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THE POLK COUNTY ENTERPRISE. SUNDAY MAY U, 1986-PAGE 7A
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Once over lightly
By Van Thomas
sports editor
L^ATERALING off notes and gossip: ...THE HOUSTON
Oilers rookies will be reporting to training camp at Angelo
State University on Monday, July 14. The veterans will check
into camp on Friday, July 25 and press day will be Saturday,
July 26. Oilers’ first pre-season game will be Monday night,
Aug. 11 in the Astrodome hosting Tampa Bay. Then on Sunday,
Aug. 17 the Oilers will host New Orleans starting at 12 noon.
Oiler will clash with the mighty Cowboys in Texas Stadium on
Saturday night, Aug. 23 and close out the pre-season schedule
hosting Buffalo on Thursday night, Aug. 28 at 7 p.m. ...DID
YOU KNOW that in all the years of the Indianapolis 500-mile
auto race, nobody has ever led the race from start to finish.
Closest anyone ever came was Billy Arnold in 1930. He led far
all but two laps. ...JIM LEE HOWELL the New York Giants
director of player personnel for the past 20 years, resigned to
become a special consultant with the National Football
League. Howell has been with the Giants for the last 44 years
after joining the team in 1937 as a wide receiver. ...WHEN AN-
DREW MELONTREE, former John Tyler High (Tyler)
athlete, came to the Cincinnati Bengals rookie camp last
weekend, he brought his father and agent. They are the same.
The sixth-round NFL draft selection from Baylor has been
switched from defensive end to linebacker. Melontree said he
was contacted by a number of agents but selected his father,
Andrew Melontree Sr., a branch manager for the Tyler Sav-
ings and Loan. ...A FRIEND in Nacogdoches was in Plains,
Ga., recently and local burghers told him that Miz Lillian real-
ly wanted Billy to be president. Then she realized that Jimmy
couldn’t run the gas station.
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THE LIVINGSTON High School band will present their
sprint concert on Thursday night, May 22 at 8 p.m. Prior to the
concert a spaghetti dinner will be held in the school cafeteria
from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. The prices are $2.50 for adults and
$1.75 for students.....QUESTION: How much energy can I
save for each degree I raise the air-conditioning theromstat
during summer months? Answer: For each degree, you save
one-to-four percent in energy, according to Sue Young, a hous-
ing and home furnishings specialist with the Texas Extension
Service. ...LAMAR UNIVERSITY'S womens basketball coach
Iwana McGee has announced the third audition date for pro-
spective basketball players for the Lady Cardinals’ 1980-81
team.Saturday, May 31, from 10 a.m. to 12-noon, auditions for
spots on the varsity and junior varsity will be held. Any in-
terested high school seniors are encouraged to attend the try-
outs. ...LIVINGSTON Tennis Association tournament will be
held May 22 at the Municipal Tennis Court. Deadline for enter-
ing the tourney is Monday, May 19. Players may call Jim
Defee’s office, 327-3135, for information. ...GOLFER DON
January had an excellent excuse for not playing in the
hometown Byron Nelson Classic last weekend in Dallas. Dghtr
Cherie Lynn wanted dad to see her graduate at Texas Tech
Saturday night. ...TALL PEOPLE hear too many dumb yuk-
ttks about weather aloft, etc. When a woman asked 6-9 NBA vet
fclvin Hayes if he played basketball for a living, Hayes
replied: “No ma’am. I clean giraffe’s ears.” ...DETROIT out-
fielder Champ Summers, leading the American League in bat-
ting, got a tattoo when he was 17 and has been trying to get rid
of it ever since. “Who,” he asks “wants to be 60 years old, sit-
ting in a rocking chair, with a Playboy bunny tattoo on his
arm?”
LAST YEAR, Texas Christian University’s first pro-am at
Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth raised $23,000 for the golf
program. This year the date is Oct. 20 and the goal is $50,000.
