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
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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
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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.
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