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Wednesday, March 29,1989
Aggie athletes get day off
Tennis match, baseball doubleheader rained out
By Doug Walker
SPORTS EDITOR
Heavy rains washed out a baseball
doubleheader between Texas A&M
and Dallas Baptist and a men’s ten
nis match pitting Southern Method
ist and A&M Tuesday afternoon.
The tennis match was re-sched
uled for April 17 while the baseball
twinbill has not been definitely reset.
Head Coach Mark Johnson’s top-
ranked Aggie baseball team will re
sume their season — weather per
mitting — tonight at 7:30 with a
game against the Nebraska Corn-
huskers at Olsen Field.
The Aggies are enjoying a 29-1
start and lead both national poll's for
the fourth consecutive week. This
week marks the fifth straight week
A&M has led the F.SPN/Collegiate
Baseball rankings.
A&M is coming off a weekend
shellacking of Texas Tech in which
the Aggies outscored the Red Raid
ers 53-7 in moving to 3-0 in South-
Aggie Update
• Tonight: A&M hosts Nebraska for
a single game at 7:30 p.m. at Olsen
Field.
• Record: 29-1.
• Ranking: First.
west Conference play. A&M hit .453
against Tech as nine different Ag-
Judge disqualifies
Stars and Stripes
NEW YORK (AP) — A judge
Tuesday disqualified the San Diego
Yacht Club as the winner in last
year's America’s Cup challenge and
awarded the international sailing
trophy to the defeated New Zealand
club.
State Supreme Court Justice Car
men Ciparick said San Diego “vio
lated the spirit” of the race by using
60-foot catamaran to defend
against the Mercury Bay Boating
Club’s single-hulled yacht, which is
about 90 feet at the water line.
San Diego’s catamaran is the
‘Stars and Stripes,” a multi-hulled
boat that is lighter, faster and more
maneuverable than the “New Zea
land.”
Skippered by Dennis Conner, the
San Diego crew sailed to easy victory
over the Mercury Bay club in waters
off San Diego last September.
Calling the contest a “gross mis
match,” the judge ordered the 138-
year-old silver cup turned over to
the New Zealanders.
The leader of the New Zealand
syndicate, Michael Fdy, 1 expressed no
such surprise.
“It had to come sooner or later,”
he said from Wellington, New Zea
land. “We were always strong in our
belief in what the Cup meant and I
think the Cup has come through.”
Fay said the America’s Cup itself
was the real winner and the ruling
would be good for the integrity of
the event.
In her 14-page decision, the judge
said: “The court is mindful that for
feiture is a drastic remedy in the in
stance of a competition such as the
America’s Cup, with its large eco
nomic significance and prestige.
“Nonetheless, the parties neither
seek or suggest any alternative relief
upon the disqualification of a com
petitor, nor is any alternative relief
feasible under the circumstances.”
The judge said the 101-year-old
Deed of Gift which governs the race
does not specify the size a boat must
be or the number of hulls it must
have.
But, she said, “the conclusion is
inescapable” that George Schuyler,
who established the race, “contem
plated the defending vessel to relate
in some way to the specifications of
the challenger.”
Therefore, Ciparick said, “it is
clear that a catamaran may not de
fend an America’s Cup competition
against a monohull.”
Kingdome gets
new facilities
for Final Four
SEATTLE (AP) — The Michigan
Wolverines will have a homecourt
advantage for the NCAA’s Final
Four in the Kingdome, starting Sat
urday.
The floor, 6,720 square feet of
hardwood maple, was made in Dol
lar Bay, Mich., by Horner Floor Co.
“We painted the lane blue, be
cause Michigan’s going to win,” Bill
Gappy, company director of porta
ble sales, said.
Actually, the court colors, graph
ics and other details are all deter
mined by the NCAA for an event
that will draw more than 40,000
fans, officials and media to the King-
dome for semifinal games Saturday
and another 40,000 for the
championship Monday night.
The domed stadium, which
turned 13 years old Monday, was
getting ready for the big event.
In addition to the never-before-
played-on floor, the Kingdome
crowd will be able to watch a brand-
new, $450,000 scoreboard that uses
a light matrix allowing the operator
to display npt only game statistics but
also moving graphics, such as a can
non shooting a ball through a bas
ketball net.
Frey’s personnel goofs assure
Cubs will have typical season
Major League Baseball begins its season April 3 and
the boys of summer will start their annual race for the
World Series.
