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IBirv3 A(sqj(uike Cray's Joy, Bm Szkwli transactions, the third and fourth of the day. Earlier, the New York teams completed their first deal ever when the Mets purchased veteran pitcher Bob Friend from the Yankees for the $20,000 waiver piice and a minor league player to be named later. The Mets also asked waivers on first baseman Dick Stuart tor the purpose of giving him his unconditional release. Jay, who has won six games and lost two, had a 21-10 mark for Cincinnati in 1961. He is 30 years old.

Fischer, 2-3 this year, is 26. O'Dell's 1966 mark is 2-3 and at 33 years of age, he's five years older than Schwall. The latter has won three games and dropped two this season. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Atlanta Braves, major disappointments in the National League pennant race, obtained pitchei's Joey Jay and Don Schwall in separate transactions shortly defore Wednesday midnight's major league baseball trading deadline. The Braves acquired Jay from Cincinnati in exchange for Hank Fischer, another righthander, and then picked up Schwall, also a right-hander, from Pittsburgh for southpaw Billy O'Dell.

O'Dell was the losing pitcher Wednesday night when Atlanta dropped a 5-4 decision to the New York Mets. The setback dropped the Braves into eighth place. No cash was involved in the A Pirate spokesman said that Atlanta President John McHale had called Pittsburgh General Manager Joe Brown a few days ago and asked if Schwall were available. Brown, at that time, said he wasn't. But late Wednesday night McHale reached Brown in Columbus, Ohio, and again asked for Schwall.

This time Brown agreed to let Schwall go. O'Dell will be the only southpaw in the Pirates' bullpen. A Pittsburgh spokesman said that the club had been shopping ar-oun for a left-handed reliever. Friend, a 35-year-old righthander, had a 14 record for the Yanks, who purchased him from the Pirates last winter. He has won 191 National League games.

The i I 1' 1 1 Pensacola News Thursday, June 16, 1966 SECTION JOEY JAY BILLY O'DELL HANK FISHER DON SCHWALL Others Complain, But Ge ne Nicklaus Just Brags on the Course Fallen Assistant Sports Editor rfjn fV j'-' K-Uj; tJ1 Georgia Fans Speak Loudly There are two things about the Southeastern Conference football race for 1966 and the University of Georgia that stick out above all others. First, the Georgia fans can't believe the SEC coaches and the coaches really didn't know they were being unfair. The result of that poll SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -Long hitting Jack Nicklaus, already the 1966 Masters champion, is the favorite in the $150,000 National Open Golf Tournament which started today, and it was fine with him. While some others complained about conditions at the precise Olympic Club course, the 26-year-old from Columbus, Ohio, termed it "awfully good and one of the best golf courses in the country." Both defending champion Gary Player and former winner Arnold Palmer tabbed Nicklaus the man to beat and the Las Vegas odds listed him a 9-2 favorite in this field of 133 pros and 18 amateurs. After a record heat wave, the normal San Francisco fog crept back to town Wednesday and could bring changed course conditions every day of this 72-hole event as the moisture seeps back into the earth.

"Now this will play like a San Francisco course," Nicklaus said. "If you want conditions like a Scottish course, you should go play in Scotland." With the hot weather early in the week, the five-inch rough didn't seem so tough to many, but Nicklaus warned, "It will come back when it gets wet. Just see what happens to it." Many, including host pro Kyle Burton, say a long ball hitter will be at a disadvantage and must play defensive golf over this tight layout of 6,727 yards with par 35-3570. "Hogwash," answered Nicklaus. "If you hit long and straight you have an advantage.

you don't hit straight, you of SEC coaches that has been pretty well spread all over the country caused it all. The Georgia people didn't like their vote of support from the coaches. But, first, let's refresh your memory with the order in which the poll appeared: 1-Alabama, 2-Ole Miss, 3-LSU, 4-Tennessee, 5-Florida, 6-Auburn, 7-Georgia, 8-Mississippi State, 9-Kentucky, 10-Vanderbilt. You see, it's the No. 7 spot that has the people in Georgia wringing their hands and trying to hold their emotions back for the big explosion next fall.

The word out of Athens. is VINCE DOOLEY TOMMY JACOBS TESTS THE DEEP ROUGH chips to Olympic's 18th green (Pensacola News-AP Wirtphoto) that 19,000 season tickets have been sold for next season and that one more big surprise is left in Coach Vwce Dooley's bag of tricks. With the way those Georgians are blowing their horns, the biggest hurt might result in the fact that the fans are letting it out that the Bulldogs will be brawny again, eliminating the dement of surprise they had in 1965. Georgia surprised the whole state of Alabama last year by whipping the Tide and then added Michigan to its list with a victory at Ann Arbor. Of course, one of Dooley's characteristics is that he doesn't have a lot to say and he's keeping a tight lip through it all, When the SEC coaches make a poll such as this, they usually go by returning lcttcrmen and that kind of stuff.

