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lo anseletf Zimtt May 11, 1 976-Port III 9 Cravens Invitational Draws 384 TOBACCO-CHEWING INFIELDER Golden West's Mansolino He's Hie Rustlers' Hustler I A BY AL CARR Timet Staff Writer 'Li Si- I ft BY SHAV GLICK Times Staff Writer The Cravens Invitational, a two-ball Scotch foursome match-play tournament started in 1924 by John S. Cravens, has its 52nd renewal this week at the San Gabriel Country Club. Four-time champion Bruce McCormick of the host club heads 384 invitees from 52 clubs who will shoot Wednesday and Thursday for 64 places (32 teams) in the championship flight McCormick is teamed with former club champion Brian McGoldrick. McCormick, former Walker Cupper and several times Southern California amateur champion, first won in 1949 with Johnny Dawson, representing Lakeside. They won again in 1952 in Thunderbird colors.

McCormick's other wins were in 1969 with Jack Holmes and in 1972 with Peter Fluor, both of San Gabriel Most exciting moments of the Cravens usually come late Thursday when ties for the 32nd position are played off at Diego State, San Jose and Stanford have been selected to play in the NCAA tournament June 9-12 at the University of New Mexico. Also invited as individuals were Long Beach's O'Meara and Dave Fowler of California Each selected school will have five players. Friendly Hills defeated Balboa Park of San Diego, 33-15, to win the SCGA Sunday team championship. Winning captain was George Lombino Chris Mullane of Reseda won the Western States Apprentice and Assistants tournament with a 69-71140 at Pine Mountain Lake CC in Groveland. Second at 141 was Bill LeFever of Hillcrest Eighty-eight players participated The National Driving Contest regional qualifying is today at Canyon Crest CC in Riverside.

The contest runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Dick Campbell scored a double-eagle 2 on the 460-yard par 5 dogleg 12th hole at San Dimas. He used a driver and 2-iron. A year ago he did the same with a 5-iron Other perfect shots: Tom Lawlor, driver and 7-iron for eagle 2 on 400-yard No.

4 at Wilson; Earl Imbrecht, 4-iron on 179-yard No. 4 at Saticoy; Ed Pettis, 5-iron on 177-yard No. 9 at Marine Memorial; Fay DeNisi, 3-wood on 134-yard No. 6 at Mountain Gate, first-ever for woman on course and first-ever on that hole; Lucille Aliens, 151-yard No. 11 at Elkins Ranch; and two on Penmar's 136-yard No.

3, Pat Crawford with a 9-iron and Harry Hamburg with a 7-iron. GOLF scratch. Some years as many as a dozen teams have teed off together on the first hole, followed by a gallery of most of the other VICTOR WELDING AND CUTTING OUTFIT Complete With Cylinder! 6 contestants and friends. The most disappointing moment came several years ago when there was no playoff because the 32-team cutoff came out on the nose. The Craven's first winners were J.C.

McDonald and Arnold (Jigger) Statz, the famed Pacific Coast League outfielder for the LA. Angels. The Cravens was first held at Midwick CC. When Midwick was sold at auction during the depression, Cravens moved his tournament to Annandale. In 1943 San Gabriel became its permanent home.

Dr. Michael Tannyhill and Dr. Robert Irwin of Friendly Hills will defend their championship, but not since 1964 when Art Daugherty and Ron Lane of San Gabriel did it has any team successfully defended. Daugherty and Lane are in this year's Cravens, but with different partners. Low-handicap teams in the alternate-shot event are Brian Gaddy, winner of last week's Pride of the Foothills tourney at Glendora, and Gerry Gregory of Anrandale, and the San Gabriel team of club champion Robert Hatfield and Bob Gross.

Each team plays to a 2 handicap. Match play starts Friday and concludes Sunday. One PulU Midwinter champion Judy Dufala of California CC and former Desert Event winners Donna Travis of Wilshire, Helen Knight of El Caballero, Jane Hughes of La Quinta and Jane Woolley of Indian Wells head a field of 432 women who tee off today and Wednesday in the Women's SCGA Desert Event. Play is at Bermuda Dunes, Indian Wells, Tamarisk and Shadow Mountaia California amateur champion John Cook, a senior at Miraleste High, has signed a national letter of intent for Ohio State, the alma mater of Jack Nicklaus and Tom Weiskopf USC, Oregon, San 3 HUNTINGTON BEACH A scrnnpy. tobacco-chewing Eddie Stankx -Hilly Martin type guy is play-ins second liasc for Golden West College and leading the Rustlers in their 1ml for a berth in the state JC playoffs.

"Doug Mansolino is a throwback to the oldtime. little, tough-guy second baseman. A battler." said Rustler coach Fred 1 rover after Mansolino had gone J-for-3 and driven in a run in the 5-3 ietorv over Harbor last week. Golden West and Santa Monica are tied for the second half championship of the Southern California Conference. They play today, 2:30 p.m., at Golden West.

The winner will meet first-half champion Harbor in a best-of-three series starting Friday to determine conference champion and playoff representative. Mansolino. 18. is a 5-9. 165-pound freshman.

