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msz mmmmmmamrnmm '" r- Ags Assume Undisputed Lead; Steak on Menu for Tonight The Aggie Gagers roared to an undisputed first place position Saturday night as they blasted the Rice Owls, 94-53, and the Texas Longhorns mastered the Ponies in Dallas. Saturday’s victory left the Ca dets with a 7-1 record in confer ence play and found SMU and Tex as in the second place spot, both with 6-2 records. Carroll Broussard repeated as high scorer for the Aggies as he tossed in 26 points and put him second in the scoring for the sea son. Wilmer Cox was close behind Broussard with a 20 point per formance which was one of his best at Aggieland. He was a con stant thorn in the Owls’ offense as he repeatedly stole the ball. Wayne Lawrence was the third Cadet to hit in the double figures with his 15 points. The Aggies continued their ac curacy at the basket as they hit 48.6 per cent of their shots from the floor. However, they will have to continue to hit the bucket accurately to best the Longhorns who hit 45.8 per cent against SMU. Saturday night the Cadets were on the brink of breaking the school scoring record of 95, set against Centenary in the early part of the season. Time and again the re serves pumped the ball at j^he hoop, but couldn’t talley enough points to break the record. Tonight Coach Bob Rogers will start the same five that went against the Owls. Texas has had some lineup changes since the Ags met them the first time this season. A1 Al manza has moved into the lineup with Donnie Lasiter, Jay Arnette, Jimmy Brown and B r e n t o n Hughes. The Aggie Fish will try the Shorthorns for the second time this year, hoping to stretch their win streak to seven in a row and eight for the season. In the first game with the Shorthorns the Young Cadets came out on top, 76-65. The Fish topped the Rice Owlets Saturday night, 41-36, after al most a month’s layoff. Jerry Windham was high man for the Fish with his 11 points. Lewis Qualls and Willie Lager had eight points each. Charlie Minor, the little ball- hawk from Pampa, is almost re covered from an early season in jury and will be back in the Fish lineup. He and Jimmy Cobb thrilled Aggie fans Saturday with quite a dribbling exhibition in the closing minutes of the Owlet con test. S PORT SLANT By JOE CALLICOATTE S See The Amazing VAfPI A Typewriter Otis McDonald’s OJL 1 iYir 1/1 TA 2-1328 Bryan Business Machines LOOK Like To Call All Aggies and Their Scholastic Officers’ Attention To The English Depart ment’s New Course Offered Once - A - Week With Instruction In Spelling, Punctuation And Grammar. Sign Up For It NOW Brenton Hughes, one of Texas’ basketball aces, has made a rash statement in regard to tonight’s game with the Aggies. Hughes said that if the Long horns don’t beat the Cadets, he will jump off the tower at TU. A AM Will Compete In BorderOlympics LAREDO <A») — Twenty-nine high schools have filed entries in a bulging Schoolboy Division of the Border Olympics here March 4-5. Along with 10 universities, 10 colleges and eight junior colleges, they swell to 58 the number of star-studded teams in the nation’s first major outdoor track and field meet this season. By the Feb. 20 deadline for en tries, meet director Calvin Voeck- el looks for a grand total of 65' schools and more than 1,000 ath letes. Defending champion Texas has sent word it will be back and A&M will have a team here. I Maybe he really means it, but maybe if he would climb to the top of that tower and take a look at how far the ground is below, he might change his mind. ★ ★ ★ In regard to Hughes’ statement, Coach Rogers said on his television show that he would hate to see that boy jump, but later changed his reply to “those boys just shouldn’t say things like that.” Rogers’ comment on tonight’s game as well as any other game was, “we just want to beat ’em all.” ★ ★ ★ Tonight’s game will be televised and local fans can tune in to chan nel 6 in Temple to get the play by play action. Game time is at 8:30 with the Fish game starting at 6:30. Next Tuesday’s game with SMU in Dallas will also be televised. ★ ★ ★ Owen Hill, discus man, and Freddy Dulock, two mile runner, have been named captains of the 1960 Aggie track team. The Ca dets open in Houston Feb. 27, with a triangular meet with Tex as and Houston. Since its inception nearly 23 years ago. the Jet Propulsion Laboratory has given the free world its first tactical guided mis sile system, its first earth satellite, and its first lunar probe. In the future, under the direction of the National Aeronautics and Space Admin istration, pioneering on the space fron- ”We do these things because of the unquenchable curiosity of Man. The scientist is continually asking himself questions and then setting out to find the answers. In the course of getting these onswen, he has provided practical benefits to man that have sometimes surprised even the scientist. "Who can tell what we will find when we get to the planets ? will be made of the moon and the plan ets