Trevino Sues For $500,000

EL PASO, Tex. -- Former U.S. Open champion Lee Trevino has filed a $500,000 suit against an Ohio firm which he said misrepresented itself when it signed him to a contract, it was learned Friday. Trevino, who filed the suit Wednesday in U.S district court in El Paso, is seeking $514,248.98 damages from Consulting Services Inc., of Akron, Ohio.

Trevino's petition said the firm through its president, Bucky Woy, represented itself as having several well-known professional golfers under contract and said it could obtain contracts with potential sponsors and advertisers the golfers could not otherwise obtain. The petition said this turned out to be false as shown by the company's unwillingness to renew advertising and promotional contracts.

The contract was signed in June 1968, the same year Trevino won the U.S. Open.

[source: upi]