Friday, December 2, 1955
THE BATTALION
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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