_ elyal | Male beauty golf winner _ LYTHAM st. ‘England (AP) —_ Bill Longmutr, an obscure golf ‘and sometimes male uty-contest winner’, tled a couple of records on his way. to a six-under-par 65 that- captured the first-round Jead three strokes Wednesda the 108th British Open golf: championship. : --The score —a magnificent. effort in the wet, cold, windy weather In which the Britons take such pride for their na- tonal championship — had the American pros shaking their heads in disbelief, - Langmuir, a 26-year,old Briton of Scottish descent, Played the front side: Wed: . nesday in 29. That tled a British Open record and his s matched ine best round for an Open championship on the diffieult, 6,822-yard, par- 7 Royal Lytham and St, Annes Club course. “Goad gosh," said U.S." Open champion Hale Irwin, jn second place -but three shots back at 68. “What a round of galf. That’s in- ee My hat’s off to -Irwin, who - played the- tougher back nine in 39, was alone in second and Jerry: Pate held third at 69. Isao Aoki, the best of the Japanese contingent, was the only other man under par at 70, , Lee Trevino, twice a British Open winner, topped the group at par 71, Also at that figure were Orville Moody, Australian Terry Gale and former British Amateur champ Peter McEvoy, The group at 72 included Nicklaus, who had his 10th career hole-in-one before playing the back ning ina fat 40, Ben Crenshaw and Tom Watson, this year’s leading money-winner and the outstanding player in golf for the last 249 seasons. BOSTON (AP) — A year prepare for baseball's second season, hoping to avold their 1978 secondhalf flop in 1979. . year ago, Boston hada nine- game lead over Milwaukee Brewers at the all-star break. New York . Yankees were 11% games back, But the Red Sox Jost 11 of their first 17 games after ' - Cooke tries PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. (CP) —- Defending champion Lymn Cooke of Vancouver was one of eight golfers in contention for the British Columbia women’s amateur championship after the first day of match play Wed- nesday. * Cooke beat Dawn Coe, last year's B.C. junior champion, $ and 2. The acores of some other pros were; Tom touring. .Kite, 73; Lee Elder, 75; Ed Sneed and Ray Floyd, 75; - Hubert Green and. Johnny. Miller, 77; Masters champ wuzzy Zoeller, 78; Tom Weiskopf, 76, and Andy y- North 82... ,. Gary Player, the South African who has won this -event three times, shot a 77 — two strokes higher than the score ‘posted by his 17- year-old son Wayne. Longmulir birdied five holes in a row starting with the third, one putt falling from the 35-40 foot range. He birdied the ninth from about eight feet, finishing off the ' ; He got to eight under par with birdies on the 40th and 12th, then had to work hard ~ coming home. He mised the. green and bogeyed the 14th. On the 15th, he hadtodrop an 18-foot putt to avoid a double- bogey. And he dropped still another pult, again an 18- footer, to save par on the ‘17th, .. Irwin matched par over: the front: side. His effort coming home was the best of the day. ' next, wedged within about eight feet and went three under par on the 13th. He then finished out with pars, but had to one-putt three times to do it, giving him 10 one-putt greens for the day. Nicklaus scored his ace. a Page _ pitches with a five-lron on the 212- yard, fifth hole. He birdied the next two, both par 53 after reaching in two. But he oe pu vice, ma bogey from a bunker on the 16th and failing to get it up and down on the 18th, the mid-season pause, the ALL East tite to the Yankees in the one-game playoff. The Red Sox are 56-92, the second-best record in the major leagues, and the second-best record in the AL. East, two games behind Baltimore Orloles, Milwaukee Is six. games behind and the World Series Three of the four B.C. team members survived the firat day. Holly Warne of Richmond edged Laura Iwasaki of Kamloops 6 and § and Gail Moore of Vancouver eliminated top Prince Gearge junior Patt! Grant, 4 and 3, The only provincial team ‘member to lose wag Flo : Archer keeps BERLIN (AP) — Olympic Id medallist Darrell Pace ept his lead over two American teammates in the gecond round Wednesday of the World Target Archery championshlps. Pace scored 678 polnts from distances of 3) and 80 metres. His two-day total is 1,281 points, a 24-point margln over defending world champion Richard McKinney, 1,257, and third placed Rodney Baston, 1,240. With a total score of 9,778 points, the Americans have a 143-point lead over Belgium, which has 3,635 points in the team event. Jin-Ho Kim of South Korea stayed ahead of American ette Johnmon in women's second-round shooting, giving her team to a@leadin the combined event ever runner-up Australia aa the Americans slipped to third. The 17-year-old South Korean girl scored 648 points in the second round for at total of 1,269, She haa a 1(- point margin over Johnson, : _ Who has seored 1,259 despite an intestinal disorder that has hit many competitors. . South Korea leads the. women's team event with 3,606 points, shead of Australia, 9,024, the United States, 3,618, Britain, 3,591, nd West Germany, 3,523. . The leading Canadian i Joan McDonald of to, dropped to S6th place among the 73 wonien with an 1,136 total. She stood. 