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I SPORTS Robert Cessna, Sports Editor, 776-4444, ext. 460 Bryan-College Station Eagle, Monday, July 24,1989 Brooms Astros hold on Sunday to sweep the Phillies, 3B B SECTION ■ Comics, 4B ■Television, 5B ■Classified, 6-10B >M (AP) „J| snien on ]■ .- Time out (1 lawmaltetl ie Count that’s in a grip? rning. don, R-Pa on GOP Ht-— Laidlay’s name 'iipremeCoMjQON, Scotland — Harry Vardon, i 1 ne of the great pioneers of modern 'cregoT B popularized the grip that bears in? to coir But he did not originate it. uni their The.overlapping grip - with the left ? d Rep i hUmb laid along the shaft of the club tnd the little finger of the right hand in? never flapping the left forefinger — was nakers spraffieloped by a British amateur, John vater a stu fidlay, before the turn of the century. 1 JohnsonilPi eviously, golfers used what now is some anti:|j!J0wn as the “baseball grip” and used ■at, flailing swing sometimes called 1984 flag the English roundhouse.* as thrown ( Vardon, born In England in 1870, ■ Court iras the outstanding player of his era. ws conlr j|adopted Lindlay’s grip and used it and said lS the basis to develop a new, more ourn afht jjjpjrtght swing and a new concept in 10W to play the game. o tail inl ° R e developed lighter clubs and, for he first time, used long irons as clubs i accuracy, rather than regarding t n'!LoP m simply as implements to advance r * he ball over the ragged links of the onstitutic ff 1 century. onlvcoi These innovations helped him to six said in Hltish Open titles, in 1896, ’98, *99, r le?islati BQ, T1. T4, a record that Tom Watson K chasing Sunday at Royal Troon. 'courseofilUwas on one of several tours of the ation and« Jnited States that Vardon displayed ethesup he new swing and grip in a series of eric an Ve gthibitions in the Northeast and i, the Dk|j|jjl\vest. i rector, aid I h came to be known as “the Vardon ;ss to a Mpp" and is one of two grips still taught *ss the “ —professionals around the world, ith repr»| r or" Fori .Classen 5 s memory enough use Judicial [he Conat Neumann had a list of reasons for : t 0r y. only 93 seconds to stop Fri- hearingyiw’s undisputed heavyweight title >f testinicAt between Mike Tyson and Carl Wil- the HousBns. ed overtax This was his best: “I boxed with Wil- ne CourtdtfeClassen and Willie is quite dead.” ;• JpHassen, who died of injuries Helved in a 1979 fight with Wilford ||rpion, is a reminder of what price {OKing can exact. Neumann, the ref- [ tliJ tree in Friday’s fight at the Convention Center, made it apparent he was not Bing to let anyone take nearly so eat a risk. i days, delays, delays MONTREAL — When they couldn’t Kse the roof at Montreal’s Olympic ,. f , Stadium during a two-hour rain delay 1 l ' ills week. Expos publicity man Richie •nXlffln put out a release listing all the udtfHique causes of delays at the Big O Bice the Expos moved there in 1980. Biong them: An explosion in the ad- i the HI''<B ent tower, a truck crashing into the ears wiitfutfield fence, a group of runaway [DSdiseaswM 5 from a pregame circus show, a understaMfirrel that evaded capture for nearly (long peiiftalf hour and 500 marching bands pie. pat took forever to leave the field after disease :*pregame show in 1980. he bodyiH o resist i fint or not to tint DETROIT — Detroit forward John ■"■'■ley was pulled over earlier this week Tpof W having tinted windows on his car L they are illegal in Michigan). It was ■n discovered his registration had Kpired and he was brought down to |fe station, complaining all the while. ,«l«j pi* Imagine what he was saying after he ^ ^ P n< ^ ou t what happened with team- threat b)P teIsial1 Thomas. Three days earlier, k\s to seif® Pistons captain was driving when a tes and jI 511 ? °f kids pulled up beside him and peratioflsfjrted waving and clapping. The kids m at leaf ® re so busy looking at their idol they represeti’ Ifgot to watch the road and plowed say there |to a parked car. deal. Thomas pulled over and waited with isociationliemto explain to the police. ;ber on 'You should get tinted windows,’ ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Randy of inter ave to views it 1 and ty ficials. jortatioi 1 r said he ty sale of icr U.5 aid the cop. ’Then this never would ave happened.’’’ —Compiled from wire reports Television Baseball 6:35 p.m. — San Francisco Giants at Atlanta ■ves. Ch. 29. ^7:30 p.m. — Chicago Cubs at St. Louis Car- #nals. Ch.33. w:30 p.m. — Toronto Blue Jays at Texas fengers. Ch. 25. Olympic Festival ivo p.m. — Wrestling, figure skating and lynchronized swimming. Ch. 32. „ 9 p.m. — Equestrian, wrestling, basketball. DUSe5h,32. :za Radio Baseball 7:35 p.m. — Toronto Blue Jays at Texas fenflers. (Airtime 7:15 p.m.). 