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Friday, December 2, 1955 THE BATTALION Page 3 rs Dfod Close AgTo Compete In Bowl Game Net Tourney Paul Wilkins, a bright pros pect in A&M’s tennis future, has been picked to compete in the Orange Bowl tennis clas sic Dec. 25-31 at Miami, Fla. Wilkins, a sophomore Petrol eum Engineering- major, will meet some of the nation’s top tennis talent in the Miami tourney. He is the only Aggie who has been in vited so far. Recently Wilkins, who hails from Baytown, reached the semi-finals in the Dallas Athletic Club tour nament. He downed SMU’s No. 1 player, Matt Murphy, in one of the Southwest’s big upsets. Wilkins beat Murphy 6-1, 6-4. Last year SMU’s Murphy de feated the nation’s seventh and eighth ranked tennis players, and was the top member of the Mus tang's fine corps of netmen. He was also a member of the Davis Cup team. More than 40 of the Southwest’s outstanding tennis players com peted in the Dallas meet, sponsored by the Texas Tennis Association. Wilkins competed in both singles and doubles matches. This past summer Wilkins and X. B. Reed, also from Baytown, hitch-hiked more than 6,000 miles in eight states and competed in nine tennis tournaments. ROPED IN BY WASHDAY WOES? LET US SET YOU FREE! Thanks to our quick efficient service, your laundry is done in a jigtime. At College Station Four SWC Teams Win ’55 Openers By BARRY HART Southwest Conference teams got off to a fair start in the 1955-56 basketball season, winning four and losing three as SMU, TCU, Texas and Rice opened with victories. A&M, Bay lor and Arkansas tasted defeat. The Southern Methodist Mustangs were erratic but ef fective as they took an 82-67 victory over North Texas State College. The Mustangs jumped to a quick 10-1 lead and North Texas never got closer than six points all night. Bobby Mills was high point man for SMU with 15 points, but Fred Hopkins of North Texas took game honors with 19. Texas Christian center Richard O’Neal, the nation’s fourth-ranking scorer as a" sophomore, took up where he left off last year and paced the Frogs to a 91-79 victory over Austin College. O’Neal, agile 6-7 pivot, hit 13 of 18 field goal attempts, added six of eight free throws for 32 points and received surprisingly good help from the outside as his Frog team mates overcame stubborn Austin College. The Texas Longhorns successful ly launched their 1955-56 basketball campaign in Austin, overcoming West Texas State, 85-73. Raymond Downs, a scoring sen sation as a sophomore a year ago, blended his talents with Texas’ speedy sophomore guards midway of the first half to take a 22-21 lead that the Longhorns never re linquished. Howard Payne edged Baylor in the last three seconds, 51-49, as Stanley Owens hit a field goal from slightly past mid-court in a thriller at Waco. (See SWC TEAMS, Page 4) Rally Falls Short, Ags Lose 43-48 Special to The Battalion TULSA, Okla.—Relying on the free throw for half their points, the Aggies late rally fell short of Tulsa’s fast-moving Hurricanes last night, 43-48, in the opening basketball game for both teams. The Cadets trailed by only one point at half-time, but failure to hit the basket from outside Tulsa’s tough defenses and a height disadvantage were enough to spoil Ken Loef- fler’s first appearance in the role of A&M coach. George Mehaffey and Roger Harvey chalked up the most points for A&M. Both had eight. No Aggie was able to break into the double figure column, and none was able to hit more than two field goals. * A&M moves to Nashville, Looking For Xmas Presents? Its always a problem to decide what to give Grandmother, Cousin Alice, Uncle Jim and the assorted Small Fry for Xmas. This year weVe made an honest attempt to help you. One of our buyers has recently returned from New York where he went through the stocks of several of the nation’s Large Remainder Houses. Books on almost every subject were selected and they will be offered to you in a Xmas Sale starting December 7. These books—covering everything from Adam to Zebras—are priced at a fraction of their original price. Mark your calendar now to visit our Sale starting December 7. The Exchange Store SERVING TEXAS AGGIES Tigers, Tangle By MAURICE OLIAN Consolidated Correspondent A&M Consolidated’s Tigers go after