23rd_on Tuesday. Linda Kazienko of Toronto waa S7th ‘Seattle atta Pee ne ae a a AR eat Bae BT alee eek ole al vent ay Soviets plan new invasion MOSCOW (AP) — The opening of the 1990 Moscow Olympics is just one year away, and authorities expect the. biggest influx of forelgners into the Soviet Union since the Germans invaded during the Second World War. Between July 19 and Aug. 3, 1980, about $00,000 foreign spectators, 12,000 athletes, 3,000 officials and special guests, 3,-500 refereea and 7,400 journalists will pour inte Moscow. Another 900,000 Soviet fourists are expected to siege the city as well, as the Olympic torch arrives from Athens via Bulgaria and Romania, The Soviet Union is ex- tremely conscious that it will be on the world’s centre. stage for a spectacular that "+ officials say is “more than ~ Denby Page pitched a two-win, no loss tournament for the Cedar Kings in a recently held tournament on the lower mainiand In which his team placed second behind a team from Nanalmo. Page's skills will be needed again by his team - when they take on Four Star Construction from the Abbotsford senfor A" mens fastball league this weekend in Terrace. Denby’s performance is his latest tournament of two runs in 28 innings won him the recognition of the tournament's best pitcher. The Cedar Kings will need this kind of a good fight against the team from Abboteford. pitching if they hope te put up champion Yankees are 11 . jayed little better than 5p eek... No, pne..is,.Jatesummer home stand at a seat ot te Gan aha ee ares Nee pie. i Jagenummen, Rome Stand, a The Red Sox get a break as the schedule resumes. The homestand includes three games each with the lawly Mariners. and Oakland A’s, with a pair against California Angels. Then comes a tough 12-game road trip against Texas Rangers, Cleveland [ndians and Milwaukee. MmeFall of Richmond, who went down 3 and 2 to Vicki Woeedeock of Vancouver. | In other play, Susan McCleery of Kamloops beat Billie Bartley of Richmond 3 and 2, Tracy Stoddard of Vancouver needed two extra holes to stop Lynn Akert of Penticton, Val Westall of Vancouver beat Maureen Hibberson of Victoria 5 and 3 golf There’s only one lengthy mid-August. It is followed by a road trip to Minnesota, Kansas City and Chicago, The Red Sox don’t play Baltimore or New York uatil September, with home and away showdowns against both teams., The “regular season ends with a three- game series in Detroit, Sept. 28-30. and 1978 provincial junior team member Lisa Young of Prince Rupert beat Anne Newman of Campbell River 4and 3, In today’s first round, Cooke plays Westall, Moore meets Stoddard, Warne is against § Younge and Woodcotk plays McCleery, . The two survivors after to- team in pace - with: 1,154 and MarieClaude Pitre of Carignan, Que., stood 49th with 1,087. In the field of 95 men, Chris Canucks plan VANCOUVER (CP) — Vancouver Canucks will play most of their exhibition games againgt former World Hockey Association clubs, the National Hockey League club said Wednesday, Of the nine exhibition mea, ati of one rom last year, three will be against Winnipeg Jets and two will be apalnet Ed- monton Oilers who join the NHL this year. Angelos Kinge tures Unseen es ig three times exhibition play and the other game will be agalnat en Colorado . The exhibitions begin Sept, 23 when they meet the Kings here and the next night in Victorla, Edmonton visits Sept, 26 _ and Winnipeg is here Sept. 28, On Sept. 30 the Canucks play the Oilers at-Spokane, . Wash. and travel to Win- nipeg to meet the Jets Oct, 2 and Oct. 3 in Brandon. They play the Rockies at Denver Oct. 5 and the Kings at Los Angeles Oct. 6, ‘ The Canucks also an- nounced that John Muckler, 45, who coached Dallas Black Hawks to the Central Hockey League title Inst year, Will leave hig job with the farm club to become a. scout in the organization, | friends for life The Canadian Red Cross Society Smith of Harvey Station, N.B., was 58th with 1,131; Ron Lippert, Waterloo, Ont., 60th, 1,128; Stan Siatkowski, Toronto, 65th, 1,113, and Phil. Talbot, New Westminster, B.C., 66th, 1,112, BUSINESS DIRECTORY LOOKING | _ Manager Don Zimmer ex- victories, Last year, the Red Sox won 99 ‘games, ‘but the , Yankees had 100, The pennant race is the major Red Sox story, but as the schedule continues through the sweltering summer, individual statistics will be in the spotight. Fred Lynn leads the AL with 24 home runs and the _ Red Sox try to flip the flop centre fielder's ability to avoid Jateseason fatigue that has plagued hint ‘in’ the past “ Will be an important factor In Boston’s fortunes, as well as in Lynn’s quest of the home run title. Carl Yastrzemski, who ‘will be 40 on Aug. 22, is closing in on his automatic Hall of Fame ticket, He needs only 45 hits for a ‘career total of 3,000 and one home run for 400, pionships | day’s second 18 holes play a $6-hole final Friday. The B.C. team of Cooke, Moore, McFall and Warne was selected Tuesday alter the sixth round of games played in Vancouver, Vie- toria and Prince George. It will compete in the Canedian. ‘ champlonship Aug. 22 ta 25 in St. John's, Nfld. - itles, the seventh just sports: a forum of peace, intellectual and physical fitness, of harmony and humanism,’ In what is planned asa sort of rehearsal of the new facil- rtakiad beging on Saturday with athletes from more than 80 countries participating. The biggest project is con- etruction, and ever since 1974, when .Moscow was designated to play hoet to the Games, an increasing diverted bu ding, The Soviet press reports that almost 30,000 Komsomal (Young Communist League) members have been mobilized to help in case of delays, in addition to into Olympic demobilized servicemen, 46065 Lakelse share of resources has been’ Anniversary celebrations arte underway at ~Ev’s Mens” from July 16-21 * All summer stock reduced * Storewide savings & sales 3 DOOR PRIZES PER DAY EV’S MENS WEAR LTD. ae >