St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 17

ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 6, 1972 3B Flecks Open SAN FRANCISCO, June 6 (AP) Jack Fleck, the professional golfer who shocked the sports world 17 years ago with his United States Open victory at the Olympic Club, walked off the course yesterday a beaten man. didn't play well," said the 50-year-old Fleck, who returned to the scene of his 1955 triumph in an attempt to qualify for this Cards To Face Giants Tonight Exemp Golfers For U.S. Open From Poit-Ultpatrn Wlr Sewttet The following golfers are exempt from qualifying rounds for the United States Open golf championship, to be played June 15-18 at Pebble Beach, Open champions since 1967: Tony acklin; Ofville Moody, Jack Nicklaus, Lee Trevino. PGA champions of the last five years, not otherwise exempt: Julius Boros, Ray Floyd, Don January, Dave Stockton. 1971 Open, 15 lowest scorers plus ties, not otherwise exempt: George Archer, Gay Brewer, Bob Charles, Jim Colbert, Bobby Cole, Jerry Heard, Larry Hinson, Jerry McGee, John Miller, Bobby Nichols, Chi Chi Rodriguez, BOB ROS: BURG, Jim Simons, Lanny Wadkins, Bert Yancey.

Fifteen leaders on Professional Golfers' Association tour under United States Golfers Association point sys-' tern for calendar year 1971, not otherwise exempt: Miller Barber, Frank Beard, Billy Gasper, Charles Ceody, Bruce Devlin, Hale Irwin, Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Shaw, J. C. Snead, Tom Weiskopf. Five leaders on PGA tour under USGA point system-from January 1 until close of entries on May 3, not other-; wise exempt: Bobby Mitchell. Hope round of the Open and tied golfing great Ben Hogan at 287 for first place.

In a playoff, Fleck shct 69 to Hogan's 72. Fleck never won another major tournament, although he finished third in the 1960 Open and lost twice after tying for first in other events. Fleck now is a club pro at the Plumas Lake course in Marysville, a 1 i about 150 miles north of here. He was the -y a major league service minimum required to qualify for a pension. Ron Willis is a good example.

The former Cardinals pitcher, about two months short of the minimum, had to give up because of elbow trouble. He did not a to risk permanent crippling. But Willis said he found it hard to stay away from the game. In fact, he is playing four days a week, first base and outfield, and is hitting a ton for an amateur team in Memphis. He aso works in sales for Pitney-Bowes.

Willis still kids himself about his cl.inless appearance. So do others. Cardinals coach Ken Boyer is one. "When Ron's batting, the pitcher can't threaten to put one under his chin," Boyer said. Joe Torre about his current r-nrvT iin-" i nnnpwpiwi, fy.m nBaniMnrrnniiwii.Mii mm ijuomx uwmin iwmiim whu.ij an im mim i.

mui mi mm it in i 0 1 4- 1 1 I 1 "I 4 v. V'-" Closed home late yesterday while others in the qualifying field still were scrambling for the 11 Open berths available in thi section. He has played in only a few Opens in the last 10 years, and admitted he thought his chances were poor to qualify this year. "I just thought I'd give it a try," he said. "I'll never stop" trying." slump: "I'd better start prac-1 ticing what I've been preach-' ing all along, that you can't worry about what you did the last time at bat.

It doesn't matter whether you hit a home run or struck out. There's nothing you can do about that last time up. "Last year I spoiled myself. I didn't have any slump, and now I don't know how to handle one. It's even tougher to shak a slump when you're losing.

Everybody's looking for you to do something." Bob Gibson about the Dodgers hitters: "Man, they're in the on-deck circle before you know it. They can't wait to get to the plate." Rumor Relief pitcher Joe Hoerner returning to Cardinals; ousted Atlanta general manager Paul Richards to Texas Kingshighway and Easton Bou levards, June 28-29, with the finals June 30 at Wohl Center. Sites for the track and field trials will be Saturday at Southwest High, June 17 at Beaumont and June 24 at Northwest. Times for all three meets will be 11 a.m. Athletes can register at the meet site.

