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BATTALION
Wednesday, April 28, 1971
College Station, Texas
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SWC golf, tennis tournaments start Thursday
Fifteen top golfers meet
for SWC medalist honors
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By CLIFFORD 11ROYLES
Battalion Sports Writer
Fifteen golfers from seven
Southwest Conference schools
will be on hand Thursday as they
open 72 holes of medal play for
the Southwest Conference indi
vidual championship.
I The meet opens on the A&M
Igolf course at 8 a.m. with the
Igolfers slated to play 36 holes
[Thursday and 36 Friday.
I Team champion Texas Tech
Iwill have four players on hand,
with runnerup Arkansas allowed
three. The Aggies, Southern
Methodist University and Texas
Christian will have two players
[each. Baylor and Rice, which held
I up the lower end in the league’s
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Steve Veriato
dual match play, will be allowed
one representative in the compe
tition to determine the confer
ence’s medal winner.
The Aggies of coach Henry
Ransom are expected to pick be
tween any of three golfers for
their representatives for the
meet. Ransom said that Steve
Veriato, Tommy Johnson and
Tommy Shelton will have a play
off today to decide who will play
in the tournament.
Veriato, a sophomore from
Hilo, Hawaii, shot 306 last year
at Houston to finish eleventh.
Richard Ellis, and Duke Butler,
two other Aggie golfers last year,
were in the meet.
Ellis was fifth with 299, and
Butler withdrew from the meet
after shooting 82 in the first
round.
2 sports end
intramural play
Playoffs are underway in two
sports in intramurals this week.
Class A and C softball and ten
nis will complete their season
Thursday marking the end of the
spring intramural program with
the exception of swimming.
Other top contenders expected
to be back that performed last
year include Stan Atgelt, SMU
senior from Corpus Christi, who
is the top returnee from last year
and Brad Wilemon of Tech. At
gelt was fourth last year with a
297 and Wilemon tied for sixth
with 301.
Jim Whittaker of Tech had 303
for ninth and Don Brown of Bay
lor had 319. Brown is expected
to be Baylor’s lone golfer.
Chuck Brownfield of Arkansas
shot 322 last year and will be
one of three Razorbacks at the
meet.
The real surprise of the meet
could be junior Mike Mosser of
the Razorbacks, who defeated
the number one player of every
conference team in dual match
play. Either Bill Brown or Jim
Cisne will join them at the
tournament.
Joining Whittaker and Wile
mon for champion Tech will be
Steve Thompson, a senior from
Lubbock and a fourth player that
has not been nominated.
SMU will have freshman Mike
Huebinger from San Antonio,
who has been more impressive
this year than Atgelt, and a third
player that has not been an
nounced.
Rice after finishing last will
have only representative and
coach John Plumbley has nomi
nated freshman John Scott from
Daingerfield to make the trip
for the Owls.
The Aggies last captured an.
individual honor in the meet in
1963 when Eugene Byrd took the
individual title. The year before
John Lively won it for the Ag
gies and two years before that
Lively and Dick Duble shared
the title for A&M. Between the
years of 1960-64 the Aggies won
four consecutive team champion
ships.
The defending team and indi
vidual champion from last year
aren’t back. Individual champ
Dean Overturf of Texas, who
shot a one over par 289 last year,
has finished his eligibility and
the Longhorns as a team have
dropped out of competition in
the league.
Last year Overturf and team
mates Tom Kite and George Ma-
chock were the top three golfers.
Machock and Kite were back this
year but the Longhorns decided
not to play by conference regu
lations and dropped out of the
golf race.
In final match play standings
for this season were:
Team
Tech
W
26 V 2
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Arkansas
24
12
2 Vi
SMU
21
15
5V 2
A&M
20 Vs
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6
TCU
14
16
8 Vi
Baylor
8
28
18 V 2
Rice
6
24
17%
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ATLANTA </Pi — Slugging
Hank Aaron of the Atlanta
Braves became the third man in
major league baseball history to
reach the 600 home run mark
for his career Tuesday night when
he cracked his eighth of the sea
son in a game against San Fran
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The Texas Aggies’ tennis hopes ride on the efforts of Dickie Fikes, left, and Jon Rag
land, the team’s number one doubles unit. The twosome will be the number one seeded
doubles team in the SWC tennis meet beginning Thursday morning through Saturday
afternoon on varsity courts. (Photo by Mike Rice)
Aggies face Houston
in Thursday twinbill
By CLIFFORD BROYLES
Battalion Sports Editor
The Texas Aggie baseball team
hosts the University of Houston
in a non-conference doubleheader
Thursday on Kyle Field.
