Page 6 College Station, Texas Thursday, February 18, 1965 THE BATTALION SPORTS Ag Basketball Stats Player John Beasley SWC Ken Norman SWC Paul Timmins SWC Dick Stringfellow SWC Bill Gasway SWC Tim Timmermen SWC Dick Rector SWC Eddie Dominguez SWC Sonny Fethkenher SWC Billy Atkinson SWC Reggie Gilbreath SWC John Reynolds SWC Baylor Baylor ASC Baylor Mem-Tex Texas TCU TCU Rice Aggie Badminton Players Compete In Ancient Sport Rice Ark Ark Rice Rice Rice High School Cager Hits Long Basket 9 SMU-Tech 11 SMU-Hous SMU Mem Rice-Tex ASC Rice Hous Rice KINGSPORT, Tenn. bP)_T h e clock showed two seconds until in termission Tuesday night when Sam Bedford, Kingsport High School senior, grabbed a rebound off the opponents’ backboard. He wound up, threw the basket ball downcourt, and it swished through the net without touching the rim. A tape was brought out immediately and the shot was measured at 73% feet. By LARRY JERDEN Sports Staff One of the oldest sports known to man is badminton. In America, and Texas in parti cular, it is a relatively new in novation. The sport was invented in India, and came to America by way of British colonialism through Europe. Nowhere in America is it an intercollegiate sport, but every where it is a popular recreational pastime. As with all competitive pastimes, enthusiasts band to gether to promote and enjoy their sport. So it is with badminton at A&M. players ever to reside in this country. Today’s club is guided by N. A. Ponthieux as faculty advisor, and William Milan as president. Its membership fluctuates around a hard core of eight men who com pose most of the traveling teams. The club’s activities range from intra-club contests to meets at tracting teams from all over the South. The A&M Badminton Club has been organized for some eight years now, and has had its fair share of winning and losing.) It has also had in its membership one of the greatest badminton The major tournaments which the club attends each year are the Southwestern Badminton As sociation Tournament in Dallas, the Western Intercollegiate Bad minton Tournament at Baylor, the Houston Tournament and the Denton Tournament. One of the favorite activities of the club is the annual exchange matches with the coeds from Sam Houston State. The purpose of PICNICS mttt CMb 'ftiuK.cax.ra fe*. \ LvwviT taufc WQ.Vt_C.V\\1 CHERRIES FLOUR.. ^49 PUNCH.3s.89 UMvVT VrtMMC too.363 LB. .29 65‘ 59 79 59 PttK KUA9I *59 GROUND BEEF . 3 -99 SLICED B1C0N"^39 ROUND STEAK SIRLOIN STEAK T-BONE STEAK RUMP ROAST BAM U&C L*.’ BMSM ftKftS WKIS roast - \&.« toUQXVLGGLVi VMLftt 6VL C6L6VLGD NAPKINS MAY foods 10-99 TlSSUt.A^Si DADl rVW9«*lw J ^#T U. S. No. 1 Northern Rome Beauty APPLES Lb. 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In this year’s Dallas meet Mi. an reached the semifinals in sit gles, Darling reached the quarter, finals in singles, and the hi teamed up to reach the semi, finals in doubles. Their remaining tournament! are the Baylor meet March 1) and the Denton Tournament tit first weekend in April. If montr and time permit, they may enta the Southern Open in Natcii. toches, Louisiana March 12 ati 14. One of the greatest playtts ever to be a member of the A4K Badminton Club was Nandi Wadi- wa. Wadhwa was a student hem three years ago, and he mayrt. turn to do doctoral work at tie University and, hopefully, com pete on the Badminton team. He is a native of India, aoi while at A&M he won nearly every tournament he entered, Ho would win the singles, pick a partner and win the doubles, to team up with a coed from anotinr school and win mixed doubk The “nearly” was a result of Tan Jo Hok. Hok was a student at Baylor and is the only man ever to nin the Thomas Cup three years® a row. The Thomas Cup is tie “Davis Cup” of Badminton. Hok, a native of Indonesia, defeated Wadhwa whenever they were it the same tournament, but Wadi- wa was the only man in the state who could give him a match. The display home g l For of the SI perforh 1 She watch. The 41 field attack * opened 1 It* individd spectato Dur mendous A f 43 in th to fake bomber drums c Fro: SWC sil floor, shooting Twc players 1 which n 1 The reje ment. Ano Rector, clip and popped i 100th pc The quintet, few poin A v pressing - crowd, style of It a being ac high sch The opinion < NCAA, AAU Begins Talks On Controls )iam< letwe ruled NEW YORK LP)—The,National Collegiate Athletic Association and tei the Amateur Athletic Union, which have been feuding for three yeari over control of amateur sports the United States, held an an# ble, top-level conference Wednes day and agreed to meet again soo” in an effort to settle their dispute- j[ u A terse, two-paragraph state ment was issued after the six-raM conference broke up: “At the invitation of the presi dent of the NCAA pursuant to a resolution of the NCAA conven tion, there was a meeting of th 8 representatives of the AAU, the NCAA, and the United States Track and Field Federation. “Plans were drawn for subse quent meetings for further fruit ful discussions.” The track federation is spon sored by the NCAA. Present at the meeting were Everett D. Barnes of Colgate, president of the NCAA; the Rev. Wilfred Crowley of Los Altos, Calif., president of the track fed eration, and Commissioner William R. Reed of the Big Ten Confer ence, representing the NCAA, The AAU was represented tf Clifford T. Buck of Denver, its president; Bob Kiphuth, former athletic director at Yale, and Jay- Ehret Mahoney, immediate past president of the AAU. It was indicated that the next meeting would be held within 30 days. The two powerful amateur groups have been at odds, chiefly in the area of track and field. SENIORS Seniors who wish to add information or activities to their “Aggieland ’65” identification card can do so by contacting Robert Hegyer (Dorm 7 Room 305) by Feb. 27th. MinlctArl Supply 'plclu/te. ptaMu^- •923 So. 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