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TIMES ADVOCATE Escondido Ca Saturday July 22, 1989 B5 Long jump on the line streak for Lewis pN tv Malone, 2 rookies sign with Chargers The Times Advocate SAN DIEGO The Chargers made some progress Friday toward getting unsigned players into training camp, which starts today The club signed veteran free-agent quarterback Mark Malone to a contract Friday. Terms of the deals were not announced. The Chargers also announced they had reached agreement with two of their draft picks wide receiver Dana Brinson ol Nebraska (eight round) and Washington linebacker Ricky Andrews (12th round) Terms of the deals were not released The Chargers have now reached agreement with three of their nine draft choices Even with the signing of Malone, the Chargers still have 11 unsigned veterans, including running backs Gary Anderson and Lionel James. Steve Ortmaver, the clubs director ol football operations, indicated earlier this week he expected to have more of the free agents signed by the first practice on Sunday afternoon. Malone, the lowest-rated quarterback in the AFC the past two seasons, was tied with Detroits Eric Hippie and Minnesota's Tommy Kramer as the lowest-paid starting quarterbacks in the NFL last season at $500,000.

The former Pittsburgh Steeler, who came to the Chargers in a trade last year, was 147 of 272 for 1,580 yards with six touchdowns and 13 interceptions. His quarterback rating of 58 8 was the worst of the 14 AFC quarterbacks who qualified. NEW 'lOKk 1 A 1 i 1 he prt sure of a long wiiiiiimi streak not alfec ting arl 1 ew i- Lewis winner ol 60 Mraigh long lumpiompeutioii'inu Iasi losing in the 19s 1 I Ii.dooi hoi'ipmo ship-- risks his string todav the inaugural New urk Irak and Field Games at oh.mlna I mur sltV 1 here nu pit I mm 1 he streak" Lewis said I ndav 1 set a goal tor ni selt er me 1 1 an 1 it I lump well that tine 1 1 1 't a ujl ol nil meters 2 tie i I.ihi'i and someone else mips 71, I 1 fee 1 Lv ai 1 1 mp'i'hi mal" for veers Lewis primarv nal has been hie the or hi 1 irei ol 2l 2 st Boh Hi ,11 mi' in the Lins OKmpii ii.inus in the high altitude of Me i it Lew is who never has lumped at all 1 tude has a best ol 8 It) 4 unit outdoors at Ineli ipohs and nine indoors in New 7 urk I'odav, the two lime Olvmpu gold medalist the long lamp and winner of loin other Olvmpu golds will not have tc le his two biggest rivals loss Olvmpu silver me dalist Mike Powell end bronze medalist Larrv Mvruks Powell was a late withdrawal lie eauseof the death of hi' grand! 1 ther while Mviuks tin world leader this veai with a leap of 2s (1 never was entered However. Lewis still will have loimidable competition It will in elude Mike Conlev a two time NCAA champion and the 1985 orld Cup winner Cuban champi on Jaime Jefferson, ndre F'tci. a two time NCAA indoor champion, and veteran Gordon Lame This will he Lewis third long Carl Lewis has won 60 consecutive long jump competitions since top in rainy, windy PGA event "1 had trouble putting The greens are slower than xesterdax because of the rams But 1 held on and didn't lose nn cool out there." said MiCallister 1 could have shot a 72 Another stroke hack at 135 were three gollers ith a total ot 28 vv m-less vears on the PGA Tour -Powav's Lennie Clements.

John Adams and Bill Britton Clements, in his ninth year on the tour, shot a 66 "It just takes a couple of good rounds to turn a had vear into a good vear, said Clements, who is 161st on the 1989 monev list, with 831.255 Adams, winlesssince 1978. hada 68. It was a battleground out there yesterdav and it was similar to jump competition ol the outdoor season and his last. For the re-n ainder of the vear, he will con-iintiate on the 100-meter dash which he also owns two Olympic gold medals and relays. In addition to long jumping Li is ill anchor the Santa Mome a I'rac Clubs 400-meter re lav follow mg Mike Marsh, Mark it he rspoon and Floyd Heard.

