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H 1972 i a t whick Watson st obey. of the lr ly con- the U.S. keep a ; ing. A eveal it Monday Progress Embassy inded to ation to Meeting, t on the ting as formal rpreter: ese-U.S, s have be the ontacts. started the date s await- hington added, ie next t when ; of ra ng lan- French. had an ith him. hen the own to >on will ith him. e Com- t began h Mao's aishek's 0 Paris Charles ng- g’s jun- nan of aational 1 trade diplo- being > Paris HE BATTALION Tuesday, March 14, 1972 College Station, Texas Page 5 Aggie tracksters earn upset victory By BILL HENRY Assistant Sports Editor A&M pulled a surprising upset over Rice and LSU in a triangu lar track meet held in Houston Saturday. The Aggies took blue ribbons in nine of the 16 events for 67^ points, Rice had 61 and LSU copped 41^. LSU was thought to be the favorite in pre-meet discussion, and Rice had defeated the locals in two previous meets but A&M got strong individual efforts in die running events to win the team trophy. “We ran much better than we have any time this season,” coach Charley Thomas said. “I was real pleased the way the team per formed.” . A&M, a heavy favorite in the running events, got much needed help from LSU in the field events where Rice is strongest and A&M weakest. A&M’s first place finishes came in the 449-yard relay; Scot ty Jones in the 120-yard high hurdles; Doug Brodhead in the 440-yard dash; Billy Porter in the 100-yard dash; Willie Black mon in the 880-yard run; Marvin Mills in the 220-yard dash; the mile relay; Harold McMahan in the pole vault; and Phil McGuire in the high jump. The 440-yard relay team of Porter, Brodhead, Steve Barre and Donny Rogers have gone through the season thus far un defeated. It seems there is now hope for A&M to cop the Southwest Con ference title in May after the showing Saturday in Houston, but Thomas still looks on the feat pessimistically. “I still think Texas and Rice are favorites, but we’ve got a little better chance,” he said, “if our kids stay healthy.” Dave Roberts, Rice’s NCAA pole vault champion, was not competing in the meet but per forming at the NCAA indoor meet in Detroit, and his pres ence may have made a difference but not in the team standings as assistant coach Ted Nelson re lates. “If Roberts would have won the pole vault and if Johnny Mayo (A&M high jumper) had been well and at the meet, we would have still won the meet by one point.” There were but two double winners in the meet. John Stew art, LSU, took the one and three mile events while Ken Stadel, Rice, took the shot put and dis cus. “We are real proud of Porter, Brodhead, Blackmon, Jones, Mc Mahan, McGuire, and Peterick,” Thomas said. “Some of them ran the best they’ve ever run and really put out effort.” This Saturday A&M will com pete in the Arlington Relays against UTA, TCU, SMU, Okla homa State, West Texas and Texas Tech. “Oklahoma State is real tough and I expect they’ll be the fav orites,” Thomas said. A&M finishers: 440-yd relay—1) Porter, Brod head, Barre, Rogers, 41.3. One mile—4) Frank Ybarbo, 4:15.0. 120-yd high hurdles—1) Scot ty Jones, 14.5; 2) Edgar Har vey, 14.6. 440-yd dash—1) Doug Brod head, 48.4; 4) Robert Brew, 49.4. 100-yd yash—1) Billy Porter, 9.4; 3) Steve Barre, 9.4; 4) Don ny Rogers, 9.7. 880-yd run—1) Willie Black mon, 1:52.9; 2) Horace Grant, 1:53.7. 220-yd dash—1) Marvin Mills, 21.3; 3) Porter, 21.5. 