Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 110, No. 269, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 24, 1979 Page: 5 of 30
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DALLAS (AP) - The coun-
try's.winningest junior college
basketball coach, Floyd Wag-
staff, along with golfer Don
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Coronado was tagged with the
and after a triple bypass oper-
ation. recovered in time to
coach the team in 1975 He re-
tired after that year
January, a graduate of North
gripped by the emotionally taut
encounter that earned the win-
ner $20,000
But with Wimbledon starting
And. with most of the would-
be challengers falling victim to
the wind and weather and their
own mistakes, only Newton and
Trevino appeared in position to
mount any threat at all over the
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Fry, who hit 418 during the
regular season, blasted a 380
foot stmt over the left field
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211.
“I played just the way I
wanted to through the first 13
holes, and then the wheels
came off,” said Newton, who
lost an 18-hole playoff to Wat-
son for the 1975 British Open
title. .
They were the only men able
to break par for three trips over
the 7,050-yard Glen Abbey Golf
Club course, which was made
even more difficult than usual
by the winds that gusted to 25
mph and the temperatures in
the chill 40s.
Ben Crenshaw and D A
Weibring were at par 213. Cren-
Aggies
Al Vincent managed 12 years
in the Texas league in his 41-
year professional baseball ca-
reer and produced champion
ship teams at Beaumont, Dal-
las and Tulsa and sent his team
Watson, the outstanding
player in the game over the last
2′2 seasons and already the
winner of more than $353,000
this year, opened the day ‘s play
with a 3-shot lead No one ever
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shortstop Dave Chalk, who
stepped on second for out No. 2
Chalk, holding the ball in the
confusion, saw Armas run into
the infield and signal for the
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Armas, who tagged first base
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holes for a 73 that left him at was at 215, a distant 8 shots
EASTBOURNE, England
(AP) — Chris Evert IJoyd
saved three match points be-
fore winning! a dramatic three-
hour tennis marathon 7-5, 5-7,
13-11 over Martina Navratilova
to win the Eastbourne inter-
national grass court title Satur-
day.
IJoyd’s victory, in one of the
most thrilling matches ever
played in Devonshire Park,
was a reversal of last year's
exciting final between the two
which Navratilova won 9-7 in
homer then put Texas ahead 7-5
and the Rangers added an in-
surance run when Eric Soder-
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selves and his consecutive win- to the final round of the playoff
play of the season, tying the
American league record. After
Gamble and Bill Sample sin-
gled, putting runners on first
and second, John Grubb at-
OAKIAND, Calif. (AP) _
Pinch-hitter Dave Roberts
smacked a two-run homer in
the 10th inning to power the
Texas Rangers to an 8-5 victory
over the Oakland As Saturday
Bump Wills led off the inning
with a single, stole second and
went to third when A’s catcher
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Byron Rice
Lincoln-Continental
pro tour in 1956 and his career
earnings passed $1 million thus
year
Few golfers have ever played
so consistently well over so
long a period as January Don,
who will turn 50 in November,
had a banner year in 1976 His
winnings of $163,622 were near-
ly $100,000 more than in his next
-most lucrative campaign In
addition to winning the Tour-
nament of Champions for the
second time, January tied for
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Jack Nicklaus, who designed
this demanding layout along
the banks of Oakville Creek,
matched par 71 — equalling the
best score of the day — and was
at 216 U S Open champ Hale
Irwin had the same figures
Defending champion Bruce
Lietzke was another stroke
back at 217 after a 72
“It was a very difficult day to
play golf,’.’ the globe-trotting
Newton said The figures bore
him out. The field average was
slightly over 76
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duel will soon be forgotten
‘This match will probably be
better than Wimbledon,-" said a
tired Navratilova "But Wim-
bledon is the one that matters "
Nothing could dampen
IJoyd’s satisfaction with the
longest match she has ever
ning record of 29 straight
games wasn’t snapped until
Texas did it against Arkansas
in 1979
Hooper pulled off a great shot
put upset as a sophomore at
Texas A&M in the 1952 Olympic
Trials when he beat world
champion Jim Fuchs and Na-
tional AAU and NCAA cham-
pion Perry O’Brien in the
Olympic Games at Finland, he
suffered a disappointing loss
when O’Brien beat him by
three-quarters of an inch for
the Gold Medal.
