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Page 8 THE BATTALION FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12,1975 Ags open tonight Frosh WP tourney By PAUL McGRATH Battalion Sports Writer The water polo season gets cranked up tonight as the Texas A&M freshmen host a ten team round-robin tournament in the Downs Natatorium. The Aggie varsity will not see ac tion until next Wednesday when they travel to Houston to face The Bunch, a local water polo club. The tournament is divided into two brackets with the Aggie fish fielding a team in each bracket. The A team draws the opening card to night at 6:30 p.m. and will play again at 8:30 p.m. Five high school teams, a junior college squad and two swim clubs will participate in the 24 game tour ney. Midland’s freshman team is the only other collegiate entry. The high schools include last year’s state champion, Lamarque, A&M Consolidated, Clear Creek, McAllen, and Alamo Heights of San Antonio. Joining the high schools. Midland and A&M’s two teams are the Wichita Falls Swim Club and the San Antonio-based Chaparral Swim Club. Action will resume on Saturday as the Aggies swim at 8:00 a.m. and at noon. The tourney will continue all morning until 3:00 p.m. for a break because of the football game. The third place team will be de cided in a 7:30 p.m. match and the champion decided at 8:30 p.m. Besides the men’s competition, the A&M women’s team will take on Wichita Falls at the Art Adamson Pool at 9:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. on Saturday. Like the men, the women will also field two teams. The varsity has been through two scrimmages thus far and the rust is just beginning to disappear. "We re just starting to get out moves back and getting our timing down. Our first scrimmage looked like everyone was swimming in slow motion, said Head Swim Coach Dennis Fosdick. “We re just now starting to get those automatic reac tions back.” Varsity captains this season are seniors Jim Yates and Oran Marksbury. Although missing All- American Paul McKinzie at the goalie slot, the Ag varsity should equal or better their 18-2 record of last year. For the A&M fish. Bill Yates, brother of the varsity captain, and Scott Harris have been named as the captains. The younger Yates was an All-American in high school in polo while Harris was an All-Stater and is now the freshman goalie. Expected to start tonight for the Aggie tankers are Roger Lien from Santa Clara, David Stewart from Consol, Dallas’Bill Kuvlesky, Chris Shipp from Dearborn, Michigan and filling out the lineup will he two Texas products, Rick Golding and Brad Swendig. FEAST UPON FINE PORCELAIN. White por celain 5-pc. starter sets. Smooth, glossy. Priced to give your dollar a boost! Avail able in open stock. 5-pc. set a now 4.yy NEW SHIPMENTS DAILY! Shop our everyday low prices. Pta 1 1 ftHports 3200 TEXAS AVE. Across from El Chico 10-9 Mon.-Fri. 10-6 Sat. 822-7600 By Guy Do w vfTcrV Ags are set to light torch to successful season. Rehs are, unfortunately, the first victims. 7 M-. !-<? u I ■sjjp!' • ' 4* SHOE FIT COMPANY 113 N. MAIN DOWNTOWN BRYAN 822-1239 A SPONSOR OF THE FREE AGGIE-BUS TO DOWNTOWN BRYAN EVERY SATURDAY. athletic oatmeal 7 By TONY GALLUCCI Sports Editor Well folks, an entire edition of football talent has no* come full circle in the Bellard machine. No more Stalling boys to blame. Bellard himself is looking for his fourth letter* head coach and may well be a strong candidate for All-Ament, status. Tomorrow afternoon at four o’clock, 5211 pounds i Aggie starters will line up opposite 5035 pounds of Ole Mis starters. The Aggies will have 22 Senior lettermen andi; Junior lettermen enter the field. The last names of three Aggie footballers begin with an I 15 with B, five with C, five with D, none with E, six with F,si with G and so on. 27 people are listed as backs of one sort* another and another 60 are listed as linemen. The youngest Aggie player is 17, the oldest is 23. It’s easy to see how trivial and ridiculous figures, statistic and facts can become. I could have just as easily listed alltlf past honors awarded team players, listed their speed in tie forty, and given a quote from a coach about good moves ‘lateral action’ or ‘good hands.’ But there is only one intangible thing that w ill determine whether or not the Aggies win tomorrow, and all season an become SWC and possibly National Champions, which a! players think they are, and for which they most definitelyhave the potential. That one, non-describable, yet most importan property is desire, attitude if you will. This team will always be remembered as that teamof il the Cotton Bowl etc., and likewise it belongs to the class oflj The class that has sweated through four years whether on tit field, in the stands or next to the radio for this, the climaxd what wdll become the best Aggie athletic years in histon. Those years will continue, but this is the end of the upward climb. Really, the beginning. I have the luck to be able to attend the games and watt! from the press box. Likewise, I guess, 1 am supposed tot* unbiased at least in writing. Journalism and all that rot yoc know. But my heart will he pounding at the kickoff known; that this maybe the finest college football team I willeversee I will suffer until then. B Wlu linebac and Gi up. Sin premie the Aj openii Miss i two de of elm were 1< One linebai is the He cal yy i Fans unaffected by NFL strike Associated Press NEW YORK — A year ago, when the National Football League Players Association went on strike at the start of the exhibition season, a lot of fans found they could do with out those preseason games. This year many of those fans are still doing without the exhibitions. And next year, the NFL may also find it can do without some of them, too. Exhibitions, which used to he lit tle more than interclub scrimmages attracting fans who paid a fraction of the cost of a regular-season ticket to watch the workouts, have now be come business almost as big as the regular-season games. The two or three scrimmages of years past have become six full-fledged games, all but the first one or two played al most exclusively with front-line players. It is being considered — and some insiders say it is almost certain — that when Tampa and Seattle join the league next year, the six-game exhibition schedule will be reduced to four games and the 14-game regu lar season will rise to 16 games. Attendance averaged 54,413 fans a game in the 78 pre-seasonjas of 1973, the year before thesfrili ! In 1974, the fans decidedli I paying as much as $18 a ticket! I watch exhibition games elute | with rookies, free agents and* ; ond- and third-line players wisfe much. Attendance dipped toan; erage of 36,653. There has been some recove this year. Heading into tliefii weekend of exhibitions, the lea; has averaged 42,382 fans, upne 6,(KM) from last year but stiD do alniut 12,(KM) from two years ago The situation might been worse were it not for the lacltt most teams require tk exhibition-game seats be Iwuglt! a package with the regular sew game season tickets. There are clearly three villas sharing responsibility for tli dwindling attendance: — Discovery by funs that e*hd> tions are simply that, mainly game which don t count. — Wearing off of the novelty) games between old NFLandAFl clubs, each of them once consider mini-wars with pride as the prize — The economy. c o/ Roya ning guys even “V it," > bate conq the 1 victo K; winn Coli: five the Davis Cups officials search for new match sit Associated Press BAASTAD, Sweden — A Davis Cup official said Thursday that the semifinal match between Sweden and Chile should be moved to a neutral country. Basil Reay, British secretary gen eral of the International Lawn Ten nis Federation’s Davis Cup Com mittee, told a Swedish television station: “A final decision on this issue will be made Friday and Iwl advise the Swedes to mbvdtl* match to a neutral country.” The decision will he madei London between officials of ll( ILTF and the Swedish Tennis Fed eration. Meanwhile, thousands ofSwede! demonstrated in the country’s three largest cities Thursday on the sec ond anniversary of the military coif in Chile. Crafts & Arts Committee Pitts Phil] St. I Nev Chic Moi Cine Los S. F San Atla Hoi ( presents Ann Mitchell Houston Artist Media in Macramd, Stitchery & Weaving Show & Sale in Arts & Crafts Gallery. MSC Basement Sept 14 - Oct. 17 Reception for Ms. Mitchell Sept. 14 at 2:00 p.m. in the Forum Lobby Rudder Center. Public Invited! Workshops to be held by Ms. Mitchell in Arts Crafts Center Oct. 2 & 3rd. mornings & afternoons in weaving, mac- ramd & stitchery. 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