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Monday, January 16, 1984/The Battalion/Page 17
Photo finish
Less than inch splits top runners
at marathon's controversial finish
build on skills
holiday break
By KAY MALLETT
Sports writer
The Texas A&M men’s bas-
letball learn spent most of the
Christmas holidays on the road,
ds put juildingits record to 8-6 for the
ieasonand 2-1 in the conference
jefore the Houston game.
Coach Shelby Metcalf said
he team used the pre-
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n shape.
“We need lo get fundamen-
ally sound and then we can
mild on that,” he said. “Regard-
Ifense.i essof what you end up with, you
kept ten ilways rely on your bread and
heirouitfjutter.”
The Aggies travelled to
Sloomington, Ind. for the
ive slrai fenth Annual Indiana Classic
in Dec. 16-17.
A&M lost the first game in
he tourney against Indiana, but
capital inished the tournament with a
swflvin over Utah State.
“Utah was probably the best
[ante we played this year,” Mel-
alfsaid. “Kenny Brown shot ex-
remely well. He’s not a streak
hooter, but when he gets his
hythm, he can’t miss.”
Brown and Jimmie Gilbert
ed A&M in points and re-
'ounds respectively and Brown
cceived all-tournament honors.
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The Music City Invitational
Tournament in Nashville,
Term., saw the Aggies experi
ence another first-game setback
with a loss to South Florida.
The Aggies finished that
tournament with a win against
Air Force. Brown was high point
in both tournament games and
was again elected all
tournament.
Southwest Conference com
petition began Jan. 4 against the
Rice Owls in Houston.
A&M won its conference
opener 52-47 with a game that
was characterized by five lead
changes in the first half. The
Aggies led steadily throughout
the second half.
The second conference game
resulted in a 77-54 loss to the
Arkansas Razorbacks in Fayette
ville. Gilbert and Darnell Wil
liams led the Aggies in scoring
with 13 points each.
A&M played the first of five
home games Jan. 9 in a non
conference match against Ange
lo State. The 2,000 plus fans
were not disappointed as A&M
leapt to a nine point lead late in
the first half.
The Aggies upped their con
ference record to 2-1 with a 63-
52 home court win over the
Baylor Bears.
“It was a good win for us,”
Metcalf said. “Todd Holloway
had his best game in a long time
and Gilbert just keeps getting
better.”
Metcalf said the team had ma
tured a lot in the last two weeks.
“1 think we’re probably ahead
of the schedule to be honest,” he
said. Two weeks ago the Aggies
wouldn’t have been able to play
the game against the Cougars
that they played, Metcalf said.
United Press International
HOUSTON — English mid
dle-distance runner Charlie
Spedding ran down Italian
Olympic marathoner Massimo
Magnani in the final three miles
and lunged ahead of him at the
tape Sunday to win the 12th
Houston Marathon in a close
finish that Magnani disputed.
Race officials, who did not
have an official camera to decide
in such a case, huddled for 15
minutes before awarding the
$20,000 first prize to the En
glishman. He was timed in
2:11:53 in the first marathon he
has ever run.
Magnani was listed in a time
of 2:1 1:54, but the distance be
tween the two runners at the
tape was no more than an inch,
judges said.
Spedding said he could not
say for sure who had won. Mag
nani said he knew.
“I hit the tape first and car
ried it on my chest,” he said.
Magnani, a two-time Olym
pian who finished better than
14th at Montreal and Moscow,
said he will protest the outcome
lo The Athletic Congress, which
sanctioned the race, and the In
ternational Association of Athle
tic Federations.
Norway’s Ingrid Kristiansen,
running in 36-degree cold that
she said reminded her of the
weather at home, easily outdis
tanced the women in the 4,000-
person field to win in a course-
record 2:27:51, more than five
minutes better than the winning
time she posted a year ago while
three-months pregnant.
In the mens division, Mark
Finucane of Johnson City, Ind.,
was third in 2:11:55 and John
Wellerding of Bettendorf, Iowa,
was fourth in 2:12:05. Three
others runners beat 2:13:00.
From the mid-point of the
race on, Magnani, a two-time
Olympic marathoner, traded
the lead with Wellerding. At the
23-mile sign, the two were 75
yards ahead of 15 runners.
From there, however, Sped
ding began making up ground.
He blew past Wellerding and
then in final 50 yards he made
up three strides on Magnani. He
did not lead until the final step.
“Four judges at the finish line
saw Spedding the winner,” race
director David Hannah said.
“They all said he lunged at the
tape and hit it first with his
chest.”
Hannah’s official statement
came an hour after he met with
judges. In the huddle where the
winner was decided, U PI
learned two judges closest to the
finish said Spedding won but
could not be sure. They said the)
would be satisfied to call the race
a draw.
Moments later, an unidenti
fied judge said he talked to two
other persons right at the finish,
and they said Spedding hit the
tape first. That news changed
the group’s opinion, and Han
nah awarded the race to Sped-
ding.
A pleased Spedding, of
Durham in northeast England,
said his training as a 10-
kilometer runner taught him at
the finish to run through the
tape and not just to it.
“I’m obviously very pleased
with the way I ran. This race was
an experiment with me just to
see what I could do,” he said.
“This convinces me I should try
to make the Olympic team.”
In 1982, Spedding won the
British 10,000 meter champion
ship. Until the final seconds
Sunday, he never considered
that he could win.
“I thought was running for
third from about 18 miles on.
The two guys were so far
ahead,” he said.
Of the finish, he said, “I
didn’t know who' won. As I’ve
been taught, you look straight
ahead and run straight at the
crowd. I didn’t know where the
finish line was. I wasn’t looking
for it.”
He said in the moments after
the race, he looked at Magnani
and shrugged as if to say he did
not know who won.
“I knew' that I passed him, but
1 didn’t know if it was in time. He
thought he had won,” Spedding
said.
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