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THE BATTALION
Thursday, June 29, 1967
College Station, Texas
Page 7
SFA Baseballer
Spurns Atlanta
The Atlanta Braves’ loss is
Texas A&M’s gain as Billy
Hodge, catcher for B r y a n’s
Stephen F. Austin High School
baseball team last year, Tuesday
turned down the Braves’ final
offer in order to attend A&M on
a football scholarship.
He will also play baseball while
at A&M.
“We appreciated the Braves’
offer,” Bill Hodge, Sr. said,
“and we felt that we had to con
sider the offer in fairness to
Atlanta. But we felt that A&M
is more important.
$1,000 Scholarship
Goes To Matson
Randy Matson, world record-
holder in the shot put, has been
awarded a $1,000 postgraduate
scholarship by the National Col
legiate Athletic Association and
he’ll use it to pursue a master’s
degree in management at Texas
A&M.
Matson, 6-6 Vk, 260-pounder, will
not receive his bachelor’s degree
in management until next spring
but hopes to start work on his
master’s degree during the same
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elor’s degree.
Big Randy, who has a pending
world-record shot put of 71 feet,
514 inches, was one of 22 student-
athletes who were honored by the
NCAA. The awards, covering 12
sports, bring to 70 the number
of $1,000 scholarship awarded to
deserving senior athletes during
this academic year.
An A&M official, in recom
mending Matson for the scholar
ship award, said: “Randy is a
near perfect example of what a
collegiate athlete should be.”
Matson holds the American
record of 213-914 in the discus
and won a silver medal (second
place) in the shot put during the
1964 Olympics.
He is not in school this sum
mer but is competing in meets
all over the world.
Mistovich Gets
MeKale Award
Mike Mistovich, “the voice of
the Texas Aggies,” has won the
first annual J. F. MeKale special
award for service to college base
ball.
The new award is given in
memory of J. F. (Pop) MeKale,
recently-deceased baseball coach
emeritus at the University of Ari
zona and one of the founders of
the American Association of Col
lege Baseball Coaches.
Mistovich’s award was an
nounced during the recently-com
pleted NCAA College World
Series here by a special commit
tee of the National Collegiate
Baseball Writers Assn.
Mistovich, president and gen
eral manager of Bryan’s KORA,
won the award on the basis of his
broadcasts on the Aggie Network.
In the committee’s apinion, his
broadcasts of all A&M games —
home and road — go far toward
stimulating and maintaining a
high degree of interest in South
west Conference baseball.
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Midnight Friday Is Deadline
For Grid Ticket Applications
Deadline for priority applica
tions for Texas A&M football
tickets is midnight Friday, A&M
athletic business manager Wally
Groff, announced today.
Approximately 65,000 applica
tions were mailed to priority
groups more than a month ago.
Groff said that applications
postmarked no later than mid
night June 30 will be included in
the drawing for choice locations.
Those postmarked after that date
will be processed on a first-come,
first-served basis.
Season books for the four
games at Kyle Field are $20.
Fans can order tickets for all 10
Aggie games, however, and also
can order single-game tickets. All
tickets are $5 except the LSU
game, which is $6 and arm-chair
seats in Kyle Field, which also
are $6.
Ticket orders have been arriv
ing at the A&M business office in
a steady stream but Groff said
that “We think a lot of our fans
have forgotten that the deadline
for priority applications is nearly
here.”
The Aggies actually have five
home games but one is at a neu
tral site, the Cotton Bowl in Dal
las, against Purdue.
The 1967 A&M schedule: Sept.
16 — SMU here. Sept. 23 —
Purdue in Dallas. Sept. 30 — at
LSU. Oct. 7 — Florida State
here. Oct. 14 — at Texas Tech.
Oct. 21 — at TCU. Oct. 28 —
Baylor, here. Nov. 4 —* At Ark
ansas. Nov. 18 — at Rice. Nov.
23 — Texas, here.
Houston Net Star
Signed By Aggies
Texas A&M tennis coach Omar
Smith announced the signing of
Houston Westbury net star Mike
Hickey to a tennis scholarship at
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Intramural
Playoffs Set
In Solfball
Softball league playoffs are to
start July 5, with the winner of
the best of three games taking
the intramural softball cham
pionship for the first summer
semester.
Physical education graduates
are the winners of league B and
they will play the winner of
league A which is in a three-way
tie among physics faculty, stu
dents of doi-ms 18 and 22.
Intramural bowling is in its
second week with industrial engi
neers leading the competition.
Recreation equipment, such as
horse shoes, volleyball and net,
baseball equipment, and other
sports equipment are available
for loan to anyone wishing to
check it out for a party or picnic
this summer, according to Ray
mond L. Fletcher, director of in
tramurals. Anyone interested in
this offer should contact Fletcher
in DeWare Fieldhouse.
Plans are already underway for
the second summer session intra
murals program and from all
indications it should be even bet
ter than the first, said Fletcher.
Team captains for the second
session who are interested in
entering their teams in softball,
bowling, or golf should contact
Fletcher or the physical education
office, room 215, George Rollie
White, no later than July 20.
A&M’s Camilli
Signs Contract
Lou Camilli, Texas Aggie jun
ior third baseman, has signed a
professional baseball contract
with the Cleveland Indians for a
small bonus and has been as
signed to Cleveland’s farm team
at Reno, Nev., in the California
State League.
Camilli, from El Paso, was all-
SWC and Sophomore of the Year,
in 1966.
He joins three other SWC stars
in foregoing his senior year of
collegiate competition — Donnie
Denbow and Bill Rainer, both of
SMU and Ronnie Henson of Rice. .
Aggie coach Tom Chandler said,
“I am very disappointed at tjie
loss of Camilli. I only hope that
he will return to A&M and fin
ish his work toward a degree.”
Astrofacts
The Houston Astros will meet
the Los Angeles Dodgers in a
short three-game homestand in
the Astrodome on Friday night,
June 30, Saturday night, July 1
and Sunday, July 2 at 2:00 p.m.
Pitcher Don Wilson, the 22-
year-old rookie who pitched a no
hitter on June 18 against the
Braves, will be honored prior to
the Friday night game for his no
hit aheievement and the big
righthander is also slated to pitch
that same night.
Saturday, July 1 will be the
second “Helmet Day” of the year
with each youngster, 16 or under
and accompanied by an adult, re
ceiving an Astros batting helmet
absolutely free.
Sunday will be “Family Day”
with all children, 16 or under ac
companied by a parent, receiving
a one-dollar reduction. The Sun
day game will be preceded by a
contest between the Astros and
their sons, starting at 1:20 p.m.
The Dodger series could be a
crucial one for the Astros as they
battle the National League cham
pions for position in the National
League standings.
The Astros will return home to
the Astrodome for a long week
end series with the surprising
Chicago Cubs in night games
Thursday, July 6, Friday, July 7
and Saturday, July 8 and a 2:00
p.m. game Sunday, July 9.
Tickets may be purchased at
the Astrodome and most Trans-
Texas Airways counters through
out the Southwest and at all
Foley’s stores in the Houston
area. Tickets to all Astro home
games may be ordered by mailing
check or money order to Tickets,
Houston Astros, P.O. Box 1691,
Houston. Box seats are $3.50,
reserved seats are $2.50 and tick
ets in the Pavilion section are
$1.50 for adults and fifty cents
for children fourteen and under.
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Guided tours of the Astrodome
are up 10 per cent from 1966. The
average during the month of
June w T as 1561 per day.
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The Astros lead the National
League in doubles, sacrifice hits
and sacrifice flies, and Astro
pitch ERA is third best, while
they are second in strike outs.