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PAGE 4--LEVELLAND DAILY SUN NEWS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1»68
Jerry McGee Carries Two Stroke Lead At Tucson
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Cincinnati’s Top 4 Hurlers
Hesitating To Sign Contracts
By United Press International
Dave Bristol, manager of the
Cincinnati Reds, is wondering
whether he will have a starting
pitcher ready by opening day.
Four pitchers have balked at
signing contracts for 1968 and
they happen to be his big four—
Milt Pappas, Jim Maloney,
Gary Nolan and Mel Queen.
Between them they combined
for 59 of Cincinnati’s 87
\ ictones in 1967.
Two other Red hurlers, Jerry
Arrigo and Jay Ritchie, plus
catcher Jimmie Schaffer re-
mained unsigned as the pitchers
and catchers went through their
first workout at Tampa, Fla.
Maloney, the big righthander,
missed most of spring training
Committees To Smooth
Things Out For NFL
NEW YORK (UPD—Within
the next few days the National
Football I eague may have as
many committees as it does
teams.
Currently attempting to wrap
tV their mid-winter meeting
before the weekend, NFI
owners, through President Art
Modell, announced Thursday
that eight or nine committees
will be formed in the next few
days to cover a maze of
subjects, mostly affecting the
NFI ’s merger with the Ameri-
can Football I eague, scheduled
for 1970.
Mode1! said realignment is the
■M* topic to be decided, but
mo to be discussed will be the
affect of the merger on
television, schedules, post-sea-
son games, the AH ’s two-point
conversion rule and the size for
the regulation football.
Modell, owner of the Cleve-
land Browns, revealed that
realignment of the NFI ’s
Eastern Division, even before
the merger of the two leagues,
is I definite possibility.
Under last year’s set-up, the
Eastern Conference was com-
posed of the Capitol Division
(B*tes, Philadelphia, Washing-
ton and New Orleans) and the
Century Division (New York,
Cleveland, Pittsburgh and St.
Loots).
Some owners of Eastern
Csoflarence teams are pressing
for Now York and New Orleans
MTsSrWHfi divisions this year so
their clubs would get a chance
to play in New York. Any
switch must be approved by a
unanimous vote of all 16 NFI
owners.
But, whether or not a switch
is approved, Modell said,
‘‘there is no question that we
will continue to have four divi-
sions of four teams each
through 1969.”
camp last year when he held
out for more money, but Nolan,
then a rookie, and Queen, a
converted outfielder, were able
to pick up the slack in the early
going.
Pappas was the only holdout
in camp. He conferred with
general manager Bob Howsam
in the stands while his
teammates worked out. Mean-
while, third baseman Tony
Perez came to terms with the
Reds.
E Isewhere, the Philadelphia
Phillies added signed contracts
from pitchers Dick Hall, Dick
Farrell and catcher Clay
Dalrymple, leaving eight play-
ers unsatisfied.
The Atlanta Braves open
camp for pitchers and catchers
today at est Palm Beach,
Fla., catcher Joe Torre, who
arrived Thursday is expected to
sign today.
Veteran relief pitcher Stu
Miller signed with the Balti-
more Orioles for an estimated
$4U,UUU, a $5,000 cut.
Pitcher Al Schmeltz became
the first casualty for the New
York Mets. He reported a
recurrence of a sore shoulder
he suffered in the winter
league. The Chicago \\ hite Sox
received signed contracts from
infielder Tim Cullen and pit-
cher Jim Magnuson.
1 efthander Al Downing re-
mained a New York y anhee
holdout as manager Ralph Honk
put his pitchers through a long
bunting drill.
‘‘1 ast year we were pitiful
when a sacrifice was in order,”
said Houk. "But I’m going to
try and change that.”
By J JF ST. AM ANT and John 1 otz, Hayward, CjUlt,
TUCSON, Ariz. (CPI) -Today both with 34-34.
is a big day in the golfing Defending champion AM|
career of 23-year-old Jerry Palmer showed no'
McGee - he’s got a two-stroke from a week’* root
lead going into thg second round tournament trail and (bat
of the 72-hole $100,000 Tucson —74, two over per.
