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3B The Pensacola News Monday, March 18, 1968 JIM MURRAY amps Always in Big Ones Bench Turns PovIeCich Into Reds' Top Slugger Who's An Amateur? for the first four innings paved the way for the San Francisco the Senators by starting four double plays. By FRED BROWN UPI Sports Writer Don Pavletich had the distinc Giants to beat the Chicago uids The Boston Red Sox scored their fourth win in 10 games tion on March 1 of being the only man in the Cincinnati for the fourth straight time 4-1. Jim Ray Hart scored the first San Francisco- run on a sacrifice fly and knocked in the when they nipped the St. Louis Cardinals 3-2 on two ninth-inning runs produced by Tony second with a single. ConigUaro double, Reggie Reds spring training camp who doubted that Johnny Bench would be the team's regular catcher this year.

Rookie shortstop Dave Nelson Smith's triple and Rico Pe- trocelli sacrifice fly. Bob Gibson allowed one run in three Now Pavletich has the distinc ished tied for fourth in the Masters. For three years (1964-66) the Pensacola champion and the Masters champion were involved in a playoff for either the Pensacola or Masters title. In 1964, Player won in Pensacola by defeating Palmer and Miller Barber In an 18-hole playoff. At Augusta, Plainer won by eight strokes over Player.

Here in 1965, Sanders beat Jack Nicklaus who won the Masters, 18 strokes ahead of Sanders who tied for 11th. Gay Brewer won here in 1966 and then lost in a Masters playoff with Nicklaus. In 1967, Brewer swept both the Pensacola Open and the Masters, but could only manage a tie for 28th in the PGA. Other information relating the Pensacola Open with the PGA, U.S. Open tripled and scored in the eighth inning to give the Cleveland Indians a 3-2 decision over the innings and Steve Carlton shut out the Red Sox for three tion of being the most effective slugger on the team which leads the exhibition standings with a California Angels; Jim North- rup drove in four runs with a innings.

They now have turned in three consecutive strong 7-1 record. triple and a homer and Kay Bench, one of the most Oyler sparked a six-run rally outings each. glamorous rookies of recent springs, was virtually given the Tommie Sisk pitched three-hit with a two-run single as the Detroit Tigers whipped the ball for five innings as the first-string job during tne Chicago White Sox 8-4 the Pittsburgh Pirates topped the Philadelphia Phillies 5-0. Rook Houston Astros beat the Minnesota Twins 7-6: Bill Monbou- winter when the Reds traded John Edwards to the St. Louis Cardinals and forecast part-time duty for Pavletich.

Some quctte, Dooley Womack and Steve Hamilton combined in a ies Lynn Fitzer and Roger Hayward and Dave Wickersham completed the four-hit shutout behind a 13-hit attack which experts even went so far as io four-hitter to give the New York Yankees a 3-1 triumph over the There are several species of animal extinct in the world. The unicorn, quagga, coelacanth, the red-breasted goony bird and the saber-toothed tiger. And then there's the white-sweatered amateur. The amateur disappeared about the time of the Paleozoic Age and exists, today only in the fertile imagination of Avery Brundage. In outward appearance, it is indistinguishable from every other type of human being except for a peculiar flatness of the hip, or wallet, pocket.

Its native habitat is, or rather was, a garret or the room without bath in the YMCA. He went to college to get a degree and a letter, not a contract with the Chicago Bears. He wouldn't cheat if he could and he referred to young women as "maidens" because he personally had no evidence to the contrary. He is not at all to be confused with today's "athletes" who are not only very stinct but flourishing. Any resemblance is purely superficial.

If you find what appears to be a mint amateur in your travels, first call your eye doctor, next the Museum of Natural History. The only body of natural scientists in the world still looking for amateurs is the International Olympic Committee. Their methods of identification are highly suspect to longtime students of the cultural habits of the white-sweatered amateur. They have, for example, purported to have uncovered a whole tribe of primal amateurs in Soviet Russia. But even a most cursory study of mutations shows that these are not amateurs at all, but, in actuality, an advanced form of professionals.

The evidence is overwhelming the last true natural amateur in this world has long since been in taxidermy, Even in the fox hunt, the only amateur is the fox. included doubles by Matty Alou, say that Bench was the Key to the Reds' National League pennant hopes. Los Angeles Dodgers and John Roberto Clemente and Donn Donaldson two-run single in Clendenon. It may still turn out that way the seventh inning gave the Ron Herbel's one-hit pitching but the 29-year old Pavletich, Oakland Athletics a 3-2 squeak- who batted only .238 with six ker over the New York Mets. homers and 38 runs driven in Pensacola Win Money (CONTINUED FROM PAKE IB) the worse the Pensacola champ per- And although most don't do well, they at least finish in the money; All past Pensacola Open champs always finished in the money in the Masters, the PGA and the U.S.

