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1 ■ > % Baseball Commissioner Given Final Authority By Players MIAMI, —The commis sioner of beaebell was accepted by the Major f^eaffne Players’ Association Wednesday as the final authority for a two-year period in settling any disputes which may arise between the players and the 20 major league clubs. At a day-long meeting in Mi ami, the aaaociation also agreed to a joint study involving “pos sible alternatives to the reserve claose H and a joint study on “the length of the championship sea son.” / The study of the reserve clause, /which presently binds a player to the club with which he is under contract, is to be completed prior to Dee. 31, 1909—the termination date of the player-owner agree ment ratified Wednesday. The study of the length of the season is to be finished prior to the drawing up of the prelimi nary schedules for 1909. Acceptance of the commis sioner, now William D. Eckert, to serve as the adjudicator in player-management disputes fol lowed earlier disagreement. 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THE BATTALION Thursday, February 29, 1968 1 Collage Station, Texas Page 7 i ,, ,■ ity .-—r r-*— Aggie Tracksters . i . * 'j ',1 *• V Host Meet Friday store” oupotTF-ZwZi 99< value Section 1 of the Columbia Encyclopedia ip this coupon and take it to your favorite Safeway supermarket featuring the Columbia Encyclopedia. Section One is yours free with this coupon iiHil an y purchase. 99< value ) By JOHN PLATZER Coach Charley Thomas’ Aggie track tsam w|Jl ki^jcr off its sea son after a week’s delay Friday afternoon with a triangular meet against Rice and Texas Univer sity in Kyle Field. The Aggie cindermen were originally scheduled to begin their year with a dual meet in Waco against Baylor last Saturday. The match with Baylog, a co-favorite for the Southwest Conference tfack championship this season, was cancelled because of bad weather, however, and will not be re-scheduled. FIELD EVENTS for the Fri day meet will begin at 3 p.m. with the running events scheduled to follow at 3:30. Thomas has been encouraged by the performance of the squad thus far but has not had a chance to make a real evaluation. Among the freshmen Thomas is counting on the most are runner Curtis Mills, discus thrower Kel vin Korver and high jumper Rocky Woods. Composing AAM’s 440-yard re lay team for the meet will be Tom Cilio. Mills, Scotty Hen dricks and Jack Abbott while Mike Boyd. David Dolton. Jack White and Mills will make up the mile relay squad. THE WEIGHT events could once again prove to be the strong point of the Aggie team. Sopho more Ronny Lightfoot, who threw the shot 56-8 in Fort Worth earlier in the year, and Senior George Resley will throw the shot Other Aggie ' strong points obuld be in the hurdles with Abbott, Deward Stong and Steve O'Neal entered in the 120-yard highs end Richard Ball in the ' 440-yard hurdles. Martin Rollina, a senior from Alabama, could give AAM points in the pole vault. Rice is expected to be the class of the conference this season along wtih Baylor while Texas is expected to compete with the Aggies for the runner-up «pot. The sprints and relays seem to be Rica's strong points while Texas should get most of its points in the distance races, high jump, broad jump and javelin. SWIMMING Still riding high with a 62-51 win over John Brown University of Arkansas, the Aggie swim ming team of Coach Art Adam son takes on perennial conference champion Southern Methodist University Saturday at 3 p.m. in P. L. Downs Natatorium. THE METHODISTS have com pletely dominated the conference swimming picture the paat decade winning the last 11 champion ships in a row. SMU has taken the number one spot in the sport 13 of the 36 times there has been conference competition. The Aggies were the last team to break in on the SMU streak winning the 1956 championship in Austin. Texas finished second that year with SMU third. Swimming for the Aggies Saturday will be Glenn Draper, Malcomb French, Steve Henry. James Jeter, Lawrence Jones, Gregory Smith and Tom Sparks. ALSO competing for the Aggies will be Ronnie Suttle, Bob Math ews, Stephen Ash, Colin Dunn. Jonathan Beall, Ropo Beltran. -Jerry Deutsch and David George.' Eddie Grant, John Creenhut. Tommy Holder, Larry Linn, Mike O’Brien, Henry Paup and Bill Stulken will also swim for AAM< •? In Tuesday’s win over John Brown, Holder paced the Aggies individually with 8 points on a first in the 200-yard free-style and a second in the 100-yard free style. AAM’s relay teams took first in both the 400 medley and the 400- yard free-style which made the difference in the match. Firsts were also picked up in the 50-yard free-style by Sparks and in the 200-yard breaststroke by Linn for the Aggies. The victory over John Brown gives Adamson's swimmers a 3-2 mark for the season with other wins over Rice and Eastern New Mexico and losses to Texas Tech and Arlington State. TENNIS Louisiana and East Texas jnII be the site of tennis action this weekend for Coach Omar Smith's Aggies. They will take on Lamar Tech in Beaumont Friday and then travel on to play Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge Saturday. THE* AGGIES were defeated by the University of Houston Saturday in Houston 7-2. Salvag- ' ' ing the AAM wins were Jon Rag land and senior captain Joe Til ler son. Other Aggie tennis players are Bruce Crumley, Marcus Beleck. Mike Hickey and Jerry Oliver. Smith considers this to be a rebuilding year for the Aggies even though he also thinks it js s more solid team than last sea son's with good prospects. “As a whole they have worked . harder awd’pliogreesed more than ’ any group‘*^e've had in quite some time,” he said. GOLF Coach Henry Ransom’s Aggie golfers will open their year on the road this weekend also. THE OPENING will be at the Fort Worth Recreational Tourna ment where AAM picked up first places in both the freshmen and varsity divisions last year. Ransom’s team hopes to con tinue the performance that took them to the conference champion ship last season in one of the) league’s biggeat about faces. AAM finished in last place is SWC competition in 1966 with a 14Vi-27Vi mark before winning the title last year with a 32Vi-9Vi record. MALONEY OUTSIDE LOOKING IN Jim Maloney, left, Cincinnati Reds pitcher who has not come to terms with the club, visits with Reds pitcher Mily Pappas on a stop at the Red’s training camp at Tampa- Maloney was a fifteen-game winner last season and Pappas was credited with 16. (AP Wirphoto) Call 822-1441 Allow 20 Minutes Carry Out or Eat-In the PIZZA HUT j 2610 Texas Ave.