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Saturday, May 6 HOUSTON CHAMPIONS INTERNATIONAL (ABC, 4-5 p.m.). Pros and amateurs from Belgium to Japan join top U.S. golfers (defending champion: Arnold Palmer) in this $100,000 tournament at Houston's Champions Golf Course. Continued Sunday afternoon...
Junior Trey Burns registered his first victory over Princeton's Heptagonal champion Jack Endrikat in the 880. Endrikat took the lead after 500 yards, but Burns caught him on the last turn and finished strongly in 1:54.4. Crimson sophomore Tom Callahan came in second, and the crushed Tiger star finished out of the money...
Tiger Jack Endricat in the half mile is perhaps Princeton's top man. Heptagonal and New Jersey half-mile champion last year. Endricat could get a stiff race from Harvard's Trey Burns and Tom Callahan. Burns is regaining the form which made him Heptagonal 1000 champion as a sophomore and ought to perform well once he shakes an achilles injury and gets some warm weather...
...kinds of trouble with his putter and the par-five 13th hole. And Nicklaus? Playing like any duffer, he staggered through a second-round 79, missed the 36-hole cut, and joined the spectators-staying around the last two days only to perform the formality of helping the new champion into his winner's blazer...
...this wasn't enough, the stickmen have to play a Cornell team tomorrow that hasn't lost in 18 games and is the defending Ivy League champion...