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--ic i i "i war'-wr w.rt.Tr' IS THE ARGUS, Rock Island, 111., Tuesday, July 11, 1972 Players disagree- T-r- jgfc- vS Muirfield tough or easy i-4 feYptY. I iPS'b' 1 'J 1' V- A I I tv? nv'N Yj i What do I think about getting a big start on the rest by coming in early? Nicklaus asked. I think its wonderful. But Arnold and Lee (Trevino, the defending champion) have their own reasons for wanting to play the Canadian Open Just before this one. As for myself, I like to take the, time off and concentrate on tournament.

Palmer said he thought the date of the Canadian and British Opens, which always follow on each others heels should be changed. The veteran also revealed Monday that he has abandoned both contact lenses and glasses. Im pust nearsighted, he said. I can see the pins and the greens but my depth perception Is off and I cant tell the pin placements. But Im not going back to my contacts until after this summer.

will qualify for the final round Saturday. Deane Beman of Bethesda, withdrew despite an exemption. Joining him were such possible threats to Nicklaus as Australian Bruce Crampton, Charles Coody, Ray Floyd and Roberto De Vicenzo. Most of the players practicing Monday characterized Muirfield as Pebble Beach with a burr. But Palmer refused to be convinced.

Theres no comparison, he said. Muirfield is faster and dryer and I was reaching some of the downwind long holes Monday with a drive and a 7-iron. In spite of the wind, the course is playing short and I look for low scores, par at the Muirfield is 71. Nichlaus stubbornly insisted, Ive never seen lie winds like they were Monday but thats all right with me. I figure the more wind there is and the tougher Muirfield gets, the better chance ID have.

Ive learned to play wind shots. If the golf course gets soft because of rain, the more Americans Ill have to beat back. He shot a 69 in one informal round. Nicklaus is, going for the third leg of golfings Grand Slam. He has won the Masters and U.S.

Open and has the, PGA championship following Muirfield. Up to 100,000 fans are expected to view his attempt during the 72-holes. Nicklaus says he is bringing his game to the peak he wants and he also says he will be ready to concentrate Wednesday. Sleepy and tired after flying from the Canadian Open to Muirfield Sunday night, Palmer said he thought the fact his foes had played a tournament so close to the British Open was another advantage for Nicklaus. Co Aacclf Slmc- t'asljlnslcmJJost MUIRFIELD, Scotland-Jack Nicklaus thinks Muirfield is playing tougher for the British Open than Pebble Beach, did for the U.S.

Open Golf Championship three weeks ago. But Arnold Palmer thinks Muirfield is playing easier, is fast and dry and that scores will be low for the 101st renewal of the classic beginning Wednesday. Nicklaus, who has been touring the course here since last Wednesday, said, If this wind stays as strong as it is today, were going to see the scores go up. The course is playing short but tough. The 80 lowest scores and ties in the 154-man field after the first two days qualify for the third round.

Then the 60 lowest scores and ties after 54 holes 'v, s' 'A fWV 4 VXA I Xs-v POPULAR MAN Jack Nicklaus is surrounded by admiring youngsters as he signs autographs following a practice round yesterday at Muirfield, Scotland, site of the British Open golf championships starting tomorrow. Nicklaus, who already has captured the Masters and the U.S. Open, is shooting for golfs grand slam, which would include the British Open and the PGA championship. (AP Wirephoto via cable) 1 slip fey Murray Hurt sMyttWi-Y Xv, Xvl-X-A. v'-A ifiliil MSH'iSSf? Xjj.

