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For Willie Mays More Targets Ahead SAN FRANCISCO <A>)_Willie Mays, who hit his first major league homer as a 19-year-old, smashed the National League ca reer record 15 years later with his 512th and still has targets ahead. The San Francisco Giants cen ter fielder tagged the first pitch from Los Angeles Dodgers left hander Claude Osteen in the fifth inning Wednesday night and sent it over the right-field fence to end 10 days of frustration and mounting pressures. AUSTIN (A*) —Four hundred schoolboys descend on Austin Friday for the five-way Inter scholastic League track meet, with strong title fights in four divi sions. At least a half-dozen overall and a dozen divisional records will be in danger. Abilene Cooper, San Antonio Highlands and Baytown will bat tle for the prized Class AAAA crown with indications pointing to Cooper as most likely to suc ceed. San Marcos and Monahans will battle for the AAA champion ship. Taylor and Palacios look like a dead heat in Class AA, with LaGrange waiting in the wings to win if the others fail. Pettus and Coahoma are tops for the Class A title. Pettus holds a narrow edge. Only in Class B is there an outstanding favorite. It’s Bart lett, powerful in the relays where the point count is twice as high as in the individual events. Wheeler looks like the runnerup. Robert Gonzales of Falfurrias, the greatest schoolboy miler of them all, is the glamor guy of the big meet. He has run the mile in 4:08.0, which is not only the fastest ever in schoolboy ranks but 5.4 seconds under the overall state record. Dickie Phillips of Galena Park North Shore has vaulted 15 feet TUNNELL RAILROAD COMMISSIONER VOTE FOR EXPERIENCE AND INTEGRITY MAY7! CRAWFORD MARTIN FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL Paid Pol. Ad. Vote For FRANK J. BORISKIE for COUNTY CLERK Brazos County The Honest Sincere and Capable Candidate. Subject to action of the Democratic Primary May 7, 1966 (Pd. Pol. Adv.) IF YOU KNEW ALL THREE, YOUR CHOICE WOULD BE CRAWFORD MARTIN FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL PaM Pal. Ad That was his seventh homer of 1966, broke Mel Ott’s record of 511 set in 1946 and made Mays the greatest home-run hitter in the league’s history two days be fore his 35th birthday. Only three players have hit more, all in the American League — Ted Williams with 521, Jimmy Foxx at 534 and Babe Ruth at 714. If Willie passes Foxx — and he should — he’ll become the greatest right-handed homer hit ter in major league annals. Mays watched the baseball 1/2 inch and that’s a half-inch better than the overall state record. At least two could surpass the high jump record of 6-6. Ben Wadlington of San Antonio High lands has leaped 6-614 and Rocky Woods of San Angelo Lakeview has soared 6-6. The 440 record set by Eddie Southern of Dallas Sunset 11 years ago—47.2—could even fall. Jimmy White of Southern Hous ton has a 47.3 to his credit. The 440-yard relay time of 41.2 also comes under the hammer from the mighty Baytown quar tet that has dashed off a 41.4. The overall 220 record of 21.4 is being sighted by Carl Johnson of San Angelo, who already has a 21.3 to his credit, and George Cato of Abilene Cooper, who has done 21.2 but lost to Johnson’s 21.3 in the regional. Abilene Cooper seems capable of scoring close to 40 points with its 3:16.7 mile relay team, its crack quarter-miler Mark Fry and its fine 220 man in Cato. Highlands’ only first place po tential seems to be high jumper Wadlington but should score points in five other events. The meet opens Friday morn ing with Class B running pre liminaries and a scattering of finals in B, A, AA and AAA field events. There will be a night session Friday at which time Classes AAA and AA finals will be held. Finals in AAAA, A and B will be Saturday afternoon. clear the fence in Candlestick Park and could almost feel the pressure ease. The solo shot put the Giants ahead 5-1, and they went on to win 6-1. “You have to have pressures when everybody is wondering when you’ll hit that home run,” Willie said later. “I’ve been a lit tle excited and not hitting at all.” After collecting No. 511 in Houston on April 24, Mays’ bat ting average dropped from .348 to .284, and he had only three hits in 23 plate appearances. Osteen put him down twice swinging