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Page 6 College Station, Texas Tuesday, April 20, 1971 THE BATTALIOt McMahan, Black, medley relay set school marks at Kansas The advance publicity said that the Texas Aggies were going to run at the Kansas Relays, and that they did, setting two new meet records and three school marks. It was relay time again, and the strength of A&M was shown, as Coach Charlie Thomas’ track men prepared for the Southwest Conference meet two weeks away. The foursome of Donny Rogers, Rockie Woods, Marvin Mills, and Curtis Mills joined together a year ago to run the 880 relay faster than anyone else in the world had before. This past week end they were but four-tenths of a second slower, finishing first in 1:22.1. This was one of the new meet records. The other new mark came in the 440 yard relay. Coming off of injuries to key personnel, the quartet of Steve Barre, the Mills brothers, and Woods sprinted to their best time of the year. The Aggies won the race in 39.9, and they still lead the conference in this event. The sprint medley relay unit of Alan Swagerty, Marvin and Curtis, and Willie Blackmon set a new school record, breaking the old mark by three and a half sec onds. This race consists of a pair of 220s, followed by a 440 and an 880. Although these four placed fourth, they ran a 3:17.8, better ing the 3:21.3 run by George Ted- ford, Ed Williams, Curtis Roberts, and Thad Crooks in Des Moines nine years ago. Another school record was Marc Black’s javelin throw of 236-0 for third place. The old mark was 234-10 by Dan Meadows in 1965. This puts the football fullback 10 inches behind Texas’ Walt Chamberlain in the SWC race. Harold McMahan pole vaulted 16-6 to break Henry Rollins’ rec ord of 16-1set here in 1968. McMahan tied Rollins’ mark earlier in the year in a dual meet with Abilene Christian College. He finished third at Lawrence with this vault. The mile relay was fifth, just slower than their best time, 3:08, run in Baton Rouge. The load of the other three relays causes this to be the “sacrifice” event, if such a performance can be labeled as a shortcoming. In the open division of the shot put, Aggie Randy Matson won with a heave of 68-3Ms. His series consisted of throws of 67-8, 68-3 %, 67-6y 2 , 67-2, 66-11V 2 , and 67-6%. He has held the world record of 71-5% since 1967. With the Kansas performances, this year’s team, who will defend their conference crown at Kyle Field, has set six new school rec ords this season. Of 20 outdoor events, this team holds 11 of them. At this point, A&M thinclads lead the conference outright in five events and are close behind in several others. The competition will come from Rice and Texas, both of whom dominate several events also. At the Baylor Invitational this past weekend, members of the A&M team who did not make the trip to Lawrence competed with similar squads. Edgar Harvey won the 120 yard high hurdles in 14.6, while James Johnson took the long jump, leaping 22-7. Both marks are the best of the year for the two athletes. Friday, the Aggies go to the Drake Relays in Des Moines, Iowa, where they set the world record last year in the 880 yard relay. In addition, they came away with some beautiful hard ware, which is displayed in G. Rollie White Coliseum. Events in which the Aggies should be strong at Drake are the 440, 880, shuttle hurdle, sprint medley, and mile relays, plus the javelin, pole vault, and high jump. Also expected to place are Frank Ybaro in the mile and David Morris and David Prince in the 440 yard hurdles. The shuttle hurdle relay is an event in which the four team members run 480 total yards up and down the track over hurdles. The foursome of Harvey, Gary West, Rogers, and Woods, with Prince as an alternate, should push a record in this race. Host Austin Saturday Offense scores 5 times in scrimmage LOU Will Out-traded really appreciates Not Be or Under-sold Your Business By CLIFFORD BROYLES Battalion Sports Editor Quarterbacked by senior Joe Mac King from Mineola, sopho mores Tim Trimmier of San An tonio and Mark Green of Odessa, the Texas