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Chip Beck of the University of Georgia is the individual
leader going into today’s third round of the 22nd annual
All-America Intercollegiate Invitational Golf Tournament
in Houston, Texas. Beck shot a 69 yesterday for a two
round total of 137. His round vaulted Georgia from fourth
to second place in the team standings, nine strokes behind
leader Oklahoma State.
Braves ♦
The Atlanta Braves humbled the World Champion
Cincinnati Reds last night, taking a 10-5 victory to hand
the Big Red Machine its first defeat of the season.
Bulldogs
Georgia will play its annual G-day spring football game
at 2 p.m. on April 24 in Sanford Stadium. Also being held
that day will be the three-mile-long Dean Tate Marathon
ending in the stadium and the crowning of Miss Georgia
Football of 1976.
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Bryan Stephens, a 6-8 forward-center is the first
basketball prospect of the year to sign a national letter of
intent with Mercer University. Stephens signed yesterday
at his prep school in Laurinburg, North Carolina.
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52,613 ‘landlords’ see Yanks
By BILL MADDEN
UPI Sports Writer
It was the day the gates of
the SIOO million ballpark swung
open after a two-year refurbish
ing job and the New York
Yankees responded to the
occasion by giving some 52,613
“landlords” a touch of their
glorious and storied past.
For nostalgia, there were
such names as Joe DiMaggio,
Mickey Mantle, Whitey Ford,
Joe Louis and Don Larsen, who
were all on hand for the gala
reopening of Yankee Stadium—
the house that Ruth built and
the New York taxpayers re
built.
At first, it appeared the
Minnesota Twins might spoil
the “coming out party” by
jumping out to a 4-0 lead after
three innings—two of the runs
coming on Dan Ford’s homer,
which officially inaugurated the
remodeled park. When the
stadium first opened in 1923, it
was, of course, Babe Ruth who
christened it with the first
home run.
“I always wanted to be the
first to do something, some
where,” said Ford when asked
how it felt to join Ruth as the
Bob Laurie takes a ‘Giant’ step
By Murray Olderman
SAN FRANCISCO - (NEA)
— All his life, well into middle
age, he was Louis Lurie’s lit
tle boy Bobby. Lou Lurie own
ed a big chunk of downtown
San Francisco and extensive
holdings in Chicago and in
vested in Broadway shows. He
was a confidante of politicians
and he had the same table for
lunch at Jack's Restaurant for
more than 50 years.
Bob Lurie, who is now 47
years old, was short, stocky
and unobtrusive. It was known
he owned a small piece of the
San Francisco Giants and was
nominally on the board of
directors. Frequently, at
social gatherings, he was at
the elbow of Charles
Stoneham (Chub) Feeney, the
president of the National
League. But patently he was a
man destined for obscurity.
All that has changed. It
changes when you have $4
million to invest in a sports
franchise — meaning that
you, too, Bob Lurie, can get
your name in the papers.
He is half of a general
partnership with a man nam
ed Arthur (Bud) Herseth, a
cattleman from Phoenix,
Arix., who put in a matching
$4 million. Together they
bought the beleaguered Giants
from the National Exhibition
Company, which meant Chub
Feeney’s uncle Horace. But
Lurie, because he is the man
on the spot in San Francisco,
will be the owners’ voice.
Years ago, when the Giants
moved west from New York
and Lurie had bought a token
piece of the club, he used to
show up in their spring train
ing camp in Arizona, put on a
uniform and shag a few balls
into the outfield. The late
Jeff Chandler used to do that,
too.
But since March 2, Lurie
has learned what it’s like to be
first men to hit homers in the
old and new Yankee Stadiums.
But then, perhaps inspired by
the presence of so many former
Yankee idols, the new breed
“mini-bombers” began a sin
gles attack that produced four
runs in the fourth, six more in
the eighth and a very gratifying
11-4 victory for the capacity
crowd, which had come to
collect the first returns on their
costly investment.
Biggest heroes were Oscar
Gamble and Willie Randolph,
both of whom were acquired in
off-season trades by the Yan
kees.
Gamble banged out three hits
including a run-scoring triple in
the fourth-inning rally and a
run-producing double in the
eighth-inning uprising. Ran
dolph singled home Gamble in
the fourth, stole second and
scored himself on another
single by Lou Piniella.
Dick Tidrow, who hurled five
innings of shutout relief, was
the historic first winner at the
new stadium, but not without a
late assist from Sparky Lyle.
Lyle bailed Tidrow out of an
eighth-inning jam and then held
the Twins at bay in the ninth to
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really involved. On that date a
frenetic set of circumstances
made Lurie the spokesman of
a franchise which historically
goes back to 1883. The Giants
were on the verge of being
sold to a Toronto group since
Bob Short of Minneapolis,
originally ticketed as Lurie’s
partner, had pulled out of a
purchase deal.
