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shoot with one hand from thirty
feet out, he'd probably raise one leg
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By Woody Dry den
After last week end we are lead-
ing the SWC with three and none,
but it's no secret tha* we didn't look
at all like champions "in downing
TGU. Our tilt tonight with previ-
ously unbeaten Waco AAF may de-
eide if we are capable of getting
back on form in one game. The
fliers are coached by "Hoot" Evers,
former Illinois U. flash, and will
prove hard to handle.
Next conference game is with the
fiendish Aggies Saturday night, and
to all Rice students—"Turn out and
get your revenge!" Currently, I
wouldn't say the Aggs have much
chance of tripping us up, but Milt
Cherno could get hot and if all the
Owls are off it might be close. Bill
Henry should add another nice
chunk to his scoring total.
Congratulations to "Big Dan"
Davenport on the 2 points last Fri
INTRA-MURALS
By Ed Hartsook
Last week-end saw the resumption
of play in the intra-mural football
league after two weeks of postpone-
ment due to inclement weather con-
ditions. As a result of the cancella-
tions, the tournament has been
changed from a round-robin to a
doulble elimination affair. The pre-
vious system worked along the gen-
eral plan of Conference seasons—
all teams playing each other, the one
with the best final percentage be-
ing declared the winner. Under the
new plan, teams are eliminated when
twice defeated even though they
7"' v "V "T " may have played every other team,
day. The only drag is that the "2"j ■
was for SMU—somebody must have! ^kstanding game of last Sat-
hit his arm! Evidently Tom Roach's j urc'a^ was ^e clash between the
charley hdrse is still bothering him, ^a^"no^s anc* Rebels. These two
The answer to "Why is the Rice
basketball team so late getting away
from the field house after the
games ?" is that Goodearle isn't very
handy with the tweezers yet and it
takes about thirty minutes to de-
splinter Roach.
Dan Davenport is now out in front
in the rag-not scoring race. Stand-1
•ings are:
For us For them
Dan Davenport 2 2
"County-Fair"
McBride 2 0
Clarence Murphey .2 0
"Big Dan" is an inside favorite
to pull away from the field in the
now remaining games, with Clarence
teams appear to be the strongest
in the league, so the result of their
game proibably indicates the final
ohamp. The Rag-nots, sparked by
the passing of Tommy Hopkins and
the all-around play of Atkinson,
Morris, and Conrads, beat the out-
manned, but fighting Rebels, 12-0,
;to sew up the title,
The Rebels1 were playing the game
in a seriously crippled condition with
three members of the starting line-
up and one sub out of action, thanks
to Navy troubles and out-of-town
trips. Those losses forced the Reb-
els to use the same line-up through-
out the game, with no chance for
rest. The first half was—on the
whole—rather even, but as the Rebel
George Walmsley, triple-threat half-
back of the Owls' '44 football team,
was recently nominated to the Unit-
ed States Naval Academy by Con-
gressman Albert Thomas.
Walmsley, who was 18 in October,
was given permission by the Tri-
Cities draft board to finish one more
term at Rice. Being subject to the
drift in March, he may be inducted
before he is to fill the vacancy at
Annapolis in July.
Having won all-state honors with
Robert E. Lee high school, frosh
Walmsley last fall was chosen on
the All-Southwest Conference foot-
ball team, and was voted the most
valuable member of the Rice team.
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showing just plain showing. Murph j team tired, the action was more and
says he's rather handicapped,
though, because he can't make "2"
f^om the bench.
This week's predictions: The Ag-
gies to nose out Baylor in the "Bat-
tle of Aces" at Waco. SMU to beat
TCU by 10 points. Rice to edge out
Waco AAF in a thriller. The Razor-
-backs tt> trounce Texas twice and
add considerably to their point total.
The Owls to eke out one over A. &
M. by 25 points. The Mustangs to
hand Baylor another kick in the—
TCU plays Hawline in Kansas
City, and while Hub has his boys up
around the Big Six, he might see
about getting in. That's about the
only league left that plays "freeze
the ball with a 3-point lead and dflly
18 minutes to go." If Phog Allen
RECORD HITS
I Promise You—Jo Stafford
Let's Take the Long Way Home
—Jo Stafford
Confessin' (That I Love You)
—Ella Fitzgerald
Cuban Sugar Mill—Freddie Slack
Wouldn't It Be Nice
—Carmen Cavallaro
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GOGGAN'S
more in their end of the field. The
coup de grace came on two long
passes by Hopkins—'both for nearly
50 yards and both for touchdowns.
The Rebel offensive never really got
to rolling, although they completed
numerous short passes from Hart-
sook to Moore, Thomen, or Cox, the
yardage picked up was never suffi-
cient to cause a'real threat to the
Rag-nots.
The other critical game of the day
was the meeting of the Rally Club
and the Horned Frogs. The Rally
Club won easily, 26-0, .to continue in
the running for second place. The'
runner-up spot should be determined
5 week from next Saturday" when
the Rally Club tangles with the
Rebels.
Last Saturday scores are given
below.
League 1
Rag-nots, 12; Hartsook's boys, 6.
Williams' Joy Boys, 6; WOWLS,
6 (won on penetrations).
