Thursday, February 16,1956
THE BATTALION
Page 3
Aggies Fourth In SWC;
Battle SMU Saturday
By RONNIE GREATHOUSE
Battalion Sports Editor
The Angies hold down the fourth
slot in Southwest Conference bas
ketball standing’s this week as Rice
and Arkansas continue to wage
their deadlocked battle for second
and third place.
A&M, despite a 52-61 loss to
Arkansas here last Monday night,
held on to the No. 4 position with
a record of three wins and five
losses against SWC foes. SMU
leads the pack with a perfect 8-0
slate. Rice and Arkansas have
identical 7-2 records.
The Cadets play host to the
Mustangs Saturday night at 8 in
White Coliseum. SMU, now rank
ed 12th in the nation on the Asso
ciated Pi'ess poll, has one of the
most lethal attacks in the confer
ence and boasts four players among
the loop’s top point makers.
Coach Doc Hayes’ Ponies are
paced by gangling Jim Krebs, 6-8
junior center who broke the SWC
single game scoring record against
Texas earlifer this season by dunk
ing 50 points. Krebs leads the
Mustangs in season and SWC scor
ing with 366 and 135 points respec
tively.
Other Pony scoring artists in
clude Joel Krog, 6-3, Bobby Mills,
6-0, and Larry Sbowalter, 6-3. All
three have registered over 200
points in full season play. Ronnie
Mon-is, 6-1, has counted 191 points
over the season to rank close be
hind them.
Ken Hutto, sophomore from
Amarillo, took command of the
scoring leadership on the Aggie
five this week as he jumped to
eighth place among SWC scorers
in both season and conference ac
tion. Hutto has scored 257 points
in all games to date and 128 in
league contests.
George Mehaffey is 10th among
conference targeteei’s with 114
points, while Bill Brophy.’s 102
points is good enough for 13th
place. Senior John Fortenberry
and sophomore Fritzie Connally
are among the top 20 SWC scor
ers, having 81 and 75 points re
spectively.
The Aggies have only four more
games left to play. After Satur
day’s bout with SMU they tangle
with TCU at Ft. Worth Feb. 22,
return home for a game with Rice
Feb. 25 and end the season with
Texas at Austin Feb. 28.
Squadron 10 Five
Wins League Flag
A SPRINTING WE WILL GO—In the usual order, return
ing- lettermen Gene Stallings, Bobby Drake Keith and Dee
Powell get rid of a few kinks in preparation for the open
ing of football Spring training Monday.
By JOE DAN BOYD
Intramural Writer
Sqd. 10 and A-Armor, each boast
ing perfect records, collided in a
ci*ucial league championship game
in freshman basketball yesterday.
A-Armor fell before the powerful
Squadron 10 quintet, 21-10. John
Crews and Joe Parten each sank
three baskets to pace the hopped-
up airmen.
Chuck Brown added two more
baskets for Sqd. 10 while Ronnie
Parsons chunked in three points.
Don Soland wrapped up scoring
with two. William Elias led A-
Armor with six points. J.'E. Smith
and Jasper Cleveland each added
one basket.
A high-scoring A-AAA cage
team downed Sqd. 21, 35-9. Again,
it was Dale Lovelace and Grady
Barr who paced the victory with
16 and nine points respectively.
Gary Hipps and Jay Bisbey drop
ped in four points each and Phil
Richman ended scoring with two
points.
Sqd. 16, carrying a 3-1 record,
handed A-Ordnance a 14-6 defeat
in another basketball game and
B-Armor took its first win of the
season by trouncing once-beaten
Sqd. 3 in a 20-12 upset. D-Field
Artillery captured an upperelass-
nian football league title as A-
Athletics forfeited. Outstanding
members of the Artillery gridders
are Jim Spencer and Dan Winship.
Once-beaten Sqd. 1 dealt a 33-13
loss to previously undefeated Sqd.
10 in another football game. This
gives Sqd. 1 a slight edge over
Sqd. 10 in the league standings.
Hutto Makes Good
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By BARRY HART
Ken Hutto swept onto the A&M basketball scene like
one of the sudden sand storms that sweeps his hometown of
Amarillo. At the beginning of the season he was one of a
group that occupies the bench. In fact Hutto didn’t make
the first trip with the squad, but Coach Ken Loeffler quickly
saw the need for Ken’s accurate outside shooting and Hutto
was promoted to the starting
KEN HUTTO leads the Aggies in season scoring with 257
points and in Southwest Conference games with 128. Ken,
who stands 6-0, is only a sophomore and is one of the out
standing second-year men in the conference.
job he still holds
“His play is so obvious, I
don’t have to comment,” said
Coach Loeffler. “A philoso
pher once said that the obvious is
usually wrong, in Hutto’s case it’s
right. The only thing I can find
wrong with Ken is that he’s not
6-6.”
A long-time Aggie fan, Hutto
was inspired by former Cadet hard
wood star Jewell McDowell to enter
A&M.
Hutto, a sophomore, is currently
leading the Aggies in both confer
ence and season scoring with 128
and 257 points, respectively. He
stands eighth among the league
leaders over both routes.
Adept at hitting the zone-break
ing outside shot, Ken’s best shots
are a long one-handei’ and the jump
shot, both of which he shoots left
handed. Extremely accurate at the
foul line, the little six-footer has
an .840 percentage in conference
play and a .793 average on the
season, good enough for the top
twenty among the nation’s foul
shooters.
Hutto’s highest single game total
this season is the 23 points he
scored against the Rice Owls in the
Katy Stops Tigers
In District Playoff
Katy’s hustling basketballers
grabbed the opening lead and stay
ed in front the rest of the way to
dump A&M Consolidated, 44-33,
last night at Katy^ in the first
game of a three-game District 25-
A championship playoff.
The Tigers must now win two
straight from Katy to claim the
championship. Katy and CHS
wound up regular season play tied
for the district lead with 7-1 re
cords. The next playoff game is
scheduled Friday night at Katy.
Big Julius Gibbs led the Katy
attack with 17 points, high for the
night. Norman Floeck was high
point man for Consolidated, pour
ing in 16 points,
p r e - conference tournament i n
Houston. A consistent scorer, Ken
has a 15.1 average on the season
and a conference avei’age of 16
points.
As Coach Loeffler says, the ob
vious is sometimes right and no
body will disagree in Ken Hutto’s
case.
Ag Nine Begins
DriUs With 35
About 35 diamond candidates re
ported yesterday as A&M’s defend
ing Southwest Conference baseball
champs took advantage of the early
Spring weather in their opening
workout of the 1956 season.
Coach Beau Bell put his squad
through four rounds of batting
practice and ended the session with
some hard running.
“The boys are eager and anx
ious,” said Bell, “and look to be‘in
pretty good shape.”
The Aggies, although losing four
all-confei’ence players through
graduation last May, return 11 let
termen and should be strong con
tenders for the crown again this
year.
The Aggies can boast an all-let-
termen infield in first baseman
John Hoyle, second sacker Charlie
Puls, third baseman Joe Boring
and shortstop Dick Bleckner. In
the outfield all-Southwest Confer
ence John Stockton and Behn Hub
bard are returning lettermen.
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