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Devin Pockets $25,000 For Houston Open Win By DARRELL MACK | ; UPI Sports Writer | ' HOUSTON (UPI) - Bruce Devlin, whose golfing career was saved by a Houston doctor seven years ago, headed to the Colonial Invitational today with the Texas Tnple Crown in his golf bag. Devlin won the third leg of the Texas golfing sweepstakes Monday, with a 10-under-par 278 in the $125,000 Houston Open. He finished with an even par 36-36-72 over the 6,998-yard Westwood Country Club course -to win by two strokes over Doug Sanders, Lou Graham and Tommy Aaron. __ Sanders: had four straight subpar rounds, including a 71 the final day, to finish at 280 along with Aaron, who had three straight 69s after an opening 73, and Graham, whose 67 equaled the best round of the final day. Hale Irwin, who started the last round two strokes behind Devlin, faded to a two-over 74 and eighth place at 282. Devlin, 34, who won . the Colonial at Fort Worth, Tex., in 1966 and the Byron Nelson Classic in Dallas in 1969, clinched this tournament with a two-foot birdie putt on No. 17} when he had only a one-stroke) lead over Graham, Sanders and Aaron. | The only other golfer to wxn? the three Texas tournaments was Roberto De Vicenzo, wh won the Colonial in 1957, th Nelson in 1966 and Houston i 1%68. \No. 14 was the turning pom no wen By United Press International Leading Batters National League g. ab r. 19 74 17 14 46 13 15 63 11 16 53 10 15 47 6 18 .383 18 75 8 28 .373 17 65 10 24 18 fa 8 2s (350 Huttn, Phil 13 42 5 15 .357 . Carty, Atl 19 51 8 18 .353 American League g. ab r. h. pet. Braun, Min 12 4 7 20 .455 Tompsn, Min 16 67 11 24 .358, . h. pet. 31 .419 19 413 25 .397 21 .396 Tolan, Cin Hickmn, Chi Cedeno, Hou Stenet, Pit Lee, SD Snguiln, Pit Torre, St.L Oliver, Pit ‘ vlin said. \I hit a bad) three wood into the green. The ball was plugged terribly (in a bunker). I couldn't use a sand wedge, so I had a pitching wedge an 'all LI could do was come straight down on the ball and chop if out ‘ ''The! ball ped out to one foot fromi the hole I could stand there and not put it any closer.: I | could easily have made a fiVe from where I was (40; feet f‘gxm the cup) and I for me,\ made a three. That was the difference.\ The {not ry, his eighth since joining! the tour in 1962, was worth $25,b00 but it wasn't as 1mportant to him as a pro-am before the Houston Open in 1965. That was the day he played with Dr. Alfred Knoll and, at age 27, came dragging down the 18th fslrway 50 yards ° behind the 55-year-old doctor. When Dr. Knoll chided him about it, Devlin showed the doctor the severe . case of varicose veins. Knoll, a sur- geon, told him how they could be cured with an operation. Devlin called 10 days later from Philadelphia and asked Knoll if he would perform the operation and I1 agreed. In three previous years on the tour, Devlin had won about $40,000, but after the operation he went on to win $67,657 in Rangers Face Bltter En Agamst Boston By ALLAN R. BRUCE i Sports Writer BOSTON (UPI) Coach Emile Francis admits there's only one| way his New York Rangerstflan make a comeback against the Boston Bruins: Play perfect, mistake-free hockey for the next (three games. The Rangers face elimination here tonight as the Bruins, who hold a commanding 3-1 lead in - the best-of-seven series for the Natlonal ockey League's Stan- ley : Cup| championship, need only one more win to wrap up their fifth title since entering the league in the 1924-25 season. Only once before in NHL - history- d that was in 1942, ago-has a club fallen ee games to one and come on; to win the Stanley Cup. The Toronto Maple Leafs did it that year, dropping the first three against Detroit and winning the next four. \We'll have to come up with a superior effort,\ Francis told a, news: conference Monday \We'll have to start right in and play perfect hockey. We - can't make any mistakes. I think we|can do it.