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A Junior at Eastern Illinois University, Erlcksvn won four of Ue first five holes and skipped merrily along to a 6 up ad-antage at the tum. Irnsteln found hi troubles early with a double bogey at No. 3. a triple bogry at No. 5 and bogejs at No.

7 and 8. He finished the front nine with a set en-over-par 42. "I wasn't light," aid Bernstein, wlm is 38 years old, "I thought I would be, but I really couldn't have been any looser. "I was confident I'd win even when I got down early. I Just played bad and he while Jamie Itncrt In a pavs lipped by lla YankowkJ.

First car Cirdinal bead coach IM Coryell wa pleased with the "(Kir i-trran plajtri did very well cii5idcrtng lliey only had five dayi of raeticc." CoreII aid. TIe Mrimmasc was er" Rood for our club in lenos of the cenence we Rained and Hie fact we did not suffer any serious injuries." The Cardinals made one cut Saturday, placing ninth round draft choice Ken King Irom Kentucky on waiur. King is a linebacker. Loco stars to meet Peoria A team sprinkh-d with local celebrities will meet tlie I'eoria Monsters In a benefit Softball game Aug. II at Normal's Fam lew park.

Game time Is 7 pin. fSiWJ.iU.. vv 4 if 1 K.r. 111 nKNs.sKLM.lt. Iik! Tim Van (JjUt lHrd a 3i)jrJ loiring vus la Ara lYr! dcrin Ox? rrjLir td mWrd two UnkM'mn fvwv diirlnj poallitx drill Jsalurd.iy apainM IIh? Oilcaso lU-an at llic Itcar traintnc ne Iktt.

ffc-lh Fwuita'l temw ran pU durmj; Ifw hour anl 4i mtnulc KTimmajr. Tin pla)s Mrrt run fn-m fmir-)ard line a MTimnucc "sc urkout uitJi fuM pnjj drill dr each Iran. IIk Cardin.tU U'4-U Ihi-ir Ironl line vt-fcnMvc plavrrs p.innly. No. I quarterback Jim Hart was only in en parsing plays and completed four, while Van (lalder connected on wnen of It and second-round draft choice Gary Kcithloy of Texas Kl I 'a so hit only five of 15 at-lempls and had two Intercepted.

The fop two St. Louis running barks Johnny IIoI.iikI and IXmny An-diTMW Rave way to lin Dura. Stec Conley and hldie Moss. Anderson only participated in a couple of plays ami lloland remained at the Cardinal raining camp in Normal lKTau.se of a knee injury. Kadi tram scored four times during the goal-line scrimmage.

Van Galder passed to tight end Jim McFarland and rookie running back Ken Garrett and Burns and Moss ran for scores. The Cardinals intercepted two Bobby Douglass aerials. Norm Thompson picked off one and returned it 20 yards, Tlio rosulls a i hw CHAMPioNtMO ruor $iviiil 0i; Erlrfewm ff.i.M Irv MrntiA, 4 CONtOLATiON PLIGHT FINAL! IMT FlIOMr tfCOMD LIOHT oaty ltn and 4 TMIdO PLIOMT od M-rt dt-1 n4 4 POUtTM FLIOMT Dn LltHi 0'mm i FIFTH FLIOMT S'rv Sctiwoltr o4 H.H KoMrti. 2 1 SIXTH FLIOMT Bill Cry 0'C OifH'hw. and I IS Vf NTH FLIOMT Jim CVtll dttoOM ion Minrli-M, 4 nd tlOHTM FLIOMT Jon Eki Phil wt, J-io NINTH FLIGHT Dl Boulwtr om'4 Dav I cl.

I TINTH FLIOMT Jo B'ty Ctit S'tvt Cofham, 5 "4 4 State Senator HarU-r Hall, State Itep-resenlative Gerald Bradley. Normal Mayor Carol ltcilan and Daily Pan-lagraph City Editor Dick Strcckfuss will be among the players on llic Blooming-ton-Normal learn. Proceeds from the game will go to the Illinois State University and University High School Deaf Education Department. Donation is $1. Also playing for the Bloomington-Normal team will be six members of the Normal Police Department.

Looking ahead Vtttran Irv Btrnsttin waits to ttt off on 10th holt during hit match against Bill Erickton. Berntttin lott a 7 and 4 decition. Rt Bailty, who was ent under par but still lott a 3 and 2 dcitlon to John Katch, itudiet a birdia putt on th tighth grtn. Bailey had four birdit for Hit match but misted at No. I.

(Paragraph Photos) Pondering regarious Van Galder retains optimism fa "It takes a long time to learn," said 1' Tim Van Galder 4 'l 0 Tim was drafted No. 2 by the Houston Oilers but signed with the Cardinals even though Houston got him a date with Miss Texas. Van Galder started the 19G7 season on the Cardinals' active roster. But. after three games, it was learned that Charlie Johnson would be back on weekends from Army duty and Tim was assigned to the taxi squad.

"I got cut in 1908," recalled Tim. "So, I went to Canada for a week. They were in the middle of their season and they asked me to come back the following year. "I decided to go get my car in St. Louis and since I had a two-year Army obligation staring me in the face, I thought I might get that over with.

