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Cadets ‘Entertaining’ In Razorback Squeaker
Che Battalion
Volume 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1966
Number 255
BEASLEY CONNECTS
High-scoring John Beasley pushes in a pair of the 29
points he gathered in Tuesday’s Arkansas game. Charles
Guess (15) tries to defend for the Razorbacks while J. D.
McConnell (24) and the Aggies’ Randy Matson (42) look
on.
THE GREAT RACE: BASKETBALL STYLE
Aggies Randy Matson, on all fours on the Coliseum. Aggie Dick Rector, at left, re
floor, and Terry Trippet (50) and Razor- covered the ball and sank two points which
back J. D. McConnell (24) scramble for a helped the Aggies to a 75-72 win. A&M’s
loose ball during the second half of Tues
day’s Arkansas game in G. Rollie White
John Beasley, behind McConnell, and Ark
ansas’ Orval Cook (14) look on.
Which Sex Has It Better?
Most Women Envy Males
Clashes
Close
At Home
By JOE LEMMING
Battalion Staff Writer
After last night’s wild
basketball melee with Ark
ansas, fans should be won
dering why all the Aggies’
home games have been so
close this year.
“We like to entertain the
fans,” grinned a sweating Terry
Trippett after the victory.
Seriously, almost all of the six
previous home games have been
hair-raisers that were usually
won in the last few minutes of
play. When a team pulls them
out of the fire this often, some
thing is amiss. Fortunately
nothing is seriously wrong, for
the Cadets have yet to drop a
game in G. Rollie White Coli
seum this year.
“We started hitting against
Arkansas,” said John Beasley
after the game, “but then we
kind of slacked off.” Big John
explained that the team has good
and bad spells, and spottiness
has been the main weakness of
an overall well-balanced Aggie
attack.
Spottiness can’t be blamed
completely for last night’s shock
er. In the first half the Ags easi
ly dominated a sluggish Arkan
sas attack that couldn’t seem to
move against the home crew.
After building up a sizable lead
Coach Shelby Metcalf substitut
ed his second string in with the
exception of Beasley.
The second half followed a
comparable pattern, and many
once jubilant Aggie fans were
on the edge of their reserved
seats in stark terror. As luck had
it the Maroon and White emerg
ed on top, but it could have gone
the other way very easily.
Many of the players had mixed
emotions on the game, explain
able because generally most had
expected to win by a greater
margin.
Other players were not as sure
as Trippet. A notable example
was Randy Matson. Randy had
played a solid game, with fans
mobbing him for autographs aft
er his triumph. Matson still was
not satisfied with the team’s per
formance.
“I felt like we could beat them,
but I never could tell,” he con
jectured. Matson had praise for
the shooting of Arkansas, which
came close to perfection in the
final seconds of the game.
Potter Elected
To Physics Board
Dr. James G. Potter, head of
the Physics Department, has been
elected to the executive board of
the American Association of
Physics Teachers.
The board is comprised of the
four regular officers and two
executive members elected for
two-year terms. The board meets
twice yearly, at New York in the
winter and on various university
campuses in the summer.
Member of the AAPT since
1936, Potter organized the Texas
section with which he has worked
12 years. He was awarded the
association’s District Service Ci
tation in 1959.
By HAL BOYLE
NEW YORK <A>) — Who has
it better in life—man or woman?
I had always thought that most
people were pretty well satisfied
to be a member of the sex they
were born into.
However, it appears my view
point may be wrong. According
to an article in “The Farmers’
Almanac,” my authority in such
matters, 65 per cent of women
would prefer to be men because
they feel men have more free
dom.
The article pointed out some
of the disadvantages of being a
man. Such as that men work at
more dangerous occupations and
are four times as likely to be
killed in accidents and three times
as likely to become homicide
victims.
So what price freedom?
Futhermore, the article said:
Women collect 80 per cent of
all life insurance, 63 per cent of
inheritances, and own 60 per cent
of savings accounts. They also
go less often to jail or mental
hospitals, and live longer than
men.
Looking at it philosophically,
it does appear that anyone giv
en a choice would prefer being a
woman, doesn’t it? But man does
not live by philosophy alone.
Even though he may live five
to seven years less than a woman
he’d rather spend those years as
a man.
Here are a few reasons why a
masculine role appeals to him
and a feminie role doesnt:
Any bar in town will serve
him whether or not he has an
escort.
If his back itches in public, he
can scratch it in public.
Miller To Judge
At Livestock Show
M. M. Miller, poultry marketing
specialist for the Extension Serv
ice, will judge poultry classes at
the 34th Annual Gillespie County
4-H and FFA Livestock Show at
Fredericksburg Jan. 22.
