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THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1978
sports
Track teams compete at Drake, Kyle ^
By Sean Petty
Battalion Sports Staff
The Texas A&M men’s and
women’s track teams will be com
peting in two important meets this
weekend.
The men will be running at the
Drake Relays, which is considered
to be one of the top meets in the
country.
Several Olympians will be com
peting at the meet. Mac Wilkins,
world record holder in the discus,
will be competing along with
another Olympian, Al Feuherbach.
A&M’s Olympic hopeful, Curtis
Dickey, will be running against an
impressive field of sprinters in the
100-meter dash. The field will in
clude Auburn’s Harver Glance.
While Curtis Dickey is returning
to track after spring football, Mike
Mosley will not be with the team at
Drake. Mosley is still nursing a sore
knee from football.
Manfred Kohrs, captain of the
team, will be taking a rest in order
to be prepared for the Southwest
Conference meet in two weeks.
The Aggies should finish in the
top five if they continue to compete
as they have in the past meets.
The Texas A&M women’s track
team will be hosting the TAIAW
State Track and Field Meet Friday
and Saturday at Kyle Field.
The meet will feature 21 teams
from around the state representing
the Southwest, Lone Star, South
land and Missouri Valley Confer
ences.
Coach David Williams thinks that
Texas Woman’s University will win
the meet. “T.W. U. should win the
meet by 50 points, he said. “They
are so well rounded that no team in
the state can stay with them.”
Williams said the Aggies and the
Universitry of Texas should be battl
ing for second place.
The women must qualify for the
state meet by running a certain time
or by meeting certain standards in
the field events.
The Aggies have qualified most of
the women on the team for the state
meet, yet there is a select group of
women that have qualified for the
national meet.
Martha Sartain has qualified in
the 5,000-meter run and should
qualify in the 3,000 this week after
missing the qualifying time by three
seconds last week at Baylor.
The Aggies have qualified four
women in the field events. Donna
Branch will be going in the javelin,
Jan Chesbro in the high jump. Iris
Tipton in the shot put and Sande
Lambert in the long jump.
Ileana Hocking will be doubling
in the 800- and 1,500-meter runs at
the national meet.
Linda Cornelius, leading scorer
on the team, has qualified in the
pentathalon. Sande Lambert has
also qualified in that event but is not
sure if she will compete in the long
jump or the pentathalon. A person
can only enter the pentathalon or
the individual events.
Cindy Bartlett ran her best time
this year at Baylor last weekend,
and qualified in the 400-meter hur
dles.
have to run in the meet in orderti
advance to the national meet
The preliminaries will begin Fit
day at 10:30 a.m. and finals in sei
eral events will be run starting!
4:00 p.m. Finals will be heldinii
two-mile relay, the 100-meter hit
dies, the 5,000-meter run, the81
yard medley relay, the discus ani
the long jump.
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The TAIAW meet Friday and
Saturday will be run to decide the
Texas state champion. Teams do not
The other field events willstarti
11:00 a.m. Saturday and them
ning finals will start at 1:30 p.m.
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NEW ORLEANS — Mark
Hayes, winner of the 1977 Tourna
ment Players championship, took
advantage of a strong chipping game
in near-perfect weather conditions
Thursday to shoot a six-under-par 66
for an early lead in the opening
round of the $200,000 New Orleans
Open.
Gary Player, trying to become
only the third man in history to win
four consecutive PGA tournaments,
was among the late starters. He and
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71 others were to tee off in the af
ternoon.
Hayes, a five-year veteran who
has been struggling this year, used
his sand wedge to chip in two shots
and put two others within one foot
of the pin for four of his seven bir
dies.
“I drove the ball good, putted
well and I chipped well with my
sand wedge,’ Hayes said.
“Other than that, I played
mediocre — my iron game was ter
rible.”
Temperatures in the mid-70s with
winds less than five mph made the
7,000-yard, par-72 Lakewood Coun
try Club play unusually short.
“With no winds or very little
winds, I expect the scores to be
low,” said Hayes, whose best finish
this year was a tie for ninth in
Hawaii.
Hayes played the first 7 holes
seven-under par, but three-putted
from 45 feet on the 18th green for
his only bogey of the day.
