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A Viuv wt it Jan eK 7 '(L a A Spit on Punched And No Sympathy? had it three under par A Sportswriter I Casper Takes Liking To 'Crosby Weather' up chairs and punched holes in the walls of the press box Monkey see monkey do Woody Hayes Examples to 34 32 66 35 33 68 35 34 69 34 36 70 36 34 70 34 36 70 35 71 36 35 71 37 34 71 36 35 71 35 36 71 33 38 71 35 36 71 37 34 71 34 37 71 37 34 71 36 35 71 37 34 71 38 33 71 36 36 72 36 36 72 35 37 72 36 36 72 37 35 72 36 36 72 34 38 72 37 35 72 35 37 72 36 36 72 35 37 72 38 34 72 36 37 73 36 37 73 35 38 73 35 38 73 38 35 73 36 37 73 34 39 73 38 35 73 35 38 73 37 36 73 35 38 73 36 37 73 37 36 73 36 38 74 35 39 74 37 37 74 40 34 74 35 39 74 38 36 74 38 36 74 36 38 74 37 37 74 36 38 74 37 37 74 37 37 74 36 38 74 37 37 74 36 38 74 35 39 74 37 37 74 39 35 74 37 37 74 38 36 74 37 37 74 34 40 74 35 39 74 36 38 74 37 37 74 37 37 74 35 39 74 36 38 74 38 37 75 38 37 75 38 37 75 38 37 75 36 39 75 38 37 75 35 40 75 37 38 75 38 37 75 39 36 75 37 38 75 37 38 75 39 36 75 39 36 75 37 38 75 35 40 75 36 39 75 records' Think of all the fun people have comparing records of their player or that one "Well if we had a point sys tem or something on that or der then people could look at the record and say in this year Nicklaus and Palmer did such and so and in 1952 Ho gan had so many like to see for a spittoon did nothing Sometime later in front of witnesses a a i Weaver according to Keith spit on him at riendship Airport in Baltimore Weaver ever courtly apologized again Keith says he does not plan to file charges because he does not want to be responsible for Weaver los ing his $65000 a year job Yet Weaver has accused Keith of writing those arti cles in a personal vendetta designed to chop off his brilliant block The relationship between At least these objects were inanimate Over in Baltimore a few months ago sportswriter Chan Keith was put in danger of being drowned by another pillar of the coaching community Oriole a a Earl Weaver miffed by newspaper series on the de cline of the Orioles and on the fading genius of Weaver had begun to spit on the reporter from the News American But Keith sur vives to tell the tale He is a good swimmer Keith said Weaver first watered him in the locker room in October: walked over to me spit and then said Keith a tall blond fellow 45 minutes and I let it get away from me I played terrible the rest of the way I just lost con centration The momentum was The 43 year old Palmer matched par 72 at Cylress British Open champ Lee Tre vino who has a notorious dis like for cold wet weather went to 74 at Spyglass Hill Austral ian Bruce Crampton winner of the last two tour events who has a chance to become the first man in more than a dec ade to win three in a row blew to a 77 at Pebble Beach "We Australians very good at water he said So called winter rules are in effect with players allowed to lift clean and place the ball in the fairway Casual water rules also came into play quite often with the players forced to moVe the ball on the greens to avoid standing water that ozzed from the greens soaked by two weeks ot steady ram Casper was making his first start in in more than two months He's missed twoplanned events this year be cause of a pulled muscle in his back He had trouble walking 18 holes as recently as early this week A portable folding stool with a backrest helped He carried it in his golf bag Any time there was a break Casper pulled it out and took a seat right at home in this kind of said Casper one of only three men to reach the million dollar plateau in golf winnings "And the slow play really benefitted me It gave me a chance to stop and rest from time to It took an average of about six hours to complete a round One group including Bob who had a hole in one and Grier Jones was caught by' darkness and didn't complete their rounds They were sched uled to wind up this morning Casper had a brilliant round Last season Woody kicked over sideline markers his team lost to Michigan "Mr Great mis was just another example of cuddly Woody defeat the sports hero often a little over $200 000 waYincr wroth Moanwhilo il 1 rvi vvvw reer like to see some other method of rating ranking play Nicklaus repeated think we put altogether too much emphasis on By IRA BERKOW NEA Sports Editor NEW YORK (NEA) Woody Hayes who allegedly smashed a camera into a face at the Rose Bowl was the first to convince me that covering sports should merit hazard pay When I was a callow cub for the Minneapolis Tribune I once tripped blithely over to the Ohio State locker room after a football game against the University of Minnesota Ohio State had lost I was too dumb to know the monstrous rage Hayes launches