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* V Aggies Battle Bearkats Here Tomorrow Night Coach Ken Loeffler’s hoop- sters take a welcome breather from the frantic Southwest Conference title chase here to morrow night against Sam Houston’s Bearkats. Standing fourth in conference play at present, the Aggies have copped two games while losing three. A&M has a 4-10 mark in season games. George Mehaffey, 6-4 sniper from Houston, continues to set the pace for Cadet scorers with 186 Boxers Defend Title In Waco Tournament Twenty-three boxers carry A& M’s colors into the opening matches of the 14th Waco Golden Gloves Tourney tonight in search of their second straight Open Division championship. The four-day tour nament will last through Saturday in the Waco Arena. The Aggies won five out of sev en championships in 1955 to cap ture the Open team trophy. Only James Earle A&M lightweight who was named the top Open fighter WEDNESDAY — FRIDAY Walt Disney’s “Lady and the Tramp” PLUS “Flame of Araby” with Maurine O’Hara for two straight years, is missing from the ranks of the returning Aggie champions. Earle gradu ated last spring. Replacing Earle will be Paul Adams freshman from Beaumont, who has a long and impressive ring record. Leading the A&M repeating - title holders is Bill Goode winner, of last year’s Novice middle-weight crown, who will be shooting for the Open title. Jack Fowler senior from Lake- view, the Waco light-heavyweight champion, and co-captain Connie Eckard, from Irving last year’s feather-weight champ will be out to'repeat their 1955 performances. Co-captain Jim Vandermeer, southpaw light-heavyweight, will lead a strong Novice team which will include Don Willis, Phil Wein- ert, Paul Carroll, Mike Henderson, Tom Carter, Frank Cinatl, Don Weeks, Don Garner, E. B. Gray, Bubba Hulke, Don Hollister, Sonny Ellen and Ernest Reesing. points and a 14.3 average in 13 g'ames. Mehaffey has registered 88 points in conference action to rank third behind Texas’ great Raymond Downs. Ken Hutto, scrappy 6-0 sopho more, jumped to a second place tie in scoring on the Aggie five this week with 153 points. Bill Brophy has dunked 153 points also, but has appeared in two more games than Hutto. The rivalry between A&M and Sam Houston dates back to 1913, the Aggies’ first season on the bas ketball court. A&M crushed the Bearkats, 72-9, in their initial meeting, and in the 63 game series the Cadets have managed to win 47. The Bearkats are winless in Lone Star Conference games, having lost four straight*. Powerful Sul Ross managed to defeat Sam Houston by an average of only seven points in their two recent meetings at Alpine. A&M resumes its SWC activities Saturday, playing host to high- scoring Dick O’Neal and the Texas Christian Horned Frogs in White Coliseum. A&M SCORING (14 GAMES) Player fa ft tp avg. G. Mehaffey 63 60 186 14.3 Ken Hutto 57 39 153 13.9 Bill Brophy 54 45 153 10.9 F. Connally . 55 39 149 11.5 J. Fortenberry 32 37 101 7.2 Roger Harvey 18. 27 63 4.5 Ted Harrod 19 11 49 3.5 John Henry 10 11 31 2.4 Don Bilbrey 9 8 26 2.6 B. Sutherlin - 6 11 23 2.3 LAST TIME w(i Carnival Story” —with— Anne Baxter — and — Steve Cochran THURSDAY A FRIDAY EXPOSING SECRET LIVES! RICHARD WIDMARK LAUREN BACALL CHARLES BOYER GLORIA GRAHAME LILLIAN GISH n the OaOBWEB' AND INTRODUCING JOHN KERR color by TECHNiCOLOR “Conquest of Space” PRESENTED BY M-G-M IN COL.OR AND IN Cl N E m A.S5«sOia»£s 'VmiM CAN'T HELP m TODAY thru SATURDAY WARNER BROS TIIp ' PRESENT JLXL JLS Court-Martiai of Billy Mitchell* 6TARRIISIG k% OrsiEM/vScOPl- * Warme:rCoi_of» chaEsBICKFORD raiphBELLAMY ROD STEIGER ELIZABETH NIONIGn^Ry 1 FRIDAY NITE PREY. — 11 20th CENTURY FOX presents TOM EWELL. 