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The IndfK-Joumal, Greenwood Tues Aug 21, 1984 Tennis. Montgomery death: 'A tragic loss' (Continued from page 12) singles title for the second consecutive year and has twice been named an NA1A All-American. Before transferring to Lander from Clemson, he won the Atlantic Coast Conference sixth flight title for the Tigers. Pristach graduated from Lander this month with a bachelor of science degree in business administration. Lander Coach Joseph Cabri, whose team has represented District 6 at the NAIA nationals for four consecutive years, said that Pristach showed great character playing injured in the quarterfinals of the nationals and then recovering to play brilliantly in the finals.

Cabri, District 6 Coach of the Year in 1981, 1982 and 1984, said, "Peter has earned national respect for Lander men's tennis, a respect this year's team will try to make a tradition." FLORENCE (AP) Marvin Montgomery was a skilled athlete, well-liked and a natural leader whose death Monday was "a tragic loss" for his family and "for the Clemson University family," Clemson football Coach Danny Ford said. Montgomery, a Sumter resident and graduate of Hillcrest High School, was one of the top Clemson prospects a wide receiver who earned numerous honors for his high school play. The 18 year-old Clemson incoming freshman died from injuries received in an auto accident during the weekend near his Sumter home. Montgomery died at 12:35 p.m. at McLeod Regional Medical Center in Florence from "grave brain and spinal cord injuries," according to school prospects.

"He was one of the blue-chip boys we recruited this year." said Bob Bradley. Clemson sports information director. "He was touted as one of the state's top high school receivers last season." Bradley said Montgomery caught 32 passes for 719 yards and seven touchdowns as a senior at Hillcrest in 1983, as well as carrying the ball 42 times on end around plays, gaining 265 yards at 6.3 yards per carry. He led his team to the 4 A state playoffs two years in a row. He was selected by coaches to the All State football team, as well as by the Orlando Sentinel newspaper to the AH Southern team and was listed among the nation's top 100 players in The Sporting News, Bradley said.

hospital spokesman Easton Clark. State Trooper T.E. Owens said Montgomery was injured 7 p.m. Saturday in Sumter County when the sports car he was driving crossed the opposite lane of traffic, hit a tree and flipped at least twice. In a statement Monday, Ford called Montgomery's death "a tragic loss for Marvin Montgomery's family and for the Clemson University family and everyone who was ever associated with him." "He was a very well-liked player on our team and had already demonstrated that he was a great leader.

He had outstanding ability academically and athletically, but he was really a better person than all of his accomplishments combined," Ford said. "He will be greatly missed, and we page 12) Baseball. (Continued from lief before Al Holland got his 27th save by getting the final out. Expos 3, Dodgers 1 Bill Gullickson, winless in eight previous decisions against Los Angeles, finally beat the Dodgers by scattering seven hits over eight innings. Gary Lucas pitched the ninth for his eighth save.

It was Montreal's sixth consecutive victory and the third straight defeat for the Dodgers. "It took me five years, but I finally Duo takes GCC golf tourney title send our iupalli and regret to his family." Owens said Montgomery lost control of a late-model Mazda RX-7 while rounding a curve about a mile from his home. Owens estimated the car was traveling 70 miles per hour. A passenger, Johnny Martin, 18, Sumter, was thrown 40 feet from the car on its first flip and did not require hospitalization. Montgomery was thrown 20 feet from the car on its second flip.

Owens said the Georgia-registered car did not belong to Montgomery, but was registered to another member of the Clemson football team and was loaned to Montgomery, a 6 foot, 170 pound athlete who garnered numerous honors at Hillcrest High School, was considered one of Ciemson's top high Tommy Callahan of Ninety Six was fourth, and John Conners of West Columbia was fifth. In tne Street Main event, Art Spires took the checkered flag. Tim Cooper of Cayce was second, Curtis Goff of Gaston was third, Alvin Davis of Gaston was fourth and Bubba Goodwin of West Columbia was fifth. Saturday night there will be a special race in the Street Stock division and in the 40 lap Limited Main. Tennis tourney A South Carolina Adult Closed Tennis Tournament will be held at the Greenwood County Tennis Center Friday, Aug.

24 through Sunday, Aug. 26 with the deadline to register 7 p.m. today. The tournament is sponsored by The Parks and Recreation Department and is sanctioned by the USTA, SCTA and the Southern Tennis Association. There will be competition in, men's open singles and doubles, women's open singles and doubles and mixed doubles.

The entry fee for singles is $15 and $16 for doubles. For more information call the Tennis Center 223-2712, ext. 220. Player of Year NEW YORK (AP) Martina Nav ratilova was named the 1984 Player of the Year by the Women's Tennis Association for the third consecutive year and the fifth time in the last seven years. While the announcement was made, Navratilova and Pam Shriver captured the rain-dclayed $150,000 United Jersey Bank Classic doubles tennis title in Mahwah, N.J., defeat t-CL I ing Jo Durie and Ann Kiyomura-Hayashi, 7-6, 3 6, 6 2.

