Next Time, Golfer Might Try Finding Caddie to Hold the Bag

The next time Ted Gluck plays at the South Course at Torrey Pines in La Jolla, he is going to give the cliff on the fourth hole a wide berth.

Gluck, 74, was playing there Friday when his electric pull cart got away from him. It teetered on the edge of a cliff, and Gluck rescued his golf bag.

Then, the cart went over the cliff and Gluck followed, a drop of 20-30 feet. He was rescued by a helicopter with a stretcher and suffered only minor injuries.

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Add golfer: It was business as usual, though, for other groups. They simply played through.

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Trivia time: Who was the last NFL quarterback to pass for seven touchdowns in a game?

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Neatness counts: A training camp rule for the Rams in 1952 from Coach Joe Stydahar: “Should you chew tobacco, you should furnish your own spittoon, and not use the wastebasket for this purpose.”

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Good old days: Bernie Lincicome in the Chicago Tribune: “Maybe it isn’t the salary cap at all that the owners want. Maybe what they want is to break the players’ union so they can do business again like the plantation owners they were for baseball’s first 100 years.”

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Hardly a threat: Jerry Reuss, former Dodger pitcher, now a broadcaster for the triple-A Las Vegas Stars on his problems at an airport:

“I had a couple of baseball bats with me, and when I tried to get them through the X-ray machine, they said I couldn’t take them on the plane. They said the bats were considered a weapon.

“I said, ‘Weapon? Have you ever seen me swing?’

“They let me take ‘em.”

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Woof, woof: David Casstevens of the Arizona Republic on the “Dawg Pound,” a designated end zone area for Cleveland Browns’ fans:

“The Dawg Pound has to be seen, and heard, to be believed. Browns’ fans wear rubber dog masks. They bark, yip, howl, growl. The opponent is treated with all the respect of a fire hydrant.”

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Marked man: Todd Jones, Houston Astro rookie pitcher, who lives in Pell City, Ala., on the termination of the baseball season:

“I’m walking around my little town almost ashamed to be a ballplayer. If people know what I do, I can’t hardly look them in the eye.

“I’m under a lot of scrutiny here because I’m the only ballplayer they know. But it’s not my fault.”

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Scouting goof: Blackie Sherrod in the Dallas Morning News: “Every time we see Jerry Rice make headlines, we are reminded that the vaunted Cowboy scouting system, digesting his Mississippi Valley State career, pronounced him too slow by its computerized standards.”

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Trivia answer: Joe Kapp of the Minnesota Vikings against the Baltimore Colts on Sept. 28, 1969.

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Quotebook: Fox network’s Pat Summerall, a former New York Giant kicker, on the Giants’ old helmets worn on “Throwback Day” last Sunday: “There was nothing on them, or some said, in them.”