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THE BATTALION
Thursday, September 20, 1973
College Station, Texas
Page 6
Riggs, King Battle with W ords
HOUSTON (A 5 )—Bobby Riggs
and Billie Jean King got into an
eyeball-to-eyeball, name-calling
joust Wednesday on the eve of
their $100,000 winner-take-all
tennis battle of the sexes, which
broke into a squabble over whether
Bobby “is a creep.”
“I don’t mind you calling me
a hustler, chauvinist pig or ego
maniac,” the 55-year-old Riggs
told his 29-year-old woman ad
versary. “But you shouldn’t call
me a creep. It is not a nice word.”
Billie Jean didn’t budge an
inch.
“It is not such a bad word in
Beverly Hills,” she replied. That
was as far as she would go.
“I think she should have apolo
gized, but she didn’t,” Riggs said.
He said that Billie Jean used the
term in a national magazine
article.
Riggs and Billie appeared for
a 30-minute press conference in
the bubble outside the Astrodome
where their match will take place.
It was their first confrontation
since reaching Houston.
Asked how she felt about Riggs,
who triggered this highly pub
licized match with his derisive
comments about women in general
and women’s tennis in particular,
Billie Jean said: “I like him and
I hate him. He is so ridiculous.
Sometimes I laugh, but mostly I
get furious.”
Making a prediction about the
match, Billie Jean said she ex
pected the best-of-five match to
go only three sets. She left no
doubt who she thought would win
it.
Riggs said, “She expects to
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scrape me off the Astrodome
floor. I will scrape her up. She
is a woman and is subject to
women’s emotional frailities. She
will crack up during the match.”
The pill-gulping Riggs is a 5-2
favorite.
Earlier, Billie Jean had been
no worse than an 8-5 underdog
against Riggs, who shamed Mar
garet Court in their Mother’s Day
battle in San Diego May 13.
The best-of-five set duel with
optic yellow tennis balls, which
has excited and divided a nation,
is scheduled at 7 p.m. CDT over
a synthetic green carpet.
The match will be shown na
tionally by ABC-TV and to some
40 countries overseas via satellite.
Europeans will have to stay up
until after midnight to view it.
Television sponsors reportedly
paid $90,000 a minute for com
mercial TV time.
Billie Jean became ill and de
faulted in a third-round match in
the recent U.S. Open at Forest
Hills, but the five-time Wimble
don women’s champion showed up
on the scene early this week and
announced in a loud voice: “I am
fine, physically and mentally. I
am ready. All I can say is Bobby
had better be ready, too.”
While Mrs. King has remained
in virtual seclusion, avoiding all
the fanfare and gimmickry asso
ciated with the unique promotion,
Bobby has been swinging wildly
on a merry-go-round of parties,
public appearances and late night
sessions, gabbing with the press
in his seventh floor suite.
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Season Record
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* Guest Picker: Randy Ross
Next week’s guest picker Mrs. Mary Kay Bellard
A &M, LSU—Old Rivalry
One of the longest and most
colorful rivalries in LSU football
history adds its 37th chapter
Saturday when A&M rolls into
Tiger Stadium.
The Aggie-Tiger series dates
back to the 19th century, 1899 to
be exact, when the two schools
met in College Station with A&M
winning, 52-0.
Those were the days of iron-
men players and iron-men sched
ules, since LSU was scheduled to
face both Texas and Texas A&M
on the road in the space of three
days. The Bengals, playing only
their seventh year of football,
simply weren’t up to the rigorous
twinbill.
Over the years the teams have
met only four times in College
Station. The Aggies own a 3-0-1
ledger at home but the schools
haven’t played here since 1922.
Since that time the schools have
played in Baton Rouge on all but
two occasions, a 19-14 victory in
the 1944 Orange Bowl in Miami
and a 28-0 Aggie triumph in
Dallas in 1955.
LSU has a firm 21-12-3 lead in
the overall series, including an
18-6-1 edge in games played in
Tiger Stadium. In games played
at neutral sites, most of which
were in the early part of the
series, the schools are dead even
at 3-3-1.
The Bengals and Aggies have
met every year since 1960 and
LSU has dominated this recent
rivalry, winning 11 times, tying
one and losing only once. LSU
fans will remember the only de
feat as the season opening 20-18
loss in 1970, when Lex James hit
Hugh McElroy on a do-or-die 79-
yard bomb for the winning touch
down with 19 seconds left in the
game.
Last season LSU ran up almost
500 yards in total offense as the
Tigers thumped a young Aggie
squad 42-17. Comerback Norm
Hodgins, now on offense as a
splitback, broke the game wide
open with a 45-yard interception
return for a third quarter touch
down and a 28-10 LSU lead.
The LSU-Texas A&M series
has seen its share of great play
ers, with Aggies such as Yale
Lary, Gene Stallings, Jack Par
dee, Mo Moorman, Dave Elmen-
dorf, Rolf Krueger, Tommy Max
well and John David Crow all
playing big parts in the 36 games
to date.
The two teams will knock heads
for the 37th time Saturday night
in Tiger Stadium, and it should
be a worthy addition to one of
the South’s great football rival
ries.
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