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Tlantationfc Oaks TENNIS COURT >\ PARTY MUSIC BY: THE FAMILY JEWELS FROM 7:30 - 12 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16 ALL THE FREE BEER YOU CAN DRINK. ADMISSION: $2 PER MAN $1 PER LADY ADVANCE TICKETS AT: PLANTATION OAKS OOUX CHENE But not invincible Page 8 THE BATTALIOi THURSDAY, APRIL 10,111 Longhorns still team to beat By PAUL McGRATH Staff Sports Writer Hark, is that a chink in the Texas Longhorns’ orange armor? On paper at least, the team that has won the last three Southwest Confer ence track championships and 34 of the 59 total SWC meets, appears to have lost its aura of invincibility. Of the sixteen events that com prise the title meet, the Longhorns have individual leaders in four. The Horn weightmen, Dana Leduc and Jim McGoldrick, lead the league in the shot and discus and look like shoe-ins with possible competition coming from Rice. Texas leads in just one other category, the 440-yard relay. The quartet of John Lee, Billy Jackson, Overton Spence and Marvin Nash turned in a 39.8 quarter in the Texas Relays. Robert Primeaux heads the 440-yard hur dles with a 52.3. However, two other schools also maintain leadership in three indi vidual events — Baylor and Texas A&M. Again, for both squads, two of the three leading roles are in field I u m m m m m At noon were all hamburgers. After 5, its seafood, chicken fried steak and table service. Everyone knows about 3C Corral burgers. After 5, the Corral features seafood (shrimp, catfish and hush pup pies) and a generous chicken fried steak (plus french fries and salad). Table service for family dining after 5. And drive-thru service from 10-9 for take-home orders of seafood and barbecue. 3-C Corral 29th Street to Barak Lane Across from Bryan High School 693-2721 1975-76 TOWN HALL SELECTION COMMITTEE QUESTIONNAIRE The TOWN HALL COMMITTEE is conducting a survey to help schedule performances for the 1975-76 season. This survey is to find out who you are interested in hearing. CIRCLE FIVE Merle Haggard Steely Dan Humble Pie Charlie Rich Carole King Johnny Rodriquez Leo Kottke James Taylor Gordon Lightfoot Three Dog Night Lynyrd Skynyrd ZZ Top Rich Little Average White Band Henry Mancini Bill Cosby Joni Mitchell Hues Corporation Rick Nelson Willis Alan Ramsey Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Ray Price Charlie Pride Loretta Lynn Preservation Hall Jazz Band Tammy Wynette Ohio Players Allman Bros. Band Linda Ronsted / Chuck Berry Rufus Bachman Turner Overdrive Helen Reddy Burt Bacharach Rare Earth America Seals & Crofts Jimmy Buffet Doc Severinsen Chicago Carly Simon Carpenters B. W. Stevenson John Denver Cat Stevens Tony Orlando Eagles Doobie Brothers Mac Davis Emerson, Lake, & Palmer OTHER SELECTIONS Fifth Dimension Guess Who Do you live: On Campus Oft Campus What would you be willing to pay for a good performance? Circle one: $1-2 $3-4 $5-6 Would vou rather listen to: Circle 2 Jazz Easy Listening Progressive Country Hard Rock Country Western Classical Comedy Rock’n Roll Other Please return this survey to the Town Hall Cubicle in the Student Programs Office by April 19. Thank you. events. Baylor owns the high and long jump thus far with the efforts of Kevin Delorey and Ricky Thomp son. The Aggies lay claim to the pole vault and javelin with Brad Blair and Bill Newton taking the honors. Both men topped the rest of the league in those two events last year. The Bear’s Tim Son is currently in front in the the quarter with a 47.0 and A&M’s Shifton Baker has the Astros maul Braves, win first series 120-high hurdles with a 13.8. Baylor also leads the mile relay with a 3.08.4 clocking for fourth event leadership. In addition, Rice cannot be over looked as both freshman Curtis Isiah and Zoe Simpson rank in the top six in two events apiece. Isiah is fifth in the long jump and second in the 120 hurdles. Simpson is fourth in the 100-yard dash and tied for fifth in the 220-yard dash. Jeff Wells still remains a terror in the distance races as he is first in the three-mile (27 seconds ahead of his nearest competitor) and is fifth in the mile. The Owls are strong in the discus and shot as Brent Geringer is placed in both events and two other Owls, Buddy Briscoe and Dean Daugherty, also rank in the plate toss. TCU and Arkansas rank two men each holding firsts in a pair of events. Bill Collins currently has the 100 and 220 all to himself for the Frogs and Niall O’Shaughnessy leads the 880-yard run and the mile. In all, Texas has 20 men placing in the 16 categories while Rice and Baylor each have 15. A&M has 11 men in placing positions. These four teams have the title pretty well split up between them as head to head competition in the con ference indoor, the Border Olym pics, the Texas Relays and mime ous other dual and tri-meets. Bayk and Rice have both defeated fti Longhorns in previous matchesan! A&M has beaten Rice andnarrowi lost to the Bears. The actual relative strength of Ik four teams cannot be determined* all are experiencing difficulties t the injury department, especially! Aggieland where four topflightp« formers have to spend time on | sidelines. The SWC meet is still oven month