PAGE 6, THE HERALD. Support Skeen The Skeena Valley Golf and Country Club will be opening up for the 1974 season starting Saturday, April 15. ; The club's exective has renegotiated a lease agreement with the owners at $1,750 a month. This lease is similar to that of last year, except it cost more. A campaign early last winter to.sell shares with an outlook to purchase fell short, thus necessitating another lease agreement this year, The share plan has not been shelved. The owners are still anxious to sell, so this plan will be continued. A “money-meter” will be set up on the lawn by .the clubhouse to indicate how this place: Nicklaus hopes - — 8B his ‘own calculations, Jack Nick- laus figures to have a 50- 50 chance of winning the 42nd Masters golf tour- nament, But young Jerry Pate, coming back from arm injuries that bothered him last year, was among 7? challengers anxious to test Nicklaus’s prediction when the tournament opened! today at Augusta. National Golf Club. Pate, 24, won the 1976 U.S Open, then was lagued by arm injuries t year. He is healthy again, and wants another Friday, April 7, 1978 is coming along. "We must meet out com- mittments cash and ledges if we are going to buy the club,"sys new president Frank Skid- more. Skidmore said they need to know by July just how much support they are getting from golfers. Memberships and shares are on sale now, The executive wants golfers to pay their memberships by May 30 because the ‘money is required to operate this season. The only charges is fees this year are $165.00 for men and $120.00 for women. Fees for family, junior and social memberships remain the same, Af- filiated juniors (that major title. “T like to always feel like I'm due,” said Pate, who won the Southern Open late last year and _ has been playing well this year, ; ‘When you win a major tournament at 22, it can make it hard to come out ,every week to make a : living. The majors are more important. They're ‘worth more to you. I’d love to win the Masters." Meanwhile, Nicklaus is shot one to make rash ‘statements, even though he has won this event a record five times and is 100 pitches enough | . _ to win ABL first Seattle Mariners got the jump on therest of the . American League with a 32 victory over Min-' nesota Twins Wednesday night. _ _ “Twanted to go just six innings,” said Seattle's -starting pitcher Glenn Abbott. "I’m really glad about this. Usually, I'ma . -.- > ~. eight runs:as BostonRed . - University’ slow starter,U;; Actually, Abbott started fast before running out of gas after 6 1-3 innings when manager Darrell Johnson took him out of the game. “Abbott had thrown 100 pitches and that was enough,'’ Johnson reasoned. “For this early in the year it was a very good game, a heck of a ballgame.” ; Craig Reynolds hit the first home run of the season, a.tworun blast in the second inning off Dave Goltz that provided Abbott with an early 3-0 cushion and the Mariners with their. eventual winning run. Reynolds hit just four homers last year. - « CONTINUE SERIES The Mariners and Twins continue their series tonight, along with three ‘other contests, In American League day games, Toronto Blue Jays played at Detroit Tigers and Baltimore Orioles ‘were at Milwaukee _ Brewers. Cincinnati Reds met Houston, Astros in the National League opener. Many: of the major leagues’ other teams wound up their exhibition schedules Wednesday. Burt Hooton pitched eight scoreless innings in as the defending National League champion Los Angeles Dodgers beat inning to drive in the winning run as Texas AM edged Houston Astros 1-0. Mick Kelleher and Ivan DeJesus had two-run singles in the fourth in- ning, leading Chicago Cubs to a 4-0 triumph over San Francisco, Jim Rice hit two ‘homers:and ‘mocked in Sox whi ‘of Florida 16-1. Willie Wilson drilled three singles and drove in two runs, sparking Kansas City Royals to a 6-3 triumph over Omaha Royals. Dale Murray and Jamie Easterly hit home runs to power ‘Allanta Braves to a 14-3 triumph over Georgia Tech, Doyle Alexander pitemed four- ‘hit ball in seven innings as Texas Rangers defeated University of Texas 7-2. | __ Gentennials win 6-5 (CP) —.Rob Flockhart -scored the only goal of a 10-minute overtime pe- riod Wednesday night to give Merritt Centennials a 6-5 victory over Rich- mond Sockeyes and the British Columbia cham- pionship along the Centennial Cup junior hockey playoff trail. The sweep of the best- of-three series for the B.C. Junior Hockey League point champions over the Pacific Junior Hockey League playoff winners gives Merritt the ‘ Milwaukee Brewers 2-0. ° Ken Holtzman won his first game of the spring, pitching three innings in New York Yankees’ 10-5 victory over Florida State University. Del Unser’s home run in the 12th inning enabled Montreal Expos to edge - University of Miami 2-1. Duane