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THE BATTALION Page 4 College Station, Texas Thursday, March 18, 1971 Curtis Mills finds a new field Friday at 1 p. m. Ags open loop play with SMI ■ By JOHN CURYLO This time of the year, most outstanding college seniors are considering professional careers in their sports, and new worlds are opening up for them. But in track, there isn’t the professional field that there is in other major sports. Texas A&M’s Curtis Mills has other ideas, though. Once his eligibility is over in track, the world record holder will play football for Gene Stallings. Stallings can’t help but be happy that the great sprinter has volunteered for the team, and Curtis’ decision ought to be a drawing card at the gate next season. “Curtis is a great athlete,” Stallings said, “and we’re tickled to death to have him come out for the team.” “I don’t know what position I’ll play,” Curtis explained. “That’s all up to Coach Stallings.” At 6*4 and 175, and with his speed, he could be used just about anywhere. Defensively, safety cornerback, or even linebacker all seem possible. On offense, split end or tailback might be the place for him. Also, his speed could make him a return specialist. All these hinge on his ability to catch, tackle, or carry the ball. “I can’t say where we’ll use him,” Stallings said. “Maybe defense, maybe offense, say split end or tailback. But 1 will say that we’re real glad he decided to play.” This brings up the drawback that Curtis hasn’t played football since high school. All of his preparation will come in fall drills, since the conference track meet and nationals conflict with spring football drills. “I’m not interested in him coming out for spring training,” Stallings explained. “I want him to be able to finish his track career.” Billy Bob Barnett made a similar move two years ago, playing football for the 1969 Aggies after finishing a fine basketball career. But there is a difference, in that basketball has some of the roughness and bodily contact of football. Steve O’Neal, the great punter for the 1968 team and now the New York Jets, originally came to A&M on a track scholarship. As a broad jumper, he still holds the school record indoors with a leap of 22’7 1 A” in Dallas in 1967. A kicking specialist isn’t usually that involved with the contact (or collision) that the other players are, though, so this is not the same. However, Curtis’ speed will probably help him more than O’Neal’s jumping ability aided him, so this is a closer comparison. In the meantime, Curtis will be thinking ahead to his days as a college football player, and Stallings v/ill be thinking about the “newcomer” to the squad. “He’s a fine runner and a good kid,” Stallings said. “And he’s sure a great national champion.” It’s obvious that the Lufkin Dunbar product will be his usual casual self in undertaking the new task. In looking ahead, his attitude is cautious. “I know football’s a hard game,” he declared. “It’ll be rough, but I want to get out there and play.” The Texas Aggies begin their journey toward what they hope will be the Southwest Conference baseball championship this week end when they host the much-im proved Southern Methodist Uni versity Mustangs on Kyle Field. The two teams will play a dou bleheader at 1 p.m. Friday and then a single game at 2 p.m. Saturday to initiate the confer ence race for A&M. SMU, the doormat of the league last year, opened its season last weekend, showing an improve ment on pitching and defense while they won two out of three games from the Rice Owls. That record puts the Mustangs in a first-place tie with the Bay lor Bears, who surprised the Uni versity of Texas at Austin twice in three games in their series. “They (SMU) are very defi nitely improved. Especially in pitching and defense,” coach Tom Chandler said. Chandler’s statement had some very provable facts to back it up in the Rice series, where the Mustangs hitters managed only 9 hits and yet they still won two games. Dave Davis pitched a seven- hit shutout to the Owls in the first game and then Pete Stare threw nine innings of zeros at Rice before departing with a scoreless tie after nine innings. Rice finally won that game 3-0 in 10 innings. On Saturday Lynn Humphries pitched the Mustangs to a 2-1 win. Those same three more than likely will be on the mound against the Aggies for SMU, which has a 6-4 season standard. In last year’s A&M-SMU se ries the Aggies used timely hit ting, shutout pitching from Doug Rau, Dave Benesh and Bruce Katt and an abundance of errors by the Mustangs to waltz to three easy victories. It extended the Aggies’ win streak over the Mus tangs to 8. Katt is the only pitcher back for the Aggies from last year’s threesome and his performance is the easiest remembered. The junior from New Braunfels struck out a Southwest Conference rec ord of 19 batters in pitching A&M to a victory on Saturday. Katt is due a starting job for one of the Friday games, probably the sec ond game which is slated for nine innings. Chandler is very wary of the Ponies. “We’re going- to have to play better this weekend if we expect to do well. We’ve been very for tunate in that our opponents have helped us out with errors at cru cial times or we’ve gotten the clutch hit to get us out.” The Aggies have played in six straight games decided by a sin gle run. Despite their 9-1 record A&M has won six of those nine by a run. “Our pitching has done well, but we’re going to have to im prove defensively,” Chandler pointed out. The Ags made five errors Tues day against Sam Houston, not a trait of a championship team, but Sam Houston made seven and A&M took two one-run decisions. Paul Czerwinski will start the other Friday game for A&M. Czerwinski (2-0) has a 0.58 earn ed run average and Katt (2-0) has a 0.53 era to lead the squad. Jackie Binks (2-0) has a 2.40 era and will pitch the Saturday single game. Charlie Kelley will probably be the top relief man. Kelley has a 3-1 record and 2.30 era. As a team the Aggies have a 1.85 era and also have a team Skeet shooters asked to meet again Students interested in forming a trap and skeet shooting club at Texas A&M should attend an or ganizational meeting at 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 22 in the auditori um of the Architecture Building. Officers will be elected and plans will be discussed for stu dents representing A&M at the national intercollegiate shooting championships at Kansas City in May, according to Bob McGloth- lin, recreation and parks junior from Grand Prairie. At the March 3 meeting, a five- man committee was appointed to work with Dr. C. L. Leinweber of the Range Science Department to investigate the possibility of establishing trap and skeet facil ities. batting average of .307. Another important plus for the Aggies has been that only 31 bat ters have struck out in 296 at bats. An average of only three per game. In fact the team’s in dividual leaders, Jim Sampson and Chris Sans, have struck out only five times. Dave Elmendorf, off to an out standing start, leads the club in hits with 16, total bases with 26, runs batted in with 11, stolen bases with 3 and fewest strike outs among starters with 1. He also shares the lead for runs scored with R. J. Englert with 8 and doubles and triples with Sans, 3 and 2 respectively. Billy Hodge leads the team with nine walks and Carroll Lilly leads in average with .500, picking up 14 hits in 28 at bats. Sans is tops in put outs and double plays. The Aggies probable starting lineup for Friday’s opener and their averages are: Butch Ghutz- man, third base, .306; R. J. 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