European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 30, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday september 30,1986. The stars and strikes Page 23 commentary if golfers Are athletes so Are waiters by Jim Murray Are golfers athletes arc they even sportsmen or just artisans is Golf a game or is it a skill Tike watchmaking or Diamond cutting do they play it or just Engineer in Are they just master plumbers with a complicated set of wrenches or graduate agronomists should there be score connected with what they do of should somebody just hand them a Rake and a hoc and a Box or seed or is that Knighthood in Flower Oul Here Are these he modern equivalents of Lochinvar and sir Gawain waving 8-Irons instead of swords arc these romantic figures of history or just a company of mechanics this question which has vexed some of the Ablest historians of our Day the polls of he sports press Box has waxed healed for quite some Lime. The late Jimmy Cannon for instance once thrown off a Golf course by an Over officious management Type never managed to forgive the great game and each tournament was a signal for his culmination against it. He labelled in  As nothing More than a chess game in the Park Gin Rummy with Sticks. Cannon disdained any sport where you did t bleed for a living. If golfers were athletes he sniffed so were letter earners waiters beat cops. A Guy Wilh a night stick was More entitled of his picture on Bubble gum cards than a Guy with a Puller. Hilling a Ball that did t curve or that did t come with a 250-Pound linebacker in close Pursuit equated in Jimmy s mind to guarding a civil War Cannon in the town Square. All you have to do is have shoes that fit he groused. But if the argument As to whether the Golf player is a games Man or just a night watchman is Lively so is the one As to whether the pea tournament is a  the masters is a major goes the purists argument after All Bobby Jones played there the Pines sigh like a Cathedral s Garcal Organ and tradition seeps out of every trap. The British open is a major. Thai s where it All began. The . Open is i minor. Jones Ben Hogan Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus made in that Way. Even Sam Snead helped by nol winning. The pea is the stepchild of the game of Golf. Once up a to pro golfer Craig a Ladler. An athlete or beat cop .1 in was a unique tournament the Only one on inc professional tour that was match play. Television could t live Wilh thai. The attrition Rale in hrad to had play was catastrophic. You got Waller Burkemo against Felice Torza not Hogan against Snead. I was like making a movie in which John Wayne got killed in the second reel or inc Best Friend kept gelling the girl or the dog drowned the Cowboy or earned the baby into the burning building. It was Lousy theater to would t play in Peoria. Gregory John Norman who has been a tourney favorite Alt year is nobody s beat cop in appearance or ribbon Cirk Tetter earner Fry Cook or waiter. From tapered shoulder to Wasp Waist from his great Shock of Platinum hair to his Wagon Tongue wrists he looks like a Guy who could make his living Wilh any kind of a Ball of stick or without one. All he needed to catch Sharks was a bathing suit. Watching him play a got course is like watching a lion Hunt or a shark bite. He does t play a course he stalks it. He s like Joe Louis with his Man in trouble Sandy Koufax Wilh an o-and-2 count or Bill Tilden at the net Wyatt Earp walking Down main Street. Greg Norman can i a Tennis Ball 300 Yards Lee Trevino once observed. Hell he can hit a Plum 250  Hale Irwin former open Champion has said the Only difference Between my game and Greg Norman s game is 75 Yards off the  if Norman is As unmistakably athletic As Willie Mays Inverness the site of the pea tourney this year is As unmistakably major As Augusta. It was a confrontation worthy of being under the ring lights at Yankee stadium or on Center court at Wimbledon or wherever else real games Are played by real athletes. Norman has a Chance to be the next superstar of Golf. And a Star needs a part. Playing Inverness is like playing Hamlet. Or Kielt duller. First you have to rid inc foreground of the dress extras the Spear carriers. And then you get Norman and Inverness lobbing haymakers at each other babe Ruth with a fastball or Jack Demscy in a Crouch was never More athletic than Norman against a Shin Button Green. And there s bleeding ail right. Where it does t show. The worst kind. The la Angalet Toimi Leahy excels As jets dump Colts 26-7 Indianapolis up pal Leahy kicked four Field goals to improve his string of successful 3-Pointcrs to 9 and the new York jets played