European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 4, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday August 4,1987 the stars and stripes Page 23 at last there s Only one heavyweight Champion b John Nelson Las vegas a super promoter Don King had a simple reaction. Hallelujah. After 10 fight and 16 month of bickering hmm s heavyweight Lille unification series is Over with All three championship belts around the Waist of 21 year old Mike Tyson. Not since 1978, when Leon Spinks Defeated Muhammad Ali has there been just one heavyweight  is there still arc those who feel Tyson has company at the top of the division and this could affect the heavyweight picture Over the nil year. Michael Spinks. Who Wai stripped of his International boxing federation version of the heavy weight title Calls himself the people s Champion and his pro Moter. Butch Lewis feels Spinks Victory Over Gerry Cooney last june 15 has made him More popular than he won the title and All Spinks said of Tyson. I mean he s got All the Bells but he has t beat me. He s a Champion because he s got the  Tyson who already held the world boxing Council and world boxing association lilies captured the third Belt saturday night with a unanimous 12-round decision Over if Champion Tony Tucker. Spinks was stripped for refusing to fight Tucker As part of the Hob series. Now Spinks would like to fight  was among the 7.800 spectators at the Las vegas Hilton for the Tyson Tucker fight. He Sal in the very last Row the cheap seals. Nothing could have been More appropriate. Tyson. He feels shunted aside by a photo Mike Tyson rented crowned Bellof and bejewelled. I want to gel the fight signed Spinks said. And Lewis added it could be the biggest Box office in our Industry s  a fight however is not expected to Lake place until the fallow 1988, at the earliest after Tyson fulfils several commitments. Tyson. 31-0 with 27 knockouts is scheduled to face olympic Champion Tyrell Biggs on ocl 16, perhaps in Atlantic City. After that fight plans Call for Tyson to meet undetermined opponents the first in december or january and another in Tokyo on March 21. After that he a supposed to fight in june or july in London perhaps against British Licay weight Frank Bruno. He s not the Champion Tyson has said of Spinks. I m the Champion. He i not running the show. Housed the Cic use that he did i lose the title in the ring. That s a Bunch of baloney. How can you Call yourself Champion when you give it up Biggs ranked Ai Ilic no. I contender by All three governing bodies tuned up for the october fight by slopping Journeyman Lorenzo Hoyd in the third round last Friday night at Corpus Christi Texas. The Victor gave Biggs a record of i i-0 since turning professional after the 1984 los Angeles olym pics. Biggs considered by sonic a legitimate in cat Otyson looked n Little Slugg so against Boyd. Although he knocked Boyd Down four limes before the fight was stopped. Biggs admitted he was t in the kind of shape he would like to be in against Tyson. I May have looked slow but i m weighing 235 pounds right  Biggs said thai s not my fighting  refusal to fight Tucker was nol the Only hitch in the j22 million Hob series. Trevor Berbick who held the wac title when the series began threatened to pull Oul and fight Cooney because Fie was t getting enough Money Tyson Loo the we Chi Leby beating Berbick on nov. 22,1986. Last december Tony Tubbs the Aba title Holder said he Hurt his shoulder delaying a fight with Jami Bon Crusher Smith. King who promotes Tyson accused Tubbs of holding out for More Money and Liti gation followed. Smith replaced Tubbs in the Sci Sand knocked out Tim Witherspoon in one round for the Aba  look that Bell away with a 12-round unanimous decision Over Smith last March 7. With All this and the Tyson Tucker fight finally out of tie Way there still was a faint whittling in the wind. It seems everyone wants i piece of Mike Tyson now. Strange wins St. Jude classic Memphis Tenn. A Curtis strange went to the 18th tee with a play off on his mind but wound up taking Home first place in the s724.043 St. Jude classic when he tamed the Par-5 Hole with a six foot Birdie putt sunday. Strange calmly avoided a five Way playoff and capped a steady round of 3 under Par 69 when he placed a 93-Yardwedge near the pin and quickly pulled out to Lake Home the j130.328 winners Check with a 13-under-Par 275 total. I guess what s on my mind right now is having the Opportunity on the last Hole and coming through. That probably Means As much to me right now As and thing else the 1987 Canadian open Champion said. Strange said he went to the Isle tee expecting to need a Birdie to earn his Way into a playoff