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Tuesday, February 22, 1955
THE BATTALION
Page 3
Aggies Test Longhorns, Austin Jinx,
Tonight In 100th Meeting of Two Clubs
Fish Meet Yearlings
In Twin Bill Opener
By RONNIE GREATHOUSE
A&M challenges the University of Texas Longhorns
and the Gregory gym jinx tonight in the 100th meeting of
the two schools on the hardwood court.
The freshmen game will begin at 6 p.m. and the varsity
at 8. The Shorthorns beat the Fish 75-64, here, the only
home loss for the Fish. KORA will broadcast the varsity
contest.
In the last 21 years the Aggies have managed only one
victory at Austin, and that came in the 1951 Southwest con
ference playoff game. The Cadets eased past the Longhorns
33-32 on Leroy Miksch’s last second free throw.
Tonight’s game will be assistant coach John DeWitt’s
first trip to Austin with an
A&M basketball team since
the 1951 win, in which he
played.
Coach John Floyd was
BROPHY BANKS IT—Aggie forward Bill Brophy is on the way up for a layin as Baylor
guard Jerry Jordan (20) tries to keep himaway from the bucket. Trailing the play are
Baylor’s Wayne Connally and Joe Don Dickson and Aggies Conley Phipps and A1 Love.
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Fish Swim Win
Jose Merino, from Lima,
Peru, set a pool and freshman
record in the 100-yard free
style and paced the A&M
Fish swimming team to a 52-
22 victory here over San Antonio
Aquatic club Saturday.
Merino swam the 100-yards in
52.6 seconds, eclipsing the pool
record of 53.2 which he set last
year while swimming for A & M
Consolidated^ hijfh 'sChobl. The
old freshman record was 53.6, set
by Aggie Dick Hunkier .last year.
A&M’s 160-yard freestyle relay
team set a freshman record of
1:17.8, and Merino swam the first
leg. Jerry Mount, George Rags
dale and Jimmy Dye backed him
up.
The old mark of 1:17.8 was set
last year by Hunkier, George Boy-
ctt, Ripey Woodard and Ed Kas
per.
San Antonio’s Jody Grant won
the only firsts for the visitors—
the 200-yard freestyle and the 120-
yard individual medley.
The Fish next meet the SMU
freshmen in Dallas Friday night,
then compete against Highland
Park Saturday afternoon. The
varsity takes on the Mustangs Sat
urday afternoon.
Grid Drills
May Start
Today
A&M’s spring football prac
tice may start today after a
three-day delay caused by
weekend rains.
Originally scheduled to open
last Saturday, the drills were
called off by head coach Paul
Bryant in the hope of getting
a better break from the weath-
, er man. ^
Yesterday,^the Aggie prac
tice field was under water, but
skies were clearing last night.
Southwest conference teams
are allowed 18 practice days
within a 28-day pei-iod.
About 75 candidates are ex
pected, including 13 lettermen.
Thtf annual Maroon-White in
trasquad game is scheduled for
the night of March 5, Sports
Day.
Varsity Box
BAYLOK (80)
Connally, g
Bailey, f
Dickson, c
Morgan, g
t
Fish Rifle Team
Outshoots Allen
The Aggie freshmen rifle team
defeated Allen academy Friday
night 1808 to 1805 at the Allen
range.
Paul Costa was high point man
for the Fish and the match with
368 points. His teammates are
Roscoe Van Zandt, Alfred Hurst,
Bennett Todd, Clinton White and
Dyek Boles.
Allen members were Jack Fil-
liamson, Robert Rankin, Paul Gil-
ler, Gerry Mitchell, Louis Town
send and Marshall Bryan.
The win was the second this se
mester for the Fish over Allen.
Trotters Drew
Biggest Crowd
The Harlem Globetrotters drew
6,544 fans to their exhibition in
White coliseum last week, said
C. G. (Spike) White of student
activities.
A total of 7,424 seats were
available, he said. General ad
mission sales numbered 4,306.
It was the larsest crowd ever
to attend an indoor sports event
in this area.
pleased with his crew after send
ing it through a brisk scrimmage
yesterday.
“They really looked good,” said
Floyd, and I was pleased with
them.”
A&M, 1-8 in the SWC, will play
its usual man-for-man defense to
night, and will concentrate on
throttling the point-making of
Texas’ Ray Downs.
In the Feb. 12 game here,
Downs scored 39 points, including
23 free throws, a conference rec
ord.
The man guarding Downs will
play behind him instead of in
front, as in the last meeting with
the Longhorns, now 2-7 in confer
ence play.
Bill Brophy leads Aggie scorers
in season play with 294 counters,
and is second among the Cadets in
SWC play with 119.
Sophomore center George Me-
haffey has pushed in 129 points in
SWC play to rank first in that de
partment on the A&M squad.
Fish guard Bryan Sutherlin net
ted 13 points in Saturday’s Baylor
game to run his total for the sea
son to 154 points and keep him
first among Cadet freshmen.
Ken Hutto is second with 105
markers in 10 games.
Saturday Baylor jumped to an
18-2 lead in the first six minutes
and went on to down the Aggies
86-68.
Jerry Mallett and Murray Bailey
helped spur the Bears to their ear
ly lead. The Bruins led at the
half 56-30. Mallett led the scor
ing with 19 points.
Brophy and guard Ted llarrod
bucketed 14 points each to lead
A&M.
The freshman game was almost
the reverse of the varsity contest,
as the Aggie Fish jumped to an
early lead and held on to win 62-
56.
Carter Williams and Hutto
paced Fish scoring with 14 points
each.
Raines, f .
Franklin, t
Jordan, g
Dalton,
White, g 1
TOTAL ....
AGGIKS (68)
Henry, f 5
Gattls, f 2
Fortenberry, g 2
Smith, g i
Mehaffey, e ' 4
Brophy. f 6
Harrod, g 5
Love, c 0
Phipps, g 0
TOTALS
CUBS (56)
ROOKIE AND COACH—Wally Moon, (left), former Aggie
all-conference outfielder who was National League Rookie
of the year with the St. Louis Cardinals in 1954, talks
things over with his former coach, R. C. (Beau) Bell.
Moon worked out with the A&M baseballers last week.
One of his drives over the right field fence nearly hit
track coach Frank Anderson, who was standing under the
south goal posts of Kyle field.
Fish Box
Jackson, g 1
Montero, g 3
fg ft pt tp
Ktlley.
Dowell, f .
Barnes, f ,
Hightower.
Gilliam, g
Davis, f . .
Renfro, g
TOTALS
FISH (62)
William, c .
Dockery, f .
Smith, g ...
Hutto, f ...
Sutherlin, g .
Lesikar. c .
Elswick, g .
Forsythe, f
Hood, f ...
21 14 24 56
fg ft pf fp
. 5 4 3 14
TOTALS 22 13 20 62
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