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THE MORNING CALL, ALLENTOWN, MONDAY, MARCH 12, 1979 Larry Nelson makes Inverrary 1st career win to become a professional baseball player. "I think I could have been a major league second baseman," the soft-spoken Nelson said and smiled. "But what I thought and what the scouts thought was something else." He attended Kennesaw (Ga. Junior College on a basketball scholarship and later went to work as an illustrator for an aircraft manufacturer. 288- Mark James, $1,911 68-71-70-79 289- Chi Chi Rodriguez, $1,352 71-71-72-75 289-Peter Oosterhuis, $1,352 70 73-71-75 289-Orville Moody, $1,352 71-75-70-73 289-Joe Kunes.

$1,352 72-71-73-73 289-David Graham, $1,352 70-74-73-72 289-Bruce Lietzke, $1,352 72-71-70-76 289-Lindy filler, $1,352 70-72-77-70 1 st for Lopez LOS ANGELES (AP) Nancy Lopez sank a 10-foot birdie putt on the 18th green to give her a one-stroke victory in $100,000 Sunstar Classic yesterday, her first Ladies Professional Golf Association triumph of 1979. Lopez, who won nine LPGA tournaments last year and earned a record $189,814. finished the final round with 69 to defeat third-round leader Hollis Stacy by one stroke. The 22-year-old Lopez finished with a 72-hole total of 280, 8-under par over the par-72 Rancho Park Golf Course. She shot earlier rounds of 70, 71 and 70.

Stacy, who missed an 18-foot putt for a birdie on the par-4 18th hole in a bid to force a playoff, carded a 72 in the final round for a 281 total. Lopez started the day two strokes behind Stacy but caught her with birdies on the eighth and ninth holes, both par 5s. Stacy went ahead with a birdie on No. 10, fell even with a bogey on 11, went ahead again with a birdie on 14 but then bogeyed 15. Lopez had eight pars on the final nine before finishing with a birdie.

The victory was worth $15,000 for Lopez, who also won this tournament last year. She has played in just three of the four LPGA tournaments this year but is first on the money-list with $27,300. Stacy earned $9,800 for her second-place finish. She shot 72, 66 and 71 in her first three rounds. Susie Berning and Peggy Conley tied for third with 283 totals.

Berning had a 71 Sunday, Conley a 69. Next at 284 were Laura Baugh and Pat Bradley, both of whom finished with 71s. Lopez now has 10 victories and six seond-place finishes in the 36 tournaments she has played since turning professional in July 1977. The first thing she did following an award ceremony after yesterday's victory was telephone her husband, Tim Melton, a sportscaster in Harrisburg, Pa. "I dedicated this to you and daddy since your birthdays are so close," Lopez told her husband, whom she married on Jan.

6, also her 22nd birthday. "I felt like I worked my tail off out there today. I played well, real steady. I didn't slop it around. After the conversation, Lopez told reporters she was pleased with her consistency in the final round, which was played under nearly ideal weather conditions.

"I knew the back side would be the key," said Lopez. "I made just one bogey all day." Lopez will take a week off, missing this week's LPGA tournament near San Diego. She'll return to the tour to play in the Sahara National Pro-Am in Las Vegas, March 22-25. Stacy had three birdies and three bogeys in her final round. She had either held or shared the lead following her 66 Friday until the tournament's final hole.

"The par-3s got me in trouble," Stacy said. "When you're playing head-to-head with Nancy, you have to play damn good golf." said. Nicklaus won this tournament last year on a closing string of five consecutive birdies that lifted him over stunned Grier Jones. Jones inished second again. But this time he was closing the gap.

Six shots back at the turn, he played the back nine in 33, finished with a 70 and a 277 total. Hale Irwin was third for a second consecutive week. He had a final round 73, 1 over par, and a 280 total. Lee Elder and Tommy Aaron were next at 281. Elder shot a 70 and Aaron, a former Masters champ who is fighting his way out of a protracted slump, matched par 72.

They werelollowed by Ray Floyd, 74-282, and U.S. Open champ Andy North, 72-283. Nelson's victory continued a trend this season in which new faces are moving into dominant positions on the tour. In nine tournaments this year, one-third of them have been won by men scoring their first pro victories. Fuzzy Zoeller and Bob Byman are the others.

Nelson's story, however, is more unusual than theirs. Despite his small size, he played baseball and basketball as a teenager and had some aspirations LAUDERHILL, Fla. (AP) Larry Nelson, undisturbed by gusty winds, protected his lead with a front-running 71 and scored the first victory of his pro career by a comfortable three strokes yesterday in the Inverrary Golf Classic. It took the late-starting Nelson six years to achieve his initial pro title, but when it came, it came with relative ease. The slightly-built Nelson, a onetime illustrator who didn't takeup golf until age 21.

started the windy final round with a four-stroke advantage and led by that margin or more most of the way. Birdies on the eighth and ninth holes gave him a six-shot lead at the turn. From that point on, it was a matter of avoiding a major disaster. Nelson. 31, claimed the $54,000 first prize and a spot in the Masters and Tournament of Champions with a 72-hole total of 274, 14 shots under par on the wind-raked, Inverrary Country Club course.

Jack Nicklaus, who had won three consecutive times on this course, failed badly this time. He shot a closing 75 and finished the tournament at 294, 6 over par. The poor performance prompted him to enter next week's Doral Open, which he had planned to skip. "My game needs more work," he Final scores and 000 Jackie Gleason yard, par-72 Inver- 67-69-67-71 71- 67-69-70 73-62-72-73 66-69-74-72 72- 71-68-70 69-72-67-74 69- 71-71-72 76-69-68-71 72-74-67-7! 68- 69-74-73 75-71-70-69 72-72-69-72 72-70-71-72 72-73-68-72 75-70-67-73 66-73-72-74 70- 74-67-74 71- 71-69-74 72- 67-73-74 72-74-68-72 72- 73-70-71 73- 70-72-71 71-72-71-73 71- 69-71-76 70- 75-67-75 72- 71-69-75 71- 71-69-76 69- 74-71-74 74- 71-70-73 73- 71-72-72 69-72-75-72 71- 72-70-75 72-73-73-70 72- 72-68-76 LAUDERHILL. Fla.

