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acKay, Buchholz Lose at Wimbledon
AID RUSSIAN EFFORT:
Soviet Gymnasts. Boost Olympic Sc(
W IMBLEDON, England(AP)-The
've - jarring court collapse of
ng Earl Buchholz when he was
the threshold of a notable vic-
y and the defeat of Barry Mac-
y in a welter of double faults
,de this one of America's dark-
days in the Wimbledon tennis
ampionships.
Young Buchhold five times had
-seeded Neale Fraser of Aus-
,lia within a single point of
feat before he fell writhing onto
grass-victim of cramps and
old ankle injury.
Ie was leading 6-4, 3-6, 6-4,
-15 when inability to stand up
de it impossible for him to
rry on and Fraser was declared
e winner by default.
Shortly afterward, MacKay, the
power-hitter formerly of the
iiversity of Michigan, who isI
seeded second, went down before
the inspired stroking of Ni Ala
Pietrangeli, the off-and-on rackRt
artist from Italy, 16-14, 6-2, 3 .6,
6-4.
MacKay's blazing power was
helpless before Pietrangeli's deft
darts. The six-foot-four American
greased the skids for his down-
fall by serving double faults at
critical points of the match.
These two quarter-final set-
backs left the United States with
no men's representatives in this
oldest of tennis championships-
the first time in more than a
quarter of a century the Yanks
have been so degraded.
Buchholz's trouble stemmed
from a torn ankle ligament which
he had suffered in football five
years ago.
Zays, Gentile Lead Majors
Ls Batting AveragesClmb
He said he began getting cramps
and, when he put weight on his
right ankle, the ankle turned.
MacKay served 14 doublefaults,
ten in the first set which he lost
with a doublefault at set point.
Generally he was wild, particu-
larly off his backhand, and no
match for the agile Italian.
When MacKay lost the final
point with a wild smash that went
yards wide, the crowd was still
talking about Buchholz' collapse
on the famed center court.
When Buchholz fell in the 29th
game the fashionable Wimbledcn
center court gallery-18,000 ca-
pacity-let out an audible gasp,
then rose as one to watch as
attendants rushed to his side.
Although tennis rules call ror
an automatic withdrawal under
such circumstances, a handful of
men, two in uniform, worked
feverishly over the American's
squirming form.
They taped his right ankle and
in about five minutes he was up
and trying desperately to shake
away the kinks. He waved away
the officials and refused to de-
fault.
Fraser, the U.S. titleholder,
played streakily. At times he won
furious volleying exchanges with
his youthful rival and befuddled
Buchholz with tricky drop shots
and stop volleys. But the Aussie's
big weapon -a crackling high-
bounding service-was poor. He
seldom hit with his first delivery
and he served 11 double-faults.
Buchholz reached match point
In the fourth set while leading 5-4,
twice when ahead 6-5, and twice
in the 24th game. The last time
Fraser uncorked two big services
to save the day.
Fraser served and Buchholz
dumped the ball into the net,
giving the Australian the game
and making the set score 15-15.
Buchholz hobbled to the base
line to serve. He sent over a de-
livery, then volleyed wide, losing
the point. He served again - a
fault-and that was all.
In the day's other major singles
matches, all behind schedule, Roy
I
Emerson of Australia defeated
Mario Llamas of Mexico 2-6, 6-0,
6-2, 9-7, and fourth-seeded Luis
Ayala of Chile rallied to beat
Jan-Erik Lundquist of Sweden
9-11, 0-6, 6-1, 10-8, 6-4. Both went
into the quarter-finals. I
Christine Truman of Britain en-
tered the women's quarter-finals
beating Vera Puzejova of Czecho-
slovakia 7-5, 6-3.
MOSCOW (P) - Some more So-
viet Olympic pointmakers are cer-
tain to be back this year snagging
those extra places that show up
so well in the final totals. This
time it's gymnastics.
Minor sport or not, the figures
count and in the last two Olympics
the Russians have been taking
more than a bear's share of the
loot.
Shakhlin Returns
But the national championships
just finished in Leningrad proved
that three 1956 champs, 'at least,
will be back in Rome. These are
the redoubtable Boris Shakhlin
of the Ukraine, who won the horse
event; Larisa Latynina of the
Ukraine who took three gold
medals at Melbourne; and Albert
Azaryan, the 1956 champ on the
rings.
As usual, it looks as if the
Russians have a strong reserve.
The final selections won't be
made until a little nearer Olympic
time but chief coach Nikolai Popov
says Shakhlin, Azaryan, Yuri Ti-
tov and Valery Kerdemelidi are
definitely choices.
Eight Man Contest
There will be six men on the
team. That leaves eight chaps
fighting it out for the remaining
two places. Popov indicated he
would take the 12 and make theni
all compete again before final
selection is made.
The 28-year-old Shakhlin has
ruled the roost here for three
years since Chukarin retired. He
has figured himself, Titov and
Azaryan as certainly in. He also
said Japanese gymnasts furnish
the ;nost serious threat to Soviet.
supremacy, with West Germany,
Finland and Switzerland "dan-
gerous."
Shakhlin has been quoted as
saying the Japanese will be strong-
er in the vaults and calisthenics
than the Europeans and place
high in the rings. He picks Ta-
kashi Ono and Masao Takemoto
as two of Nippon's probable stars
based on the strong showing the
Japanese team made in competi-
tion in Moscow two years ago.
Complete Control
Experts here rate Shakhlin high
on self possession and determina-
tion to win, with complete muscle
and nerve control. If anyone can
take the all' around gold medal as
Victor Chukarin did four years
ago, it's Shakhlin, these experts
say.
