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I sports Battalion/Page 11 June 16, 1982 ,f'M0N,w LLTEAM^i ■N Recent victory provides incentive Palmer eager about U.S. Open tor i by Milton Richman UPI Sports Editor PEBBLE BEACH, Calif.— Victory is the greatest rejuve- riator in the world. Maybe hat’s why Arnold Palmer oks so young and eager. He still has fantasies at 52. e admits it. Would you be- eve he imagines himself win ing the U.S. Open? He confesses that, too, even though he has won it nly once and that was 22 [ears ago at Cherry Hills in enver. But, he’s coming into iis Open, his 30th, right off a agnificent victory in the arlboro Seniors Open and |ou might have an idea of hat something like that can o for a man’s pride and im- igination. “Can you picture how crazy everybody would go if you went here and made it two in a row?” a friend of Palmer’s asked him while he was get ting in a few practice licks Tuesday on the putting green in preparation for Thursday’s opening round. “I can picture it,” Palmer smiled. “I’ll tell you a little story about that. A man came over to me for my autograph as I was registering in here. I gave it to him, then didn’t see him for a while. I was getting in my car to leave the course when he came over to me again. He said, ‘Do you do a lot of writing or drawing?’ I said, ‘No, why?’ He said ‘You should.’ Then, he said, ‘I’m a handwriting expert and you show great imagination in yours.’” He laughed, thinking about what the man had told him. “What he doesn’t know is that I’ve lived on imagination all my life,” declared Palmer, who has in his time become a golfing institution who’s made as much an impact on the game as any man that ever played it. “I guess I’m the oldest per son playing this week,” he said. “It sure would be nice to be the oldest person ever to win. I honestly can’t remem ber the first time I played here,” he went on, looking skyward and smiling, doing his best to recollect. He smiles a lot lately and the $25,000 first prize he pick ed up in the Marlboro ob viously has something to do with that. But it’s not really the money, he says. “It might have been back in 1957,” he said, still not sure. “I played this course enough to know the emphasis has to be on iron play far more than on wood play. Don’t get me wrong. Wood play always is important, but if I were told I had to excel in one thing or another this week, I’d want it to be my irons. That, plus my putting.” Hale Irwin, a two-time U.S. Open winner, strolled onto the putting green and offered his hand to Palmer. “Congratulations,” he said. “That was great.” “Well, thanks, Hale,” Pal mer answered, knowing Irwin was talking about Marlboro, where his 8-under-par 276 beat Bob Rosburg and Billy Casper by four strokes. “You know,” Palmer said to a couple of newsman standing near him, “I went to that tour nament thinking more about this one than that one. I was trying to get my thinking in a constant trend for the golf course. “I was playing in anticipa tion of what I would have to do this week. I wanted to play four good rounds, put four good rounds together if I possibly could. Raiders’ owner meets in closed session on lease United Press International LOS ANGELES — Oakland Raiders’ owner A1 Davis closeted himself with three members of the Coliseum Commission Tues day in a bid to iron out a lease agreement that could permit the NFL franchise to relocate this fall. The meeting between Davis and the three-member negotiat ing team was held at a secret location, and officials declined to provide details of the talks. “Progress is being made, they are optimistic all the arrange ments can be satisfied,” Glen Mon, a spokesman for the Coliseum Commission, said. “Things are going well, but they are not de lineating any of the particulars of the discussions.” Davis won a significant victory in his fight to move the Raiders to Los Angeles on Monday, when U.S. District Court Judge Harry Pregerson refused a National Football League request to delay the transfer pending appeal of a jury verdict that cleared the way for the move. Pregerson instead issued a permanent injunction barring the league from interfering with the transfer of the team to the Coliseum, which was left without a pro tenant when the Los Angeles Rams moved to Anaheim Stadium in suburban Orange County in 1980. I aseball bosses discuss possible evenue-sharing as session ends ed leading® i n n I United Press International dy Bell | CHICAGO — Major league ■seball owners seeking a solu- Rn to the revenue inequity be- peen rich and poor teams say , jhev will consider a plan allow- “"IM poorer clubs to collect 25 ran ara «- cent G f t j ie g ate f or roa d ’7 innin '' femes. < thegameJR The owners Tuesday wrap- mg up Ins A U p a two . ( j a y sess i on decid- Igto let a committee draw spe- ... Be revenue-sharing proposals aeohhrf^heir summer meeting. tS 1 The owners did not discuss you askanm tenure 0 f- Commissioner good a Kuhn, who would serve B fourth seven-year term if he pe-elected. Monday, the own- split on plans to restructure ieball’s corporate image and her augment or limit Kuhn’s Committees will work on re venue-sharing and restructur ing before the owners meet Aug. 19 in San Diego, where they will likely discuss Kuhn’s future. “Baseball knows it has to re structure the way it obtains re venues,” said Chicago White Sox owner Eddie Einhorn. But the inequity between clubs with a lot of money to spend and those which can barely attract fans cre ates another string of problems. Some clubs, Einhorn said, emphasize “particular projects in spending their money while others, which own their own real estate, do not have as many costs.” Einhorn said: “Some clubs televise more games than others and get additional revenues while other clubs have huge promotion gimmicks to bring in other revenue.” Figures released by the com missioner’s office show that nearly $184 million in salaries will be paid in 1982. 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