MAP) -money-winningi Sunday in the $300, Inverrary Golf Classic on the Country Club course: 274-Larry Nelson, 154,000 277-Grier Jones, 532,400 280- Hale Irwin, S20.400 281 Tommy Aaron, $13,200 281- Lee Elder, $13,200 282- Ray Floyd, $10,800 283- Andy North, $10,050 284- Bob Gilder, $8,700 284 Pat McGowan, $8,700 284- Charles Coody, $8,700 285- Kermit Zarley, $5,775 285-Ben Crenshaw, $5,775 285-Lou Graham, $5,775 285-Jim King, $5,775 285-Howard Twitty. $5,775 285-Wayne Levi, $5,775 285-Mike McCullough, $5,775 285- Rod Curl, $5,775 386 Bill Rogers, $3,765 286 Snead, $3,765 286 Frank Conner, $3,765 286 Wally Armstrong. $3,765 287- Mike Hill, 287-Curtis Strande, $2,670 287 Don January, $2,670 287-Mark Lye, $2,670 287- DeWitt Weaver, $2,670 288 Jm Simons, $1,911 288-Sam Snead, $1,911 Weibring, $1,911 288-Mark Hayes, $1,911 288-Gary McCord, $1,911 288-Keitn Fergus, $1,911 288 Srott Simpson, $1,911 LARRY NELSON 1 st career win 1 TOP DOG IN SPORTING GOODS 10 MacARTHUR ROAD, WHITEHALL, PA. PHONE 433-6051 HOURS: DAILY 10 9SUNDAY 12 -5 Zebco" 3490 COMBINATION Zebco 33 reel 6 100 rod 2 pc100 yds. 101b.

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AP Cale Yarborough gunned his Oldsmobile past Bobby Allison into the lead on the 225th lap yesterday and slowly pulled away to win the Richmond 400 Grand National stock car race at Fairgrounds Raceway. Yarborough, who started from the ninth position, picked up $12,825 for his first victory on the Grand National circuit this season, increasing his earnings in four races to $67,595. His average speed was 83.608 mph. The track, slick from morning rains, slowed the speed of the race, but there were only two caution flags when Dale Earnhardt spun into the rail on the first lap and when Baxter Price spun into the infield on the 215th lap. Allison, who started on the pole, had led the race for the first 156 laps and, after a pit stop, picked up the lead on the 161st lap and held it until Yarborough sneaked past him on the inside to go in front for good.

Yarborough and Donnie Allison, involved in much publicized crashes at the Feb. 18 Daytona 500 and last week at the Carolina 500. barely kissed bumpers in this race despite the close quartering on the half-mile local oval. Yarborough passed Donnie Allison three times without incident and once it appeared Donnie let off to allow Yarborough's faster car go by him on the outside of a turn. Bobby Allison won $6,150 for his second-place finish in a Thunderbird, Darrell Waltrip was third in a Chevrolet, followed by outside pole-winner Benny Parsons in a Chevrolet and Richard Petty, also in a Chevrolet.

Yarborough said he had no major problems during the race. "I wanted to make sure everything went right today. I've had too much of the other stuff feud with the Allisons I just took my time." Yarborough said. He said his car sustained only one scratch, "and Darrell (Waltrip) put it in with just three laps to go. I think everybody drove cautiously." Asked why he felt the race was so clean.

Yarborough said "I don't know. It was just one of those races." Yarborough also disclosed that he and Donnie Allison met Saturday to talk about their differences. "We talked about what friends we've been in the past and that we want to be friends again. We talked about bird-hunting and coon-hunting." Yarborough said they met for about half an hour and shook hands during the course of the session. Yarborough said he felt Donnie let off several times Sunday to allow his Yarborough's I faster car to get by.

AUTO RACING Johncock 'lucky' to win Phoenix PHOENIX, Ariz. (API Gordon Johncock came back after a wild excursion through the sagebrush to take a confusing victory in yesterday's Arizona Republic-Jimmy Bryan 150-mile Indianapolis car race at Phoenix International Raceway. "I didn't even know a won the race until I saw Al Unser drive into pit road after the cool-off lap. I saw that, and told myself. Doggone it.

1 guess I won." said Johncock. whose punctured radiator blew up in Victory Lane. "We're pretty lucky." "I couldn't get my crew on the radio to find out. After Al passed me with five laps to go, I thought he was leading." LInser. who finished fourth, said he wasn't confused about who won.

"I lost a lap early in the race and never got back in it. I knew Gordy was leading." he said. Johncock. who started a distant eighth in the 21-car lineup, spent most of the afternoon working his way through the field. He didn't take control until the 121st of 150 laps, but after that he was in the lead all the way, taking his second victory here in as many starts.

The crowd was confused somewhat the final nine laps as preliminary reports from timing and scoring had Al I'nser running higher than he actually was. It was cleared up when Johncock was given the white flag and then checkered flag. "But I still had no way of knowing whether they had already given the flags to Al. He was that far ahead I couldn't see him," Johncock said. Actually.

Johncock had a 1.3-second margin over Rick Mears. Johnny Rutherford was third, just behind Mears. Pole position starter Bobby I'nser was fifth. Bobby Unser led most of the early stages of the race, but lost a gamble that his tires would go the distance, and had to make an unscheduled stop that put him hopelessly behind. Midway through the race.

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