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PAGE 4 THE BATTALION Friday, January 8, 1960 : ■ s PORT SLANT By BOB WEEKLEY S Rice Institute has taken a big step forward with their formation of a student 150-pound football team. The only drawback to their experiment was that their team could not find opponents. They were able to schedule only one game, but that was a contest with Houston’s 4-A district champions, the Bellaire Cardinals. The Rice team, composed only of - students, not athletes under scholarship and participating in other sports, won by a score of 22-20. The team was coached by graduate students and out fitted by the athletic department, presumably with cast off uniforms. Rice hopes to form some sort of intercollegiate competi tion with these “small” football teams, with the other schools in the conference. Personally, we feel that Rice has a fine idea, and one that A&M would do well to copy. The Aggies! could form a unit under the direction of the intramural department, or, if the feeling was right in certain quarters, go under the benovelent wing of the athletic department. ★ ★ ★ The faculty representatives of the Southwest Conference voted yesterday to abolish the annual Southwest Conference basketball tournament. The coaches recently had voted 6-2 to do away with the meet. The tourney has had a stormy life, since its conception back in 1951. The first games were played in Dallas, but due to a large deficit each year in gate receipts, the game was moved to Houston where it enjoyed a profitable regime. The Aggies won the tournament this year, for their second consecutive championship, but it looks like there will be no more. Arguments put forward for abolishing the tournament, were that teams can’t play each other three times in a year (twice in regular season competition) and expect to come away a victor each time'. A&M’s Bob Rogers were one of those who had verbally expressed himself as being in favor of doing away with the affair. ★ ★ ★ Joe Hardgrove, a pitcher on the 1955 A&M baseball team that won the Southwest Conference championship and went into the NCAA playoffs against Arizona, has been named the Texas High School Baseball Coach of the year. Hardgrove did not lose a game during regular season play, winning a total of seven. Pie is presently coach at Fort Worth Paschal. Texas Athletes Tops In ’59 Competition By HAROLD RATLIFF Associated Press Sports Writer Betsy Rawls became the all- time record winner in woman’s golf, Jim Bob Altizer was world’s champion in rodeo and Texas’ 440- yard relay team set a world’s rec ord of 39.6 to highlight a great year in Texas sports. The state produced 17 national champions and had the nation’s No. 1 anateur tennis player—Ber nard (Tut) Bartzen. But creation of the American Football league to compete with the established National Football League in pi’ofessional ranks at tracted the most attention. Lamar Hunt, young Dallas oil map, organized the AFL. He did it because the NFL wouldn’t grant him a franchise. The NFL in the face of the encroachment announc ed it planned to place clubs in Dallas and Houston in competition with the AFL. But nothing daunted Hunt, who went ahead with his oi’ganization plans and the new professional league will make its debut in the fall of I960. 1959 Greatest In many wnys 1959 was perhaps the greatest year of accomplish ment in Texas sports. Miss Rawls, the former Univer sity of Texas co-ed, set an all- time record for money- winnig in woman’s professional golf, banking $22,000. She also won the women’s national open for the third time. She won nine tournaments during the year. Altizer, the cowboy from Del Rio, was the world’s champion calf roper, winning $24,728—the all time high for this division of ro deo. TU Breaks Record The Texas sprint relay team cracked Abilene Christian College’s world record of 39.7 for the 440 when it did the 39.6 at Modesto, Calif., Relays. Texas also set a national collegiate mile relay rec ord of 3:08.7. Eddie Southern of Texas was NCAA and National AAU 440-yard champion and won the event in the US-Russian meet. Bartzen, the little tennis star from Dallas and San Angelo, won the national clay court champion ship for the third time. He also won River Oaks at Houston and the Tennessee Valley at Chatta nooga. He became the No. 1 ama teur in the nation when Alex Ol- medo tuimed pro. Bartzen also was on the Davis cup team. The Wayland College Flying Queens became national AAU girls basketball champions for the fifth time. University of Houston won the NCAA team golf title for the fourth straight year and its Rich ard Crawford was the national in dividual champion. Carrol Shelby of Dallas won the LeMans 24-hour sports car run. Willie Shoemaker of Fabens was the king of the jockeys. Houston Fed-Mart won the na tional semi-pro baseball champion ship. Lufkin won the Pony Grad World Series of Baseball. Lamar Tech won the NAT A ten nis team and individual champion ships. Paris won the national junior college baseball championship. Texas A & I was football cham pion of of the NAIA, climaxing its season by winning the Holiday Bowl game. Largest Coaching