'age 12 - The Michigan Daily - Saturday, July 20, 1985 Tigers tripped 4 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. .. ning. With base and with a no- d the next ng a run. 4 runs this o out - 41 runs the have come 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." Wkl"' 4 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 4 11 --vv +va v"Va uau~a 0.. 1 , 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." 4 4 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.