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i Page 12 JOHNSON CITY PRESS-CHRONICLE Monday Evening April 5 19T6 Al Geiberger winstwo-stroke Greensboro Open victory gentle shy boyish smile "I had some fans out there They were the quiet ones His were the noisy ones" The noisy ones were all but silenced by the magnificent shot on the 217-yard par-three 16th hole Geiberger had a one-stroke lead at that point the on-rushing Trevino having "Wouldn't that have been something?" Lynn asked 'if he'd made it they wouldn't have Been able to talk for a month I know the gallery it always is for the underdog and that Lee is a real personality but this was a little much" "That's golf" the quiet Geiberger said then flashed a knew ft didn't but I knew it was close" The' ball trickledJpast the cup a couple of inches to the nght and stopped a few feet away Trevino had to work hard to save par and Geiberger rolled in the birdie putt It put him two in front with two holes to play and it was all but over chopped four shots off his once- commanding lead and was making a determined charge "1 didn't think I could win the tournament until the shot on 16" Geiberger said "That was the shot of the tournament for me I thought for a minute it was going to go in the hole The way to the gallery acted 1 U-was-a disappointment to the jostling unruly beer-drink-mg loudly pro-Lee Trevino gallery' but Geiberger brought home a two-stroke victory Sunday the Greater Greensboro Open He turned back the bid of Trevino with a two-iron shot that missed by a couple of inches of being a hole in one watched on TV" "The way- the gallery was acting 1 felt like I was one shot behind instead of one ahead" Geiberger said "1 had to stop and have a little talk with myself say -hey you're one in front with four to play: just go on and take it home' He did it STEVE HYPES Tjp Buff Pitcher Buffs to face Mars Hill nine The Milligan College Buffaloes now 5-6 on the season after a 6-1 loss at Gardner-Webb Saturday will host Mars Hill today on the Buffalo diamond Milligan record dwindled last week when all games on the opening-season Florida trip were wiped off record because of too many scheduled games The games went on record as scrimmages and will not count as games won or loss and all averages and pitching records were scratched from the record books In all Coach Harold Stout's diamondmen will play five games this week including a doubleheader After today's home game with Mars Hill the Buffs will take on Carson-Newman in a VSAC game Tuesday host Tennessee Tech in a twin bill Thursday and entertain Lincoln Memorial Um-veristy Saturday in another VSAC tilt Steve Hypes is the club's leading pitcher with a 2-1 record but Gordy Miller Joe McClain and Marty Street all have 1-0 records -Lee really put a round to me" said the skinny 38-year-old veteran who turned his career around 18 months ago with a victory in the Sahara Open real proud of the way 1 made the clutch putts "I'm really surprised I held up as well as 1 did He really threw it to me I'm surprised I could handle it" Geiberger handled it with three-under-par 68 and a 72-hole total of 268 matching the best of the year on the pro tour and 16-under-par on the hilly pine-covered Sedgefield Country Club course Trevino started the final round five shots back moved to within one but couldn't get closer over the last few holes He had a six-under-par 65 and a 270 total his best performance of the year and a showing that stamped him as a force to be reckoned with in next week's Masters championship the only one of the game's Big Four titles he has yet to win Veteran Miller Barber took third place with a 67 and a 271 total Rookie George Bums a new father and -US Open champion Lou Graham were at 273 Graham had a 67 Bums a 66 Jom Weiskopf the 1975 Greensboro champion Eddie Pearce and Bob Menne finished at 274 Pearce had a 65 Menne and Weiskopf 69s The victory was worth $46000 from the total purse