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The Calgary Herald ports FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1 979 A17 Aussie golfer Down Under par Home-run power is a plus feature in'Z? mm By Daryl Slade (Herald staff writer) Calgary Expos wiH be able to score often via the home-run route this year, something their Pioneer League predecessors at Foothills Park, the Cardinals, were unable to do last year with any frequency. The rookie league Expos had at least two youngsters outfielder Carlos Gallaraga and infielder Mike Kweicinski display long-ball talent Thursday afternoon during their first workout here prior to tonight's baseball opener against Lethbridge Dodgers. "He (Gallaraga) will hit the ball out of all parks in this league," predicted Jim Fanning, rice-president in charge of player development for the parent Montreal Expos. Fanning is in Calgary to watch the three-game Expo-Lethbridge series this weekend. "His consistency will have to be seen and.

it just depends how well he copes with the pitching. "We have a good mixture of guy that have played a lot, plus high draft choices like EwelcinskL They are young and inexperienced in professional baseball, but they have played a lot." Set EXPOS, Page A19 GLEN ABBEY'S IMAGE OF the Australian shot a the top five of four others, agreed that the course "was set up pretty easy." Tom Place, PGA information officer, said that officials setting up the pin placements and tees took into account a severe weather warning Scholarship issue put up on a shelf O'Connor rules the city women This wasn't a delicate victory MantynOCamwIEIlis) OmM Kortgaerd (Canyon Metdowt) Judy MKoti (Canyon Meadows) Aiiene Mackintosh (Eatl Grey) Lite Vautoof (St Semgs) MartefleOaliulEOs) UKRiMun(Wio Parti) Nancy HeslwlEariGrey) Diane Hunt (Canyon Meadows) Mason GorgtcHudi ISM Springs) 79-TM9-CT 7M5-8I 24! 244 83-84-2 249 8S-7M7 251 8MM5-257 83-9344-260 OAIVILLE. Ont. (CP) Jack Newton had some unhappy memories about the Canadian Open golf championship, but they were quickly forgotten Thursday. The quiet-spoken Australian tore apart Glen Abbey's image of toughness with a 64 three strokes better than the previous best round since the $350,000 tournament was moved here permanently in 1377.

While he says he enjoys tough courses, the 29-year-old Newton had little opportunity to test its vastness last One of his playing partners in the opening round reported to PGA officials that Newton's cad- (GOLF: Page A20) dy helped him line his putt on the first green on opening day and be was disqualified. Newton, lightly regarded since he has collected slightly more than $27,000 on the tour this year and stands 80th over-all among money 'winners, admitted he was peeved about the circumstances of a year ago. His caddy, he said, was the son of a PGA vice-president and a friend who. was standing on line with his putt and the hole, "but he was 25 feet from me; I didn't even know he was there." Newton's round Thursday seven shots under par was two shots better than Tom Watson's, top money earner on the tour this year with $353,874. Another shot back at four-under-par 67 were Fuzzy Zoeller, Johnny Miller and Lee Trevino.

who won the Canadian Open here in 1977 and in 1971 at Richelieu Valley in Montreal. Over-all 23 players bettered par-71, including a 70 by Gary Cowan, top amateur and Canadian. The Kitchener, insurance broker, who has cut back on his tournament schedule the last few years since twice winning the U.S. Amateur crown, admitted the course played much easier than it did for practice rounds earlier in the week. "But I've been hitting the ball much better this week than I have in some time," Cowan said.

He was one of the last players to tee off In the aternoon and said winds played havoc with his game. Watson, who has won four tournaments this year and finished in OAKVILLE. Ont. Hold it. Richard! I'm here today to tell you that there really is a Johnny Miller! It's the same guy who used to shoot all those golf scores in the low 60s, the same guy who made the Sears clothing department drool, and teen-age girls swoon, and Madison Avenue go bonkers.

