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The Courier-Journal, Monday morning, August 8, 1933 Racing Classified Comics Sports results, 582-4871 utton survives charge Birds fall as Royals stage rally in ninth PGA aus to win Wick. PGA's top finishers Hal Sutton, 1100,000 6W6-72-71-774 Jack Nicklaus, $60,000 27S Peter Jacobsen, 140,000 73-70-48-65276 Pat McGowan, 130,000 6I-47-73-69-277 John Fought, $25,000 67-69-71-71278 Funy Zoeller, $19,000 72-71-67-69-779 Bruce Lletike, $19,000 67-71-70-71-279 Dan Pohl, $16,000 72-70-69-69-280 -M ---fc 'J It if'" -S' i'- sure on Sutton with a 66. He started the final round six shots back and closed to within one with an 18-foot birdie putt on the 16th hole. But the par-five 17th eluded him he did not birdie a long hole all day and he failed on a long birdie putt on the 18th. Sutton won his third career tournament and earned $100,000 of the $600,000 purse, boosting his leading total to $397,684 for the season.

For Nicklaus, 43, it was another gallant effort that came up short "I told my son this morning that I needed a 65 to win," Nicklaus said. "I shot 66. And that was one too many." Nicklaus, seeking a record sixth PGA crown and 18th victory in one of the majors, had to settle for a record fourth runner-up finish. "I played a good round of golf today," he said. "It just wasn't quite good enough." Nicklaus' failure to win secured Tom Watson's place on the U.S.

Ryder Cup team. Sutton is not yet eligible. Had Nicklaus won, he would have changed his status from non-playing captain of the team that takes on Europe's best this fall, to that of playing captain, with Watson dropping off the 12-man squad. Peter Jacobsen, a 29-year-old tour regular who has one career victory, See SUTTON PAGE 3, col. 1, this section Associated Press PAQHC PALISADES, Calif.

Hal Sutton pulled himself back from the brink of collapse on the last two holes by using a couple of critical pars to thwart a comeback bid by Jack Nicklaus and win the 65th PGA national championship yesterday by a single stroke. The triumph, which Nicklaus predicted "will be the first of many majors" for Sutton, came in dramatic fashion. But Sutton, whose credentials insist he is the best of the young stars, said his thoughts kept going back to Williamsburg, and an embarrassing last-round failure in his last previous start. "Williamsburg was on my mind from the time I teed it up in the first round this week," Sutton said of the Anheuser-Busch Classic two weeks ago in which he blew a six-stroke lead on the final day. And, for a few moments, it seemed as if it would be Williamsburg revisited.

From a five-stroke advantage, his lead quickly dissipated under a charge by Nicklaus and a sudden spate of bogeys three in a row by Sutton. From a potential rout, it became a race. The lead went from five shots to one. "Williamsburg was very much on my mind when I made those three bogeys in a row," Sutton said. "But I just wasnt going to let it happen again." And he didn't.

"I'd gone from playing aggressive to playing conservative. And it cost me. But I turned it around again. I was trying to steer the ball. And I said, 'That's it I'm playing aggressive as I can from here on "There's something inside of you that just punches you up and says, 'don't do this again.

Don't do it two times in a row. Don't embarrass yourself on national He made solid, two-putt pars on the 17th and 18th holes at the Riviera Country Club course to finish off a closing round of par 71 and beat Nicklaus by one. Sutton posted a 274 total, 10 shots under par, for the first major triumph of his brief career. "I'm relieved to cure that label of choker' that's been put on me," said the 25-year-old Sutton, Rookie-of-the-Year for 1982 and currenUy the Tour's leading money-winner. The mighty Nicklaus put the pres Associated Press Special to The Courier-Journal OMAHA, Neb.

The Omaha Royals scored all their runs with one out in the bottom of the ninth inning to rally past the Louisville Redbirds 3-2 in an American Association baseball game last night The comeback started with Butch Davis' triple. "That's what we needed to get on the scoreboard, to get us going," said Cliff Pastornicky, who did his share by driving in the tying run. Steve Hammond doubled to score Davis and chase Louisville starter Rick Ownbey. Against the only batter he would face, Mike Rhodes (3-4) gave up a single to pinch-hitter Ron Johnson, moving Hammond to third. After Johnson was replaced by pinch-runner Jeff Cox, Pastornicky doubled off Ralph Citarella to bring home Hammond and tie the game, with Cox going to third.

