European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 22, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              , jul v 1 the stars and stripes a Flat i Fleckman Beard Lead pea by 2 at 54 holes by will grim Leysan Antonio Tomas the nerves or la mow j carried a tw6trok0 Lead he cell Niantic of final round of hew 50th pea got Cha Niiori  had a 54-Hole score of 210 even Par for three round Sver the maligned a Yard Pecan Valley course baked Byj Teamy 102-degree heat two strokes Back at 212,came a closely packed cavalry charge of seven men including Jome of the most glamorous names in Golf. They included the people s eternal favorite Arnold Palmer who almost blasted in from the trap on the final Hole in View of television s millions voluble Lee Trevino the reigning . Ope Champion and 48-year-old Julius Boros two time Winner of the open bidding to become the oldest Ever to win the  there with them were Dandy Doug Sanders the golfing san Antonio Tex. A the professional golfers association announced saturday that the Winner of the 1968 pea championship will pocket $25,000. The total purse of 1150,000 will provide a paycheck for All 74 golfers who qualified for the Las two rounds. Second place will be worth$15,000, with $10,000 for third and $8,000 for fourth. The last 14 finishers will each get $365. Rainbow who has never won Amajor title left hander Bob Charles of new zealand former Winner of the British open Tough Little Miller Barber wit the build and the heart of a Stevedore and 32-year-old Dickryan of Sylvania Ohio a genuine  at 213 was tennessean Lou Graham followed by half dozen at 214, including capitalist Bill Casper former pm Champion Al Geiberger and Tal George Archer who recovered from a horrendous quadruple bogey eight on the opening Hole they All had a Chance going into sunday s last  24-year-old Fleckman a pro of less than a year held on grimly As fortunes fluctuated throughout the sultry afternoon and came to the treacherous and lengthened 18th Hole need no Only a Par for the Undi sput Lead. After an excellent one Iron Down the Middle he came off ils second shot which veered to the ankle deep rough on his right. He chopped to the fringe of the Green and two putted for a bogey five and a 72.playing right behind him Beard hit a Beautiful shot Dow near the Edge of Salado Creek my drilled his second to the tinge of the narrow Green 15 get from the  putt that would have give remember Alamo no Salado san Antonio Tex. A the 1968 pea Golf tournament will be recalled in future year with the anguished cry re member Salado  Means briny in Span ish and most pro golfers who have run afoul of the Pesky Little Stream have tried to take it witha Grain of Salt during the tour  some such As Billy Cas per will Rera embed salad Creek Long after they be forgot ten their sight seeing trips tothe famed Alamo in downtown san Antonio. Stream trapped Many Asper was a Mong the Many golfers trapped by the Stream on the 18th Hole the finishing test that has turned Triumph into disaster throughout the week. Salado Creek crosses the 18thhole about 230 Yards from the Green and during. The first two rounds was about 240 Yards from the  golfers could carry their drives safely Over the Creek an were forced to play Short with an  went into the 18th Hole during the second round two strokes under Par and hit a two Iron off  to avoid the Creek. But the Ball bounced and squirted into the Stream. Caspe took a double bogey 6 on the Hole this is a stupid Hole an impossible Hole Casper complained and Arnold Palmer described the finishing Hole Asri  the first two rounds o the tournament there were continued on Page so in him the Lead spun around the cup and stopped inches away. He had a Par for a Matching 72.Palmer, in an unfamiliar baseball Cap had a round who concluded three bogeys in the Pace of four holes starting athe