European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 23, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday. January 23,1988 the stabs and stripes Page 23 commentary anonymity plagues Golf tourneys Golf is a democracy. That s one of its principal difficulties. Like Many democracies it does t seem to work. No one is in charge. Boxing has a heavyweight Champion. Football Hasa Heisman trophy Winner. Baseball had a player known As the Man. Everyone knows who rules ten Nis. Hollywood always had a person known As the Star. Golf is the sports version of a ear Pool. Golf i ruled by committee. Golf is the sport equivalent of an italian movie. You Don t know who arc the he roes and who Are the butlers. It s anarchy out there. You look at the Field in the Mony tournament of champions and you think you be wandered into a crowd shot in a . Griffith movie. And then All of a sudden you Stop Short. It s,.can it be no surely he would t be Here he s from another Era. A recognizable face. A familiar Silhouette. You want to tap him on the shoulder and inquire Don to know you what in the world is  Guy like you doing in a gang like this just Rome May have been the last of the Kings of the Hill he came into the game looking As if he had jus arrived by raft Down the Mississippi the pro fro Mark Twain. He had this violent swing at the Ball of a Guy who s kill ing a Snake with a Cane. He swung hard and it landed far away. His putts were As straight As five Miles of Railroad track and they never made the shot he could t hit. He was the second coming of Hogan sent to save the game from the runaway anonymity. Golf had always gotten Guys like this in the Nick of Lime. Golf always had an emperor. First Here was Dobby Jones. Then Byron Nelson. Then there Kasben Hogan. Then Arnold Palmer. Then Jack dirt Jim Murray Laus. And after that Here was. Golf ii a funny game. It Vecdi somebody Ball to play off. Even the most rudimentary foursome has ill Low handicapper. So Tom Watson was supposed to be that  the Crown lit. Tom Watson won 37 pro tournaments including five British opens two masters . Open and nearly 15 million. Then his game hit the Wall. The King was t dead but there was a contract out on him. The kids began 10 run right Over him. The emperor had no  putts lipped out the drives ran sideways the approaches hit traps what had happened the experts said Welt there arc Loo Many Good players out there today. But it was t that everyone else was turning into Hogan it was thai Watson was t. Burnout that All purpose i Csc was trotted out As a possibility. Bui Watson was Only 36. The age at which Hogan had just begun to take command of the game. Besides How could Huck finn bum out was Tom Watson running Oroumi at night did he have a mysterious ailment he would t Tell any body about How can a Guy win five British open Sand suddenly not be Able to make a Cut Mike Souchak used to say when Hogan was in his prime Ben Hogan just knows something about Hil Ling the Golf Ball that the rest of us Don i know had the game gotten to the Point where there were no secrets Watson sat in a press room Down Here the other Day and sought to Analyse the change in the game. As usual he had a simple answer he was not putting Well. Golfers to a Man Are convinced that putting tithe Art of the Devil. When things go wrong it cannot be the skill portion of the game. It must be that ugh unmanly putting stroke that faithless Ira Llop that has left them. This is Fine except that observers notice every one s putting stroke leaves him when the putts Sud Denly become 45 feet instead of s feet. Watcher thought the pulls weren t worse just longer. Then at last year s . Open the Barefoot boy from Missouri suddenly showed up again. He cased the Field Clear to the 72nd Hole before a seagoing put that narrowly Misico shifted him to second place. In november for the first time in three years Watson won again the richest tournament in Golf history the $5-million Nabisco in san Antonio Texas. Is Wain Back is the monarchy restored Arete peasants Back in their place docs Golf have a Man on horseback again or is the proletariat impermanent charge if Watson can t regroup the pro Golf tour May become the biggest Pool of anonymity this Side of a Trappist monastery. They should play in cowls an keep score in latin. They used to Call Miller Barber or. X on the Lour. Today the tour has More x s than a coed s love letters. Duke holds on knocks off tar heels by it ask dated press Chapel Hill . Forward Danny ferry hit a free throw with 52second left and second ranked North Carolina missed two chances to win the final 16 seconds As no. 9 Duke beat the tar heels 70-69 thursday  threw the Ball out of Bounds with 16 seconds left but Pete Chi cull s College basketball shot with five seconds to go fell shorthand Robert Brickey blocked Jeff Lebo s shot from the Comer with two seconds to play preserving the Blue devils Atlantic coast conference  also missed a 3-Pointcr with 30 seconds left and