Mike Brewer was intentionally walked to create a force. But the strategy was foiled as Buddy Bianca-lana singled to drive in Cox with the game-winner. Louisville got on the scoreboard in the second when Rafael Santana, who had doubled, came home on a single by Tom Nieto. That was the last run until the top of the ninth, when Nieto, Jose Gonzalez and Gene Roof all singled to contribute to a 2-0 lead an edge that proved too little. For the game, Louisville had nine hits and left eight base-runners stranded.

Omaha pounded out 10 hits and had seven left on base. Louisville also benefited from three double plays, but it wasn't enough to keep Omaha from pulling even at 8-8 as the season series between the teams concluded. The Royals accomplished that feat by winning three out of four in this series with the Eastern Division leaders. The victory went to Dave Schuler (5-6), who replaced Vinnie Yuhasln the eighth inning. I The Redbirds return to Cardinal Stadium tonight to start a series with the Iowa Cubs.

Tonight's game features 25-cent beer night. Hal Sutton urged in a putt on the 18th hole during the final round of the PGA Championships yesterday. Sutton won the tournament, beating Jack Nicklaus by one stroke. Waitz waltzes in marathon; Juantorena has surgery Associated Press HELSINKI, Finland Norway's Grete Waitz, the dominant figure in women's long-distance running, became the first gold medalist in the World Track and Field Championships yesterday by winning the women's marathon. The former school teacher from Oslo took the lead at the 19-mile mark and pulled away steadily to easily win the 26-mile, 385-yard race that began in Olympic Stadium, moved through the streets of Helsinki and wound up with the final 400 meters in the stadium.

Waitz, 29, was clocked in 2 hours, 28 minutes, 9 seconds. American Marianne Dickerson, running only her third marathon, outkicked Raisa Smekhnova of the Soviet Union in the final 100 meters to finish second in 2:31:08. Her previous best was 2:33.45. Waitz's victory solidified her position as the world's top-ranked women's marathoner a spot she has held five of the past six years. A four-time women's winner of the New York City Marathon and winner of this year's London Marathon, Waitz set the world best each of the first three times she won in New York and equaled the world best this year in London.

Ireland's Regina Joyce, who fin ished seventh, took the lead from early pacesetter Jacqueline Gareau of Canada between the 10 and 12-mile marks. She held it until the 19-mile point, when Waitz caught her. Two miles farther on, exactly two hours into the race, she was running alone. Gareau wound up sixth and Joyce seventh in the race. "The race felt easy to me, because we didn't run that fast.

I felt strong," said Waitz, whose personal best was 2:25:29 this year in London. The fastest woman's marathon ever of 2:22:43 was run this year in Boston by Joan Benoit of the United States, who didn't compete in Helsinki. In the men's shot put, Edward Sarul of Poland won the title with a heave of 70 feet, 2J4 inches on his final attempt. Cuba's injury-plagued Alberto Juantorena, a star in the 1976 Olympic games, suffered another setback when he tore ligaments and broke a bone in his right foot by running into a plastic starting box in an 800-meter heat The 32-year-old Juantorena, who won both the 400 and 800 meters at the Montreal Olympics, was hurt at the end of the heat He underwent surgery immediately. Leading coming into the closing strides, Juantorena looked around and was passed by Agberto Gui-mares of Brazil and nearly overtaken by Juma Ndiwa of Kenya.

As Juantorena crossed the finish line, just behind Guimares and in a virtual dead heat with Ndiwa, he veered off the track and hit the plastic starting box. Juantorena was in tears leaving the stadium, but was chipper after a 25-minute operation. "I feel perfectly well now," he said, "and I will begin training as soon as I can (for the 1984 Olympics)." Guimares won the heat in 1:48.30, with Juantorena second in 1:48.40 and Ndiwa third in the same time. Arias rallies to beat Gomez for clay title! Arias, runner-up last year to Spain's Jose Higueras, got going again in the fifth game of the final set. He won that game and then held serve to even the match.

That drew a standing ovation from the fans wanting to see Arias become the first American men's champion since Jimmy Connors won for, a fourth time in 1979. "I think the crowd brought him up again," said Gomez. "He was down. I couldn't hold my serve." Gomez began to show signs of fatigue in the 90-degree heat by faulting twice and hitting two forehand shots out of bounds as Arias broke ahead 4-3. A slam by Gomez that went wide helped Arias take a 5-3 lead.

