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■ •• *• jv* ■ - - . • >sidents studenij 1( * additi^ "{ 1 M ariti^ ( ^alvesto^ lopes high for next year rustration again hits Aggie rv-, n i pJi ie-blockes sas locate (Drawij; THE Wednesday, May 10, 1972 BATTALION College .Station, Texas Page 7 tracksters BILL HENRY loach Charley Thomas and his gie tracksters had another dis- Kiinting weekend of action in Paso when they were soundly eated by both Texas and tas-El Paso in a triangular JTEP, as expected, carried off team honors with 8514 points lowed closely behind by Texas h 71%. The Aggies were far iind. lie Aggies get ready now for quadrangular meet to be held Kyle Field this Saturday be- een SMU, TCU, and Baylor, is weekend’s meet is the final rm-up for the schools before Southwest Conference meet ng held in Fayetteville May ■23. was very pleased with Willie ickmon and Horace Grant in 880-yard run," said coach Ted Nelson who accompanied the team to El Paso while head coach Charley Thomas visited the State Track Meet in Austin to watch recruits. The biggest problem arising was Billy Porter’s aggravation of his old leg injury that will prob ably keep the Odessa College transfer out of the conference meet and all national competition. “It looks very slim at this time that Porter will run again this year,’’ Nelson stated. “He has only two weeks to recover and that is an almost impossible length of time to get an injury of his nature healed.” Porter re-pulled a hamstring muscle in his left leg. Doug Brodhead, injured since the College Station Relays, re injured his foot in Saturday’s meet which will force him out of this week’s action, also. “I don’t think it will hamper him in the SWC meet,” Nelson said. “He needs to let it heal. He will probably not run Saturday for general precautions. We will desperately need him when we go into conference action in Fay etteville.” No Aggie performer or relay team won a first place in El Paso and only one second was copped. The 440-yard relay team of Ger ald D’Ambrosio, Billy Porter, Alan Swagerty and Donny Rogers took second in 41.7 was far out in the lead before Porter pulled up lame and coasted in to make the exchange. “Porter was running away from Texas like they were tied to a post,” Nelson said. “He was real ly running fine until that leg gave out. I really can’t understand the injury because he was running fine in practice last week and fitting slump drops Englert fifth in SWC batting race ’EXAS 16th St. L 2-1572 )US le tres tation on’s Om Service ■sity i Bant TATE 1ALLAS—Five teams boasted hitters in the final Southwest erence baseball statistics in 2, making the tight race for batting championship an echo the pennant race. Texas and TCU shared the lat- with 12-6 records—lowest vic- percentage since four teams for the title in 1966—but as Tech’s slugging first base- In Doug Ault had the former •fll to himself. Unit went 4-for-9 in his windup pies against Rice to claim the [tting title with a .464 mark as regulars posted averages of or better for the second ight year. Texas’ David Chalk Is the runner-up at .435, his pond straight year over .400 in IWC play, while SMU’s Jon Ast- jth finished third at .424. Don Idenhamer was fourth at .406. le batting leader for most of Hie season, R. J. Englert of A&M mt one-for-12 against Texas to lish at .400. Englert’s career w the Big Spring belter wind second, fifth and fifth in con- nce batting the last three championship. Tom Ladasau fashioned a 2-0 mark and Jess Cole a 4-1 as the Frog starters ranked at the head of the con ference. Rice sophomore Mike Pettit topped the SWC with a 0.51 earned-run average while compil ing a 5-2 record. His six complete games led all pitchers. SWC marks to be beaten DALLAS — A calm day and a fast track appear to be the only unsettled ingredients as South west Conference track and field teams go after a passel of records two weeks hence in Fayetteville. To date, five existing SWC marks have been bettered, one other has been tied, four are in striking distance—and that leaves only six relatively safe in the showdown May 22-23. Latest addition to the list of potential record setters is Texas freshman Robert Trimeaux, who got his first taste of 