"Bill Bidwill (Cardinal owneri offered me a job in public relations and so I figured I'd stay the season in that job and go into the service in January of 1 909. "The day I showed up to talk to the Cardinals about the public relations job, the quarterback they had kept in place of me walked out. So, I ended up on the taxi squad again and was never activated. 'i spent 1969 and 1970 in Korea and at Fort Sill, Okla." Tim was a player-coach of a division football team in Korea and tried to burn the candle at both ends in his year at Fort Sill. "I drove 400 miles a day to work out with Fort Worth in the Continental League," explained Tim.

"I got done with my Army duty at 3 p.m. and drove until 6 to get to Fort Worth. "Then. I'd practice for two hours and baseball letters at Iowa State. He was an all-Big Eight Conference selection as a pitcher and led the conference in passing and total offense in his junior and senior football seasons.

He broke virtually every Big Eight passing record as a junior and then rewrote his own records as a senior. Tim would practice spring football Monday through Thursday. Then, he'd play in a baseball doubleheader on Friday. Saturday, he would participate in football drills. "Let's face it," said Tim.

"I was at Iowa State on a football scholarship and that had to come first. But, they told me if I could make the starting lineup in baseball I could play. "So, in my sophomore year, I started and pitched the first game. When we had a doubleheader, I'd play some other position the second game. So, I played baseball just one day a week.

"Some baseball scouts talked to me but I made it clear to them that football was my game. I had a good curve but a very average fast ball. They look for the guy with speed." The football Cardinals made Van Galder a sixth-round future draft choice-after his junior year. Here's a sample of Tim's versatility: One Friday, he flew from Des Moines to Tulsa. He then rented a car and drove to Stillwater, Okla.

He pitched the first game of a doubleheader against Oklahoma State and played first base in the second game. Then, he missed a flight and sat up all night in a Kansas City airport. Saturday afternoon, he was the varsity quarterback in a football scrimmage. By Jim Barnhart Pantograph Sports Editor Tim Van Galder, the handsome, ebullient St. Louis football Cardinal quarterback, is like the well known car rental agency.

He's No. 2 and trying Harder. A compulsive grecter, the amiable Van Galder seemingly has a legion of friends among the Cardinals, who don't hesitate to needle him about his relations with the news media. Tim, who is of Dutch descent and pronounces his name Van Geldcr, has been referred to in the past as the poor man's Joe Namath. But, the 29-year-old Iowa State graduate claims his off the field activities have slowed down since his marriage to Wendy, a Northwest Orient Air Lines stewardess.

No one is more serious about his profession than Tim, who realizes Jim Hart is running No. 1 at the quarterback position. "In my own mind, I feel I can do it," said Van Galder. "Hopefully, the coaches feel they won't lose much if I have to go in for Jim." TVG. as he's known to the St.

Louis press, directed the Big Red to a 10-3 victory over Baltimore in the season last year. Then, in the Cardinals' third game against Pittsburgh, Tim received a hip-pointer and a concussion and was out for four weeks. "Mean Joe Greene and two other Steelers did It," said Van Galder. "It was a screen play but our fullback got hung up in the line. There was no one to throw to so I decided I'd run up the Tim.

"We can all throw or we wouldn't be here. You don't have to read defenses in college. "But, reading defenses isn't coming up to the line and looking over the other team before the ball is snapped. You have to be able to do it after the ball is snapped. "You can't believe what you see before the ball is snapped.

That defense is cheating all the time and they'll be doing something completely different after the ball is snapped. "The more you play, the more complicated it gets because you notice more things. But, you can't take time to think. Everything has to be done on reaction." Tim spends the off-season in St. Louis where he's been working weekends for a sports show on KMOX television.

"When Bob Buck was on vacation, I got to do it for the whole week," said Tim. Wendy is based in Minneapolis and commutes from St. Louis to her job. "Minneapolis is her home," explained Tim. "So, when she comes back on a flight, she can always stay there." Van Galder is rated an excellent golfer and has a four handicap.

"I played when I was a kid but didn't do much with the game until I was at Fort Sill," said Tim. "I got to know the people who ran the course and started playing more. "I was a very ordinary golfer then, shooting in the 80's. But, normally I shoot in the middle 70's now. It jut comes from playing more." middle and get a few yards.

They caught me in a vise." He came back to start two more games but Hart was the No. 1 quarterback when the season ended. "I played real well in the exhibitions and started the last two," said Tim. "Hart was hurt and they traded Pete Beathard. "But, the musical chairs at quarterback didn't help anyone.

You can't let mistakes bother you but they do if you know you'll be out of there. "I know more now than I did last year. It had been so long since I played, since 1967. I didn't know in my own mind if I was good enough. "I knew I could read defenses and throw but I had to prove it to myself." Tim was born in Racine, Wis.

but moved to Fresno, Calif, when his father Clark accepted a position coaching football at Fresno State. When the elder Van Galder was named backfield coach at the University of Wisconsin. Tim returned and played his high school football at Madison West. Tim won three football and two drive home. I'd get back to Fort Sill at 1 a.m.

I'd have to drive on Saturdays to play. I played two games with them but had to give it up because I couldn't stand the pace." Van Galder was discharged from the Army in April of 1971. "I waited for camp to start," said Tim. "The Cardinals had Hart and Beathard. Another fellow and I were trying for the third quarterback spot.

But, this fellow was injured in a motorcyle accident and I got the third string job. At the end of the season, they activated me as a running back for the last three games. I didn't play but this qualified me for a season under the pension plan. Since I got credit for a year in 1967, my two years in the Army counted too. So, when I played last season, this qualfied me as a "five-year man under the pension plan." Learning to read defenses is the biggest hurdle all quarterbacks must surmount according to Tim.

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