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Golf shapes up
J. KEITH ALLEN
THE GAMECOCK
Although the season does not be
gin until September, the USC Men’s
Golf team is hard at work prepar
ing for their upcoming campaign.
Gamecock golfer Alex Hamilton fin
ished in third place in the Eastern
Amateur Tournament, and Elrik
Johansen fired a course record 65
in the European Youth Team
Championships.
Hamilton, a rising sophomore
from Aiken, finished with three con
secutive sub-par rounds of 68, 66
and 69 to net third place with a
score of 203. Hamilton’s strong
showing at the Eastern Amateur fol
lowed his second place showing at
the Rice Planters Amateur earlier
this month.
Hamilton averaged 74.7 in the
2001-2002 season with a low score of
67. He also earned one top-20 finish
last season: a 211 at the Cleveland
Golf-Augusta State Invitational in
March.
Along with Hamilton’s standout
performance, Carolina teammates
Jake Thompson shot 213 (69-71-73)
and Michael Maness fired 221 (76
69-76)
Johansen, an incoming fresh
man, shot a two-day total of 140 to
earn a fifth place finish at the 23rd
annual European Youth Team
Championships. His 65 on the sec
ond day set a course record for the
event. The three-time Norwegian ju
nior champion averaged 71.67 last
year and will join the Carolina Golf
team this fall.
Joining Johansen on the golf
team this fall will be Richmond, Va.
native Spence Andrews. Andrews is
a recent graduate of John A. Logan
Junior College, and was named the
Bobby Bowers Junior Champion in
1998 and 1999. He won Richmond
Golf Association Junior Champion
honors, as well as earning an ap
pearance on the all-metro high
school team. Andrews won six tour
naments in his junior college career.
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Gamecock golfer Alex Hamilton
finished in third place at the
Eastern Amateur Tournament.
It was the rising sophomore's
second top-five showing this
summer. Hamilton averaged
74.7 last season for USC.
Williams children meet
to discuss fate of body
ASSOCIATED PRESS
INVERNESS, Fla. - Attorneys
for the son and oldest daughter of
Ted Williams and his estate held dis
cussions Monday in an effort to de
cide whether the body of one of
baseball's greatest hitters will re
main frozen.
John Henry Williams and his
half sister, Bobby-Jo Williams
Ferrell, have been feuding over
what to do with their father's re
mains since the slugger died July 5.
John Henry Williams had the
body flown to a cryonics lab in
Arizona to be frozen against the
wishes of Ferrell, who says their fa
ther always wanted to be cremated
and his ashes scattered over the
Florida Keys.
Cryonics advocates say science
might one day be able to thaw a
body, cure whatever killed the per
son and restore life. Most experts
say that's highly unlikely. Ferrell
has also speculated that her half
brother may want to sell their fa
ther's DNA.
Monday’s discussions were
aimed at reaching a compromise so
that a judge won't have to decide the
fate of Ted Williams' remains, a
source for Williams' estate told The
Associated Press on condition that
his name not be used.
Ferrell's attorney has said that
the estate's attorneys told him that
the will requested that Ted Williams
be cremated. The attorney, John
Heer, didn't return phone messages
left Monday at his Cleveland office
and Ferrell's home in Hernando.
A third daughter, Claudia
Williams, appeared to offer an olive
branch to her siblings in a state
ment released Sunday. Claudia
Williams hasn't publicly said what
she wants done with her father's
body, although it has been reported
that she is siding with her brother.
Usually,.if a will doesn't specify
what should be done with the body,
the closest next-of-kin has the right
to make that decision. In this case,
though, John Henry Williams and
Ferrell have equal standing.
WILLIAMS, SEE PAGE 11
Armstrong moves from eighth to second
Three
time
defending
Tour de
France
champion
Lance
Armstr
ong
charges
into
second
place,
just 26
seconds
off the
lead. The
Tour
heads
into the
Pyranees
Mounta
ins this
Thursday.
PHOTO
SPECIAL TO
THE
GAMECOCK
ASSOCIATED PRESS
LORIENT, France -- Lance
Armstrong isn’t the dominating
force he used to be in Tour de
France time trials.
The three-time Tour winner
recorded a rare second-place finish
in Monday's ninth stage, taking 11
seconds more than Colombian
Santiago Botero to complete a wind
swept course through Brittany.
Armstrong's performance al
lowed him to move up six spots into
second place overall, 26 seconds be
hind Spain's Igor Gonzalez
Galdeano. The Spaniard finished 19
seconds behind Botero.
While the 30-year-old Texan re
mains the overwhelming favorite to
win a fourth consecutive Tour, his
rivals see the second-place finish as
a dent in the Armstrong armor.
“The Tour has changed -
Armstrong isn't as strong in the
time trial as he was a year ago,” said
Gonzalez Galdeano, who finished
fourth in the stage to retain the
overall leader's yellow jersey. “The
race has become more open.”
Monday's stage marked the end
of a flat, speedy first week full of
crashes. The race now heads to the
mountains, one of Armstrong's oth
er strengths.
Armstrong dominated in the
mountains last year, winning the
Tour with a final advantage of more
than six minutes.
Tuesday is a rest day, when the
riders fly down to southwestern
France. The race resumes
Wednesday with a 91.1-mile trek
from Bazas to Pau. The Tour enters
the Pyrenees on Thursday, for the
first of six mountain stages this
year.
“We'll now see if he's as unbeat
able as he once was in the moun
tains,” Gonzalez Galdeano said.
Botero, of the Kelme team,
clocked a time of 1 hour, 2 minutes
and 18 seconds for the 32.24-mile
loop through Brittany from
Lanester to Lorient. It was the 29
♦ ARMSTRONG, SEE RAGE 11