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Aggie gymnastics club
to form women's team
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By MELANIE WEINMANN
Reporter
Olympic gymnast Mary Lou
Retton would be proud.
For the first time since the
1970s, a women’s gymnastics
team will be formed to represent
Texas A&M at intercollegiate
competitions.
The A&M Gymnastics Club,
organized through the Universi
ty’s intramural department, plans
for the new women’s team to
compete mostly against other
Texas universities.
Although A&M has had a
men’s gymnastics team since the
late 1920s, the club’s first attempt
at sponsoring a women’s team in
the 70s was snort-lived.
Margaret Abadie, a Housto
nian and member of the club
since the Spring of ’84, says, in
the past, lack of funds has been
the biggest obstacle to establish
ing a women’s team.
The 15-member men’s gym
nast team, which began as the
“A&M College Tumbling Team,”
is well established, however. The
club has scrapbooks recording its
existence since 1928.
Ernie Kirkham, a lecturer in
A&M’s health and physical edu
cation department, helps coach
the men’s team and also serves as
the club’s adviser.
Although Kirkham is not re
sponsible for a rigidly enforced
program of practice and work
outs, he does give team members
guidance and advice about the va
rious skills each gymnast per
forms.
Abadie says Kirkham’s philoso
phy is one of “self-motivation.”
“Ernie knows the mechanics of
the different moves the guys are
working on,” Abadie says, “so he
can tell them what they’re doing
wrong and help them improve
themselves, but he doesn’t control
them.
“He believes a person should
push himself to his own limits, in
stead of being pushed.”
Because gymnastics is not offi
cially recognized as a varsity sport
by the Southwest Conference, the
team competes with other univer
sities through the Texas Gymnas
tics Conference.
The TGC sponsors meets be
tween state schools, but does not
provide for nationwide competi
tion.
A&M’s men’s team has been
quite successful, despite its lack of
notoriety. Last year, the Aggie
men finished first in state compe
tition.
The club hopes that the wom
en’s team, which should be ready
to compete in by the spring gym
nastics season, will be as success
ful as its male counterpart.
“Our main concern right now
Photo by MIKE SANCHEZ
Ernie Kirkham, A&M men’s gymnastics team adviser, suspends Eii-
chi Tsuneteo with a spotting belt during a recent practice. The
Texas A&M Gymnastics Club, which sponsors the men’s team, is
now planning to establish a women’s team for competition.
is recruiting more women to join
the club,” Abadie says. “Hope
fully some of the new members
will want to compete and will join
the team.”
Abadie believes that a lot of
people are hesitant to join the
club because they think they have
to be advanced gymnasts in order
to participate. She is quick to
point out, however, that the club
welcomes all students, no matter
what their level of ability. Ad
vance skill is not the club’s pri
mary interest, she says.
“Our main goal is to promote
gymnastics as a whole,” she says.
“Even though you do have to be a
member of the club to join one of
the teams, club membership does
not mean you automatically be
come part of the team. Competi
tion is completely voluntary.”
Club membership fees are $10
a semester. Payment of the fees
gives students the privilege to use
the gymnastic equipment found
in the Read Building, formerly
called East Kyle.
Students interested in joining
the A&M Gymnastics Club
should stop by room 307 in the
Read Building between 7:30 and
9 p.m., Monday through Thurs
day, when the club holds regu
larly scheduled workouts.
Cotton Bowl
Astro rally
surprises
Giants, 7-2
8th inning homer
keys Houston win
Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO—Jim Panko-
vits’ leadoff homer touched off a
four-run eighth-inning rally as the
Houston Astros defeated the San
Francisco Giants, 7-2, Wednesday.
The Astros, trailing 2-1 entering
the inning, knotted the score when
Pankovits ripped a 1-2 pitch over the
left-center field fence off reliever
Mark Davis. It was Pankovits’ fourth
homer of the year.
Davis, 5-12, then surrendered a
walk to Kevin Bass and Phil Garner’s
single moved Bass to third. John
Mizerock hit a bouncer between first
and second against a drawn-in in
field and Bass beat the throw to the
plate by second baseman Mike
Woodard for the go-ahead run.
