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Baseballers’smash 33 school marks
Aggies greatest hitting team in SWC history
Texas A&M closed out its 1974
baseball season as the greatest
hitting team in Southwest Confer
ence history. But it was a frus
trating season which saw a strong
All-America candidate sidelined
by an injury, the pitching col
lapse over the last 12 games, and
the team finish second once again
to the Texas Longhorns.
Still, the 1974 Aggies broke the
incredible total of 33 school and
conference, individual and team,
game, season and career records.
The most impressive marks were
for team batting as the Aggies
hit .341 in 24 SWC games and
.342 in 44 season contest. The
Aggies shattered school and SWC
marks for runs, hits and doubles
as well.
For the full season, A&M
scored 347 runs, had 474 hits and
93 doubles. In SWC play, the Ag
gies scored 201 runs, had 282 hits
and 58 doubles. That is an aver
age of more than eight runs and
10 hits per game. The team had
15 games in which it scored at
least 10 runs with a high of 20
against SMU in a seven-inning
game. The team twice had 22 hits
in a game, once against Houston
and once against Texas Tech.
The Aggies had at least 31 hits
in each of the eight SWC series.
The individual standout was
All-America candidate Jim Hack
er, the senior third baseman from
Temple. Hacker won the SWC
batting title with a .477 mark,
the fourth highest average in
league history. He was A&M’s
full season leader at .406. Hacker
had an outstanding closing series
against Texas in Austin. He had
six hits in 12 at-bats including a
double, triple, two clutch home-
runs and seven runs batted in.
His two-run homer was the decid
ing blow in A&M’s victory Fri
day which broke a 53-game Texas
winning streak in Clark Field.
Then he hit a two-run homer in
Fencing gains popularity
By ROBERT DUNN
Errol Flynn is alive and well and is
living in disguise at A&M.
Although that statement is a slight
exaggeration, one would hardly think
so after seeing a fencing class in action.
The fencing craze has caught A&M by
storm.
“At first, most people would enroll
in the class because volleyball was
closed,” said Abe Cyrus, coach of the
team and fencing instructor. “But after
the first few semesters, we began get
ting feedback from those who had
taken the course. Now, we have some
people coming who have heard about it
from these others.”
Fencing is no new sport to A&M.
Old issues of The Aggieland show
several pictures of the team. However,
the sport was dropped about ten years
ago. Cyrus revitalized the course.
“We were looking in the supply
room and came across some equipment
among the cobwebs and rats nests. I
hadn’t had any experience in fencing
since I was an undergraduate, but
decided to offer the course that semes
ter. Some of the members of our team
were in those classes.”
A fencing club was established later
that year, and through it members kept
their skills and reflexes razor-sharp.
Finally, some of the members entered
tournaments and fared well, setting a
precedent for later entrants. So far this
year, the team has been impressive in
the meets it has attended.
expenses, etc.) are met by the individ
uals on the team. This has not discour
aged them from competing in major
meets.
Students vary on the reasons they
take the course. Stephen Gray,
presently taking it, said: “It develops
good hand-eye coordination. You
really have to stay on your toes if you
want to win. And winning is the name
of the game.”
the top of the ninth to tie Sat
urday’s second game which Texas
won in the bottom of the ninth.
Hacker finished an exceptional
career with school records for
runs scored, runs batted in, dou
bles and bases on balls.
Senior leftfielder Paul Miller
and junior firstbaseman Jim
Bratsen shared in the record
breaking. Miller scored 50 runs
and had 14 doubles while batting
.386. Bratsen had 157 at-bats, 48
runs batted in and eight home-
runs while hitting .344.
The low point of the season
came when second baseman Mike
Schraeder, who was hitting .408
in SWC play and had already
broken the school RBI record,
was injured in a practice field
collision and underwent surgery
for a ruptured spleen. Schraeder
missed the final 14 games of the
season.
The team finished with a 31.|J
record which tied the schooh
for victories. The Aggies
17-7 in SWC play.
In voting by the team, Hai
was elected team captain
most valuable player.
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88
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Woods
87
115
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Three types of swords are used in
most competition. The foil, also used
in the classroom, the epee, and the
sabre. These weapons were developed
after the invention of gunpowder and
armor. The broad swords were tossed
away for these lighter, better penetrat
ing types.
The fencing team at A&M receives
only a small sum of money each year
plus equipment for competition in
tournaments. Most of the burdens of
expenses (entrants fees, travel
Carson Campbell, a former student
of the course, said: “I’d seen it on
television and it sort of attracted my
attention. It’s also a good body-
exercising course; it keeps you limber.”
Coach Cyrus also said the future
looks bright for fencing here. “In our
intramural meet this semester, four out
of the top six male competitors were
taking fencing at the time.”
4 fem tankers
Aaron Stadium
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get top honors
Four TAMU girls were named All-
America at the national girls’ swim
ming championships at the Pennsylvan
ia State University pool.
Senior Jean Collins from Pasadena,
freshman Barbara German from Bryan,
freshman Carol Hemphill from
Houston and sophomore Beth
McArthur of College Station were de
signated All-America following their
outstanding performance at the meet.
The four swam on TAMU’s
400-yard freestyle relay team and cut
17 seconds from their previous best
time of 4:10.9 to 3:53.7.
Collins made All-America individ
ually in three separate events, the
50-yard backstroke, 50-yard freestyle
and 100-yard individual medley. The
200-yard freestyle relay did not make
All-America, but cut three seconds
from the state record.
“Our girls did a good job,” Coach
Dennis Fosdick said. “We were 44th
overall last year at this thing, and now
we’re 30th, ahead of Texas at 34th and
TCU at 32nd.”
Fosdick said he had expected the
meet to be more competitive than last
year’s, but that this year’s swimmers
were extremely fast.
“We had fourteen Olympic swim
mers here, and all but one national
record was broken. There was a nota
ble difference in coaching this year,
too,” Fosdick said. “In the past it’s
been a rinky-dink sort of meet, but
these coaches, men and women, were
here to win big. They proved that girls’
athletics are big time, not the tea party
they’ve been in past years.”
Fosdick said the girls were over
awed and completely pooped by the
competitive pressure of the meet. He
noted the girls now were able to see
what it takes to win at national meets.
“They were really snowed by it all.
But now they can work harder and
know why, then come back and win.
I’m really proud of the way they’ve
performed this year,” Fosdick said.
ATLANTA ITP) — A proposal
by Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jack-
son to rename Atlanta Sadium
after baseball superstar Henry
Aaron has run into a roadblock.
It was discovered Wednesday
that such an action would be in
violation of a city ordinance which
makes it illegal to name a public
facility after a living person.
Jackson, apparently unaware of
the law, made his proposal Mon
day and it encountered little op
position from members of the
Atlanta-Fultin County Recreation
Authority, the group which until
passage of the ordinance, was em
powered to make the change.
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