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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Tuesday, March 21, 1967
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Ags Snap String
Of Blank Innings
Matson Sets NCAA Record
With Discus Toss Of 200-7 3 /i
The A&M baseball team finally
ended its string of scoreless inn
ings at 24 Friday afternoon in
Travis Park, but still fell to the
Rice Owls, 5-1.
It was the Aggies’ fourth loss
in a row, including three con
ference games.
The Aggies’ lone run came in
the seventh inning, when behind
3-0, Jim Batson and Danny Wes-
terfield walked to open the inn
ing. Tommy Burger, pinch-hit
ting for pitcher Bob Sanders,
then hit a grounder to the Owl
pitcher who threw to third to
force out Batson.
Richard Backest then singled
to left field to load the bases.
Westerfield scored as Mike Ar-
ington grounded to second, but
managed to beat out a double
play attempt.
The Rice hurler, Ronnie Hen
son, squelched three other Aggie
scoring threats as he struck out
nine, walked four and gave up
four hits. The Aggies stranded
six men on base.
ter holidays the team will play
St. Mary’s and Minnesota in San
Antonio. The Minnesota squad
will be making its annual spring
vacation tour through the South
west.
Giants’ Fate Hangs
On Three Wishes
The game was losing pitcher
Tommy Chiles' first appearance
of the year. He gave up three
runs before giving way to relief
pitcher Rocky Thompson.
In the second inning Chiles
walked Andy Rocker and Doug
Nicholson. Jimmy Reed then
loaded the bases with an infield
single. A double by Ronnie
White scored Rocker and Nichol
son and Reed came in on a
ground out by Henson.
The Owls added two more runs
in the eighth inning at the ex
pense of Thompson.
Rice got eight hits, as they
ran their season record to 10-1.
In Southwest Conference stand
ings, they are 2-1.
The Aggies’ Monday game
with the University of Houston
was rained out. During the Eas-
Underwood Named
To Academic Team
Johnny Underwood, a spark
plug in the 1966-67 Texas A&M
basketball team, has been named
to the All-Southwest Conference
Academic basketball team.
The 21-year-old junior business
finance major had eleven semes
ter hours of A in 17 hours under
taken last semester.
Underwood was a starting
guard for the Aggies.
Four scoring stars who received
all-SWC recognition for their
skills on the hardwood floor were
also picked'for the mythical scho
lastic team. Denny Holman and
Charles Beasley, who sparked
Southern Methodist to the SWC
championship for the third
straight year, were selected.
Jimmy Turner, Baylor’s high-
scoring junior, and Wayne Kreis
of Texas Christian, a standout
guard for three seasons were the
other two all-stars joining the
team.
PHOENIX, Ariz. (A>>—A top
pennant contender again, the San
Francisco Giants will be tougher
than ever if three wishes come
true.
“We hope the second base-
shortstop combination is im
proved,” pointed out Manager
Herman Franks, whose clubs have
finished second in his two seasons
at the helm.
“We need some hitting in the
left-field and right-field posi
tions. We didn’t get any last
year.”
Thirdly, the Giants would be
happier if a left-handed starting
pitcher would come through. Ray
Sadecki, acquired in trade last
year for slugger Orlando Cepeda,
proved a disappointment in 1966.
Sadecki is working this spring
to find the winning form again
and the Giants re-acquired Mike
McCormick, 11-14 at Washington
last year.
Strongest assets for San Fran
cisco are power hitters Willie
Mays, Willie McCovey, Jim Hart
and Tom Haller plus a right-
handed pitching staff including
two 20-game winners.
Juan Marichal, a spring hold
out problem, posted a 25-6 rec
ord, his fourth straight season
over 20, while Gaylord Perry fin
ished his best year at 21-8. Bob
Bolin, 11-10, goes in the starting
rotation with the fourth spot
open.
Second baseman Hal Lanier,
who hit only .231, worked all
winter on becoming a switch bat
ter. In the field he’s playing
closer to the bag to increase dou
ble play chances. The Giants
ranked eighth in twin killings
with 131 and Franks declared,
“We gave other teams four outs
too many times.”
