THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1977
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Tgs spark Texas canoe team
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By PAUL McGRATH
Battalion Asst. Sports Editor
ighting fierce winds and the
them till, the Texas A&M
Club sparked the Texas team
eighth place finish at the na-
canoeing championships held
York.
he Texas squad consisted of
members, four from Texas
With a crowd of nearly
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the Aggies keyed Texas to its unex
pected high placing.
Texas A&M’s Kay Edwards said
that many were surprised by Texas’
good showing because canoeing was
thought to be taken seriously in only
the northern states.
The 20-mile course from Bin
ghamton to Owega was longer than
the Aggies were used to and the
coolish air made it difficult for them
to breathe after being accustomed
to the warm climates of the Lone
Star state.
Aggies’ John Bugge and Mike
Shively placed sixth in the men’s
aluminum division out of 50 com
petitors. The other two Aggies,
Edwards and Trevi Holt, teamed for
a seventh place in the women’s
cruising (fiberglass) division. The
two women had only been compet
ing together for a month as Ed-
Wade defeats Richards
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OREST HILLS, N. Y. — Supremely confident Vir-
i Wade, true to her word, washed away whatever
Id threat transsexual Renee Richards posed upon the
men with a 6-1, 6-4 rout over the controversial doc-
[today in an opening round match of the U.S. Open
nnis Championships.
n what developed into something of a grudge match
'ag ue jj ised by a flippant remark from Wade that she would
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tish Wimbledon champion won in one hour,
lichards, the father of a young boy, previously
^ed here as Richard Raskin, losing an opening
nd match in 1960 to Australian Neale Raser. Now,
she required a court order to permit her to return
he women’s field.
erican La r ' or to this eagerly awaited duel on the stadium
like toss rt > methodically cool Chris Evert breezed past out-
;sed Sharon Walsh, 6-0, 6-1.
There’s no reason I’m going to lose this match un-
I screw up,” third-seeded Wade had predicted,
this is something she certainly didn’t do. Taking
initiative from the start, the intense, 32-year-old
Briton won the first three games before dropping her
only game of the first set.
Richards, who wore gold earrings and mascara on
her eyes, was much more comfortable in the second
set, breaking Wade in the sixth game to draw even at
3-3 and carrying Virginia to deuce on numerous occa
sions. But Wade, after breaking back in the seventh
game, managed to retain the edge and won the match
by holding her serve at love in the 10th game.
The two women, who demonstrated little emotion
during the match, shook hands at its conclusion.
Although the stadium court wasn’t packed, there was
a lot of noise generated with the fans seeming to lean
towards Richards.
Evert, a 22-year-old blonde, was elegantly attired all
in white except for a yellow band around her waist and
yellow shoulder straps. She required 40 minutes on a
warm, lazy day to dispose of Walsh and run her win
ning streak on clay courts to 107 matches over a stretch
of 23 tournaments.
Despite the fact she is the two-time defending
champion here, Chris merely set the stage for the
Wade-Richards spectacular that followed.
ward’s regular partner is expecting.
Edward’s also took a third in the
women’s kayak category in which
only 12 boats competed.
Houstonians Doug Harrington
and Richard Miller placed fourth in
men’s aluminum and ninth in men’s
cruising after turning over at the
start of the race.
The nationals race occurred at
nearly the mid-point of the Texas
title race, which has several Aggies
currently in first place. In fact, it
was the current standings which de-
termined which representatives
were sent to nationals.
Edwards and Holt lead the state
in the women’s cruising category
and Edwards also has the kayak di
vision all to herself.
Bugge and Shively head the
men’s aluminum, while the mixed
category (with male and female
partners) is still up for grabs with
the Edwards-Bugge and Holt-
Shivlely teams. Each have good
shots for the title.
The title is determined by points
accumulated in the designated state
races. Only four state races remain
before the conclusion of the season.
This weekend the club will travel
to Dallas to compete on the Trinity
River in one of the four points races
left. The high point individual will
receive the Dallas Cup trophy.
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s, he means it. He’s saying
ibaseha dby to soccer, positively, abso-
ly and permanently.
Ie'11 is last game a month
today at Giants Stadium in
t Rutherford, N.J. That’s what
says, anyway. He’ll suit up with
Cosmos for the first half of that
test and with his old Brazilian
n, Santos, in the second half,
then he’ll be all finished.
)on t be your life on it, though,
'ele has said the same thing be-
■■ Not once, but several times
iuck Cat each time he agonized over his
Mike kl tirement” for a period, then
Curtis II Rged his mind and came back to
wson , J ' some more.
erAras was the Cosmos who talked
~ out of his last retirement in the
Q in > M! i mer 0 f '75 w ith a three-year
tract for $4.75 million plus
ther $2.25 million to take care of
income taxes here, and it is the
hery,)« mos who are doing everything
ipitzeiw ir can now to talk him out of this
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To which Pele merely smiles,
shakes his head, and says no,
thanks, he’s retiring.
One veteran soccer official who
doesn t think he will is Enzo Mag-
nozzi, the man who first brought
him to this country to play soccer
with the Santos team 11 years ago
and more than a half dozen times
after that.
Now president of the Southern
New York State Soccer Association,
which is part of the U.S. Soccer
Federation, Magnozzi believes Pele
will change his mind about quitting.
He also believes money is what will
make him come back.
“I think he ll play again,” says
Magnozzi, with the assurance born
of someone who has dealt with Pele
before. “Why? Because he’s the
best businessman I’ve ever seen and
I’ve been associated with soccer
more than 30 years. Pele has said he
was retiring three times now. I
brought him to this country with the
Santos team seven times but I gave
up doing it in 1970 just before the
World Cup in Mexico because Pele
said he was quitting and not playing
anymore. Then he turned around
and joined the Brazilian World Cup
team. You know what I think? I
think he was just holding out for
more money. Magnozzi, 57,
played eight years himself in the
American Professional League with
the New York Americans and comes
from a soccer family. His father,
Spartacus, was general manager of
Livorno, a first division team in
Tuscany, and his uncle, Mario,
played on two World Cup teams
and still ranks among the top 10 all-
time scorers in Italian soccer his
tory.
“I remember the first time I
brought Pele to this country,” says
Magnozzi. “We put him in a hotel
here with the rest of the Santos
players and he was such a hero to
the Spanish people and all the other
Latin Americans that he had to stay
in his room like a prisoner because
he d be mobbed evefy time he
stepped out.
“The people would gather in the
hotel lobby and wait for him or
they’d go upstairs and try to get in
to see him. Food would have to he
brought to his room. AH the atten
dance records the Cosmos are
breaking now are the ones we set.
With Pele in the lineup, Santos
played Inter-Milan at Yankee
Stadium on Sept. 5, 1966, and drew
42,183 people. That was a record
and it wasn’t broken until the Cos
mos did it this season by drawing
62, ()()().”
Magnozzi recalls another game
Pele played here that same year,
one that had been ballyhooed as a
“showdown between Pele and
Eusebio, known as “The Black
Panther of the Mozambique. Play
ing for Portugal, Eusebio was high
scorer in the World Cup competi
tion that year and soccer fans
around the world were speculating
that he could be the “new king.
“The game I have in mind was
played at Randall’s Island Stadium,”
says Magnozzi. “Pele played for
Santos and Eusebio for Benfica of
Lisbon. Santos won the game, 4-0,
and Pele scored two goals. There
was no more talk about a new king’
after that although Eusebio was a
very good player. He was almost as
good as Pele. ”
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