Page 12 THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1979
Hunter will retire
Catfish just a farmer
Puttin’ it over the plate
Texas A&M softball pitcher, freshman Lori Stoll warms up
before one of the games in Saturday’s Texas A&M Invitational
softball tournament. The Aggie Ladies finished third in their
tournament. Battalion photo by Lynn Blanco
Aggie Ladies have
busy weekend
By CAROLYN BLOSSER
Battalion Staff
Texas A&M’s women’s softball
team won five games and lost one to
finish third in its 12-team tourney
last weekend at Bee Creek Park.
A&M’s season record is now 8-2.
The Aggies finished first in their
pool in Friday’s play, defeating
Texas Wesleyan, St. Mary’s and
Oklahoma University. Saturday
morning the Aggies again faced
Oklahoma, who Aggie coach Bill
Galloway considers to be one of the
top 15 teams in the country.
The Ags beat Oklahoma 5-0, only
to be upset 3-0 in their next game
against Sam Houston State. A&M
then defeated Stephen F. Austin 7-3
for third place.
Texas Woman’s University,
ranked No. 1 in the country, won
the tournament and Sam Houston
State finished second. •
One of the brightest features of
the tournament was A&M’s pitch
ing. Treshan McDonald, a 5-11
sophomore transfer from Scar-
bourgh, Canada, pitched a perfect
game against Texas Wesleyan. Lori
Stoll, a freshman from Missouri,
pitched a one-hitter against Okla
homa and struck out nine against
S.F.A.
“Overall I was pleased with our
performance,” Galloway said. “We
probably scored more runs and got
more hits than anyone in the tour
nament. I think we re keeping pace
with last year.”
Next weekend A&M will travel to
Denton for the Texas Woman’s In
vitational Tournament. Play begins
at 10 a.m. Friday.
Texas A&M’s women’s volleyball
team had a disappointing weekend
in Denton, failing to qualify for the
finals in the North Texas State In
vitational Tournament. A&M went
into the tournament as the top seed.
The Aggies finished third in their
pool, defeating Stephen F. Austin,
Southwest Missouri State, North
Texas State, and losing to Texas
Tech and Oklahoma.
Based on last year’s superb sea
son, A&M is ranked eighth in the
nation and No. 1 in Texas. Six new
players joined this year’s squad and
the team has been working together
only a little over a month.
Despite A&M’s finish, coach
Dave Schakel said he is pleased
with what he saw.
“There was a lot of fine individual
play,” he said. “We’ve got the tal
ent. It’s just a matter of jelling as a
team. I still feel we can come out
the way we did last year.
Tonight the Aggies face the Uni
versity of Texas in a 3-out-of-5 game
match at Gregory Gym in Austin.
Play begins at 7:30.
United Press International
NEW YORK — By occupation,
Jim “Catfish” Hunter is a major-
league ballplayer. By inclination,
though, he’s more a North Carolina
farmer.
In other words, when he makes a
deal with you, it’s a deal. You don’t
have to call in a small army of
lawyers or get it notarized. His word
is good.
Back on New Year’s Eve in 1974,
Hunter agreed to a five-year con
tract with the New York Yankees
that came to something like $2.8
million counting everything that
went with it. He was 28 at the time,
had just come off a spectacular 25-12
season with the Oakland A s and
won his free agency from them fol
lowing a contractual disagreement
with Charlie Finley.
When he joined the Yankees, he
told them beforehand he intended
to fulfill his contract, pitch for them
five years, and then go back home to
Hertford, N.C., and spend the rest
of his life farming and being with his
family.
Catfish Hunter keeps his word.
In two more weeks, when the
season is over, he will be all finished
with professional baseball. To show
Hunter the way they feel about him,
the Yankees gave him a day at Yan
kee Stadium Sunday.
Among other things, they gave
him a TV console, a set of expensive
luggage, a camera, a shotgun and a
pickup truck. Despite their eco
nomic problems, the Chrysler Cor
poration presented him with a
brand new automobile, and Bill
Fugazy, who runs a travel agency
bearing his name, tossed in a vaca
tion to Hawaii for Hunter and his
family, all of whom were on hand.
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Leave it to the fertile mind
Yankee owner George Steinbrenner
to come up with something entirely
different, however.
What do you give the man who
has everything?
Steinbrenner gave Hunter an
elephant to help him with his farm
ing chores. Yup, a real live
elephant.
The beast was led in from the
right field bullpen, positioning him
self behind home plate only a few
feet away from Hunter, who looked
a bit nervous about it and stayed at a
safe distance.
