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O'Connor uses advice to grab British Open lea •
By 808 GREEN
AP Golf Writer
SANDWICH, England A bit of advice
from "Himself" helped Christy O'Connor
Jr. to a spectacular, record-breaking 64 and
a four-stroke lead yesterday in the first
round of the British Open Golf
Championship.
"He's a hero in Ireland, a very brave
player with nerves of steel," O'Connor said
of his uncle, Christy" O'Connor, a boiste
rious, carousing figure who reached the
status of a legend during the 50s, 60s and
70s, and was known throughout the land
simply as "Himself."
"He told me how to win the Open," said
Christy Jr., a journeyman pro who has
played his life in the shadow of his famous
uncle, winner of scores of European tourna
ments and in 1965 the runner-up in the
British Open.
"He said you must be brave enough to
attack the course, brave enough to be posi
tive and not negative, brave enough to play
each hole and each shot one at a time.
"I kept that in mind," said the younger
O'Connor, 36, a veteran of 16 years of
unremarkable activity on the European
circuit.
And it worked so marvelously well this
chilly day on the rainswept links of the
Royal St. George's Golf Club course.
"I just tried to make as many birdies as I
could. I tried to keep going the way I was. I
never played safe," said O'Connor, who had
10 birdies, four bogeys and only four pars.
Christy Jr. reeled off a British Open
record of seven consecutive birdies, on the
fourth through the 10th holes.
, He broke, by one stroke, the course record
set by Henry Cotton in 1934 and was re
warded by a "well done, lad; did you play
all 18?" from the 78-year-old Cotton.
And he matched the largest first round
lead ever established in this ancient event.
The last to lead the first round of this
tournament by four shots: Cotton in 1934.
"That's the best I can play," O'Connor
said.
While O'Connor, whose last individual
Loree hopes to reach University Games
By JIM SAUNDERS
Collegian Sports Writer
Years of intensive training are
beginning to pay off in a big way for
Lady Lion Gymnast Pam Loree.
The senior from Port Washing
ton, N.Y. is at the University of
Florida today where she will com
pete for one of only six positions on
the team which will represent the
United States at the World Univer
sity Games to be held in Japan next
month.
Loree earned a chance to try out
for the U.S. Team by placing elev
enth in the Individual All-Around at
the NCAA Championships held in
Salt Lake City, Utah last April. •
The top ten Americans at the
NCAAs were chosen to compete for
the six positions on the U.S. team.
Loree was selected as the tenth
candidate the third place finisher
in the NCAA's was a Canadian
citizen.
In addition to the ten NCAA fi
nalists, six other gymnasts were
invited by the organizing commit
tee to try out for the squad:
"It's one of the goals that I've had
since I was young and this is my
last chance," said the senior about
the chance to represent her country
in international competition.
While her teammates have been
spending the summer working on
new tricks and routines, Loree has
continued to train at a competitive
level and will perform the same
routines that earned her a 37.20 in
the all-around competition at the
NCAA tournament.
Little progress made in baseball talks
By HAL BOCK
AP Sports Writer
NEW YORK Negotiators for
the Major League Baseball Play
ers' Association and baseball own
ers met for three hours yesterday,
reported little if any progress, and
then recessed their talks until Mon
day.
The meeting was the first since
the players set an Aug. 6 strike
date, saying they would shut down
the sport if no collective bargaining
agreement is reached by that date.
Don Fehr, acting executive direc
tor of the union, said the talks
presented no new ideas.
"We had hoped to begin a dis
cussion of the basic issues, salary
structure and the benefit plan," he
said. "We had a brief discussion but
there is still no offer on the benefit
plan. We reviewed a lot of other
issues, not fundamental issues, but
important ones."
