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By JON HEIDTKE
Battalion Staff
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(though the men’s team has lost its top two point
!rs from a year ago, Nash said this year’s recruiting
and the maturing of the returning swimmers will
the Ags a strong men’s team.
men will be led by senior captains Ed Kahil and
Ranzau, along with sophomore captain Kord Reid,
swam at last year’s NCAA Championship meet,
e he competed in the 100-meter butterfly,
jnzau is one of the top sprint freestylers on the team,
(Reid was the Indiana state champ in the 50-yard
Ityle two years ago.
men’s team will also be helped by a strong fresh-
class. Kevin and Chris Londrigan, identical twins
Houston, were both state meet finalists last year.
In was a high school all-American in the 100-yard
[stroke, while Chris was a state finalist in the
idual medley.
lother “fish Nash expects will help the team im-
liately is Craig Buchmann, who was the Tennesse
I high school champ in the 50-and 100-yard freestyle
al amount ofuNtish also said he expects good things from sophomore
ince the \ljte Hoche. Hoche, who is from Vancouver in the
dian province of British Columbia, was third in the
west Conference championship two years ago as a
nee swimmer.
the women’s ledger, Nash said their strength also
fivith new recruits in the form of three junior college
”fers from California.
bbie Ross, Kelli Dealey and Shelley Carbone
up the California connection. Ross, a breast strok-
lished second in the always tough California State
Meet, while Carbone and Dealey competed in the
troke and freestyle. All three were junior college
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dn overTai NEW YORK — Jerry Reuss can’t
tat the coadi y Exactly how long the problem
;d lip in tbettisted, and he sure won’t use it as an
efor his 7-14 showing in 1979.
, “I wouldf B he knows is that a muscle group
ism.” the left side of his back had
esents us wllfophied, making it necessary for
aid SMU coatjHto work harder or wonder about
as us in tbeifjfiiture in the major leagues,
lave a lot of if It was a bit of an enigma, ” the Los
n awayfron nieles Dodger lefthander con-
and then tkjtaed. “There was stiffness. It could
change-up five been nerve damage. I don’t
■ throwing I) low. I did some exercises in spring
rtel). jjging.
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post an 18-6 record that included the
only no-hitter in the major leagues
this year. His performance gave him
32 of 50 votes cast by writers around
the country to win in a runaway
UPI’s Comeback Player of the Year
award for 1980 in the National
League.
Only Houston outfielder Cesar
Cedeno, who received four votes,
notched more than two.
Reuss is the second pitcher to be
honored as a Comeback Player this
year by UPI. Matt Keough, the
young starter for the Oakland A’s,
was named the winner in the Amer
ican League.
Reuss, baby-sitting for his son
Jason in Anaheim, Calif., when con
tacted by UPI, recalled his hours of
work and expressed satisfaction that
his efforts to pitch better in 1980
proved successful.
“I knew I was gonna have a good
year,’’ he said. “Just like you know
the sun is gonna shine in Southern
California, I knew I was going to
have a good year.”
His prediction came true to an ex
tent that, were it not for the excell
ence of Steve Carlton, he might have
won the Cy Young Award. Reuss
finished second to the Philadelphia
lefthander in that vote.
En route to compiling the out
standing won-lost record, Reuss
pitched 229 innings, allowing just
193 hits and 40 walks. He struck out
40 and posted a 2.52 ERA.
McGraw becomes free agent
THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7. 1980
Page 9
Green will manage ’81 Phils
Bill Miller, has been the development of freshman
walk-on Philis Burns from Brownsville. Already this
year she is the second fastest freestyler and Nash said
she has done an excellent job. Her strong showing
might be traced to her family ties, since her dad was
captain of the A&M swim team in 1954.
One woman who is not a new recruit but will help the
team again is junior Tracy Johnston. The two-year let-
terman from California competed in the AIAW national
meet last year in the breast stroke, but Nash said she can
swim any event.
The womens captains will be Gail Otten and Lilli
Cole, both senior freestylers.
Another integral part of swimming, but often over
looked, is diving and Nash said the Aggies will have a
strong diving team. John and Kirk Mason, identical
twins from Corpus Christi, both competed in the junior
national championships last year and give coach Dean
Hollingsworth some good young talent to work with.
