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Sports And Entertainment Page IB--The Robcsonian, Lumberton, N.C., Sunday, August Massengale Tied In The Greater Hartford Open By BOB GREEN APGolf Writer WETHERSFIELD, Conn. (AP) Rik Massengale had just blown a two-stroke lead a double bogey on the 17th hole, had fallen back to a tie for 'the top but looked his questioners in the eye. "What do you want me to say?" asked the young Texan. "I'm happy to be where I am. I'd- rather be leading than back behind trying to catch up." The complextion of the $210,000 Sammy Davis Hartford Open Golf Tourna ment changed with speed of summer lightning Saturday.

Massengale, whose consecutive 65s had set the pace through the first two rounds, looked over a six-foot putt on the 16th hole that would have given him a three- WETHERSFIELD, Conn. (AP) Third-round scores Saturday in the $210,000 Sammy Davis Hartford Open Golf Tournament-on the par-71 Wethersfield Country Club course (aberrates amateur): Rik Massengale J. C. Snead Mac McLendon Al Geiberger Bobby Wadkins Lee Trevino Chi Chi Rodriguez. Barry Jaeckei Hubert Green John Schlee George Archer Gay Brewer Larry Nelson Billy Casper Tommy Aaron Wally Armstrong Art Wall Floyd Leonard Thompson George Burns Jim Colbert Rex Caldwell Allen Miller- Tapie Bruce Devlin Bill Kratzert Sam Snead Jim.Wiechers Andy North Rod Curl BillMallon Frank Beard Lee Elder Rod Funseth Gene Littler Paul Moran Sam Farlow McCord Tom Jim'Jamieson Labron Harris-' Arnold Palmer Tom Jenkins Jack'Ewing Bob Wynn Terry Diehl PhilRodgcrs.

Florentine Molina Dwight Nevll Jim Dent John Schroeder Steve Veriato Stan Lee Bobby Walzel Bob Shaw Melnyk Jay Haas Bob Gilder StanAlgelt Bob Eastwood Vic Regalado Don Biffi Dan Sikes Monty Kaser Tony Cerda Arnold Salinas a-Dick Siderowf 65-65-70-200 67-84-69--200 68-67-69-204 68-69-67--204 68-70-66-204 67-69- 68-804 71-C8-66-205 70-63-67-205 70-66-69-205 70-67-68-205 69-65-70-205 71-67-68-206 67-68-71--206 70-70-66-206 71-69-66--206 67-72-68-207 73-67-67-207 71-70-66-207 72.67-68-207 68-71-68-207 71-68-69--208 70-70-68-208 72-70-66-208 69-73-66-208 71-69-68-208 68-73- 68-20S 68-71-71-210 69-68-73-210 74-67-69-210 72-66-72-210 69-71-70--210 72-67-71--210 72-76-71--210 71-67-73-211 74-67-70-211 74-68-68-211 71-70-70- 211 70-70-71--211 70-(fr 72-67-72--211 68-70-74--212 68-70-74-212 69-73-70-212 71-69-72-212 70-70-72-212 70-70-72-212 72-68-72-212 69-70-73-212 68-72-72--212 70-68-75--213 70-71-72--213 72-69-72-213 70-71-72-213 73-68-72-213 71-70-73-214 72-70-72-214 71-71-72-214 72-68-74-214 73-68-73-214 72-68-74-214 72-69-74-215 70-65-80-215 69-71-75-215 73-67-76--216 73-69-75-217 69-72-77-218 stroke lead and put him in position to run away with the tournament. But he missed the putt. And one hole later he was tied for the lead with big, 'easy-going J.C. Snead, who was notably unimpressed with the shift in fortunes that staked him to a share of the top spot. "I don't care about that," said Snead, a former pro baseball player and a five-time winner on the pro golf tour.

"I don't wish anybody any bad luck. Let 'em all play good." Then he paused and grinned. "Just let me play a little better." Snead had a two-under-par 69 in the steamy, muggy heat and tied Massengale with a 54-hole total of 200,13 under par on the Wethersfield Country Club course which, as usual, yielded some of the lowest iscores of the year. The leaders' total matched the lowest three- round score of the year. Massengale, who had led the first two rounds with a pair of 65s, could do no better than one- under-par 70 in Saturday's third round.

