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10| THE BATTALION Page 7 FRIDAY, MAR. 5, 1976 ngola.” y what ike if Cii ause “w( ( [iving Cii safe forth light SWC teams to compete partial! L white-mi * A&M treks to Border Olympics PREVENT BROKEN HEARTS t.f 1 '} I**! By PAUL McGRATH likely inVj Battalion Sports Editor ic " f[is A&M track coach Charles s will take the maximum riir ® squad limit of 28 men to is Border Olympics this All Southwest Conference schools except Arkansas will he present at the meet. Lamar University will substitute for the Razorbacks. The Border Olympics track meet is one of several athletic events held at the same time. A golf and tennis Club Sports imated I ' theiS ByDANAMcNABB U1CI1 JUP : Battalion Staff Writer rs and fe I new soccer complex across worker Kyle Field will be the (frthe First Annual Texas A&M ria, wen 1 Tournament, March 6-7. ot police, 11 |k.M will host the tournament in Houston, Baylor, Ftice, Rich- djr. College, SFA, St. Mary’s IBl in Jr. College will compete. riot! [petition begins at 9:00 Satur- thagame between A&M and hileUH and SFA battle at the lime. Richland Jr. College will dsofsonil lilinn Jr. College and St. ,’ine reacs lid on a while attending A&M last year. “Our biggest activity of the year is the sponsoring of the State Broadhead Championship,” Jon Brooke, president of the Brazos Bowmen, said. “We have lots of ar chers from the state competing be cause we are centrally located, we have a pretty range, and people like to shoot at our range.” The club meets the first Monday of each month at 7:30 p.rn. in the Rud der Tower. The room number is an nounced each month on the tele vised screen in the MSC. tournament, also comprised of con ference schools, are also on this weekend’s agenda. The University of Texas is off a strong showing last week with polevaulter David Sheperd clearing 17-0 feet and sprinter Daryl Jarnigan running a 46.3 quarter on his leg in the mile relay. The Longhorn mile relay quartet was clocked at 3:10, a second better than Baylor’s time at the Meet of Champions in Houston. The Bears were third in the nation last year in that event with the nuc leus of the team returning. Baylor, the conference indoor champ, is expected to give the Homs the strongest competition at the meet. The Bears rely on their depth in the middle distances with Tim Son, Michael Carter, Mark Collins, Phil McClendon and Mark Lawless providing the punch for Clyde Hart’s team. Baylor also has control of the high jump and long jump with Kevin Delorey' and Rickey Thompson own ing the field. The Rice Owls of Bobby May have a shot as darkhorses at the Olympics which has become somewhat of a prelude to the actual conference meet. The Owls are paced by all- American distance man Jeff Wells and sprinter Zoe Simpson. Wells ran a 13:49.2 three-mile at the Meet of Champions last week. Simpson is second only to TCU’s Lorenzo Ashford in the 100-yard dash and ran a9.4 in his first outdoor competition. Assistant track coach Ted Nelson said the Aggies have a chance for third and are healthy for the first time this season. The Aggies are blessed with depth in the halfmile and intermediate hurdles. “I just wish we had that kind of depth all over,” Nelson said. The Aggies are still without an es tablished mile relay team. This week’s quartet contains four diffe rent faces from last week’s team. Curtis Collier, Terry Novak, Chuck Butler and Adolph Tingan are scheduled to go at the Olympics. Aggie hopes will ride on hurdler Shifton Baker, who is expected “to come along pretty soon,” Nelson said, and polevaulter Brad Blair, who is competing in his first outdoor meet of the year. Baker was second in the conference last year in the high hurdles and Blair has already cleared 16-0 feet during indoors. The running events get underway with the prelims at9 a.m. tomorrow. The finals start at 7 p.m. USE TOUR SEAT BELT IS drive Memily ’ Governor's Office of Traffic Safety than 51 itowskysi lied 2 in wlici n tot Si ID swill play Baylor at 11:00 Sat. econd round action will be 2-6p.m. Saturday. Both the ation finals and finals will at noon Sunday. Admission is RUGBY Ion-conference game between jM Rugby Club and the Hous- Backs Rugby Club will get un- at 1 p.m. Saturday on the [adjacent to the Main Drill pe Aggies lost their first game of lason last weekend to San An- [19-7. This leaves A&M with a ague record and a 4-1 season The loss wrapped up league lor the rugby team and nar- 1 the chances for A&M to go to UT official says players should sue or ‘shut up 9 ny /ersity ipectorslj s. 305 Ail n 8 aJfljM anc i s an Antonio were matched teams, but an off- |rA&M and excellent kicking Antonio left the Aggies be- Bruce Mills and John Wyble [he only scorers for A&M. Aggie second team had a con- win over the second team San Antonio last weekend, will fexacoSI rom 12-5| hargepel shown ti| heater at es prei : 7 p.m i. Pick»! Office, r c. ^ o / ’ J 1 ’ 11 1 01L rugby team member said. o5p.ni- tHalbl meet