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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.”
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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-
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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.
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RAITT
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