Season’s best performance
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THE BATTALKI
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Tracksters win SWC quadrangular meet
By PAUL McGRATH
Managing Editor
Running under the lights of
Texas’ Memorial Stadium, the
Texas Aggies proved Austin is not
such a bad place after all.
Coach Charles Thomas’ thinclads
ground the Longhorns, TCU, and
an under-manned Rice squad into
the Tartan track as the Aggies won
their first meet since February.
After the last watch was stopped,
Texas A&M stood on top with 67
team points as compared to UT’s 52,
the Homed Frogs, 36 and the Owl’s
8. A&M had six firsts in the 16 event
quadrangular meet.
The Aggies won both relay races
with the aid of a Texas disqualifica
tion in the quarter. Shifton Baker
was one of three double winners in
the meet with victories in the 120
highs and the 440 intermediate
hurdles.
After Tom Owens and Paul Miller
swept the field in the long jump to
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give A&M an early eight point lead,
the Aggies never trailed. Owens’
winning leap was measured at
22-6%.
Then A&M received a rare break
when Texas’ anchor man, Overton
Spence, was detected out of the ex
change zone on receiving the baton.
The disqualification gave A&M first
place in the sprint relay at 40.4,
their best thus far.
Manfred Kohrs slightly improved
his time in the mile with a4.13.78 as
he finished behind Horn miler John
Craig. A&M’s Danny Jones took
third in the three-man race with a
clocking of 4.21.7.
Baker took his first win with a
14.1 effort in the highs. Mike Wil
liams added more points to the Ag
gies growing total with a 14.68
fourth. Baker later ran a 52.2 in the
quarter hurdles to take first place
points and his second best time of
the year in that event. He glided
over the barriers with seemingly lit
tle effort and was never pressured
until the last fifty yards where he
had to stave off Rice’s Chuck
Hodge. Richard McGilvary of A&M
was third in the race with a 55.0.
1974 Southwest Conference
quartermile champ Doug Brodhead
finished third in that event to TCU’s
Sam McKinney (presently the
SWC’s top 440 man), and John Lee
of Texas. Brodhead had one of his
better times of the year with a 47.3.
McKinney had a 46.7 effort and Lee
was clocked at 47.0.
Bill Collins won the 100-yard
dash for the first of his two victories.
the other coming in the 220. He
narrowly beat A&M’s Charles Daw
son at the wire as he was timed at
9.66 to Dawson’s 9.67. Collins nip
ped Spence although they both had
the same time of 21.0. in the 220.
The Aggies’ Ray Brooks took third
with a 21.4 dash.
Aggie half miler Jim Brannen had
the best time of his college career
and Adolph Tingan showed he was
returning to past form as the pair
finished three-four in the 880-yard
run. Brannen, in his first year at
Aggieland, gathered a 1.52.0 and
Tingan an 1.52.2 in the tight finish
ing race. The winner, TCU’s Greg
Bryant, crossed the wire at 1.51.99
and runner-up Craig of Texas also
had a 1.52.0.
The A&M mile relay team of Sam
Dierschke, Horace Grant, Chuck
Butler and Brodhead cut two sec
onds off their previous best with a
3.10.08 victory. The injury-
hampered Dierschke ran the first
leg and showed he is not yet in top
condition but kept A&M in the race
for the second man, Grant. Grant,
too, has had his problems with in
juries, but ran a 48.5 to win his open
quarter heat. On his leg in the relay
he carried the Aggies from last to
first before handing the stick to Bu
tler.
Facing Butler in his leg was McK
inney, but the A&M freshman kept
pace with the stellar Horned Frog
and gave the baton to Brodhead just
barely in third place.
The Aggie co-captain turned the
heat on and grabbed the lead before
the halfway mark. He finished in
that spot to give Coach Thomas his
second outdoor win of the season.
A&M also did well in the field
events. Besides Owen’s effort was
the victory offrosh Lynn Byrd in the
high jump with a6-10leap, tyinghis
best of the year. Bill Newton and
Miller took second and third in the
javelin with tosses of 224-5 and
172-11. David Peterek polevaulted
a 15-0 for second on the high bar.
Ahead of Peterek was the Horns’
David Shepherd who set a UT
school record and became the first
SWC vaulter to go over 17 feet. His
mark-breaking vaidt was 17-4.
Texas, showing their strength in
the field events, took one-two wins
in both the discus and shot put.
Dana LeDuc won both events with
tosses of 190-3 and 65-10%. Jim
McGoIdrick was LeDuc’s runner-
up in both events with 171SI
57-3% throws.
Texas won only two rum
events. Besides Craig’s milevte
was the win by Jesse Maldonaij
the three mile at 13.54.8. Thretr
gies finished behind him withErs
Smith leading the trio will
14.10.58. Kohrs followed will
14.29.5 and Charles Cottle
fourth at 14.53.7.
The meet results are cloiij
since the majority ofRice’steami
left in Houston to prepare for
However, the Aggies clearlvi i
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