fa Ird floor' les Ii)S]K a.m. toil udderTi heateral A Y y ofSd 15 p.m game tomorrow against the Blacks should he a fine of rugby, John Lipscomb, Houston Blacks are probably strugby team in the state, ” he ARCHERY Brazos Bowmen are exactly they say they are: individual ^ sin Brazos County. The club shown■ iposed mainly of bow hunters ere are some target archers as p year the club sponsors the Broadhead Championship as as tournaments and league tition. Hall‘}»ournament sponsored by the meeLijas Field Archery Association id floor®) w iH held By the club in loor target competition is held hurday, 7:30p.m., atCrockett mtary School. The competi- is sanctioned by the TFAA. club’s outdoor range is located be sh Highway 60 across from the Jptry Kitchen. >n wP |e bowmen also participate in brtlienqall game contests, bow fishing, shunts, campouts, and canoe iown i. intfa a will u 11 olm Williams, 1972 Olympic :Medal winner in archery, was a her of the Brazos Bowmen Associated Press AUSTIN, Tex. —The chairman of the University of Texas Athletic Council says, in effect, two sus pended Texas A&M basketball players should either appeal to the courts or shut up. J. Neils Thompson, a soft-spoken man given to understatement, said in answer to a reporter’s question Offense may have new look The Texas A&M offense may pos sibly have a new look come spring training, offensive coordinator Tom Wilson said yesterday. “We’ve been looking at some new things,” Wilson said. “But we ll have to wait until after spring training be fore making a final decision.” An Associated Press story said that the Aggies were switching from the Wishbone formation to a two-back backfield. Wilson said however, that the ideas are just in the planning stage at the moment and that the A&M coaching staff will experiment with the new formations during spring practice. “Lm encouraged, Wilson said, “I think it’s got some good possibilities. It can help us to be more balanced and a little more flexible. Wilson said he was pleased with the apparent depth available in the running back positions. The Aggies have six backs returning for spring drills and will have four more next fall as the high school recruits report in. The Aggies will have good compet ition at quarterback, Wilson said, where four players have a chance at the starting berth. Texas A&M, which shared a piece of the Southwest Conference crown with Texas and Arkansas last season, has been picked 31st in the nation by one poll. Spring training will begin Mar. 30 and until then Wilson says, “it’s wait and see. Wednesday that the players can win their fight in court and should take it to that forum if they are innocent. Asked if he thought they should appeal or stop complaining, Thompson said: “That’s right.” The Southwest Conference hear ing at which freshmen Karl Godine and Jarvis Williams were suspended was held behind closed doors. “We are dealing with individuals and we try to do as little harm as we can,” Thompson said. An appeal to the courts would air the controversy in public. Godine and Williams have denied accepting illegal inducements to at tend A&M. They have signed af fidavits accusing members of the ath letic departments at Texas, Baylor and Houston of offering them cars. Godine has said A&M is the only school among the hundred that re cruited him that did not offer illegal inducements. Thompson said he did not know if the affidavits named the individuals who allegedly offered the cars but he assumed Godine and Williams would have to do that before the con ference would investigate. One report said the affidavits iden tify the alleged wrongdoer at Texas as assistant coach Skip Adams. Adams denied it and offered to take a polygraph test. Thompson said the accused per sons could be required to take the test. “Yes, under the conference rules they would have to take the test or they can’t coach,” he said, adding that the ban on coaching also in cludes recruiting. In answer to another question, Thompson labeled inaccurate a leak to a newspaper that the conference had banned two A&M alumni and one other person in the Houston area from participating in recruiting for the Aggies. The report was inaccurate both as to the names of the three men and as to the instruction to A&M on what they could or could not do, he said. Thompson said a report will be made “within the next couple of weeks” to UT President Lorene Ro gers on the athletic council’s investi gation of five Longhorn athletes who were paid for up to 15 days after they left Texas Senate jobs. A special three-man faculty com mittee also has investigated that mat ter and is scheduled to report soon to Dr. Rogers. A Public Service of This Newspaper & The Advertising Council MCDONALD’S AA INTRAMURAL HIGHLIGHTS This Week in Intramurals it. mM .c ixf Ennis Top Frisbee Freak The first annual IM All-University Frisbee Championships were held last Saturday on Kyle Field with Bob Ennis of Davis-Gary Hall taking top honors. Out of five events, Ennis won the accu racy throw and maximum time aloft with 41 and 90 points, respectively. His total for the five events was 315 points, with Kevin Venner taking second at 287 points, while Scott Keltner placed third with 270 points. The winners of the other three events included Brad Stayton, topping the dis tance and accuracy category with 77 yd., 8 in.; Scott Keltner, who won the target accuracy throw with 54 points; and Tom Cole, who was the best Fris bee Golf player and collected 67 points in that event. 