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Page 10/The BattalionAVednesday, March 2, 1988
Search underway
for kick-off team
By Joe Jimenez
Reporter
Meeting the qualifications of the
Texas A&M 12th Man Kick-off
Team was the main topic at this
year’s first organizational meeting
Monday at Kyle Field.
Billy Pickard, coordinator of
training, equipment and facilities,
and Chris Massey, a graduate assis
tant, stressed the importance of be
ing enrolled in at least 12 hours at
A&M, excluding the required physi
cal education credit.
Members who enrolled in a junior
or senior college prior to Fall 1984
are ineligible for the team. Members
will also be tested for drug and ster-
iod use, Pickard said.
Massey said students cannot slip
past the requirements.
“If you don’t meet these qualifica
tions, please don’t waste your time or
ours” Massey said to approximately
175 people.
Students filled out a walk-on ath
lete sheet and signed-up for the day
they will be able to practice. Practice
sessions began Monday at 4 p.m. and
will continue today at Kyle Field.
“Because we can’t issue contact
epuipment, our try-outs consist of a
40-yard dash for time and a couple
of agility runs,” Massey said.
The agility runs are used to deter
mine a person’s athletic ability, Mas
sey said.
“There’s a difference between
running a straight line and some
body who has a few moves who can
do some things,” he said.
Participants this week are ex
pected to wear shoes that can be
used on astroturf. Massey said that
participants cannot be issued shoes
until they make the squad and are is
sued everything.
The first cut will probably be an-
nouced Thursday, Massey said. The
participants who make the first cut
will participate in spring training.
Spring training will begin on March
21 and last five weeks, he said.
“We’ll probably take 40 guys into
spring training and issue them
pads,” Massey said. “Depending on
how many people Coach Sherrill
wants is how many we’ll keep for the
fall.”
Not all of the members participat
ing in spring training are expected
to finish, Massey said.
“We figure on losing a few for
some reason or another,” Massey
said. “You may decide that’s not
what you want to do or what you
thought it would be.” .
Massey also warned those attend
ing that they will be involved in colli
sions.
“One thing we’ve got to do is find
out who will go down and strike
somebody and not be shy about it,”
he said.
He also said that members will not
have a lot of free time during prac
tice.
“Sometimes, you may be asked to
be on a scouting team or run some
drills against the scholarship guys,”
Massey said.
John Barber, a junior industrial
distribution major from Missouri
City, said he wants to make the team
because this is his chance to play col
lege football.
“I’ve always wanted play college
football, but I’ve always been too lit
tle,” Barber said. “This is my chance
to play.”
No one is elected
to baseball’s Hall
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — For the
first time since 1956, the Veter
ans Committee failed to elect any
one to the baseball Hall of Fame,
again passing up former stars
Phil Rizzuto, Leo Durocber, Joe
Gordon and Gil Hodges on Tues
day.
None of the 29 candidates was
able to garner 75 percent of the
vote required forelection.
Former major leaguers, um
pires, executives and Negro
Leagues players are considered
by the Veterans Committee. The
panel can elect up to two .people.
The 20-member panel, which
includes Hall of Famers Ted Wil
liams, Stan Musial and Roy Cam-
panella, was reduced to 18 be
cause broadcaster Red Barber
and American League Executive
Vice President Bob Fishel were
absent.
That meant candidates needed
14 votes, but none got more than
12.
“We couldn’t get enough votes
to put anybody in,” Musial said
after the committee met for 4Va
hours. “It’s disappointing.”
Ed Stack, president of the Hall
:ack, pi
of Fame, said voting was scattered
and that there were “some close
calls.” Vote totals are not an
nounced, although it was learned
four people had been in serious
contention.
The committee was anxious to
elect at least one person this year
and there was much give-and-
take as members tried to gather
enough support for someone.
Those efforts, however, failed.
Last year, Ray Dandridge of
the Negro Leagues was the only
person selected. Two years ago,
Vic Willis received 75 percent but
was left out because two others
got more votes.
“I just think we’re wasting time
to meet and not elect anyone,"
said Monte Irvin, another Hall of
Famer on the panel. “With all
those deserving people out there,
someone should have gotten in."
Willie Stargell, a former Pitts
burgh Pirate slugger, was the one
elected by the Baseball Writers’
Association of America in Jan
uary. He will be the lone person
enshrined on July 31 in Coopers-
town, N.Y.
Several committee members
expressed displeasure with the
voting process for the old-timers.
A list of 29 candidates was cho
sen by the panel and a first ballot
was taken to narrow the field to
10. After members lake turns
speaking about those eligible, a
second and final ballot was taken.
Often, members try to muster
support for their favorite candi-
dates. Williams angrily left last
year’s meeting after being unable
to get Rizzuto, a longtime New
York Yankees shortstop, elected.
This year, retired National
League umpire A1 Barlick had
some support, but not enough.
Richie Ashburn, a former Phila
delphia Phillies outfielder and
former Detroit Tigers pitcher
Hal Newhouser also lacked
enough backing.
“T he rules need to be
changed,” Irvin said. "We need
another way.”
Stack said the rules might be
re-evaluated.
Soviets touring baseball camps
to learn game for ’92 Olympics
BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) — The
Soviet Union hopes to be compet
itive in baseball — a sport intro
duced to the country only last year
— in time for the 1990 Goodwill
Games and 1992 Olympics, says the
Soviet national coach.
