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THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1974 Page 9 Records seen endangered in SWC meet Ten marks expected to fall after assault by conference tracksters s °f etpij. Hinson, ent Loj, )' insurd ured Sb •er prmi.[ U.S.d.| es at (att I teresttk versmort By TED BORISKIE Track Analysis Ten conference records are in danger of being broken Saturday as the 1974 Southwest Conference Track and Field Meet gets underway at Rice Stadium in Houston. Texas is expected to be the runa way victor for the third year in a row but the battle for second place is ex pected to be fierce. Baylor is the favorite for the runnerup position with A&M, SMU and Rice figured to issue strong challenges. “I think we’re going to do real well,” said Aggie track coach Charles Thomas. “I was especially encour aged by our performance against Baylor last weekend.” Meet records already bettered by conference athletes include the mile run (by two runners), 120-yard high ) mm HAUUY DISH MAN S:i!< s A Si'i v i«'c HO.t !f\a* \ \ «■ < S arrow from campii'- Si 1 f> :< 11 f> CHAPMAN’S DECORATING CENTER HOME BEAUTIFICATION 28<h ANNIVERSARY! $2.95 Sq. Yd. - Up 1 SALE t PAINT ROLLER KITS $2.99 Ea. CARPET ROLL ENDS ASS’T. SIZES $3-.00 Ea. - Up VINYL WALLPAPER CABINET HARDWARE CARPET SAMPLES 19cEa.-Up NATIONALLY KNOWN BENJAMIN MOORE PAINTS 25% OFF REG. PRICE ENDS MAY 20, 1974 EXTERIOR HOUSE PAINT WALL TO WALL CARPET REMNANTS $3.95 Sq. Yd. - Up 2307 SO. TEXAS AVE. - COLLEGE STATION, 846-1734 We’d like to take you for a ride l't Hey. Mr. suave and sophisticated... try this on lor size. 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Event by event, they shape up like this: Long jump Baylor’s Ricky Thompson jumped 25-7% last week in a dual meet with A&M, giving him the best mark in the league. However, Texas’ John Berry has been consistently the best jumper in the conference and re cently set a school record of 25-6%, so the nod should go to him. A&M’s Tom Owen, possessing a best of 24-5%, is making a strong comeback off an injury and is the top dark horse candidate. Other top performers in clude Texas’ Greg Hackney (23-11%) and Nate Robinson (24-2%), Baylor’s Mike Shivers (23-10%) and David Pi- land (23-6%), Tech’s Tommy McIn tyre (23-9) and Arkansas’ Arthur Ezell (23-10). High jump No one expected Texas’ Wyatt Tompkins to come back as strong as he did after his back injury and one- year layoff but after two 7-0 jumps this year, he appears to be the man to beat. Freshman Kevin DeLorey of Baylor could be the jumper to stand up to the challenge, also clearing 7-0 this year. A&M’s Phil McGuire (6-10) could be a contender if he is fully recovered from a slight ankle injury that has bothered him the past few meets. The rest of the field is tightly bunched, with Houston’s Dave McMenamin (6-10) and Cliffen Fruge (6-10) Baylor’s Gary Kafer (6-9%) and David Piland (6-8), Tech’s Bryant Huckaby (6-9) and A&M’s Don Riggs (6-8) looking to be the strongest competitors. Pole vault Defending champion David Peterek of A&M wasn’t expected to have much of a chance of protecting his title until he suddenly improved by leaps and bounds (no pun in tended) the past two weeks and bet tered his best mark from 15-0 to 16-3. Now it appears to be a tossup between Peterek and Texas’ David Shepherd (16-8) with Aggie Brad Blair (16-0) the top dark horse. Other top vaulters include Texas’ Greg Hackney (15-6), Rice’s Mike McEl- veen (15-6), Tech’s Bruce Williams pent house 1 Located at Plantation Oaks Apts, above the leasing office. 