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Lturday, June 30, 1990 THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS A-13 Chris Smith adds another title i Rochester golfer wins Indiana Am In 1987, Smith won the Fred Keesling mental attitude award, joining brothers Todd (1981) and Terry (1980) as Indiana's only family trio to win high school attitude awards in golf. Todd also was the 1980 low medalist. The family connection was in evidence again Friday. Chris' father. 48-year-old Terry W.

Smith, who owns a sand and gravel business, caddied for his son again. Terry confessed. "On No. 3 (a 200-yard par 3). I overclubbed him with a 3-iron.

He had the adrenaline flowing and he hit it too far." That bogey 4 and a bogey 5 on No. 4 put Smith at 2-over par 38 at the turn. But Smith blrdled Nos. 1 1 and 13 only to see Schumaker. 23, the No.

1 Ball State hitter, close the gap to two strokes. Schumaker had birdied 12 and 13 and Smith bogeyed 14 and 15. "I was a little bit on edge," said Smith. "Winning this one meant a lot to me. It was as tough to win as the Big Ten because I wanted to win here so badly.

The course played a little tougher but I felt pretty good after I chipped in (from 35 feet) on 17 for a birdie." Smith's 1-over 38-3573 marked his only over-par round. In four rounds, Jie had only one three-putt green. What shots will Smith work on next? "None for a couple days," he said. "I'll rest." Not long. Smith will miss the State Open to compete in other tournaments, including the U.S.

Amateur in Denver. How will Smith celebrate? When he won his first State Junior, he bought his other caddy, brother Terry a big steak. What will he buy his father? "Probably some ice cream," Chris quipped. Joe YoungThe Indianapolis News Here's how Jim YoungThe Indianapolis News putt during Friday's final round. Jim Patton Jr.

(right) shows Bobby Johnson, Keith Smith and Brady Miller (from left) how to strap a racquet on their arms during Friday's Indianapolis Athletic Club camp, co-sponsored by The News Downtown Quarterbacks Club. LeMond feels confident about Tour de France With what sounded almost like a growl. GREG LeMOND confirmed Friday what those closest to him have been saying. "I feel great, really strong," he said a day before the start of the Tour de France. "I'm confident," and here his voice turned throaty "very confident." By JIMMIE ANGELOPOLOUS Tho Indianapolis News COLUMBUS.

Ind. It's fitting tribute that Chris Smith has been crowned the 90th Indiana Amateur golf champion. The 21 -year-old Rochester swatter looms as Indiana's amateur player of the '90s. Perhaps more fitting would be a tag as Indiana's prospective pro player of the 90s. Smith is not a spectacular Fuzzy Zoeller, the clouting touring pro from New Albany.

But this well-mannered kid has a powerful 285-yard tee shot, a solid game and the killer instincts to put his major in economics at Ohio State to good use when he turns pro in a year. "I hope I'll be able to do well enough to use it," said Smith, smiling. He won his first Indiana Amateur Friday with a five-under-par 283 over Otter Creek, halting South Whitley's charging runnerup, Jeff Schumaker. who finished at 2-under-par 286 with the day's only sub-par round, a 1 -under 71. Smith also eclipsed the second-best Indiana Am score in history, a 4-under-par total by Lebanon's three-time state champ Kent Frandsen, who holds the all-time Indiana Am record of 16-under set in 1974.

Smith's progression is noteworthy. In 1986. Smith became only the second player to win back-to-back State Junior titles since Joe Campbell reigned in 1955 and 1956. As a sophomore at Rochester High School where he was a former quarterback. Smith won IHSAA low medal honors in Dent in The Associated Press PARAMUS, N.J.

Lee Tre-vino has been looking over his shoulder all year on the Senior Tour and seeing Jim Dent. He likes it that way. The two finished 1-2 in the second event of the season, played as a pair in the Legends of Golf Classic and have been 1-2 on the list of Senior Tour money leaders all year. Nothing has changed halfway through the U.S. Senior Open.

Trevino has a one-shot lead over Dent. Harold Henning is three back. Mike Hill and John Paul Cain are four back, and Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player are both within stroking distance, five shots off the lead. "I like the front," said Trevino, who has already won five times on the Senior Tour this year. "I play my best in front.

I like to be a frontrunner. I feel comfortable with a one- or two-stroke lead. I'm not one of those guys who likes to be a stroke or two back heading to the final round." Trevino has been in front all the way at the Ridgewood Country Club. He held a one-shot lead over Dent after the first round. Only two months ago, at the start of the Tour de Trump, LeMond was obviously lacking the power and fitness that enabled him to win the Tour de France last year for the spomrs TALK second time.

