Known Fm scrambles for Akron Golf lead AKRON, Ohio (A") - Jerry McGee, a non-winner in seven years on the tour, scrambled and strained to a wildly er- ratic 69 that tied Ray Floyd for the second round lead yesterday in the $170,- 000 American Golf Classic. The quick-quipping McGee, who got a sponsor's exemption into this invitational event, had to birdie three of his last six holes to offset some early problems and put together a 36-hole total of 136, four under par for two tours over the famed, 7,180-yard Firestone Country Club course. "The way I started, I didn't know what I was gonna shoot," McGee said. "Then I kind of regrouped." FLOYD, the first round leader with a 65, slipped to a one-over-par 71 in the hot, humid, hazy weather. "I'm not disappointed," he said. "But it's kind of frustrating. I actually played better than I did yesterday. I could have shot 66 or 67 real easy" One shot back midway through this chase was Jim Colbert, who had a 67 for 137. Dwight Nevil and Buddy Allin fol- lowed at 138. Nevil had a 68 and Allin, already a two-time winner this season, went to a 72. Hale Irwin, who won the U.S. Open last weekend, rebounded from an open- ing 77 with a 68. "There was a certain amount of per- sonal, professional pride involved," said Irwin. Arnold Palmer birdied his last two holes for a 73-143. Defending champion Bruce Crampton of Australia had a 69 for 141. Jack Nicklaus, Lee Trevino, Gary Player and Johnny Miller are not com- peting. McGee, a happy-go-lucky guy who has- n't led a tournament for at least three years, spent much of the second round wandering through bunkers, flailing away in the woods and occasionally cha- ing his ball to other fairways and other tees. But it didn't bother him. "EDDIE PEARCE, one of the guys I played with, started calling me 'lumber- jack,' 'cause I hit so many trees," McGee said. "But I'll take a 69 on this course any way I can get it." He had five birdies and four bogeys. He wrapped two early bogeys, both from bunkers, around a wedge shot that left him a three-foot putt for a birdie on the second hole. His adventures began on the eighth hole. He hit a screaming hook off the tee that caught a tree and bounded over by the 12th tee. His three-iron second shot hit another tree. He had to use a three-wood for his third shot on the par four hole, reached the green and two- putted for a bogey. McGEE birdied the next hole from 15 feet, then salvaged his round on the 10th - with a bogey. He hooked into the woods again, again hitting a tree. le hit trees on his next two shots and still was 100 yards from the green. He lofted a wedge shot to within six inches of the cup "and man- aged to wobble the putt in," he said. "It really made the round. I was look- ing at double bogey, probably worse, and I got away with bogey." McGee struck a four-iron to within four feet of the flag on the 13th, then birdied the 15th and 17th with putts of 35 and 20 feet. Floyd's only birdie on the front nine came from five feet. He missed twice from six feet and had two other 15-foot birdie putts that lipped out of the hole. A bogey on the 15th hole dropped him back to even for the day and he bogeyed the final hole - for the second day in a row - after plugging his drive under the lip of a fairway bunker. AFTER SUFFERING through seven barren years on the PGA tour, Jerry McGee got a moment in the spotlight when he shot a 69 for a two-day total of 136, tying him with Ray Floyd for the lead in the American Golf Classic at Akron, Ohio. Toronto gets NBA franchise in '75 Youv'e spent years getting your degree. Are you willing to spend three more months getting a Career? ay The Associated Press NEW YORK - The National Basketball Association's Board of Governors announced yester- day that it had awarded an NBA franchise to Toronto for the 1975-76 season. Toronto will be the league's 19th franchise, joining the league only one year after the NBA's 18th franchise, New Or- leans, begins play. This will be the second time Toronto willtbe in the NBA. The Toronto Huskies were a charter member of the league when it started as the Basketball Association of America in 1946, but disband- ed after one unsuccessful year. In their one year in the league, the Huskies had a 22-38 record and finished in a fifth- place tie in the six-team East- ern Division. However, during the 1973-74 season, the NBA's Buffalo Braves played nine regular-sea- son games and one exhibition in Toronto's Maple Leaf Gar- dens, the Board of Governors apparently was favorably im- pressed by the support the To- ronto fans gave to the Braves. 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