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6C Fort Myers News-Press, Wednesday, November 19, 1980 Sports Three courses set to open; Bear's Paw first Digest Vince Smith Golf lebrity-laden one-day affair at Marco Island Country Club, has been unavailable for comment on the reports. Over the past 14 years the commemoration to the late Tony Lema has drawn thousands of spectators to Marco Island to watch top PGA Tour pros, star athletes from other sports and countless show business personalities swinging at golf balls. More than 20,000 persons have witnessed each of the last two Lema performances. However, sources not connected to the Marco Island Country Club have said they doubt the event will be held in 1981. Promoters of the 10th annual Turkey Classic, to be held this weekend at Punta Gorda Country Club, are beaming over the size and quality of the field that will compete in the event.

As of Tuesday night more than 175 players had signed up for this 36-hole competition which will be preceded Friday by a pro-am. Some $4,000 in prizes will be awarded in Championship, and flights. Defending champion Bob Michael of Sarasota is expected to be on hand to face many of Southwest Florida's leading low-handicap amateurs. ny things could go wrong. "But we're looking at Dec.

15 and then we'll have a formal opening probably sometime in February." Lyn Josephson, who was head pro at Golden Gate Inn Country Club several years ago but left to go to Virginia, is back in Southwest Florida, this time as Reynolds' assistant. "This was just a wonderful opportunity for me and I think that when Wyndemere's finished, it's going to be the finest golf course in Florida," Josephson said Tuesday. All three of the new facilities are private, development-type courses and none will be open to the public for greens-fee play. And that is unfortunate, too, since all three of the clubs will rate among Florida's finest. Disquieting reports concerning the demise of the annual Tony Lema Memorial Golf Tournament have been circulating the Marco Island area for the past six weeks or so.

Several Collier County golf-connected people have indicated the 1 5th annual Tony Lema Tournament will not be held next March as was originally scheduled. Deltona sponsors of the ce December may bring visions of Santa Claus to the kiddies, but for Southwest Florida golf bugs, this particular Yuletide month will mark the openings of three long-awaited new golf courses. Bear's Paw Country Club, that neatly-constructed package' designed by Jack Nicklaus, will be the first of the trio of new clubs to unveil its greenery. Bear's Paw, located just off Golden Gate Parkway near Airport Road in Naples, will hold its grand openingon Wednesday, Dec. 3.

Then Wyndemere Country Club, situated about a mile east of Bear's Paw off Golden Gate Parkway on Livingston Road, is hoping to informally cut the opening ribbon about Dec. 15. The Forest, the deluxe new Bill Maddox-built course off U.S. 41 south of Gladiolus Drive, is definitely set for a Dec. 15 grand opening.

Nicklaus will be present at Bear's Paw opening for a mid-morning news cenference and then he'll officiate at a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the first tee at 11:10 a.m. The Golden Bear will participate in an 18-hoIe exhibition match over his first Gulf Coast project beginning at 1 p.m. but there is a note of sadness attached tothat piece of information. The public is not invited. Attendance at the exhibition featuring The Golden Bear is by invitation only and those bids will be as hard to come by as tickets to the Roberto Duran-Sugar Ray Leonard fight held in New Orleans.

"We know there are an awful lot of people here in Southwest Florida who'd like to come and see Jack play the course," one Bear's Paw official said. "But we just aren't equipped to handle a crowd like that. So, unfortunately, we've had to put it on an invitation-only basis." Chuck Ross, who handles public relations for The Forest, said Tuesday the course is in good enough condition to be played today. "It's really in beautiful shape right now. In fact it's been in good enough condition to play for quite a while now," he said.

"But we've decided that by Dec. 15 it will be completely ready and that's when we're gonna officially open it." Ross said there will be some sort of formal opening-day ceremonies. "We're not sure yet what they're gonna be, so this will be announced later." Charley Knowles, head pro at The Forest, is on the premises now after finishing up his summer tour of duty in Michigan. Both Bear's Paw and The Forest are 1 8-hole courses. Wyndemere is a 27-hole complex and the entire layout will open at the same time.

"We're shooting for a Dec. 15 informal opening," Mike Reynolds, Wyndemere head pro, said Tuesday. "But when you're nearing the end of completion of a complex like this, so ma FT FTITil I il 47E you I 1 heard TROTTERS roups have morel i rg. r-o i S3UTHUJST FLORIDA fun? Neuis-fVess Tea Men move to Jacksonville; to play first game Dec. 5 From Newt-Press Wirt Services The New England Tea Men will move to Jacksonville next month, giving Florida its third North American Soccer League team, franchise officials said Tuesday.

Derek Carroll, Tea Men president and an officer in the club-owning Thomas J. Lipton said the team will play Its first game in Jacksonville Dec. 5. The team's outdoor games will be held at the Gator Bowl and the indoor schedule will be played in the Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Coli-. seum, which can seat from 5,500 to 8,000, depending on seating arrangements.

