team was pi’og- ressing. “We’re going to. use the T forma tion,” said Sinclair. “The squad will be cut to about 35 Tuesday, so we mean to get down to busi ness.” “The line will be ready,” assured Lawrence Winkler, army line coach. The ground force coaching staff was bolstered by the addition of Lloyd Hale and Donald Robbins. They will both work with linemen. Don Watson, coach of the army backs, named Jim Morrison, Ted Minner, Glen Rand, Gilbert Petty, Deaner Woodruff, Bob Sanders, and Clinton Bippert among those show ing promise. AH coaches agreed that it was still too early to fonn any definite ideas for starting teams. Many positions won’t be decided until the teams go into pads three days be fore the game, they said. Kickoff time for the Dec. 16 game is still undecided. PLEASE NOTICE!!!! Dr. Wm. Gottlieb CHIROPODIST FOOT SPECIALIST of 924 Westheimer at Montrose Blvd., Houston Will be in Bryan this WED., DEC. 8TH ONLY at the LaSalle Hotel for the treatment of Foot Conditions Ground Floor Office Hours—9 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Getting Married At Christmas Time, Aggie? If so, or at any time in the next few months, then you’ll want to present the lucky girl with a life insurance policy as a part of the bargain package she’ll be getting, won’t you ? A minister, in talking about marriage, recently made the following statement: “You have no x-ight to take a girl fx-om a position where she xnay be earning her own living, and tie her up to you and later tie her down to a family of little children who make it difficult for her to make a living again—unless you give her some protection and security. Befox-e you buy her a car, buy her an insurance policy—and after you buy the car you will need insurance all the more in these days of highway fatal ities. Get he a policy before you get her a television set. Put first things first; let the other tilings come along as you can affox-d them.” Come by and talk with me if you ai'e interested, and we’ll see if we can’t wox-k out some plan of life insurance protection which you can afford until you get out of school and stai't earning enough money to pay for a more substantial policy. NORTH GATE, College Station Office above Aggieland Phcy. EUGENE RUSH, Gen. Agt. American National Ins. Co. PRE CHRISTMAS SALE LEON B. WEISS MEN’ STORE (Next to Campus Theater) — COLLEGE STATION Due to Unseasonable Weather This Sale Is Offered to Bargain Hunters. Read the Few Items Below. Unbelievable Price Reduc tions. DISCOUNTS ALL OVER THE STORE ARE FROM 15 TO 20 PERCENT Sale Starts Tuesday, December 7th $1.00 will buy CUFF LINKS or TIE CLASPS . . by SWANK - HICKOK $1.00 buys a Firestone Vinyl Plastic RAINCOAT ARMY FATIGUES, PANTS or JACKET . . . * Reduced to $2.98 Interwoven & Westminister SOCKS . . . Values to 85c . . . 49c Zippered Gabardine JACKETS . Value $7.95 . . . $3.29 Zippcred Gabardine JACKETS . . . Value $9.95 . . . $4,29 AGGIE SENIOR & JUNIOR SPECIAL Pink All Wool SERGE PANTS . . . Reg. $27.50 - y 2 Price - now $13.75 (White buck knees) WESTERN SHIRTS AND SLACKS . . . at discounts ranging from 25% to 50% MENS TIES ... ranging in price to $2.50 or better NOW just $1.00 OUR LARGE STOCK OF MENS FINE SLACKS . . . at discounts from 15% to 25% Come to Leon B. Weiss Next to Compus Theatre SALE STARTS TUESDAY, D EC. 7TH