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Page 10 I HE BA I I ALIGN WEDNESDAY, FEB. 18, 1976 Keep on Clog gin’ (Shalas (Shoes 3725 E. 29th 846-1148 Town & Country Center Backlashes By BRUCE SUBLETT Battalion Staff Writer The LaSalle. a resident Hotel FACULTY, STAFF, POST-GRADS: Do you need a quiet, dignified place to live & study? Room and board: $ 250 00 new owners new management month Includes private room w/bath, all utilities, 3 meals daily served in our coffee shop & dining room, linens & daily maid service. A/C - steam heat. Owner/Live-ln Management. La Salle Hotel 120 S. MAIN BRYAN, TEXAS 77801 713/822-1501 When my stock of spinnerbaits runs low, I go to a sewing supply store. No, Fabric World hasn’t started selling Lindyspins or Switchblades. They do sell safety pins, the basis of my scratch-built spinnerbaits. I thought about mass producing them and selling them for 75 cents each, for a quarter profit. My more generous nature has prevailed, so I’ll tell everybody how to build spinner baits as good as the ones in the store. Materials are simple. You need 2-inch safety pins, quarter-ounce concave bottom worm weights. No. 8 swivels, split rings, light wire, 2-0 hooks and plastic skirts. Tools are also simple. A propane torch or soldering gun, acid core sol der and needle-nosed pliers are all it takes. Assemble the materials and tools on the workbench and set up for vol ume production. The process is easier if you mass produce. Step one is to unsnap the safety pin. Use the pliers to break off the sheetmetal guard, which leaves a wire with a point on one end, a loop in the middle and a bend on the other end. Slip the worm weight, nose first, over the pointed end of the pin. Bend a loop at the end of the wire that will fit through the eye of a hook. Put the hook on the loop and crimp it shut. A piece of light wire about half an inch long also goes through the hook eye. Now jam the worm weight down over the loop and hook eye and fill the cavity with solder. A propane torch gets the whole mess hot enough to get the solder in every little hole, which is important for strength. Now go to the other end of the wire. Go ahead and make a loop at the end where the wire is already bent. Put a swivel on the loop, then crimp it shut. A split ring goes on the other end of the swivel and the spin ner blade attaches to the split ring. Before you put the blade on, paint the worm weight, which has become the head of the bait. Use enamel, because other paints won’t stick to the lead. After the paint is diy, spray it with acrylic to make a strong finish. Now put the blade on. I used a split ring to attach the blade for easy changing. The piece of light wire you sol dered in the hook eye comes into play now. It should extend a quarter-inch back parallel to the hook shank. Slip the reversed skirt over the hook and wire, then bend both ends of the wire away from the hook shank. Thiskeepstheslar slipping off. That’s it. You may have to with the angle the spinner an body form to get the baitti exactly right, but that’s noprol Lj The safety pins cost about each, the weights about threeB^ - The swivel and split rings adim about a dime. The blades ft;»y T( where from six cents up toaijtt b»— The skirt may cost anywhererit-pj,,. quarter to 50 cents. Total c(tlL ev . cents up to about 85 cents. IlJL es d baits for $7.61. Had 1 bouglj|k. st many of my favorites, I woul® th— paid $18.90. Not a bad savin; 1 LIKE MOBILE METRIC MECHANIC MY WORK 846*8213 By CARL KEY Battalion Staff Writer The Elephant Bowl, previously canceled, has been re-scheduled for Mar. 4 at 7:30 p.m. The game was originally canceled because it was in a bad time frame, said Capt. Horce Rektorik, military advisor for the Elephant Bowl. “The Southwest Conference bas ketball playoffs will be during that weekend in Dallas and it looks as if A&M will be there,” said Rektorik. Elephant Bowl scheduled for March 6 at Kyle Field BB&L assets now exceed . i /A * March 3, 4 and 5,” said Billy Pickard, athletic trainer. “The trainers should be at those games, and there is also a baseball double header to be played on March 6. “The other reason for the pro posed cancelation is the game was supposedly being played for charity. But after expenses, little was left for charity in the previous years,” said Rektorik. “The Mardi Gras weekend for the Corps starts on Feb. 28 and ends on Mar. 3 in which many of the active Ross Volunteers will be attending, and the Corps cannot afford to take , that time for football away from academics, based on last fall’s grades. “Another problem is that spec tator participation was not that good in years past,” said Rektorik. “They put too much in for what they get out of it,” said Pickard. Michael Fenoglio, cadet senior in charge of the Elephant Bowl said, “The Corps seniors want to play in the Elephant Bowl, and the game was canceled without notice, and we had an uphill battle to get a new date for the game. “We were told we had to pay $800 for insurance and between $200-400 |e e P Jkd p. lies lent par j Jot sc to the; tior [ion oF land m for the stadium lights if wei er suF going to play. As it is now led 94 senior will have to pay $10tol* lenne to play in the game,” saidFeiu lift ^ Practice has started and; pkii teams feel certain they willm ion a.i Aggie footballer Mike Jayi ise (4 head coach for the Army, Nan linio Marine team, while former!! ad co mate Bubba Benin is thecoachit I after Air Force. Ids f> Iliad tH Both teams will practice ra through plays, basic drills am]J| n thenics this week to get into® for the game. Cordon Bledsoe, Army, Marine coordinator, said team has 36 goexl people sofiM they have talent. Hrem ■ P ar The Air Force coordinator,Ulihe 1 Eddington said that his teamtirftum people so far, and isexpectiiignBi co: “I know we’re going to balHtiona Army, for it’s about time thatwHnien said Eddington. “We have goccBork \ ent, and we re going to taketlrBith tl and run with it.” i “We have bigger and lx players than the Air Force doesi personally I think we were enough to get the best coacli said Bledsoe. Ag golf team treks to Lamar tournamei the idl-1 :M athl The Texas A&M University golf team will be one of 20 teams par ticipating in the Lamar University Golf Tournament this Thursday and Friday. .$} The 54-hole event will be held at the Pinewood Country Club in Beaumont. Some of the other schools compet ing with Lamar and Texas A&M are the University of Houston, Okla homa State University and a number iof smaller colleges and junior col leges. This will be A&M’s first ap pearance in the tournament. The tournament begins with play on Thursday of 27-holes and con cludes Friday. All teams will be al lowed to play one practice round on Wednesday. Each team will be allowed to enter six players in the tournament. The four low scores from each team will be used to determine the total team score. Leading A&M into the tot® 135 ment will be Monte Schauer, the last two tournaments has second place finishes. The five golfers representing A&M Bill Alexander, Craig, Schmid Larry Gorzycki, Mike MaynarJ Rusty Day. Schauer’s two second finishes came in the A&M vitational and the Atoscositi vitational Tournaments n\ •1 37-3 “Our players have worked®, hard in practice,” A&M coactf j ,, , Ellis said. “We’ve been concew ing on our short game, chippinjl putting, and it has improved! scores somewhat.” The Aggies have had a weeks half to practice since their Iasi" >EPE prs, Ifotcl |la, 4 ce, 73-3 forte i nament. “I think the hardwoihI33 pay off in the long run,” “and our scores should reflect 1 p7 j y a ■76; Ut W>rshippiif ,2x Dunn Old A GodisonH g ' )MEN