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MICHAEL F. TAYLOR B-6 CURRENT-ARGUS, Carlsbad, N.M., Thursday, September 20, 1979 Clipper Trio To Defy tiling By NBA Chief as a free agent last spring. Washington and Kunnert were to join the Trail Blazers tonight in Minnesota for an exhibition game. Clippers had until 5 p.m. EST today to inform' O'Brien's office whether they would keep Smith, a Pro Debut For Cook At Napa NAPA, Calif.

(AP) A professional golfing career that will be watched closely, that of 1978 U.S. Amateur golf champion John Cook, began today in Napa's $300,000 PGA tour event. Five players in the top 10 on the tour's 1979 money-winning list, including No. 3 Ben Crenshaw with $216,000, are here. So is John Fought, fresh from his first tour victory in last week's Buick Open.

Eight years ago, on this same Silverado Country Club courses, Tom Watson joined the tour. "I hope I can do about half as well," said Cook, 21, generally considered the nation's top amateur before turning pro. Cook, who led Ohio State to the NCAA title this year, received a sponsor's invitation to Napa and will attempt to earn his official tour card later this year in the PGA Tour Qualifying School. "John (Fought) didn't get his tour card until his third try," said Cook. "It's a lot tougher than most people think." He will compete against about 600 other golfers at the qualifying school.

Watson won the Napa tournament, the Anheuser-Busch Classic, last year but is will be at home in Kansas pity this week with his wife and their week-did first child. "Tom came here in 1971 directly from the PGA school, had to go through the Monday qualifying to get into the tournament and then won himself a nice check," recalled Vern Peak, the Napa tournament director. agreement between the league and the NBA Players' Association in that it "more than compensated" Seattle for the loss of Webster and that it penalized the Knicks, "which the agreement stipulates is not the purpose of compensation." The league said it would appeal the Carter's ruling. TENNIS LOS ANGELES Top-seeded John McEnroe defeated unheralded Ferdi Taygan 6-2, 1-6, 6-1 and second-seeded Roscoe Tanner overcame Tom Gullikson 3-6, 64, 6-1 in second-round play in the $175,000 Jack Kramer Open tennis tournament, In other matches, Bruce Manson upset fourth-seeded Jose Luis Clerc of Argentina 6-4, 6-3 and Tom Gorman surprised sixth-seeded PALERMO, Sicily -Bluster Mottram of Britain defeated. Ramiro Benavides of Bolivia 6-1, 6-2 on the third' day of" the $75,000 Tennis Championships of Sicily.

In another match, Corrado Barazzutti of Italy defeated Onny Parun of New Zealand, 6-1, 6-0. GENERAL PHILADELPHIA (AP) -Gene Kelly, the "voice of the Phillies" as the National league baseball club's play-by-play announcer during the died Tuesday after a "long illness." He was 60 years old. NO REPORTS No reports were received on yesterday's Mid High Ponies-Hobbs Houston and Alta Vista Green-Eisenhower Red football games. THE WAY TV NEWS IS HANDLED these days it is hard to tell what is and what is not important. A breathless announcer will give us, in a verbal staccato, the startling message that Fidel Castro has given up cigars.

Minutes later his associate will casually inform us that President Carter was devoured last Tuesday by an enormous aquatic mammal of the family commonly known as the swamp rabbit. And when it comes to sports we are often left dangling, being told just enough to make us want to ask, as we did when "And then what happened, Daddy?" for instance, would like to know what happened next to Ms. Linda Siegel, the bra-less lassie who lost a shoulder-strap at Wimbledom; to young Ron Franklin," erstwhile jockey, after his arrest (at Disneyland, yet! for possession of cocaine; and to Frank Hammond, umpire removed during the Nastase-McEnroe match at the U.S. Open. Someday, perhaps, some kind person will fill me in.

Meanwhile, let me mention here recent developments in some of the sports these columns have heretofore touched upon. Little League Baseball: Taiwan did it again. With Dai Han-Chao on the mound they defeated Campbell, Califoria, 2 to 1 for the World Series title, their seventh in nine seasons. The Taiwan kids ranged from 5' 4" to 5' 8" while Campbell's only giant was their pitcher, Bob Fraka, at 5' The game went two extra innings, it was a no-hitter for the Chinese, and the announcers were Red "Catbird Seat" Barber and Mel Allen, not -71 and 65 respectively (and respectfully). Despite its loss Campbell can walk tall.