Tl* full day of fun and games will begin with an instructional
clinic conducted by Byron Nelson. ...TCU’S GOLF TEAM
received its first-ever invitation to compete in the NCAA tour-
nament. The Frogs’ golf team, runner-up in the Southwest
Conference tournament early this month at Tyler, was one of
four from the conference picked to take part in the NCAA tour-
nament at Columbus, Ohio, May 28-31. Champion Houston,
along with Texas and Texas A&M were also selected. TCU
coach Fred Warren will have seniors Kevin Harrison of Fort
Worth, Dave Davis of Tucson,Ariz., and Davis Sann of Car-
rollton as well as junior John Tetens of Arlington and
freshman Bjorn Svedin of Stockholm, Sweden for the tourney.
Warren, in his first year at TCU, was recently voted Coach of
the Year in the SWC by his peers.
THIS BUSINESS IS
CONSUMER
PREFERRED
FROM LOS ANGLES comes an interesting thought from
Kerwin Bell, all-everything running back who was recruited
by every college with a 15-percent stamp or a rental car. Bell,
who finally signed with Kansas, suggests, “Take all the blue
chips and then let the school pick them in a draft. It would cut
down on the hassel for the player? and the coaches. Now the
coaches call you all the time and they all say the same things.”
Bell also had intriguing explanations of why he chose KU over
Oklahoma, Nebraska, Texas and Southern Cal. “I realized
that I didn’t like Oklahoma’s offense,” he says. “Nebraska
didn’t need any more running backs. I’d heard that they have
racial problems in Austin. And I didn’t want to go to a school
(USC) which be on probation.” Makes you wonder if there was
a little negative recruiting going on.” ...TRIVIA QUESTION:
Now that Ben Crenshaw missed the cut in the Byron Nelson
tourney (his first miss in 25 tournaments), who has the tour’s
longest string of making the cut? ...BALTIMORE pitching
coach Ray Miller says, “You can pitch to Jim Rice, you can
pitch to Rod Carew, becasue they have spots. But there’s no
place to pitch George Brett.” ...TRIVIA ANSWER: Jack
Nickalus, idle this week, has the longest string of making the
cut - 21 tournaments, dating back to the 1978 PGA Champion-
ship. ...THIS YEAR THE NBA installed the old ABA three-
point play (shots from outside a radius of 24 feet, 9-inches from
the basket count three points), with mixed results. The three-
pointer seldom played a crucial role. But it did make San
Diego’s Brian Taylor a star. He made 90 such goals. Fred
“Downtown ” Brown of Seattle led the league in long-distance
percentage, hitting 39 of 88 shots for a .443 percentage. On the
other hand Houston’s Calvin Murphy shot 25 times from far
away and hit one. And the Atlanta Hawks, as a team, hit only
13 of 75 three -point efforts.
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THE PGA TOUR GOLFERS had barely begun to check in at
Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth this week before Fuzzy
Zoeller was receiving treatment for lower back muscle
spasms from Texas Christian University trainer Ross Bailey.
The 1979 Masters champ says he’s gotten some relief from
acupuncture treatments, not a Bailey specialty. “The problem
stems from an old basketball injury,” says Zoeller. "When
you’re growing up in Indiana you either play basketball or
you're nothing. "Zoeller says his back bothers him mostly
when he has to ben over a putt, and on the follow-through of his
big swing. ...IF THE LOS ANGLES RAMS had stayed ahead in
January's Super Bowel, quarter Kevin Scanlon of Arkansas
would have been the last player chosen in the recent NFL
draft. Scanlon became the 311th of 213 players chosen, and the
honor of the final draft choice of I960 went to Tryrone McGriff,
taken by Super Bowl winner Pittsburgh. ‘I’m just glad to be
drafted,” Scanlon said of his late selection. “A lot of players
around the country weren’t”
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Palmar lot! to giva this 22-
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of Precinct 4 for electing me constable. I am proud to be
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Sunflower
Camp Ruby
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Schwab City
Blue Water
Big Thicket
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White, Barbara. Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 98, No. 39, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 18, 1980, newspaper, May 18, 1980; Livingston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth781744/m1/7/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Livingston Municipal Library.