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White e r b a c k Jack Sports Aplenty The Zany SWC By GARY SHERER Aggie Cage Stats The sports writers who cover the Southwest Conference basketball games did some pre-season rating late last year. Now sports writers qualify as ne’er-do-well clairvoy ants more often than not. In this classic bit of prognosti cating, they didn’t ruin their record. Texas Tech was picked to finish first in the SWC fol lowed by the Aggies, Texas Christian, Southern Methodist, Texas, Arkansas, Rice and Baylor. When a person predicts something, he is either proved wrong or right. Therefore, with a very slim margin for error, they can’t be chastized that much. But, when a team that only receives 19 votes on a 8 for first, 7 for second, etc. basis, is presently leading the conference — shades of the unsinkable Titanic. The Baylor Bears, are currently 6-1 in SWC play and leading the league. What did the writers base their fore casts on ? One possibility is that the Bears haven’t won a conference crown since 1950. And there is also the 44-year gap in football championships. . . . But, lets not cop a plea, what’s wrong is wrong. However, being wrong about the zany SWC is not hard to accomplish. It should be noted that the Texas Aggies were supposed to be dead after four straight football losses this season. TCU is a good example of how the fortunes of a basket ball team in the SWC can change as often as Barry Gold- water’s statements. The Horned Frogs started off the season by beating Rice and then the Aggies. Texas then knocked off TCU at Austin. After the loss to TCU, Rice beat Arkansas and Texas Tech. Last week, TCU lost ,to those same two teams. Texas, however, kept some semblence of “nor malcy” (to quote Warren G. Harding) by beating Rice also. The Aggies now enter the picture. They lost to TCU, but beat Texas. Tuesday night, the Aggies beat Rice who had topped Arkansas who had beaten the Aggies and on and on and Arkansas, who also was lightly regarded by the pre season poll, is now in second place with a 5-2 mark. They have accomplished these five conference wins though cur rently they are five points behind their competitors in total points. In fact, only the Aggies, TCU and Baylor have scored more points than their opponents. Now, back to league-leading Baylor. It should be noted that every one of their victories, with the exception of the win over the Aggies have come in the Heart-of-Texas Coli seum on the homeground of Waco. Therefore, maybe the harried scribes will still be right after Baylor hits the road in the next couple of weeks. What is the answer to this zany situation? Well, the pro football people say that on a given Sunday, any team can be as good as another. However, in the SWC it must go -on a given night, any team can be as bad as another. Player G FG-FGA Pet. FT-FTA Pet. Miss Reb-Avg. Pf-D Pts. Avg. High Game Ronnie Peret 17 107-185 57.8 89-132 67.3 121 182-10.7 73-7 303 17.8 30 (S.W.T.) Billy Bob Barnett 17 76-177 42.9 62-91 68.2 130 108-6.3 46-2 214 12.6 32 (Cent.) Johnny Underwood 17 73-166 44.0 42-52 80.7 103 71-4.2 31-1 188 11.1 27 (Texas) Mike Heitmann 17 52-138 37.7 74-92 80.5 104 108-6.3 47-3 178 10.5 28 (Trin) Harry Bostic 17 65-138 47.2 26-34 76.5 81 77-4.5 46-3 156 9.2 20 (TTech) Terry Trippet 16 42-97 43.6 35-45 77.8 65 34-2,1 36-1 119 7.4 16 (W.T.S.) Sonny Benefield 14 23-74 31.1 18-25 72.0 58 21-1.5 17-0 64 4.6 14 (Texas) Mike Hazel 16 22-39 56.4 26-33 78.8 24 44-2.7 34-1 70 4.4 13 (SMU) Oliver Biggers 8 6-9 66.7 6-8 75.0 5 4-0.5 3-0 18 2.3 6 (TT,Rice) Bill Brown 11 6-18 33.3 8-11 72.7 15 5-0.4 6-0 20 1.8 8 (LTech) Byron Chandler 5 2-6 33.3 2-3 66.7 5 8-1.6 7-0 6 1.2 3 (Texas) Buzzy Myatt 5 5-14 35.7 3-4 75.0 10 10-2.5 10-1 13 2.6 6 (W.T.S.) Larry Ditto 1 0-1 00.0 0-0 00.0 1 1-1.0 0-0 0 Team Rebounds. ..114-6.7 Totals A&M 17 479-1062 45.1 391-530 73.8 722 786-46.2 356-20 1349 79.3 106 (Trin) FOES 17 515-1178 43.7 321-462 69.6 804 740-43.5 393-27 1351 79.4 99 (Cent) SWC (W 3, L 4) G FG-FGT Pet. FT-FTA Pet. Miss Reb-Aver. Pf-D Pts. Avg. Hisrh Game Peret 7 47-77 61.0 35-59 59.3 54 82-11.7 32-4 129 18.4 20 (TTech) Underwood 7 35-77 45.5 27-31 87.1 46 22-3.1 15-1 97 13.9 27 (Texas) Barnett 7 26-65 40.1 27-40 67.5 52 61-8.6 23-1 79 11.3 19 (Texas) Heitmann 7 19-57 37.2 27-32 84.4 43 42-6.0 19-1 65 9.3 18 (Baylor) Bostic 7 25-53 47.2 12-15 80.0 31 27-3.9 22-2 62 8.9 20 (TTech)' Benefield 6 