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Page 14/The Battalion/Thursday, January 19, 1984 Aggies run at two meets Indoor track season opens By KAY MALLETT Sports writer Indoor track season opens this weekend for the Texas A&M men’s track team, but in two dif ferent places. The majority of the team will travel to Oklahoma City on Jan. 21 for the Sooner Indoor Re lays, a major indoor meet that head coach Charlie Thomas says the Aggies compete in every year. “It’s a real big meet that Okla homa City puts on every year,” Thomas said. There will be ab out 20 universities competing including almost all of the Southwest Conference teams. Thomas says the Aggies’ dis tance runners and high jumpers should do well in the meet. “We have three outstanding high jumpers with Chuck Perry,' Ethon Glass and Ernest Men dez,” Thomas said. “We also have some good long distance people. Andy Elliott does the mile run and our two-miler is Arturo Barrios. All of these guys have a chance to qualify for na- tionals in Oklahoma (this weekend).” But the Aggies’ 1600-meter relay team, which is composed of Chappelle Henderson, Ken- dric Wesley, Tony Grier and Tony Tolson and may have the best chance of all to compete na tionally, won’t be going to the Sooner Relays with the rest of the track team. Instead, assistant coach Ted Nelson will be taking them to Johnson City, Tenn., on Jan 20- 21 for the Eastman Invitational which is hosted by East Tennes see State University and is one of the biggest meets of the indoor season, Thomas said. “They have one of the best indoor tracks n the nation, most Arby V Satisfies The Aggie Appetite. Two Locations: Southwest Parkway/College Station/ Next to Pelican’s Wharf East 29th Street/Bryan/ 7 Across from Bryan High OFF THE CUFF BY BOB DODSON A fair-weather friend is one who’s always around when he needs you. The dollar doesn’t go very far these days, but what it lacks in distance it makes up in speed. 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( “We’re high on our mile relay J team,” Thomas said, “and we feel we’re good enough to qual ify for nationals if we run on a larger track.” He said the whole track team needs to make as many meets as possible before the SWC Indoor Relays in Austin Feb. 16. “Indoor season comes and goes so fast,” Thomas said. “The team is in pretty good shape right now, it just needs the prac tice on the indoor tracks.” Trout, redfish protected; Icy water has killed 650,000 United Press International AUSTIN — A loss of more than 650,000 redfish and speckled trout in the Decem ber freeze prompted the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission to announce ear lier this week a temporary re duction in bag and possession limits on the two species. The commission staff, call ing the Gulf coast fish kill “ex tensive,” estimated that at least 15.2 million fish, shrimp and crabs died in the icy wa ters. and more than More than half the fish kil led — about 7.5 million — were forage species such as mullet, pinfish and silver perch. But the agency estimated losses of 90,000 rechfish, 567,000 speckled trout, 225,000 black drum, 183,000 sheephead, 225,900 san seatr- out, 19,700 flounder, 160,000 croakers, 293,000 blue crabs shrimp. The commissi emergency regulation)! bag limit on redfishfn five and the possessiot from 20 to 10. The hi; on speckled trout wash from 20 to 10 and the sion limit from 40 tot The new roles also3 use of all trotlines, those used for bottoms and increases the mk size of all nets and drag! Dickerson wins awat United Press International NEW YORK — Eric Dicker- son, the record-breaking rookie for the Los Angeles Rams, out- polled collegiate star Mike Rozier Wednesday to earn top honors in the final quarterly bal lot to select the year’s outstand ing black athlete. Dickerson, a product of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, rushed for 1,808 yards in 1983, a record for a National Football League rookie. He re ceived 226 points in the ballot ing. Rozier, the Heisrnan Tro- E hy winner from Nebraska who as just negotiated a $3 million contract with the Pittsburgh Maulers of the United States Football League, finished second with 147. The award is known as the Gordon’s Gin Black Athlete of the Year and is chosen by a panel of black media experts. From the five black athletes, male or female, amateur or pro fessional, chosen in each quar terly ballot, a “super” group of five finalists will be selected and one of them will be ly for the $25,000cash a hand sculpted bromi Calvin Peete, the golfer to post $1 million! ings, was third with 8) Cheryl Miller, the 6-!i ball star from USCwas the final quarter with and Marvin Hagler with 57 points, havings ly defended his woi dleweight championshi Roberto Duran. k Unitei SAN 1 ic Elizafc Hurdler Moses given ■-starv; neral 1 Bie Cot Brt ml another type of medo n a o d to h ihy vict United Press International NEW YORK — Hurdler Edwin Moses, who has not lost a race in more than six years, won another competition Wednes day the fourth annual Jesse Owens International Amateur Athlete Award. The award, named after the legendary Olympian who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics in Munich, is given annually “to the athlete who best personifies excellence in athletic performance as well as sincere cooperation and understanding among peoples of all nations.” Previous winners include dis tance runner Mary Decker (1983), miler Sebastian Coe (1982) and speed skater Eric Heiden (1981). The 28-year-old Moses, who lives in Irvine, Calif., has won 87 consecutive races in the 400- meter hurdles. A gold medal winner in the 400 hurdles at the 1976 Olympics, Moses also won a gold medal at the World Track and Field Championships in Helsinki last summer. In addi tion, Moses owns the eight best 400-meter hurdle times ever re corded and 13 of the last 14. He WANT BETTER GRADES? Change the quality of your reading and study methods. READING EFFICIENCY a new non-credit course Sections meet Wednesday 10:00 to 12:00. $60 fee includes course materials. Register now in The Reading Lab Texae A&M 718 Harrington 846-6811 Wing v has not lost a race sinctlrantee of 1977. It he < “It’s a special honontjumy co this award because JesstHntaine was one of the first hcr4e citiz in track and field," L:pci<le. “He was our only nai erty in track and field more of an institulioo athlete. “I guess I first heai him in grade school,bur dreamed then I would track and field as a chi considered myself an rn ‘ a ”'. .... ^t Bou His willingness tol« contributed gready tol u a cess m an event hesaysi^,. people know mudiL . ; "They ^nowit’s alongliiikens has a lotofhurdlesmit,* Running the hurtlSHospi quires great disciplineai bold be who master it are pra beatable. He knows, that if! shape he is virtually ce take home another in the Summer Olympic Angeles. After all, tht j anyone out there whoc him, is there? “I don’t think so," M# “I hope not. Actually,Ith chances are very goodoi ing the 400 hurdlesintln pics. 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