1150AMWTAW. Yankee Doodle Dandies AP photo Greg LeMond of the U.S. rides down the Champs Elysees Avenue in front of the Arch of Triumph. LeMond won the Tour de France by eight seconds. LeMond takes Tour de France N.Y. Times News Service PARIS — By racing from Versailles into Paris in a stunning 26 minutes 57 sec onds on Sunday, Greg LeMond of the United States won the Tour de France for the second time. His margin of victory over Laurent Fig- non of France, 8 seconds, was the smallest ever in the world’s greatest bicy cle race. The Tour had already covered 2,000 miles in three weeks when LeMond set off on the last stage Sunday 50 seconds be hind the overall leader, Fignon. The final stage was a 15-mile time trial, in which a rider’s time, not his position relative to other riders, is what matters. Few besides LeMond, 28, who has made a remarkable comeback from in jury, believed he had a chance to make up the 50 seconds on Fignon. “It’s still possible,” LeMond said Satur day, but most people doubted him. As half a million people watching the finish on the Champs-Elysees burst into cheers, LeMond proved all the doubters wrong. Please see LeMond, 2B Calcavecchia brings home British Open Knight-Ridder News Service TROON, Scotland — If the stork hadn’t cooperated, Mark Calcavecchia wouldn’t have even been in Scotland on Sunday. If Wayne Grady hadn’t cooperated, Cal cavecchia never would have gotten to a playoff. And if Greg Norman hadn’t coo perated, he never would have been in position to win his first major champi onship. Calcavecchia, with a lot of help from a lot of people, still did the things he had to do Sunday at Royal Troon Golf Club. Four shots behind with nine holes remaining, he stood around the back door, hat in hand, waiting for an opportunity to enter. Zig-zagging past the flotsam of punch- drunk competitors, he would wriggle his way into a three-way playoff with a birdie at No. 18. Then, in the four-hole extra, he made two birdies to knock out Norman and Grady. Back home in Phoenix, Ariz., his wife. Sheryl, is due to go into labor at any minute. “If she had called me last night and told me It had begun, I would have been on the plane immediately,” Cal cavecchia said. “I would never have been here today. This is only a golf tourna ment.” But Sheryl did her part to get him to the golf course. Grady, who had played so gritty all week, had to make a bogey at the 71st hole to allow Calcavecchia to squeeze into the playoff with his 13-un der-par score of 275. And then Norman, who had scorched the course with a re- cord-setting 64, had to bogey the third and fourth playoff holes to afford Cal cavecchia the chance to win it. But Calcavecchia earned it fairly. He shot a final-round 68, making a birdie at the difficult 18th when he knew he had to do it to stay alive. Then he birdied the 18th again in the playoff, the final hole of the four-hole bonus session while Nor man was taking an ‘X’ out of two bun kers. Grady had already eliminated him self when he failed to birdie any of the playoff holes. Calcavecchia was the surprise guest at the playoff party, the bill collector you never thought you’d run Into. Early in the day all attention was on Norman, who shot his 64, then sat back and watched the rest of the field try to catch his 13 under par. Throughout the afternoon Grady and Tom Watson were the featured players, Watson staying in the chase un- Eagle photo by Peter Rocha Please go in Bryan’s Jack Anding tries to wave his putt in on No. 14 at the Bryan- College Station Open City Golf Tournament, which was completed on Sunday at the Bryan Golf Course. The ball didn’t listen for him but it did for Bully Batten, who came from three shots off the lead to grab championship honors with a 150. David McCrady, Rick Gorzycki, Phil Thomas, Bobby Lane and Jerry Reese were in a logjam at 151. Cowboys start camp without Walsh The Associated Press THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. — RookieJ and some veterans reported to the 30th Dallas Cowboys’ training camp on Sun day but quarterback Steve Walsh, the No. 1 pick in the NFL’s supplemental draft was among the no-shows. Dallas coach Jimmy Johnson said Walsh, whom he coached in college at Miami, won’t come to camp without a contract. Walsh is asking a contract simi lar to the $11.037 million which top draft pick Troy Aikman received. “I would hope that we would be