THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1974
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Aggies limp to Texas Relays
Injuries weaken A&M chances in prestigious meet
By TED BORISKIE
Assistant Sports Editor
A severely weakened A&M
track squad limps into Austin this
weekend for the Texas Relays
mainly wishing to avoid further
injuries.
A rash of muscle pulls and
strains have plagued the Aggie
cindermen the past three weeks
with the top five sprinters on the
squad all suffering from muscle
ailments.
Charles Dawson and Gerald
D’Ambrosio will rejoin the squad
after a week’s layoff to nurse sore
hamstrings. Dawson is slated to
run the 100-yard dash while
D’Ambrosio will run the opening
220-yard leg of the sprint med
ley relay.
Also running on the relay team
will be Doug Brodhead, running
the second 220; Horace Grant,
handling the quarter-mile chores;
and Ron McGonigle, taking the
'inal two laps. Grant is making
a comeback after being sidelined
with a back ailment earlier in the
year while McGonigle ran a 1:53.7
half-mile last week, showing he
is no longer hindered by ruptured
blood vessels suffered the first
weeks of the season.
Scottie Jones, although injured
last week in Baton Rouge, will
run the 120-yard high hurdles,
owning a best time this year of
13.7. Shifton Baker will also com
pete; his best time being a 14.1.
Baker is also entered in the
440-yard intermediate hurdles
along with freshman Craig Mc-
Phail. Baker’s best time this sea
son is a 53.0 while McPhail has
turned in a 52.9.
Bill Newton, still nursing a
three-week old knee injury, will
compete in the javelin. Newton
has a best throw of 217-3 but has
been unable to get past 200 feet
since his injury.
High jumpers Phil McGuire
and Don Riggs and pole vaulters
David Peterek and Brad Blair are
oddities on the A&M track squad
—they are all perfectly healthy.
McGuire has cleared 6-10 feet
this year, one of the top marks
in the state, while Riggs has been
over 6-8 four times. Blair has a
15-6 vault as his best effort while
David Peterek has cleared 15-0
six times this season.
Craig Carter will compete for
the Aggies in the shot put with
a 54-0 top mark.
Harold Davis, Sam Dierschke,
Grant and Brodhead will make
up the Aggie mile relay team,
possibly A&M’s strongest entry.
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The A&M tennis team lost
their third conference match
Tuesday to tough SMU, 7-0.
The Aggies’ record in confer
ence play fell to 9-19 with the
loss.
No. 1 Aggie seed Bill Wright
lost to SMU’s George Hardie 6-4
in the first set, came back to win
the second 6-3 but lost out in the
third set tie-breaker.
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Tim Vann beat A&M’s Bill
Hoover in straight sets, and Ag
gie Dan Courson lost to Joe Edles
also in straight sets, 6-2, 6-4.
The loss was only Coursons
fourth this season against 16
wins.
In the fourth match David
Bohrnstedt beat Charles Emley
of A&M, 6-4, 4-6, 6-4.
Richard Walthall defeated Tom
Courson in the final singles match
7-6, 6-3.
In doubles Hardie and Vann
beat Dan Courson and Hoover in
split sets, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3.
Wright and Emley lost to Edles
and Adi Kourim in the second
doubles.
Gridders try
passing game
Quarterbacks David Walker,
Mike Jay and David Shipman,
fought a swirling, gusty wind
Wednesday as the Texas Aggies
concentrated on their passing
game.
Walker ran the first offensive
unit while Jay and Shipman al
ternated on the second team.
Split ends Mike Floyd and
Robert Verde, tight ends Richard
Osborne and David Greeno were
the main passing targets although
some of the receivers came out
of the backfield.
There was no contact work and
while the offensive units went
against the third defense at one
end of the field, the first two
defenses worked against the third
offense with quarterbacks Carl
Menger and Kent Ballard han
dling the passing.
The Aggies will practice again
Thursday and then will stage
their second scrimmage of the
spring Saturday afternoon.
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BATTALION CLASSIFIED
By KEVIN COFFEY, Sports Editor
Old ball parks, like old soldiers, don’t die, they just fade away. At
the end of this baseball season, Clark Field, home of the Texas
Longhorns, will fade away as UT opens a new stadium in 1975.
This new facility, combined with the ’Horns proposed basketball
coliseum, recently-renovated Memorial Stadium and Olympic swimming
pool will give Texas athletic facilities unequaled in the United States.
Somehow I will be sad to see Clark Field fall. Someone will
probably make it into a parking lot. This home where Texas has
dominated Southwest Conference baseball for years has had many a
great moment.
Lou Gehrig hit a home run over 600 feet to lead the New York
Yankees to a 8-6 win over Texas in 1924. It cleared the scoreboard and
carried across Red River Ave. The ball finally landed where gardens that
surround the LBJ Library now stand.
Texas has won 46 conference baseball crowns including the last
seven in a row. The Aggies are next in line with 10 titles.
Clark Field may be of some advantage to Texas. It is almost
unique. Only 300 feet to right field, UT heavily recruits left handed
power hitters. They managed to find some good ones over the years.
Huge chalk cliffs blossom up in center field and run to foul territory in
left.
Those cliffs give opposition outfielders a hard time to say the
least. Many balls land on the plateau between the cliffs and fence and
bounce around like a silver marble in a pinball machine.
The ancient park has a good chance to go out in style. It looks
like the final series and perhaps the final game played there will decide
the conference title winner.
Texas and the Aggies lock horns in Austin on April 26 and 27.
A&M holds a slim one-game lead in SWC play as they head for the
home stretch. Friday A&M plays Tech in Lubbock and then catches
Rice at home before heading to Austin. Texas has this week off then
visits TCU.
A&M is currently crippled. Mike Schraeder is lost for the season
with a ruptured spleen. Fred Russ and Paul Miller missed yesterday’s
game due to illness. All three were starters. Luckily, Russ and Miller are
expected back in the line-up Friday.
The Aggies looked like they would run away with the conference
until Houston pulled a surprise last weekend. Texas threatened to lose
the final game of their series with Baylor but Keith Moreland hit a
two-run homer with two outs in the ninth to give UT a 6-5 win. The
Horns are now within 34 percentage points of A&M.
It looks like the team that wins 2 of 3 in Austin will cop the
conference. It just may take a 20-4 record to take home the laurels.
A&M is 13-2. UT stands 15-3.
Unless something very drastic and unforseen happens, the grand
old park is in for a wild ending.
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