The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, January 20, 1950 Page: 8 of 8
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Bight
THE THRESHER
Mistangs Are Atop SWC Cage Pile;
Hudgens' Return to Court Should Exert
Steadying Influence On Underdog Owle
As the second week of the Southwest Conference cage race
drew to a close, the Mustangs of SMU were perched on top and
the locals were on the bottom. SMU has three wins with but
a single loss, and is closely followed by Arkansas who has two
wins and also only one loss. Baylor is the only other team to
have just one setback but the
Bears only have one win. Texas,
the Aggies, and TCU each have
been defeated twice, while the Owls
have the unenviable record of three
losses against a single win.
The irony of the situation rests
in that the Blue squad is forced to
spend the present few days in the
cellar with the highest scoring team
and has the leading individual scorer
in Joe McDermott who is well ahead
of Jewel McDowell with 244 points
to the Aggies' 218.
One could easily assume from the
foregoing that the Owls don't belong
there in the cellar and in all prob-
ability will soon arise from said
lowly position. In fact, it isn't com-
pletely out of the realm of possibili-
ty for the Feathered Flock to be
able to win this old race yet. Judg-
ing by the first games the conference
champ will probably be lucky if it
comes through with only three de-
feats.
The Aggies'took the Razorbacks
into tow, Texas Christian beat the
Mustangs, and the Longhorns de-
feated the Aggies—all of which is
just an example of the wide open
type of competition which fans are
lucky enough to see.
All games are plenty close with
a ten-point victory considered a
walkaway. The widest margin so far
was seen here in Houston when the
Owls defeated TCU 80-61. The Rice
cagers have been unfortunate enough
to lose their three games by a sum
total of only nine points. They must
have a feeling something akin to
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IT PAYS TO BE
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AT THE SOUND
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that of the Longhorn football team.
The Blue Team had a game with
the Aggies in College Station Wed-
nesday night and tomorrow will tra-
vel to Waco to face the Bears be-
fore taking time off for mid-term
finals. The next home game will
come in the middle of February. It
is do or die for the Owls who will
have to keep up their scoring and
work a lot on the passing, especially
in and around the pivot slot. The
return of letterman Tommy Hud-
gens will give the Owls a badly need-
ed reserve player since the Lufkin
senior should be able to keep the
RI's going in the scoring column and
at the same time be a steadying in-
fluence. With the hard-running type
of play the Owls are now using re-
serve strength is badly needed and
after Grawunder and Hudgens the
drop is pretty deep, especially in the
height department.
Iltnnril Stale Aojn RanHop*
For Basket Crown
By Defeating Owls
Intramural squash singles and
table tennis singles had their cham-
pions crowned for 1949-50, and bad-
minton and handball were in the
final stages of play.
The squash singles crown went to
Compton Rees. The old reliable Bob-
by Harris took away honors in the
table tennis play when he put the
skids under Jerry Dockery in the
finals.
The badminton singles sees Bob-
by Harris playing Bob Gunn and
Bill Bishop .going against the de-
fending champ Willie Moreno.
Chuck Howe defeated Willie Mor-
eno to gain the finals in the hand-
ball singles. He will meet Bill Bish-
op in the finals.
Teams interested in organizing
volleyball teams to compete in in-
tramurals should obtain entry forms
from the field" house and play will
start just as soon as sufficient en-
tries are in. So far the Chemistry
Staff and the Physical Education
Dept. staff are the only two teams
in. Neither boast outstanding
squads and the title of volleyball
champ is wide open.
The Texas Aggies blasted the
Feathered Flock from Houston 66-
37 Wednesday night at College Sta-
tion to win a basketball game lor
the first time since 1947 from the
Owls. Boasting too much height for
the Blue team, the Cadets complete-
ly controlled the rebounds for prac-
tically the entire 40 minutes. The
6 feet 8 inches Nederland lad Wal-
ter Davis was a thorn in the Owls
side until he fouled out, and 6 feet
5 inches John DeWitt, 6 feet 3
inches Marvin Martin and 6 feet
7 inches Ken Sutton all were as tall
as any player on the Institute five.
Jewel McDowell was high for the
Aggies with 14 points from his
jump shots, but big Joe McDermott
increased his season's lead over Mc-
Dowell as he made 6 field goals and
hit 8 of 10 free throws for a total
of 18 points.
The half time intermission saw
the Cadets holding a 28-16 lead as
the Owls usual dexterity from the
floor with long shots deserted them.
McDermott had made only one field
goal the first half and piled up
GIRLS' ATHLETIC COUNCIL
POSTPONES INTRAMURALS
The Girl's Athletic Council, in a
short meeting Monday, agreed to
postpone the intramural basketball
tournament until the beginning of
the second semester. Playing will
be resumed Wednesday, February 8
at 6:00.
Different sports activities will be
held at specific hours, which will be
tested next term.
Mrs. Poindexter has requested
that any girls who have not picked
up their gym suits will please come
by for them.
PSYCHOLOGY GROUP —
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observation will be performed. Vis-
itors will be shown a movie and then
tested on the accuracy of their ob-
servation.
Other displays concerning animal
learning will be shown.
three fouls in the first five minutes.
Again wild vpassing hurt the team's
chances for scoring, and from all
indications Work will have to be
done on this phase of the game if
the Birds fejcpect to override the
height disadvantage.
This game gives the" Aggies a 3
and 2 record and all but eliminates
the Owls from Conference Cham-
pionship consideration.
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The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, January 20, 1950, newspaper, January 20, 1950; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth230829/m1/8/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.