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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.
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By JERRY WIZIG
Battalion Sports Editor
Bone-weary and bruised after a rugged two-hour work
out Saturday, A&M’s experience-shy 1955 football team got a
day off yesterday from spring practice, but goes back to
work today.
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. Bryant
replied, “Well, it seems like some
body was ‘way later than that—
about four years late.”
Does lack of coeds here hurt
A&M’s chances of getting good
football talent? “We’re not j
looking for lovers, we’re looking !
for football players,” Bryant !
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