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Friday, July 17, 1987/The Battalion/Page 5 Sports Eiwg mu, andry to coach Dallas 3 more years RS: «i uss tecli. -elescofr DALLAS (AP) — Dallas Cowboys oach Tom Landry ended specu lation about his future Thursday, tying he’ll coach the team for an ther three seasons. I The only coach during the Na- ■onal Football League team’s 27- Bear history was upbeat about the fu- tre, saying that with some reshuf- tng and rebuilding he should have Ihe club back on track. “We’re optimistic. We’re below here we should have been last year, ut we’ll be working hard and we’ll e a factor in the eastern race,” andry said. The Cowboys finished 7-9 last sea- Jon, their first losing season in 21 years. Landry described it as one of Ihe most frustrating years in foot- all. Cowboys President Tex Schramm laid Landry, whose contract expired at the end of the 1986 season, told him of his decision Wednesday, say ing he wants to “get the job done.” “It just shows a very renewed de termination on his part, that he hasn’t tired of the challenges,” Schramm said. “His position has al ways been when the game was no longer fun, when it no longer com manded his attention, he was going to quit. Now he has incentive and de termination to get us back.” There had been speculation that Landry would not coach the team for more than one season. Landry’s salary will be among the highest among NFL coaches, Scnramm said, but he declined to disclose the amount. That means it would be about $ 1 million, since Don Shula of the Miami Dolphins was paid $900,000 last season and is ex pected to earn about $1 million this season. i “As always, he will be paid accord ing to his success,” Schramm said. “And he is, no doubt, one of the top coaches in the league.” Explaining his decision to stay three more years, Landry said “Af ter having 20 years of winning, we’re trying to get back on track, and it’s going to take us a little while to turn it around.” One of Landry’s first moves since announcing his plans to remain with the team was to put veteran player Tony Hill on a waiver Thursday. Hill was waived because he missed three weigh-ins, and didn’t partici pate enough in the club’s off-season program. But Landry said deciding to let a veteran go is one of the hard est decisions he nas to make. “Wait;. »ing atj| n '■ed aftti h winns pt. 12-1! more ini ustralian Davis fires 7-under 64, akes early lead in British Open in ? sche4 ests art next II i get ai lopefulk and kitte (an. cketl d a nch. ommisii a flawec j seals t: lanufacti' ; fNASls 'e com: oint and to prove ikol pin nt MUIRFIELD, Scotland (AP) — odger Davis, a little-known Austra- ian who once gave up pro golf, took idvantage of ideal early conditions or a 7-under-par 64 and a 3-shot ead Thursday in the first round of he 116th British Open. “Probably my best round ever,” avis said. “It isn’t the thing to do to say ou’re unlucky with a 7-under, but his could have been anything,” said Tivis, 36, who left three birdie putts n inch short dead in the throat of he hole. His effort, which included eight birdies on Muirfield’s testing links, was within a single stroke of the re cord in this, the oldest golf championship. He got a break from the weather in doing it. ‘It was just perfect out there,” Da vis said of the light breezes and mild temperatures that favored the early starters. “It was the luck of the draw, prob ably the luckiest I’ve ever had,” agreed Lee Trevino, another early starter and one of three Americans (tied for second at 67. Also at i that figure were PGA [champion Bob Tway and Ken Green, who holed a 58-yard shot from the fairway for an eagle-3 on the 17 th. There would have been four Americans at 4-under-par but for a brush with the rules by Craig Stadler, who was bruised with a 2- shot penalty that turned his 67 into a 69. Stadler took a drop from an em bedded lie in the rough on the fifth hole, thinking the embedded ball rule was in effect. It was not. A couple of the pre-tournament favorites, Bernhard Langer of West Germany and rebounding Tom Watson, were in a large group tied with Stadler at 69. Stadler, along with most of the other first-round leaders, played in the gentle conditions of the morn ing. But the weather took a turn for the worse in the afternoon, with oc casional showers and a chilly wind gusting in from the Firth of Forth. Scores went up. “We had the toughest conditions in the afternoon,” defending cham pion Greg Norman said. “The wind turned around 180 degrees and that’s