In an earlier match Taiwan's Chen Chau-an struck out all 18 batters on the Italian team for a perfect game and an 18-fl score. Golf: After, the British. Open, won by Severiano Ballesteros 6f Spain with Nicklaus and Crenshaw three strokes back, the PGA pursued is erratic path. David Graham won the PGA Championship; Jerry McGhee the Greater Hartford Open; Jack Renner the Westchester Classic; and Tom Watson the Hall of Fame Classic. (In golf, a "classic" is any tournament called so by the publicity director, though in general the more the dough.

rises the classier the classic. The Westchester first prize was $75,000 to the Hall of Fame's $45,000 so Connecticut is $30,000 more classic than North Carolina.) For the guys, the most notable facts about the recent matches have been the always-a-bridesmaid role of Ben Crenshaw, second in the Western Open, British Open, PGA, etc; the first-ever wins by Calvin Peete and Jack Renner; and Watson's continuing leadership of the money winners. OVER IN THE LPGA, NANCY Lopez Melton has won two since Donna C. Young took the LPGA Championship Lady Kingston Open and European Open while the other tournaments have been shared by Jerilyn Britz, Amy Alcott, Judy Rankin, and Beth Daniel. The U.S.

Amateur titles were won by Mark O'Meara and Carolyn Hill. Auto Racing: After the Indiapolis 500, won by Rick Mears with A.J. Foyt second, the other legs of the Big Three, the Schaefer and the California 500's were run at Longpond, and Ontario, Ca. Cale Yarborough prevailed in the Schaefer, winning by one second over Richard Petty, while Bobby Unser won the with Mears second and Mario Andretti third. Horse Racing: Coastal, who spoiled Spectacular Bid's bid for the Triple Crown by winning the Belmont, went on to take the Dwyer Stakes (in near record'time) and the Monmouth Invitational.

And General Assembly, son of Secretariat and number two in the Derby, won the Travers at Saratoga in two minutes flat for the one-and-a-quarter miles for the track record. This set the stage for the Marlboro Cup, run September 8. Spectacular Bid with a new jockey up (Shoemaker) won it with General Assembly second and Coastal third, raising again a cloud of if 's and might-have-beens. And up in cloud-land the Quarterhorse Triple Crown races went as expected-that is, with a string of mild upsets. Favorite Past Time took the Kansas Futurity in June, Streaking Six the Rainbow in July, and Pie In The Sky the Ail-American September 3.

Since no animal was entered in all three events there was no chance of a one-horse sweep. (Streaking Six did come in second in the Ail-American.) Eight of the entries in the World's Richest Horse Race were owned by Texans, one by a Kansan, and one by a Californian. Ruidoso Downs, however, remains a part of New Mexico though just barely. Tennis: Bjorn Borg, as all the world knows, won the French Open' for the fourth time, the Wimbledon, where only Roscoe Tanner took a shot at him. Jimmy Connors took U.S.

Clay Court Open, defeating Guillermo Vilas, while Borg won the Canadian Open over John McEnroe. THE LADIES TOSSED TITLES BACK and forth. Tracy Austin won the Italian Open, then lost in Japan to Martina Navratilova; Evonne Cawley won at Chichester over Sue Barker; Chris Evert beat Martina at Eastbourne; Martina beat Chris at Wimbledon; Tracy beat Martina in San Diego; and Chris defeated Evonne at the U.S. Clay. All Clear? Comes then the U.S.

Open featured by 1 the McEnroe-Nastase fiasco, in which beer cans were flung, tempers umpire removed, and tennis disgraced. 2) Borg's loss to Tanner, and with it the chance of becoming first Grand Slam winner in a decade last one: Rod Laver in '69. 3) Tanner's loss to Gerulaitis; 4) McEnroe's win (7-5, 6-3, 6-3 over Gerulaitis); and 5) Tracy Austin's 6-4, 6-3 romp over Chris E. Lloyd. McEnroe is 20, Tracy 16.

Soccer: The high flying and often arrogant New York Cosmos of the North American Soccer League lost in the playoffs to Vancouver (2 games to 1, 5 goals to 3) while the Tampa Bay Rowdies beating San Diego. In the September 8 Soccer Bowl the Rowdies lost to the Canadians 2 to 1. With Cosmos cut down to size there may now be second thoughts about importing European stars of such massive ego that they are virtually immune to direction. So there we are. There has been a clean sweep-down fore and aft.he smoking lamp is lit on all weather decks, and we can now plow serenely ahead toward the World Series and the endless parade of pigskins.

Frank Broyles Thinks So DIEGO (AP) San Diego Clippers Kermit Washington, Kevin Kunnert apd Randy Smith, part of a record compensation awarded to the Portland Trail Blazers, plan to defy a ruling by National Basketball Association Commissioner Lawrence CCBrien, a San Diego nf wspaper reported today. According to The San Diego Union, the players wfcre informed by the NBA Players' Association there is "more than a chance" that tHe union will test the decision in court. The three were awarded to Portland Tuesday as compensation for the loss of All-Pro center Bill Walton, who signed with San Diego AV White Nabs Win In Opener The Alta -Vista White seventh grade football team opened its season yesterday by defeating Eisenhower White, 22-0. Leading the winners', charge wa.Alvin Rodriguez with three touchdowns, The defense was spearheaded by defensivecaptain Eppy Saldana. "The boys played a good team ball game with everyone AV White Coach Roy Herrera said.

