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Page 10/The Battalion/Wednesday, May 30, 1984 Pitcher makes Olympics United Press International HOUSTON — Rice pitcher Norm Charlton was notified Tuesday that he has been se lected for the 25-player U.S. Olympic baseball team, a Rice spokesman said. Charlton, a junior left hander from San Antonio, earned all-Southwest Confer ence honors this past season while posting an 11-5 record. His 11 victories set a Rice re cord and his 2.25 career earned run average is also an all-time Owl best. The 21-year-old Charlton is expected to be a high draft choice in the upcom ing draft by professional base ball. The spokesman for Rice said Charlton received a letter from Jack Stallings, the international vice president of the U.S. Base ball Federation, that he had been selected for the team. 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We will see you at once in our Internal waiting room—not an eternal waiting room. In addition to your medi- cal condition there’s some thing else we’re concerned about. It’s about time. (GET IT?) ■THE* Doctors office CAROLYN COKER ROSS, M.D. Call About: Seminar on Summer First Aid Sat. June 9 (696-9578) 4 p.m.-6p.m. 909 Southwest Parkway College Station, 696-9578 Mon.—Thurs. 9am—6pm Fri. & Sat. 9am—3pm 10% Discount on Any Medical Service With TAMU ID.! Charlton was to report to Louis ville June 11. Baseball is a demonstration sport in the Olympics this year in Los Angeles. Eight teams will participate in a tournament. Teams nationally ranked Ags named AII-AmenCs The 25-member U.S. team was scheduled to play a nation wide exhibition schedule prior to the Olympics. That schedule includes a July 14 date in the Astrodome. By DAVE SCOTT Sports editor 49ers sign linebacker to contract United Press International REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — The San Francisco 49ers have signed Texas A&M linebacker- safety Jeff Fuller, one of two fifth-round draft choices, to a three-year pact, a team spokes man said Tuesday. The team said they hoped Fuller would fill the role va cated by Bobby Leopold, who signed with the New Jersey Generals of the USFL. Defensive coordinator George Seifert said the team was impressed with the versatil ity Fuller showed at a minicamp earlier this month. Aggies are making somewhat of an assault on the All-America lists this year. Two A&M tennis team mem bers, Greg Hill and Grant Con nell, were named as an All- America doubles team, in golf Philip Parkin was named first team and Jorge Coglin honora ble mention, and recently wom en’s softball player Josie Carter was named an All-America and pitcher Shawn Andaya and third baseman were selected on the second team. Netters Hill and Connell qualified for their All-America list by making it to the quarterfi nals of the NCAA Tennis championship. They are the first tennis All-America’s from A&M. Greg Hill Grant Connell Parkin is a sophomore from Great Britain who is almost as suredly going to turn pro next year. The Aggie golf team fin ished 10th in the nation at the NCAA tournament held this past weekend in Houston at the Bear Creek Country Club. It is the fourth straight top ten fin ish for the team. Houston won the national championship, coming from behind in the last round to beat Oklahoma State and Oklahoma. Jorge Coglan was the Aggies top individual with a four- round score of 289 (69,79,71,70). Parkin finished with a 290 (72,74,72,72). The highest individual score was a 271, turned in by John Inman of North Carolina. The tennis duo of Hill and Connell played their first match against the doubles team from USC, who were Pac-10 cham pions. Hill and Connell soundly defeated them 6-2, 6-1. Their next match was against the same Arkansas team that had defeated Hill and Connell in the finals of the Southwest Con ference tournament. Hill and Connell won 6-3, 6-3. In the quarterfinal match, the No. 33 ranked Hill and Connell fell to the No. 3 ranked team from Georgia. Hill and Connell also com peted in simgles competition in the NCAA’s, both losing in the first round. Hill to Greg Logan of Utah, 2-6, 7-6, 6-2, and Con nell to Adam Abele of Purdue, 6-4, 6-4. Hill, a junior, Finished the season ranked No. 31 in the na tion. the highest ever by an Ag gie and Connell, a freshman, finished No. 47. Coach David Kent didn’t really expect the play that he got frotnCl In fact, Kent said thatti to convince him to platI where else. “I tried to encourage! go to Louisiana Teckl said, “because 1 didn’t til was good enough to pla! Shows you how much Ur! But Kent does knon! He directed the team a ft tional ranking of the highest in the schoti lory. Kent said he was plea* the teams finish, but h higher goals setfornextti “We look to go up,’ said. “We want to beat! team next year and winj ence. Winning the confea probably a loftier goal." This season the Agg* ished fourth in the % hind Arkansas, Texas SMU. Vol. 7i Kent has Kimmo All turning next yearaftera the Finnish Army. Alii the SWC doubles chant| last year. However fn Joey Perry, the No. player on the team, is ing back to A&M. Defensive back coach Ray Rhodes added: “He has every thing that you look for in an athlete. He has good size and speed, great leaping ability, plus a nose for the football.” The Dallas native played de fensive back for Texas A&M be fore moving to linebacker one game into his junior year. He led the team in tackles that sea son with 90, including 75 solo stops. He also picked off four passes and had two quarterback sacks. Last season, he had a total of 55 tackles and three intercep tions. ‘The Natural’ not so natural United Press International NEW YORK — In the opening sequence of the film adaptation of Bernard Malamud’s “The Natural,” a young boy is shag ging flies in a wheat field. While beautifully filmed in slow motion, it’s the wrong set ting. In keeping with the alle gorical references that filter through Malamud’s printed condominiums CRIPPLE CREEK CONDOMINIUMS have a limited number of one bedroom and one bedroom/studios available for fall. Enjoy a pool, tennis courts, hot tub, w/d conn., ventilated shelving, large walk-in closets and right on shut tle bus route. One bedrooms from $345. 