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THE BATTALION
Wednesday, May 14, 1969
College Station, Texas
Page 7
Griffith Eyes Championship
After Unanimous Decision
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Brupbacher Switch Going Well
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ROCKIE ROAD IN SWC 100
A&M’s sterling sophomore, Rockie Woods, pulls away from ance for first place while Baylor’s Ronnie Allen ran a 9.5,
the field in the final phases of the 100-yard dash at the Rice’s Dale Bemauer had a 9.6 and the Aggie’s Scott Hend-
Southwest Conference track meet in Waco over the week- ricks turned in a 9.8 for fifth place. (Photo by Mike
end. Woods (second from right) turned in a 9.4 perform- Wright)
NEW YORK WP)—Emile Grif
fith said he was satisfied with
his winning performance against
Stan “Kitten” Hayward but
heatedly declared “IT1 be much
better against Nino Benvenuti if
I get another shot at him.”
The former welterweight and
middleweight champion was
stung by the comments of some
critics who called his unanimous
victory over the Philadelphia con
tender Monday night as “dull and
methodical.”
“Sure, the fight wasn’t spec
tacular,” said Griffith, Tuesday,
“but it takes two to make a
fight. Hayward grabs and moves.
He wants to get punching room
and get set.
“I followed our fight plan. My
job was to get inside, punch away
and not give him any punching
room. I won the fight and that
Ross Brupbacher was the out
standing schoolboy football play
er in Louisiana when Texas A&M
Coach Gene Stallings recruited
kirn from Lafayette High in 1966
kind the 6-3, 210-pounder has
lived up to expectations during
two varsity campaigns at Aggie-
land.
Brupbacher was an offensive
back in high school and as an
Aggie Fish. He started his soph-
Majestic Prince
Weakness Bound
BALTIMORE UP) _ Majestic
Prince is a hard horse to type
east. The only thing he does con
sistently is win.
"He might be any kind of
borse,” Chick Lang, director of
racing at Pimlico, said today.
“But so far, it’s a freak the way
be does things.
‘He’s won on the lead, coming
from behind, from outside, and
on fast and muddy tracks—at
distances from three-quarters of
a mile to a mile and a quarter.”
Majestic Prince is unbeaten,
with eight victories including the
Kentucky Derby, and on Satur
day he goes after No. 9 in the
{150,000-added Preakness at Pim
lico.
"There’s no telling how great
Majestic Prince might become,”
Lang said. “But his future is all
in front of him; his past record
speaks for itself. How can you
knock a horse that wins eight
straight ?
Lang is just as enthusiastic
when he rates Bill Hartack, the
only jockey ever to ride Majestic
Prince.
“Hartack doesn’t seem to make
mistakes in the big races,” said
Lang, who was once agent for
the controversial jockey.
“It’s almost as if he has a
blueprint, so he’ll know where
he’s going and what he’s doing.
Lang also noted that Hartack
has been riding at Pimlico since
last Saturday, winning five of
his first 12 races while getting
the feel of the track.
“You might say Hartack is
coming up well for the race, too,”
Lang said. “Both the horse and
jockey are sharp.”
omore year as a tailback-fullback
for A&M but after the Aggies
lost their first four games, Stall
ings moved him to defensive half
back. It was one of the key posi
tion switches made by Stallings
as the Aggies reversed their field
and won their next seven, includ
ing a Cotton Bowl victory over
Alabama.
As a junior Brupbacher was a
fixture at halfback in the Aggie
defensive secondary. He went
80 yards for a touchdown against
Tulane after intercepting a pass
and thereby became the all-time
Aggie football leader in intercep
tion return yardage.
Now, however, the versatile,
21-year-old gridder, is at a new
position — tight end on offense
His early showings this spring
would convince a novice fan that
he’d been playing the position all
his life.
Brupbacher (pronounced brew-
backer) has great hands as a
pass receiver, is a quick, solid
blocker and has the speed and
moves to get open on pass routes.
This is the final spring train
ing for Ross and spectators at
the Maroon-White game Satur
day afternoon can expect a sterl
ing performance from the Louisi
ana native.
Colonial Rocked
By Thunder Bolt
FORT WORTH, Tex. <A>> _
They were telling Tommy Bolt
stories Tuesday in a prelude to
the $125,000 Colonial National
Invitation, and Billy Casper stole
the show.
“Tommy was playing one day
when he got off a good tee shot,”
Casper, the defending champion
here, deadpanned.
Arriving at his ball, he turned
to his caddy and said, “What iron
should I hit?”
“A 2 or 3,” the caddy replied.
“What do you mean 2 or 3?”
Bolt demanded. “It’s only 130
yards to the green.”
“Well,” the lad replied, “You’ve
only got a 2 and a 3 iron left.”
Casper went on to tell about
“Tempestuous Tommy’s” South
African tour with Gary Player.
The South Africans observed, he
said, “how even-tempered Tom
my Bolt was—always mad.”
Another story went this way:
Tommy was watching a young
golfer one day who hit a lousy
shot. He threw his club. Bolt
turned to a companion and de
clared:
“These young players don’t
even know how to throw a club.
There’s a secret to it. You never
throw them behind you. You
throw them toward the next tee
so you don’t have to walk so
far.”
There was the time, they said,
when he summoned the marshals
to chase deer off the fairway at
the Bing Crosby tournament.
And when he fell strangely
silent at the U. S. Open one
year. A newspaper, Bolt com
plained, had carried his age
wrong, hiking it by 10 years.
“It was just a typo,” the sports
writers insisted.
“Hell!” he shot back. “They
don’t make typos on the front
page.”
Bolt is back at Colonial for
another try at the title he won
here a decade ago.
Perhaps he’s forgotten the
time he blew a four-inch putt.
“A venturesome type,” some
one suggested, “may find that
putter this very day. It is bur
ied ... in the trunk of a con
venient oak tree.”
That was long ago, and the
talk now was of the Caspers,
Players, Palmers, Archers, etc.
Reports circulated around the
course that Gary Player fired a
practice round Tuesday of 63, two
under the competitive course rec
ord and seven shots under par.
“I think he left out a couple of
holes,” Casper, twice a winner
here, quipped.
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and even all-America this coming
season.
His parents, Mr. and Mrs. D.
H. Brupbacher, now live in Hous
ton where his father is a train
dispatcher for Southern Pacific
Railway.
A business management major,
Ross would like to play pro foot
ball and then eventually go into
coaching.
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was the important thing.
“Nino said he would fight the
winner. I promise you I’ll be
much better than I was against
Hayward. I’ll be as good as I
was when I beat Nino in our
second fight.”
The 31-year-old New Yorker
has a 1-2 record against Benven
uti in middleweight title fights.
He lost the 160-pound division
crown to the Italian on April 17,
1967, regained it on Sept. 29, and
then lost it back on March 4,
1968.
The three fights grossed each
of the fighters more than $250,-
000.
“Emile is the No. 1 challenge
for my title,” said Benvenuti.
“But first I’ve got my non
title fight with Dick Tiger at the
Garden May 26.
“I am confident I will beat
him But first I want to see how
I make out with him before I
sign for any other fights. Maybe
I will fight light-heavyweight
champion Bob Foster. But Grif
fith will be my first opponent in
a middleweight title fight.”
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