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Aggies face Baylor
in SWC action tonight
The Texas A&M men’s basket
ball team, coming off a 58-53 up
set of Southern Methodist last
week, will try to stay on the win
ning track against Baylor tonight
at 7:30 in the Heart of Texas Col
iseum in Waco.
The Aggies, 9-6 overall and 1-0
in Southwest Conference play,
will return home to G. Rollie
White Coliseum for a 1 p.m.
game against Arkansas Saturday.
The game will be regionally tele
vised by Raycom.
Last year’s first meeting be
tween the Bears and Aggies in
College Station was marred by a
fight that cleared the benches
during the last seconds of the
game. Baylor won 51-48 on a last-
second shot by guard Michael
Williams.
The Aggies lost again in Waco,
but massacred the Bears 71-46 in
the finals of the SWC Tourna
ment in Dallas.
Donald Thompson
Darryl McDonald is A&M’s top
scorer, averaging 18.9 points a
game. He also leads the Aggies
with 77 assists, 50 steals and 7
blocked shots. Donald Thompson
is the Aggies’ No. 1 rebounder
with 8.3 a game.
Baylor is led by senior center
Darryl Middleton, who is averag
ing 19.6 points per game and 8.4
rebounds.
NCAA convention says no to playoff
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Col
lege fans failed to get a football play
off from the NCAA convention
Tuesday, but needy players picked
up $500 each in funding.
Division I-A officials, as expected,
overwhelmingly reaffirmed their
opposition even to further dis
cussion of a football championship
— for now.
“The time is not right, the place is
not right and the circumstances are
just not right,” Duke Athletic Direc
tor Tom Butters said.
Butters prepared a playoff study
for the College Football Association
which helped sink any chance the
resolution ever had.
“A time is coming when every
thing will be right,” Butters said, de
clining specifics. “The resolution is
dead. The issue is not.”
Division I schools spent much of
Tuesday afternoon’s session debat
ing a touchy proposal to give more
federal entitlement money to ath
letes from poor backgrounds.
Students who qualify are eligible
for as much as $2,100 each year in
Pell Grant money. But NCAA
schools have voted at previous con
ventions to limit scholarship athletes
to $900 in Pell Grant money each
year.
That was raised to $1,400 after
Tuesday after Vanderbilt athletic di
rector Roy Cramer helped defeat a
move to refer the proposal to next
year.
“If they qualify for $1,400, let’s
get the financial aid officer to award
that, so that that young man and
young woman that I look in the face,
I don’t have to say, ‘I’m sorry, we’re
going to refer.’
“That means a lot to a person who
has nothing in his pocket, I’ll tell
you. If they’re entitled to it, they
ought to receive it.”
Supporters of the move also ar
gued the extra money might keep
raf, Mandtikova advance in Australian play
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) —
bp-seeded Steffi Graf and defend-
§§ig champion Hana Mandlikova
Both scored rapid victories Tuesday
u> advance to the second round of
Bie women’s singles of the $1.9 mil-
Bon Australian Open Tennis Cham-
Bionships.
I Graf recorded a 6-3, 6-1 Center
Bourt triumph over Amy Jonsson of
Biorway, who is ranked 1 76th in the
Borld.
1 Mandlikova, a native of Czecho-
Bovakia who took out Australian cit-
Benship three weeks ago, romped
Bast former French Open champion
Blima Jausovec of Yugoslavia 6-4, 6-
B on an outside court.
I Graf, 18, said she was feeling no
pressure going into the first Grand
Blam event of the year defending
BerNo. 1 ranking.
I “You get used to being No. 1
fail ly quickly,” she said.
I Graf said she had been deter
mined not to underestimate the
little-known Jonsson.
I “I take every match very seriously.
Today wasn’t easy. She was left-
handed and her serve gave me some
problems,” the West German said.
Graf dominated Jonsson with
some blistering groundstrokes, par
ticularly on the forehand.
The match was interrupted by
rain at 2-0 in the second set, but re
sumed after a delay of 15 minutes.
Graf criticized the newly-intro
duced South Korean-made Nassau
balls, which she said were heavy.
The fifth-seeded Mandlikova,
playing her first major event as an
Australian, was watched by only a
handful of fans on an outside court.
“Don’t ask me how it feels to be
playing as an Australian. Ask me af
ter I’ve played my next match,” she
said.
Other seeds advancing in the
women’s singles Tuesday included
No. 6 Helena Sukova of Czechoslo
vakia, who defeated American Jamie
Colder 6-2, 6-2, and Lori McNeil,
who stopped fellow American Dee
Ann Hansel 6-2, 6-1.
But Heather Ludloff of Foster
City, Calif., surprised 16th-seeded
Elizabeth Smylie of Australia 6-1, 6-
3.
