Lack of Cover-Up Exposes Ladies’ Day Golf Promotion

City officials in Galveston, Tex., are apologizing for the presence of topless dancers on the Galveston Island municipal golf course at a recent tournament sponsored by the nightclub where the women worked.

“To have topless women at a municipal facility is totally unacceptable,” City Manager Doug Matthews said. “Some people think it is funny, but it is not funny. We are a tourist community, and this is a total embarrassment.”

Did Matthews poll golfers for their opinion?

Trivia time: What is the largest crowd ever to see a Ram home game?

Radar run: An expressway was named after Nolan Ryan in his hometown of Alvin, Tex. Appropriately, it’s a renowned speed trap in that area.

Omen?Clinton is a winner. Election Day isn’t until Tuesday, but Bubba Clinton, the standardbred racehorse, won in a major upset.

A horse, whose owners named it after Democratic presidential candidate Bill Clinton, won for the first time last week, taking a harness race at Garden State Park in New Jersey.

Bubba Clinton was sent off at odds of 37-1 and paid $75 to win, $17.40 to place and $4 to show, something that should jump-start the economics of his backers.

High flying: For Ted Turner, owning a major league baseball team has its drawbacks.

“You don’t have much control as an owner,” Turner told the Atlanta Constitution. “It’s like riding a plane. You put on your seat belt, take a deep breath and say a little prayer. You don’t know if the guy in front has been sniffing cocaine or drinking alcohol.”

Moe’s dictionary: More from Doug Moe, Philadelphia 76er coach, on his definition of a “stiff.”

“A stiff is a guy without much talent, but who helps you win games,” Moe said. “A guy without much talent who doesn’t is a ‘dog.’

“A ‘no-hoper’ is a guy who’s not quite good enough to be a stiff yet.”

Needs oil change: After USC kicker Cole Ford missed a field- goal attempt against Arizona State Saturday and showed his disgust, television announcer Phil Stone said: “That’s one over-heated Ford.”

Spooky: In the same game, television analyst Russ Francis commenting on Ford and Arizona State’s Mike Richey missing field goals: “Both kickers going wide, that’s what you have to expect on Halloween night.”

Please.

Ice folly: Mo Elewonibi, the Washington Redskins’ second-year offensive tackle from Brigham Young who was born in Lagos, Nigeria, moved to Kamloops in British Columbia, Canada, when he was 11. There, he was introduced to ice hockey.

“I was like John Candy on skates,” said Elewonibi, who is now 6 feet 4, 282 pounds. “I was scared of the puck. I got abused.”

Squeeze play: A New York Times headline on the story about the headlock that Notre Dame Coach Lou Holtz applied to referee Thomas Thamert: “Let’s Now Call it the Lock of the Irish.”

Trivia answer: There was a crowd of 102,368 for a Coliseum game against the San Francisco 49ers in 1957.

Quotebook: Pro golfer David Feherty of Northern Ireland, on choking: “Absolutely everyone has done it, but there are few people who admit it.”