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Page 4 College Station, Texas Tuesday, January 8, 1963 THE BATTALION One Of Nation’s Aggie Guard Bennie Lenox, a 6-2 junior from League City (Clear Creek), goes up for his favorite jump shot in last week’s SWC-opening victory over the Baylor Bears. Contesting are Winston Moore (22) and Scoring Leaders Ronnie Phelps (43). Through the 80-54 routing of Baylor, Lenox had dropped in 220 points for a 22.0 per game average. He was 16th in national scoring and the only conference representative in the top 50. Varsity Cagers’ Statistics Show They Belong On Top The league-leading varsity cag- ers have sizeable leads over the enemy in all statistics columns— large enough, at any rate, to show that they belong in the top slot. Owning a 9-2 season record and an unblemished slate after two Southwest Conference clashes,, the Cadets have averaged 73.8 points per game for the season against 64.7 for opponents. They have a 70.0 norm in conference play and their foes have netted only 53.5 per contest. THE BIG GUN in scoring for the Ags has been Bennie Lenox, who now has a 21.5 average for the season. He is third in the SWC with 17.0 after two games. Among the conference teams as far as the season is concerned, Lenox is way out ahead of Rice’s Kendall Rhine and Baylor’s Win ston Moore. The 6-2 guard’s best showing was 31 points against Michigan in the Houston Classic and Virginia in the Jonesboro, Ark. Classic over the holidays. That was his high for varsity play at A&M. He is also the best free-thrower, having hit 10 of 10 so far in SWC play and 61 of 77 for the season. Leading in rebounds and second in scoring is Jerry Windham. One can only speculate where he might stand in the statistics if he hadn’t run into an unfortunate leg injury against LSU in the Houston Clas sic. Windham has 84 rebounds so 4 ; “Sports Car Center” : [ Dealers for ” Renault-Peugeot | & : British Motor Cara \ Sales—Parts—Service ■ “We Service All Foreign Cars”; ! 1416 Texas Ave. TA 2-4517; ARE YOU MOVING? Call BEARD Transfer & Storage Agent for UNITED VAN LINES Local Long Distance Free Estimates 707 S. Tabor TA 2-2835 Bryan GARZA’S Restaurant GENUINE MEXICAN & AMERICAN FOODS 803 S. Main Bryan far in season play and 20 since SWC competition opened. He’s hit 15.5 points per game in season and 10.0 per game in conference. GERALD WOODARD and Lee Walker are the next best scorers and rebounders for Coach Bob Rogers. Like Windham, Woodard has a total pointage of 124 for the season. He has hit 11.3 per game through 11 and 8.0 in the confer ence. Walker has 97 points through 11 and has hit 8.8 for the season and 11.5 in SWC competi tion. Fish statistics after four games show A&M frosh averaging 81.5 points per game while winning three and losing one. The Fish have a well-balanced offense with four players averag ing in double figures. John Beas ley, 6-7 center, leads the team with an 18.5 average. Dick Stringfellow has hit for a 15.8 norm, while guard Billy Atkinson has 13.8 and injured guard Dick Rector 10.7. ATKINSON boasts the top field goal percentage of the regulars, hitting 22 of 42 shots for 52.4 per cent. Beasley has connected on 34 of 70 shots for 48.6 per cent. Top man in free throw accuracy is Joe Roberts with one miss in eight attempts for 87.5. Beasley has six for eight and 75 per cent. Big Beasley paces the Fish in rebounds, grabbing off 48 in four games for an average of 12 a con test. Stringfellow has cleared the boards 36 times for an average of nine a game. Atkinson, only 5-10, has 29 rebounds and an average Walker has 75 rebounds and Woodard has 70 through 11 games. Paul Timmins and Lew Qualls are the fourth and fifth scorers with 5.9 and 5.8 averages, respec tively, in season play. Qualls has averaged six per game in the SWC and Timmins has two. The seven-foot Qualls, has 70 rebounds so far. The Ags are tied with Texas for the SWC lead. As far as season standings are concerned, the Ca dets are way out in front of others in the league. of 7.3. As a team, the frosh. have hit on 135 of 315 shots for a per centage of .429. Their opponents have hit for a better percentage (.441), connecting on 113 of 256 attempts. THE SAME is true for free throws as the Fish have sunk 56 of 89 for 62.9 per cent, while their opponents have netted 65 of 101 for 64.4 per cent. Having an edge in height on their foes, the Fish have out-re- bounded them 215 to 169 and, as is characteristic of high-scoring teams, have allowed a high 72.8 points per game. The freshmen have beaten Allen Academy and the Baylor Cubs, while splitting with Kilgore Junior College. The Fish have reached the century mark once this season in a 100-80 defeat of Allen. Rice’s Owlets provide the next opposition for the Fish in G. Rollie White Coliseum Tuesday night in the prelim to the A&M-Rice tilt. 