Open during the years they have won here, except for Tommy Bolt who withdrew after tlhe 1961 PGA tournament began. Of the 13 players who have won the 17 Pensacola Opens, only four Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Bolt and Johnny Far- rell have also won the U.S. Open titles. Of those four, only Palmer has won both titles In the same year (I960). Three winners Here have won five PGA crowns and seven have won 13 Masters tournaments.

Palmer, still in quest of a PGA championship, also won the in I960, one of four times, he's won at Augusta. After his victory here in 1963, Palmer lost the U.S. Open that year in a playoff against Julius Boros. Doug Sanders, who won here in 1962 and 1965 (in a playoff against Jack Nicklaus) finished tied for 32nd and tied for 11th in tha 1962 and 1965 Masters, respectively. In the PGA the two years he won at Pensacola, Sanders tied for 15th and tied for 20th, respectively.

He also finished 11th In the U.S. Open both years. Of those 13 players who have won the 17 Pensacola Opens, only Gary Player, Doug Ford and Sam Snead (who has won three) have claimed a PGA championship title, and none has won one the same year he won here. Palmer's tie for seventh place in (he 1960 PGA is the best effort a reigning Pensacola Open champ has been able to muster. If there is a relationship between a player's performance at Pensacola and his subsequent showing In one of these major tournaments, it is most apparent between the Pensacola Open and the Masters.

Seven of the 13 winners here have won one or more Masters. They are Horton Smith (1934, 1936), Snead (1949, 1952, 1954), Art Wall (1959), Ford (1957), Palmer (1958, 19C0, 1962, 1964), Gary Player (1961) and Gay Brewer (1967). Palmer, in 1960, and Brewer, in 1967, went from Pensacola to win at Augusta a few weeks later. Since 1958, every Pensacola champion has won money in the Masters. In 1958, Ford tied for second at Augusta after he won at Pensacola, one shot behind winner Palmer.

Bolt won at Pensacola in 1961 and fin- 44 YEARS YOUR ALTAMIRA TENNIS CARACAS, Venuzuela (UPI) Marty Riessen, Evanston ,111., last season, is making Manager Dave Bristol wonder. Pavletich has hit three homers this spring, including one Sunday when the Reds beat the ItOSBURG WALL BOROS MOTOR DEALER won the men's singles title of the Altamira tennis tournament Sunday by defeating Cliff Baltimore Orioles 7-5 and ran BOATS BY: Thundorbtrd Formula DriH-R-Crui Glo.ipar Crirchficld Branca Richey, San Angelo, 6-1, 8- their winning streak to six games. 6, 6-1. Britain Ann Haydon Jones Pavletich hit a two-run nomer off Moe Drabowsky in the won the women singles competition' by downing Julie RUNYAN'S 800 S. PAIAFOX ST.

433-1 391 second inning and drove in a Heldman of New York 6-4, 11-9 third run with a single in the in a 2xk hour marathon session fourth. Milt Pappas allowed four runs and eight hits in four innings against his former What About Killy teammates but received credit A I 1 vjj for the victory. Mike Epstein, the "glamour rookie" of last soring who never not eoing after being traded by the Orioles, delivered a three- AUTO 72iAC6iUtt CENTER and Masters includes the fact that the closest a player has come to winning both the PGA and Pensacola Open occurred in 1946 when Ben Hogan lost a playoff here to Ray Man-grum and then won the PGA. Bob Rosburg a the closest during the modern Pensacola Open series (1956 to present), tying for third here after shooting a course-record 62 (which Brewer broke by a stoke in '67) and then winning the PGA. Rosburg's 19 putts in that 62 round tied an all-time PGA record.

Twenty-six of the 33 PGA champions accounting for 33 of the 45 PGA titles since 1922 have won money in at least one Pensacola Open. The first Pensacola Open champ, Smith, was also the first Masters titlist. Six Masters champions Byron Nelson, Henry Picard, Jimmy Demaret, Craig Wood, Claude Harmon and Snead all were money winners in the 1945 Pensacola Open. The six, among only 24 money winners here that year, won a total of 11 Masters crowns. You can't fight the statistics, the statistics don't lie and they indicate, according to the team, that winning the Pensacola Open doesn't seem to be a very good start toward winning the U.S.

