Page 10 THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5. 1978
Cross country runners unique I Meyer takes nostalgic trip
By SEAN PETTY
Battalion Staff
Try to imagine running at least 10
miles a day, seven days a week at
about a seven-minnte-per-mile
pace. Imagine running 15 to 20
miles one of those days at a tough
pace. Then, imagine going out on
Friday and running a race where it
is just as important if yon come in
first or 101st
While most students at Texas
A&M were in bed or trying to re
cover from Friday night, the Texas
A&M cross country team was busy
running a brisk 15 miles Saturday
morning. Try doing that after going
to midnight yell practice the night
before
Approximately 14 men run for the
Aggies, who came in fourth in the
Southwest Conference last year,
being edged out by Texas Tech by
one point.
There is a uniqueness to cross
country competition that most
people do not realize- It is a team
sport in every sense of the word.
The worst runner on the team is as
important as the best in a cross
country race.
A team can enter seven runners
in a race but only five can score.
Whatever place a runner comes in is
the amount of points he gets, so the
object of cross country running is to
score the least points. This is ac
complished by a team’s five runners
finishing as high in the race as pos
sible.
Manfred Kohrs is the captain of
the Texas A&M cross country team.
He described the feelings and
thoughts that go through a runner’s
mind as he runs a typical 10,000
meter (approximately 6.2 miles)
race.
“The race is very team oriented
because we all know that we all have
to run well in order to win,’ said
Kohrs, a senior from Plbug Mkuze,
South Africa. “Not just me or Lane
(Mitchell) or someone else, but
everyone must push themselves all
the way.
“It is a very competitive race,
especially if it is one with many
schools. You have to run almost
your maximum in every race. There
is a lot of physical and mental prepa
ration involved in a race. ’
Kohrs has also run track for the
Aggies the last four years and said
there is a difference between a cross
country race and the 1,500 meter or
5,000 meter run.
“In the 1,500 meters for instance,
there is slightly less pressure than
the cross country race because it is
much shorter, ’ Kohrs said. “You
have to be alert because you coidd
lose the race in one lap if you wait
too long.
“The cross country race is a more
controlled race, much longer and
harder on the mind and body. But
there is not the pressure to stay
right with someone or take the lead
immediately in cross country. You
can stay back for a while and decide
when you can make your move be
cause you have to take the terrain
into consideration in the race. You
have to realize where the hills are or
if you can pass on the flat area or
catch a man going up a hill.”
But the cross country runner
must have a strong mental attitude
because a lack of concentration can
put a man out of a race. The cross
country runner sets a grueling pace
and the physical strain can get to
him just like a marathon runner.
“You have to develop mental
toughness,’’ said Kohrs, “because
there is a point in the race where
you say “I’m hurting but I have to go
on’ and if you can get by that pain
barrier you can finish strong. But it’s
tough to break through sometimes. ”
The Aggie’s top nine runners are
Kohrs, Mitchell, Tom Glass, Bick
Huggins, Ken Wilkner, Keith Brat-
ten, Ralph Havens, John Casmus
and John Blvle.
well also.
“We all work hard and the suffer
ing we all go through when we are
running during the week brings us
together so that we fight for each
other. In a race, every guy knows
that he must run his hardest and
keep up just like in practice.”
The Aggies have had two meets
this year. A tri-meet here with
Texas and Baylor and a five team
race at Baylor. Kohrs said the team
hasn’t run very well this year for two
reasons.
United Press International
DALLAS — This is nostalgia
Of the top nine runners on the
team, one has a full scholarship
(Kohrs), two are on partial schol
arship and the rest are walk-ons who
desire the competition and chal
lenge cross country brings.
“Bratten and Huggins have been
running 90 miles a week,” Kohrs
said. “Huggins is racing very well
and Wilkner, a freshman, is running
“The meets started earlier this
year so we did not have a chance to
work out hard before them, said
Kohrs. “It also takes a few races to
get competitive.”
The Aggies will go to Fayet
teville, Ark. for the Southwest Con
ference meet Oct. 30. They can
then advance to the district meet in
Georgetown to qualify for the
NCAA championship Nov. 11. They
would then go to the NCAA cham
pionship in Madison, Wis. Nov. 20.
week for SMU coach Ron Meyer.
Naturally he hopes to make it a
winning week as well.
Meyer’s Mustangs meet Ohio
State in Ohio Stadium Saturday
and that is where the SMU coach
spent many an autumn afternoon
as a lad.
When he was growing up in
Westerville, Ohio he sold Ohio
State football programs as a boy
scout. He could not see his fa
vorite team play any other way.
Meyer recalls he would sneak
into a restroom at 9 a.m. on
Saturdays and stay there until
crowds began to fill the stadium
three hours later.
“I remember standing on
toilet seats so I would not be
caught by the guards,” Meyer
said. “You’ve got to really want
something bad to stand on a
toilet seat for three hours.
"] guess 1 wanted to see the
Buckeyes pretty bad.
Meyer will have one of the
best viewing spots in the house
Saturday and his Mustangs go to
Ohio with what appears to be a
legitimate chance against the na
tion’s 14th-ranked team.
“People seem to be maligning
Ohio State because they had a
hard time beating Baylor, said
Meyer, referring to the Buc
keyes 34-28 triumph over the
Bears last Saturday. “Well
Baylor is a good football team.
Ohio State actually shut it down
with time running out or they
might have scored again so the
score is a little deceiving.”
Nevertheless Meyer does not
think the Buckeyes are tin* same
club that whipped the Mustangs
last year in Dallas, 35-7.
