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Show Ugp wWPi DESERET NEWS, SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1973 6A U.S, Open field still chases Player - SPORTS EDITOR HACK miLLER OAKMONT, FA. (AP) Gary Player, a gritty little figure of 5 feet, 8 inches and 149 pounds, marveled as he watched his playing partner, Tom Weiskopf, throw all of his towering 185 pounds into a thundercap drive. If I had a body like that, the South Afr ican remarked to a friend, nobody would beat me. Nicklaus said . It was a funny gether, round. I played some good shots and bad ones, too, but I like my position "Gary is a gutty competitor. Even when hes playing badly, he has a way of rising to the occasion. But I think I can overtake him, naturally, otherwise I wouldnt even play the last two rounds. Little Black They werent beating the Knight as the 73rd U.S. Open Golf Championship moved into the third round today at the aged Oakmont Country Club. The human factories turn out bigger and stronger golfers than Gary Player. Many hit the ball farther. Some chip and putt better. None fights harder. None works more. None plans and thinks as much. Behind the five leavers came ano er corThese don of five, bunched at even par-14included the always dangerous Lee Trevino, Julius Boros, a who had a 72; the Open winner, with 6n; Arnold Palmer, bidding for a comeback miracle at age 43 after shooting his second straight 71; the blast-ho- t Weiskopf, 69, and Gene Borek, the club pro from East Norwich, N.Y., alternate when who got in as a Dave Hill withdrew in a huff. two-tim- e What makes Gary run? Pride. Fierce pride. He is determined to a golfing prove he can whip the giants David in a forest of Goliaths. He is a tiger in dedication and determination. Borek provided the dramatics of the bright, record s rnny day by firing a course 65 after favoNicklaus, the defending champion, rite and recognized king of the game, holed out from a trap 50 feet away for a birdie four at the 12th, and climaxed his round with a birdie at the 18th for 69, placing him three strokes back at 140. starting with a 77. Five strokes dont mean anything in the Open, said Weiskopf. A guy can make that up in two holes. Player appeared unready to give such ground, although he is underweight and still n operapossibly weak from two tions which sidelined him for 40 days. Im a very well man. Im 100 percent. I feel fine, the South African insisted. He didnt want anybody feeling sorry for him. Player disclosed that he was practicing hours at a time to refine his game with the hope of winning the Open and coming within a e goal. single step of achieving a I want to win the four big championships a second time around, the Grand Slam he said, and then I'll toss it in and devote myself to my ranch and family. He is the father of five.. This threw him into a tie with New Zealander Bob Charles and former Brigham Young University star Johnny Miller, the only other field under par. players in the original I really worked hard to keep the round to- - He won the British Open in 1959 and 1968, the American PGA in 1962 and 1972, and the Masters in 1961 and the U.S. Open in 1965. One more U.S. Open and a second Masters would round out his target. Next to Ben Hogan, I probably practice more than any golfer who ever lived, the rugged battler from Johannesburg said Friday round after firing a second straight sub-pa- r for a 137 that gave him the halfway-lea- d a 70 in this most important of golf championships. Five under par for two trips over the par 71 Oakmont course, Player nad e a edge over an implausible little tour nval, Jim Colberts But the unnerving shadow of the great Jack Nicklaus was not far behind. early-seaso- 6,921-yar- long-tim- n but he finished two rounds of the U.S. Open at Wood was hot, but Milwaukee 'stole7 the show Bryant, the National United Press International Even Wilbur Wood cant escape the wrath of baseballs hottest team. Leagues winningest pitcher, won his Uth game and Willie McCovey slammed a three-ru- n homer in the 10th inning Friday night to key the Giants win over the Phillies. The Milwaukee Brewers, currently boasting the majors Bryant has won 24 out of his best record over the past two last 31 games and eight in a one row but credits his success to stole weeks, literally away from the learning to pitch better and pitcher Friday night with more maturity, thats all. when they edged Wood and I feel ahead of hitters rather the Chicago White sox than behind them. behind the seven-hi- t pitching Bryant allowed eight hits of Jim Slaton. before needing relief help Wood, a winner, from