Colleg-e Station, Texas
SPRING TRAINING
Aggie Head Football Coach Gene Stallings talks to some of
the 105 hopefuls out for the first day of spring workouts
(above) and then (below) whistles the start of this year’s
spring football training. The workouts will continue on a
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday schedule and
will climax with the spring game May 18.
Couger Golfers
Lead Tournament
HOUSTON <^P)—Mike DiCello
of Oklahoma State used a three-
under-par 69 to grab the indi
vidual lead Wednesday as Hous
ton took a seven-stroke advan
tage in team competition after
the first round of the 72-hole All
America Intercollegiate Golf
Tournament. Four Houston stars
played at par or better.
DiCello’s 35-34 for the 6,900-
yard, par 36-36-72 Pine Forest
Country Club course left him one
stroke in front of Bob Barbarossa
of Houston and two in front of
Doug Olson of Houston, Vaughn
Moise of Louisiana State and Rik
Massengale of Texas.
Hal Underwood, the defending
champion from Houston, was in
a five-way deadlock at par 72.
With him was his third Cougar
teammate, Dave Shuster.
Houston’s sparkling par-or-
better performance was scored
during a 6-0 team match victory
over Kansas and gave the de
fending all america and NCAA
champions a 285 medal score,
three under par. Texas followed
at 292.
Houston also claimed a four-
ball tie with Louisiana State at
62, and Olson and Shuster shared
the low two ball lead at 65 with
DiCello and Jim Deaton of Okla
homa State.
Ranked behind Houston and
Texas in team medal were Okla
homa State 293, Louisiana State
295, Arizona State, Baylor and
New Mexico State 301, Southern
Methodist and Arkansas 305,
North Texas State 306, Oklahoma
and Texas Tech 310, New Mexico
311, Texas A&M 315, Kansas 319
and Rice 323.
Wofford Cain Pool’s largest
contingent of organized swimmers
are churning the Texas A&M
Olympic-appointed facility during
intramural championships.
More than 800 students are
participating in the season’s first
large meet in the pool, according
to R. H. Fletcher, A&M intra
mural director.
Preliminaries in six swimming
events, one and three-meter div
ing required competition on seven
different days. Finals will be
staged Monday at 7:30 p.m.
“The public is invited to view
competition,” Fletcher said. “It’s
well balanced. Almost every
Corps company and squadron and
civilian dorm has one or two win
ners.
The best eight times of upper
classmen and freshmen in each
event qualify for the finals.
The meet referee is Ax - t Adam
son, whose varsity swimming
team serves as judges and timers.
Intramural championships will
be one of three or four major
events scheduled at Cain Pool dur
ing the year.
The facility opened April 1 on
a semester schedule. Swimmers
are admitted from 2 to 6 p.m.
weekdays. Saturday hours are 10
a.m. to noon and 1:30 to 5:30 p.m.
with Saturday afternoon hours
also observed Sundays.
During the summer holidays,
June 2-Aug. 23, the pool is open
8 M: hours Mondays through Sat
urdays and four hours on Sun
days.
The pool is named for A&M
benefactor Wofford Cain of Dal
las, a 1913 graduate. He is board
chairman of Southern Union Gas
Co.
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THE LONGEST NIGHT
A Houston Astro lady fan gets comfortable as the message
board in the Astrodome flashes words that Houston and
New York Mets have set mark for longest game in total
time, surpassing old record of 5 hours and 13 minutes. This
picture was made at 12:43 a. m. and the game ended at
1:37 a. m. with Houston scoring a run in the bottom of the
24th inning for a 1-0 victory. (AP Wirephoto)
Metcalf Gets
Top HS Star
Texas A&M basketball coach
Shelby Metcalf this week signed
perhaps the best high school bas
ketball player in Mississippi when
he inked Jeff Watkins of South
Jones High in Ellisville, some
seven miles from Laurel.
The 6-4, 190-pound Watkins
this week was named to Coach
& Athlete magazine’s 10-man
team for the nation. Earlier he j
made Scholastic all-America, all-
state in class AA and he was
named most valuable player in
three tournaments last season.
Watkins averaged 26 points
and 14 rebounds in leading South
Jones to a 34-6 record. The team
finished third in the state in class
AA.
Watkins, also a top student, is
a trackman, too, competing in the
440 dash, high jump, high hurdles
and shot put.
The Aggies now have signed
three top schoolboys and one out
standing junior college player.
The other two high schoolers are
6-8 Rickey Duplantis of Port
Neches and 6-4 Bobby Threadgill
of New Braunfels. The JC star
is Larry Linder, a Waco lad who
played two years at Howard
County Junior College in Big
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