Lurie had learned at noon on
that Tuesday he was the only
guy plugging the hole in the
dike that would keep San
Francisco in the National
League. Lurie immediately
made a conference call to the
owners of the other 11 teams
and asked for a delay of 24 to
48 hours to seek a successor to
Short.
“They said no,” recalls
Lurie, “ You got to come up
with somebody right now.’
They gave me five hours.”
At 2:30 p.m. Lurie was put
in touch, through the office of
Mayor George Moscone, with
an attorney from Phoenix,
Ariz., who had called
representing Herseth. At 4:45
p.m. they agreed on a deal to
buy the club jointly. At 5 p.m.
Lurie telephoned the rest of
the National League on
another conference call to
commit $8 million for the
purchase of the team.
The league’s owners voted
immediately. “You’ve got
your first shutout,” Freeney
announced to Lurie. The vote
was 11-0 for the Lurie-Herseth
combine.
The offices of the Lurie
Company are on the 51st floor
of the Bank of America
Building, a somber slab in the
heart of the city. From
Lurie’s private office, there is
a magnificent view of the bay
through huge picture windows
which face in the direction of
Candlestick Park to the south.
Stuck up on the wall with
cellophane tape is a San Fran
cisco Giants pennant. It's the
only way one would know this
is Control Central of a major
league baseball team.
Unless you riffled through
the papers piled all over the
desk in disarrayed clutter.
They all relate to baseball
because that’s where Lurie’s
total concentration is now.
Two extra secretaries have
been hired just to answer the
mail.
“I put in 15 hours a day,”
sighs Lurie. ‘.‘l’ve never work
ed harder in my life. I've
learned a helluva lot. I didn't
realize the amount of detail
there was in this game.
“Baseball is a fair invest
ment, not a great investment.
But it’ll be profitable. I’m no
expert. But in five or six
months I ought to learn
something.”
The educational process has
been stepped up in negotiating
contracts with players.
“I’m shocked by their
salaries," confesses Lurie,
“and by their demands.”
The Giants last summer
preserve the victory.
Elsewhere in the American
League, the Chicago White Sox
ambushed Boston, 84 and
California whipped Kansas
City, 5-1.
Over in the National League,
Pittsburgh routed St. Louis, 9-3,
Montreal downed Philadelphia,
8-5, the New York Mets
outslugged the Chicago Cubs,
10-B, and Atlanta drubbed
Cincinnati, 10-5.
White Sox 8, Red Sox 4:
Buddy Bradford slammed out
a homer, two doubles and a
single and drove in three runs
to pace a 13-hit White Sox
attack. Brian Downing also
drove in a pair of runs for
Chicago, one on a solo homer in
the second. Bart Johnson, with
the aid of four innings of
shutout relief from Clay Car
roll, gained the win.
Angels 5, Royals 1:
Nolan Ryan, showing no ill
effects from his off-season
shoulder surgery, scattered
four hits and struck out nine to
gain his first win of the season
for the Angels. Bruce Bochte
knocked in two runs for
California with a third inning
single.
drew 522,919 people at home,
lowest total in the major
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Pirates 9, Cardinals 3:
Al Oliver and Willie Stargell
drove home four seventh-inning
runs with back-to-back homers
off Cardinals’ relief ace Al
Hrabosky. Oliver’s homer was
a three-run shot and sealed the
fourth straight Pirates’win.
Mets 10, Cubs 8:
Torrid-hitting Dave Kingman
slammed a pair homers includ
ing a three-run blast in the
ninth, enabling the Mets to
snap a three-game losing
streak. Kingman, who belted a
titanic 600-foot homer the day
before, drove home five runs.
Skip Lockwood was the winner
with 2 2-3 innings of shutout
relief.
Expos 8, Phillies 5:
Tim Foil’s two-run double
highlighted a six-run Expos’
fourth inning and Mike Jorgens
en added a two-run homer as
Montreal dealt the Phillies’ Jim
Kaat his first National League
loss. Woody Fryman hurled 5 2-
3 innings for the win.
Braves 10, Reds 5:
Off-season acquisitions Ken
Henderson and Lee Lacy drove
in three runs apiece in helping
leagues. Lurie promises a new
promotional look to stimulate
interest. “The Giants have
never been run like a
businesslike organization,” he
says. “Most of those people
sat there all those years with
no direction. I want to make
Candlestick Park a fun place
to go.”
For 60 days, until the final
papers are processed, Lurie
and Herseth don’t have actual
ownership of the club. But
their money is going into it
already for operational pur
poses, with a cash outlay of
$250,000 each.
What would Lurie’s father
Lou have said about his son’s
venture into the big world of
baseball?
“He would have said,"
smiles Bob. “Stick to real es
tate.’ ”
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first loss of the season.
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runs, while Lacy singled home
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