Elias Sosa in the 10th was beaten for the fourth after a homer by Greg Luzin-sk- i time in his five starts and the cut the Giants lead to one seventh time this season when run. Ellie Rodriguez, a catcher, The Giants, known for their stole third against him in the famous June swoon, havent ninth inning and scored on a minded the calendar. Its sacrifice fly by Pedro Garcia. e and the Giants are The victory was the seventh on top of the NL West with in a row for the Brewers and the best mark in the majors, their 12th in the last 13 an 5 record. impressive games. run Oddly, the winning came without benefit of a hit. John Briggs walked to open and Rodriguez the ninth reached b&oe when he was hit with a pitch. Briggs was By Brent Cheeketts forced at third on Bob Coluc-cio- s Deseret News sports writer attempted sacrifice but Rodriguez then swiped third Salt Lake Angels infielder and scored on Garcias drive Marcano was in a batBobby to centerfield. slump entering Friday ting Wood, who allowed only five nights opener of the Angels hits, felt he had pitched well e series in losing and was partially with the Phoenix Giants. critical of Rodriguez steal. The likeable Venezuelan's Theres no doubt it was the average had dropped batting key play. If he makes it its a under the .300 mark from a great play, if he doesnt its a high of about .350 in late May. terrible play, said Wood. I When Marcano broke out of thought I pitched a good game his slump, however, he did so and change at a perfect time as far as the anything. Angels were concerned. In beating Wood, Slcton He came up with two hits in and boosted his record to four trips Friday and drove in maintain Brewers the helped two of three Salt Lake runs, their percentage points lead r, as the over New York in the AL including win their extended the Angels East. streak to six by edging the In other American League in a tight pitching Giants walloped games, Minnesota duel. New York edged Detroit Angels lefty Andy Hassler 3 in 10 innings, California was the beneficiary of Marca-no'- s Oakland topped Boston key hits. Hassler went Kansas City topped Cleveland the distance on the mound in and Baltimore nipped and upping his record to Texas gaining his eighth victory in his last nine decisions. Hassler San Francisco topped Philais now tied with Jeff Zahn of in 10 innings, Housdelphia Cinton edged St. Louis Albuquerque for most wins in cinnati blanked Pittsburgh 6 0, the Pacific Coast League. New York defeated San Diego Andy allowed eight hits, walked six and fanned five Atlanta routed Chicago Los Friday. and . Montreal nipped National in Angeles Giants pitcher John DAcuis-t- o League action. was about equally as effec0 mid-Jun- 40-2- par. Nelson returns ; wins golf classic By Connie Christensen Womens Golf Writer In unseasonably cold temperatures, her experience and know-hopaid off for an even-pa- r round of 72. Coupled with an opening-da83, also put together in unbelievably bad weahter, she won by four shots over the defending champ, Marcia Thayne. Five wins out of nine at the Riley Memorial cant be a fluke. Miss Nelson really peaks for this tournament since it was the late Meadow Brook veteran pro who spotted her superb golf swing in 1953 and persuaded her to take up competition golf. "If it werent for Mick Riley, Miss Nelson says, I would only have played the game for my own aggravation. Now, because of him, I can look back on a lot of memorable golf experiences. Fridays round will be one from tee to green and evened out the scoring with five birdies and five bogies. Her super shots came on holes No. 1, 3, 9, 11 and 14, where she four of the greens to get the birds. d Miss Nelson says she may have even choked a little or the putting greens where, after 14 holes of play, she was two under par and could see visions of a 69 or 70. No one is sure of the competitive womens course record at Meadow Brook but 71 or 72 is it. Sue Thompson matched 72 in winning the very first Riley tournament in y 1965. years. Marcano finds plate power five-gam- wouldnt 5 game-winne- 2 13-- 4-- 8-- 2 9-- 4 4-- 3 3 4-- 3 Ron Bryant, San Franciscos stopper, dropped Philadelphia in its tracks. tive as Hassler, except that the Phoenix flamethrower came out on the short end of the score. the PCL's D'Acquisto, strikeout allowed leader, seven hits, walked four and struck out seven in his complete-gam- e performance. The loss was his seventh against eight wins. I have been overswinging Marcano during my slump, said Going into an important series such as this, I knew I needed to start making seme kind of adjustment so I could start helping our team more. post-gam- 1 lead. Rich Stelmaszek led off with a single and scored on Marcanos triple up the left center power alley. Bruce Christensen, making his first starting appearance in the Salt Lake infield in more than two weeks, then singled to score Marcano. The Giants tied it up in the sixth with a solo tally. Jake Brown singled, advanced to second on a wild pitch, to third on a ground out and scored on James sacrifice fly until the botIt stayed tom of the ninth, when Chris Coletta led off for Salt Lake with a single, went to second Cl a perfect sacrifice bunt by Stelmaszek and scored when Marcano drove a double to center over the head Bernie Williams. 