the wind that makes this course the toughest.” It didn’t have a major effect-on the bunkers, however, and that’s where Norman came to grief. He was two under par for the day until he got his second shot in a bun ker on the 18th, took two to get out of the wet sand and stalked off with a double bogey and a round of 7 L Jack Nicklaus, who scored the first of his three British Open titles on this course 21 years ago, was 10 strokes back after a struggling 74. Seve Ballesteros of Spain was one shot better — but no happier. The Spaniard, twice a winner of this event, scored 17 consecutive pars be fore he, too, found that troublesome bunker on the 18th. He failed to reach the green sur face with his sand shot and also walked away, his face as bleak as the Scottish skies, with a double bogey. Old champions Gary Player, who won this title on this course in 1959, and Arnold Palmer, 57, also played in the chilly afternoon rains. Player beat Ballesteros with a 72 and Palmer shot 75, one higher than Nicklaus. Larry Mize, whose pitch-in play off birdie upset Norman in the Mas ters; American money-winning leader Paul Azinger; Nick Faldo of England and Nick Price of South Af rica had 68s that left them four strokes back. “A workmanlike start,” said Wat son of his 69. He scored the third of his five British Open victories at Muirfield in 1980. “I made no mistakes with the put ter,” said Watson, a one-stroke run ner-up in the recent U.S. Open. Davis, who has played without particular distinction in brief ap pearances on the American tour, has spent most, of his career on the Aus tralian, Japanese and European cir cuits. *»v . r , , . i . l i. < He gave it up in 1983 to go into the motel business in Australia, he said. But that venture failed “and I was forced back on the tour.” He became a dedicated globetrot ter in the next few years, and broke through with three victories last sea son, in the Australian and New Zea land Opens and the British PGA. Bakfl ho isa ( len's.sail ffort fe day, di [t :an se^ cooper* fax volt eferrinl h in cor es.” :s a Ho- nitteea* , supp° f mfidentt / morel 1 itic exp* lift a * hat start tsSl9> 1 rci es el to tlr (t [30 ml enrolli’ 1 ' xas M te fun® id to dm ion in" 1 ts proi of gjj lent Si •t up 1(1 joltM mou e ) Texas Football magazine picks Arkansas to oustA&M in SWC DALLAS (AP) — Arkansas is the pre-season favorite of Dave Campbell’s Texas Football mag azine to win the 1987 Southwest Conference football championship, with Oklahoma getting the nod to take the na tional title. Last year, the pre-season edi tion correctly predicted that Texas A&M would win the SWC. It’s the second straight year for the magazine to pick Oklahoma for the national title. The Sooners finished second last year. This year, there were some changes in SWC football with Southern Methodist blanked out by NCAA sanctions and three new coaches at the eight remain ing schools. “There’s a story in the mag azine on SMU’s plight and then kind of a chart telling where all the SMU players scattered,” Campbell, the editor-in-chief, said Thursday. “This is the first time we’ve ever had to do some thing like that in the 28-year his tory of the magazine.” picked A&M to finish second be hind Arkansas, with Texas tagged for third and Texas Chris tian for fourth. Campbell said Arkansas hasn’t been chosen to win the confer ence since 1978. Houston wound up as the champion that year. “Everything points to Arkan sas,” Campbell said. When schools juggled their schedules after the NCAA banned football at SMU for 1987 and the school voluntarily scrapped the 1988 season, Texas picked one of the toughest oppo nents, adding Miami to the sched ule, Campbell said. Campbell said a game to watch this season will be Arkansas vs. A&M on Nov Landry, who will turn 63 before regular season play opens Sept. 13, said he would have a contract nego tiated by the time rookies report for training camp Sunday in Thousand Oaks, Calif. “We’ll sign something for this year. Everyone has to have a con tract (when coaches step on the field for training camp).” Landry, who was a player, a player-coach and an assistant coach for the New York Giants before tak ing over as head coach of the Dallas expansion team, says he has worked harder during the off-season this year than any other period of his ca reer. “I just feel that this is a very im portant time in our history,” he said. “It’s time to blend in some new blood with our team. I am willing to take the time to do that.” Curry enjoys being champ not contender LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) — Don ald Curry knows what it’s like being a champion and being a challenger. He likes being a champion better. Curry, the former undisputed welterweight titlist, gets a chance to regain that championship feeling Saturday night when he meets unde feated junior middleweight cham pion Mike McCallum in a scheduled 15-round fight for the World Box ing Association crown. “I’ve always been a winner and number one,” Curry said. “I still like the taste of being a champion. I don’t like being a contender.” Curry’s drop from boxing’s elite was a quick and shocking one. Unde feated and being hailed as perhaps the best pound-lor-pound fighter in the world, it all came crashing down on him last September behind the fists of Britian’s Lloyd Honeyghan, who stopped him in the sixth round of their title fight. Curry blamed the loss on several factors, including trouble making the 147-pound weight limit. He launched a comeback in the 154- pound class and, after two quirky disqualification wins, meets McCal lum for the title. “I feel like he’s my whole career,” Curry said of McCallum. “It’s a must-win situation for me.” Curry, 27-1 with 20 knockouts, is in the unusual position of being a fa vorite in the fight, even though he’s the challenger and is meeting an un defeated champion who has held his title longer than any current fighter. Not only does he have to beat Mc Callum, however, he must be im pressive enought to win back some of the reputation he has crafted as one of the most technically accurate, hardest punching fighters around. “I would be satisfied with a win, but I need a dramatic win,” said the 25-year-old from Fort Worth “I’d like something dramatic and stun ning to happen.” McCallum, likewise, would like some recognition to come his way. Despite a 31-0 record and five knockout wins in title defenses since winning the crown in October 1984, the Jamaican native is little known outside the boxing world. “In order to become great, or be come known worldwide, you’ve got to beat a great fighter,” McCallum said. “In this case, Curry is noted as a great fighter.” McCallum is coming off a sixth- round stopping of former wel terweight champion Milton Mc- Crory in April. slaturf ! i has I' ,eV Low-Impact Exercise is designed to give your joints the break they need. These classes will give you a good workout without most of the stress of a normal aerobic class. $12/student, $ 14/nonstudent. — M/W, 5-6pm JtJ July 20. 22. 27. 29. Aug 3. 5, 10. 12 M/W, 6-7pm D July 20. 22. 27. 29. Aug 3. 5. 10. 12 Aerobics Aerobics will raise your heartbeat for sustained periods of time to improve both your cardiovascular fitness level and your overall muscle tone. Isn't it time you did something good for yourself! Each of these classes is a bargain for just $12/studenL $ 14/nonstudent. Intermediate Aerobic Exercise T/Th, 6-7pm •T July 21.23, 28. 30. AiuT4. 6. II. 13 Beginning Aerobic Exercise _ M/W, 7-8pm Jtl July 20. 22. 27. 29. Aug 3. 5. 10. 12 _ T/Th, 5-6pm Cl Juh/ 21.23. 28. 30. Aup4. 6. 11. 13 _ T/Th, 7-8pm L/ July 21.23, 28. 30. Aug 4, 6. 11. 13 -7^ 845-1631 Cowboys' Hill let go after weight problem DALLAS (AP) — The Dallas Cowboys on Thursday released wide receiver Tony Hill after Coach Tom Landry said the 10- year NFL veteran was overweight and did not show up for three weigh-ins this summer. Hill, 31, had 479 career recep tions with the Cowboys, only 11 short of the NFL duo’s all-time record of 490 held by Drew Pear son. He has played in three Pro Bowls and holas the Cowboys’ re cord for yardage gained by a re ceiver. Hill weighs about 230 pounds, more than 30 pouunds over his assigned weight, according to the Cowboys. “He had weight problems,” Landry said. “He just didn’t fire up as everyone else did.” Landry informed Hill on Thursday of the decision to place him on no-recall waivers. Last season, with the addition of rookie Mike Sherrard, Hill played less of a role in the of fense. He grabbed 49 receptions for 770 yards, compared to 74 recep tions for 1,113 yards in 1985. “We just felt that the time had come and we needed to make a change for the best interest of the club and Tony Hill himself,” Landry said. “I like Tony very much, It’s one of the toughest things I have to do, when I have to let a veteran go,” he said. Hill indicated to Landry that he wanted to continue playing, and another NFL team could claim him. Earlier, Landry had said that Hill did not appear to be heeding warnings that more would be ex pected this