after such a catas trophe I was in the front of a crush of reporters waiting to who is not usually mistaken tzIllvL IluVLbb bvvtdty bill HlC We waited and waited inally the door opened The beefy brusque coach peeked out I began to walk in What else? Slam! I came within an inch of losing one large nose that I am parti cularly fond of The Rose Bowl photogra her Art Rogers of the uos Angeles Times is suing layes for physical damage Rogers also said Hayes scream ed at him ought to take care of you you Hayes later denied having uttered that witty remark He also said he only the photographer away He said six impartial witnesses would verify his side of it They are his six assistant coaches A merican National Bank And Trust Company A $100000 winner is like a300 hitter or a 20 game winner in baseball The top 60 money winners from each season are exempt from qualifying for the follow ing tournaments The leading money winner for a season gains special ex emptions over a five year peri od for certain major events The leading money winner is recognized by his fellow pros as the premier player of the sea son The touring pros rank them selves by their positions on the money list Ask a player how he fared in such and such a season and reply was 38th on the money their standard Nicklaus feels it should be otherwise can have a player who wins a $200000 tournament and hv that had other players talking to themselves and could have been six when Eaimer called it "mis weguuieiuupmra erable as had a two 1 said stood around about stroke lead over Tom Weiskopf after his six under par effort Weiskopf at 68 was followed by veteran Don Massengale now a club pro in New Westchester County alone at 69 The group at 70 two under par were big Bobby Nichols Hubert Green and Bob East wood All the leaders were at Cy press Point one of three Mon terey peninsula courses being played under the inuqie format for this event generally considered to be the easiest of the three and is the most shel tered from the weather i think we got a break by being at Casper said a bad day if play ing well you have the oppor tunity to shoot a pretty good score Jack Nicklaus who won this tournament and the US Open at Pebble Beach last year was disappointed and obviously un happy after he could do no bet ter than a rain interrupted 71 on that layout hard by Carmel Bay He was one of more than a dozen at that figure he bogeyed two holes when he took three from th hlinge but needed only 25 strokes on the soggy water logged greens He had eight birdies in cluding one string of three in a row He chipped in for one of them holed putts of 20 8 30 and 15 feet came within a foot of making hole in one with an eight iron shot on another and finished birdie birdie on putts of 25 and 10 feet The last came after a sliced tee shot hit a cy press tree and bounced back into the middle of the fairway PEBBLE BEACH Calif (AP) irst round scores Thursday in the $205000 Bing Crosby National Pro Am Golf Tour i iai icih Billy Casper Tom Weiskopf Don Massengale Hubert Green Bob Eastwood Bobby Nichols Jerry Heard Cesar Sanudo Orville Moody Rick Massengale Mac McLendon Jack Nicklaus Maurie Verbrugge Dave Marr Mason Rudolph Les Peterson Bobby Greenwood Ray loyd Lou Graham Doug Olson Dick Rhyan Bruce Ashworth Don Iverson Butch Baird Rod unseth Dewitt Weaver Jim Simons Jim erriell Allen Miller Bill JOhnston Lanny Wadkins Arnold Palmer Doua Sanders Steve Melnyk Phil Rodgers Tommy Jacobs Gregg Edwards Howie Johnson George Knudson Lee Wykle George Archer Larry Ziegler Mike Kallam Jim Jamieson George Boutell Tom Watson Marty leckman Dave Marad Larry Stubblefield Tom Jenkins Dan Sikes Lee Trevino George Johnson Elwm anning Steve riebert Gene Littler Tom Kite Mac Hunter Tom Shaw Al Mengert Jerry McGee Jack leck Gibby Gilbert Bruce Devlin Charles Coody John Jcobs Labron Harris Rod Curl Barry Jaeckel Bobby Mitchell Hale Irwin Mike Morley Vic Regalaao Dave Stockton Pete Brown Joel Goldstrand Jim Barber Richie KarlJohn Mahaffey Al Geiberger Ron Cerrudo Bob Murphy Bert Yancey Babe Hiskey Art Silverstrone Buddy Allin Bob Dickson Ed Sneed Don Padgett Leonard Thompson Rocky Thompson makes $40000 for first another player can win a $100000 tour nament and gets he said except for the fact that the more expensive tourna ment tends to draw a stronger field how can you say that the first player is better than the and he certainly twice as good But the way reflected on the money winning He has a possi ble solution "Maybe something based on points a point system of some kind or Nicklaus sug gested something like the Ryder Cup standings You know where you get so many points for winning a tourna ment so many for finishing sociation deal second ana so on down to 10th or so