He's blond, has blue eyes, and all these curls hanging over his forehead. And he CAN play golf. "IH admit it," he admitted Thursday, following what looked like a fairly routine four-under-par 67 in the first round of the Canadian Open at muggy Glen Abbey. "I haven't been playing too charming. In fact, a lot of people have mistaken me for a hay-baler the past couple of years." A lot, of people have mistaken him for a lot of things, including flash-in-the-pan and ship-that-pas-sed-in-the-night.

But Johnny Miller, millionaire California rancher, church worker, fisherman, duck hunter and some-rime professional golfer, would like to believe that his recent hard times on the PGA tour have been buried. You remember Johnny Miller, of course. He was a slender 6'2" Brigham Young University grad who burst on the pro golf scene like a fireworks display when he made mock of the supposedly invincible U.S. Open site at Oakmont, in 1973. Oakmont was supposed to be a bona fide monstrosity out of the Frankenstein mold.

But Johnny Miller tore it apart in 63 blows and had it on its knees. Thereafter, this guy became the tour's grand New Year's baby. Down there in the desert, he shot 61s like most people shoot peas. He won the Crosby, Phoenix, Tucson and Ran-cho La Costa tournaments in the first six weeks of 1974 and added the Heritage and Westchester Classics, and the World Open and Kaiser International tourneys before he called it a year. During 1975 he won another four titles, including three in the desert, in January.

And he won a couple more of those January jobs, on land so barren water evaporates, in 1976. t-m By Allan Maki (Herald staff writer) Bureaucracy is like a cheap bottle of wine. No matter how long it claims to have sat around, it can still leave a bad taste. And, although even bad wines will improve with age, the same can't always be said for bureaucracy. For the past several years, the Canadian Interuniversity Athletic DENNIS KADATZ CIAU sticks head In sand Union has decided to close its eyes to the proposal of athletic scholarships and Thursday's concluding meeting at the University of Calgary was no different.

Both the acceptance of a standard four-year eligibility rule across the country, as well as a grant-in-aid program, were defeated, thus dismissing the possibility of Canadian athletes receiving financial Larry Wood Yes, there really is a Y' i support os early as the 1980-81 school year. The CIAU probably will shift both matters to its eligibllty committee, which likely will hear the same proposals dgaio next year. However, there were two significant motions passed at the final session. Involving restrictions for transfer students end eligibility. Beginning la September 1330.

any athlete who transfers from fine CIAU school to another must sit out a year of competition and. secondly, all athletes must play their fifth year of eligibility at the same school at which they completed their fourth. Those two rules are now standardized across the country. Gary Howard, of men's basketball coach, strld the new transfer regulation will promote more professionalism to Canadian university athletics. "the transfer rule will cut down on the gypsy players, who jump an over looking for the best teams.

This way. a player will have fo consider his school carefull? and the school will have to sell itself beffet." Despite the acceptance Of the new rulings. Dennis Kddatx was disappointed by the CIAU' refusal to endorse his motion, which asked See CIAU, Pag Alt aaBtfBsl llnDTC? STtCXRtt SALE $186 -i CP wlreptwto BY JACK NEWTON lead over Tom Watson Lietzke and a group that included tour veterans Charles Coody, John Schroeder, Bobby Wadkins and Ed Sneed. The low 70 and ties after today's round survive the halfway cut. The field in the women's City Amateur discovered that with great regularity this week, as the Country Club's greens turned birdies into para-and pars into bogeys.

In the end, the winner failed to putt well but managed to handle the greens better than anyone else. See LADIES' GOLF, Page A19 Johnny Miller's accelerating his schedule this season. He's playing in more tournaments he has played the last four weeks running. And now that he's hitting it long and straight, instead of short and crooked, the word is getting around. There really IS a Johnny Miller.

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TS3 wj sun tttbeUD It IHtW; II Corma IX! TOUGHNESS WAS TORN APART seven under 64 for a two-stroke issued early in the day. There were periods of rain in the morning, but these levelled off to overcast skies by afternoon. Tour regular Jim Nelford of Bur-naby, B.C., and Herb Holzscheiter of Toronto were at 71 with Bruce By Dave Shoalts (Herald staff writer) Putting is a delicate art. On lightning greens, a deft touch is needed or your ball will rocket past the cup. On lazy greens, a light stroke leaves the ball short and promotes an infuriating situation.

