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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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.
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was good enough to pla!
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Kent has Kimmo All
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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.”
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fensive back for Texas A&M be
fore moving to linebacker one
game into his junior year. He
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son with 90, including 75 solo
stops. He also picked off four
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tions.
‘The Natural’ not so natural
United Press International
NEW YORK — In the opening
sequence of the film adaptation
of Bernard Malamud’s “The
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slow motion, it’s the wrong set
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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
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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
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wasn’t as natural.
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