'age 12 - The Michigan Daily - Saturday, July 20, 1985
Tigers tripped
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by Texas, 2-1
DETROIT (UPI) - Geno Petralli opportunity in the second in
singled home the tie-breaking run Darrell Evans on third
with two out in the fourth inning last Larry Herndon on second
night to give the Texas Rangers a 2-1 out double, Hooton retired
victory, their second straight triumph three batters without allowi
over the floundering Detroit Tigers. Detroit has given up 342
Burt Hooton raised his record to 5-4 season, 140 of them with tw
with three innings of relief help from percent. Of the 75 home
former Tiger Dave Rozema. Hooton Tigers have served up, 24 l
allowed six hits and Rozema permit- with two out -32 percent.
ted three in earning his fifth save. Dan
Petry, 10-9, took the loss. He has lost
seven of his last nine decisions.
THE TIGERS have lost five of their
last six games.
Texas took a 1-0 lead in the first
when Pete O'Brien stroked his 11th
home run of the season. Detroit tied
the score in the third. Lou Whitaker
led off with a double, moved up on a
fly ball and scored on a sacrifice fly
by Alan Trammell.
Gary Ward singled to start the four-
th and stole second to open up first
base for George Wright, who walked
withone out. Petralli lined a single to
right. ..
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Kicks and deals Daily Photo by DARRIAN SMITH,
A member of the Major League Scouting Bureau eyes local talent for the Detroit Tigers at Eastern Michigan
earlier this month. The EMU tryout camp was one of about ten Tiger camps being held in Michigan, the latest
being yesterday in Detroit.
FIRST TIME IN 22 YEARS:
Jack misses O
SANDWICH, England (UPI) - "I'VE MISSED them all once now,
Jack Nicklaus has added another so I can stop," Nicklaus said after a 5-
Grand Slam to his record, one that over-par 75 in heavy wind and rain put
doesn't particularly please him. him at 12-over 152 for two rounds. "Ill
By failing to survive the 36-hole cut try not to make it a double Grand
in the British Open yesterday for the Slam."
first time, Nicklaus completed a The fact that Nicklaus, who is far
reverse slam. He now has missed the more proud of the record three Grand
cut at least once in all four major Slams he has won, can joke about his
championships. failure is attributed to his generally
Wet andwindyOen;
unknowns in the lead
The Tigers had a scoring chance in
c u t the seventh. With the bases loaded
and two outs, Kirk Gibson, the Tiger's
leader in home runs and RBI's, batted
against his close friend, Dave Rozem-
optimistic outlook and a strong belief a. But Rozema got Gibson to bounce to
that his game is better than it showed short.
at Royal St..Georges. The Tigers wasted a bigger scoring
However, this latest disappoin-
tment comes only a month after the
Grand Master, winner of 19 major
championships, also missed the cut at
the U.S. Open for the first time in 22
years. Inevitably, he was pressed to
the wall to explain how discouraged
he was, whether he still was capable.
of winning at 45, and if he ever con-
sidered retirement.
"I'M DISAPPOINTED I didn't do
better because I was feeling up
coming into the tournament,"
Nicklaus said as he sat before his
locker in the clubhouse. "But I'm not
going to let this tournament interfere
with the way I'm feeling or the way
I'm playing now.
"I felt like I could win here. I went
out yesterday with a positive attitude,
but I made a couple of dumb mistakes
and shot 77."
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SANDWICH, England (UPI) -
David Graham and Sandy Lyle, a pair
of familiar names on a leader board
dotted with unknowns, each shot 1-
over-par 71 yesterday to share the
halfway lead of the Britsh Open by
one shot over a tightly bunched field.
On a wet, windy day when the
elements played more of an effect
than any golf club, Jack Nicklaus shot
75 to miss the 36-hold cut for the first
tine in 24 years at the British Open,
and defending champion Steve
Ballesteros, closing his round with
four successive bogeys, barely sur-
vived the cut at 149 following a 74.
TOM WATSON, five times a British
Open champion, also bad hia
problems with an uninspired 73 that
left him at 145, six shots off the pace.
"There has to come a time," Lyle
said. "There has to be new names
coming through."
Conditions were so bad, particularly
early in the day, that the 6,857-yard
Royal St. Georges grudgingly con-
ceded only three sub-par rounds.
Eamonn Darcy had 68-144, Bernard
Langer 69-141, and Paul Oglesby 69-
145.
Graham, a U.S. Open and PGA
champion who has been playing
poorly of late, sank a 14-foot birdie
putt on the 16th hole, then saved par
with a 20-foot putt on No. 18 to com-
plete 36 holes at 1-under 139 Lyle a
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Scotsman who shot 65 in the second
round of this year's Masters, double Nicklaus has won 70 tournaments
bogeyed the opening hole and bogeyed since joining the PGA Tour in 1962,
the third before settling down with but only two of those titles have come
three birdies from the sixth through since 1980. He got a big lift by
ninth, finishing second in the Canadian Open
.i..two weeks ago, and contends age isn't
Christy O'Connor Jr., following his as much a factor as motivation.
record-breaking opening round of 64,
came back with six bogeys on the "I don't really think age has a lot to
front side Friday and skied to a 76, do with it in the game of golf," he
which still left him in a tie for third theorized. "I feel it's the amount of
place at 1401 with D.A. Weibring, time you're willing to work at it and
playing in his first British Open, and your dedication to continue giving up
Tony Johnstone of Zimbabwe. the things you've given up all your
"The wind was absolutely horrific life. If you remain in good health,
for the first nine holes," said O'Con- which is a hard thing to do, I don't see
nor. i% Weibring, winner of one tour- that big a problem with it."
ament in nine years on the PGA Tour, Nicklaus said he devotes less time
birdied the 13th and 14th holes for a to his outside business interests than
round of 71, while Johnstone bogeyed he did five years ago, adding, "I've
the final hole for a 72 that cost him a become a golfer again. Maybe that's
share of the lead. the problem."
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Associated Press
Jack Nicklaus can't explain to a reporter why he shot 12 over par in the
first two rounds of the British Open.