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Righthander Roger Clemens flexes his arms as he prepares to finish off another hitter. The Boston hurler won his 10th game without a loss Friday night, blanking
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Ormsby's paralysis permanent? INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Pressure to succeed as a distance runner is given as a reason why Kathy Ormsby attempted suicide. Doctors feel the paralysis caused by her fall from a bridge is permanent. The 21-year-old North Carolina State student suffered multiple spinal fractures, a punctured lung and a broken rib when she jumped from a bridge minutes after dropping out the women’s 10,000-meter run in the NCAA Track and Field Championships Wednesday night. “Given the nature of her fracture, we just would be misleading her if we gave any possibility at all of regaining the use of her legs,” said Dr. Peter Hall, the chief of neurosurgery at Wishard Memorial Hospital. “This is as absolutely permanent as we can determine.” Hall said Friday that Miss Ormsby is paralyzed from the waist down from her jump from the New York Street bridge over the White River. She fell an estimated 40-50 feet before hitting a flood plain. “It’s a question of pressure,” her father, Dale Ormsby, said in a telephone interview from her hospital room, the Knight-Ridder Newshapers reported. ‘ ‘Pressure to succeed. ’ ’
Milwaukee, 3-0. Clemens' 10 strikeouts pushed his American League-leading total to 98. (AP Wirephoto).
ST. LOUIS (AP) Chris Speier of the Chicago Cubs doesn’t particularly like playing less now than he once did but has learned to enjoy it more. “The hardest thing to do in the major leagues is to be a utility player and be productive,” Speier said after filling that role with two homers and four RBI in Friday night’s 9-3 triumph over the St. Louis Cardinals. “It’s really a challenge. It’s not easy, but tonight I feel great. I’m happy to get the opportunity to play, and I’m happy with the outcome.” Speier, a former regular with the Montreal Expos and the San Francisco Giants who alsp played part time two years ago for St. Louis, said the mental adjustment to a lesser role is toughest. “It’s a very hard thing to accept, not being able to play every day,” he said. “A lot of guys can’t accept it.” Chicago Manager Jim Frey said Speier knows his role and lavished praise on the 35-year-old infielder. “You’re going to think I’m putting you on, but I’m not. Nobody tries any harder
Lloyd wins
PARIS (AP) Chris Evert Lloyd won her record seventh women’s singles title at the French Open Saturday, rebounding from a sloppy first set to beat Martina Navratilova 2-6,6-3,6-3. Lloyd broke Navratilova for the championship, winning on her third match point when Navratilova could do nothing with a drop volley. The victory was worth $154,400 for Lloyd, an American who first won the French in 1974. Her seventh championship put her one ahead of six-time men’s champ Bjorn Borg in titles won on the red clay courts of Roland Garros. Lloyd won last year here, keeping alive
Floyd fires 67, despite penalyzing self
c. 1986 N.Y. Times News Service HARRISON, N.Y. - Ray Floyd, one of the PGA Tour’s most successful longtime campaigners, said, “I’ve always felt that if you can lead your life on a standard set by the Rules of Golf, you’re going to be a pretty straight individual.” The 43-year-old Floyd was explaining why “it was really no big deal” when he called a penalty stroke on himself Friday as he shot four-under-par 67 in the second round of the Westchester Classic. This put the two-time winner of the PGA Championship and 1976 Masters champion at 135, or 7 under par for 36 holes, one stroke back of the lead shared by Willie Wood, Tom Sieckmann and
