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THE BATTALION
Friday, January 8, 1960
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PORT SLANT
By BOB WEEKLEY
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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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Wednesday Hebret
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Psalms
Galatians
If Corinthia
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Thursday John
Friday Luke
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