The teams will meet beginning
at 1 p.m. with the first game set
for seven innings and the second
for nine.
The double bill will be impor
tant to both squads as the Ag
gies will be out to get back in
the winning mood; it will be their
last tuneup before the Texas-Aus-
tin series Monday and Tuesday.
The Cougars swept a double-
header from Lamar Tech Tuesday
to bring their record to 24-13,
and a sweep of the Aggies could
put them in the picture for an
NCAA spot.
Coach Tom Chandler will be
back for the Aggies. Chandler
left the Sharpstown General Hos
pital in Houston Saturday and re
turned home in time to meet the
Aggies as they returned from
Fort Worth.
Chandler said that the TCU
series was just one of those things
that can happen in baseball.
“TCU right now has the wham
my on us and they seem to win
no matter what.”
It’s just something that can
happen in baseball, he pointed
out. He gave an example of the
year the New York Mets won the
world series. The Mets conquered
the world but lost 11 of 12 games
to the Houston Astros. No mat
ter what the Mets did the Astros
always won.
Chandler added that it hasn’t
always been that way.
“When I first started coaching
we used to always rough up TCLT,
and it was Rice that had it going
then. Rice really put some crucial
losses on us.”
The Aggies are expected to go
back to their system of using
three pitchers in each game in
the twinbill. That system was suc
cessful when the Aggies won dou
bleheaders from St. Mary’s and
Houston on the road during Pias
ter.
Chandler hasn’t named the
starters for the doubleheader but
lefthanders Bruce Katt and Jackie
Binks and righthanders Paul
Czerwinski, Charlie Kelley, Pat
Randy Brown of the Texas A&M gymnastics team performs on the parallel bars in
Saturday’s meet with the University of Texas at Austin at G. Rollie White Coliseum.
A&M’s women’s team had a meet with TCU at the same time. Brown’s teammate Rex
Stratton won the event. (Photo by Mike Rice)
Chris Sans
Jamison and Charlie Jenkins will
see some action.
Houston is expected to start
ace righthander Elroy Olthold in
one of the games. Olthold, with a
7-0 record, has established a rec
ord for the most wins by a Hous
ton pitcher in one season. Two
weeks ago, while the Aggies were
playing the Tech series, Olthold
pitched a shutout against the Uni
versity of Texas at Austin in
Houston. Since that time the
Longhorns have scored 72 runs
in five games.
Another righthander, Johnny
Hatcher, is expected to draw the
other job. Hatcher—a hard-throw
ing righthander—has a 4-3 record
and was the starting pitcher in
the second game of the first dou
bleheader between the two teams.
He suffered an injury after pitch
ing the first inning of that game,
however, and was the losing pitch
er.
The 24 wins for the Cougars
is a school record. The double-
header will close out the regular-
season for Houston.
Houston boasts two hitters
over the .300 mark on the squad
with catcher and outfielder Mike
Clark hitting .478 and shortstop
Eddie Henderson .319.
The Aggies have nine players
over the .300 batting mark for
the season, with Dave Elmendorf
leading with a .375 average. Chris
Sans is the team’s leading hit
ter in Southwest Conference play
with a .418 average and has up
ped his season’s average to .314
after being down to .250 only
three weeks ago.
In individual statistics this sea
son, Butch Ghutzman leads in at
bats with 139, total bases with
59 and sacrifice flies with four.
R. J. Englert leads with 29 runs
Loaded Owls to play without
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scored and 45 base hits. He leads
the team in stolen bases with 7.
Car roll Lilly has 10 doubles, Billy
Hodge leads in triples with four
and bases on ball with 24. Chris
Sans has 21 runs batted in and
also leads in strikeouts with 18.
Lilly also leads in fewest strike
outs having fanned only four
times in 104 at bats, or once over
26 times at the plate.
The probable starting lineup for
Houston will be:
Mike Clark, catcher, .478; Ed
die Henderson, shortstop, .319;
Russ Schroeder, third base, .287;
Bill McLain, first base, .267; Da
vid Vinson, centerfield, .264; Phil
lip Terrell, leftfield, .243; Tom
Kaiser, vightfield, .198; Don Hill,
second base, .165 and the pitcher.
