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Tullahoma Golfer Leads State Juniors Bristol Girl Second BYBILLVILONA i SportsWriter JOHNSON CITY Tenn BiU Zebick strode down the fairways of Johnson City Country Club Thursday with renewed confidence father Gary is an accomplished pro at Holston Hills Country Club All three will be paired in final threesome at noon The best score after final round gets an all expense paid trip in August to compete for the National Despite the mild slump the year has been a good one for Zebick who recently graduated from Tullahoma High School and is bound for a golf scholarship at the University of Arkansas He captured the district and regional prep titles fin or the tall strapping youth from Tullahoma who looks far olderthan his 17 years would indicate every thing was going his way physical stature puts 1 him in that among category and his two under par 70 yesterday placed him in the seat to i West Palm Beach la Zebick who plays on a nine hole course located on an Air orce testing facility back home grabbed the first round lead in the annual PGA State Junior and snuggled it in his arms The nearest challengers are two sons of well known area golf professionals One is 14 year old Chris Dibble who plays like he is four or five years older and 17 year old Chris Toulson whose TODAY'S I SPORTS PGA Junior Title in Palm Beach Gardens la as Ten representative In the girls division where the same grand prize awaits the winner the race is much closer Karen Socha of Greeneville has the first round lead thanks to an 81 yesterday One shot back at 82 is Kelly Keefe Two girls stand at 84 sure would be said Zebick in thinking about the opportunity already qualified to go to San Diego to compete in the National Optimist Junior World but Palm Beach would be very nice I really hitting the ball well coming into this tournament But I got here on Wednesday went to the practice tee and everything kind of fell into ished fourth in the state tourney and won the Mid State Open in Columbia during the Spring During round he displayed good scram bling technique to make par on several holes where bogey or worse appeared certain The perfect example came on the par 5 478 yard 13th hole After a solid drive Zebick hooked an iron shot dead into the pines With no chance of a full swing he punched through the trouble pitched to five feet and sank a clutch putt for par one more than any got me Zebick ex plained knew after that hole I would have a real good round But to play good golf you have to scramble Zebick finished the final three holes birdie par bir Bristol Herald Courier die His booming drive on 16 took a lucky bounce off a tree and landed in the fairway He took advantage by nearly holing a soft wedge shot then sinking the putt course I play at home (Arnold Golf Center) is real tight so used to narrow fairways I feel like one of the hardest courses in the said Zebick course you use your head you should do fine feel good about my chances to win had a good year been on top before so I feel the pressure of leading will bother Although Dibble is expected to run away with the 12 14 age division his only ticket to lorida would have to come by winning the entire tournament The thought of being paired against two college bound freshmen may unnerve some young players but Dibble is used to com petition against older boys have to play awful good I definitely need to shoot under par to have a said Dibble would be great if I can pull it off 2 riday July 8 1983 BIR Oval Track Sold To Hodgdon ByCOYBAYS Sports Writer 1 California businessman Warner Hodgdon has acquired sole own ership of Bristol International Race way and surrounding property in cluding Thunder Valley Dragway and Nashville International Race way by purchasing the holdings of his former partner Gary Baker Hodgdon whose other racing in vestments include half Interest in Ju nior NASCAR Winston Cup team sponsorship of driver Neil Bonnett and interests in the half mile ovals at North Wilkesboro NC and Richmond Va was unavailable for comment Thursday The $2 million transaction was made public by original owner Larry Carrier of Bristol who will be presi dent and general manager of the complex In conjunction with his buying out the Nashville tax attorney Hodg don purchased a block of stock in the International Hot (Rod Association previously held by State Senator Carl Moore of Bristol and signed a 10 year management contract with Carrier who was the original owner of the Bristol racing complex? The purchase of IHRA stock makes 50 year old Hodgdon a full partner with Carrier in the drag racing sanctioning body the trade of the stock a contract was made where I would serve as president and general man ager of IHRA Bristol International Raceway and Thunder Valley for the next 10 said Carrier who opened the raceway in 1961 and the dragway in 1965 Carrier sold the 533 mile oval to Baker and Lanny Hester in Decem ber of 1977 and said at the time that he sold the NASCAR facility in order to devote more time to the growth of his drag racing sanctioning body which began operating in 1971 Hodgdon whose financial em pire spreads its tentacles into seve ral states from its headquarters in San Bernardino Calif entered the picture at BIR in 1981 when he pur chased holdings in the rac ing venture When asked Thursday if his reas suming the responsibilty for running the track contradicted his reason for the previous sale of the property Carrier said his agreement with Hodgdon was one of mutual neces sity for both parties IT need Warner Hodgdon in drag racing and he needs a general man ager for this Carrier ex plained has been profitable and he expects it to expand in many areas The immediate expansion will be in the East and the Carrier indicated that five tracks in Texas and one in New Mex ico will come under the sanction of IHRA next year He also said that the drag racing organization had signed an exclusive cable television contract with ESPN for next year As far as the operation of the oval is concerned Carrier said that there was little room