However, for fans of some teams the season will be
another long, frustrating 162-game torture. The Chi
cago Cubs are one team that looks to keep its fans suf
fering.
In 1984, the long-suffering Cub fans saw their team
come within one game of the World Series, and par
adise, for the first time since 1945. No team has gone
longer without a trip to the Series than the Cubs.
Since 1984, the Cubs have gone backwards and gen
eral manager Jim Frey seems more intent on destroying
his dub than building it into a contender.
Last year Frey traded All-Star reliever Lee Smith to
Boston for Calvin Schiraldi and A1 Nipper. Frey evi
dently didn’t think the Cubs needed an ace stopper in
the bullpen. Smith saved 29 games for the Red Sox and
the Sox won the American League East. The Cubs
titching staff saved 29 games and finished fifth in the
National League East.
This winter, Frey went shopping for a stopper at the
winter baseball meeting, and came away with a lemon.
Frey traded outfielder Rafael Palmeiro (and others) for
Texas Ranger relief pitcher Mitch Williams.
Palmeiro finished second in the league in batting last
year. This fact alone makes up for the fact that not one
This 53 RBIs was a game winner. Then again, it is
hard to get game-winning RBIs batting first.
Williams does have a few good points, like 61 strike
outs in 68 innings and only 48 hits. However, he did
walk 47 batters. He has trouble controlling his fastball
and catcher Damon Berryhill should have lots of fun
trying to keep track of it.
Stan
Golaboff
Sports Writer
Frey also traded away veteran catcher Jody Davis in
the middle of last season because he thinks Berryhill is
the catcher the Cubs need.
With Davis gone, the Cubs only real power will be
Andre Dawson and it is not certain how much longer
his 35 year-old legs will hold out. After Dawson, the
Cubs have a group of young hitters, led by Ryne Sand
berg, who may one day be as awesome as the Mets start
ing lineup, but it will take a few years before that hap
pens.
The Cubs pitching staff, while not the worst in the
league, is young. After Rick Sutcliffe, the Cubs have no
one with more than three years of experience in their
starting rotation. In fact, Sutcliffe has more career wins
than the rest of the starting staff combined.
If spring training (the Cubs are 6-17, the worst re
cord in baseball) is an indication as to the Cubs fortunes
for 1989, the “lovable losers” will continue to keep their
fans in agony.
However, as a loyal Cubs fan, I can safely say that no.
matter how they do on the field, the Cubs will always
have the support of their fans.
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Meet at 8a.m. in front of Rudder
Friday, March 31
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gies hit home runs. A&M had 13
homers for the weekend with Mike
Easley and Terry Taylor clubbing
three apiece.
A&M pitchers limited Tech to just
seven runs in the series while posting
an excellent earned run average of
1.80 against the Red Raiders.
A&M resumes SWC play this
weekend with a three-game set
against Baylor at Olsen Field.
The Aggie tennis team was hop
ing to bounce back from a disap
pointing loss to Texas Saturday in
which freshman Doug Brown won
both his matches to improve his sea
son record to 11-5.
Coach David Kent’s team will con
tinue SWC action Saturday with a
match at Rice in Houston.
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Mobil
5K CHARITY FUN RUN
Aggies Run Your
Heart Out!
Beginning at 5 p.m. on Saturday, April 1,
hundreds of runners will take off for a
run that’ll be loads of fun and will
save lives. In conjunction with the
Student Engineering Council,
Mobil will make a contribution to
the Bryan-College Station-American
Heart Association for each runner in the
race. And, there’ll be prizes for the winners
too! The 1st, 2nd, and 3rd males and
females to the finish line will each win an
award. And, a special Masters category
will award the fastest male and female who’s
40 years of age or more.
The first 750 people to register will receive a
Fun Run T-shirt and other special prizes. So be
the first to register between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m.
at one of the following locations:
Blocker — March 27-28
MSC — March 28-29
Zachry — March 27-29
MOBIL 5K CHARITY FUN RUN
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LAST NAME:
ADDRESS:
SIGNATURE:
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FACULTY: DEPARTMENT
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(Must be signed for entry to be accepted)
In consideration of acceptance of this entry, I the undersigned waive and release any and all claims for myself, my agents and heirs against
all sponsors and officials of the Mobil Charity Fun Run for any injury or illness which may directly or indirectly result from my participation in
this event. I understand the event begins promptly at 5:00 p.m.- rain or shine.
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