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cut here Page 8/The Battalion/Tuesday, February 17,1987 Defensive Driving Course February 20, 21 and March 2, 3 Mots' Gooden agrees College Station Hilton f to offer of $1.5 million Pre-register by phone: 693-8178 Ticket deferral and 10% insurance discount cut here The Texas A&M Chapter of the Honor Society Phi Kappa Phi will hold its annual meeting at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday, February 19, 1987 in Rudder 402. All active members are encouraged to at tend. Contact Lenses NEW YORK (AP) — Former Cy Young Award winner Dwight Gooden of the New York Mets avoided salary arbitration Monday, agreeing to a 11.5 million contract, a raise of almost $200,000 after a dis appointing season. “We’re happy to reach agreement,” agent Jim Neader said from his offices in Tampa, Fla. “The contract represents a solid raise and keeps Dwight one of the game’s top paid players.” Neader asked for $1.8 million af ter Gooden went 17-6 with a 2.84 earned run average for the world champion Mets last season. The Mets, citing a dropoff from the pitcher’s 24-4, 1.53 Cy Young season in 1985, had offered the same $1.32 million the 2 2-year-old right-hander made last year. Gooden admitted that although his won-loss record was impressive, he was not entirely pleased with the way last season went for him. “Sometimes you try to do too much, try too hard instead of just be ing yourself,” he said. “Every year you try to better your standard and you over-try sometimes. You try to make up everything in one outing. I’ve got to go back to basics and work from there.” In addition to the drop in pitching production, Gooden’s year was punctuated by a December arrest when he was involved in a fight with Tampa police. He was charged with battery on a police officer, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct after he was stopped on an alleged traffic violation. He pleaded no contest to two felony charges and was placed on three years probation and re quired to perform 160 hours of com munity service. 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Mattingly, a Gold Glove win ner, batted .352 last season, sec ond best in the American League behind Boston’s Wade Boggs. He drove in 113 runs and set Yankee club records with 238 hits and 53 doubles. McReynolds, acquired by New York from San Diego in Decem ber, was looking for an $825,000 contract after hitting .288 with 26 home runs and 96 runs batted in for the Padres last year. The Mets countered at $625,000. Cox, 12-13 with a 2.90 earned run average for the Cardinals last year, asked for $875,000 while St. Louis came in at $600,000. Meanwhile, two pitchers, Cleveland’s Ken Schrom and Ted Power of Cincinnati, lost their ar bitration arguments, leaving management with 10 victories in the 16 cases decided so far. Arbitrator Richard Bloch, who on Friday had awarded a record $1 .85 million contract to Detroit pitcher Jack Morris, chose the fig ures submitted by the clubs in the cases of Power and Schrom. Power had sought $610,000 af ter a 10-6 season with a 3.70 ERA in 56 games last year. He will play instead for the Reds’ figure of $500,000. Schrom, who wanted $545,000 after going 14-7 with t 4.54 ERA in 34 games, was awarded the Indians’ offer of $450,000. Among other players who set tled their salary disputes before arbitration hearings were pitch ers Dwight Gooden of the Mets, Mike Smithson of Minnesota and Bob James of the Chicago White Sox. ment” of taminatic AP Top 20 ■ tors and; die rema I The o the task ( The Top Twenty teams In use Assoc* ing com! Press'coHege txaskettxili poH. withW-txH|trusted t< votes In parentheses total points boss: I: 20-19-18-17-16-15-14 13-12-11-10-9-8-7-6^1 3-2-1. record and last week's ranking Record 1. Nev.-Las Vegs (50)26-1 2.lndiana (8) 20-2 S.North Carolina (7) 23-2 4. DePaul 5. Tecnp!e 6. Purdue 7Jowa S.PIttsburgh 9-Syracuse 10. CIemson 11. Georgetown 12Alabama IS.OWahocna 14.llllnols 15. Kansas 16. TCU 17£>uke 18. Flo«1cla 19, Pr evidence 2051. John's Mustang baseball makes comeback as club squad DALLAS (AP) — The football program is in trouble, the track pro gram is being investigated by the NCAA, and the basketball team is in eighth place, but baseball is back at Southern Methodist University. No, there is no immediate chal lenge to such Southwest Conference ( lowers as Texas, the annual chal- enger for the NCAA title, or Texas A&M. In fact, the Mustangs lost 26-1 to tiny Northwood College the other day. This is “club baseball” at SMU. On a warm February day recently while the basketball team was losing 57-55 to Texas, the baseball team was working out and weeding through a list of 52 tryout players. They went to a batting cage where participants put in quarters and try to hit fastballs. Harold Kaufman, one of those who tried out for the team, said, “It’s just great to have the sport back on campus again. We realize it’s a long haul to become competitive. Maybe some day down the road SMU will be playing again in the conference. This is just the start.” Former Athletic Director Bob Hitch said baseball was dropped at SMU in the late 1970s when it be came too expensive. Scholarships at SMU cost about $8,000 a year and school officials de cided they didn’t want to spend that kind of money trying to keep up with Texas, A&M, Baylor and other SWC teams. “We couldn’t justify keeping the sport when we took a hard look at our athletic budget,” Hitch said. It should be a long, hard club sea son for the baseball Mustangs, who got only a bunt single against North- wood. SMU, the only SWC school with out an NCAA-sanctioned baseball program, took early floggings from North Texas, Texas-Arlington and Richland although they did nip Eastfield Junior College. There are a few good players on the team such as Russell Davis, an The ity sai at th< outfielder, who was puttingthe together. Davis is the coach; Nicklnij an assistant professor of cons nication arts at the school, is pitching coach. Geoff North,) student, is another coach. The team has to practice inpii tobs th parks, softball fields, or any t? ing abil area it can find. rests and cat don cat Detei Vestigat Accjli s yndroi There is no affiliation athletic department. There was some good nev Dallas corporation agreed to for enough money for uniform Jay Jones, a pitcher, said l can’t play good unless youfe good.” GAAP . 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