The double bogey was the key to the whole thing. He missed the green to the left, chipped well beyond the pin and then missing from "about feet on the second one. It appeared to be a two-man race for the title. "I can't shoot good enough to' catch those guys," said Lee Trevino, whose 66 -lifted him into the group tied third at 204'. Also at that figure, four shots back, were Chi Chi Rodriguez, Al Geiberger, Mac McLendon and Bobby Wadkins.

Wadkins had a 67, Geiberger and Rodriguez 68s and McLendon a 69 in the muggy heat. At 205, eight under and five shots back, were Hubert Green, Barry Jaeckei, John Schlee, George Archer and Gay Brewer. Jaeckei shot 66, Green 67, Archer 68, Schlee 69 and Brewer 70, Masters champ Ray Floyd had 67-207 and Arnold Palmer, who received a standing ovation when he marched to the 18th green, could do no better than a 74-212. Massengale, a softly- drawling Texan who scored his only victory 'in six years of tour activity last season in the Tallahassee Open, had a one- shot-jlead when the day's play started, birdied two of his first three holes with a chip to four feet on the second and a 10-foot putt on the third. "I Wasn't thinking about an-, 'other 65," he said, "but I had a chance then to shoot a real good score." he made par on the next 10 holes, then birdied the 14th from about 15 feet.

He had a chance to go three strokes in front with a six-foot birdie on the 16th, but missed it, then. blew the two strokes he had with the disaster on the 17th. Snead, a winner in the San Diego Open early this year, twice moved into a share of the lead, with birdies from'20 and 10 feet on the fifth and llth holes, then dropped one back with Massengale's birdie on the 15th. Snead went two behind when'he made bogey on the par five 16th, missing the green with his third shot. "A dumb-dumb shot," he said.

"I don't care about being tied. I don't care what the other guy is doing. I can't do anything about him. All I can do is try to play better than he does. And that's all-I'm gonna try to do tomorrow." SPORTS Olympics Members Perform Study NEW YORK (AP) --The U.S.

Olympic Committee has approved the formation of a panel of experts to study the scientific and medical aspects of sports and their effect on the performance of world-class ath- letes, the-New York Times reported. Coordinating the program will be Dr. Irving Dardik, a cardiovascular surgeon from Tenafly, N.J. who was a member of the USOC's medical staff at the Montreal Olympics, the Tunes reported in its Sunday editions. Dardik said the panel would explore a variety of areas, inc i i i pharmacology and advanced medical approaches to training.

Physicians, i i physiologists and phar- be asked to participate in the program, and leading athletes will also be interviewed for their thoughts on issues. "We want to develop methods and modalities for working with athletes that enhance their performances and be safe," Dardik told-the Times. "We'll be reviewing as much information as we can in the European sector, directly and indirectly, and explore what's being done elsewhere." Some American athletes have 1 contended that, sports medicine programs developed by Eastern European nations have contributed markedly to upgrading the performance of those nations' athletes. The outstanding performance by the East Germans at the Olympics reinforced these claims. Dardik said the.panel was prepared to investigate controversial areas of sports medicine, including the effects of anabolic steroids and blood doping on and make judgements, on their po- tentiar benefits to American athletes.

By NORM MORTON REMEMBERING A GHOST FROMTHEPAST As each of us grow older, occasionally from the past we encounter a hero of long ago, and long ago in this case means a childhood happening that has been lost in fog of the future. In reading the second part of an article about in a national magazine, a familar name jumped from memories. Twenty plus years ago in another city and another state they played baseball in an old wooden box; which at that time to an eight grader looked like the house that Ruth built. On Vaughn street, in the southwest part of town the houses were pre-WWn style and some were a little on the run down side and even the park could have used some paint However they did play baseball in the park and it was exciting baseball. In 1949 a team from Oakland included a manager that was a real clown, by the name of Casey Stengal, and a skinny almost guarit, but fiesty second basemannamed Billy Martin.

