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Wednesday, December 4, 1968 THE BATTALI^^N
Tech Wrecks
SMU, 87-59
ATLANTA, Ga. <A»)_ Sopho
more Rich Yunkus, shooting with
deadly accuracy and outstanding
on defense, led Georgia Tech to an
easy 87-59 victory over Southern
Methodist University Tuesday
night.
The 6-foot-9, 200-pound forward
tallied 26 points to lead all scor
ers. SMU closed the gap in the
second half with Gene Phillips hit-
ting on a 20-footer to tie the score
52-52 with 10:52 remaining. Tech's
starters were resting at the time.
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Athletic
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Organizations.
Pictures for the club sec
tions of the 1969 Aggieland
are now being scheduled at
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fice.
216 Services Bldg.
PICTURES FOR
AGGIELAND '69
ATTENTION: ALL
COMMANDING OFFICERS
Commanding officers of all Out
fits and Staffs will have full
length portraits made in boots
and midnights for the Military
Section, Deadline Dec. 31.
PLEASE MAKE INDIVIDUAL
APPOINTMENTS WITH UNI
VERSITY STUDIO FOR THESE
FULL LENGTH PORTRAITS
FOR THE MILITARY SEC
TION.
ATTENTION: All other staff
members (incuding Juniors),
Outfit executive officers, and
first sergeants will have por
traits made for the Military
Section in G.H. caps and Class
A Winter (blouse), Deadline
Dec. 31.
Individual pictures made at the
University Studio — North Gate.
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Class
by John Platzer
Trades Spice Baseball Meetings
Class is one of those indefinable terms that is often
used though seldom deserved.
Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary says that it is ’‘high
quality,” but it is actually much more than merely that.
Class is a team that is never satisfied with defeat but
that accepts it with dignity when it does come.
Class is a team, that never makes alibies for its failures
even when an extraordinary number of injuries make
alibies excusable.
Class is a team that runs off the field the same way
after every game—win, lose or draw.
Class is a team that collectively gives everything it
has on every play of every game regardless of the situation.
Class is a team that never looks back at past victories
or defeats but that is always looking forward to the NEXT
game as the most important it will ever play.
Class is a team that can lose five games by a total of
only 16 points and still display the poise and courage needed
to battle against the fates.
Class is a team that can go into the dressing room at
halftime of its final game trailing 35-0 and then, instead
of throwing in the towel, display the personal “soul” and
team pride necessary to dominate the second half and cut
the deficit nearly in half.
Class is a coach who insists that all blame for every
defeat be placed upon himself and not on his players when,
in fact, neither coach nor players are responsible.
Class is a team that refuses to let the taste of bitter
disappointments destroy its confidence that new and greater-
triumphs lie just beyond the practice fields of tomorrow.
Class is a coach and a team that has never heard of
the four letter word “quit.”
Class is Coach Gene Stallings and the 1968 Texas Ag
gie football team, a team that is a champion in every
meaningful sense of the word.
By MIKE RATHET
Associated Press Sports Writer
SAN FRANCISCO UP) _ Nine
players, including shortstop Zoilo
Versalles, third baseman Deron
Johnson and Dave Giusti, changed
hands Tuesday in four trades
while major league baseball also
took steps to aid its beleagured
hitters.
The biggest trade in numbers
and the most unusual took place
between National League cham
pion St. Louis and the new San
Diego club as the Cards re
acquired Giusti in exchange for
four players.
Giusti was first acquired by St.
Louis in a trade with Houston jiist
after the past season but was
taken off the Cardinal roster by
the Padres in the expansion draft.
In the trade that returned him
to St. Louis, the Cards parted
with Ron Davis, who platooned
With Roger Maris in right field
last year; utility infielder-out
fielder Ed Spiezio and two minor
leaguers — pitcher Paul Knuckles
and catcher Danny Breeden.
The Cardinals also were in
volved in an even player exchange
with Boston, again acquiring a
pitcher, Gary Waslewski, while
sending utility ihfielder Dick
Schofield to the Red Sox.
But the biggest trade in names
involved Versalles and Johnson,
two players who were on top of
the baseball world just three years
ago. Versalles moved to Cleveland
and Johnson to Philadelphia.
