The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 23, 1947 Page: 3 of 4
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INTRAMVRALS
Intramural basketball competi-
tion moved towards its finale last
week an seven contests were
played.
The Condors of the American
League chalked up three victories
by defeating the Cellar Shots, 89-
27, the Mad Dogs, 30-25, and the
Slippery Slimes No. 1, 46-88.
The Cellar Shots were on the
long end of their 20-16 tilt with
the R.A.F. The Hot Five scored a
win over the Dribbling Dopes, 48-
28 while the Hot Lick Bruisers
bowed to the Slippery Slimes No.
2, 20-85. The All Stars tipped in
53 to top the Dribbling Dopes 26 as
those two teams met.
League winners will be deter-
mined this Saturday at 1:80 as
the Conders and Cellar Shots vie
for American League honors and
the Hot Five and Hopeful Hams
meet in the National League play
off. The final play off date will be
announced next semester.
Mr. C. C. McDougle announced
that the high scorers for the sea-
son were: G. G. Ott with 76 for
the Slippery Slimes No. 2, Vernon
Bolleter with 57 for the Slippery
Slimes No. 2, and Tom Burke with
56 for the Conders.
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Owls Meet Aggies
At College Station
After having lost to the league-
leading Steers* the Owls wind up
a week of hard conference play in
College Station Saturday night
against the so far luckless Aggies.
At the present writing the outcome
of the Rice-Baylor contest has not
been established.
The new 03ls starting line-up
will probably take the court in the
noisy Aggie gym. Bill Tom, who
had a good night against Texas un-
til he tired, will hold down his
usual center spot. At guards "Paul
Vahidiek will team with Harmon
Walters. Vahidiek is a returning
letterman from the 1945 squad
. which went through its conference
season undefeated. His excellent
ball-hawking and court speed con-
tributed to that record, and he
seems to be returning to the form
he displayed during that year.
In the forward positions Warren
Switzer and John McDonald will
contribute their experience to the
squad. Switzer is the only man on
the starting five who has not seen
service at Rice in fomer years, but
he got in plenty of playing time
at Southwestern Louisiana Insti-
tute. McDonald is the best man
under the backboards the Owls have
this year. His steadiness and cool
head when the chips are down were
major factors in the grand first-
half showing the Owls made
against Texas.
Backing up the starters Coach
Joe Davis has such experienced per-
formers as Grover Noonan, Bob
Foley, J. D. Thomas, Hira'm Wal-
ker, David Cook and Walter Hall.
TEXAS A&M COLLEGE
BASKETBALL 1946-'47
Numerical Roster
rim s
INTRAMURALS
True to ail predictions, it was a
hot time in the Field House last
Wednesday night when the girls
played their last games of their
first round in basketball. The
P.A.L.S. came through on top of a
score of 27-25 against the E.B.L.S.
while the Girl's club had top place
in the score of 38-36 in their tilt
with the O.W.L.S.
The P.A.L.S. came through with
their first win of this season. They
clashed with the E.B.'s who gave
them a real run for their money.
Skinny Wilson with the able as-
sistance of Peggy Weatherall and
Ellen Hopkins scored the 27 points
while Foxie and "Sure-shot" Lyford
scored their 25 points in favor of
the E.B.'s (Eager Benvers, that
is). On the guard aide of the story
Oralyn Thwaites and Eleanor Gra-
ham turned in their usual beautiful
performances. Orville Gaither and
Henry Bell officiated the game.
The fast breaking O.W.L.S. went
down under the long, tall Girl's
club team just shy two points. The
O.W.L.S. considerably restricted
the scoring of the Girl's Club and
at the same time ran up their
highest score of the season. After
playing three quarters, H. B. fell
and turned her ankle so badly that
she had to leave the game. Up to
that time she had scored 14 points.
On the other side, Doris Scholl and
Margaret Donaldson scored the ma-
jor portion of the points with
hustling Rosie Biamonte doing a
whale of an as&isting job. Jerry
Howard turned in a good perform-
ance as guard, handling the ball
most effectually. Turner did as
well for the O.W.L.S. Harmon
Walters and Ann Martin were the
officials.