By JERRY GRISHAM
Battalion Sports Writer
Kyle Field was again the site
for another record breaking per
formance by Texas A&M’s cele
brated strong man, Randy Mat-
son, Saturday afternoon during
the A&M-Rice-LSU triangular
track meet.
But instead of using the shot,
Matson took the discus in hand
and promptly sailed the dish 200-
feet, 7% inches to smash his
own National Collegiate Athletic
Association mark of 199-7%.
Two years ago in the South
west Conference meet in Kyle
Field he set the NCAA discus
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Sports Editor
Wins Award
WHAT IN THE WORLD IS IT?
A group of women, obviously puzzled by the vehicle, get a
look at Joe Granatelli seated in the turbine-powered car
Studebaker Corp. will enter in this year’s 500-mile Memor
ial Day race in Indianapolis. The car was on display in Los
Angeles. The engine, at right, is a 260-pound Pratt and
Whitney aircraft power plant of 550 hoursepower. (AP
Wirephoto)
Fish
For
Down Rice
First Victory
Ag Golfers Take
Third In Tourney
Texas A&M’s golf team placed
third behind the University of
Houston and LSU in the Lake
Charles Tourney in Lake Charles,
Louisiana this weekend.
Fifteen teams attended the
meet sponsored by McNeese Col
lege.
Terry Archer and John Buff in
were the low scorers for the Ag
gies with identical 15 over par
231’s. Billy Wade and Lee Mc
Dowell both had 232. The fifth
member of the team was Ronnie
Tomas.
The next tournament for the
golfers will come March 29 when
they play in the All-American
Intercollegiate Invitational at the
Pine Forest Country Club in
Houston.
The Aggie Fish baseball team
won its first game of the year
Friday afternoon as they plas
tered the Rice Owlets, 12-2, in
Houston.
Returning to Bryan’s Travis
Park on Saturday the Aggies
made it two in a row with a 3-2
win over the Tyler Junior College
Apaches.
The dual victories leave the
Fish one game short of evening
their season record. They are
now 2-3 for the year.
Boyd Hadaway led the Fish at
the plate in Houston as he went
two-for-five with one triple. The
Aggies blasted the Owlet pitchers
for 12 hits. Rice was charged
with nine errors.
Dave Benesh, the winning
pitcher, won his first game of the
year. Pitching before a home
town crowd, the St. Thomas High
graduate stayed in the entire
game, striking out 12 Owlets,
walking two, and allowing only
two hits.
The two hits came in the sev
enth inning and ruined what had
so far been a perfect game. Ben
esh now has a won-loss record of
1-2, although he has given up
only one run in each of his other
two losses.
In Saturday’s contest, the
Apaches opened the scoring in the
first inning as they got two runs
on a hit and a Fish error.
In the bottom of the first, Joey
Robins of the Aggies reached
first on an error. Hadaway fol
lowed him by way of a fielder’s
choice. A Tyler error and a hit
by Larry Stelley pushed one Ag
gie run across.
The Fish went ahead in the
seventh when Benesh opened with
a double and scored on a wild
pitch after Ron Foust had
reached first on an error. Foust
then scored on a sacrifice fly by
Mike Strauss.
Hadaway was the winning hurl
er as he went the route. Tyler
had four hits and four errors
while the Fish had five hits and
a single miscue.
Monday’s game with Wharton
Junior College was rained out.
The Fish won’t see action again
until April 8 when they host the
Rice Owlets.
By JOHN FULLER
Battalion Special Writer
Gary Sherer, Battalion sports
editor, tied for fourth place in
February’s William Randolph
Hearst Foundation news writing
competition. He will receive a
$200 scholarship from the foun
dation.
Sherer’s story, which appeared
in the Feb. 14 Battalion, covered
Randy Matson’s record-breaking
performances at the Fort Worth
Indoor Games and the Dallas In
door Meet. It was the A&M Jour
nalism Department’s entry in the
monthly contest, which last month
focused on “spot news” writing.