\ | So far in the series the Rangers have neutralized Bos- 30yea ton's high scoring center; Phil« Esposito, with what Francis called a “combmatlon of Walt Frechn, Det 15 57 12 20 - 351“ Brhmer, Cle ~3 McCrw, Cle 17 56 8 Pinela, KC 19 71 10 Cash, Det 16 51 10 17 . ~ Allen, Chi 17 M 11 21 . Pinsn, Cal 16 58 7 Home Runs - National League: Aaron, Atl, Wynn, Hou, Colbert, SD and Kingman, SF 6; chkman and Santo, Chi and Luzmskl Phil 5. American League: Darwm, Minn 6; Cash, Det 5; Allen, Chi and Duncan, Oak 4; Klrkpa- trick, KC 3. . ~ Runs Batted In National League: Kingman, SF 22; Tolan, Cin 20; Wynn, - Hou 19; Colbert, SD 15; May, Hou, Dav1s LA and Stargell Pitt 14. American League: Darwin, ~ Minn 20; Cash, Det 14; Powell, Balt and Frechan, Det 13; Killebrew, Minn 12. Pitching National League: Carlton, Phil 5-1; Ray, Hou, Sutton, LA and McDowell, SF 4-0; Seaver, American League: Lolich, Det 5-1; Blyleven, Minn and Wood, Chi 4-1; Perry and Wilcox, Clev 4-2. ; ~ NY 41. York Mets, negotiating for three years to acquire Willie Mays from the NEWhIORK (UPI) -The New ° San Francisco Giants, awaited a call: today from San Francisco clubowner Horace Stoneham. . Mets General Manager Bob Scheffing said Monday the next move was up to Stoneham. \'There is no scheduled meeting that I know of,\ said Scheffm \I haven't heard from Horace.\ The Mets feel that Mays could be a super utility player for them, playing at first base and in the outfield and pinch- hitting,; while the Giants ap- parently feel that Willie doesn't fit into their youth movement. Mays {has appeared in only a handful of ganres this season and has a .146 batting average. He broke 'in with The New York Glants 1951. Tkaczuk playing him very close and some great goaltending.\ Francis said he expected to make a decision sometime today on who would be in the nets for the fifth game while Boston coach Tom Johnson said he would break up his rotation and send - Eddie - Johnston against New. York for the second straight game. \Eddie Johnston gave us super - goaltending,\ - Johnson said of his number two netminder's work in Sunday's 3- 2 win at New York. Johnston also won the second game of the series for Boston, 2-1, on home ice. A New York <~win tonight would send the two teams back to Madison Square Garden, the Rangers home ice, for a sixth game on Thursday. A seventh game, if necessary, would be played 'in Boston - Sunday afternoon. Reds Pay Bill for Electricity CINCINNATI (UPI) - The pmcmnatl have begrudg- city $120,000, for > .‘ 4\ {y na used The crty had ch baseball team and the Cmcmna ti Bengals of the National Football League which share the stadium a total of almost $400,000 for power. It said the bill had not been paid for two Richard ' Wagner, executive assistant to Bob Howsam, general manager of the Reds, said the club wants the city to install meters. . \Without sufficient metering, no one will ever be able to establish good ground rules on figuring or allocating the electricity,\ Wagner said. _ He said the club also feels the city \is not taking its fair share of the utilities'\ at the stadium. Wash-Out By United Press International Rain washed out action in the International League Monday night. All scheduled games- Syra- cuse at Louisville, Charleston at Peninsula and Rochester at To- ledo, a doubleheader-were post- poned who have been Yea Eo \{ {\ If pnlmh concoct NEW YORK (UPD-Wilt Chamberlain is wrong. He says \let's face it, nobody likes Goliath,\ and he firmly believes that, too, because at 7 foot 2 it's rather easy for him to identify with the legendary giant out of the Old Testament who went in an odds-on choice against David and came out with nothing left. Chamberlain has this feeling that his height alienates people, makes them resent him. This could be purely in his mind. There are others as big as he is in basketball and they don't seem to feel the way he does. Besides, I've never seen people show any resentment toward the tall man in the circus. If anything, they seem to feel for him. The only reason this comes up now is because of some of the sentiments expressed since the Los \Angeles Lakers beat the New York Knicks for the NBA championship Sunday. Most Sentiments Pro-Wilt Most of these sentiments are heavily pro-Chamberlain. And all of them aren't necessarily concerned with his showing on the court. - 1 As the performer designated MVP in the playoffs, the bearded Chamberlain will re- ceive a