He won his favorite event, the
side horse, with 19.5 points in the
recent Leningrad championships;
placed second on the rings, with
19.4; was fifth with 19 points in
the horse vaults; fourth with 19.1
on the parallel bars, and fourth
with 19.05 points on the horizontal
bar.
Mrs. Latynina, who has come
back itno competition after hav-
ing a baby, placed second in the
Leningrad championships to Po-
lina Astakhova, another Ukrainian
lass. It was Polina's second na-
tional championship in a row. S
won this one with 77.9 points. M
Latynina, however, was only .15
a point behind.
Figure they were competing
a tournament that included '
mara Manina, of Leningrad,
world champion, and Sofiya Mi
atova of Moscow, a former wo
champion, and you see what you
got.
You've got, for one thing, fc
almost sure travelers to Rome
and then there are such reser
as Tamara Lyukhina who plat
fourth behind Miss Muratova
the women's nationals and Mi
gareta Niolayeva who placed six
with a 76.3 total,
When the roll is called in Ror
you can bet the Russians are gol
to be fighting for every fracti
of a point.
Competitions recently ha
shown that outcome of team a
especially individual competitic
in the Olympics are going to
settled not by points but by ht
dredths of a point.
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NEW YORK (-P)-Willie Mays
won the National League Rookie-
of-the-Year Award in 1951. The
following season Jim Gentile be-
gan his professional baseball ca-
reer with Santa Barbara of the
California League.
Today, Mays, star San Francis-
co outfielder leads the Nationa
League in batting with a .348 av-
erage while Gentile, Baltimore's
rookie first baseman, tops the
American League with a .347
mark.
Both Mays and Gentile noved
up from third place with consist-
ent hitting in last week's games.
Willie climbed nine points with 12
hits in 29 tries and Gentile picked
up 19 points with seven safeties
in 13 times at bat. The Orioles
obtained Gentile from the Los
Angeles farm system.
Norm Larker, the veteran Los
Angeles first sacker, gained 22
Softballers
Total 70 Runs
The results of the first day's
play in the summer IM softball
tournament seem to indicate that
it will be a season marked by few,
if any, pitchers' duels.
Chemical Engineering defeated
University Television 11-4. Alpha
Kappa Lambda scored 15 times to
outlast Alpha Tau Omega who
crossed the plate a mere 13 times.
Pharmacology defeated Mathe-
matics 12-2 and Trees lost to AFIT
8-5.
In tonight's contests the Ram-
blers face the Choaches and Nu-
clear Engineering meets Nu Sigma
Nu.
3 1!
points with a 10-for-11 perform-
ance and moved into second place
in the National League at .345.
Dick Groat of Pittsburgh dropped
one notch to third place at .338
and his teammate, Roberto Cle-
mente, also fell one place to fourth
at .332. Groat tailed off two points
and Clemente three. The figures
include Sunday's games.
Pete Runnels of Boston, the
American League leader a weep
ago, dropped into the runner-up
position behind Gentile as a re-
sult of a 15 point decrease to .337.
Runnels collected only seven hits
in 30 at bats.
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NO LIMIT-Boston University's John Thomas points to the
figures that list the height of the bar when he broke the world,
high jump record. He is determined to raise this already miracu-
lous record.
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Major League Standings
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AMERICAN LEAGUE
W L Pct.
Baltimore.......42 27 .609
New York ..... .37 25 .597
Cleveland ......35 27 .565
Chicago ........36 30 .545
Detroit ........31 32 .492
Washington ....28 35 A44
Kansas City ....26 39 .400
Boston ........22 52 .344
SUNDAY'S RESULTS
Washington 4-7, Detroit 2-4
Baltimore 9, Kansas City 2
Chicago 4-21, Boston 3-7
New York 6-6, Cleveland 2-7
(2nd game, 11 innings)
YESTERDAY'S RESULT
Baltimore Washington (N)
TODAY'S GAMES
Detroit at Boston (N)
Kansas City at New York (N)
Cleveland at Baltimore (N)
Chicago at Washinigton (N)
GB
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NATIONAL LEAGUE
W L Pct. GB
Pittsburgh . 41 24 .631
Milwaukee..,.36 25, .590 3
San Francisco . .36 31 .537 6
St. Louis .......32 34 .485 9V2
Cincinnati ... 31 34 .477 10
Los Angeles ....30 34 .469 101
Philadelphia .. .27 39 .409 1414
Chicago ........25 37 .403 14%
SUNDAY'S RESULTS
Chicago 7-7, Pittsburgh 6-5
Los Angeles 6, Milwaukee 3
Cincinnati 10, San Francisco 4
Philadelphia 3-3, St. Louis 2-4
(First game, 12 innings)
YESTERDAY'S RESULTS
No games were scheduled
TODAY'S GAMES
San Francisco at Pittsburgh (N)
Milwaukee at Chicago
Cincinnati at St. Louis (N)
Los Angeles at Philadelphia (N)
Leaps 7 Feel
BAKERSFIELD, Calif., (AP) -"I
can keep going until I miss."
Such was the philosophical at-
titude of Boston University's John
Thomas of high jump fame as he
awaited-as a spectator-the final
events of the National AAU Track
and Field Championships.
The 19-year-old sophomore,
through with competition here,
electrified fans when he leaped
7 feet 2 inches. It was the highest
ever in an outdoor meet.
Thomas' performance was the
outstanding feat of a program
that dragged on for more than six
t,
2 Inches
hours; only a few of the 7,000
present earlier were on hand at
the finish after midnight.
Thomas, who jumped 7-2% in-
doors last winter, again surpassed
the recognized world record of 7-1
held by Yuri Stepanov of Russia.
set in 1957, and his own pending
mark of 7-134 set last month.
"I just had to make it," said
the 6-foot-5 Thomas. He referred
to the fact that on the previous
jump he cleared the bar but the
wind dislodged it a few moments
later.
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