Olympic-class bicycle races tap Ags
for beer, prizes and exhaustion
THE BATTALION Page 5
MONDAY, APRIL 24, 1978
"Now for the beer!” huffed
exhausted Hans Schneider of Hous
ton as he accepted first prize for the
olympic-class Aggieland Criterium
bicycle race held at the Texas A&M
drill field, Sunday.
Schneider, who sprinted to
victory on the last lap of the 75-lap,
50-mile Senior Open feature race,
outlasted 19 other serious 10-speed
bicycle racers on the hot and humid
event. The race was sponsored by
the Texas A&M Cycling Team and
drew racers from five states.
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Jerry Anderson, a Texas A&M
student riding for his hometown Dal
las bicycle racing club, took sixth
place in the final sprint that saw the
racers pushing their bodies and bikes
to almost 40 mph. But Anderson felt
much better about his finish when he
picked up $30 cash in mid-race
prime prizes offered during the
races.
Most of the fast action was forced
1972 Olympic team member Marc
Thompson who lead for most of the
race but got swallowed up by a late-
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charging pack of riders. He got
fourth in the final sprint but walked
away with $50 cash in addition to his
fourth-place merchandise prizes.
In the Senior Men III catagory
race of 30 miles, Texas A&M Cycling
Team member John Simmons un
corked a powerful sprint to take sec
ond place. Another Aggie, Mike
Fulfer, who recently won the Hous
ton April Fools Stage race while
wearing the maroon and white, was
fourth.
Texas A&M team member Gene
Kraft captured that elusive first place
prize in the 15-mile Senior Men IV
class. Aggies Malcolm Bredemeyer
and Tim Purcell took fifth and
seventh place respectively in a race
that was marred by crashes. “There
were lost of cocky riders in that
pack,” said Kraft. “Fm just glad I
finished in front of them.”
In the four-mile Novice race, open
to any students and non-licensed
racers, team mechanic Rick Denny
out-sprinted Miles Johnson for first.
Dan Harrison and Harlan Harris of
the A&M Wheelmen, the racing
team’s sister touring club, were third
and fourth, respectively.
Other students that competed but
didn’t finish for physical, mental or
mechanical reasons were Karl
Jackson in the feature race and
Charles Braffet in the Senior IV.
“We had a good showing,” said
race head David Champlin. “Both by
our team members and the local bike
shows and other merchants that
provided our $1,000 prize list.
Exhausted racer Anderson added
from his near-by prone position,
“That race was so fast, I think I’m
gonna go slow all next week to make
up for it.
United Press International
ROME, Italy — Police recovered
10 Flemish art treasures worth over
$1 million Saturday night, less than
48 hours after they were stolen from
one of Italy’s most famed museums.
Cultural Heritage Minister Dario
Antoniozzi said police had recov
ered all the stolen paintings, includ
ing “The Three Graces” — a one-
color, monochrome plate by Peter
Paul Rubens.
The art works were stolen from
the Pitti Palace art gallery in Flor
ence early Friday by a gang that ap
parently acted with inside informa
tion.
Florence police earlier told re
porters they had detained three
persons for questioning in the case.
The thieves entered the museum
through the skylight and played
hide-and-seek with the building’s
four night-watchmen by following a
long and complicated route to the
[room where the Flemish master-
[pieces were kept.
The night wathchmen provided
the only protection of the gallery’s
priceless art treasures because an
electronic alarm system has not yet
been fully installed.
Museum officials said the thieves
apparently had inside information
on the rounds the guards followed
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and selected the Flemish paintings
because of their small size.
“It don’t think they hoped to take
our Titains, Raphaels or Van Dycks.
Their size makes them nearly im
possible to transport. I am sure the
small Flemish paintings were the
thieves’ actual target,” a museum of
ficial said.
Experts estimated the value of
the stolen art treasures at about $1.1
million. They valued the Rubens
alone at $350,000. The other stolen
works, mostly landscapes were by
Cornelis Van Poelenburgh, Peter
Molyn the Elder and Paul Bril.
They were the latest of an es-
timed 50,000 art works stolen from
Italy’s poorly guarded museums and
churches since the end of World
War II. The rate of a theft has now
risen to about 12,000 a year.
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