Aggies’ first-team of fense scored five times Saturday night while the defense checked the opposition to only six first downs on 43 plays and also inter cepted four passes in a controlled intrasquad scrimmage on Kyle Field. A&M Rugby team; wins Austin meet NOTICE .... To All Students that will not be here in September to pick up their 1971 Aggielands — Come by the Stu dent Publications Office 216 Services Bldg, and leave your Mailing Address and mailing fee. Joe Mac King Trimmier and King quarter- backed the offense most of the night while Green worked some at tailback and quarterbacked both the first and second offen sive squads. Junior Brad Dusek from Tem ple scored three touchdowns, sen ior Steve Burks one and Green running from the quarterback spot also scored. The Aggies spent most of their third weekend scrimmage work ing on their running game as King did not attempt a pass and Trimmier missed on his only at tempt. But second unit quarterbacks Green, Kyle, Gary and Mike Rigs by were the victims of a hard pass rush from sophomore Bud Trammell, senior Van Odom and juniors Max Bird, James Dub- cak and Kent Finley in the first defensive line, and passes inter cepted by Odom, linebacker Steve Luebbehusen, free safety Lee Hitt and cornerback Ed Ebrom. The first offense started slow in the scrimmage moving deep against the second defense but fumbling, but after moving the ball back to the thirty, King guided them into the end zone, with Dusek scoring from the 4. King had a run of 26 yards in the series and later in the eve- .w.X.w.v.;*>X < >W'>T* 1! ■ig |An Invitation Protective Life Insurance Company, A qual ity company having more than Two Billion Dol lars of Insurance in Force, respectfully^ invites your inquiry about Career Opportunities m the Only Trillion Dollar Industry In The World. Please Sign Up to See Our Recruiter On Thursday April 22nd. at the Texas A&M University Placement Office, YMCA Bldg. Are you interested in: 1. Being Paid What You Are Worth? 2. Large Income? 3. Working With Young Adults? 4. Being Your Own Boss ? 5. Working The Hours You Choose? If your answers are “Yes”, we would like the chance to present the story of a company which offers all this & more. ning had a 30 yard scamper. Sophomore to be Bobby Merren from Nederland, who was injured most of last year and so only limited action for the Fish broke away for a 23 yard run. Merren running well for the second team was given a promo tion to run with the first unit and finished the night with 82 yards on 12 carries. Trimmier’s first try at quarter back ended a smoothly operated touchdown march climaxed by a six yard sweep by Burks. King then took over the next two offensive scoring possessions and marched the team down for scores with Dusek scoring from the 10 and the 2. Green took over the final series and took over for a 20 yard run on his first play and then passed for 26 yards on the second to wing back Joey Herr. Green fin ished the touchdown drive with a nine yard run. Currently lining up for the first team offensively are: split end, Johnny Gardner; left tackle, Buster Calloway; left guard, Todd Christopher; center, Skip Kuehn and Robert Gerasimovicz; right guard, Leonard Forey; right tackle, Ralph Sacra; tight end, Homer May; quarterback, Joe Mac King and Tim Trimmer; tail back, Steve Burks and Mark Green; fullback, Brad Dusek and Doug Neill; wingback, Joey Herr. Defensively: left end, Max Bird; left tackle, Bud Trammell; middle guard, Van Odom; right tackle, James Dubcak; right end, Kent Finley; linebacker, Grady Hoermann and Steve Luebbe husen; cornerbacks, Ed Ebrom and Bland Smith; free safety, Lee Hitt; strong safety, David Hoot. ’i; p* . * ^ By MICHAEL RICE Battalion Sports Writer Rallying behind the scoring of Donnie Robertson and John Ray- ton, the Texas A&M Rugby Club came away from the Austin Invi tational Rugby Tournament Sun day carrying the championship honors. The Aggies downed the Austin Rugby club 9-0 in the champion ship round of the tournament, which saw nine teams competing from Dallas, Houston, Austin, LSU, and A&M. While on the way to