3 cfl RUNK n’ DROWN AT FHE NEW SPORTS CLUB TUBS., MARCH 9 tSRAIN ALCOHOL PUNCH (ALL YOU CAN GUZZLE!!) ree bar drinks and beer tafi'NEXT TO THE SHIRT SHOPPE $3.00 GUYS $1.00 GALS Fencing Tomorrow The IM Fencing Tournament will be held tomorrow at 8:00 a.m. in rooms 260 and 261 of the G. Rollie White Annex. Entries close today at 5:00p.m. in the IM OHlce. Even ifyou do not plan to participate, you are invited to come and watch as these daring young swashbucklers try their hands at being IM All-University Fencing Champion. Fastpitch Tournament The IM Fastpitch Softball Tournament will be held on Saturday, April 3. Competition will begin on all of the softball diamonds across campus, with the last rounds being played on the new fields at the Complex, located across the railroad tracks near the rodeo arena. The men’s teams will play single elimination while the women will play double elimination. There are 55 teams entered this year as op posed to only 32 a year ago, so the competition should be extremely tough and exciting. Water Polo Closing Water Polo entries.will close on Tuesday, March 9 at the IM Office with competition open to all students, faculty, and staff. Play will begin on Monday, March 22 and will run from 6:00 p.m. till 9:00 p.m. at the P. L. Downs Natatorium. NCAA Water Polo rules will be in effect with certain TAM U revisions. To learn of these revisions, each team must send their captain to the mandatory meeting on Thursday, March 11 at 5 p.m. in room 232 of G. Rollie White. Schedules will also be given out at this meeting. Canoe Race Planned The IM Office is sponsoring a combination Canoe Race/Picnic on the Brazos River soon. The tentative date for the event is Saturday, March 27, depending on the weather. All staff, students, and faculty members may participate in this exciting event. The race will be approximately 5 miles long and will end in a picnic lunch. The first 17 teams of2 to enter will be supplied with canoes, paddles, and life preservers, but any subsequent entrants must supply all of these things. Each entrant will also need to bring their own lunch. All participants will meet at 8:30 a.m. at the IM Office and the race is not limited to men. Entries close on Friday, March 26. -• i v ; ' .**¥%&* W A?' . Above — Bob Ellis of Moses tosses a Frisbee into the “hole” in Frisbee Golf, part of the IM Frisbee competition last week. Ennis won the entire competition, for more winners, see story at left. Below — Dennis Dickenson (left) of Dunn defeated Tim Bil lingsley (right) of Sq. 2 in singles handball Wednesday night to become the All-University Champion. Dickenson also won the Civilian title and Billingsley won the Military divi- Jt iU ■ • M Tracksters To Meet Soon Entries for the annual IM Track meet will close at 5:00 p.m., Tuesday, March 9 at the IM Office. The Civilian and Fish preliminaries will be held on Monday, March 29 at 7:00 p.m. The Military, Women, and Indepen dent prelims will be held on Tues day, March 30, at 7:00 p.m. Divi sional finals will be held the follow ing day at the same time. The All- University Championship meet will be held on Thursday, April 1, at 7:00 p.m. Each of these meets will take place at Kyle Field, yd. dash, the 440 yd. relay, the 220 yd. dash and relay, the 880 yd. relay, the 100 yd. dash, and the mile run and re lay. Field events in this division are: shot put, high jump, softball throw, and long (broad) jump. The Women will compete in the fol lowing field events: high jump, softball throw, long jump, and shot put. Wo men’s running events are: the 440 yd. dash, the 50 yd. dash, the 880 yd. relay, the 100 yd. dash, the 220 yd. dash, and the 440 yd. relay. There will also be two Co-Rec events including the 440 yd. relay and the 880 yd. relay. These events will be held at the AU-U meet on April 1. Teams are to consist of two men and 2 women, with runners alternating as to sex. Runners of either sex may be the starters. A brand new event, known as the Master’s Mile, will also be instituted at the All-University meet. This event will be open to all students, faculty, and staff | members who are over 35 years of age. Entries for this event only will be ac cepted until 5:00 p.m., March 29. So come on by the IM Office and register^oon, aU you track superstars! Ref s Corner Softball Officials will meet at 7:30 p.m. only in rm. 267 of G. Rollie White on Thursday March 11. Water Polo Officials will also meet the same day at J 5:00 p.m. in the same place.