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20 Sunday, May 25, 1986, Santa Maria, Tlms uiflon fires a 66 to fake lead A new breed of turbo toddlers leader. He remained at 9-under until the eagle at No. 15 shot him into the lead. Rose's 65 was the low round of the day, highlighted by the hole-in-one, coming on a 5-iron shot which hit about four feet in front of the hole, bounced a couple of times and into the cup. Peter Jacobsen, Andy Bean and Lennie Clements were at 209, while Tom Purtzer, who at one time shared the lead, headed a group of six golfers at 210 Saturday's play saw a new low third-round average of 71.494 on the Muirfield Village course.

Besides Sutton's eagle and Rose's hole-in-one, there were five other eagles Saturday, including an eagle two on the par-4 14th hole by Halldorson, who holed out a "wedge shot on the 363-yard hole. lead at under. The eagle dropped him to 11 and he quickly shaved two more strokes off par with birdies on Nos. 16 and 17 and parred No. 18.

Meanwhile, the rest of the field was just trying to stay close to the suddenly streaking Sutton. Halldorson, Pooley and Tewell, who battled for the lead most of the day, managed to stay within three shots, but Nicklaus could do no better than a 72 and fell five shots off the lead at 208. That tied him with Johnny Miller and John Mahaffey, both of whom shot third-round 69s. Sutton birdied the ninth hole and made the turn with an unspectacular 1-under 35, but then rolled in a 10-foot putt on No. 10 to pull to within one shot of Tewell, then the The Leader Board Hal Sutton Doug Tewell Dan Halldorson Don Pooley Clarence Rose Jay Haas Chip Beck John Mahaffey Johnny Miller Jack Nicklaus 68 69 66 203 66 70-70 206 65- 71-70-206 69 67-70 206 69- 73 65 207 70- 69 68-207 71- 66-70-207 68-71-69 208 70 69 69 208 66- 70-72208 had 2-under par 70s Saturday, Rose a 65, which included a hole-in one on the 188-yard fourth hole, Haas a 68 and Beck a 70.

When Sutton made his eagle at the 490-yard 15th with a 25-foot putt, be was in a 7-way tie for the DUBLIN, Ohio (UPI) Hal Sutton broke away from the pack with an eagle on the par-5 15th hole, then followed it with back-to-back birdies on the next two holes to seize a three-shot lead after the third round of the S577.000 Memorial Golf Tournament. Sutton, who started the day one stroke off the pace, finished the round with a 6-under par 66 on the 7.106-yard Muirficld Village Golf Club course for a 54-hole score of 13-under 203. Dan Halldorson, Don Pooley and Doug Tewell, who began the day tied for the lead with host pro and Masters champion Jack Nicklaus, were tied for second place with 206 scores, followed by Jay Haas, Chip Beck and Clarence Rose at 207. Halldorson, Pooley and Tewell all Sport Aid LONDON (UPI) Sport Aid runner Omar Khalifa dashed Saturday through cheering crowds and the gates of Buckingham Palace where he was welcomed by the Prince and Princess of Wales on the eve of the New York finale of a global run to aid famine victims in Africa. The Sudanese runner was earlier greeted on the tarmac of London's Heathrow Airport by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who praised non-government efforts to raise cash for charity.

"He's already done 10 kilometers (6.25 miles) in Dublin (Saturday) and he looks as fresh as anything," Thatcher said before departing on an official trip to Israel. Khalifa, who has made runs in 13 gets Wales of a welcome Continued from page 17 persons camp there after World War II, then landed in Nazareth, in 1955. Mario, then 15, would disobey his father, swipe platters of his mother's sausages and bribe his way past gate guards at nearby dirt tracks. He and his brother rebuilt a 1948 Hudson into their first race car. Like Foyt, he studied in the exhaust fumes of other drivers, learning as he went along how to drive better than they did.