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SMU’s Glenn Derwin has the top mark in the conference this year with a 238-8, but it was set two months ago and he has been inconsistent in his throwing since. The rest of the field is dominated by the Texas trio of Greg Hackney (224-4), Walter Kniginyski (217-10) and Marty Peterman (206-6) and SMU’s fresh man Rick Goldbach (211-6). Discus Texas dominates the discus with three of the top four disc tossers in the conference in Jim McGoldrick (191-9), Dana LeDuc (188-7) and Bishop Dolegiewicz (185-5). The fourth man, however, is two-time NCAA runner-up and three-time SWC champion Ken Stadel of Rice, who has a best throw of 190-5. The opportunity to become the first four-time SWC champ in the discus since A&M’s George Kadera in 1950 should provide the impetus to give Stadel the win. One-mile run Texas has a problem in the mile that is the envy of every other track coach in the conference; namely, who do they pick out of their corps of fine distance runners to represent them in the conference meet? De fending champion Paul Craig is sure to be one, as is Reed Fischer (4:05.4). Also in the Longhorn stable are Tim Patton (4:07.1), Mark Klonower (4:08.0), Bill Goldapp (4:09.0), John Craig (4:11.3) and Jesse Maldonado (4:12.5). Their chief competition will come from Arkansas freshman Tom Aspel (4:08.6), and teammate Randy Melancon (4:11.1), Rice’s Steve Schroeder (4:08.8) and Bob Nellums (4:10.3) and Baylor’s Walker Lea (4:11.3). 120-yard hurdles A&M’s Scottie Jones should de fend his title but will receive quite a challenge from Texas’ Nate Robinson and Randy Lightfoot. All three have run 13.6 this season but Robinson has defeated Jones only twice in sev eral meetings and Lightfoot j ust once with none of the three defeats com ing in the last two months. Baylor’s Alcy Jackson has run a 13.7 but has been relatively unimpressive since and A&M freshman Shifton Baker has a 14.0 to his credit to rank as a dark horse. Other hurdlers likely to figure into the results are Rice’s Mike Fulghum (14.1), Baylor’s Jimmy Gailey (14.2) and Houston’s Mark Hogan (14.3). 440-yard dash Texas’ Don Sturgal will be the one to beat here but A&M’s Doug Brodhead may be the one to beat him. Defending champ Sturgal edged out Brodhead in a close finish May 2 in Austin and Brodhead is running the best of his career. The dark horse candidate will be TCU’s Lee Williams, who finished second last year with a 46.5 but has posted a best of just 47.5 this year. Other top quartermilers are Glenn Goss (47.4) and Ed Wright (47.8) of Texas, Baylor’s Tim Son (47.4), James Jor dan (47.5), and Michael Carter (47.8) and Tech’s William Pierson (47.6) and Tony Harris (47.8). 100-yard dash , Defending champion Wayne Johnson of Houston and two-time champ Gene Pouncy of S M U should be favored here on account of their past performances but this is one race where pulling a name out of a hat may be the easiest way to predict a winner. Every school but Baylor and Tech has a 9.5 or better sprinter and nobody has shown any sort of mastery over the field. Other top sprinters include Texas’ Marvin Nash (9.4), Overton Spence (9.4w) and Nate Robinson (9.4w), SMU’s Joe Pouncy (9.2w), TCU’s Bill Col lins (9.2w), Rice’s Zoe Simpson (9.4w), Arkansas’ Barnabas White (9.5) and A&M’s Charles Dawson (9.5) and Sammy Dierschke, who finished second last year as a fresh man but has been injured most of this season. 880-yard dash Arkansas’ Niall O’Shaughnessy is the only freshman in the conference to have a leading time in an event. His 1:50.4 half mile mark is not so much better than the rest of the con ference to merit making him a favo rite but he is sure to be a factor in the race. Defending champion Rudolph Griffith of Texas gets the nod as favo rite due to his experience and blaz ing kick but TCU’s Greg Bryant (1:51.3) has defeated him twice this year by outkicking him. The rest of the field is incredibly close with Texas’ John Craig (1:51.6), Reed Fischer (1:51.6), and Bill Goldapp (1:52.2), Baylor’s Mark Lawless (1:50.6), and Sonny Rollo (1:51.2), Rice’s Rory Trup (1:52.0) and David Beyer (1:52.7) and A&M’s Adolph Tingan (1:52.4), Pat Bradley (1:52.5), Horace Grant (1:52.8) and Ron McGonigle (1:53.8). 