AViVAViViVAVAw.VAW.y A ' 1 Ridd, Bylund J Page 8- - Victorious At Cascade Provo, Utah, Monday, August 9, 1976 Magna veteran Jack Ridd shot a : par 66 to win the Orem : Amateur Golf Cham- ?: pionship at the Cascades course Sunday. Ridd finished a stroke : ahead of Provo's Gary ji Howard and Greg Sharp $of Salt Iake who were ;:i tied at 67. g James Blair, the BYU : star, was tied at 68 with : Vance Christiansen and : Wayne Anderton. Provo $ veteran Max Fillmore : was alone at 69. Craig Collett finished J:J with a 72 while Mack $ Christensen, Steve Budge : and Milan Swiller all came in with 73s. a four-und- TV--' as! j ft r: 'rj7 fl Sporfs Editor ' . There's Lots of Action 3 MM On Sporting Front Well, what do you know, if Jr it's Monday already: 4 - ' And those of you who slept late this morning missed one of moonsets of the summer. That moon was out of the 4. great this world, so to speak, when it went down behind the west mountains. And as it set, the week that dawned is the week of the 1976 Food King Utah Open at the Alpine Country Club in American Fork. S g ;J $ jj: $ : :i : $ : : :: : :: :S g In net play, Kent $ Bylund carded a 55 for 8 i as ii Ir f I , rtri 1 '.it 7 I 1? $ er i ... ::low honors. Larry and Jim .O'Reilly were four & J strokes back at 59. $ $ Mercel Salsezar and $ Eli Gourdin finished with :? puecher, f :g60s and Rod Goodliffe, Anthony Trujillo and ij Todd Johnson had 61s. AI g :j Lopez and Lloyd Evans ::: rounded out the top 10 at $ 62. S : The festivities and action get underway Tuesday with the will be played Wednesday The second pro-apro-aand then things get serious with the start of the $30,000 Open Thursday. first Fork this weel.. Action in the Utah Open starts A second pro-aTuesday with the first pro-awill be played Wednesday and the Open will SONNY BRAUN of Hobble Creek in Sprlngville has his sights set on the 1976 Food King Utah Open at the Alpine Country Club in American begin Thursday. A talented field of pros and amateurs will go after the championship. m It promises to be a great golf tournament, but it is only part of the action this week. The annual Utah High School Activities Association coaches clinic started this morning at the University of Utah with BYU swimming coach Tim Powers among the guest lecturers. Tuesday at noon, the annual Bee Hive Boot luncheon will be held in Salt Lake City with the college football coaches, sports information directors and press getting together. By MARION DUNN BVU's Lavell Edwards, UtalTs Tom Lovat, Utah State's Bruce Snyder and Weber State's Dick Gwinn will review their prospects for the coming season and answer questions and then, in the next couple of weeks, the same coaches will be greeting their players and opening fall practice. All-St- All-Sta- All-St- Then there are the boys baseball tournaments, Softball tournaments, semipro and Legion tournaments. Provo is in the State Legion tournament in Salt Lake City and plays Wilson at 8 p ra. tonight in Ken Price Park in Murray. Hey, all you golfers who are interested in power golf, the National Open Long Driving Championship will be held this week It gets underway Tuesday at 3 p.m. MDT as a preliminary to the PGA Championships at the Congressional Country Club. Bethesda. Md. It will be taped and then televised by ABC Sunday just ahead of the final round of the PGA Cecil Wall. Royce Ridge and - . ' it A! iC -- I .)5Viiil''t'WTM'' - ftfc. ;;f;..:.: ::.:r.;v..'.'.. ...... J - . V - other contenders first National Open Long Driving Championships held last year, amateur Jeoff Long of Fort Mitchell. Ky.. won with a drive of 322 yards, 22 inches. Dent finished fourth last year with a long blow of 3!i-- and trailed Curtis Sifford , ..- . lill(." Can be Beaten . s. MIKE MALASKA, the Weber State star from Salt Lake City who won the Utah Open two years ago, will be one of top amateurs entered in this week's .... . V. rV'..s. '.,' . at the Alpine Country championships Club. Malaska will probably be playing in his last tournament as an amateur. In the 4 and Bill McSpadden. ri Ahh, but tie .vinner could be a husky pro from Salem, Maine named Cotton Dunn who had a drive of 363 ? In the Northeast Regional. Of course, he had a favoring wind, but that's a mighty long blow. must combine accuracy with length They wide fairway on the first hole at Congressional They each hit five balls on in the preliminary round and the top 10 advance to the second round where they start all over. Contestants hit at a In the second