13-38 34.2 10-11 90.9 26 14-2.3 8-0 36 6.0 14 (Texas) Hazel 7 9-16 56.3 17-23 73.9 13 24-3.4 20-2 35 5.0 13 (SMU)' Trippet 6 9-29 31.1 7-10 70.0 23 9-1.5 16-1 25 4.2 8 (Tx,Bay) Biggers 3 4-6 66.7 4-6 66.7 4 3-1.0 3-0 12 4.0 6 (TT'Rice) Chandler 4 2-5 40.0 2-3 66.7 4 7-2.3 7-0 6 2.0 3 (Texas) Brown 4 1-4 25.0 0-0 00.0 3 1-0.2 2-0 2 0.5 2 (TTech) Team Rebounds. ...45-6.2 Totals A&M 7 190-427 44.5 168-230 73.1 299 337-48.1 167-12 548 78.3 94 (TTech) FOES 7 195-467 41.8 155-202 76.7 329 291-41.6 168-11 547 78.1 87 (Texas) THE BATTALION Thursday, February 8, 1968 College Station, Texas Page 9 Billy Kidd Injured Miss Fleming Gives U. S. First Winner Discuss y Fields the Baptist anil es and a loal onesia will & e and Negatiff ission Field' 1 al f at the AAN nnpson will l< DE GAULLE AT OPENING OF WINTER OLYMPICS French President Charles deGaulle, second from right, attends opening of 10th Winter Olympic Games in Gre noble, France. From left: Mayor Hubert Dubedout of Grenoble, Empress Farah of Iran; Mme. deGaulle; Presi dent deGaulle; and Avery Brundage, president of Interna tional Olympic Committee. (AP Wirephoto by cable from Grenoble) IHEIM SHOES at dttrnts menk uiciir nplete [S AT I FLOWER SHOPPE Gate MSC Bowling Special Win Free Games Every Day In FEB. From 2 P. M. Till Closing With A Strike On A Red Head Pin. OPEN BOWLING Mon. - Sat. 2 p. m. -10 p. m. Sun. 1 p. m. -10 p. m. No League Play During These Times Chess Players Open Tourney Texas A&M chess players match wits for the annual Mem orial Student Center tournament championship Saturday. Students and faculty will com pete in the day-long tourney to be conducted in Room 3B of the MSC, announced chess committee chairman Norman Gabitzsch of Brownsville. Gabitzsch said registration will be at 8 a.m. with the first round of play to begin at 8:30. No entry fee will be charged. “Students will compete on equal basis with faculty mem bers,” the chairman said. Each participant will play five games. GRENOBLE, France (A 1 ) — Peggy Fleming’s artistic skating legs got the United States off to an exhilirating start Wednes day, but the ankles of skier Billy Kidd and hockey forward Craig Falkman soon turned the Ameri cans’ Olympic cheer into gloom. After Italy’s Franco Noones stunned the Nordic ski world by winning the 30-kilometer cross country race for the Winter Games’ first medal, Miss Fleming started on the way to a gold medal of her own by spinning to a com manding lead in women’s figure skating. The 19-year-old world cham pion from Colorado Springs, Colo., completed the fii-st two of five compulsory figures with 373.4 points for a 30.4-point lead over her chief rival, Gabrielle Seyfert of East Germany. But that was all the U. S. par tisans had to shout about for the rest of the day. First, American hopes for a medal in the men’s downhill ski race were damaged severely when Kidd fell on a training run and sprained his bad left ankle. Then thoughts of a longshot chance at a hockey medal were obliterated when Falkman dislo cated his right ankle and the U. S. dropped a 4-3 decision to Sweden for its second loss in as many starts. Falkman, a 24-year-old sales man from Golden Valley, Minn., was out of the Games, but Bob Beattie, coach of the U. S. skiers, wasn’t certain about Kidd’s sta tus for Thursday’s downhill. “Billy’s all but out of it,” Beat- tie said after examination as he disclosed the 24-year-old Stowe, Vt., ace had suffered a sprain. Kidd himself preferred to look at his situation optimistically, saying: “It’s okay. There was no break, and I hope to be able to race in the downhill.” Kidd, who injured the same an kle and broke his left leg in 1966, fell at about the third check gate when he either caught an edge of his ski or a binding opened acci dentally. “Want a company where you can really put your education to work? See IBM Feb. 15 th or 16th” "Some of the engineers who graduated before me complained that their education didn’t mean much in their jobs. That’s not what I wanted,” says IBM’s Jim Carr. (Jim is a Manager of Mechanical Process Engineering.) "At IBM I knew I’d be using what I learned. There’s so much diversity here that you can usually work in the specific area you choose. In my own case, I majored in Mechanical Engineering and minored in Metallurgy. Today my ME degree means more than ever. And I often use my metallurgical background. 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