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Star-Gazette Jimmy the 26 32 Elmira, N.Y., Wednesday, Xjjg. 18, 1976 Pageff Metro 155 set to start chase for Twin Ti ers golf title The fourth Star-Gazette-Elmira College Twin Tiers Golf Championships starts today with the opening round of both ttje women's and senior's divisions at Soaring Eagles, but the interest will be in the men's division which starts Friday. 1 The women and the seniors will play their first two rounds today and Thursday with the championship flight qualifiers going at it again Sunday for the titles.1 The men, with 155 entrants at the latest tally, will play 18 holes Friday and Saturday with the Championship flight qualifers coming back for the championship round Sunday, The Twin Tiers is the area's biggest golf carnival, i Besides the competitive golf, the tourney also hosts a Thursday luncheon for the women and seniors, Friday night 'clani-bake for the men and a Saturday night dinner-dance at the Elmira College Campus Center for all participants in the five days golf. Following Sunday's championship rounds winners will be presented with various merchandise awards plus The Star-Gazette Twin Tiers Golf Championship trophies. Kelly Grimes of Nichols is back to defend her women's title and she can expect a chase from the likes of Linda Smythe, Cathy Dunbar and Martha Clute, among others.

Jr, Ed Hughes, too, is back to defend his men's title. Also in the field is Gary Girmindl, the 1974 winner. The Twin Tiers' first champ, Dan Wood of Ithaca, no longer lives in the Steve Loomis. NOON-Kirk Mishrell; Rocky Saia; Dick Wheet; Robert Inniss. Mattola; Thomas Taynton; Ronald Warner; Lou Ciarlo.

I 12: 16-Jim McCormick; Thomas Bayer; Mark Sandore; Art Shafer. Rich; William Zelko; Sam Kutchukian; Mike 1 12:32 John Scheck; David Bloom; Bill Cox; Dave Sherry, Forker; Jim Keetch; Max Moore; Jim Reidy; John Rogers; Fred Magnusen; Ray Lindquist. Tee No. 10: 8-A. J.

Weber; John Kuzia; John Markell; Richard Cleary; Al Halstead; Bud Castilow; Paul Brand. 8:16 Dennis Michaels; Joseph Burger; Dowain Niel-, seen; Dan Chapman. 8:24 Dave Kinsman; John Simons; Jack Dunlavey; Ted Coviello. 8: 32 Bill Johnson; John Rusinko; Leonard Pruden; David Harvat. area.

This year marks the debut of the senior's division. Friday's opening round pairings in the men's division: Tee No.1: 8 Tom Ryan; Joel Sweet; Duke Carroll; Tony Santa-rone. Arnold; Fran Sorge; Robert Poteatf Charles Winter. 8: 16 Eric Kreuriger; Dan Eister; Richard Sawdey; Jim Wilcox. 8:24 Ben Ridley; Gary Lucas; Mike Moore; Jeff Allison.

8:32 Doug BronSon; P. J. Richards; Mike Breed; Bill Kaye. 8:40 Mauro Ruocco; Jerry Payne; John Russell. 8: 48 Gary Girmindl; George Watts; Jack Benjamin; FredDubeck.

8:56 Paul Montanarella; Robert Green; Paul Bowe; David Quattrone. Zelko; Robert Jailiisky; Joe McCormick; Russell Schreiver. 9: 12-7-Steve Tomlinson; Marvin Mishrell; Harold Dunbar; Edward Gendrin. -x Flanigan; Bill Emmick; Frank Gavich; Robert Kennedy. Walters; Joe Venskytis; Bob Church; Caparulo; Ken Martin; Mike Strange; Jim Nelson.

Wieland; Ed Mishrell; Richard BlackweU; James Fazzary. J. Montanarella; Steve Rima; Gary Ransom-Bob Taylor. Pappas; Richard Stone; Tim Griffith; Bill Whitmarsh. 9: 12 Bill Frutchy; Ed Casey; Gerry Greene; Wayne Kenner.

9:20 Robin Kohberger, Fremond Hough; Jim Griggs; Dan Ungvarsky. Cole; Graham Gray; Joe Sindelar; Buzz Barton. NOON-Carp Wood; Peter Dunham; Jim Prymusik. 12: 08-Jim Kakretz; Dave Sweet; Gerould Ponkl. 12: 18-Ed Hughes.

