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Trotters Try Generals in Coliseum Friday Basketball’s fabulous Harlem Globetrotters, the winningest and most traveled team in the world, will exhibit their copyrighted cage wizardry against the strong Wash ington Generals Saturday at 8 p. m. in White Coliseum. Tickets are $2.50 and $2 for reserved seats and $1.25 for general admission and can be purchased at Student Activities and A. M. Waldrop’s. A large gate sale is antici pated, but many choice seats are still available. It’s the 3()th anniversary season for the celebrated nomads of the court whose journeys have taken them to all parts of the world, and, needless to say, owner-founder- coach Abe Saperstein is observing the anniversary in fitting style. The show is jam-packed with excitement and interesting features from start to finish, and to insure the game being a thriller, Saperstein has seen to it that his 1957 Trotters comprise the finest array of performers he has as sembled in years. The Generals were selected to give the Negro wizards a tough battle. The Generals, boasting of height, speed, and classy ball handling as well as excellent shooting are led by Louis (Red) Klotz, 5-7 all- American from Villanova who is player-coach. The Washington team will present such former college stars as Ted Armstrong, 6-9, from Michigan State; Jim Gerber, 6-7, Bowling Green; Fred lehle, 6-3, LaSalle; Bob King, 6-6, West chester, Pa., State Teachers; Bob Stephenson, 6-5, from Memphis State; and the Scott brothers, Bill and Tom, from Western Kentucky. Appropriately enough, the covet ed anniversary season finds the Trotters unveiling Meadowlark Lemon, a star who is fast becom ing the greatest king of comedy in the team’s history. Every other player on the Trotters’ squad has been hand-picked from the largest group of candidates ever to try out for the world-famed team. Returning veterans include Cap tain Clarence Wilson, the great set shot artist from Tennessee A&I; Leon Hillard, great dribbler; (Handy Andy) Johnson, 6-6 all- American from Portland; Woodrow Sauldsberry, 6-7, from Texas Southern, Willie Gardner, 6-7, back from two years overseas with the U. S. army and Charlie Hoxie, 6-5, former Niagara University great. Roman Turmon, rookie from Clark College in Atlanta, has been moved up after seasoning in the farm system and rounds out the squad. Hu nga ria nPo lo is ts ' * Here Next Monday The Hungarian water polo team, Olympic champions in 1952 and 1956, will perform in Downs Natatorium at 7:30 p. m. Monday as part of the Hungarian Athletes Freedom Tour. Tickets are $1 and are on sale in the MSG or can be purchased from any A&M swimming team member. The Hungarians bring nine of their water polo stars here and will battle each other in an ex hibition to raise money for Free Hungary. Two Greyhound Sceni- cruisers are transporting the Hungarians in their coast-to-coast trek. SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, which brought the«Hungarians to the U. S. and is caring for them until resettlement, is sponsoring the. sports tours in cooperation with the AAU in order to help the athletes raise money. The water poloists who will per form here are one segment of a three-part schedule being given by the refugee athletes. The fencers and gymnasts are touring in a separate company and Laszlo Tabori, famous sub-four-minute milei’, with his coach, Mihaly Igloi, has a third itinerary to coincide with the country's top track meets. Leading the team is 33-year-old captain, Laszlo Jeney fx-om Buda pest, who took up the game in 1938 and has played on four Hungarian championship teams. Another Budapest player, Gyorgy Karpati, was a law student at Budapest University and has been on the 1952 and 1956 Olympic teams. The youngest member, Jonos Bordi, 18, was a clerk in Rumania but will study medicine in the U. S. Joseph Deutsch, from Buchai-est, Rumania, was a olei’k in the mini stry of spox*t and has played in almost 70 international matches. Arpad Domjan, from Budapest, would have received his Doctor of Law degree this fall and will do legal work in this country. Fx-om Transylvania comes Zoltan Hoszpodar who has won 15 in dividual Rumanian championships in the fi'eestyle and backstroke. Budapestian Miklos Martin was a history major at Budapest U. and has been playing water polo 12 years. Gabor Nagy was a captain in the Rumanian army and is and out standing hockey player as well as swimmer, taking up polo in 1948. S PORT L A N T S By Barry Hart With the advent of Spring- and the warm-weather sports, basketball is on the wane in the Southwest Confer ence, at least as far as six of the schools are concerned. SMU looks like a shoo-in for their third consecutive title and the others are looking