440-yard intermediate hurdles competition last Saturday at El Paso. The Mobile, Ala., native won with a school record of 51.5 seconds, which ranks just behind defend- 440 hurdles in a triangular meet at El Paso, the Aggies’ 880 duet was improving the conference season standard in the same meet. Blackmon raced to a 1:50.1, while Grant had a 1:50.7. The 440 dash at El Paso saw SWC performers run the three best clockings of the season. Texas’ Ed Wright shaded A&M’s Doug Brodhead as each was clock ed in 47.0, and Texas’ Mike Lei- feste was third in 47.7. Leifeste’s clocking marked the first time the junior from Brady has been under 49.1 seconds in the quarter. Records that have already been bettered this year are the three- mile, where freshman Paul Geis of Rice (13:34.5) leads a field of ing champ Mike Cronholm’s sea- five who have bettered the exist- )f Flaw The co-champions pretty well iminated individual categories, bas had four batters among the Ip 10 and had a team average of 21, while TCU pitchers ranked |gh. TCU’s Frank Johnstone claimed I e most victories with a 6-1 rec- d. Ironically, his only loss came st Monday when SMU pushed hross three runs in the bottom the ninth for a 4-3 victory that inied the Frogs the outright Ak'l airies Texas re Co, :e vare 3TAL IFTS son best of 51.0, and continued his personal record of starting with a bang. Primeaux’s first 440-yard dash in college competition came last Feb. 19 and it resulted in a vic tory in 48.6 seconds. He switched to the 880 a week later at the Border Olympics and again came in first, this time with a 1:52.5 clocking against a strong field including A&M’s Willie Blackmon and Horace Grant, TCU’s David Hardin and Texas’ Mike Tibbetts. While Primeaux was trying the ing mark of 14:08.5; the 120-yard high hurdles, where Texas’ Randy Lightfoot and Gordon Hodges have eclipsed the 13.7 mark; the high jump standard of 6-11%, topped by 7-foot leapers Gary Kafer of Baylor and Wyatt Tompkins of Texas; the 16-8 pole vault record, which Rice’s Dave Roberts has surpassed four times with a best of 17-5; and the 25-1 long jump, improved by Rice freshman Darryl Hughes (25-7%) and Baylor junior Danny Brab ham (25-7). oil use COLOR IN THIS "MINI- PRESIDENTIAL 1. Buy a bunch of Flair pens. You need gray, black, orange, purple, yellow and blue. (You need them anyway for school.) 2. Now—color in the picture according to these color guide numbers. (10). Gray (1). Black (6). Orange (9). Purple (7). Yellow (3). Blue. Please do not color unnumbered areas. IJ POSTER" OF ONE OF THE f CANDIDATES! Ml 3. Congratulations! You have created a r-f genuine full color portrait of someone j you know and love. Maybe. If he or she / is not your favorite presidential candi- I / date, have patience. You'll see yourfavor- 1/ ite soon in the Flair Election Collection! (Don’t forget to ask about Flair’s running mate, the Flair Hot Liner.) s# Gillette Company PaperMate Division © 1972 said he felt great before the race. That’s something that you never can tell about.” Blackmon took third in the 880- yard run in a time of 1:50.1 while Grant took fourth in 1:50.7. Doug Brodhead was nipped at the wire for second place by the SWC’s top time-holder, Texas’ Ed Wright, in the 440-yard dash. Both finished with an identical 47.0. UTEP’s Steve Williams won the event in a time of 46.0. Marvin Taylor took third in the high jump with a poor leap of 6-6. Taylor has jumped 6-10 this year and Texas’ Wyatt Tompkins won the event in 6-10%. William Oates, UTEP, took second with a jump of 6-8. In the pole vault, Harold Mc Mahan took third with a jump of 15-6. Bill Curnow won the event for UTEP with a jump of 16-6. A&M’s mile relay team, in a time of 3:09.6, taking third place. This is where Brodhead re-injured his foot. “The team ran very well in this race,” Nelson said. “I think Brod- head’s injury hurt us some.” Donnie Rogers took fourth in the 100-yard dash in 9.7. The event was won by the NCAA champion, Harrington Johnson of UTEP, in a time of 9.5. “I feel Porter could have placed in both the 100 and 220-yard dashes if he hadn’t been injured,” Nelson added. Porter has run a 9.4 this season in the 100. Marvin Mills did not compete due to an injury but is slated to run