2 cut down on my swing tonight and tried to make smooth contact with the ball. It worked perfectly. I simply The Giants took a lead in the fourth inning, when Skip James singled across Steve Ontiveros, who had walked and gone to second on a wild pitch. Salt Lake snapped back for two runs in the fifth to take a 0 was pretty control good tonight, despite the fact I walked six batters, Hassler My Take Dad to Widowmaker A special Fathers Day Motorcross race DRAPER is planned Sunday at Widowmaker Race Course in Draper. There will be approximately 225 laps of racing over the 1.2 mile course. Events begin at 10:30 a m. Fathers will be admitted for half price ($1). track spokesman said it will be the last race for local motorcycle racers before the National Inter-AJuly 1 at Manning Cycle Park. Featured racers will include Bob Brown, Bob Plum, Dennis Packard, Don Fuller, Phil McDonald, Steve Burgess and Randy Ferre. The latter two will be riding special 250 cc motorcross racing machines. A Miss Nelsons performance in this years event is remarkable in that she has been in and out of hospitals for diagnosis of a chronic illness and hasnt played a great deal of golf. Marcia Thayne was not downhearted at her second-plac- e finish behind Miss Nelson because she socred an impressive just five over womens par, in her losing effort. Seventy-two- s are hard to beat, she smiled. 39-3- in Mick Riley Memorial. They've won six of nine said post game. I threw only about 40 pitches in the first four innings, and thats really good for me. I thought my curve ball was better than working usual, and that also helped make my fast bal more effective Angels skipper Les Moss got good news early today, when he learned that California is outfielder Bobby sending Brooks back to Salt Lake. Brooks was with the S.L. Angels earlier in the season, before being called up on May 21. The need for another right handed hitter became evident Thursday, when Jim Hutto was traded to Rochester for pitcher Dave Leonhard. Brooks is expected to report by Monday at least, so he will see action in the current Salt Lake vs. Phoenix series. That series continues tonight and Sunday with 7:30 Bill p.m. single games. will start to) Kirkpatrick night for the Angels, while Don Rose will st'rt ) Sunday. The Angels enter tonights game in third place in PCL East standings, but just barely. Tucson took over first Friday with a 3 win at Albuquerque. Phoenix is one-hagame behind Tucson, the Angels another half game behind Phoenix. (3-1- (1-6- J-- lf Slater nabs lead in senior golf Deseret News Special - MIDWAY Tooele golfer Skeet Slater fashioned a 74 to go with his first round 78 Friday at Wasatch Park to take a one stroke lead into Saturdays final round of the Utah State Seniors Golf Championships. down Slaters Breathing neck was Salt Lake Citys Ray Bradford with a two-da- y total of Four other golfers were in challenging position at 155, former champion Larry Utah Seniors president Bob Bird Sum-merha- (79-76- ), (79-76- ), Ogdens golden plate As young industrialists go, Robert L. CHICAGO with the nation's best. Possibly hes the Rice ranks (Bob) top success story of our time. to athletics. They Many people can relate their success team learned sports. They basketball. They played football, had their edges honed by competition. They gained fame as a forward, greatness as a guard. They married the rich lady because they could throw the football better than any other man. Many had their start in athletics. Bob Rice didnt. He gained his fame for none of these reasons rather, in spite of them. He was too puny for pigskinnery, too bantam for basketball.. Wet down with a garden hose he hardly hit a hundred pounds. He was rejected for every team post he ever sought. The rest of the story has been told many times. Athletes never offered a better Horatio Alger plot than the Rice one. Tonight Bob Rice stands up for another honor here in Chicago. He is recipient of the