THE BATTALION Wednesday, May 3, 1972
College Station, Texas
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’ tk \ Another dry spell for Aggie sports
t #68 Bthough A&M has gone
■igh another school year
G third #mt winning a Southwest
Lri ^ s ^®erence championship, the
fourth eig^j months have not been
■out their exciting moments,
game, 0 f course, there was
■s- CarijM^ again with all its hopes,
ome mill for awhile, again with its
in blastinljpointments. Then came
Torres l|jy]nr and Pat McDermott’s rec-
in the |d. ; tting field goal. A journey
collected sMie foothills of Arkansas re-
Id in one of the major col-
~ , ^l upsets of the season.
lany thought the Aggies were
|of the race, but it was ob-
the monkey wrench would
Jhrown into the flag chase,
t y li more w ' ns P u ^ A&M i n P°'
j~ 0 j|^jn to take it, but a Liberty
pi bid and the opportunity to
I Texas from another trip to
HCotton Classic were what the
studio fd;
8 for ni(»|
■iksgiving Day battle in Kyle
H would decide.
Iirkey Day night, the reign
■ene Stallings ended, and the
pch for the new leader began,
r a 25-day wait, Emory Bel-
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lard became the head man, and
hopes and speculation were all
optimistic.
As he made his way through
basketball season parading some
of the top high school prospects
in the state across the court of
G. Rollie White Coliseum, it was
apparent that the future of Ag
gie football would be brighter.
Meanwhile, Shelby Metcalf was
developing a competitive basket
ball team out of a squad which
had been picked to finish last in
the conference. A trip to UCLA
brought the Aggies to national
notice for a little while as an
other Bruin conquest.
During the Christmas holidays,
A&M made a name for itself,
capturing the consolation trophy
at the Bluebonnet Classic and
winning first place in the Presi
dential Classic.
Mario Brown was dazzling op
ponents with his ball handling,
and suddenly the Aggies were
off and running in the SWC race.
Before long, A&M was a team to
be reckoned with, although there
allege tennis Super Bowl
nveils in Miami Saturday
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-Number Two!”
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agree tfu | match between Trinity Uni
tor CarlSi ity and the University of
p^PglU mi, Florida, should be called,
his duel in the Florida sun
Iches USA-number one ranked
liity—the only undefeated ma
il collegiate tennis power in the
itedfron a lion—against number four-
Iked Miami, the highest-rated
[m in the East.
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■'he match is the final event of
® the spring for both teams before
j I NCAA National Champion-
Ips June 12-17 in Athens,
lorgia. Trinity brings a 35-
" "Itch winning streak, currently
i -.r W longest in the nation, into the
latest—but a look at the history
I Tiger-Hurricane tennis duels
lows winning streaks mean little
lien these two teams meet.
^ iBreaking winning streaks seems
■ be a habit for both. Last year,
ch weekiP l11 * brought a 37-match streak
I San Antonio but lost 8-1. The
1st time Trinity went to Miami,
i! 1970, the Tigers carried an
■entical 35-match streak under
1 belt 3 but the Hurricanes
liumphed 5-4. Trinity’s longest
lining streak ever, 75 matches
won from 1961 to 1965, was ended
by Miami. Overall, the series
record between the two stands at
four victories for Trinity and two
for Miami.
Trinity brings one of the most
fantastic line-ups ever into the
match. The top four Tigers were
honored as all-Americans at last
year’s NCAA tournament (where
Trinity finished as runer-up to
UCLA for the second year in a
row). The top five Tigers are
ranked 14, 18, 20, 21 and 52nd in
the Men’s Division of the United
States Lawn Tennis Association
and Trinity’s sixth man is rated
eighth in the juniors divison.
Playing one through six, re
spectively (with their 1972 singles
records in collegiate dual match
and tournament play), for Trinity
are Dick Stockton (20-1), Brian
Gottfried (28-2), Bob McKinley
(31-4), Paul Gerken (22-1)
Pancho Walthall (35-2) and John
Burrmann (22-3). Stockton, Mc
Kinley, Gerken and Walthall are
seniors and during the past four
years have taken Trinity to an
86-6 overall dual match record
Gottfried—a native of Fort Lau
derdale, Fla., and the 1970 Na
tional Juniors Champion — and
Burrmann are sophs.
In doubles, the six pair off as
follows—Stockton and McKinley
(21-1 in collegiate play, the only
loss coming in the finals at the
Rice tournament to Gerken and
Gottfried) ; Gerken and Gott
fried (19-0) ; and Walthall and
Burrmann (16-2). Stockton-
McKinley are ranked fifth in the
USLTA and Gerken-Gottfried,
seventh.
Lester (Red) Parsons
A candidate for County Commis
sioner. After 30 years of service
to Brazos County, I am seeking the
position of Commissioner of Pre
cinct 1. Since I believe the position
should be a full time job and hav
ing no other business interest I in
tend to devote my entire energies
and experience to the service of the
people of Precinct 1. I urge you to
go to the polls and vote.
When you vote Lester (Red) Par
sons you are voting for a man of
integrity as well as a proven pub
lic servant.
Pd. Pol. Advertisement
It’s a fact Lou appreciates your busi
ness. He tries to give top prices for books
at all times.