Something like that like that could give us an enduring standard know half the fun half the allure of baseball is in its By BOB GREEN AccnpiufnH Pracc flrtH UIvRam PRRT IT RWACU rir (AP) Billy Casper surveyed the wreckage of his dismal frustrating 1972 season and spoke in characteristic fashion was on a down ward he said was playing bad swinging bad thinking bad But it will prob ably make me a better individ ual everything is on the The 41 year old Casper who suffered the poorest season of his brilliant career last year had just slogged slowly through rain and mud and wind maybe a little just about everything except to a 66 and the first round lead Thursday in the prestige laden Bing Crosby National Pro Am Golf Tournament offering $205000 in total prize money was very said Casper winner of more than 40 tour titles but blanked from the victory column last season for the first time since 1956 expect to play this well at all he said played very well and putted extremely Casper who said he benefited greatly from traditional GO1 PALM BEACH GARDENS la Sam Snead attempting his sixth PGA Seniors Championship carded a six under par 66 and took the first round lead PEBBLE BEACH Calif Billy Cas PH first rqund lead of the $205 Bmg Crush! National Pro Am Golf Tournament with a six under par 66 in his bOs Some fans may wonder what makes a sportswriter tic It is with him as it is with a combat reporter the thrill of knowing that dan ger may lurk behind any locker room door (NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN) Earl Weaver America's youth players It isn't often how ever that a Vada Pinson will actually punch an Earl Lawson of the Cincinnati Post in the snout or a Joe Namath will slain a Time magazine reporter against a bar or a Ho Belinsky will bash a West Coast reporter The announcement last Tuesday by Richard Nixon President of the United States of America that a peace settlement had been reached with North Vietnam is such welcome news that the people of all nations should rejoice All citizens of the United States of America should be proud of their nation for having attained peace with honor Every at tempt should be made to preserve this peace Join with your fellow citizen and pledge through mature thinking and thoughtful prayer to contribute in every way possible to promote a means of assuring a last ing peace In particular should the highest recognition be awarded to those whose loved ones were lost in action or held as prisoner for courage such as shown by these Americans is superior in every respect May we truly become a united nation working together for the prin ciples on which this nation was founded Thus will we be assured a position of respect throughout the world and for this we can all be justly proud SKIING CHAMONIX rance Austria's Anne marie Proell won her six straight down hill in Women World Cup competition beating fellow Austrian Wiltrud Drexel with 2:0661 BASKETBALL KINGSTON RI Tom Carmody five years head basketball coach at the Uni versity of Rhode Island resignedPHILADELPHIA The Philadelphia6ers traded All Star forward John Block 0 Kansas City Omaha Kings for for ward Tom Van Arsdale and athird round draft choice in a National Basketball As Hid KhSKATlXfi BLOOMINGTON Minn avored Ja net Lynn slipped to a second place finish ibehind Dorothy Hamill Riverside Conn in the the compulsory short pro gram but her overall performance moved her into first place In the senior women division of the US ieure Skat ing Championships A The Bee: Donville VcLriday Jon 26 1973 What Gets Pushed Nicklaus Says Golf Needs New Way To Rate Players By BOB GREEN Al the moment the stand Associated Press Golf Writer ard by which professional golf PEBBLE BEACH Calif ers are judged i ar i jacK Nicklaus who has taken mofc money out of pro golf than any other man would like to see a new and dif ferent way of rating players think money is the the Golden Bear said one thinp if a laci the sporting press and the ing way of ranking players The sporting people has ranged value of money changes between one of sycophancy Purses keep going up or ex and one of adversaries ample you compare what The press glorifies many" 1 wnn last vear with sav what of these characters and soon Ben Hogan won in the many actually begin to be Nicklaus the all time lieve such flatulent phrases leading money winner set a as and record with an amimuhtinn nf "I KI1T Hlhnn hin ihnn ffOOA nAA annor is chinked with a The lecendarv iWan wnn nniv flirt I 4 1 I in his ca waxing wroth Meanwhile seeks the blood of the men several impartial Ohio State who made him so vulnerable coaches apparently busted in the first the press Writers are periodically threatened with bodily dis memberment by coaches and TO 4 A.