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Tiger bums Augusta National
B The 21-year-old professional
rewrites the record books and turns
the vaunted, racist golf club into
the carnival it always shunned.
By Frederick Benjomin
AUGUSTA FOCUS Staff Writer
AUGUSTA
The Augusta National will neveps
be the same. On Monday morning,
the day after Tiger Woods stunned
the golf world by shooting a 14-
under par on the world’s “most
difficult” course, grounds keepers.
were working overtime trying to
erase the tiger paws from the 365-
acre course. They willnot succeed.
Woods’ impact on the game of
golf may prove to be as great as
Kareem Abdul Jabbar’s impéaeton
college basketball. Remember
when the aerial antics of therdew
Alcindor at UCLA upset the NCAA
officials so profoundly, they were
forced to outlaw the dunk shot for
a time and revise the rilles on
offensive and defensive
goaltending time and‘Wx\,,;.
The'dilemma faced by PGA offi
cials is how to slow down Tiger
without making it more difficult
for the rest of the field. In the case
of the Augusta National, there’s
not that much they can do. Tiger
owns that course — it’s history.
Consider the following. -
When he first played the course
(Woods was invited twice as an
amateur), he was unimpressed.
Author Steve Eubanks, in his fine
book about the Augusta National
(Augusta, Home of the Masters
Tournament), recounts some of
Tiger’s first impressions of the
“cathedral of the golf world.”
“It’s just another tournament,”
Woods said. The 19-year-old
Stanford student found it difficult
to be in awe of the famous golf
course. In fact, he was unim
pressed.
“The clubhouse is a lot smaller
than it appears on TV, and the golf
course is jammed together, all the
holes running right next to each
other, with the tee boxes right
next to the greens.”
Tiger’s dominance of the Au-
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that it will continue is due to the:
way the course is laid out. In fact,
Augusta National may not be able :
#fo change enough in any signifi
cant way tochallenge Tiger. Golfer
_LeeTrevino, who doesn’t like play
ingthe course, makes an interest
ingpoint;.
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a dogleg to the left,” Trevino has
said. “%‘gfiyfint ahigh hook to
play Augusta. 1 hit the ball low.”
Tiger canhit the ball any way he
wishes. Although his amateur
stints at the’' Masters were less.
than impressive (college students
have other things on their minds),,
Tiger proved that he wouldn’t be:
.intimidated by the course. Even
a 8 a college student, he regularly
outdrove the pros. And now that
heisapre, he has staked his claim_
: ong the best ever.
- But the game of golf is only one:
aspect of Tiger’s significance. The.
social significance of Tiger’s as
sault on the Augusta %Plational i
every bit as compeliing as thetech- -
nical one. Almost everyone would
agree that Augusta National
founders Bobby Jones and Clifford
Roberts went out of their way to
make the Masters Tournament as
exclusive as possible from the very
beginning — as early as 1934. The
Augusta National was not just an
all-Caucasian affair, it was all
Christian (no Jews allowed) and
all male as well. The “Masters of
the Universe,” —the all-white
captains of American industry that
were members of the exclusive
private club — were not preju
diced against only African Ameri
cans, they discriminated against
just about everyone.
It is important, however, not to
losesight of the fact that the snobs
at the Augusta National among
their magnolias and mint juleps
were no more racist than the Ku
See Tiger Woods, page 9
<4 Alveda Celeste
King, the niece of slain
Civil Rights leader Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr,
and Rev. Terrance
Mackey, whose
Greeleyville Mount
Zion AME church was
burned, listen during
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Masters champion Tiger Woods holds a replica of the Masters Trophy after
winning the tournament at the Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Ga.,
Sunday, April 13, 1997. (AP Photo/Bill Waugh)
Inmate charges harassment
after radio news hroadcast
By Tawana Lee
AUGUSTA FOCUS Staff Writer
AUGUSTA
Things have not been going well for Larry
Roberson in the Augusta jail. Besides his
injuries suffered at the hands of APD offic
ers, Mr. Roberson has experienced an un
usual form of psychological harassment.
Ministers from Tennessee, Texas,
Georgia and South Carolina join in
fight against hatred and racism.
By KIM CURTS
ASSOCIATED PRESS Writer
COLUMBIA, S.C.