Perhaps a more appropriate de
parting gift might have been a bus
because as good a pitcher as he has
been in his 15 big league seasons,
winning 224 games while losing 163
and recording 20 or more victories
five straight seasons from 1971
through 1975, Hunter seldom was
better than he was while traveling
on the Yankees’ bus.
Between them, he and left fielder
Lou Piniella could always keep the
club loose, needling, joking, carry
ing on a running dialogue all the
time.
“I’m gonna miss him in many
ways, but especially on those bus
rides,” Piniella said Sunday. “He’d
like to get on me about the way I
run. ‘How am I supposed to pitch?’
he’d always say to me. T need a
speedster in left field.’ Then I’d say
to him, ‘when you pitch, I never
catch any balls. They all go in the
stands. You want me to sit in the
stands with a crab net or a jai lai
cesta? Otherwise, I’m worthless. ”
That was all in the spirit of good-
natured agitation both understood,
but before presenting Hunter with a
TV console on behalf of his team
mates as well as himself, Piniella
talked seriously about the retiring
33-year-old right-hander.
“Without him, we couldn’t have
won last year,” he said. “He won the
last game of the World Series for us,
which was perfectly fitting. This
year he didn’t have the kind of a
year that an athlete of his stature
would like to retire on.
He has been overlooked at times
for other pitchers, but he never
complained or lost his desire to help
the club. He never lost his sense of
values, either. The years he has
been here, he has been a positive
influence. Were gonna miss him.
He exemplifies everything the Yan
kees are.”
The one thing you hear over and
over again about Catfish Hunter
from all the Yankees is that he never
complained.
“He’s good people,” was the way
Luis Tiant put it. “You win over 200
games like he did, that’s a special
kind of player. Even when he didn’t
have too much, he’d still go out and
beat you. He don’t feel good, he still
plays. That’s what you call a profes
sional, a real superstar.”
This year was easily Hunter’s
poorest in the big leagues. Not
nearly as fast as he once was, he has
been hammered hard frequently
and the result is his present 2-9 rec
ord along with a 5.29 ERA.
But Martin, like the rest of the
Yankees, loves the guy and wants to
give him at least one more start so
he can go out on a winning note.
“He deserves that,” said the Yankee
manager. “As far as Tm concerned,
he could be one of my coaches if he
wanted.”
UPI college poll
United Press International
NEW YORK — The United
Press International Board of
Coaches’ top 20 college football
ratings, with first-place votes and
won-loss records in parentheses
(Second week):
1. So. Calif. (33) (2-0) 579
2. Alabama (5) (1-0) 538
3. Oklahoma (1-0) 470
4. Texas (1) (0-0) 394
5. Notre Dame (1-0) 392
6. Penn St. (1-0) 355
7. Nebraska (1-0) 347
8. Michigan St. (2-0) 286
9. Houston (2-0) 247
10. Washington (2-0) 188
11. Missouri (2-0) 143
12. Michigan (1-1) 123
13. Pittsburgh (1-0) 119
14. Florida State (2-0) 115
15. Ohio St. (2-0) 90
16. Arkansas (1-0) 69
17. LSU (1-0) 35
18. UCLA (1-1) 33
19. Brigham Young (2-0) 19
20. N. Carolina St. (2-0) 18
Note: By agreement with tie
American Football Coaches As
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consideration by the UPI 1
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SAN DIEGO — Joe Niekro tos
sed a six-hitter for his fifth shutout of
the season and Cesar Cedeno’s sac
rifice fly in the ninth inning Monday
night scored Rafael Landestoy to
give the Houston Astros a 1-0
victory over the San Diego Padres.
Landestoy opened the ninth by
slicing a triple off loser Bob Ow-
chinko, 5-11, that kicked up the
chalk down the right field foul line.
Cedeno then lofted a fly ball to
Dave Winfield in medium right and
Landestoy slid home just ahead of
the throw.
Niekro, 19-10, notched his fifth
victory without a loss over the
Padres this season and boosted his
career record against San Diego to
13-4. A one-time Padre, Niekro has
17 career shutouts and the complete
game was his 11th in 35 starts.
Niekro’s ERA dipped to 2.96 as
he posted the 17th shutout this sea
son by the Astros’ staff, tops in the
National League.
San Diego’s biggest threat came
in the second inning when Bill
Fahey doubled with one out and
Kurt Bevacqua drew a walk. Niekro
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