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4 Aggies Wind Up Season Against Owls Tonight Tuesday, March 1, 1955 THE BATTALION Pag-e 3 A & M’s scrappy basketballers wind up their season here tonight against the up-and-down Rice Owls. Tip-off time for the freshmen game is 6 p.m. and the varsity at 8. KORA will broadcast the contest. j, Rice, 5-6 over the Southwest con ference season, dumped A&M in Houston earlier this season 61-41 and lost an 86-82 contest to SMU Saturday in overtime. SMU is tied for the conference lead with TCU. The Owls are led by 6-4 forward Terry Telligman, fifth in confex-- ence scoring with 191 points. Tel ligman netted 20 points in the first meeting with A&M, high for the game. JC Cage Tourney Set Here Wednesday The second top prep-school bas ketball tourney in five days stax-ts in White colisuem here Wednes day, with some of the best junior college teams in the state matched against each other in the Texas Junior College state tournament Three Wrestlers Place In Tourney Three of six A&M wrestlers placed in the Pan-American games tryouts last week in San Antonio. Alvaro Clachar won fourth in the 114 ^ pound class. Don Bur- chard and Ken Jones weie fifth in the 12514 and 174 pound classes, respectively. * Other Aggies entei'ing the tour ney, held to determine the Amer ican team at Mexico City March 12-26, were Kirby Meyer, Carlos Cazaxes and Joe Little. All are sophomores except Cazares, a freshman. ..Coach Jim Griffith said 12 men who had won national titles wei*e at the tournament, three in the 12514 pound division. Only two other college students wei’e enter ed, and average age of the wrest lers was 27. Next meet for the Cadets is with the University of Texas in Austin March 12. Last Saturday in the coliseum, San Marcos and Buna won high school class AA and A regional titles and a berth in the state tournament. This week, the champion and runnerup teams of the state’s four JC zdnes get together. Lon Mor ris, the defending champ, meets South Texas of Houston at 2:15 p.m. Howai’d County of Big Springs meets Decatur Baptist college at 4. Other first round pairings are San Antonio—Texarkana at 7 and Allen academy—Odessa at 8:45. The title game is set for 8:45 p.m. Thuxsday, the third place con test for 7. The consolation title game will be played at 8 p.m. In the high school tournament, San Marcos beat Teague 62-53 in the AA finals, its 22nd straight win. The Rattlex-s, who have a 30- 2 season i - ecord beat Spi’ing Branch 46-37 in the first round. Teague downed Gatesville 47-39 in its opener. Center James Wells scored 31 points in the two games to AA win high point honors. Buna spurted after only a one point halftime lead to easily de feat Llano 47-29 in the class A final. Center James Mellard scor ed 21 points and took the class A high point award with a total of 35. “He’s the one to stop if we’re going to win,” said coach John Floyd, “and I think we’ll do a bet ter job on him this time.” Floyd will start Bill Bx’ophy and John Heni-y or Bob Gattis at for- wards, Geoxge Mehaffey at centei’, and John Fox-tenbexry and Ted Harrod at guai'ds. “Hari'od is doing the best job x-ight now,” said Floyd, “and Me haffey has improved a great deal this season.” The Aggie Fish, 7-4 over the sea son, meet the dangei’ous Owlets in tonight’s opener. Rice thumped the Fish in their first clash 84-53 behind the shoot ing of 6-11 Temple Tuckei\ Tuck er pushed in 35 markers in the win, and has avex*aged over 30 points a game this season. He has ah’eady broken the fi'eshmen season