Maybe they didn't know what the Georgia fans know. or are supposed to know. Dodgers Win Regan Proves He's Happy In Bullpen have problems." Bad News to the others was his statement, "I'm driving better than any time since Oak-mont." That was the course near Pittsburgh where big Jack beat Palmer for the Open title in 1962. Nicklaus admitted he hasn't been putting too well. His reaction to the favorite's role was, "It won't make a bit of difference once we hit the first tee, will it?" Sentimental favorite Ben Ho-gan, seeking his fifth National Open title at 53, returns to the scene where he lost his bid for No.

5 in a playoff to virtually unknown Jack Fleck in 1955. Hogan says he isn't playing Bragan Speaks No dout Bobby Bragan is fed up to the gills with the way his Atlanta Braves pitching staff has fared so far this year. In fact, it is kind of nauseating to see a ball club with the talent of Atlanta resting in seventh place in the National League 10 games down the ladder. Bragan's most recent JACK NICKLAUS AWAITS TURN TO PUTT IN PRACTICE ROUND he's the Open favorite, and it's fine with him (PwiMCOlt Ntws-AP Wirphot) Palmer's Killer Instinct Not as Strong as It Was too well. Fleck says virtually a LOS ANGELES (AP) It took Phil Regan seven years to realize that his minor league manager, Charlie Metro, was right when he advised him to forget trying to become a starting pitcher and concentrate on releiving.

"I never thought I would be nothing. Asked if he thought Ken Ven-turi and Tony Lema might have an advantage since they are local products, Nicklaus observed, "No, I don't thnk so. It depends on how you play four days, if you play well you win." Greens are small. "If you hit the greens you have a good statement that reflects his feeling was delivered after his Atlantans had lost the second of a three-game series at Pittsburgh last Sunday. "How do you figure it?" Bragan said.

"We score 19 runs in three games and lose two. Regan shared the spotlight with Wes Parker, who won the game in the fifth inning when he clouted a homer with two aboard to climax a five-run rally. The victim was Ferguson Jenkins, 1-3. The homer was Parker's ninth of the season. The victory broke a three-game losing streak for the Dodgers and kept them two games behind pace-setting San Francisco in the National League race.

CHICAGO LOS ANGELES sb bi ab bi Stewart If 5 0 0 0 Wills 31 3 0 0 0 Beckert 2b 4 2 2 0 Gilliam 3b 2 10 0 BWIIiams rf 5 2 2 0 WDavis cf 3 111 Santo 3b 5 12 1 TDavis If 4 111 Bmks lb 4 0 3 3 LJohnson rf 4 1 1 1 Brown cf 4 0 2 0 Parktr 4 12 3 Hundley 4 0 10 Kennedy 2b 3 0 0 0 Kessinqer Ss 2 0 1 0 Torborg 4 0 10 KeouQh ph 1 0 0 0 Osteen 110 0 Hands 0 0 0 0 Regan 2 0 0 0 Holtzman 10 0 0 Jenkins 1 0 0 0 Amlf itano ph 1 0 0 0 Estrada 0 0 0 0 LThomas lb 1 0 0 0 Total 38 5 134 Total 30 a 6 chance for a birdie," observed Sports Parade Milton SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) -Arnold Palmer, warming up for his 12th consecutive U.S. Open championship, fell to talking about that old killer instinct, and revealed, possibly without realizing it, that it isn't as strong for him as it once was. Palmer tees off today and readily concedes he doesn't have those same feelings he had before that first one which, coincidenlally, he played on this same scenic Olympic course back in 1955. "Don't get me wrong," Venturi who capped a comeback with victory in the 1964 open. Last January, just across Lake Merced from the Olympic Club, Ken won the Lucky International Open, at the Harding Park municipal layout.

He has spent hours this spring studying the Olympic course which he's known since teen-age That wasn't all to the Rtatement. In fact, the more he talked, the better it got. "I have a sheet here that contains the scores of the last 33 games we've played. Do you know what the totals are? We've scored 175 runs in 33 games. That's an average of more than In i happy in the bullpen, but now I know Metro was right," Regan said Wednesday night after pitching four strong innings to preserve a 6-5 victory for the Los Dodgers over the Chicago Cubs.

His was the fourth save of the season for the 29-year-old right-hander, who sports a 4-1 record and 1.50 earned run average, Regan is causing embarrassment for the Detroit Tigers. He was used mostly as a starter in six seasons with Detroit and spent most of last season in the minors. He represents a steal for the Dodgers. They acquired Regan last winter in a trade that sent utility inficldcr Dick Tracewski to the Tigers. days.

