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Three men in expensive looking Italian suits are there. You usher them in and have them sit down. You chat with them for a mo ment about little things, the weath er, the NBA finals. Eventually you get down to busi ness. One looks at you and says, “We’ll pay you $750,000 to come play baseball for our minor league team. We think you’ve got talent and we’re willing to pay for it.” You’re only 18 years old. You’ve lived at home all your life. You’ve got a scholarship to one of the biggest universities in the country. What would you do, take the money or go to school? Well, this might be something like what Mark Farris went through. He just graduated from Angleton High School and he has seen more money than I probably will in my entire lifetime. In our society, education is everything. We forget that life isn’t all books and learning. Some of the greatest knowledge comes from ex perience. Farris has a chance to see what professional baseball is like. That is an opportunity that few people ever get to enjoy. Even more fortu nate for him, he gets paid an ample amount of money to do it. Some people would do it for free. Perhaps the only drawback to the situation is the effect on A&M’s quarterback depth. The only quar terbacks A&M has are junior Corey Pullig, who started all 12 games last season, senior Steve Emerson, who was switched to linebacker and then back to quarterback, ^nd Stormy Case, who is a walk-on and serves mainly as the holder for the placekicker. Head football coach R.C. Slocum thought Farris had a chance to Please see Farris/Page 4 Farris teams up with Pirates Big bucks lure A&M quarterback prospect to bat for Pittsburgh By Dave Winder Special to the Battalion After working out for more than 20 Major League Baseball scouts this spring, Angleton’s Mark Farris still ex pected to compete for Texas A&M’s backup quarterback position. Then he was drafted in the first round of the MLB 1994 Amatuer draft by the Pittsburgh Pirates and offered a five-year contract estimated a $1 mil lion with a team record $820,000 sign ing bonus. A clause in his contract en sures eight semesters of college tuition, paid for by the Pirates. After thinking it over, Farris decided he could not pass up the money. “It was a tough decision to make,” Farris said. “Because A&M never real ly put any pressure on me. Coach (R.C.) Slocum told me whatever hap pened we would still be friends and he wanted me to do what was best for me.” Slocum, head football coach, said he was happy for Farris, but was worried about his team’s depth at quarterback. “It’s fortunate for him, but unfortu nate for us,” Slocum said. “This leaves us critically short. My hope' was that Mark Farris would come in and chal lenge for the quarterback position.” Slocum said he understood Farris’ decision, however. “If someone offered me three-quar ters of a million to play baseball I’d probably have to consider it too,” Slocum said. Jokingly, he added, “If they play baseball, I’m not even going to fool with them anymore.” Farris said the mass exodus of Aggie coaches had nothing to do with his deci sion to play baseball. “Coach (Gary) Kubiak and I were pretty close, but his leaving did not af fect my decision at all,” Farris said. “Coach Slocum was still there, which still made the decision pretty hard.” Kubiak was A&M’s quarterbacks coach, but left to pursue a career with the San Francisco 49ers. Farris, one of the state’s top football prospects, threw for over 1,700 yards and 21 touchdowns last fall. But his .484 batting average, three homeruns, 20 RBIs and 13 stolen bases were just as impressive. Farris will report to the Pirates Class A team in Welland, Ontario, where he will most likely play third base. Jose Luis de Juan/THE Battalion World Cup not sold on Dallas DALLAS (AP) — Dallas hasn’t scored many points with national World Cup organizers, who say the city has caused the most problems of the nine U.S. sites for this summer’s tournament. World Cup and the city have spent months battling over security fences, police overtime pay and contracts. “There are more problems getting things done here than in any other city,” World Cup USA 1994 president Alan Rothenberg told The Dallas Morning News in Sunday’s editions. In addition to playing host to six soccer matches, Dallas also is the tour nament headquarters for world soc cer’s governing body, World Cup refer ees and the international television and radio corps. “You’re dealing with contracts and major dollars,” said Ida Papert, the volunteer chairwoman at the local hooligans. The city agreed last week to take down the fence’s west side, where the televi sion cameras are. “We want to put on the best games we can,” said Bill Stroube, executive direc tor of the Dallas venue for World Cup USA. “As soccer fans, we want to show case international soccer in Dallas, the excitement and the passion. And we want to bring Dallas together.” That last objective may be the toughest of all, officials said. World Cup USA has major contracts World Cup office. “There have been i}Bll f8f 1 tHe Cotton Bowl and the Automo- some pretty ugly battles.’ World Cup complaints about Dallas : most frequently involve the 8-foot chain-link fence that rings most of the * Cotton Bowl field. Tournament officials said the fence will block fans’ views and offend sports enthusiasts by suggesting they are bile and Ceritennial buildings, which comprise the International Broadcast Center. The World Cup facilities are in the middle of the Fair Park area of down town Dallas. The City Council, park board, landmark commission, the mu seums on site and the Friends of Fair Park all claim a stake in Fair Park’s fate. Meanwhile, World Cup has contrac tual obligations with the Federation Internationale de Football Association, the governing body of world soccer. “We have about 20 or 30 separate entities involved,” Stroube said. “It’s the most complex situation in the en tire World Cup.” Dallas is the only World Cup site that hasn’t sold out any games. Hote liers set aside about 300,000 room- nights for World Cup business — that shrank to less than 100,000. Mall and restaurant activity also is expected to be much lower than projected. Nye Lavalle, the chairman of a local sports marketing group, said the World Cup arrogantly supposed that the internationally popular event could sell itself. “They felt everybody in the United States should just bow down and roll over,” Lavalle said. “They really didn’t market it or promote it.” Dallas hasn’t done a good promotion job either, Lavalle said. “It’s difficult to do anything here,” he said. “This is a very hard city in which to garner any kind of communi ty support for anything.” Page 3 New York fights for Stanley Cup Rangers have one game left to shake their 54-year curse, 'choke' collar NEW YORK (AP) — There are no games to look past. There may be no parties to plan. If the New York Rangers don’t win Tuesday, they will be remembered forever as choke artists supreme. “There were opportunities, but now they’re just missed opportunities,” Craig MacTavish said Sunday, one day after his Rangers lost 4-1 to the Van couver Canucks in Game 6 of the Stan ley Cup finals. Game 7 will be Tuesday night at Madison Square Garden, where the Rangers have never celebrated hockey’s ultimate triumph. “We played well enough early in the series to give us three games to do it. We have stretched it to the third game,” MacTavish said. “We ap proached Game 5 like we had two more games and that hurt us.” Were the Rangers guilty of looking ahead? Or, given the opportunity to fi nally lift a 54-year curse, are they choking? The Rangers haven’t won the Stan ley Cup since 1940. And coach Mike Keenan has been making excuses for why that spell hasn’t been broken yet in 1994. The Rangers had a chance to wrap things up in Madison Square Garden but couldn’t do it and Keenan blamed the hype and the fans and the media. Then they had a chance to wrap it up in Vancouver, where they had already won twice in the series, but they could n’t and Keenan blamed the officials. Keenan has complained about dis tractions, but he is the focus of one himself. Reports continue to surface that he will leave the Rangers to be come the Detroit Red Wings’ general manager. “It hasn’t even been a topic in the dressing room,” Lowe said. The main topic? Playing better than they have the last two games. “It’s sort of like the Super Bowl now,” Stephane Matteau said. “If you play one bad game, your season’s over.” Unfortunately for the Rangers, they’re not playing the Buffalo Bills. They’re playing the resilient Canucks, who already have proven they can come back from a 3-1 series deficit. They won the last three games Please see Stanley Cup/Page 4 srtheast of Toid cancer highest in t the plant, ible for the e. They are note neigh- ap has 235 er Dorothy ath certifi- >und in the he national f. M.; Rocky ditor editor or jgielife editor Sara Israwi, arren Mayberry, Elizabeth iring the fall dons (except lass postage d Building, vd University in Editorial 45-3313. Fax: sement by The i. 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