If an Aggie sold his books when he was
desperate, just short of cash or just didn’t
think he got enough for his books, he can
buy this book back for the same price.
The reason Lou does this is so that he has the
students confidence and friendship. It has been said,
“Lou would like to make a dollar off of you each time
be sees you and hopes to see you at least 10 times a
year. Remember Lou will be in his new location across
from the P. O.
were only two seniors on the
squad and a transfer player was
the floor leader.
A standing-room-only, sit-in-
the-aisle crowd of 8,108 saw the
Aggies play one of their most
exciting and electrifying games
in recent years against Texas
Tech. A close loss to Southern
Methodist in Dallas made chanc
es seem slim, but a gut perform
ance against Texas Christian in
hostile Ft. Worth brought A&M
back into contention.
A fight in Waco saw Baylor
fans use chairs on Aggie players,
and the team was never the same
afterwards, but they ended the
season on a happy note, beating
Tech in Lubbock. Partisans are
waiting for next year, when last
year’s crop of Fish are eligible
for varsity play and all but one
varsity starter returns.
Baseball took over, with Coach
Tom Chandler introducing bat-
girls to the Southwest Confer
ence. The first few games in
Kyle Field featured typical base
ball weather for March at A&M
—wind, cold and rain.
Chris Sans signed with the Los
Angeles Dodgers, leaving A&M
minus its loudest bat. With him
gone, hopes for title contention
were down. The first league se
ries saw TCU win two out of
three, and the Aggies went along
to lose a game each series after
that.
In 1971, A&M swept its first
four series and was swept its last
two. In 1972, the Aggies never
swept a three-game SWC meet
ing, but they never lost all the
contests, either.
R. J. Englert hit in all but five
of the 38 games he played, and
he had a 28-game season and 16-
game conference hitting streak
broken against Texas.
Dennis Fosdick was named
SWC swimming Coach of the
Year, while A&M surprised ev
eryone, including themselves, by
finishing third. Three swimmers
represented the Aggies at the
NCAA meet in West Point, New
York.
With six sports completed,
A&M finished in the first divi
sion in all of them this school
year. The only bad part of this
is that key losses to Texas in
three of those — football, basket
ball and maybe baseball — gave
the Longhorns the flag. Track
will be decided later this month,
and the Steers are favored. Tex
as also won the golf title.
But, it was still a fine year for
Aggie athletics, and while enjoy
ing the past this summer,
thoughts of next year are even
better. We only hope the results
live up to the expectations.
Behind the Selection of Barnes
By DICK WEST
Editorial Director
THE BIG REASON this news
paper endorsed Ben Barnes was be
cause he, more than any other candi
date, has faced and answered and
tried to debate such questions as we
have just listed.
He has slung the least amount of
mud and talked the most about what
Texans ought to be talking about
For the last 12 years he has done
nothing but prepare himself for such
an assignment. He proved he could
run the House as speaker and did a
repeat in the Senate as lieutenant
governor.
He handled both jobs so well that
he became the youngest president in
history of the National Legislative
Conference—an organization of legis
lative leaders from 50 states.
The average person who is sick
goes to a doctor who is a specialist in
that ailment. We ought to put a
specialist in the governor’s office.
BEFORE IT ENDORSED Ben
Barnes, The News interviewed three
of the four major candidates for
governor in confidential sessions last
ing an average of two hours; the
fourth did not request an audience.
The three were asked meaningful
questions and were assured they
could talk from the heart with no
repercussions.
Ben Barnes did not evade a single
question. In his answers he dis
played an incredible knowledge of
state government, whereas one of his
major opponents sat for 90 minutes
and hesitated to say anything.
So what do you do—endorse
somebody who does not equivocate
and shows a lot of knowledge along
with it? Or somebody who evades
and shows virtually no knowledge
about the job he seeks?
This is another way of asking: Do
you vote for somebody who is quali
fied or somebody who is not?
THE REAL DANGER in the pre
sent Texas political climate is that
those not guilty of wrongdoing will
be thrown out with the few who are.
If you are going to “reform” Texas
government, how do you reform it
with novices?
Along this line, we were amused
by a short letter written not long ago
to The News in pencil by a farmer:
“All I hear on television from
some of these guys rumung for gover
nor is how honest they are.
“Hell, my daddy was the hon-
estest man I ever knew, but he didn’t
know nothin’ about being governor.”
BEN BARNES A SENSIBLE CHOICE
If you think Kodak is just
pretty pictures, you ought to have
your chest examined.
When a chest x-ray shows that you have a potential
killer like TB or cancer, it’s not a pretty picture. But it’s an
important picture because it can help the doctor detect and
catch the killer in time.
When doctors are out to catch these potential killers,
they want the sharpest, clearest x-ray films they can get. And
that’s why people at Kodak spend so many hours creating
new and better x-ray film equipment. Already, the results in
clude convenience for the patient, economy for the hospital,
an even more useful tool for the radiologist—and, most impor
tant, reduced radiation exposure.
Researching and creating better x-ray films is good
for our business, which is why we went into them in the first
place. But it does our society good, too —which isn’t a bad
feeling. After all, our business depends on our society—so we
care what happens to it.
133 Morethan a business.