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College Station, Texas
Tuesday, March 7, 1972
THE BATTALK
Aggie tracksters fall short in Border Olympics finals
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By BILL HENRY
Assistant Sports Editor
For coach Charlie Thomas and
the Aggie track team, Laredo
was not to be “The land of milk
and honey.”
A&M, which shined like a star
after Saturday morning’s prelim
inary events, fell by the wayside
when it came down to the finals
at the 40th annual Border Olym
pics. The tracksters took a lack
luster fourth place finish with
53 points after a string of bad
luck.
Rice and Texas fought it out
for the team trophy with the
Owls getting the nod having a
total of 110 points to 101 for the
Longhorns. North Texas State,
who was not highly thought of
before the meet, copped third
with 66.
The margin of victory for Rice
came on six first place finishes
and three seconds compared to
only three blue ribbons and two
seconds for Texas. Rice had a
decided advantage in the field
events, scoring 36 points to the
Longhorns’ 18. A&M had 16.
In the 880-yd dash, both Willie
Blackmon, who qualified first
and Horace Grant were wearing
the maroon and white in the fi
nals. Blackmon, with a bad start,
had second place cinched, until he
let up at the finish line and was
nosed out to settle for third in
a time of 1:53.0. Grant, who
qualified ninth, won sixth place.
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“IT S SOMETHING DIFFERENT”
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After the prelims, it looked as
though A&M was going to make
a run for the money having qual
ified at least one performer in
each running event.
The finals began with the 440-
yd relay, the Ags qualified sec
ond, and the team of Billy Por
ter, Doug Brodhead, Steve Barre
and Donny Rogers hit the tape
in first place with a time of 41.0
which was good for first place.
But this was to be A&M’s only
blue ribbon finish.
The 100-yd dash was a similar
story. A&M had three qualify
for the finals; Marvin Mills, Por
ter and Barre. Mills had second
place until he misjudged the fin
ish line and coasted the final five
yards while dropping to fifth
place. Porter took sixth.
Brodhead got a smooth handoff
and brought the Aggies back in
to the lead. Blackmon ran the
final leg, was boxed in, and A&M
had to settle for fourth in a time
of 3:13.9. TCU took the event
with a 3:13.6, while Rice and
Texas finished with times of
3:13.8 for second and third.
Another downfall was in the
220, where A&M again had three
qualify. Mills and Porter had to
lay out, and Rogers took sixth.
There were some high points,
however. Harold McMahan clear
ed 15’-0 on his first jump in the
pole vault for third place, and
Phil McGuire cleared his perso
nal best of 6-10 in the high jump
taking second place.
Brodhead led the Aggies by
scoring 11% points, finishing sec
ond in the 440-yd dash and run
ning on both relay teams.
Guire did a good job in the 1
jump.”
Friday, at a luncheon given!
the San Antonio A&M €lub,li|
son told the audience of aboull
that A&M is in the midstJ
being a good track team.”
In the 440-yd intermediate
hurdles, David Prince was “feel
ing great” and in second place
going into the ninth and final
hurdle.
High point man for the meet
was Mike Cronholm of Rice with
16 points while Gary Kafer of
Baylor, who won the high jump
with 7-0, was voted the outstand
ing athlete of the meet by the
media present at the classic.
After the meet, Nelson ecb
nearly the same statement as
felt, “Some of the kids are
the brink of doing well. J
and Wayne Mills have
working toward winning
events and are beginning to
into shape and working hant"|
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Aggi
sition
In the mile relay, an Aggie
specialty, another problem arose.
Grant led off and was to hand
off to Wayne Mills. Mills fum
bled the baton and dropped the
Aggies back into fourth position.
“I was feeling so good that I
took only 14 steps between the
two hurdles (usual procedure is
15-17) and hit it,” he said.
Prince finished last and col
lected no points.
TCU finished fifth with 43;
Lamar 36, Baylor 32, SMU 32,
Houston 15 and Texas Tech 10.