of $230000 to Geiberger and pushed his earnings Tor the year to $68084 It was his fourth since breaking a nine-year victory drought in the fall of 1974 Andy Messersmith remains at large in signing bout Wave after birdie Al Geiberger early leader in the final on the 9th hole He went on to win the round at the Greensboro Open gives a tourney (AP Wirephoto) wave with the ball after scoring a birdie Exhibition standings LA Angels add slugging power of their own The Dodgers made what they termed a "final offer" a couple of weeks ago but General Manager Al Campanis contacted Sunday in Los Angeles said he planned to review the situation with club President Peter O'Malley Meanwhile Osmond was reported to be continuing talks with San Diego President Buz-zie Bavasi though the agent failed to extract an offer Sunday Bavasi said he make a bid for the player until Messersmith asks for one and sub- GREENSBORO UP) knew I was in trouble on the eighth hole" a weary Al Cei-berger said 'When I missed the green the gallery cheered" was a stampede" his pretty wife Lynn said couldn see anything After a while I just came tn and Today 10-game prep slate tap Today's 10-game high school baseball schedule opens a busy week which 44 games are in tap The slate today finds four Big 9 Conference tilts antfa pair of Watauga Conference encounters Tennessee High leads the Big 9 with a 4-1 mark while Science Hill and Elizabethton are one-half game behind at 3-1 Big 9 standings: Conference all fame I I Tennessee High 4 1 7 1 Science HIM 3 1 SI Elizabethton 3 1 4 1 DoOyns-Bennett 3 3 4 2 Morrlstwon East 3 2 4 Sutllvan East 2 3 3 3 Sullivan Central 1 3 1 5 Unicoi County 14 2 4 Greenevlllt O' 4 0 5 To It Batter ab it avg Kilby Sullivan Central Corrtll Unicoi County Lilly Sullivan East Leach Town East McKinney Tenn High Baker Tenn High Harvllle M'Town East Elrod Science Hill Hodge M'Town East Bragg M'Town East Butt Science Hill Collier Oobyns-Bennett 2 9 12 4 4 22 13 11 14 4 7 10 4 5 23 13 11 10 416 7 368 7 368 7 368 I To Pitchers McKinney Tenn High Woodward Tenn High Ptess Elizabethton Carter Science Hill Laktns M'Town East Pro cage standings TIm Associate Prats ASA Pet 59 24 711 S3 29 644 49 33 596 46 37 554 13 39 44 470 20 35 48 422 24 14 47 173 44 OB Danvar Now York Salt Antonio Kentucky Indiana St Louis Virginia x-clinched first place Sunday's Oamas New York 134 Virginia 103 Kentucky 106 St Louis 105 OT Danvar 140 Indiana 134 NBA Eastern Conference Atlantic Division Pci OB Boston S3 25 479 Buffalo 44 35 557 9V Philadelphia 43 35 551 10 New York 36 42 462 17 Central Division Cleveland 46 32 590 Washington 46 33 582 V5 Houston 38 39 494 New Orleans 36 42 M2 10 Atlanta 26 50 359 18 Western Conference Midwest Oivision Milwaukee 34 42 462 Detroit 34 44 436 2 Kansas City 30 50 375 7 Chicago 23 54 291 13V Pacific Division x-Golden State 57 22 722 Seattle 40 38 513 16W Phoenix 40 39 506 17 2S Tm x-cirnched division title Sunday's Games New Orleans 129 Washington 125 OT Buffalo 117 Boston 114 Detroit 101 Philadelphia 97 New York 115 Kansas City 95 Cleveland 120 Atlanta 92 Los Angeles 118 Golden State 111 Seattle 117 Phoenix 89 Bobby Walker given go-ahead LONDON (AP) -The British Boxing Board of Control today gave the go-ahead to heavyweight boxer Bobby Walker of-Stamford Conn' who is on parole from Connecticut State Penitentiary to fight in London Walker is scheduled to meet 'Britain's John Gardner at the Royal Albert Hall Tuesday night BASS BOATS Now on Sale Gordon Marine 930 Watauga Ave Johnson City 928-2642 Career high 4b points Brian aylor paces NY Nets to victory mits to a physical examination by the Padres' othopedic specialist "If Andy will agree to an examination by Dr Robert Kerim we will meet or better any other offer" Bavasi told the San Diego Tribune Regardless of what happens it will be a while before Messersmith is ready to pitch in a big league game He supposedly has been working out on his own in California