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Tuesday • September 9, 1997 S The Battalion PORTS angers plan memorial for announcer e applies only to days at no charge.it ditional insertions at ARLINGTON (AP) — At the ballpark and in urch, memorial services for former Texas gangers announcer Mark Holtz will give friends, latives and fans opportunities to remember the lam’s longtime voice. The Rangers plan a public service at 7 p.m. fednesday in the Diamond Club of The Ballpark Arlington for Holtz, who died Sunday at a Dal- s hospital of complications from a bone mar- iw transplant for treatment of leukemia. Another memorial service was scheduled at 4 WANTED AM & PM wail stall a >ply in person. er, 50cc, runs S looksjoct atiable. Call Royat696-ta p.m. Wednesday for relatives and friends at Trinity United Methodist Church in Arlington. Holtz, 51, teamed with Eric Nadel as the team’s radio an nouncing team in 1981-94. Holtz moved to the television both in 1995. Nadel remains the team’s lead play-by-play announcer. Holtz broadcast his final game for the Rangers May 22 and underwent the transplant June 18. The team will wear a black patch on its uni form in Holtz’s memory for the rest of the season. Family members have requested that, in lieu of flowers, contributions be made to ei ther the National Marrow Donor Program at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas or Texas Rangers Charities’ Mark Holtz Fund in Arlington. Ladies qr^s 0-4 TUXEDO RENTALS from *49.95 FREE SHOES, VEST, & GROOM’S RENTAL (Ask us for details) At the Texas Ave. entrance of A&M Open Weeknights until 7 p.m., Saturday until 5 p.m. 764-8289 Mports Briefs ;wt needs part-timeh* ; . JJ iggies undefeated LLANEoiii| 1 wee k en d p| ay mar I IcoH A /V - ■ ^ The fifth-ranked Texas A&M Soc- r Team concluded its first road 9RCYCLE |ving of the year thi weekend de- ating both Big 12 rival Kansas and issouri. On Friday, A&M faced off against IUSIC Iver $1,000 in prizes. Dt] , 693-5514 iduro. Runs great, rees e University of Kansas Jayhawks 8208. Bryan. 696-12«ei 1( j recorc | ec | jt; S fj rs t shUtOUt Of the ;ason, at Super Target Field in iwrence, Ka. With freshman midfielder Nicky irasher leading the way with one stabiisned rock, RiESal and two assists, the Aggies 775 3230 bl snked the Jayhawks 5-0. KSONAL I In a press release, Coach G. , ■ uerrieri attributed the teams per- yrs serv-u (Slows-: R rm ance to the freshmen on the PETS «?' vWH Us. Dogs Mr, 775-5755. m male n at 69: 5-1/2 feel, :*i -0446. led dragon e call 694-i I 55 gakrj ■uad. I “I was a little disappointed with the play of some of our more exper- loed players, but I was pleased our ■ashmen played well,’’ Guerrieri said. Cross Country wins first at Rice Relays MMATES e 3bdrm 2bath duptex.l! 5. eeded to share 3M-) bills. Call 846-9523. The Texas A&M men’s cross coun- Aeam started the 1997 season by |king top honors at the Rice Relays Saturday. Four Aggie tandems placed in the Jeet’s top eight and out-distanced j®cond-place Stephen F. Austin by leaded ^ 7fi4 3 ^ 4 f’’parly four minutes. The men’s top finishers fc were shman walk-on Chuck Cusimato 2 b ;i t b a pa n ment with 24r| hod. $165/mo. 1 lid junior Scott Lengefeld who ran m.'2bath condo, deiac-^e course in 40:24. Other Aggie lacers were freshmen Stephen fqth and Aaron Cottrell (40:37) and Perminter and Todd Fox lor two responsible rooi house w huge deck. $240iierard (281 )469-7256. jp:44). 3 caii'rrysoae was a great way to open a sea- —7——Jin,” Coach Greg Hinze said in a Own room in 3-bedroomM UXkl , . [nd Northgate. GreAthous^^^^ TOlGOS©. W© CGm© OUt fO- 145. :used and did a good job competing. hare nice apartment. o Ml four of our tandems finished in un- 3/mo. ♦i.ms. ceiiu ijer 42 minutes, so that’s a good way get started. The men worked hard Throughout the summer and it to share 3bdrm/2ba" . , . , Jim. 774-7261. showed today. Dexter Duplexes. 69! Fittipaldi escapes rvices death in crash SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) — Racing Driving/Driver's Training 4 ih(6pm- a mpi° n Emerson Fittipaldi frac- it(8am-2:30pm). inside'‘jtured his spinal column in an ultra- -univ. Dr , ste.217 tiJlght plane crash and escaped (cp-0017)- Ilath only because the aircraft fell ——. '-rrin a swamp, a doctor said. manicure $15. Inandfctp r ohpse. 696-8700. RAVEL ANTED BBT LOSS .room of The 50-year-old Brazilian and his •year-old son Luca were taken to the Sao Paulo Hospital in to this years away ga«i Arara quara, a citrus-growing region febout 220 miles northwest of Sao fBulo, shortly after midnight Sunday. ■ X-rays revealed a fracture in the lose weight. No dmgs TOcond vertebra, and Fittipaldi re- P $$? SS Y“n e seii?oo 9 !i(f F P brted difficulty in moving his left ptartel.net/wellsprings feg, Dr. Luiz Roberto Neves, the Npspital’s clinical director, said in a _ Idio interview. Feel great. All natural :f "By some miracle, Luca didn’t ey back guarantee. ; ^SVe even 3 CUt,” NeVOS Said. Neves said Fittipaldi told doctors e motor stalled and the ultralight ‘ashed into a swamp from a height f about 100 yards. ‘It wasn’t a forced landing. It was i crash," Neves said. “The swamp laved (them). If (they) had fallen on olid ground, (they) surely would lave been killed.” The two were transferred to Sao ulo’s Albert Einstein Hospital in e\ equipped with a portable in tensive care unit. After further tests, the family will decide whether to move Fittipaldi to Miami, where he has a house. “Everything now seems to be K." Wilson Fittipaldi, Emerson’s rother, said in a TV interview. Emerson Fittipaldi and his son ok off Sunday morning from the ittipaldi citrus farm in Araraquara, here he grows 750,000 orange 'ees. When they failed to return by nightfall, the family called police t\t jind a massive search began. [ The two were found late Sunday light and taken to the hospital in ^raraquara, where doctors immobi- ized Fittipaldi’s neck. | Fittipaldi won the Formula One Irivers championship in 1972 and L974. He later moved to Indy cars, and won the Indy 500 in 1989 and L993 for Roger Penske’s team, .astyear, he fractured a vertebra in »crash in Michigan, and still has ifeb.tamu.edu Jifficulty moving his right hand and Ight arm. I a.m. iffering ervice ted Press lews coverage /s services via linute news report combining os, graphics, sound and video. red as soon as news breaks. CaBu®t57£© (A ' ■ ■"Mi CITIBANKS OtdL CITIBAN«> : ? T Zj q 4128 VALID PROM EXPIRATION DATE 02/94 0 1/3:1.mi/ LISA PARKS “S3 THINK AHEAD. APPLY TODAY.” CALL ■•SOO-CITIBANK © 1997 Citibank (South Dakota), N.A.