Michael, Mario's son, born to cockpits and checkered flags, never had to flesh out a bank account by careening through the rutted turns of wooden-walled, dimly-lit dirt tracks. Similarly, Al Unser playpen was the front seat of daddy's cars. He was ready to drive as soon as he could see over the dashboard. Jerry Grant ran here 10 times, finishing as high as seventh in 1970, and decided to retire shortly before the 1977 race when he crashed twice during practice. He raced when there was only one Andretti behind the wheel, when "the Unsers" meant brothers, not father and son.

This new breed, Grant says, doesn't quite measure up. "They don't drive these cars; they aim them. I believe A.J. and Al Sr. and Mario have more ability to drive a car that's in trouble because the new breed of driver has only been exposed to extremely sophisticated machinery.

These drivers have never had to learn how to horse a car around, to manhandle it. "Granted, the driver still has to be a brave individual, 'cause when you run down that chute at 220 miles an hour, that turn down there doesn't look like a turn, it looks like a dead-end. You've got to have the guts to do that. But if you're intelligent enough to follow the line and the car's working Grant shrugged. Mario Andretti is running his 21st Indy 500 today.

Michael is starting his third. "But in some ways," Michael said, "at this point in my career, I think I'm a lot farther ahead than he was when he was my age." A lot farther ahead in more ways than one. The son is starting from the first row, the father from the 10th. "He's light years ahead of where I was at his age," Mario said, "mainly because of the preparation he's had. I didn't have my parents standing behind ue when I was just dreaming of becoming a race-car driver.

I stood by him and helped him." Cogan, whose best Indy performance was a fourth-place finish as a rookie in 1981, acknowledged that the racers are sophisticated, but said it doesn't necessarily follow that it requires less ability to run them. "The cars are so technically advanced now that it takes a bit of thinking to drive them," Cogan said. "You don't just sit in these things and go quick. You can't be some dumb hick from some back street and go fast here. It doesn't work that way." "Everybody talks about the recent technology," Bobby Rahal, a fifth-year Indy entry, said, "but I don't see anything different in relative terms between what's happening now and what happened in 1963, when the first rear-engined Lotus came over.

Technologically, that was very advanced for its day." Rahal said he'd seen films on TV of old Indy races, when drivers "wrestled their cars around the place. There's no question that maybe 20 years ago, if you spun, you never got into the wall. Last night I saw a film where Eddie Sachs hit the wall and kept going. Now if you hit it, you're probably missing a few wheels and God knows what else." Rahal's apprenticeship to championship-car driving was conducted on road-racing courses. So was Cogan's.

So was Michael Andretti's, and Al and most of the other younger drivers. They never scuffled for short money with long nights on the road between dirt-track races, bending coat-hangers and layering tape to keep their midget cars together for one more shot at a fistful of small bills and a loving cup. They never had to. And they don't regret having missed it. "Dirt," Michael Andretti said, "wouldn't have made me a better driver." Khalifa before he started his 3-mile London run between Lambeth Palace, residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and Buckingham Palace where he was greeted by Prince Charles and Princess Diana.

The Sudanese runner was cheered by crowds along the way. "You have got to save a little bit of puff to get to New York because that is the peak," Thatcher said. "It corresponds with the special United Nations session on Africa." The United Nations will hold its first ever conference on Africa after Khalifa's run. The funds raised by various "Aid" efforts are expected to be spent in Africa by January mostly on long-term development programs. 7th title inventive shots and quick reflexes.

At one point, Lavalle and Noah both stood at the net, exchanging volleys. When the young Mexican Davis Cup star volleyed over Noah's head, the Frenchman ran toward the baseline and flicked the ball through his legs. This brought a roar of approval from the audience, most of whom were workers taking a break from preparing the stadium and grounds for the tournament. Becker, hitting with Cassio Motta Brazil, showed the' problems he 'will have on the slow surface. His big forehand shots were bouncing high off the clay, giving Motta plenty of time to get in position for and keep the rally going.

