European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 30, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Monday october 30, 1967 the stars and stripes Page 19 Nicklaus beats Spray by 1 in Sahara Golf Las vegas Nev. A big Jack Nicklaus needed a Lucky break on the final Hole where his Ball was one half Inch in Bounds to win the $104 .-000 Sahara invitational Golf tournament saturday with final round 71 and a 72-Hole total of 270.that gave him a one stroke Victory Over Young Steve Spray of Cedar rapids Iowa who wound up with 71 and 271.Nicklaus hooked his tee shot on the final Hole and it required close Check by officials to de Termine that the Ball was inbound. He then hit his second shot into a trap and took a bogey 5 on the Hole. Nicklaus posted rounds of 68-69-62 and 71 for his Victory which was Worth $20,000.Spray after rounds of 69-64-67 before his even Par finishing round earned $12,000, the High est of his , who had t lived up to his name with Only two bogeys and one double bogey in the first three rounds carded four bogeys on the 7,069-Yard, Par 36 3571 Paradise Valley course on a Beautiful sunny Day. In third place at 276 was Hugh Royer of Columbus ga., who had a 68 final  the 27-year-old Nicklaus of Columbus Ohio it was his third Sahara Triumph and fifth 6cmcfe titles by final charge Damascus nabs jockey new York a Damas Cus turning on his vaunted Power in the final one Quarter mile easily won the two Miles of the $106,600 jockey Gold cup Satur Day at Aqueduct a Victory that All but officially wrapped up the horse of the year title the 3 year old championship and officially made him racing s great est one year Money  $69,290 Damascus earned for winning the 49th running of this prestigious race by 4% lengths Over handsome boy with successor Thirl boosted his 1967 Bank account to $792,941.the record for Money won in one year had been $752,550 by Nashua As a 3-year-old in 1955. With the $25,865 he picked up i four starts As a 2-year-old, Damascus total earnings amounted to $818,806. Damascus who will make his final Start of the year in the Washington . International at Laurel my. Nov. 11, was a prohibitive Choice with the crowd of 44,862. He paid $2.60 and $2.10. Handsome boy fro Jack Dreyfus Hob eau farm returned $2.20 after finishing 7%lengths in front of successor from mrs. H. C. Phipps wheat Ley stable. It was another 6% lengths Back to gentleman James who was last. Laurel my. Up the Meadow stable entry of syrian sea and  Matelda swept the first two places in the $109,330 Selima stakes at Laurel saturday As Queen of the stage unbeaten in seven previous starts finished a Distant fourth the winning entry returned$6.00, $5.00 and $5.40 and singing rain paid $7.20.garth Patterson had three winners for the Day scoring aboard Ketcha Berg $6.40 in the second race lost lad $24.00 in the sixth and Alsidena $6.20 in the ninth. Busy Penguin Pittsburgh Penguin goalie Les Binkley right stops a shot off the stick of Rod Gilbert of the new York rangers in a game at new York s Madison Square Garden. The rangers fired 51 shots at Binkley during the contest while winning 6-4. A photo belizean leads canadians to Victory Over St. Louis Montreal a Jea Beliveau fired two goals and set up a third pacing the Montreal canadians to a 4-1 Victory Over St. Louis National hockey league expansion Lub saturday night. Third period goals by defense Man . Tremblay and Beli Veau broke open a tight  and extended the East division leaders unbeaten string to five games. Beliveau scored his first Goa with the game less than a minute old then drilled his seventh of the Young season with Only 39 seconds to play in the final period. Hot Classy Field set for la. Times prix Riverside Calix. A a Field of hot cars and top Driver were to line up sunday for a 200-mile Battle for Cash in the $83,000 los Angeles times grand prix the fifth race in the Canadian american Challenge cup series. The race Over the fast twisting Riverside International raceway 3.27-mile course Drew Many of the world s top Drivers including Bruce Mclaren of new zealand John Surtees of England Denis Hulme of new zealand and Ameri Ca s Dan Gurney Parnelli Jones Jim Hall and Mario Andretti. In Early qualifying runs Gurney set a blistering Pace and course record in 118.7 Miles an hour to take the pole position. The record set last year by Mclaren was 112,6 . Considered atop contend in the race sunday was Hulme who recently took the world driving championship by placing third in the grand prix of Mexico. Early in the year he won the grand prix of Monaco and also won at curb urging  sunday s main race the top qualifiers in order were Gurney Corona Del mar calif., 118.7 . Mclaren 118.3hulme, 116.5 Hall Midland Tex., 116.5 Andretti Nazareth a. 116.0 Peter Revson new York n.y., 115.8 Othar Mots Chen Backer Beverley Hills calif., 115.5 Surtees 115.1. Henri Richard s first goal insight games snapped a 1-1 tie late in the Middle period an Beliveau assisted on Tremblay s third period tally before beating goalie Seth Martin for the Sec ond  blues wingless in their last five starts pulled even inthe opening period when Norm Beaudin scored on a Power  snapped the tie at 17 49 of the Middle period on Richard s tally. Dick Duff and Ted Harris Drew assists on the deciding goal. Martin subbing for Glenn Hall in the blues nets turned aside 23 shots five less tha Rogatien Vachon handled. Philadelphia a the Detroit red wings outs Kaied the Philadelphia flyers one