Weaver brought in to save fading Orioles BALTIMORE (UPI)-Less than two-and-a-half years after he an- nounced his retirement from baseball, Earl Weaver returned yesterday as manager of the Baltimore Orioles. Club owner Edward Bennett Williams, disappointed over his team's play, persuaded Weaver to return hoping the once-fiery skip- per still had the formula for suc- cess that made him one of- baseball's winningest managers during a 15-year career at the helm of the Orioles. WEAVER replaces Joe Altobelli, the man who replaced him as manager in 1983. Altobelli guided the Orioles to a World Series vic- tory in 1983 but the club slumped to fifth place in the AL East last year ...a reborn bird and is currently in fourth place, eight games behind Toronto. making the announcement of "We are sorry about relieving Weaver's return. "It was a dif- Joe Altobelli," said Orioles' ficult decision, but we did not like general manager Hank Peters, in the direction in which the club 4 4 14 Associated Press Jim Thorpe shows his displeasure after missing a putt during yesterday's first round of the U.S. Open. Thorpe, whose putter is built facing inwards, finished the day at three over par on the tough Oakland Hills Country From $4995 '82 Models " - From $4495 '81 Models '86 MAZDA From $3995 B-2000 TRUCK '80 MODELS ind OLDER FROM $995 60 DAY OLD fill, LEFT OVER Stk.No.1016 '85 MAZDA NEW DELUXE 4 DR. '4's "EXAMPLE: RABBIT 400R. V S$5995' 'Plsris htpep 5 10No1199 titeicense 8S MAZDA $269 ON119 opw 626 BO&Wdon 48iMo.Lems DELUXE 2 DR. Jl TOUGH DAY FOR STARS: Tze-Chung Chen's 65 secures first at Open BIRMINGHAM (UPI)-Tze-Chung Reid, Andy Bean, Jay Haas, Rick Chen, an obscure touring pro from Fehr and Tom Kite. Taiwan, made the first double-eagle The large group at par-70 included in the 85-year history of the U.S. Open Lanny Wadkins, Craig Stadler, Payne yesterday to shoot a 5-under-par 65 for Stewart, Bill Glasson and former the first-round lead in America's most Open champion Andy North. prestigious golf tournament. Leading money-winner Curtis Not only did he hole a 3-wood shot Strange was in the crowd at 71, as was from the fairway of the par-5 second Fuzzy Zoeller, trying to become the hole at the Oakland Hills Country Club first player in 34 years to win two course but he birdied the last two straight Opens. holes as well to take a one-shot lead RAY FLOYD, Corey Pavin Mark over Fred Couples. O'Meara and Greg Norman were at 72 "MY SHOT at the second shot went while the huge crowd at 73 included straight for the pin," Chen said. "But David Graham, Hubert Green and I couldn't see it go in the hole. The Hale Irwin. crowd behind the green cheered real Masters champion Bernhard loud and I thought it was close. But I Langer, trying for the second leg of never though it was in." the Grand Slam, had to settle with a Couples' 66, posted an hour before 74. Tom Watson turned in a 75 and Lee Chen finished his round, appeared Trevino and Jack Nicklaus suffered almost certain to be good enough to through 76s. give him the first-day lead on one of Ben Crenshaw, who has resorted to the world's toughest courses. visiting a sports psychologist in hopes But Chen made birdie putts at the of improving his game, slumped in 17th and 18th holes which brought witha 78. grief to player after player during the CHEN, known to his fellow touring long day that started cold and pros by the initials, "T.C.," gave no blustery and finished with a brief advance warning that he might thunderstorm that caused a 14-minute produce the kind of extraordinary suspension of play. round he came up with yesterday. CHEN FOLLOWED in the tradition In 12 tournaments this year his best of the Open, where often the first-day finish has been a tie for 12th at the An- leader is a player not used to the dy Williams Open and his best round spotlight. was a 66 at Phoenix. In his third year on the PGA Tour, After suddenly jumping 3-under Chen's best finish has been second in par with a single swipe at the ball on the 1983 Kemper Open. And in that the second hole he knocked it within 4 tournament he lost a playoff to feet at.the par-3 third to pick up a bir- Couples. die. Oakland Hills played brutally tough "The double-eagle came too early during the first half of the opening in the round for me to get excited," round with winds blowing at 20 mph. Chen said. "I knew there was a long After the winds calmed and the way to go." greens were softened by the burst of He was 5-under through 12 and sud- rain, birdies became more plentiful. denly stumbled on the stretch of holes FOUR SHOTS behind Chen, tied for which brought grief to so many third place at 1-under 69, came Mike players. seems to be headed and decided that a change was necessary.." For the fifth time in his career, Weaver will become the highest paid manager in baseball. In replacing Altobelli, Weaver sup- plants the man who took the helm from him three years ago and led the Orioles to the 1983 World Championship. The Yankee's Billy Martin is the number-one money maker among managers, at over $400,000 a year. Weaver will get more-he has asked that his money be paid in a unique fashion. WEAVER has told the Orioles he wants to be paid per diem, making him the first manager in history ever to be paid on a day-by-day basis. 4 i AitooeDre -.-.time for the race track Field announced for pre-season tourney Once the team had been rated by 1 NEW YORK (UPI)-Duke, St. the advisory group it was ranked by John's, Louisville and Kan- the national committee and those that sas-schools rich in basketball met the criteria were extended an of- tradition-were among 16 teams fer to play. selected Thursday by the National In- "WE FEEL we've got many Top 20 vitation Tournament for their first teams in our tournament and it's con- pre-season competition. ceivable we have one of the top three The selection committee also chose or four teams in the country," Auburn, Navy, West Virginia, Tulsa, Carlesimo added, though he would not Dayton, Miami (Ohio), Texas A&M, go into specifics as to how the 16 Alabama-Birmingham, Lamar, teams were ranked. Washington, Texas-El Paso, and Pep- Games will be played on Thursday, perdine. Nov. 22 at four regional sites. St. "WE SELECTED the best teams John's (31-4 last year) will meet Navy we could get, based on our projections (26-6), and Auburn (22-12) will face of how we thought they would do next West Virginia (20-9) at the Hartford season," said Peter Carlesimo, Civic Center in Hartford, Conn; Tulsa executive director of the tournament. (23-8) plays Dayton (19-9), and The committee divided the country Louisville (19-16) faces Miami (20-11) into eight regions and set up an ad- at the Riverfront Coliseum in Cincin- visory board to rank each team by its nati, Ohio; Texas A&M (19-11) meets projected finish in its conference. Alabama-Birmingham (25-9), and Among the criteria used in the selec- Duke (23-8) faces Lamar (20-12) at the tion process were quality of returning Summit in Houston, Texas; and starters, returning lettermen, Washington (22-10) meets Texas-El recruits, eligibility of redshirts and Paso (22-10), and Kansas (26-8) bat- transfers, strength of the conference ties Pepperdine (23-9) at the Mc- and availability. Nichols Sports Arena in Denver, Colo.