The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 38, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 2, 1949 Page: 4 of 4
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Success of Season Depends on flam*
Friday Night at College Station
by David Miller
It is amazing how a whole season
can be brought down to one game,
and on the winning or losing of that
lone contest can hinge the success
or failure of the whole year. Amaz-
ing, but that will be exactly the case
when the Rice Owls square off with
the Texas Aggies Friday on the
Aggies' home basketball court at
College Station.
Although A&M is m\red in sixth
place in the standing, Rice is in sec-
ond place, a half game behind Bay-
lor and Arkansas, and needing only
a win to send the Southwest Con-
feernce into a three-way tie for first
place. Arkansas and Baylor assured
themselves of their first place
shares with wins Monday, the Razor-
backs whipping the Aggies, 61-46,
and the Bears edging TCU, 49-41.
Rice had thrown the confeernce
race into a turmoil last Saturday
when the Owls turned in another
great game to wrip Arkansas, 54-
48. The Saturday game saw Rice
winning much easier than expected.
The Owls were headed only once,
early in the game, then grabbed a
lead, stretched it to 13 points mid-
way in the second half, and coasted
in.
Bill Tom played his usual brilliant
game, giving young Bob Ambler, the
6 foot 7 inch Arkansas sophomore, a
lesson in hustle, shooting, and back-
board work. Tom dropped in 21
points while Ambler was hold to 9
points bv Tom and young .Tim Ger-
hardt. who plaved a fine game be-
fore fouling o"t.
Tn Ambler, the writer believes he
h?s at last found a man who is too
l ip-., Tom ftn<J Ambler are the same
height, but where Tom is durable
pnd lean, Ambler it huskv and ap-
parently short winded. Manv were
the times when Arkansas had the
ball that, Tom wonld dash down the
court to his defensive post, turn, and
Oiyls Scrimmage;
Charity Gets Profit
Rice's annual game condition
scrimmage between the Blues and
the Whites will be held at the end
of spring training again this year.
The game has been set for March
12 at Rice Stadium, and again this
year, the proceeds will be contrib-
uted to the Arabia Temple Crippled
Children's fund. Rain has hampered
the gridders so far, but the appear- |
ance of the sun Monday brought j
the boys outside ready for hard I
work.
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PAPEll QUIZZES
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that the yearbook editor and busi-
ness manager can't 'bleed the stu-
dents,' that maximum should be
large enough to attract capable can-
didates. Then, too, it only seem:*
fair to set a minimum guarantee
salary for these two people who
must share the heavy burden of
getting out a book that the students
will enjoy looking over in the years
to come. The percentage tax on prof-
its seems a fair way to be sure that
the fine office and equipment are
kept in repair, but here ten percent
seems the highest maximum the
council could fairly set."
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ARCHI-ARTS
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Friday, March 4. All will be priced
at $6.00, which includes the govern-
ment tax of $1.00. A buffet will be
served at twelve o'clock and danc-
ing to Johnny Sullivan'S music will
last from 9 till 2.
CBS NETWORK
740
ON YOUR
DIAL
Watch Ambler come puffing down
the court behind the guards who
were bringing the ball down. Then,
too, Ambler had no assortment of
shots at all. The only way that he
seemed able to score was was to
dribble around his defensive man
for lay up shots. This proved un-
successful against Tom and Ger-
hardt, although he garnered plenty
of foul shots when they ran into him
stopping him. But these, too, he was
unable to cash, hitting only 3 out
of 7. This was consistent with his
season average on free tosses which
has hovered around the 40% mark.
Maybe Coach Davis knew what he
was doing.
But, we must consider that Am-
bler is merely a sophomore and he
may develop and eventually make
the wi-iter eat. these words. But,
then, maybe he won't. All the Rice
Owls played good games, no one but
Tom doing any outstanding scoring,
but all playing splendid floor games.
The scoring was evenly divided be-
tween them: Switzer hit 9; Cook, 8;
Rice Fencing Team
Wins Three Medals
The Rice Fencing team won three
medals last Saturday in the Field
House. Miss Lee Kinney of Galves-
ton won Women's novice foil. Sec-
ond place went to Miss Peggy Hall
of Rice, followed by Miss Betty
Woods of Austin in third place.
Jeff Campbell of Rice won first
place in Men's novice sabre. He was
followed by Gus Mistrot of A&M
and Frank Leever of Rice. The
tournament was sponsored by the
Amateur Fencing League of Amer-
ica.
Serious Objections
Can Be Overcome
Foley, 7; ahd McDermott, 6.
Elsewhere Saturday night, Slater
Martin had one of his better nights
as he sparked Texas to an 81-60 over
TCU. Little Duggan connected on
21 out of 39 field goal attempts and
7 out of 8 free shot tries to set a
new conference scoring mark of 49
points in one game, whipping out the
record of 44 set by Bill Henry of
Rice. Most of Martin's baskets came
from about 20 to 30 feet out from
the bucket. Thank God he wasn't hot
last Wednesday!
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terms they will receive can be said
to be comparable with the payment
received for private dispensing.
Objections Can Be Overcome
Opthalmic services are being set
up. These are under the control of
opthalmic service committees in eacl)
area, . including opthalmic medical
practitioners, and opthalmic opti-
cians.
Provision ha*s also been made for
bringing mental health services into
one comprehensive service for the
first time.
Dentists are als<\ organized under
the scheme. Like doctors, they are
free to serve whole time or part
time and to have private, as well as
public patients. "'Patients do not
have to register with any particular
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dentist in or out of their area who
is taking part in the service and is
willing to accept them. 9022 out of
10,000 dentists have already joined
the service.
Under the National Health Serv-
ice, plans are beings made for the
provision, equipment and mainte-
nance of new health centers and
hospitals. The full development of
all improvements envisaged by the
scheme may have to wait until Brit-
ain's economic position becomes
stronger, but the re-distribution of
present medical resources will cer-
tainly serve to make them more
readily available to those who most
need them.
I should like to end this article
with a comment suggested by the
criticism I have heard that the Na-
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Britain a country of hypochondriacs.
In 1912, a health insurance act was
opposed on the grounds, amongst
others, that it would bankrupt the
treasury. Forty years later we we
can see that this objection has not
proved altogether insurmountable.
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The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 38, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 2, 1949, newspaper, March 2, 1949; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth230793/m1/4/: accessed May 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.