defeating Austin, the Ags demolished the team from NASA, 34-6, and downed the tough Houston team for the second time this season, 16-9. This gives the A&M team an outstanding 7-0 record thus far in the season with a clean slate of 4-0 in division play. Austin, which had been un- feated for the past two years, will still have a chance to come away with the division pennant if it beats A&M this Saturday. If A&M wins over Austin, though the Aggies will have to win their next two games to stay in the lead as Austin will have finished Phot( 0m h 3 The ’ their fi stars fr< Worth i Coach 6-6 Ced Netters blank Frogs seek third place TCU wins pair FORT WORTH (A*) — Texas Christian slipped past Southern Methodist 3-2 in the opener, then used three home runs to take a 6-3 win in the nightcap as the Frogs swept a Southwest Con ference doubleheader from the Mustangs here Monday. Bullets oust NY NEW YORK (A*)—Fred Car ter’s decisive jump shot ended two years of frustration for the Baltimore Bullets as they elimi nated the defending champion New York Knicks from the Na tional Basketball Association playoffs with a dramatic 93-91 victory Monday night. The Texas Aggie tennis team defeated Texas Christian Uni versity 7-0 on varsity courts Mon day to inch closer to third place in the Southwest Conference standings. The Aggies swept all seven sets in the match with straight set victories to bring their league record to 22-13 with only a crucial match with the University of Texas at Austin left on the schedule. That match on the Longhorns’ home grounds will in all prob ability decide third place in the standings. UT-Austin has a 21-7 mark but must play league-lead ing Rice Thursday in Houston and barring a major upset will come away with six or seven losses. That would mean a show down with the Aggies Saturday its season with the game api A&M. “The score doesn’t say what really fine game it was,’’ con mented Coach Roger Boos. "Th game was really pretty even) JUardf matched, as it will be this Satm hottes day. The only difference will) ,306 HI that Austin will be coming he with blood in their eyes, so we really have to be up for thea We’re in pretty good shape, just hope we don’t have anyraoi injuries before the game Satai day. The Aggies will be withou: tl services of Randy Harju, wl received a broken jaw in tl game against Austitn. He wi scheduled to come out of the hoi pital today. It should also be noted thi the team still has not had ai points scored against it in regi ™ting lar play. The scores against tl Saturda Ags have come from penal kicks. A&M is the only team! the division that has been scon upon by penalty kicks only. The A&M II squad is schedult Donaldsi to meet the Austin second tea: school a at 1 p.m., Saturday, and theh the showdown between the nuniln Worth the sigi Hams, ( stater fi aged mo Josepl school 1 year re Globe-N year by ton Wl time lea of Fort ketball. with 84 average points i The the blu< conferei Morninf that sai the ser “I vi rowed i Southw up in b a part help,” Metci ably us Willian Dona one teams is slated to begin 3 p.m. afternoon in Austin for third k hind Rice and SMU, who hat virtually sewed up the top t« spots. Results of the TCU match an Singles: Dickie Fikes, A&M, defeats Juan Carminas, TCU, 6-2, 6-2. Jon Ragland, A&M, defeat? Ned James, TCU, 6-2, 6-2. Mike Hickey, A&M, defeatel John Fletcher, TCU, 6-2, 6-2. Tommy Connell, A&M, defeats! John Kritser, TCU, 6-3, 6-4. Lawton Park, A&M, defeats! John Matzilevich, 6-3, 6-1. Doubles: Fikes and Ragland, A&M, ds feated Carominas and Jai* TCU, 6-1, 6-4. Hickey and Dan Courson, A&* defeated Kritser and Fletchet TCU, 6-0, 6-2. Read Battalion Classified^ I r PROTECTIVE LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY RSVP Placement Office TAMU Local Office Phone 846-7714 707 University Dr. TEXAS A&M SINGING CADETS 2 HOUR PERFORMANCE FRIDAY, APRIL 23 8:15 P. M. BRYAN CIVIC AUDITORIUM TICKETS: $2.00 Adults 1.50 A&M Student with I.D. (limit 2) .50 Children under 12 Tickets can be purchased at Frfm^ny'lngingCaTet PharmaCy ’ MSC Pr ° gramS ° ffice ’ at d0 ° r ^ f F '.vw.v.viviv.v.v.'.: