Aggie Golfers Clinch Title
The Aggie golf team has offi
cially won the Southwest Confer
ence championship.
They clinched the title when
the second-place Baylor Bears
dropped out of contention Wed
nesday by losing 4-2 to the Texas
Christian team.
The title was the fifth cham
pionship for Coach Henry Ran
som in the eight years he has been
at Aggieland. Four of the titles
came in his first four years at
the helm. Last year the Aggies
finished in the conference cellar.
The two other Ransom teams fin
ished fourth.
Saturday the team hosts the
Baylor squad on the A&M course
for their final match of the sea
son but the results will have no
effect on the standings.
Lee McDowell, Baytown sen
ior who is the number one player
on A&M’s SWC championship
golf team, Thursday announced
that he would decline an invita
tion to play in the Houston Cham
pions International tournament
next week in order to represent
A&M in the Southwest Confer
ence tournament at Dallas.
“I feel deeply honored at be
ing offered an invitation to com
pete in the champions meet,” Mc
Dowell said, “but I feel that my
first obligation is to Texas A&M.
I do hope that I will get another
opportunity to play in the cham
pions tournament in the future.”
McDowell was extended an in
vitation to compete in the Cham
pions earlier this week after the
Aggies had beaten Rice in a SWC
match in Houston. “When I ac
cepted, I didn’t realize that it con
flicted with the SWC tourna
ment,” McDowell explained.
During the past two SWC tour
naments, McDowell has been run
ner-up for the individual cham
pionship. As a sophomore he tied
Steve LaCrone of Texas Tech for
second, one stroke behind Randy
Geiselman of Texas. Last year
he was second to Mason Adkins
of Texas, also by one shot. “One
of my primary goals in golf has
been to win the conference title
and next week will be my last
chance. I just don’t think I
should pass up that opportunity.”
McDowell this season has been
shooting tremendous golf. In six
conference matches he is 14
strokes under par. He had one
even-par round and the rest have
been sub-par; twice he was four
under.
The other three team members
in all SWC matches have been
Billy Wade, John Buffin and
Terry Archer.
TENNIS
The season finale for the Aggie
tennis team comes today on the
A&M courts when they host the
TCU team.
A victory over the Frogs will
give the Aggies a fifth place fin
ish in the Conference. A loss
could possibly leave them in last
place after the other teams com
plete their play.
FISH BASEBALL
The Fish baseball team hosts
the Baylor Cubs in Bryan’s Trav
is Park Saturday at 2 p.m.
The Fish thus far in the season
have a 3-5 mark with three games
remaining to be played. Satur
day’s game will be the first out
ing for the Fish since April 10
when they lost to Blihn Junior
College 10-4.
Coach Fred Carlton’s young
Aggies close out the season May
6 when the Texas Shorthorns
come to A&M for a 1 p.m. dou
bleheader.
Aggie Nine Meets Baylor At Waco
By GARY SHERER
The Aggie nine will make their
final road trip of the season when
they begin a two-game series with
the Baylor Bears at 3 p.m. today
at Waco.
Saturday afternoon the teams
will complete the series in a 2
p.m. game.
AGGIE COACH Tom Chandler
will most likely send Rocky
Thompson and Walter Varvel to
the hill for the two games.
Thompson will probably start to
day’s game with Varvel going
Saturday. The pitching duo have
been the most effective starters
for the Maroon and White all
year. Another possibility would
be Bob Sanders. The Aggie re
lief ace has become a starter in
recent games and has a win in
one of those starts (over South
ern Methodist).
Thompson is now 3-3 in the
Southwest Conference and 5-3
overall. The Kilgore JC trans
fer from Houston has logged 64
innings of pitching in 13 appear
ances this season, both as a
starter and reliefer. His ERA in
the SWC is 4.24.
Varvel has come on in recent
games and has pitched very ef
fectively both starting and relief-
ing. The former A&M Consoli
dated star is now the number
four ERA man in the SWC with a
1.58 for 40 innings. His I'ecord
is now 2-1.
THOMPSON AND Varvel will
be facing a Baylor team that has
been erratic this season. The
Aggies topped the Bears at Trav
is Park earlier this year in a
well-played 5-3 win. At times
Baylor has looked like a good ball
team and then has turned around
and fallen apart.
A case in point for the Bears
Court Floors
Clay Again
By WILL GRIMSLEY
HOUSTON <A>) — “I am ready
to die for my religion,” heavy
weight champion Cassius Clay
said Thursday after a U. S. Dis
trict Court denied his appeal that
the government be restrained
from taking criminal action if he
refuses military service.
Denial of a temporary injunc
tion plea — the last legal action
before Clay’s scheduled induction
Friday morning — was made by
U. S. Dist. Judge Allen B. Han-
nay after a 3% hour hearing be
fore a packed courtroom.
Clay, arguing he is a practicing
Black Muslim minister under the
name of Muhammad Ali, thus will
be forced to go before authorities
on Friday.
If he declines to take the one-
step forward — as he insists he
will decline — he faces a penalty
of $10,000 fine or five years in
prison, or both. Prison is the
usual procedure.
Clay, whose pleas against the
draft have been turned down
twice by the U. S. Supreme Court,
spent close to an hour on the
stand, telling of his conversion to
the Muslim religion and his activ
ities as a preacher of the faith.
“I am going to die a Muslim,”
he insisted. “They don’t think
I’m serious. I will show them
that I am.”
Clay said there was nothing in
his religion to prevent his appear
ing at the induction ceremonies,
undergoing the physical and men
tal formalities and filling out the
usual forms.
“But when I step forward, sym
bolizing I am in the Army, that
is in conflict to my Muslim faith.
I would be a hypocrite if I did it.
I will go to jail first.”
The heavyweight champion said
he expected to be stripped of his
championship and probably de
nied opportunities to continue his
fighting career.
was the recent series with SMU.
The Mustangs clobbered Baylor
22-0 on the first game of the
series and then the Bears turned
around the next day and beat the
Ponies.
With performances like this, it
is hard to predict just how this
team is going to play.
THE AGGIES will probably
face the Bears’ pitching twosome
of George Bevil and Rob Robin
son for the two games. Bevil is
2-3 in the SWC and has been hot
and cold this year. Robinson is
1-4 in the conference but has been
a victim of bad luck as his 3.32
ERA is not bad for a team that
is 3-8 in the conference.
Baylor is currently in the SWC
cellar and hopes to climb out of
the musty surroundings with their
series with the Aggies and their
final two games next weekend.
Ricky Head, Bear shortstop, has
carried the batting load for Bay
lor this year and quite impressive
ly, but he has not had enough
help in his one-man leadership.
Head leads the league in triples
and doubles while carrying a .349
batting average which places
him fourth in SWC hitting.
BAYLOR, OF course, has been
eliminated from the SWC crown,
while the Aggies still have a slim
chance with their 5-6 record. It
is a big difference from last sea
son when these two teams plus
Texas and Texas Christian shared
the lead at the end of the season
with 9-6 marks.
In order to stay in contention
for the title, the Maroon and
White must win both games with
Baylor and then hopefully knock
off Texas at Travis Park in their
two game series next weekend.
Baylor now takes on the role
of spoiler and will be out to upset
the Aggies’ already faltering
chances.
Joe Staples and Mike Arring
ton continue to be the top Aggie
hitters, with stout support from
Bob Long. Staples is now the
number five hitter in the SWC
with a .306 mark and is the only
Aggie starter hitting over .300.
Arrington is at .296 for the full
season while Staples is at .321 for
the season.
WHILE THE Aggies have not
been exactly hitting the cover off
the ball, they have a winning rec
ord (15-9) because they have cap
italized on the other teams’ mis
takes and, at times, had good
pitching.
Following the Baylor series, the
Aggies will wind up the ’67 season
entertaining Texas at Travis
Soccer League
To Play Final
Game On Sunday
The spring intramural soccer
league will come to a close Sun
day with a 3 p.m. all-star game
at the A&M soccer field on the
south side of the campus.
Two all-star teams will com
pete. Each team will consist of
15 players who were chosen fol
lowing the completion of the in
tramural league season.
Among the players participat
ing will be 14 students who were
recently named to receive “T” let
ters for their outstanding play
with the varsity soccer team.
The players are: Ramiro Ru
bio, Kurt Irgolic, Ridha Labidi,
Amando Yanez, Carlos Del Cid,
Ivan Najera, Leon Americus, Ri
cardo Hovenga, Mohammed Chou-
ick, Abdelhamid Zid, Juan Fer
nandez, Fred Scott and co-cap-
tains Samuel Brent and Gilberto
Garza.
Students and faculty are ex
tended an invitation from the
players to come out and see the
“maroon and white” game on
Sunday.
“I know why the Dodgers
traded me,” says Pittsburgh
Pirate shortstop Maury Willis.
“It was because I left the team
in Japan. I did it because I knew
how badly my knee was hurting.”
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