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Deeatur, Illinois, Friday, Mareh 26, 1976 THE DECATUR REVIEW PAGE THIRTEEN 66 in Heritage RTWTTCW Murphyfs Repair" Work Paid Off FORREST R. KYLE Problem: Make Up $20,000 Without Cutting Prep Program champion Jack Nicklaus, who couldn't take advantage of them with a game that "wasn't very sha.rp in any area," He was one over par at 72, So was Ben Crenshaw, a two-time winner this year, and British Open champ Tom Watson- Lee Trevino was at par 71 but Johnny Miller took a fat 75, ft ft. lil 12m 1 1 'p South Side Country Club pro Jim Arendt New SSCC Golf Pro Doing What His Heart Dictated Associated Press Blazers' Bj Walton muscles Bullets Evn Haye for Cavaliers, Bullets Both Lose Key Games in NBA Staff Photo by Doug Gaumon outdoors and golf gave me this chance." When Arendt became a golf pro in 1970 he still wasn't certain apout it as a career, "I wasn't sure whether' I wanted to do it because I knew it involved a lot of hours, especially in the summer. "But if you keep wondering about it, whether you should do something or not do it, and you don't do it, somewhere along the line you're going to look back and say: 'Gee, I wish I had done "So what I have done basie ally is get myself in a position to find out if this is going to be for me." Arendt worked; for three years at Chicago's Ridgemoor Country Club, for two, years at Inverness for the man who sue? ceeded his father and last year at Skokie Country Club. South Side is his first head pro job.

'I've never really had any tournament ambitions," he says. "My father always said if you want to play a lot of golf don't become a golf professional, "I suppose everyone thinks it's great to be on the tour and I suppose everyone would like to try it. I'm not saying if I had the chance I wouldn't like to try it if someone else was picking up the bill. But when you start to have a family you have to buckle down and get to work." The Arendts have a one-year-old daughter. "My wife and I are very happy with Decatur," Jim says.

"We're happy to get away from the rat-race which is a way of life in Chicago. 'I still find it hard to get used to driving to work in five minutes. Five minutes in Chicago used to about get me out of my driveway." By the Associated Press For the Cleveland Cavaliers there was some bad news Thursday night and some more bad news. First, the Cavaliers suffered only their second home setback in 16 starts, bowing to the Buffalo Braves 109-84- It cost them a chance to move into first place in the National Basketball Association's Central Division because the Washington Bullets, one game in front, also lost, 106405 to the Portland Trail Blazers. Elsewhere, the Houston Rockets trimmed the Golden State Warriors 123-104 and the Phoenix Suns whipped the Atlanta Hawks 8.

There were no ABA games. Bob McAdoo and Randy Smith combined for 61 points and led a secondhalf surge that propelled Buffalo over Cleveland. McAdoo scored 36 points 23 in the second half and Smith and Jim McMillian each scored 25, with 17 of Smith's in the second half. Dick Snyder had 21 for Cleveland. Lloyd Neat's three-point play with 2:03 remaining erased a Hilton Head Island, S-C, (AP) "Two, three times a year I get in need of repair," said Bob Murphy.

"Sometimes it's just minor adjustments. Sometimes it's a major overhaul-'' And, facing probably the toughest course the touring pros play all season in the Harbour Town Golf Links, he figured he needed a major overhaul cgming into the $215,000 Sea pines Hwritage Classic "I called some friends and told 'em I know I can't take this machine to the Heritage. That course will kill Murphy sajd, go, from last week's Jacksonville Open, he hustled home to Delray Beach, got the overhaul needed on his game and responded with 8 brilliant, five-under-par 6g that provided him with the first-round lead Thursday. "I've been hitting everything to the left," Murphy said, "It had cost me an absolute for tune and two, maybe three golf tournaments, "It was so frustrating, "I'd get in position to win. But all the time I was afraid I was gonna hook it so I'd figure out how far I've got.

to aim to the right. And then if I didn't hook it, I'm 3540 feet away. If you're doing that, somebody is gonna beat you every time. "And that's just what they were doing." So last Monday Murphy sought the help of old friend Gene Martin, an amateur, and Laurie Hammer, a club pro and former tourist, He beat balls for five hours "probably the longest I've practiced in one stretch in my life," The three jointly discovered two things: Murphy had a problem with his grip and he had the ball out of position at address. "I'd just let my left hand get too strong and I was pulling everything," he said.