After an intense and painful series of races, the American insists that he will be the man to beat. The race was set to begin today on its three-week Journey. Record set at Thunder qualifying TOM D'EATH had a memorable day during qualifying for the annual Thunder on the Ohio hydroplane race in Evans-ville. I He started the day with a world record in the Miss Bud-weiser. D'Eath averaged 160.122 mph on the 2-mile Ohio River oval, surpassing the 158.870 mph record CHIP HANAUER set last year in the Miss Circus Circus on a 2 '2-mile course in San Diego.

winning medal honors as a junior. "The good competition in college has really helped me a lot," said Smith. What helps the 185-pound belter is a competitive zeal, a closely-knit family and a well-documented mental attitude. mirror noon long after Trevino had finished, recovered right away and birdied the second and third holes from 3 and 10 feet, respectively. He added birdies at the eighth and 10th holes, tapped in for one on the 13th and sank a 15-footer at the 17th to pull within a shot of the lead.

"I'm looking to win," Dent said. "You don't win until Sunday. You just have to stay in position to win until then. It's like the Kentucky Derby, the horse in front always doesn't win." There are plenty of challengers in this race. Hill, who shot a 5-under-par 67, is No.

3 on the Senior money list, has won once and has five top five finishes. Henning has two seconds this year and ranks 13th on the money list. He was hot Friday, rolling in seven birdies to fash-Ion a 67. Cain, somewhat of a Senior Tour walk-on, has never been in this position before. He has played well here and has rounds of 67 and 71.

What hasn't been said about Nicklaus and Player? Nicklaus, who had a bogey-less second-round 69, has won again twice in three Senior events this year. Player, who has won once this year and finished second three times, stamped himself a contender with a tournament-best 7-under-par 65 that began with seven straight birdies. "Five shots back with 36 holes to play, that's nothing," Nicklaus said. "Five shots isn't a lot with two or three holes to go in some tournaments." Player said Trevino will be tough to catch. "He's a hard worker.

He's strong and he's confident," Player said after posting the best second round in a Senior Open, two shots better than the 67 recorded by Walker Inman Jr. in 1986. JAY ORNER BILLIARD CO. "lhe Showpiece of Billiards" 25 TABLES ON DISPLAY 400 TABLES IN STOCK A COMPLETE LINE OF UP. PLIES FROM POKER TAILES CHAIRS, CUSTOM CUES, FOOSBALL SHUFFLE' I0AR0 MORE Call 243-0O46 s.m LAMP The record for the Evansville by Hanauer last year.

Sanders headed to DEION SANDERS, who was by the New York Yankees, will be in the Atlanta Falcons" training camp by August, a representative for the player said. Michigan rusher may not return TONY BOLES, Michigan's leading rusher the past two seasons, has only a slim chance of returning to the team this fall, coach GARY MOELLER said. Boles, whose knee was injured Minnesota, apparently had academic problems. Phillies' Thon suspended Chris Smith intently watches a 1985 and was runnerup in 1987. He added a Western Junior title and Lafayette Jefferson coach Harry Green called him, "One of the five best high school players in the nation." Last month.

Smith proved he was the best in the Big Ten, Trevino and kept it as both posted 4-under-par 68s on Friday. The round gave Trevino a Senior Open record 9-under-par 135 for 36 holes, breaking the old mark of 137 set by Player at Brooklawn Country Club in 1986. However, it wasn't a happy Trevino at the halfway point. It was one whose "chili boiling" over a bogey on the par-5, 554-yard 17th hole. He hit his drive in the left rough and sent his second shot into the right rough.

His third went over the green and then he chipped and two putted. "I tolerate bogeys on par 3s and par 4s," said Trevino, who bogeyed the 18th to cap Thursday's round. "There is no excuse on a par-5. That makes me hot and I'm still steamed. I can par that hole with a wedge, bet on it." Dent, one of the few black golfers on any golf tour, hit the skids on his first hole, double bogeylng the par-4, 360 hole by three-putting from 10 feet.

"I played 17 great holes and the first one was a mess," said Dent, a two-time winner on the Senior Tour this year. Dent, playing in the after petition is open to professionals as well as amateurs. The other seven teams in the Goodwill games will have their national teams. Those nations are the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia. Sweden.

Finland. West Germany. Switzerland and Canada. There were three pros on the U.S. Olympic team that competed at Seoul.

South Korea, in 1988. Coaching candidates Ice president Ray Compton said the list of candidates for a new Indianapolis coach is down to four. Compton talked with former coach Darryl Sutter, now associate coach of the Blackhawks. on Thursday. "Darryl hopes to have a decision on the coaching position made sometime next week." said Compton.