Mianwhile. Lewis, who never has jlt Id an indiv idual world record he has been on three teams Cut iruke-d the 4uu-meter relay world record eould wind up with world re-eord 111 the 100 meters without ever running it again 1 he Ii te rnational Amateur Athletic federation the world gov ern-i hod.v ot the sport, will discuss ai 'st pu mber whether to strip Ben lohiison ot the world record of i follow mg the Canadians tes-timonv that he was on perfor-mami enhaneing drugs when he sit tlie 111 irk 1987 Most ol the fields are very strong and include such stars as Me 1 ew is. Oh mpic hampion in ll nu 4U0 meters, Roger King-ihiii two time gold medalist in the mens () meter high hurdles; Runldn Nchemiah world record-h lde the high hurdles, Andre Phillips- Olvmpu champion in the men 4oi 1 meter intermediate hurdle Cubas Javier Sotomavor, wor'd record holder in the mens high lump. Butch Reynolds, world ree ord holder in the men's 400 who is 1 onipeting 111 the 1 600 meter re-1 iv Jackie Jov ner-Kersee. Olympic gold medali't in the womens long jump and heptathlon who is competing the 400 hurdles, and Louise Ritter, gold medalist in the vviime n's high jump UJI To Buy Direct from the Factory SAN MARCOS 630 N0RDAHL RD (619) 740-9893 YOUR SAN DIEGO COUNTY FORD DEALERS PRESENT TRUCKBUSTER DAYS.

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We were hurrying a little bit at the end. Here I was leading the tournament, so I didnt want to hurry too much, but I also didnt want to come back out here early tomorrow, said Byrum, whose brother, Tom, won the Kemper Open in June. The foul weather, a constant on the PGA our this year, suspended play for more than an hour in the late afternoon. Showers also de- Birdie string lifts Evans to senior lead CLEVELAND (AP) Chick Evans, a last-minute entry, birdied six straight holes on the back nine Friday for a 6-under-par 66 and a share of the first-round lead in the inaugural Ameritech Senior Open. Evans, a non-winner on the PGA Senior Tour, was not originally in the 72-player field.

He did not find out he was play ing until Bob Goalby dropped out Tuesday night. I probably w'ould have taken a 72 and w'ould have been happy as the devil, Evans said after his 66 tied him with Dick Rhyan, another non-winner. Ive been playing pretty well the last couple of w'eeks. I talked to my wife last night and told her I was going to play good. But I didnt think Id play this good.

His birdie string is the longest on the Senior Tour this season. Pm a streaky player, said Evans, who did not win any money on the PGA Tour in his one year, 1967. Evans, 44th in winnings this year with $44,643, was even-par GENUINEfJACUZZIiBRAND.SPAS THiKiAi out, naomroM. 1981 dav." said Adams ot the two ramv and inch dav Britton, winless 8 vears on the tour had a (5. including an ea gle on No 10 136.

three shots hack, were Calvin Peete, who carded a 67 and Boh Eastwood who has a pair of 68s A dozen goiters were at 1 57, including I)r Gil Morgan and Mike Donald, who won the Anheu ser Busch ('lassie a plavolt Mondav Dav id I oms. a -June grad of LSU plaving in his first PGA event, tol lowed his opening 66 with 72 to fall to 138 Boh Wolcott fired a 61 the best round of the tournament, but had an opening round 74 and was at 138 A total of 70 plavers at 141 or above made the cut "Id probablv be about 12 or 13 under it 1 made half the five-to eight loot putts she missed in the first two rounds, she said Hammel and Marino alreadv had finished their rounds by then and Furlong, who started at the 10th hole, alreadv had reached 8 under par with a birdie at the 5th hole, her 14th. Hammel. who shared the first-round lead with Postlew ait at 5-under 67, shot 69 Friday Marino matched her career best of 67 and Furlong had a 66, tying Ayako OkamotoN second dav score for the best round of the $350,000 tournament Okamoto was in a five wav tie at 5-under 139 with defending champion Colleen Walker, Pattv Sheehan. Jody Rosenthal and Kris Monaghan Furlong made an eagle that put her at 6 under par after six holes Fridav It came on the 1 5th hole, a 453 vard.

par 5 when she used a pitching wedge and holed the shot from 81 vards. That was a big confidence builder, she said She needed it at the par 72 Tara Ferncroft Country Club, a course that demands accuracy more than distance. when Warkentien became Daniels guardian "The conference office said to us at the time that the guardianship was generally acceptable, however if we needed clarification to get it from the NCAA. he said We did that, but it was atter Mark became his guardian. Thats where the question is.