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March of Dimes plus the hearts and hands of polio fighters everywhere must continue to provide our main bulwark against polio* ' I j^rie MARCH OF DIMES ^ 1 JanwyStoS/ CIRCLE THRU FRIDAY “To Catch a Thief” Cary Grant & Grace Kelly ALSO Sqd. 10 Dumps Sqd. 2 Quintet In Fish ’Murals Unbeaten Squadron 10 handed Squadron 2 its second loss of the young - freshman intramural basketball season yesterday. John Crews, 6-4, forward, was outstanding as his high flying Sqd. 10 team romped to a stunning 22-8 victory. Joe Parten was the game’s lead ing scorer with eight points. Ron nie Parsons was second with two baskets and two free throws. Crews scored three points while Truman Hearn and A1 Williams each rang up two. Chuck Brown scored the remaining Sqd. 10 point. Sqd. 2 scoring was accounted for by Rodger Craig, Jimmy Parks, Dennis McBride, and Ralph Horn- ick, who each chipped in two points. Sqd. 19 walloped Sqd. 2 in upper classman ping pong. Jay Page defeated Don Hicks; Jim Collins beat James Willborn; G. U. Brown downed Curtis Tyler; Hal Wallace blanked Donald Banker; and Wel don Walker edged J. B. McLeroy. Sqd. 7 outrolled C-FA freshmen bowling 437-368 with Tommy Blan ton, Felton Phillips, and W. G. Swanzy getting the points. James Taylor, John Windham, and Rex Weaver composed the C-FA line up. Sqd. 9 edged A-AAA in another Class B bowling match, 404-359. Wednesday, January IS, 1956 THE BATTALION Page 3 In District Go CHS Rips Tomb all 47-26 By MAURICE OLIAN CHS Correspondent Scoring quickly apd. pulling away to a commanding first-half lead, A&M Consolidated’s Tigers buried the Tomball CoLLgars, 47-26, to re main undefeated in District 25-A last night in Tiger Gym. The amazing Tigers hit 17 points before the bewildered Coug ars could score, and led 17-0 three and a half minutes deep in the second period. CHS pulled away to its largest margin of the even ing at intermission, 26-3. Again paced by their two all-dis trict performers, Norman Floeck and Manuel Garcia, who meshed 39 CHS (47) fg ft pf tp Floeck 7 10 2 24 Garcia 6 3 2 15 Hickman .0 0 4 0 Hall ... 2 0 0 4 Perryman 0 4 0 4 Potts 0 0 0 0 Avera 0 0 10 of the Tiger points, Consolidated gar “B” squad, 27-38 in the first led all the way and hit 53 per cent ! game of the doubleheader, of their field goal attempts, dunk ing 15 of 45. Floeck pushed through 24 points, 10 of them coming from free throw tries, and his scoring partner, Garcia, netted 15. The Tigers built up a cautious 9-0 first quarter lead then turned on the steam for 17 points before halftime. Tomball started hitting after the intermission and brought the scox - e to 33-20, Consolidated’s smallest margin, just before the end of the third period, tmt Floeck’s long set shot made it 35- 20 at the end of that quarter. The Tiger “B” team, leading 17-9, at halftime, could score only one poi»t while their opponents were hitting for 19 during the third quarter, and lost to the Cou- TOTALS ... 15 17 9 47 TOMBALL (26) fg ft pf tp McAdams .... 3 15 7 Higgins 2 2 3 6 Roach 0 0 0 0 Spell 0 0 0 0 Chennault 3 1 2 7 Hoyt 2 0 3 4 Dubose 10 12 TOTALS ... 11 4 14 26 USED BOOKS WANTED The Exchange Store is in the market for your used books Check our prices before selling THE EXCHANGE STORE “Serving Texas Aggies” What’s doing at Pratt & Whitney Aircraft If U. S. Jets Dominate International Air Transport Many engineering graduates would like to be con cerned with air power of the next generation. One way to fulfill that ambition is to pursue a career alongside engineers who have consistently produced the world’s best aircraft engines. Most major U[. S. airlines, recognizing the future of jet flight in commercial transportation, have placed their orders for jet-powered transports. 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