“I was real pleased with the
way Doug Brodhead ran,” Thom
as said. “I also thought Phil Mc-
Marvin Mills has had a I
and has been held out of his sjtl
cialty (440-yd dash) until itij
healed and has been running t
shorter sprints. Thomas
that Mills has expressed a dts
to run the 440 next weekend i
the triangular meet with LS|
and Rice in Houston.
Bearcats win two from A&M baseballers
By JOHN CURYLO
Battalion Sports Editor
The Sam Houston Bearcats
managed to quiet the Aggies’
bats Saturday, and the result
was a sweep of the doubleheader,
3-2 and 3-0.
In the two games, A&M got
11 hits, while Sam Houston had
12, but the Aggies committed
five errors, and the Bearcats had
one. The two teams are sched
uled for a 1:00 p.m. twinbill here
Wednesday.
SHSU pitcher Ray Norrell kept
the Aggies under control for six
innings, and his teammates un
loaded for two runs in the fourth
to give him a comfortable edge.
The Bearcats scored on a double,
a single, a stolen base, a wild
pitch and an error and another
double.
In the A&M seventh, Sandy
Bate got on on an error by the
shortstop. The next batter, third
baseman Jim Hacker, hit a long
drive that crashed the 365-foot
marker in right-center field for
a triple, scoring Bate. Hacker
dented the plate on Carroll Lil
ly’s base hit, and A&M left two
men on base when Ricky Clem
ents came in to relieve Norrell
two outs later.
The Bearcats won the game in
extra innings, though, when Ter
ry Roach doubled and Sammy
Monteau walked. First baseman
John O’Leary doubled to end the
game with Roach’s run.
Ironically, the losing pitchers
Saturday were the Aggie aces,
Charles Kelley and Bruce Katt.
Kelley came in for the eighth in
ning of the first game, while an
unearned run tagged Katt with
the loss in the second game,
which he started.
Roach was the man again, driv
ing a base hit between third and
short in the second inning. Mon
teau attempted to sacrifice him
to second, but Katt motioned to
ward the lead runner before fir
ing to first and threw it away.
The run scored on a play in
which two errors were commit
ted.
Sam Houston put another tally
on the board in the fifth frame,
with David Woolley walking, be
ing sacrificed to second, getting
to third on a wild pitch and scor
ing on a sacrifice fly.
They did the trick again in the
last inning, when Jimmy Pitts
walked. He got to second base
on a bad throw in a pickoff at
tempt. A sacrifice moved him to
third, and he scored on a hit by
Paul Leggett.
The Bearcats are 2-4, having
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of four games with Iowa State
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Testifying before the Senate
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minus two basic conditions, “no
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Kratter, a former owner of the
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“The entire underlying purpose
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Nicklaus pulls out Doral win,
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MIAMI (A*) — Jack Nicklaus
managed to pull his sagging
game together in the final few
holes Monday to win the rain-
delayed Doral-Eastern Open Golf
Tournament and vault past idle
Arnold Palmer into first place
on the all-time money winning
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The 32-year-old Nicklaus man
aged only a two-under-par 70 in
the twice-delayed final round, but
it was good enough for a two-
stroke victory, his second of the
year and 36th of his remarkable
career.
He picked up $30,000 of the
$150,000 purse and boosted his
all-time total — he’s in his 11th
pro season — to $1,477,200.86.
Palmer, 42 in his 18th year, had
led the all-time list for a decade
but slipped to second at $1,471,-
226.83. He did not compete this
week.
Nicklaus finished with a 276
total, 12 under par on the water
logged Blue Monster Course at
the Doral Country Club.
Lee Trevino and veteran Bob
Rosburg tied for second at 278.
Trevino matched par 72 in the
cool and cloudy weather and Ros
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Sam Snead, a 59-year-old star
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a big run and finished alone in
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Bradley said the players do
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