HE BATTALION
Friday, March 28, 1969
College Station, Texas
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lAgs Place Perfect Record On Line Against TCU
Still boasting an undefeated
record two weeks into the college
laseball season, the Aggies moved
nto Fort Worth today for a
Southwest Conference series with
fexas Christian.
The two teams square off in a
doubleheader this afternoon and
hen come back Saturday at 2
).m. to wind-up the season’s
:ompetition between the two
squads.
COACH TOM CHANDLER’S
baseballers enter the series with
a 9-0 season and 3-0 SWC mark
pile the Homed Frogs are 4-3
for the year and 0-3 in conference
action.
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MIAMI (A 3 ) — Young Dewitt
Weaver, bull-strong and bulldog-
tough, staggered the Country
Club of Miami course with 300
yard drives for a record-break
ing six-under-par 66 Thursday
and grabbed a one-stroke lead
over the fabulous Sam Snead in
;he first round of the $200,000
National Airlines Open Golf
Tournament.
Rated by computer the longest
litter on the tour, Weaver had
just finished describing his five
lirdies and one eagle when Sam
Snead came in on a cluster of
three straight birdies for a 67.
The 66-year-old Slammin Sam
my, golf’s slugging champion of
another era, pummeled the ball
320 yards on the final hole and
chipped to within six feet for his
closing birdie.
There was a large clump tied
at 68, including 41-year-old Lio
nel Hebert, Australian Bruce
Crampton. Dale Douglass, Dick
Sikes, Butch Baird, Dave Stock-
ton, and Frank Beard.
The previous course record
was 67 shared by Arnold Palmer,
abe Hart and Bob Toski.
Palmer, saying “I’m still not
hitting it right,” and South Afri
ca’s Gary Player, declaring “I’ve
never played better,” each bird-
ied the final hole on the par 72,
6,927-yard layout from between
10 and 15 feet for 69s, which
put them in a tie with a dozen
others.
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ence play last weekend at College
Station with 3-2, 2-1 and 7-5 vic
tories over Southern (Methodist
while TCU was dropping three
games to Texas in Austin 7-3, 8-6
and 7-5.
Both teams have already re
corded a pair of non-conference
wins this week. A&M beat Mis
souri 2-0 and 6-5 while TCU beat
Abilene Christian 9-5 and Texas
at Arlington 11-5.
Coach Frank Windegger is ex
pected to pitch three junior letter-
men against the Aggies this
weekend. Jim Chase, a righthander
from Abilene, will probably get
the first call followed by Jerome
Hall, a righthander from Fort
Worth, and Rod Monahan, a left
hander from Odessa.
HALL AND MONAHAN have
each posted a 1-0 record thus far
while Chase is at 1-1. Chase has
a 4.96 eamed-run-average while
Hall is at 3.29 and Monahan has
a 3.00.
Coach Chandler is expected to
counter with the same rotation he
used against SMU last week of
Doug Rau, Dave Benesh and
freshman southpaw Charles Kel
ley.
Rau, a sophomore from Colum
bus, has been A&M’s most effec
tive pitcher this season with a
3-0 record and an eamed-run-av
erage fo 1.96. He has struck out
26 while issuing only 10 walks
this season.
BENESH, a junior from Hous
ton, and Walter Varvel, senior
from College Station, each have
a 2-0 record. Benesh has posted a
2.35 ERA while Varvel has an
ERA of 1.80.
TCU’s top player is senior
catcher Bill Ferguson. A second
team All-American last season,
Ferguson hit at a .371 clip in
conference with four homeruns.
The Corpus Christ! native is cur
rently hitting for a .263 average
this season with eight runs-bat-
ted-in.
Ag Rugby Club
To Play Dallas
The A&M Rugby Club has a
pair of matches against their
Dallas counterparts this Saturday.
The day’s first match begins at
3 p m. at Ownby Stadium on the
Southern Methodist University
campus.
FERGUSON was hurt in TCU’s
series with Texas and missed this
week’s non-conference tilts but he
is expected to start against the
Aggies. If Ferguson is unable to
play, his spot will be taken by
regular third baseman Jeff New
man with sophomore Gary Vas-
seur taking over at third.
The Frogs’ starting lineup con
sists of three players with batting
averages over .300. Newman leads
TCU with a .444 mark while left-
fielder Dick Gage is at .407 and
rightfielder Larry Grimland is
hitting .320.
THE REST of TCU’s starting
lineup consists of first baseman
Larry Peel (.259), second base-
man Dick Turner (.250), short
stop Glenn Moore (.241) and cen-
terfielder Roger Williams (.280).
Newman and Peel pace the team
in runs-batted-in with nine each.
The regular Aggie lineup con
sists of catcher Larry Stelley,
first baseman Boyd Hadaway,
Johnny Padres Attempting
Comeback With San Diego
By DON RAPOPORT
Associated Press Sports Writer
TEMPE, Ariz. (A 1 ) _ “I got
out of high school,” says Johnny
Podres. “What else can I do?”
He is 36 now, not as old as you
might have guessed, and he
combs his hair across his head
in the fashion of men to whom
growing bald takes some getting
used to.