An athlete can participate in any one of the three meets. Finals will be held at O'Fallon Tech. Entry blanks can be obtained at any city recreation center or at the St. Louis Department of Parks, Recreation and Forestry, 5600 Clayton Road in Forest Park. Interested persons should call JE 5-4111 for additional jn-.

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"I haven't played well in 10 years," he added. Fleck played only 12 of the scheduled 36 holes in yester-d 's sectional qualifying at Olympic's Lake Course. "I was about six over par," he said. In 1955, as a virtual unknown from Iowa, Fleck birdied two of the last four holes on the fourth and lO'j games in front. So the Cards i a 1 1 are picking on somebody their own size Giants in name only.

San Francisco manager Charley Fox, who had been sidelined because of kidney stone attacks, is expected back tonight. Already back is Willie Mc-Covey, who has batted .300 (plus two homers) with six hits in 20 chances. He had been out because of a broken arm. The Cardinals, 2-3 on this trip, were more fortunate in Los Angeles when it came to missing a star. Frank Robinson passed up the series because of a pulled thigh muscle.

Said Cardinals manager Red Schoendienst: "They say the breaks even up after a while. If they do, we have quite a few coming to us." Said Andy Pafko, "I feel for Red. I know what he's going through. I went through enough of it for 33 years as a player, manager and coach." Pafko, who still lives in Chicago, decided to step out of baseball and take his retirement pay this year. Too bad something can't be done for players who, because of injury, fall barely short of Belleville's Babinski To Play For Bears Marty Babinski, who was on the Post-Dispatch's East All-District football team, has signed a letter of intent to play for the Washington University Battling Bears.

The 5-foot-10, 200-pound fullback from Belleville East High School, set single-game records for the Lancers when he rushed for 224 yards and scored four touchdowns in one game. Babinski also was a Post-Dispatch Scholar-Athlete and is a member of the National Honor Society and president of Belleville East's Letter-man's Club. NASL Highlights Film Available NEW YORK, June 6-The 1971 North American Soccer League highlight film, including 27 minutes of regular season and playoff action, can be obtained through clubs or from the NASL office, Suite 205, 101 Park Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10017. Thomson, K.

O'Shea Signed By Blues The Blues signed two more-players yesterday, bringing the number signed by the National Hockey League club to 15. The latest to sign were right winger Kevin O'Shea and left winger Floyd Thomson. Thomson signed a multiyear pact. O'Shea's contract was for one year. Youth Games Trials Slated St.

Louis will again participate in the United States Youth Games this summer. Local qualifying for boys and girls iges 8 through 15 in basketball, bowling and track and field will determine the city's entries in the national finals Aug. 16-20 at Detroit. St. Louis is one of nine char- following day.

Basketball pre-ter cities participatins in the Hms will be at the Wohl Center, ft FROM PAGE ONE they traded to Houston for him (Jerry Reuss) throws pretty good, too." The Cardinals, idle yesterday, will face a hot pitcher tonight when they play the Giants at Candlestick Park. He is riht-h a Steve Stone, a Kent State graduate who plays chess and sometimes writes poetry. Some of his writing has appeared in a San Francisco newspaper. Stone, who lost his first four decisions even though he pitched well, has won his last three outings. In those games he allowed only one earned run and 17 hits.

His earned-run average is 1.60. Tabbed, to try for the Red-birds' second successive victory and keep them in the heady atmosphere of fifth place in the National League's Eastern Division was Rick Wise, who has a 4-5 record. The Giants, whose attendance already Is off more than 100,000, have a 17-34 record, worst in the major le a s. They are 13'i games from the top in the Western Division. A year ago after the same number of games, they were 37-14 ted to number from 10 to 13 three-year-olds.

Three Belmont candidates worked yesterday Elcee-H Stable's Smiling Jack went V2 miles in 1 minute 53 3-5 seconds, and galloped l'i miles in 2:09 45. Smiling Jack won the Jersey Derby. Greentree Stable's Rurtania and Cragwood Stable's Zulu Tom also worked out. The Meadow Stable tandem of Riva Ridge, winner of the Kentucky Derby, and Upper Case, were scheduled to work out today. INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE Rochester 3, Charleston 2 Louisville 7, Richmond 3 Tidewater 1.

