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Southern Illinoisan- FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1978 Page Thirteen Wa trade. -1 tor! -6f XX v. v. 0 UV fv- i i By The Associated Press Former Southern Illinois University-Carbondale teammates Jim Dwyer and Joe VVallis will find themselves playing baseball only a few miles from each other the rest of this season as the result of major league trades Thursday. Dwyer, 28, was sent from the St.

Louis Cardinals to the San Francisco Giants to complete a deal in which St. Louis received Frank Ricelli last winter. was dealt twice Thursday, first from the Chicago Cubs to the Cleveland Indians and then from the Indians to the Oakland A's. Dwyer, twice the American Association batting champion, was drafted by St. Louis in June 1971 after leading the Salukis to second place in the College World Series.

His .413 batting average for SIU-C that year ranks as fifth best in Saluki history. He was named the team's most valuable player on a squad that also included such future major leaguers as Duane Kuiper, Danny Thomas, Mike Eden and Wallis. Dwyer later played for the Montreal Expos and New York Mets before returning to the Cardinals last fall. He was batting .215 this season in 34 games. He had 14 hits, including one home run.

10 home runs and 22 runs batted in for the A's. Vail, 27, had played little for the Indians this season, hitting .235 in only 31 at bats. Last season, Vail hit .262 for the New York Mets with eight home runs in 279 at bats. Wallis and Vail had to pass waivers in their respective leagues before the deal could be completed Thursday, since in-terleague trades are not permitted at this time. In another trade, the Cubs sent former Cardinal Hector "Heity" Cruz to the San Francisco Giants for right-handed pitcher Lynn McGlothen.

Cruz, 25, went to the Giants on Thursday for McGlothen, 28, who did not start for San Francisco this season. In 1977 he was 2-9 and had a 5.63 ERA. He spent most of his earlier major league career with the St. Louis Cardinals, where he had his best year in 1974 when he was 16-12 with a 2.70 ERA. A reserve outfielder-third baseman, Cruz was batting .225 with two homers for the Cubs.

He spent last season with the Cardinals. Meanwhile, the Cubs announced the signing of seven players, including their No.l draft choice, catcher William Ernest Hayes, 20, of North Platte, Neb. Lambent move 4 4. Wallis Dwyer Wallis was the Salukis' most valuable player in 1973. He hit .446 second best in Saluki history in 1972 and .360 in 1973, leading the team both years.

He was drafted by the Cubs in 1973 and after three seasons in the minor leagues has been a reserve outfielder for Chicago. Wallis was hitting .307 for the Cubs this year. His lifetime major league average is .257. The Cubs traded Wallis to Cleveland for outfielder Mike Vail. The Indians then sent Wallis to Oakland for catcher-designated hitter Gary Alexander.

Alexander, 25, is hitting .214 but has Mrs. Lambert leaves for new Auburn home while Julie intends to return to an Ocala, horse farm where she is learning the business of breeding and raising horses. Mrs. Lambert said Auburn University officials have offered her a job for whenever she decides to return to work. She has been a part-time secretary to Williams' coaching The coaching fate of Herman Williams, former Southern Illinois University-Carbondale assistant basketball coach under the late Paul Lambert, at Auburn University has not been decided yet.

Williams had been hired at Auburn to continue as Lambert's assistant shortly after Lambert accepted the head job at Auburn in April. Lambert died June 6 in a hotel fire in Columbus, Ga. "It's too soon to know anything," said Mel Pulliam, assistant sports information director at Auburn. "Both assistant coaches (Williams and Herbert Greene, a holdover from Auburn) have been on the job. "We will move slowly in naming a family to iit.

"-nr Ai cOwoftwate Hale Irwin, who won the U.S. Open in 1974, swings en route to the AP Photo first-round lead in the 1978 Open Op goflfeirs complain i ooyt too Denver (AP) Ben Crenshaw's 8 on the'par-4 16th hole was testimony to it. So were Tom Kite's 7 on the paM 18th, and the pair of double-bogeys that stung defending champion Hubert Green. "I thought the golf course certainly had the upper hand on most of the fellows today," said Jack Nicklaus, whose 2-over-par 73 put him 4 strokes back of first-round leader Hale Irwin at the 78th U.S. Open Championship.