First round British Open leader Christy O'Connor (left) with three•time British Open winner Henry Cotton
victory came in the 1975 Irish Open, was major professional titles, hit a tee shot out
enjoying his finest hour, some of the game's of bounds on the 14th and had to make a
more famous figures were thrashing and three-foot putt for double bogey. He finished
scowling in damp, bedraggled misery with a 77.
through the knee-deep rough and over the
wet dines. •
Jack Nicklaus, who counts three British
Open crowns in his record collection of 17
"Pam has displayed an excep
tionally mature, professional atti
tude over a tough summer of
training," said Lady Lion Assistant
Coach Marshall Avener. "If she
makes this team it won't be because
she was lucky."
Loree feels that the competition is
pretty even and her chances of
Lee MacPhail, president of man
agement's Player Relations Com
mittee, said the negotiators had
dealt with 25 issues that had been
placed on the table by one side or
the other.
"It's hard to measure progress,"
MacPhail said. "We didn't reach
final agreement. We've got to do a
lot of work in a lot of areas."
The basic issue in the dispute
between the two sides deals with
baseball's television revenue and
the share given to the players for
their pension and benefit plan. Tra
ditionally, the players' association
has received one-third of that pack
age about $l5 million this year.
However, baseball's new TV pack
age jumped from $250 million to $l.l
billion last year, and the owners
have balked at maintaining the one
third percentage for the players,
which would produce payments of
about $6O million.
"We have not made a specific
Seve Ballesteros of Spain, the defending
titleholder and pre-tournament favorite,
bogeyed five out of six holes during the
worst of the rain and came in with a 75.
Pam Loree
qualifying hinge on 'hitting' all four
events.
Called a team leader by Assistant
Coach Avener, Loree says, "I will
be competing alone but I know that
the rest of the team will be with me
in spirit and that's important to
me."
If she qualifies today, Loree will
offer on television money," Mac-
Phail said. "It depends on how the
whole financial issue will be han
dled. The economic state of base
ball is the most important issue to
be considered."
Management has claimed to have
lost $43 million in 1984, a figure
disputed by an accounting profes
sor hired by the owners, who saw
the losses at closer to $27 million.
The players claim, after an ex
amination of the books, that base
ball actually made about $lO million
last year.
At yesterday's bargaining ses
sion, the union presented a report
from Roger G. Noll, a Stanford
University economics professor,
entitled "The Economic Viability of
Professional Baseball."
• Fehr said that it made more
sense to use an economist, rather
than an accountant, to study the
economic issues.
"This is something economists
become the first Lady Lion to com
pete in international competition
since 1979.
"My Wife (Head Coach . Judi
Avener) and I are both extremely
proud of her having a chance to
represent her country," said Assis
tant Coach Marshall Avener, who is
in Florida with Loree today.
do, not something accountants do,"
he said. "Trend lines must be stud
ied. They (owners) say salaries are
going up by 15 percent and that
means large losses, but the market
conditions have changed and it will
rectify itself. That was the end of
the discussion."
Countered MacPhail, "That's
very nice to say, but he's basing it
on his own hopes and beliefs. We
have hard figures to show what our
losses are."
Fehr said that despite the new
television package, players had not
received any more money . for the
1985 All-Star Game than the $2
million -plus generated under
guidelines contained in the old
agreement, which expired last
Dec. 31. "Not a single additional
nickel has been offered."
The union boss said there had
been no significant progress and,
"yes, the clock is ticking."
And Lee Trevino had it two under par
after three holes, then took a double bogey
on the fourth and came in with a 73.
Former U.S. Open and PGA champion
David Graham, an Australian now living in
the United States, led a group of five tied for
second at 68.
Also at that figure were Sandy Lyle,
Phillies snap streak
against Soto, Reds
CINCINNATI (AP) Juan
Samuel had three hits and
knocked in two runs last night as
the Philadelphia-Phillies snapped
a five-game losing streak with a 6-
3 victory over slump-ridden Mario
Soto and the Cincinnati Reds.
Soto, 8-11, has lost his last eight
decisions, the longest losing streak
of his carrer. The right-hander
hasn't won a game since June 4.
Samuel tripled in a run in the
second inning, singled home an
other in the eighth and also had a
double for the Phillies, who also
got • a solo homer from Mike
Schmidt and a two-run double
from Glenn Wilson.
