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The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas Wednesday, February 4, 1959 PAGE 3 Frogs Rip Ags in. Wild One, 76-64 TCU, led by towering H. E. Kirchner, outshot and outrebound- ed an underdog Aggie five last night in White Coliseum to post a 76-64 Southwest Conference vic tory before 5,000 jeering, yelling basketball fans. The game was anything but a close contest, but the noise, cup throwing, referee baiting and oc casional scuffles on the court made the game anything but un exciting. Play had to be stopped twice to separate players on the floor and cups and paper on the court made dribbling hazardous for members of both teams. The win was the Horned Frog’s sixth conference triumph of the season against one loss while the Cadets now have a 3-4 record. TCU has won 17 out of its last 19 games vidth the Farmers. Kirchner, a 6-10 All-SWC play er from Houston, was the game’s leading scorer and rebounder, Consistent Fish Take Fifth Win With 73-64 Victory over Wogs The Texas Aggie Fish, display ing a consistent attack by totaling 39 points in each half, dunked the Texas Christian Polywogs, 78-64, for their fifth win of the season last night in G. Rollie White Coli seum. Trailing only once during the entire contest—that at 8-7 early in the initial period — the Fish slowly constructed a 39-31 inter mission advantage. Then, duplicating their first half performance, the young Cadets quickly went to' work to build their lead to 12 points at the close. Again it was Carroll Broussard who paced the Fish offense, amassing 24 points to pace all scorers. Pat Clancy and Don Rig- gan each added 11 more. However, the Wogs’ Phil Rey nolds nearly stole the show, flip ping in 23 points, mostly on set and jump shots from outside the key. Shortly after the Wogs . held their brief margin, Broussard and iviggan carried the Fish to an 8-point lead. A tip-in by Riggan, a set shot and three ’free throws by Broussard, a driving lay-up by John Keller and another bucket by Riggan, gave the Fish an 18-10 advantage. Only a jump shot by Reynolds for TCU marred the Ags’ string of points. Clancy then took over, ripping the cords with 10 successive points. And the Fish led v28-16. After halftime, Broussard and Riggan again showed the way as the pair scored 15 points between them, putting the Ags in com mand at 60-41. Reynolds, along with David Warnell who scored 12, and Ron ald Maberry wha added 10 more, struggled vainly to close the gap. The Wogs managed to cut the Fish lead to*13 points with slightly less than five minutes to play as Reynolds ripped off six straight points. TCU WOGS (64) Warnell Reynolds Loudermilk Maberry Bernard iirumm Perkins Totals A&M FISH (78) Broussard Keller Reeves t Clancy RlKKil hit< StrieK Williai White Waghor I'aghorne triegler FG 4 9 3 5 3 0 1 25 FG 10 2 4 5 5 4 1 0 1 FT 4 5 3 0 2 0 0 14 FT 4 2 1 1 1 1 3 1 0 PF 3 3 1 2 5 0 1 15 PF 2 3 2 1 5 2 0 1 1 In three years as baseball coach at St. John’s of Brooklyn, Jack Kaiser has led his team to 70 vic tories and only 19 defeats. During that period the team has finished three times as runner-up in the Metropolitan College Baseball Con ference. Nation’s Speediest Plan Odessa Meet ODESSA, Tex. <A>>—Sprinters Bobby Morrow and Dave Sime and quarter-miler Glenn Davis, three of the world’s top trackmen, will be seen here March 20-21 in the West Texas Relays. They will compete ih the 100 and 220-yard dashes but the races won’t be official events of the relays. They will be “open.” The reason is that Morrow and Sime have used up their eligibility at Abilene Christian and Duke re spectively and can’t compete in any team events. START RESERVING YOUR FORMAL WEAR NOW 11- RENT A FORMAL A&M MEN’S SHOP TON OQD sinking 23 points and collecting 15 rebounds. The lofty Frog hit 55 per cent of his shots from the floor. The Horned Frogs hit 52.6 per cent of their shots during the game, holding the Cadets to a 34.8 margin. The big difference was in rebounding, with TCU sweeping the boards for 57 while the Aggies could manage to grab only 29. Archie Carroll was the leading scorer for the Farmers and the game’s second high scorer with 19 points. He collected six rebounds, one less than Wilmer Cox, for the Cadets. Neil Swisher scored 13 points for runnerup honors. TCU was never in trouble throughout the game. With five minutes gone in the first period they jumped into a 3-point lead on a layup by Kirchner and then forged ahead for a 23—point lead at one time. They led 43-29 at the end of the half. A&M jumped back in the second half with a full court press and closed the gap to 11 points, but the Frogs rallied and widened the margin again to 23 points. With less than three minutes re maining in the game the Aggies caught fire and, to the roar of approval from the crowd, began narrowing the score board’s gap, but time ran out. S PORT SLANT By BOB WEEKLEY S From where I sat, last night’s game between the TCU Horned Frogs and the Aggies was unusually lousy—the only good thing being the peanuts and popcorn sold before the game by the vendors. Officials are often called a necessary evil at any sport ing event, but last night they proved themselves to be entirely unnecessary and particularly unseeing in many of their calls. Time after time they brought the 12th Man off the stands and howling to the edge of the hardwood in protest to some of their decisions. They were unwise in not throwing out two TCU players who took swings at A&M’s Jack Collier. Everything about the game had the sweet smell of dead fish. The Frogs, after compiling a tremendous lead of 20 points, pranced around the floor and smirked as if they were watching a ladies’ dancing class, not partcipating in a SWC basketball game. The Aggies in the stands were not perfect gentlemen themselves. They often tempted the officials into calling a technical foul on the home team by tossing cups and paper on the floor. TCU has a tremendous team, and well deserves the lead it has compiled in the conference race. TCU’S H. E. Kirchner, affectionately called “Baby Huey” by the Aggies, was cer tainly the top player on the court. It’s too bad everything else was spoiled. Army Says ‘No’ to New League Plan NEW YORK (AP) — Col. Francis Roberts, Army’s graduate manager of athletics, yesterday chilled the idea of Army’s be longing to a proposed national football conference. Speaking at a luncheon, Rob erts said the Army Academic Board was “not favorably dispos ed towards belonging” to such a conference. The formation of a new nation wide conference had been under discussion for several years. The proposal was reviewed in some detail at a semi-secret meeting during the National Collegiate A.A. convention in Cincinnati last month. Possible members would be Army, Navy, Pittsburgh, Syra cuse, Penn State, Notre Dame, Air Force Academy, California, UCLA, Southern California, Washington and Stanford. Army and Navy are at odds with the Air Force because of a disagreement about scheduling football games. Roberts reviewed this situation at some length and placed the blame on a change of Air Force policy. 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