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sports Battalion/Page 8 August 5,1982 Pros aiming for PGA title TANK MCNAMARA v United Press International TULSA, Okla. — Tom Wat son still has plenty of time to cap ture the PGA Championship. But then everyone assumed Arnold Palmer had plenty of time, too. When Palmer first surfaced on the tour, a player had to be a card-carrying member of the PGA for five years before he could play in the association’s championship event. That pre vented Palmer from making his first appearance in that tourna ment until 1958, when he was 29. 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Palmer will be in the 150-man field for the 64th PGA Cham pionship beginning today at Southern Hills Country Club. Palmer will tee off in the early afternoon in a threesome along with Dave Stockton and Isao Aoki, but he knows time is run ning out for him to join the elite group of only four golfers to have captured all four of the ma jors: Ben Hogan, Gene Sarazen, Gary Player and Jack Nicklaus. “I’d still like to win a PGA,” Palmer said. “I’ve won the Brit ish PGA, the Australian PGA, the Canadian PGA but never the U.S. PGA. There’s a void. This is my profession; the PGA (tour nament) is a big part of that pro fession. Winning this title is still very important to me. “I always felt I’d win it. It’s beginning to get farther away but I’m still not giving up. My chances of winning this week are, at best, slim.” Palmer said: “(Billy) Casper never won the PGA. (Sam) Snead never won an Open and (Lee) Trevino never won a Mas ters. I’m not the only infant left out there who has won a major championship but has not won the PGA.” Watson, 32, also wears a three-jeweled crown, having added that third jewel last month with his initial victory at the U.S. Open. He has already won four British Opens and two Masters. Watson has never won the PGA although he did force a playoff with eventual winner John Mahaffey in 1978. TMEPlAVa^'UNION PBDKJSALWOULPALL BUT EUFliNAIt 1UE R3-E OF-Mg. PLAYERS A6ENT IN FRO FOOTBALL. 6DTl4 SUOULPBEAVUAREOFTUe spoer?, accmts.' IMfWANTT FUNCTION Oilers (continued from page 7) Palmer has had three PGA near-misses — 1964 in Col umbus, 1968 in San Antonio and 1970 here at Southern Hills. He finished second each time: to Bobby Nichols in 1964, Julius Boros in 1968 and Dave Stock- ton in 1970. “I don’t think at this stage in his life it’s bothering Tom that he hasn’t won the PGA,” Palmer said. “He’s still young with a lot of years left. 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You May Never Stop Laughing. i * 20th CENTURY-FOX FILMS I5l ffi ...Where fhe City Morgue turns info a swinging business - 3:45 - 5:45 - 7:45 -0:45 HENRY WINKLER A RON HOWARD PICTURE 2ND BIG O WEEK. PUTT CINEMA I & II SKAGGS CENTER KTAM MIDNIGHT SHOWS FRI. & SAT. “ALIEN” (R) “ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (R) Biles has put all his hopes in Nielsen, an agile, 27-year-old former collegiate star at Brigham Young. Nielsen also is unproven, but he has had plenty of training at running the Oilers’ new one-back offense that fea tures three wide receivers and plenty of deception. Spreading opponents’ de fenses will create room for Campbell, who for the first time in 1981 did not win the NFL rushing title. Two new finds on offense last year, split end Michael Holston and halfback Adger Armstrong, an Earl Cooper-type back, are sure to help the transition. There’s also the steady stable of veteran receivers — Kenny Bur- rough, Mike Renfro and Dave Casper. The off-season trade of tight end Mike Barber left a burden on Casper to stay healthy, although the Oilers moved Tim Wilson from fullback to tight end. A training camp boycott of left tackle Leon Gray over pay threatened to disrupt positive strides made in the offensive line. Even without Gray, howev er, the Oilers had a heavy load of talent in center David Carter; guards John Schumacher, Ed Fisher, George Reihner and No. 1 draft choice Mike Munchak. Also included in the group are tackles Morris Towns, Mark Koncar and Nick Eyre. passer over parts of sons, but he is injury he’s forced to the sidelines!; s t u pic this year, the Oilers muslgoi ^ rookie Oliver Luck from I forgoi been Virginia, rookie Ron R# t j,e p; M. The Oilers will field the same defense that allowed an un usually high 358 yards a game last year. Biles believes the de fense will perform as it did in years prior to 1981, when the players were given more rest during games. Houston’s offense last season could not control the football nor could it score often enough to take the pressure off a good defense. The offense scored fewer than 18 points a game. Nielsen has been a 59 percent from Texas Tech or one of eral other untested quin j nc ide backs. spark, The Oilers’ season dept! on Nielsen. "I don’t feel any addedpn | ascu f ure being the primaryquat | war u e back,” Nielsen said. “I’veIn through this before and 11. S confidence I can do thejol j I f he performs as Si coaches believe he can, e«J thing will perk up with bell running for bigyardagt he did in his first three years, and with the Robert zile-led defense rettirnini eminence. Jesse Baker has replac retiring Elvin Bethea at 1™ u n ; fensive end. Bethea hassmdijCLEV season, his 16th with theCbjon is a will be his last. The Browns’ Sipe won’t call all his plays this season IS I > the gar United Press International The decree came down Wednesday from Cleveland Browns’ Coach Sam Rutigliano — quarterback Brian Sipe will not be calling all his own plays this season. “We’re definitely going to give him some help,” Rutigliano said of Sipe, who will call from 65 to 70 percent of his own plays instead of his usual 90 percent. Sipe, the NFL’s leading pas ser and Most Valuable Player in 1980, was blitzed and beaten throughout most of last season and one time was so dazed by a sacking he walked to the wrong bench. But he is reserving judg ment on the move. “I’ve always felt the person who’s best qualified to call the plays should call them,” he said. One change this season which Sipe likes is a relative lack of attention. Last summer, he was hounded by out-of-town sport- swriters and that may have been at least partially responsible for his poor showing in 1981. This year Sipe is being hard- pressed by backup Paul McDo nald, a third-year pro from Southern Cal. And although Rutigliano has said McDonald “could start for the Cleveland Browns right now and we could win,” he insists Sipe is still No. 1. Two more players, linebacker Bruce Huther and guard Mark Paulsen, left camp Wednesday. Huther plans to pursue a career in business, and Paulsen returns to Kansas for graduate work. Two players also missed prac tice — Joel Patten, because of a pinched nerve, and Elvis Franks, with back problems. Franks was held at the Cleveland Clinic Wednesday night for observation. In other training camp news: — Veteran running back and return specialist Arthur Whit tington was waived Wednesday gam Was con hare by the Raiders. The running back had balld 1 And( coming to camp and theMpanage tried and failed to trade hi* fore releasing him. — Charlie Johnson, the ladelphia Eagles’ All-Pro guard, has asked to be trail and left the team’s West Chi State College training camp| the request of Coach Dick ft meil, the team annoui Wednesday. “Charlie just says he cat) shortsto longer go through the ininBarry Pi preparation of training caiffl “I go and the season like we dojp)und< here,” Vermeil said. “He [tfte ball, worn down and would liketoRough, somewhere where they dtjOian at work quite as intense and firJAndersc out his career and maybe flap The little longer because of i®} arte r 1 atmosphere.” Re base — The San Francisco ft an d sin Wednesday signed defensljtadTot lineman Grant Hudson, » **came was dropped earlier by Ni Orleans. 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