Jerry Koosman, 4-2, won his
220th career game with 7 2-3 in
nings of pitching, with Kent Te
kulve finishing for his ninth save.
The 42-year-old Koosman allowed
three runs and seven hits, struck
out three and didn't walk a batter.
Samuel led off the game with a
double and Von Hayes walked
before a double-steal set up Wil
son's double.
Samuel's triple and Schmidt's
12th homer, into the second deck in
left field in the fourth, made it 4-0.
The Reds loaded the bases on
singles by Nick Esasky, Dave Con
cepcion and Ron Oester in the fifth
before Soto's sacrifice bunt scored
Esasky.
The Phillies added a run in the
sixth and filed a protest. With
Steve Jeltz on second and Koos
man on first, Samuel bunted and
was thrown out, then was called
for interference after knocking the
ball out of first baseman Tony
Perez's glove. .
Without the interference call, a
run would have scored, but Jeltz
ultimately scored anyway when
Von Hayes singled.
Padres 3
Pirates 2
SAN DIEGO (AP) Carmelo
Martinez belted a two-out home
run in the bottom of the eighth
inning yesterday to give the San
Diego Padres a 3-2 victory over
the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Martinez's 12th homer of the
year came off John Candelaria, 2-
4, who relieved starter Rick Reus
chel after seven innings. Winner
Craig Lefferts, 5-4, worked two
innings in relief of Dave Dravecky
with Rich Gossage pitching the
ninth for his 19th save.
The Pirates got a first-inning
run when Bill Almon doubled,
went to third on Johnny Ray's bunt
single and scored when Bill Mad
lock grounded into a double play.
Sixto Lezcano, subbing for the
injured George Hendrick in right
The Daily Collegian
Friday, July 19, 1985
Philip Parkin and Robert Lee, all of Britain,
and Tony Johnstone of Zimbabwe.
The leading Americans were Fuzzy Zoel
ler and D.A. Weibring, in a group at 69, one
under-par and five back.
Larry Nelson, Corey Pavin, Payne Stew
art and Mark O'Meara, a two-time winner
on the American tour this year, had 70s.
Peter Jacobsen had a 71 despite a fat nine
on the 19th hole, *here he suffered a lost
ball and a tee shot out of bounds.
Tom Watson, a five-time winner of this
title, pulled his first shot of the tournament
into deep rough, opened with a double bogey
and came home with a 72 that, he said,
"isn't too far back."
Andy Bean also shot 72. So did Bernhard
Langer of West Germany, the Masters
champion.
Tom Kite, Ben Crenshaw and Lanny Wad
kins were with Trevino at 73 with the rest of
the Americans spaced through the rest of
the field.
O'Connor had three-putt bogeys on the
first and third sandwiched around a 12-foot
birdie putt on the second.
He started his string of seven birdies with
a pair of 12-foot putts on the fourth and fifth.
He dropped in a 25-footer on the sixth then
hit a three-iron second shot to the green on
the par-five seventh and two-putted for
birdie-four.
A 20-footer on the eighth provided him
with a fifth consecutive birdie.
"Until the eighth, I wasn't really aware
what I was doing," he said.
He hit a six-iron two feet from the cup on
the ninth and birdied, reaching the turn
without a par on his card. An eight-iron set
up a 10-foot birdie putt on the 10th, his
seventh in a row.
He two-putted from about 90 feet for par
on the 11th then birdied the 12th from 15
feet. A drive into the rough produced a
bogey on the 13th and he bogeyed the 15th
after missing the green with a three-iron.
He dropped a 20-footer on the 17th to get
back to six under for the day and made par
on the last.
field, made it 2-0 in the fourth
when he hit his third home run of
the season.
The Padres tied it in the bottom
of the fourth on Kevin Mcßey
nolds' two-out, two-run opposite
field double into the right-field
corner. Steve Garvey opened the
inning with a bunt single and
Reuschel walked Graig Nettles
with one out.