440-yard hurdles Defending SWC and NCAA champion Robert Primeaux of Texas was figured to be a shoo-in favorite by this time at the first of the season but as Primeaux broke an ankle and Baylor’s Jimmy Gailey improved to the point of having the second fastest time in the nation, there is now no clear cut choice. Gailey’s 50.5 tops Primeaux’s 50.9 but the Longhorn has improved tremendously the past couple of weeks and may be ready to hand in another 49.5 performance as he did last year at the nationals. Other top entrants include Houston’s Larry Gnatzig (51.8), Baylor’s Paul Stevens (52.2) and Car los Cribbs (52.5), Rice’s Chuck Hodge (52.1), A&M’s Craig McPhail (52.9) and Shifton Baker (53.0), Texas’ David Colley (51.9) and TCU’s Greg Roberts (52.6). 220-yard dash Joe Pouncy has a chance to be come the first four-time 220-yard dash champ since Texas’ Charley Parker in 1950 but he won’t be able to do it in a walk. With a wind-aided best of 20.6, he leads chief conten ders Overton Spence of Texas and TCU’s Bill Collins, both possessing a 20.9w. A good dark horse candidate is A&M’s Doug Brodhead, who ran a 21.5 into a stiff wind Saturday at Waco in the only time this season he has attempted the distance. Other top performers are Baylor’s Tim Son (21.0) and Steve Lang (21.2), Houston’s Wayne Johnson (21.2) and Mike Williams (21.1) and Arkansas’ Barnabas White (21.2). Three-mile run Whoever doesn’t run the mile for Texas will probably run the three- mile, with some possibility of a dou ble. Paul Craig again leads the Lon ghorns with a 13:48.5, followed closely by Tim Patton (13:52.4), Mark Klonower, (14:00.0), Reed Fischer (14:02.8) and Jesse Mal- danado (14:05.9). Other top distance men include Arkansas’ Steve Houk (13:48.9), Randy Melancon (13:54.8), Ron Hendee (13:57.6), Rice’s Jeff Wells (13:49.2), and SMU’s Jeff Dixon (14:04.8). 440-yard relay SMU has the fastest time in the conference with a 40.1 but has been plagued with injuries since record ing that mark. Texas’ speedy four some has recorded a 40.3 but it has been a rare occasion this season for the Longhorns to have passable handoffs. A&M recorded a40.6early in the season but injuries have pre vented the Aggies from approaching that time since. Rice (40.6) also has injury problems, which leaves TCU (40.4) and Houston (40.5) as favorites based on their consistency. Mile relay Baylor was burning up the tracks earlier this year and recorded a 3:06.6, one of the fastest times in the nation, but has slowed down consid erably the past few weeks. Although not possessing a time as fast as Baylor’s, Texas could still have to rank as favorite based on their consis tency. TCU has steadily improved this season and owns a best time of 3:09.6 while A&M’s 3:11.4 is not a particularly fast time when weighed against the Aggies’ potential. Rice is hurt again by injuries and will prob ably not be able to approach their best of 3:10.5. Other top teams in clude SMU (3:13.0), Houston (3:13.2) and Tech (3:14.2). ^DPiSWEriUmiJDM&IL [pNyENTUlDLI of Wts NEEDS YOU! If you waul lo participaU-, ••xprt'.ss your views, testify before a committee, or desire information: CALL TOLL FREE: 1-800-292-9600 OR WRITE: P. O. BOX 13286 AUSTIN, TEXAS 78711 * \ Leslie L. Farrow joins the team of professionals at Charles E.Thomas & Associates. 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