sports Battalion/Page II December 8,1 Michael has no regrets < United Press International HONOLULU — Last year, they were on the same side of the fence. This year, they’re on opposite sides. It doesn’t matter. Gene Michael and Joe Altobeili are still good friends and obviously were having trouble settling this gigantic problem for which no body seemed to have the answer. “How many zeroes does it take to make a billion?” asked Altobeili, the new manager for the Baltimore Orioles who was the New York Yankees’ third POLO 50% Off Sweaters Reg. $ 63 NOW ONLY Shirts Reg. *34 NOW ONLY The Perfect Graduation Gift or Christmas Gift FRIDAY, Dec. 10 10 a.m.-5 p.m. AGGIELAND INN No checks, please. 28 95 23 95 base coach last year. Michael didn’t know the answer. The two-time Yankee skipper now handling special assignments for them, thought there might be six zeroes in a billion. “That’s only a million,” Altobeili threw cold water on Michael’s guess. Just then, Hank Peters, the general manager of the Orioles, passed by on his way to one of the sessions that make up the baseball meetings. “How many zeroes in a bil lion, Hank?” Michael put the question to him. Peters was a bit taken aback. He didn’t expect to be asked to do arithmetic homework out of the blue like this. Michael and Altobeili both gave Peters’ Looking at Michael and Altobeili, he scolded both for their mathematical deficiency. “You dumb guys,” he chided them. “You can’t even figure it out.” “That’s why we’re asking you,” Michael said. “I’m pretty sure there are nine zeroes in a billion,” Peters said. TS-O Prescriptions Filled Glasses Repaired BRYAN 216 N. Main.. 799-2786 Mon.-Fri. 8-5 Sat. 8-1 COLLEGE STATION 8008 Post Oak Mall.. 764-0010 Mon.-Sat. 10-9 p.m. Texas State » Optical k Since 1935. FLU VACCINE STUDY PARTICIPANTS BLOOD SAMPLE answer some thought. After all, he dealt with figures a lot more than they did. Pittsburgh’s Joe Brown came along and he was asked how many zeroes he thought there were in a billion. “I’d say nine,” he said. “It’s one thousand million, isn’t it?” Michael, who originally was property of the Pirates when he first began playing professional baseball, was convinced now. “You’re right,” he said to Brown. “Of course, I’m right,” Brown crowed. “I was right when I first signed you, wasn’t I?” Listening to the entire discus sion over how many zeroes actually made up a billion, Pe ters had an idea. “Let’s go ask Gene Autry,” he suggested. “He’ll know.” “That’s for sure,” Brown agreed. “He can even tell you how much interest there’s on it for one year.” They all laughed. The way figures that would only fit on a boxcar are being thrown around for some free agents like Floyd Bannister, Steve Garvey and Steve Kemp, it sounded as though Michael and Altobeili had run into their problem of how many zeroes there are in a billion while they were discussing the skyrocket ing salaries in baseball. But, it turned out the two of them were talking about football and how the NFL players will get $ 1.6 billion under their new con tract with the owners. The football players had argued they were the poorest- paid employees in professional sports. Maybe they were, but they aren’t anymore. Altogether, the 26 major- league clubs in baseball generate $330 million a year, and when you compare that with the NFL’s new contract, it means the foot ball players will now get the equivalent of what baseball gros ses for four years. Nonetheless, nobody’s thinking of running a benefit for the baseball players, either. People like Michael and Altobeili never made a whole lot of money as players. Neither was a star in the big leagues, and even if they had been it wouldn’t have mattered, because the sal ary structure in their day didn’t begin to approach what it is now. Aggie Ladies defealSn Cardinals; now 5-3 f° Jenni Edgar scored a game- high 21 points to lead the Aggie women’s basketball squad to a 65-57 victory over Lamar Tues day night in Beaumont. Texas A&M 5-3 on the sea son, led 32-24 at halftime, but had to hold off a late charge by the Cardinals to take the eight- point triumph. Lamar, which upset No. 16-ranked Arizona State while winning a tourna ment at the University of New Mexico last weekend, is now 4-2. The Aggie Ladies led throughout the game, but had to break through the Cardinal press during the final 10 mi nutes. Lamar moved to within 61-57 in the final seconds, but Texas A&M’s Ann Trinka hit four free throws to ice the vic tory. 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Beli really one Antonio S I For th United Press International SAN ANTONIO — Dallas has seen more victories this sea son than ever, but coach Dick Motta said the Mavericks played like an expansion team Tuesday night against San Antonio. “Tonight we played like an expansion team,” Motta said af ter the Mavericks took a 106-92 whipping by the Spurs. “All the turnovers made us look very young. We were six points down in the fourth quarter and we had three consecutive turnovers.” Spurs coach Stan Albeck, however, gave the 3-year-old Mavericks more credit. “They have a very good bas ketball team,” said Albeck. “1 think the time has passed that you can call Dallas an expansion team.” Albeck was pleased w-ith his team’s performance and parti cularly that of forward Bill Wil loughby, who came off the bench to tie his season-high 15 points on 7-of-14 shots and six rebounds. “Three people stuck out for us,” said Albeck. “Ice (George Gervin), Artis (Gilmore) and Willoughby. It was good to see Willoughby play a good game tonight.” Willoughby said: “I shot the ball well tonight, but when I’m open I’ve got to take the shot. We crashed the boards better tonight.” Gervin scored 14 of his 26 points on the third (juas ,paced bra put San Antonio up7M ! .in the big- the Mavericks scored tit .native. T five points of the final ft easier to before the Spurs broke in® ague. A; The Spurs outrebouniiapi them a Mavericks 50-41, inrlniliiiiK How ( 14 in the first half. Ifink Hii thing? 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Their previous loss was to UCLA. “This may be the greatest thing for us to play in a place like this, in front of a crowd like this,” said DePaul Coach Ray Meyer. “Our shots were very dis appointing. We panicked, our shot selection was very poor.” The Blue Demons hit just 43 percent from the floor. Illinois State, behind 23 points and 11 rebounds from Rick Lamb, shot 58 percent, including 68 percent in the second half. The Redbirds are 4-0 and fi gure to be a power in the Mis souri Valley Conference. United Before a sellout crowd of 8,068, Illinois State moved ahead for good, 58-56, on a bas ket by Raynard Malaine with 3:15 remaining. The Redbirds then sank 12 free throws in the final 2'/2 minutes to pull away. Kenny Patterson scored 14 points and Bernard Randolph added 13 for DePaul. Elsewhere in the Top 20, No. 2 Kentucky routed Detroit, 83- 46, and No. 7 Indiana beat Notre Dame, 68-52. 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