fourth. He flubbed one putt of two , he hammered out a succession of steady pars Cli maxing his round with the great trap shot at the 18th that brought cheers from his faithful  Ball almost dropped into the cup but fell six inches  had a two Over 72. The 18th was changed before Start of the third round in defer ence to an outcry from the pros who called it unfair. The Hole originally measured458 Yards with Salado Creek Cut Ting across it 240 Yards from the tee. It was necessary to Lay up with a Long Iron shot and then hit another Long Iron to the Small target  moved the tee Mark ers Back 30 Yards lengthening the Hole instead of shortening it Detroit a Pitcher Dave Mcnally slammed a two run Homer for his first hit in 42at-bats this season pacing the Baltimore orioles to a 5-3 Victory Over Detroit a american league leaders and 18-gamewinner Denny Mclain Satur  loss coupled with Cleve land s 8-0 Victory at new York Cut the tigers Lead to 6& games Over the second place indians. Man aus first major league Homer and a two run blast by Frank Robinson in the fifth in shr to 5-3 the orioles led 1-0 when and Etchebarren started the fifth in Ling fireworks with an infield it. Mcnally followed with a Irive into the lower left Fields eats and Don Buford Drew a walk before Robinson smashed us seventh Homer to Kayo Mccain. Jenny denied Baltimore Detro Itab r h a Buford of 3110 Maulupe Blair of 10 00belanger is 4 0 0 0 How they scored san Antonio Tex. Up third round scores of the 60uifua  is Rob non of Owen i Blefary if a Robinsn 3b a Johnson 2betchebrn e Mcnally Para Bend p Watt Codon Hue p Beard Barber Boro Bob Charlea Trevino Bander Palmer Rhyan Graham Gorge Arche Billy Casper Al a Liberge Mengert n Rudolph Stockton Boyn Toad a Brewer Bob  him Johnny Pott he bikes a Rolt Zarley w-70-72 21070.70.78212 n-n-70 2iat3-to-to 812 72-7-73-13 714&-74 214 74-70-70 �1470-73-n 214 71-73-70-214w-76-70 214 75-71-a2l470-78-78215 t3-78-70 3u Onel Hebert Hunte Yancey Coody to-70-76 31570-73-75215 t3-7m&-21671.75-70-318 �-7s-74-4lflw-71-70-8w 71-t3-t8-4w Bob Stone Dickinson to-77-70-. Ants-78-n ai7 t8-74-n 81870-71.73-318 74-73j-72 21874-73-71-218 78-78-78-Jwn-70-75 819 14-8-7-219 Bob Lun Jerry it tuna Tim a Bau Rejohn Lively Ken Ventur Donald Thlu Larry Wiedow i Netterwald Bart Jacobson Gene Littler Bobby Mitchel Raymond Floyd Jim Mooney  Sporre Al Chandler buy Colluna Bob Hamilto Harold Banning Bobby Nichols am cart Bael rom Coon an january Jimmy Picard Tom 8hawcharles 8itto.it Larry Ziegler Robert Crowley Horace Moor pal Rhea Laurie Hammer Stan Mosel Joe Carden Suene Mitchell Robert Schoener or. Oene web Manuel de la Torr Bob Benning 72-75-7321974-71-74218 72-75-7322074-74-72220 74-71-7522078-71-74220 75-71-7422071-75-75221 73-74-74221 774-7422174-76-72221 79-70-7322275-74-78222 73-73-76222 78-74-772237�-73-74223 78-71-74-23373-74-76223 76-72-7622378-73-78834 t2-76-76224 76-71-7622477-70-n234 76.71-77824t8-74-77824 w-73-76-22477-n-77228 t2-76-77106 7ft-73-7683570-78-788m 78-73-772pfl73-74-80327 76-70-83227 7v-t0.722870-73-78 88 73-76-802m7-71-83229 Dave Mcnally. First in majors Ning chased Mclain an snapped the Detroit right hand or s winning Streak at nine games. It was the first time in 24 starts this year that Mclain,18-3, has been knocked out of the , u-8, Wanked the tigers on one hit until micke Stanley doubled with one out in the seventh Al Kaline stroked Arun scoring single and Bill free Han  Brabender came on in Relief and hit Willie Horton witha pitch filling the bases then struck out Don Wert and got Ira Northrup on an infield Fly to end the  tigers however closed the Gap on Stanley s two run single in the eighth before Eddie Watt replaced Brabender an got Kaline to hit into a rally kill ing double play. 2212 4012001 20204000 41103112 00001000 0000 2b Stanley of Kaline i Freehan c 0 Whorton u Wert 3bcash pm Northrup Oyler a mat Chic Mclain p Warden pc Omer pm Wyatt pm Brown pm Ribant p of is a 4 44 33 31 42 21 01 00 0 rhbl110 122oil 000010 000000 010000 110000 000000 000000 000 total 30 5 7 5 total 32 3 7 3 Baltimore 000 140 0005 Detroit 000 000 1 z 0 3ewert do Baltimore 2, Detroit 1 lob Bau Traore 5, Detroit 5. 