Lou Nunis; Bill Gilbert. Kiff; Dick Fluman; Tom McKibben; Ken Holecek. Kinsman; Bill Mecum; Ron Springfield, Mike Rima. 12:40 Chip Keister; Gene Dykes; Mike O'Loughlin; Henry Heslop. Minch; J.

A. Ficarro; Bob Head; Bob Wexell. Delaney; Bernie Buckley; Ed Widman; Jim Rogers. Newark takes opener hi 1 Oth inning, 7-3 inning. Reliever Steve Schneck gave up an intentional walk to Gary Holle after Partridge stole second base, then, walked Andy Pascrarella to load the bases.

The Schneck for Jim Lee Fox, but Fox promptly threw a wild pitch to plate the fourth runner of the inning. The Pioneers had 11 hits for the game, paced by two apiece by Steele and Gary winning run- crossed the plate wlien Schneck gave up his third straight walk LaTorre. to I II j) ifc lt I The Newark Co-Pilots scored four runs in the 10th inning to trip the Elmira Pioneers, 7-3, Tuesday night at Dunn Field in the first game of a key New Penn League doubleheader. The loss dropped the Pioneers two ganx-s behind the league-leading Co-Pilots in the race for the NY-P second half championship. After the two teams missed numerous scoring opportunities throughout the late, innings, Newark broke the 3-3 deadlock after three extra innings.

With one out in the top of the 10th, Glen Partridge started the winning rally with an infield hit, the only rap of the With the bases still loaded, Schneck hit Terry Shoebridge with a pitch to add another Newark tally. Newark's Al Manning then drove the ball to right-cen-terfield, but Elmira's Carl Steele dropped the ball to score Newark's third run of the stanza. Elmira manager Dick Berardino attempted to halt the rally by yanking All the. fireworks during regulation, play took place in the first three frames. Newark opened up to a 2-0 lead in the first inning on Pascarella's bases-loaded sacrifice fly and a wild pitch by Elmira starter Dan Parks.

1 But Elmira came right back in the next inning to tie the score. Mike Onga-rato and Glenn Hoffman led off with singles, and Dave Denton sacrificed both runners to second and third. The runners scored on singles by LaTorre and Ron Harrington. Garry Holle's RBI-single in the third gave Newark a one-run advantage, but Elmira fame back again to tie it in its half of the inning on a bases-loaded walk to Huffman. The Pioneers could have scored the winning run in the inning as the bases were still loaded with one out.

However, Denton grounded inio double play to kill the threat. Yanks edge Rangers NEW YORK (AP) Graig Nettles slammed his 19th home run of the season on rookie Tommy Boggs' first pitch in' the bottom of the ninth inning, giving the New York Yankees a 2-1 victory over the Texas Rangers Tuesday night behind Doyle Alexander's five-hit pitching. Oscar Gamble's 12th home run with two out in the bottom of the fifth was the Yankees' first hit off Boggs, 0-3, and the, game's only run until the Rangers tied' i the score in the top of the ninth. Alexander, walked Toby Harrah, the first Texas batter, and Mike Hargrove singled him to third. Harrah scored the tying run when Jeff Burroughs grounded deep in the hole to shortstop Fred Stanley, whose only play was a forceout at second.

However, Nettles drilled the first pitch in the bottom of the inning into the right field seats for the Yankees' seventh triumph in their last eight games. It was the seventh hit off Boggs, who hurled his first complete game in the majors but has yet to post a victory. Chi 2-1 nsox win CHICAGO (AP) Pat Kelly drove in Chicago's first run and then doubled in the ninth inning and scored on a single by Bill Stein to give the White Sox a 2-1 victory over the Boston Red Sox in the first game of Tuesday's twi-night The Birds wins 14th NOT EVEN CLOSE-Newark's Talmadge Tanks is safe at first in a pickoff attempt during the opening inning of Tuesday's night's EIniira-Newark first-game clash at Dunn Field. At left with the ball is Pioneer first baseman Gary LaTorre while pitcher Dan Parks (right) watches the results of the play. Newark won the first game of the doubleheader, 7-3, in 10 innings.