opportunistic defense sunday to defeat the Indianapolis Colts 26-7. Leahy extended his Field goal Streak the third longest in nil history with kicks of 49,47,34 and 24 Yards. Leahy is one shy of Garo Yepremian s second longest Field goal Streak and four behind the nil record of 23 by Mark Moseley of Washington. Leahy a 13-year nil Veteran excelled at soccer at St. Louis University which docs not have a fool Ball team. Leahy gave the jets a 16-0 Lead 42 seconds into he fourth Quarter Wilh a 47-Yard Field goal. Ken o Brien threw a 17-Yard touchdown pass to Kurt Sohn later in the fourth Quarter and Leahy kicked a 24-Yard Field goal to Complete the scoring. The Colts 0-4, scored i hair first Sec Ond half Points of the season with 14 seconds to play when rookies Jack tru Cau and Bill Brooks hooked up on a three Yard touchdown pass. The Colts committed three turnovers inside inc new York 30 in the third Quarter. Safety Lester Lyles intercepted a Trudeau pass and recovered an Owen Gill Fumble to Hail two drives and line Backer Bob Brablc recovered a Fumble off George Wonsley s fourth Down dive. Trudeau completed 21 of 5 3 passe for 233 Yards in his second Start after replacing the injured gun hog Boom. Indi Anapolis ran for just 51 Yards. O Brien was 19 of 32 passes for 184 Yards. Tony Paige also scored on a the acc Yard run for the jets 3-1. Despite three first half turnovers the jets built a 13-0 Lead. Leahy kicked a 34-Yard Field goal 3 52 into the game to give new York a 3-0 advantage Paige scored on a three Yard run with 5 25 gone in inc second Quarter to make it 10-0. A 40-Yard interference Penally against Indianapolis cornerback Leonard Coleman moved the Ball la the Colts 4 and keyed the drive. Leahy kicked a 49-Yard Field goal with 53 seconds remaining in the half to boost the Lead to 13-0. Interceptions by Coleman and Eugene Daniel plus a Fumble recovery by nosby Glasgow gave he Colls Good opportunities in the first half. Bui Indianapolis was unable to capitalize with drives of 8, 4 and minus-9 Yards after the new York turnovers. Indianapolis gained a isl 74 Yards in the first half moving across Midfield once. Browns Shade Lions Cleveland a Gerald Mcneil at 143 pounds the lightest player in the nil returned a punt 84 Yards for a touchdown and ignited the lie breaking drive with a 36-Yard Kickoff return Sun Day helping the Cleveland Browns to a 24-21 Victory Over the Detroit Lions Mcneil s third Quarter punt return was the longest in Browns history and his fourth Quarter kick return started a 10-play, 58-Yard drive capped by mail Bahr s 24-Yard Field goal with 11 minutes to play. The Field goal gave Cleveland 2-2, a 17-14 Lead. Curtis Dickey then ran i Yard for his first touchdown since 1984 to Clinch the Browns Victory with 7 45 to play Eric hippie who broke his own team record with 33 completions nil Carl Bland Wilh his third touchdown pass of the game for a meaningless Detroit score with 14 seconds to play. Wilh the score lied Al 7 Early in the third Quarter the 5-fool-7 Mcneil caught Mike Black s 38-Yard Puni Al inc Cleve land 16. Sprinted through a scam on inc right Side of the Field and then dodged Black at Midfield before racing for a 14-7 Cleveland Lead. The Lions 1-3, tied the game on the first play of inc fourth Quarter a 6-Yard pass from hippie to Jones. Cleveland quarterback Bernie Kosar. However took inc Browns 58 Yards to set up Bahr s Field goal. Brian Brennan recovered teammate Kevin Mack s Fumble in the end zone for a 7-0 Cleveland Lead Early in the second Quarter. Steeles nip oilers in of on Abercrombie s to Houston Dpi Walter Abr Crombie rambled 3 Yards for a touch Down 2 35 into overtime sunday to give the Pittsburgh Steeles their first Victory of the season a 22-16 decision Over the Houston oilers. The winning score was set up by Rick Woods 41-Yard punt return to inc hous ton is. Pittsburgh quarterback Mark Matone ran a keeper for 11 Yards to the Houston three on second Down and Abr Crombie scored on the next play Over the right Side. Houston won the Coin flip in overtime but punted after Warren Moon threw two incompletion following a i Yard run by Mike Rozicer. Lee Johnson s 34 Yard punt was fielded by Woods at inc Pittsburgh 44. The game featured a kicking Duel be tween Gary Anderson of Pittsburgh and Tony Zendijas of Houston each of whom converted three Field goals in a game that left both acc Central learns at 1-3. Zendejas 45-Yard Field goal with 45 seconds to play forced overtime. Moon engineered inc lying drive with six straight completions that moved the Oil ers from their 23 to the Pittsburgh 6. Three straight Moon in completions forced Houston to Settle for Zendejas kick