“I don’t think they are as good
as they were last year, he said,
“but they are still a good football
team. They are better than we
are. I think their loss to Penn
'
State (19-0) hurt them.”
SMU had a week off tu
ready for Ohio State and MeJ
thinks that helped his club, '
We needed some time ton
over some bumps and briij s
he said. “Our morale is god
think. We played a pretty
football team in Penn State
weeks ago) but we got beat,
kids have bounced hack, tlioii
and I think we will he ready
play a good game against t
State.”
SMU quarterback Mike
who threw seven intereepti
against Ohio State last year,f (
he has something to proveii
one.
"All my life I’ve heard k
great it is to play at Ohio Stall
he said. "One of the reason
came to SMU was so I could
great teams like Ohio State.
“I threw seven intercepts
against them last year so this!
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I’m out to show them bow a
SMU reallv is.”
Royals tie series. Dodgers win opener
Golfers in Louisiana
The Texas A&M golf team shot an
even par 288 Wednesday in the first
round of the Jim Corbett In
vitational in Baton Rouge, La. The
Aggies are currently in ninth place
in the tournament that is leahoma
State with an 8-under-par 280.
For the Aggies in the opening
round Steve Bowman shot 69, Dave
Orgin 70, Doug Ward 74, Jay Kent
75 and Brad James 79. The three-
day, 15-team tournament will con
tinue through Saturday.
The Cow Hop
RESTAURANT
United Press International
KANSAS CITY — Larry Cura,
once scorned by former Yankee
Manager Billy Martin, had his re
venge Wednesday with 6 1-3 in
nings of strong pitching and got the
Kansas City Royals even in the
American League playoffs by spark
ing a 10-4 rout of the New York
Yankees.
Sixteen hours after their most
embarrassing performance of the
season at home, the Royals bounced
back with a 16-hit attack that fea
tured a rare two-run homer by Fred
Patek and two RBI apiece by Frank
White and Darrell Porter to send
the best-of-five series back to New
York tied at one game each.
While the Royals bats came to life
after being silenced on two hits in a
7-1 loss Tuesday night, it was the
stellar pitching of the left-handed
Cura that kept the Yankees in check
for most of the game.
Cura, a former Yankee once
called a “batting practice” pitcher
by Martin, had been roughed up by
the Yankees in four previous playoff
appearances, but this time he came
prepared to get even and mes
merized the Yankees with off-speed
pitches before tiring in the seventh.
By the time the Yankee bats got
going had built a 5-0 lead against Ed
Figueroa and Dick Tidrow. That
cushion proved to be enough as
Marty Pattin and Al Hrabosky pro
tected the lead over the last 2 2-3
innings.
Not that the Yankees didn’t scare
the Royals. The Yanks had 12 hits of
their own, including a perfect
4-for-4 by Chris Chambliss, but this
time the Royals didn’t fold when the
pressure was put on them.
After the Yankees scored twice in
the seventh to close the gap to 5-2,
the Royals applied the crusher with
a three-run outburst in their half of
the inning to take command of the
game.
It was Patek, the bearded little
man who plays so well in post-season
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Facing Tidrow in the seventh in
ning, the Royals went away from
their singles attack with a long-ball
barrage that began when Pete
LaCock laced a double off the right
field fence.
Clint Hurdle, a rookie appearing
in his first playoff, followed with a
triple and, after pinch runner Willie
Wilson was thrown out at the plate,
Patek drilled a home run into the
left field seats. It was only Patek s
third home run of the season, hut he
raised his hatting average in post
season play to .389.
In Philidelphia, Steve Garvey
slammed a pair of homers and drove
in four runs while Davey Lopes
added a two-run blast to highlight a
vicious long-ball assault Wednesday
night that carried the Los Angeles
Dodgers to a 9-5 triumph over the
Philadelphia Phillies in the first
game of the National League cham
pionship series.
In taking a 1-0 lead in the best-of-
five series for the National League
pennant, the Dodgers battered
Larry Christenson, the Phillies’
starter, for seven runs on seven hits
— five of them for extra bases — in
4 1-3 innings.
The four home runs by the Dod
gers tied a National League cham
pionship series record, set by the
Pittsburgh Pirates in 1971.
Garvey, the Dodgers’ hottest hit
ter down the stretch when he hit
.430 in September, climaxed a
four-run third inning by walloping a
th ree-run homer over the left field
wall. He added a solo shot leading
off the ninth — his fourth in cham
pionship competition — lor the
Dodgers’ final run.
Lopes started the third inning up
rising with a double. Mike Schmidt,
who knocked in the Phillies first
run with a sacrifice fly in the second,
kept it alive by letting Bill Russell’s
grounder skid through his legs at
third for an error. Reggie Smith fol
lowed with a line single to center
that delivered Lopes. Garvey then
connected for his first homer ol the
game.
The Dodgers continued the bom
bardment of Christenson in the
fourth when Rick Monday led oil
with a towering triple that caromed
off the wall in deepest centerfield.
Two outs later, Lopes drilled his
homer over the 371-foot mark in left
for a 6-1 lead.
Another triple to the centerfield
wall by Garvey with one out in the
fifth finally finished Christenson but
reliever Warren Brusstar was
greeted by Ron Cey’s single for
another Dodger run before getting
Dusty Baker on an inning ending
double-play grounder.
Yeager added to the Dodger
when he homered in the
Rawly Eastwick, the third Pht
phia pitcher who was makin
first appearance in three weeb
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Oct. 5 — Los Angeles at Pliiladelpl*
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Oct. 4 — New York 4, Kansas City 10
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