Chilcutt could t get the tap in. The tar heels who trailed s5-44 with12 5 left tied the score at 69 with 1 24 remaining on a Basket by . Reid. Theta heels had chipped away at the Blue devils Lead by going inside to Reid who scored 14 of North Carolina s final 16  Blue devils who used a Stiffman to Man defense had to Slack off Reid Midway through the second half because ferry and John Smith each had four fouls. Duke opened with an 11-2 run an built the margin 10 29-15 with 7 left in the tint half. But North Carolin closed the Gap with nine straight Points to get within 29-24 with 5 48 left. Theta heels eventually Cut the Lead to three before Duke took a 44-39 halftime  Strickland scored 22 Points for Duke 11-2 Overall and 2-1 in the acc while ferry scored 19 and Smith 13. Reid led North Carolina 13-2 and 2-1, with 27 Points 17 in the second half and Scott Williams had 14.in other games thursday Brigham Young 61, Texas Elpaso 71el paso Scias Michael Smith scored 20 Points and pulled Down eight rebound leading i2ih-ranked Brigham Young Over no. 18 Texas Elpaso for the Western athletic conference Lead. Duminy ferry.,. Hits winning foul shot  added 18 Points far the cougars who have won All 13 games this car and Are 4-0 in the  s nine game winning Streak ended As the miners fell to 15-3 and 4-1 i wac play. The loss was step s first at Home since Dye beat the miners Here 73-66 last  Young and no. 3 Temple Are the nation s Only unbeaten division 1teams. Aridou 91, Southern Cal 48tucson, aril Tom Tolbert scored is Points and led five arizon players in double figures Ai the lop ranked wildcats handed Southern Cali fornia is worst loss e or. The worst Previn a loss for a Trojan team was by 37 Points to Urcla in 1966. Arizona posted a 39-Point winning mar Gin Over Washington earlier this season. It also was Arizona s most lopsided a c-10 , 17-1 Overall and 7-0 in the league outscored Southern Cal 27-2, including 21 straight Points during the first 8 10 of the second half to Surg ahead 66-29. Southern Cal fell to 3-12 for the sea son and -5 in the conference. Arizona coach Lute Olson played his second team extensively and it re serves scored 39  Steve Kerr with 11 Points and Anthony Cook with 10, were helped by Reserve Jud Buechler with 12 for Ari Zona. Chris Munk led Southern Cal Willis Points. Iowa 93, Illinois 79iowa City Iowa Roy Marble scored 26 Points and . Armstrong added 21 As 9th-ranked Iowa Defeated no. 13  built a 41-25 Lead with 4 54 to play in the first half with a 19-2 run which started with a 3-Poinl shot by Al Loreman and ended on a 3-Pointcr byte Lemoc Iowa led 46-31 with 42 seconds to Goin the half but Illinois trimmed the Hawk eyes halftime Lead to 46-3s on jump shots by Ken Battle and Larry  Illint never got closer than nine Points. Michigan 6s, we Wonson 54 Ann Arbor Mich. Glen Rice scored 22 of his 30 Points in the first half and no. 7 Michigan held off stubborn Wisconsin for a big ten Victory. The Victory improved Michigan s re Cord to 15-2 Overall and 4-1 in the big ten. Wisconsin fell to 8-7 and 2-3.Michigan, which led by 17 Points Early in the second half saw its advantage shrink to 56-50 when Wisconsin s Rod Ney Papp hit a 3-Point Basket Wilh 6 37lo  the badgers Goi no closer hitting Only three of nine free throws in the Sec Ond  wolverines who were Uewl by Ohio stale monday night lined in badgers to four Points Over a 9 27 stretch in the first half to boost a 22-16 Lead to37-20 with 1 37 Len. Rice converted 10 of 14 Field goals inthe first half As the wolverines took a 3� 24 Lead Al  Jones scored 16 Points and Patrick Tompkins added 12 for Wisconsin. Gary Grant scored 13 Points and Loy Vaught 10 for Michigan. Temple 71, Massac Hutli 52philadelphia Tim Perry likes scoring Points but rebounds and blocked shots arc his game. Perry scored 16, grabbed nine re Bounds and blocked five shots As third ranked Temple cruised to its 14thstraight Victory and remained unbeaten. The owls win Over Massachusetts boosted their Atlantic 10 record to 8-0. Massachusetts slipped to 7-7 and to 2-5 i league play. How Many rebounds How Man blocked shots did 1 have asked the 6 foot-9 Perry. He never asked about his Points. Perry was pleased Wilh the blocked shots about one More than his 3.9 aver age. The fourth Best in the  14-0 Mark is the hoi Start in Temple history bettering the 13-0 by the1955-56 team thai went 27-4 and finished third in the Mcaa  Giles led Massachusetts with 12 Points including three 3-Point shots White Duane Chase had 11 Points. Laram1e, Wyo. Fennis de Boand Eric Leckner sparked an 18-2 Sec end half run As no. 17 Wyoming surge past Hawaii in Western athletic Confer ence  a slow Start the cowboys romped put he rainbows who have lost 27 consecutive Road games. The cowboys got their running game going inthe second half Wilh a dozen layups and played with an intensity that caught the rainbows off guard. Wyoming improved its record to 13-3,2-3 in the wag while Hawaii fell to 2 14,1-4 in conference play