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United Press International
AUSTIN — The Texas Re
lays — the Southwest’s largest
annual track and field extrava
ganza — open Friday with 62
colleges and universities rep
resented at one of the major
stops en route to the NCAA
championships and the Los An
geles Olympics.
The highlight of the meet
could well come in the final
event of the weekend — the
1,600-meter relay.
Southern Illinois and Baylor,
teams which own the two fastest
times in the world this year ip
that event, will face each other
along with TCU and Alabama
— the 1-2 finishers in the 1983
NCAA championships.
Counting the colleges, junior
colleges, women’s teams, high
schools and competitors in the
open division, there will be
more than 2,400 athletes rep
resenting 177 schools.
The invitational 100 will fea
ture two runners who hope to
spring from the pack of top
American sprinters and earn a
berth on the Olympic team.
Rod Richardson of Texas A&M
has returned from a football in
jury to become a factor in the
sprints, having won the NCAA
indoor 55-meter dash last year
in Syracuse.
Baylor's Bruce Davis could
push Richardson, having al
ready run a 10.2 this season.
Among the missing, how
ever, will be pole vaulter Billy
Olson, who pulled a hamstring
muscle two weeks ago and who*
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United Press International
GREENSBORO, N.C. —
ndy North birched four of the
stnine holes to tie tour rookie
Villie Wood Thursday for the
[irst-round lead in the $400,000
reater Greensboro Open at 4-
mder-par68.
Wood, who finished first in
be PGA qualifying school last
jear and hasn’t let up, got a
ireak in the weather playing
rly in the day. North, who has
Iruggled the past two years,
•as among the late starters who
had to contend with a stiff wind,
but he caught Wood with a bir
die on the 18th hole.
One shot behind the leaders
were Buddy Gardner, Tony
Sills and Al Geiberger with 3-
under-par 69s over the 6,984-
yard Forest Oaks Country Club
course where unpredictable
and sometimes harsh early
spring weather traditionally
provides an additional chal
lenge.
Wood, the tour’s top rookie,
shot a 33-35—68, while North,
who has missed five cuts in nine
tournaments this year, had a
36-32-68.
“I haven’t played well in a
long time,” said North, an 11-
year tour veteran who last won
in 1978 when he captured the
U.S. Open. “It was nice just to
shoot a decent score.
“I’ve been working real hard
and I’ve been close the last two
weeks. I think when you’re
working that hard it takes a
while for it to make a differ-
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ATLANTA — With Steve
arlton, it’s a race against time.
Carlton is 39 years old. For a
tsl ball pitcher, which he was
lost of his career, that’s the twi-
ght zone. But thanks to some
■Iter pitches he’s picked up in
scent years, especially the
ider, there’s reason to believe
game, the ts bere’s still a few good years re-
iainingin his left arm.
ICarlton, a 6-fool-5, 220-
bunder who works out fre-
uently to stay in top shape, has
town a lot of pitches during
s20-year major league career.
“He’s always been a hard
irker,” says his Philadelphia
. anager, Paul Owens. “He
'ff. V )r ^ nearly 300 innings in
ch of the past two seasons and
usually averages about 15
l tches an inning.
’ “But don’t let last year’s won
ts record mislead you (when
irlton dropped from 23-11 in
to 15-16),” said Owens,
ook at his other stats. His
rned run average, strikeout-
ratio, hits, were all the
tie. The difference last year
sthat we went through a long
ell where we weren’t getting
u any runs.
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ison this time. I don’t believe
will go through a long pe-
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lings in a 5-0 victory in At-
ta, he allowed only two hits, a
ir of singles separated by 11
aight outs, walked only one
•> Jstruckout six.
usual, he wasn’t talking,
Owens, pitching coach
bude Osteen and Braves
iger Joe Torre, who caught
on in 1969-71 when they
teammates with the St.
lis Cardinals, were — and all
ee felt the veteran left-
ider was better in some ways
than he was in some of his
win seasons.
le throws more breaking
now,” said Torre. “He
his slider down and
ows it for strikes. Lefty has
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pitcher.”
“He’s had some physical
problems in the past, but I don’t
see any sign of them now,” said
Osteen. “I know he feels good.
He’s throwing easy and he’s get
ting his pitches where he wants
them. In those seven innings
against Atlanta he threw only
83 pilches. That’s barely 80 per
cent of what you figured he’d
throw.”
“Any shutout is impressive,”
said Owens. “But shutting out a
team like Atlanta in a ball park
like Atlanta Stadium, now that’s
really something. His perfor
mance was outstanding.”
Garlton shared that shutout
with reliever Bill Gampbell, so
he didn’t get credit for No. 56
which would have tied him with
former teammate Bob Gibson,
Don Sutton and Tom Seaver
for ninth place on the all-time
list. And if he had allowed one
less hit in those seven innings,
he probably would have resisted
coming out since he’s only one
shy of the modern National
League record (7) for one-hit
ters.
Every time Carlton, who
holds the major league record
for consecutive starts (465),
goes out on the mound, he has a
chance to move up among the
leaders in one category or an
other.
His win over Atlanta was his
301st, moving him ahead of
Early Wynn and Lefty Grove
and only four behind Eddie
Plank. Those six strikeouts in
that game raised his already re
cord career total to 3,715.
“Steve continues to amaze
me,” said Torre. “He’s a special
left-hander. When he’s pitching
against you, you have to hope
he won’t have the kind of con
trol he had against us. When he
gets ahead of the hitters like
that, he’s got them biting at his
pilch. I never saw him that
sharp this early in the season.
“He helps his team's offense
in that when he’s in the game
the opposing pitcher, knowing
he’s not going to have much to
work with, has a tendency to
put pressure on himself. Carl
ton (who refuses to talk to the
media) not only silences him
self, he also silences his oppo
nents.”
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