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The Battalion
Wednesday, April 4,19S;
Nicklaus has golden eye on Masters
AREA STUDIES AT A&M
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of the globe beyond the boundaries of Texas*} If so,
study about those areas by enrolling in one cf the
regional geography courses offered next fall.
LATIN AMERICA—GE(3G 322—Physical and ck-
tural characteristics of Latin America.
PACIFIC RIM—GEOG489—Economic, cultural, geo
political, and physical aspects of the region.
GEOGRAPHY OF THE US—GEOG 301—The geo
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THE DIVIDED WORLD—GEOG 202—Resources,
poverty, overpopulation, and environmental prob
lems in the major regions of the world.
AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — The
Olden Bear turned Golden again,
and now he’s on the prowl for still
another Masters title.
Sam Snead was 52 when he won
his eighth Greensboro Open in
1965. He was the oldest man to win
on the PGA Tour.
Julius Boros was 48 when he won
the 1958 PGA championship. He
was the oldest man to win one of
golfs Big Four events: the Masters,
U.S. and British Opens and the
PGA.
Jack Nicklaus was 46 when he won
the 1986 Masters, the oldest man to
win that title. Now he’s 50.
And, confident and enthusiastic
in the wake of a triumph in his first
start on the Senior PGA Tour, Nick
laus says he’s ready to take on the
younger players in the 54th Masters
that begins Thursday.
“1 think my chances are pretty
good,” he said. “I really think they
are.”
The statement came in the
cheerful, confident, rosy review of
his victory in the Tradition at Desert
Mountain. But that was against a
field restricted to golf s over-50 set.
Gary Player, a three-time Masters
winner and Nicklaus’ playing com
panion over the last two rounds last
week, thinks it is more than possible
Nicklaus can win here.
“Extremely likely,” Player said.
“He’s playing very, very well. I
thought his putting was excellent.
He’s doing the things you have to do
to win. I don’t care what they say
about all those younger players.
There’s not a one of them can play
anything like the way this man
plays.”
At the core is his new-old swing.
In the years since his sixth Masters
victory, he said, his swing changed to
accommodate back problems that, at
one time, threatened his playing ca
reer.
Those physical problems are
cured, he said, and he has slowly
worked his way back to the swing of
an earlier era, a swing that product!
70 American PGA four titles and;
record 18 major championships.
“I’m very confident with wnatl'i
doing,” he said after reaching t|
halfway mark on a goal he’d set ft
1990: a victory on both the Senioi
and regular tours.“If I’m going
win on the regular tour, the Master
is the tournament for me to win.
“I’ve won there six times. 1 knok
the course and the tournament
what it takes to win there. I’m com
fortable there. I don’t have (lit
strength I once had, but strengtl
isn’t a factor at Augusta. You
have the rough there you doattlj
Open and the PGA.
Sports Focus: Pro Baseball
No place but Texas
Texas’ ace to lead club in season opener
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ARLINGTON (AP) — Nolan
Ryan begins another season of
destiny on Monday night, just 11
victories short of a milestone he
covets.
The 43-year-old Ryan will be
11 wins short of 300 victories
when he takes the mound at 7:35
p.m. against the Toronto Blue
jays.
“There’s some records I don’t
are that much about, but I do
\ant to win 300 games,” Ryan
sid. “It’s probably the only time
% ever gone into a season
shoting at a statistic.”
yan won 16 games for the
Tebs Rangers last year and re
corded his 5,000th strikeout
whe\ he cut down Rickey Hen-
ders<n of the Oakland A’s. He
pitchy two one-hitters, just miss
ing ht sixth no-hitter going into
the ni(th inning on both occa
sions.
Ryan\ 301 strikeouts last year
led the Majors by 66. Mark Lan
gston ha\235 as the runner-up.
The Rngers will have a new
centerfieUer w'hen they take the
field in ^Arlington Stadium
against the&ys.
Gary Pets, a Gold Glove out
fielder fron the Detroit Tigers,
was signed s a free agent for
about fl milon by the Rangers
and will repine Cecil Espy, who
was inconsistet at bat and in the
field last year??ettis hit .257 for
the Tigers witfune homer.
“Gary will rui down a lot of
balls that got though for hits in
the alleys last ye4 ” said Rangers
manager Bobby Ydentine. “He’s
got great speed onhe base paths,
too.”
The Rangers inished four
games over .500 lasiyear but fin
ished 16 games behnd eventual
world champion Oak(nd.
The A’s look strong^gain.
“It looks tough on pper,” said
general manager To* Grieve.
“Fortunately, we get t( play the
games on the field. TH A’s will
be hard to beat.”
