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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1987
Page
7
Television listing for Sunday November 8 at 9 p m shows the Seattle Seahawks visiting the New York Jets on WJBF and WOLO.
All games start at 8 p.m. Westside visits Midland Valley Wade Hampton hosts North Augusta South Aiken travels to Marion St Andrews plays Aiken Silver Bluff meets Hilton Head Porter-Gaud faces Ridge Spring Monetta.
Tim Mayotte defeated Brad Gilbert 2 6 6 3 7 5 6 7 6 3 to win the Paris Open title, his fourth of the year and sixth overall. The American earned 140000 dollars, while Gilbert collected 70000 after a tense final marked by disputes over calls and a racket warning. Mayotte celebrated by leaping for joy after the final point.
Top seed Stefan Edberg defeated Jonas B Svensson in an all Swedish final to win the Stockholm Open Scandinavian Tennis Championships. Edberg, ranked No 2, needed nearly three hours to claim his 7 5 6 2 4 6 6 4 victory on Plexipave and become the tournament's first Swedish multiple winner.
Jim Fitzgerald aged 65, a Trans-Am Series driver and teammate of Paul Newman, died after a crash on the 2 mile downtown street course during the St. Petersburg Grand Prix. The early lap crash in Turn 1 halted the race for 45 minutes as rescue crews treated him. He was pronounced dead on arrival at Bayfront Medical Center.
Rusty Wallace from Fenton Missouri clinched the Winston Western 500 at Riverside after Geoff Bodine’s car suffered a vibration and tire failure late in the race. Wallace held off Benny Parsons and Kyle Petty to take his second win of 1987 and fourth NASCAR victory. Bodine finished 10th as Elliott’s crew suffered injuries in a pit incident and a spectator, Charles Hill, was hospitalised after surgery.
The United States defeated Europe 10 2 to win the World Championship of Golf at Tokyo Yomiuri Country Club. Tom Kite led with a 272 total, while Payne Stewart Lanny Wadkins Scott Simpson and Bernhard Langer traded close matches as Europe failed to close the gap.
Ron Schroder, a Palmetto member and LSU alum, was named the 1987 CSRA Golfer of the Year at Palmetto Golf Club after winning five summer tournaments. He claimed the Golf Capitol, Festival of Flowers, Aiken SERTOMA-Michelob Golf Classic, Perry Watson Memorial, and the Orville White Cup, with the latter completing a Grand Slam. Schroder credited a shift to day work for more practice time and said matching five local wins in a year would be very tough.
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