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THE BATTALION f-RIDAY, MARCH 2, 1979 Page 11 ackson at peace ith Yankees — now By MILTON RICHMAN UPI Sports Editor FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — She was a little girl and she was etarded, and as busily occupied as he was, Reggie Jackson noticed at femmediately. Th( little girl and her mother were among the more than 200 fans vvho|waited patiently in the stands until Jackson finished his first i workout of the spring Tuesday. He was the last member of the Yankees to leave the field, but fore he did, he walked over to the stands near the first base dugout jsijgn autographs. ^Hben the mother of the little girl made the request for her, ackson turned his full attention to the youngster. "Who' s your favorite player?” he asked her. She seemed a bit timid and her mother repeated Jackson’s ques tion. “Mickey Rivers,” answered the little girl. Th is brought a howl of delight from all those around her and a smile lie from Jackson, who gave her his autograph. “If I give you my hat, will I be your favorite player?” he asked, having already made u\, his mind to do so, anyway. She nodded and * .ckson took his cap off his head and put it on hers. In all the year., ne played for the Yankees, Babe Ruth never made a ^ grander spring training entrance than Reggie Jackson did this time. ^ He began the day by easily smoothing over one potential crisis and endfcd it by getting through another one magnificently. Jackson showed up in the clubhouse on time but he was sporting a itwopionths’ growth of beard. One of George Steinbrenner’s rules is thatlall the Yankees will be clean shaven, at least as far as beards are naerned. A neatly trimmed moustache is all right. ^^feinbrenner, who was on hand for Tuesday’s workout, happened to be in Lemon’s office when Jackson showed up in the clubhouse and alsojeame into the office. “I see you’re looking at me,” Jackson said to Steinbrenner, laugh- in g. ' “Yeah, I’m looking at you,” answered the Yankee owner, laughing i also. Jackson deposited his gear in his locker and then went into the bathroom to shave off his beard. By now, all the other Yankee players were on the field and it was 10:20 before the clean shaven Jackson joined them. | Lemon laughed off the whole thing. | | Potential crisis No. 2 could have turned out more serious. /(/ It|took place after Jackson had finished his workout and then sat in the dugout answering questions by newsmen for more than an hour. L What would happen, Jackson was asked, if the Yankees decided he wasn t good enough to be their regular right fielder and told him he would be their designated hitter. ** ^“^Blepends on how they approach it to me,” he said. ‘T’m not gonna s be tricked into it. I’ll rebel if it’s that. I don’t like that.” Y "“I Then suddenly, he threw in the shocker. omgt» “j in no { g onna be the designated hitter at 33 years of age. I’ll quit 1 first, he said. 'rieliii But he quickly amended that. /e that really sounds tough,” he said. eami: f was laughing now, seeking to soften what he had said. Huo you understand what I’m trying to say? I’m physically not ^ ,0 going to embarrass myself. And I don’t want to be embarrassed. I’ve s ' x ? been embarrassed here. I’m not talking loud, fellas. Please keep it in i onell proper context when you write it. Please project the tone of what I’m ildhaii try|ig to imply.” t Arkry %\ la t Reggie Jackson was saying was that he doesn’t want to make waves. He’s happy with everybody, he said, and he’d like to stay that play "j way. id aref Tast spring he started out the same way and everything went smfothly for nearly five months. lally I ng, oK tie* rerganj ArkaJ! to be .ms sai? ■e moitj win. l^^Klnited Press International e pl LEXINGTON, Ky. — When De- la Patrick lifts weights, members kansai|he A University of Kentucky foot- Thcfrjl team notice. tyofT®nly| 36 of 98 men on the Ken- Houjky team can lift more weight than in I : 20-year-old brunette, a 5-foot-8, >ur lai 4-pound shot putter on the Hit track team quickly becom- one of the nation’s top women putters. trick hopes to be selected for biS. team that will face the iet Union in Fort Worth this l®d. She is so strong. I wouldn’t mess h her,” says Dan Fowler, a botr4, 235-pound All- theastern Conference lineman, j Teiaifowler says Patrick is one of the ,tal fouls st dedicated athletes he’s ever schnteH She is lifting on Sundays