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Staples Leads Hitting
By JOHN PLATZER
Joe Staples, A&M’s senior
catcher who has made all-South-
west Conference both his sopho
more and junior years, is the
official 1968 SWC batting cham
pion with a .391 mark.
Staples’ bat paced Coach Tom
Chandler’s squad to a conference
leading .296 team mark. This
average was 20 points above
Texas Christian University’s .276
mark, which was good for second.
Texas University, which will
represent the conference in the
NCAA playoffs, finished third
with a .259 average.
MSC Table Tennis
LoopBeingFormed
Harry Teng took first place in
the First Annual Table Tennis
Tournament in the Memorial Stu
dent Center recently.
Sam Rehim took the tourna
ment’s second spot, while Frank
Storey finished third and Jim
Cain, fourth.
Gold, silver and bronze medals
were awarded the first three
places in the tournament.
At present, a table tennis
league for A&M is being formed,
with the intent of eventually
competing with other Southwest
Conference schools.
The tables for the competition
were in the basement of the MSC.
LET THE BALL ROLL
Atlanta Brave catcher Bob
Uecker, discussing how to catch
the knuckleball in the current
issue of SPORT Magazine, says:
“Just wait until the ball stops
rolling. Then pick it up.”
Despite playing fewer games
than Baylor and Texas Tech, the
than Bylor and Texas Tech, the
Aggies scored more runs than
any other school. A&M runners
crossed the plate 115 times during
conference play, while TCU scored
100 runs and Texas had 90.
Only TCU, with 170 hits, col
lected more safeties than the
Aggies’ 145 total. TCU had the
advantage of 125 extra at-bats.
Staples tied for the SWC indi
vidual lead in runs with 16, along
with Dave Elmendorf and Bob
Long, both of A&M, and Dick
Turner, Ed Driggers and Jeff
Newman of TCU.
Elmendorf, the Aggie’s fresh
man outfield star, paced the con
ference hitters in runs batted in,
with 21, a lead of 5 over his near
est competitor, Newman.
Three Aggies besides Staples
topped the .300 mark in SWC
play. Elmendorf hit .364, while
Terry Dailey hit .340 and Bob
Long .328. Bob Arnold just
missed the magic level with a .293
average.
Rick Schwartz was the Aggies’
busiest hurler in conference,
pitching 37.2 innings. During the
time he posted a 3-2 record, with
a 2.39 earned run average. He
recorded 35 strikeouts and 19
walks.
Rocky Thompson was the
team’s most effective pitcher with
a 2.12 ERA while posting a 3-1
record. Dave Benesh had a 2.57
ERA and a 2-0 won-lost mark.
The SWC pitchers were paced
by Baylor’s John Bevil, who de
feated the Aggies twice to take
them out of the championship
race. Bevil posted a 1.15 ERA
while recording a 4-3 record.
A&M and TCU were the only
conference teams to lose just one
series during SWC play. TCU
lost all three of its games against
the Aggies while Chandler’s squad
lost both their contests against
Baylor. Texas, which won the
conference with a 12-4 record, lost
its season series to both TCU and
A&M. TCU was second with a
13-5 record and A&M was third
at 10-5.
Aggies also paced the confer
ence in homeruns and triples.
Elmendorf, currently partici
pating in football spring practice,
led the long-ball hitters with five
homers, while Long, also cur
rently involved in football, was
the leader in triples with three.
TCU’s Driggers paced the SWC
in doubles with seven.
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JOE STAPLES
The Aggies’ all-SWC catch
er, from Houston, finished
the 1968 Southwest Con
ference baseball season with
a .391 mark, tops in the
SWC.
Aggie Gymnasts
Take 4th Place
Perry Lee Reeves, a freshman
from the Washington, D. C. area,
won third place in the long horse
competition to pace the Aggie
gymnastics team at the Gulf AAU
Gymnastics Championship meet in
Huntsville last weekend.
A&M recorded 65.87 team
points to finish fourth behind host
school Sam Houston, L. D. Bell
High School of Hurst and Odessa
College. Sam Houston’s winning
point total was 156.81, while Bell
had 142.07 and Odessa scored
140.95.
“I thought that the team per-
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CALIFORNIA CREW WINDS UP THIS WAY
Varsity shell is swamped near start of 2,000-meter race of Redwood City, Calif., and Cali
fornia cre\.men struggle in water. Stanford crew, the opponent, managed to negotiate
the full distance with four men rowing, four bailing, while California crewmen, rescued
aboard press boat, watched. No winner was declared. (AP Wirephoto)
formed well under the circum
stances,” Lindy Baer, coach and
club sponsor, said.
The circumstances concerned
A&M having only one performer
entered in four events, while each
of the other schools had a number
of different entries in each event.
Besides the four teams, a number
of individual performers from
throughout the Southwest were
entered in the two-day tounament.
Reeves took home the third-place
trophy in his event by chalking
up an 8.56 score out of a possible
9.5. Besides the long horse,
Reeves competed in the vaulting,
parallel bars and floor exercise
events.
The AAU championship was
the second official competition of
the year for the young Aggie
team. They lost a dual meet with
Texas earlier in the season and
have participated in several joint
meets with other schools in prac
tice sessions.
Club president is Mickey Strat
ton, who competed in the six
international events: parallel
bars, side horse, floor exercises,
horizonttal bars, rings and vault
ing.
Other members entered in the
Huntsville meet were Rex Strat
ton in the parallel bars, Barrett
Smith on the still rings, Patrick
Scott in the floor exercises and
tumbling and Bill Wood on the
trampoline.
The lone female on the team,
Evelyn Marshall, competed in the
balance beam and floor exercise
events.
Baer, an instructor in the A&M
Physical Education Department,
announced the club will sponsor
a gymnatic clinic in G. Rollie
White Coliseum this summer. The
program has been formed and
dates and arrangements for the
summer program will be an
nounced later.
THE BATTALION
Thursday, May 16, 1968
College Station, Texas
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Littler And Player
Tops At Colonial
FORT WORTH, Tex. _
Gene Littler and Gary Player
clipped two shots from par with
68s Wednesday and shared first
place in a pro-am preceding the
Colonial National Invitation Golf
Tournament.
Littler, eagling the tough par
4 seventh by holding a three-iron
from 185 yards out, tacked to
gether a 33-35 over the par 35-
35-70 Colonial course.
Player had a 34-34-68 and said
the greens were “playing tough”
but otherwise the course was in
beautiful shape. He and Littler
won $462.50 each.
Former Colonial champion
Billy Casper was the only other
player among the 60 pros partici
pating in the pro-am to break
par, carding a one-under-par 69.
He earned $375.
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