The Astros added two more runs
on singles by pinch hitter Jerry
Mumphrey and relief pitcher Bill
Dawley, 5-3, who worked the last
three innings.
The game ended with a bench
clearing brawl in the ninth inning.
A’s 14, Rangers 3
ARLINGTON — Mike Davis,
Steve Henderson, Mike Heath and
Steve Kiefer hit home runs Wednes
day night as Oakland backed up Bill
Kreuger’s five-hit pitching with a 20-
hit attack as the A’s beat the Texas
Rangers, 14-3.
Heath also had three singles, bat
ted in two runs and scored three
times. Davis and Tony Phillips each
had three hits, and Davis also scored
three runs and drove in two.
Krueger, 9-10, pitched his second
complete game of the season, strik
ing out four and walking two. The
only runs he gave up came when
Steve Buechele led off the sixth with
his fifth homer of the season and
Larry Parrish added a two-run shot
in the ninth.
Loser Mike Mason, 8-15, lasted
only 3 1-3 innings, giving up four
runs on eight hits.
Other Wednesday games:
(Home team in capitals)
AMERICAN LEAGUE
DETROIT 4, Toronto 2
Milwaukee 1, NEW YORK 0
KANSAS CITY 4, California 0
CLEVELAND 12, Seattle 2
MINNESOTA 3, Chicago 1
IBoston-BALTIMORE (ppd. rain)
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Pittsburgh 9, CHICAGO 4 |
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.New York 5, ST. LOUIS 2
MONTREAL 3-2, Philadelphia 1-3
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, SAN DIEGO 5, Cincinnati 4
Atlanta-LOS ANGELES (n)
(continued from page 12)
to take away the right to play in a
bowl game.
Texas Christian recently dis
missed seven players after booster
Dick Lowe came clean and the
NCAA came calling. The scandal
won’t go away as former players con
tinue to tell tales of payoffs.
Texas A&M is awaiting an NCAA
visit to check out a Dallas television
station’s report that quarterback Ke
vin Murray got more than rooms,
board, and tuition.
Whose next? Nobody knows but
TCU and Texas A&M are two of the
five teams which talked to the
NCAA about SMU’s recruiting prac
tices. SMU has denied its attorneys
drew up a “hit list” of antagonists
and gave the NCAA information
about them.
“There’s been a lot of street talk
about who is playing in the Cotton
Bowl,” said Brock. “As of now, just
one team is on probation and I think
there will be eight teams left.
“Mainly, most of the talk you hear
is in jest about Rice. I’m sure the
Rice people don’t appreciate it. I can
remember when Rice was very for
midable.”
Brock admits a certain smudging
of the SWC image.
“Anytime there is negative public
ity about anything it tarnishes the
product but I think the league is
moving in the right direction clean
ing things up,” he said.
Brock begins his coast-to-coast
travel to find a guest team next
weekend. He is fresh off last season’s
bonanza when he landed the Boston
College Eagles and Heisman Trophy
winner Doug Flutie.
This year Brock will have to han
dle a lot of questions tibout the “out
law” conference he does business
with.
“I’ve already talked to some peo
ple across the country,” said
Brock.’Tve received notes from va^
rious people. They tell me they are
sorry about the problem.”
Brock, who has been said to have
the ability to charm rust off barbed
wire, tries to take a positive ap
proach.
“I still belieVe that from top to bot
tom we have the best coaches in the
country in the conference who are
trying to do what’s right,” he said.
“(TCU) Coach (Jim) Wacker’s move
to dismiss the players was a step in
the right direction.”
Brock said that sink-or-swim, the
Cotton Bowl will stand by the SWC:
“We chose to make our bed with
the Southwest Conference. It’s been
a great relationship that has made
the Cotton Bowl what it is today.
Whatever they decide on a confer
ence level is fine with us.
“In fact, they just might end up
being the leaders in this thing (clean
ing up recruiting). This all could be
for the best.”
There’s a country and western
song by Waylon Jennings that has
the line “ladies love outlaws like ba
bies love stray dogs.”
Brock will find out soon enough if
having a few outlaws in the SWC is
going to damage the good name of
the Cotton Bowl orjust make it more
intriguing.
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