The probable starting lineup for
the Aggies will be: Butch Ghutz
man, .302, shortstop; R. J. Eng
lert, .352, leftfield; Dave Elmen
dorf, .375, centerfield; Billy
Hodge, .366, catcher; Jim Samp
son, .322, Larry Smith, .340, or
Gene Reinarz, .216, rightfield;
Chris Sans, .314, first base; Car-
roll Lilly, .356, second base, Jim
my Hacker, .274, third base; and
the pitcher.
Outdoor pool
schedule told
Spring and summer schedules
have been announced for the
recently-opened Wofford Cain
swimming pool.
The Olympic-size facility is
available to eligible patrons for
5 V-z hours on weekdays and six
hours on weekends, announced
Dennis Fosdiek.
The weekday schedule through
May 30 is from 12 to 1 p.m., 3 to
6 p.m. and 7 to 8:30 p.m. Satur
day and Sunday swimming -will
be from 2 to 8 p.m.
A slightly different summer
weekday schedule goes into effect
May 31. Mondays through Satur
days until Aug. 29, the pool will
be open from 11:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.
and 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday hours
will not change.
A&M students, faculty-staff
members, former students and
persons staying at the Memorial
Student Center and their guests
are eligible to use the pool.
Guests, limited to four per host,
must be accompanied by a stu
dent, faculty-staff member or for
mer student.
A&M students and eligible
children 12 years or younger are
charged 50 cents each. Adult ad
mission is $1 each.
Statistics seminar
planned for Thursday
The Institute of Statistics will
hold its first of three “Expository
Seminars on Design” at 4 p.m.
Thursday in Plant Sciences Room
103.
Dr. Mel Carter, professor of
statistics at A&M and Brigham
Young University, will speak on
“Change-Over Designs.”
Two other programs in the
seminar series will be announced
later.
By MICHAEL RICE
Battalion Sports Writer
Coach Sammy Giammalva said
it so nicely the other day when
he was discussing the Southwest
Conference Championships in ten
nis: “The championship team
has already been determined; the
tournament is really for indi
viduals.
The tennis championships
which are scheduled to begin at
9 a.m. Thursday may be sort of
anti-climatic to Giammalva; how
ever the competition on varsity
courts should provide an excel
lent opportunity for tennis buffs
to see some really top-notch ath
letes in action. Action will con
tinue through Saturday.
The past four conference
championships have gone to Giam-
malva’s Owls and they should
be about as strong as ever this
week. However Rice will be with
out the services of three-time
All-American Mike Estep due to
exams and paper work he must
complete as he is a graduating
senior.
“I sure hate to lose him,” said
Giammalva, “because since he
and Zan Guerry have been here
we’ve won the past four confer
ence championships, and haven’t
lost to Texas during those four
years.”
Have no fear, though, Rice will
be bringing Harold Solomon, who
is at least as good if not better
than Estep, from whom Solomon
has stolen the number one spot
on the team.
Solomon, a freshman from Sil
ver Springs, Md., reached the
semifinals last week in the River
Oaks Tennis Tournament before
losing to the eventual champion.
Cliff Richey. Solomon will be the
number one seed in the singles.
On their way to winning the
SWC team championship in dual
match play, which is their fourth
straight, the Owls were beaten
by Texas A&M and Southern
Methodist, once each.
The picture’s not too bleak for
the A&M netters, however, as the
doubles team of Dickie Fikes and
Jon Ragland is seeded as the
number one doubles team of the
meet. Fikes and Ragland suc
ceeded in tallying a 5-0 record
against conference opponents.
Ragland, who was redshirted
last year, teamed with Pete
Faust to win the SWC doubles
championship two years ago as
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a sophomore. Fikes, a junior,
reached the singles quarterfinals
last year before being eliminated.
Coach Omar Smith plans to
use the other doubles team of
Connell and Mike Hickey as the
second team for A&M.
It may be interesting to note
that since A&M entered tennis
competition in 1916, an A&M
team has yet to win the team
championship title. The only real
successes A&M has had were R.
G. DeBerry, who won the singles
title in 1952; the first place dou
bles team of Richard Barker and
Lois Rojas in 1964; and the Rag-
land-Faust victory in 1969.
If it’s any consolation, though,
A&M did move up one in the con
ference standings over last year’s
fifth place. Rice, naturally led
the conference this year with 40
wins and only two losses.
What can one expect from the
other teams in the conference in
their bids for points in the tour
ney ? Plenty of rough competi
tion is the only answer.