There are only about 25 Soviet
teams of 20 players each, ranging in
age from 18 to 28, and “baseballists”
find equipment so difficult to obtain
that they often substitute tennis balls
wrapped in tape for regulation balls,
said Coach Alexander Ardatov.
But he said enthusiasm for the
sport is high, especially after he and
assistant coach Guela Chikhradze
went on Soviet TV and showed films
of major league games.
“Our national sports paper is be
ginning to run many articles about
the rules and the players themselves
in the U.S. and in Cuba, which, of
course, is a close ally,” said Chikh
radze, 33.
But, asked if the sport is now
purely recreational in the USSR,
Chikhradze replied with an em
phatic “Nyet!” as he toured the Pitts
burgh Pirates’ spring training camp.
“We want to develop a very good
team,” Chikhradze said through an
interpreter. “Once the players are
introduced to baseball, they get to
love it so much they don’t want to
give it up.
“We are not having difficulty at
tracting athletes from other sports.
We tell them they may have to wait a
long time to make the volleyball or
hockey teams, but they can play
baseball right away.”
Teams from Nicaragua and
Czechoslovakia have already visited
the USSR, and the Soviet's earned
their first international victory by
beating the Czechs last fall.
Ardatov, 34, said the Soviet sports
hierarchy is expected to supply ad
equate funding to develop players
and build regulation diamonds,
since baseball will be a medal sport in
the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona,
Spain.
Although baseball was only a
demonstration sport at the 1984
Olympics in Los Angeles, crowds of
nearly 50,000 attended most games
at Dodger Stadium.
Ardatov, a former hockey goalie
and a professor of physical educa
tion, and Chikhradze, a former
fencer, spent three days at the Los
Angeles Dodgers’ camp in Vero
Beach. After a quick stop at the Pi
rates’ camp, they visited Tuesday at
the Kansas City Royals’ new SI 1 mil
lion complex near Haines City.
The Soviets seemed especially in
terested when trainer Kent Biggers-
taff told them the Pirates used the
U.S. Air Force’s eye examinations
and vision tests.
The Russian coaches will also
spend time at Florida Southern.
Georgia Southern and Tennessee
learning more about teaching base
ball and the training and condition
ing of players.
The biggest problem now in the
Soviet Union is the lack of di
amonds, the coaches said. Games are
played on converted soccer fields,
and since a soccer field is rectangu
lar, either left or right field is dispro
portionate.
Chikhradze said the Soviets al
ready have developed some good
hitters “just from working in a gym
nasium” but that good pitchers are
more difficult to find.
“The kind of movement by a
pitcher is not natural to the (Soviet)
sportsman,” he said. “There are
some special techniques they must
master.”
Astros sign
five players;
in camp
B, andt
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Ryan in camp p:
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KISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP) - llirorsc
1 louston Astros announced TuesdHJriggs
that five more players have beard of
signed to one-year contracts t ign grad
pitcher Nolan Ryan reported nThe U
camp, giving the Astros 53 playenfiests ev
(.imp et Kidd
T he club said outfielder B: jidies at
Hatcher and pitchers Jim Desha'f incom
Jeff Heathcock, Manny Hernanrhtre are
and Charlie Kerf eld have agreed tires are
contract terms for the 1988 seasofiBut sh<
Terms of the contracts were not®ls are
leased. ’Bis.
Hatcher, 27, batted .296 in hi
games with 96 runs, 11 home ru —
and 63 runs batted in last year.
Deshaies, 27, reached doublet
tires in wins for his second straif
season last year.
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Heathcock, 28, was 4-2 with tit
Astros last year and Hernandez,
was 0-4. Kerfeld was 0-2 in 19!
with a 6.67 earned run average.
The team also announced thff n )'
manager Hal Lanier, 1988 Natior® n,s 1
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League Manager of the Year, bB 6 / c *’ (
signed a contract extension fort!]
1988 season.
Sidekicks thrash Stars in MISL action
DALLAS (AP) — Godfrey In
gram hit first and fourth period
goals that helped ensure the Dal
las Sidekicks 6-1 victory over the
Tacoma Stars Tuesday night.
The victory was Dallas’ 11th in
its last 12 home games, including
nine in a row, and matches Dallas’
largest margin of victory this sea
son.
The game was a rematch of the
Major Indoor Soccer League
Championship Series of a year
- ago, and marked the first time
the two teams had met on Dallas’
home field.
The victory evens Dallas’ re
cord at 20-20 and drops Tacoma
to 19-18.
Ingram started the scoring
when he scored on a breakaway
with 12:57 remaining in the first
quarter.
Wes McLeod upped the Side-
kicks’ lead when he spun in the
right corner and fired a shot into
the left side of the net.
Mark Karpun’s goal \yith 4:29
left in the second was disallowed
for dangerous play when Beto
was called for kicking goalie Mike
Dowler.
With two seconds to play on a
power play David Stride scored to
put Dallas up, 3-0.
Sidekicks’ goalie Joe Papaleo
had his shutout broken when
Peter Ward scored with 11:29 to
play in the game.
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Travis Mays earned men’s Sowj
west Conference Player of the Wd
honors Tuesday while Houston fcj
ward Barbara Anderson was nan
the women’s Player of the Week.
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