Hooper, who set a national
high school shot put record in
1948 that stood for four years,
won the SWC shot and dicus
three consecutive years,
setting records each time and
took the Triple Crown (Texas,
Kansas, Drake Relays) twice.
He won the NCAA in 1951.
He also kicked the extra point
that beat Texas in the 1951
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coach Catfish Smith and 1952
Olympic silver medalist
Darrow Hooper have been
elected to the Texas Sports Hall
of Fame
Also named was Al Vincent,
who managed three different
baseball clubs to Texas league
championships
The six were elected by a 19-
man selection committee from
the Texas Sports Writers Asso-
ciation.
The honorees will not be en-
Sports in brief
INGLEWOOD. Calif AP -
Affirmed, alkady in the
thoroughbred record books as
the 1978 Triple Crown winner
and Horse of the Year, is
expected to write another
chapter of racing history
Sunday when he can become
the sport’s first $2 million
winner
Making his final West Coast
appearance, Affirmed wil
appearance, Affirmed will
collect $275,000 if he wins the
$500,000 Hollywood Gold Cup -
however, came in the crucial
47th game. With the score tied
at 11-11, she first double faulted
and then netted a simple volley
to give the 24-year-old IJoyd
the break she netwie^
“At the end^moever missed
a couple of snots was going to
lose," Nay’flova said.
OAKVILIJE, Ontario (AP)<-
Although the extremely
difficult conditions — whipping
winds and biting cold —
prevented a score better than 1-
over-par 72, front-running Tom
Watson retained a 3-stroke lead
Saturday in the third round of
the $350,-000 Canadian Open
Golf Tournament.
Watson, seeking a fifth title
of the season and poised to be-
come the first man to win $400,-
000 in a single season, put to-
gether a 54-hole total of 207, 6
strokes under par
Lee Trevino, who wore two
sweaters, a shirt and his pa-
jamas, also had a 72 and was
second alone at 210 going into
Sunday’s final round of the
Lacey, 1-5, and came home on
Oscar Gamble’s single
Jim Kern, 9-1, relieved Spar-
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match point. cracked But even in defeat she
IJoyd said afterward, “The agreed with IJoyd.
match was the best and closest . “It was technically the hard-
high quality match I have ever est match I have ever played,"
played ” P she said. “It was so intense "
The two top players scarcely The crowd of 4,000 was
- fifth, stole MM ond base and
in a fourth city Fort Worth
Eight of Vincent's players
Joe Adcock, Alex Grammas.
Fred Hutchinson, Roy Hart-
sfield. Mayo Smith, Jack
Tighe, Norm Sherry and Danny
Ozark r coached in the major
leagues
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ling led off the first innin with
bat k to bac k singles before
Fry s home run
Ihe Soth added a run in the
fourth when Barry Barnes of
I a Marque doubled and s ored.
o a single by iMi Robison of
Houston Clear Take
Cedrick Mat k 4 Freeport
reached base on a fielder s
• hoit e in thefift * stole we on,
went to thurd un mii error and
M ot ed the Souti's final run on
a wild pitch by Mike I mlwi of
Wai < Ku hfield
For ue North Mark I atxr of
Crockett walked to open the
shrined until Dec. 31 during a second in two events and tied
luncheon featuring the Cotton for third in three others.
Bowl week Barnes won the SWC singles
During his 30-year coaching and doubles championships
span at Tyler Junior College, while at Texas in 1929 and 1931
Wagstaff's basketball teams and the singles in 1930 He was
won 734 games against only 221 the national doubles champion
losses. His teams won 10 con- in 1931. After turning pro, he
ference titles and tied four won the world doubles cham-
times and captured national pionships in 1932 and the na-
championships in 1949 and 1951 tional doubles titles in 1932.
and were runners-up in 1960 1934, 1939, 1943 and singles
and 1961 championships in 1938 and 1943.
He also coached football and He coached the U.S. Davis Cup
his 1948 team won the Junior team in 1939.
Rose Bowl. His record in foot- Smith developed outstanding
hall was 130-36. He suffered a high"school teams at Carey,
heart attack in September 1974 Borger, Longview and Mt. Ver-
HOUSTON AP) Shortstop
David Fry of Port Neches
Groves clubbed a three cun
home ru in the first inning
Saturday to lead the South All
Stars to a 5-2 victory over the
played as a professional
We put so much mental and
emotional energy into the
match,” she said "I felt I was
going really well, and in the
third set I got overheads 1
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