Open. "1 didn’t drive we]
This is pretty high altitude for didn’t putt well,” said
an unknown kid who’s in only "That’s about it.”
his second year in the PGA Last year, Palmer started
tour, has never won anything to toward his victory with aflrst
speak of and is trying to round 66. |
George Knudson, the £ Me-
dian pro won the $100,ooo
Phoenix Open last Sunday, had
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HP,
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scrounge a living.
“I’m a little speechless,” he
said after shooting a seven-
under-par 33-32-65 Thursday in
the first round of the Tucson
National Golf Club course. Par
is 36-36— 72.
This gave him two strokes on
Dean Beman, the former U.S.
and British Amateur champion
a two-under-par 35-35_7(fc;
Another 1968 tour wifeier,
Tom Weiskopf, Bedford, Ohio,
carded 35-36—71. WeiakOJpf U
the official PGA money leader
for the year, mainly becatiiie of
his $30,000 victory in the Andy
200 FISH—A.H,, O.D., and Elton Spears fished for about three
days down in the Rio Grande \ alley on the Ealcon Lake and
caught approximately two hundred croppies and bass. The aver-
age weight of each fish is one pound.
from Bethesda, Mdv Beman, 29, " illiams San Diego Open.;j|:
who turned pro last year, fired McGee has probably t*v»r
35-32—67. even dreamed about such g
In at 68 were foui pros-Steve purse as $30,000, butj
Oppermann, San Erancisco, and think a little about the]
Australia’s Bruce Crampton,
both with 33-35; and Dave
Stockton. San Bernadino, Calif.,
TONSILS, ADENOIDS REMOVED
DUMPS IN 44 LAST P.M.
Doctor May Have Had The
Answer For Oriole’s Palmer
Sundown Girls
Split With
Big iE’ Takes Over Third Place
By United Press International
Elvin Hayes has made Flgin
Baylor and Bill Bradley move
over.
Hayes became the third
leading scorer in college bas-
ketball history Thursday night
when scored 44 points as top-
ranked Houston routed its little
country cousin, the University
of Texas at Arlington, 130-75.
The .sharpshooting Hayes now
has 2,525 points and needs only
14 more points to overtake the
No. 2 man, Frank Selvy, who
scored 2,538 points for Fur-
man.
Oscar Robertson holds the all-
time college record with 2,973
points achieved at Cincinnati
(1958-60).
Hayes cracked the “BigO’s”
NCAA field goal record as he
netted 20 baskets for a career
total of 1,056, four more than
Robertson deposited during his
collegiate career.
Houston ran its unbeaten
string to 24 this season by
taking a 18-6 lead and leaving
the court at intermission with a
71-32 margin. Hayes was
phenomenal with a 36-point first
half.
Notre Dame joined Oklahoma
City, Army and Fordham in the
National Invitation Tournament
with a 70-67 ictory, ninth-
ranked Duke beat Wake E'orest
50-41 and No. 7 New Mexico
stormed past Arizona 102-74 in
other top games Thursday
night.
The Irish accepted their first
NIT bid immediately after
edging NYU, but they had to
struggle for it. BobW hitmore’s
two free throws with 1:10 put
the Irish in front 66-65 and
Notre Dame wrapped up the
game as Bob Arnzen and Mike
O’Connell each sank a pair of
foul shots. Jim Miller of NYU
tallied a game high of 23 points,
one more than Arnzen.
Wake Forest’s attempt to
stall Duke into submission
backfired as the Blue Devils
earned out their 17th victory in
20 games. The Deacons con-
trolled the ball for a 10-minute
stretch during the second half
to prevent a Blue Devil runway.
Duke gained the lead for good
at 37-33 early in the second half
with Tim Kolodzeij pacing the
Blue Devil attack. He led the
team with 13 points. Norwood
Todmann scored 15 for W ake
E'orest.
Seventh-ranked New Mexico
gained sole possession of the
Western Athletic Conference
lead with a revenge beating of
Arizona, which edged the I obos
by a point three weeks ago and
cracked their 17-game winning
string.
Ron Sanford guided the attack
with 36 points as the I obos
raised their record to 21-2.
Mickey E’oster rallied 18 foi
Arizona.
Joe Allen scored 31 points as
Bradley defeated Tulsa 85-67 in
a Missouri Valley Conference
game and Seabem Hill tallied
26 in Wyoming’s 91-86 W AC
triumph over ArizonaState.