before Willie finally connected. “I would like to concentrate now on my batting average,” Mays asserted. “But I’m not go ing to stop swinging. I have to be more relaxed now, but if ever I come close to another record, I guess it’ll be the same again.” Osteen said he threw Mays a change-up — up and over the plate. “It was a bad pitch, and the minute I threw it, I knew it was going out. That was just where he likes the ball to be.” “The last 10 days I’ve been trying for the home run to get this over,” Willie declared. “Now I want to go back to playing ball.” Champions Golf Meet Postponed HOUSTON <A>) _ A fifth con secutive day of rain washed out Thursday’s scheduled first round of the $117,000 Champions Inter national Golf Tournament. The round was rescheduled for Friday, but the Weather Bureau said there is an 80 per cent chance of rain Friday. No one had started play Thurs day on the 7,118-yard, par 36-35- 71 Cypress Course at the Cham pions Golf Club when Jack Tut- hill, PGA tournament supervisor, ordered the postponement. Barring another delay, the final round of the 72-hole tournament will be played Monday instead of Sunday. Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer and Jack Nichols, the pre-tourna ment favorites, for the $20,000 in top money, were over par Wed nesday while taking their first full practice rounds at Cypress during a 7,000 pro-am event. I am deeply grateful for your continued confidence. I hope that I may merit your support again on May 7th-- both at the polls and at your precinct convention, to continue the important progress we are making together. RE ELECT GOVERNOR JOHN C0HNALLY FOR A GREATER TEXAS! Schoolboys Ready For State Meet Bait Predictions For SWC Track For the last couple of weeks, The Batta lion sports department has been following the performances of Southwest Conference tracksters. Based on the spring performances, The Battalion will stick its neck out and predict the outcome of the SWC track meet in Austin Friday and Saturday, plus picking the top four finishers in each event. The crystal ball says: 440 relay — 1. Southern Methodist; 2. Rice; 3. Texas A&M; 4. Baylor. Mile run — 1. Romo, Texas; 2. Davis, Texas; 3. Auffet, Arkansas; 4. Woolsey, Texas. 440 dash — 1. Ellington, Rice; 2. Bankhead, Southern Methodist; 3. Bourland, Baylor; 4. O’ Bryan, Texas. 100 dash — 1. Smith, Texas A&M; 2. Brandt, Baylor; 3. Hoffman, Baylor; 4. Schmidt, Texas A&M. High hurdles — 1. Utecht, Southern Metho dist; 2. Wilkerson, Rice; 3. Smith, Baylor; 4. Charlton, Texas Christian. 880 run —- 1. Davis, Texas; 2. Moss, Rice; 3. Rodriguez, Texas A&M, 4. Hunt, Texas Christ ian. 220 dash — 1. Smith, Texas A&M; 2. Epps, Rice; 3. Hofman, Baylor; 4. Brandt, Baylor. 440 hurdles — 1. Utecht, Southern Methodist; 2. Young, Texas A&M; 3. Ratliff, Baylor; 4. San son, Texas. 3-mile run — 1. Woolsey, Texas; 2. Romo, Texas; 3. Davis, Texas; 4. Brewer, Southern Methodist. Mile relay — 1. Rice; 2. Southern Methodist; 3. Texas; 4. Texas A&M. Broad jump — 1. Smith, Baylor; 2. Brown, Texas A&M; 3. Steve Holtz, Texas A&M; 4. Mad- igan, Southern Methodist. High jump — 1. Schrider, Texas A&M; 2. Holtz, Texas A&M; 3. Miller, Texas Tech; 4. Morris, Rice. Shot put — 1. Matson, Texas A&M; 2. Belt, Texas; 3. Resley, Texas A&M; 4. Mooney, Texas Tech. Discus — Matson, Texas A&M; 2. Mooney, Texas Tech; 3. Resley, Texas A&M; 4. Belt, Texas. Pole vault — 1. King, Texas; 2. Ward, Baylor; 3. Bearden; 4. Marshall, Rice. Javelin — 1. Jacobs, Rice; 2. Meadows, Texas A&M; 3. Sowers, Texas; 4. Cross, Baylor. Team total for top form: Rice, 56; Texas, 54; Texas A&M, 53; SMU, 48. THE BATTALION Page 6 College Station, Texas Friday, May 6,19K Keyed-up students: unwind at Sheraton during spring and summer vacation and save money... This FREE ID Card entitles you to generous room discounts at most Sheratons. (Teachers can enjoy the same discounts.) Ask for your free ID Card from the Sheraton repon campus. George G. Rhine SHE Ft/VTON >tude:nt i o r n t i f i c a t i o n Sheraton Hotels ©Motor Inns (S) ELECT A. P. (Sonny) Boyett, Jr. A College Station Resident As JUSTICE OF THE PEACE Precinct 7 “I Will Serve Your Needs” Pd. Pol. Adv. For just plain FUN! The Pickup for you is a COMFORT-TEST A FORD PICKUP AT YOUR TALL-TRADING FORD DEALER’S ^ CADE MOTOR CO. 1309 Texas Ave. Bryan, Texas A