xx sx '-V 'v? Cv X'Xvt-yvX-XyvXx A vV-- -tsvv A. mmm Tanner files protest on Gaylords greaser By BRUCE LOWITT Associated Press Sports Writer The rest of the nation may be into the dry look, but as far as Chicago Manager Chuck Tanner is concerned, Gaylord Perry of the Cleveland Indians still digs greasy kid Listen, I respect any manager whos trying to win and thats what Tanner is trying to do, Perry said after spinning four-hitter for his 14th victory of the season, a 2-1 triumph over the White Sox Monday night which Tanner protested. In other America League games, Kansas City edged Baltimore 3-2, Detroit defeated Texas 8-3, Minnesota blitzed Milwaukee 8-1, California nipped the New York Yankees 4-3 and Boston beat Oakland 4-2. Tied for Lead Perry, who tied Detroits Mickey Lolich the winnl-ngest pitcher in the majors this season with a little help from Mickeys cousin, Ron has never admitted to putting anything on the baseball except spin. At one time or another, an awful lot of batters have said Perrys pitches have more spit than spin-or some other illegal substance.

Tanner insists its grease. And he was so sure of it Monday night that, after 2 innings, he told plate umpire Bill Haller he was playing the game under protest. Thats Tanners privilege to protest if he wants, and thats what I told him on the field, Haller explained. Its a matter of judgment and in my judgment, Perry wasnt doing any thing illegal. But Tanner had different ideas.

If we dont win the protest, he fumed, Perry will be allowed to use his grease bal all the time. And if he is, everybody else will be allowed to do the same. Therell be a rush on' the market for the jelly he uses. Winning Blow Graig Nettles sacrifice fly gave the Indians their first run in the first inning, then Ron Lolich provided what proved to be the winner in the fourth with his first major league home run. The White Sox picked up an unearned run in the sixth.

Rookie Texas pitcher Don Stanhouse couldnt believe what happened to him. The Tigers, en route to taking over sole rassession of first place irt the Cast, pounded him for seven their eight runs in the first three innings. Was he that bad or was Detroit that good, someone asked. I dont know, Stanhouse said, shaking his head in disbelief, just dont know. Norm Cash belted twotbome runs and Jim Northrup added one for the Tigers wtile1 Don Mincher hit the 200th of his and Ha King also had for the Rangers.

Mike Cuellar, cruising along with a four-hitter, was just out away from helping the Orioles to snap a four-game losing spin. But he yielded a bloop single to Richie Scheinblum, then Lou Piniella crashed eighth home run of the year power the Royals to victory. Bob Darwin slammed first grand slam of his career his 10th homer of the season to lead Minnesotas 12-hit against Milwaukee. Perry and Dave LaRoche teamed to scatter seven Brewers hits. Clyde Wright scattered hits while Ken McMullen smacked a homer and Ken added a double and two to carry the Angels the Yanks.

fc'A mssm A- 'a ON THE SCOREBOARD Philadelphias Larry Bowa slides into home plate ahead of the ball to put the Phillies on the scoreboard in the third inning of the second game of last nights twi-night doubleheader against Los Angeles at Philadelphia. Dodger catcher Chris Cannizzaro waits for the throw, while ump Nick Pulli gets ready to make the call. (AP New Philly pilot errs Gets split in debut of I career one one his to the assault Jim eight Berry singles past Phnk! new summer sound The most prominent sounds of summer for years have been the crack of the bat in baseball, and the swoosh-whack of 1 club meeting the little white ball. But those two sports dont own the summer sound scene anymore. The newest sound is plink, and it comes from a hollow, hard rubber, fuzz-coated ball ricocheting off the gut strings of a tennis racket.

Most likely, the recent upswing in tennis is due to television, which has found the sport ideal for its purposes. The game is played on a small court and can, if necessary, be covered by one camera. Its not done that way, of course, because with only one camera employed, the viewer would have to look at the back of one player all day. If you're still a doubter, consider this. Last year Jack Nicklaus set an all-time professional golf money winning record of $244,106.

Rod Laver, playing on the infant World Championship Tennis circuit, walked away with $300,000. Thats due to television, too. There are relatively few tennis stadia in this country and hardly any with enough seating capacity to put that kind of money into purses. But with broadcast rights money from TV, and with most tournaments on pretty much a wfner-take-all basis, the top pys can make a bundle. The popularity of the sport hasnt been damaged in recent weeks by complimentary remarks from stars in other fields.

