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THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, Wl JEttHY HUMID TAKES SECOXMhMHJiW LEAH PAGE 22 The Monster' Course Winner In PGA Lee Trevlno, who halted Nicklaus' drive for an unprecedented sweep of the Grand Slam when he scored a one-shot victory in the British Open, was happier with a 71 that tied him with Palmer at 144. "I'm satisfied with my round," Trcvino said after his early finish. "Before the day is over, 71 isn't going to look like such a bad score," He three-putted twice and on another occasion took three from the fringe. Nicklaus, the winner of the U.S. Open and the Masters and one of the favorites coming into this one, said he "must have missed 10 greens.

I can't remember playing this bad all this year. 'i i 't drive well, I didn't hit my irons well, I didn't chip well, I didn't putt well, I didn't think well. The whole thing was pretty bad. "It was just one of those days. For some reason I just didn't have It In me.

I'd just like to forget It and think about trying to play a good round tomorrow." Palmer was five strokes off the pace at 144 and Nicklaus was eight back at 147. He was at 139, just one under par. "I brought 'The Monster' to her knees," Ben Hogan said after a final round 67 that woo hint the 1951 U.S. Open title on this course. No one matched Ikgan's score yesterday and only four men were able to get under par tor the day and one of them missed the cut for the final two rounds today and tomorrow.

Hale Irwin, a one-time National Collegiate golf champion and all-conference defensive halfback from Colorado, and former PGA champion Kay Floyd shared second at 141). Birmingham, Mich. (AP) Jerry Heard strolled to a par 70 and the second-round lead in the PGA national championship yesterday but the real winner of the bright, sunny day was "The Monster," the not-so-jolly green giant that is Oakland Hills. Heard, a casual 25-ycar-old California who has won two titles and more than $100,000 this season, was the only man in the field able to break par after two trips over the 7,054 yards of rolling countryside that makes up this old, par 70 course. he correctly predicted.

I'm not giving tip," he said of his 1 1 1 five strokes back. "I'll give up when it's over, not before that. You never know about this game. You never know what can happen in two rounds." He scrambled most of the way, with five bogeys and four birds, only one of which came on a lengthy putt. The others were after he had hit irons close to the hole.

Two of the bogeys including the one on No. 17 that put him over par for the day came from bunkers. Two more were from missed greens and the other was on a three-putt. Heard had a warning for mis challengers. "I feel like I'm getting stronger every day," he said.

"I'm starting to hit the ball good. I like the way I'm swinging the club and I like the way I'm putting." He scored his first tour Bob Collins Sports Over Lightly Second Round Scores1 Irwin had a 69 and Floyd failed to Main a share of the lead when he bogeyed the tough 18th hole, finishing with a 71. Jim Jaiuieson, Bob Smith and former Masters champion Gay Brewer were grouped at 141. Smith had a 69, Brewer a 70 including a double bogey six on the 16th and Ja-mieson a 72. Gary Player of South Africa, who has won titles in literally scores of countries, had a second consecutive 71 on the course he calls "the second toughest in the world." He ranks only Carnoustie in Scotland ahead of it.

Tied with Player at 142 were rookie Lanny Wadkins, who had the day 's best round with a 68, Dan Sikes and Tommy Aaron. Aaron had a 71 and Sikes a 72. In addition to Smith, Irwin and Wadkins, the only other sub-par round was a 69 by club pro John Frillman of Omaha, who had a first round 85. He didn't qualify for the last two rounds of this, the last major championship of the season. Stan Thirsk, an obscure club pro ironi Kansas who surprised by grabbing a share of the first round lead with a 68, soared to an 82 for 150.

Buddy Allin, who shared the lead, went to a 77 for 145. But the 27-year-old Allin had plenty of company in his misery as the thread-needle fairways and hump-backed greens left such giants as Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer shaking their heads in dismay and sent them reeling from the course with glazed and glass-eyed expressions. Each had a fat five-over par. Palmer, the 42-year-old millionaire who has won everything the game can offer except the PGA didn't have a birdie and was obviously working hard to keep the anger from showing. "I'm just sick of the way I'm chipping and putting," he said.