Wilh Mike Donald and Russ Cochran who he thought would Birdie the Hole. However strange said thai after learn ing from the gallery that Cochran and Donald had paired the 18th, it just kind of gave me a shot in the Arm. I would t want to be in the scorer s Lent waiting for Curtis strange to come to the last Hole with 80 Yards logo strange said. That sounds a Little rough and usually i Don t say things like that but i Felt very confident today said strange who shot rounds of 70,68.68 and 69 Over the7,28 2-Yard, Par-72 colonial country club course. Strange who moved to second on the Money list by boosting his 1987 earnings to 1530,885, went to the 18th tee locked in a five Way lie with Cochran Donald Dennis Watson and Tom Kite. Strange who turned in four birdies and Only one bogey on the Day pushed his ice shot into Short grass near a Fairway trap on the Par-5, 548-Yard Fin Ishing Hole. A perfectly placed Fairway Iron left the 11-year pea tour Veteran 93 Yards fro the pin and strange who shared a i stroke Lead with Andy Dillard going int sunday s championship round then pitched to within six feet of the Hole with Hii third Shols Range who was never More than four shots off the Lead had Only two bogeys during the tournament one on his first Hole on thursday and on no. 11 on  s the Way i play. Accuracy is my game and not distance and full throttle and stuff like thai. Kind of pulling i around the grif course is my game said strange who was mildly surprised Wuh his play after a two week  look two weeks off and thai i prob ably the most surprising thing of the week is that 1 won after taking two weeks off. Normally you re Rusty and it takes week or so to really get Back Sharp strange said. Fuzzy Zoeller finished in sixth place with an i a under Par 277 and Botway was seventh at i0-under27g. Littler s 10 birdies take tourney Scarborough on Hudson . A Gene i tiler had 10 birdies and five bogeys in a i under Par final round of 65 sunday to finish with a three round 200 total and a one stroke Victory in the j250.000 commemorative seniors Golf tournament at the sleepy hollow country gub Littler who narrowly missed the tournament record of 199 Sel by let elder in 1986, scored i first Victory i n 14 events on the pea senior tour this year and collected j37.500 to boost his earning 10 is 03,178. Dale Douglass who started the Day lied for the Lead with Roland Stafford had a third consecutive 67 to take second at 201. It was the fifth Lime this year Douglass flu had second. All i be got to say is i was robbed a oujda said smiling. Can you imag Ine anyone making 10 birdies Gen Kepi putting the Ball in position to make the Birdie. Every putt he hit looked like it was going in even if in did  Milller said in was by far Hii Best put lint round of the year. This is the kind of Milf course that i like he said. You can t just hit it anywhere. You have to position the  let Lucr had one siring of ii straight holes without Par in route to his eighth seniors Victory. "1 Don t think anybody has done this before certainly nol any body who s won Milller said of the Streak. Miller Barber had a 67 for a 202, Good for third place followed by Stafford 70 204 Jim Fence 69-20s. And Orville Moody 67-206. Elder attempting to become the first seniors player to win tournament in three consecutive Yean finished Wilh a68 his Best round of the tournament for 209.arnold Palmer the commemorative honoree for having won the British open and masters 25 years to. Wound a Puih a 217 after shooting his second straight 73. Johnson nabs Lyga event by 5 Englewood Colo. A Chris Johnson growing stronger with each Hole shot a 2-under-Par 70 sunday for a 277 total and five stroke Victory in the s250.000 Columbia savings Lyga pro am tournament. Johnson of Tucson aril., who led after each of the tournament s four rounds had three birdies on the front nine sunday and by mid afternoon began to Cave the rest of the Field in a shambles on the Par 72, 6,510-Yard Lone tree country club course. Johnson who said earlier thai her biggest Challenge would be to concentrate on concentrating birdied he first and second holes bog cd the third birdied the fourth bogeyed the fifth and Hen settled Down to play Par Golf through the turn. She logged her fourth Birdie Onishe 180-Yard Par-4 13th, and Fol Lowed with another on the 512 Yard Par-5 uth. Her Only bogey on the Back nine came on the Par-3, 160-Yard 16th  Light ram began to fall and the wind picked up As Johnson approached the 17th Hole where sheran Inlo Sand trouble on saturday. Bui the purred thai Hole hit a Good ice Shol into i stiff wind on the it sch and Sank an eight Root Pun for Par and the s37, first  Furlong of san Antonio was second 11 282