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By JEFF MILAM Times Sports Writer Tommy Jones of Tulsa roared into the driver’s seat of the T*0 Junior golf tournament Thursday by shooting a slick three-under-par 68 at the Wichita Falls Country Club. r t David Norris of Wichita Falls held the commandingposition for .Two rounds, but lost ground by turning in a disappointing score of 83 ThursdayrThe'WrcliiTan sailed ^ 12 strokes off the pace of .Jones,••T-O Results*CHAMPIONSHIP PLIGHTT,ommy Jones ............. 70-74-68—212Lindy Millar ...1..............70-72—215Tim Wilson •1 ,r........ -. 71-71-73—215Craig Minnlch .*,............ .72-71-73—216Jody Richardson ...... 70-73-74—217Kevin Grunewald ...... .. 72-71-76—219Doug Higgins ..... 73-74*73—220John Kable ...................71-77-72—220John Hood ..............- *.. 69-75-77—721Scott Haynie ...............71-75-76—222Mark Woolf ..••............ 69-76-77-222Dub Huckabce ......... 72-76-74—223Todd FlnkJer .......... 69-74*81—224David Norris ............... 68-73-83-224Howard Slewarl ........ ... 74-76-75—225Fred Tayar •• ....... .. .70-79-76—225Roger Wagner ........ . .71-76-78—225Kirk Goss ..............72-74-79—225Steve Cook ............ 75-74*77—226Mancll Davis ............- .. 71-76-79—226Larry Robertson ...... 75-76-76—227Jere Spurlock .......... .. 74-77-76—227Bruce Abbott .......... 70-79-79—228Steve WHteslde ...... .. 75-76-78—229Ga rY' Moore 73-76-80—229Stove Walser ....... 68-81*80—229Chuck Tabor .............. 72-76-81—229JObe MOSS ..... ): 75-76-79—230Butch Ford .......... 74-76*80—230Steve Lee ......... ... 73-77-81-231Steve Cromwell ..............72-76-^83—231Kent Wood .... 71-76-85—232Chuck Bailey .. 74-77-86-237PRESIDENTS FLIGHTMike Taylor......73-80-78-231Eddie Horn .......... 73-81-77—231Mike Webb....... ... 73-82-76—231Larry Wooldridge . ......... 75-82*74—231Paul Sli!t„ ................ 74-79-79-232Mark Johnson . . .••......... 72-81-79—232Steve Talbott ................ 71-82-79-232James Paschall ......*•..... 74-79-80—233Greg Myers ........... 71-84-78—233Darrell Adams ........... 75-78-81—234Wes Berkovsky .............. 75-81-78—234Joe Collier ........-•...... 74-81*80-235Charles Jenkins ...... 73-79^83—235Scott Beasley ................ 75*78-83—236Tim Jett 75*78*83—236Jimmy Stewart ........ .75*78-03—236Allen Botkin ...... 74*80-83-237John vtd ......... 75*79*83-237Randy Buntyn ........•••*... 73-82-84—239Frank Shankle ... ......... 72-83*85-240Mark Wilson ........ 75-85-80—240Shane Barnes ..... 72-87*82—241David Miller ........... 75-85*83—243Mark Cantrell ........... 75-87*82-244John Preston ........ 75-89*85—249The Sooner linkster broke: out of a tie for fourth place’* with John Hood on Wednesday to take advantage of his excellent putting and on the poor shooting of top competitors.Jones holds a three-stroke edge, over the second place golfer.Lindy Miller of Fort Worth and Tim Wilson of Austin continued to hold on to the number two position in the championship flight as both fired73Ts. TRepair• .were also tiedfor second spot honors afterWednesday’s second round.Another Oklahoman, Craig Minnich of Tulsa, had a round of 73 to take control of thirdplace^.the lop spot in the” championship flight of the 10-11 year old division. Flint is just tin;ee.strokes!) ackofilolcornbWiehiian Tommy Holcomb with an 84. The third positionfired an 81 to overcome Jim is field by Bill Dollar of Wi-Flint of Woodward, Okla. for chita Falls. ’1 ^1 Lonnie Rue of Olney kept his three-stroke lead in the.12*13 year old group by post ing a 75. Larry Seligmann of Houston look over the second spot from Lawrence Field of Oklahoma City with a 74. Field fell to fourth with a 78.An impressive score of 60 was turned in by Guy Conine of Lubbock as he darted into sole possession of the lead !n4he4041-age'-group.-Gonine blew past previous leaders' Robert Hawkins and Mike Unsell of Dallas. Hawkins is insecond after a round of 73, while Unsell dropped to the fourth spot with a score of 75.Tournament director Leroy F inkier is real impressed withthe way that the tournament has been.running and has encouraged the public to come out and watch the young golfers as they try to win their different divisions.Friday’s final round is being held on the Weeks Park golf cour^g and medal play is being used in each group.McLainRetu'.ftrns To Big Leagues1ATLANTA (AP) -“Arpnvise, wcightwise, control wise 1 and mind wise, I’mback in the groove,” says Denny McLain, I And today McLain also is back in the Major leagues.“I am happy as hell, IPs super,” said McLain Thursday when informed that t h eOakland A’s of the American League, which sent the pitcher to the minors five weeks ago, had traded him to the Atlanta Braves of the National league.“I hear they (Atlanta) need pitchers,” he said from Birmingham. “And if that’s what they need, I II do it. for them. All I want is a fair shot at the big league again.”The deal also sent Orlando Cepeda, a $95,000 a year first baseman for the Braves, to Oakland for an undisclosed amount of cash and the right to purchase McLain.McLain, a 31*gamc winner in 1068 for the Detroit Tigers, had early season problems at Oakland and, with a 1-2 record and a 6.05 earned run average, was sent to Birmingham of the Southern League, an Oakland farm club, by A’s manager Dick Williams. He had a 3-3 mark with a 6.32 ERA there.McLain, a two-time CY .Young Award winner in 1908-69 and the winner of the Most Valuable Player award in 1968, said he is a differentbail^fWcr from the one sent to Birmingham.“When I came down here,” he said, “I vvas in terrible shape, overweight and didn’t really want to play. But since I’ve been here, my arm has returned to its old form, i’ve gotten in .shape and my weight is down to where ii. should be.“And the most ipiportant tiling is that I now ' want to play.” he added. 4 I’ve improved 100 per cent physically, but mentally, there is no way to measure how much progress I’ve made—and I’ll guarantee you the mental part, of I he game is the most important.”McLain rep oris lo the Atlanta squad tonight at Houston where the Braves arc playing the Astros.Cepeda, who has played 14 seasons in the NationalLeague with San Francisco, SI. Louis and Atlanta, said he was happy to lx: going lo Oakland. “It’s a challengeand you can’t hxk back.”The 34-year-old Puerto Pico native, who won the National League’s MVP award in 1967, walked out on the Braves two weeks ago and was suspended for two days. Upset because lie wasn’t playing, Uepeda asked to be traded or released.“I am always happy.” said Cepeda. “Only when I do not play am 1 unhappy. My onlyconcern is my knee.”Referring to the walkout, Cepeda said: “Things just didn't, work out in Atlanta. 1 don’t want to be like some other players who knock the club when they leave. They were good to me. They look care of me last year when my knee had to le operated on.” „ ,Cepeda moves'-from a club in fourth place in the National league West to a club that ho’ds down first place in the American league West and sports the best record of the season in professional baseball.*! jold him that he?s going to a team that looks like it’s See McLAIN, Page 2B
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Fri, Jun 30, 1972
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