European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 18, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                June 1985 the stars and stripes Page 21 North captures open title As Chen falters sports by Gordon White not Andy who had not won a tournament since taking the 1978 open won the 85th open sunday by one shot after Tsechung the Leader for three took a quadruple bogey 8 on the fifth Chen tied for second with Denis Watson of South Africa and David Barr of struggling Over the Oakland Hills country club course in varying weather North bogeyed the final Hole to finish with 74 for one underpay 279 Over 72 who made history with a double Eagle at the second Hole in the opening round fell into a tie with North for the Lead with his four overpay 8 on the fifth then he bogeyed the next three on he lost the Lead for the first time since he got it with his double Eagle a 26yearold from had five single bogeys after that quadruple bogey and although he regained a Short lived tie for the Lead with Chen finished with seven overpay i am really not Chen i just played pitiful i finished that not too bad for the first time playing the i made a lot of who bogeyed the last two holes of the shot 2over 72 to finish tied with Watson had the Best score sunday of any of the four top Par to finish with Barr and Chen at in a two stroke penalty assessed Watson for undue delay in the first round was he took More than the maximum 10 seconds allowed for tapping in a Ball that was hanging Over the Edge of the eighth and the Ball finally fell into the cup for a Par the two strokes increased his score to a double bogey had he putted within 10 seconds he would have taken a so the penalty actually Cost him Only one but that also Cost him a Chance to tie North with a 279 who also bogeyed the final Hole at Cherry Hills in Denver to beat Snead and Dave Stockton by a single shot in 1978 for the open missed by a single shot of tying Gary Middlecoff for the highest final round by an open Cham Pion in the modern Era since world War Middlecoff had a 75 on the last Day of the 1949 open to a 6foot4inch 35yearold from earned for Only the third Victory in his pro he also won the 1977 Westchester North underwent surgery to repair Bone chips in his right Elbow in the fall of he also went through Many operations on his legs As a youngster when an unusual disease prevented a Bone in a knee from growing on the first four Chen gave no indication that he would walk Over a trap door As it starting two shots in front of he picked up a stroke on 1 with a perfectly played Par driving the Middle and hitting his Iron to the Back of the where the pin was North drove a left Bunker at the first Hole on his Way to a bogey North had constant hitting Only one Fairway in the front nine see open on Page 23 a photo open Winner Andy North first tour Victory since 1978 four teams Battle for East Lead cardinals hand cubs fifth straight loss by United press International what was supposed to be a two team Duel Between the Chicago cubs and the new York mets in the no East has turned into an fallout the cubs dropped their fifth straight game a 52 decision to with Montreal defeating new the expos took sole Possession of first place and Lead the cubs by one Louis is two Down and the mets Are Cardinal manager Whitey Herzog is not surprised his team is a we knew it before this Road he we were playing we just started off the season making errors and  pitch around at one we had 30 games and 31 unearned were a better defensive team than Kurt earned the Triumph scattering six hits Over eight in Bill Campbell notched his third Al Roundup the cubs Dennis yielded seven hits and struck out Chicago manager Jim who was preparing for a fou game meeting against the knows it is still Only approaching things like they Are dismal is just not Frey weve obviously got a Good Ball club that is going through some prob regardless of what happens in new Well still have 100 games left and still be in a Good at this Point of the year in not Overly concerned about the cardinals took a 10 Lead in the Rookie Vince the major league stolen base beat out an infield moved to third on an errant Pickoff attempt and scored on a ground out by Willie Louis made it 30 in the fourth on a base loaded walk and Ozzie Smiths suicide squeeze the cubs Drew to 32 on a sacrifice Fly by Jody Davis and Ryne san bergs seventh Homer before the cardinals scored twice in the ninth to put the game in sundays other no games expos mets 2 Montreal Andre Dawson and Emmet Hubie Brooks drove in two runs apiece to help Montreal Complete a sweep of its three game Bill worked five innings for the yielding three hits and four Mickey Mahler allowed two hits Over four innings for his first Rick took the Phillies pirates 2 Pittsburgh Charles scattered four hits Over 6 23 innings and also singled to Start a three run leading Kent Tekulve pitched the ninth for his fifth Rick took the loss and stole a base in the third his first steal since giants padres 34 san Francisco Chris Browns two out single scored Jeff second in the 13th inning to give san Francisco and a sweep of their in the Brown collected four hits and four Bis to ignite the reds braves 2 Atlanta Nick Esasky belted a 32 two out pitch from Bruce Sutler for a Home run in the 10th inning to lift Esasky fifth Homer of the year dropped Suiter to 32 and made a Winner of Ted the reds fourth John Franco got the last two outs for his third dodgers astros 0 Houston Fernando Valenzuela fired a six hit shutout and Pedro Guerrero continued his torrid Pace with a a double and three Bis to Lead los Angeles to a sweep of its three game struck out five in pitching his league leading third shutout and seventh Complete