Another of the teams playing in the League included a shortstop by the name of Wilson, Artie by name and he was a hitter's hitter. For several years he batted around the 330 mark and of course, the eight grader that watched the games was thankful that the majors never called him up, since he was a joy to watch. Actually the 1951 Giants did call him up to the big time, but he appearred in only a few games batting only 22 times, which is why he is not even listed in the Baseball Encyclopedia, which is the baseball bible. That-was the year of Bobby Thompson's shot heard round the world. Now older and questionably wiser I realize that the blackness of Artie Wilson kept him out of the majors.

But to remember him against Joe Brovia, Frankie Wilson and Ed Basinski and other names that mean nothing to the reader today, is a memory I will not soon lose. From time to time I hear conversations among Robesonians concerning the old Tobacco League and the players that once graced the rosters of those teams, and it is a memory that we all have in common whether 'it is a baseball memory or a memory of another sports activity. These ghosts from the past always give us pause to reflect and remember, either better times or even sadder times. I hope the heroes of today can wear as well as the Artie Wilson's of the past. PREP FOOTBALL BEGINS THISFRIDAY The 'Robeson County season gets underway this coming Friday and the action should be furious.

Lumberton will be the lone 4-A club in the county and their strength is undetermined at this stage of the year, Pembroke is the only 3-A school that has a home in this county and they have been hurt by graduation. In the 2-A ranks Red Springs, Fairmont, Orrurri and St. Pauls will be battling for the West Waccamaw crown along with Bladenboro. The 1-A ranks are filled with competition among Rowland, Maxton, Prospect, Fairgrove, Parkton, Littlefield, and Magnolia. In Friday's action, Fairmont will Rowland, and Pembroke will entertain Fairgrove in the curtain raisers.

There are other games and fans should contact the schools to determine if their team is playing. The fans are expecting the i-A ranks to be a wide open fight since the 1-A state champions', lost some quality persbnel by graduation. In some prep football, publicity the tobacco belt has taken its lumps from the big city. It seems that they are lamenting the fact that some people have to work in the field and perfer it to working in the cities. Tobacco, has been here for years and is likely to stay, and the quality fo athletes produced in this area Has been improving.

Maybe some of those media made stars; should come to Robeson and crop a little tobacco, it might give them some humility, among other things. Many farm communities throughout the United States face, the- problem of eathering money crops with young labor that interfere with the early practice of football and that is too bad. However the crop.moans money the money pays for education, and the education includes a valuable opportunity for the student-athlete. Support your team, and if you don't have one plan to take in a game, you will be surprised by the quality of the product on all levels. MAN WITH THE BIG SERVE Australian tennis pro Colin Dibley is shown in New York.

He is in town to defend his title as the fast-serve champion of all tennis. His delivery has been clocked at 148 miles per hour. (AP Wirephoto) Horton's Birdies Wins Title SACRAMENTO, (AP) Donna Horton of Jacksonville, went ahead for the first time with a 10-foot birdie putt on.the 31st hole Of. play Saturday and beat Californian Marianne Bretton, 2 and 1, to win the 76th U.S. Women's Amateur Golf Championship.

Miss Horton won the tournament a year after losing to Beth Daniel of South Carolina in the finals. Miss Bretton was playing in the event for the first tune. The 22-year-old University of Florida graduate was 3 down after the first five holes of the match scheduled for 36 holes over the Del Paso Country Club course. Miss Bretton, 18-year-old UCLA student from San Diego, also led 3 up through nine holes after posting seven pars and two birdies. But after being virtually immune to.

bogeys for five days, Miss Bretton took six on the back nine including four hi a row starting at the 15th, and the match was even after-18 holes on the cool and breezy day. Miss Eretton twice went 1 up in the afternoon before Horton tied the match on the 29th hole, winning it with a par four. Two holes later, at a 480-yard par five, Miss Bretton twice hit tree branches after hooking her tee shot and was lying four on the green Vhen Miss Horton made her go-ahead putt. The Floridian, a power-hitting blonde, also won the par-four 15th, the 33rd hole of the match, with a par. The match ended as both took double bogeys on the 17th where they hit bad second shots and also three-putted.