but most observers feel it will take him at least two weeks from the time he signs until he is ready to start a game It was the 31st straight loss for the Squires on the road an ABA record They are 2-39 away from home this season and 14-67 overall Mack Calvin led Virginia with 21 points Colonels 106 Spirits 105 OT Louie Dampier scored 22 points and Artis Gilmore 21 for Kentucky which twice squandered big leads and needed 'overtime baskets by Wil Jones and Maurice Lucas to win Moses Malone led St Louis with 32 points and 15 rebounds' but also committed 13 turnovers including five in overtime the past few games Moses has been good but by the same token he's shown his said Spirits Coach Joe Mullaney "We should have been able to puli it out and we probably would have but I wanted to see what the kid (Malone) could do" Only 2010 showed up for the Spirits final home game of the season The team has been rumored as heading for Sait Lake City because of poor attendance at the St Louis Arena Nuggets 140 Pacers 134 Dan lssel's 27 points and David Thompson's 26 carried Denver past Indiana which got 44 points from second-year forward Billy Knight the high-scoring battle With 909 remaining in the second quarter Bobby Jones scored a basket to give Denver its 10000th point of the season The Nuggets are the firstABA team to reach that plateau since the 1971-72 season when Pittsburghdidit NEW YORK 1AP) Andy Messersmith the fastball-for-hire right-hander resumed his search for gainful employment today just three days before the opening of the 1976 baseball season Messersmith who won his free agent status from an arbi trator and retained it through two court decisions remained at large over the weekend in the wake of an aborted nonagreement with the New York Yankees The Yankees claimed they had come to terms with agent Herb Osmond Messersmith refused to abide by the agreement saying the Yanks had made some unauthorized changes in the contract they offered him had acted in bad faith and besides Osmond did not have the authority to make any binding agreement Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn was supposed to make a decision in the case but he never got the chance The mat-was resolved Saturday when the indignant Yankees withdrew their claim to Mes sersmith saying in effect if he doesn't want to play with the then the Yankees don't want him So Messersmith who won 19 tpr VnnlrAAC 1 armees games for the Los Angeles Dodgers last season is back to square one still trying to sell his services to the highest bidder "We're just going to make some phone calls" he said "We'll contact some clubs and see what Major league teams have not exactly been rushing to Mes-sersmith's door with bushels of money but enough clubs have entered the bidding to make it interesting Atlanta Pittsburgh the Chicago White Sox -the New York Mets California and Los Arifble all have made firm offers and both San Diego and Kansas City re-protedly are lurking in the background with prepared bids Aisle wins at Arcadia ARCADIA Calif (AP)-One on the Aisle rallied from more than 20 lengths behind on the backstretch to capture the $125000 San Juan Capistrano Invitational Handicap Sunday on a wet grass course at Santa Anita 1 The grey four-year-old went the I34 miles in two minutes 50 seconds to beat Elaborado by a head with Top Crowd a nose back in the three-way battle for 261 earned run average but fell to 3-12 and 594 last year Don Kirkwood a hard-throw ing right-hander who was in the bullpen last year should be in -the starting rotation and the Angels acquired Gary Ross from San Diego after he led the Pacific Coast League in 1975 with a 16-8 record and had switched from relief to a starting role Veterans Andy Etchebarren and Ed Herrmann are vying for the catching job with the outfield having Bonds in right field and Rusty Torres in center Lee Stanton the only power hitter on the club last year probably will open in left but