League 2
West Side Country Club, 6;
Screaming Bots, 0.
Sack- Hounds, 6; Petty's Boys, 0.
Slippery Slimeis drew a bye.
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his own field of vision for the limits
of the world."—Schopenhauer.
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By Mary Jane McNair
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The girls' basketball games about
which I„twi'ite were played on two
nights, Wednesday week ago and
last Monday. This leaves two more
tilts and then—the winnahs!
Wednesday showed the E. B.'s
booked with PALS. Winner was the
PALS, scoring 23 to E. B.'s 13. Peg
Weatherall scored many of the points
with Ann and Kayway runner-ups.
The E. B. line-up started Dockery
(high scorer), Bailey and Miller. The
game was rough and not as exciting
as-expected.
Monday night, in St. Paul's gym,
the Girls' Club took the OWLS by
24 to 12. Several bits of roughness
existed here also, but the game
showed a few spectacular goals
made by Bellnoski and Johnson.
Brushing aside hard falls and hurt
noses, the girls plowed on to the
end.. Starting OWLS were Johnson,
Nabors, Walker, forwards; Garrison,
Berwick, Repass, guards. Girls'
Club started Bellnoski, Donaldson,
Scholl, forwards; Zagst, Jarrard,
Kobayashi, guards.
The PALS contested with the
Girls' Club last night and E. B.'s
played the OWLS. These games will
be reported next issue.
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ALL STUDENT—
(Continued from page 1)
announced that it was requested
that the Wagon be kept up every
week, and will see that each club
and the council take car$ of the
table.
The next meeting of the council
is 30 January, week from next Tues-
day.
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It's a sad aspect of life that the
same wind that blows the girl's
skirts up also blows dust in your
eyes.—Buddy Russ.
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I have never contended that High-
land Park is the best school in the
state of Texas. It is merely the best
high school—Bill Henry.
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Phooey.—Garry Corbett.
By Glenn Bryan
The TCU basketeers came through
in their block horse style when they
gave the hard-pressed Owls a hectic
fight before bowing 50 to 44 Satur-
day night. Using their customary
stalling tactics the Ft. Worth boys
employed a tight zone defense to
make Henry sweat for his sixteen-
point total. As the clock ran out
the ball game became a melee of
fouls. Thirty-two infractions were
registered, 15 against the Owls and
17 for TCU.
The contest started slow and
looked like a walk away, the score
being 7 to 0 after three minutes,
but the Frogs closed a large gap to
bring themselves within 3 points of
the Owls. With two minutes to go,
the score boards read Rice 45 and
TCU 42, but Henry calmed things
with two quick baskets, and all was
over except the shouting.
Most excited non-participant was
the visitor's Coach Hub McQuillan.
Somehow he didn't agree with the
honorable referees' decisions, and
demonstrated his disapproval by
throwing up a huge white towel and
wrapping it around his head.
Gene Schmidt turned in a nice job
of worrying Henry until he cashed
in on his fifth foul and was given
a rest. Dick Wehr played good ball,
hitting the meshes for 12 points to
take runner-up honors in the scor-
ing department. Wehr was the
night's lone casualty with a gash
under his eye which required three
stitches to close.
Most heads-up perofrmer on the
court was little Murray Mendenhall
who broke up many a Frog pass with
his ball stealing antics. Murray hit
four long ones for an eight-point
total.
The tilt Friday night was alto-
gether another story. It jwas nip
and tuck the first halfnwith the
Owls in front 32-31 at the intermis-
sion. But Henry came roaring back
after a slow start to rack up 32
points for the night and to give
Rice a 70 to 62 victory. Dennis
Haden got the Mustangs off to a
fine start and kept them in front
most of the first half. (He scored
20 and a teammate, Avery, got 12),
but Rice took over at the half and
never again lost the lead. There
was a seventeen point difference
when the Rag-nots, led by Jim Mc-
Bride and Dan Davenport, took over.
Rice, boasting a record of three
wins and no losses, leads the con-
ference with the Arkansas Razor-
backs in second place with one less
victory. Season standings give the
champs 10 victories against one de-
feat.
In a non-conference affair, Rice
meets the undefeated Waco Army
Air Field .Thursday. This promises
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to be a close, hard fought game, with
the Flyers installed as slight favor-
ites. Saturday night the farmers
come to town to add one more win
to the league leaders' record.
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Converse-Dunkel
Dick Dunkel's latest ratings place
Arkansas in fifth place in the South
and Southwest with 69.4 points, and
Rice seventh with 68.5. These neu-
tral ratings (covering a period
through 8 January) list no other
Southwest conference teams anions:
the first twenty.
Predictions for the week covered
five games, all having been played
by the time this paper comes out.
Oklahoma A. & M. (71.6) was to de-
feat Arkansas (69.4) Saturday
night, while Rice (70.5) was hum-
bling TCU (46.0) and SMU (55.2)
was taking Texas A. & M. (40.3).
On Tuesday, Texas A. & M. (36.3)
was supposed to come out an eleven
point victor over Baylor (25.3). Last
night SMU (55.2) was picked over
TCU (50.0)
There is no prediction on tonight's
game here between Rice and Waco
AAF, probably because it was sched-
uled very recently.
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