3-mile run—3) Frank Ybarbo, 14:37.2. One mile relay—1) Grant, Brew, Blackmon, Brodhead: 3:14. Pole vault—1) Harold McMa han, 16-0; 2) David Peterick, 15-0. Long Jump—4) James John son, 22-2. High jump—1) Phil McGuire, 6-9; 3) Marvin Taylor, 6-7. Discus—3) Tim Brown, 155- 11%. Japanese baseball improved, officials say TOKYO (A*)—Top officials of Japan’s professional baseball or ganizations say this country no longer is a “resort for aged U.S. players to earn money.” With the 1972 season opening April 8, the presidents of Ja pan’s two major leagues said things have changed as the qual ity of Japanese baseball has in- treased. Too often in the past,” said loji Suzuki, Central League toss, “former U.S. major league players brought by scouts to Ja pan did little to improve Japa nese baseball and to entertain the avid Japanese fans.” Suzuki and Tasaku Okano, Pa cific League president, said in interviews that Japanese teams have “paid a costly tuition” to learn that players in their 20s from America’s Triple-A or Dou- kle-A minor leagues can do bet ter here than major leaguers “who are too aged to play hard anymore.” Suzuki said they learned their lesson because they are no longer awed by the sound of “U.S. ma jor league” and now check thor oughly on American players be fore hiring them. Okano said younger players from U.S. minor league clubs could do better than older ma jor leaguers because the young men can start their careers in Japan. Some Americans who have come to Japan, he said, “have worked basically to improve the Japanese sense of baseball.” But generally, he said, it has been a case of “just a small number of very good players against too many failures.” Neither Okano nor Suzuki would name any American play ers they would put in the failure category. Since 1967, Japanese teams have imported about 45 Ameri cans, mostly former major leag uers. Only five of those here now have satisfied both the Jap anese teams and fans, officials said. They are three players $nd two coaches. George Altman, former Chica go Cub, plays with the Lotte Orions of the Pacific League. Dave Roberts, formerly of the Baltimore Orioles, is with the Yakult Atoms and Willie Kirk land who used to be with the San Francisco Giants, is with the Hanshin Tigers, both Central League teams. Former Washington Senators player Don Blasingame is chief coach of the Nankai Hawks of the Pacific League and Daryl Spencer, formerly with the Gi ants and Cincinnati Reds, coach es fielding and base running for the Hankyu Braves, the 1971 Pacific League champions. Besides these five established Americans, seven others joined Japanese teams this year, bring ing to 16 the number of Ameri can and other foreign players and coaches. Four of the Amer ican newcomers are in their 20s. Spencer said Japanese mana gers are less patient than Amer icans. “The Japanese managers put you off easily without knowing that the players also easily lose confidence,” said Spencer. “On top of that, the Americans are responsible for teaching the Jap anese the American-style per centage baseball and so should work much harder than back in America.” Japan’s No. 1 slugger, Shigeo Nagashima of the Yomiuri Gi ants, said Japanese players have everything “equal to the Ameri cans except physical strength. “We have skills and technique equal in quality to the Ameri cans.” Altman said American players should “completely forget about America in Japan. The Japanese are different. They are less frank than we Americans.” No matter how the Americans do in Japan, the test for Japan’s baseball still comes when Japa nese teams take on American major league squads in exhibi tion games. The Baltimore Orioles came to Japan last fall and won 12 games, lost two and tied four against top Japanese teams. Since the Orioles narrowly lost the World Series before coming to Japan, the exhibitions did not turn out to be the “real World Series” between the U.S. and Japanese champions that Japa nese fans had hoped to see. When it was over, Oriole Man ager Earl Weaver said the Jap anese players are excellent and “have mastered the basic tech niques of baseball.” Read Battalion Classifieds The Class Of ’73 Presents: Friday Nite Frolic, 8-12 — Indian Lake Band: Liberty Saturday Nite Ball, 9-1 — Duncan Ballroom Band: Katmandu TICKETS: $6.00 PER COUPLE Now On Sale At: Student Program