Open, but if a pro wins here he might do well in the PGA, and he'll probably finish very high in the Masters. run first-inning homer bunaay as the Washington Senators defeated the Atlanta Braves 9-3 for their sixth victory in nine games. Rookie second baseman Frank Coggins also starred for mm Pearson Snaps Jinx lo Win Southeastern MITH FRONT END SPECIAlJ BRISTOL. Tenn. (AP) David Pearson won the Southeastern 500 stock car race in a 1968 FnrH Torino Snndav and broke Which brings me to the threats to remove Jean-Claude Killy's gold medals which he fairly won on the slopes of Chamrousse last Jean Claude Killy is not an amateur.

To be an amateur, by Avery Brundage's decisions, first, you'd have to steal two skis. Jean-Claude is accused of taking money (in large gulps) for his life story in words and pictures. By Brundage's definition, this makes him a professional. By Brundage's definition, you make him a professional by lending him a match. Professionalism, it seems to me, needs a new, rigid There are some areas where being a professional gives one an advantage over a mutated amateur.

I would make the re-definition one arrived at on the basis of competition. The professional tennis player (i.e., the one who takes checks) has an advantage over the "amateur" (i.e., the one who takes "expense" money in cash) not because he banks the money in his own name, but because he plays daily such a superior caliber of competition (men who get so good, the amateur game can no, longer afford them) that he is demonstrably a superior player with an unfair ATHLETIC advantage, not economic. Similarly, with golfers. The player who has to beat Casper, Player, Palmer and Nicklaus weekin and week-out will beat the player who only has to beat a lot of two-handicappers every Sunday. But, did Killy's acceptance of money from a magazine (assuming for argument's sake it occurred) help him become a better skier? Would spending hours posing: for pictures and questions enable him to go down the slopes faster and safer than Guy Perillat or Karl Schranz? I think the opposite is true.

Should even giving lessons for pay excommunicate a skier? If that helps one's game, I know a lot of driving-range pros who should win the Open. No, it seems to me the only basic difference between pro and amateur particularly since the financial difference is only one of degree should be level of competition. And I applaud Jean-Claude when he sayd he will "never" return his gold medals. Poor Jim Thorpe, the vanished American, had to return his in 1912 for playing a few games of semi-pro baseball for coffee money although how hitting a curve ball could be presumed to give one an advantage in the javelin throw is not clear. But he gave the medals back.

Killy's position is sounder Except for one thing: "Nobody can morally take them away from me," he said in Paris last week. That makes me think he doesn't know with whom he's dealing. I mean, when did morality have anything to do with it? the second-place jinx that had dogged him in live superspeea wav races since he took over as Muscle Against Speed Tonight ton driver for the Holman- Moody shops of Charlotte, N.u, almost a year ago. The 33-vear-old driver from Pro-Amateur Pairings Named (CONTINUED FROM PAGE IB) Robertson and Forrest Tucker. Other celebrities are due in today and a press party is scheduled with them at the Rodeway Inn tonight Spartanburg, S.C., passed lead rebounds to do so.

Webster's 51-point perfor er Lee Roy Yarorougn ana men held off a bid by Richard Petty in the 500-lap, 260-mile race. mance against Marshall Pettv's 1968 Plvmouth Road- him the tournament outstand ing player so far and the star runner slipped in the fourth turn with 25 laos remaining and Duke will be out to keep In check. he slid all the way to the wall. By the time he recovered ne was four seconds back, and he finished second, that four sec Villanova throws up a 1-2-2 zone defense which is rated by some coaches as the best in the country and breaks up-court with unusual speed and precise (CONTINUED FROM PAGE IB) St. Peter's beat Marshall in double overtime last Thursday night.

"I'd have been frightened to death how to approach the team if they had not seen St. Peter's play. They would have said, 'St. Peter's? Oh, come on Now they won't be so over-confident." Duke, ranked 11th nationally, has a strong front line composed of 6-7 Mike Lewis, 6-7 Steve Vandenberg and 6-6 Joe Kennedy while St. Peter's biggest men, Ulnardo Webster and Pete O'Dea, stand 6-5 each.

St. Peter's strategy almost certainly will be to fast-break but it must capture its share of Astros Suspend Bo Belinsky onds behind Pearson. Varhroush was third in anoth er 1968 Ford. Torino, a lap back of Pearson and Petty. COCOA, Fla.

(UPI)-It looks Desnite 11 caution flaes that passing. Kansas is bigger, however, and in Phil Harmon and Jo Jo White has two outside shooters capable of "breaking" like Bo Belinsky has struck out consumed 71 laDs. Pearson set a race record by averaging with the Houston Astros this spring because of a playmate's any zone defense. Joe Crews 77.253 p.h. in tne eigntn annual race at Bristol Internation and Johnny Jones are the key Villanova men under the boards.

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