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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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