The Rangers lineup ncludes
Geno Petralli at catcher\Rafael
Palmeiro at first base, Julio
Franco at second, Jeff Ku\kel at
shortstop, Steve Buechele athird
base, Pete Incaviglia in leftfield,
and Ruben Sierra in rightfie'i.
Sierra was runner-up in Amer
ican League most valuable plyer
balloting, although he led the^L
in RBI.
“It just makes me work har^r
because I didn’t get the M\p
award,” Sierra said. “I want *
have a big, big year.” \
Sierra worked hard in th6
weight room in the off-season to
improve his upper body strength.
“Ruben looks great,” Valentine
said. “I believe this will be his best
year ever. He has motivation be
cause he didn’t get the MVP. It
should drive him to an excellent
season.”
Toronto and Texas meet on
what had originally been sched
uled as an open date.
Battalion file photo byj. Janner
Former Astro Nolan Ryan, shown signing autographs at Olsen
Field in 1988, will pitch the Rangers’ opening game in 1990.
Club offered new home,
officials call deal 6 a joke’
DALLAS (AP) — A real estate
broker has proposed a new home
for the Texas Rangers in west
Dallas as part of a complex that
also might feature football, bas
ketball, horse racing and auto
racing, a newspaper reported
Tuesday.
But Arlington officials say the
proposal is not a serious attempt
to lure the Rangers away from
their city.
Don Shackelford of Arlington
said Prime Sports Partners Ltd.
plans to build a sports complex
on 1,017 acres about 10 miles east
of Arlington Stadium, the Rang
ers current home.
“We’re offering a sports corn-
ilex for the Metroplex,” Shackel-
tad told the Fort Worth Star-
blegram Monday. “It’s not base-
by; it’s not anything. It’s just a
sports complex.”
The site, which is just east of
Loop 12 and Interstate 30, is
among the highest spots in Dallas
County. It’s about seven miles
west of downtown Dallas and
about five miles south of Texas
Stadium, where the Dallas Cow
boys play in suburban Irving.
Arlington Mayor Richard.
Greene, who has led an effort to
keep the Rangers in Arlington,
dismissed Shackelford’s an
nouncement as “a real estate
speculator who is hyping his
property.”
Ted Willis, president of the Ar
lington Chamber of Commerce,
called it “a joke.”
“I would think the Rangers
would be more interested in Flor
ida swamp land than this deal,”
Willis said.
PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla
(AP) — Texas Rangers rookie Ke
vin Brown thinks he’s fortified
against a power failure that short-
circuited his final four starts last
season.
Brown was not seriously in
jured but his arm had weakened
enough for Manager Bobby Val
entine to fear injury.
“He never was really hurt last
year,” Rangers general manager
Tom Grieve said. “It just got to
the point, based on the strength
tests we give periodically, he
wasn’t as strong as we wanted him
to be.”
Brown was removed from the
rotation with a 12-9 record,
matching the club record for vic
tories by a rookie. Edwin Correa
set the record in 1986.
“I was disappointed that I
couldn’t finish stronger,” Brown
said. “But if you’d told me at the
beginning of the season I’d havea
chance to spend the whole season
in the major leagues and be 12-9,
I’d have jumped at it.”
Brown filled a void in the
Rangers rotation last season,
earning a starting job with an out
standing spring.
He continued to prove himself
in the regular season. Brown was
at his best in a 19-game string
starting May $ when he went 10-5
with a 2.57 dSPned run average.
But starting Aug. 17, he went
0-3 in his next four starts. He won
his final game on Sept. 8 and fin
ished with a 3.35 ERA.
Then, his season was over.
“The tired arm thing was pre
cautionary,” Rangers pitching
coach Tom House said. “For a kid
who has 20 years of pitching
ahead of him, we just didn’t want
to push him to the wall.”
Strength tests House uses may
have prevented serious injury.
“You can’t complete eliminate
the risk of injuries and aches and
pains but ours are minimized be
cause of the hard work we put in.
“We’re going to be quick but
not in a hurry.”
Brown and Nolan Ryan were
the Rangers’ most consistent per
formers last season although
Brown said he knew early in the
season he had a problem with a
particular shoulder muscle.
“We noticed early in the year
that the strength in that muscle
was unproportioned to the oth
ers,” Brown said.
Off-season weight work has
corrected the problem, Brown
said, and he expects to resume his
mid-season efficiency of 1989.
Brown’s spring performance
has done nothing to indicate any
problems.
He has thrown 14 innings,
yielded 12 hits, three walks and
struck out seven for a 1.29 ERA.
“I feel as good now as I’ve ever
felt about my arm,” Brown said.
“I was pleased with last year bul
I’m not satisfied. I’m not ready to
sit back and be satisfied with whai
I did last year.”
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