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    Page 14 THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1981
Sports
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Group trying to move
bowl game to Houston
United Press International
HOUSTON — Houstonians
and Dallasites enjoy debates over
which is the better Texas city.
Now comes the debate over which
is the better site for the Southwest
Conference’s Cotton Bowl.
The proposal to move the game
to ffouston, which might give the
Cotton Bowl a $5 million payoff by
the 1983 game, pits two successful
businessmen — Lan Bentsen, the
son of Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, D-
Texas, against John Scovell of Dal
las. Both attended Harvard Busi
ness School after their undergra
duate studies at Southwest Con
ference schools.
Lan Bentsen, president of the
Greater Houston Bowl Associa
tion, said Tuesday his group’s offer
of $1 million a year to the SWC to
move the game from Dallas is a
“add-on” to the annual multimil-
lion-dollar payoff from the game’s
revenues.
He countered the scoffs of
Scovell, Cotton Bowl Athletic
Association president, saying
Southwest Conference schools —
not Scovell’s organization — will
determine whether the traditional
New Year’s Day game is moved to
Houston.
“It’s not that we’re trying to
steal something from the South
west Conference, Bentsen said.
“We re offering to give the game a
new home.”
A move of the Cotton Bowl
would require a vote of six or
seven member schools.
“In reading the bylaws, we’re
unsure exactly how many schools
have to vote to change a bylaw,”
Bentsen said.
Scovell has said, “They’ve
(Houston Bowl Association) got a
better chance of picking up the
Cotton Bowl itself than moving
the game to Houston.”
Bentsen said he had an hour
conversation with Scovell Sunday
and it “got pretty rough.”
Bentsen tried to counter argu
ments about the game being tradi
tionally played in Dallas by
saying, “Tradition is a measure of
the past. What we re talking about
is the future. People who don’t
differentiate between the past and
the future are in trouble.”
Bentsen’s group for years has
sponsored the Bluebonnet Bowl
and he said that game would be
replaced by the Cotton Bowl if the
game was to move.
“We want to establish a major
conference relationship,” Bentsen
said. “That’s the only way to get
into the Big Four of bowl games.”
Officials of the Houston bowl
group apprised the nine SWC
members of their proposed payoff
Saturday and a decision whether
to change the SWC bylaws, which
associate the game with the Dallas
stadium, probably will not be
made for months.
“My gut feeling is this thing is
going to come down to the alumni
living in Dallas pulling against the
alumni living in Houston,” Bent
sen said. “I can envision an alum
calling his school and saying,
‘Move the game to Houston and I
won’t contribute anymore. ”
A large portion of the Cotton
Bowl payoff is divided among
SWC member schools. Bentsen
said his $1 million a year payment
would be made on top of that
payoff and in advance of the game.
The Bluebonnet Bowl, which
annually is played on New Year’s
Eve between two at-large teams,
had a payoff last year of approxi
mately $400,000 a team.
The Houston bowl group has
given the conference until Jan. 11,
1982, to give an answer so its
members can raise the $1 million.
Members believe they can have
the money distributed in $110,000
increments to the schools by April
1982 before the first game would
be played in Houston after the
1982 season.
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Rangers
outlast
Mariners
United Press International
SEATTLE — Locker room con
versation by the Texas Rangers af
ter their win over Seattle Tuesday
in the Kingdome centered on the
exploits of two rookies, even
though veterans had supplied
most of the heroics.
Bobby Johnson and Wayne Tol-
leson each collected their first ma
jor league hit during a two-run,
ninth-inning rally that gave their
club some extra cushion in the 6-2
decision.
Johnson was pressed into ser
vice when starter Jim Sundeberg
was ejected for arguing over
whether he had swung at a third
strike during the seventh inning.
Johnson’s hit came in his second
time at bat in a Ranger uniform.
Tolleson filled in at third for
Buddy Bell, and his first major
league safety came on his third
trip to the plate in the game and
sixth of the season.
Still, it was a pair of 32-year-old
right-handers who combined their
pitching skills for the win, and it
was third-year outfielder Bill Sam
ple’s bat that provided the punch.
Starter Doc Medich, 10-6,
went seven innings, limiting the
Mariners to six singles. Jim Kern
finished up, giving up one more
harmless hit as he registered his
sixth save and second in as many
nights.
Sample’s three-run homer was
the game-winner, coming in the
second inning after Sundeberg
and Leon Roberts had walked.
Women’s soccer
team beats
SWTSU 8-0
The Texas A&M University
women’s soccer club shut out
Southwest Texas State University
8-0 Saturday in San Marcos, as
new coach Jim Butts opened the
season with an easy win.
Carol Smith led the effort with
three goals, while five of her team
mates scored one goal apiece.
Aggie goalie Lucy Bourne stopped
several Bobcat shots on goal en
route to the shutout.
Also scoring for the Aggies were
Jenny Engler, Carol Gittinger,
Sue Niles, Laura Estes and Lynn
Vester.
The club hosts Stephen F. Au
stin State University Saturday in
Kyle Field at 1 p.m. in its first
home match of the 1981 season.