Difficult pin placements, a swirling wind and Cherry Hills' deep rough caused scores to soar Thursday. "If these conditions continue, 290 might win," said Nicklaus, who earlier in the week had predicted the winner would need a four-round total of less than 280. Only four players bettered par, led by Irwin's conservatively played 69. Andy North, J. C.

Snead and 18-year-old amateur Bob Clampett carded 1-under 70s. "This country club golf course that I heard someone call it earlier in the week has turned into something more than that," said Arnold Palmer, who was commissioned to toughen up the Fowler wins seniors' golf Hiram H. Lesar, dean of the SIU-C Law School. "They (Auburn officials) want me and the girls to come. I feel a part of things there." Mrs.

Lambert said that she has been busy answering cards and letters and thanking the many people who helped her through the tragedy. "I would like to express my deepest love and appreciation to those people," she said. "They made me aware of how good people are. 'Tell my friends that I love them. It was a good eight years here.

Paul and I talked about that the night before he left." fate undecided new head coach. The shock of Mr. Lambert's death has not worn off yet. We are in no real hurry to name the new coach." Pulliam said both Williams and Greene have indicated that they would accept the head coaching position at Auburn if it were offered. Meanwhile, Columbus Fire Chief George Lamb said Thursday that officials still have not pinpointed a cause for the fire and that the investigation continues.

Lamb repeated his theory that the fire was caused by careless disposal of smoking materials. Lambert was the only person killed in the fire. Mike Chamness Jim Brewner of Carbondale fired the lowest gross score of the event with an even-par 70. About 188 golfers representing more than 55 Southern Illinois towns finished the tournament, said Clyde Webb, Benton Country Club's professional and organizer of Thursday's event. Webb said there are about 355 members in the Senior's Association, which is open to players age 55 and over.

A fall championship for the seniors will be held Sept. 8-10 at Rend Lake Country Club, while about 40 seniors will travel to Hawaii in March for another meet, Webb said. (BiOEHimy GBiH3i (D (b (mito By Mike Chamness Of The Southern Illinoisan Carol Lambert, wife of the late Paul Lambert the former Southern Illinois University-Carbondale basketball coach who was killed June 6 in a Columbus, Ga. hotel fire plans to leave Carbon-dale today for her new home in Auburn, Ala. "We have to start a new life," Mrs.

Lambert said Thursday as she and her two daughters, Julie, 18, and Jill, 17, prepared to move out of their Carbon-dale home. "I certainly wouldn't want to offend our friends in Southern Illinois," Mrs. Lambert said. "People here could not have been kinder or helped any more. But we must start a new life.

"I'm sure our decision will shock some people because we are leaving familiar surroundings and good friends. But I'm doing what I think Paul would want me to do. "It's like he has been looking over my shoulder from day-to-day, telling me to go ahead. He did want me to be independent. "Here it would have been too easy to depend on our friends for protection.

At Auburn, I'll have to assert myself more." The Lamberts had purchased a home in Auburn and had sold their Carbon-dale house prior to the fatal fire. "We had been gearing towards this move since April (when Lambert was named the new head coach at Auburn University)," Mrs. Lambert said. Jill, the youngest daughter, plans to enroll at Auburn University in the fall AP Photo ment in Rochester, N.Y. The 21- year-old Lopez is going for her fifth straight win, which would be a new LPGA record.

Saluki gridders hire 2 assistant coaches oyr ton, who shot 89. Billy Casper, a two-time Open winner who was given a special exemption to play here, summed up the difficulty of the course as well as anyone. "I feel shell-shocked," he said. "It was difficult to get the ball close to the hole. It was even difficult to get the ball close to the hole.

It was difficult to chip it." The portly Casper finished with a respectable 71, thanks to a miracle shot on the 17th hole when his wedge to the green was short and landed in water but hit a rock and bounced up beside the green. He sank the 18-foot putt for a birdie. "I feel very fortunate," he said. It seemed only Irwin had the secret to playing Cherry Hills, and even he started out with a bogey. "I played away from the temptation to go for the flag, Irwin said.

"This is the U. S. Open. You can't afford the foolish mistakes." Looking for No. 5 Nancy Lopez brushes back her hair while talking to playing part- ner JoAnn Washam during a practice round Thursday for the LPGA Bankers Trust Tourna- 1 if V- -1 9 in layout for this year's event.

