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Tuesday, April S, 1966 Griffin Daffy Newt
Course Said ‘Rigged’ For Palmer, Nicklaus
By DAVID M. MOFFIT
CPI Sports Writer
AUGUSTA, Ga. (UPI) —
Four-time winner Arnold Pal
mer, always at his best in the
Masters, today lashed out at a
growing legion of critics who
charged the Augusta National
course is "rigged” for him and
defending champion Jack Nick
laus.
These critics, including some
of the players themselves, say
the wide, long fairways, a
shortage of trees and rough and
a watering system that slows
down all but the truly long ball
hitters makes the course to
order for sluggers like Palmer
and Nicklaus.
“That’s a lot of rot,” Palmer
fumed. "Sure, Jack and I have
been the winners in the last few
years. But look at the over-all
record. A lot of diffarent people
have won the Masters and the
course hasn’t changed.”
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Palmer won the Masters In
1958, 1960, 1962 and 1964.
Nicklaus, who set a scoring
record here with his 17-under
par 271 last year, also won in
1963. In the past eight years,
the only other winners have
been Art Wall in 1959 and Gary
Player in 1961.
But Palmer insists the 6,980
yard Augusta National is a
course that puts a premium on
the short shots as well as the
long.
“I know- there’s a lot of
fairway out there, he said.
“But there are plenty of places
where you can get into trouble
if you don’t put the ball exactly
where you want It.”
Palmer asked: "If trees are
a criteria for a golf course, how
about St. Andrews? That’s
considered one of the greatest
courses in the world and there
aren’t any trees there."
Palmer, who says he’s
unhappy with his own short
game at present, insists that it
doesn’t take a power hitter to
win tiie Masters.
"There were 50 guys in the
’61 tournament who could
outdrive Gary Player, but he
was the winner. Mistakes out
there can cost you shots. The
golfer who makes the least
mistakes is going to win this
year."
If Palmer’s diagnosis is
correct, the srotlight should
swing to Doug Banders, who
has made less mistakes lately
than any other touring pro.
Sanders Confident
Sanders, who has won more
than $60,000 this year after
capturing the Bob Hope Desert
Classic, the Jacksonville Open
and the Greensboro Open, is
confident he can add the
Masters to the list.
“Winning the Masters means
more to me than it would to
Palmer or Nicklaus," Sanders
said. "Winning a major tour
nament Is worth a pile of
dough. They’ve already won
their share and 1 still need that
first big one.”
The masters, which had a
purse of more than $140,000 last
year, starts Thursday. A total
of 105 golfers, including 24
foreigners, have been invited.
The list will be trimmed to the
low 44 scorers and ties at the
end of the second round on
Friday.
Most of the golfers got in at
least 18 holes of practice
Monday but few bothered to
keep tabs on their scores.
Nicklaus, the 4-1 favorite to
become the first champion ever
to win back to back titles,
returned here after taking a
few days off to visit his family
in Columbus, Ohio.
Player, only foreigner ever to
win the Masters, got In a
SPORTS BRIEFS
KEOUGH SOLD
CINCINNATI (UK) — The
Cincinnati Reds sold veteran
outfielder Marty Keough to the
Atlanta Braves Monday in
return for an undisclosed
amount of cash and a minor
league player to be announced
later.
Keough, 31, played with the
Reds for four seasons, and
batted .116 in a reserve
capacity with the club last
practice round Monday after
spending a week in Bermuda—
putting on exhibitions and
resting up for the Masters
which he said earlier he was
pointing for this year.
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land’s Thames River in preparation Two of the Cambridge race
against Oxford University. crew
areAmerican—P. H. Conze (third from bottom) of Yale
and J. H. Ashby (fourth from top) of Harvard.
year.
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SAPERSTEIN AWARD
CHICAGO (UPD -All-Ameri
can Carrie Russell of Michi gan
was selected Monday by the
Chicago Press Club to receive
the Abe Saperstein Trophy, as
the nation’s top college basket
ball player for the 1965-66
season.
The press club began the
award this year as a memorial
to the late founder of the
Harlem Globetrotters.
Panel Narrows
NCAA-AAU Gap
NEW YORK (UPI) A
special panel to bring peace to
two warring factions of
amateur athletics appeared
nearer Its goal today, but
admitted there still are "some
very serious problems to
res0l7e '
Theodore W. Kheel, a New
York attorney chosen by Vice
President Hubert H. Humphrey
to head up the group, said no
solution was reached in the
panel’s meeting that wound up
Monday, but he said he felt
"we have narrowed the area of
disagreement" between the
National Collegiate Athletic
Association and Amateur Atble
tio Union.
Khee! said he was optimistic
SSTSSJSSZZJZZ? out in a satisfactory comprom
ise, and he believed there was
"a 50-50 chance” the NCAA and
AAU will settle their power
struggle without the panel’s
help.
The long, bitter dispute Is not
restricted to track, although it
is there that it centers. The
NCAA wants a louder voice In
rr**> in the Olympics and other
‘ We hope for a mutual
agreement by the two organlza
tions,” Kheel said, "rather than
an arbitrary award. We will
make an arbitrary award only
if a full agreement Is not
possible.
"We still have some very
serious problems to resolve, m
Kheel said, but he declined to
elaborate. "We are In the
mediation stage. Our aim Is to
get an agreement. I feel we
have succeeded In narrowing
the area of disagreement.”
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