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V:.’, -«.. • •• THE BATTALION Page 8 College Station, Texas Friday, January 5, 1968 Football ‘Expert’ Gets Free Steak Aggie Five Returns Home With TCI PAiijjNER You’ll Always Win The Showdown When You Get Your Duds Done CAMPUS CLEANERS Football is a hush-hush affair at Texas A&M, at least from the fans’ view-point. Two of three Sbisa Dining Hall cafeteria patrons who correctly forecast the score of the Aggies’ Cotton Bowl win over Alabama didn’t show up to collet a free 16-ounce steak. Patrick J. Decker, English in structor who graduated in 1959, was the only steak-taker. Jim Richards, who also wrote down 20-16 before Jan. 1, didn’t show. The other winner signed himself only as Robert Z. on his winning entry. The entry form also carried a iballot asking whether Food Ser vice Department officials should announce the secret of success in predicting the results of A&M’s last seven games. Customers voted 2 to 1 not to announce the secret. Decker wouldn’t explain how he decided on 20-16 and said he would have to wait awhile before trying his hand on the A&M-LSU 1968 open er September 20. BUSIER AGENCY REAL ESTATE • INSURANCE F.H.A.—Veterans and Conventional Loans FARM & HOME SAVINGS ASSOCIATION Home Office: Nevada, Mo. 3523 Texas Ave. (in Ridgecrest) 846-3708 LOOKING FOR A NEW CAR FOR ONLY $1767.00 COME TO Hickman Garrett Volkswagen AUTHORIZED DEALER 1701 So. College Ave. 822-0146 Call 822-1441 Allow 20 Minutes Carry Out or Eat-In THE PIZZA HUT 2610 Texas Ave. By JOHN PLATZER After a month on the road, the Aggie basketballers return to G. Rollie White Saturday night to play Texas Christian University in the second Southwest Confer ence battle for each team. T.C.U., a big, strong team with excellent rebounding, has reeled off three victories in a row to even their season mark at 5-5 and 1-0 in conference play. THE KEY MAN in the Horned Frogs’ attack is 6-5 senior for ward Mickey McCarty. McCarty, a 240 pounder, is averaging 17.5 points per game while pulling down 136 rebounds in his team’s 10 games. James Cash, a 6-6 cen ter, and Tom Swift, a 6-5 junior college transfer from Fullerton, California, give the Frogs their strength inside. Cash is getting about 13 rebounds a game while Swift brings down about 8 per outing. Starting outside for T.C.U. are Carey Sloan and Bill Swanson. Sloan, a 6-0 senior, has averaged 8.3 points while Swanson, a 6-0 sophomore, has averaged 0.9. Tommy Gowan leads the reserves. T.C.U. opened up their confer ence season with a win Wednes day as they defeated Rice 84-75. Cash was the Frogs’ big man in the win as he scored 29 points. Swanson contributed 15 points to the T.C.U. total and substitute guards Rick Wittenbraker and Jeff Harp each had 11 point nights. The win put the Frogs in a first place conference tie with Arkansas, Baylor and Texas who also scored opening confer ence wins Wednesday. THE FROGS had warmed up for the Rice game by winning the Holiday Classic Tournament in Storrs, Connecticut. In their first game in the tournament they defeated the University of Massachusetts 63-56 and then topped the University of Connec ticut host team in the champion ship game 72-65. Following T.C.U. into town two nights later will be the Texas Tech Red Raiders, one of the conference’s pre-season favorites, in a rare Monday night game. Tech is paced by 6-7 forward Vernon Paul. Paul is one of the finest players in the conference. The Red Raiders were shocked Wednesday when they were up set by Texas 84-72 on their home court in Lubbock. Texas, which didn’t arrive there until three hours before the game because of bad weather, jumped into a 46-34 halftime lead in the game. After Tech had narrowed the margin to four points in the first five minutes of the last half, Texas once again pulled away. Texas Tech cut the lead back down to six with 6:35 left but the Steers went into a stalling game forcing the Red Raiders into fouls which allowed the Longhorns to stretch their lead to 12 points. PAUL, A SENIOR from Okla homa, led the Raiders in the contest with 19 points and 10 rebounds. Jerry Haggard, a 5-10 junior guard from Lubbock, had 17 points in the game while Joe Dobbs, a 6-5 junior from Lubbock, had 11 and Randy Sherrod, a 6-5 sophomore