The Macon Telegraph from Macon, Georgia • 19

Macon Telegraph It Newt Sun June 23 1E85 Unlike his character Kiel Martin knows how to relax Kiel Martin ww 1 ff HQ: tKk? RL By Tina Satan! Macon Tleroei and Now Kiel Martin better known as JD LaRue on Street says he is quite different from his TV charac ter lot of times I like to think a lot like him but said Martin who is in town for the Paul Walsh Datsun Honda Classic for MS a street educated semi dishonest cop a college educated actor gets nervous when he runs out of asphalt I take off and go fishing as often as I can I have a house in Mexico and it has a 53 mile dirt road driveway get up early every morning and go to bed early every night JD LaRue stays out late and parties every But the creators of the show must have seen some resemblance in the two Martin said because the part was written especially for him And Saturday Martin came one step closer to becoming a police officer when he was made an honor ary detective sergeant by the Macon Police Department AN OICIAL proclamation from the department commended Martin and the rest of the Street cast for increasing the awareness of police officers and pro cedures Martin said he shot his best score ever a 99 at River North Country Club Saturday in the amateurs only round of the Paul Walsh Dat isun Honda Classic for MS adding quickly that he has been golfing for only five months In addition Martin and his team mates Earl Benson Robert Chanin and Al Alaband are in a tie for fourth place after the amateurs only round Saturday Martin said that in the beginning of his acting career he did classical theater Shakespeare Thornton Wilder and Greek plays and then he went to Hollywood and played psy chotics for 10 years anyone had a kid or an aunt they wanted bumped off they called he said DRESSED IN well worn brown shoes blue pants a blue and white striped shirt and an Adidas golf cap Martin looked like anything but a Although he might not look the part Martin has made 12 feature length films including which was the beginning of the of series and he spent a year and a half on Edge of Martin 44 said the most gratifying part of Street is having a career and not a series of small parts and rejections who wants to pursue act ing as a career should be ready for a lot of rejections and leant not to take them Martin advised just the nature of the busi Martin who took time out from his vacation at his home in lor ida to visit Macon said while he is on vacation he tries not to think about the show which will begin its sixth season in the fall try to leave my character at he said won't think about UD LaRue unitl July 10 when I go back to work After five years of play ing JD I know him well enough I know everything about him I don't have to think about him" WHEN HE is shooting the series however Martin said he takes his work seriously He rode the beat with Los Angeles police officers to prepare for the role In addition there are four or five full time police officers on the Hill Street set to help with technical scenes he said "or about the first year every time I took someone down and frisked him stop and ask that all of it? to make sure I did it he said found out that when you frisk some one for example you have to take your hand and run it through the sus hair because they can be hid ing weapons there no matter how short it Classic rom page 1B i come down there I have nothing to do you know? i just try to play some he said if I play some golf on Sunday I can get my pace Chen and the other pros will pick up a $700 guarantee for playing River North and the winning pro will take home either a new Nissan 200 SX or the wholesale cash value of the car Glasson came to Macon a day early and put on a clinic at Bowden Golf Course Saturday afternoon first victory as a pro fessional came at the MS Classic last year Since then however Glasson has had phenomenal success won $149275 in official PGA Tour earnings for the first six months of 1985 Two weeks ago he won the Kemper Open for a $90000 paycheck On Saturday he was thinking back to the 1984 MS Classic my year he said before the clinic at Bowden hard to forget the place where you won your first anything turned out to be the first stop on a very successful year for me Last year there were several pressure situ ations when I looked back at what happened in Macon Then I could say done this The playoff I think was the best experience or this Classic Glasson flew in on an all night flight from Cali Navratilova wins tuneup tourney enters imbledon as co favorite 1 i I i ii I ii I1 I 8 I I II i 1 I I The Associated Press WIMBLEDON England Despite her victory Satur day in the final of the Eastbourne England grass court tournament Martina Navratilova have the role as overwhelming favorite for the Wimbledon tennis tournament that begins Monday She and Chris Evert Lloyd were installed as joint No 1 seeds this past week by the Wimbledon seedings commit tee the first time it was unable to announce an absolute pre toumament favorite John McEnroe despite four losses already this year is the one British bookmakers say will be unbeatable at the 1985 All England Tennis Championships The top seeded McEnroe bidding for his fourth Wimb ledon singles crown in five years will be the odds on favorite at 4 to 9 when he steps onto Center Court to face Peter McNamara in the first round Navratilova defied a swirling wind to beat Helena Sukova 6 4 6 3 Saturday and win the $150000 Eastbourne championship in her Wimbledon tuneup Because play was washed out by rain both the semifinals and final rounds were played Saturday In her semifinal Navratilova beat No 3 seed Manuela Maleeva of Bulgaria 6 1 6 2 Sukova the No 5 seed from Czechoslovakia survived three match points in her semifinal against No 10 seed Wendy Turnbull of Australia before winning 4 6 7 6 6 4 McENROE WAS beaten this year at the Tournament of Champions in New York the WCT finals in Dallas the World Team Cup in Dusseldorf and most recently in Paris where he failed in his bid to become the first American since 1955 to win the rench Open The 25 year old New Yorker lost only three times all last year His record so far this season still is impressive 40 4 and bookies believe McEnroe will easily win on the famed grass courts of the most coveted Grand Slam tournament and claim the $163800 first prize No 2 seed Ivan Lendl of Czechoslovakia yet to show a touch on grass is next in the betting at 5 to followed by Mats Wilander who earlier this month beat Lendl on slow clay in the finals of the rench West German Boris Becker 17 already being hailed as the best prospect since McEnroe himself is fourth in the betting at 12 to even though he does not figure among the 16 seeds Last week Becker won his first Grand Prix title at the pre Wimbledon Queens Club event in West London picked up $32000 and moved up to No 20 in world rank ings big serve and all court game had his opponents reeling on the low cut grass and Johan Kriek whom he beat in straight sets in the final said afterward: he plays like that every day at Wimbledon he can win the Among the women Navratilova was slightly favored by bookmakers and given a 2 to 7 shot to win her sixth title and the $147720 top prize with Lloyd 7 to 2 against Lloyd has just regained the No 1 spot at age 30 from her great rival and is halfway to achieving a Grand Slam consecutive victories at the four major tournaments and a special $1 million bonus put up by the International Tennis ederation Navratilova achieved the feat at last rench Open Lloyd has won the Australian and rench titles and still needs to capture Wimbledon and the US Open 4 I SUPER VALUE DAYS IT If Jlllllllllllllllllll dllllllllllliiiiiill REE ATTACHMENT NO DOWN PAYMENT NO MONTHLY PAYMENT OR 90 DAYS During Super Value Days Snepjcredit OfiapurWi features are available for the SNAPPER rider you now own Ask dealer for details DUMP CART Retail Value $11995 i Model25065 regular retail price you can choose either a 6 bushel grass catcher or dump REE! 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