and all urs of the night during the week, ” said. “How many guys do you , i d working out at midnight?” flftkPatrjck, a uk junior, has tossed iLLEGl- 9-pound shot put 49 feet, 8 .hesjand placed second in the re- )ur i it Mason-Dixon Games at Louis- d\ 2 le behind the University of Ten- 2-210, i-OO.Md 3 8, W< 0-02, 0-18, Freshman walk-on en joys memories Hinkle is an accomplished player By BETH YOUNG Battalion Reporter How many people can say that they have toured England with John Newcombe’s junior tennis team and then returned home to make the starting team of a major university? Texas A&M freshman Ferol Hinkle, can boast of such accom plishments in her short career. Hinkle said that touring England and playing for the Aggies are her two most memorable tennis experi ences. After defeating Trinity Uni versity’s nationally ranked Lori Oberhide last week, Hinkle has another memory to add to her list. The Aggie newcomer, who won the match against Oberhide in the Texas Women’s Collegiate Section als in Beaumont, said that the main thing she had to concentrate on in order to win was the fact that the Trinity star had an injured wrist. “Even though she had a bad wrist,” Hinkle said, “in the first set she was strong. I knew I had to play her weakness, which was her bac khand, and it got to her. “I could tell her wrist was hurting her, and even though it sounds cruel, I knew I had to come back. So, I got with it.” After a slow start in the first set, Hinkle came back to defeat Oberhide 2-6, 6-3, 6-4. Before the tournament, Hinkle did not know that Oberhide had been nationally ranked since she was 12 years old. “I was really excited about beat ing her,” Hinkle said, “and so was everyone else. When I found out she was nationally ranked, it was that much better.” Hinkle added that even though Oberhide was hurt, she has the ex- perince to know how to play with an injury. “if she didn’t want to play,’’ Hinkle said, “she wouldn’t have been out there.” Hinkle, who has been hampered by an injury herself, said that this was a very hard match mentally. “I knew she had an injury,” she said, “and so did I. It was hard to finish it mentally. Otherwise, it was just a regular match.” Hinkle’s victory added to Texas A&M’s 5-4 defeat of Trinity in Beaumont. The two teams niet again Wednesday in San Antonio, but this time the Aggies were not so fortunate. Trinity defeated Texas A&M 9-0 with Hinkle falling to Lynn Cox 2-6, 1-6. In other singles action, Kath leen Sissom lost to Carrie Fleming 1-6, 1-6; Maylan Hooton lost to Kim Steinmetz 1-6, 0-6; Pam Hill lost to Stacy Bowman 4-6, 3-6; Judy Willard lost to Kerry Sterling 1-6, 0-6 and Mary Guerra lost to Kathy Kuhne 1-6, 4-6. The Aggies lost all three of their doubles matches. Hinkle, an 18-year-old from Temple, has been playing tennis for five years. She said the main reason she got interested in tennis was be cause all her friends were playing. “I played golf in the eighth grade and had to decide before I got to high school because we could only play one sport at Temple,” she said. “I like tennis because it was more challenging than golf.” Hinkle’s association with John Newcombe started when she went All-SWC team named entucky shot putter utlifts football players nessee’s Rose Maria Gauch, a member of the Canadian National team, who won the meet with a throw of 51 feet, 3 inches. “This year, I would like to work towards the Pan American games,” said Patrick. “Right now, I’m only taking one step at a time.” Since the 98 football players pack the Shively weight room in the af ternoon, Patrick usually has to wait until about 7:30 p.m. to go through her workout, planned by coach Pat Etcheberry. In weightlifting, she can squat 385 pounds, a feat that only 36 of the football players can do better. The squat lift involves placing 385 pounds behind her shoulders and, from a standing position, easing down so her thighs are parallel to the ground and then standing straight again. She can bench press 205 pounds. “Deanna does sit ups with a 50- pound weight behind her neck and she doesn’t do one or two, she does 15 to 70 repetitions,” said Etch eberry. “The players see her lifting and they do a double take. They re spect her. I think Deanna enjoys that.” United Press International DALLAS — Sidney Moncrief, who helped lead Arkansas to a third-place finish in the NCAA tournament a season ago and who was the key factor in the Razorbacks’ surprising success this year, was a unanimous selection to the United Press International all-SWC basket ball team announced Wednesday. Moncrief, whose slam dunks and high scoring performances contrib uted to a sellout season in Fayet teville, easily outpolled Baylor’s Vinnie Johnson — the league’s lead ing scorer — as the player of the year in the SWC. In balloting by sports writers and broadcasters from throughout Texas and Arkansas, Moncrief and Johnson were joined on the first team by Texas’ Tyrone Branyan, Texas A&M’s Vernon Smith and SMU’s Brad Branson. Branson’s late season surge and his winning of the league’s rebound ing championship allowed him to edge Texas A&M’s Rudy Woods for newcomer of the year honors. Arkansas’ Eddie Sutton was named the league’s coach of the year for the third consecutive season. Sutton won by a single vote over Gerald Myers of Texas Tech. Sutton’s Razorbacks were not ex pected to challenge for the league title this year because of the loss of Marvin Delph and Ron Brewer from the 1977-78 team. But Arkansas shared the SWC title with Texas and became the first team ever to beat the Longhorns in their 2-year-old arena. Moncrief and Johnson were re peaters from the 1977-78 team. It was the third straight year for Moncrief to make firstteam all conference. In his freshman year he was on the second team. This year’s second team was made up of Woods and Rynn Wright, Texas A&M and the Texas trio of guards Jim Krivacs and John Moore and forward Ron Baxter. Engineers are you confused? What to do after BS Come to the ASME panel discussion M S vs MBA vs Industry featuring Dean Thomas Grad Engr Dean Phinip ] Grad Bus Dr Reynold J Mark Jones Exxon Tue March 6 Rm lOZ 7 pm Zachry ALPHA DELTA PI PRESENTS ... Playday! 0W )0£ HgH “Everything Goes Olympics” Competition between A&M fraternity men Events include arm wrestling, tug of war, beer chugging, pie eating and even kissing contest! PLAYDAY is free of charge. The public is invited to attend. Friday, March 2 4.00 p.m. Tanglewood Park Superstar Competition Saturday, March 3 11:00 a.m. Tanglewood Park PLAYDAY 8:00 p.m. - ? SPJST Hall in Snook, TX Awards Dance Tickets cost $2 and will be sold at the door to the Austrailian tennis star’s T-Bar-M Tennis Camp in New Braunfels while she was still in high school. She also spent every weekend of her sophomore and junior years at tennis clinics at Lakeway in Austin. Hinkle made Texas A&M’s team as a walk-on. She tried out at the beginning of the fall semester. “There were five or six trying out for one position,” she said. “We played each other while Coach (El len) Buchanan watched. The last day she told me that I had made it. I was really excited, especially since I didn’t think I had a chance.” She now spends about three hours a day practicing with the team and practices on her own.as well. At home in Temple, she said she prac tices the the same amount of time on the tennis courts behind her house. Hinkle said that she feels her par ents have been most helpful in her tennis career. “They never pushed me,” she said, “and didn’t stick a racket in my hand at the age of four. But they did set up lessons for me and took me around to tournaments in the sum mer. They kept me going.” Hinkle said that tennis has satis fied her need for competition and has helped her make new friends. “You know,” she said, “some times I think you even get to know yourself. You’ve got to make your own decisions and figure things out for yourself.” Despite her recent success, Hinkle said she feels she started playing tennis late in life because, according to her, the age for starting tennis is getting younger every year. “Tennis is a life-long sport,” she said. “I don’t know if you could get a group of 70-year-olds together for a volleyball game bqt you see them on the tennis court everyday.” The freshman marketing major is uncertain about her plans after col lege, but she said she would like to keep playing tennis, possibly as a pro at a country club. “I want to do something active,” Hinkle said, “and I wouldn’t like being in an office all day. No matter what. I’ll keep playing tennis.” 'ALTERATIONS 1 IN THE GRAND TRADITION OF OLD TEXAS WHERE MOTHER TAUGHT DAUGHTER THE FINE ART OF SEWING — SO HELEN MARIE TAUGHT EDITH MARIE THE SECRETS OF SEWING AND 'LTEBATIONS. “DON’T GIVE UP — WE’LL 11 MAKE IT FIT!” " AT WELCH'S CLEANERS. 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