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Traditional Clothing At Student Prices. Sports Desk The Baseball Interview Game by John Platzer In cities throughout the country, baseball managers are now being interviewed to let the “homefolk” know what kind of team they will be supporting this year. Unfortunately, what a baseball manager says is usually as similar to what he means as Phyllis Diller is to Raquel Welch. The words or materials remain the same but the interpretation is strikingly different. The following is an interview with Steady Loser, the manager of the Boosville Bombers. Included with the standard questions and answers is a translation of what Steady really means. Q—Well, Steady, the season is only a week away. Do you have any final thoughts on last year before the new one begins? A—It’s true that we got off to a slow start last season but we were real encouraged over the way it ended. T—Last year we lost 14 of our first 15 games and then we went into a slump. Of course, we were fortunate enough to have our last eight games rained out. Q—We have noticed many new faces around the Bombers’ camp this spring. Can we expect them to be in your starting Uneup on opening day? A—Every position on this club is still wide open. No one will be given anything. I will say, however, that we do have an unusually large number of “promising” rookies. T—We really don’t have anyone good enough to start and the raffle for opening day positions won’t be held until Thursday. Our rookies have been going around promising to make bedcheck, promising to lay off the booze, promising to make the workouts but frankly we don’t have much faith in them. Q—What about the Bombers style of play? Any changes from last season? A—We are going to put more “go” into our offense this year. We will run whenever the opportunity presents itself. T—Listen, as lousy as this team is we will be running a lot. After every road trip we will have to run from the plane to the bus and from the bus to the hotel just to stay alive. We figure if we hit the ground, spread out and keep running the fans won’t be able to get us all with one burst. Q—What about Boosville’s best hitter, ’ol Eza Sureoutman? A—Eza’s timing has been off thus far but we expect him to come around soon. T—Are you kidding? He keeps missing practice because he can’t remember the time. Of course, he will come around at 3:03 Friday to pick up his check. Q—I guess Hitter Delight is still the ace of your pitching staff? A—Hitter has had shoulder trouble this spring and we are still waiting on the final verdict. T—Hitter caught a policeman’s billie-club between the shoulder- blades after tearing up a bar last night and now we have to wait on the trial to see if he can play. Q—The owner of the Bombers, Muchos Dinero, has made all of your exhibition games and is awaiting the opener. He is some fan, isn’t he? A—I can’t say enough about our whole front office. We couldn’t be where we are without them. T—I have enough against our front office to convict them of fraud but I can’t say anything. If it weren’t for them we would battle for the pennant each year instead of being down here in the stupid basement. With the above as a guide you are now ready to tackle the task of interpreting baseball managers. Just turn on the television, wait for an interview and go to work. The Battalion’s all-time award for the most unappreciated man of this year or any other year goes to the member of the Aggie Rodeo Association who ties that $100 bill to the bull’s horn. (See Story Page 1). Of course, in order to earn the award the tying must take place in the middle of the arena and not in some cow(ardly) stall. Page 4 College Station, Texas Wednesday, April 30, 1969 THE BATTALION UH Rally Overtakes Ags A five-run eighth-inning rally by the University of Houston wiped out a good hitting perform ance by the Aggies yesterday as the Cougars recorded a 10-7 vic tory in Houston. The Aggies, who have had trouble scoring runs all season, broke fast with three runs in the first and two more in the second for a quick 5-0 lead. A&M was staked to the early lead on a first inning homerun by pitcher Dave Benesh and a second inning shot by Bob Long. Jim Sparkman, who pitched the last five innings in relief for Houston, narrowed the margin to 5-3 with a three-run homer in the third. Benesh, who was relieved on the mound by Charles Kelley in the fifth, slammed his second homerun of the game in the fourth to give A&M a 6-3 lead. ‘Mural Track Finals Today The field events for the Intra mural track meet were completed Monday afternoon. The finals in all the running events will begin at 5:00 today. The record for Class B high jump was broken by Marvin Tay lor of D-l. The previous record was 6T” set back in 1940 and Taylor cleared 6’2”. Jeff Watkins of Squadron 14 and John Kenagy of Squadron 14 placed second and third. Davis-Gary Hall dominated Class C high jump with Bill Car ter winning first clearing 5’8” and Stephen Mutshink taking sec ond with a 5’6” jump. Michael Hensley of G-2 beat Richard Green of Squadron 9 with fewer misses when they each could not get over 5’6”, in Class A competition. In the shot put Richard Greene once again placed with a put of 48’2” to beat the nearest com petitor by 2 feet in Class A com petition. In Class R, Robert Picard of A-2 won with a toss of 47’2”. Frank Eckels of Keathley beat Robert Oliphint of Moore by 2 inches with a put of 47’8” to win the Class C title. In the broad jump James Perry of Squadron 6 jumped V 2 further than Frank Farnsworth of Squad ron 14 to win in Class B, with a jump of 20Ty 2 ”. In Class A, Lee McFadden of A-2 won with a jump of 20T0” and Rowe of the Lutheran Stu dent Association won the Class C title with a jump of 20’6”. F-l won the Class A tennis championship by defeating Squad ron 4. Their three doubles teams included Orpha Thomas and Carl Hanson, Bruce Baxter and Rich ard Love, and Richard Oates and Merrell Richardson. Montreal Leads Stanley Cup Playoff, 2-0 MONTREAL (A>) _ Montreal’s power - laden Canadiens ripped through St. Louis 3-1 Tuesday night and raced into a 2-0 lead See You At r\ J L ^ Ki L 5 Tonight in the best-of-7 National Hockey League Stanley Cup finals. Goals by Ralph Backstrom, Dick Duff and Yvan Cournoyer keyed the machine - like Mont real attack as the Canadiens stretched their two-year unbeat- ed streak against St. Louis to 16 games—six in the playoffs. The Canadiens turned the pres sure on the Blues and completely dominated play after a Sluggish SENIORS NEW CAR FINANCING WITH DEFERRED PAYMENTS. first 10 minutes. Then, a record-breaking pen alty barrage by Montreal’s John Ferguson with 10 seconds left in the opening period seemed to ignite the Canadiens and they swarmed in on St. Louis goalie Glen Hall in the middle period. Backstrom had put Montreal on top with less than three min utes left in the opening period when he lifted a rebound of J. C. Tremblay’s slap shot past Hall. Then Ferguson drew a double minor penalty and a misconduct. That meant the Canadiens had to play shorthanded for almost four minutes at the start of the second period. A strike of wildness on the part of Aggie pitchers Kelley and Doug Rau gave the Cougars a pair of runs in the fifth to narrow the score to 6-5. Coach Tom Chandler’s baseball- ers increased their lead to 7-5 in the seventh when Mike DeNiro singled home Dave Elmendorf. In the five run eighth for Hous ton, Sparkman had the key hit, a two-run double. A single and a triple by Phil Rose added an other pair and Rose scored om double steal. Rau picked up the loss for tit Aggies while Sparkman wit credited with the win. The Aggies finish up the seasot this weekend with a three gamt series in Kyle Field agaimt Texas. The two teams will play t doubleheader Friday and com back with a single game Satm. day. Ags Up Golf Lead, End Season Friday The Texas Aggies defeated Baylor, 5V6 to %, here Tuesday to maintain their Southwest Con ference golf lead. A&M now has a SWC record of 30-6 with one match remaining, against TCU in Fort Worth Fri day. Duke Butler of A&M and Allen Weston of Baylor halved their singles match for Baylor's % point. Richard Ellis of A&M beat Bill Munguia, 5 and 4 and Butler Ags Workout Minus Pads In an unusual move for spring training. Coach Gene Stallings sent his Texas Aggies through Tuesday’s workout in sweat suits. The Aggie coach said there were a lot of minor injuries on the squad and, “besides we needed a learning day so we took them out of pads and practiced in sweats.” Stallings also said he wanted to add a new wrinkle or two to his attack and the players needed a session devoted to learn ing. Jimmy Sheffield, junior from Houston, was the only quarter back in a Maroon shirt Tuesday, the first time this spring that the Maroons have had only one quarterback. Junior squadman Robert Stansberry and redshirt sophomore Rocky Self alternated at quarterbacking the White unit, which is the second offensive team. The Aggies will be back in pads Wednesday for their 10th workout of the spring. Celtics Edge LA To Even Series BOSTON OP)—Sam Jones hit a clutch 15-foot jump shot with one second remaining, lifting the Bos ton Celtics to a dramatic 89-88 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers Tuesday night, evening the best-of-7 series at two games apiece for the National Basket ball Association championship. Jones, the 36-year-old veteran retiring after the playoffs, shook off a close guard, took a pass from John Havlicek and connected from the free throw line. A crowd of 15,128, the largest pro basketball turnout in Boston Garden history, went into near hysteria as Boston’s old pros, ac customed to the pressure-cooker, registered a second straight vic tory over the Lakers in a bid for their 11th NBA title in 13 years. The Celtics had failed to score from the floor for more than four minutes before Jones con nected. The Lakers led 88-86 before Boston’s Emmette Bryant cashed a free throw with 15 seconds remaining. and Ellis won the foursome low ball, 1-up. Reggie Majors of A&M bea: Don Brown, 1-up, and Bill Wadt of A&M beat Ben Hagins, 5 ajj 4. Majors and Wade won theii foursome low-ball, also 1-up. Ellis was the day’s medalist with an even-par round. Butler, one-down going inb the final hole, won it with a p to get even with Weston in thei: match. 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