Office Jr. Council Representatives Tennis team wins over Lamar, LSU, matches Indiana Rice hires former pro McLemore as football and basketball assistant A&M’s tennis team swept three dual tennis meets in four days this weekend by defeating La mar University, Louisiana State and Indiana, thus bringing its season’s mark to 9-5. In the three meets, A&M al lowed only four matches to be lost in beating Lamar, 7-2; LSU, 8-1 and Indiana, 8-1. Coach Omar Smith revamped his lineup by placing freshman Bill Wright in the number one position, Dickie Fikes dropped to second, Billy Hoover took over third, Dan Courson, fourth, Tom my Connell, fifth and Mike Mills, sixth. Fikes, who has spent the en tire season in the top spot, fell to number two for only the La mar match as he returned to his top spot against LSU and Indi ana. In the LSU meet, all nine of the matches, six singles and three doubles, were split sets. Against Lamar Tech on Fri day, Bill Wright of A&M lost to Luis Baridai, 6-4, 6-1; Dick Fikes of A&M defeated Gary Gomex, 5- 7, 6-4, 6-2; Billy Hoover of A&M defeated Ron Hernandez, 6- 1, 6-2; Dan Courson of A&M defeated Gary Jenkins, 6-2, 6-1; Tommy Connell of A&M defeated John Jordan, 6-2, 6-0; and Mike Mills of A&M defeated Gary Kloesel, 6-1, 6-0. In the doubles competition; Wright and Hoover lost to Bari dai and Gomex, 7-6, 6-7, 6-4; Fikes and Connell defeated Jen kins and Jordan, 6-1, 7-5; and Mills and Courson defeated Her nandez and Kloesel, 6-7, 6-4, 7-6. Results of the tight LSU match were Dickie Fikes over Jimmy Ducrest, 6-1, 1-6, 6-4; Bill Wright over Bobby Hagerman, 2-6, 6-2, 7- 5; Billy Hoover defeated Mark Tinkle, 6-2, 6-4; Dan Courson de feated Randy Lavercombe, 4-6, 6-2, 6-1; Tommy Connell defeat- fjTQyy Gt LmU - Save This Ad $5°° Discount On First Month’s Rent Individual Storage Units • Fireproof 24 Hour Security Attendance. Individual Spaces Available 3x4 5x10 10x20 10x15 10x10, 10x30 A Month $500 Anrt IT And Up ed Johnny Foster, 6-3, 3-6, 6-4; and Kermit Smith lost to Max Beque, 2-6, 6-4, 6-4. In doubles action Fikes and Courson defeated Ducrest and Tindle, 6-3, 4-6, 6-2; Hoover and Wright defeated Hagerman and Lavercombe, 6-0, 4-6, 6-3; and Connell and Smith defeated Fos ter and Beque, 6-4, 6-7, 6-4. Against Indiana in the singles competition; Dick Fikes defeat ed Mark Bishop, 6-3, 2-6, 6-4; Bill Wright lost to Doug Sulli van, 6-1, 6-2; Billy Hoover de feated Joe Kendall, 7-5, 6-1; Dan Courson defeated Tom Dunker, 7-5, 6-0; Tommy Connell defeat ed Walt Heirick, 6-2, 6-2; and Mike Mills defeated Dan Rich ards, 7-6, 6-1. In doubles Fikes and Courson defeated Bishop and Heirick, 7-6, 2-6, 6-2; Wright and Hoover de feated Kendall and Dunker, 7-6, 4-6, 7-6; and Connell and Mills defeated Sullivan and Richards, 6-3, 6-4. Thursday the Aggies take on Texas Wesleyan here on Varsity Courts starting at 1:30. HOUSTON L^)—Rice Athletic Director Red Bale announced Monday that veteran NBA play er McCoy McLemore had been hired as an assistant football and basketball coach. McLemore, released Jan. 31 by the Houston Rockets, will assist head basketball coach Don Kno- del and head football coach A1 Conover. McLemore, who signed with the Rockets as a free agent after he was released by Milwaukee at the start of the season, will also help with recruiting in both sports. Sports schedule Thursday Texas Wesleyan, here, The 6-foot-7-inch McLemore played high school basketball at Houston Yates and attended Drake University. He was draft ed by San Francisco in the NBA in 1964. JOHN RAITT Boole and Lyrics by OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN Presented By ROTARY COMMUNITY SERIES In Cooperation With TAMU Town Hall MONDAY, MARCH 20, 1972 — 8:00 P. M. BRYAN CIVIC AUDITORIUM TICKET PRICES Any Student & Date $2.00 ea. Only 212 Student Seats Are Available. 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