The Battalion • Page 3
Monday • July 10, 1995
SPORTS
'Wary' Seles ready to
return to tennis
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — She
still giggles like a schoolgirl, out on a
first date. She smiles easily and seems
bubbly and happy. And yet, Monica
Seles admits that the knife attack on
her more than two years ago at Ham
burg, Germany, has left its scars.
"I always felt safest on a tennis
court,” she said. "That was taken
away from me.”
So now Seles is returning to tennis,
still aware of the attack, still wary. She
spent Saturday at the Special Olympics
World Games, looking relaxed, tanned
and trim, ready to resume her career.
But there were reminders of the trauma
she had experienced.
Media covering the event were
asked to present two forms of identifi
cation, a requirement organizers of
the Games said came from Seles'
people. Beyond the normal Special
Olympics credential, special wrist
bands were issued for admission to
the Seles events.
At her press conference, one cre-
dentialed and wrist-banded reporter
tried to climb over a security rope as a
shortcut to a water vendor. He was
stopped and directed around the rope.
It was a take-no-chances setting.
Padres ground Astros,
end four-game skid
HOUSTON (AP)— San Diego
pitcher Andy Ashby continued his re
cent superb stretch of pitching and Ed
die Williams contributed a grand slam
home run to send San Diego to a 9-2
victory over Houston Sunday.
The victory enabled the Padres to
avoid a five-game sweep as they head
home for the All-Star break.
Ashby continued a dazzling two-
week run Sunday by handcuffing the
Houston Astros on only five hits and
striking out three in 7 1 -3.
His 6-5 record is misleading, he's
won four of his last five starts.
The Padres jumped on Astros starter
Darryl Kile early as Steve Finley led off
with a walk, Jody Reed singled and
Tony Gwynn followed with a three-run
homer, his sixth home run of the season.
Rangers edge Yankees
despite six errors
ARLINGTON (AP) — Mickey Tet-
tleton tied the game in the eighth with
his 200th career home run, and hit an
RBI single in <the 12th inning to give
Texas a 5-4 victory over New York in
Sunday's 102-degree heat.
In failing to take advantage of six
errors by Texas, the fourth-place Yan
kees fell to eight games behind divi
sion-leading Boston in the AL East.
Tettleton's ground single to left off
Steve Howe (3-3) scored Mark
McLemore from second base when
Gerald Williams' throw to the plate
was off-line.
Ed Vosberg (3-2) pitched three in
nings of two-hit relief. He struck out
three and lowered his ERA at home
to 0.61.
Mantle to hold press
conference Tuesday
DALLAS (AP) — Baseball great
Mickey Mantle has scheduled his first
public appearance since undergoing a
liver transplant.
The 63-year-old former New York
Yankees star will hold a 1 p.m, news
conference Tuesday at Baylor Univer
sity Medical Center, where he under
went surgery on June 8.
The Hall of Famer has been recu
perating in seclusion since his June 28
discharge from the hospital.
He was admitted to the hospital
May 28, complaining of nagging stom
ach pains. Tests disclosed a malignant
liver tumor, along with liver deteriora
tion from decades of alcoholism and
surgeries that probably gave him liver
damaging hepatitis C.
A&M track teams finest lend helping hands at camp
The second Texas A&M Track and Field Camp is being held today through Friday. Camp attendance has
doubled since last year's event. Several former and current A&M team members are helping with the camp.
□Over 50 campers are
expected to take part in
this week's activities.
By Nick Ceorgandis
The Battalion
This week, Texas track stars
of tomorrow will get a chance to
learn from the ones from today
and yesterday.
Fifty young men and women,
ages 10-18 are taking part in
the Texas A&M Track and
Field Camp which began
Sunday and lasts through
Friday. The camp partici
pants’ experience levels
range from novice to high
school varsity level.
“We have doubled our
camp size from last year,”
Camp Director and As
sistant Head Texas
A&M Track Coach
Greg Hinze said.
“This is a good size
for the camp. We
don’t want it to get
too big because this is
a very specific form of
instruction, and hav
ing too many campers
will cut down on individual time
for instruction.”
The coaches at the camp are
former NCAA competitors, from
A&M and other Texas schools.
Besides A&M’s normal coaching
staff, former track standouts
Stacy Zamzow and Gwen Buck
are helping in their respective
areas of expertise.
Zamzow was one leg of the
Aggies’ 1600-meter indoor relay
team that pulled an upset victo
ry in the 1994 NCAA Indoor
Championships. Zamzow was
part of three All-American relay
teams in his four years at A&M.
Buck holds three of the top 10
high jump marks in A&M histo
ry. Her best jump was 6 3/4 in
1989. Buck won three Southwest
Conference championships and
was an All-American in 1991.
Also helping out with the camp
is A&M junior hurdler Larry
Wade. Wade has quickly made
his mark in the A&M Track and
Field record books after only two
seasons of competition.
In May, Wade set a new A&M
record in the 110-meter hurdles
with a time of 13.41 seconds
at the NCAA Track and
Field Championships in
Knoxville, Term.
This camp is
Wade’s second, and
he said the rewards
he gains from it
are worth all the
hard work.
“I did this last
year, and I really
enjoyed working
with the kids,”
Wade said. “Our
main thing is to
make sure the kids
have a good time and have fun.”
Although many of the
campers are a long way from de
bating what college to attend,
Hinze said the coaching staff
takes the time to introduce the
campers to the pluses of attend
ing Texas A&M.
