The Tennessean from Nashville, Tennessee • Page 29

6C THE TCNHESSEAN Friday APRIL 12. 1985 Sfewari Pins Mopes on Needles blasters TENNESSEAN Staff Reports AUGUSTA, Ga The knickers i he has worn on the PGA Tour since aren't the only thing that sets Payne Stewart apart from the crowd. 3 Stewart, who finds himself in sec-ond place entering the second round of the Masters golf tournament, also wears three accupuncture needles behind each ear while playing golf, He claims they help his mental awareness and concentration, and if' prevent stress and anxiety. V- "If you are not nervous when you 'tee off on No. something is wrong vnn Stewart cnirt "Thit nnri I mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm 11 lilifti frill fMCi hi it take long to complete their roles as honorary starters at the Masters yesterday.

They needed an hour and 15 minutes to play nine holes and they acquitted themselves better than some of those battling for the top prize. Sarazen shot a 5-over-par 41 for the nine holes while Snead had a 39. Leading money winner Curtis Strange also shot a 41 on the front nine yesterday while former British Open champ Bill Rogers had a 43. Jack Nicklaus made a concession to age by saying he does not hit the ball as far as he once did. "There were not many people who were as long as I used to be.

Now I can't reach all the par-5's on this course in two like I used to," said Nicklaus. Nonetheless, he still eagled on of the par-5 holes yesterday. There were some impressive collapses during the opening round at the Masters and Lanny Wadkins owned one of them. Wadkins, the fourth leading money winner on the tour this year, shot a 3-under 33 on the front nine yesterday, but then bogeyed the first two holes on the back side and double bogeyed the 13th. tut a good tee shot, I concentrate on what I have to do." ri After his opening round 69 put him in second place yesterday, Stew-, art was asked if he takes the needles Iff.

1 out during lightning storms. he replied. "But you have to be careful when you answer the phone." a Except for a double bogey on the 11th hole, Ben Crenshaw could have tied Gary Hallberg for the opening round lead. Payne Stewart Looks Out for Phone Crenshaw has been in a bewildering slump since winning here last year. In nine previous tournaments this year, he has been able to finish only three.

"I was very nervous," Crenshaw said. "I'm always nervous the first round of the Masters. I was especially anxious to go out and shoot well." Gene Sarazen and Sam Snead, whose combined age is 145, did not Staff photo by Ricky Rogers The Nashville Sounds line up along the third base line before their first game in Triple-A baseball. The Sounds downed Buffalo 3-1 in the American Association opener. So nds Wi Class AAA Opener But even two shots back, following 2-under-par 70, Crenshaw was more than pleased with the way he began defense of his Masters Surprising Hallberg Masters Leader 1 (From First Sports Page) it tonight" Indeed, he did.

And the Buffalo pitching by starter Bob Fallon and reliever Tom Mullen wasn't bad either. The Sounds got enough runs to win in the first inning without hitting the ball out of the infield. Outfielder Bobby Mitchell walked, shortstop Pedro Chavez got to first on an error and, with one out first baseman Mike Laga was hit by a pitch. With the bases loaded, a Fallon pitch got away from Buffalo catcher Joel Skinner and Mitchell scored on a head-first slide under the throw from the scrambling Skinner. Chavez moved on to third base on the passed ball and then scored on an infield out by designated hitter Ron Johnson.

The first Sounds hit of the season trivia fans can record for posterity was a third-inning double off the leftfield wall by second baseman Scotty Earl. Earl tagged up and went to third on an outfield fly by Laga and scored on a vicious one-hop shot by Johnson, which bounced off the; chest of Buffalo shortstop Taveras. Two of the four Nashville hits came off the bat of the ninth hitter in the lineup, third baseman Tom 71, which was highlighted by a 4-iron second shot that set up an. eagle-3 on the 15th. "lt was a very atypical round for me.

