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THE BATTALION
Tuesday, March 7, 1972
College Station, Texas
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osdick ‘Coach of the Year
Ag swim team finishes surprising third at SWC meet
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e 5011 For the first time in nine years
1.1116!,t aji s sw j m team rose to a
18 8rei sition of third place or above
6 ' '[ an: the Southwest Conference —
aV€ “i 1 result of competition held last
nning 4 dend in Lubbock.
|? ing tc ? ; The A&M swimmers shocked
' Irg xas Tech and Arkansas out of
ad a bad li e third place honors to follow
tofbissn kind conference champion SMU
until it| d second place finisher Univer-
runningtl ty of Texas.
>mas sat
sed a d(
weekend
with LSI
Picked to place no higher than
fifth in pre-meet evaluations,
Coach Dennis Fosdick’s tankmen
set nine school records and quali
fied four men to go to the NCAA
nationals.
As another result of the Aggies
swimming so well, Fosdick was
voted “Coach of the Year” in the
conference by coaches after the
three-day affair had ended.
“Our swimmers did fantastic
ally well,” Fosdick said. “The
team spirit was outstanding.
Many of the boys clipped five to
ten seconds from their best per
sonal times and for the first time
in two years we had contenders
for the top places in nearly all
swimming events.’
Although lack of depth hurt
the Aggies, the team walked
away from the meet with one
first place, six seconds, one third,
four fourths, one fifth, one sixth,
three sevenths, three eighths, two
ninths, three elevenths and four
twelfths.
betters host Michigan,
day A&I here Thursday
A&M will play host to the 1971
igTen champion, Michigan, on
arsity Courts today beginning
iSl 8. L’ [ i ; 3o p. m . in a dual tennis
. 1. LOB-
bles-A4I Aggies are returning from
L 2 (M mnsuccessful road trip in which
s). Triple |( y lost t_ 0 the nation’s number
cer), Sai w (Trinity) and five (Corpus
Clementj), ranked teams in the coun-
M) Caml jy Against Trinity, they lost
d and against UCC, 5-2. This
ropped A&M’s record to 5-4 af-
>r standing in at 3-0 through
) 0 0 0 HI le first three meets.
1 0 11 ri Today’s match will be the first
Ray Bin- me appearance for A&M in
— Bnui ter a month when they played
ost to Houston, February 5.
’ 4. Emm “Ifelt we could have done much
OB—Atij !ttcr against Corpus than we
—A&M Hi" assistant coach Richard
0. Douklf ^ er said. “But we did just as
y Roatk (ell against Trinity as expected,
bey are really strong in tennis.”
—- The first through fourth rated
’rinity players are returning All-
ttwo taericans from last year’s sec-
Bd ranked NCAA team while
cieg ke remaining two are returning
shed (itermen -
Against UCC, Dickie Fikes of
A&M lost to Jorge Andrew of
UCC, 6-3, 6-4; Danny Courson of
A&M lost to Roberto Chavez of
UCC, 7-6, 6-3; Bill Wright of
A&M lost to Ken Konning of
UCC, 6-2, 6-4, and in the final
singles match before UCC had to
forfeit the number five round;
Billy Hoover lost to Carlos Goffi
of Corpus in split sets, 6-1, 4-6,
6-4.
In doubles, Fikes and Courson
lost to Andrew and Chavez, 7-5,
6- 3, while Wright and Hoover de
feated Konning and Goffi, 6-1,
7- 5.
In San Antonio against Trinity,
Brian Gottfried defeated Fikes,
6-2, 7-5; Dick Stockton defeated
Courson, 6-2, 6-3; Paul Gerken
defeated Wright, 6-4, 6-2; Bob
McKinley defeated Hoover, 6-1,
6-0; Piancho Walthall defeated
Lawton Park, 6-1, 6-3, and How
ard Butt defeated Tommy Con
nell, 6-2, 6-4.
In doubles competition, Gerken
and Gottfried defeated Fikes and
Courson, 6-2, 6-2; John Burrman
MA
Rangers are not yet Texans,
till seem out of place
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pn is
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POMPANO BEACH, Fla. <A>)_
be Washington Senators now
the Texas Rangers, but there
aven’t been any major converts
-not even Manager Ted Wil
iams,
“Sure, I’ve got a 10-gallon hat,”
Pilliams said. “I’ve got two. They
fere sent to me.”
Is he going to wear them ?
“Heck, no,” Williams replied.
What about pitcher Casey Cox,
ke only member of the Senators
tho has moved to Texas ?
“I feel a little out of place some
ime,” said Cox. “There’s not too
^pany people down there with long
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pons
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What about the things that go
aith Texas—a 10-gallon hat or
mots
“No 10-gallon hat, no boots,”
k answered. “None of that stuff
imbledon champ
esitant to play
DALLAS OP)—Wimbledon ten
nis champion Evonne Goolagong
#f Australia said Monday she
may not participate in this year’s
South African Federation Cup
tennis tournament in Johannes
burg.
