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KnBmmI I | Page 2D THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1976 Hours for sports facilities G. Rollie White Cols. Main Floor and Annex Monday-F riday 4:00-12:00 p.m. Saturday & Sunday 1:00-6:00 p.m. DeWare Fieldhouse Monday-F riday 4:00-12:00 p.m. Saturday & Sunday 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday 7:00-10:00 p.m. Saturday & Sunday 1:00-6:00 p.m. June-Aug Monday-Friday 11:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m. Saturday & Sunday 1:00-7:00 p. m. Tennis Courts Horseshow Pits All Day Softball Fields All Day Track (Kyle Field) All Day DeWare Weight Room Monday-F riday 7:00-10:00 p.m. Saturday & Sunday 3:00-5:00 p.m. Monday-F riday 4:00-12:00 p.m. Saturday & Sunday All day Swimming Pools Sept-Nov Mar-May Monday-F riday 12:00-1:30 p.m. 3:00-6:00 p.m. Saturday & Sunday 1:00-6:00 p.m. Nov-Mar Monday-F riday 12:00-1:30 p.m. Truck strikes bull elk AMARILLO — Hunters usually travel to Rocky Mountain states in search of elk. In Texas the animals seldom are seen outside their deep West Texas mountain habitat. bull elk ran in front of his rig. One can hardly imagine the sur prised look of a tandem truck driver near Amarillo recently when a huge The driver, unable to halt his rig, struck and killed the large animal, whose antlers measured six points, eastern count (three points, western count). The 18-wheel rig sustained minor damage, while the driver es caped unhurt. WELCOME BACK AGGIES CHARLES E. THOMAS & 520 EAST UNIVERSITY DRIVE COLLEGE STATION Help Finance Your Independence — through the College Protector Plan THE COLLEGE PROTECTOR is a Special Plan Designed for the Above Average Student with MATURE GOALS FOR THE FUTURE. For More Information Call One of Our Representatives: 846-7714 □U RROTEGTIX/E LIFE® HMSURAVMCE COIVIRAIMY Morvie OFFICE - E31 Ft (VIIIVJ (3 M AIV1, AL AE3 ArVIA POTS and PLANTS to brighten your dorm or apartment! Choose a planting style to study by... an exotic hanging basket, a beautiful indoor planter, potted plants to accent your room, or perhaps a cactus and succulent window garden. You’ll find plants of every size and in every price range at Hardy Gardens. You’ll find con tainers of many materials and shapes. Also, everything for planting and care of plants is available at Hardy Gardens. HARDY GARDENS 2301 S. TEXAS AVE. COLLEGE STATION 1127 VILLA MARIA - BRYAN DANDYLION-MANOR EAST MALL I’m not the quarterback ... I’m not even the sports editor' In Sou will joins tune Other facilities are available through sports club programming. Example: Wrestling, Gymnastics, Weight Lift ing, etc. By KEVIN VENNER Battalion Staff Times are subject to change due to Physical Education, Athletics and Intramural usage. Wow! This is my big chance . . . acting sports editor . . . just think of the possibilities. The first person singular can be used. “I”-oh that feels good. I’ll have to use lots of them. I can be an integral part of the story and best of all I become an expert, or at least I will write like an expert...who will know the difference? After all, the players will know what I’m talking about. I am now part of an elite class. I can make predictions, such as, this is “the” year for the Aggies. The year for what you ask? Well, that is another advantage of being a sports writer. If you study this prediction carefully, you may realize that I am protecting myself. Hey, I’m learn ing this sports stuff pretty quick. Coining words ... ah yes, I must coin a word or phrase for this year’s football season. Let’s see, two years ago it was “wait til next year,” then “next year’s here” and now . . . are you ready? ... it has to be original . . . wow, there is more to this sports writing than meets the eye. How ab out, “the year after next year, which was last year, is finally here. ” If you think that sounds bad, what do you think about, “wait til next century.” Yes, sports fans, I write about jocks and I can let my bias show be cause I know some of the meanest, ugliest and toughest people on the face of this earth. They are my friends so I can support what I write, with the help of my athletic supporters, of course. Do not let it be said that sports writers are not imaginative. I have often wondered why they were not called athletic poets. The in ventiveness of some of these muses so outshines the physical abilities of those whom they write about that they could be termed “bard stars.” So, as not to disappoint anyone, I, too, will invent a word that will be entered into that long list of greats: caneck, chig-gar-roo-gar-rem and maggie. As a matter of fact, I feel so imaginative at 3 a.m. that I came up with two new words for our football terminology. The first biggie is Emoroons, used to describe the Aggie offense. Notice how cleverly Emory is integrated into maroon. Thei Aggid deffensfei was muehiOasior . to invent a word fqr., I. w a^ lopping,. through some old .Battalions and it almost jumped off the page and hit me in the face (sports writers can also personify inanimate objects with no great difficulty). Paul McGrath gets partial credit for this classic because “Maraulers is a de rivative of McGrath’s description of the Aggie defense. Maroon Maul ers. Thank you, Paul. Now we are down to the nitty- gritty aspects of sports writing and reading. Cliches.. .you have to know the cliches if you are to even get an inkling of what is being talked ab out. And if you are not following this story, it is probably because you do not savvy the oodles and gobbs of cliches that yours truly has been tossing at you. I hope you are a good catch because Tm going