The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, September 09, 1997, Image 9

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    Tuesday • September 9, 1997
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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
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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.
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The fifth-ranked Texas A&M Soc-
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9RCYCLE |ving of the year thi weekend de-
ating both Big 12 rival Kansas and
issouri.
On Friday, A&M faced off against
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With freshman midfielder Nicky
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stabiisned rock, RiESal and two assists, the Aggies
775 3230 bl snked the Jayhawks 5-0.
KSONAL I In a press release, Coach G.
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Cross Country wins
first at Rice Relays
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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
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were
shman walk-on Chuck Cusimato
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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
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Dexter Duplexes. 69! Fittipaldi escapes
rvices death in crash
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) — Racing
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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
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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.
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