guard, contributed 10. Texas Tech was outrebounded in the game 35-33 and hit on only 44.6 per cent of their field goals. The Red Raiders’ second confer ence game is Saturday night in Waco against the red-hot Baylor Bears. If Tech is to uphold their pre-season rating they will have to make a comeback in the Bay lor game settihg up their game with the Aggies Monday. After two impressive wins gave the Aggies the championship of the Seattle Legion Invitational Tournament over the holidays, they were tripped up Wednesday in their Southwest Conference opener by Arkansas 75-70 in overtime. After the Razorbacks seeming ly had the game wrapped up in regulation time, Ronnie Peret sank an easy layup for the Ag gies as time ran out to knot the score at 60-60. A&M had the ball out of bounds with only one sec ond left and trailed by two when Peret got loose underneath. ARKANSAS sank nine free throws in the overtime period to put the game away. The Aggies came from 10 points behind in the second half to take a 49-43 VOLTJ JOHN UNDERWOOD BILLY BOB BARNETT lead before the Razorbacks came back to retake the lead. Arkansas led 35-29 at the half. Peret led the Aggies in the contest with 19 points and 18 rebounds while Billy Bob Barnett added 17 points and Mike Heit- mann and John Underwood each had 14. Arkansas’ Robert Mac- Kenzie was the game’s top point maker with 21. Barnett and Underwood were each continuing on their fine per formances in the Seattle Tourna ment where they both were named to the all-tournament team as the Aggies took home the first place trophy. The Aggies edged San Fran cisco University in the tourna ment’s championship game 77-75. San Francisco, the alma-mater of Boston Celtic great Bill Russell, is an annual power which gave the Aggie win even more mean ing. THE GAME was a see-saw af fair with the Aggies never able to pull to more than a four-point lead in the second half while San Francisco was able to tie the game only once at 65-65. After the tie Mike Hazel stole the ball for a two-pointer to give the Aggies a lead they never lost. Free throws played a major part in the contest as A&M hit on 19 of 24 from the line and San Francisco hit 19 of 26. Barnett paced the Aggies’ scor ing for the night wtih 25 while Underwood contributed 19. In their first game of the tour nament the Aggies upset the host ing Seattle Chiefs, alma-mater of Los Angeles Laker star Elgin Baylor, 80-72. Harry Bostic hit four straight points with two minutes left in the game to break a 70-70 tie and assure the Aggies of the win. A&M was hot from the free throw line with 30 of 36. DESPITE fouling out with 7:48 left in the game, Mike Heitmann led the Aggies’s scoring in the game with 21 points. Heitmann hit for 20 of his points in the first half. Also scoring in double figures for the winners for the night were Barnett and Terry Trippet with 16 apiece and Underwood with 12. The two tournament wins broke a three game losing streak for the Aggies and combined with the Arkansas loss gives 6-4 season mark going into Sail day’s 8 p.m. game. The Aggie Band will beonki at the game which opens Ai! home conference season. A is a must to put the Aggiea in the thick of the conference chase. PRECEEDING the varsij game, the Aggie Fish will their conference season the T.C.U. Wogs. The Fish a 1-1 record on the season. Fish will play Temple Jui College in a preliminary to Texas Tech game Monday. Pacing the Fish in their fi| two games have been Bill sey, a guard, and Chuck a forward. Cooksey is scorinj a 23.5 clip while Smith has a: mark and leads the team with rebounds. Steve Niles, a 6-11« ter, has averaged 12.5 pointu ? ? rebounds. Other key freshn players have been Rod McAlp and Donny Berry. The Fish began their sea: with a 77-70 victory over Heni son County Junior College then lost to strong Lon Moi Junior College 92-81. A fre Nugent speaker Center Thursd: "Afri pening gent, L chief A talk is Ballroo Earli NBC-T" Beverley Braley Tours-Travel and Robert Halsell Travel Service announce that EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 1968 Their Offices in Bryan and College Station will be closed all day on Saturdays TONIGHT! TOWN HALL EXTRA G ROLLIE WHITE COLISEUM - 8:OOP.M. 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