Gold Plate Award from the American Academy of Achievement. Hes bunched with the e biggies in business. It is y a goal that few achieve, so when it happens to a kid from a farm in Farmington, Utah, its worth waving a banner in his behalf. Rice was chosen by a committee of experts headed by Lowell Thomas, more famous in communications than industrial efforts although Lowell is one of the worlds top businessmen. onee-skinn- Bob Rice gained additional stature within the past year when president Nixon named him to his Physical Fitness Council. Worlds largest health chain Rice, in the business whirl, is president of Health Industries. He founded the European Health Spa chain and built it into the worlds largest health organization. He sold his interests to U.S. Industries and remained Health Industries president. of them. She hit the ball well Beverly Nelson spent the winter in sunny Palm Springs, Calif., but came back to Utah and in her first tournament start Friday won the ninth annual Mick Riley Memorial golf event at Meadow Brook. Rice receives Walt Gresham and Salt Lake Citys Ash Smith (80-75- ), (79-76- ). Slater is golfing in Class B and Bradford in (ages Class C (ages Also within striking distance is Vernal golfer Vic Waite, last years runnerup, at 60-6- ). Deb Johnsons is leading in net play. The seniors were plagued by heavy rain Thursday and action was delayed about an hour Friday by more inclement weather. Little more than a year ago he gave the University of Utah $1 million for improvement of athletic facilities. The university honored him by naming its facility Robert L. Rice Stadium. But there was more to that story. After Rice had given the Utes the million dollars the latter learned lighting was going to cost $90,000 more than budgeted. So the university facility could be lighted for community and other uses Rice gave an additional $40,000 on provi- sion that U. of U. raise an additional $50,000. The lighting project is being completed for this falls football show. American Academy of Achievement was held in Salt Lake City a year ago. One of the leading figures is Utah's Maurice Warshaw who received the golden plate in 1970 and chairmanned the 1972 Salt Palace event. -- . , For the young Americans of the academy here is the comA valuable munication with young people who aspire to be the best in their chosen ways. Hundreds of young Americans, chosen for leadership acade-mand scholastic qualities, are here for the three-day y. ; Bob Rice and other award winners sat in sessions with these young people to inspire the latter, and inform them on lifestyles of successful businessmen in America. A dozen high school scholars from Utah participated in the academys various functions. ' ; As planned, Bob Rice talked to all junior delegates, conferred with them on matters pertaining to his special field of accomplishment. Its unfortunate every young man and lady could not have this opportunity. But better a few than none. And yet, the ones picked are not assured of success. In fact, they might come up short on achievement. Bob Rice never went to seminars in Chicago. Rather, he got a set of ropes and tied them in the hay loft, worked up muscles primarily to gain a few pounds for football. Most advice he got was how to clean the cow shed. At Bonneville Raceway 'Want Bird' wins Deseret News Special HUNTER Out by morning, in by afternoon and a winner by night fall. That was the cycle Friday of the engine that flew the F. G. Ferre Want Bird to top perch Friday at the racing special at. Bonneville Raceway Park. Early morning Friday owner Larry Aiello retrieved the Birds engine from the shop. By mid afternoon the engine was assembled and the Bird was en route to Bonneville. In his final run, driver Paul Schoenfeld clocked the fastest run of the night to beat Garth Widdison in the Widdison, Utah Perry and Mason Charger. Schoenfelds run was a 6.65 second charge at over 200 miles per hour. Widdison lost with a 6.99. Bill Spens, in his Thunder won top honors in Plus, modified production ; Keith Lynch took his F.G. Ferre to a first in the Innovation, super stock division; and Jas- per Pace and Julie Tracy claimed number one spots in E.T. bracket one and two. To make it to the finals, Widdison bettered Gene in the Intregrator. Wal-stro- Gals! Still room in Rose Park test There are still openings available in the Rose Park Ladies Invitational golf tournament scheduled Wednesday and Thursday. Deadline for entry is Monday at 6 p.m. Carbide Saw Sharpening All Type Sews A Tools Machine Shwponod. HoiolHt A McCulloch ChomSuwt UTAH SAW WORKS 427 Nor 300 West 6 1 -- |