their first win of the young cage season when they meet the Somerville Yeguas in a double- header tonight in Tiger gym. The Tiger “B” team opens the evening at 7 and the varsities tangle in the mainliner at 8 p.m. Last year the Tigers and the Yeguas split a two-game sei-ies. Somerville captured the Consolida ted invitational tournament. The visitors lost practically their entire starting lineup by graduation and not much is known of this year’s squad. Consolidated opened the 1955-56 season Tuesday against the strong Cypress-Fairbanks Bobcats, losing both contests, 32-28 and 33-21. The Tigers led the Bobcats at the half, 14-11, and were down by only one point, 21-20, at the end of the third period, but Cypress-Fairbanks turned on the steam in the final quarter, leading by 31-24 at one stage, to down Consolidated. Jon Ray Perryman was the game’s leading srorer with 10 points with Norman Floeck and Manuel Gar cia, both all-district performers last season, contributing eight and six points. Don Avers hit for nine points to lead the Tiger “B” team, but the Bobcats hit 39 per cent of their shots from the floor to run away from Consolidated. The Tigers scrimmaged Allen Academy high school Wednesday and, although they outscored the Ramblers, were not too impressive Head Coach Larry Hayes, former Yeguas Tonight assistant basketball coach at A&M, will probably start Perryman at center, Garcia and Floeck at for wards and Bobby Potts and Dick Hickman at the guard posts for the Tigers. An interesting feature during the halftime of the “A” game will be an exhibition by the A&M wrest ling team. Consolidated will compete in the Bryan invitational tournament Dec. 9-10 and their next home game will not be until Jan. 3. Texas Wins Most 1955 SWC Titles (A 1 )—The sports year has ended in the Southwest Conference with Texas boasting the most champion ships. The Longhorns took four, twice as many as any other member of the conference. Texas A&M and Southern Methodist each won two and Texas Christian one. Arkan sas, Baylor and Rice failed to win a team title. However, Baylor’s John Thornton tied for the indi vidual golf championship. Texas won swimming, track, cross-country and tennis. A&M won baseball and fencing. South ern Methodist captured basketball and golf. Texas Christian won football. Sammy Giammalva of Texas won the tennis singles and teamed with John Hernandez of Texas to win the doubles. In fencing Don Burton of A&M won epee and Bill Huettel of A&M* , won sabre. Tenn. to battle Vanderbilt to morrow night, and Monday takes on Memphis State at Mem phis. Both teams had trouble hitting from the floor and both managed to connect on only 33 per cent of their shots. A&M hit only 11 out of 33 field goal tries, while Tulsa wound up with 19 of 60. Jerry Evans, a junior forward for the Hurricanes, was the game’s leading scorer with 18 points. His teammate, Junior Born, was next in line with 12. Evans sunk a field goal in the last 30 seconds of the first half to put Tulsa in a 18-17 lead they never lost. Ted Harrod, a 6-0 junior, was the third highest Aggie point mak er with two field goals and three free throws for a total of seven points. Sophomore Bryan Suther- lin was fourth with five, points. All ten Aggies making the three game tour of Oklahoma and Ten nessee got into the scoring column. ( See AGGIES, Page 4) TWO TOP CAGERS from A&M’s talented squad of freshmen take time out to pose for a Battalion photo grapher. At left is Gon- zalo Diago, 6-3, sharpshoot er from Santurce, Puerto Rico. Right is Neil Swish er, 6-1, a much sought after basketballer from Victoria. The Fish open their 1955 season against Allen Acad emy at Bryan Dec. 8. KEYS MADE While You Wait! For ^ Dorms L O U P OT Have that Portrait made be fore Dec. 10 for Christmas A&M Photo Shop No. Gate 4-8844 ^Jriancjfe DRIVE IN DINING ROOM 90c LUNCH Served from 11 until 2 PLATE LUNCHES Soup or Juice — 2 Vegetables Meat — Coffee or Tea — Dessert Triangle Banquet Room BY RESERVATION ONLY FOR LUNCHEONS, DINNERS,| RECEPTIONS, WEDDINGS AND BANQUETS We want to thank the Student Body of A&M for their wonderful spirit and praise for our Orchestra. It was a great pleasure and honor to play for your Thanksgiving Eve Dance. Gig 'em ggies Thanks to Pete Hardesty, Mr. White and Mr. Penherthy