Kuiper, Johnny Grubb and Bo Diaz each rapped two hits as Cleveland Indians edged Chicago Cubs 5-4. HOMERS TWICE Bill Robinson homered | twice as Pittsburgh Pirates beat Chicago White Sox 90. Gene Te- nace drove in four runs with a single, triple and his third homer of the spring, leading San Diego Padres to an 8-5 victory over California Angels. Freshman ‘ Rodne Heddle singled in the 10 v juniors whose parents are members pay $25.00, Non-affiliated juniors pay $50.00. Social mem- berships are $75.000. Gree - fees for non-members are the samepas last year-- $5.00 through the week and $7.00 on weekends and holidays. Other 1978 executive members are as follows: Vice-president Fred Weber; Treasurer Earl Hanford: Finanee chairman: Sandy San- dover-Sly: . Secretary Leona Wilcox: Men's Club Captain Cec Moore: Director-at-large Bruce Carrothers: Social Dale Stacey: ‘Handicaps Ray Taft; Tournaments Dan Rosengren; Publicity Len Harrington For the women, the aGolf _ executive is as follows: Club Wileox; Vice Captain Judy Jephson, Hane. Vaplaineana | i dicaps Sharon Brewer-. ton: Tournament Marilyn Pelerson, Social Audrey Elliot{: -Rules Marilyn: Davies‘ News-leller and publicity Barb Konkin, The first's men's night will be Wednesday, April %.-The first ladies night will be Thursday, April al. ” The ladies annual . Fashion Show and eoffee. part will be Thursday, April 27 at 7:30 p.m. at the Clubhouse. Tickets are available from Marg . Park, Prospective club ‘ members and share holdres can get further -- information from. any of the exequtive members. Pate challenges . the favorite every time he plays in one of the major tournaments, On the eve of this event he said: “In the last 15° ‘Masters, excluding my first one as a pro and my three'as an amateur, I've felt probably 10 times that I've come in here playing as well as I can. won half of: those times. “Now my game ‘is better than it ever was and I’m as well prepared’ as ean be." a RESTED AND TUNED UP .There’s more. He is off to his best start ever, having won twiee and finished second twice in his-last four starts. He is * rested yet tuned, having bypassed the last. two . tour events and played several practice rounds: at Augusta. He is driving the ball 10 to 15 yards far- ther, having returned this year to a “river with less angle on: the civb face. And, perhaps most important, he is hungry. He points toward the major tournaments (the others are the PGA and: the U.S. and British - Opens), He was beaten by: Tom Watson twice last. old year, here and at the British Open. It has been two years since he won the last of his 14 Big Four. - events. ; i Watson is back to defend his title, although he has missed the cut in two of his last three starts, ow Hubert Green, the U.S, pen champion, seems to “pe at the top of his game. So does Severiano Ballegtercs, the 20-year- tournaments for the last two years and won his - first U.S. title last week at Greensboro, N.C. . Umer top contenders in the select, invitational - field over the 7,040-yard, — par-72 course are PGA champion . Lanny Wadkins, four-time Masters runner-up Tom Weiskopf, Hale Irwin, © Ray Floyd, Ben Cren- « shaw, Lou Graham and ‘David Graham. Also on -hand are Arnold Palmer, . 4 four-time winner here; Johny Miller, still in a who. has: won. every: Big -. Four event except. the . Masters. . Basketball best to como from Toronto Argentina (CP) — Jack Donohue,’ coach of Canada's Leo Rautins of Toronta will be one of the best players in the world in several years. - Donohue . coached ‘thi likes of pro greats Lew .Aleindor .and Wilt right to advance against a Prairie club, Ken Stroud scored two goals for Merritt and the Centennials -got their other markers from Glen’ - Johnson, Ed Beers and: Bob Deschamps. . The Sockeyes, who lost the first two games of the series in Merritt, were staked toa 3-1 first-period | as Roy Wheaton . Richmond ~ lead scored all the goals.n ‘The Centennials’ next opponent and. playoff dates have not been decided. It you reside in Terrace or national . - basketball team, believes - Minnesota—and Chamberlain when they attended school in New. York. . ‘ Rautins, a member of ° _the Canadian team takin part in the Cristoba “Colon Cup tournament here, turned 18 two weeks | ago.' He’s a high school student at St. Michael’s College in Toronto. .--* More than '100 United. States universities have ‘offered . him - full scholarships and he has’. narrowed the offers. to three ‘Marquette, Syracuse and _ will make the final decision s00n. : , *. Rautins, who stands a little over six feet, seven ‘inches, is regarded as Canada’s first prostyle Guard. And although he . 4B been inconsistent in this. tournament, he is the second highest Canadian scorer behind seyen-foot- one Jim Zoet of . 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