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golfers win in Arizona
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PARADISE VALLEY, Am.
— Oklahoma State’s Val Skinner
shot a par 213 to lead the Cow-
f irls to victory Wednesday in the
Oth Annual Lady Sun Devil
Classic.
It was Skinner’s third major
collegiate golf tournament vic
tory this spring. Earlier this year
she won the Lady Spartan at San
Jose, Calif., and the Betsy Rawls
at Austin.
Seventeen teams competed in
the 54-hole tournament held at
Mummmy Mountain Golf
Course.
Oklahoma State and Tulsa
finished the three-day tourna
ment at 891. The Cowgirls were
awarded the team champion
ship on the basis of a fifth player
tie-breaker.
Congressman
Phi! Gramm
Grand Prix qualifiers now
a phase of game for Borg
The world of professional tennis has been
in quiet controversy for the past five months
and the focus of all the debate and rhetoric
walked on a tennis court in Monte Carlo
Friday to get on with the business of making
a living.
After a five-month absence from the hec
tic life that comes with beig the greatest ten
nis player in the world, Bjorn Borg played
the first match in the qualifying rounds for
the $300,000 Monte Carlo Grand Prix Ten
nis Tournament.
Note the name of the event — the Monte
Carlo Grand Prix Tennis Tournament —
and realize the root of all the trouble.
In professional tennis, there are different
circuits that include different tournaments.
The Volvo Grand Prix Circuit is one of the
most important because the French Open,
Wimbledon, and the U.S. Open are among
the tournaments on this circuit.
Before every Grand Prix event, a three-
round qualifying tournament is held, and it
includes the same number of players as the
main tournament. Anyone can enter the
qualifying rounds and must win all three
matches before being eligible to play in the
main draw.
Usually, the top-ranked players in the
world don’t have to bother with these pre
liminary matches. According to Grand Prix
E olicy, if a ranked player agrees to play at
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least 10 Grand Prix events during the year,
he is placed in the main draw of any Grand
Prix tournament he enters.
So why is the man who probably someday
will be considered the greatest tennis player
of all time playing with no-name athletes in
the Monte Carlo tournament he’s won four
times?
Because last November, Borg decided
enough was enough.
After an exhausting loss at Wimbledon
and an even more frustrating U.S. Open,
the 25-year-old Borg took a break from pro
tennis. He’s been on the tour since he clin
ched the Davis Cup for his native Sweden at
the age of 15. The man was obviously tired.
So Borg took a vacation and opted not to
play the required 10 Grand Prix tourna
ments that would exempt him from going
through the paces of qualifying.
It was just a simple choice by a man who
knew the rules before he made his decision.
He’ll take the consequences of having to win
three qualifying rounds to maketkii
draw of a tournament, and he’ll pli
usual superb game — withoutalusH
it.
So why can’t his critics, and his fan
for that matter, accept the rules nil
same grace of the silent Swede?
Granted, the circumstances seemi
comical. Borg has won the FrenchOpt
unprecedented six times, and hisfnti]
secutive Wimbledon championshipsi
as pos ibly the most impressive ra
modern tennis history.
Yet, he must qualify fora place
tournaments with players barely rani
the world.
But rules are rules.
Even though Borg personifies
athlete should be — talented in his;
able to calmly withstand tremendous;
ure and win, capable of being fair
and bad situations — he is not a!:
rules and regulations that govern lns|
On the contrary, it’s his sportst
attitude that sets him apart from tit.
ing masses in professional sports intl
place. Borg’s submittancetothetash
Tying illustrates that following the
always part of the game.
And whether he’squalifyingorac
the Wimbledon cup, the qualityofthtj
of tennis is always improved when
Borg goes out to make his living.
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HOUSTON — Joe Niekro is
still finding it an unbeatable
combination to toss his unpre
dictable knuckleball against the
St. Louis Cardinals in the Astro
dome, no matter how bleak
things may seem for him.
Niekro, 37, put aside a shaky
spring in his first regular season
appearance when held the
freeswinging Cardinals in check
to earn a 3-2 win.
Astros catcher Luis Pujols,
the Houston hitting star of the
game with a two-run double in
the sixth inning, said he never
saw the Niekro knuckler any
better than Wednesday.
“He had as good a knuckle
ball today as I’ve seen him
throw. He must have thrown 85
or 90 knuckleballs out of 115
pitches. He had everything
under control,” Pujols said of
Niekro’s 8 1-3 innings.
The difference between
pitching at the Astros’ spring
training site in Cocoa, Fla.,
where Nieko compiled most of
a poor 5.85 earned run average
in 20 innings, and pitching in
Houston is the stadium, Pujols
said.
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“Here in the Astrodome he
can control the knuckleball bet
ter than when he’s outdoors.
And the Astrodome gives me a
chance to catch the son of a
gun,” he said.
The victory for him was Niek-
ro’s seventh straight over the
Cards in a streak that dates to
the 1978 season.
"Maybe I get a little edge be
cause they are not as patient as
sdme teams,” Niekro said. “But I
had a pretty fair knuckleball
tonight. They were swinging at
it early and that helped.”
The Astros’ Tony Scott,
moved from second place in the
batting order to seventh
Wednesday, keyed the winning
offense by slamming a double
off the left field wall in the
second inning to drive in Jose
Cruz, who had walked off star
ter John Martin.
Niekro worked with that 1-0
lead through five innings until
Pujols hit his double into the left
field corner off Martin to plate
two runs. Then Niekro tired, he
said, and was touched for single
runs in the eighth and ninth.
After Darrell Porter slam
med his second home run in two
nights over the right field wall in
the ninth for one run and a one-
run deficit, Astros Manager Bill
Virdon replaced Niekro with
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