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He battalion Wednesday, March 1, 1967 College Station, Texas Page 5 i ACE MS*' ' *1 NOW SHOWING iOCK HUDSON • GEORGE PEPPAkO GU/ STOCKWELL • NIGEL GREEN NOW SHOWING 1EST OF THE MARINE BPS BLOCKBUSTERS! iAD EVERETT gem AraAmi^" WLLW< CHRISTIAN NICOLOR* PANAVISION* FROM WARNER BROS. r Tu« LAST NITE for the i , the Sf U>ULT ART SERIES ire avaiXESH & LACE ,, 1 s 1 acher VtmYs;,?, ...| (jti w t; 1 vi ftcs VRft i to rs in educa' on ml" te Col STARTS TONIGHT rdea ‘ “WEEKEND i witi WARMORS” & “SPENCER’S MOUNTAIN” - I IRCLE >NIGHT AT 6:45 P. M. RMA LA DOUCE” & “McLINTOCK” Sports Aplenty Baseball Season Starts Today By GARY SHERER elZM* % The Ag-gie baseballers, who start today, are behind the starting dates of Rice and Southern Methodist. The Owls have played three games thus far and have won them all. The same situation holds true for SMU. The two teams, incidentally, are the favorites for the Southwest Conference crown. Aggie Coach Tom Chandler says this year marks the first time in many that the Aggies or Texas weren’t picked as pre-season favorites. In Friday’s game with St. Mary’s of San Antonio, Chandler’s trio of pitchers figures to be Walter Varvel, Tommy Chiles and Tommy Patrick. Chiles should act as the steadying influence in the trio, as he is the only one with varsity experience. With five out of nine pitchers being sophomores, Chandler will be looking with a seasoned eye to pick out the most outstanding hurlers in time for the Aggies first SWC game with Texas Christian March 11. Two varsity footballers are on the baseball squad. Bob Long, a halfback, becomes the starting centerfielder for the Aggie nine. Dan Desterfield, starting defensive 0 ^ back, will be backing up Long. Westerfield, a senior, will opring Sports be playing his first baseball since high school. — z_ On other Aggie sports fronts, Randy Matson will lead the track team into a triangular meet with Rice and host Texas at Austin this weekend. Word from tu is that they have surveyed their shotput ring and throwing area and everything is in readiness for the big Pampa athlete. Texas hopes the Saturday event will be the scene for Matson setting still another and longer record for the shot. The 6-6 seniord owns the Memorial Stadium record of 69-0%, set in this same trimeet in 1965. Matson won both the shot and discus in the meet with Baylor Friday and will be the overwhelming favorite to repeat the double win in the Austin meet. Turning for a look at the national college basketball scene, upsets were the rule in last weekend’s action. The trend was especially true for teams that had already clinched their league championships. Connecticut which is headed for the NCAA finals, was dumped by second-place Rhode Island at Providence, 97-96. Western Kentucky, which also had clinched its league title (Ohio Valley Conference), lost to Murray State, 75-69. A final upset was Louisville (Missouri Valley Con ference champ) losing to Wichita, 84-78. As would be expected all the losses occurred on the underdog’s floor. Wi WINS DATONA 500 Mario Andretti of Nazareth, Pa., is a very happy man after winning the Daytona 500- mile stock car race at Daytona Beach, Fla. Helping him hold his trophies is his wife. He won the 200-lap race with an average speed of 146.926 mph driving a 1968 Ford. (AP Wirephoto) Minor Sports Top Weekend Holman Praises Aggie Fans DIGRESSING just a bit, SMU basketball star Dennis Holman deserves a compliment for certain statements he made about the crowds he has played before in DUTCH KETTLE SPECIAL Fo NEW Friends and OLD Friends # Dutch Kettle Deluxe Hamburger (as you like it) • Hash Browned Potatoes (Our Specialty) • Dutch Kettle Pie (Sliced) —Home made in our Kitchen— • Coffee or Iced Tea Only 88c Good only March 1st through March 15th Dutch Kettle I RESTAURANT Gus Ellis ’37 100 Hwy. 6, So. College Station AN OPEN LETTER [ello Aggies, For several weeks we have been running our adver- sement in the Battalion telling you about Aggieland .ecreation Center located behind Betty’s Fashions