round each man hits three balls and the five longest move into the finals where each has three more opportunities to win the top prize of $15,000. Consolation prizes are $7,500. $4,500. $3,000 and $2,500. amateur wins he receives a trophy and gift certificate and his earnings go to the PG A Junior Golf Fund. If an in the Western Rcgionals, big Bob Betley. Incidentally, the pro from Bountiful Springs, represented this area and took fifth place with a drive over John Joseph of Foster City, Calif was the winner with a blast of 363-2- . , Betley is one of the favorite i to win the I'tah Open and is sure to be a gallery favorite it Alpine with hit long hits. Just a couple of more notes and you can move to the important stuff on this page: Westminster College has named a new assistant football coach. His name is Tase Ellinger and he will help Allen Jacobs. The Olympic trapshooting champion. Don Haldeman, will two-daexhibition at the Spring Creek, Nev., Trap . and Skeet Club Aug. Action will get underway at 2 both the on m. days Spring Creek range which is located 10 p miles southeast of Elko . In the Olympics, Haldeman won the geld medal hitting 90 of 100 targets in the difficult stage a international style trapshooting. Metzger, Padres' Win By United New Jersey pro Evan Williams holds a win over Dent driving competition and is entered in this open. Utah Open will have started. Of course, the first two days are for fun and mon, being s with devoted to the the start of the Open set for s Thursday. But the have their own excitement. The payoff is good, and the pros get a chance to warm up and learn the course at the same time. Everything is ready for the Open, two more pros joined the field Sunday when Pete Somerville of Wyoming and Dee Ray Simon of California sent in their checks. Somerville is a veteran of Utah Open play while Simon is one of the better playing pros on the West Coast. But, with the start of the Open only three days away, much attention is being given pro-am- won the qualifying affair for tour players yards. 3 inches 21 year's pro-am- 6-- But IVnt can be beaten. There will be for the title and all are long knockers. Jim Dunn off the No. 1 tee. At the same time Guernsey and his amateurs, Jerry Howells, Lyle Patton and Dick Haynie will tee off on No. 10 and this . I 222 pounder, is recognized as the Jim Dent, a longest driver on the PGA Tour and is the man to beat in the driving championships. 317 Riverside Country So. two better players couldn't be picked to lead off the parade in this year's Open. Tuesday at 7:56 a m., Bonsignore will lead amateurs Camp Kostopulos and the Special Olympics for the handicapped. last summer he golfing while living in Spanish Fork; Weber State's Bob Bradbury and Brad Stone; Utah stars Joe Cornwall and Lynn Landgren; Mike Borich, the teen-ag- e slar from Murray who is considering enrolling at Weber; Ken Cromwell of Ogden who was finalist in the State Amateur when it was played at Alpine two years Club, has been the man to beat in every open tournament in the state for the last couple of seasons and this holds true for the Utah Open. All the proceeds from the basketball and football games go to the United Cerebral Palsy Association, with a drive of Guernsey. Bonsignore is host pro for the Open and is playing at near top form which makes him one of the favorites. Guernsey, now assistant at Provo's All-St- Press International Usually, a team is fortunate to have one star emerge at a time, but the San Diego Padres are leading the National League in luck this season with two Cinderella pitchers. Overshadowed by the tremendous publicity ac- corded 18-- teammate Randy Jones, rookie reliever Clarence "Butch" Metzger has been unobtrusively hovering all year among the league leaders in earned run average while going undefeated with 11 saves. Sunday afternoon, the Metzger won his 10th a in relief-with- out game-- all loss in triumphing over the Houston Astros. Metzger worked in all four of the games San Diego swept from Houston over the weekend, earning saves in each of the other three games, "When I first started warming up I felt I was going to have a lazy arm," the freshman phenom said. "But once I got loose, I got to feeling pretty good. I was a little tired, but I felt I had enough stuff to get people out." Metzger. who has never lost in three major league seasons (he was up for 13 innings in 1974 with San Francisco and 5 innings last year with the Padres ) is closing in on the record for the most consecutive games won in a single season by a rookie pitcher. Two more victories in a row will tie him with George Witse of the 1904 N Y. Giants and Atley Donald of the Yankees. the amateurs Reds 3, Dodgers 2 Bill Plummer singled home Acquired by the Padres one run and winning pitcher after the 1974 season along Jack Billingham. 