LONDON ^ PI) — Ralph
Charles won the British welter-
weight title Tuesday on a 15
round decision over Johnny
Cooke. Charles weighed 1453/4
for the fight against the deposed
champion, who scaled 145.
By JOHN G. GR1FEIN
l HI E xecutive Sports Editor
MIAMI, Fla. (CPI)—The
doctor obviously wasn’t a
baseball fan—but the casual
question he asked one day last
December just might win the
1968 American I eague Pennant
for the Baltimore Orioles.
“Have you had any pains in
your joints recently?” the
medico asked patient Jim
Palmer, 22-year-old Orioles
pitcher who had come to see the
doctor because he had been
having a “lot of colds and flu
and things like that.”
Now, every American 1 eague
fan knows that Palmer has
indeed pain in his joints
recently. In fact, his sore right
shoulder in 1967 robbed him of a
brilliance that made h:m a 15-
game winner and world Series
hero in ’66. The pain cut him
down to a three-game winner,
and what was a big reason the
World Champion Orioles
dropped to sixth place.
“The doctor explained pain in
the joints sometimes is caused
by infections in your system,”
Palmer explained at the Or-
ioles’ spring training camp
here.
Something W orked
“So on Dec. 16 I had my
tonsils and adenoids taken out,”
Palmer said. “The doctor said
he didn’t know whether that
would cure my arm rouble, but
it sure is worth trying.
“Whether that’s the reason or
not, right now my shoulder feels
fine.”
The handsome 6-foot-3 Palmar
was nothing short of sensational
as a 20-year-old major league
sophomore in 1966. In addition
to his 15 wins and 147
strikeouts, he outpitched Sandy
Koufax to beat the 1 os Angeles
Dodgers, 6-0, in the second
game of the World Series. Still
nine days short of his 21st
birthday at that time, he was
the youngest man in history to
hurl a shutout in the World
Series.
Along Came May
He had strained his shoulder
in August of ’66 but he didn’t
really have trouble until May
12. 1967.
That was the day he almost
pitched a perfect game against
the Y'ankees. Now he wishes he
hadn’t.
“My arm was still after about
five innings, but I kept on
pitching because I had had the
perfect game going,” Palmer
recalled. “I believe that’s when
I developed the trouble for the
rest of the year.”
Brownfield Lady Puts Up Two
Levelland Daily Sun
Item*
By Ronnie Shettlet worth
Palmer gave up only ore hit
in that game, to Horace Clarke
in the seventh inning, and
Clarke was erased in a double
play—so Palmer faced only the
absolute minimum of 27 batters
in pitching a one-hitter.
it was the last good thing that
happened to him in ’67. On June
19 he was farmed out to
Rochester and put on the
disabled list. On Aug. 10he was
reactivated and farmed still
lower to Miami in hopes hot
weather would help his arm. On
Sept. 6 he was recalled by the
Orioles and on Sept. 10 he
pitched well against the
Yankees again, hurling five
shutout innings.
“My arm felt okay that day,”
Palmer said, “but now It really
feels fine again.
“If it keeps feeling good,
there isn’t any reason I
shouldn’t have a real good
season.” \
Dollars, Hauls In $10,522.20
CHARLES RICHARDS
fNFIELD, Tex. (UPI)—
already cashed the
and the receipt for the
M9 dangled from her fin-
is Dolly Hinson relaxed
on Ike sofa In the huge living
roan of her fashionable home.
“Oh, it’s not so much really,”
she said. ”Ten thousand dollars
don’t buy anything, unless It’s
an automobile or something
ilka $|L It’ll help toward
horse In a race, she Mid, and
she had previously seen and
liked all four horses she se-
lected.
In the almost six years she
and her husband have been
making regular trips to the
races, she has collected the Rig
Q “two or three times, but
each time it was only for six
or sever hundred dollars-Noth-
ing like this," Mrs. Hinson
said.
“1 just go to the races for
the mere pleasure of it, and
even though I’ve won a lot of
times, I’m strictly an amateur.
There’s no way to beat them,
because you can’t outguess
them,” Mrs. Hinson said.
She walked over to the fire-
place, looked at the receipt
again, and smiled. “But I’m a
little bit ahead of 'em now.”
