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THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 1980
Harry Francis, left, and Simon Glenn, right,
console each other after the Aggies lost to
Texas Tech in the SWC post-season tourna
ment May 18, dropping them out of the tourna
ment. Both Francis and Glenn were picked by
major league clubs in last week’s college draft.
Astros drop Cubs,
scramble into first
4 Ags picked
by pro ranks
by RICHARD OLIVER
Sports Editor
The entire left side of the Texas
A&M University baseball team’s
infield was wiped out last week in
one day, but Aggie coach Tom
Chandler doesn’t seem too per
turbed.
Harry Francis, third baseman
for this year’s baseball team, and
Bryan “Twig” Little, the short
stop, were swooped up last week
by the pro ranks in the annual
college draft.
Francis and Little, both
juniors, opted to sign with the
clubs that drafted them, which
means, of course, they won’t be
back in Aggie uniforms next
season.
Francis, picked in the sixth
round, signed Friday with the
California Angels, and has been
assigned to the Angels’ Idaho
Falls, Idaho rookie camp. He will
leave Sunday.
Little, picked in the 14th
round by the Montreal Expos,
signed with that club and has re
ported to rookie camp.
“Little’s going to be hard to re
place,” said Chandler, “but in
their third year college coaches
realize that professional coaches
can sign them.
“The pros kinda wiped out the
left side of our infield, though.”
Two other Aggie seniors were
also signed by pro clubs.
Mike Hurdle, the Texas A&M
right-fielder who holds most of
the school’s hitting records, was
taken in the 12th round by the
Toronto Blue Jays, and will report
tomorrow to their rookie camp in
New York.
Simon Glenn, who holds the
Texas A&M record for most
stolen bases in a career, hasn’t
signed yet with the Boston Red
Sox, who signed him in the 13th
round.
“We’re pleased that profes
sional baseball has given us such
attention,” said Chandler. “It’s a
real boost to our program.
“We’ve had nine picked in the
last two years. Five of six players
drafted were signed last year, and
four of six this year. That says a lot
for our program.”
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Reeves and Whitij f
both take new jol
United Press International
DALLAS — On Aug. 9, what will probably be a hot
Texas Stadium, a former college quarterback with a syrupy drawl*
call out a series of cryptic words and numbers to a waiting messes
and open a new chapter in his career.
Danny Reeves is anxiously awaiting that night, for it will be tbit I
he takes over — at least temporarily and perhaps permanently-tl j
play-calling duties for the Dallas Cowboys.
Because of a dramatic slump in defensive statistics last season,
coach Tom Landry plans to devote the vast majority of his timedmi
training camp this year to bringing the defense back into gear
As a result he has told Reeves that the job of calling the plays for!
1 quarterback Danny White will be his.
“Coach Landry and I have talked about it,” said Reeves, “anil
only thing he said to me was that I would call the plays during
exhibition season and we would see how it goes from there.
“I think how we do during the exhibition games depends on whll
I keep calling the plays when the regular season starts. It’s going!)
an exciting time for me.”
Reeves, one of the Cowboys’ stalwart running backs of the latel!
and early ’70s, has been offensive coordinator the last three si
planning practice sessions and meeting with the quarterbacks tl
out the week.
So the things he does during the week won’t change that muck
chief difference will come on game days.
“I do think it’s going to cause me to study more and to concern mu
more about how we want to attack the opponent,” Reeves said
put a little more pressure on me, which I will enjoy.
“I will be able to put my own personality into the game. Sometii
think the same as coach Landry does and sometimes 1 don’t,
always wonder how you would do. Sometimes I think to mysel!
that s a good call and sometimes I would think that I might havers!
something else. Now I’m the one everybody will have a
second guess.”
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HOUSTON — Jose Cruz doubled
home two runs to trigger a three-run
third inning and Vern Ruble allowed
only two hits in seven innings Tues
day night to lead the Houston Astros
to a 5-2 victory over the Chicago
Cubs.
The triumph, which put the Astros
into first place in the National
League West, was their seventh
straight and 11th in the last 14
games.
Ruble, 3-1, retired the first 12 bat
ters until Dave Kingman was safe on
Rafael Landestoy’s error opening the
fifth. The first Chicago hit came with
one out in the sixth when pinch-
hitter Jesus Figueroa doubled.
Ruble was replaced for the final two
innings by Dave Smith, who allowed
both runs.
Houston broke the game open in
the third off starter Mike Krukow,
3-7. Ruble singled, Landestoy
walked and Terry Puhl singled Ruble
home while Landestoy was thrown
out at third on the play. After Joe
Morgan walked, Cruz doubled into
the right field corner for two more
runs.
Cesar Cedeno hit his fourth homer
in the sixth inning off reliever Bill
Aslroj
Jose Cruz
Caudill and Houston added its fifth
run in the seventh when Morgan
singled home Landestoy, who had
walked and advanced on Puhl’s
single.
A double by Jerry Martin and two
infield outs produced Chicago’s first
run in the eighth and Dave Kingman
doubled home a run in the ninth.
Chronicle sports editor
dies after heart attack
United Press International
HOUSTON — Longtime Hous
ton Chronicle sports editor and col
umnist Dick Peebles collapsed of a
heart attack in Houston Intercon
tinental Airport Tuesday and died
before he could be taken to a hospit
al. He was 61.
Peebles was en route to Spring-
field, N.J., to cover the U.S. Open
Golf Tournament, and an airport
spokeswoman said he suffered the
heart attack in a concourse while
awaiting a flight.
Director of Nurses Judy Withers
at Northeast Medical Center Hospit
al in Humble, where Peebles was
taken by ambulance, said he was
dead on arrival.
George H. Lewis & Sons funeral
directors were handling arrange
ments.
Survivors include his wife, Mary
Theresa Holman Peebles, and two
sons, Michael and Timothy. Peebles
was a member of St. Vincent de Sal
les Roman Catholic Church.
An Oil City, Pa., native who
attended high school in Erie, Pa.,
and college at the University of
Michigan, Peebles worked as sports
editor of the Sharon (Pa.) Herald and
the San Antonio Express before
moving to Houston in 1958.
He was sports editor of the Chro
nicle for 22 years and still actively
covered golf, football and baseball.
He wrote five columns a week, and
in the final one published Tuesday,
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he had expressed empathy for a San
Francisco Giants player who was
continuing his career despite losing
the tips of four fingers in a power saw
accident.
“You have to feel sorry for short
stop Roger Metzger, who was play
ing before relatives and friends. To
come off the bench and have to face a
pitcher of the caliber of (J.R )
Richard when Richard’s at his best is
no fun,” he wrote.
Peebles was an active golfer who
covered the Masters and the U.S.
Open each year.
Last decade Peebles served as
president of the Texas Sportswriters
Association and chairman of the
Houston Chamber of Commerce
Athletic Committee. He was a mem
ber of the Baseball Writers Associa
tion of America and Golf Writers
Association of America.
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