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IP MR ER BB SO four a game. And we've lost more than we've won." There was more, too. "Just about every night we have a big inning, three, four, five and even seven runs in a single inning but we always end up crapping like mad to win the game or just plain losing it." Maybe Eddie Mathews described the Braves best after hitting a grand slammer last Sunday in an 11-8 loss to Pittsburgh: "It was just wasted." me," declared the man many regard the foremost golfer of his era. "Mainly, it would mean a great deal of personal satisfaction," Palmer went on. "There are many factors connected with it, some of which are inconsequential to others, but not to me.

If I could win the Open this year it would give me an added boost to keep on hazards for the pros seeking the $25,000 top award. Nicklaus took them in stride with the comment. "Not much you can do to change those things." He has practiced here all week and after one round felt so good, he ran up a hill. Holtzman 2 1 1 1 5 2 Jenkins (L, 1-3) 3 4 5 5 1 3 Estrada 2 0 0 0 0 1 Hands 1 10 0 1 Osteen (W, 1-5) 5 10 4 3 1 4 Rcqan .4 3 110 3 2:55. A 22,013.

Miami Wins 29 Innings, 12 Pitchers Later life-long income and that together with what he has put away ranks him as possibly the richest athlete of all time. For all his money, though, the unpretentious, a y-voiced product of western Pennsylvania is subject to the same ills and misfortunes that often make life miserable for many of the lesser-knowns on golf's professional circuit. A few weeks back, for example, Palmer suddenly suffered a back ailment that took him off the circuit for a month. "It had one advantage," he laughed. "I was able to get a lot of work done.

My back is okay now, though. All I do is some stretching exercises every day. Nothing really complicated. Just some set-ups and the like." In common with most pros, Palmer points to the customary top 10 when asked whom he thinks can win the present open. "Who can you pick that Isn't one you'd reasonably expect," was the way he put it.

Naturally, that would have to include a fellow like Arnold Palmer, too. cautioned Palmer, leaning against a locker in the clubhouse, "My confidence is as good as it ever was and I still feel some anxiety about playing in any tournament, especially one like this, but, well, it isn't quite the same as it was then, "When I was here in 1955, let's say I was much more rambunctious, impetuous and entirely over-anxious. I really was pushing, jumping and doing a lot of silly things out there," he laughed. "You don't do those things you might have done 11 years ago. It isn't uncontrollable like it was then." Palmer was only 25 then; he's 36 now and more than a couple of million dollars richer so it's only natural that the killer instinct within him isn't the same as it once was.

He wants to win the Open even though he won it once before in I960 and as you might imagine, the $25,800 prize that goes to the winner, naturally would be welcome but strictly incidental. "Winning this thing would make a world of difference to playing." He wasn't thinking of quitting, was he? "No," Palmer made it clear, "Not soon, anyway. I rarely think about that. Oh, once in awhile, we talk about how soon or when I may not play anymore, but it's always way off in the future. "I have every intention of playing golf for some time.

At least until I feel I couldn't win. Then I wouldn't play anymore. As long as people come out and seem to enjoy seeing me play and as long as I keep on enjoying the game as much as I do, I'm going to keep at it." Palmer actually doesn't have to if he didn't want to. His business investments virtually assure him of a comfortable professional baseball. Miami finally won it 4-3 in the 29th after the two teams punched out 24 hits and ran through 12 pitchers.

About 2 a.m. the two bleary-eyed managers got together and agreed that the madness had to stop. They told the umpire that if the 3-3 tie wasn't broken at the end of 30 innings they were ready to go home. When the umpire announced the decision, the remenants of the 740 fans who started out at 7:30 booed and chanted: on a sacrifice fly to center at 2:29 a.m., making six hours 59 minutes of playing time, The longest previous game in professional baseball was Elmi-ra's 27-inning 2-1 Eastern League victory over Springfield on May 8, 1965. That game lasted 6 hours 24 minutes.

Playing in lengthy gamse was nothing nw for Hickerson and Lloyd Fourroux, whose two-run homer for Miami tied the score at 2-2 in the eighth. Both played in the Elmira-Springficld mara-I hon last year. For Hickerson it was his final game for Miami. He's rturning to Elmira. "We want more." Although the gane produced some iron men pitcher Paul Gilliford held out for 11 innings after pitching seven the night before fatigue began to take its toll.

First baseman-coach Dick Hickerson of Miami struck out in the 25th and the momentum of his bat almost pulled him down. St. Petersburg loaded the bases in the 21st with no one out, but Gilliford pitched himself out of trouble. The winning run was scored ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.

(AP) Would you believe that 200 minor league baseball fans watched Miami and St. Petersburg, of the Florida State League play for 27 innings and then booed when told the game might be stopped at the end of 30? Would you believe 150? The number of weary fans who stuck it out to the end Tuesday night isn't official just a reporter's estimate of between 150 and 200. But it is official that the game turned into the longest in the history of American i.