Meet a
ticket, Mrs. Hinson
[fee first two finishers at
horse race*
i Park, N.M.,
)” prize. It was
thg third largest In the track’s
k the money
one else got
Big 3 Aren’t Among
Top 10 Money Winners
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By STEVE SNIDER
UPI Sports Writer
NEW YORK (UPO—The PGA
is out with its annual edition at
“Who’s Who” Is pro golf and
it’s obvious there’s more to foe
tournament businass feat) just
Jack NieUans, Arnold Palmer
and Billy Caspar.
In ftts slick ttttle booh, with
author Boh Gorham’S Southern
ilfStchsi at IB Sgm from
Tommy Aaron la Karmtt
Zariey, who’ll
$5.4 miUien in
money Eds year.
Wtfo Caspar sixth. Palmer
eighth and Nicklaus nowhera
among foe current top 19 money
winners so far, let’s take a look
at some other “who’s” la foe
weekly tournament cast:
Tam WetekopC, 25, former
■st
Calif. .. He’s 6-1, wears horn-
rimmed glasses, keeps a peck
of red apples from Ms home
state at Washington in Ms
locker on tour.
George Knudson, a Canadian
wboM rather stay home with Ms
family, nevertheless has won
six major tournaments includ-
ing last week’s Phoenix Open..
. He often shoots spoor opening
round but when he’s hot at the
start keep following Mm. . .
Dave Karr, only 5-4, was
troubled part of last year with a
“football knee” (he got it
playing football with Ms Mds)
but Houston Oiler trainer Bobby
Brown helped straighten him
out . . . Devey is sixth on the
currant money list, i.xrfo
watching for Ms great style.
Bay Floyd, ex-playboy at 25,
la a bach si or bat aerie* about
Ms golf... Ho’s nmriagshe*
at Palmer hi currant money but
Ms last victory was at St Paul
are even better . . . Marty
Fleckman, who led the UJS.
Open at the end of first ana
third rounds while still an
amateur, is one of the game’s
biggest hitters.
Julius Boros, now 48, has won
close to $400,000 since life be-
gan at 40. . .Masters champ Gay
Brewer set nine 1967 records in
foe Jacksonville Open including
a round of 61 and 26 under for
the distance . .. Bruce Devlin
is a licensed plumber in
Australia, Dan Sikes an attor-
ney, Beman a prosperous
Insurance man.
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Seven players, led by Nick-
laus with $188,998.08, topped
one hundred grand in official
prise money a year ago. . .
Palmer, Casper, Boros, Dan
Sikes, Doug Sanders and Frank
Beard are foe wealthy seven.
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turn-si
Al OsthefBsr, IMS PGA ready s cowboy.
South Africa’s Harold Hen-
ring, who to* Ms playing
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to beck to etsy.... He’s
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nmr provides free hag mm a tom title.. .Deane
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soaeeradldsflr* toned pro to* year, la a hot
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oner $65,800 la* year.
V you mix up Billy Martin-
dale and Don
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ON TWO SPECIALLY EQUIPPED
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ftwtow
PACKAGE PRICE!
■ Front, rear bumper guards
■ Whitewall tires
e Deluxe wheel covers
a Vinyl root in Mack, white or
green, or standard top
a Bright belt mouldings
(2 door hardtop only)
a Bright wheel lip mouldings
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turn signals
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like so many of the
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tournament. '•
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tournaments and won about.
$10,000. That’s hardly expifose
money for a top flight golf
professional.
Slaton Friday
MRS. GLYNN LEE v
The Sundown Roughettes fop,
led with the girls’ teams fjrom
Class AA Champs, SI stem Tues-
day in the Sundown Gym, ipUt.
ting the wins.
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teams was close except far foe
first quarter which saw
down 0-8 until they caught *
early in the second quartenThs
Houghettes edged she* at foe
half and managed to maUtria
a lead until the final
which showed 51-47 for:
down. High scorer for foe j
was Pati Phillips with 20]
followed by Becky Joiner:-
17. High for Slaton wj£
points was Sue Brake.
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thriller. The lead shifted i
as often as the bell was
from one end to the othh^S*
when the final whistle! •
the teams were tied 4M£ b
the overtime play either j
could have taken foe wii^llri
time stopped and
ahead 54-53. Both___
this was one of foe most ktjMj
contested games of fosb1 Mas-
ons. Janis Dean lead ths per*
ing with 28 points, follow* If
Linda Johnson of Slatoo krtth
25 and then Luella Ebertkrt,
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