new car from Sport Magazine but I think he has won far more than that. . He has won the people. They don't seem to 'feel . Goliath is such a bad guy at all. That's a little more impor- tant, the way I see it, than winning a car. Winning the title did wonders for Jerry West, a fellow who _ never had really experienced ~ anything like that before. It did even more for Wilt Chamber- ., lain, who had. JerryWest nsthesametotlig hthe ballelub are crazy'about im. But if you ask most of them whom they feel was primarily responsible for bringing the Los Angeles Lakers their first world championship they pretty much agree it was one man—Wllt Chamberlain, \Finest Guard\ - \I think Jerry West is the finest guard I've ever played with, especially as far as 'quarterbacking' a club is concerned,\ says Happy Hair- ston. \But I think when we've needed performances outside the so-called glamor areas, like blocking shots, intimidating players driving down the lane and things like that, it was always Wilt who did it for us. My feeling is simply this: in the NBA you can only go as far as your big man takes you. Everybody knows who our big man is. He took us all the way, and he did it by completely and openly sacrificing himself.\ \Sacrificing himself, how?\ \Offensively answers Hap- py Hairston. \Once again he led the league . in rebounds,\ he elaborates. \People take a thing like that for granted. It's a phenomenal feat. I don't care what anyone says, Wilt isn't only our | captam, he's the leader of our Large Shipment OF - ~ ,+ . B - Do- wks a E ~ I . - wo , > - 220% BUTTON FRONT -_ AND ZIP FRONT - JEAN S _ ALL SIZES - - WOLK APPAREL muslin Street Cope Mine, w.y. h OpenFfidnletofill9pmt. ' change this. club in every sense of the word.\ Many Adjustments Chamberlain has been obliged to make many adjustments the past few years. Alex Hannum wanted him to play one way, Bill Van Breda Kolff- another, Joe Mullaney another and Bill - Sharman stil} another. All those adjustments took something out of him. He says so. \I don't know any. other | you know, major- athlete, athlete, who has been forced to . change so much and then get ridiculed for doing: it,\ Cham- beriain says. \I am forced to change this, - change < that, You know, If you're a scorer and. you’re asked not to score, then you're asked to score, then -not to score again, it gets a little ridiculous. I know changes 'like that are necessary sometimes, | but the point is it doesn't make it any easier.\ That's absolutely true. Maybe others realize that too besndes Wilt Chamberlain. _. _ Maybe that's why they don't feel Goliath is: such a bad guy anymore. |-- | impressive victory\ ' nonchalant lefty may find a Dodgers Defeat - Montreal By United Press International Claude Osteen of the Los Angeles Dodgers was the first to admit \it wasn't my most but <the it special place for in his T scrapbook. It made him a .500-pitcher in the major leagues. Osteen received credit for his third win of the season with relief help from Pete Mikkelsen as the Dodgers (beat the Montreal Expos, 5-2, Monday night and thus rarsed his 11- year-plus big league mark to 147 victories and 147 losses. Osteen has compiled a 114-106 record for the Dodgers since joining them from the Washing- ton Senators with whom he was 33-41 for four seasons. \I've gone through games like that before where I've given up nine or 10 hits but still got the victory,\ said Osteen, who was tagged for 11 hits in 8 1-3 innings. \It's pretty tough pitching out there when the weather is cold and you just can't get any control and use the pitches you want to use.