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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
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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
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the matches is to give the Aggie;
practice at mixed doubles. Tie
result is one of the year’s higk.
lights for the club members,
In last year’s competition Bru#
Darling and Milam teamed up io
reach the semifinals in double
at the Baylor tournament ii
Milan reached the same level i
singles. At the Denton toum.
ment the pair reached secor/l
place in the doubles.
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.
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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.
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