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>M (AP) „J| snien on.- ]■ Time out (1 lawmaltetl ie Count Yankee Doodle Dandies rning. don, R-Pa that’s in a grip? on GOP Ht-— Calcavecchia Laidlay’s name 'iipremeCoMjQON, Scotland — Harry Vardon, brings home i 1 ne of the great pioneers of modern 'cregoT B popularized the grip that bears British Open in? to coir But he did not originate it. uni their The.overlapping grip - with the left ?d Rep i hUmb laid along the shaft of the club Knight-Ridder News Service tnd the little finger of the right hand TROON, Scotland — If the stork hadn’t in? never flapping the left forefinger — was cooperated, Mark Calcavecchia wouldn’t nakers spraffieloped by a British amateur, John have even been in Scotland on Sunday. If vater a stu fidlay, before the turn of the century. Wayne Grady hadn’t cooperated, Cal 1 JohnsonilPi eviously, golfers used what now is cavecchia never would have gotten to a some anti:|j!J0wn as the “baseball grip” and used playoff. And if Greg Norman hadn’t coo ■at, flailing swing sometimes called perated, he never would have been in 1984 flag the English roundhouse.* position to win his first major champi as thrown ( Vardon, born In England in 1870, onship. ■ Court iras the outstanding player of his era. Calcavecchia, with a lot of help from a ws conlr j|adopted Lindlay’s grip and used it lot of people, still did the things he had to and said lS the basis to develop a new, more do Sunday at Royal Troon Golf Club. Four ourn afht jjjpjrtght swing and a new concept in shots behind with nine holes remaining, 10W to play the game. he stood around the back door, hat in o tail inl° Re developed lighter clubs and, for hand, waiting for an opportunity to enter. he first time, used long irons as clubs Zig-zagging past the flotsam of punch- i accuracy, rather than regarding drunk competitors, he would wriggle his tn'!LoPm simply as implements to advance way into a three-way playoff with a birdie r * he ball over the ragged links of the at No. 18. Then, in the four-hole extra, he onstitutic ff1 century. made two birdies to knock out Norman onlvcoi These innovations helped him to six and Grady. said in Hltish Open titles, in 1896, ’98, *99, Back home in Phoenix, Ariz., his wife. r le?islati BQ, T1. T4, a record that Tom Watson Sheryl, is due to go into labor at any K chasing Sunday at Royal Troon. minute. “If she had called me last night 'courseofilUwas on one of several tours of the and told me It had begun, I would have ation and« Jnited States that Vardon displayed been on the plane immediately,” Cal ethesup he new swing and grip in a series of cavecchia said. “I would never have been eric an Ve gthibitions in the Northeast and here today. This is only a golf tourna i, the Dk|j|jjl\vest. ment.” i rector, aid I h came to be known as “the Vardon But Sheryl did her part to get him to ;ss to a Mpp" and is one of two grips still taught the golf course. Grady, who had played so *ss the “ —professionals around the world, gritty all week, had to make a bogey at the ith repr»| 71st hole to allow Calcavecchia to AP photo r or" Fori .Classen5 s memory enough squeeze into the playoff with his 13-un Mark Calcavecchia raises his arms in use Judicial der-par score of 275. And then Norman, triumph after holing out on the 18th to win- ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Randy who had scorched the course with a re- the British Open championship. [he Conat Neumann had a list of reasons for AP photo cord-setting 64, had to bogey the third :t0ry. only 93 seconds to stop Fri- Greg LeMond of the U.S. rides down the Champs Elysees Avenue in front of the Arch and fourth playoff holes to afford Cal til incurring three bogeys in midround,- hearingyiw’s undisputed heavyweight title of Triumph. LeMond won the Tour de France by eight seconds. cavecchia the chance to win it. Grady holding the lead all the way until >f testinicAt between Mike Tyson and Carl Wil- But Calcavecchia earned it fairly. He he bogeyed trying to extricate himself the HousBns. shot a final-round 68, making a birdie at from a bunker at the par-3 17th. ed overtax This was his best: “I boxed with Wil- the difficult 18th when he knew he had to Calcavecchia crept into position with a ne CourtdtfeClassen and Willie is quite dead.” LeMond takes Tour de France do it to stay alive. Then he birdied the birdie at No. 16, then burst in unan ;• JpHassen, who died of injuries 18th again in the playoff, the final hole of nounced with a beautiful 8-iron ap N.Y. Times News Service The final stage was a 15-mile time trial, ------Helved in a 1979 fight with Wilford in which a rider’s time, not his position the four-hole bonus session while Nor proach at 18 that left him 5 feet of work. ; ||rpion, is a reminder of what price PARIS — By racing from Versailles into relative to other riders, is what matters. man was taking an ‘X’ out of two bun “I never thought of him until he birdied {OKing can exact. Neumann, the ref- Paris in a stunning 26 minutes 57 sec Few besides LeMond, 28, who has kers. Grady had already eliminated him 18,” Norman said. [ tliJ tree in Friday’s fight at the Convention onds on Sunday, Greg LeMond of the made a remarkable comeback from in self when he failed to birdie any of the ‘The only score I was worried about Center, made it apparent he was not United States won the Tour de France for jury, believed he had a chance to make playoff holes. was Greg’s,” Grady said. “Like Greg, I Bing to let anyone take nearly so the second time. up the 50 seconds on Fignon. Calcavecchia was the surprise guest at didn’t think about Mark all day.” eat a risk. His margin of victory over Laurent Fig- “It’s still possible,” LeMond said Satur the playoff party, the bill collector you For most of the day, Mark didn’t think i non of France, 8 seconds, was the day, but most people doubted him. never thought you’d run Into. Early in the about Mark. At least in terms of the silver days, delays, delays smallest ever in the world’s greatest bicy As half a million people watching the day all attention was on Norman, who claret trophy. cle race. finish on the Champs-Elysees burst into shot his 64, then sat back and watched He had started the day three shots be MONTREAL — When they couldn’t hind Grady. “I was not thinking about The Tour had already covered 2,000 cheers, LeMond proved all the doubters the rest of the field try to catch his 13 Kse the roof at Montreal’s Olympic under par. Throughout the afternoon winning all day,” he said. “I just wanted ,.f , Stadium during a two-hour rain delay miles in three weeks when LeMond set off wrong. on the last stage Sunday 50 seconds be Grady and Tom Watson were the featured 1 l ' ills week. Expos publicity man Richie players, Watson staying in the chase un- Please see Open, 2B •nXlffln put out a release listing all the hind the overall leader, Fignon. 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