I missed a lot of greens, about half of them. That's not like me. But I putter very well," Nicklaus said. "I know I'll hit the ball better than that. And if I can keep on putting that well, well, it's a very encouraging 'Sigh." But while Nicklaus found some encouragement, another Masters legend, Arnold Palmer, found only de-spair.

Palmer, 55, who built much of his reputation around (From Page 1A, Column 4) O'Neal, a righthander who was 9-10 at Evansville (AAA) and 2-1 with Detroit last season, worked seven innings longer than might have been anticipated this early in the year. He did not walk a single batter, and the five hits he allowed Buffalo resulted in only two men in scoring position. The only Bison run came in the sixth, when O'Neal appeared tiring, on a double by Alex Taveras, an infield hit by Mark Gilbert and Bryan Little's sacrifice fly which scored Taveras. But the Sounds at this point already had a three-run lead. Monge, a 34-year-old left-hander who spent last year in the majors with San Diego and Detroit, mopped up with two hitless innings in relief.

He retired six straight Buffs. "I was very happy for my first time out" O'Neal said. "We had a great defensive effort I was getting tired when I came out of the game after seven innings. The most I had pitched in spring training was three innings. "I was in a good groove in spring training and I hope to stay in it" said the Ashland, native.

"The sinking fastball is my pitch and I had MO. Small Crowd Cheers Sounds then stopped some 15 feet short The putt hung on the lip, and Trevino just grinned. The bogey on the 18th did nothing to dampen his enthusiasm and he was smiling broadly when he walked off the 18th green of the course he once said was not suited to his game. For a couple of years, he declined his invitation to this tournament, the only one he needs to win to join Nicklaus, Player, Gene Sarazen and Ben Hogan as those to score career sweeps of golfs Big Four events. "If I can strike the ball the way I did today, there's no reason I can't win here," Trevino said.

"If I'd had a good attitude, I could have won here before. It's my own fault It'll probably haunt me some day." Crenshaw, who has been in a deep slump and troubled by a divorce since his emotional triumph here a year ago, had to battle back from a double bogey on the 11th hole, where he hit into the water. "It was an OK round," he said. "I wouldn't call it any better than that I've played better this year, but this was a more meaningful round. It's a positive note." Hallberg was more than positive.

He was positively bubbling. "I'm confident right now, due to the way I'm hitting the ball. I'm in the slot with the driver," said the man whose fedora hat gives him a distinctive appearance on the course. "I started wearing it with the brim turned down, to avoid sun glare and to avoid eye contact with the gallery, because it breaks my concentration," he said. Nothing broke his concentration this cloudy day.

He was one under par through the first 12 holes, the two-putted for birdle-4 on the 13th and 15th. A 6-iron approach set up a 10-foot putt on the 17th that gave him the lead outright iour ivuuicrs viciones oeiweea laoo ana iaoi, iuuk a punishing 83, including 44 on the back nine. It was, by two shots, the worst score he has had in 31 Masters ap- pearances. tec, But he was not alone in his troubles. Fuzzy Zoeller, the U.S.

Open titleholder who has re- turned to action after major back surgery, took a 77. j'Tom Kite, so often a challenger in this event, shot 75. So Cat Peete, a winner of two titles already this season. night eight years ago," said Schmittou. "Fans were sitting on bales of hay.

They were parking in the dirt and grass. "But the important thing was, they turned out. And from that first-home game, I never doubted that we'had the base of fan support we needed to make a go of it" Schmittou returns to Arlington this morning to help prepare for the Rangers' home opener tonight against Milwaukee. (From First Sports Page) field. Rags hands out the uniforms.

Schmittou took a vacation day from his job as an executive with the Texas Rangers to attend last night's opener. "Well, we ain't broke yet are we?" said Schmittou, who nurtured what was once called "Schmittou's Folly" into a multimillion dollar baseball operation just one step away from the major leagues. "I remember our first opening Curtis Strange, the year's leading money-winner and a two-time 1985 Tour winner, shot 80. British Open champion Seve Ballesteros of Spain matched par 72. South African Gary Player was at 71 despite a bogey-bogey finish.

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