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Page 4 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Friday, March 19, 1971 £ For all your insurance needs See U. M. Alexander, Jr. *40 221 S. Main, Bryan 823-0742 S) State Farm Insurance Companies - Home Offices Bloomington, 111. F - RI DAY MARCH /9 ' Q-/2 Saturday MARCH TO” 3-r ^ndopenj,^ V BLACKSMITH ^ PLAVINS POPULAR I ► 3 DOG NIGHT, ► JANICE JOPLIN, ► CHICAGO Ags in quadrangular meet at Dalla By JOHN CURYLO Coach Charlie Thomas takes his track team to Dallas tomor row for a meet with three other Southwest Conference squads. This quadrangular meet should give further indication of the Golfers meet Aggies’ ability to defend their title. SMU, TCU, and Texas Tech will provide the opposition for the team that beat Abilene Chris tian soundly Tuesday. The Aggies are expected to win, since marks released by the conference office this week show A&M in good shape so far. Harold McMahan, Larry Mc Intyre, and Robert Hoffman are 2-3-4, behind Rice’s Dave Rob erts. Another sweep is expected here. Marc Black looks solid in the javelin, leading the league at 234-3. Tech Saturda I The Texas Aggie golf team opens its 1971 Southwest Con ference season Saturday at 1 p.m. when they host the Texas Tech University Red Raiders on In the field events, Ben Great- house and Marvin Taylor are tied for third at 6-8. No athletes from the three competitors this week are in the top six, so things look good here for the fourth week in a row. Curtis Mills has a good thing going in the running events. If he runs the 440 yard dash, it should be his. His 45.9 leads the conference and his 9.5 in the 100 is right up there with A&M’s Steve Barre. Rockie Woods has a 9.6. Curtis has a 21.5 in the 220 and Woods a 21.4. In addition, the relay teams are both in first. The sprint relay turned in a 40.7 at Abilene to jump into the early lead. The mile relay school rec ord of 3:08.0 is better than the rest, and these should be favor ites for the conference meet in May. than Stan Hill of SMU ranij weeks ago, but Hill is itjj with a pulled muscle, so Eh mon should win. Don Kellar ran a 52.0 in the 440 yard intermediate hurdles in Laredo and a 62.2 Tuesday. These times are just ahead of SMU’s Larry Eubanks, so fans will be in for another good race in this event. Willie Blackmon’s half mile time of 1:62.7 is a little slower The Aggies need to win meet to keep their momu going for the big one in weeks. Weekly improvemsg an important factor in in and AifcM will be out to atij this, too. the A&M golf course. The Aggies, under Coach Henry Ransom, have won six team titles since 1960 and they along with Gridders starts spring training Tuesday Tech and SMU are expected to be the big three in the battle for the team title since the defend ing champion University of Tex as Austin Longhorns decided they didn’t want to play within the rules of the league. The Aggies have four letter- men back from last year ready to go against the Raiders, who return, Jim Whittaker, the eighth-place finisher in the league’s medal tournament. Steve Veriato, 10th in medal play, and a sophomore from Hilo, Hawaii, lead the team. Tommy Johnson, another sophomore letterman from Harlingen and a couple of two year junior lettermen, Tom Gilbert from Jacksboro and Tom my Sheltoii from College Station round out the team. The Texas Aggie football team opens spring practice Tuesday afternoon as it tries to put the image of a 2-9 season behind it. More than 100 prospective candidates, including returning squadmen and lettermen, players from the freshman team and probably several tryouts are ex pected to be on hand for the workouts. The Aggies will be minus only four players from last year’s squad who have finished their eligibility. Defensive back Dave Elmendorf, offensive guard Jim Parker, punter Jimmy Sheffield and defensive lineman and Aggie Heart Winner Winston Beam were the only seniors. Two regulars from last year will miss workouts due to their physical condition. Lex James, the Aggies’ starting quarterback last year as a sophomore, will be confined to his bed at his home in Houston with infectious hepatitis. Defensive lineman Bruce Best is recovering from a detached retina, which he had operated on recently. Several Aggie Gridders are dividing their time between foot ball and track during the spring with shot putters Mitch Robert son and Clifton Thomas, javelin thrower Marc Black and hurdler Eric Elkins. No official date for the end of workouts has been announced by head coach Gene Stallings ( al though the spring practice must be completed within 36 days with 20 practices according to NCAA ay Win A New Suzuki 250 FREE Grand Prize From BURGER CHEF REGISTER DAILY THRU APRIL 9TH SUZUKI 250 SAVAGE Winners Announced Easter Sunday, April 9th 7 PRIZES IN ALL A BONANZA MINI BIKE YOU NEED NOT BE PRESENT TO WIN! Announcing This Week's WINNING COMBINATION at 25c OFF • Super Chef • French Fries • Large Soft Drink 25c WINNING COMBINATION 25c i off COUPON off ! ON PRESENTATION OF THIS COUPON, PRESENT ME WITH ONE SPECTACULAR SUPER CHEF, ONE ORDER OF CRISP, TENDER FRENCH FRIES AND ONE REFRESHING LARGE SOFT DRINK. I WILL SAVE ONE QUARTER WHEN I ORDER THE WINNING COMBINATION DURING THE MONTH OF MARCH ! 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They’ll be mov ing into Dallas for a pair of games slated to begin at 2 and 4 p.m. at Glen Coe Park Saturday. The club is boasting a 1-0 rec ord for its A&M I team, and a 1-2 one for its A&M II squad. Coach Roger Boos expects an all-around good effort from his first team over the Dallas Rug by Club, but he’s not overly opti mistic about his second team, which is playing Dallas Harle quin. “The second team is a little weak in the backfield,” com mented Boos, “but the first team is in good shape all over. Bar ring any stupid moves, we should be able to take both matches.’’ Netters rained out The first-round action of the Rice Invitational Tennis tourna ment, including the Texas Ag gies, was postponed because of rain in Houston Thursday morn ing. First-round action was to be tried again this morning. The netters play the Oklahoma City University Monday at 1:30 p.m. in an intersectional battle on varsity courts. 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