The overhaul was completed. Don January, the easy-going, 46-yeareld veteran, was alone in second with fourunderrpar 87. Hubert Green? the winner of the last two tour events, said he "was playing so gcoid it scared me," on the way to a 8 that tied him for third 3USt two shots out with a large group that included Gibby Gilbert, Dave Stockton, John Sohroeder, Butch Baird, Peter Qosterhuis, Marty Fleckman and Danny gdwards. Gary Player, Hale Irwin and Tom Weiskopf were in 8 batch of about a dozen at 69, but some of the game's other great stars had their difficulties in the cool, cloudy, windless, sometimes-drizzly weather thai, made the course play at its easiest. In all, 31 men in the invitational field of J14 broke par 71, "Absolutely perfect scoring conditions," said defending said Knight referring to the fact that the AH'American 'forward was virtually useless in last year's playoffs with an injured left arm.

The Bruins, winners pf 10 national championships under John Wooden, Started this season undep new coach Gene Bartow in a typical fashion. After that embarrassing loss to Indiana on national television, they continued to fumble and feel their way while adjusting to the traditional -program- "Our players were still learning about" a new eoaeh," says Bartow. "We ran a lot of people in and out." The ance-mighty Bruins were even beaten on their home court something that hadn't happened for 98 games. Bartow got hate mail, obscene phone calls and there was talk of a mutiny, He admits it wasn't easy following a man of Wooden's stature. "I wouldn't recommend it for young coaches, a steady diet of following John Wooden," says Bartow, HBut seriously, I'm happy to be in the final four, I think things have gone as well as expected when you follow a Jiving legend." Bartow agrees that perhaps, his Bruins should be cast in the role of underdog hut predicts 8 closer game than the oddsr makers have determined.

"They haven't talked to Pave Greenwood, our center," said Two years ago, when by fed era! edict r- Title IX, you know B-it became necessary for high scjwol and college athletic de pa-tments to implement com, peiitive sports fop women, it also became necessary for the institutions to finance this ad to their programs. lS Decatur School Board, approved a $20,000 subsidy to, thefeneral athletic fund to' get the program going, This athletic finances wer siieft that it was possible to get by with allocating $12,000 of the subsidy to the girls and the remainder to the boys, When the school board announced garliep this week What it was chopping out of the 1976-77 budget, the $20,000 pared from the athletic budget was this same $20,000 subsidy gf anted a eeuple ef years ago. ''Originally the board paid eliminate golf and tennis," Marv Schlosser, the sports cor opdinator, said Thursday, MIn discussions with us we sug gested.i-instead.' of eliminating SBOEts-Yky-not let us take a loplf at our programs and see if there might be plaees where we might generate a little more revenue. We" thought there might be othf places we would prefer to cut rather than to eliminate certain sports. We said we'd liketo keep the total program so we can have as many kids involved as possible.

'fThe hoard went along with that philosophy, It said okay, -we'll eliminate the $20,000 subsidy, So now we're back in a program where we must rely on our income for our expend might be here that there was no suggestion hy the board to reduce or eliminate the cost of coaches' increments or the transportation of athletic teams the two majn items which are not funded by the athletic budget' "So, we must find, some place to save $20,000 says Sehlesr ser. Just where the whittling'-and shaving will start is still to be determined. "I'm going to send out information as to what we're talking about and bring the athletic directors--! together and ask thefn to meet with their staffs and'get suggestions for cuts. In other words, get back to the grass roots level on this thing: "Then we'll have a meeting and determine in what areas we can make cuts." Ali Will Meet Wfestler-f or New York (AP) Muhammad Ali will go "lion hunting" for the second time in six months when the boxing champion meets Antonio Inoki in Tokyo June 26. But Inoki will be a completely different breed of cat for the heavyweight chanpion.