Miller said he will judge about
100 turkeys, 40 capons and about
40 entries of broilers.
The more thought of bearing
children appalls him. He some
times finds it hard to bear chil
dren after they are born, and
couldn’t think of being host to
them before birth.
A man knows that he could
never master the art of dressing
like a woman. As it is now, he
puffs after beinding over to tie
his shoelaces. He realizes he
could never summon the strength
to squirm his way into and out
of a tight-fitting girdle—and no
women ever seem to wear a loose
one.
A man can get along with the
face he has; a woman is always
putting on a new one.
NEW YORK <A>> _ Leaders of
campus groups protesting U. S.
policy in Viet Nam in general
take a skeptical view of President
Johnson’s global peace offensive.
A spot survey showed that
many already were planning new
demonstrations. They said they
were convinced that the major
aim of the White House moves
is to rally American support for
an even greater war effort.
Many of the college organiza
tions were making ready to take
part in nationwide protests call
ed for March 25-26 by the Na
tional Coordinating Committee to
End the War in Viet Nam.
The protest groups at most
schools include only a narrow
fringe of the undergraduate
body and their views are not
shared by the bulk of students,
university officials say. How
ever, they tend to be well-or
ganized and highly vocal .
A typical reaction to the pres
idential diplomatic drive was that
of Michael McKain, a leader of
a University of Utah group called
“Student Action.”
“I believe the Johnson admin
istration’s so-called peace offen
sive is an excuse for escalation.
The administration will use the
failure of the peace offensive as
an excuse to intensify the war,”
he said.
Stanley Nadel, chairman of a
Women are a nuisance to them
selves in other ways. They are
always plucking their eye-brows,
varnishing their finger nails, tak
ing bubble baths, or squinting at
themselves in mirrors.
A man can get a haircut and
shampoo in 20 minutes; a woman
in a beauty shop wastes half a
day under a hair dryer that looks
like a metal moon helmet.
All in all, however, each sex
has advantages to be grateful
for and disadvantages to put up
with. Since there isn’t a great
deal that can be done about it,
perhaps the most sensible motto
is:
University of Michigan “Com
mittee to Aid the Vietnamese,”
described the peace feelers as
“basically propaganda moves.”
Nadel predicted the President,
“saying he did everything he
could do for peace,” would soon
proceed with a massive buildup
of U. S. fighting forces.
At the University of Chicago,
Paul Booth, national secretary
of Students for a Democratic
Society, also questioned the ad
ministration’s sincereity.
“We feel that the only issue is
whether the United States will
permit the Viet Cong to partici
pate in a coalition government
in Viet Nam, and Secretary of
State Dean Rusk has said we
won’t,” Booth commented.
Said Gary Thiher, a member
of the executive committee of
the Students for a Democratic
Society at Austin, Tex.:
“I’m all in favor of the peace
offensive, but Johnson has failed
to talk to anybody directly involv
ed in the war. If he were talking
to China, North Viet Nam or the
National Liberation Front — the
political arm of the Viet Cong
—I would think he was more
sincere.
“Not going to the National
Liberation Front will prevent any
real negotiations from taking
place.”
Ocean Diver
Walsh Begins
Speaking Tour
The deepest ocean diver in the
world, Don Walsh of Texas A&M,
will speak to two distinguished
audiences in Detroit, Mich., and
Washington, D. C., Thursday and
Friday.
Lt. Cdr. Walsh, co-holder of the
world record for the deepest
ocean dive with Jacques Piccard
of Switzerland, speaks at the
annual convention of the Society
of Automotive Engineers in De
troit Thursday.
Friday the Naval officer as
signed at A&M addresses the
Propeller Club in Washington.
Walsh plans to speak on the
human resources aspect of ocean
ography and ocean technology,
stressing need for trained tech
nologists and engineers.
“The wealth of mineral re
sources available in the ocean is
great,” he explained, “but we’ve
got to have people trained to get
at them.”
An anticipated father-and-son
night audience of 2,000 will hear
Walsh at Detroit. Many govern
ment leaders are to be at the
Propeller Club luncheon. The club
has a shipping business and Mer
chant Marine membership.
Walsh, who has been studying
oceanography at A&M a year,
will be introduced by California
Congressman George Miller.
Miller organized the House sub
committee on oceanography eight
years ago. He is chairman of the
House science and astronautics
committee.