Evert Lloyd chases record east and west European cities in the past week, was scheduled to cross the Atlantic late Saturday and make a dramatic final run in New York Sunday. The end of his American run will spark runs by about 30 million politicians, athletes, celebrities and ordinary people all over the world in a universal effort to raise money to stop starvation in Africa. "I think it's absolutely terrific. Band Aid was marvelous, and Sport Aid has been, another fantastic, imaginative idea," Thatcher said, referring to Irish rock singer Bob Geldof's Band Aid campaign that raised millions of dollars in 1984 for famine victims in Africa. Geldof's Band Aid Trust and the U.N.

Children's Fund organized Argentina in the third round, No. 8 Manuela Maleeva of Bulgaria or Bassett in the quarterfinals and No. 3 Steffi Graf of West Germany, who has won her last four tournaments, including victories over Lloyd and Navratilova, or fifth-seeded Hana Mandlikova of Czechoslovakia, the 1981 French Open winner, in the semifinals. Navratilova, on the other hand, could get to the final by besting two fellow Americans No. 10 Zina Garrison and No.

7 Kathy Rinaldi -and No. 4 Claudia Kohde-Kilsch or 71 for victory seven-stroke lead, Elder carded a four-round total of 15-under-par 273. It was his second title and first in two years in this annual tournament. He earned the winning prize of $50,000. Paul Boomersbach up by six.

Damien, however, came back with four runs in the fifth and one in the sixth to pull within one, 6-5. Pat Thompson and Cliff Leach iced the game for Lompoc with RBI doubles in the top of the seventh to up the Braves' lead to 8- 5. Damien pitcher Sean Bossiere homered in the bottom of the in Continued from page 17 It's the confidence of a champion. Lloyd and Navratilova have played each other 68 times in their careers, with Navratilova holding a narrow edge. The first time they played in a Grand Slam final was at Roland Garros in 1975, Lloyd's second French Open title.

But if they are to meet this year, Lloyd will have had to have beaten most of the world's top clay court players, if the seedings hold. They include No. 9 Gabriela Sabatini of Lee Elder cards a TOKYO (UPI) Lee Elder birdied the 11th hole for a 1-under-par 71 in the final round Sunday and led all the way to win the $230,000 Coca-Cola Grand Slam Senior Golf Tournament. Starting the final round with a Braves hold on to win, advance to semis Sport Aid, which will end with the mass run in 238 cities around the world. "I think it is wonderful the whole world is running for the children," said Thatcher in congratulating Khalifa.

Khalifa, 29, reached the finals of the 1,500 meters at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics and is one of Africa's best-known athletes. He has said he was pleased to represent Africa in the project. The prime minister said, "British taxpayers have contributed 200 million pounds ($300 million) over the past two years toward helping Africa. But that same spirit would never have been mobilized if it had just been through the taxpayer." Thatcher had some advice for West Germany or No. 6 Helena Sukova of Czechoslovakia, again if the seedings hold.

"Martina and I have brought out the best in each other," Lloyd has said. Also practicing on center court Saturday were Wimbledon champion Boris Becker of West Germany and 1983 French Open winner Yan-nick Noah. When Noah, who now makes his home in New York City, was on the court, an ever-growing crowd began making its way into the stadium to watch. Noah, who won the Tournament of Champions in New York earlier this month and reached the semifinals of the Italian Open last week, practiced with Mexico's Leonardo Lavalle. Noah delighted the crowd with ning.

The Spartans then got the tying runs on base before Lompoc reliever Bill Bentley got out of the jam thanks to a double play. The Braves are now 20-6. They will play host to Channel League champion Rio Mesa, 23-4, on a nuetral site possibly Hancock College. Tuesday's other semifinal-round contest pits El Segundo (26-5-1) against Western of Anaheim (23-4). 77? charges accrue from date of delivery.

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