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— Griffin Daily News Thursday, Novembers, 1973
Page 14
Nicklaus, Trevino, Weiskopf
skipping richest tourney
By MARTIN LADER
UPI Sports Writer
PINEHURST, N.C. (UPI) -
As the touring pros set chase
after the richest prize in their
history today, the question of
“responsibility” still remains to
be resolved.
In this case, the question of
responsibility refers to the
obligation the pro golfers owe
the people who will have put up
$8.6 million for the 47 PGA tour
events on this year’s calendar.
For example, the World Open
golf championship, which start
ed its two-week run over the
No. 2 and No. 4 courses at
Pinehurst today, is offering a
total purse of $500,000 with the
winner’s share standing at
SIOO,OOO. Both figures represent
new highs, yet for varying
reasons five top stars—Jack
Nicklaus, Lee Trevino, Tom
Weiskopf, Johnny Mille and
Dave Hill—are missing from
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the field of 240.
“I find it hard to believe that
some of the biggest names
don’t support the biggest money
tournament,” said Bob Murphy,
who along with Beman is a top
contender to take home a lot of
loot. “If I were putting up
$500,000 for a tournament, I’d
figure that every pro golfer
who could put on his shoes
would shoot for it.
“But I also feel these guys
are being unfairly criticized for
not playing just because there’s
big money here. If you come
down to it, it’s just another golf
tournament with a different
format. We should have the
right to pick and choose where
we want to play.”
Even with those missing,
there is still an exceptional
international field competing
here, and there is a good
chance that the top money will
go outside the United States.
There are 44 foreign entries,
including Australia’s Bruce
Crampton, currently the second
leading money winner on the
tour with $273,351, and South
Africa’s Gary Player, always a
threat and a man who has been
playing well lately.
With the tournament being
played this late in the year,
cold and windy weather is a
definite possibility and Player
predicted that “the scores are
going to be quite bad. But I’ve
been playing well and I’m
feeling confident”
Both the No. 2 and 4 courses,
which will be used for the first
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four rounds, play to par 71, but
No. 4 appears to be tougher. In
the Joe DiMaggio World Celeb
rity Pro-Am on Wednesday, no
one was able to break par on
No. 4 and only Jim Jamieson
could equal it.
On No. 2, both Jerry Heard
and Charles Coody were three
under-par at 68 and Arnold
Palmer, Sam Snead, Miller
Barber and Bobby Nichols all
shot 70.
The field will be cut to the
low 70 and ties after Sunday’s
fourth round, and the survivors
will go at it again for another
72 holes on No. 2 next
Wedesday to Saturday.
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The tipoff;
All you got to do is ask
By Murray Olderman
The benchings of football’s most venerable aging quar
terbacks, John Brodie and John Unitas, weren’t nearly as
placid as their clubs made them out to be. Brodie, par
ticularly, was in a direct philosophical clash with the
49ers over how their offense should be run.
Q. Did Charles O. Finley’s frantic antics really affect the
Oakland Athletics in their play on the field during the
World Series? — Jake Catlin, Fort Worth, Tex.
Positively. In the sense that the A’s were distracted con
tinually by the probing press wanting to know what Callous
Charley was going to do next. “We never got a chance to
think baseball,” said Reggie Jackson.
Q. How come the Atlanta Falcons didn't fire Norm Van
Brocklin as their coach a few weeks ago? All the papers
said they would. — George Humphrey, Waycross, Ga.
But Rankin Smith, their owner, who pays the freight,
didn’t say so. In fact, Rankin told me recently, “You don’t
fire a coach until you’ve got a better one.” Also, Rankin’s still
rank over the timing of the rumors of Van Brocklin’s firing.
“The story said I was out duck hunting,” he fumed. “And I’m
a member of the Game and Fish Commission and duck hunt
ing isn’t in season.” Prediction: Rankin will let Van Brocklin
finish out the season and then dump him.
Q. Notre Dame’s always up there among the best college
teams in football — is there really such a thing as the Spirit
of Notre Dame? — Randy Gola, Gary, Ind.
What it is is recruiting, although you can’t ignore the fer
vor for football under the Golden Dome (which dominates
the ND campus). The old college rah-rah has died down
some, but as recently as a decade ago, every incoming Notre
Dame freshman football player had to sit through a screen
ing of Pat O’Brien playing Knute Rockne and imploring the
squad to win one for Ronald Reagan (the Gipper).
Q. Who has the highest yearly salary in the American
history of sports, and what is it? What athlete in any sport
made the most money in the shortest time? — Alex Ellis,
Fresno, Calif.
I would have to say that Wilt Chamberlain’s current con
tract with the San Diego Conquistadors, for more than half a
million dollars, ranks tops. For the most money in the short
est time, the co-winners would seem to be Joe Frazier and
Muhammad Ali, who collected $2.5 million each for their
March 8, 1971 title fight. But that went 15 rounds, or 45
minutes. The all-time champ is Floyd Patterson, who col
lected $1,434,000 for lasting two minutes and 10 seconds in
1963 against Sonny Liston, or a little over SII,OOO per second.
For sheer dollar value, I’ll take Gene Tunney’s $990,445 (from
the live gate alone) for whipping Jack Dempsey in the low
tax year of 1927.
Q. What ever happened to Cedrick Hardman? Is he still
playing for the 49ers and if so, how is he doing? — Chuck
Weinberg, Levittown, Pa.
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Cedrick, a fourth-year defensive end, and one of the best
pass rushers in the NFL, is still very much with the 49ers. But
too often, while Cedrick barges in on the quarterback, a man
carrying the ball rushes right past him. So Cedrick has been
temporarily demoted and shares time at right end with Bill
Belk.
Q. Where was the famous Heidi game played? I say in
Oakland. My friend says in New York. If memory serves
me right, Oakland scored twice in the last 12, 16 or 18 se
conds. —B. R., Clear Lake, Calif.
Your memory serves you mostly right. The game was in
Oakland. And to let the country see Heidi climb the highest
mountain, the NBC network switched off the Jets-Raiders
game with 50 seconds to play and the Raiders trailing 32-29.
They scored two touchdowns and won, 43-32. That was in
1968.
Q. During the PGA Golf tournament, I saw Sam Snead
making a putt standing astride the ball and using a pen
dulum swing. One of my fellow workers said I couldn’t have
seen it because it is illegal in tournament play. Which one of
us right? — Mrs. William T. Wood, Marinette, Wis.
Ola Sam, ever since he got the yips bending over a putt in
orthodox fashion, has been stroking the ball side saddle,
standing to one side of it, directly facing the hole. The rules
of golf say that “the player shall not make a stroke on the
putting green from a stance astride... the line of the putt.” A
lot of the older players, when their nerves get frazzled from
the tension, look for different putting styles.
Parting shot:
Both because the pro basketball forwards have by
passed him in speed, and he no longer has the audacity to
drive for the basket, Rick Barry no longer belongs among
the game’s super stars. And no other team would take his
salary off the Warriors’ hands.
Get a tough question about sports and the people who ploy them?
All you got to do is ask Murray Olderman. Write him at (name
and address of this newspaper). The most interesting questions will
be answered in this column. Olderman regrets that he cannot write
personal answers to all questions.
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