While the general managers
were completing trades, their rec
ommendations for counteracting
a seeming unbalance of pitching
over hitting in the majors last
years were acted on, with the
following two recommendations
adopted:
1. The strike zone was reduced
to the area over the plate between
the armpits and the top of the
knees. Previously, it was between
the top of the shoulders and the
knees, with the knee area not de
fined.
2. The height of the pitching
mound was reduced to 10 inches
and a recommendation made that
the slope from the top of the
mbund to the grass area be grad
ual and uniform in every park.
The height of the mound previ
ously was up to 10 inches.
It was generally considered that
the two steps would aid the hit
ters and counteract the amazing
pitching in the majors last year
with few averages .300 or better.
Versalles, who won the most
valuable player award in the
American League for leading Min
nesota to the pennant in 1965 was
acquired by the Indians in de
layed payment from the new San
Diego club as part of an earlier
deal with Cleveland.
The Indians also will have to
deliver another player to the AL
expansion club to complete the
transaction.
Johnson, who was the National
League runs-batted-in king for
Cincinnati in 1965, was sold to
the Phillies by Atlanta for an
undisclosed amount of cash.
Acquisition of Johnson also re
vived speculation about the most-
discussed player at the meetings,
hard-hitting Richie Allen, who re
portedly has fallen into disfavor
with the Phillies.
However, Bob Skinner, the Phil
lies’ manager, contended that
there was a general misunder
standing about Allen’s availabil
ity.
“I’m not looking to trade him
or anyone on our roster unless
we get a bona fide offer,” said
Skinner. “This has been a real
misunderstanding. I in no way
want to trade him unless we can
help ourselves.”
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (A*) _
The horse racing program during
the 11-day 1968 New Mexico State
Fair drew a reCord parimutuel
handle.
For the entire program officials
said $5,510,506 was bet, to top the
previous record of $5,050,651 set
Smiley Battles Dallas SOC In
Playoff Round Here Saturday
Unbeaten Dallas South Oak
Cliff and come-from-behind Hous
ton Smiley tangle at 2 p.m. Sat
urday at Kyle Field in a Class
AAAA quarterfinal football game
that has the earmarks of a tre
mendous battle.
The Dallas entry has impressive
credentials. Dallas SOC has won
12 straight this season, 20
straight over the past two seasons
(9-1 last year) and 25 of its last
26 (6-4 in 1966, winning the final
4 that campaign.) They have
racked up 425 points against the
opposition’s 38 this year.
Houston Smiley, on the other
hand, has an 8-3-1, record and ih
the last four games the Eagles
have had to conie from behind to
post victories. After winning the
15-AAAA district crown, Smiley
came from behind to beat Conroe,
22-14, in bidistrict and last week
it pulled a 21-6 upset over Templte
after trailing, 6-0.
Both clubs boast great defenses.
SOC, on the basis of statistics,
has the better offense but Smiley’s
has been improving greatly of
late.
Coach Chuck Malone 6f Smiley
says, “If we can block as well
against South Oak Cliff and we
did against Temple and play an
other good round of defense, I
think we’ll be all right.”
The Eagles’ defense starts with
linebacker Bruce Best, a 6-2,
210-pounder whom many college
coaches say is the best head-hunt
er in Texas. “I know I wouldn’t
swap him for any linebacker in
the state,” says Malone.
But, stopping South Oak Cliff
could present problems for Smi
ley’s defense. The Dallas clu)>
boasts a trio of 9.6 sprinters in
Hodge Mitchell, Danny Colbert
and Burnis McFarland in the
backfield. Mitchell has a 7.9 rush
ing average for 113 carries while
Colbert has averaged 8 yafds a
run on 75 tries and McFarland 5.5
on 78 carries. Mitchell, a 180-
pounder, has scored 17 touch
downs for the Bears this year.
Tickets for the contest will be
on sale at the A&M business of
fice in G. Rollie White Coliseum
today. Advance tickets are $2 for
adults and $1 for students. On
game day the admission will be
$3 for all over 12 years of age and
$1 for those under 12.
The winner of this game ad
vances ihto the state semifinals
against the winner of the Odessa
Permian-Irving game.
SUDDEN HELP
Sonny Benefield rushes in to stop Richard Corsetto of
Southern Mississippi from making this layup early in the
Aggies 95-82 triumph Monday night. The Aggies will
tangle with the Centenary Gents Thursday night at 8 in
G. Rollie White. No freshman game is scheduled for Thurs
day. (Photo by Mike Wright)
in 1966.
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