The new champion, who won several junior titles in her- former home state of North Carolina before moving to Florida, reached the semifinals of the Women's Amateur in 1973 before losing. She plans to get married next year to another Florida Michael White. Ohioans Claim Diving Titles In Championships DECATUR, Ala. (AP) Two Kent Vosler and Barb Weinstein, won the men's and women's 10-meter platform events as the National Amateur Athletic Union's Outdoor Diving Championships came to an end Saturday. Vpsler, 20, of Eaton, Ohio, pleased the crowd and 'the judges with his last dive Saturday--one and one-half somersault with three twists.

Three of the judges gave him perfect 10 scores. And that high score came after a poor showing on his next to last dive, a reverse two and one-half somersault, which is generally his best dive. Vosler finished fourth in the Montreal Olympic Games in the 10-meter event, and- he was only four points away from.winning a bronze medal there. Miss Weinstein, a 17-year-old freshman at Ohio' State from Cincinnati, easily won the women's 10-meter platform championship. She said she didn't know what the scores were when she attempted her last dive, a three and one-half somersault.

"I knew when I went straight in I made it," Miss Weinstein said. Robert Cragg, 22, of Maple Glen, and Cynthia 25 of Dallas, won the men's and women's high point awards for accumulating the most points during the five-day meet at Decatur's Point Mallard Acquatic Center. Mrs. Mclngvale won the one- and three-meter springboard events early in the competition. But during Friday's semifinals for the 10-meter platform, she balked during a handstand and scored no points for that dive.

Despite that, she finished ninth in the semifinals, but only eight women qualified. Cragg did not win any event during the championships, but finished high enough to collect more points that anyone else. Finishing second in the men's 10-meter competition Saturday was Bob McHenry, 20, of Warminster, and third was Greg Garlich, 20, of Kirkwood, Mo. Second in the women's platform competition Saturday was Lori Wettlaufer, 18, of Birmingham, and third was Melissa Briley, 19, of Miami, Fla. After Saturday's competition, the diving pool was named for Jenni Chandler, gold medal winner in the three-meter springboard competiton at the Montreal Games.

The Lincoln, resident finished 15th in semifinals for the three-meter competition earlier in the week. Eight women qualified for the event. Sandra Post Hits Late Birdies, Ties For Lead By ELLEN HADDOW Associated Press Writer ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) Sandra Post fired a two-uhder- par 71, including birdies on the last two holes, to move into a tie for the lead after the second round of the $55,000 Patty Berg Golf Classic.

Miss Post and Kathy Whitworth, Who shot an even par 73 Saturday, both were sev- under par after 36 holes on the Keller Golf Bonnie Bryant, the only left- handed golfer on the tour, eagled one hole on her way to a 71 to finish five under par after the second day. Miss Post carded her 71 de-' spite starting the back nine with a bogey and double bogey. "Believe it or not, I was still in control when.I started the 12th hoie," she said. "Then I paired the next five holes and figured I was in good shape from then on." The par 4, 373-yard 17th-hole, the No. 1-rated hole on the course, proved the nemesis of several players, including Jane Blalock, whose 68 was the low round qf the day and brought her two under par for the tournament.

Miss Blalock toured' the front side five under par and had birdied two holes on the back before taking a double bogey oh the 17th. "My long irons are usually the best part my game and my sand play is second best," she said. "I really don't know I did out there." After a good drive on the 17th, she parked a four iron into a steep sand trap. Her wedge shot from the trap trickled out into long rough and her next shot went 12 feet past the pin. She two-putted for a double bogey six.

Jan Stephenson shot a 72 to finish three under par and four shots in back of the leaders. Stehenson played a steady round, finishing the front side at even par and scoring a birdie on the 18th hole. Miss Bryant, the southpaw whom many golfers consider one of the'tour's longest hitters, eagled the 450-yard par-five seventh hole when she blasted a four iron within 10 feet of the pin and made her putt. SECURITIES CORPORATION STOCKS CORPORATE AND TAX-EXEMPT BONDS CBOE OPTIONS MEMBER NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE AND OTHER PRINCIPAL EXCHANGES CONTACT ANY INTERSTATE ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE TO DISCUSS YOUR INVESTMENT PROGRAM. Lumberton account executive Joseph White, 500 N.

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