away, making it too earlyfe any predictions. But until tk Texas, whether weakened or not remains the team to beat. HOUSTON (AP) — Cliff Johnson and pitcher James Rodney Richard each knocked in two runs in a six- run fourth inning and the Houston Astros struck for eight more runs in the seventh en route to a 14-2 rout of the Atlanta Braves Wednesday night. After a single by Cesar Cedeno produced Houston’s first run of the game, the Astros scored five more in the fourth as Johnson contributed a two-run single and Richard a two- run double. The Braves scored single runs in the fifth and seventh before the As tros came back with their big seventh inning, when 13 Houston players came to the plate. Milt May keyed the rally with a sacrifice bunt and then capped it with an RBI single. Richards allowed five hits and one unearned run before departing in the fifth. Under baseball rules, a starting pitcher must complete five innings in order to pick up a victory. Roberts permitted three hits and one run in the final 4 and 1-3 in nings. In the Houston seventh, south paw Tom House could only record one out while facing nine batters. Doug Rader’s two-run single was the big hit against him. Roric Harri son finished up for the Braves. Rader, Enos Cabell and Roger Metzger each collected three hits as Houston had 15 overall while taking the rubber game of their three- game series at the Astrodome. Every Astro regular drove in at least one run except for Rob Andrews, the rookie second baseman. •■■■it If you want special bait, make your own at home By BRUCE L. SUBLETT Outdoor Writer 'V-.1 Have you ever been too broke to buy baits? Or have you wanted a certain bait that’s just not on the market? If you have any handicraft talent at all, you can build your own baits and save a bundle. Bait building can keep you occupied when there’s no thing on the tube but Dragnet re runs, too. The easiest home built lure is the plastic worm. It takes about a $5.00 investment to get started, but if you use a gob of worms like I do, it’s a money saver in the long run. The necessi ties for worm pouring are molds, raw plas tic, , an old pan, a spoon and a heat source. After the raw plastic has heated until it’s clear and the consistency of syrup, pour it slowly into the mold, let it cool, then pull out the finished product. That’s all there is to it. Each home poured worm costs about three cents, quite a bit cheap er than the seven to twelve cents for a commercial worm. You can save even more by remelting old worms to make new ones. Besides saving you cash, home poured worms are a means of self- expression. If you want a lavender worm with a maroom tail, nothing will stop you. The only problem is finding the right colors. Almost any shade can be mixed from the basic color plastics. If you can turn out decent worms, try your hand at spinnerbaits. You need some piano wire, spinner blades and swivels, skirts, worm heads or a mold for heads, hooks, paint, needle nose pliers and a sol dering tool. Study a commercial spinner- bait first to see how the wire is bent, then start bending your own. Piano wire is nasty stuff to bend, so pre pare to bleed a little. Make sure that all the parts arq on the wire before you make the final bend, since piano wire can’t be straightened and rebent without losing strength. Solder the worm head and hook in place on the wire, paint the body, then add a skirt to complete the bait. The total cost is about 60 cents, including manufactured blades. Cutting your own from scrap aluminum is cheaper but more work. Spinnerbaits take a lot of careful work, but a good final product is a personal achievement worth the effort. If you’re a real craftsman, you can carve your own topwater and crank baits. These take hours of work, careful planning and a feel for design. Cypress is the best wood for bait carving I’ve found. It works easily, finishes smoothly and has a natural water resistance. Redwood, ma hogany and balsa also make good baits. Lumber yards will usually give you scraps big enough to carve baits from. "Who’s going to listen to me? I’m just one voice?’ Do you really think God is going to let you get away with that? Of course, you’d like to help make the world a better place. Maybe you can’t do it alone. But there’s plenty you can do with others at your local church or synagogue. Example: one religious group helped the Navajos set up a cooperative trading post on their reservation. Now the Indians can purchase goods at a lower price. Even more important, they’ve learned that other people care about them. The God we worship expects all of us to help our brothers and sisters. Start treating your brothers and sisters like brothers and sisters. A Public Service of This Newspaper & The Advertising Council Balancing a handcarved bait is tricky. Usually they need weights ward the bottom. A handmade bai should be sealed before painting,to keep it from waterlogging and to give the paint a good base. Hook should be securely anchored, es pecially in the softer woods. Home built baits may not tool E quite as good as store bought, but any fish you catch on one gives yot just a little more satisfaction. 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