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THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1978 Page 7 the sports . - An athletes image ■'^tK’reparing for the upcoming football season |are Johnnie Donahue, (standing), defensive anal exas rovedi tlemti y tile •rdinj. itate | ^ 7 v CV 7 tackle, and Eugene Sanders, defensive end. Donahue and Sanders, as well as other Aggie Ifootball players, have been working out at Twin City Athletic Club in Bryan throughout the summer. The Aggies begin two-a-day workouts on August 17 in preparation for the season opener against Kansas on Sept. 9. Battalion photo by Pat Edmondson Jensen out for season United Press International DENVER — The Denver Bron cos Tuesday said fullback Jim Jen sen, who had been making an im pressive bid for a starting job, woidd be lost for the 1978 season due to a knee injury suffered last week against the Houston Oilers. Coach Red Miller said Jensen s injury orginally was believed to be minor but tests Monday determined ligament damage to the 226- pounder’s left knee was more severe than expected. He said Jensen underwent surgery later Monday. Jensen, acquired from the Dallas Cowboys last season, reported to camp 10 pounds lighter than he was a year ago, and had improved his speed. He had a best clocking of 4.4 in the 40-yard dash compared to last season’s timing of 4.6. In the Broncos’ 17-12 Saturday night preseason triumph over Hous ton, Jensen scored Denver’s first touchdown. His 10 carries were more than any other Bronco running back and he outgained every Denver rusher except quarterback Norris Weese, who rambled for 77 yards. igup iblicl i ini -lac tome <ndat s Co iron; is to Mathews reflects on career ■ By MILTON RICHMAN Mathews, who managed the missed the train ” Spahn cut in. Charlie Grimm was tl By MILTON RICHMAN I United Press Internutional jOGPERSTOWN, N.Y. — The ill impact of what was happening wy hit Eddie Mathews around ■eo’clock in the morning, only a M hours before he was to be nslirined in Baseball's Hall of ■ e ' ■e was sitting around with a lie ol his old buddies from the Ivaukee Braves: Warren Spahn, mllof Earner himself, and Johnny ■an having a couple to help kill ■e of his nervousness and talking ■ut the total number of those wed before him. S asked how many players there lein the Hall of Fame,” he said. |ey told me I ll be the 135th. iginethat! 1 thought there were a (more than that.” said in his induction speech Monday after they unveiled a j|roiizt' plaque of him in the Hall with those of the late Cleve- ld pitcher Addie Joss and the late |ny MacPhail, father-of night Iseball, "Baseball has given me iyerything 1 got and I gave it every thing! had.” A/athews did everything he could |convey his feelings inside. Where ! hut in America could an ex-shoe hine boy grow up to beat the socks ko many of those he idolized as a land wind up one day in that hai led shrine he had only read about itory books? Mathews, who managed the Braves two years after he was through playing, was never one of those goody-goodies when he was playing and didn’t pretend to be. "We used to measure off ten square blocks in a city like San Francisco,” he remembered. "Bob Buhl and I would go looking for Spahnie and Lew Burdette and they’d look for us. The only place we looked was in bars. Everytime we d go in one, we had to have a drink and the same thing with them. The winners, the ones who found the others first, would get a free dinner.” “Tell him about the time we missed the train,” Spahn cut in. Mathews laughed some more. “We were coming up from Florida one spring and I missed the train the team was on,’’ said Mathews. "I was scared to death. Suddenly, as I was standing there in the station, I heard footsteps. Someone was running like hell. It was Spahn. He had missed the train, too. We tried everything to get from Birmingham to Chat tanooga. Plane, bus, the local police. No dice. “Finally, we got a cab to take us and rode all night. We beat the train and got in before the ball club. Charlie Grimm was the manager. He never found out.” “That’s your story,” Spahn cor rected. “Charlie found out all right because someone squealed on us.” Eddie Mathews told all these stories the night before being in ducted. On Monday morning, there was only one thing on his mind. He wanted to make sure that his mother, Eloise Mathews, had a good seat at the ceremonies. She had one right there in the second row. It was easy to tell who she was. She was the proudest mother in all Cooperstown. We do it all. Whether it’s roses or other fresh flowers, silk flowers or green plants, Hallmark cards or Aggie War Hymn door chimes, we’ve got what you’re ^ looking for. 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