904 Univ. Oaks #56 College Station m 764-0504 MCTROfftOrCRTIfS MAMAGCMCNT INC work, a corn field would have been much more appropriate. Because what we have here in the next two plus hours is pure corn ... right off the stalk and ready for shucking. Actually, it’s more of a corn chowder, a potpourri of all the cliches from every baseball film and novel that was ever made. A dab of “Damn Yankees,” a bit of “Casey at the Bat,” a pinch of the “Lou Gehrig Story,” a smid gen of “Angels in the Outfield” and a spoonful of “Highpock- ets.” Throw in a dash of two of baseball’s darkest moments — the Black Sox’ scandal and the Eddie Waitkus shooting — and MMM AUTO INSURANCE FOR AGGIES Call: George Webb Farmers Insurance Group 3400 S. College 823 8051 When Is Your Selling No Secret At All? WHEN OVER 30,000 PEOPLE READ IT IN THE BATTALION If you've got something to ►ell . . . we’ll get your mes sage across! And our big readership guarantees you lots of prospects! 845-2611 one of its most glorious inci dents — Bobby Thomson’s homer — and all the bases are touched. Malamud’s novel is consid ered one of the best books about baseball ever written, a home run of its genre. The movie is a foul ball, albeit a loud one. There is, of course, a prob lem in transposing the literate work of a writer like Malamud to the screen. He deals a great deal in symbolism and what the mind’s eye perceives often can not be put into focus for the naked eye. This is essentially the trouble with the screenplay by Robert Towne and Phil Dusenberry. Malamud’s metaphors and alle gories, while provocative in print, are often laughable on the big screen. Not that the actors don’t try to make the novel work. Robert Redford as the hero Roy Hobbs and Glenn Close, who plays the girl he left behind, bring plenty of depth to their roles. Redford is especially convincing as the innocent farm boy dealt a bad hand as a teen-ager who grad ually matures into a self-confi dent man of impeccable integ rity. Academy Award winner Robert Duvall, as a sports .writer-cartoonist, and Joe Dor^ him ... a la Eddie Waitkus. Now the story flashesi 16 years and the boyisi man who still harbon dream of playing majork baseball. Only thistimelit his fortune as a hiltn catches on with the worn in the major leagues, iht York Knights. Reluctanu to give this 34-year-oldro chance to play, the mam nally relents and Hobbs out to lie the greatest game has ever seen. Hobbs, you see, do merely hit balls hard-bt sionally breaks them. Ink jor league debut, as he is ing up to the plateacoad to him, “knock thecovero ball, Roy.” So what does do? Why, he literally kn« cover off the ball and tk fielders go chasing a l yarn. Also, whenever Roy up in the clutch withsom to prove, we knowhe’sgt hit a homer because a gre of lightning cracks aero sky just before the pi thrown. Text in lines ramp, overpa: register Late He re By HOT. 1! Ready lor a hot time on the old town tonight? How about J. T. McCord’s? Home to not only the best burgers around, J. T. McCord's cooks up some of the most v* mouth-watering ~ Mexican dishes to be found. Try a Chimichanga or our famous Almost Fajitas. The traditionalists can take comfort in a El Grande Burrito, or the more daring can light their fire with Lupe’s Quesadillas. Enjoy any of our south-of- the-border dishes and you'll have warm memories of a delicious meal at J. T. McCord's. 2232 S. Texas Avenue at Brentwood Brazos Square Shopping Center College Station Also visit Dallas, Plano, Waco, Lubbock •Baker, in a cameo role as “The Whammer,” a Babe Ruth tin type, also turn in first rate per formances. The story is about an 18- year-old boy with a natural gift for throwing a baseball who leaves the farm and his girlf riend to go out and seek his for tune in the game he loves more than anything. But a not-so- funny thing happens on his way to the big leagues. He falls for a girl whom he meets on a train and the girl turns out to be psy cho, who invites him to her ho tel room then promptly shoots | Two a] tenders ir ions for t ‘ace and tl . , pngressio Talk about telegraphinj §ecount. pitch. I U.S. Re As a ballplayer, Redto defeated i good all-round athlete, |j,s. Sena better than most of the quested a members of his acting fra# ivotes that; who have starred in filnisi t ett a s jj n ' baseball. That’s probaWl Lubbock c cause he played a lot of llection. as a youngster. Producer Markjohnso® “With th director Barry Levinsoolittothe vot taken great steps to ensiifers, every< thenticity. “The Naturaljlong hour in the 1930s, and Buffalojgiven mom Memorial Stadium, builtfa statewide ‘30s, is the backdrop f® Unoffici; baseball scenes. And thef Hance run hired to portray playeisj managers include formerl leaguers Phil Mankowsil Charbonneau and SibbySi It’s too bad the entir| wasn’t as natural. SPECIAL NOTICE 1st SUMMER SESSION OPTIONAL BOARD PLAN P9 votes, ance ext .argin to 4 iled by si; '°ggett ga v Ptes, or 5( *i> a total o entfor Ha The recr Pance aboi F says tha tfcount mu Despite on campus, off campus, and grs may dine on meal plan during the Students, uate, Summer Session at TAMU. Students selectii the 7-day plan may dine three meals each (hi except Sunday evening: Those selecting the day plan may dine three meals each day, M( day through Friday. Meals will be served Commons. Fees are payable to the Controll 1 of Accounts, Fiscal Office Coke Building. Notice dates: Commons will be open fore* business on Registration day, June 4. Me plans will begin on the first day of class, June 7 Day Fees for each plan are as follows: $215.00 5 day $188.00 June 5 through July3 and July 5 and 11 ■ Lot Spoo Stc Calvt Meal plan validation will begin at 7:30 a.m., June5, Commons Lobby. Fee slips will be required. No genq