\ \We were finally able to put our hits together in one inning,\ commented equally unflabble Walt Alston, manager of the Dodgers, who noted that the. victory broke the Dodgers' three-game losing streak. The Dodgers scored four. runs in the fourth inning on singles by Willie Davis and Willie Crawford, a sacrifice fly by Jim Lefebvre, a single by Dick Dietz and Steve Garvey's two- run homer. Key hits by Ron Hunt in the first and second innings enabled the Expos to take a 2-1 lead. The Dodgers are a half game behind the first-place Houston Astros in the National League's West Division. - Johnny Callison Int his first homer as a Yankee and Gene Michael tripled home another run to spark New York to a 5-3 triumph over Minnesota and snap the Twins' fivegame winning streak in Monday's only other big league game. Mel Stottlemyre went 7 2-3 innings for his second victory, MEDINA JOURNAL: - ,~ TUESDAY, MAY 9, REGISTER % 1972 7 Crime in Sports Probed By ED noousv WASHINGTON - (UPD) -The House Crime Committee today summoned Michigan racing officials and a federal crime fighter. to testify on the infiltration of underworld fi- gures into professional sports. Michigan Racing Commis- sioner Leo Shirley and Vincente Piersante, chief of the attorney general’s Organized Crime Di- vision, were the scheduled leadoff witnesses in a lengthy probe of alleged criminal influence on blg league sports and horse racing. The® committee announced Monday that 16 persons have 'been subpoenaed, including six reputed underworld figures from Detroit and St. Louis. Rep. Claude Pepper, D-Fla., said that more® than 100 witnesses would be called before the committee, which is investigating \both the owner- ship and operation of sports facilities and teams as well as rigging sporting events to effect gambling activity.\ In addition to the alleged crime syndicate figures, Pepper said actor-singer Sammy Davis Jr. had agreed to tell the committee about \racing mat- ters\ and a subpoena had been issued for a second unidentified entertamer—speculated to be Frank Sinatra. Pepper, chairman of the committee, declined to specify. the nature of Davis' testimony _‘ , J R o Track Results BUFFALO, N. Y. (UPI) - Phil. Collins beat Indian Ruler by 1% lengths to win the fea- tured $1,300 pace in 2:10 Mon- day mght at Buffalo Raceway. The winner, driven by Henry. Lowe, paid $10., $5.80 and $4. Chris Dancer showed. The daily double of Sweet Rosie O'Grady and Let's Split returned $9.40. . A crowd of 2,989 bet $265,757. with relief help from Sparky Lyle, as the Yankees dealt four- game winner Bert Blyleven his first loss of the year. Evar Swanson Runs into . Posterltx t:- ‘2. 20% o. .'.....t.v.:.:.n.o.v‘c-:O‘ na a' but he did say \I don’t think it's a matter of culpability 'on his part as much as it was an effort to use him.\ Others on the subpoena list include Joseph Zerilli and his son Anthony, a stockholder and director at Hazel Park Racing Association of 'Detroit. Anthony has been identified in Justice Department testimony to Con- gress as a leader of Detroit organized crime and his father as reputed boss of Detroit Mafia. _ Also summoned before the committee were Jack W. Tocco, Michael Polizzi and Dominick P. Corrado, all identified as members of the Detroit '\Syndi- cate.\ Also, Anthony Giordano, reputed hea al of organized crime in St. ms, and Peter J. Bellanca, a Zerilli attorney who has indicated (he would refuse to testify on grounds it could be self incrimina mg While the lvestxgatlon will center initially on alleged crime in horse racm; Pepper said the investigation fould delve into the operations of professional baseball, foo ball basketball hockey and t' Odk Orchard TWO BRIDGES—Mr and Mrs. Robert Thompson, owners of the Oak Orchard Country Club, located at the intersection of Routes 98 and 18, announce that the club has enrolled in the Monroe District Association, and the course is ready for an expected heavy season's play. f Steve Piech, who. was pro at the Shelridge Country Club for two years in Medina and the past Golf . - Association; {Marg Gee of Rochester, vice-president and - June - Diet r, Rochester, secretary-trea surer * Season's cl bactlvmos melude Tuesday; men's Twilight League Wednesdays; Couples League, Friday evening | Events to be ing the week. The club officlall opened their social f er-dance on six years at the Wellsville - Country Club, is the new pro at the local club A new group. called the Oak. Membership Com- ° Orchard mittee, ha§been organized from members of the club. They will arrange both golfing and social events and promote activities. James Flanagan of Rochester is president of the committee. He is - being assisted by Ivyl Phillips of Albion, as vice-president; Dorothy Flanagan, Rochester, Methodist Ch.” ' Kimberly and Kelly Smith of Albion were week-end guests at the Marce secretary and Rose Phillips of - Albion as treasurer. Donald Nesbitt of Gaines has been named chairman of the Golf Committee; Jim Oberer of Rochester, Membershlp, Fred Benz, Rochester, Publicity; Robert Christy and Ivyl Phillips, Herbert Waterpo,‘ ort, House Albion, Tournament; Humphrey, Committee and Arthur DeHey of | Brockport head © of the Nominating and Speclal Events | ~ Committee. Helen Henderson of Hamlin is pres1dent of the Ladies éfi'.