“We try to teach them a little
about the traditions and show
them parts of the campus,”
Hinze said. “Having a first-
class facility (the Anderson
Track Complex) also helps us
sell the school.”
The campers will participate
in three work sessions per day,
either in the weight room or on
the track. At Sunday’s registra
tion, campers were asked what
particular area of the sport —
sprints, distance running, hur
dles or field events — they would
like to specialize in for the week.
Different coaches will work with
each area’s campers.
Although Wade is one of the
premier hurdlers in the nation,
he has no problem teaching fun
damentals to others.
“I am always having fun
with the kids, but it is not that
tough to teach them,” Wade
said. “All I’m doing is teaching
them the same things that they
(the A&M coaching staff) al
ready taught me.”
Wade said the camp is show
ing him how much he loves track
and field and how it will be a
part of his future.
“I’ve thought about being a
track coach before,” Wade said.
“Track is my life right now, and
I know that whatever I do. I’ll al
ways be involved with it.”
Sampras takes third straight title
□ After upsetting Andre Agassi, Boris
Becker lost in five sets on Sunday.
WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Pete Sampras
dusted the chalk lines with aces so fast and uncan
nily accurate Sunday that Boris Becker covered
his eyes with his hand near the end and groped
with his racket like a blind man carrying a cane.
Sampras, as strong and silky a player as ever
graced Centre Court, became the first American to
win Wimbledon three straight years by slugging
serves that Becker couldn’t see, much less return.
“It wouldn’t have made a difference whether I
had my eyes open or not,” Becker said. “He would
have hit the line anyway.”
In a match of brutal power and efficiency, without
a rally longer than seven strokes, Sampras hit 23
aces and 22 service win
ners to beat Becker 6-7
(7-5), 6-2, 6-4, 6-2 and
reach an exalted position
among the greatest Wim
bledon champions.
The first player to win
three consecutive Wim
bledon titles since Bjorn
Borg’s run of five from
1976 to 1980, Sampras is
only the second to do it
since Fred Perry’s third
in a row in 1936. If Sam
pras had any British
blood in him, Wimbledon
would be erecting a stat
ue of him by now to
stand alongside the
bronze of Perry near the
main gate.
“He owns the Centre
Court now. I used to own
it a few years back, but
it belongs to him now,”
Becker said of the 23-
year-old Sampras, whose
sixth Grand Slam title
helped him move closer
to recapturing the No. 1 ranking he yielded early
this year to Andre Agassi.
“He hits those bombs and you just hope for rain.”
Sampras never lost his service and faced only
two break points the entire match as the scorch
ing, 95-degree heat inflated the new, soft balls and
negated the. intention of slowing down the game.
Becker, who won the first of-his three titles at
17 a decade ago and finished as runner-up for the
fourth time, struck 16 aces of his own. But those
were offset by 15 double-faults that cost him the
third and fourth sets.
Throughout the match, Sampras heard a famil
iar voice urging him on with shouts of “Go, Pistol,
C’mon Pistol.” It was the voice of Tom Gullikson,
twin brother of Sampras’ coach Tim, who was
home in Illinois watching the match between
chemotherapy treatments for brain cancer.
File Photo
American Pete Sampras took his third straight Wimbledon title on Sunday, de
feating Boris Becker in four sets, 6-7 (7-5), 6-2, 6-4, 6-2.
Spurs’ demand classless
T hank you,
Robert
McDer
mott, for show
ing everyone
how classless
the world of
professional
sports can be.
McDermott,
the chairman of the San Anto
nio Spurs, recently said that
the Spurs want a new, smalL
er stadium. He said the
35,000-seat Alamodome,
where the Spurs have played
for the last two seasons, is too
big and is “unsuitable” to fig
ure into the the team’s long
term plans.
McDermott even mentioned
the possibility of selling the
team to another party that
could move the team some
where else. The alternative in
volves the residents of San An
tonio paying for a $100 million
stadium, probably funded by a
tax hike.
All of this is nothing new in
the world of professional sports,
especially this year. The fran
chise merry-go-round has been
spinning more than a drunken
ballerina, dropping teams in
cities across the nation.
Just two weeks ago, the
news came that San Antonio
was losing Kelly Air Force
Base. The base was a victim of
the federal government’s ini
tiative to trim the fat in de
fense spending. Along with
Kelly, San Antonio also lost
the 13,000 jobs and countless
dollars that went along with
them.
The effects of
the closing have
not been felt yet.
It most definitely
won’t kill the city,
but it sure as hell
won’t be a walk in
the park.
The Spurs’ re
quest for a new stadium is
equivalent to rubbing salt in
the city’s wounds. San Antonio
is faced with economic uncer
tainty, and a sports team flex
ing its muscle so a new stadi
um can be built is nothing
short of financial terrorism
The Alamodome is not ex
actly falling apart, either. Peo
ple who say the Spurs need a
new, smaller stadium need to
have their heads examined.
If McDermott don’t like the
Alamodome, he should talk to
Houston Rockets owner Leslie
Alexander. I hear he’s dying to
get out of the Summit, and I’m
sure he’d jump at the chance to
trade arenas.
The Spurs aren’t losing
money at the Alamodome. The
team made around $4 million
last season, proving the Alam
odome is economically viable.
McDermott countered by
saying that the Spurs’ manage
ment is preparing for the time
when the Spurs stop winning
and All-Star center David
Robinson retires. Then, the
Alamodome could change from
Eden to a burden, and cost the
team big bucks.
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