scox-ing mark set by TCU’s Dick O’Neal last yeai\ Fish Coach John DeWitt will stai’t John Lesikar, Carter Wil liams, J. C. Smith, Bryan Suthexdin and Kenneth Hutto. The Aggies dropped a close one to the Arkansas Razox-backs at Fayetteville Saturday, 73-63. Ag Baseball Team Readies For Opener With good weather in sight the Aggie baseball team be gan working in earnest yes terday in preparation for Wednesday’s season opener with Sam Houston State hei’e. Coach Beau Bell put hitting and hard wox-k at the top of his pro gram for this year. “Our pitching is good,” Bell told his 35 man squad yesterday, “so let’s get those base hits.” Bell gained a 10th lettei’man fiom last year’s team when junioi* outfielder Behn Hubbard decided to return to school for the spring semester. This leaves only four lettermen lost fi’om last season’s squad. Am6ng the sphomore’s up from last year’s Fish team that picked up nine wins and thi’ee losses are pitcher Dick Munday, shortstop Dick Blecknei’, first baseman John Hoyle, second baseman Lupe Fi’aga and outfielder Bill White. The Aggies take on the Univer sity of Houston nine Saturday as a pax-t of Spring Spoi’ts Day ac tivities. Fish Swimmers Win Two Varsity Drubs SMU, 52-32 A&M’s varsity swimmers closed out theii* dual-meet season with a comfortable 52-32 win over SMU in Dallas Satui’day, and the Fish kept their unbeaten stxung going with victories over the SMU fi’osh and Highland Pax-k high school. The varsity won eight of 10 events fx-om the stx-ong Ponies, who are expected to battle University of Texas and A&M for the confer ence title here March 10-12. Junior Dick Weick and sopho- inore Richard Hunkier paced the A&M Varsity Medley Relay—1. Texas A&M (Norman Ufer. nick Weick, John Speich. 2:43.2. 200-Yard Free Style—1. Don Horne, A&- M. 2. John McElhaney, SMU. 3. Jim Rose, SMU. 2:18.6. 2- Length Free Style—1. Dick Hunkier, A&M. 2. Phil Valden, SMU. 3. Ed Kasner, A&M. :22.2. Individual Medley—1. Dick Weick. A&M. 2. Gayle Klipple, A&M. 2. George Sco field, SMU. 1:29.5. 3- Meter Diving—1. Jim Roberts, SMU. 2. Jim Groves, SMU. 3. Bruce Martin, A&M. 100-Yard Free Style—1. Dick Hunkier, A&M. 2. Phil Valden, SMU. 3. Dave Mc- Comb, SMU. :53.5. 200-Yard Back Stroke—1. Norman Ufer, A&M. 2. Dick Shelling, SMU. 3. Thomas Davenport, A&M. 2:19.4. 200-Yard Breast Stroke—1. Dick Weick, A&M. 2. Dave Corley, SMU. 3. Billy Bed ford, A&M. 2:34.4. 440- Yard Free Style—1. John McElhan ey, SMU. 2. Gayle Klipple, A&M. 3. George Black, SMU. 5:14.6. Free Style Relay—1. A&M (Don Horne, Rip Woodard, John Speich, Dick Hunkier). 3:23.3. Aggies. Weick won the individual medley and the 200-yaxd breast stroke, and swam on the winning medley relay threesome. Hunkier took the two-length and 100-yai*d freestyle events and was on the winning fx-eestyle x*elay team. Other A&M fix-sts were won by Don Horne, 220-yai-d fx-eestyle, and Norman Ufer, 200-yai - d backstroke. The Fish, previous winners over the Rice and Texas freshmen and the San Antonio Aquatic club, edg ed the Colts, 38-37, Friday night, then downed the Scotties, 40-35, Satux-day. Fish-Colts 2-Length Sprint—1—Jose Merino, A&M; 2—Bob Stout, SMU; 3—Neal Velvin, SMU. :22.2. 100-Yard Breast Stroke: 1—Gage Pritch ard, SMU; 2—Charles Price, A&M; 3— Larry Matlock, A&M. 1:07.8. 100-Yard Back Stroke: 1—Pedro Galvao, SMU; 2—Ray Cook, A&M; 3—Charles Ot- stott, SMU. 57:9. Ties own pool record. 200-Yard Free Style: 1-—George Rags dale A&M; 2—Charles French, SMU; 3— Skippy Fletcher, SMU. 2:20.7. 100-Yard Free Style: 1—Jerry Mounts, A&M; 2—Willard Thompson, SMU; 3— Jimmy Dye, A&M. :56.3. 