To Top of Open Easily Sweeps Double-Head- Er Byneilamdur "It Wasn't As If I Had Just Won," He - New York Times Said

Sports M-SSOURIA- " CO!UMBI A N. Saturday. July 18. 1981 - Paqe 7 mim'''BmmaammmmmmBmmmmmmammmKmmatammamummamaamtmmammiiKB mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmBmmmmBmmmmmKmmmmsmamammmmaam Rogers charges Rain check Local Legion team beats clouds, to top of Open easily sweeps double-head- er ByNeilAmdur "It wasn't as if I had just won," he - New York Times said. "I think they were surprised I showed up." By Tim Finn the game is stopped after five in- SANDWICH, England three-puttin- Missourian sports holds - One day After g the third hole writer nings when either team a lead after he shot an 83, of his worst round with his new putter, Nicklaus told ten runs or more by retiring the as a pro golfer, Jack Nicklaus shot a himself, " next three Mexico batters ir. order. four-under-p- "Oh, no here we go again. ar 68 Carroll McDannold at Royal St. But his score on the challenging stood before Darren Pinet collected his third win George's. But so did 6,829-yar- his dugout at Columbia's Legion of season, no Bill Rogers, and d course improved with the the against losses, for because Rogers had 72 Field watching his Columbia Ameri- He a Thursday, more favorable weather that con- Columbia. surrendered one run he held a one-strok- e can Legion team take infield prac- on five hits. lead with a 138 tributed to 22 sub-p-ar rounds. Bir- after 36 holes of tice before Friday night's double-head- er In game two, story the British Open dies on four of the next six holes, in- the was much championship. 20-foot- with Mexico. same, a few cluding a er at No. 6, gave him the although of the Rogers, who "I sure hope it doesn't By almost 17-foo- rain," he names were changed. missed his tee a 32 on the front nine. A ter the third off said, casting a glance sky- time Thursday because he was came at the 12th. After playing seven doleful inning, Columbia had built itself an practicing his putting, moved in bunker shots Thursday, ward and then spitting a bullet of to- insurmountable 9-- 0 lead, due in part front Nicklaus bacco juice into the infield of his friend, Ben Crenshaw, was confronted with only two Fri- dust. to the batting performance of Dan and Nick Job, a self-effaci- ng British day. "We've had too many rain outs al- Lennon. pro, who ready. We need these games." Lenrton two-ru-n admittedly was still in "to- "If I shot two more rounds like to- clouted his second With his team positioned solidly in of tal shock" at being so close. Thurs- day," Nicklaus said, be rea- home run the evening as part of a "I'd Mc-Dannol- day, Job, after an opening 70, was a sonably close." first place, the weather has been d's splendid night at the plate. He fin- co-lead- er 153-m- an only real element of con- game runs-batted-i- n, in the field. After an opening 72, Arnold Palm- ished the second with six Job was so cern this season. They entered Fri- going four-for-four a shaken by the attention er late-afterno- on, with felt close enough. Starting in day's encounter games that he said his swing became Palmer opened Friday's 32 ahead of single and two doubles in addition to "jerky, hunched, quick and nervy" second-plac- e Mexico with three his home run. round .with successive birdie putts games in hand. during his final four-putte- McDannald feigned Brad Young produced two more four holes Friday. from 12 and 15 feet, but then d concern two-ru- n Not so for Gordon 422-ya- about his opponent but cast Columbia runs with a double Brand, whose the rd fifth hole for a hole-in-o- ne 165-ya- an eye a sweep on the rd 16th hole towards and a virtual in the third inning. Steve Guyton also double bogey. lock on first place. helped him to a course record 65 that took away any drove in two runs with a single and a ' "That momentum I "Two wins tonight would about put double. he said 'came from nowhere. " had," Palmer said, slightly discour- Columbia once again imple- 10-run-rule. 25-year-- old our worries to rest," he conceded mented the Brand is an affable aged by a 74 that included five bir- coming up fifth-ye- and his eyes showed Yorkshireman, a ar pro who dies. confidence. with two runs in the bottom of the Four hours and two games later his sixth inning to end game. settled into golf after he was forced Rogers, the U.S. Open runnerup the to switch from third cornet to the worries were resting quite comfort- As he stood with his wife after his and Heritage Classic winner