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.
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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-
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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.
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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.”
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