Alabama Golfer Benefits From Some Sweet Charity

When the average golfer gets a hole in one, he is obliged by custom to buy drinks for everyone in the clubhouse.

A hole in one was much more rewarding for Jason Bohn, who got his ace during a charity tournament in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on Sunday.

It was a $1-million, 135-yard shot on the second hole of the University of Alabama golf course. Bohn, 19, a sophomore and member of the golf team, will get $5,000 per month for the next 20 years.

Trivia time: Ross Perot says he spent more than $60 million during his campaign for the Presidency. How much did Bill Koch spend to win the America’s Cup?

Cold rap: Scott Ostler of the San Francisco Chronicle, noting that Isiah Thomas had lent his name to eight new flavors of ice cream for a Detroit-area ice cream company:

“Say, I’ll take a triple-double scoop of the Isiah Thomas Devilishly Malicious Rumor Ripple, please!”

Out in the cold: Hockey fans who smoke in Toronto are advised that their habit won’t be tolerated in Maple Leaf Gardens.

It will become a smoke-free building on Jan. 1. Smoking will not be permitted even in the corridors, and fans will not be able to get back in if they go outside to smoke during a game.

Sweet dreams: Former heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson recalls vividly the punch that Sweden’s Ingemar Johansson landed on him during their first title fight in 1959.

“He landed the hardest punch I ever took to take my title,” Patterson told Ron Borges of the Boston Globe. “ ‘Ingo’s bingo,’ he called it. But I felt no pain. In fact, it felt beautiful. I felt like I was floating like an angel, with soft pillows and cotton wool and all in slow motion.

“Maybe the hippies felt like that when they took dope.”

Mafia move: From Blackie Sherrod of the Dallas Morning News: “Pardon me for not realizing this international chess match was such a grim matter.

“Read in an Eastern paper, enthusiastically covering the Bobby Fischer-Boris Spassky duel like a title fight, that Spassky employed a ‘closed Sicilian defense.’ Mercy me.”

Ground round: During an NBA exhibition, Charles Barkley had his first ejection as a Phoenix Sun and rookie center Oliver Miller told him, “You’re setting a bad example.”

Replied Barkley to the 300-pound Miller: “You can’t even jump high enough to touch the rim, unless they put a Big Mac on it.”

Trivia answer: About $67 million.

Quotebook: Television analyst John Madden on the strength of the NFL this season: “People ask me who the cream of the crop is. I answer, ‘There is no cream, just milk, with some of it curdled and some of it cream cheese.’ ”