“I’m very disappointed,” he said
in the clubhouse. “It’s good to be six
under, but you feel you should be
seven under. It’s disappoint!
when you lose a stroke coming in
Veteran Homero Blancas lostt»;
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first five holes to grab an early lead
but lost ground on his late bogep
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$700,000 winnings in his 13 years; !Seven
a pro. “The fairways are cut tight; | W0I1 t
if you drive it in the fairway it mlLje,
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Player tries for fourth
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NEW ORLEANS — Gary Player
answered the question even before
it was asked.
T know you all want to know
about four in a row,” Player said as
soon as he walked into the New Or
leans Open media tent.
“To expect to win four in a row is
expecting a lot, but it is possible.
The last time I played here I won.
If Player can beat 143 other gol
fers in the $200,000 New Orleans
Open he will become only the third
man in history to win four consecu
tive PGA titles.
Byron Nelson won a record 11
straight in 1942 and 29-year-old Jac
kie Burke ended his string at four
wins in 1952.
“Lm going in with confidence,
but with a realistic outlook,” Player
said before playing in Thursday s
opening round. “To win three in a
row nowadays, with the competition
we have on the tour, is fantastic.
“The toughest competition you
have is during a tour event — even
tougher than the Masters. It’s just
tougher to win a major tournament
like the Masters because the pres
sure is greater.”
But the pressure is getting
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A&M’s Cromwell tied
for lead in Georgia
after opening round
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ATHENS, Ga. — All-American
Chip Beck of the University of
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Beck of the
Georgia and Richard Cromwell of
Texas A&M shot first round 69s
Thursday to tie for the lead in the
Southern Intercollegiate Golf Tour
nament at Athens Country Club.
Beck led Georgia to second place
in the team standings at 290, one
stroke off tournament favorite Okla
homa State, the nation’s No.
1-ranked team.
Following Beck and Cromwell in
the individual standings are Steve
Bys of Florida State and Darrel
Welker of the University of South
ern California, both at 70.
Tied at 71 are Florida’s Larry
Rinker and Terry Anton and John
Jones of Oklahoma State and John
Stark of Houston.
Following Oklahoma State and
Georgia in the team standings are
Flordia, 293; South Carolina, 294;
Texas A&M, 295; Georgia South
ern, 300; North Texas State, 302;
North Carolina, 302; Houston, 302;
East Tennessee State, 303; Oral
Roberts University, 304; Kentucky,
305; Florida State, 307; Tennessee,
308; Clemson, 309; and Marshall,
310.
Only 15 teams and 30 individual
players will be eligible for the
championship on Saturday. The cut
will be made after 18 holes on Fri
day.
greater for Player anyway
come-from-behind wins in the ^
ters, the Tournament of Champii
and the Houston Open the
three weeks make the New Orlf
Open even tougher.
“I have to look at thin
realistically. Player said. “Youo
play well all the time. Golf is
humbling a game for that.”
Player and former New Orla winr
Open champion Miller Barber,!: agrei
Trevino and Frank Beard all hadHou;
temoon starting times today, ft jeam
fending champion Jim Simons hi
morning start along with crowds colie
vorites Tom Watson and Bente Ce
shaw. V«id
Jack Nieklaus, Arnold Pali® ager
Hubie Green and Tom Weiskopfsr tails
skipping the New Orleans Opaphu
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cameras, Player won’t be hurting! erati
publicity. N
"I only go in to meet the pit T1
when I feel I deserve it,” Playenarrigh
after PGA officials called a rarepfton
tournament news conference, li Jimi
said many, many times in myca •'for
that I wouldn’t go into the presslft choi
because I didn’t feel I was plaupn n
my best. fcrn
That’s not the case this week [ 0
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any better than the last two yean
my career. The only differenct
I’m making more putts now,’’ Pla
said.
“My wife has been after me
years to change my putting sty ! e rr
She said I looked awful out (Inlaid
and I did, but you don’t win
tournaments with a bad pulft tan
style.”
Still, Player relented and chant
the putting style that helped him
108 victories in his first 20 years*
professional.
“I do believe if I had used 'I
putting stroke I have now I wod
have won more than 200 toum:
ments,” he said.
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