Martina Navratilova and Chris
Evert, seeded second and third, won
their opening matches on Monday,
the first day of the two-week tourna
ment, the first to be played at the
new $60 million National Tennis
Center on synthetic Rebound Ace
hardcourts.
In men’s singles action Tuesday,
No. 7 Henri Leconte of France, No.
14 Jonas B. Svensson of Sweden and
No. 16 Wally Masur of Australia all
advanced.
Temperatures approached 100
degrees fahrenheit early in the day,
but clouds cooled the temperature
and it rained briefly midway
through the afternoon.
Leconte defeated Australian Peter
Carter 6-1, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4; Svensson
crushed Bruce Derlin of New Zea
land 6-0, 6-1, 6-0, while Masur beat
Thomas Hogstedt of Sweden 6-3, 6-
4,3-6, 6-1.
Australian Brod Dyke upset
players from taking illegal payments
from agents.
“This will have an affect on the
agent problem, a little bit,” said
Gene Corrigan, commissioner of the
Atlantic Coast Conference.
“This, along with education and
the other things people are working
on. Whether it will have a dramatic
affect, I don’t know.
“But none of us wanted to go back
to our campuses and say to the kids,
‘I’m sorry, but we weren’t able to
help you again this year. We have to
do a study.’ ”
By a vote of 98-13, with one
abstention, Division I-A passed the
resolution ordering the Postseason
Football Subcommittee to “disconti
nue its consideration” of a one-game
playoff.
“This means we will not discuss a
I-A championship in the immediate
future,” said DeLoss Dodds, Texas
athletic director and chairman of the
subcommittee.
The vote was a major victory for
the postseason bowl games, who face
another possible crisis Wednesday
when schools vote on doing away
with the rule that says bowl bids can
not be offered or accepted until late-
November.
Earlier in the morning session, the
major football schools compromised
among each other on whether to
move the one-year limit on football
scholarships back to 30.
A reduction to 25 was due to take
affect during this current recruiting
year. But the Big Eight Conference,
abandoning its effort to restore the
30 limit permanently, pushed
through an amendment delaying the
cut to 25 until next year.
“It’S not exactly what we wanted,
but this gives us another year under
the status quo and I’m sure there’ll
be another measure at next year’s
convention,” Big Eight Commis
sioner Carl James said.
ninth-seeded Jakob Hlasek of Swit
zerland 6-3, 6-3, 6-4.
“It’s always good to beat a seed,
but the hot weather favored me be
cause my fitness became a factor,”
Dyke said.
Dyke is ranked 103rd in the world
to Hlasek’s 24th.
Other first-round men’s singles
winners Tuesday included Ameri
can Jim Pugh, Nigerian Tony Mmoh
and Australian veteran Paul McNa-
mee.
Pugh eased past Australian Brad
Drewett 6-4, 6-2, 7-5; Mmoh ousted
American Bud Cox 6-3, 6-3, 6-3;
and McNamee cruised to a 6-3, 6-3,
6-3 triumph over Texan Bill Scan
lon.
A two-time Wimbledon doubles
champion, McNamee, 33, is playing
in his final Nabisco Grand Pnx tour
nament before retiring.
Among Monday’s winners in the
men’s singles were top-seeded Ivan
Lendl and Wimbledon champion
Pat Cash.
Pokes begin efforts
to trade Tony Dorsett
IRVING (AP) — Coach Tom
Landry ruled out getting a first-
round draft pick for Tony Dor-
sett but said Tuesday he hopes
the Dallas Cowboys can get a
solid, journeyman player when
they put their 33-year-old run
ning back on the trading block
soon.
Landry told Dorsett on Mon
day he will try to work out a trade
for the 11-year veteran who lost
his starting tailback job to Hers-
chel Walker.
“We’ll test the trade market
and see what is best for Tony and
what is best for the team,” Landry
said. “Obviously, we won’t get a
first-round pick because of To
ny’s age. Maybe we can trade for
a player. Maybe there is a player
out there who can help us. We
need help in a lot of positions.”
Landry said Dorsett’s age “will
be a very critical thing. It elimi
nates so many teams because they
are rebuilding. However, there
are some teams that just missed
the playoffs that might need help.
Tony could go a couple of years.
He is in remarkable shape.”
Dorsett has a two-year contract
at $500,000 a year and a $2.4 mil
lion annuity. Club President Tex
Schramm said any club getting
Dorsett would have to pick up the
base salary and fund the annuity.
“It would be a gamble for an
other team,” Landry said. “Of
course, other top backs are get
ting what Tony is getting.
Dorsett told Landry in a half-
hour meeting he would like to go
to Denver, San Francisco or the
Los Angeles Rams.
“Tony said he doesn’t want to
finish his career on the bench,”
Landry said. “He would still get a
lot of playing time with us behind
Herschel but we’ll try to honor his
wishes.”
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