By The Associated Press Roger Clemens was not at his best, but he was still perfect. The undefeated Red Sox’s pitcher won his 10th straight decision Friday night, pitching a four-hitter to beat the Milwaukee Brewers 3-0. His 10-0 record is best in the major leagues, and his eight strikeouts gave him an American League-leading 98. Wade Boggs drove in all three of Boston’s runs as the Red Sox won for the sixth time in seven games. “He struggled early, but he pitched himself out of tough situations,” Red Sox Manager John McNamara said. Still, the Brewers had him clocked at 93 mph with his fastball, and 0-for-4 Ernest Riles said, “He was as strong in the ninth as he was in the first. The scary thing about it is, he could get even better.” In the rest of the American League, Texas defeated Seattle 6-5 in 10 innings, Baltimore defeated New York 5-2, Toronto clobbered Detroit 12-2, Cleveland shut out California 3-0, Chicago defeated Oakland 6-4 and Kansas City beat Minnesota 6-1. Rangers 6, Mariners 5 Oddibe McDowell, who tripled in a run earlier in the game, hit an RBI double in the 10th inning to lift Texas over visiting Seattle after the Mariners had erased a 30 Rangers lead. Texas rookies Pete Incaviglia and Ruben Sierra each hit solo homers in the ninth to send the game into extra innings. Orioles 5, Yankees 2 Scott McGregor defeated Ron Guidry for the first time in six career decisions, and Don Aase earned his major league-
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than Chris Speier, and nobody works as hard,” Frey said. “He’s been an outstanding player for us. He’s the first guy on the infield in practice, and he’s always ready.” Speier entered the game with only one home run this season, but connected for the first two-homer game of his 16-year career. Speier hit a solo home run in the second inning and a three-run shot in the eighth. Leon Durham hit his sixth of the year for Chicago and Gary Matthews his fifth. The blows helped the Cubs snap a threegame losing streak and move out of the National League East cellar ahead of the Cards. Right-hander Jay Bailer, 2-3, pitched 2 1-3 relief innings as Chicago’s winner while his teammates were teeing off on St. Louis starter Danny Cox, 1-5, and two successors. In other National League games, Montreal downed Philadelphia 10-9 in 10 innings, Los Angeles edged Houston 3-2 and Cincinnati defeated San Francisco 5-3.
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her string of at least one Grand Slam victory a year since that first one in Paris. Last year’s victory was in her mind on Saturday. “I had to prove last year wasn’t a fluke,” she said. She started off as if her merely being in the final was rather flukey. Lloyd double-faulted five times in the first set, giving Navratilova, the top seed from the United States, two of her three service breaks. But in the second set, she steadied. Lloyd broke Navratilova’s serve in the fourth game for a 3-1 lead and fought off a break point in the ninth game with the help of her only ace of the day.
Brett Upper. Wood had 63, or one shot over the course record, on Friday while Upper had 66 and Sieckmann had 69. “Golf’s a game in which you don’t have referees following you,” Floyd said. “So you’re just not playing golf if you don’t play by the rules, and those are the things I try to teach my sons.” Floyd’s penalty came on the par-4 third hole of the Westchester Country Club course. His first putt of 9 feet was an attempt for birdie, but the ball slipped by the hole by about 9 inches. Floyd walked around to his ball and addressed it for his second putt by placing the putter head on the green before bringing the club back. Before he could tap in for his par, the ball
leading 15th save as Baltimore won at Yankee Stadium for the first time in nearly two years. The Yankees had beaten the Orioles 10 straight times at home since June 17,1984. Guidry, 4-5, lost his fourth straight decision for the first time in his career. Blue Jays 12, Tigers 2 Jesse Barfield drove in four runs, three with his 13th homer, and Doyle Alexander pitched the Toronto Blue Jays past the Tigers. Alexander held the Tigers scoreless until the sixth. Indians 3, Angels 0 Ken Schrom threw a two-hitter to outduel Kirk McCaskill, and the Indians ended a three-game losing streak by beating California. The Angels have only three hits in their last two games. White Sox 6, A’s 4 Rich Dotson worked 81-3 innings in his longest outing since 1984, and Ozzie Guillen and Julio Cruz each drove in two runs for the White Sox, who have beaten the A’s two straight. Oakland starter Joaquin Andujar reinjured a hamstring after throwing 12 pitches in the first inning before being replaced by Rick Langford. Royals 6, Twins 1 Charlie Leibrandt pitched a six-hitter, and George Brett went 4-for-4 with two RBI to pace host Kansas City over Minnesota. The Royals have won eight of their last nine. Leibrandt retired 12 in a row to start the game until Tom Brunansky led off the fifth with a single.
