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S'- JM iisf wsrwi& i • T B"B 1 ■ 'll 1 <> y * B I OjL ‘ |B ' r.-.z-y?-/ ' tw H mBH *••$?• V j||r BIBBP *■■■■ Wayne Hester Trophy Joey McGee, left, of WHIE was presented the Wayne Hester Trophy by Bubba Andrews, 1976 winner, during ceremonies at the Babe Ruth Playoffs at City Park. The award is presented annually to the best all around 15-year-old boy in Babe Ruth. Mrs. Grace English, league official, made the presentation. Gretel 11, Enterprise claim win NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) - The crews of both Enterprise and Australia’s Gretel II are claim ing victory in an unofficial 12- meter race in Rhode Island Sound. Gretel II was making her first runs Thursday since arriving in Newport last week when she met the newest American yacht being put through her paces. The boats faced off hi a short race to windward and down wind. From one vantage point, Gre tel II appeared to sail slightly faster to windward than Enter prise. But at dockside, the crew of Enterprise boasted it had outsailed Gretel n. The Australians also claimed victory when they arrived at their berth. But without official observers, no decision could be made. The Enterprise is one of three American 12-meters bidding for the right to defend the Americas Cup. The Gretel II has been re designed since her unsuccessful Cup challenge in 1970. The week-long observation trials for American boats begin July 16. Mansfield quits football PITTSBURGH (AP) - The Pittsburgh Steelers’ oldest vet eran, 36-year-old center Ray Mansfield, has announced he is quitting pro football. Mansfield played 14 seasons in the National Football League, and all but one of them with the Steelers. He spent his rookie season with the Phila delphia Eagles before joining Pittsburgh. Mansfield is leaving to devote more time to selling insurance, an off-season job until now. He never missed a game and Rebels defeat Braves CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) —A tie-breaking seventh-inning triple made Lou Whittaker of the Montgomery Rebels the Most Valuable Player for the Southern League baseball All- Stars Thursday night and sent the major league Atlanta Braves to a 6-4 defeat. Whittaker’s hit and inning ending double plays in the eighth and ninth innings helped win the game for pitcher Bryn Smith of the Charlotte Orioles. The Braves built a four-run lead with a two-run homer from Joe Nolan in the second and single tallies in the third and fourth. The All-Stars rallied with four runs of their own in the bottom of the fourth, two brought in by a home run from Tom Chism of Charlotte and two more by a single from Bruce Benedict of Atlanta’s farm club in Savannah. Sports world played 186 consecutive regular season games. Cardinals set record ST. LOUIS (AP) - The St. Louis Cardinals have set a club record by selling 41,746 season tickets for the 1977 National Football League season, man aging general partner William Bidwill said Thursday. The total exceeds the old record of 41,542 set in 1972 and is an increase of 3,090 from last year. /Q JBLw Sports World C” An AP Sports Analysis By WILL GRIMSLEY AP Special Correspondent IVo wind and rain TURNBERRY, Scotland (AP) — Hypnotized by a benign sun and a baby’s breath, Ailsa’s seaside monster has been turned into a purring pussycat for the British Open. Not in all the 106 years of its existence has this crochety old golf championship been subjected to such irreverence. Led by a pack of fairway vandals off the U.S. tour, the hide has been ripped off one of the game’s most ancient traditions and spread under a torrid Scottish sun to dry. Eliminate the uncertainty of the elements and Britain’s craggy, rock-ribbed and sanddotted links are no more perilous than the pleasant municipal courses weekend duffers tackle back in the States. Turnberry’s Ailsa Course this week makes Breckinridge Park in San Antonio, where Mike Souchak and others shot 60 without taking a hitch in their breeches, look like a jungle obstacle course. For all the challenges imposed, the 1977 British Cham pionship could be the Tallahassee Open or the Dekalb County weekly turkey shoot. A journeyman pro who had never won one of the normal tour events, John Schroeder, went out on the first day and beat the course to death with a four-under-par 66. Seven others were in the 60s. On Thursday, a mild-mannered young man named Mark Hayes, never a serious threat to Jack Nicklaus and Tom Watson, shot the lowest round