this thank-yo- u, ably, as his rainmakers double-head- er sweep. Mc-Do.'ina- ld bassoon at the Hammonds Sauce year, has never led at this stage of a Carroll Brass Band. The company sponsored drubbed the visitors from Mexico, reflected on his team's per- major championship. But he has 11-- 13-- 1 and 3. formance by Brand for his first three years on the played two tidy rounds. uttering quite an under- aBaBaWwa8BBiwaBaaaaaaBWMf Columbia wasted little time in as- statement. tour, 29-year-- BbBBSSBmBBbES' which included a 64 in the Nige- The lanky old Texan is serting their superiority. Four run- rian Open. sharing living 'You know," he said, accepting quarters here with ners crossed plate in first in- "It was a good shot, really," Crenshaw the the congratulations while tossing some a former college rival; 330-foot y ning, two on a blast over the leftover popcorn Brand said, almost matter-oKactl- Tony Jacklin into his mouth. and Bruce Iietzke, at right field fence, with a man on base, "when we play like that, of his third career ace. It came on a the Broome Park Golf and Country we're 3 by McDannold's son, Greg. tough." par hole where he had missed the Club, 260-ac- re a Kent estate that was 6-- Three innings later, with a 1 lead .Billy Tate pitched Four one-thir- d green in previous rounds. In the flur- formerly the home of Lord Kitchen- and in hand, Columbia put five more no-h- it' ry of cheering and excitement over er. So innings of baseball for far, Rogers has been impecca- runs on the board. A Brad Young his feat, Brand wound up with two ble Columbia. Mexico collected onh off the tee and has stayed out of double sent home McDannold, who hits game. cigarettes in his mouth at the same the deep, sprawling fairway three in the Tate struck bunkers had singled to open the inning. First out six batters in his time and bogeyed the next hole. His that can destroy confidence. raising record baseman Mike Bowers then lined a to 6--1 on the season. score is 143. Rogers played his first seven holes triple into deep center field to send In sweeping the double-head- er Brand, who celebrated his second in regulation, birdie putts 35 sank of home Young before Dan Lennon from Mexico. Columbia wedding anniversary Thursday and five feet on eight and nine, raised its cleared the bases with a home run league record to 14-- 1 and now has a night, was more 15-foo- ter sand-wedg- ed fortunate than two added a 12 left-cent- at and over the er field fence. Right stranglehold on first place, countrymen, Phillip Clark and to within six feet for leading another fielder Steve Guyton finished the Mexico by 5L2 games. Their overall James Heggarty. Playing in the birdie at 14. scoring by singling and then coming an impressive 23--4. same threesome, both forgot to sign Walking down the fairway leading record is home on a double by Mike Roberts. Columbia's next outing is this af- their scorecards Friday and were to the 18th green, with applause 11-- With an 1 lead m the top of the ternoon, Legion Field, a double-head- er disqualified by the championship greeting at in him from bleachers on both fifth inning, Columbia implemented against Warrensberg. Start- committee, although their scores 10-r- sides, Rogers he un said felt the thrill the league's rule whereby ing time is 2 p.m. (Heggarty 147; Clark, 149) would that engulfs leaders here. "It sent have made the cut of 150. chills up my spine," he said. "There Bill Rogers of the U.S.A loads the British Open. Nicklaus' 149 left him 11 strokes is definitely something different behind Rogers. But more important, three-putte- about a major, especially when But he d trom 35 feet they would help him relax and sleep . Daiigherty, Peirrvmari vie the three-tim- e champion survived you're in contention. It's a lot of fun for a bogey at 16, and then at the 18th better. the cut with others. to play well in a major tournament tee pushed his drive wide and short "I tend to make a bit of a hiccup in "I thought it was the end of an and have success." for another bogey. third and fourth rounds," said the 31-year-- old era," Job quipped, of Nicklaus's di- Unlike Tom Watson, the defending redhead, who sold his car for Missouri golf title sastrous first round. "But the man's Crenshaw shot a commendable 67 champion, who moved to within four early this year to finance himself on From staff and wire reports back again." with four birdies on the front nine strokes of Rogers Friday with a 69, the tour.

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