Gomez won all four points on his serve, but Arias held serve for his third victory in five finals this year. "He played" well today," said Gomez about the champion. "And I think I played well The most important of all is that my confidence is back and I'll get ready for the U.S. Open and Davis Cup." CONNORS WINS Jimmy Connors defeated Tim Mayotte 6-3, 6-4, 6-2 to win the $100,000 top prize in the $300,000 High Stakes at Newport Beach, Calif. Ivan Lendl of Czechoslovakia beat Mats Wilander of Sweden 6-4, 6-2 in a consolation match of the three-day exhibition tournament.

"I had a good day today," Connors said. "He came in on approach shots but I was passing him." Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS Jimmy Arias, boosted by a crowd rooting for the first American men's champion in four years, rallied to defeat Ecuador's Andres Gomez in the title match of the 74th U.S. Open Clay Court tennis championships yesterday. "The crowd kept reminding me," said Arias after overcoming a 3-1 deficit to win the final set for a 6-4, 2-6, 6-4 triumph in a 214 hour battle at the Indianapolis Sports Center. "The crowd was all behind me today, and I think that really helped me because I was getting tired a little bit toward the middle of the third set" said the 18-year-old from Grand Island, N.Y.

"He was on a roll 3-1 up in the third, and when I broke serve that game, the crowd really seemed to get behind me and he got down a little bit and started to miss a few." Gomez, 23, said the reaction by the crowd, estimated at 5,500, "didnt affect me, but it really helped Jimmy." It was the third time the two have met in as many weeks. The victory, worth $51,000, gave Arias a 2-1 edge. "Today, I tried to get on the offensive a little more. I was playing really well the first set" Arias said. "Then all of a sudden my serve started to leave me.

That put him in a great spot because he started running around my second serve and just banging it every time." -'4i w- rit'' mmmMmm A 3. Staff Photo by Michael Coors The Swim Family Robinson Championships at Plantation Aquatic Center. From left, they're Tracey, 16, Vicki. 15, and Heidi, 13. (Story.

Page 3.) The swimming Robinson sisters from Lexington were bubbling siblings yesterday they had reason to smile at the State Kovach nears time when he must pick NFL or medicine Associated Press my M.D.," Kovach said. "I'll go to the gradu "I've just got to sit down this summer and v- fesr tf Part of his income is deferred, and the NFL Players Association won severance benefits that would give him a one-time payment of about $80,000 upon retirement after six years. Since interns and residents don't make a lot of money, he'd have that to keep him comfortable through those lean years. Kovach said he is "debt-free," meaning he isn't pressed to keep playing for financial reasons. "I've worked a long time to get myself into this position.

There's no pressure on me at all," he said. "The only pressure is what I put on myself the desire to see just how good I can be--come. "I'd like to play a long time, because I enjoy football." VERO BEACH, Fla. In less than a year, "Doc" becomes more than a nickname for New Orleans Saints linebacker Jim Kovach. "It's my last season without my M.D.," Kovach said after a practice session as the Saints prepare for the National Football League season.

Kovach combined football and pre-med studies at the University of Kentucky, and uncertainty over whether he would choose medical school or the NFL caused a number of teams to pass him by in the 1979 draft The Saints picked him in the fourth round, and Kovach has done both playing football in the fall, attending the UK's medical school in the winter and summer. "I have six more months of work before see what their (the Saints) plans are." Kovach said he believes the Saints want him to keep playing, and he'd like to be around for winning seasons. "But I wouldn't want to decide, OK, I'm going to put everything off, and then get cut or traded or have the team fall apart," he said. There will have to be some guarantees in his contract to persuade him to defer his medical practice, he said. Kovach is in the enviable position of being able to play for the pure fun of the game, since his medical practice would guarantee future comfort and past contracts have assured his present lifestyle.

ation ceremonies in May, but I won't get my degree until June." The linebacker has another year to go on his contract with the Saints and another four to six years of internship and residency before he can begin practicing. Kovach is at a point where he has to commit himself full-time to one or the other, he said either retiring from the NFL or postponing the next step in becoming a doctor. "I think it's just too much work and responsibility to split internship and residency," he said. "I'm either just going to play this contract out or if I decide to play I'm going to play a long time. Maybe I'll combine a Ph.D.

and an M.D. (before entering an internship-residency program). i Jim Kovach 1.