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Bennie Lenox, who had been 16th in national scoring through last week, assumed his familiar role as high-point man with 17 counters against the Raiders. Tech’s 6-5 sophomore, Glen Hallum, matched Lenox in scoring. THE BIG MAN in the rebound ing column for the Cadets was Jerry Windham, who had 14. Wind ham had 13 points to be the Ags’ second high man on offense. Bill Robinette was the third Ag gie in double figures with 12. That mark is the highest yet for him in varsity play. The other top scorers for Tech were Sid Wall with 11 and Bill Murren with 10. Tech was feeling its oats after a season-opening victory over TCU in Fort Worth the same night the Ags knocked off Baylor in G. Rol lie White Coliseum. There were more than 9,600 just a tiny bit biased fans. The Raiders came out in a scrambling, ball-hawking defense that gave them the lead twice and kept the score tied until midway in the first half. With the score even at 10-10, and about 9:50 left in the first period, Lenox got hot and dropped in two of his favorite jumpers and three charity shots while Tech could only manage a free throw and a jump shot by Wall. JUST AS things looked as if the Cadets were getting cranked within one point again. Things improved again fast, however, as Robinette sank a hook shot, Lew Qualls hit from the pivot and Rob inette put in two free tosses. As the first half was coming to a close Hallum managed a jumber for Tech. But Lenox had just made two free throws and then Qualls got his other two points on a tip-in and it was 29-22 at the intermission. After a rest and undoubtedly some stern words from Coach Gene Gibson, the Raiders went back to work. Windham and Robinette kept the Ags ahead by a comfort able margin for awhile, but at the mid-way. point in the second half Denny scored on a tip-in to bring Tech within one point of the Ca dets at 40-39. During the next five minutes Murren kept the Raiders within a field goal of the Aggies with a layup and a pivot shot as Robin ette and Lee Walker scored for A&M. With about three minutes left Windham hit two charity tosses. Charlie Minor followed up Wind ham’s efforts with a layup and then Robinette hit on a long jumper to put it on ice for the Ags. Hallum and Denny hit twice fi the floor in the last two mint but at the same time Lenox, 1 ham and Walker were pumpinf enough to make it 60-53 at buzzer. AMPLE TESTIMONY of inspired play by Tech was the: that the Aggies had their lot shooting percentage of the sea 39.1. The Raiders had 42.0. difference was in the free-cdi where the Ags had 24 of 30 Tech hit only 11 of 18. Rebo: ing meant a lot, too, and possibly the depth Rogers halj the bench. VolUT Cadets Play Host To Owls,|\^ Seek 30th Straight At Homljg The SWC-leading Aggies play host to a puzzling Rice team Tues day night in G. Rollie White Col iseum in quest of their fifth straight win and third without a loss in conference play. Tip-off time is 8 p.nv as the Owls will be seeking to end A&M’s skein of 29 consecutive home court triumphs. RICE BRINGS a 3-8 season rec ord and 1-1 conference slate into the game, having lost to Texas and beaten TCU. The Cadets stand 9-2 for the season and have victories over Baylor and Texas Tech in SWC play. The Owls will be counting heav ily on their tall junior center, 6-9 Kendall Rhine. Rhine is the sec ond leading scorer for the season with a 19.9 norm. Other starters will be 6-5 junior Larry Phillips and Eli Spradling at forwards, and Frank Pickens, 5-10 junior college transfer, and 6-0 junior Herb Steinkamp at the guard slots. Coached by John Fi'ankie, Rice was picked to finish in the first up/division in most pi'e-season polls Harold Denny and Bobby Gindorf went to work to