of the new expansion clubs in the National hockey league 3-1, her saturday to Register their third straight  Hampson Paul Henderson and Doug Roberts scored for there wings. Philadelphia was assessed 10 minor penalties which left the flyers Short handed most of the first two periods. The Fly ers goal came with 50 seconds left in the second period when Gary Dornhofer deflected John Miszuk s shot past goalie Roger Crozier. Pittsburgh a de Joy All s unassisted goal Midway through the final period broke a3-3 tie and sparked the los Ange Les Kings to a 5-3 nil Victory Over the Pittsburgh penguins Here saturday  White added an insurance goal with five seconds left in the game. The Kings got two other scores from real Lemieux Andone from Dave Amadio. Leo Boivin Paul Andrea and Ken Schinkel scored for Pittsburgh. Los Angeles Terry Sawchuck made 40 saves Many of them spectacular. Toronto a Jim Pap pin scored two third period goals Here saturday to help the Toron to Maple Leafs Nail Down a 5-3 nil Conquest of the skidding California seals. The seals held a 2-1 Lead but Pappin s two goals and scoring sorties by Ron Ellis and George Armstrong pulled the Stanley cup champions to Victory in the final 20 minutes. The seals suffered their fifth straight loss on the Eastern swing. Billy Hicke and George Swar Brick scored for the seals and Tim Horton notched Toronto Sother goal.  a Bobby Hull scored his eighth and ninth goals of the season her saturday to Lead the Chicago Black Hawks to their first wino the nil Campaign a 4-2 Triumph Over the Minnesota North stars. The Hawks who had lost six games and tied one got of he goals from Doug Jarrett Anderic Nesterenko who also had two assists. Wayne Connelly anted Taylor scored for the North stars before a standing room Only Hometown crowd of 14,674. Pea tournament Victory of the year. His $20,000 prize raised his 1967 Money total to $188,998 an enabled him to wrest the Leader ship in the currency Chase Over Arnold Palmer. Palmer finished with a disappointing 72 and finished Low in the pack with 284. Spray s Best previous Effort was a tie for sixth at Atlanta last month. The Lowan made birdies on putts of two inches on no. 6 and five feet on no. 7 and tied Nick Laus for the Lead at the 61st Hole. He fell Back a Sho on the 65thand dropped another stroke Back on the 67th while Nicklaus was making his pars until Jack s near fatal 18th Hole. Tied for fourth at 277 were Frank Beard of Louisville ky., Rives Mcbee of Midland Tex.,and Terry Dill of fort Worth Tex. Spray disappointed the 26-year-old Spray was greatly disappointed despite his Best Ever finish and his to purse. I just made too Many mis takes and when i needed a big shot i could t come up with it he said later. I played a few Good holes but most of the time was scrambling All Over the place. I was t Happy at  the victorious Nicklaus was beaming As he was being inter viewed and said i guess Youcan Call me Lucky from now  the winners Jack Nicklaus $20,00068-69-62-71270 Steve Spray. $12,000 69-64-67-71271 Hugh Royer $7,500 69-72-67-68276 franc Beard. $4,366 67-70-72-68277 Rives Mcbee $4,368 70-70-68-69277 Terry Dill $4,366 67-68-70-72277 Julius Boros $2,975 67-73-68-70278 Jack Mcgowan $2,97569-60-73-67278 Dudley Wysong $2,97574-67-68-69278 Dean Beman $2,975 72-69-69-68278 Charles Coody $2.20069-71-69-70279 Steve Oppermann $2,200. 71-70-66-72279 Bob Goalby $2,200 68-67-68-76279 Chi Chi Rodriguez. $1,900 74-69-69-68280 John Lotz $1,650 73-72-69-67281 Al Geiberger. $1,650 71-72-70-682b Ken still $1,650 67-70-74-70283billy Martindale $1,650 vl-69-68-73281 Richard Martinez $1,041. 71-67-69-75282 Randy Petri $1,041 70-72-72-68282 Billy Maxwell $1,041 69-72-73-68282 Lee Tevino $1,041 70-72-72-68282 Bruce Crampton $1,041 69-72-71-70282 Gardner Dickinson $1,041 68-72-70-72282 Howie Johnson $1,0-11 73-69-69-71282 Bobby Nichols $1,04171-69-69-73282 Dick Mayer $1,041 71-70-68-73282 Dave Hill $712 69-73-71-70283 Dick Crawford $712 70-72-70-71283 Terry Wilcox $712 74-67-70-72283 Fred Marti $712 70-74-67-72283 Jack Fleck $712 72-68-70-73283 Joe Carr $712 68-71-69-75283 Rex Baxter. $521 71-69-70-74284arnold Palmer $52176-68-68-72284 Charles Sifford $521 72-71-74-67284 Jerry Steelsmith $52171-69-73-71284 Dewitt Weaver. $521 73-72-68-71i84 Doug Sanders $521 72-73-68-71284 Billy Casper $521 69-73-70-7228473-71-68-72284 72-69-70-73284 Rich Bassett $320 73-69-74-69285 Butch Bald $320 b-76-70-71285 Chuck Courtney $521 George Archer $521 Bob Mccallister $320 76-67-69-74285 Toufiel Xavier edges Villanova Cincinnati a Gramke booted a 21-Yard goal late in the second quarters Xavier won its fifth straight football Victory by sneaking past Villanova 3-0 saturday. Tommy Aaron $220 74-70-72-70286 Don Cherry $220 72-70-72-72286 Lionel Hebert $220 73-70-71-72286 Jerry Edwards $220 71-71-71-73286 Dicks Lytle. $220 70-72-69-7526u pair remain tied in Alamo gals Golf san Antonio Tex. A Mary Mills and Joann Prentice fired identical two under Par 70ssaturday to continue with a share of the Lead after 36 Hole sin the $12,500 Alamo woman s open Golf tournament. Each had141. Leading Money Winner Kath Whitworth who shared the Lead with miss Mills miss Prentice and two others Friday dropped one stroke Backo share second place with Ruth Lessen at 142. They were followed at 143 by Mickey Wright Susie Maxwell and Sandra Spuzich one of the first round leaders. Betsy Rawls another of the first round leaders soared to a 74 and fell deep into the pack at 145