Reds 5, Giants 3 Kurt Stillwell and Ron Oester hit RBI singles, highlighting a four-run second inning that led Cincinnati over San Francisco. The Reds scored four times off Scott Garrelts, 5-6, and added an insurance rur in the eighth on an RBI single by Budd> Bell. Expos 10, Phillies 9 Tim Wallach’s leadoff home run in the 10th inning helped Montreal break its. five-game losing streak with a victory over Philadelphia. Wallach connected for his ninth homer of the season against Dave Rucker, 0-2. Dodgers 3, Astros 2 Mike Marshall’s sacrifice fly with the bases loaded in the eightlr inning lifted Los Angeles over visiting Houston. Padres 3, Braves 2 Marvell Wynne drove in three runs with three hits, including an RBI single with two outs in the 11th inning that led San Diego over Atlanta.
Navratilova netted a volley to give Lloyd match point. She saved it with a volley into an open court. Lloyd regained the match point, as another volley by Navratilova went long. A lunge volley by Lloyd moved it back to deuce, and Navratilova moved within a point of holding serve when another Lloyd volley landed in the net. But Lloyd then went down the line against a charging Navratilova twice both times for beautifully placed winners. The end came when Navratilova tried a drop shot that couldn’t get past the net. “In the first set, I just came out and made a few errors,” Lloyd said. “In the second set, I found my form.”
changed position by moving so slightly only Floyd could see it. It didn’t even make a complete revolution. Under the rules, a player shall incur a penalty stroke “if a ball in play moves after the player has addressed it other than as a result of a stroke.” “In 24 years, I’ve probably called four penalty strokes or maybe five on myself,” Floyd said. “You don’t even think about it. It’s just part of the game. “I don’t want to make a big to-do about this. I would hope every other player in the field would do the same as I did. I certainly hope, and I believe firmly they would. I hope I never hear of a guy who doesn’t call it.”
Grand Slam not in back of Jack's mind
c. 1986 N.Y. Times News Service SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. - On the third tee at Shinnecock Hills, the world’s most famous 46-year-old golfer surveyed the thick trees and bushes down the left side of the 453yard hole. “That’s jungle,” Jack Nicklaus said. “Never hit a driver here. Hook it and you can forget it.” Instead, the man known as the Golden Bear hit his 3-wood. Soaring high, the ball floated slightly to the right and landed in the middle of the lush green fairway. With a smile, he quickly strode off the tee on this celebrated but up to now cloistered course where the 86th United States Open will begin Thursday. “They’ll be screaming about this course,” Nicklaus was saying of the other Open golfers. “About how tough it is, about the rough, about everything. But 90 percent of those guys have never played a golf course this hard.” He has. And at one time or another, he has won on many of those hard courses. Over more than a quarter of a century, he has secured his stature as the best golfer in history by winning a record 20 major titles the United States Open a record-sharing four times, the British Open three times, the Professional Golfers Association championship five times, the United States Amateur twice and, of course, the Masters a record six times, most recently two months ago. If indeed 90 percent, or even 75 percent, of the 150 golfers in the Open have never played a course as difficult as Shinnecock Hills, it minimizes the number that Nicklaus has to beat. “It’s not that long, but it’s a left-to-right course, most of the holes are designed that way,” he said. “Craig Stadler should do well here. Bruce Lietzke, Lanny Wadkins, Tom Kite, they hit it left to right. It should be a good course for Seve Ballesteros and Bernhard Langer.” Shinnecock Hills should also be a good course for Nicklaus, especially in the glow of his theatrical triumph at Augusta National. “Winning the Masters,” he said, “puts me into a position of making myself believe I can win here. My chances are probably better than a high percentage of the field because of the nature and the type of golf course Shinnecock is. Strength and length are not a tremendous factor here, but I’ve got to work on driving the ball better.” Every so often during this practice round, tee shots with his driver would sail far into the rough on the right. “But by the time the Open starts, I should be all right,” he said. “I will have played this course