Also present will be Sen. Clai
borne Pell of Rhode Island, author
of the National Sea Grant College
and Program Act of 1965 now be
fore Congress; Navy oceanogra
pher Adm. O. D. Waters, who will
visit A&M’s Hydro-Space Fiesta
next month; Assistant Secretary
of the Navy for Research and De
velopment, Robert Morris, and his
predecessor, Dr. James Wakeland.
Also Cong. Alton A. Lennan of
North Carolina, current chairman
of the oceanography subcommit
tee before which Walsh testified
several years ago; director of
Navy Seealab II, Capt. George
Bond; Dr. Sid Galler, marine
biologist of the Smithsonian In
stitute; Dr. Ed Wind, in charge
of science policy research division
of the Library of Congress, and
other congressmen.
Rebound
Edge
Vital
By LARRY R. JERDEN
Battalion Sport Editor
The Aggies led by as much
as 14 points in the first half
and 12 in the second, but it
took two clutch free-throws
by Dick String-fellow in the
last 27 seconds to insure a 75-72
victory over Arkansas Tuesday
night which kept A&M in the
Southwest Conference lead with
a 3-0 mark.
The G. Rollie White Coliseun.
crowd of 6,000 kept up a continu
ous roar in the second half as
the Cadets pulled away from the
39-39 halftime tie, achieved when
the Razorzacks rallied to erase
a five-point Aggie lead in the
final minute-and-a-half.
Big John Beasley and Randy
Matson both had outstanding
nights. Beasley pumped in 29
points and pulled in 18 rebounds
while Matson hauled in 16 re
bounds and contributed five points
early in the contest.
Dick Rector, Stringfellow and
Matson led the game off with
three quick baskets before the
Hogs could put a mark on the
board, then Stringfellow sank a
foul shot to make it 7-2.
Big John got hot for seven
stright points to double the
Maroon score, and the initiative
was clearly on the side of the
Cadets. Their game peak came
with 9:55 left in the first half
when Stringfellow drove across
the key to make it 24-10. But
Arkansas slowly chipped away
for the rest of the ha e it
up at 39-39 at the half.
“Arkansas was just what we
expected,” said A&M Coach Shel
by Metcalf. “They have the
best disciplined club in the con
ference.” Their ability to play
deliberate ball, he said, ... is
the advantage of having five sen
iors to start, five men that have
been playing ball with each other
for four years.”
If there was any doubt of the
SWC leaders’ ability to come back
after losing a good lead, it was
quickly dispelled with the start
of the second half. The Porkers
kept the pressure on, and matched
the Aggies point-for-point until
Rector hit a free-throw and Beas
ley looped in two quick field
goals. Rector hit another from
the foul line, then Big John scor
ed two from the same mark and
added six points from the field to
give A&M its greatest second-
half lead.
The rest of the period was a
repetition of the agonizing drive
by Arkansas to close the gap,
but when A&M called time-out
with 1:58 left, they still enjoyed
a seven point lead. When play
was resumed, there was a
scramble for the ball and it
squirted out of bounds. The ref
gave it to the Hogs, who quickly
converted it to two points.
The alert Razorbacks picked up
another loose ball and tallied an
other two. With the margin down
to three points, Beasley couldn’t
find the sights on a free throw
and the Hogs came up with the
rebound. And another two points!
But it was too a little too late
as Stringfellow stood with the
pressure of the game, the SWC
lead, and a No. 19 national rating
on the United Press poll on his
shoulders and pumped in two of
four free throws.
The Ags kept up their re
bounding habit, collecting 54 to
the Porkers’ 37.
Following Bealsey in scoring
were Stringfellow with 17, Tim
Timmerman with 10, Rector with
eight and Terry Trippet with six.
The shooting from the field
was the big difference. In the
first half, A&M hit 44.4 per cent
while the Hogs were a little
sharper with a 45.7 mark.
Then, for the visitors, the bot
tom fell out and they only con
nected with 38.9 per cent of their
second-half field goal attempts,
while A&M had one of their bet
ter shooting-halves of the year
as they hit 52 per cent.
Saturday afternoon, on state
wide TV hook-up, the Aggies will
defend their top conference rat
ing in the Heart O’ Texas Coli
seum in Waco against the Baylor
Bears, who have a 2-1 SWC rec
ord after beating Texas Tuesday
night in Austin.
TWO FOR TIM
Tim Timmerman drives in for a bank shot during the
second half of Tuesday’s game with the Arkansas Razor-
backs. Timmerman collected 10 points as the Aggies
staved off the Porkers to win in the final seconds, 75-72.
“To each his own.”
Protest Leaders Skeptical
Of LBJ Peace Offensive