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able one at the $50,000 Houston
Classic Golf Tournament. Bobby
Nichols, an Aggie-ex who is in his
third year on the professional tour,
won a playoff victory over Dan
Sikes and standout pro Jack Nick-
laus Monday.
Nichols, Sikes and Nicklaus
were left Sunday with 2-under
278’s for the 72-hole tourney. In
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the playoff match Monday, Nick
laus was eliminated after 18 holes,
but Nichols and Sikes remained
in a deadlock and were forced into
a very abbreviated “sudden death”
match.
On the 10th hole, or number one
on Memorial Golf Course, Nichols
was down in three for a sensa
tional birdie that earned him
$9,000 and the championship.
Aggie golf coach, Henry Ran
som, finished in an 8-way tie for
17th after the 72 holes. His 6-
over par 286 was eighth from the
lowest and earned him $800.
Coach Ransom slacked off a bit
from the fine 281 he had at last
year’s Classic. He had only five
birdies this year in conti*ast to
14 for last year. The Bryan cattle
rancher said he believed it was
rusty putting that added more
strokes last week.
In winning the tight playoff vic
tory Monday, Nichols had to come
back from three with only that
many holes left. He picked up a
birdie on the 16th to erase two
strokes and watched Sikes blow
his certain victory with a bogie
on the 17th. He was in trouble
on the front nine too but came
back with an eagle'on ten.
The big eagle came on the 19th,
however, and Nichols’ persever
ance had paid off.
It paid off with the biggest
check for him in his three years.
The championship was his second
this year after he copped top hon
ors in the St. Petersburg Open
earlier in the season.
Coupled with the $8,875 win at
St. Petersburg, Nichols’ Houston
Classic championship gave him a
season total of $17,874.67. He is
now the fourth leading money win
ner for the 1962 pro tour behind
Arnold Palmer ($87,008), Bill
Casper ($25,208) and Gene Littler
($21,491).
The Classic victory itself, how
ever, will mean exactly $14,750 to
Nichols. In addition to the $9,000,
he will receive a total of $5,750
from the various sporting equip
ment companies he represents.
And, by winning the tourney he
has eai’ned an invitation to the
1968 I.as Vegas Tournament of
Champions, which is worth a $1,000
guarantee.
Brought to A&M by Bear Bry
ant to play golf on a football
scholarship, Nichols went on to
be the outstanding Aggie golfer
of that era. In 1956, he earned
the Southwest Conference Golf
Championship.
He had ft slow start in big-time
professional golf, much as the
former NCAA champion Nicklaus
has had this year. The St. Peters
burg won was Nichols’ first pro
fessional championship.
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SWC Golf Leaders
A&M’s vamity golf team is rolling along on ny Johnson, Harry Hoskins,
top of the cotnference, six and a half matches man. Coach Henry Ransom,
ahead. They are (from left to right) : John- John Lively and Jim Fetters.
Open Tennis Play
Begins Saturday
Registration foq* the open tennis
singles will be Saturday at 1:30
p.m. and matches will start at 2:00,
according to Charles E. McCand-
less, intramural (Erector.
Players for the open badminton
singles will be registered at 7:15
p.m. on the third floor of G. Rollie
White Coliseum, he said.
The games are open to all stu
dents excluding members of the
A&M tennis team. Registration
will be on the spot. As a require
ment for the tennis players, they
must bring two new tennis balls.
In Class A softball yesterday,
G-l defeated Sqd. 10, 7-0, and
Maroon Band downed F-l, 4-1.
Results in yesterday’s Class A
tennis matches showed that Sqd.
6 won over E-l, 3-0; Sqd. 13 beat
F-2, 2-1, and that Sqd. 4 downed
Sqd. 9, 2-1.
With points added from the
freshman tennis matches, the re
sulting top 10 Class B intramural
teams ai - e as follows: Sqd. 8 in
first place followed by F-l in sec
ond, Sqd. 1 is third, D-3 and Sqd.
10 are tied for fourth, Sqd. 6 is
sixth, A-l seventh, G-2 eighth, Sqd.
3 ninth and in tenth place is Sqd. 9.
Without points added for tennis
playing, the top 10 teams in Class
A intramurals are G-l and Sqd. 3
tied for first place, Sqd. 10 is third,
Sqd. 6 fourth, F-l fifth, Sqd. 11
sixth, A-l and Sqd. 8 are tied for
seventh, B-2 is ninth and Sqd. 7
is in tenth place.
The civilian top three intra
mural teams remain unchanged
with Puryear Hall first, Mitchell
Hall second and Hart Hall third.
In the game between G-l and
Sqd. 10, G-l quickly took the lead
and was ahead by one run going
into the top of the second. In in
creasing their advantage by several
good hits into the outfield, G-l
had a powerful lead of seven runs
at the end of the second inning.
Coming back with strong de
termination, Sqd. 10 played a good
inning in the top of the third by
downing G-l at bat, three up, three
down.
Sqd. 10 failed, however, to main
tain their drive and G-l took the
game 7-0 after the three innings
of play.
Varsity Golf!
Retains SWCl
Coach Henry Ransom’:
golfers are carrying onij
same play that pushed ti
the conference champioia
the last two years. ( Theya
a 23'4-6'/s; season record fe
centage of .783, and areiBi
in SWC play.
The Ags split a match,H
Baylor at Waco on April 11
With only two cd
matches to go, and the
it looks like the Ags wiHtas
third consecutive chan®
The second-ranked teams i
this season are Baylor anl!
each with 14-10 records u
percentages.
Four of the Ag golfers r
in the list of leading imS
in match play. Johnny Job
batting 1.000 so far within
and no losses.
Jim Fetters, Harry Host
John Lively all have 4-1 raf
match play with .800 avena
Fetters and Lively lead 4
ference in four-ball maW
with five wins, no losses!
1.000 average. Hoskins dl
are in the tie for third iritl
percentage.
The Aggie golf team join
Austin tomorrow for an
portant match with seconds
Texas.
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