Podres is making a comeback
to a game he played profession
ally from 1951 until 1967, when
he was given an unconditional
release by the Detroit Tigers.
“I called a few clubs then,”
he says, “but they said they were
going with the younger kids.”
So Podres spent a summer at
home for the first time in 18
years, coaching kids’ teams in
Witherbee, his small hometown
in upstate New York.
“Let’s face it,” he says. “I was
out of work.”
Then last spring the major
leagues expanded and Podres’
phone rang. It was Buzzie Ba-
vasi, who had been Podres’ gen
eral manager with the Brooklyn,
later Los Angeles Dodgers, for
13 years. Bavasi had just been
named president of the new San
Diego Padres.
“Buzzie said to stay in shape,”
Podres says. “So I pitched
around 70 innings of semi-pro
ball. I really wasn’t in that
good shape, but I was encour
aged with the way my arm felt.
This spring, I came to the winter
instruction league down here.”
In his first four appearances
of the spring — two intrasquad
games and two exhibition con
tests — Podres gave up just one
run in 13 innings.
“He’s doing a hell of a job,”
says San Diego Manager Preston
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Gomez. “So far, he’s looking
very impressive.”
“I’m really encouraged by the
way things are going,” says
Podres, who pitched in four World
Series for the Dodgers, compil
ing a 4-1 record, and in two All-
Star games. “My arm feels real
good. I don’t throw like I used
to when I was 29, 30, 31 years
old. I’ll throw better when I get
in shape.”
The year he spent out of base
ball was a strange one, Podres
says.
“For years you keep playing
the game, playing the game. It
gets tougher and tougher going
to the ballpark. Then all of a
sudden, you’re out of uniform.
When you come back you feel
like a kid again.”
Podres feels he will best be
able to help San Diego as a start
ing pitcher, saying: “Relief
pitching isn’t the way I’ve been
brought up pitching. The best
job I could do would probably be
starting. I believe I could pitch
with four days rest.”
second baseman Pete Maida, third
baseman Eddie Vaughn and short
stop Jim Raley. The Aggies have
perhaps the strongest outfield in
the Southwest in the person of
Dave Elmendorf, Bob Long and
Bob Arnold.
A&M has a pair of non-confer
ence tilts scheduled for the first
of next week in San Antonio. St.
Mary’s University, a (5-0) winner
over Missouri Thursday, will pro
vide the competition Monday with
the Aggies playing Notre Dame
Tuesday afternoon.
The next SWC action for Coach
Chandler’s team will be next
weekend against Texas Tech in
College Station. The Red Raiders
will be in town for a doubleheader
next Friday afternoon and a sin
gle game Saturday.
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through my tulips. I walk among them, filling my arms
with beauty, listening to the murmur of early morning.
Soon I gather up baskets of orange and scarlet, pale
pink and lemon yellow and hurry to the church in the
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Rector: William R. Oxley
Asst.—Rev. Wesley Seeligrer
8:00 A.M. & 9:15 A.M. Sunday
Service;
A&M CHURCH OF CHRIST
8:00 & 10:00 A.M. Worship
9 :00 A.M.—Bible Study
5:15 P.M.—Younjt People's Class
6 :00 P.M.—Worship
7:15 P.M.—Arsrie Class
9 :30 A.M.—Tues. - Ladies Bible Class
7:15 P.M.—Wednesday - Bible Study
UNIVERSITY LUTHERAN
(Missouri Synod)
10:45 A.M.—Sunday MorninK Worship
9 :S0 A.M.—Bible Class
7 :30 P.M.—Wednesday, Vesper Services
UNITARIAN FELLOWSHIP
305 Old Highway 6. South
10 :00 A.M.—Sunday School
7:00 P.M.—Adult Service
A&M PRESBYTERIAN
7-9 A.M.—Sun. Bresdcfast - Stu. Ctr.
9:45 A.M.—Church School
11:00 A.M.—Morning Worship
6 :00 P.M.—Sun. Single Stu. Fellowship
7 :16 P.M.—Wed. Student Fellowship
6:45 A.M.—FVi. Communion Service
Wesley Foundation
CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE
y :45 A.M.—Sunday School
10:45 A.M.—Morning Worship
>ple’s Service
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9 :30 A.M.—Sunday School
11:00 A.M.—Sunday Service
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Sunday Masses—7:30, 9:00 and 11:00
A.M.
7:00 P.M.
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9:15 A.M.—Sunday School
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9 :15 A.M.—Sunday
10:30 A.M.-—Mornin
7:30 P.M.
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ASSEMBLY OF GOD
FIRST BAPTIST
9:30 AM—Sunday School
10:45 AM Morning Worship
6:10 PM—Training Union
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6:30 PM—Choir Practice & Teachers'
meeting
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10:45 A.M.—Morning Worship
6 :00 P.M.—-Youth Hour
7:00 P.M.—Evening Worship
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8:30 A.M.—Morning Worship
9 :45 A.M.—Sunday School
10:55 A.M.—Morning Worship
5:30 P.M.—Campus & Career Class
5-30 & 6:00 P.M.—MYF Meetings
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