2bstanley. 3bbuford. Or Mcnary 1 .sbfr.robinsn. 8f f . In h r Erbb so .61-33 1 1 1 3.1 22211 1000. 2-3100041-3 6 5 5 3. 12-3 10002 0002. 1 0000 hip Mclain  . T2 54. A31.748. 7. Mckay cw.11-8 Brabender wat Odonoghue Mclain l.18-3 Warde Wyatt Rybant Hall 16, snaps record in 400 swim Medley los Angeles a Gary Hall a 16-year-old from Garden Grove calif.,smashed toe world record in the to meter individual Medley saturday with a time of 4 48.4 in the Losangeles invitational swim Milf Meetis time bettered the listed world Mark of 4 45.4,set by Dick Roth of the Santa Clara swim club inthe 1994 olympic games at Tokyo Hall swam the 100-meter Butterfly in 1 01.1, the backstroke in 1=13.3, the breaststroke in 1 27.3 an wound up with the free style in v.tt.4. To give players a Chance to Clear the water. The 233-Yard 16th was Cut  were trying to re Call the last tournament i which not a single player was under Par going into the final round. Fleckman who led the .open in 1967 at Baltusrol in new Jersey before saying to a last round 80, was reminded of the similarity of the  time i Don t intend to choke he said with , 29, a pro for six years who has never won a major title predicted that he could win the championship with a final round 70. I Don t know Why the score were higher he said. The pin placements were severe but no unfair. Maybe it was the pres  does t show Trevino who always has equip or Story was unable to show up for the Post round interview. He explained that he had taken a Salt Tablet at the 12th and had become ill to his  had two bogeys and 16 pars. His bogeys came As the result of wrestling with what he called High  birdied the third from six feet and two putted fora Birdie of the Par five 13th. He bogeyed the first 12th, 14th and18th, three putted nos. 12 and 14. Boros makes charge Boros made a tremendous charge through the Early stages of the third round moving into tie for the Lead with Birdie putts of 15 and 40 feet on the fifth and sixth holes and a Chip in from 15 feet out with a Widgeon the Lith. Then the roof fell in the casual new englander said. On the 460-Yard Par four 14th,he hit his second shot to the rough just to the right of the Green and pitched about eight feet past. He missed the putt and then flubbed another from less than a foot for a double bogey six. He bogeyed the 15th also with a missed putt fro four feet. Fleckman came right behind Boros on no. 14 and missed a putt of about 2 feet for one of his bogeys. Sanders decked in purple Sanders wearing a Bright purple shirt also moved into a tie for the Lead at one stage then took a double bogey seven on the  most harrowing experience however belonged to 6-foot-6 Archer. He hooked the Ball into salad Creek and took a penalty shot. After the Ball was dropped strolled Back into the Creek. He made a second drop an when he took his stance his foot was against a stake marking the Hazard. Thinking he was entitled to Relief from the stake Archer dropped it a third time. Archer takes eight he continued to play out handmade what he thought was a Dou ble bogey six. Afterwards Aga official notified him he was not entitled to Relief from his stance and he was charged two additional strokes making quadruple bogey eight. Refusing to be shaken he ral lied with three birdies and finished with a 74.rhyan equalled the Best round of the Day with his 68, a score matched by Young Dave Stock ton a two time tournament win Ner this year. Barber called his round  his round was capped by a bogey on the 18th, which yielded Only one Birdie by former pea Champion Lionel Hebert who was at 216