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THE BATTALION Page 11 MONDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1981 s i,”Rf :s just It 14 weit Staff photo by Greg Wafermann Touchdown excitement Texas A&M wide receiver Jimmie Williams motions happily to a teammate after scoring on a 38-yard touchdown pass from Gary Kubiak late in the second quarter of the Aggies’ 33-16 Independence Bowl win over Oklahoma State. Williams caught two touchdown passes during the game, with five receptions for 118 yards. bootu SVFC schools must make decision iS by Jan. 11 on Cotton Bowl move vayv United Press International DALLAS -— The nine Soutli- ;st Conference schools have un til Jan. 11 to give an answer to a oup of Houston businessmen jho want to lure the Cotton Bowl out of Dallas to the Astrodome. I And although there was no in dication that the attempt would he Iiccessful, those who attended the SWC’s annual winter meeting last weekend said they were going to give the proposal serious study. This is a sensitive matter,” said Dr. Jim Castaneda, faculty representative from Rice and cur- cub' fent president of the SWC. “It was nivefr presented seriously and we should !. seat it seriously. ” I ^ an Bentsen, son of U.S. Sen. l c Cf jlloyd Bentsen, made his groups J'esentation to the conference officials. I “The media have not taken this too seriously,” said Castaneda. But this was the first time it has been on our agenda. They (the businessmen) will get a reply safe ly ahead of their deadline. ” the loss- bylw been J ;hootin< ;comin! asnuif 13-1 ;r I tra 1 ***** ! lenem efficient nome? Kuhn’s days as commissioner may be short, say NL owners By MILTON RICHMAN United Press International NEW YORK — On Ronald Reagan’s desk in the White House, there’s an imposing look ing glass paperweight that has these words inscribed: The buck- eroo stops here. On Bowie Kuhn’s desk in Rock efeller Center, he has a collection of autographed baseballs, yet he can empathize completely with the president in regard to where the buck stops. Whenever things are going bad in the country, Reagan usually gets the blame and anytime they happen to be going well, every body else immediately looks to take the credit. You know how that goes. Defeat is an orphan and victory has a million fathers. Bowie Kuhn has grown used to that in his 13 years as baseball commissioner. It goes with the territory, he says. So he wasn’t exactly astonished over the move by a group of owners at last week’s baseball meetings in Hollywood, Fla., to have him replaced as com missioner. What surprised him more than anything else was that the minority movement against him originated among National League owners, when in the past, he generally was a target of dissi dents in the American League. All the details of what went on in Hollywood have not been made public yet. When they eventually do come out, baseball’s entire Structure very likely will be changed and Kuhn no longer will be presiding over it as its key cen tral figure. One of the biggest criticisms of Kuhn was his posture during last summer’s baseball strike. The feeling among many was that he didn’t do enough to bring the strike to a quicker conclusion. The fact that he didn’t have the power to do so under the iron-clad labor relations policy existing between the owners and the Players Asso ciation didn’t seem to matter to his critics. They kept clamoring for him to “do something” even though they knew in their hearts he couldn’t because he didn’t have the authority. Personally, I haven’t agreed with all the actions Kuhn has taken since he first was named commis sioner in February 1969, nor do I think he has the answer for all of baseball’s problems. But on ba lance alone and in the face of facts, it strikes me he has done as good as job as could have been accom plished under the circumstances, and he should be lauded more than he has been skewered. Think back to when he first re placed “The Unknown Soldier,” Gen. William D. Eckert, if you can remember that far back. The cry at the time was: “Baseball is dying.” Today, nobody says that anymore. Nobody can. Before this year, which you can throw out because of the strike, baseball drew 43 mil lion fans in 1979 and 1980, and for those wha might be reluctant to attribute any of that success to Kuhn, they should bear in mind that baseball hadn’t drawn as many as 30 million in any season before he became commissioner. Don’t forget television, either. Under Kuhn’s stewardship, base ball’s revenue from national TV has increased to where it is now, in excess of $50 million annually. He certainly has to get at least a por tion of the credit for that. No matter what, and that takes in this year’s 50-day strike, base ball is enjoying a healthier accept ance from the fans than ever be fore and in the final assessment of Kuhn, that should be the bottom line. Quite likely, it will not be, come Judgment Day. Kuhn, it seems to me, has done his job as fairly and honestly as humanly possible, without show ing partiality to either the owners or the players, and for evidence of that there are the suspensions he imposed on such owners as George Steinbrenner and Ted Turner and players like Ferguson Jenkins and Denny McLain. So far, he has managed to pre vail. The possibility keeps grow ing that he will not be re-elected five months from now. Even if he isn’t, he can always look back with a wry smile and at least boast one thing — nobody was able to force him to put on his overcoat at a ballgame. GOOOQOQOOOOQOQOO CAMPUS Now Showing! If Looks Could Kill.. Looker Merry Christmas Ags! 7:40 9:50' ooooooooooqoooqg MANOR EAST! 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