and of the vast distances of inter planetary space; hard and soft landings will be made in preparation for the time when man at last sets foot on new worlds. In this program, the task of JPL is to gather new information for a better un derstanding of the World and Universe. Who, at this present time, can predict what potential benefits to man exist in this enterprise? No one can say with any accu racy what we will find as we fly farther away from the earth, first with instruments, then with man. It seems to me that we are obligated to do these things, as human beings'.' DR. W. H. PICKERING. Director. JPI, ..THE EXPLORATION OF SPACE tier will advance at an accelerated rate. The preliminary instrument explora tions that have already been made only seem to define how much there is yet to be learned. During the next few years, payloads will become larger, trajectories will become more precise, and distances covered will become greater. Inspections JPL Representatives here for interviews., ON Feb. 22 INTERESTED IN TALKING WITH... PHYSICISTS • CHEMISTS • MATHEMATICIANS • ELECTRONIC, AERONAUTICAL, MECHANICAL AND STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS JOB OPENINGS NOW AVAILABLE i f ' CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY JET PROPULSION LABORATORY A Research Facility operated for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration PASADENA. CALIFORNIA i Page 4 College Station, Texas Tuesday, February 16, 1960 THE BATTALION Cox Under the Bucket Wilmer Cox, agile Aggies guard, goes under and by the good grace of the Longhorns the basket and under the arms of Rice’s whipping the SMU Ponies, the Ags took Butch Craig in Saturday’s game at G. Rollie over an undisputed first place lead. White. The Cadets won the contest, 94-53, Spring Football Drills Open; Myers Needs Quarterbacks Coach Jim Myers and staff will get a chance to size up what is left of the Aggie football team today after the loss of 13 seniors and some promising freshmen. The remaining freshmen are ex- petced to carry a sizeable load next year as sophomores. In the line George Hogan, James Walton and Keith Huggins did a good job on the freshman team and possess the quickness and size to play a lot of varsity bail. 12 Lettermen Of the 12 returning lettermen from last fall’s team only one is a tackle, in the person of Wayland Simmons, which leaves Hogan and Walton in a good position to move into a tackle spot. Both are 200 pounds, plus. Huggins, a 249 pounder from Houston will be the leading con tender for the vacant guard posi tion opposite Junior, Wayne Frei- ling. Ends Plentiful The end spot is the most thickly populated on the Cadet roster with five lettermen returning. In this congregation is Russell Hill, the team’s leading pass receiver last season and Don McClelland, letter- man on the 1956-57 teams, who has just returned from the Army to offer his services at the end position. Since the end berths are over stocked, Myers has switched Jack Estes to to right halfback, in the first of perhaps several shifts to come. In the backfield Powell Berry is carrying- the ball for the letter- men. Randy Sims withdrew from school for the spring semester and Jim Murphy is sidelined with an injured knee. Jon Few, who with drew from the team last year, rounds out the backfield. Quarterback Problem After taking a, look at all his problems, Myers decided his big gest was finding a quarterback. To help Myers solve the quarter back problem, Billy Wade of the Los Angeles Rams is working with the backs. He will work with Berry, the man behind Charley Milstead last fall, Squadman Dar yl Keeling and Ronnie Brice up from the Fish team. Tommy Janik, the leading rush er and punter on the Fish team, dropped from school because of scholastic troubles and left Brice to challenge Berry at the quarter back position. The Cadets are expecting great things from Lee Roy Caffey, 200- pound fullback from the freshman team. Also Ronnie Ledbetter and Jon Mason are expected to see con siderable action. Still Multiple Offense The Farmers will continue to label themselves as a multiple of fense team, but spring drills will be devoted to the T rather than the single wing. There is only one position be sides end at which Myers feels se cure, and that’s center, where the aggressive Roy Northrup holds forth. Jerry Hopkins is consid ered a good prospect among the freshman candidates. Myers predicts that Northrup will give the team good leadership and “we’ll need plenty of it.” Be well groomed for success That “like new” look we give your clothes is sure to make the right impressions whether you’re on the job or on the town. CAMPUS CLEANERS To err is human to erase, divine with EATON’S CORRASABLE BOND Typewriter Paper Try it! Just the flick of a pencil-eraser and your typing errors are gone! It’s like magic! The special surface of Corrasable Bond erases without a trace. Your first typing effort is the finished copy when Corrasable puts things right. 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