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15% OFF On Purchase of $50.00 or Over fare well 10% OFF On Purchase of $50.00 or Less FOR YOU AGS WITH YOUR STUDENT I.D. CASH PURCHASE ONLY Douglas Jewelry 212 N. Main Downtown Bryan 822-3119 The women’s swim team took first in the Women’s Relay Meet held last Saturday. The team won eight of ten events and finished second in the other two. The first place finishes were in the 400 yard medley relay, the breaststroke relay, the 400 yard in dividual medley, the 800 yard frees tyle relay, the 200 yard freestyle, the 400 yard fly breaststroke, the 400 yard freestyle and the 200 yard medley. New records were set in the 400 yard freestyle, the 200 yard medley, the 200 yard freestyle, the 800 yard freestyle relay, the 400 yard indi vidual medley and the 400 yard medley relay. SPORTFOLIO By MARK WEAVER Sports Editor mother football season has ended and the Aggies WI . pme for the holidays watching the bowl games on televu instea d 0 f playing in one. Again. tball season started a couple of weeks ago with Promis© a good team at A&M. Again. An( \ track team is preparing for another season with a nu er Q f excellent athletes. Again. And baseball team will have one of the best teams arou anc j w jjj p r0 ve to be tough competition. Again. KliD^ JO V'. In fact, t\ggjes always seem to have some of the best teams, b>p ersonne ] an( j in0 st avid fans around. A&M is famofpj. Corps of Cadets, its spirit, its graduates and n^ other things. But winning in a clutch situation is one 1 g ^be \g S are not known for. A&M alway^ogj. u p y^th some of the best talent around and many ies produce a very competitive re cord. But when it nes down to winning a conference championship, the^ j us t can’t seem to get their heads on straight. ...FDR HER, FRCM CHARli 707 Texas Avenue 846*9626 Having one of j r best football teams in years, A&M was almost ass«d of a post season bowl game. Unfortunately, someoij lus t have told the football team as they lost to SMU in a llas and then were put com pletely out of the bowl p. jr e in the annual University of Texas rout. For those ob u vvho have been out of the country for the last 80 jt has been UT doing the routing and not the Ags.X Tbe way things havA en going in games against Texas, one begins to wonde^ there really is a jinx on the Aggies. But Texas is not thety team that beats the Ags. It’s just that the Horns dd more consistently than anyone else. It’s not just football, eith^Last year the Aggies had a fair pre-season in basketball, might even consider their 8-4 record a good pre-s$ 0 n. Texas was 1-12 in pre-season play. Texas won the Southwest Cuference in basketball, beating the Ags twice. Another utch performance. Then comes track and whatis becoming another annual slaughter at the hands ob.he Longhorns. The Horns won, mainly due to their doth, with 182 points. A&M was runner-up with 73 points,just 109 points from first place. Baseball was probably the best example of how a good team can blow a season. The Ags were 12-0 at the halfway point in conference play, finished the entire season with a 31-13 record. The Aggies finished second behind Texas with a 17-7 conference record. Texas was 20-4 in conference play, winning its 49thbaseball crown in 50 years. The Ags have All-America personnel every year, but as a team they blow it. It’s not a new thing and many people are getting used to the idea of the Aggies always being a runnerup. But Tm getting tired of hearing “Wait till next year. ’’ SAN I Womei Grandfathers, Brothers! Uncles, etc. 701-13 Cuff Links /'601-13 Tie Tack Each featuring a single stem bluebonnet hand painted and fired on fine china with yellow gold or sterling finish mounts. Available only 816 Villa Maria Rd., Bryan. Texas 77801 (713) 823-521 1 open 10 00 - 5:30 Mon.