Major League Baseball
American League
East
National League
East
Detroit
28
20
.583
—
St. Louis
26
21
.553
-
Milwaukee
28
21
.571
Vi
Montreal
26
22
.542
K
Boston
27
21
.563
1
Chicago
22
25
.468
%
Baltimore
25
22
.532
2 Vi
Philadelphia
22
25
.468
%
Cleveland
25
24
.510
3 Vi
New York
22
26
.458
4
New York
24
24
.500
4
Pittsburgh
20
29
.408
6K
Toronto
20
24
.455
6
West
West
Kansas City
27
21
.563
—
Houston
31
17
.646
-
Oakland
24
21
.533
114
Cincinnati
29
18
.617
Hi
Minnesota
23
26
.469
4 Vi
San Francisco
27
20
.574
in
Texas
21
25
.457
5
Los Angeles
25
23
.521
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Seattle
21
27
.438
6
Atlanta
22
25
.468
8«
California
19
27
.413
7
San Diego
14
35
.286
m
Chicago
20
29
.408
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Tuesday’s Results Wednesday’s Games Tuesday’s Results Wednesday Can
Texas 6, Seattle 2
Kansas City 4, Minnesota 2
Oakland 5, Toronto 1
Cleveland 3, New York 2
Detroit 14, Baltimore 0
California 5, Chicago 1
Boston 7, Milwaukee 2
Texas at Seattle
Kansas City at Minnesota
New York at Cleveland
Baltimore at Detroit
Boston at Milwaukee
California at Chicago
Toronto at Oakland
San Diego 2, Houston 1 Houston at Cincinna::
Los Angeles 5. Atlanta 3 St. Louis at Philadtl^.
Cincinnati 4, San Francisco 3 Montreal at Pittsbm'
New York 7, Philadelphia 0 San Francisco at Alki
Pittsburgh 10, Chicago 6 Chicago at NewYtti
St. Louis 8, Montreal 4 San Diego at Los Aapi
Astros lose home finale
United Press International
HOUSTON — San Diego
Padres pitchers Rick Wise and
Gary Lucas combined to make the
Houston Astros’ regular season
home finale a downer and to send
the firstplace Astros from town a
little less sure they would return
to play ball.
Starter Wise pitched 6 2-3 in
nings Tuesday allowing four hits,
and Lucas pitched near spotless
rehef the rest of the wav for a 2-1
win, and unless the Astros hold
their IVi game lead over the final
five games, the game was their last
at home this year.
Houston plays two games
against the second-place Cincin
nati Reds Wednesday and Thurs
day, and three final games against
first-half winner Los Angeles
Dodgers. Holding the lead means
Houston would open a best-of-five
divisional series in Houston next
Tuesday.
“Going to Cincinnati is like
playing the Los Angeles series last
year,” Astros right fielder Terry
Puhl said. “It’s a different style
series, though. Cincinnati is a dif
ferent style team than LA. They’re
a team that can blow you out.
They’re a scary team. If they’re up
for a series, watch out.”
The Astros feel they must split
the two-games at Cincinnati so
they do not venture to Los
Angeles trailing the Reds by V2 a
game. To play against the Reds as
they did against the Padres — 10
Astros hits in two games — would
be trouble, Puhl said.
“We’re got to play the same way
they came into Houston. They
played very, very tough," he said
of the Reds’ last scries in the
Astrodome.
While Houston’s hats were
slumbering, the Padres got to
pitcher Bob Knepper, 9-5, for two
runs in the first inning. Luis Sala
zar’s triple knocked in Gene
Richards, who had walked. And
then Salazar scored on Barry
Evans’ single.
Wise, 4-8, got the win, and the
only mark against him was an un
earned run in the second. Errors
by shortstop Ozzie Smith and
second baseman Juan Bonilla
allowed Cesar Cedcno to score
from third off Craig Reynolii
rifice fly.
Wise got Alan Ashby top
out with Jose Cruz on thirds
the sixth, and then with N
on first base and two out:
seventh, Lucas came on e
pinch hitter Gary Woods:
out.
Lucas picked up his 124|
and drew high praise from h
ger Frank Howard.
“We’ve had a rough year t
out Gary Lucas 1 donta
where we’d be. Every ma
ought to be fortunate en;.:
manage a Gary Lucas
Weigh tlifting club
loses close match
The Texas A&M Weightlifting
Club lost a close home meet with
Louisiana Tech’s Powerlifting
Team Saturday, but the competi
tion was close throughout the day.
Texas A&M lifters l^ane Tho
mas and Steve Bellotte successful
ly lifted all three of their attempts
in the squat, bench and deadlift,
with the 123-pound Thomas total
ing 816 pounds and the 132-pound
Bellotte lifting 882. Only 18
athletes competed in the event.
Other top Aggie totals in the
meet were 1450 lifted by Bubba
McGough (242-pound class), 1372
lifted by Jeff Schmidt (198-pound
class) and 1306 pounds life*
Mark Costa (220-pound cli
Two members of therW
compete Saturday in M
Cup Weightlifting meet, hi
Austin. Steve Lumpi"
attempt to break the W
deadlift world record d i
pounds in the 181-pound
class, while Freddy Cortes
to break the bench press rettr
325 pounds in the Ilf
weight group.
The Texas A&M clufc "fe
the Region IX collee:-::
Dec. 5.
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