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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Tuesday, March 26, 1968
Spring Sports
Resley Paces Track Win;
Golfers Take 2nd In Row
GEORGE RESLEY
Has top performance.
INTERCOLLEGIATE
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Written And Directed by JAMES F. COLLIER
Campus Theatre
March 31 — April 6
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By JOHN PLATZER
With shot-putter George Res
ley leading the way, the Aggie
track team won its first meet of
the season over the weekend in
Kyle Field.
Coach Charley Thomas’ squad
won eight of the meet’s 16 events
while Southern Methodist Uni
versity had four firsts and Texas
Christian University and Texas
Tech each collected two wins.
The Aggies totaled 64% points
to 43 for SMU, 34 for Texas Tech
and 31% for TCU.
RESLEY, a 6-6, 260-pound sen
ior who spent his first two seasons
in the shadow of world record
holder Randy Matson, won the
shot with a toss of 67-1%. His
heave was the best by a South
west Conference performer thus
far this year.
Ronnie Lightfoot, who had been
first or second in the event in
every meet up to Saturday’s,
slipped to third behind Ronnie
Mercer of Texas Tech with a
toss of 54-5.
The Aggies won both relays in
the meet. The team of Jack Ab
bott, Rocky Woods, Tom Cilio
and Curtis Mills turned in a 41.3
in the 440-yard relay while Mike
Boyd, Mills, Jack White and Steve
Bancroft had a time of 3:13.2 in
the mile relay.
SMU WAS second in the 440-
yard relay while TCU captured
second in the mile event.
Martin Rollins of the maroon
and white cindermen regained his
winning form in the pole vault
with a jump of 15-1 to defeat
Texas Tech's Bruce Mauldin by
13 inches.
Freshman Curtis Mills con
tinued to impress in the meet
as he took first in the 440-yard
dash. Mills turned the lap in 47.7
Other firsts were picked up
by the Aggies in the high jump,
880 and the three mile.
The three mile run was taken
by John Heffner with a time of
14:28.8 while Willie Rodriquez
took first prize in the 880 with
a 1:55.1 clocking. The Aggies’
Robert Vaughan posted a 1:55.5
for third place in the 880.
JOHN TAYLOR got the Aggies
the maximum number of points
in the high jump as he won on
the least number of misses after
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ARTISTS SHOWCASE
presents
DANIEL and CAROL DOMB
A duo concert for violin and cello
“Then came the Duo. It was here that the real musical
spark was struck.—”
The Cleveland Press
“The overflow crowd gave the artists a royal ‘hail and
farewell’.”
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THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1968
Memorial Student Center Ballroom
8:00 P.M.
Texas A&M Student Activity Card and Town Hall Season
Ticket holders admitted free.
Other ticket prices:
Adults — $2.00
Other Students — $1.00
Children 12 years of age and under — free
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Tickets on sale at the MSC Student Program Office and
at the door.
clearing 6-4. Tim Sutton of A&M
tied TCU’s Robert Nees for the
runner-up spot in the event.
In the 120-yard high hurdle
duel between SMU’s Jerry
Utecht and A&M’s Jack Abbott,
Utecht came out on top with a
time of 14.4 to 14.8 for Abbott.
Freshmen Mark Black and Kel
vin Korver each contributed sec
onds to the Aggie point total as
Black threw the javelin 193-4 and
Korver sailed the discus 159-5.
Second place finishes were also
recorded for the Aggies by Rich
ard Ball with a 53.7 in the 440-
yard hurdles and Lonnie Noel
with a leap of 22-6% in the
broad jump.
TRACK STARS Noel and Steve
O’Neal, who was one of the na
tion’s leading punters in football
last fall, have proved to excell
in the classroom as well as on
the cinders. They were named
A&M’s top premedical and pre
dental students, respectively, Sat
urday.
Noel has a 2.47 grade point
ratio and has been accepted for
admission to Southwestern Medi
cal School in Dallas.
O’Neal, who like Noel is a
member of Phi Kappa Phi, hon
orary scholastic fraternity, has
a GPR of 2.6.
The Aggies will be up against
top-notch competition again this
Saturday as they travel north
for the Dallas Invitational. Be
sides A&M the field includes
SMU, Baylor, Oklahoma, Okla
homa A&M and Nebraska.
Baylor was the pre-season con
ference favorite along with Rice,
while Oklahoma and Nebraska
annually f i e 1 d strong track
squads.
The gigantic Texas Relays in
Austin will be run April 5-6 with
the Aggies competing against
such top teams as Kansas, Rice
and Texas. Individual stars such
as Matson, Jim Ryun and Jim
Hines will also compete in the
two-day affair.
GOLF
Defending conference golf
champion Aggies won their sec
ond conference match in a row
yesterday with a 3%-2% victory
over Arkansas.
Coach Henry Ransom’s team
defeated Texas Christian Univer
sity on their home course Satur
day 5-1.
In singles matches the Aggies’
Bill Wade beat Bill Merrett 5 and
3, Reggie Majors downed Jeff
Claborne of the Frogs 6 and 4
and the Aggies’ Duke Butler beat
Steve Smith 5 and 4.
The Aggie doubles team of
Wade and Majors won their
match 6 and 4 while the A&M
team of Butler and Chuck Leske
Hayes Places
Pro $$ Over
Olympic Trials
HOUSTON UP) —Elvin Hayes
said Monday he has made a final
decision that he will not compete
for a spot on the Olympic basket
ball team.
“I have to work on my game
to make a pro team,” said the
University of Houston star, col
legiate basketball’s second high-
est scorer in history.
