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Page 8 College Station, Texas Thursday, May 9, 1969 J|-| [ BATTALION Gig ’em Fighting Maggies; Female Football For 1984 By MAYNARD ROGERS Battalion Ass’t Sports Editor “Good afternoon football fans! Welcome to Kyle Field, the Home of the Fig-hting Texas Maggies,” cries the voice of Kyle Field, IM. Beston. The air is filled with excitement, for it is the contest of the year. The Texas Maggies are playing the Delta Delta Deltas of Texas University to decide the champion ship of the Southwest Powder- puff Conference. CHICAGO CP) — No matter how you look at professional wrestling -if you look at all - there’s big money in human beings making pretzels out of each other. “A million groans, a million dollars,” says Fred Kohler. Kohler, 60-year-old Chicago pro moter, is king of the ham market. One of his promotional tricks is to tape a television wrestling show, give it free to a local station, then several days after it has been telecast, move in with the same cast of anatomy benders to per form in the flesh. A million dollars passes through his hands yearly, he says. Although TV exploitation has hypoed interested in the trade, pro fessional wrestling always has First Negro Slated To Be Davis Cupper BY WILL GRIMSLEY Associated Press Sports Writer NEW YORK GPL—The United States may have its first Negro player on the Davis Cup tennis team this year—Arthur Ashe, a 19-year-old UCLA student from Richmond, Va. “This boy has talent running out his ears—he is the finest Negro tennis prospect we have ever had,” Bob Kelleher, non-playing captain, said Tuesday in naming Ashe on an 11-man squad which is being pointed to the 1963 Davis Cup campaign. The group was headed by Uncle Sam’s Big Two-Chuck McKinley, 22, of St. Louis, and Dennis Ral ston, 20, of Bakersfield, Calif.— and also included: Frank Froehling, 20, of Coral Gables, Fla.; Allen Fox, 23, of Los Angeles; Charles Pasarell, 19, of Puerto Rico; Martin Riessen, 22, of Hinsdale, 111.; Cliff Buchholz, 19, of St. Louis; Tom Edlefsen, 20, of Berkeley, Calif.; Gene Scott, 26, of St. James, N.Y., and Don ald Dell, 24, of Bethesda, Md. “This is not to^ be constraed as our definite squad,” Kelleher said. “These are the players who, on their records, must figure in our plans.” The tall, scholarly looking cap tain, a Los Angeles attorney, made it clear that he was high on both Ashe and Pasarell as back-up men for McKinley and Ralston. People are literally packing the stands for this momentous oc casion. The WROTC (Womens Reserve Officers Training Corps) is marching double-file into the stands with their dates from schools all over the state. The girls still uphold the tradition of kis sing their dates after every touch down. Starring for the Fighting Mag gies is the famous tailback, Cud dles Cunningham, a swivel-hipped little gal that moves like a dancer. seemed to have had its load of fans. “Back in the depression years of the 1930’s, people who didn’t commit suicide watched the shows,” says Kohler. “And some wrestlers cleaned up. I remember Gus Sonen- berg coming in off a tour with his suitcase stuffed with $85,000. He didn’t believe in banks and wasn’t afraid anybody would try to take it away from him.” Kohler says his most frustrat ing experience was wrestling a 700-pound bear. They were on tour together in the Midwest. “It kept out-thinking me,” he recalls. “I finally won a match with it in Dubuque, Iowa, and turned to wrestling more orthodox opponents.” Kohler makes up a wrestling card with a basic thought of get ting emotional response from the audience. Once he overdid himself. He had a fellow called The Sheik. “This guy could shoot flames from his finger-end from his fingers-and you’ve got to admit that’s quite a trick,” says Kohler. “In a bout at Comiskey Park, The Sheik used it against one of my nice guys. The fans went wild. They had blood in their eyes. “Then someone set off the White Sox scoreboard. Lights flashed, aerial bombs shot out and the Star Spangled Banner played. It diverted attention and probably preventing a lynching.” Kohler scoffs at charges of matches being out-and-out fakes. “It depends on your definition of the word,” he concedes. “They aren’t fixed. The better man us ually wins. The thing is he doesn’t always win as quickly as he can. This is entertainment, and pro longing it is good business.” The Maggies will also be count ing on the services of Babe Doo little, a 240-pound transfer from TWU, to open holes on the line for Cuddles and her feminine back- field. Other stars for the Maggies today are Priscilla Pilfer, a 38-23- 36 quarterback, Ophelia Bom, 5-5, 195-pound guard, and Maggie Longtree, center, from Long Mott, Tex. The Maggies have had an ex citing season, going undefeated in nine games. The closest anyone has come to them was when they mistook the boys’ dressing room for the girls’ during the game with Chi Omega of SMU, in Dallas. Their most outstanding perfor mance of the season has Been the contest with the Delta Zetas of Sam Houston. Cuddles Cunning ham romped for three TDs in the first quarter before she was pulled out of the game because she lost her hip pads while trying to wig gle through the line on a cross buck. Texas Tech’s Pi Beta Phi gave the Maggies their toughest outing on the schedule. The co-eds from College Station were not used to the conditions out in West Texas and suffered many injuries from sliding on the hard ground. As a matter of fact, knee pads had to be converted into hip pads before the game was over. But the Mag gies came out ahead in the end, 30-12. Babe Doolittle was the heroine against Gamma Alpha Chi of Cou gar High. The big gal with the bigger grin intercepted a pitchout on the Maggies 10-yard line and ran all the way back up the field to pay-dirt. The amazing thing- was that she sped the 90-yard in 10 seconds flat. She is now the fastest girl on campus. Well, that concludes the wrap-up of the Fighting Texas Maggies, folks. Now lets settle down and watch the girls really get with it. MOVING? Complete Moving Service Packing—Transportation— Storage Beard Transfer & Storage Agent For UNITED VAN LINES TA 2-2835 707 S. Tabor, Bryan i ; fir. irrriiTiiom'iii! e anon irxBli'Trsnrrinn!'* un u i miiiftiuiiniis COACH NORTON’S PANCAKE HOUSE 35 Varieties of finest pancakes, aged heavy KC steaks, shrimp, and other fine foods. Daily .... 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