Indianapolis will be moving from the Western Division to the Eastern Division for the 1990-91 season, according to Compton. With the addition of Kansa9 City and San Diego, the move of David Welker Fort Wayne team to Albany. N.Y.. and the transfer of the Flint. franchise to Fort Wayne, the IHL will have 1 1 teams next season.

The Ice will be aligned with Albany, Fort Wayne, Kalamazoo. and Muskegon. In the East. Kansas City and San Diego will Join Milwaukee. Peoria.

111.: Salt Lake, and Phoenix in the WesK Philadelphia Phillies shortstop suspended for three games and for an umpire-bumping incident in Johnston takes one 3 Ice players invited to U.S. hockey camp CATHY JOHNSTON continued to lead a par-breaking barrage and took a one-stroke lead over PATTI RIZZO after two rounds of the du Maurier Classic at Kitchener, Ontario. Elsewhere, BOB EASTWOOD shot a 6-under-par 64 to take a one-stroke lead In the Greater Hartford (Conn.) Open. Ellis wins NASCAR pole TOMMY ELLIS won the pole for the NASCAR Grand stop at the Myrtle Beach (S.C.) Speedway, driving his course was 150.407 mph, set Falcons demoted to the minor leagues during a Nov. 18 game at DICKIE THON has been fined an undisclosed amount Pittsburgh on Tuesday.

shot lead Madison, on charges of conduct for an Incident that National Basketball Associa Is being sought by police on a He Is alleged to have assaulted From staff and wire report Buick around the track at 97.aa mpn. Blackhawks trade Savard The Chicago Blackhawks traded high-scoring center DENIS SAVARD to the Montreal Canadlens for defenseman CHRIS CHELIOS and a second-round draft pick in 1991. Chelios' return may be delayed: he has" a date in court to deal with after his arrest in resisting an officer and disorderly occurred there Thursday night. Elsewhere in sports By DICK DENNY The Indianapolis News Three members of the Ice center Jim Johannson, left wing Mike McNeill and goalie Ray LeBlanc have been Invited to a United States hockey select camp at Colorado Springs. Colo.

The camp will train players for the Goodwill Games scheduled July 20 through Aug. 5 in Washington. Twenty-five players 21 skaters and four goalies will be at the camp July 15-20. The team will then go to the West Coast for two exhibition games against the Soviet Union on July 21 at, Oakland, Calif, and July 22 at Portland. Ore.

When the U.S. begins Goodwill Games competition July 27 at Trl-Citles In eastern Washington (Kennewlck. Pullman and Pasco), coach Jeff Sauer of the University of Wisconsin will be able to use 20 skaters and three goalies. Johannson is from Rochester, McNeill from South Bend, and LeBlanc from Fitchburg. Mass.

LeBlanc began the season with the International Hockey League-champion Ice, but was sent to Fort Wayne in March for defenseman Craig LeBlanc Is still property of the National Hockey League's Chicago Blackhawks, parent team of the Ice. The three Ice players are eligible for the Goodwill Games because International hockey com The Toronto Blue Jays signed right-handed pitcher SCOTT BURRELL, a member of the University of Connecticut basketball team that advanced to the final eight of the 1990 NCAA Friday Summer Band Series Unwind to the music of Cosmo and the Counts from in the Paddock Pavilion. Brought to you by Miller Genuine Draft and WQMF. Twilight Post Time EDT. Saturday-Whirlpool Giveaway Over $10,000 in Whirlpool appliances will be awarded throughout the day.

Drawings will be held after each race, don't miss your chance to be a big winner! PostTimelOOpmEDT. Sunday Fan Appreciation Day Reduced admissions to today's paid patrons. Register to win free tickets to the 1991 Kentucky Derby. Two tickets will be given away following every race. Don't miss the winning and all the fun on the last day of our Spring meet! Tournament.

Burrell, 6-foot-9, will report to the St. Catharines Blue Javs of the New York-Penn league Monday. PAT RICK PARKS, the boys track coach at Shelbyvllle High School. has been hired as an assistant football coach at Franklin College. Cal State-Fullcrton forward CEDRIC CEBALLOS, a second-round draft pick of the tion's Phoenix Suns this week.

charge of misdemeanor assault. his former girlfriend at the campus. Happy birthday to Post Time cut. ii CHUICH1LL TOWNS' 1N0 Quo Do corpttM4 TODAY'S SPORTS BIRTHDAYS Former heavyweight champion MIKE TYSON (24). SUNDAY'S SPORTS BIRTHDAYS Track star CARL LEWIS (29) and former Pacer guard FREDDIE LEWIS (47)..