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Page 6 College Station, Texas Thursday, March 3, 1960 THE BATTALION Farmers Draw Cage Curtain Tonight Against Baylor Bruins The Aggies will close the door- on the 1959-60 basketball season tonight as they tangle with the Baylor Bears in Waco. Four members of the team- will make their last appearance on the hardwoods for the Cadets. The seniors are Wayne Lawrence, Wil- mer Cox, Kelly Chapman and Dave Corson. If the Ags can chalk up a win tonight they will tie the all time win record of 19, set in 1920. Al ready they have tied the second best record of 18 wins set in 1922. The whole record book will have to be rewritten after tonight’s game because already the team has broken six records and are on the brink of tearing down more to night. Carroll Broussard has topped three individual records and is also threatening more. SPECIAL Bob Rogers, head basketball coach for the past three years at A&M, was given a new three year contract today with a substantial increase in salary, as was an nounced by Athletic Director Jim Myers. His assistant, Shelby Met calf, was also given an increase in salary. In making the announcement, Myers said, “We are very pleased with the work Bob has done at Aggieland and we think he is one of the finest basketball coaches in America.” Coach Rogers expressed his ap preciation to the students, adrain- inistration, former students and the Athletic Department for their m loyalty and support and said that he was very thrilled over his new contract. Baylor got hot Saturday night and knocked the SMU Mustangs out of a first place tie with Texas. Their main scoring threat is still Carrol Dawson who is fifth in season scoring with 362 points. The Bears are a much improved team over the first meeting with the Cadets when they fell 68-51. Baylor is sitting in the fourth place spot in conference pilay with a 7-6 record. If the Aggies can top the Bruins tonight they will salvage a tie for second place with the SMU Mus tangs, who whipped the Arkansas Razorbacks last night. The Aggie Fish will also close theii; season tonight in the prelim inary game with the Baylor Cubs. ; The Young Cadets have been im pressive all season by racking up a 9-2 record to cop the unofficial freshman championship as well as boasting the best freshman record in several years. Lewis Qualls is the top scorer with a 12.9 average followed by Jerry Windham with 11.8. Jimmy Cobb and Charlie Minor have 10.3 and 11.3 averages re spectively. Cobb shined in Monday’s tflt with the TCU Wogs as he tossed in 15 points to tie with teammate Billy Young. Minor has only played in six games because of an early season knee injury. He was reinjured in the Wog game and is doubtful for tonight’s game. In their first contest with the | Cubs, the Fish beat them 66-60. SWC CAGE CHART Conference Texas 11- SMU 10- A&M 9- Baylor 7- Arkansas 7- Tech 6- TCU Rice 3-10 1-12 . V... Swimmers Downed 53-42 by Texas The University of Texas de feated the Aggies, 53-42, in a dual swimming meet Tuesday night in College Station. George Smith of Texas was the only double winner. He took the 50 and 100-yard freestyle events. In the preliminary freshman meet the Shorthorns edged the Fish, 47-39. Roy Hall of Texas took first places in the 200-yard freestyle, 100-yard freestyle and the 100-yard breast stroke. The Aggies enter the SWC meet in Lubbock, March 10-12 and the NCAA meet in Dallas on March 24-26. Frogs Watch Three TCU Frogs get their eyes full in Mon- victory over TCU put the Aggies in a second ilay night’s game as Pat Stanley is in the place tie with the SMU Mustangs, process of adding two more points. The San Antonio Tournament Draws Many Good Ptayers 1 By HAROLD V. RATLIFF , Associated Press Sports Writer The golf tour came to San An tonio for the Texas Open and showed there were more good players than ever before. The Texas Open was able to sus tain the loss of more than a dozen top players, including Art Wall, Dow Finsterwald, Billy Casper, Don January, Ken Venturi, Gene Littler, Bob Rosburg, and still draw a playing attendance. The reason was there were so many good players that it didn’t make much difference. Those good players came largely from college golf. The colleges have been emphazing the game the past 10 years. It really gained momentum when North Texas State, under the late Fred Cobb, built up it golf team so that it won the NCAA, championship four times. The last four years have found the University of Houston duplicating the trick. The field that played the final 36 holes in the Texas Open was more than 50 per cent ex-colleg ians. Of the 75 who played the last 36 holes, 38 were college prod ucts. Speaking of colleges emphazing a hitherto minor sport, take Trin ity University. It is building up a tennis team that’s going to bring it more fame than any other sport. Clarence Mabry, former Univer sity of Texas star, is the coach. He has obtained some nationally ranked players. The junior chamber of commerce held its national tournament in San Antonio four years ago. A fellow named Chuck McKinley from St. Ann, Mo., played in it. Mabry got McKinley interested in Trinity. So now McKinley is a member of the Davis Cup Team, is ranked thirteenth nationally, won the National Junior Indoor three years and went to the semi-finals of the men’s indoor only last week, losing to the famed Dick Savitt. He beat Ronnie Homburg of Tu- lane, the No. 5 ranked player. Rod Susman of St. Louis, 37th nationally also is on the Trinity team along with two San Antonio boys, John Newman and Jim Moses. Newman and Moses went to the NCAA quarter-finals last year. Trinity ran up a 15-1-1 record in 1958, playing against the best in the country. Last year it was 15-1-2. Trinity lost only to Rice of the Southwest Conference but also played a tie with Rice. This year Trinity has an ambi tious schedule. Included are such tennis powers as Southern Cali fornia, UCLA, Pan American and Lamar Tech. And Mabry is hope ful that his team can win the NCAA. The public probably isn’t inter ested in facilities furnished the press in covering the sports events except that poor facilities affect the way the press covers such events. The Texas Open, which never has had very good press fa cilities, outdid itself this year. The boys of the press were put in a barn-like structure where the door could be latched only from the inside. No scoreboard was provided, heating was inedequate and the last say there was fire on the roof and part of the room was doused with water. One of the two stoves in the room was put out of commission. The early round of the tourna ment finished late and sihce there were no lights on the scoreboard, located across the way from the so- called press room, this writer had to drive his automobile up to the board and use car lights to copy the scores. The Texas Sports Writers As sociation rates the press boxes of the state. They are ranked as good, improved or bad. There may have to be a new category for the Texas Open press room. Golfers Open Season Today In Laredo A six-man A&M golf team will open the 1960 season at the Bor der Olympics March 3-5, in Laredo. Coach Henry Ransom’s Cadets will be led by Billy Martindale of Jacksonville, who played the No. 1 position as a sophomore last sea son. Others making the Laredo trip are A1 Jones, Harlingen senior; and four sophomores—Dickie Duble of Galveston, Jim Fetters of Port Arthur, Johnny Johnson of Harlingen and John Lively of Athens. The Aggies finished third in Southwest Conference play last year. 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