ever in the cham pionship with a 63. He should have had a 62, cutting three strokes off the tournament record set by Henry Cotton in 1934 and since tied by others, but he got careless and bogeyed the final hole. Thus Mark Hayes shot a round that such immortals as Harry Vardon, Bobby Jones, Walter Hagen, Ben Hogan and Arnold Palmer could never touch. Hubert Green also was heading for a 63 or better when he went to sleep on the closing holes. Why the low scores? No wind and rain. The British Open traditionally is the pawn of the weather. Cold blasts sweep in off the sea. Gusts reach 70 miles an hour. Fickle, swirling winds turn the most perfectly grooved shots into disasters. But this year, instead of the capricious gusts, Turnberry got weather as calm and humid as a summer afternoon in Miami. There were many red faces among the blue-coated com mitteemen of the Royal and Ancient, but Keith MacKenzie, secretary of that ruling body of British Golf, presented a stiff upper lip. “It doesn’t bother us a bloody Mt,” snapped MacKenzie, a massive, imposing man with a pencil mustache. “We don’t have the same philosophy as the USGA (U.S. Golf Association). “The USGA gets offended when scores are low in its Open Championship and goes to any extreme to toughen the course. Our feeling is that it’s the same for everybody. If the weather is good, as now, let them play it as it is.” The USGA has set a score of 280 as its standard for the Open. It is happy when that mark is unbroken. It gets fidg ety when its toughened layouts yield lower scores. Barons sign top 2 choices CLEVELAND (AP) - The Cleveland Barons have signed their top two choices in this year’s National Hockey League draft. Mike Crombeen, the No. 1 draft pick, and Daniel Chicoine, the No. 2 choice, have signed multi-year contracts, the club said Thursday. Both players are right wings. Ist woman to win NASCAR race faces jail PORTSMOUTH, Va. (AP) - Mrs. Bonnie West Shirley, the first woman to win a feature race sanctioned by the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing will go to jail Monday. Mrs. Shirley, whose victory came June 10, 1975, at Langley Speedway in Hampton, has been sentenced to five years in prison on an auto theft con viction. Circuit Court Judge R. Win ston Bain has ordered the 32-' year-old blonde mother of two to report Monday to the Ports mouth City Jail. Although she was convicted in March 1976, she has remained free while her attorney, Dennis McMurran, appealed to the Virginia Supreme Court. The state’s highest court turned down her appeal, but McMurran said this week he will appeal to the U. S. 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Axelson moved that Mrs. Shirley begin serving her sentence while the appeal is being prepared. Bain agreed. Football National Football League NEW YORK GIANTS - Signed Gary Jeter, defensive tackle, to a series of three one year contracts. KANSAS CITY CHIEFS - Announced the retirement of Kerry Reardon, defensive back. PHILADELPHIA EAGLES — Signed Harold Carmichael, wide receiver, to three one-year contracts. PITTSBURGH STEELERS — Announced retirement of Ray Mansfield, center. Mrs. Shirley, owner of an area body shop at the time the car theft, and her husband, Glen, owner of an auto towing company at the time, were charged with the theft of 11 ve- Sports transactions Basketball National Basketball Association SEATTLE SUPERSONICS - Signed Dale Haberman and Jeff Frey, forwards and Billy Reynolds, guard. Baseball National League PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Signed Bob Steele, pitcher, as a free agent. Hockey National Hockey League CLEVELAND BARONS - — Griffin Daily News Friday, July 8,1977 Page 11 hides. Convicted on two counts of receiving stolen goods, Shirley is serving a one-year prison term. Signed Mike Crombeen and Daniel Chicoine, right-wingers. College FORT VALLEY STATE COL- Dwight Evans reactivated BOSTON (AP) — Dwight Evans, the Boston Red Sox’ slugging right-fielder sidelined with a right knee injury since June 23, was re-activated today. To make room for Evans, the Red Sox returned outfielder first baseman Dave Coleman to Charges involving the theft of two other vehicles remain against Mrs. Shirley. One of her trials ended in a mistrial. Four other counts against her were dismissed. LEGE — Announced the retire ment of Stan Lomax, head foot ball coach. PURDUE UNIVERSITY - Named Tom Shupe sports infor mation director. Pawtucket of the International League. ★★★★★★★★ SPORTS ★★★★★★★★