to improve upon what Baker had accomplished but there would be some philosoph ical changes and certain events such as last ASA A11 Pro Volun teer 300 would be scrutinized have set up a special fund for future expansions and im said Carrier I see it we are at the top of the ladder on ticket prices You charge $20 for a 300 lap race and you put improvement costs on the price of tickets will have to come from another source other than ticket he said intend to hold ticket prices where they are if possible will have to give the ASA races a lot of thought because both have been big Carrier said pulled down the net profits both years I know whether have them back at this time It will have to be under a situation where we can hold the ticket prices at about $12 and still be able to show a As far as direct in volvement with the operation Car rier indicated that It would be that of an investor contract says that I work for Carrier said operate the business as I see One area where Carrier feels that improvement can be made in terms of profits is with the operation of Thunder Valley Stables and the Thunder alley Showgrounds stables doing what they were doing when I had said Carrier As for future plans in re gard to racing Carrier indicated that the Nashville attorney had signed a contract as part of the set tlement with Hodgdon which would not allow the former partner to be in volved with racing in a management or ownership role in Tennessee AP Laserphoto ft IL HI BQ WHAT A DIERENCE 12 YEARS MAKES Ted Simmons Of Milwaukee Greets Kansas Dan Quisenberry After inal Out In All Star Game ireworks American League Provided Plenty In 1 3 3 Win By DAVE ANDERSON 1983 NY Times News Service CHICAGO In the American League club house before last All Star Game their sluggers were talking about the fireworks that ex plode above the Comiskey Park scoreboard after a home run knew about the fireworks and we wanted to see Dave Winfield was saying now after the 13 3 victory we Home runs by red Lynn the first grand slam in All Star history and Jim Rice set off the fireworks in a record seven run third inning as the American League ended the National streak of 11 consecutive victories and 19 triumphs in the previous 20 games But in itself that two decade domination served to inspire the Ameri can League in the All Star 50th anniversary party we come back next Winfield said have to listen to questions about why the National League is The Yankee outfielder who had been in a slump recently had a double and two singles in three times at bat as the American League accu mulated 15 hits the game Harvey Kuenn just told us out and hit and have some fun my game is hitting not holding Winfield said of the Milwaukee manager told us like to hold meetings I like to see my team And we hit we set some records Most runs in an inning irst grand slam We were awesome proved no big difference between the leagues And we put an end to a terrible strain won the last game now back to square one I think we just had more seasoned veterans out there this year We had better talent this year we had the better team But you have to win to prove the better team And the vet erans were determined to Over in the National League clubhouse the victim of that seven run inning the lefthander Atlee Hammaker of the San rancisco Giants had no excuses for his peformance two thirds of an inning seven runs six hits put it he said probably the worst exhibition of pitching ever see And I have picked a worse spot for it either my first All Star Game and in front of all these people I have no excuses was ahead of almost every hitter I think homer was on a and 2 pitch I was ahead of Brett and I was ahead of Lynn I hung a slider to Lynn They told me in the dugout that I had Lynn struck out but I was too terrible to alibi KEV HMnr Kf 7 IX V' A A LOOK BACK Starr Photo By Bill McKee Dave McClure Sprints As Hector Quinones (2) And red Williams Chase Ball Reach 500 Mark Tigers Sweep Doubleheader By STEVE BAWDEN Executive Sports Editor Tom Held likes his teammates to score runs when he takes the mound for the Bristol Tigers He just wishes it take so long to get those runs Held picked up his third victory in as many decisions as the Tigers downed visiting Bluefield 5 1 in the second game of Thursday split doubleheader at DeVault Sta dium Bristol made it a sweep by de feating Paintsville 3 2 in extra in nings in the opener The victories enabled the Tigers to climb to the 500 mark at 7 7 2M games in back of Appalachian League leader Pulaski Bristol will try for a winning re cord tonight at home against Paint sville It will be Ladies Night Held a 6 1 170 pound right hander gave up just one hit in five innings of work He struck out five but also walked five consistent with my curve Held explained in the game I was just miss ing and later a just bearing Held walked the first two batters he faced and then settled down to fan the next three Orioles The Tigers tallied once in the first when Larry Goodwin drew a walk from Bluefield starter Mike Conley with the bases full to plate Jim Wale wander Bristol added an other in the second and three more in the third Bristol rapped out just four hits during that stretch but benefited from four walks and two Bluefield errors was happy to get the support but it seemed like the innings were real Held smiled had to keep getting up and throwing on the sidelines to stay loose been like that every time I lone run in the fifth was unearned Held was one of five Bristol pitchers who looked sharp last night Mike Patterson hurled the final two innings of the second game giv ing up a single and striking out two Starter Joe Perotte pitched five strong innings against Paintsville Rod Poisant was effective during his two innings of work and Brad Wheel one inning of hitless hurling was good enough to earn him the win our pitchers threw well to commented Bristol manager Boots Day thought Perotte threw great in the first game gotten him to slow his motion down and he did a good Marc Washington keyed Bris win in the onener with two hits See TIGERS Page 16.