MASON, Ohio (AP) Shlomo Glickstein of Israel defeated ninth-seeded Henri Leconte of France, 1-6, 7-5, 6-3, in the opening round of the $375,000 Association of Tennis Professionals tournament. Boat driver killed LIEGE, Belgium (AP) Thirty-year-old British speedboat driver Tom Percival died after his boat overturned and threw him onto the banks of the Meuse River during Sunday's Belgian Formula One Grand Prix here, hospital officials said. Percival and Italian driver Fabri-zio Bocca collided during the first heat of the Grand Prix as the British driver tried to overtake Bocca. CLIP AND SAVE SKATE AWAY Major League BATTING CAGES! i SOFT and HARD BALL GET I 8 FREE SWINGS 3 WITH THIS COUPON DIXIE DRIVE NEXT TO SKATE AWAY in Greenwood CLIP AND SAVE Franco Harris don't think they really wanted Steelers run out of patience beat them," said Gullickson, 9-7. "I pitched some bad games and lost, and pitched well and still lost." Gullickson missed a shutout when Pedro Guerrero hit a solo homer in the fourth.

Dan Driessen's two-out, two-run single in the fourth inning put the Expos on top to stay against Dodger starter Orel Hershiser, 8-6, who hurt his own cause with three wild pitches. Harris needs just 363 yards to break Jim Brown's National Football League rushing record. He has been one of the most durable backs in football history, missing only nine games in his career, and gained 1,007 yards last season despite running behind an often makeshift offensive line. Harris made the Immaculate Reception, perhaps the most famous play in football history; holds or shares 24 NFL records and is the only running back to gain more than 1,000 yards in eight seasons. But the Steelers felt there was no time for nostalgia when Harris balked at his current contract, refused to report to training camp on July 20 and requested a two-year deal that would have paid him substantially more than his current salary.

"We did everything we could to sign Franco," Steelers President Dan Rooney said at a news conference. "We initiated the negotiations in March and neegotiated in good faith throughout the talks. We wanted to do this right and we wanted him to get the record." individual medley in four minutes, 18.29 seconds. In all, five Olympic medal-winning times were beaten on the second day of swimming competition. Seay wins at Laurens LAURENS Charles Seay of Dacusville added to his sportsman division point lead by taking the win in that division Saturday night at the Laurens Speedway.

James Burnett of Sedelia was second, Doug Jones of Forrest City, N.C. was third, Gray Court's Alvm Nabors was fourth and Gene McCall of Easley was fifth. Jr. Tucker of Crescent was again the cadet winner over Richard Lyons of Laurens, Tommy Crowder of Gray Court, Mike Tumblin of Gray Court and Odis Summers of Easley. Tommy Fortner of Woodruff fought a five car battle to take the rookie checkers.

Fred Crowder Jr. of Gray Court was second, Haskell Pat terson of Laurens was third, David Campbell of Clinton was fourth and Bill Eubanks of Laurens was fifth. Hearn takes Thunder Valley LEESVILLE Warrenville's Billy Hearn took the 50 lap Sportsman Main event at Thunder Valley Saturday night. Earnest Steifle of Greenwood, the first heat winner, finished second. Randy Woodward of Augusta was third, Larry Powell of Gaston was fourth and Billy Robinson of Greenwood was fifth.

Alvin Timms of Greenwood won the Limited Sportsman event. Dean Boatwright of West Columbia, winner of the second heat, finished second, and Mike James of Aiken, the first heat winner, finished third. WE EMPLOY CERTIFIED MECHANICS Every Every Tire TTfc-T PITTSBURGH (AP) Franco Harris may have extended his 12-year pro football career by frequently running out of bounds to avoid punishing tackles. But when the 34-year-old running back almost certain to be named one day to the Pro Football Hall of Fame prolonged his contract talks and missed a month of training camp, the Pittsburgh Steelers ran out of patience. In a stunning move, the Steelers put Harris on waivers Monday.

Any other NFL team can now claim Harris for a mere $100 or $384,900 less than Harris would have been paid in 1984 under the option year clause of his contract. "I don't think they really wanted me," Harris said at his home Monday night, floodlights from TV cameras lighting up a neighborhood located just five blocks from Three Rivers Stadium. "I'm sorry it had to end this way. A lot of great moments, a lot of great people are in Pittsburgh," he said. Bill Tinsley and Bill Lloyd made up a three shot deficit with a five under par 67 to win the Greenwood Country Club Member-Guest Golf Tournament by a single stroke over the weekend.

