CPlou,%% rsitsr 2-1'0 #~ 1it iFIE J I I-' lti'%~ r'%IL rage .....:. . rrjaay, ugust i v o Ih n CHIA LWLuYIJurJ Page Eleven HOLDS ONE STROKE.LEAD Weiskopf fires 65 BETHESDA, Md. (/W) - Tom Weiskopf, riled and ridiculed by the printed taunts of a Wash- ington newspaper columnist, harnessed his enormous talents ad responded with a five-under- ,ar 65 that staked him to a one- stroke lead Thursday in the first round of the PGA national championship. "Some of it was humorous, some of it was pretty strong," Weiskopf said of a pretourna- ment column in the Washington Post in which Coleman Mc- Carthy treated Weiskopf to a certain amount of ridicule and listed him as one of five players who had no chance to win this, the last of the year's four major tests of golfing greatness. "Controversy, it's part of a major championship," Weiskopf said. "Maybe he writes like that all the time. Maybe he's trying to replace Howard Cosell. I don't know." The sometimes tempermental Weiskopf, a former British Open champion and winner of 11 American tour titles, was re- markebly composed as he dis- cussed the column. "I laughed about it," he said. But he responded to it, too. He responded with f o u r dueces, one of them an eagle where he holed out a six iron shot. He had eight one-putts- one a 20-footer to save par.- and used only 26 strokes on the beautifully manicured greens. And he neeted all these he- roics to stay in front of Tom Kite, the young Texan who has played most of his career in the shadow of University of Texas teammate Ben Crenshaw. Kite, who scored his first profes- sional victory earlier this sea- son, shot a 66 in the hot, muggy, enervating weather. The group at 68, three strokes off the pace, was composed of Lee Elder, a Washington resi- dent and the nation's leading black professional; former Mas- ters champion Charles Coody, and quick-quipping Jerry Mc- opv'ti "6'th e s I By The Associated Press Toronto dubbed TORONTO-The Toronto baseball team which starts play in the American League next season announced Thursday its nick- name will be the Blue Jays. The announcement came in a statement by R. Howard Webster, chairman of the board of directors of the club, which now will go by the corporate name Toronto Blue Jays Baseball. Connors downs A maya INDIANAPOLIS-Top-seeded Jimmy Connors shrugged off an aching back and beat former Michigan star Victor Amaya 6-2, 7-5 Thursday while No. 2 Giullermo Vilas and No. 6 Harold Solomon became the first players to advance to the quarterfinals in the $157,000 U. S. Clay Courts tennis tournament. Connors twisted his lower back in a furious contest against Australian Colin Dibley Wednesday night and won men Dibley retired with leg cramps in the third set. "I would have won it anyway," Connors said Thursday. "I was leading 3-0 at the time." The back was still bothering Connors in his match against Amaya, and afterward, Connors indicated he might withdraw from doubles competition. Celts try Olympian BOSTON-Drazin Dalipagic, an Olympic basketball star from Yugoslavia, will fly here the last week of August to display his talents to the Boston Celtics, according to John Killilea, the assistant coach of the National Basketball Association team. Dalipagic, a 6-foot-6 forward from Belgrade, led his team to a silver medal at the summer Olympics in Montreal. The 25-year- old, 205-pound player was the leading scorer on his team, averaging 25 points. Frazier hangs on NEW YORK-The New York Mets have extended the contract of Manager Joe Frazier through the 1977 season, it was announced Thursday. Frazier made the announcement himself Thursday after the Mets' 3-0 loss to San Diego. Frazier, in his first year as Mets manager, said he was told of the extension Wednesday by the club's board of governors. -- M FIND A NEW CAR IN THE CLASSIFIEDS Gee, who adorned himself with a white hat advertising a na- tional chain of hamburger stands. At 69, one under par on the tough Congressional Country Club course, a playground of presidents that plays longer than its listed 7,054 yards, were Hale Irwin, Mark Hayes; rookie sensation Jerry Pate, winner of the U.S. and Canadian Opens, and longshot Bob Zender, who broke 70 for the first time this year. Matching par 70 was a group that included Lee Trevino, sur- nrised South African Gary Play- er, Gibbv Gilbert, former PGA chamn Dave Stockton, former British Open king Tom Watson and veteran Don January. Jack Nicklaus, the defending champion and pretourney fa- vorite, could do no better than a 71 that left him six strokes off the pace. "Actually, 71 isn't a bad score in the first round of the PGA," he said. "The winner will have a score that high or higher. There's only, what, 10, 12 fel- lows in front of me? My position isn't that bad." Irwin, Weiskopf's playing part- ner and another of those listed in the Post column as having no chance to win, said he remarked to Weiskopf as they walked off the first tee, "Well, we might as well take it nice and easy today since neither of us had any chance." Irwin, a two-time winner this year and one of the major con- tenders for this national title, said he was "well-pleased with a 69. My objective was to shoot around par, maybe get under if the opportunity presented itself. "I was really impressed with Tom. He played a fantastic round. Except for a couple of missed putts there in the middle of the round and a stroke he jtst threw away, it was about as good as I've ever seen." The Leaders BETSHESDA, Md. AP) - F i r s t round seores yesterday in the 58th PGA championship on the par 35-35-70, 7,054 - yard Congressional Country Club Course: Tom Wiskop 31-34-65 Toni ite33-33-66 Gil Morgan 34-32-66 terry McGee 34-34-6 Charles Coady 34-34-6 Lee Elder 35-33-6 Hale rwin 34-35-69 Mark Hayes 34-35-69 Jerry Pate 35-34-69 nob Zender 34-35-69 Mike Morley 36-33-69 Gary Player 33-37-70 tee Treino 34-3670 lon January 35-35-70 Dave Stockton 34-36-70 Gibby Gilbert 34-36-70 Hilt Collins 35-35-70 Tom Watson 34-36-70 Lyn Lot 37-33-70 David Graham 37-33-70 STUDENT BIKE SHOP We Buy Used Bikes 501 S. Forest 662-6986 RP Photo PGA LEADER TOM WEISKOPF jumps for joy at the thir- teenth hole at Congressional country club after canning a birdie putt. 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