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No 18-year-old deserves to be called a meatball. I've never read more disgusting stuff in my life." Dooley's Bulldogs turned out to be the creampuffs. Wake Forest erupted for 287 yards on the ground and 283 through the air in pulling off one of the season's major upsets. And when it was over, Mackovic said he would talk to the North Carolina media "but the Georgia press could leave our lockerroom, as far as I was concerned." Some did, some didn't, but it appears that the Demon Deacons may be more demon than deacon, for a JOE RESTIC COACHED in the Canadian Football League before coming to Harvard but he hadn't been By HERSCHELJSISSENSON AP Sports Writer A major college postseason football playoff seems to be a dead for now. But Frank Broyles, Arkansas' athletic director and former football coach, still says such a playoff is "inevitable." Broyles was one of an outspoken minority whose playoff proposal as beaten down by the bowls.

"We didn't foresee this much organized opposition. We didn't foresee the bowls taking such a strong stand, banding together and rallying support," he says. "It was their asserted opinion that the bowls would be ruined if we had even a four-team playoff." The NCAA's Extra Events Committee, of which Broyles is a member and former chairman, had recommended that such a playoff proposal be brought before next January's NCAA convention. But the Division I Steering Committee recommended to the all-powerful NCAA Council that the issue not even come up for a vote. The Council went along with that suggestion.

"It's somewhat of a dead issue at this particular time," says Dave Strack, athletic director at the University of Arizona and current chairman of the Extra Events College Football In Focus Committee. "Who can tell what the future might hold, but we've decided it would be beating a dead horse to pursue it as a committee at this time." "The bowls feel they have served college football very well and they feel they're the best thing for, college football," says Broyles. "They've convinced many coaches-that the structure we have now is better than a playoff. They cite the financial aspects, the times, no like that. "Maybe our feeling supporting a playoff is ahead of its time, like solar energy But it's inevitable that we need a playoff, not for the 20 or 25 schools who will succeed" with soccer or anything else, But what about the other schools who are in financial straits? The economic factor will be felt down the line.

"For a playoff to happen now we need something dramatic, but I don't know what. The public wants it. The public is probably for it 98 percent and I think their influence will be felt down the BECAUSE MICHIGAN'S BO Schembechler once coached under Woody Hayes and adopted many of Hayes' 88, 5.47 LATCH HOOK WW Vt Mil BRITENOL J'" SPRAY ENAMEL 1 1 oz purpose enamel prevents reg 157 NORTHERN MIST STYLING WAND Curl, marcel or straighten hair in seconds with or without rriist, non-stick curling tube, 2302, req 7.97 iy associated with the nfl since playing witn tne Philadelphia Eagles In early 1950s. Until this summer; that is. Restic, whose wild and crazy Multiflex offense has sent opposing coaches into shock, spent five weeks working with the Los Angeles Rams' quarterbacks.

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Preston, the Broncos' leading rusher this season, was injured in last game with Atlanta and will be out four to six weeks with' a slight ligament tear in his right knee. Have A Lay-Away Plan For You! Nationa ALBUQUERQUE (AP) -University of New Mexico defensive end Charles Baker has been named The Associated Press college football lineman of the week. Baker's national honors came from his defensive play in UNM's 17-7 loss to Texas Tech Saturday in Lubbock. Baker made 13 solo stops and assisted on eight other tackles for the Lobos. The 6-foot-2, 218-pound senior from Odessa, Texas, also was the Western Athletic Conference defensive player of the week.

"I feel real good about the award." said Baker. "I I "There are a lot of people who may have the same ability as he does," Mondt continued, "but he does everything full speed. That's what makes him good." Baker said the reason he always goes full speed is you can get hurt even if you don't. And he added he also tries to give 100 percent all the time because, "Good things happen to you when you do." 19INAROW In a 1961 NBA game against the Boston Celtics, Bob Pettit of St. Louis made 19 consecutive free throws.

thought I had a pretty good game out there, but I don't know if it was my best. "I've got a lot of room to improve. They're still able to block me when I'm rushing on the sprint-pass play. Also, need to learn to read the offense more," he said. UNM Coach Bill Mondt said he was "real pleased" Baker received the award.

"Charlie's a great football player and he had a good game against Tech. He deserves to be lineman of the week. He's got great ability, balance and agility. He's a-natural. He has worked extremely hard.

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