Page 6 College Station, Texas Thursday, February 22, 1973
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Face Kansas City Royals Academy In Florida
‘Baseball Mecca’ Is Site For Aggies’ Season Opene
By BILL HENRY
Battalion Sports Editor
“Buy me some peanuts and
cracker jacks” and the Texas Ag
gies may hope they never get
back.
Yes, it’s baseball time again
for coach Tom Chandler and his
Aggies. This year, however, non-
conference action will be a bit
more glamourous.
A&M baseball begins its 1973
season Friday when the Aggies
play the first of eight games, in
a five-day trip, against the Kan
sas City Royal Baseball Academy
team in Sarasota, Fla.
The teams will play double-
headers Friday, Saturday, Mon
day and Tuesday. The Aggies,
who flew from Houston early
this morning and return after
Tuesday's game, will be quar
tered at the Academy dormitory.
Aggie coach Tom Chandler will
take 19 players on the trip along
with a student manager and
trainer. Making the trip will be
outfielders Jim Atterbury, a jun
ior from Corpus Christi; Jim
Bratsen, sophomore from La-
Marque; Gene Reinarz, senior
from New Braunfels; and A1
Thurmond, sophomore from
Spring Branch; infielders Paul
Miller, junior from Houston Al-
dine; Sandy Bate, junior from
Lufkin; Mike Schraeder, sopho
more from Houston Sam Hous
ton; Jim Hacker, junior from
Temple; and John Woods, junior
from Nacogdoches; catchers Mike
Frazier, sophomore from Hous
ton Elmore; and Tommy Haw
thorne, sophomore from Beau
mont Forest Park.
There will be eight pitchers on
the traveling roster; four right-
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handers and four lefthanders.
The southpaws are Jackie Sinks,
junior from Beaumont Forest
Park; Bobby Falcon, junior from
Corpus Christi Ray; Jimmy Juhl,
junior from Spring Branch; and
Jim Wallace, junior from Cor
pus Christi King. The righthand
ers are Charlie Jenkins, senior
from Fort Worth Arlington
Heights; Bobby Wittkamp, soph
omore from Houston Milby; Clint
Thomas, freshman from Abilene;
and David Lockett, freshman
from Cleburne.
The student manager is Gary
Chandler, and the trainer is Dan
ny Walston.
The Academy is an innovation
of Kansas City owner, Ewing
Two Recruits
Sign With A&M
A defensive end and quarter
back have been added to Texas
A&M’s recruiting list, making
35 newcomers on the Aggie list.
Latest to sign with the Aggies
were Brad Burnett, a 6-2, 218-
pound defensive end from Port
Neches and David Walker, a 6-0,
175-pound quarterback from Sul
phur, Louisiana.
Burnett averaged 15 tackles a
game, recovered 22 fumbles in
two seasons, made all-state and
was on Texas Football’s super
squad.
Walker, 4A all-stater in Lou
isiana, completed 58 per cent of
his passes for 1,857 yards and
16 touchdowns.
Earlier, Donnie Clemons of
Houston Carver joined the Ag
gies. He is a 5-8, 175-pound run
ning back with 4.5 speed for 40
yards. He gained 1,794 yards
and scored 20 touchdowns last
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Kaufman, who sunk $4 million
into the pro baseball preparation
center as he felt the minor
leagues were not doing the job it
should with young players.
A&M will be the first South
west Conference team ever to
play in Florida and the first such
effort to merge the professional
baseball people with the confer
ence colleges.
“We should gain a lot from
the experience of playing the
Academy,” Chandler said. “We’ll
have, I hope, ideal weather con
ditions while playing with the
finest innovations in the game.
We are truly happy to be able to
play a team such as this during
our non-conference schedule.
“The players are real enthusi
astic and the chance to go to
Florida improved the attitude of
fall and pre-season drills for us.”
The Academy stands 19-3 and
is made up of 25 high school
graduates the Royal’s organiza
tion feel have the potential to
become major league stars.
They are enrolled at Manatee
Junior College across the street
from the Academy, and attend
classes on a regular basis while
playing baseball year around.
During the summer months,
when school is not in session, the
players are sent to top Royal
farm clubs then meet back in
Sarasota in the fall. After grad
uation a pro career is theirs.
The challenge for Chandler
and his Aggies will be a tough
one competing against a team
that has played together as long
as the Academy players. Espe
cially in the season’s opener.
“We’re anxious to play,” Chan
dler said. “It’ll be good to see
what our kids do under real game
conditions after working out for
as long as they have.
“T h e infield is working real
well together but the outfield is
somewhat a disappointment thus
far. I’m pleased with our pitch
ing and we’ve had no sore arms.
“The lack of good weather has
really hurt us lately so this trip
to Florida will be a real help.
The home opener for the Ag
gies will be next Thursday when
they host the Iowa State Cy
clones at Kyle Field at 1 p.m. for
a double-header. Iowa State will
also be the opponent for a dou
ble-header on Friday.
Major League
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Tennis Action
Here Friday
Texas A&M’s tennis forces
take on two outstanding oppon
ents here this weekend. The Ag
gies will entertain Corpus Chris
ti University Friday and Pan-
American Saturday. Action
starts at 1 p.m. both days at the
varsity courts just south of Kyle
Field.
Corpus Christi and the Aggies
tied for second in the recent
Pan - American tournament in
Edinburg while the host school
finished fifth. However, Pan-Am
beat Corpus in a dual meet this
year, 5-4.
The Aggies’ top six players, in
ranking order, are Dan Courson,
Bill Hoover, Bill Wright, Law-
ton Park, Kermit Smith and Car
ter Lomax.
NEW YORK lA*)—Negotiations
resumed today between baseball’s
owners and the Major League
Players Association but the spring
training exhibition game schedule
has already been disrupted
The Pittsburgh Pirates an
nounced Wednesday that their
three-game exhibition trip to Mex
ico City has been canceled and
at least four other games—two
apiece between the New York
Mets and Boston Red Sox and
Minnesota Twins and Detroit Ti
gers—will also be dropped.
An agreement between the
players and owners calls for no
exhibition games to be played un
til 10 days after teams report to
training camp. If an agreement
were reached today, the earliest
players could report would be Fri
day. The 10-day period would
then take teams to March 5 as
the earliest date games could be
played. The Mets-Red Sox and Ti-
gers-Twins series were scheduled
for March 3-4.
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