Standings at the end of the first
round:
Club Won Lost
Girl's Club 3 0
O. W. L. S 2 1
P. A. L. S. 1 2
E. B. L. S. 0 3
Immediately after mid-term
exams, the second round will be
played. The first games will bet
E.B.L.S. vs Girl's Club.
P.A.L.S. vs O.W.L.S.
Watch the bulletin board for the
date and.time they are to be played.
LOEW'S
NOW SHOWING
Claudette Colbert
June Allyson
Walter Pidgeon
"The Secret
Heart"
NROTC Rifle Team
Posts Sixth Win
Defeating Miami U.
The Rice NROTC Rifle team
closed out its first semester of
firing last Friday by posting its
sixth win of the season by defeat-
ing Miami University of Oxford,
Ohio by a score of 888 to 808.
The local team will not fire any
more matches until after semester
examinations have been completed.
During this period all possible time
wilt be spent preparing for the na-
tional NROTC match which will be
fired on February 10. The winner
of this match will receive the Will-
iam Randolph Hearst trophy. The
Rice NROTC unit won first place
in this match in 1945. After com-
pletion of the National Matches a
regular intercollegiate schedule will
be resumed.
"The showing of the Rice team
this year has not been outstanding,
but has been very satisfactory tak-
ing all things into consideration,"
said team coaches. Major Cleland
E. Early, USMC and Staff Ser-
geant D. D. Cusenbary, Jr., USMC.
However we are looking forward to
next season with much optimism,"
Maj. Early said. All of the men on
the team are freshman NROTC
Midshipmen and will have three
more years of firing. Since the be-
ginning of the year all have made
exceptional improvement.
At the conclusion of the season
the man firing the highest average
score will be presented with a
trophy and the five high scores will
be presented with individual
awards. The top firers on the team
to date in fourteen matches have
the following averages: Robert M.
Wilkins 1J1.8; James C. Hollister
170.1; J. A. Covington 169.1; Louis
E. Harlan 162.2; and E. R. Wood-
mansee, Jr. 159.4. These averages
include all matches fired including
the early matches when the team
was just beginning. Both Wilkins
and Hollister have fired over 180
in matches, and Woodmansee has
been handicapped all year by an
injured knee.
One shoulder to shoulder match
was fired against an all city team
selected from Houston high school
ROTC students. The Rice midship-
men won this one by a score of 1900
to 1806. A return match is sched-
uled.
The season's record is:
Rice
U. of New Mexico 1643 1540
Tulane University 789 784
U. of Texas . 843 805
U. of Nebraska 741 831
Duke University 858 840
U. of North Carolina 907 855
U. of Wisconsin 860 855
U. of Utah 785 867
Yale University 851 867
Brown University 930 861
Renneslaer Polytechnic
Institute 805 861
OHio State U. ... 1749 1678
Miami University, Oxford,
Ohio 808 853
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Vast Improvement
Against Steers
The Rice basketballlaam showed
vast improvement last Saturday
night although losing to Texas by
a score of 67-58. The game waa nip
and tuck all through the first three
quarters, and with eight minutes
to play the score was 44-48 for
Texas. At this point Slater Martin
got hot and poured three straight
long ones through the hoop. The
remainder of the damage was
caused by the Steers' fast break
and Dun Wagner's beautiful long
shots. The outstanding performance
for Rice was turned in by John Mc-
Donald. He was assigned the job
of guarding John Hargis, the ace
point-maker for Texas who a few
night before had scored 30 points
against SMU. Mi Donald kept Har
gis from making a single one of
his hard-to-stop hook shots during
the first half, and his height under
the basket was a big help.
Harmon Walters turned in a
fine game, and led Rice scorers
with 14 points. Paul Vahidiek saw
plenty of service and added more
speed to the team. Warren Switzer
played well, scoring nine points,
eight of them in the first half.