School The Texas coaching school be came bigger than ever, with more than 3,000 coaches signing up. It already was ’ the world’s largest. Of significance in baseball was the organization of the Pan Ameri can Association. The Texas League and the Mexican League operated in an interlocking schedule and then had their champions clash for the Pan American Association championship. Austin won it. The plan paid off for most of the clubs. Ernie Banks of Dallas was again the most valuable player in the National League. He is shoi’tstop for most of the clubs. The year 1959 indeed was a good one in sports. A&M MENS SHOP 103 MAIN NORTH GATE AGGIE OWNED COURT’S SHOES SHOE REPAIR North Gate Aggies Tangle with Frogs Saturday; Cadets Hope to Break Ten-Year Jinx Unbeaten Texas A&M basket- bailers will try to end a 10-year jinx Saturday night in Fort Worth. Coach Bob Rogers’ cliff-hangers, 9-0 for the season, take on the TCU Horned Frogs in public school gym and hope to be the first A&M cage team in a decade to beat the Frogs at Fort Worth. Not since the next to last game of the 1949-50 season has A&M beaten TCU on the Frog home grounds. That last A&M win was a 60-58 thriller for Marty Karow’s Aggies. The Aggie frosh and TCU Wogs play a preliminary to the varsity clash. Tourney Champs After successfully defending their pre-season tournament title in Houston, the Aggies opened regular Southwest conference play Tuesday night here with a 68-51 victory over Baylor.. In rolling up their finest early- season start since 1920 the Ag'gies have beaten Centenary, Trinity, Midwestern, TCU, Texas, SMU and Baylor once each and the Houston Cougars twice. Not since D. X. Bible’s Aggie cage team of the 1919-20 season has A&M fared so well at the start. That Aggie team 40 years ago was unbeaten in Freshmen Cagers To Play Without Minor for Ten Days The Texas A&M freshman bas ketball team has lost the services of its ace guard and play-maker, Charlie Minor of Pampa, for at least 10 days due to a knee injury suffered Tuesday night in the Fish victoi’y over the Baylor Cubs here. Minor, 5-11 speedster and lead ing scorer, hit for 12 points be fore the injury shortly before the half. He leads all Fish scorers after four games with a 14-7 aver age. This means Coach Shelby Met calf’s frosh will go against the TCU Wogs at Ft. Worth Saturday night and the Kilgore JC Rangers here next Tuesday night without Minor. The Fish have beaten Tyler Jun ior College twice, lost once to Kilgore at Kilgore and have won over Baylor. Bob Rogers Utilizes Top JC Prospects Bob Rogers has made good use of junior college graduates at Tex as A&M and one of his top Jaycees is Kelly Chapman of Tyler. Chapman migrated from his hometown of Owensboro', Ky., (home of Cliff Hagan) to Tyler Junior College where he was an all-America for Floyd Wagstaff. Upon graduation from Tyler, Kelly enrolled at the University of Kentucky but stayed only two weeks and returned to Tyler, home of his wife, Charlda. Those two weeks at Kentucky cost Kelly a year and a half of eligibility. He came to A&M in the spring of 1959 and had to sit out a year where he was not available until the final seven games last spring. The long layoff affected his game and not until his final three games last year did Chapman find the range. This season, his final year at A&M, Chapman has been a big help in A&M’s early drive. He has averaged 8 points per game and is one of the best rebounders due to the tremendous spring in his legs.. Kelly’s defense was a weak point last year but he’s improving steadily and his amazing assort ment of jump shots should make him a better performer than he has been. Rogers hopes he finds time to pepper the basket while hunting up someone to talk to. SEE THE OLYMPIA Typewriter Before You Buy Otis McDonald’s Bryan Business Machines 19 games. As. the Cadets open loop play they surely ’ must look back to last year when they won nine of their first 10 games including the SWC tournament, only to see them falter at the tail end after Wayne Lawrence suffered a broken ankle and finish in a tie for fifth with a 6-8 record. Although only four of the past eight tourney winners have gone on to win the championship the Aggies have been tabbed favorite. Broussard Most Valuable Sophomox'e sensation Carroll Broussard, most valuable player in the touraament and high scorer, leads Aggie players after nine games with 161 points and a 17.8 average. The 6-5 Port Arthur pro duct hit for 73 points in the three tourney games and added 15 against Baylor this week. Wayne Lawrene, 6-7 senior from Pawcatuck, Conn., who joined Broussard on the all-tourney team at Houston, is next with 101 points and an 11.2 average and is the leading rebounder with 75. Other Aggie scoring looks this way: Pat Stanley of Buna has 93 points, Wayne Annett of Chicota 73; Don Stanley 72, Kelly Chap man of Owensboro, Ky., 66, Wilmer Cox of Houston 39, Elliott Craig of Beaumont 30, Tommy Smith of Jefferson 16, John Keller of Ter rell 9 and Dave Corson of New Or leans 4. Stanley’s Close Don Stanley made a heroic at tempt to catch up with brother Don in their personal scoring race, Tuesday night against