(Photo by Anne Peters). Odds are big against a Grand Slam DETROIT (AP) Bruce Kimm smashed Frank Tanana's first pitch in Ihe eighth inning into the upper deck in left field for his first major league home i run, giving the Detroit Tigers and Mark "The Bird" Fidrych a 3-2 victory over Ihe California Angels Tuesday night. Kimm, who has been the catcher in every start by rookie sensation Fidrych, bounded around the bases with his arms raised, jumping for joy all the way, even after crossing the plate. Kimm originally was Angels property but Detroit acquired 'him in a minor league trade in 1973. The blast raised Fidrych's record to 14-4 while dropping Detroit native Tanana to 14-9 despite a four-hitter.

Fidrychwho allowed five hits, wound up with his 16th complete game in 19 starts. He went into the game with a major league-leading 1.97 earned run average. Tanana entered the game leading the league Tin strikeouts with 177 and complete games with 18 in 24 starts. Priniarily because of the anticipated matclutp between the two pitching stars, the game drew a crowd of 51,822 largest for a night game at Tiger Stadium in six years and largest for any game in Detroit in 'more than three years. California took a 2-0 lead off Fidrych with a run in Ihe fifth inning and another in the sixth.

California's Ron Jackson nailed a 1-2 pitch for a solo homer with two out in the fifth. An inning 'later, Dave Collins led off with a single, was sacrificed to second, took third on a wild pitch and scored on a sacrifice fly by Bruce Bochte. But the Tigers tied the score with a pair of runs in the bottom or the sixth. Kimm began the rally with a one-out walk and scored on a triple by Ron LeFlore. Alex Johnon sent LeFlore home with a sacrifice fly.

Detroit kept the inning going when Rusty Staub singled and Willie' Horton walked, but Jason Thompson ended the uprising by taking a third strike. Tanana fanned six and Thompson was the victim three times. By WELL GRIMSLEY BETHESDA. Md. (AP) Dave Stockton's victory Monduy in the Professional Association championship, spreading the year's four major golf titles among four different men, accents the growing elusiveness of golf's modern Grand Slam.

It is a goal that probably will never be reached. "I suppose it is possible but I would say very improbable," says Arnold Palmer. "I don't think one man will ever be able to win the four big championships in a single year," adds Tom Watson, who won the British Open a year ago. "There are too many good golfers today." "To win the Grand Slam would be almost as hard as matching Byron "Tournaments that I once could reach out and grab slarted getting away from me. Jack will find it happening to him, more and more." "Nicklaus is the best." said Watson, "but the tour is just too tough today.

No one man can dominate to the extent that he can set his sights on the four major championships and win them all." Nicklaus is now 36. He is devoting less time to tournament golf and more to his mushrooming business interests. Even at his best or anyone's best the odds against a man's winning the big four titles in a single year are astronomical. Grant that he is the 6-1 favorite each time he tees up the ball, Las Vegas would put his odds at a four-tournament sweep at If he is 10-1, a more re- "It is one of my goals in golf," Nicklaus has said repeatedly of the pro Grand Slam. The PGA tournament, completed Monday at the Congressional Country Club here, magnified the perils that stand in the way of such an accomplishment.

Here was Nicklaus, the best golfer in the world, resting in a position to win not his fourth but his first major title of the year. Most observers thought, going down the stretch and leading at one point, there was no way to keep the prize out of Big Jack's chubby fingers. But Nicklaus proved to be human, after all. He double-bogeyed the sixth hole and bogeyed three others on the back nine, finishing two strokes back. "It started to hapien to me when I got ries," said Jerry Heard.

"Both are almost unthinkable." The professional Grand Slam consists of winning the Masters, U. S. and British Opens and the PGA in a single year. Some have come close. None has ever achieved it.

The term was borrowed from the phenomenal achievement of the late legend of amateur golf. Bob Jones, who in 1930 won the U. S. Amateur and Open and the British Amateur and Open and retired at the of 28 with 14 major championships. Jack Nicklaus, counting four titles in the TOA in which Jones was ineligible to compete, has soared past Jones' record of nvajor crowns with a total of 18 but has been unable to fashion anything resembling the Atlanta marvel's Grand Slam.

Nelson's record of 11 straight tour victo ahstic figure, it is 14.M0-1. into my mid-30s, said Palmer, now 46. Baseball fans play the national game with statistics straight AL baiting crowns. Carew, from' Minnesota, currently trails McRae, the league leader, by 30 points. Who will win 20 games? Randy Jones of San Diego, already with 19 victories, could join the club for the second straight year.