Sherer, a junior journalism stu
dent, tied with Bill Woodruff, Jr.,
a senior at the University of Ari
zona. Each school will receive a
matching grant from the founda
tion.
“This is the highest an A&M
student has placed in the contest
in at least two years,” Dr. Del
bert McGuire, Journalism Depart
ment head, pointed out. He called
the performance “encouraging.”
All accredited schools and de
partments of journalism in the
nation were eligible for competi
tion, McGuire added. This in
cludes 48 colleges and universi
ties.
Judges for the competition are
Hubbard Keavy, Associated Press
bureau chief at Los Angeles;
Roger Tatarian, editor, United
Press International; and Lawr
ence S. Fanning, consultant for
Field Enterprises.
record, along with his world rec
ord shot put toss of 70-7.
Strained ligaments on the top
of his throwing hand prevented
the Pampa athlete from compet
ing in the shot put, his specialty.
Junior George Resley replaced
Matson in the shot put ring and
won the event with a toss of
55-9. It was his first win in a
varsity event.
Matson’s absence from the ring
made a big difference in the
outcome of the meet. Had he
been albe to compete the Aggies
would have taken the honors in
the entire meeting. As it turn
ed out Louisiana State came out
on top with 58 points. The Ag
gies were a close second, with
57. The Rice Owls, with a total
of 55, made the entire point
spread a small three points.
Aggie Track Coach Charlie
Thomas predicted last week that
six or possibly eight records
would fall Saturday. It was
precisely six which were diff
erent at the end of Saturday’s
events.
Besides Matson’s record break
ing toss, the only other
to fall to the Aggie cinden
came as a result of sophom
distance runner John Heffw
record three-mile run of 14:1!
The old mark of 14:55.0 was s
by another Aggie, Ilhan Bilji
tay in 1964.
The Aggies captured six fcj
places in the meet. Rice
LSU each won five firsts.
Other A&M firsts went;
Steve Holtz who won with a t : I
jump of 6-4, Steve O’Neal in;
broad jump with a leap of!
and Deward Strong with a
second time in the 120-yi
hurdles.
Carl Hight of LSU was
meet’s high-point man
broke two meet records. HifJ
set a new record in the 220-ys
dash with a time of 20.9 anl|
time of 9.4 in the 100-yar
Conley Brown, Rice’s 440-yi
dash man, broke last year’s:
ord of 47.5 with a time of 461|
The Rice mile relay team I
the old record of 3:14.4 by:
three seconds, with a timel
3:11.2.
Clay Ready For Folley Fight
Says He May Go 15 Rounds
NEW YORK (A*)—Heavyweight
champion Cassius Clay shadow-
boxed and skipped rope, joked
with Joe Louis and Sugar Ray
Robinson, and then said he might
have to go 15 rounds with Zora
Folley Wednesday night.
“This will be a boxing match
—no talking,” said the 25-year-
old champion as he finished his
training Monday by loosening up
in the basement of Madison
Square Garden.
“Folley hasn’t popped off so I
won’t be vicious. I’ll do a couple
of Ali shuffles. It will be a good
scientific fight. No extras.”
Sometimes he was serious but
mostly he talked with tongue in
cheek before a crowd of about
75 newsmen and about 20 spec
tators who managed to get in
for what was billed as a “secret
workout.”
Did he work out secretly in the
morning ?
“I don’t need any secret work
outs,” he replied. “I don’t need
gimmicks. That’s for old fi(l|
ers.”
Asked how he rated his coi|
tion and mental attitude fori
fight as against others, Clay
“I would say about equal
the second Sonny Liston fr
What would he weigh?
“About 206—about what
weighed for the second Lit
fight.”
Clay weighed exactly
his second fight with Listoi
May 25, 1965, when he kn«
out the former champion
one punch in their controve
one-rounder at Lewiston, Me
So don’t be surprised if
despite his remarks about a
rounder, goes out for
knockout.
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Boston 4, Pittsburgh 3
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