in the Edmond Terrace Center, College Station, Texas. We’ve told you that we have two five by ten billiard ibles, two five by ten snooker tables, sixteen four by ight billiard tables, seven pin ball machines and other ames. That we are open 7 days each week from 8 a. m. ill midnight. That no alcoholic beverages are sold or llowed. That we sell billiard supplies, jointed cue sticks, tc. Hundreds of Aggies have visited our Recreation lenter, and we believe most of them were impressed. If ou have never visited the Aggieland Recreation Center, ve hope you will very soon. We believe you will like what ou see. AGGIELAND RECREATION CENTER Redmond Terrace Center College Station, Texas S. By the way, the girls play here! G. Rollie White Coliseum. In addition to praising the bas ketball court in an article by Bob St. John, sports writer for The Dallas Morning News, Holman praised the fans. “A&M has a fine court to play on and the crowd is certainly loud, but it isn’t bad at all. It’s not like a lot of places where '.hey throw things at you.” “They’re good sports at Col lege Station.” By CHARLIE ROWRON The Texas A&M soccer team won its second straight game with the Rice University squad by a score of 8-1. Gilberto Garza put on an ex cellent scoring performance as he tallied five points for the Aggies. Leon Americus completed the scoring for A&M with three sec ond-half goals. The Aggies have a new goalkeeper in Carlos Guer ra but he did not have much of a chance to demonstrate his ability as the other defensive players did a top-notch job. IN THE SOCCER tournament now going on, South America de feated North America 3-2, and Tunisia topped Central America 3-1. The tournament will con tinue this Sunday with two more games starting at 1:30 p.m. SWIMMING The Southern Methodist Uni versity swimming team did little to injure its No. 6 national rank ing as their swimmers whipped the Aggies 79-25. The twelve-event dual meet was almost a complete sweep for the Mustangs as the Aggies won only one event. The 400-yard free style relay team of Bob Dom- mel, Steve Ash, Tom Holder, and Jerry Keating won that event in 3:28.9, one second faster than the SMU quartet. Overbeck Leads Texas Offense In 88-79 Victory AUSTIN, Tex. <A>) _ Gary Overbeck’s 20 points and 18 re bounds were more than enough to spoil Texas Christian coach Buster Brannon’s last road ap pearance Tuesday night and to lead Texas to an 88-79 victory over the Horned Frogs. It gave Texas sole possession of second place in the Southwest Confer ence basketball race. Texas Christian led all the way in the first half although Texas pulled within a point with 1:47 remaining. The Frogs were ahead by as much as 11 points but had to be content with 30-37 at inter mission. Overbeck got 12 points in the second half and Texas’ fast break and under-the-basket shots gave the Longhorns the lead 50-49 with 15:39 remaining. Mike Gammon’s free throw furnished the first Longhorn lead and Texas never was behind the rest of the way with TCU managing to tie it six times in the second half but not able to take over. The Longhorns hit 49.3 from the field compared to 42.3 for the Frogs. Overbeck led all scorers with 20 but the five starters for both teams were in double figures. Wayne Kreis got 19 to top TCU. It was Texas’ highest confer ence score of the year. THE AGGIE FISH also lost to the SMU Colts, but by a narrow er margin, 67-37. The Fish won two of the twelve events in their competition. Larry Linn was the only Aggie to win an individual event. His time of 2:12.5 was good enough to take the 200-yard individual medley. The freshmen also won the 400-yard freestyle relay. Lar ry Sherrill, John Greenhut, Hank Paup, and Jerry Deutsch swam the distance in 3:37.9. Arlington State will provide the next opposition for the swim mers Friday at 7 p.m. in Downs Natatorium. TENNIS THE TENNIS TEAM plays host to the University of Corpus Christi Friday afternoon and East Texas State Saturday. UofCC has five top Central and South Amer ican players. Vicente Zarazua, a sophomore from Mexico City, plays in