9 8, doubled with second baseman Tito in another to break a scoreless Fuentes from San Francisco tie as Cincinnati for second baseman Derrel swept a series to go Thomas, Metzger is touted by 13 up on Los Angeles in the many as a hkely candidate for National League West. rookie of the year honors. PUUlf s 3. Cardinals ! Metzger, who entered Ihe Pinch-hitte- r Jerry Martin's game in the eighth, became sacrifice in the ninth fly the winner when Hector Torscored pinch runner Johnny res stroked a bases-loadeOates from third base to give single with two outs in the bota over St tom of the ninth inning to score Philadelphia victory Winner Steve ("arltcn. Fuentes with the winning now 134. allowed eight hits run. before being replaced by Ron Willie McCovey had tied the Reed in the ninth. in the bottom of the Mcts 7. Pirates 4 game Leo Foster drove in three pinch-hi- t eighth with a three-run- . homer, his 4fi5th lifetime. runs with a single and a double McCovey, a veteran of 18 and Mickey Lolich fired an to pace New York seasons, is now third among eight-hitte- r active major leaguers on tiie over Pittsburgh. Lolich. who e 14 in a row at one point, home run list, behind Hank Aaron and Frank Robinwon !is seventh game against 10 losses. son. 1939 fifth-innin- g four-gam- e 3-- 3 rired Cubs 7, Expos I In other games. Cincinnati Bill Madlock hit a ! trimmed Los Angeles Philadelphia nipped St. Louis double and Steve Swis.W homer as smacked a two-ru32. New York surprised Pittswo-ru- Steve Rcnko haunted his by leading Chicago doubleheader with San over Montreal. Rcnko's second before complete game this season imFrancisco, winning proved his record to losing 41. In the American League. Braves I I. Giants 14 Baltimore downed New York Jerry Rovster singled to 85, Detroit swept Gevcland. deep left centerficld with the and 15-Chicago split with bases loaded in the bottom of Kansas City, winning 2 and the ninth to drive in the winnthen losing 71, Oakland drub- ing run for Atlanta in the bed California twice. and opener. In the nightcap, Ken , Texas tripped Minnesota Reitz drove in three runs with and Milwaukee at Boston a pair of singles to give San Francisco a split. was rained out. burgh Chicago 7-- 4, Montreal clubbed and Atlanta split a 5-- 1 5-- 9-- 13-8- 4 State Amateur two-tim- e champion Jack Ridd who won the Orem Amateur Sunday; 1976 State Amateur champion Reid Goodliffe who started pre-me- Saturday night at 8:30 in Rice Stadium the football game will be played matching last year's greats from around the state. Certainly, the amateur field is impressive. In addition to Malaska there is James Blair, WAC medalist from BYU; morimig's Food King Utah at the Alpine Open Pro-ACountry Club here will be Joey Bonsignore and Rusty in the Friday It is to toe off in Tuesday University of Utah Special Events basketball team will Center, the Utah High School at 8:30 p.m. with a Utah girl's play the Arizona game precccding it. On - AMERICAN FORK fitting that the first two pros Games All-St- ar Prep Herald Sports Editor in this year's field. This, too, is fitting and proper because amateurs hve won the State Open the last two years in a row Mike Malaska. a tall, golfer from Salt Lake, good-lookin- g Utah Open when won the it was played at the Ogden (kilf and Country Gub and BYU star Mike Brannan won last year's meet at Riverside Brannan is not defending his crown, but Malaska is in the fold again in what could be his 1974 last appearance as an amateur The Weber State ace is ptannin? op turning pro and attending the PGA Tour school this fall Barker of Taylorsville and Max Fillmore and Garth Ford of Provo. ago; Vaughn By United Press International Another one of Bill Veeck's crazy ideas turned out to be Sunday. The Chicago White Sox introduced short pants to major baseball league and. disregarding the wolf whistles, looked darn good in beating the Kansas City Royals, 5-- In the game of the the White Sox returned to long pants and their losing tendencies, drop- second ping a Jack decision. Brohamer, who two weeks ago had said he wouldn't wear shorts unless allowed to wear a halter top too, drove