European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 15, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday August 15,1988 the stars and stripes Page 21 sports Ace helps Azinger cling to 1 stroke Lead in pea Paul Azinger. Reacts to Hole in one by Gordon s. White or. Edmond okla. Not Paul Azinger and Ray Floyd made holes in one saturday in the third round of the pea championship at the Oak tree Golf club bringing to a record four the num Ber of aces in the first three rounds of this major tournament. Azinger s Ace came on the 202-Yard fourth Hole and helped him maintain his one shot Lead after three rounds of play. Just a half hour after Azinger s Ace Floyd two time Winner of the pea championship used an 8-Iron for a Hole in one at the 171-Yard eighth Hole. Never before have there been so Many holes in one during one of the four professional major tournaments the Mas ters . Open British open and pea championship. Gene Sauers opened the barrage of aces at no. 8 in the first round thursday. David Edwards aced the 149-Yard 13th Hole on Friday. After his Ace Azinger double bogeyed the next Hole because he was still shaking from the excitement of the Ace. Then he settled Down a bit but bogeyed the 18th Hole and finished with Par-71 and a 54-Hole total of 204, one shot in front of David Rummells who shot a third round 68. Jeff Sluman who like Rummells has never won on the pea tour was in third place two shots behind Rummells at 207. Then came England s Nick Faldo who shot a 70 for 208. Faldo had 15 consecutive pars on his round a typical performance by the Man who won the British open in 1987 with a final round of 18 straight pars. Floyd 45, did t have much Luck be fore or after his Ace and like Azinger had a double bogey As he carded 74 to tie five others at 210. Azinger the 1987 pea tour player of the year said he was undecided about which club to use on the fourth Hole. I wanted to hit a 7-Iron," he said but my Caddie said i should hit a 6. He was right. I nailed that 6." the Ball carried High Over the water landed on the Green and bounced three times before rolling into the cup. Azinger said the cheering was the loudest he Ever experienced. That was definitely an Arnold Palmer or Jack Nicklaus Roar he said. Floyd was not so indecisive about his club at the eighth tee. He reached into his bag for the 8 and sent the Ball into the cup on one Bounce. Azinger led going into the final round of the 1987 British open by a stroke just As he did going into sunday s final round of this major. But he bogeyed the last two holes at Mirfield in Scotland and ended up a stroke behind Faldo. Azinger took a four shot Lead with his Ace but his double bogey seven at the fifth Hole Cut his Lead Back to two Over Jay Overton the club pro from Florida. Overton faded to a 76 and was one of the six men at 210. Kenny Knox who shot 68 Payne Stewart with a 70, and Steve Jones who had a 72, were tied at 209. The four aces Here brought to six the number in the 1988 major championships. Curtis strange got one at the 12th Hole of Augusta National in april in the final round of the masters won by Sandy Lyle and Lanny Wadkins had one on the first Hole of Royal Lytham St. Annes last month in the final round of the British open won by seve Ballesteros. If Azinger goes on to win the tournament he would be the first Man to win one of the four professional major championships and have an Ace during the event since such records were kept begin Ning after world War  Miller was the last Man to win a pea tour official Money event and have a Hole in one along the Way. He aced a Hole in the last round of the 1975 Kaiser International tournament in Napa Calif. Evans 7 Bis propel botox to 24th in Row by the associated press Boston team player Dwight Evans was a one Man team for the Boston red sox saturday. Boston won its 24th straight game at Fenway Park hammered the Detroit tigers 16-4 in tying the second longest Home winning Streak in major league history. Evans drove in a career High seven runs with two Hom ers and a bases loaded triple. Somebody told me i had seven Bis but i really Don t get into personal stuff said Evans who went 4 Al Roundup for 5 in his most productive Day in 17 seasons. You do it As a  Mike Greenwell homered doubled and hit two sin Gles. Rich gedman drove in three runs with two of Boston s seven doubles. We were due for this Greenwell said. We had to score a lot of runs and we  Boston tied Pittsburgh s Success string in 1978 and closed in on the record of 26 by the new York giants in 1916. The red sox Trail the first place tigers by 2 a games in the american league East. Mike Boddicker 9-13 Overall but 3-1 with the red sox beat his longtime Nemesis. He improved to 3-10 lifetime against Detroit in going six innings and allow ing three earned  Bolton allowed one hit in three innings facing the minimum nine batters to earn his first major league  Robinson 13-6, left the game after Evans Sec Ond Home run. I Call that an agent s game because after a team goes up by five Afi those other Points Don t mean anything tigers manager Sparky Anderson said. But i know they Don t Call it the Green monster for  in other Al games saturday athletics 6, Angels 2oakland, Calif. Bob Welch combined with Rick Honeycutt on a six hitter and Ron Hassey hit a see Al on Page 23 expos Nelson Santovenia dives across plate to score first inning run As mets Catcher Mickey Sasser takes throw. Expos top mets again 7-4 by the associated press new York the Montreal expos Are running their Way into the National league East race. Montreal stole three bases m the first inning and scored four unearned runs As the expos beat new York 7-4 saturday and pulled to within 4lh games of the first place mets in the National league East. The expos have stolen 39 bases in their last 20 games and manager Buck Rodgers credits the promo Tion of Rex Hudler and Otis Nixon brought up from class aaa Indianapolis on june 21, with helping to turn things around. They have Given us the Speed the manager said. For some reason the starting pitching became super solid at around the same time. As a matter of fact that Speed May have helped the pitching. We came in Here to win three out of four said Rodgers manager of the expos. The first inning gave us a big jump on them and we held  no Roundup Montreal scored four unearned in the opening in Ning when nine players went to the plate. An error three stolen bases two walks a wild pitch a sacrifice Fly and Only two hits figured in the scoring. The mets Are still the team to beat but they Are watchable. We had a lot of experimenting to do at the Start of the season and All i wanted to do was not fall out of the race. New York was set from opening Day said  York manager Davey Johnson almost ready to explode said it has been hard to keep my Low key attitude. This has been eating me up. 1 promised my self that these have been trying times and it s very frustrating. That should be obvious. My patience is wearing see no on Page 23