-Sat. The Amerii Drug! for31 f in the Dr. chainn that dr as pun BEI (AP) - that’s t messag Irelanc DON’T FORGET Mill warnn Santa violem A d< hovers oning 1 accept strange The REGISTER NOW FOR H FREE CALCULATOR LOUPOT’S N0RTHGATE, ACROSS FROM POST OFFICE to BEI special Rober N.J., ' haircu Nuc month and 1c pectec Niu to obe MCDONALD’S McDonald's ® INTRAMURAL HIGHLIGHTS McDonald's All-U volleyball championship won by experienc The Dirty Old Men snatched from the young dirty men on campus the All-U championship in volleyball. Clearly it was acaseof experience and organization over jungle ball handling that charac terized COM’s play. Challenging the Walton Warriors, Karl Kuchnow led his crew of staff, faculty and graduate students in for a romp. They took the young men in two games. It was the DOM’s torturous three-hit returns that overcame the “get-it-over-the net” philosophy of the Warriors. This win of 15-11 and 15-4, pitted the DOM’s against Sq5s upperclassmen. The Filthy Fifth thought they had the Old Men by the tail when they set early unreturned spikes. But on rotation, Jack Anderson, Wayne Price and Dennis Fosdick landed in the front, the Fifth got dumped. These three took advantage of the old bring from the back to the front philosophy and totally blew the cadet’s cool. Although Sq5 set a better pace, with Ronni Maddox, W ? 1' Table Tennis Tops Told Check, Keith Wilcox, Russel Hamely, David Howell and Kaapke, than most Corps units, the gang couldn’t make those inipj tant saves. There was good serving, but little cover for team mates oflij Sq5 side of the net. The DOM’s played a medium range fp staying in mid-court and close to the net. The back-up men on the DOMs, Larry McKinney, Art I mann, Dennis Corrington and Jim Jeeter, made the hall dro[f suicidal play. The Filty Fifth came to the All-U playoffs after taking thf| Fish for a punishing ride. The fish didn’t have the return capability that the other!# employed. The Dogs threw away serves that should have been made ll fish also had little moral support from the rest of their company"® the Fifth had their whole group out. In Corps competition it was again the story of organization <1 0 V For once, being a Dirty Old Man paid off! This group of faculty, graduate students and staff proved that age sometimes is an advantage. The DOMs took the All- University title out of the hands of Sq5 upperclassmen. Walton Hall players, Jose Saavedra and William Rodgers, finished tops in the All-University Table Tennis competition. These two paddled Jimmy Zum- walt and Jerry Harris Corps Champs, in a closely contested match of fast play. To reach the finals match, the Walton Warriors took on Pit Minh and Waiming Leung of IEEE. The inexperience. The Dogs looked good on their attempts; espec* from the Jennings twins, but their tries just weren’t often eno» MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM McDONALDS AND THE INTRAMURAL OFFICE Racketball Results Given The Fifth was a little more regular. Co-Rec Winners In Co-Rec competition, Bev’s Bunch took the Spiker’s on. It finest firsts’ reps matched talent u real battle with close scores, but Bev Goesch s group made ittO' with the Ml fish Joe Bonnot and J. 15 point mark in the decisive third game a little sooner than Bibeau’s group did. D. Deere and Nancy Victorian were spotted as the topple Christmas | in the s ame Schedule I Women’s Winners Told DeWare Field House will be Seandia, couldn’t handle SqlO’s women as they moved the Racketball blue-ribbon winner was Giessen Martin from the Recre ation Division. Don Nicholas from Sq4 took a second to Martin’s fast reaction play. Ted Libson from Dunn Hall losl out on the over-all civilian crown just as Fish Charlie Knarr, also from Phantom 4, did in the Corps com petition. E2 placed five in quarter finals giving it the honor of top rack etball team entry. Entries for racketball increased from last year 956 per cent. Contes tants numbered 459. 6338 closed Dec. 25 and Jan. 1. It will be around the court in the “bring it up” philosophy. open Dec. 21-31. It will he open SqlO, looking like they’d played together for some time pi' 1 from 11 a. m. to 6 p.m. J )a l] j n the right places at the right time. , G ’^ ite o nneX WiU bC The proper ball placement made all the difference in theft closed Dec. 20-Jan. 2. game. TheseT Intramural Highlights are sponsored every Friday by McDonald’s on University Dr. The page is prepared by Mary Russo & the Intramural Office, De Ware Field House, 845-2624. Billiards Bests Battle Billiards championships will not finalists in the single-elii"' 11 !; be decided until Thursday, but play, were David Biixkanipe^ semi-finalists have been deter- lip Sehraub and Carlos Pinf'' mined. Play started with 165 contc i Marvin Harris will play Tom Ro- playing 332 games. This J gers for the chance to play Randy per cent increase over l " ct ' Elum for the cue crown. Quarter- participation. IP