toward track and baseball. According to last week’s SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, SMU’s Jim Krebs is being heralded as the SWC’s finest player in history. Now I personally haven’t been around as long as the conference, but if. Krebs is the best we’ve ever turned out down here, we’re in sad shape. Granted, the big man from Missouri is good, but best in history? I question that. Certainly he deserves an all-conference rating with his league-leading 487 points, but Krebs is no all-American. In an age where scoring holds the limelight, the 6-8 Mustang center meshes many a point, but so do the men he guards. Defense is part of the game of basketball, too, and Krebs doesn’t do a great deal when the foe has the ball. This can be seen in the two occasions A&M met with SMU this season. In White Coliseum, Krebs was guarded by 6-4 George Mehaffey and scored 30 points. Mehaffey, on the other hand, dropped in 23 and out-rebounded the Pony giant, 19-11. Out-rebounded by a four-inch shorter man and the best in league history? Huh! Tuesday night in Dallas Jim McNichol, whom Loeffler didn’t give a chance to play until late in the season, out- scored Krebs, 21-20. McNichol, a sophomore, has scored 31 points and garnered 27 rebounds in the last two games and I, for one, am wondering why Loeffler hasn’t played him more. , _ Enough of Krebs. Let’s take a look at the man I d pick as the SWC’s finest eager—Ray Downs of Texas. Downs led the league in 1956 in scoring with 322 points, a 26.8 average, hitting a terrific 51.1 per cent of his field goal attempts and 81.2 per cent from the free throw line. So far this year Ray is second behind Krebs with 474 points over the season and is tied with the SMU center for second behind Baylor’s Jerry Mallett in the league race with 172 points. Downs, 6-4 and 195 pounds, shoots equally well with either hand and his field goal accuracy—57 per cent—-leads the nation. His free throw accuracy is astronomical—he hit 13 of 14 against the Aggies here—and his 184 for the season led the nearest man by 61. Any mention of an all-confer ence team cannot leave off Mal lett. The Baylor senior leads the league in scoring for conference games with 197 points and stands fourth for the entire season with 386. Mallett went over the 1,000 mai'k last night with 18 against TCU for the first Baylor player in history to pass the grand mile stone. Besides his scoring, Mal lett, at 6-*6, is one of the league’s best rebounders. Cei’tainly one of the finest ca- gers in recent years, TCU’S Dick O’Neal has been an all-league choice for two years. The 6-7 Centex- stands third in scoring with 413 points and owns one of the most accurate hook shots in the nation. O’Neal scox-ed 309 points in 1956 to place second behind Downs in that department. This bx-ings me down to a fifth man to go on this mythical team. The choice is a hard one, but the fine all-round play of A&M’s own George Mehaffey can not be overlooked as honor po tential. Mehaffey, long remem bered as the “Wild Irishman”, had never gotten through a college game without fouling out before this season. The Houston lad calmed down considerably this year and has finished more that half of the Aggies’ games, in cluding going foul-less against Rice. George h a s scored only 300 points so far, seventh among the leaders, but his aggi'essive play and tremendous rebounding—he has 208 — gave him the nod over such other possibilities as the Owl’s Temple Tucker, Baylor’s Tonx Kelly and SMU’s Bobby Mills. Loeffler tags Mehaffey as a “terrific professional prospect”. The liattnlinn r- ColTepp Station (Brazos County), Texas Thursday, F. binary 21, 195 / PAGE 5 JIM McNICHOL — A&M’s up-a n d-coming - sophomore who out-scored SMU’s Jim Krebs, 21-20, in Dallas Tuesday nigh't. McNichol, the 6-6 200-pound sopho- m o r e from Philadelphia, has scored 31 points and gathered in 27 rebounds in the past two games. In the previous eight contests he had scored only nine points, but his fine play has won him a starting berth. Is U M M E R SHOES Si Tred-Lite $3.95 L O U P O T ” S EYES EXAMINED GLASSES PRESCRIBED Dial TA 2-3557 DR. E. LUDEMANN DR. G. A. SMITH OPTOMETRISTS • BRYAN OPTICAL CLINIC (Next to Lewis Shoe Store) 105 N. Main Bryan, Texas HOLIDAY Friday, February 22, 1957 being a Holiday, in observance of George Washington’s Birthday, the undersigned will observe that date as a Holiday and not be open for business. FIRST NATIONAL BANK CITY NATIONAL BANK FIRST STATE BANK & TRUST CO. COLLEGE STATION STATE BANK BRYAN BUILDING AND LOAN ASS’N. PEANUTS By cartoonist-of-the-year Charles M. Schulz ACCORDIOM Pi AVERS ARE A PRETTV I'LL BET IF I MARRIED AN ACCORDION PLAYER, I'D AT t LEAST HAVE A POOF OVEt? 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