if Torres doesn't do the job Stanton could be in center Dave Collins and Joe Lahoud are the other outfield candidates With the acquisition of Bonds 1 and Melton Williams hope some of the pressure comes off Stanton and that he will re-ind by boosting his batting average over the 261 mark of last ye A question mark continues at shortstop althoitgly Ramirez appears to be the starter as of now He's being pressedhy Billy Smith and Mike Miley eac! of whom had a chance last year The Angels gave up their No 1 base stealer of 1975 center-fielder Mickey Rivers and 16-13 pitcher Ed Figueroa to get Bonds from the Yankees General Manager Harry Dalton thus showed he was giving up on speed in an effort to get more power With Bonds and Melton the Angels do have more power and their eventual showing in the AL West will reflect that change and also the increased maturity of their young players Williams has said "This year we'll finish among the top three in our division We obtained Bonds and Melton We have more depth than in 1975 and our club will improve on sheer experience" Still he might be overly opti- mistic Angels At A Glance By TK Associated Press Last in American Ugu West 1 4 Young team that gained experience in 1975 and acquis it Ion of some power hitting Weaknesses Ouestionabie starting pitchers with ace Nolan Ryan returning after arm surgery Hi off season New Outfielder Bobby Bonds and infitider Bill Melton who combined for 47 home runs last season Also catchers Ed Herrmann and Andy Etchebarren 1976 Chance to move up notchortwo FINAL SCORES AND MONEY-WINNINGS Al Geiberger 546 000 70558-268 Lee Trevino $26220 48 71-66-65-270 Miller Barber 516330 Lou Graham $10120 273 George Burns $10120 Tom Weiskopf $7475 69 68 68 69 -274 Bob Menne $7475 69799 274 Eddie Pearce $7475 Oave Stockton $6210 67-74 668-275 Mike Hill $4714 276 Sten Lee $4715 7295-70-276 Mark Hayes $4715 7078-71-276 Ron Cerrudo $4715 697 70-70-276 Gene Llttler $4715 276 Vic Regalado $47lS 72897-276 John Sc lee $3 220 Mike Money $3220 Gay Brewer $3220 66-756-70-277 Bobby Nichols $3220 Ray Floyd $3220 70-70-716-277 Kermit Zarley $2185 687-749-278 Bobby Walzel $2185 Bruce Crampton $2185 7089 Don Bies $2185 Terry Diehl $2185 70-70-708-278 Allen Miller $1667 Mac McLendon $1667 709-70-70-279 Jim Masserioi $1667 7297-71-279 Lanny wadklns $1467 698-72-70-279 DeWitt Weaver $1 667 Mason Rudolph $1667 73-70-733-279 Andy North $1219 Gibby Gilbert $1219 70-719 John Schroeder $1219 69 71-728 290 Bob Goalby $1291 Art Wall $1219 749 69 68 WO Jim Wiechars $1219 66-71-72 Butch Baird $1219 Fuzzy Zoellea $1219 Don January $851 Joe Irmen $851 Peter Oosterhuis $851 72-71-708-281 Doug Sanders $851 718-72 70-281 Gary Ptayec S6S1 Rod Funseth $851 69-72-719-281 Lyn Lott $851 7478 Lee Elder $605 71-71-70-70-282 Gary McCord $405 729-71-70-282 Jerry Pate $605 Tony Jacklin $605 Grier Jones $605 Bob Gilder $535 70-73-746-283 Sam Snead $S35 73-7070-70-283 Bob Charles $535 70-73-70-70-283 Ed Sneed $535 Dave HIM $466 709769-284 Larry Nelson $446 Mike Wynn $464 7271738-284 Billy Casper $466 71-71-7270-284 Leonard Thompson $44 7399-73-284 70-70-72-72-284 284 67-70-73-74-284 699-71-76-285 7 7172 78-71-74-72-291 70-72 747-72-76-289 71-72 72-75-290 749-73-74-290 72-71-74-71-290 73-70-75-76-291 71-72-75-76-294 72-TOJ4-WD Thomson wins Indian Open CALCUTTA (AP) Veteran Australian golfer Peter Thomson carded a three-under-par 70 Sunday and won the Indian Open Championship by one stroke over countryman Brian Jones Thomson who made up a two-stroke deficit on the filial round finished with a 72-hole total of 288 and earned the $3-200 top prize Jones one of three golfers tied for the lead starting the final round closed with a 73 for 289 and collected $2100 The other co-third round leaders Martin Bohen and Don Kienk both of the United States slipped in the final-round Bohen had a 75 for 291 and Kienk an 80 for 296 Will XWII 4f Por Net Delivered CAU SHIKIIY JISTf Homo Phone 287 SB