Rothermel said the NCAA mter-viewers wanted to know whether the guardian recruit relationship was entered into to give UNLV an edge in the recruitment ot Daniels lav ed the start of the round for an hour Bv rums 7-under 133 total was a stroke better than defending champion Blaine McCallister and Greg Ladehoff McCallister had a 69. his sixth straight sub-par round at the Hardees tournament, while Ladehoff, from nearby Clinton, Iowa, fired a 60. I felt pretty good today Ive played pretty crummy the last month But I'm more relaxed coming home, said Ladehoff. who had an eagle on his first hole the par-5, 517-vard No 10 plus four birdies and a bogey McCallister row 25 under par for his last six Hardee's rounds, including a PGA record-tying back to-back scores of 62 and 63 last year had three birdies and two bogeys Fridav. on the par-72 Canterbury Golf Club after missing a five-footer for birdie on No 11.

But he hit a pitching wedge to six feet and sank a birdie putt at 12. followed with a two-putt birdie on the par-5 13th hole and then hit a pitching wedge to within two inches of the cup 14 for another birdie. After about three birdies in a row. I felt like I was zeroed in. he said.

He sandwiched 35-foot putts for birdies at 15 and 17 around a four-footer on No. 16 to run his streak to six. His string was broken on the final hole when his 20-foot birdie putt hit the cup and spun out. Rhvan, a native Ohioan, had eight birdies through 16 holes but double-bogeyed the 17th when his tee shot on the par-3 hole found a greenside trap and he three-putted from 20 feet. It was one of those kinds of rounds you dream about.

he said. Every shot you picture in your mind came off just about the way it should Rhyan. 41st in winnings with $51,141, won slightly more than $100,000 in 12 off-and-on seasons on the PGA Tour His best Finish was a tie for third at the Philadelphia Classic in 1972. part of the procedure, Rothermel said. Im guessing were somewhere in the middle of this inquiry right now, maybe closer to the end than the beginning.

Also questioned by the investigators was Mark Warkentien, the Rebels basketball recruiting coordinator when Daniels was actively recruited in 1985 and 1986. Rothermel said it is Warken-tiens relationship with Daniels that is at the center of the probe, particularly Warkentiens actions in becoming Daniels legal guard DANVERS, Mass (AP) Ann Alcott just missed an eagle at the 18th hole, settled for par and shared the lead at the LPGA Boston Five Classic with Penny Ham-mel. Shirley Furlong and Cathv Marino after Fridays second round All were at 8-under-par 136, one stroke ahead ot Beth Daniel and two ahead of Kathy Postlew ait and Cindv Rarick. Alcott, seeking her 28th victorv in 15 years on the tour but winless this year, was pleased with her sec ond straight 68 despite missing a chance to take a two-stroke lead Its frustrating, but I also shot 68 so its not that frustrating," said Alcott, who needs three wins to reach the 30 required for entry into the LPGA Hall of Fame Alcott had cleared a large pond and was about 30 yards from the hole in two shots on the 485 yard. par-5 final hole.

Her pitch hit the pin, then the cup but rolled about six feet away. She missed the putt that would have given her a one-stroke lead. Its a great finishing hole. AI cott said. "Somebody can make ea gle or they can make double bogey.

On the previous five holes she had missed three birdie putts of 6, 10 and 12 feet OUR PRICES ARE DESIGNED TO MAKE YOU FEEL GOOD TOO. NCAA hits Las Vegas in UNLV recruiting probe Convenient Locations JACUZZI SPAS FACTORY SHOWROOMS ian. Its not necessarily just the legal guardianship, but that appears to be the focus. Rothermel said. The NCAA is investigating allegations raised in a 1987 Newsday article that Daniels accepted numerous gifts from Warkentien.

A former UNLV plaver, Ricky Collier, reportedly made the allegations, then later withdrew them Rothermel said the NCAA policy on legal guardianships has never been clarified, and that UNLV thought it was acting properly LAS VEGAS (AP) Two NCAA investigators spent this week in Las Vegas investigating the recruitment of former New York City prep star Lloyd Daniels by the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, university officials said Friday. The investigators interviewed 15-20 people associated with the UNLV basketball program, including Coach Jerry Tarkanian and Athletic Director Brad Rothermel, as part of an ongoing probe. We knew this was going to be SERVING vOl NCE 1946 YOUR ONLY SOURCE FOR JACUZZI SPAS SAN DIEGO 8199 CLAIREMONT MESA BLVD (619) 279-SPAS Store Hours Mon Fri 10 A 7PM zz.