"This course is playing very difficult." Palmer, whose only Open title came at Cherry Hills in 1960, suffered a double-bogey 5 in a bout with the rough at No. 15 and finished at 76. It could have been worse. PGA titlist Lanny Wadkins had a 77, as did Tom Weiskopf. Crenshaw, 1973 Open winner Johnny Miller and 1975 champion Lou Graham took 78s.

Carding 79s were Steve Melnyk, Rick Massengale and Gil Morgan. Fuzzy Zoeller took an 80. Then there was Bob Impaglia, a 25-year-old from Auburn, N.Y., who qualified for his tour card just last week. Impaglia's problems weren't as directly related to the course as to officials of the U.S. Golf Association.

He had been cruising along with a 1-over 36 on the front nine when the USGA socked him with a 2-stroke penalty for slow play the first such penalty ever leveled against a player in an Open. Impaglia apparently came apart, ballooning to a 47 on the back side for an 83. It wasn't the highest score of the day, however. That honor went to Jeff Cos- "Itchy" Jones, now the baseball coach at SIU-C. Quarless replaces Jim Vechiarella as defensive line coach.

Vechiarella, who was at SIU-C for two years, left to take a similar post at Tulane University. Quarless is a native of Iron River and was an offensive guard for Northern Michigan University from 1969-1972. He was the team captain there his senior year. Caldwell came to the Salukis as defensive backfield coach last spring after spending a year as a graduate assistant at the University of Iowa. He replaces Jay Cunningham, who left SIU-C after one year to take a similar job at the University of Louisville.

A native of Beloit, Caldwell was a four-year starter as a defensive back at Iowa and captained the defensive team there his senior year (1976). He led the Big Ten Conference in interceptions that year with six. McConnell is in his second year as defensive coordinator and linebacker coach. Barry is in his second year as offensive line coach. Baseball committee members are Bill Hellmer of Murphysboro, Jerry Quails of Gorham, Cliff Davis of Elverado, Jack Fletcher of Marion, Mike Hays of Harrisburg and Ron Darnell of Carbondale.

Other coaches with nominations should contact a member of the committee or Southern Illinoisan Sports Editor Gary Sosniecki before Saturday. esieca up iv-f v-vTo 1 5 if A former special assignments coach for the St. Louis football Cardinals was one of two assistant football coaches named Thursday to complete Southern Illinois University-Carbondale head coach Rey Dempsey's five-man staff. Dan Brooks, 29, who spent the last three years on Don Coryell's Big Red staff, and Jan Quarless, 27, a Saluki football graduate assistant the last two years, will join Jim Caldwell, who was hired last spring, and returning assistant coaches Bill McConnell and Mike Barry. Brooks will be in charge of offensive backs and receivers.

He replaces Rock Alt, who resigned to return to high school coaching in Ohio. A native of Jacksonville, Brooks was graduated in 1971 from Illinois College, where he had been a quarterback. He was an assistant coach at Jacksonville High School for two years and spent 1974-75 on the staff at the University of Illinois. Brooks played freshman football at Jacksonville High School for Richard B. D.

Fowler, superintendent of schools in Massac County, had the low net score Thursday in the Southern Illinois Senior's Golf Association's annual 18-hole spring tournament at Crab Orchard Country Club in Carterville. Fowler, 65, fired a 10-over-par 80 but was allowed a 20 handicap to finish with a 60, just one stroke ahead of Bob Lang-enfeld of Centralia, who fired a 76 but had a 15 handicap for a 61. Carl Brown of McLeansboro and Kenneth Cook of Du Quoin tied for third with 62s. Brown shot a 76 with a 14 handicap while Cook shot a 79 with a 17 handicap. Paces Goto 3D 2fi fliD HIS i i ii.

ooo cdooo I1D QCI-5 kTrtnfrrnrr.f i Coaches to pick all-stars A committee of varsity baseball coaches from the Southern Illinois Coaches Association will meet Saturday to choose the first SICA-Southern Illinoisan prep baseball all-star team. Although the SICA has named all-star teams in football, basketball and wres-Uing in past years, the coaches never have selected a baseball squad, SICA President Tom Ashman said..