ELIZABETHTON 903 Bread St Phan 543-2141 If Poer Not Delivered CAU HIIOA TIPTON (COLLI CT) Home Phone 7138834 ANAHEIM (AP) The California Angels have added some slugging power with the acquisition of Bobby Bonds and Bill Melton yet the biggest plus has been the apparent return to form of strikeout ace Nolan Ryan The hard-throwing righthander has yielded the opening day starting assignment to lett-hander Frank Tanana but Ryan sgam has shown blistering speed and complete recovery from an off-season elbow operation In his final spring training appearance Ryan worked five innings and twice struck out the side against the San Diego Padres think I had as much stuff had at any time last ''saM Ryan who included the game he pitched for the fourth roajor league no-hitter of his career Regardless Manager' Dick Williams will open the seaso with 22-year-old Tanana who led the majors league in strikeouts with 269 and posted a 16-9 record last year when the Angels finished last in the American League West Bonds hit 32 homers last season with the New York Yankees and Melton hit 15 with the Chicago White Sox That total of 47 nearly matches the entire Angels figure of 1975 when they hit only 55 Williams who managed pennant winners at Boston and Oakland predicts the Angels will finish among the top three in the AL West this time but he could be overly optimistic His team still is young but a 20-game winning performance by Ryan would help tremendously Melton wants to play defensively but it appears that the infield will have Bruce Bochte at first Jerry Remy at second Orlando Ramirez at shortstop and Dave Chalk at third The Angels should improve with experience and the pitching should be improved Andy Massler is getting another chance in the starting rotation He was 7-11 in 1974 with a solid Bo Brickels was fired at the end of the 1975-76 basketball season But he apparently lost out in the final round to Walters the Dartmouth head coach who was named New England Coach of the Year for bringing his Big Green team its best season since 1958 Late Sunday Walters said he "had first accepted the Davidson job because it was in line with his professional goals But he added "1 discovered that I had a far greater appreciation for the philosophy of-education and athletics at Dartmouth and in the Ivy League than I had realized" Walters said he had notified Davidson officials that he would not coach at the school last Thursday only five days after he was formally hired for the coaching job By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Brian Taylor the New York Nets sure-handed guard hasn't had much time to worry about the American Basketball Association playoffs of late While his teammates were busy clinching second place in the ABA Taylor has been busy recovering from a string of misfortunes: In order Taylor has been in a serious auto accident had a bad case of flu and been involved in a second Jess serious auto accident "I still think I'm lucky to be he said Taylor is trying to get himself in shape for the playoffs and who better to Dractire against than the hapless Virginia Squires While Nets Coach Kevin Loughery rested his other regulars Taylor played all but 56 seconds of Sunday's 136-103 rout of the Squires and responded with a career-high 40 points "1 thought about asking Kevin to take me out" said Taylor "but 1 didn't 1 need the work I'm about 90 per cent ready" Elsewhere in the ABA Sunday it was Kentucky 106 St Louis 105 in overtime and Denver 140 Indiana 134 The Nets sank 15 Of 20 field goal attempts in the first quarter to take a 38-27 lead and then Loughery gave his starters except for Taylor the rest of the day off Taylor hit eight of nine shots from the field in the second period as New York built a 7848 advantage and then coasted home Taylor added seven assists five rebounds and four steals to his 40 points Randy Wallace No i quarterback KNOXVILLE (AP) Randy Wallace is the No I Tennessee quarterback