Jack Nichlaus, considered the worlds premiere golfer, recently told a writer that when he gets up-tight, he plays tennis to relax. I wouldnt play golf if I didnt get paid, he said, but Id play tennis. Chess master Bobby Fischer, interviewed the other day in Reykjavik, Iceland, site of the marathon world championship chess tournament against Russian world champion Boris Spassky, lamented that the small town had only two tennis courts. Where, he wondered, was He going to unwind from the rigors of the match? The tennis boom is most accurately reflected locally by the sales of tennis equipment, and not just rackets and balls. My sales are up considerably, said Roy Turner of Rock Island Sport Shop, particularly in the area of clothes.

Until the past couple of years nobody was interested in buying tennis shorts or shirts. even hats. I A player figured all he or she needed was a racket, a can of balls and tennis shoes. But now the whole line of ten- nis equipment is going big. Rod Hogren of A Store agrees.

Were selling lots more than we Rd In past years, he said. Like Turner, he agreed that tennis clothes werent a very big item in past years. But now wejiave a pair of tennis shorts that sells for $18.56. theyre selling, and so is the rest of the line. Yellow and fuchsia colored balls, instead of the traditional hite, are also going great guns.

Steel and aluminum rack- ets are hot items, too, Hogren said. We sell more high- quality steel rackets than wooden ones, he said. Its a simple matter of maintenance. There isn't any required. The upswing hasnt meant too much to the Athletic Shop, because tennis equipment has long been one of the stores top lines.

Weve even started to sell tennis dresses, said proprieter John Stengel. Up to this year, I probably didnt sell more than one or two dresses a season, but the gals are buying them now. Freeland Sports Center handles only rackets and balls, and refers customers requesting other items to one of the other sporting goods stores. The Rock Island summer tennis program, long one of the states biggest and best, is mushrooming to the point where students are accepted on a first come, first served basis. We just dont have time or space to accommodate all those who want to participate, said city tennis director Shelley Weiner.

Tennis is definitely the sport of the 70s. Its an ideal sport for people who dont have the time to spend a whole morning or afternoon playing 18 holes of golf. People can come, play a few sets and get out in a relatively short period of time. The park board employs 11 instructors to handle the summer program, and they put in a full day. We have lessons for the younger players at 8, 9, 16 and 11 o'clock in the morning, break for lunch and come back for classes at 1 and 2 in the afternoon, Weiner said, We give adult instructions two afternoons a week from 3 to 4:46, and four nights from 7 until dark.

The adult classes, particularly, are booming. Four years ago, when we started adult instruction, we had 14 adults entered. It went np to 25 the ext year, climbed to S3 in 1971, and this year we have 97 entered, he said. There are 406 kids entered in the youth division program. Our courts are filled from morning to night.

When were not giving lessons, people are playing and others are lined up waiting their turn. They come dressed for the occasion, too. In the past, men came out in bermudas and basketball shoes. Now theyre buying expensive double-knit shorts and legitimate tennis shoes. And almost all the ladies, who used to come out in shorts, are wearing tennis dresses.

The Quad-Cities Gosed Tennis Tournament, which was played oyer the weekend at Stadium Courts, drew 265 entrants last year. We had 327 this year, Welner said, Thats just about all we can handle and do a good job. Tennis, to use Weiners words, is definitely the sport of the 70s. Even Spiro Apew drilling a base-line shot into the back of his doubles partners head couldnt slow down the boom. That has to be the ultimate test.

for the new manager. But Freed, no gazelle on the base-paths, was thrown out trying to score. Owens hadnt bothered with a pinch runner. Minus one for the manager. The Phillies almost got Owens off the hook when Greg Luzinskis RBI single gave them the lead in the but Willie Davis tied it for the Dodgers with a homer in the ninth.

