The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, March 28, 1968, Image 9

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the battalion
Thursday, March 28, 1968
College Station, Texas
Page 9
Spring Sports
‘Big D’ Beekons Cindermen;
Fish Nine Visits Brenham
By JOHN PLATZER
With a home win last Satur
day still fresh on their minds,
Coach Charley Thomas’ Aggie
track team leaves by chartered
bus tomorrow for Dallas and the
Dallas Invitational Meet.
The only member of team who
w ill be unable to compete in Dal
las is Rockie Woods, relays run
ner and high jumper, who in
jured a leg Saturday.
RUNNING in a meet for the
second time this season, however,
will be footballer Tommy Max
well. Maxwell, rounding into
shape for the start of football
spring training next month, will
compete in the 100 and 220 yard
dashes.
Two school records have been
set by the team thus far this sea
son. Martin Rollins established a
new pole vault standard at 16-1 M>
in the first meet of the year and
the mile relay team of Mike Boyd,
Curtis Mills, David Dolton and
Steve Bancroft set a 3:10.1 mark
in the Border Olympics.
George Resley took over the
team, and the Southwest Confer
ence, shot put lead at 57-114 last
weekend and will be defending it
against teammate Ronny Light-
ioot.
Other schools in the meet are
Baylor, Southern Methodist Uni
versity, Texas Christian Univer
sity, Oklahoma State, Kansas
State and Texws. SAwt*.
Fish Baseball
Sporting a 3-1 record, the Fish
baseballers travel to Brenham to
day for their second doublehead
er on foreign soil in less than a
week.
Coach Lou Camilli’s squad split
sAmnAdU with the Texas Ncart
ings in Austin Saturday. Other
wins ha ve been recorded over
Baylor, 4-1, and Wharton Junior
College, 10-1, early in the season.
A doubleheader with Hill Junior
College March 9 was rained out
and is not expected to be resched
uled.
The opening game with Blinn
Junior College will get underway
at 3 p.m.
Among the players seeing the
most action for the team have
been Billy Hodge of Bryan behind
the plate, Jim Anderson of Ar
lington at first, Danny Papetti of
Houston Westbury at second,
Ronny La Grone of Houston Lee
at short stop and Terry Logan of
College Station at third.
Jim O’Jibway of Lubbock, Lar
ry Smith of Corpus Christi and
Phil Hudson of Roswell, New
Mexico have been starting in the
outfield.
Top pitcher for the Fish thus
far has been Rocky Self who took
the decision in the team’s first
two games.
Also eligible for the game will
be David Hoot, a midterm grad
uate of Houston Reagan, who is
considered one of Houston’s finest
all - around schoolboy athletes.
Hoot won recognition in football
and basketball as well as base
ball at Reagan.
The Fish are at Baylor for a
single game April 9 and then re
turn home May 11 for a double-
header with Texas to end the
Aggie Nine Hosts TCU
AUGUSTA, Ga. (A>) — Twenty
loreign players—headed by 1961
champion Gary Player of South
Africa—have been invited to the
1968 Masters Golf Tournament.
Lefty Bob Charles of New Zea-
land, Bruce Devlin of Australia,
George Knudson of Canada and
Tewj JacWVvn. of "En^Vand are
among the pro tour regulars who
will play in the Masters April
11-14.
Golf
After home victories last week
over Texas Christian University
and Arkansas, the Aggie golfers
are now 8 !4-3 Vs in league play
and travel to Dallas tomorrow for
a match with SMU.
They then go to Austin Mon
day for a match with Texas, who
has shown surprising strength by
defeating nationally-ranked Uni
versity of Houston twice. Coach
Henry Hansom’s defending con
ference champions are looking
for a close match with SMU.
Tennis
Coach Omar Smith’s tennis
team will see their first action
since last weekend’s Rice Invita
tional Tournament when they en
tertain Pan-American Friday.
The netters will play Texas
Tech in a conference match Sat
urday.
TOMMY MAXWELL
Will compete in Dallas track
meet.
AstroFacts
The Houston Astros have
scheduled special attractions for
each of their exhibition games
with the Minnesota Twins on
April 4, 5, 6 and 7 in the Astro
dome prior to their official open
ing game on April 8.
Thursday, April 4, will be
Shrine Night with a special pre
game show by the Shriners and
the proceeds from the game will
go toward the burned and crip
pled children Shrine Hospital.
Friday night’s game on April 5,
will have a special pre-game show
at 7:00 p.m. by the Ballet Folk-
lorico of the University of Guad
alajara.
Saturday night’s game on April
6 will be preceded by the Hardin-
Simmons University Rand.