in this week’s warm-up meet and barring an injury there, should be ready for the confer ence meet. “The reason we are doing so badly this season is that we have had key people hurt and the en thusiasm of the team is at a low point,” Thomas said. “It is a lot easier to run when you know you have a chance to win the meet. The team is psyched in a way. They feel they can’t run and con sequently, they don’t.” Scotty Jones, who has been in jured for the past few weeks, is scheduled to run in this week’s meet. With the conference meet close at hand, Thomas is quite pessi mistic about the outcome. “You can’t be too optimistic after the season we’ve had,” he said. “I am hoping for a second or third place SWC finish but I am hoping even more that we don’t finish in the cellar. I am worried about how we compete in that meet; it could be very embarrasing if we don’t perform up to our capabilities like we have all this season. With the recruiting done by both coach Thomas and coach Nelson, a banner year can be ex pected in 1973. A&M will boast some of the best high school track stars in the nation. With some help from seasoned regulars to be back next year, a bright fu ture is in store. As Baylor’s track coach, Clyde Hart, said, “You’ll be a good coach again next year, Charley.” FOR BEST RESULTS TRY BATTALION CLASSIFIED LAKEVIEW CLUE 3 Miles N. On Tabor Road Saturday Night: Moe Bandy & The Mavericks From 9 - 1 p. m. STAMPEDE Every Thursday Nite (ALL BRANDS BEER 35*) JusSCi McLean Survives Two Obstacles Singer Surmounts Irritated Crowd and a Bomb Scare By DON HECKMAN New York Times . A performer who can survive a bomb scare and an antago nistic audience must be some thing special. Singer-song writer Don McLean came on stage at Columbia University's Wollman Auditorium Friday night and was greeted by lis teners who were justifiably angry about the garish, bright spotlights beaming down on them. “Some friends” were filming Mr. McLean, and their need for appropriate lighting apparently took precedence over the audience’s comfort. Associated with a performer whose psychic antennas are usually highly sensitive to rude ness, it was a peculiarly thoughtless action. As if that wasn't enough, half way through the program Mr. McLean was interrupted by a man who unceremoniously asked everyone to look under their chairs for "strange or un usual looking packages’.’ Wow. Only a truly magical performer could have kept me—and doubtless many others in the audience —in the hall after so many hassles. But Mr. McLean is magical. He sang his current hit, "American Pie’,' of course, but he also sang two particularly impressive older tunes, “Three Flights Up" and "Circus Song" He led his listeners through an enthusiastic interpretation of the old folk round "Babylon" he played super guitar and banjo and he sang beautifully. His songs —almost all of which are written with the pen of a poet and the voice of a min strel —are the centerpiece of his art, and they have as direct and pertinent a message for right-here-today young people as those of any contemporary songwriter I can think of. The bomb scare and the dis tracting film lights faded quickly from my mind at the end of the program. But Don McLean’s music hasn’t; I expect to be hearing it fora long, long time. Don McLean in Concert Letter to the Editor Buffalo Evening News "... I am not a fan of Don McLean, or wasn't before Sunday. I liked "American Pie’,' but knew little of McLean or his work before then. I sat in the balcony, quite physically alienated from the lone man on stage, with no part- WENDY PATERSON, icular expectations but curiosity, Kenmore, N. Y. until step by step his words, melodious voice, his attitude, sensitivity, candor, and sincerity brought my weary mind to a warm reception of McLean's works. Just as we discovered and respected the music of Bob Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel, Gordon Lightfoot, or Carole King, so has everything I saw of Don McLean seeped into and warmed my musical sense’.’ UNflHdAftnSTS RECORDS On United Artists Records & Tapes. Advanced Zymurgy (Think about it) • Even if it isn’t the last “word" fn the dictionary, we think you'll find the phrase does describe the last word in beer.