Carroll said he was sold on the city after its strong support for the Lipton World of Doubles tennis tournament, which was moved to nearby Ponte Vedra Beach last year from Houston. Snowden repays Arizona for air fare Fred Snowden, University of Arizona basketball coach, has repaid the university $449 for a 1978 airline ticket that the school paid for twice, according to a university official. However, the state Department of Public Safety "will still include a review" of the double payment, according to Robert Peterson, a UA vice president. DPS has been examining travel expenditures for all university sports programs. Meanwhile, Peterson said the UA has adopted new rules governing cash disbursements to student athletes.

Some of the changes come in the wake of The Arizona Daily Star's report Sunday that basketball players and coaches who were given cash for meals on out-of-town trips also charged meals on hotel bills paid by the UA. Arizona's Mason asks for separate trial A lawyer for former University of Arizona football coach Tony Mason has asked a Superior Court judge to sever Mason's expense account trial from those of six former assistants, saying some of the assistants have already tried to implicate him in pre-trial statements. Judge Robert Buchanan said he would rule on the request after further study. Indicted former assistants have told investigators Mason was aware they were filing false travel vouchers, and instructed them how to do so in some cases, Arizona Department of Public Safety investigator Kenneth Johnson testified Monday in the pretrial hearing. Judge lifts injunction against NFL A federal court judge Tuesday ordered the lifting of a preliminary injunction against the National Football League's cross-ownership rule but stayed his action pending possible appeal by the North American Soccer League.

U.S. District Judge Charles S. Haight Jr. said the NASL, which brought the action, "failed to prove that defendants conspired to restrain trade" in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act. He said NFL rules prohibiting team chief executives from owning stock in other professional sports franchises were "acts of a single economic entity, and as such, fall outside the boundaries of the antitrust laws." Kentucky drug ban could harm racing Thoroughbred trainers and veterinarians say a Kentucky State Racing Commission ban on all drugs in race horses could harm the sport.

"I don't see how anyone can race under it," said trainer Tom Upton of Lexington. But others believe the ban is needed to build public confidence in racing. The rule, which could take effect by next spring, would mean all thoroughbreds at Kentucky tracks would race without anti-bleeder and anti-inflammatory aids. It was adopted by a 5-2 vote at a meeting Monday at the Churchill Downs clubhouse in Louisville, reversing a 7-1 vote last July to continue use of some medication under tightened controls. One arguing for the ban was James Moseley, representing the Jockey Club, who said the public perception of racing is slipping, and medication does not build confidence in the sport.

The rule, unlike the one adopted in July, forbids the anti-bleeder medication, Lasix, and prohibits any trace of antiinflammatory drugs such as Butazolidin in a horse's system when it races. Borg advances in Italian Indoor Sweden's Bjorn Borg defeated Robert Van't Hoff 6-1, 6-1 in a first-round match at the $75,000 Italian International Indoor tennis tournament at the Bologna, Italy sports palace Tuesday. Second-seeded Balasz Taroczy of Hungary was upset by Jan Norback of Sweden, who won the decisive third set 6-4 after losing the first and taking the second set on tiebreaks Third-seeded Hans Glldemeister of Chile advanced in the Argentine Open tennis tournament at Buenos Aires when his first-round opponent, Alvaro Betancourt of Colombia, withdrew because of illness while trailing 6-0, 3-0. Rain postponed or suspended all other first-round matches Top-seeded Ivan Lend! of Czechoslovakia beat Steve Krulevitz of the United States 7-6, 6-1 in second-round action of the Bangkok Classic at Bangkok, Thailand. Third-seeded Brian Teacher of the United States defeated Robert Renlnger of Australia 1-6, 6-4, 6-0, fifth-seeded Kim Warwick of Australia downed George Hardie of the United States 7-6, 6-4, seventh-seeded Ferdi Taygen of the United States beat Ross Case of Australia 6-4, 4-6, 6-3, and eighth-seeded Ramesh Krishnan of India topped Bruce Manson of the United States 3-6, 6-3, 6-2 England's Sue Barker, No.

1 seed in the Queensland Open Championship, won her first-round singles match against 15-year-old Kirsten Thatcher 6-0, 6-2, but lost in doubles play at Brisbane, Australia. (Results, Page 2C) Gators to play basketball in Orlando The University of Florida's basketball team has moved two of its games to Orlando as part of "Gator Week" festivities which will accompany Florida's invitation to play in the Tangerine Bowl against Maryland Dec. 20. The Gators will play Florida Southern on Thursday, Dec. 18 at 7:30 p.m.

and Missouri at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 20. Both games will be played at the University of Central Florida's gym University of Kansas basketball star Ricky Ross has left the club "for personal reasons," Coach Ted Owens announced Tuesday. "Ricky has left the team for personal reasons," Owens said in a terse, two-sentence statement "He will not be returning to the team" Ross, a 6-foot-6 guard, averaged 11.7 points per game last season as a freshman.

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