off-season of Cowboys veterans than ever before follow ing a 7-9 record in 1986, the team’s first losing season in 21 years. “He knew he hadn’t been working,” Landry said. Hill was a standout at Stanford University, breaking all of former San Francisco 49ers All-Pro Gene Washington’s receiving records. He led the Cowboys in receiv ing yards for eight straight years. But Hill lost his starting posi tion last year to Sherrard, becom ing the first player in the club’s history to lose a starting position during the off-season. Cowboys running back Tony Dorsett said Thursday he was surprised by Hill’s release. “I would guess a guy of his cali ber would be given the benefit of the doubt. I still feel Tony can play football,” Dorsett said. “I’d like to see that seasoned lead ership out there in the wide re ceiver department. It could be beneficial to the young players.” Last year, wide receiver Mike Renfro threatened to retire if Hill remained on the team, but he de cided to stay when Sherrard was placed ahead of Hill on the ros ter. Hill’s release comes in the midst of a rebuilding of the fran chise, with Landry agreeing to be at the helm for another three sea- Rangers see rookie Brower having potential greatness ARLINGTON (AP) — Whenever he starts getting frustrated about the time he spends in the Texas Rang ers’ dugout, Bob Brower remembers his senior year in high school, when he tried out for football for the first time since junior high. Already a star in basketball, base ball and track, Brower said he agreed to play football “because all my friends were going out, and my track coach was the running back coach.” “I was second-team tailback all year. I never started a game,” he said. But off the bench, he was dev astating — carrying the ball 120 times for 1,200 yards for James Madison High School at Vienna, Va., a Washington, D.C., suburb, to gain all-region honors and a football scholarship to Duke. And lately, even as a rookie and role player off the Rangers’ bench, Brower has shown signs of potential greatness. The 27-year-old Brower, 6 feet tall and 190 pounds, last month be came the first player in Rangers his tory to hit an inside-the-park grand slam home run. In other recent ap pearances, his sprinter’s speed has enabled him to chase down several flies that would have fallen for hits against most outfielders. “I’d be a liar if I said it didn’t bother me, sitting on the bench. It’s tough. What I have to realize is that I’m not the first to do it. I’m a rookie. I just need to keep my consis tency, my mechanics, and keep de veloping my whole game,” Brower said. At Duke, Brower lettered four year u b jball and thue years in football. It was after his junior year in 1981, when he led the nation in triples, that he decided to pursue a pro baseball career. When no major league baseball team drafted him, Brower got a tryout with the Rangers and was told to report to the team’s rookie league franchise at Sarasota, Fla., coached by Tom Grieve, now the Rangers’ general manager. After five years of laboring in the minor leagues, Brower has finally worked his way up to the majors. “The individual achievements, I don’t think they are as satisfying as just being here. Just knowing that all the years I was in the minor leagues, with the confidence I had, that I fi nally made it,” Brower said. “I have nothing against any of the minor league cities I played in (Sara sota, Burlington, Tulsa and Okla homa City). My days were centered around being at the ballpark, and I loved it all. But this is where the rec ognition is and where everyone strives to be.” Rangers coach Joe Ferguson, who managed the team Brower played for in the Dominican Republic, said one of the biggest adjustments Brower will have will be getting used to spending more time on the bench. “He’s always gotten to play every day. Now, he has to sit and be men tally ready when he does get in. But he’s handled it very well. He’s a good student of the game and a pleasure to work with,” Ferguson said. “Most teams don’t have the luxury of a good pinch-runner on the bench, and he can play all the out field positions, plus he’s a good bat. He gives us a little more versatility in role players off the bench,” Fergu son said. disc ount TRAVEL STUDENTS ANC TEACHERS-You, your spouse and dependant children can travel just about anywhere in South America, the Caribbean and Europe at DISCOUNT RATES. Snfe) O.N.T.E.J. Is your "National Youth and Tourism Organization". 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