Jim Palmer of Baltimore leads the AL With 16 victories. Catfish next six weeks, there will be a lot of experimenting as the playoff-bound teams look toward October and the teams going nowhere look to 1977 and beyond. Asked about his goals for 1978. St. Louis Manager Red Schoendienst said -we hope to find a couple of relief pitchers.

We know we have a good infield for the future and I think the place we're In East, Pittsburgh in the NL East and Los Angeles in the NL West. These four runners-up probably will have to be satisfied with their place money, probably over $1,000 per man. Three teams in each division get a cut of the playoff money. Last year that amounted to $43,373 for each' of the four second-place teams and $11,414 for the third-place clubs. (7M 1 By' FRED ROTIDENBERG NEW YORK (AP) Baseball will survive its cold divisional races and the hot final days of summer because of Us fascination with the decimal point.

Baseball plays twice as nvany games as any of the other major Anx'rican sports. It doesn't hold any allegiance to a I clock and It can get boring, especially In the absence of divisional races. The 24 njajor league teams have gone through three-fourths of the season and, have six weeks and some 40 games left. Football, basketball and hockey are already crowding baseball for media at- tention. But don't count baseball out yet.

When the national pastime's pace slows down I even nipre than supposed to, the true fan reaches for a bottle of beer and a slew of statistics. For example: Will George Foster of Cincinnati win the triple crown? If he dots he will become, the first player to accomplish the feat of taking the titles in batting average, home runs and runs batted in since Carl Yastrzcmskl In 1967 and the first Natlonaf Leaguer to win all three since Joe Medwick In 1937? -Will Hal McRae of Kansas City Hunter- or the New York Yankees, seeking his sixth straight 20-victory season is 14-12 with, perhaps, a dozen starts left. And when the fans get tired of batting around the record book, they can lake a couple of swipes at the managerial directory. Wilf Earl Weaver be answering Baltimore's phone next year? Will rookie manager Karl Kuehl of Montreal stick around for Round Will Charles O. Finley of Oakland keep Chuck Tanner or name his unlucky 13th field boss since 1961? Only second-place managers still believe In pennant races.

Philadelphia and Cincinnati hold commanding leads in the NL, while the Yankees and Kansas City have plenty of breathing space in i the AL. Tanner, however, still is talking division race in the AL West, where the A's have won the past five years. "It's my dream 1p be in a World Series and I still think we're gonna do it," he said. To get past the regular season, the A's must win big while the Royals have to lose big. If Kansas City plays ,500 baseball the rest of the season, Oakland must win nearly 75 per tent of its games to take the division flag.

The odds are even worse for the other seqind-place teams, Baltimore In the AL right now (fifth) will help them get the exjierience they need without a lot of pressure." While this trial and error will probably diminish the quality of the product, the baseball fan can always fall back on his cherished statistics: Will Dave Kingman of the Mets win the NX, home run crown? He's been out one month with a torn thumb ligament and is expected back soon. Despite the 'layoff, Kingman still leads tlie NL with 32 homers. Mike Schmidt of Philadelphia, bidding for his third straight home run championship, has 31 and Foster, well ahead in the RBI race and close to the top in hitting, has 27. -Will Reggie Jackson of Baltimore be 1 the home run king in the AL? With lno fewer at bats than the other leaders because of injuries and an early season holdout, Jackson has predicted he would lead the league in both home runs and RBI. He's not far behind in either.

-Will Mark Fidrych of Detroit, 13-4. become the first rookie to win 20 games since Bob Grim In 1954? Despite the early dousing of any heated divisional races, baseball's attendance is up nearly 1 million over the same period last year. Per home date, the average baseball crowd has been 18,. 666 this year, compared to 16.652 in -ST All the present second-place teams are much closer to third place than they are to first. So there still are races for place and show.

Cleveland is in striking distance of Baltinxre, the New York Mcts are shadowing Pittsburgh and San Diego has its eyes on the Dodgers. San, Diego, a team on the rise, could finish .500 for the first time In its eight-year history. The .500 finish will Like care of itself if the Padres attain their other goal. "We want to finish as high as we possibly can," said San Diego Manager John McNamara. "This club has a never-give-up attl-' tude," said Willie Davis.

"Our goal right now Is to catch the Dodgers. We've got the makings of a championship team of the future." Teams already writing off 1978 must look to the future, when all teams start at tied for first and last place. In the the American League batting title? If he does he'll end Rod Carew's streak of four Randy Jones George Foster.