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Show i Packers-- B ears Pre-Seaso- n Nicklaus D ef ends Th underbird Title The fifth annual $100, 000 Thun -derbird Golf Tournament, from the Upper Montclair Country Club in Clifton, N.J., will be televised live and in color by ABC Sports, it was announced today by Roone and ExArledge, ABC of Sports. ecutive Producer The third and fourth rounds of the tournament, respectively, Vice-preside- - Pro football returns to GRID ACTION the CBS Television Network Friday, Aug. 12 with the Green Bay Packers n the Chicago Bears in a facing game The National Football League defending champion Green Bay Packers meet the Chicago Bears at Milwaukees County Stadium in contest an NFL on the CBS Telecoast vision Network Friday, Aug. 12, on Channel 5. This will be the first of four NFL games to be presented on the Network on succespre-seas- on -coast pre-seas- on sive Friday nights. Regular season play starts Sept. 10. The Packers won the Western Division title in a sudden-dea- th playoff game with the Baltimore Colts and then went on to defeat the Cleveland Browns in the championship game. The Bears finished third in the West in 1965. After a very slow start they suffered three straight losses to open the season the Bears began to jell; they finished out the season by winning five of their last six games. The Packers have the same veteran team that brought them the 1965 title, plus some of the at Milwaukee on Channel 5. The game n grid will be the first of four clashes to be presented on the Network on successive Friday evenings. to enter leading rookie prospects Two of season. the league this Don-n- y backs are rookies their fine Anderson of Texas Tech and Jim Grobowski of Illinois, both first-roudraft choices. The stars include backfield veteran Bart Starr, fullback quarterback halfback Paul and Jim Taylor nd Hornung. nt will be televised on Saturday, 14. August 13 and Sunday, August15 of cameras, Sixteen ABC-T- V them color cameras, will follow the action from the 15th through 18th holes each day. Jack Nicklaus, the only man to have won the Masters, U.S. Open, British Open, PGA and Men s Amateur, will be defending his Thunderbird title against many of the nations top golfers. Other Thunderbird champions expected to compete will be A mold Palmer (1963) and Gene Littler, who won the first Thunderbird whenitwas last held at the Upper Montclair Country Club in 1962. U. S. Open champion Billy Casso per; Phil Rodgers, who played ABC-T- V before spectacularly cameras in the British Open last weekend; Julius Boros, and Dave Marr are other top golfers alin the ready officially entered tournament held annually for the benefit of charity. fX |