‘ ;oo’ 0.0':f::¢' 00W.- f yid 66 e- MICKEY RIVERS of the California Angels, above, tried his best in a pre-game exhibition last year but he couldn't beat the all-time base-cireling record set by Evar Swanson. Swanson, who set the record as a Cincinnati Red in 1929, later went on to play with the Chicago White Sox, where he twice earned the trophy as the fastest player in baseball awarded by comedian Joe E. Brown He receives the 1934 trophv from Brown ~ at right By IRA BERKOW NEA Sports Editor NEW YORK—(NEAl—No one in recorded time has ever circled the bases faster than Evar Swanson. He did 1t in 1929. 'In a contest with official AAU timers, Swansoh, then the winged left fielder 'of the Cincinnati Reds, circled the bases in 13.3 seconds, - Last year Mickey Rivers of the California Angels, re- puted to be the fastest run- . ner in baseball, t ried his luck before a game and was timed in the 360-foot distance in 14. 3, & full second. iolf It is trtIe that someone somewhere might have run out an inside-the-park homer in faster time. But in no in- stance was that man clocked © Swanson's - mark has stood since he broke the record of 13.8 set by Hans Lo bert . earlier in 1929. . . . . In those earlier days var- ious field contests such as foot r aces,; fungo-hlttmg, homer-hrttmg, bunt-and-run to first base, and catchers throwing into overturned barrels at second base, were held before games and be- tween doubleheaders Between games of the Reds-Boston Braves double- header on Sept. 15; 1929, a circle-the-bases. contest -was held. Swanson r J@#ced two o t her fellows against the clock He started in a 8 rint- er's crouch behind home . plate. Swanson beat the and collected $75 prize. _ Contests of this nature be- gan to wane in the 1930s. No <one really knows why it hap- pened. Perhaps for the same reason that sprints, especial- ly, are rarely held any longer; Players and. mana- gers are fearful of having a pulled muscle deter the race for a pennant i ‘Also,” record s a i d Swanson The F asfesf Man” in Baseball HlsrfOry now ~the 7i-year-old post- master of Galesburg, Ill., \players don't want to put their reputatlons on the line, I think. -**We did it for pride. And we did it for the money, too. Seventy-five d oll ars was pretty good in those days. I mean, the most I ever mascara in one se a son was in s a lary. But the money these fellas make to- day-Good Lord, why should they risk anything in a con- test?\ Penodlcally, though con- tests do come up. For exam- ple, in 1948, Sam: Jethroe, then with the Montreal mmor league baseball club, rac Barney | Ewell, 200- meter Olympic champion . Jethroe beat him in a 200- meter race. - In | 1957, Glen ~Gorbous: of Omaha in the American As- sociation threw a baseball 445 feet, 10 inches, after a , six-step running start. ~ Cnrclixig the bases, how-y dub vI dig a Laenrgast ~ ever, is more of an art than a gimmick. Swanson says that speed is not the sole criterion. ''You've got to hit the bases just right and 'not take big turns.\ Rivers learned this. He took two wide turns at first and second: 'Why did Blvers try 1t? It had been fuggested by a fan in Florida who knew of Swanson's) mark. The fan thought that Rivers, above all baseball runners t lay, could challenge it. The 'An- gels front leffice was not ad- verse to some added draw- 'ing card. |The Angels were far out of (the pennant race. Swanson,. w h o s e closest challenger was swift George Case of the Senators who ran the bases in 13.5 in 1943, had a short career. He played five seasons, hitting for a combined .303 average but 'hurt his throwing arm and had to retire. (NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSR.Y