Two innings later, LA loaded the bases with none out and broke the tie on Wes Parkers sacrifice fly and an RBI single by Bill Buckner. Early Blast' Don Money had an early three-run homer for By HAL BOCK Associated Press Sports Writer People make mistakes which, of course, is why they put erasers on the tops of lead pencils. Frank Lucchesi has run out of erasers in Philadelphia and Paul Owens has just scratched the surface of his first one. Owens, already general manager of the Phillies, replaced Lucchesi as field manager on Monday and then piloted the club to a twi-night double-header split against Los Angeles, losing the first game 6-4 in 11 innings but taking the nightcap 9-1. obviously, is a slow starter.

Unfortunately for him, so are the Phillies. Elsewhere on an abbreviated National League schedule, San Francisco overtook slumping New York 5-4 and Montreal defeated San Diego 6-3 with two Padre players winding up in the hospital. All other NL clubs had the night off. Lucchesi had admitted at his departing news conference that he would have to take some of the blame for the teams performance. Owens was quick to do the same thing when the Phillies flopped in their first game under their new skipper.

The score was tied 3-3 in the seventh when Roger Freed singled and moved up on a sacrifice. Owens sent up pinch hitter Joe Lis who singled. Plus one Willie Montanez took care of the nightcap, driving in five runs with a single, triple and homer. Woody Fryman tossed a six hitter for the victory, disturbed only by Manny Motas eighth-inning homer. The Mets dropped their fifth game in the last six, bowing to San Francisco and slipping 4 games behind idle Pittsburgh Dave Rader and Willie McCovey had homers for the Giants but it took a two-run single by Chris Speier in the eighth inning to turn the game around.

Jim Fregosi, who had a two-run homer for the Mets, had singled home another run in the seventh for a 4-3 New York lead. Palmer puzzled at long victory famine MUIRFIELD, Scotland (AP) I keep on trying to make something happen but it just doesnt. Arnold Palmer, perhaps the perimented with eye-glasses and contact lenses to correct a near-sighted coridition. He recently abandoned them. But even with the glasses, and advancing years, and inert.

ng girth, and greying, thinning hair, and the lack of victories, Palmer still exerts a magic effect on galleries all over the world. British Open, which begins Wednesday. My mind wanders. All of a sudden Im not there. Im off in a cloud or something somewhere else.

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State Farm is all you need to know about insurance. Call me BILL most popular player golf has ever known and the man generally acknowledged to be the driving force behind the enormous growth of the game, was talking about his failure to win this season. Ive had a chance to win three times real good chances, Palmer said, a slight, puzzled creasing one of the (worlds most-photographed faces. But every time I got in position to win, every time I thought I had something going, something always happened. I think I just wanted to win too much and got too anxious.

The 42-year-oid master who put the word charge in golfs lexicon was making one of his fabled runs at the leaders in the final round of the Bob Hope Desert Classic then hit one out of bounds. Again, at Dallas, in the By ron Nelson Classic he mounted a last round challenge. The word went out: Amies charging. The King is making his move, His always huge gallery swelled to massive proportions as the faithful stampeded to his side to witness another miracle. Instead they viewed con secutive three-putt bogeys that killed it all.

At Greensboro, he held a two-stroke lead going to the par three 16th hole on the final day. Americas television audience watched in dismay and disbelief as he hit into a shallow stream 1 at the bottom of a ditch, elected to play it out and took a lead-destroying, confidence-shattering triple bogey six (hat cost him the Ive had trouble with my concentration, he mused before a practice round for the "Yew Frieniy Stele Ferei Aent Number 4 Sheraton Plaza Rock Island 788-7478 WE NEED Your Junked or Wrecked CAR Always Worth More At E. SLIVKEN CO. OPEN AU DAY SATURDAY 1605-1 st St. Rock Island 786-5487 STATE FARM State Farm Fire and Casualty Company Home Office: Bloomington.

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