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FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1977
Rice hosts A&M
for 3-game series
A&m track squad travels to Austin meet
Olympic stars highlight relays
By STEVE MARTAINDALE
Still riding high from a 4-3 upset
of previously undefeated Texas, the
Rice Owls will be at home this
weekend to host Texas A&M in
Southwest Conference baseball ac
tion.
The Aggies, currently tied with
Texas for the lead, will take a 29-10
season and 12-3 conference record
into the series. Rice is 5-7 in SWC
play
games from Baylor in College Sta
tion earlier in the week. The Bears
handed A&M their worst defeat of
the season when they shut out the
Ags in the series final game, 8-0.
Two Aggie records will be on the
line this weekend.
Catcher Buster Turner will carry
a 16-game hitting streak into Hous
ton, attempting to catch the record
set by Robert Bonner last year (19).
Rice, behind the pitching of Allan
Ramirez, broke the Longhorn’s 34-
game winning streak last Sunday, a
collegiate record. The scheduled
seven inning game went 14 innings
with Ramirez pitching 13 of them,
striking out 12 batters. He set the
conference record for strikeouts in a
season last spring with 86.
Turner, in the opening game with
Baylor, hit the team’s 37th home
run, tying a record set in 1961. The
next Aggie homer will break that
record.
Turner and centerfielder Mike
Hurdle lead the team in home runs
with seven each. Hurdle has the
best batting average with a .357, fol
lowed closely by Turner s .355.
Ramirez is expected to meet the
Aggies in the Saturday opener at 1
p.m. The series starts on Friday
with a single game at 3 p.m.
The Aggies took two of three
Mark Thurmond will enter the
Aggies’ sixth SWC series as the
team’s leading pitcher. Taking a 9-8
nine inning win over Baylor in the
first game, Thurmond raised his
season record to 8-0.
By PAUL McGRATH
Battalion Sports Writer
The 50th running of the Texas Re
lays may well resemble a small-scale
Olympics.
More than 10 Olympians will
spice the field as the Relays cele
brates its golden anniversary. As if
the competition wasn’t tough
enough, also present will be 12 Na
tional Collegiate Athletic Associa
tion indoor champions.
Texas’ Johnny Jones and Cana
dian Paul Craig both of whom com
peted at Montreal, will be among
the favorites in the sprints and dis
tance races respectively. Jones owns
the nation’s fastest time in the 100-
yard dash this year with a 9.21. He
also has run a 20.6 in the 220-yard
dash.
Jones will be challenged by
Arizona’s Dwayne Evans, a bronze
medal winner in the 200-meter dash
at Montreal. Arizona State’s Her
man Frazier brought back some
gold from Montreal as one member
of the United States mile relay team
and will probably anchor the Sun
Devil quartet at the Relays.
Rutherford, Johncock duel again
in tomorrow’s Texas Grand Prix
By BO GRIFFIN
Saturday, April 2, in College Sta
tion is the date for the Southwest’s
fastest race, the Texas Grand Prix.
The Texas Grand Prix is a 200
mile United States Auto Club Na
tional Championship Race for Indy
cars.
It is one of only 13 such races
held, two of which are held at the
Texas World Speedway, for the
Citicorp Cup and approximately 3
million dollars in prize money.
The Texas Grand Prix is a prelim
inary for the world famous In
dianapolis 500 and is the fastest such
preliminary with speeds of up to 210
miles per hour.
There are only eight speedways
in the United States holding such
events and the Texas World Speed
way is the only such speedway in
the greater Southwest.
Some of the top-notch USAC
drivers vying for the win on Texas
ground are Houston’s A. J. Foyt, a
three-time Indy 500 winner and
six-time National Champion; Ft.
Worth’s Johnny Rutherford, the
1974 winner of the Indy 500; Bobby
Unser, twice an Indy 500 winner
and twice National Champion;
Roger McCluskey, the 1973 Na
tional Champion; A1 Unser, twice
an Indy 500 winner and 1970 Na
tional Champion; Gordon Johncock,
the 1973 winner of the Indy 500.
Qualifying runs for the pole posi
tion in the Texas Grand Prix will
start at 12:30 p.m. Saturday and end
at 2:30 p.m. The Grand Prix itself
will start one hour later.
The track will be hot, and tem
pers may flare as they did between
Rutherford and Johncock in last
Sunday’s Phoenix 150 which ended
in a fist fight.
People spending Saturday night
in the speedway infield will be
entertained by a live on-stage per
formance by Augie Meyers and the
Western Head Band beginning 7:30
Saturday night.
Texas World Speedway is located
seven miles south of the College
Station City limits on Highway 6.
General Admission tickets sell for
$10 and are sold on a first-corne-
first-serve basis. Reserve tickets
cost $15, $20 and $25. Tickets to the
Texas Grand Prix are good for ad
mission for all events.
Johnny Jones
The distance races include sev
eral former Olympians. In addition
to Craig, Arkansas’ Irish lepre
chaun, Niall O’Shaughnessey and
Kenyan Wilson Waigwa of the Uni
versity of Texas-El Paso, two of the
world’s fastest milers, will duel head
to head. Brigham Young’s Henry
Marsh, who competed in the steep
lechase at the Olympics, will com
pete in that event at the Relays.
Olympians also add sparkle to the
field events with Canadian Olym
pian Jim MacAndrew competing in
the long jump. Frenchman Patrick
Abada, now at UTEP and a fourth
place finisher at Montreal, will
compete in the pole vault and
Canadian teammate Greg Joy may
compete in the high jump depend
ing on the condition of his neck in
jury.
The Texas Relays, perennially
held in Austin’s Memorial Stadium,
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coached by Charles Thomas, will
not take a full te a m of 28 athletes to
Austin, allowing several to rest their
(injuries.
Shifton Baker will compete in the
high and intermediate hurdles, fac
ing his toughest challenge of the
year in the quarter-mile race. Baker
thus far is undefeated in the inter
mediates this Season with a best
time of 51.56 arid a career best of
50.6.
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petitor in the individual running
events. Lynn By r d will compete in
the high jump; Reggie Jamerson in
the long jump; Frank West in the
shot put. Brad Blair and Jerry
Strong are slated for the pole vault
and Steve Stewart and Tim Scott
will compete in the discus.
The Aggies will enter five of the
seven relays. In the sprint medley,
Philip Steen and Sam Dierschke
will run the 220-yard legs with Ron
McGonigle and Karl Figgs handling
the 440 and 880-yard legs.
Chuck Butler, Jamerson, Steen,
and Dierschke will run in the the
880-yard relay. The Aggies’ top 220
man, Ray Brooks, has a leg injury
and will miss this week’s acfc
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pete in the two-mile relay.~
tance medley will com
Wheeler in the 880, Butler
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