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Independent from Long Beach, California • 21

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Independenti
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Long Beach, California
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21
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9 r. 9 p-f rr-f 9 F.V yyTy www -w IBITHESDAr- wborhad finished ahead of Urn at 282.Stockton hot a final round 70 and had eJS total, one over par the Congressional Country Club course. was in all tbewsy, Dave Stockton said of the ISIoot parvsaving putt on the 72nd hole that won Um the PGA National, championship Moo-day. Til tdl you. 1 was rMnHwg about that back to gol jut rather locking news when I foimd ci practice Friday.

Above, linebacker Dan who can bench-press dlfipounds, gives it the big while defensivetackteJeff on the upriit row. Below, fullback Mark Bailey, who benches 420, gets a different angle on die iron and, at end Glen -Tenove works -the incline. tWhatever---theirL record, its clear the 49ers will pull their own weight Staff photos by CURT JOHNSON butchered 13 andll'I sure didn't want to play them over i working as hard as I Ugain. I was could on that putt at 18. gone about two feet from the nit.

cup. When it wu five feet away. I knew it was in. It was one helluva feeling. ure gblFe rambler, had to make thatputt scrambler, Avoid threeway, suddeiHJeath.

plwoff riaiiu KJHNDWON, Sports IdHor Tuesday, August 1976 Section Rage C-l IIAIVK jiollixgwortji Thelifeofa baseball wife Mudie Shenyjrtfe-nLihe Angela' new manager, possesses a dry wit Asked if there was cbangefaLtbeJamflyi stncf Norm was api imtod mi -JEW ager.Mardie "Ourscrap- retting bigger tan comments MI havent heard any here yet, in tbe minors the language wu A baseball wifes life is re- Wirdingy-hut lonely, Mardio-lighttLffti eq)eciallykne fts espreially lonely iaa strange towns There! lot more togetherness hi the minors. A lot of the team members usually live in file same apartment hmfafag In. the majors everyone aeems to drift their aeparate ways. r-ni always sad at seasons end, too. When yon say your goodie yoii know you wont see some le again.

-aha many a baseball sin? WHENTtORBT Sherry termed wan like Frank Tanau "mean like -Don Drysdale, he said -some people r-I meant -mean- in the seme that neither gave a concession to any batter, aot Hbat they were eqlained. Nonn. tfm HTW 11W1 1 TTTf IT I 1 hatter anytime the occasion de-mandsT taink-Orreason fiw Angels era pUjriugsogood ll-7) wu became mey were more relaxed and having nm. If you cant jnjoy. your Job, you dont work well.

7 "rue told all our veterans that our future wu witb Uds and flat I'd play our kids more the ses-soaprogresseiP' Soul belike Kansu Cto or the Tanka, assuming that bom reach the AX. chaiapkmship seriei? "I like the Royals -with their hitting and defense; The question now is Kansu Citys pitching. The Royals have lost a few good pitch- Yanks thus hive the edge KusarGity JsntTi The As are moving. id will be at Anaheim Stadium in two weeks and will oik pose 'Thnana and tbe Detroit tonight What does Sherry think about rookie Mark Fidrych? "The Bird Is distracting to the hatter, but he cu pitch. Youve got to forget aU about that tatting to the ban want to talked i DB4NY DOtU, onlyplayer to ill he does.

thoudt you to fd a mt Bobby Bonds to Us- bat and got a hit off get a hit in aU seven games of the T5 World Seriei, hu no about being benched by ttwAngi-for' two fflouthslut aeason in tovm of Jerry Remy, then being sold to the Rea Sax. 7The 78 auoon did start, out ttmtrating, conceded Doris bat only lf tlmes and get Just one ItK- (Coothiied Q-i OdL -I out two guy were in at 282." Put he was equal to it, scfam- bfing, scratching and fighting his last -56 noies at one-under-par 139 "en youre as HMrtJDtf the tee) as I am, and crooked besides, you're in Stockton grimed, man, a whole lot of trouble. But fids time he managed to make the best of his misfortunes and capitalized on the double-bogey; When I heard about the troubles everybody else was having, Jut tore me mf something awful," he said, as could be. The cfaunkr Floyd shot a last-71 and January, a slow-mov- round lug, easygoing feyearold comeback king, had a 72 in the finale that was postponed from Sunday by a violent thunderstorm. -by the: to gain.a playoff Thev were 'Sr'1 'outright Cons par putt won Pefendingchampion Jack Graham, John Schlee and rookie Jeny Pate, the UA and Canadian champion, wire another Stroke back at 281 Pate had a 68-.

the only suhpar round of the dayW Sfhlre aiTP, Graham and Nick- lau a struggling 74, four over par. Tom Weiskopf, Ben Crenshaw McGee and Jerry McGee were at -284. Trehshhw malched7rwfiile Weiskopf and McGee had 72s in the Weiskopf and McGee mildt sumqr. gorgeous summer wpather tfaat was fit sharp eontrast to the violent storms that had AQ had a diance towin the last of the years four major AnWlbr the wayside. Ntetiaus.

January and Charles Goody, the former Masters eham-rpionwhoh the Each held Each blew it with a double bogey. -J Goody, who finished with a fat 77 and a 284 total, wu the first victim. Be drove into the rough. Photo Mi Page C4 sfill wet from the storm that forced Snndays postponement, on the third his third sb the green and made six. in the -That put yfiddau lead.

The Golden Bear, seeking a record-matching fifth PGA crown, pumped his second shot in the water on the sixth hole. It was another rrr vNbw. January, who cappdd his comehuk from retirement, with a victory In the' Tournament of Championa earlier in the year, wu in sole coutroLIt jastedJiJly untiL the 10th. He, too, found the water-anotfaer- double-bogey six-; 1 That left. Stockton akner In the He never let it goIt wu his scrambling tactics, hia almost uncanny ability to fight Ins way out of trouble, that turned the trick.

STROMDSTRAD, Sweden CSpe ciah-Distonce swimmer vSTSWc sswa Her eoachi Jofan Sontddaea. to' said that. Cox had successfully made the first swim ever from As collegian broke a 50-yearold reeotil I whea she swam nem Hnmt Vedhad'; carried her on their shoulders, The Gulf Stream flops fin the strait, so the wateTjiru warm 82 degrees. Cmi main problem waa mscoudort from uumaum stings by Jellyfish. Oox, who in nsst yean 'hu that crossmg, John Catoldo of 14ew Zealand.

weeks ago, flm ttyearold. toe first swimmer' to conquer New Zealand's Cook StnttiSto she made that trip a year ago. Monday she had the aesitfanre of toe earns 4 I Denmark, to Landskrooa, Sweden. TamtontStfiie Univ sityof Cafifonda at Santo BarbarnJ She pbms to tour Sweden and Nor- uy foe. a few days and return-.

home next Monday. y-v Swedes greeted Cm on shore and 4 A. 4. V4'A 4 Vi lli.

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