close to signing Steve by the middle of the week,” Johnson said. “One way or the other he won’t be here until he signs.” Walsh said the Cowboys have received offers from four teams. ‘There is still a chance of a trade and we prefer to do something now if some thing is going to happen,’’ Johnson said. “I’d still say the percentages are leaning toward him being with the Dallas Cow boys.” Johnson added: ‘We’ve had three offers and a fourth we didn’t entertain. I have no idea what’s going to happen but I do know the quality of Steve Walsh. We know what he’s capable of doing. ” The Cowboys picked Walsh after At lanta, which had the selection ahead of Dallas, passed. “I’m still in a fog why Atlanta didn’t get him,” Johnson said. Johnson said most of the Cowboys’ draft picks would be signed by the time Dallas scrimmages the Los Angeles Raiders on Wednesday. However, he said the talks with veteran quarterback Steve Pelluer were still at a stalemate. ‘We feel we can do all we can do to sign Steve,” Johnson said. Pelluer is asking some $750,000 per year and the Cowboys have offered $450,000. Pelluer has said he would ac cept a trade to another team. The Cowboys have to sign Pelluer be fore they can trade him. “I’m at a loss and I don’t know what else to do in that situation,” Johnson said. The Cowboys will undergo physicals this morning then plunge into a Monday afternoon workout in full pads. A P photo Steve Walsh showed up for the Cow boys’ quarterback camp two weeks ago, but he won’t report to training camp until he has signed a contract. They’ll work twice on Tuesday before scrimmaging the Raiders on Wednesday and Thursday. ‘We need to evaluate everybody in pads,” Johnson said. “A running back may be the best in the world running against air but terrible at breaking tack les. ‘The same with linebackers. We want to see how they close and hit.” This is expected to be the Cowboys’ last training camp at Thousand Oaks al though Johnson wouldn’t say definitely. “Well evaluate it after it’s over,” he said. The Cowboys will break training camp on Aug. 25 after playing preseason games against San Diego and the Raiders. Dal las plays in Denver on Aug. 26 then plays its final exhibition game at home on Sept. 2 against Houston. AP photo Mark Calcavecchia raises his arms in triumph after holing out on the 18th to win- the British Open championship. til incurring three bogeys in midround,- Grady holding the lead all the way until he bogeyed trying to extricate himself from a bunker at the par-3 17th. Calcavecchia crept into position with a birdie at No. 16, then burst in unan nounced with a beautiful 8-iron ap proach at 18 that left him 5 feet of work. ; “I never thought of him until he birdied 18,” Norman said. ‘The only score I was worried about was Greg’s,” Grady said. “Like Greg, I didn’t think about Mark all day.” For most of the day, Mark didn’t think about Mark. At least in terms of the silver claret trophy. He had started the day three shots be hind Grady. “I was not thinking about winning all day,” he said. “I just wanted Please see Open, 2B Oilers to begin 1989 camp as division favorites The Associated Press HOUSTON — The Houston Oilers have transformed themselves from underdogs to big dogs in the AFC Central Division. After spending most of this de cade living up to last-place predic tions, the Oilers have earned wild card playoff berths the last two years. Now they are hearing they are the favorites to win it all as they head for Southwest Texas State Universi ty at San Marcos, to start preseason camp. “It’s the first time in my eight years here that we haven’t been picked last or next to last,” Pro Bowl guard Mike Munchak said. “It’s a psychological lift that people out side of Houston are starting to look at you as a top team in this league.” The Oilers improved to 10-6 last season and beat Cleveland 28-23 in the AFC wild card game but lost to Buffalo 17-10 in the next round. Houston returned to the playoffs despite losing quarterback Warren Moon for five games with a broken shoulder blade. The runping game ranked fifth in the NFL and the Oilers were second In the league in points per game. Now they are being picked in many preseason polls to replace di vision champion Cincinnati. But Coach Jerry Glanville isn’t listening. “In the past when they picked us last, you’d tell everybody. They don’t have any Intelligence, don’t read them,’ ” Glanville said. “So now when they pick you first you treat them the same way. ‘We’re going to have a good foot ball team. We’ve been a good foot- Please see Oilers, 2B