bring the Raiders but has yet to reach its potential. The Aggies, who have been a welcome surprise to A&M fans and an unsettling influence on the rest of the conference, will be favored to pick up their tenth victory of the season against two defeats. STARTING at center for the Aggies will be 6-7 Lee Walker with 6-6 Jerry Windham and 6-3! aid Woodard at forwards. Goa will be scoring leader Bennie and either soph Paul Timmiiisl junior Charlie Minor. By c;: Bat Studen < In the prelim, the Fish will mho live the Rice Owlets at 6 p.m. FNTRAMURAL& Class A horseshoe finals are Wednesday. Winning teams in semi-finals Tuesday were Sqd. 1 vs. Sqd. 10 and F-l vs. B-2. Sqd. 1 beat Sqd. 9 Monday in the quarter-finals, 2-1; Sqd. 10 won from Sqd. 2, 2-1 and F-l de feated A-3, 2-1. F-l’s winning players and the probable line-up for Tuesday were Ronnie Owen, Harry Jones, Bob Galaway, Jerry Lee, Otto Wilkie and John Yaklin. Winners for Sqd. 10 were Melvin Yarbrough, John Hughson, Winton Zimmerman and Randy Yates. Those for Sqd. 1 were Jonathan Chase, Allan Peterson, Theron Dossey, Bill Sherman, David Hal bert and Jerry Levy. jpect to a ter shoul Office in possible. I Harry ing Offic' ptit-off tl Its:ter wil of losing; Quarter-finals for uppert'i man football will begin Wm®' 1 day. “If possible we will rounm^, 1 a ^° n the program for this semester I, 0 clx week,” Charles E. McCaJ«‘ arg: ® d s intramural director, said 01 1< “but if the finals are not ir 100 pleted they must be contimT' S18ne ' through next week.” ■ STUD If In summary, the units k-Civilian cl with the most points for the:' reserve t mural trophy and flag are c Ppy mns Sqd. 9, Sqd. 13, G-2, and tie. Jon. 16. fifth place are Sqd. 8, andm Civilian The leading units in the frest®serve a: division are Sqd. 7, tied fors: 0ll es they place are F-l and C-2, Sqd. 2. Ranging- iii fifth place is 1-3. dorm >%n. 16. /by houser command c presented. military Pftust alsc 1100 Top I | A $100 standing °t' Cadets ting, than Nation, fe The cas Pie mod a Parent *oe E. Da A grant l&aeburn 1 Tork City ■'yard. | The for , S'ears pro B 0 r the ou “I'oup con A board chairman talks about tomorrow’s executives... The Bell System has always sought men who could keep telephone service constantly improving. Men with excep tional engineering talent, men with equally outstanding managerial potential. Such men are widely sought on college campuses across the United States. And with the future of communications unfolding so rapidly, the search has intensified. bilities While a relationship does exist between col lege quality and salary, rank in class is more significant... ... What about extracurricular achievement?. Men who were campus leaders reached our top salary third in But still there is the old question to be answered, “What kind of man handles a business challenge best?” A midwestern college audience recently heard these comments in a talk by A.T.&T. Board Chairman, Frederick R. Kappel. “...We took the records of 17,000 college men in the business who could fairly be compared with each other, and, examining their records, sought the answer to the question: ‘To what extent does success in college predict success in the Bell System?’... slightly greater proportion than those who were not. But it is only real campus achievement that seems to have any significance. Mere participation in extracurricular goings-on does not... “.. .What we have here, as I said before, are some hints —rather strong hints-about where to spend the most time looking for the men we do want, the men with intelligence plus those other attributes that give you the feel, the sense, the reasonable confidence that they will make things move and move well They want to excel and they are determined to work at it... I "...The results... “... The single most reliable predictive indicator of a college graduate’s success in the Bell System is his rank in his graduating class. .. Business should aspire to greatness, and search dili gently for men who will make and keep it great...” FREDERICK R. KAPPEL, Chairman of the Board American Telephone and Telegraph Company “A far greater proportion of high-ranking than low- ranking students have qualified for the large responsi- /a! Bell Telephone Companies I *UJ I Station I }va$ele I ladies’ I Center,