Texas jumped out to a 6-1 lead
before Switzer and Walters tied It
up. Texas again went ahead but
Warren and" Harmon tied it up at
12-12 before Vahidiek hit a crip
to put Rice ahead for the first time.
It was still tied at 18-18 when Bill
Tom hit two pretty pivot shots.
Slater Martin tied it up for he
Longborns before the half ended,
27-27.
Bill Tom put Rice ahead as the
second half opened, but Hargis hit
two of his hook shots and Martin
swished one from way out. The
Owls nearly caught up as McDonald
scored twice, bringing the score to
34-33, but again Texas pulled
ahead. Once more Rice pulled up
to within one point as Bill Tom
and Harmon found the range. At
44-43 the Texas center got a couple
of tip-ins, and then Martin got hot.
Before he cooled off Wagner found
the range, and once the Texas boys
started hitting from way out front
there was no stopping them.
Rice Institute Cindermen
Lack Overall Strength At
Beginning Of 1947 Season
Monday, January 27, the Rice Institute Owls jump off to
a start on the 1947 track season. With such proven partici-
pants as Bill Cummins, Henry Coffman and Augie Erfurth, and
a number of promising returnees and newcomers, Coach Brun-
son hopes to develop a track team that will go far in the South-
west Conference race.
From first glance the 1947 Rice squad looks an if it will
be very strong in spots but will lack over all strength. Texas
and A&M will be chief contenders
for the Conference title.
Bill Cummins heads the list of
individuals. At the present he is
taking part on Joe Davis' basket-
ball team which is one example of
his versatility. Bill is likely to be-
come the nation's leading track
star if he develops into form as he
expected to. He is one of the
Conference's all-time hurdlers, sec-
ond only to Rice's own Fred Wol-
cott. In addition to his hurdling he
is also a broad jumper and pole
vaulter.
Another strong hurdler is Augie
Erfurth who did so well last year.
He runs both the high and low
hurdles, but is best in the highs.
A returning 1943 letterman is
Bob Porter who muy dovelope into
the Conference's champion iniler.
Two-time Southwest Conference
champion Henry Coffman is back
again. He heads a large group of
able jumpers which includes Vern
McGrew, the state champion high
jumper from Lamar High.
Brunson has a flock of promis-
ing newcomers, but unfortunately
they stack up in the events where
the Owls are already strong.
This group includes Tom Cox, a
freshman middle distance ace from]
Dallas. Then there is Jim Hoff, a
1943 freshman who runs the mile;
Jim Hoflister and Bill Squires who
do tn hurdles and high jump; Bill ;
Reynolds and Charles Madeley,
both high jumpers; broad jumper
Guy Worrell and Maurice Spencer,
a quarter milcr.
Mr. Brunson hopes to develope u
group of football men in the weight
events. This group includes Wel-
don Humble. Jim Spruill ami Dfck
Hoe rater.
Best prospect available in the
dashes is Terrell Baird, a freshman
from Fort Worth. Bob Sheltori, a
4-10-yard relay man in 1940 also is
back.
Drexel Vincent and Tony Carr,
both back from the 191'! team, will
bolster the 440-yard dash setup.
Vincent won the H80 yard run in
the Confeernre meet at College
Station last spring. The Goose
Creek product is primarily a 140
or 220 yard man, but also partici-
pates in the low hurdle event.
Lacking in overall strength, the
Rice track team may not be a
strong contender for Conference
honors this year. But with Mr
Brunson as coach, one of the best
in the country, anything is liable
to happen before the curtain rings
donw on this year's track season.
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Jenkins
F 6.0 166
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Clark
G 6,11 166
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Thornton
G 6.0 170
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Weinbaum
F 6,10 166
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Kamperman
C 6.4 190
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Klutc
C 6.2 190
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Kirkland
F 6.8 180
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ColUnsworth
F 6.8 176
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Turnbow
F 6.0 186
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Thurman
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O 6.0 170
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Garcia
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