Inoki is a wrestler known as the 'The Young Lion." "I've always wanted to meet a rassler," said who knocked out the Lion of Flanders, Belgian Jean-Pierre Coopman, Feb. 20. Pla-Mor Has Good Battle Fornd Spot Since no suspense remains in the Pla-Mor Classic Singles Scratch League Tom Crowe has! a lead of 53.23 Petersen points some interest can be stirred up in the battle' for runnerup honors. Four bowlers figure with Wayne Hornbeck possessing 512.13 points, Ren MintJer 508.48, Rick Hinton 504,47 and Dave Harlow 503.39, Mintler made a modest gain on Hornbeck Wednesday night with second high series of 757, high game of 235 and winning three games from Ken Thornton Sr. Hinton rolled 747 and Harlow "737 as Hornbeck checked in with 736.

Hinton lost ground because he dropped three of four games to Crowe, who had high series of split with Wayne Baughman and Harlow won three from Dave Hinton, subbing for Les Grace Sr. The idea of dropping golf and tennis could have, been predicted because this is the usual course ef school boards looking for places to qhpp programs, While they are sports which dcn't contribute a dims in gate receipts, they also are two of the cheapest sports to finance. About all a "school has to furnish are balls and trangr portation and I dare say, so far as golfers are concerned, they would just as soon use the ball of their than what the school might provide, This probably will be tjie case next year and the natters likely will have fa provide their own balls. But thi will really be only a drop in the bucket in the way of It' no secret that the neees sity to finance girls' interscho-lastic programs has contributed to the financial plight of many school districts. As Schlosser sajs, "What we've done is add a girls' program and had to try and support it out of the boys' income," The income from the girls' grnes isn't mucji and implementing their programs came at a bad time economically, not only in Decatur but everywhere in the coun try.

Schlosser said there was no plan to cut back on the girls' program as a means of making up that $20,000. 'Certainly Eisenhower going as far as it did in the state basketball tournament is going to help offset part of the $20,000," he said, A ball park estimate is that a.t least $4,000 will be coming from the Illinois. High School Association for the participation of the four public high schools in the -series of tournaments as well as staging a regional. "WTe will seriously consider, raising admission prices," Schlosser said, "The board says we're to follow the same formula we've been following except we're not going to get $20,000. So, if.

we can generate part of that $20,000 in income we won't have to suffer 3ny severe cuts. "We're limited to how high we can raise admission prices but certainly a little boost can be borne by the people who come to see the games." This, of course, will be nothing new. It happens in every sport where there is an added expense over which the schools or clubs have no control. The added cost is passed on to the fan by hiking the admission price. Japanese $6.1 Million Ali will, make (wo more title defenses before he meets Inoki in an exhibition being billed as the World Martial Arts Championship.

"I've always wanted to show I'm scientific enough to beat a rassler," Ali said Thursday at a news conference called to formally announce the match. Ali's bait to meet the' Young Lion" is a guarantee of $6.1 million, which will be the biggest purse of his career. "That figure's said promoter Rob Arum when questioned about the financial projections made for the boxer wrestler confrontation a con frontation which is not new but one that before has never had the benefit of elosed-circuit television, The promoters Arum's Top Rank, and Video Technic ques, both of New York and Lincoln National Productions of California estimate the event could gross $10 million and that Inoki could earn as much as $3,5 million by receiving $2 million from worldwide television revenue and the en tire live gate from the event at the Rudokan Arena, WILDWOOD GOLF COURSE NOW OPiN FOR PLAY Wildwood golf course, the city's newest course, is now open Monday through. Friday from 10 to a and from 7 a.m- to 6 p.m. on SaU urday and Sunday, Later into the season the course will open earlier on a daily basis.

