Car Dealer Drives Away With Quite a Deal on Golf Course

Fred Hughes, an Abilene, Tex., car dealer, offered a new Buick LeSabre to anyone who made a hole in one at a charity golf tournament.

He wound up the winner, acing the 179-yard No. 10 hole at Abilene Country Club. He said he would give the car to his wife.

Trivia time: In 1984, when Hakeem Olajuwon was selected No. 1 and Michael Jordan No. 3 in the NBA draft, who was No. 2?

Take me out. . . . Meat Loaf has been selected to sing the “Star-Spangled Banner” and Margo Timmins of the Cowboy Junkies will sing “O Canada” before baseball’s All-Star game July 12 in Pittsburgh.

Beneficial Games: Ever wonder how the Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles distributes the wealth it derived from the 1984 Olympic Games?

The AAF recently awarded $386,190 in grants to 20 youth sports organizations. The main benefactor was Little League, Inc., which received $69,000 to build a baseball stadium at the Martin Luther King Recreation Center in South Central L.A.

Grants of $5,000 went to such diverse groups as the Pasadena Shooting Roses basketball program for teen-age girls, Junior All-American Football in Norco, the Alhambra Youth Boxing Club, the Conejo Simi Aquatics Diving Team of Conejo Valley and the Police Athletic League’s late night basketball program.

Head hunting: Italian soccer Coach Arrigo Sacchi, after his team’s 1-0 loss to Ireland, was derided in one account in the Italian press with the headline, “What a disaster, Sacchi!”

Which prompted Dave George of the Palm Beach Post to write: “To my recollection, we’ve never run a headline saying, ‘Shula, Ya Bum!’ ”

Italy gained some redemption with a shaky 1-0 victory over Norway and a 1-1 tie with Mexico.

Bad timing: Phil Simms, on the cover of the July issue of New Jersey Monthly, is called the New York Giants’ best player.

The magazine went to press June 14, the day Simms was cut.

Try again: From David Moore, in the Dallas Morning News:

“Hakeem Olajuwon’s devout faith has led him to Mecca. Wednesday night, Olajuwon and his Houston teammates scaled a different mountain.”

Mecca is a city.

Fair warning: Tackle Wayne Gandy, the Rams’ No. 1 draft pick from Auburn, writes his nickname “G-Man” on both gloves before every game. He says that’s so “everyone knows G-Man’s coming to the line.”

Looking back: On this day in 1962, the Dodgers’ Sandy Koufax struck out 13 New York Mets while pitching the first of his four no-hitters, a 5-0 victory at Dodger Stadium.

The way it is: Randy Hill, writing in the Pasadena Star-News, on the problems the United States faced after falling behind Romania, 1-0:

“Catching up in soccer is kind of like trying to rally in a fingernail-growing contest.”

Fine line: After winning the Masters, Jose Maria Olazabal went to the Carolina Custom Club in Raleigh, N.C., to get his clubs adjusted.

He said they were 15/1000ths of an inch closed.

Trivia answer: Kentucky center Sam Bowie.

Quotebook: Tennis professional Andrei Medvedev, on the game he plays: “I find tennis boring. I only look at it on TV to study tactics, not because I enjoy the game.”