First round leaders Ted Wyndham and Furman Smith placed second in the annual two-day event which included 75 teams. Here are the top finishers in each flight in the weekend tourney: Championship flight Bill Tinsley-Bill Lloyd, 71-67-138 Ted Wyndhham-Furman Smith, 68-71- 139 J.W. Barker Wallace Graham, 72-68-140 Rhett Sanders-Ed Campbell, 70-70-140 First night John Kundrat-Steve Richittelli, 73-70-143 Marion Davis, Bradford, 73-72145 Leland Vaughn-Billy Hough, 73-73-146 Jim Self-Bobby Kapp, 73-74-147 Second flight Melvin Poole Randy Poole, 75 72-147 Don Underwood Bob Estes, 75-74-149 Carl Treadway-Ruefin Holder, 76-74-150 Richard Wilson-Andy Langley, 76-74-150 Third Hight Ronnie Henderson-Jim Messer, 79-73-152 John Sherrell-John Andrews, 78-76-154 Jerry Timmons-Chuck Werner, 79-76-155 Jack Wofford-Tim Mason, 79-78-157 Fourth night Jim Doares-Butch Foust, 82-73-155 John McElrath-Bobby Fisher, 81-77-158 Buddy Roberts-Mike Turner, 83-75-158 -Jim Williams-Bob Phillips, 81-77-158 Fifth flight Perry Smith-Barry Whitman, 85-82-167 Dwight Funderburk-Terry Mulleny, 85-82-167 Terry Adkins-Steve White, 85-85-170 Richard Edmonds-Terry Shope, 87-84-171 Players of week NEW YORK (AP) -Tim Raines of the Montreal Expos was named the National League's Player of the Week after hitting .458 with eight stolen bases. Raines had 11 hits in 24 at-bats, scored seven runs and drove in five for Montreal, winning the honor by beating out Pete Rose, who became player-manager of the Cincinatti Reds and hit .533 with 5 RBIs. NEW YORK (AP) Mickey Hatcher of the Minnesota Twins and Mike Boddicker of the Baltimore Orioles were voted co-winners of the American League Player of the Week award.

Hatcher had two four-hit games with five doubles and six RBIs last week. He batted .556, 15-for-27. Boddicker pitched two complete-game victories with a one-hitter over Toronto last Monday and a four-hit shutout over California on Sunday. Stars to Baltimore? BALTIMORE (AP) Philadelphia Stars owner Myles Tannenbaum downplayed his comments made last week that he would move his team to Baltimore if the United States Football League voted to change from a spring to a fall schedule, Berndt's time would have been only good for a silver medal at Los Angeles, where Alex Baumann of Canada won in a world record time of 4:17.41. Tech and Toledo will have one televised game each.

West Virginia appeared on television six times last season, producing approximately $1.5 million in revenue. "We can't tell how much we will make right now," said Mike Parsons, WVU's assistant athletic director in charge of marketing. A lot of it depends on how many acutual appearances. We could be preempted. The TCS-Metrosports schedule: Sept.

15 W.Virginia-VPI; Sept. 22 Sept. 29 Penn State-Texas; Oct. 6 Penn State-Maryland; Oct. 13 AirForce-Notre Dame; Oct.

20 S.Carolina-Notre Dame; Oct. 27 Penn State-W. Virginia; Nov. 3 W.Virginia-Rutgers; Nov. 17 W.Virginia-Temple; Djc.

1 Toledo-Temple. Friendship '84 games- Eastern bloc countries reeling in the gold, silver USC-Notre Dame to be televised Goodyear-Auto Tire (zz) and Light truck Is On Sale. MOSCOW (AP) The swimming and cycling competitions at the Friendship '84 games have developed into an inevitable battle between the host nation and East Germany, the two East bloc sports giants. Both nations have been overpowering, in the water and on the cycling track, and have shared most top places between them, leaving third place to other participants. So far the East Germans have won five out of nine swimming events while the Soviets have dominated the cycling oval.

The Cubans, however, have dominated boxing, with six quarterfinal victories in Havana Monday, four of them against Soviet opponents. The Soviet Union led a 14-nation boycott of the Los Angeles Summer Olympics, citing unsatisfactory security arrangements and fear of harassment as the main reason for staying away. But in Europe it was speculated that the powerful Soviet team was afraid of being embarrassed by the possibility of its tiny East German ally finishing ahead on the medals table. Jens-Peter Berndt of East Germany turned in the day's top performance Monday, setting a Euro-'pean record in the men's 400-meter MORGANTOWN, W.Va (AP) West Virginia University is tentatively scheduled to have five of its 1984 football games televised by TCS-Metrosports as part of a Syndicated television package, officials said Monday. TCS-Metrosports, the largest independent company handling college sports television, is scheduled to televise West Virginia games with Virginia Tech Sept.

15 in Blacksburg, Va. with Maryland Sept. 22 in Morgan-town with Penn State Oct. 27 in Mor-gantown; with Rutgers Nov. 10 in East Rutherford, N.J.

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