Eldon Mi Ohio State Cage Coach Columbus, Ohio (AP) Eldon Miller, the young, quiet man who turned Western Michigan's basketball program around, was to be assigned the same task today by Ohio State. The Big Ten Conference school, suffering through its worst season in history 6-10 planned to tap the 36-yearold Western Michigan mentor to replace the resigned Fred Taylor, Bill Hosket said Thursday night, Hosket, ope of the finalists to replace his old college coach, told a sports writer, "Miller has the job-" Ohio State called a news conference to announce the successor to Taylor, the 51 yearold dean of Big Ten basketball coaches who just finished his 18th year with the Buckeyes. Joe Hoy, the Western Michigan athletic director, confirmed that Miller was one of the three finalists for the Ohio State post. Hoy said Ed Weaver, OSU's athletic direo tor, told him so Monday, REDS' GULLETT WILL PITCH MINUS CONTRACT Tampa, Fla. (AP) Cincinnati Reds' lefty Don Gullett, who may be on the; threshhold of his first 20-vier tory season, heads toward the 1976 season without a contract, "I'm here te play baseball," said Gyllett.

"I'm sure things will work out." Though negotiations are Gullett has had his contract renewed by the Reds under the provision which calls fpr a 20 per cent pay tut from his 1975 salary, SIU'S GLENN HEAPS VALLEY ALL-STARS Tulsa, Okla, Mike Glenn of Southern Illinois University heads the Missouri Valley Conference all-' star basketball team selected by coaches for United Press International. He received the most votes, The team also includes Mike Davis of Bradley, Ken Harris ef Drake, Robert Elmore pf Wchita State and Maurice Cheeks of West Teas State. Bartow. "I don't know that the eddsmakers are always right. We can't' worry about those things.

We've got to worry about execution. We've got' to worry about good shot selection." Before the Hoosiers and Bruins go after each other in front of some 15,000 fans at the Spectrum and millions more on national television. Rutgers and Michigan will match strikingly similar fastbreakJng styles. "I think it's going to be a very exciting game," said Michigan Cpgch Johnny Qpr. "People tell me we're two of the fastest teams in the country and if we both play well, it should be a very, very exciting game." Tom the Rutgers coach, echoed Orr's sentiments.

"I don't think we'll change our game plan at all and I'm sure Michigan won't," he said. "Our game, should just be a high-scoring Contest, and we just feel it's going, to be a great basketball game," Rutgers, with a record, and Indiana are the only major college unbeaten teams in the country, UCLA has a 2M record going into Saturday's semifinals and Michigan is 24- 8. The winners will nlay for the national championship Monday night. 4 Her Py. Forres R- Kyle Review Sports Editor A man must do, if it's at all possible, what his heart dictates, which explains in a measure why Jim Arendt is taking up residence this spring as the new South Side Country Club head golf professional, The native of Elgin, who will be 30 next month, grew up in a golf family but started selling insurance after graduating from the University of Illinois.

Then he tried selling mutual funds. "Being a golf pro is about the only thing I really looked forward to doing," he says. "Golf has always been closest to my heart, I guess, but it took a while to figure all out." It was natural for Jim to think about gojf because his father was the professional at the Inverness Country Qlub Palatine for 38 years- So Jim's heart really wasn't in selling insurance or mutual funds. "I always wanted to get Arnold Sets Homer. Mark But Blue Lose Jacksonville, Ala.

Millikin University junior Stu Arnold slammed a two-run homer to set a new Big Blue baseball career home run record, but that was about the only bright spot as Millikin lost a doubleheader 6-3 and 6-1 to Jacksonville State here Thursday. Arnold homered in the third inning of the first game to give the Big Blue a brief 3-0 lead. Jacksonville scored five runs in the bottom of the third with only one hit. Pitcher Steve York yielded all four walks he gave up in that inning, An error and a misplayed sacrifice bunt also aided Jacksonville. Arnold's homer was his third, this spring and the eighth of his career.

He had been tied at seven with Del Rutz in the Big Blue record book. Rutz com peted from 1958 to 1961. In the nightcap, Jacksonville exploded for five runs in the bottom of the sixth inning on three home runs. Sonny Mose-ley hit a solo homer and Sandy Davis a twormn Phot off Tiro Currinder, while Larry Bowie tagged a two-run homer off Bob Loekhart. The Big Blue, which played Jacksonville State a single game today, has a 2-7 spring record, Adcock Makes Big Gain With 894 Series While Bob Burg Jr.

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