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Page 6 College Station, Texas Tuesday, February 7, 1967 THE BATTALION Ags Play Texas Tech Tonight By GARY SHERER The Red Raiders from Texas Tech will be in G. Rollie White Coliseum at 8 tonight for a South west Conference game with the Aggies. TECH, 1-5 in the SWC, are hav ing the same type season as the Aggies this year. They have the same record (3-13) and their main fault is that they can’t get the ball through the basket at a con sistent pace. After losing their four top scor ers from last year, Tech has adopted a deliberate style of of fense. It is basically the same attack they have used since their present coach, Gene Gibson, as sumed the reins in 1960. Gibson said before the season that be cause of the loss of the top four starters he had to have a change in tactics. The deliberate style is that change. Tech’s scoring attack has been topped by two returnees from last year’s fourth place SWC entry. Senior Dave Olson leads with 14.5 for SWC play and 11.6 for the season. Junior Vernon Paul a Ali Tops Ernie In 15-Rounder By JACK HAND Associated Press Sports Writer HOUSTON (A*)—Cassius Clay turned butcher and gave big Ernie Terrell a savage, bloody beating Monday for a unanimous 15-round decision that removed all doubts about his rights to the undisputed world heavyweight title. Terrell, recognized as champ by the World Boxing Association after it withdrew its recognition of Clay, was a slow-moving, easy target for the speedy Clay who battered him around both eyes. Terrell’s right eye was closed to a narrow slit from the fourth round on and he bled off and on from a sliced right eyebrow after the seventh. Big Ernie, from Chicago and Atlantic City, N. J., never went down but he never was in it. Clay taunted Terrell and asked, “What’s my name?” in the eighth and ninth as he gave the 6-foot-6 Terrell the same kind of beating he had handed ex-champ Floyd Patterson at Las Vegas, Nev., in 1965. Patterson was a TKO victim, but Terrell went the route with out hitting the deck. Terrell had called Clay by his given name at a meeting during the publicity buildup for the fight and refused to use the Muslim name, Muhammad Ali, that Clay prefers. It was the 28th straight victory for the unbeaten, 25-year-old Clay who announced Saturday he was moving to Houston as his latest adopted city. Referee Harry Kessler scored the fight 148-138, Judge Jimmie Webb had it 148-133 and Judge Ernie Taylor 148-137, all for Clay. The AP card was 149-136, giving Terrell only one round— the second by a shade. “I wanted to knock him out after eight, but he wouldn’t go,” Clay said. The champion added: “He just stood there taking my punches, hoping to tire me out. But he didnt’ hurt me. I don’t have any scratches on me.” Terrell, acknowledged as a left jab artist, fought with both hands high in the peek-a-boo style Pat terson used to use. Clay found it hard to pierce that defense in the first few rounds but soon found his target. Ernie also had trouble unleashing his fine left jab from that posi tion and concentrated more on wild right hand punches to the body. After the fight was over, Ter rell made two trips to Clay’s corner to offer his congratula tions to his unmarked opponent. At 212 ^ pounds, Terrell had a four-ounce edge on Clay who scaled 212V4 pounds. 6-7 Lawton, Okla. product is hitting at 12.5 in the conference and has a 11.0 norm for the sea son. THE RED RAIDER’S one con ference win has been over Rice at Lubbock, while they have lost to TCU, Arkansas, and Texas on the road and dropped home deci sions to Baylor and SMU. After Saturday night’s SWC action, Tech is now in last place. The Aggies at 2-4 are holding down the fourth spot, with Ar kansas (2-5) between the Aggies and Tech in fifth. SMU, at 6-1, is in first with TCU and Baylor tied for second at 4-2 and Texas and Rice are 3-3 for third. THE AGGIES suffered their fourth and worst conference de feat Saturday night to Baylor at Waco by a 93-65 count. The season-long nemisis of poor shooting was the main reason for the loss, as the Aggies 36-per cent shooting statistics attest. It was a close game for the first half as the Aggies stayed even with the Bears and led for the first 14 minutes. Baylor caught the Aggies at this point and the two teams traded baskets until the Bears took over and led at halftime 47-40. The 4,000 in attendence at Heart O’Texas Coliseum, expect ing a just as close second half, were pleasantly surprised as Bay lor ran away with the game after intermission. AFTER A JOHN Underwood layup started the second half scor ing, the Bears started hitting and the iMaroon and White started missing. With ten minutes left, Baylor had increased their lead to 69-53 and five minutes later it was 81-56 and the game was all but over. Billy Bob Barnett was high for the Aggies with 16 as the 6-4 Brenham sophomore turned in an other hustling ball game. Ron nie Peret, Sonny Benefield and Buzzy Myatt supported Barnett’s total with nine apiece. BAYLOR’S scoring was led by their one-two punch of Darrell Hardy and Jimmy Turner who each garnered 19. Steve Bartels, Bob Porter and Jim Allen were runners-up with 10 each. The Aggies were 25 for 70 from the floor and 15 of 31 from the foul line. Baylor popped in 33 of 75 field goal trys and con verted 27 of 34 free