1-Meter Diving: 1—Ronnio Smith, SMU; 2—Willard Thompson, SMU; 3 — Dubby Godfrey, A&M. Individual Medley: 1—Ray Cook, A&M; 2—Laird Wolbridge. SMU; 3 — Charles Price, A&M. 1:36.7. Medley Relay: 1—SMU (Charles Otstott, Gage Pritchard, Charles French! 1:19.8. Free Style Relay: 1—A&M (Jerry Mounts, George Ragsdale, Jimmy Dye, Jose Merino). 1:31.5. SMU’s freshmen also went into the meet undefeated, holding wins over the Owlets, Scotties, S.A.A.C. and Odessa high school. Rely On Us for Superior Service When you put clothes in our hands, you know they’ll be returned clean, well pressed and in top form. 'Our reputation rests on your satisfaction. BVgT»3-r»«3TO Jr The 1955 U.S. Atlantic Tuna tournament will be held fx-om Nar- ragensee, R.I., Aug. 9, 10 and 11. ( Advei’tisement) PORT H O R T L.E.ARM TO ClE&D- BOV AM EXCWAMGE STORE. BOOK A BOOK. POR. &VE.R.V -TASaTE s NEW ARRIVAL? Call "The House Doctor" HE BUILDS — New Rooms, Porches, Cabinets. Roofs. Garages, etc. HE CONVERTS—Porches to Bedrooms, Dining Areas, Hobby Rooms, Break fast Nooks, etc. pvmaHT a. u. c. 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It will be the sixth day of the 18 allowed Southwest con ference teams in a 28-day period. (The Cadets started Tues day.) Fans will get their first glimpse of next fall’s squad Saturday night at the Maroon-White intrasquad game. Saturday, head coach Paul Bryant worked his squad for an hour and five minutes on the practice field, then moved the team to Kyle field for scrimmages. About 12 players, including quarterback Elwood Kettler, last season’s starter, got the day off. Bryant disclosed that the al ready thin list of returning letter- nien had shrunk to 12. Fullback Bob Easley has^ decided to graduate with his class Tn¥tead of using his remaining year of eligibility, Bry ant said. ‘Starters Until . . After Saturday’s scrimmages, Bryant said, “I thought we had a pretty good week of practice until we got them out there today in a game. In all fairness to the boys, however, don’t forget we worked them about an hour and five min utes before.” Bryant named Kettler, full back Jack Pardee and Gene Stal lings as starters “until some body beats them out.” “(Soph Bobby) Marks has more ability than Gene, but Stallings has an awful lot of desire.” Bryant al so had some nice words to say about Pardee’s linebacking, then went on to compare his quarter back candidates. Jimmy Wright and Bobby Con rad, who shared most of the man- under duties for the Fish last sea son, “both have more natural abil ity than Kettler,” said Bryant. “Wright is a fine passer but weak on defense and he needs work on ballhandling. Donald Grant (a halfback who was switched to quarterback for the 1954 Short horn game) has more natural abil ity than any of them, but he’s brit- | tie.” “I’ll be very disappointed if Jim my doesn’t make us a very fine football player.” ‘Not Enough Old Folks’ j With about 50 sophomores com peting for a starting post and only “about 10 boys back who played a great deal last year”, it’s obvious that a lot is going to depend on de velopment of players without any varsity time. (“Too many young men and not enough old folks is the way I trainer. Smokey Harper puts it.) “Pick any position and we’re in- j experienced,” Bryant says. “They- J ’re gonna be bottle babies. Sopho- j mores stand a good chance of starting anywhere, any time.” It was suggested that a late start in recruiting last year hurt A&M’s chances for 1955. 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