“We are not satisfied.”
That’s the message carved .on a white marble
memorial to more than 200 black and multiracial
churches burned since
1990.
The 10-foot high, tomb
stone-shaped monument
was unveiled Friday
evening on the campus of
traditionally black Allen
University after a candlelight procession of more
than 100 ministers and supporters.
“We have come today to let the world know we're
See MONUMENVT,V page 16
APRIL 17 - 23, 1997
‘youth. See p. 16
a rally of the National
March of Solidarity to
Challenge Hate in
America. About 400
persons aftended the
march and rally in Co
lumbia, 5.C., Saturday,
April 12, ;
AP Photo Lou Kratsky
On April 4, local radio station WFXA
broadcast a news story about Mr. Roberson
that appeared in that week’s edition of
Augusta Focus. The article told how Mr.
Roberson was shot and brutalized by Au
gusta cops following a footrace through the
woods. According to Mr. Roberson, who
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Slain man
linked to
Law killing,
police say
B Many people
believe that the
shooting death of
Fred Burton over
the weekend was
in retaliation for
the brutal killing
of Robert Law on
Easter Sunday.
The police agree
there may be a
link.
By Tawana Lee
AUGUSTA FOCUS Staff Writer
‘ AUGUSTA
When Robert “Barney”
Law was gunned down
two weeks ago, the larger
community became aware
of a violent feud between
Mr. Law and other fac
tions in the community.
Early Sunday morning
(April 13) Fred Burton,
19, was shot to death in
the parking lot of The
Waffle House on Deans
Bridge Road while he sat
inarented car. The police
say there is a connection
—the word on the streets
was ‘we told you so.’
Although police have
yet to name a suspect or
suspectsin the Law shoot
ing, the word on the
streets was that someone
named “Freddie” was the
shooter. And whilereports
of “Freddie” filtered back
Philly mayor
draws fire for
Farrakhan invite
By Dinah Wisenberg Brin
ASSOCIATED PRESS Writer
PHILADELPHIA
White residents of a ra
cially tense neighborhood
came out onto their front
steps today and turned
their backs to blacks hold
ing a peaceful march
against race-related vio
lence.
Hundreds of police kept
watch in the Grays Ferry
section, where racial divi
sions have been height
ened since the beatingofa
black family by a mob of
whites and the killing of a
white teen-ager during a
robbery.
“Weasblack Americans
must insist that this will
never again happenin this
city,” former NFL defen
sive back Johnny Sample
told the crowd at a rally
before the march.
“If my babies, my wife,
to law enforcement au
thorities, no arrests were
made and the search for
the Mr. Law’s killer ap
peared to be going no
where.
Although the police
had few solid clues, they
did have leads. They
knew what those in the
streets knew. They knew
that Robert Law, 25, a
former F. 8.1. employee,
had several run-ins with
individuals who had
been responsible for as
saulting his cousin,
Martiese Williams, 22.
And while the family
of Robert Law buried
him, Martiese feared for
his life — knowing that
Mr. Law’s killers were
still at large. Still th.
Augusta Police Depart
ment prepared for duty
at the Augusta National
and no suspects were
arrested.
Onthestreet the whis
pers grew louder, “If we
know who killed Robert
Law, how come the cops
can’t find any suspects?”
When Fred Burton
turned up dead, no one
— at least not on the
streets — doubted that
Robert Law’s death had
been avenged.
Henrietta Avery,
Law’s mother, said she
felt some closure upon
hearing of Burton’s
death. Friends had been
calling her the morning
See HOMICIDE, page 2
my mother walked down
that street and was at
tacked, I would face the
same questions: Do I go
back and blow their
heads off? Or do I orga
nize in peace?” state Rep.
Anthony Hardy Williams
told the crowd.
The march preceded a
midmorning interfaith
ecumenical service, led
by Nation of Islam
Leader Minister Louis
Farrakhan and Mayor
Edward G. Rendell, that
had drawn its own share
of protests.
The march and service
were in response to the
Feb. 23 beating of
Annette Williams, her
sonand nephew by a mob
of white men outside a
Roman Catholic church
social hall. Amonth later,
a white 16-year-old,
See FARRAKHAN, P. 2