SMU will be moving in with
only one Texan on its team, Steve
Browne. The Mustangs, who
lost to Rice 6-1 for the team
title and once to A&M, will be
depending on John Gardner and
Ian Russell, both from Austra
lia; and Californians Jay Paulson
and Woody Blocher. Gardner lost
to Rice’s Estep last year in a
split set semifinals.
The University of Texas at
Austin is hinging its hopes on
Avery Rush, John Nelson, Dan
Nelson, and either Ron Touchon
or Marc Wiegand. Texas pulled
in third in the conference stand
ings behind SMU.
Texas Tech, which placed fifth
behind the Aggies, will be play
ing James Chisholm, Walter
Hammerick, Robbie Sargent, and
Joe Ben Whittenburg.
The close race for last place in
the conference saw TCU beat out
Baylor for the bottom honors
this year. Baylor will be field
ing John Adams, George Mon-
cada, Dan Novak, and Tom
Sheives.
TCU’p best will be Juan Carp- v
minas, John Fletcher, New James,
and John Kritser.
The final team standings for
this year were Rice (40-2); SMU
(35-7); Texas (27-15); A&M (23-
19); Texas Tech (12-30); Baylor
(8-34); and TCU (2-40)..
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Netters whip UH
in final warmup
The Texas Aggie tennis team—
in its final warmup before the
Southwest Conference meet this
weekend—Tuesday defeated the
University of Houston 4-3 in a
practice match at John E. Hoff
Tennis Center on the UH campus.
A&M defeated Houston 4-2 earlier
this year.
The Aggies started off by win
ning the number one match as
Dickie Fikes won over Jim Ram-
beau by default. The Aggies
trailed 3-2 after singles with Dan
Courson coming up with a big
number 5 single win.
Then Fikes and Ragland, who
will be number one seeded in
doubles play in the Southwest
Conference tennis meet, grabbed
another win by default over Rich
ard Lay and Ronnie Flores.
The decisive second doubles
match provided the margin of
victory as Mike Hickey and Cour
son defeated Tom Gustavson and
Gene Rhoades, 2-6, 6-4, 6-4.
Horns crush
Dallas Baptist
AUSTIN —Texas pounded
Dallas Baptist 11-6 and 14-0
Tuesday in its final non-confer
ence competition before next Mon
day’s Southwest Conference base
ball showdown with Texas A&M
in College Station.
The Longhorns, who have now
won 22 of their last 25 games to
move their season mark to 30-9,
used 12 and 17-hit attacks to de
feat Dallas Baptist.
Walt Rothe had three hits, in
cluding a two-run homer, his
ninth of the year, in the first
game. David Chalk went four for
five and John Langerhans had a
three-run double in the nightcap.
Dallas Baptist, now 12-16 on
the year, led 6-3 in the opening
game after two-run homers by
Mike Samuells and Gerald Tut-
row.
Results of the Houston match
aree:
Singles:
Dickie Fikes, A&M, def. Jim
Rambeau, UH, by default.
Ronnie Flores, UH, def. Jon
Ragland, A&M, 6-1, 5-7, 6-4.
Richard Lay, UH, def. Mike
Hickey, A&M, 6-1, 6-2.
Tom Gustavson, UH, def. Tom
my Connell, A&M, 6-3, 7-5.
Dan Courson, A&M, def. Gene
Rhodes, UH, 4-6, 6-4, 7-5.
Doubles:
Fikes - Ragland, A&M, def.
Flores-Lay, UH, default.
Hickey - Courson, A&M, def.
Gustavson-Rhoades, UH, 2-6, 6-4,
6-4.
Sports Car Club
slates autocross
A Sunday driving event that
will be new to most area sports
car buffs is scheduled by the
Texas A&M Sports Car Club.
The English style autoeross will
be held on a grassland course off
the west loop (FM 2818) south of
College Station, announced club
president Tom Wedel.
Professor Allen Parker, visit
ing professor from England in the
Aerospace Engineering Depart
ment, will be event master. The
competition consists of three
timed runs—with the best count
ing—on a half-mile course includ
ing two straights and several
bends. Cars will be run by classes.
Two cars will run at a time, sepa
rated by a half lap.
“This event is ideal for normal
road cars,” emphasized Kerry
Bonner, who noted the club will
meet Thursday at the Old College
Station City Hall.
“The event will not damage
vehicles and no tire wear occurs,”
he added. “It is almost impos
sible to roll or otherwise damage
a car on sod.”
Additional information and en
try forms will be available at
the 7:30 p.m. Thursday meeting.