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College Station, Texas
Thursday, April 23, 1970
THE BATTALION
Hard-Hitting Ags Host Cougars Today
By Richard Campbell
Battalion Sports Editor
The picture-perfect Texas Ag
gies take a break from the mo-
notny of winning Southwest Con
ference games to host the Hous
ton Cougars in a double header
today at 1:30 on Kyle Field.
With an 11-0 SWC mark, the
heavy-hitting and equally-talent
ed-pitching Aggies are taking a
breather of four games with the
Cougars with the final two com
ing in Houston Saturday. A&M
right now holds a one-and-a-half
game lead over the Texas Long
horns and return to SWC action
May 1 and 2 with a series with
Texas Christian on Kyle Field.
Aggie coach Tom Chandler has
not yet named the starting pitch
ers for the Houston tilts but his
little-used relief corps could see
a lot of action.
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Doug Rau continued his bril
liant pitching pace with his third
shutout in conference play this
past weekend, a 2-0 two-hit
beauty over Texas Tech. His
season mark is now 7-0 and his
earned run average is now a re
markable 0.33 with only two
earned runs allowed in 54 inn
ings pitched.
R. J. Englert, the Big Spring
sophomore, continued his hitting
onslaught with a .421 mark, good
for third in the nation. Billy
Hodge is next with a .384 mark
and Chris Sans is at .351 with a
12-game hitting streak.
Knicks Might
Win It Now
By Mike Recht
Associated Press Sports Writer
NEW YORK UP) _ The man
who coached the New York
Knicks the last time they reached
the National Basketball Associa
tion final 17 years ago — and
lost — thinks they have a better
chance this time because of Willis
Reed.
“We had a team equal in every
respect, but no center to Reed’s
proportions,” said Joe Lapchick,
a member of basketball’s Hall of
Fame who coached the Knicks
through their only other glory
period from 1947 to 1956.
“If you’re going up against a
team with a center like Los An
geles with Wilt Chamberlain,
you’ve got to have a center. The
Knicks are better prepared go
ing into this final series with
Reed than we were. That’s why
I like their chances better than
ours against George Mikan and
Arnie Risen.”
LOOKING OVER SIGNS—Lefty Doug Rau gets his sign
from catcher Billy Hodge during the series against Tech.
Rau is 7-0 on the season and is sporting a 0.33 ERA.
(Photo by Mike Wright)
Doug On Top Now
The Knicks and the Lakers
open their best-of-seven final
playoff series Friday night in
New York.
The Knicks, who have never
won an NBA title and hadn’t
won a regular season Eastern
Division Title since 1953-54 until
this season, lost in the final
against Mikan and Minneapolis
in 1951-52 and then against Ris
en and Rochester in 1952-53.
“Mikan was. the main cause of
our defeat the first time,” Lap-
chuck recalled. “He was hurt the
next year and Rochester slipped
in, but the center still beat us.
Risen was the next best.
“Sweetwater Clifton and Con
nie Simmons, our centers, were
pros, but no one jumped over
fences to see them. Clifton was
only 6-foot-5 and Simmons 6-7.
“We might have won it all
then if we had a center.”
It looked like it was going to
be one of “those kind of years”
for A&M’s ace lefty Doug Rau.
The junior from Columbus, Tex.,
allowed hard-hitting Sam Hous
ton State only two hits, but left
after six innings with the score
tied at 1-1.
That was the story of Rau’s
life last season as he posted a
4-4 record with a 2.22 ERA.
A&M scored a total of one run
in Rau’s four losses.
Following the Sam Houston
game, though, Rau’s luck
changed. The Aggies scored in
the first inning in Rau’s next
seven starts, and Rau won all of
them. He didn’t need many runs
to accomplish a 7-0 record. In
54 innings he has allowed two
earned runs for a remarkable
0.33 ERA.
Rau is currently riding a string
of 18 scoreless innings with back-
to-back two-hit shutouts. In 54
innings, he has allowed only 24
hits, walked 12 and struckout 64.
Doug’s Southwest Conference
record is 5-0. Included in those
five victories are a three-hit
shutout of SMU, and two-hit
blankings of Rice and Texas
Tech.
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to be one of the best pitchers
A&M and the conference has
ever seen.”
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