Baylor. Don scored 18 that night to up his total to 54, but is still 26 behind his brothex*. The two are tied in one thing, though. Pat is hitting .484 per cent of his shots from the field While Don is just about as hot, with a nifty .444 The Aggies downed the Frogs, 72-61, on neutral Rice gym in the Opening round of the recent tourna ment but Could easily yield all or more of that margin before the Frog fans Saturday night. The Farmers are currently rated 13th in the nation, according to the Associated Press poll, and 10th in the nation according to another leading poll. The Aggies have not enjoyed such national prestige in this decade. Ags Come Home Next Week Following the TCU game this week the Aggies return home next Tuesday to test the SMU Mus^ tangs, a team A&M defeated 58- 55 in the tournament finals at Houston. The smooth-passing and hot-shooting Ponies will not bring their freshmen but the Aggie Fisli will play x make-up game at 6 p. m. that night against the Kilgore Junior College Rangers. Other loop games for A&M be fore the semester end will have Texas here Jan. 15 and Rice in Houston, Jan. 19. Then the Cadets are idle for semester examinations until Feb. 1 and 2 when they jour ney to the West Coast for games with San Francisco and Santa Clara. The Aggie varsity and freshman teams will leave Saturday morn ing by bus for Fort Worth arriv ing at noon. The teams will return to College Station Sunday morn ing. The Church.. For a Fuller life. For You.. CALENDAR OF CHURCH SERVICES A&M CHRISTIAN CHURCH 8:30 A.M.—Coffee Time 0:45 A.M.—Sunday School 11:00 A.M.—Morning Services COLLEGE HEIGHTS ASSEMBLY OF GOD 9:45 A.M.—Sunday School 11:00 A.M.—Morning Worship 6:30 P.M.—Young People’s Service 7:30 P.M.—Evening Worship BETHEL LUTHERAN CHURCH (Missouri Synod) 8:15 A.M.—Morning Worship 9:30 A.M.—Church School 10:45 A.M.—Morning Worship UNITARIAN FELLOWSHIP 9:30 A.M.—Church School, YMCA 8:00 P.M. Each Sunday—Fellowship Meeting, YMCA CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER DAY SAINTS 26th East and Coulter, Bryan 8:45 A.M.—Priesthood Meeting 10:00 A.M.—Sunday School 7:00 P.M.—Sacrament Meeting OUR SAVIOUR’S LUTHERAN CHURCH r,:30 A.M.—Church School 8:15 A 10:45 A.M.—Morning Worship CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY 9:30 a.m.—Sunday School 11:00 a.m.—Sunday Service 8:00-4:00 p. m. Tuesdays--Reading Room CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE 10:00 A.M.—Sunday School 11:00 A.M.—Morning Worship 6:30 P.M.—Young People’s Service 7:30 P.M.—Preaching Service ST. THOMAS EPISCOPAL CHURCH 8:00 A.M.—Holy Communion 9:15 A.M.—Family Service 11:00 A.M.—Sermon 7 :00 P.M.-—Evening Prayer FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH 9:40 A.M.—Church School 11:00 A.M.—Worship 6:15 P.M.—Training Union 7:15 P.M.—Worship A&M CHURCH OF CHRIST 9:45 A.M.—Bible Classes 10:45 A.M.—Morning Worship 6:15 P.M.—Bible Class 7:15 P.M.—Evening Service A&M METHODIST CHURCH 9:45 A.M.—Sunday School 10:55 A.M.—Morning Worship 5:30 & 6:00 P.M.—MYF Meetings 7:00 P.M.—Evening Worship ST. MARY’S CATHOLIC CHAPEL 7:30, 9:00 & 11 :00 A.M.—Sunday 6:30 A.M.—Mon., Wed., Fri. & Satur- 5:15 P.M.—Tues, day Masses & Thu 6 :30-7 :30 P.M.—J5aturd Hon fes 7:30 P.M. rs. Masses Confessions lay Confessions before all Masses 0 P.M.—Wednesday Services FAITH CHURCH UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST 9:15 A.M.—Sunday School 10:30 A.M.—Morning Worship 7:30 P.M.—Evening Service A&M PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 9.45 A.M.—Church School 11:00 A.M.—Worship invitation of the Bells r America is a land of bells! Wedding bells, door bells, dinner bells, school bells, sleigh bells ... all speak of a country where Freedom from tyranny exists. Radio chimes keynote freedom of speech as com mentators broadcast the news. Typewriter bells ring out freedom of the press. And church bells, whether they be the musical chimes from a cathedral’s spire, or the ding dong from the steeple of a village chapel, typify freedom of religion. Churches throughout the land are open to all. Inside their doors, we cast aside the fetters of worry that shackle our hearts in this atomic age. We find strength and courage to face the unknown future. Our faith, hope and trust in God, who says, “Fear not; for I am with thee,” is renewed and peace fills our anxious souls. Let us accept the invitation of the bells to and worship,” and go to church regularly. Copyright 1960, Kristtr Adv. Srroict, Strorburg, VJ. THE CHURCH FOR AUL . . . AL. L. FOR THE CHURCH The Church is the greatest factor on earth for the building of character and good citizenship. It is a storehouse of spiritual values. Without a strong Church, neither democracy nor civiliza tion can survive. There are four sound reasons why every person should at tend services regularly and support the Church. They are: (1) For his own sake. (2) For his children’s sake. (3) For the sake of his community .and nation. (4) For the sake of the Church itself, which needs his moral and material support. Plan to go to church regularly and read your Bible daily. 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