seven times.” Before the official practice rounds, scheduled to begin Monday, June 9, only a few touring pros had ever played Shinnecock Hills at all. Nicklaus played it for the first time last summer with three friends, shooting a par 70 with two birdies and two bogies. For a recent round, drove up alone in a white Cadillac from the Suffolk County airport in Westhampton, where his tan-and-brown “Air Bear”jet had landed. “The first couple,” he said on the first tee to his impromptu gallery of about a dozen, “will be very scratchy.” He pushed his drive into the rough on the right. Another ball. Another push to the right. He pulled his third ball into the left rough. The fourth sailed straight, far down the fairway. “I’m trying to find some way not to hurt myself,” he said. “That’s always my concern when I step off an airplane.” Walking onto the green of the 394yard first hole after a 9-iron approach from 125 yards, he glanced at Shinnecock’s sandhills, which create the atmosphere of a Scottish or English linksland course. “It’s going to be a very British U.S. Open,” he said. Throughout this practice round, his comments would tell more about how he would think his way around Shinnecock in the Open than how he would play his way around it. At the 408-yard fourth hole, he drove into the thick left rough. Turning to Greg Gagliardo, a Shinnecock caddie, he asked the distance to the pin. “You’ve got 137 yards,” the caddie said. Nicklaus hit a 7-iron short of the green. “Wrong club,” he said. “Let me have a 6.”
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JACK NICKLAUS Helping ABC, too This time, the ball soared high into the prevailing southwest wind off the nearby Atlantic Ocean and floated onto the green. At the 158-yard 11th, which many Shinnecock members consider the most difficult hole on the course, he floated a 7-iron that spun back and to the right on the sloping green, stopping about 20 feet from the cup. “This is the hole you don’t want to be left,” he said. At the 472-yard 12th, he hit his best drive of the round. “That’s my old shot, my U.S. Open shot,” he said. “I play so much better left to right. At the Masters I had to play right to left, but this is mostly a left-to-right course. That’s why I like this golf course.” But on the 377-yard 13th, his tee shot drifted into the short rough. “You really can’t hit it too far left here,” he said after hitting an 8-iron to the green. “The approach is better from the left.” Walking to his ball Nicklaus noticed high thick weeds above the bunker to the left of the green. “The USGA will leave that and call it character,” he said to H. Virgil Sherrill, a former Shinnecock president who is the chairman of its Open committee. “That’s what they did at Pebble Beach left it like that and called it character.” After putting out on the 397-yard 15th, he did what he had done on every other green: select what he thought would be the four most likely pin positions during the Open’s four rounds. “One front right,” he said. “Two over there on the left and one back right.” After a 5-iron and two putts at the 172-yard 17th, he pulled his drive on the 450-yard 18th into the left rough, just off the rollercoaster fairway. “You don’t want to be here,” he said, “This is about as thick a rough as I’ve seen on this golf course. ” His 5-iron from 193 yards came up just short of the green, again in thick left rough. Using a sand wedge, he chipped weakly. Two more chips also were short of the cup. “If it’s thick,” he said, “you've got to go after it, dummy.” And for all his triumphs, when the Open begins Thursday the Golden Bear will be going after what no golfer has ever achieved a "grand slam” of winning the Masters, the United States Open, the British Open and the PGA championship in the same year. “I look at this Open,” he was saying now, “as one of six Opens where I had a chance to get the second leg of the slam.” He achieved that only in 1972, winning the Masters and then the Open at Pebble Beach. In the British Open at Muirfield in Scotland a month later, his final-round 66 missed by a stroke from forcing an 18-hole playoff with Lee Trevino. “But if I can win here,” he was saying now, "I’d have a good chance in the British Open at Turnberry, and with the PGA at Inverness, a shortish course, almost anybody can win. If you have a chance for the slam, you’ve got to go after it.” “The slam,” somebody said, “must be in the back of your mind.” “The slam,” Jack Nicklaus said sharply, “is in the front of my mind. ”
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