"It's just awful and I'm very disgusted, but It seems like I can't do any better than what I've been doing." iNw "i Jerry Heard 40-70 I If Ray Floyd -71 140 Halo Irwin 71 1 4 Gar Brewer 71-70 14) Jim JimifSM 40-77141 Bit E. Smith! 71-40 141 Gary Player 71-71141 Lenny Wadkins 74-4014 Din Sikes 70-71141 Tommy Aaron 71-71141 Art Will 71-71143 Billy Cawtr 71-70141 Phil Radeers 71-71141 Jim Wiechero 70-71141 Bob Shew 71-71144 Sim Snead 70-74144 Let Trevino 71-71144 J. C. Snead 71-71144 Charles Coo 71-71144 Doui Sanders 71-71144 Rod Funsetll 70-74144 Lee Elder 71-71144 Arnold Palmer -75 144 Paul Harney 74-71-145 Mid Hill 7J-71 145 Tom Welskeef 71-71145 Chi Chi RodriOVU 71-74 14S Bod Allin 41-77 145 Sale Dogolast 74-71145 eb Murphy 75-70145 Larry Witt 74-71145 Mike Sovchak 71-71 14 Hubert Green 75-71144 Geerie Archer Jack Burke Jf. 74-71 14 Bert Yancey 71-74 144 John Miller 70-70144 Pat Schwab 71-71144 Jimmy Wright 74-71144 Jimmy Powell 71-74144 Denny Len 71-71144 Deene Beman 75-71 147 Ken Still 73-75 147 Bruce Cremoton 71-74147 Miller Barber VJ-74 147 Jack Nicklaui 71-75147 Jerry McGe.

71-74147 Dae Stockton 74-7J 147 Grier Jones 71-74141 Babe Hilkey 73-75141 Lionel Hebert 71-74141 DeWitt Weaver 74-74140 Richard Crawford 70-70 140 Freddie Haas 74-74144 Gene Torrei 70-70 14 Raloh Johnston 75-7414 Pave Hill 73-77140 arnr in ton 75-74140 Julius Boras 74-75140 Wavne Yates 75-74140 Earn Carrnichoel 74-71140 ou Graham 75-75150 Dow finsterwold 75-75150 Bo 6olby 71-71 150 Fran Beard 16-70150 Bobby Nichols 74-74150 Bob Rosbure 71-7 150 DIRMINGHAM, MICH. THE "I was there" syndrome infects all sports fans. It matters not whether they saw the historic event or blow or shot. The important thing is to be where or close to where it is happening. All that is needed is the price of a ticket and a good imagination.

Thus, people who were in the men's room at the time, can recall, in minute detail, how Babe Ruth called his home run shot in the World Series. Men sitting in the back row and wiping spilled beer out of their laps at the time can give a graphic and exciting description of the Cassius Clay punch-one which, incidentally, few people at ringside saw that destroyed Sonny Liston. Nevertheless, they had seats in the arena. What they didn't see was their own fault. This is why I consider the golf fan unique.

With price of his ticket he wins the right to wander over 300 acres of underdeveloped farm land. Take, for example, the second round of the PGA at Oakland Hills here yesterday. Crowds were so thick around the leaders you could maybe see the clubs as they completed their back-swings. As for following the flight of the ball, you had to take the word of a gypsy. But sophisticated golf fans overcome their minor disadvantages by staking out positions.

The sadists sit around ponds or bunkers. The romanticists flock to the birdie hole greens. And the ones with a sense of history sit all day either by the first tee or the 18th green. They are two completely different tribes. The first tee people, I call the sprinters.

They watch the field get underway and disappear over a hill. Their sentry duty is finished by mid-afternoon. They get home ahead of the crowd. The 18th green gang is made up of people who sign on for the duration. They arrive early, when the grass still is wet, stake out positions and, defying Mother Nature and most of her children, wait until the last putt has been missed and the grass is getting wet again.

And then there is the bar crowd. It grows in size as the day progresses. They pay a premium for the right to purchase over-priced drinks. For this they get an unobstructed view of the back of a waiter's head. They are without a doubt the best mis-informed of all golf fans.

Name something that didn't happen and they can give you a blow-by-blow description backed by three bleary-eyed witnesses. Like the fellow who yesterday was telling two bored bartenders how he had watched Jack Nicklaus win the U.S. Open here in 1951. He looked like he had been sitting in the same seat since the 1951 victory presentation. As he told it, it was a great tournament.

Only the names, dimmed by time, had been changed to protect I assume-Ben Hogan. CHECKING WIND Golfer Jerry Heard of Visalia, tosses grass clippings into ihe air 1o check the wind direction before teeing off at the ninth hole of the second round of the PGA Championship at Oakland Hills yesterday. Heard wound up with a two-under par on the first nine. (UPI Telephoto) triumph on the tough Firestone course last season when he won the American Golf Classic. And he proved his liking for a n't courses this season when lie followed with triumphs In the National Invitational at Fori Worth's Colonial and the Florida Citrus at Rio He chipped up to eight feet for a birdie on the second hole, then got his only other with a 20 foot putt on the sixth.