at this point Coach Bill Battle says "But Pat Ryan is throwing the ball well" Battle said Saturday as Tennessee opened practice The first offensive backfield unit Saturday had Wallace at quarterback: Frank Foxx at tailback with Kelsey Finch backing him up: Mike Gayles at fullback with Bobby Emmons backing him up and Stanley Morgan at wingback supported by Randy Vemer All-American Larry Seivers and John Behrens were the split ends Meanwhile sophomore Steve Porter was moved from tackle to center and junior Jesse Tumbow was switched at his request from offense to defensive tackle Boston 11 Pittsburgh 5 Chicago (A) 16 St Louis 1 Philadelphia 15 Detroit 9 Kansas City 8 Atlanta 3 Montreal 6 Texas 2 New York (N) 10 Cincinnati 4 San Diego 13 Chicago (N) 3 San Francisco 5 Oakland 3 Cleveland 4 Milwaukee 2 Houston 3 Minnesota 0 Los Angeles 3 California 3 game called after l0 innings ram Monday's Games Boston vs St Louis at St Petersburg lla 30 Atlanta vs Chicago (A) at Sarasota Fla 1 30 Kansas City vS Montreal at Daytona Beach Fla 1-30 Pittsburgh vs Philadelphia at Clear water Fla 1 30 Sap Diego vs Oakland at Mesa Ariz 3 Cleveland vs Milwaukee at Sun City Ariz 3pm California vs Chicago (N) at Scotts-dale Ariz 3pm Cincinnati Detroit at Lakeland Fla pm New York (N) vs New York (A) at Fort Lauderdale Fla 8pm Minnesota vs Houston at New Orleans La 8 30 Los Angeles vs San Francisco at Phoenix Ariz 10 Mieto winner in skiing meet K1RUNA Sweden (AP) -Finland's Olympic relay winner Juha Mieto won the meh's 30-kilometer (18 6 miles) race Sunday in this North Swedish town beating the strongest field of runners in cross-country skiing since the Innsbruck Games last February Mieto finished in 1 hour 37 minutes 37 seconds Soviet ace Sergei Savelyev was second and East German veteran Gert-Dietmar Klause was third Bill Koch of Putney Vt the US silver medalist in the Olympic 30 kilometers was seventh in 14100 Barbara Petzold of East Germany won the women's five-ki-lometer 13 1 miles) event in 17 minutes 17 seconds Zinaida Amosova of the Soviet Union was second and compatriot Veronica Schmidt third his appointment shortly after 1 a Pritchett said he is convinced If the students faculty and community want a first-class program we can get the job done" Davidson Athletic Director Thom Cartmill called the new coach "one of the finest young recruiters in the country today" and added he believes Pritchett "is the one man who can salvage the recruiting year and put us back in business next year" Dnesell agreed that one of Pritchett's strengths is in recruiting but added "Let me emphasize he's an excellent coach not just a recruiter He's young and ambitious and will do an excellent job 1 hate to lose him" Pritchett had been one of those under consideration by Davidson officials after Coach Maryland assistant Dave Pritchett named Davidson College coach TaBBangnBisaa the $75000 first prize JOHNSON CpSesS-CHRONICLE i HOtll I Has on Offica near you far News Advertising Circulation Coll or visit the effiee weorusl you for comlete servico J0NESB030 Mala St PhMt 753103 JOHNSON CITY 204 Main St PtMM 92941 11 DAVIDSON NC (AP) Davidson College announced early today it had named University of Maryland assistant coach Dave Pritchett as the Southern Conference college's new head basketball coach The school's announcement came only hours after Davidson officials said that Gary Walters named to the coaching job only a week ago had decided return to Dartmouth Where he had been head coach Pritchett 33 has been an assistant coach at Maryland under Lefty Dnesell who was coach at Davidson during the when the private college was a national basketball power Pritchett a native of Mullens Va spent two years as an assistant at Boston College before going to Maryland After the announcement of liBibi WMISYH "lU'litlu If oor wot delivered Phone 24111 ERWIN 216 Gay Stmt Phont 7434141 If Poor Not Delivered CALL HILDA JONH Home Phono 743472 6.