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By BILL HENRY
Assistant Sports Editor
Eighteen years ago, a Universi
ty of Texas trackster was acclaim
ed by Track and Field magazine
as the world's fastest man in the
220-yard dash.
This man, Charley Thomas, is
now the highly successful track
coach beginning his fourteenth
season at A&M.
In his freshman year, as in
1972, an Olympic year was upon
him and a burning desire was
within to make the U. S. team.
There were three places avail-
Aggie Betters
here today
Coach Omar Smith takes his
Aggie tennis into action today
on Varsity Courts beginning at
1:30 against Texas Wesleyan Col
lege.
A&M, winner of its last four
matches against Texas A&I, La
mar University, Louisiana State
and Indiana by a 32-4 set record,
will try to improve on its 9-5
meet record.
“We played real well last week
end in winning our matches,”
Smith said. “The three teams we
played on the road were strong
clubs and our team had to fight
for the wins.”
Participating in today’s meet
are Dick Fikes, Bill Wright, Billy
Hoover, Dan Courson, Mike Mills,
Tommy Connell, Kermit Smith,
Jere Mills, and Lawton Park.
“Our team effort really shined
against LSU,” Smith added. “We
split sets in every match and
came out with an 8-1 team vic
tory; that really shows team ef
fort.”
Southwest Conference action
doesn't begin until March 28
when the Aggies take on TCU
in Fort Worth, but Smith feels
the team is beginning to peak.
“I think the kids are beginning
to peak for conference action. But
I hope they are not peaking too
soon.”
Saturday the Aggies travel to
Norman, Oklahoma, to try and
avenge an early season loss to
Oklahoma University, 4-3.
able on the squad for 220-yard
dashmen, the odds-on favorites
being Andy Stanfield, Thane Bak
er and Thomas.
“I knew I would qualify but I
wasn’t sure about Thane and I
really wanted him to make it,”
Thomas says remembering that
fateful day in California.
“I knew a way for Thane to
come in a sure third.”
In those days the 220 was run
on a straightaway in normal meet
competition but for international
competition it was run on a curve
as it is now. So, most runners
didn’t know how to run it.
Thomas’ plan for Baker was
for him to sprint through the first
curve and come out even with
Thomas, a strategy intended to
insure Baker the third place fin
ish.
“The problem was that when
the race started, Baker came out
ahead of me on that first curve
and it really shook me up. I still
had faith because even if he was
to get second, I would get third.”
That was not to be the case
as an Air Force trackster over
took the pressured freshman from
Texas, leaving Thomas with a
fourth place finish.
“I just went to pieces during
the race,” Thomas remembers. “I
knew that I had it made but when
those people started gaining on
me I just lost my composure and
the race.”
The three who qualified, Stan
field, Baker and Ron Gethard also
finished 1-2-3 in the 1952 Olympic
Games.
Throughout the remainder of
his track career at Texas, where
he still holds the school and UT’s
Memorial Track record in the
220-yard event on straightaway
with a 20.5, he never lost a 220
race to any of the people who
ousted him from his Olympic bid.
This includes the Olympic cham
pion, Stanfield.
The possibility for an Aggie to
go to the Olympics this year looks
doubtful. But if Thomas could
have coached the world’s second
fastest 220 man while being only
a freshman in college, there is no
telling what he can pull out of his
travel bag in 1972 for the Aggies.
Polo club tries
for finals berth
The A&M polo team tries to
advance to the national finals to
night when they play the Uni
versity of Virginia.
The tournament, being held in
Darianne, Conn., features five
time national champion Yale in a
semifinal match with Connecticut
tonight. The winners of this
game and the A&M-Virginia con
test play in Saturday’s finals.
Action at the indoor arena of
the Ox Ridge Hunt Club this
week had Virginia winning over
Howard, 15-9, and Connecticut
downing Cornell, 16-15.
The trip to nationals for the
polo club was financed by the do
nations of many former students
and fans. The largest contribu
tion, $600, came from Jerry L.
Holmes.
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