Orioles 8
Royals 3
BALTIMORE ( AP) Cal Rip
ken, Mike Young and Wayne
Gross clouted solo home runs and
Eddie Murray rapped a two-run
double as the Baltimore Orioles
defeated the Kansas City Royals 8-
3 last night.
Ripken, 12-for-28 in his last sev
en games, singled prior to Mur
ray's double in the first inning and
hit his 16th homer to give Balti
more a 4-1 lead in the fifth, giving
him 21 RBI in 24 games.
Scott McGregor, with three in
nings of relief from Sammy Stew
art, who notched his seventh save,
upped his record to 8-7.
Murray's double scored Lee
Lacy, who had singled, and Rip
ken, making it 2-0 in the first
inning. Young's ninth homer, the
first of three off Bret Saberhagen,
10-5, came in the fourth and made
it 3-1.
A two-run homer by Hal Mcßae,
who ended an 0-for-16 slump
against Baltimore this season,
pulled the Royals to within 4-3 in
the sixth, but Gross responded
with his ninth homer in the bottom
of the inning.
The Orioles tacked on three runs
in the eighth. Pinch-hitter Jim
Dwyer singled with two outs and
the bases loaded for two runs, then
Lacy singled home another run.
Mets 7
Braves 6
NEW YORK (AP) Darryl
Strawberry keyed New York's
five-run fifth inning with a two-run
single and the Mets went on to
notch their fourth straight victory
yesterday, a 7-6 decision over the
bumbling Atlanta Braves.
Ron Darling, 10-2, got credit for
the victory with five innings of
pitching. Reliever Roger McDow
ell allowed Bob Horner's two-run
homer in the ninth before Jesse
Orosco got the last two outs for his
ninth save. •
Rick Mahler, 13-8, was the loser,
but he was victimized by four
Braves errors that led to six un
earned runs.
Newcomers lead
Quad Cities Open
COAL VALLEY, 111. (AP)
Steve Jones and Bob Tway, rela-
tive newcomers to the PGA tour
and once college competitors,
each eagled to tie at six-under par
64s yesterday for the lead after the
first round of the $300,000 Quad
Cities Open
The pair's showing erased an
early lead by Texan Dave Eichel
berger, whose hole-in-one on the
17th, after a 20-yard chip-in on the
16th, put him two strokes off the
pace at 66.
Jack Nicklaus Jr., meanwhile,
son of the all-time PGA money
winner Jack Nicklaus, shot a 75
11 strokes back and worrying
about making today's second
round cut. Nicklaus, an amateur
in his first Professional Golfers'
Association tourney, birdied once,
but double-bogeyed once and suf
fered four bogeys.
Jones turned pro in 1981 follow
ing graduation from the Universi
ty of Colorado at Boulder, but was
sidelined later that year by a bro
ken thumb. He returned to the
PGA tour last year.
Besides his eagle on the par-five
10th hole, Jones hit seven birdies
and seven holes at par to offset his
three bogeys on the 6,514-yard,
par-70 course.
Tway, born in Georgia, said he
played against Jones several
times while at Oklahoma State
University. He eagled the par-five
sixth hole, grabbed four birdies
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Connors cruises to reach quarterfinals
WASHINGTON, D.C. Number 'downed Spain's Fernando Luna 6-1, 6- only to watch helplessly as they fell
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the quarterfinals of the $200,000 D.C. Africa's Christo Steyn 6-4, 6-2, and With the victory, Clerc advances
National Bank Tennis Classic last Switzerland's Jakob Hlasek won over into the third round, where he will
night easily defeating Lawson Dun- France's Guy Forget 3-6, 7-5, 7-6. meet countryman Guillermo Vilas on
can, 6-1, 6-2. Yesterday's results were not totally Friday. The meeting will be a re-
Taking control at the outset, Con- unexpected as over the last 10 years, match of the 1981 finals here, where
nors held serve and then broke his Argentine players have dominated Clerc won his first championship, 7-5,
opponent at love to take a quick two play here, reaching the finals seven 6-2.
games to none lead. times and winning the clay court
Earlier in the day, sixth-seeded championship on five occasions.
