European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 19, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday february 19. 1986 the stars and stripes Page 23 commentary Alcott today s golfers Don t care enough Amy Alcott in t Jan Stephenson. She s no prude and she s not criticizing anyone by any Means but nobody will Ever catch her posing naked in a Bathtub covered with nothing but Golf balls. You la never find her winking out at you from the Centrefold of Penthouse either. Or splurging on some 250-foot yacht Lamborghini or russian  matter How much Money she makes. She s not that kind of kid. And i Hope Shell forgive me for calling her that because even though she has been playing Golf 20 years and been on the Lyga tour 11 years she s still in her 20s, still manifests a lot of the Little girl in her any time she gets passionate about a partic ular subject. She also has a Way of making it sound Ages ago whenever she recalls such no longer see nov shows As Shell s wonderful world of Golf and the lbs Golf  but the moment she starts talking about the Public s general misconception of what it s like to be a playing professional on the women s circuit or discussing Golf s new Breed both men and women she immediately sounds More like what she is a mature exceptionally successful 29-year-old with her head in the right place. It s not a Normal life says the dark haired Kansas City mo., native about competing on the True. You re like a Salesman. You travel from City of City and you stay in some hotel or Motel. Your Public can be very supportive or very cruel. I have a Good following. As Long As 1 do Well. People look at professional golfers like us As heroes. If you re in a slump they ask what Strong with you they can t understand it. You never ask them Why they Don t have a Job. Why they re having marital problems. Why they re Vic Tims of drug addiction. But when your name is in the paper and the word professional is alongside it you re supposed to be infallible. They see now much Money you be made and you Haven t played Well for a week a month or a year and they say what happened when you win of course everybody is behind you. Basically that s the Way people Are i  Alcott has won 24 official Lyga tournaments including three of the four major ones and stand fifth on the women s All time Money list with total earnings of $1,562,228. She can add to that by winning the Dinah Shore beginning March 31 at Rancho Mirage Calif. The tournament carries a record women s first prize of $75,000. The Money the Media and the television expo sure Are All great Alcott concedes but our values a photo Veteran pro Amy Alcott. Our values Are screwed up Are screwed  our she Means the Public again. People Are now superstars who have one great year. Superstars and millionaires. Where is the consistency such stars Are supposed to have where is the hard work and where Are the people who not Only want to take take take All the time but also give something Back to the sport that really both ers  can Tell it does by the Way Alcott s face reddens and her eyes Flash As she talks about  we see now in every tournament is a new name she says. Here today gone tomorrow. You Sec a lot of players out there now who Don t want to work hard to improve themselves or Slick with any thing for any length of time. They just Don t car enough. We re not getting the superstars we had in the  Alcott in t a taker she s a giver. She stages an annual tournament in Southern California that has raised better than $200,000 so far for the Benefit of muscular dystrophy research and although whenever went to College herself she recently donated 150,000 to Urcla for women s athletic scholarships. When things get too much for her she works As a Short order Cook in the Butterfly bakery and Deli i Westwood Calif., not far from where she lives All by herself in Santa Monica. She Calls this my  no one among All the 250-plus competitors on the Lyga tour get a Start in Golf quite the Way Alcott did. Although he did t play himself her father had an old set of clubs in the closet. His curious Daugh Ter Amy got hold of them one Day and began using them any Way she could. She pushed the Ball into sprinkler Heads around the House and tried to hit it out of the homemade Sand traps in the  father mowed the Lawn until it resembled a Green so his daughter could learn to putt on it. We turned the whole House into a Golf course she says. Pretty soon i was hustling the neighbors into playing me. Alcott got her first lessons at a driving Range when she was 9. Her Mother took her there never dreaming her Little girl would win More than 150 Junior tournaments allover Southern California in the next nine years As Well As the California state Amateur at Pebble Beach with a women s record 70 that still stands. The pro Alcott s Mother happened to take her to was Walter Keller. He watched the 9-year-old Al Cott swing once and did t bother concealing his annoyance. Get off the carpet and get on the mat he bar ked at her. His next words were delivered to mrs. Alcott. They were you be got a child with real blessed athletic  the 76-year-old Keller still is Alcott s teacher and still shoots in the 70s. He needed an open heart bypass some time ago but he refused to have it Alcott says. He thought his Handicap would go  if Usel should delay fall season Walker could join cowboys for 1986 Dallas a if the United states football league announces on wednesday a delay of its fall season Herschel Walker could join the Dallas cowboys this season his agent  will be playing this fall either for the new Jersey generals or the cow boys i can t get into specifics about his contract but he is not going to wait for the Usel if they Don t play this year agent Peter Johnson told the Dallas morning news sunday. Usel owners Are meeting wednesday in new York and one owner Baltimore s Myles Tannenbaum has suggested the league suspend play until the Resolution of the Usel s $1.32 billion lawsuit against the National football league which would preclude the Usel s being ready for a fall 1986 season. The trial was scheduled to open march18 but has been pushed Back to late Spring and is expected to last at least two months. That would not leave enough Lime for the Usel to make plans for this year. The future of the Usel could depend on the outcome of the lawsuit. Walker has a 4-year, $6 million personal services contract with generals owner Don Ald Trump but Johnson said Walker will declare himself free of his Usel obligations if the Usel announces it won t play until the Spring or fall of 1987. Walker was drafted by the cowboys last year in the fifth round. Walker has remained Loyal to the Usel but said two weeks ago in Dallas that he would not wait if the league cancelled its plan for a fall 1986 schedule. If they try to skip the season it s up to me what i want to do Walker said. They have to play at a certain time or i have no obligation to them. If they try and sit out too Long. I m not going to waste away. I want to  the Usel must begin paying players part of their contracts March 1, and there is support among some of the owners to let the players go now avoiding sizable pay ments and Start up again next year if. They win the suit. If the Usel loses the suit it will probably fold. Georgia president won t resign Over Kemp by the associated press University of Georgia president Fred Davison says he will not resign in the aftermath of dismissed teacher Jan Kemp s Legal Victory Over two of his subordinates. Kemp and her lawyers Are pondering film and Book offers. Meanwhile Georgia athletic director Vince Dooley said the image of the Stu Dent athlete painted during the trial was much worse than the truth. Under today s academic pressures he said Many students need five years to graduate. The graduation rate at the University of Georgia for All the students in a five year period is 54 percent. For All of our athletes it s been 60 percent during a 10 year study Dooley said during an inter View on webs to sunday night. A . District court jury last wednes Day awarded Kemp $2.57 million in Puni Tive damages and Back pay in her suit against University of Georgia vice presi Dent for academic affairs Virginia Trot Ter and Leroy Ervin director of the developmental studies remedial program in which Kemp taught. Testimony at the trial concerned special academic Breaks received by football play ers and other athletes. Kemp contended that her objection to such treatment had Cost her her Job. Davison testified on behalf of the two Georgia administrators. In a copyright article sunday by the Gwinnett daily news Davison Georgia s president since 1967, said he had no intention of  got a Job to do and i can t worry about the Kemp