throws. Peret, Benefield and Underwood are still the top three SWC scor ers for the Aggies with 12.2, 12.0 and 10.0 readings respectively. Barnett replaces Underwood as number three scorer when season stats are reviewed. Barnett is hitting at 10.0 for the season, topped by Peret’s 13.4 and Bene field’s 12.0. COACH SHELBY METCALF was disappointed over the loss but Keating Sets Mark In Aggie Swim Win By CHARLES ROWTON Battalion Sports Writer Jerry Rating’s pool record in the 66%-yard freestyle high lighted a Texas A&M swimming and diving team which swept past Rice and TCU Saturday at P. L. Downs Natatorium. Keating swam the distance in 31.9 seconds. The swim meet pitted each team individually against the other two. The Aggies defeated Rice, 75-21, and crushed TCU, 84-8. The Fish followed suit by beating Rice, 79-17, and TCU, 87-5. DOUBLE winners for the Ag gies were Steve Ash in the 500- yard freestyle and the 1000-yard freestyle and John Wood in the 100-yard freestyle and the 200- yard freestyle. John Beal, Mike Pettit, Roger Byrne and Tom Holder won the 400-yard medley relay, with David George, Randy Archer, Roger Byrne and Bob Dommel teaming to take the 400-yard free style relay. Other Aggie winners were John Beal in the 133%-yard medley, Roger Byrne in the 200-yard fly, Tom Holder in the 200-yard back- stroke and Mike Pettit in the 200- yard breaststroke. SOPHOMORE divers Mike Murphy and Bob Nida completed the sweep by finishing 1-2 in their competition. In a year that was supposed to be spent on rebuilding the Aggies came through in fine style in their first meet. With 12 sopho mores on the 17-man squad, the outlook for a high finish in the Southwest Conference for the next few years appears bright. It looks even brighter after seeing the results of the fresh men squad’s first competition. The Fish won 10 of 11 events. Colin Dunn, Larry Linn, John Greenhut and Paul Jennings won the 266%-yard medley relay and Jerry Deutsch, Bob Stallings, John Applegath and Larry Sher rill won the 400-yard freestyle relay. INDIVIDUAL winners for the Fish squad were Jim Siffert in the 200-yard freestyle, Hank Paup in the 66%-yard freestyle, Paul Jennings in the 100-yard freestyle, with Bill Barlow finish ing second in the 400-yard free style. Colin Dunn won the 133%-yard medley; John Greenhut took the 100-yard butterfly; Mike O’Brian won the 100-yard backstroke and Larry Linn garnered top spot in the 100-yard breaststroke. Diver Jack Neagle’s victory concluded the domination of the meet by the freshmen. The Aggies will host the Uni versity of Arkansas in their next meet at P. L. Downs Natatorium at 7 p.m. Saturday. COMING SOON THE “GO PHONE JONES & LAUGHLIN STEEL CORPORATION Will Be Interviewing On FEBRUARY 16, 1967 Candidates For Their SALES TRAINING PROGRAM Sales Program Is Open To Candidates From Any Of The Academic Fields Please Check With Placement Office For More Details An Equal Opportunity Employer said after the game that the best team won. It marked the first time in conference play this year that the Aggies really were out of the ball game before the final buzzer. Metcalf said on his weekly tele vision show Sunday afternoon that the Tech game was perhaps the most important for the boys this year. His view was echoed by Peret and Larry Ditto who were guests on the program. The Aggies three wins this year have all come on the friendly floor of their home court, so Met calf is hoping for good perform ance from his team. Tonight’s game will be the halfway point for the Aggies SWC games this year and they will begin the sec ond go-round with Rice Saturday at Houston. IN THE prelim of Saturday night’s game, the Baylor Cubs proved that if you put the ball up at the basket enough it is bound to go in. Taking 20 more shots than the Fish, they made two more bas kets and, although not coming up with a good percentage, scored an 83-82 victory. Larry Gatewood, a 6-5 forward from Oklahoma City, epitomized the Cub attack as he took 34 shots, with half of them falling through. The rest of the club took only six more shots than Gatewood and were not as suc cessful, only completing 12 of them. THE FISH meanwhile were hitting 27 for 64 from the floor and led most of the game by mar gins up to four points, but could not pull away. The Fish took a halftime lead of 38-34 brought Broyles Says \ To Georgia let FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. ^ Arkansas Coach Frank Btt; said today that retiring C( Bobby Dodd of Georgia Tec| inquired about his availaki “but I will definitely renuk Arkansas.” There has been much % tion that Broyles, a Georgia Tech player and tant coach, would succeed J when the Yellowjacket foot coach stepped down. “My nine years at Ark( have convinced me," said, “that my real intertsi now with the Razorzacka," though he has “fond memories Georgia Tech and of the ptj VISITOR FROM LUBBOCK Vernon Paul, 6-7 junior for Texas Tech is looked on for some high scoring by his coach Gene Gibson in tonight’s SWC tilt with the Aggies. about by five more foul shots. The lead started to change hands as the two teams traded baskets with three minutes left in the game. When the final buzzer sounded, the two teams were deadlocked at 73-73 as the Fish failed to work a play setup with 17 seconds remaining. 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