Heard, ranking only behind Nicklaus and Trevino on the money list this season, bogeyed the 10th from a bunker and three-putted the 14th lo go back to even with par for the day but parredin the tough closing holes to retain the top spot. It took a score of 150 to make the cut for the last two rounds. Among the cas-u a 1 1 i were former PGA champions Dave Marr, Al Geibeger and Don January'. Kermit Zarley 75-75-1 SO Bob Charles 74-74150 Jerry Steelsmith 71-77150 Jim O'Hern 74-74150 John Schlee 75-75150 Sieve Friebert 74-74150 Sim Thirsk 40-01150 Rei Baxter. Jr 77-73150 Carry Gilbert 40-11150 Chuck Scallv 74-74150 Ron Letellier 75-75150 NON-QUALIFIERS Jerry Barber 75-74-151 Ltbron Harris 70-0J-151 Al Geibereer 77-74151 Bill Ooden 73-70151 David Graham 74-70-151 Bob Lunn 74-74-JI51 Fred "Wamoler 74-74-152 Jim Ferree 70-74-152 Gibby Gilbert 74-74V152 Don January 75-77-vl52 Bryco Devlin 75-77-452 John Cook 74-74452 Brad Anderson 71-74452 Georoo Smith Jr Charles Volpont 73-IIVU2 Homtro Blancas n-iwsi Fred Marti 77-70453 Tom Nioporto 74-77151 Georoo Knudson 7-74-1ji Jim Colbert 75-7J 151 Mac McLendon 75-701 SJ DOUO Fold 78-74154 Davt Eichelberoer 77-77154 George Johnson 74-70154 Jo Jiminei 75-70154 John Frillman 05-40154 Gene Borek 71-74 154 Claude Kin 75-00155 Tommy Jacobs 71-77155 Ross Coon 70-77155 Chick Evans 77-70 154 John Weaver 70-77154 Ken Folkes 70-70 157 Bob Galloway 77-11150 Dick Stranahan 70-70150 Bab Lichardus 74-07151 Dav Marr 745150 Ken Towns Sl-TO) 15 Jim Ferrier 01-7SUo Georoo Shortrido 70-1rl4O Georqe Demling I2-7140 Walker Inman, Jr 00-W 141 Stev Graoo 70-01141 Steve Lyles 70-04142 Larry Mancour 01-01142 Bill Robinson 13-79142 Merle Backlund 04-70143 Jim McCoy 70-04143 John Molendo 00-03143 Ted Denham 03-02145 John Kinsey 04-01145 Don Essiq 07-70144 Edwifd Bosse 04-11144 Denny Shute 01-05174 a 000 HE EXECUTIVE CARS DEMONSTRATORS GREENWOOD '72 PLYMOUTH SKAMP TZX Mt Trans, Power Stoorlno, Vinyl Roof, Redio, WSW end more.

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Teen-ager Harold Solomon of Silver Spring, however, revived the Americans' chances, gaining a 9-7, 7-5, 0-6 lead over another Spanish veteran Juan Gisbert, before darkness halted their match. SOLOMON, 19, and Gisbert, 31, will finish their match today, before Smith and Erik Van Dillen of San Mateo, Calif, meet in the Spanish doubles team of Gisbert and Gimeno or Manuel Orantes. The best-of-five inter-zone semifinal series will be completed tomorrow with Smith, the Army corporal from Pasadena, playing Gisbert and Solomon facing Gimeno. The winner will meet the survivor of the semifinal between Australia and Romania for the Cup. The Aussies and Tvomanians split their opening two singles matches yesterday at Bucharest.

Gimeno, a late replacement for Orantes, who injured his elbow Thursday, used his court savvy In stopping the favored 6-foot-4, 25-year-old Smith. He seemed better suited in the 87-degree temperature and had the advantage of playing on Barcelona's familiar Royal Tennis Club courts. Playing carefully, he took advantage of Smith's numerous errors and the American's erratic service. He kept the pressure on Smith, who was his own worst enemy, doublefaulting 10 times, the last costing him a game in the final set. Smith's usually powerful service deserted him, and could prove to be the downfall of the favored Americans.

Trailing 5-4 in the final set, Smith hit three shots out of bounds and quickly fell behind 40-0. Then, Gimeno ended the match with passing forehand before 8,000 cheering Spaniards. Solomon and Gisbert battled each other on the baselines with the young American slamming back drives to keep Gisbert from the net, his strength. Both opened the match by breaking each others, service. In the first set, Gisbert had four double faults; one permitting Solomon to break service in the 15th game.

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