Syracuse Toledo 6. Peninsula 3 (10 tnnlnjrs) cc if 3e tit -1" -T'i'r i riii, i. in nil-, --v, a. One -Time Victor In Belmont Field NEW YORK, June 6 (AP) A horse which has won just one of 18 races, Prince Fauquier, has been entered in Saturday's Belmont Stakes. Johnny Campo, trainer of the Belmont Park on May 15.

Buckland Farm's horse, said Middleton Stable's Freetex, he would enter Prince Fauquier it" in the Kentucky Derby, because of the victory recorded also has been added to the Bel-in a maiden race at mont field-a field that is expec- NOT A BAD MOVE. Chess champion Bobby Fischer serves during a tennis tournament at La Costa Country Club in Rancho La Costa, Calif. In the forecourt is Gail Goodrich of tht Los Angeles Lalers. The celebrity tournament was won by former baseball great Hank Greenberg and Southern California basketball coach Bob Boyd. (AP Wirephoto) Minor In lympics Games that started in 1967 in New York to help inner-city youngsters.

Since then the Games have been expanded to include youth from suburban areas. Boys and girls from the city and St. Louis, Jefferson and St. Charles counties are eligible. A total of 62 athletes will be selected in competition here.

The team will be made up of 10 boys in basketball, six boys and six girls in bowling and 20 boys and 20 girls in track and field. The squad will be accompanied by eight chaperones The Games are sanctioned by the Amateur Athletic Union and the President's Council on Physical Fitness. Local officials are Ernie McMillan of the foot- a 1 1 Cardinals, professional bowler Dick Weber and John Eddy of the city Recreation Department. Preliminaries in bowling will be held at Crossroads Bowl, 8121 Clayton Road, July and the finals at the same site the I vents id Cho enge For By Tim Renken Of the Post-Dispatch Staff Shooting, archery and canoeing are minor sports by Olym-pics standards but there is nothing minor about them to the St. Louis area people who would like to make the United States Olympic team.

lL Several area hopefuls are nearing deci Canada's Outd oors Renlcen sion time on what could be a trip-of-a-life-time to Munich in August. David and Phillip Mitchell regard their progress toward a spot on the U.S. skeet squad thus far as something of a lark. They qualified for the national tryouts by winning first and second, respectively, in junior competition at the regional tryout Mav 5-7 at the St. Louis Skeet and Trap Club.

David, 18 years old, and Phil, 17, are the sons of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Mitchell of 424 E. Claymont in Ballwin. Also regarding the whole thing as something of a lark, is Rudy Meyer of Villa Ridge, who qualified for the national claybird tryouts as the No.

1 Missouri civil The tryouts for all of the aforementioned shooters will take place June 9-25 at Phoenix, in the twelfth U.S. International Shooting Championships. Some 1000 shooters will be aiming at berths on the 14-member U.S. team four rifle shooters, four pistol shooters, four shotgunners (two skeet and two claypigeon) and two running boar riflemen. The shoot is sponsored by the National Rifle Association and all competitors in the trials go by invitation only.

Selection to the team, however, is done by the numbers with the top scorers being named team members and runners-up going as alternates. The selection process hasn't progressed nearly as far for the archery hopefuls. Of the area shooters, only three have acquired any of the four qualifying scores necessary to compete in. the national tryout Aug. 2-5 at Oxford, O.

Jim Botts of St. Charles has two qualifying rounds, Jerry Beckermann of St. Louis has one and Bill Denkins of Dexter has one. Many registered shoots remain on the calendar, however, and there is still a chance St. Louis could be represented on the six-member (three men and three women) U.S.

squad. The biggest meet upcoming here is the Midwestern regional June 17-18 at Buder Park. Among canoeists, the only local paddler who has qualified for the national trial so far is Dave Reker, who qualified his one-man kayak last September on the St. Croix River in Wisconsin. The Olympic Whitewater team will be picked July 27-30 in trials on the Savage River in western Maryland.