Jose-Luis Clerc stopped Yugoslavia's Clerc, who has two of those
Slobodan Zivojinovic 7-6, 6-2 to lead a championships, most recently in 1983,
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3, 6-4 winner over Peru's Jaime Yza- held serve thru the first set. Clerc
ga, and Marcelo Ingaramo, who oust- won it by taking the tiebreaker 7-3.
ed Spain's Diego Perez, 7-5, 6-3. Zivojinovic contributed to his own
In other matches, eighth-seeded downfall in the tiebreaker as he mis-
Libor Pimek of Czechoslovakia takenly let two balls go over his head
Strike could throw baseball into disarray
By JOHN NELSON
AP Sports Writer
The temptation here is to make an assumption
that can't be made that there will be no strike by
major league baseball players:
• The St. Louis Cardinals and New York Mets
would fight it out for the National League East
title, meeting for the last time at Shea Stadium in a
crucial three-game series Sept. 10-12.
• The Los Angeles Dodgers would slowly pull
away from San Diego in the NL West, winning by
perhaps as many as eight games, while the Padres
struggled with none of the team speed that helped
them win the pennant last year. ' •
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of the American League East, while Baltimore
and Boston fought it out for fourth place.
• The California Angels would hold off a Sep
tember rush by the Kansas City Royals to win the
AL West for the second time under Gene Mauch,
only to lose in the playoffs, for the second time
under Gene Mauch.
Such post All-Star Game speculations, while at
the heart of the game's popularity, must be hedged
this year against the very real likelihood of base
ball's second midseason players' strike.
The last strike, which cut seven weeks from the
middle of the 1981 season, forced then-Commis
sioner Bowie Kuhn into some very unpopular
scheduling gymnastics. The season was,split into
two halves, with the first-half winners going into a
miniplayoff with the second-half winners to decide
the division champions
But since the last strike ended near or before the
date this one would begin, a split season is not an
option for 1985.
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NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) Chris
Evert Lloyd was not at her best
yesterday, but she was good enough
to beat Hu Na 6-2, 7-5 in the second
round of the $150,000 Virginia Slims of
Newport.
Third-seeded Wendy Turnbull,
sixth-seeded Gigi Fernandez and sev
enth-seeded Elizabeth Smylie also
advanced to the quarterfinals.
The Daily Collegian Friday, July 19, 1985-11
Hu is the 22-year-old Chinese tennis
player who defected to the United
States three years ago. Ranked
No. 106 in the world, she had to qual
ify for this event by defeating Canadi
an Marianne Groat, 6-0, 6-0.
Lloyd broke Hu's serve three times
in the first set. She lost her own serve
once. In the second set, there were
seven service breaks, and Hu saved
five break points to hold serve in the
fifth game.
She actually broke ahead 4-2 in the
second set, but Lloyd broke right
back. Lloyd broke in front in the 11th
game and held serve in the 12th for
the match.
Lloyd will play Fernandez in the
quarterfinals today. Second-seeded
Pam Shriver will meet Antonoplis.
If a strike is brief, the season simply could be
resumed. Some games would be lost, and the
remaining schedule might have to be reworked.
But right now, this might represent the most
optimistic hope.
There are two more frightening possibilities:
• A strike is more lengthy, and the two sides do
not come to an agreement until the eve of the
playoffs. At that point, the teams that were leading
their divisions when the strike began would be
declared the winners. The playoffs would begin,
eliminating the most entertaining and telling part
of the season the pennant stretch, when trailers
often overtake first-place teams or at least
make it a close race
The union negotiates past its deadline, push
ing a strike date back to early October. On the day
before the playoffs, a strike is called. Depending
on when a new contract is agreed upon, the
playoffs and World Series are held in December in
a domed stadium or next March in Florida as
spring training is going on. Or not at all.