His mother died last and he has been on his own ever since. His apartment roommate is water polo player John Wasco, with whom he used to have weekly fist tights at Huntington Beach High School. Now they arc the best of friends. Hoovcr'said. "I've been watching Mansolino for three years now.

He's always on the baseball field any diamond hitting, fielding grounders and throwing. Our players get out to practice early, but he beats them nit their by 30 minutes." Mansolino is such a hustler that as a throe-year starting inficldcr at Huntington Beach High, he was given the award for hustle each season. Prior to Saturday's game. Mansolino Ratings Led by Goolagong NEW YORK (UPI) Chris Evert, who recently admitted she was sensitive to a booing crowd, was ousted from her top position in the Seven Crowns of Sports competition when Evonne Goolagong became the new computer leader in the drive for this year's $10,000 tennis prize. Arthur Ashe retained his lead in the men's category.

Goolagong, only the second player to gain the No. 1 spot in the contest that orginated two years ago, achieved a productive efficiency rating of 88.8, compared to Evert's 81.51. Productive efficiency ratings are determined by computer evaluation for all segments of a player's game. Ashe has a rating of 79.68. with Jimmy Connors second at 77.43.

Guillerno Vilas, Hie Nastase, Ken Rosewall, Bjorn Borg and Raul Ramirez rank third through seventh. In the women's division, Martina Navratilova is rated third, followed in order by Virginia Wade. Rosemary Casals, Marita Redondo and Olga Morozova. ranked high in conference and team offensive statistics. He was the conference's leading hitter (.433) and second in most hits (29).

He led his team in RBIs (15) though he was hitting in the No. 2 spot, lead in walks (8); tied for second in runs scored (14); had struck out only 8 times in 67 at bats and with 41 total bases was second onlv to home run hitting Scott Desrosicr (45). He would probably have more total bases, but this season he has been cursed with painful calluses on the balls of his feet. "In high school, it was said I had above average speed," Mansolino said. "Now, because my feet hurt, I'm slow." Despite the painful feet, Mansolino has hit seven doubles, several of which would have been triples had he been able to run.

He said in several weeks he will have plastic shoe inserts which will better distribute the weight on his feet This will gradually eliminate the calluses and enable him to run swiftly again. He's not only a strong offensive player, but a vacuum cleaner at second base only three errors all season. All of this by a young man who couldn't make his Little League team in Seal Beach. His first athletic recognition came at Huntington Beach High when he became a starting offensive guard on the frosh football team. That club went 8-1.

His classmates continued to get taller and broader, Mansolino didnt, so he returned to his first love, baseball. Fortunately, his frosh football coach, Don Terranova, was also the varsity baseball coach. "Every day, he hit 100 grounders to me." Mansolino recalled. "I learned to field and developed an arm." He became the frosh team shortstop. Then, as a sophomore he became the varsity starting shortstop.

As a junior and senior, he moved over to second base and made All-Sunset League both years. Life hasn't been too kind to Mansolino. He was born in Plainfield, NJ. His parents separated and his mother remarried. He shifted back and forth between Oklahoma he still wears cowboy boots from those days and California.

His mother died last September. He has been on his own since. But along the way, he has encountered strong support Terranova and Mark Kressi. Dodger bullpen catcher who took him under his wing six years ago, and who still works out with him. Mansolino has some strange things in his act, but they are along the old-time baseball lines.

Like the tobacco. "I've been chewing since I've been in the sixth grade because most ball players did thea "In high school, I could hold a chew in both cheeks and drink pop and eat a hotdog. "But in high school, coach Terra- We're an authorized Volvo Catuenn Doug Mansolino nova once bet me a plug of tobacco that I couldn't go two innings without spitting. The first inning was easy. But the second inning, our pitcher started walking people.

The inning stretched out and I started swallowing. "But I won the bet. I played the whole game. But when it was over, I was very, very sick." Mansolino qualifies for a federal aid program and the campus job he has is taking care of the baseball diamond. He is helped by Ed Vignaroli, a catcher-outfielder, and John Leone, a utility infielder.

Mansolino admits he takes particular care manicuring the area around second base. He also says that the trio also makes cosmetic changes in the infield for different teams. Tor instance," he said, "Santa Monica batters hit a lot of hard, high hoppers. So, we let the grass grow a little long when we play them. That takes the edge off the hoppers.

"If we're playing a team with a lot of speed, we'll cut the grass close so the ground balls get to us sooner and we can throw them out." In a moment of pride in his school and his work, he said, "We have a better field than Dodger Stadium. I know, I was a Dodger bat boy. We have better grass." Mansolino, of course, is looking toward the major leagues. He was undrafted out of high school. Because his speed is down this year, he doesnt expect to be drafted in June.

But, once his feet were cured, his speed will be back and he hopes for a big season and a high draft in 1977. He'll siga Saddleback Loses MISSION VIEJO Citrus College pushed across a run in the 10th inning to gain an 8-7 Mission Conference win over Saddleback Monday. The loss didn't hurt the Gauchos, however, because they had already clinched the conference's Northern Division title. Saddleback (15-7) hosts its first playoff game on Friday in its quest for a state JC baseball playoff berth. dealer.

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