the top position for the Tarpons. His list of accomplishments is im pressive. His titles include: Mexican National champion, 1966; Junior Champion of Mexi co for four years, 1959-62; a No. 1 ranking in Mexico’s men’s sin gles; and a No. 2 ranking in doubles. In their last match, the Cor pus Christi netters mastered the Baylor team, 6-0. With oppon ents with records as impressive as this, the Aggies have their work cut out for them. The dual match starts at 1:30 p.m. Friday at the Varsity Courts. The freshmen netters return to action Tuesday against Trinity University at College Station. GOLF THE TEXAS A&M golf team will get its first real test of the season Friday and Saturday at the Fort Worth Recreation Meet. Coach Henry Ransom has six lettermen back from last year’s team, including potential SWC individual champion Lee Mc Dowell. The senior two-letter- man tied for second place in the SWC’s individual tourney as a sophomore. McDowell shot a nine-over par 289, one stroke more than winner Randy Geisel- man of Texas. McDowell lost to Mason Ad kins of Texas last year, again by one stroke. Adkins birdied the next to last hole after he was given a drop that McDowell termed unfair. Senior Ron Thomas is the only other two-letter winner on the squad. Returning one-letter men are Terry Archer, Skip Bresk, John Buffin, and David Holcomb. Bill Wade, a junior transfer, and Tommy Hamilton, a sophomore, complete the team. Second baseman Jim Lefebvre of the Los Angeles Dodgers will be tried at third base this spring. He played 40 games at the spot last season. ATTENTION Corps Sophomores and Juniors Picture schedule for Aggie land ’67 to be taken at the University Studio in North Gate. Feb. 27 to March 4 - M-R March 6 to March 11 - S-Z ATTENTION Civilian Sophomores and Juniors Pictures scheduled for 1967 Aggieland to be taken at University Studio. Feb. 27 to March 4 - U-Z and make-ups MinlcoArl Supply 'pictu/ue, pAcuMje4~ •923 So. Col Itg* Ayr - Bry«*,T«te£ Iampus WALKING SHORTS now at LOUPOTS North Gate FREEPORT Mechanical, Chemical And Petroleum Engineers Freeport Sulphur Company, the world’s leading producer, will inter view on campus Thursday, March 2. Engineers searching for a chal lenging career with advancement potential are urged to contact their Placement Office for an appointment. Freeport’s corporate family is growing rapidly, with five domestic divisions—and more to follow—spread from Georgia to New Mexico. Current investment in new plant facilities in Louisiana, alone, total more than $75 million. Sales in 1966 topped $140 million, with fewer than 3,000 employees. We are the nation’s largest and oldest sulphur producer and rank among the leaders in kaolin clay and potash development. Upon com pletion of a new sulphuric-phosphoric acid plant complex, 55 miles upstream from New Orleans, Freeport will also be among the leading suppliers to the fertilizer industry. Strong emphasis on research and process development, especially relating to physical chemistry, minerals extraction and hydromet allurgy, has helped make Freeport a leader in these fields. The Engineering Department, too, has achieved prominence in project design, development and construction supervision of new plants in virtually all of the company’s projects. Whether your interest lies in research and development, design and construction or production, Freeport offers a challenging position for you in a' company of the future—big enough to be in American in dustry’s “big league,” yet compact enough for you to achieve personal satisfaction through individual accomplishment and recognition. The Draft? Freeport, as a major supplier of strategic materials, is considered an essential industry. Although we hire without regard to selective service status, if you can qualify for a critical occupation (II-A) rating, you should contact your Placement Office for further details. Or, write or call: A. P. Jelley, Assistant Manager- Industrial & Personnel Relations Freeport Sulphur Company P. O. Box 61520 New Orleans, La. 70160 Telephone: Area Code 504/529-4393