Page 12 THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1979
It’s time to hid farewell to basketball
While sports are my love, basket
ball is my mistress. Yearly, I carry on
a four month affair with her, only to
say goodbye at the end of each sea-
notes
Polo
Rodeo
The Texas A&M rodeo club com
peted in the University of Texas
rodeo in Austin last weekend.
Mark Ivy and Jake Hersman
brought home the only blue ribbons
for the Aggies with first place finishes
in calf roping and steer wrestling,
respectively.
In other events for Texas A&M,
Jerry Todd and John Anderson
finished fourth in team roping. Bud
Bowman finished fifth in bronc rid
ing, Joe Dutton finished sixth in sad
dle bronc riding, Dorothy Sypert
finished sixth in barrel racing and
seventh in goat tying.
The Aggies will participate in the
Temple Junior College rodeo this
weekend.
Oliver,
Rangers
mix
well
United Press International
POMPANO BEACH, Fla. —
There are certain things that just
naturally go together, i.e. cream
cheese and bagels, pastrami on rye
and white wine with veal.
Al Oliver and the state of Texas
have developed that kind of relation
ship.
It figures. Texans, it is said, love to
brag and Oliver loves to be bragged
about. It’s too bad for the 32-year-old
outfielder that it took so long to make
the connection.
Oliver, one of baseball’s finest all
round performers, spent the first
nine years of his major league career
with the Pittsburgh Pirates during
which he never quite achieved the
national acclaim and public adulation
he felt he deserved.
Last year he was traded to the
Rangers and almost instantly became
a celebrity. It was as if Farrah
Fawcett-Majors had suddenly dis
covered a cream rinse shampoo.
“It was the biggest emotional high
light of my major league career,’
says Oliver, whose .324 batting aver
age was second only to American
League batting champion Rod
Carew’s. “I never had fans stand and
cheer for me throughout my career,
even though I did the same things in
Texas I did for nine years in
Pittsburgh.
“I think the thing that really
turned on the fans in Texas was my
defensive ability which had never
been discussed much in my nine
years in the National League. The
best thing I ever heard about Al
Oliver as a defensive ballplayer was
that he was adequate and there’s no
thing on the field that I’m adequate
at. I’m definitely above average and
at the top on everything I do on the
field.”
See how well Oliver fits in? He has
aTexas-style selfconfidence, yet, un
fortunately for the Rangers, not
much of Al’s self-esteem rubbed off
on his teammates last season. The
Rangers finished tied for second in
the AL West but they won seven
fewer games than the year before
and were never really in the race.
“The team lacked selfconfidence,”
admits Oliver. “Why? I don’t know
because if you look at our team on
paper last year we definitely had the
best team in our division, a team that
could have gone all the way. But, you
know, in life as well as sports, you
have to have self-confidence in your
ability and yourself. This is some
thing we lacked last year and, as a
result we just didn’t pan out as well
as we looked.”
A solution to the selfconfidence
hangup might be to make Oliver
team captain. That way he.could use
his own boundless enthusiasm to
help spark the team without fear that
he is overstepping his role.
I’m not yet ready to end this year’s
involvement. These past four
months she’s given me more joy and
heartache than I have endured in
years past. She can be a fickle wo
man.
viewpoint
By MARK PATTERSON
Battalion Staff
The Texas A&M polo team is going
to Somers, Conn., Friday to com
pete in the National Intercollegiate
Polo Championships.
The Aggies will play their first
game Tuesday night at 7 p. m. against
University of California-Davis.
UC-Davis is the defending NIP
champion.
Eight teams are entered from
around the country, including Texas
A&M, UC-Davis, California-Poly,
Conneticutt, Virginia, Cornell, Yale
and York (Canadian University).
The Aggies will play two practice
games before the tournament,
against Yale on Saturday and aganist
Norwich on Monday.
R.J. Roberts, the captain of the
Aggie team, said that Texas A&M
will be the underdogs in the game
against UC-Davis. The tournament
is single elimination.
She teased the national pollsters
this season, allowing them to pick six
different teams to sit atop her Top
20, only to have each team lose and
be replaced the next week. Week
after week, the experts continued to
ignore her only major unbeaten
team, Indiana State. ISU finished
the season without a loss but still
went into the NCAA tournament as
an underdog, picked to lose in the
opening rounds of the Midwest Re
gional.
But, as if it was her choice this
season, she guided the small Indiana
school through the rough times and
allowed the Sycamores and their fans
to relish in the joy of advancing to the
final four in Salt Lake City. While
the nation watched, she took Indiana
State from obscurity into the center
ring. My lady can show emotion.
But she can also deliver the crush
ing blow to others’ dreams. For the
second-straight season she has dang
led the prize before Arkansas’ Sidney
Moncrief s eyes, only to snatch away
the dream at the last moment. Ironi
cally, a member of her Indiana State
team, Bob Heaton, hit the shot at the
buzzer that bid goodbye to Moncrief
and Arkansas, the last representative
of the Southwest Conference.
The fickle lady smiled on the S WC
this season, allowing four of its teams
to play in her post-season tourna
ments. But as if she was just teasing
the conference, two of the teams
were destroyed in the opening
rounds — Texas by Oklahoma in the
NCAA tournament and Texas Tech
by Indiana in the NIT tournament.
But for the first time in three years
basketball smiled on Texas A&M, al
lowing the Aggies to advance to the
quarter-finals of the NIT tourna
ment. But, as if to keep the Aggies
hungry for more of her fruit, she let
Texas A&M lose to Alabama and miss
a trip to New York City and the fi
nals.
It was her hand in tne/M
season that built my lovefa^
climax. I -was able to enjfl
moods and actions as I Wal( S
Aggies roller coaster tin
season. ?2 f
Because of the teasing, |
stronger for her. I know ty
Monday night’s NCAAfinal S |j
to say goodbye to my woJ
another year.
Absence may make thelie;|
fonder, but it’s going to [J
summer without her.
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