Compete in ‘JiWe SWC meet’
THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, ISIS
Aggie thinclads travel to Border Olympics
By PAUL McGRATH
Staff Sports Writer
Coach Charles Thomas is heading
for the border, hoping to get away
with whatever he can.
Thomas has committed no crime
— yet. But he will be taking the
Aggie track team with him, with a
chance to steal the meet from the
seven other teams present.
The entire Southwest Confer
ence, with the exception of Arkan
sas which is being replaced by
Lamar Tech, will be competing in
the Border Olympics. The Laredo
meet is the third outdoor invita-
Swimmers,
in collegiate
state meet
Coach Dennis Fosdick has taken
the Women’s swimming team to
Edinburg to compete in the Texas
Collegiate Championships being
held at Pan American University.
The following 13 women are par
ticipating in the meet: Tina Baker,
Vicki Brown, Georganna Collins,
Barbara German Leslie Hager,
Carol Hemphill, Fawn Hollar,
Susan Johnston, Beth McArthur,
Harriet Patrick, Kathy Singletary,
Debbie Starr.
tional for the Aggies and Will be a
good indicator on how A&M will
fare the rest of the season.
Texas is the favorite with the Ag
gies and Baylor a toss up for second.
Ag riders
win rodeo
Saturday
TAMU Rodeo Club members
took top honors at the spring
semester’s first college rodeo in
Kingsville last weekend.
Grady Groves was the winner ol
All-Around Cowboy buckle donated
by the King Ranch. Accumulating
his points. Groves won first in the
bull riding and placed second in the
saddle bronc riding.
Terry Chapman won first in the
saddle bronc event and Tommy
Harkness won first in the bareback
bronc riding.
Rodney Jones was second in the
bull riding. Greg Court took second
in the steer wrestling. And Kay
McMullan won second in the barrel
race.
Sam Houston State took top team
honors in both the men’s and
women’s divisions.
A&M sprinter Charles Dawson calls
the meet the Tittle Southwest Con
ference.”
“That’s just about right,” said
Thomas. “I look for it to be real
competitive.”
Thomas feels A&M can do well in
the sprints despite strong competi
tion from TCU and Texas. He’s look
ing for a possible one-two or one-
three in the hurdles.
A&M is suffering in the field
events and will have to score their
points on the track. Baylor has the
jumping events almost sewn up
with the seven-foot talents of Kevin
Delorey and with long jumper
Ricky Thompson. Rice and Texas
will dominate the discus and shot
put although there is a chance that
Aggie muscle man Frank West may
be able to attend the meet. If so,
A&M could pick up some points in
those two categories.
Long jumper Tom Owens will
miss the Laredo trip due to a milit
ary obligation. The pole vaulters,
says Thomas, could score some
points for the Aggies if Brad Blair
does well. “We could have a bad
event and still be able to recover in
the running events,” said Thomas.
The meet will be run exactly the
same way the SWC meet will be
scheduled. Only two relays, the
mile and 440-yard, will be run.
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The Aggies will return from
Laredo at the conclusion of the
meet. The team will make the eight
hour trip by bus.
Several of the sprinters and dis
tance runners for A&M have com
plained about the Tartan track of
Kyle Field. They say the constant
running on the track is hurting their
legs and have made suggestions that
a grass track be made near Kyle
Field for them to practice on. Tartan
tracks and those similar to them, are
known for causing shin splints in
runners.
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Spring football, along with some
freak injuries, is taking a toll of
Aggie trackmen. Shot putter Frank
West is now questionable because
of gridiron practices. Questions
have been raised about rulings con
cerning athletes desiring to partici
pate in two sports. According to
A&M defensive coach, Melvin
Robertson, freshmen are prohibited
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Aggies open SWC
season with Baylor
By DAVID WALKER
Staff Sports Writer
Coach Tom Chandler takes his
Texas Aggies to Waco today to play
the Baylor Bears in the opening
series of the 1975 Southwest Con
ference Baseball season.
The Aggies take a 4-0 record into
the Friday single game. They have
beaten Sam Houston State Univer
sity and St. Mary’s University in
double headers to get their early
season perfect mark.
The Bears have had a successful
season so far as they enter the SWC
opener with a 6-2 record. They were
in the baseball limelight earlier this
season as they beat powerful Ok
lahoma in the first game of a double
header in Waco. The Sooners came
back to beat the Bears but the moral
victory had already been won by the
Baptist.
The two teams will play a single
game Friday and a double header
Saturday. Game time Friday is 3:00
with Saturday’s double dip getting
under way at 1:00.
The Aggies will start Tommy
Hawthorne at catcher, and David
Lockett will be the opening day
pitcher.
The Aggie infield will have Jim
Bratsen at first, Mike Schraeder at
second, Fred Russ at short, and
Kirk Campbell at third. In the out
field Al Thurmond will be in left,
Mike Frazier in center, and Bill
Raymer in right.
The Ags will most likely will be
without the services of freshman
Robert Bonner who is still on the
shelf with a leg injury.
The Aggies’ next action will be
Tuesday when they travel to San
Antonio to play St. Mary’s in a re
turn double header. The Aggies
host SMU next weekend in their
home SWC opener.
There will be no local radio
coverage for Aggie games this year.
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from playing two sports because
they need to learn the system. After
that first year they may participate
in any sport they like. In fact,
Robertson says he encourages foot
ball players to compete in other
sports because the other sports have
fewer scholarships to give out and
“it is up to the football people to
help them.”
Two football players who could
help the track team, Lester Hayes
and Carl Roaches, declined to do so
mainly because of scholastic prob
lems or to just catch up from their
first semester. Both Hayes and
Roaches were at one time 9.5 sprin
ters. Roaches did run track last year
but wants to keep himself as little
occupied as possible this semester.
Speculation has it that therein
telling what records could[J
broken if the two were to nin|i|
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Intramural softball sees
funds headed its way
COLLEGE STATION — Relief
is on the way for the intramural soft-
ball program at Texas A&M Univer
sity, says director Don Corrington.
A $112,697 complex will be con
structed during the spring and
summer months west of the main
campus. It will hold four softball
fields with backstops and four soccer
fields.
A contract for the project was let
Tuesday by the Texas A&M Univer
sity System Board of Directors.
The complex will be surrounded
by a five-foot fence and includes an
automatic sprinkler system which
“will help us greatly in upkeep,” re
ports Corrington.
In the last two years, the in
tramural softball program has more
than doubled in numbers with 211
teams participating now in the in
tramural tournament.
The load on the 10 current fields
may push the tournament to 10
weeks in length instead of the usual
six or seven, notes Corrington.
Four new fields will do much to
alleviate pressure on the current
fields in addition to providing better
playing turf.
No plans have been made to use
the fields until September in order
to let the turf become more resistant
to wear.
Site work will include grading for
drainage and installation of sprink
lers. Although not being installed
now, lights could be attached with Malek Const. Co. ofNavasotakl
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