THE LIGHT TOUCH
Bob Amzen, Notre Dame, has ball and Jim Gottschall (13), Dayton, barely touches it in
NIT play in New York. Dan Sadlier, Dayton, is at left. Dayton won, 76-74, in overtime on
way to NIT title. (APWirephoto)
At Senior Banquet
Football Champs Honored
A&M’s senior class honored the
1967 Southwest Conference and
1968 Cotton Bowl championship
football team with a banquet
Monday night.
The banquet, in the Ramada
Inn ballroom, drew a crowd of
250.
Highlight of the night was the
showing of the newly released
full-color film resume of the Cot
ton Bowl. The 30-minute produc
tion showed the pageantry which
surrounds the game as well as
the key plays in the Aggies’ 20-
16 win over Alabama.
Coach Gene Stallings, the
youngest coach ever to win the
conference title, told the gather
ing that a businessman was only
as successful as the people
around him.
Also brought out by Stallings
was that all season, no matter
how the team was doing at the
time, there was always an Aggie
around to let them know they
were behind them.
Sanford T. Ward, senior class
president who gave the welcome
for the class, awarded a com
memorative plaque of the season
for Stallings’ desk.
The Aggie coaching staff and
the five seniors on the 1967 team
were introduced to the crowd.
Grady Allen spoke for the team
in thanking the students for the
banquet.
Mike Baggett explained the
purpose of the banquet and
thanked the team on behalf of
the student body for their out
standing season.
Master of ceremonies for the
affair was Marvin Tate, associate
athletic director. The night’s in
vocation was given by Clarance
Daughtery.
Three senior yell leaders led
the audience and guests in the
singing of “Spirit” as a climax
to the evening.
Hayes said he and his family
are in need of money and that
participation in the Olympic trials
would conflict with preparations
for his entry into pro basketball,
He said he has not been contacted
by anyone who has proposed that
Negro athletes boycott the Olym
pics.
Hayes made his decision upon
returning from Los Angeles
where the Cougars had their 31-0
season record spoiled by losses
to UCLA and Ohio State in the
NCAA semifinals and third place
games.
“I have to look out for myself
and my family,” Hayes said. "If
I go to the Olympics and get
hurt, I have nothing. Nothing
would come to me or my family,
it would be zero-zero. A lot of
pro players tell me I need a lot
of work and I don’t want to be
a failure to my mother and my
family. I’m not thinking of my
self.”
Tunisia Near
Soccer Title
Dr
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foi
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Sports Aplenty
San Diego Wins
NBA 1st Choice
won one up.
The golfers will also be in Dal
las Friday as they take on South
ern Methodist University in their
third conference match.
TENNIS
Coach Omar Smith’s Aggie
tennis team could advance no one
past the quarterfinals in the huge
Rice Intercollegiate Invitational
Tennis Tournament over the
weekend.
Rice, a nationally ranked ten
nis squad, dominated the tourna
ment as they advanced two
doubles teams to the final round
of four and had all four positions
in the semifinals.
the “battle of the titans.” It was a battle for about three
minutes, and then the “myth” started to have trouble.
Coach John Wooden’s Bruins then did to the Cougars
what Lewis’ charges had done to some of their (Houston’s)
outclassed opponents—thoroughly rattled them!
Yes, there was no doubt when Wooden mericilessly
put in substitutes (something Lewis didn’t bother to do in
some of Houston’s romps), which team was the top team
in the nation.
This was not a two-point victory, this was a complete
defeat in every sense of the word. UCLA had forced Hous
ton to play the game like they hadn’t played it before. The
Bruins in general, and Lynn Shackleford in particular, made
the Cougars 1-3-1 zone look useless.
But did this team that the Houston press said was un
beatable try to change its defense and adjust to the situa
tion. No! Why? No imagination!
This zone had worked all year through, and they really
didn’t know how to do anything else or if they did, why
wasn’t it attempted ? We think that because it had worked
in 31 games before, the Cougars didn’t even consider any
thing else.
But, now we are simply speculating, but the fact re
mains that Ohio State beat the Cougars the next night in
much the same way as the Bruins had. Not by as many
points, but attacking the Houston zone defense.
Well, the 1967-68 basketball season is now history
and in a few years these events will be almost forgotten.
What we hope though is the next time that a team like
this year’s Cougars appears in Houston again, the Houston
press will judge the team’s merits on a lot more than one
small two-point victory.
NEW YORK (A*)—The San Di
ego Rockets won the coin toss
Monday for the first draft choice
in the National Basketball Asso
ciation and immediately announc
ed they would try to sign Elvin
Hayes, the college player of the
year from Houston.
It was the second year in a row
that the Baltimore Bullets, the
other team involved in the coin
toss between last-place teams,
had failed to win the No. 1 draft
rights.
Tunisia beat the Corps-Asian
team 3-0, while South America
topped North America 7-1 in the
fifth week of the annual spring
soccer tournament at A&M.
Tunisia still leads the tourney
with only one game, against
South America, remaining. All
other teams have two games left,
Mexico will play the Corps-
Asians at 1 p.m. Sunday on the
main drill field north of the
Memorial Student Center while
Central America will meet North
America at 3 p.m.
Trophies for the first and sec
ond places of the tournament will
be awarded after the last games
of Sunday, April 7.
Spring workouts will begin for
the Texas A&M varsity soccer
team Saturday at 1:30 on the drill
field.
The initial meeting is to or
ganize practice. Anyone interest
ed in participating may attend.
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