Though there will not be any local qualifying trials in flat-water canoe racing, Tim Hanlon of Fenton, Mike Guenther and Bill Schulte of Kirkwood are hopeful of making a good showing at the national trials July 20-23 at Rockford, 111. Winners there will undergo further training and testing before the members are chosen for the 15-member U.S. canoe team. iitialls tasting on ian in the regional shoot. More serious about his chances is 20-year-old Kent Gas-treich, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Lloyd Gastreich of 3122 Osceola. Gastreich, who will be a senior at the University of Mis-souri-RolIa next fall, is a two-time second-team and one-time first-team All-America rifle shooter and this past season he won the collegiate rifle championship based on average scores shot in competition during the season. Kent hopes to shoot in both the 300-meter free rifle and the 50-meter three-position smallbore events at the national tryouts. TO HM Majjstv Quits EUZlrTH ftrfPlieRS Of Canadian CLUB WmsKT HIRAM WALKER SONS UMITEO ViALKERViLLL 1 Today, more men and women everywhere welcome Canadian Club.

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Taste why, tonight. Some Westfall and defensenan Ted Green unprotected. McKenzie, one of the most popular Bruins in Bjsion and one of the most disliked, elsewhere, scored 22 goals and had 47 assists last season. McKenzie is 34 years old and Westfall and Green each 32. In other action yesterday, the NHL rules committee decided to add a two-minute minor penalty to the automatic $200 fine assessed any player tor using an illegal stick.

All sticks must conform to NHL standards, with the blade of the stick measuring between two and three inches wide. A new instrument to a sticks has been devised bj league officials and the game timekeeper will be in charge of measuring if any question should arise. An investigation will made only if the opposing team questions the legality of any player's stick. False claims will cost the complaining team $100. In another ruling, the linesmen who work the games with the referee have been handed the additional responsibility of halting play when a player is injured, i Formerly, the game continued until the referee blew his whistle to stop play because of an injury.

Expansion Teams Stock Rosters JW I men John Aroour and Larry Hornung from their protected list. Yesterday, they left de-fensemen Carl Brewer, Noel Pi-card and Bill Plager and forwards Brian Lavender and Gerry Odrowski unprotected. The Stanley Cup champion Boston Bruins left veteran wingers John McKenzie and Ed mit the Canadiens to fill their roster with another player, a forward or defenseman wnom they had left No team could lost more than three players today, including a goalie. The Blues, in getting down to the 15-man limit, dropped forward Terry Crisp and defense- I FROM PAGE ONE to play another season. Horton, a 20-year veteran of the NHL, spent 18 seasons In Toronto, most of them under Imlach.

"I'm 90 per cent sure that Horton will want to play for me. I've always said there's no player like an experienced old pro and Horton's a real great one," said Imlach. Horton had announced that hi planned to retire from hockey to devote more time to his interests, which include several doughnut shops in Buffalo and Toronto. Buffalo dropped Danny Law-son after selecting Horton. The 14 existing teams were allowed to protect 13 skaters and two goalies in yesterday's draft.

Today, they had to reduce their protected list to 15 Skaters and two goalies. However four of the teams the Blues, Montreal, Philadelphia and California wew exempt from the goalkeepmg category of the expansion draft because they each lost a goalie in the last expansion draft two years ago. Montreal waived its option, though, and left 'goi'ie Phil Myre unprotected. He was expected to be selected by the Flames. The loss of Myre would per A Campbell Says Orr Should Play Against Russians MONTREAL, June 6 (AP) The National Hockey League's Most Valuable Player, Bobby Orr, probably will play for the Canadian team in an eight-game exhibition series with Russia in September.

"If Bobby is fit, he must play," said Clarence Campbell, president of the NHL. Orr, who led the Boston Bruins to the Stanley Cup this year, is scheduled to undergo knee surgery in Boston later this week. "It all depends on the doctors," Campbell said in an interview during the NHL draft meetings. "What they say must, carry some weight with us. If he is physically able, to be sure, we would like to have him on Canada's team." Orr had said earlier that he would enjoy playing against the Russians, despite the opposition by the Boston management.

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