Johnny Miller! bags Tom Watson, the guy who beat Newton by one shot in the 1975 British Open playoff at Carnoustie, arrived at five-under 66. The weather was hot, also muggy, and there'd been some of that early morning rain, and the greens were soft. The combination plays havoc with the defence mechanism of a golf course. Glen Abbey, Thursday, was thrashed like it has never been thrashed before. "Conditions were easy," stated Nicklaus, the architect, as though his showplace needed an alibi.

'It's a compliment to the condition of the course when the guys can score like this. It's the courses that don't yield under perfect conditions that aren't good golf courses." Nicklaus shot 70, and allowed as how "nothing went in the Well nothing much of birdie status. As for Johnny Miller, he had the layout down four strokes after nine holes. And it could have been more, had the putts rolled in. He missed the fairways twice.

One of those wild shots cost him a bogey, on a par-five hole that's considered birdie territory. "Listen," he said, "I don't really expect to win this week. But I want to do what I did today every time out. Not just once in a blue moon. I want to start playing when the bell rings." It hasn't been easy for a guy who, at one time, shot 65s like somebody reached behind him and wound him up.

He built his ranch house in California's wine country, Napa Valley, a couple of years ago. The heavy labor developed new, and not altogether useful muscles. He began swinging like a bull instead of a pendulum. "I can feel the rhythm coming back now," he said. "My muscles have loosened up.

My attitude's improved. I'd like to start winning, just to get a lot of people off my back. 'It bothers my friends more than it bothers me, you know." nothsi oodSuv X3t Then, suddenly, the wheels came off. The music stopped. It started raining on Johnny Miller's paradise.

He couldn't find a fairway, a green or a cup. What he found was a lot of cactus, and cuts, and lots of eights followed by other random numbers. "I've been worrying for two years," he said. "So I've been laying it out there and playing percentage shots and nothing's been happening. "Everybody kept telling me it was just a matter of time.

My swing would come, they said. Would you believe that I restructured it from the ground up? You name it. I changed it." JOHNNY MILLER The rhythm coming back He said he knew "there were things wrong with the swing, things that weren't perfect, when I was winning." But he WAS winning. And because everything was rolling along just fine, he just cruised. Johnny Miller was seen playing Wednesday's practice round here with a bag of clubs, a ball and a pencil.

That's right, a pencil. '1 decided I was going to make it happen, so I quit worrying, quit looking back. I'm teeing it up higher (hence the pencil), and not worrying about those trees on the right or that sand on the left. I'm just hitting it. And instead of the course controlling me, I'm controlling the course." He certainly had the best of a yielding Glen Abbey on Thursday.

His 67, along with those carded by Lee Trevino and Fuzzy Zoeller, matched the competitive course record for this immaculate layout that Jack (Nicklaus) built. Matched it, that is, until Australia's Jack Newton showed up with nines of 32-32 for a devastating 64. And money -4 NEW 1979 THUFMRBIRDS Front tWd BuftafMf ChMivdfe 9 ftotcth Vfttfl OOtMinf Wht Vinyt Roof hjtIjtJi BaVaaaaaBt aaaaaatasakaaeiakaB SaaaiaBalaBaY Light Lttjhjatft OofvejNriNiint RutoSttipiiiimtr Ptctric SteW Wtfo Pfro 4) Duil 8f rt Mtrirott Medium Bhm Paint-Metallic Gkw SttacMtmAutofnatJc Power Front Diec Brake Power Steering Duraspark tgnrtion Syttem Steel Betted Radial Phj Th Opera Windows Fun Whe4 Covert FHgrrt Bench Seat AM Radio Eleotrta Ctock Dual Note Horn Dtractalrt Ventilation System 0 NMvy Duty Btttvry 0 WNtoVrl Macleod Trail S. at 61 at Atrenut.