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Ags Host Rice Friday
Ey GARY SHERER
The Aggies will be looking for
heir first Southwest Conference
ictory Friday afternoon when
hey host the Rice Owls at Travis
’ark in Bryan.
NOW 0-2 IN conference play,
[loach Tom Chandler’s charges
yill be hoping to break the 20-
nning scoreless draught that
overs their last three games. In
he last 27 innings the Aggies
lave just managed one run. Per-
aps an old baseball superstition
an be applied to the Aggie run
shortage.
Some old baseball fans will tell
you that if you score too many
runs in one game you will take
away some of the runs in future
games. The Maroon and White
scored 18 in its first game.
Regardless of fate or lack of
it, the Aggies have to get back
on the winning trail if they are
to have a chance in this year’s
conference race.
AS THE SWC shapes up now,
Texas Christian is 2-0 and Rice,
along with Southern Methodist,
Sports Aplenty
Matson Drafted
By NFL Falcons
By GARY SHERER
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The college football player draft by the National and
American Football Leagues started Tuesday and there
ire some interesting developments.
An interesting draft pick as far as Texas A&M is
oncerned was the selection of Randy Matson by the
Ulanta Falcons. Matson revealed that he had talked
Bo the Atlanta people before the draft was conducted, but
;he Falcons drafted the 6-6 shotputter.
Matson told them he wanted a gold medal in the
llympics before he would consider anything else. Atlanta
iwners understood the situation, but they drafted the
^mpa strongman because he has expressed an interest
n playing pro football.
He last played football in high school. Even though
lot playing while at A&M, it probably would not be too
lard for the 260-pound athlete to learn the pro game,
le certainly is big enough.
In the draft, Arkansas’ Loyd Phillips was the only
Southwest Conference player picked in the first round.
The All-America tackle from Longview was drafted by
the Chicago Bears.
Aggie tackle Jack Pybum was selected by the Miami
Dolphins. He was one of 23 Texas football players to be
irafted in Wednesday's proceedings.
Other SWC players picked were: Frank Horak-Texas
Dhristian (Los Angeles) ; Ronnie Pack-Texas Tech (New
Drleans); Ron Medlen-Southem Methodist (Boston) ;
leorge Gaiser-SMU (Buffalo) ; David Conway-Texas (San
Diego); Jerry Griffin-SMU (Chicago) ; Gene Bledsoe and
John Elliott-Texas (New York Jets).
Probably the most frustrated team representatives were
the group from the New York Giants. They were forced to
wait until the fourth round before they could make a
selection. This meant that 81 players were selected before
the Giants got a choice.
This situation was brought about by the Giants trad
ing their first three draft choice to the Minnesota Vikings
for quarterback Fran Tarkenton.
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ATTENTION ATHLETES: Randy Matson was by
the Batt office today and asked the paper to run an an
nouncement concerning his weight belt. Someone appar-
ntly has it and Randy would like it back right away.
Baylor and Texas, are tied at 1-1
and the Aggies are 0-2. Texas
Tech and Arkansas don’t com
pete in the SWC baseball race.
Rice is now 9-1 on the season.
They suffered their first loss of
the year Tuesday afternoon at
Waco as Baylor’s George Bevil
shutout the Owls, 1-0.
The Owls, like the Aggies don’t
have an exceptionally hard-hit
ting attack, but Rice probably has
the best pitching staff in the
SWC. The ace of the staff is
lefthander Ray Hooten and he
will probably get the starting call
from Rice Coach Doug Osburn
for Friday’s game.
SHORTSTOP Billy Costa is the
Owl’s leading hitter, along with
first baseman Frank Mandola
and second baseman Lynn Berry.
One pro scout says of Costa, “He
will beat you to death with his
hustle.” This is a fine compli
ment, as the Houston product is
just a sophomore.
Chandler is undecided about his
starting pitcher for the 3 p.m.
game. It just may be workhorse
Rocky Thompson.
Now 4-3 after Tuesday’s loss to
Texas, the Aggies have a .267
batting average, which isn’t too
bad, but the statistic that hurts is
69 left on base. This is an aver
age of nine per game and you
can’t leave nine men on base
every game and still win.
CATCHER JOE Staples leads
the team in hitting with a .455
mark. Shortstop Mike Arring
ton, at .333 is the only other
starter over the .300 mark. Pete
Maida and Ricky Schwartz are
close with .296 and .294 averages.
Maida is the biggest run pro
ducer, with eight runs-batted-in
and also leads in home runs, with
two.
The Aggies will take the week
end off following the Rice game.
NO HITCHHIKERS, PLEASE
Steve Vandenberg of Duke University appears determined
to see this thing through—either get the ball from Clarence
Smith of Southern Illinois, or get a ride. He wound up with
a foul called against him, however, in National Invitation
Tournament basketball action in New York City. In back
ground, right, is Creston Whitaker of Southern Illinois.
Southern Illinois won, 72 to 63 to advance to semi-finals.
(AP Wirephoto)
Fish Base bailers
Visit Rice Friday
Baylor Defeats
Texas Lutheran
WACO, Tex. bP) — Tommy
Lloyd pitched a three-hitter as
Baylor beat Texas Lutheran 8-1
in baseball Wednesday.
Baylor used five hits, includ
ing doubles by David Boone and
Jack Compton, a triple by Robert
Black and a home run by Rusty
Clark.
Lloyd struck out six and al
lowed only three balls to be hit
out of the infield.
Still seeking their first win of
the baseball season, the A&M
Fish go to Houston Friday after
noon to try and erase, at the ex
pense of the Rice Owlets, the
goose egg which has been in their
victory column for the first three
games.
Dave Benesh will be the start
ing pitcher for the Aggies in the
2:30 p.m. game. Benesh’s record
so far is 0-2, although he has giv
en up only two runs.
Benesh, a graduate of St.
Thomas High School in Houston, r
will be pitching before a home
town crowd.
Top hitter for the Fish is Larry
Stelley who has seven hits out of
11 trips to the plate. Two of his
hits were home runs.
Saturday the Fish return to
Travis Park in Bryan to play the
Tyler Junior College Apaches in
a 2 p.m. game.
The Fish complete the first half
of their season Monday as they
host the Wharton Junior College
squad in a 3 p.m. contest at Trav
is Park.
After the game with Wharton,
the Fish will be out of action un
til April 8. The Rice Owlets will
again be the opposition in a game
played at Travis Park.
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967 Texas University Invitational
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'exas campus Saturday.
Twenty schools will be repre
sented, including all the schools
n the Southwest Conference, and
'rom as far away as Maryland.
Jhoon Rhee, a 6th Degree Black
lelt will be the chief official.
A&M’s team will consist of Jeff
Meland in the Brown Belt divi
sion, Harry Polly, Walter Cloyd,
)on Eamst, Fred Guffin, David
fV’ard and Joe Greenslade in the
Green Belt division and Harriet
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