home two teammates with a single in the sixth inning of the first game for what proved to be the winning runs. Ralph Garr. who was promised a kiss by Royals' first baseman John Slayberry if the White Sox outfielder reached first, singled twice and drove in a run wearing shorts and white (what else'' i He cut a splendid figure, but Mayberry reneged on his promise. Perhaps Garr can sue for breach of promise'' C'!dv Cm ruil. ho pitched of an inning in relief of winner Terry Forster. was accused by teammale Dave Hamilton of looking like a "Pilgrim going out to shoot a wild turkey.' When the commotion and clowning had settled down-a- nd the result was in-- it was hard to find anyone ready to bases-loade- d knee-high- two-third- s Gulls, 6--1 And once Malaska paved the running. It could increase this year. Sunday night The victory evened the series between the East Divisirvi leading Gulls and the last place Toros at one game six-fim- e apiece. The third game Monday night matches pitchers Gary of the Gull Wheelock. and Craig Mitchell, 19, of the Toros. 12-- tj three 3 235-yar- order. Tuesday and Wednesday the traffic will be heavy with the s and Thursday the pro-am- firing will begin for the big money. made trip an unusual to home pre-gam- e plate with the lineup card to show off his gams and said afterward, "They felt great. I think they would be great in warm weather. They're alright." The knee high socks included padding just below the knee to protect any budding Betty Grable's from ira rubber reparable damage. In the second game, though, triHal McRae's basos-loade- third ple highlighted a five-ruinning and gave AI Fitzmorris his 14th victory in 21 decisions. n 2 Toros Dump way, Brannan was quick to follow and now the amateurs hve shutout the pros two years The course at Alpine will ue a rugged test. The rough has been allowed to grow and two holes have been increased in length. The par-- 16th hole has been lengthened to and the par 5 17 to 528 yards. The greens are in excellent shape and the fairways are in Sox' Crazy Idea Produces Victory When Malaska walked off w ith the 1974 crown, it broke a winning drought for castigate Veeck's latest the amateurs in the Open idea Mike had barely turned 20 that Manager Paul Richards summer and he also became one of the youngest golfers to win the Utah championship. To win the '74 title, Malaska shot a six under par 282 with rounds of 70 69 69 74. Low pro 7-- 5 and second place finisher was John Jackson of Tcmpc. Ariz., TUCSON. Ariz it'PIi The w ho shot a 28.1 Gvne Torres, a taknte l pro from Las Vegas. Tucson Toros built an early New Mex'co. finished third at lend then held on to defeat the Salt Lake City Gulls. 7 5. in a 285. Jackson had led the first two Pacific Coari League game days, but fell a stroke behind Malaska after the third round and couldn't make it up on the final day. The amateurs will be represented in quantity and quality and one of them could beat the pros again. This just adds to the interest in this year's Open. Orioles 8. New York 5 Reggie Jackson's two-ruhomer and Lee May's two-rusingle carried the Orioles to their sixth straight victory n n over the Yankees. Ross Grimsley gained credit for the win as the Orioles cut New York's lead in the AL East to nine garrs. The Yankees' Catfish Hunter suffered his fourth straieht loss to drop his record to A's Angels 8 The A's complemented their outstanding speed with a display of power to manhandle th' Angels Don Baylor, Billy Williams. Sal Bando. Joe rtudi, Gene Tenace and Phil Garner homered, while the Oakiand baserunners swiped 10 bases during the two victories. Reliever Rollie Fingers picked up saves" in both games to boast his season total to 17. Indians 15 Tigers Ron Le Flore doubled in the ninth inning and scored the winning run in the opening game as Indians' reliever Dave LaRwhe threw wildly to third after fielding Dan Meyer's bunt Bill Freehan'i led the Tigers' assault in the second game with three runs hatted in on a pair of doubles and a single Chuck Scrivener contributed three rbi with three hits, including his first major league home run, Rangers 5. Twins 4 Jeff Burroughs' single in the ninth inning and lighthitting Jim Sundberg'i three rbi with a pair of singles gave the Rangers their victory over the Twins. The Twins had li"d the game, 4 4. in the top o? the ninth on a double by Steve single by Brye and a pirn Steve Braun before Burroughs hit with one out in the bottom half of the eame-winnin- ,