Nash said the divers have to work outside and he
admires their dedication since the heating element in
the outdoor pool has been broken for some time. “It
really takes dedication to go out there with icycles on the
board,” he said.
Nash said another strength his team will have is their
tremendous team attitude. “Both teams really pull for
each and even our intra-squad matches have an exciting
atmosphere,” he said.
Nash said improvement is already evident. “During
our intra-squad match this year, we were posting faster
times than last year during January and February,
which is the peak part of the swim season,” he said.
The Aggies will be sending a traveling squad of 30
swimmers and four divers to New Orleans Saturday.
The women will start swimming at 11 a. m. and the men
will follow them at 2 p.m.
Assistant women’s coach Shirley Hill said she expects
the women will have no problem winning and the men
are capable, but will face a tougher test against the
Green Wave.
Hill also said a lot of people will surprise themselves
with good times during this first meet. One reason will
be because of the competitiveness that has been going
on in practice.
The Aggies will open the home season Nov. 14 against
TCU in Down’s Natatorium, starting at 4 p.m.
United Press International
PHILADELPHIA — Philadel
phia Phillies Manager Dallas Green
made it official Thursday — he’ll be
back as manager in 1981 trying for
the team’s second World Series
championship.
Green said at a press conference,
formally announcing his decision,
that he had decided “the best thing
is for Paul (Owens) up there and me
down there.”
Green, 46, made his decision after
a day-long meeting with team presi
dent Ruly Carpenter and Owens,
vice president for player personnel.
“I didn’t make any secret of my
preferences,” Green said, “I just
thought eventually, after our conver
sation, that it wasn’t right for a
change. Naturally winning is some
thing you have to consider so I hit
Ruly for a few extra bucks.”
Green’s salary wasn’t revealed but
it was believed to be about double
the reported $65,000 he earned last
season.
Owens said, “We decided that if
he didn’t want to manage he would
work with me. Deep down, though,
I knew he would come back. ”
Green said the working relation
between himself, Carpenter and
Owens, “is good for this baseball
team.”
“We’ve won with this team. We’ve
proven our guys can do the job, but
we might make a change or two to
perpetuate that winning.”
For 1981 Green said, “I think
we’ve got a chance to repeat. It’s that
simple. The goal I have is to repeat.
It would be kind of fun to go through
this again.
“Offensively, we want to continue
the team concept, to do the things
we have to do to win as a team,” he
continued. “My own personal feel
ing is we don’t need to make a lot of
changes. We have to make some be
cause we’ve got to strive to improve
the weakness of the ball club.”
Commenting on past frictions re
ported between himself and the
players, Green said, “They wanted
the same thing I did. It’s just a matter
of approaching it my way. They’d
been successful their way so it was
difficult to change. Now they know
my way may be more successful
than their way.”
Green led the Phillies to the tirst
World Series title in their 98-year
history but it was not an easy year for
him. He was often disturbed by the
laid-back attitude of his high-salaried
team and, at times, criticized his
players in the media. Some players,
in turn, offered return criticism.
After the Phillies’ six-game World
Series triumph over the Kansas City
Royals, Green said he didn’t know if
he’d be back, fueling a belief that he
would move into the vice president
position and that the 56-year-old
Owens would retire.
In other Phillie news, relief pitch
er Tug McGraw says he’s worth more
money now that the Phillies are
world champions, and he’s taken a
step in an attempt to beef up his
paycheck.
McGraw, one of the major contri
butors to the Phillies’ first-ever
championship, Wednesday declared
himself a free agent eligible for base
ball’s Nov. 13 re-entry draft.
The colorful lefthander, 36, said in
a statement the Phillies had not
made him an offer that would match
the salaries of the club’s other stars.
“My request to them was this: To
make me a proposal of salary compa
rable to those salary levels of the
other key players on the team,” said
McGraw’s statement, read by his
wife, Phyllis, from the couple’s home
in suburban Media.
“My contribution to the first world
championship in 97 years was equal
to that of any position or player on
the team. I want to be in the norm
with the salaries of these players. I
didn’t want this, but at this point
there is no other choice.”
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