Sunday, the final pre - season
game at 2:00 p.m. with Minne
sota, will be Family Day.
The Astros will open the olli-
cial National League season on
Monday night in the Astrodome
against the Pittsburgh Pirates
and will play the Phillies and
Mets in a seven-game Lome stand
prior to leaving on their first
road trip on April 17.
NEW NOEK. — Joe Na-
math, quarterback for the New
York Jets of the American Foot
ball League, entered the Hospital
for Special Surgery Tuesday and
will be operated on Wednesday
for the tightening of a tendon at
tached to the left knee cap.
In mid-winter Namath had the
knee placed in a cast and the
coming operation is primarily of
a corrective nature.
By GARY SHERER
The league-leading Texas Chris
tian Horned Frogs invade Aggie-
land Friday and Saturday for a
two-game series with the Texas
Aggie nine.
Friday’s contest will begin at
3 p.m. at Kyle Field. Saturday
afternoon’s game is scheduled for
a 2 p.m. start, also at Kyle Field.
COACH FRANK Windegger’s
Frogs are currently 5-2 in South
west Conference play and hold a
8-5 overall mark. Aggie Coach
Tom Chandler’s charges hold the
best SWC season mark at 8-4
while the Maroon and White is
2-2 in conference play.
Whether the games will be
played, is still in doubt. The wea
ther man, who has been hard on
SWC athletics this spring, has
predicted rain for the weekend.
TCU has won its last three con
ference games and this has pro
pelled them into the conference
lead. In fact, the last conference
team to beat the Frogs was the
Aggies on Mar. 16. On that date,
tomorrow’s starting pitcher, Rick
Schwartz stopped them 4-1 on a
three-hifter.
SCHWARTZ will be facing all-
SWC basketballer Mickey McCar
ty in Friday’s series opener. Mc
Carty, the SWC’s basketball play
er of the year, will be making his
first start for the Frogs since
joining the team a week and a
half ago.
The 6-5 Pasadena lefthander
was competing with TCU’s con
ference basketball champions in
the NCAA tournament earlier
this month. ,
McCarty has nevertheless made
his presence felt in the lineup.
Since joining the team, he has
Grapefruit
League
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
San Francisco 10, Chicago, (N)
6
Cleveland 11, California 3
Oakland 4, Detroit 2
Minnesota 1, Baltimore 0—11
innings
Atlanta 5, Houston 3
New York, (Aj 4, Boston 2
Philadelphia 4, Los Angeles 0
St. Louis 8, Chicago, A 2
been playing first base and has
thus far swung a hot bat. Along
with his competent hitting, he
added a steal of home last week
against Southern Methodist.
Schwartz, a senior from
Brownsville, has turned in some
good performances his last two
times out. He gave up one run
in both the TCU win and the sec
ond game win over Oklahoma
State in last Saturday’s double-
header.
Both of these runs were un
earned, so the 6-2 righthander
has not given up an earned run
since Mar. 9, in the Aggies’ 10-3
loss to. Rice.
IN ADDITION to McCarty,
TCU has been getting good hit
ting from outfielders Larry Peel
and Ed Driggers.
Chandler has been receiving im
proved hitting lately from out-
TCU Splits
With Arlington
FORT WORTH <A>>—Sam Hous
ton State combined an 11-hit at
tack with 11 bases on balls and
plastered Texas Christian 11-3 in
a non-conference baseball game
Wednesday.
The Bearkats, now 9-4 for the
year, broke a 3-3 tie with two
runs in the sixth inning and then
added three more in both the
seventh and eighth.
Mike Holt, Rocky Stevens and
Dale Fincher each had two hits
for the winners. Holt also drove
in three runs.
Jeff Newman with three and
Dick Gage with two accounted
for all five TCU hits off lefty
Hugh Hamilton, who upped his
record to 2-1.
The loss was the fifth against
eight victories for the Horned
Frogs, who defeated the Bearkats
6-4 in the opener of the two-game
series Tuesday.
fielders Dave Elmendorf and Bob
Arnold. Another fly-chaser, Boyd
Hadaway, has been the Aggies’
most consistent hitter all year. It
was the 6-foot sophomore’s single
in the 13th inning of Saturday’s
second game that gave the Ag
gies the 3-2 victory over Okla
homa State.
Hadaway, who is also a pitcher,
is hitting at .321 for the season
and .333 in SWC play.
Saturday’s pitchers haven’t
been set as yet but they will prob
ably be either TCU’s Bing Bing
ham or Chuck Machemehl facing
the Aggies’ Rocky Thompson or
Dave Benesh. w
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