to reach into my kit-and-kaboodle-kit to test your prowess. Be alert, I have enough to fill a cliche stadium. To do this, I will simulate an Aggie game as transposed by a sports writer who is on the ball . Please keep in mind that neither of our teams will lose or win. One may be conquered, downed, smashed, upset, dumped, plas tered, sunk, trounced while the other overcomes, prevails, triumphs, carries the day, gains, disarms and brings the bacon home, but they seldom just win or lose. In this case, since our first game is against an adversary who has never engaged the A&M forces on the field of battle, hail Virginia Tech, we will also use this illustra tion as a prediction. How’s that for imagination? Oh, by the way, some sports writers confer with the Great Sportsman in the sky...He knows the odds. Thus, they can get by with the use of “we. ” Our headline will read, “A&M gridders strike paydirt.” The Aggies were hot on the grid iron yesterday, blistering the Gobblers of Virginia Tech in College Station, 31-10. The Emoroons wasted no time putting the ingredients together. They received the pigskin on a silver platter. The Virginia Tech kicker miscued and the table was set. The hors d’oeuvre was served to Billy Lemons on the A&M 40 yard line. He carried the tidbit to the Aggie 49 yard line before he was forced to eat it. The Aggie offense then pro ceeded to mince their foe, slicing through them with eight strokes for 51 yards and a 14-3 dessert. The Maraulers contained the gobblers on the ground, but the tur keys managed to advance their egg by taking to the air. Had it not been for A&M’s excellent secondary, who plucked feathers and a total of six interceptions from Virginia Tech, the Aggies may have laid an egg themselves. David Shipman shot the projectile 20 yards to Mike Floyd with two mi nutes remaining in the third period. Floyd caught the bullet in the chest and was immediately felled, but he was into the end zone to put the Aggies up, 21-3. It was the second and thirdt« which pulled the load for therein: ing 25 cents worth. They can their weight well and contributed points to the pot, although am« error cost them seven points. All turkey flew behind the secondi undetected by Aggie radari landed for seven to end the gas scoring. Next week the Aggies playai rent kind of animal and mustbeo ful not to fall prey to the Wildcat Kansas State. the no v win. At the 1 and pers abili emn that leach draw Well, so much for my banalih is definitely work trying to come with trite phrases...! took all nil doing it. I’ll he a happy man4 our sports editor gets back town. I will close this column witbal words, which are repeatedly n around this part of the country,! they are words that do not sou trite during football season «ii crowd of enthusiastic Aggies. Ifi would please join in . . . eeeh GIG ’em Aggies! Bay buoys tell of fish below Locomotive-man, George Woodard, burned extra coals and rushed for an impressive 176 yards in 25 carries. This included a 43 yard jaunt from scrimmage which terminated in his rivals end zone for the Aggies only TD in the first half. The Gobblers managed to get the first and only points on the scoreboard during the first quarter of play. The turkeys trotted down the field as if they were going down Broadway in a Thanksgiving Day parade, but the Aggie Maraulers (I just had to use it) jammed the street and Virginia Tech had to defour and kick a three-pointer. The defenses \yere equally over balancing the weight of each other’s offense, but the Aggies came out in the second half with the oven warm ing, tilted the scales, butchered the gobblers and slowly roasted the tur keys before 46,000 hungry fans. The Aggies ate it up. SEABROOK — Big orange-and- white invitations to good fishing, courtesy of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, are a new sight bobbing in Galveston Bay. Thirteen buoys have been placed to mark oyster reefs, indicating to sportfishermen where game fish are likely to concentrate. Experienced bay fishermen long have known that fish are attracted to the reefs, and the experts know how to locate the reefs without naviga tional aids. But Lynn Benefield, P&WD biologist at Seabrook, explained that many newcomers to the area have hardly any knowledge of oyster reefs or how to find them and the new markers will be helpful to these people. “The buoys are strictly to benefit sportfishermen, he said. “We have had a lot 6f inquiries, and hope that with this method we can assist them to catch more, or at least to get them to the right place.” All the buoys were in place by Au gust 3, in the following locations. In Trinity Bay: Fisher’s Reef; Beezley’s Reef; Dow Reef; Lost Reef; Dry Hole Reef. Upper Galveston Bay, on the*: side: Red Bluff Reef; Bent P: Reef; San Leon Reef. In Dickinson Bay, onwestsid Galveston Bay: Dickinson Reel In Galveston Bay, just offMaBM Lake hurricane protection fc ' Levee Reef. Just north of Texas Cityl ke: ‘Half Moon Shoals. In east Galveston Bay: Mix Reef; Frenchy’s Reef. These buoys are some 45 id tall and a foot in diameter. The; white, with orange stripes near bottom and top, are unlighted, each have a P&WD decal andiii on the reef. It should be emphasized than buoys are not to be used for tying boats. That is not their purpose, such a strain could pull them of If anyone should see a buoy! ing from its moorings, or find: one has disappeared from a b location, local P&WD officials# appreciate being informed, sol the markers can be restored. Some schools are more than just schools. And some banks are more than just banks. 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