“I am not sure I am going,”
the 20-year-old athlete said in an
interview after she received The
Associated Press award as Wo
man Athlete of the Year. The
award was presented by George
Saharias.
The reason for her indecision
reportedly was an announcement
Johannesburg that all black
players participating in the tour
nament this year will have to
wear a badge making them
“honorary whites.” Miss Goola-
?ong is one-eighth aborigine.
She declined to make any com
ments on the Johannesburg an
nouncement itself and said the
decision is up to her manager,
Victor Edwards.
fcfc— -
That’s the way it is at the
Rangers’ camp. Texans who are
n’t Texans.
Of the 40 players in the Ran
gers’ camp, only Cox is living in
Texas, and he has moved right
into Arlington, the site of the
Rangers’ new stadium.
The site itself has caused peo
ple who used to chuckle about the
way the Senators played to
chuckle about where the Rangers
will be playing. Arlington is a city
between Dallas and Fort Worth
best known for its family enter
tainment attractions.
Along a six-mile stretch of
turnpike are Six Flags Over Tex
as, an amusement park, The Way,
a religious attraction, and Lion
Country Safari, an African-style
animal park.
There are those who suggest
Williams now has three options
—he can laugh at his Rangers,
pray for them or watch them
eaten alive.
The Senators built such a bril
liant reputation for ineptness in
Washington, as a matter of fact,
that when the club decided to use
the nickname Rangers it felt com
pelled to see if Texas’ most fam
ous organization would object.
“We consulted them,” said the
one club official, “to make sure
they wouldn’t be insulted.”
They weren’t, and the club was
ecstatic.
“It’s the best name any team
could have in Texas,” Williams
emphasized. “You think of Texas,
you think of Rangers.
“And they never lose.”
SWC standings
Team
Texas
SMU
A&M
TCU
Tech
Arkansas
Baylor
Rice
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and Walthall defeated Wright and
Hoover, 6-2, 6-5, while Butt and
Bill McEdwan defeated Park and
Connell, 7-6, 7-5.
The Aggies will return to ac
tion here again Thursday when
they take on Texas A&I Univer
sity in a 1:30 p.m. contest at
Varsity Courts.
Doug Meaden, perhaps one of
the best distance freestylers to
come to A&M in years, grabbed
A&M’s lone first place in the
1650 yard freestyle with a school
record time of 17:05.3.
Meaden also set A&M records
in the 500-yard freestyle with a
4:50.6 to beat teammate Eric
Wolff’s claim to it by over eight
seconds; and the 200 yard free
style with a time of 1:45.5, also
an event in which Wolff held the
record.
The other school marks were
set by Steve Prentice in the 100
yard backstroke with 53.8 and
200 yard backstroke in 1:58.6;
Lester Hamann, 2:01 in the 200
yard butterfly; and Wolff with a
time of 42.8 in the 100 yard free
style.
Two other records were set by
the 400 yard medley relay team
of Doug Carson, Prentice, Ham
ann, and Wolff by two-tenths of a
second over the old record of
3:39.0 and the 800 yard free re
lay team of Meaden, Hamann,
Prentice and Wolff with a time
of 7:12.9.
A bright aspect of all this rec
ord setting for the Aggies is that
five of those that set records in
the meet will be returning for
next season’s competition.
In addition, Prentice, Wolff,
Meaden and Hamann have quali
fied for the nationals, Prentice
Doug Meaden
in the 100 and 200 yard back-
stroke and 800 free style relay;
Wolff in the 200 yard freestyle
and 800 free relay; and Meaden
in the 200, 500 and 1,650 yard
freestyle events and 800 free re
lay.
Also, Hamann qualified in the
200 yard freestyle and 800 yard
freestyle events.
Other finishers in the top six
for the Aggie swimmers were
Hamann, ninth in the 500 yard
freestyle and fourth in the 100
yard butterfly; Prentice, second
in the 200 individual medley; and
Dan Sonnenberg, sixth in the 100
yard backstroke.
Finishers in the second six were
Hamann in the 500 yard free;
Mike Hicks, seventh in the 200
and 400 yard individual medleys
and eighth in the 200 yard back-
stroke.
Also, Kent Berryman placed
twelfth in the 400 yard individual
medley; Scott Jones, ninth in the
100 yard backstroke; Steve Son
nenberg twelfth in the 100 yard
breaststroke; Dan Sonnenberg
eleventh in the 200 yard back-
stroke; and Carson eighth in the
100 yard breaststroke.
In diving, Duncan Cooper fin
ished eleventh in the one meter
and twelfth in the three meter
events while Greg Rippey finished
twelfth in the one meter.
Steve Prentice
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