Saturday, July 8, 1972 King prevails at Wimbledon THE MICHIGAN DAILY WIMBLEDON, England (P)- Billie Jean King outstroked Evonne Goolagong 6-3, 6-3 in a tame Tennis final yesterday and regained the Wimbledon wom- en's singles crown after four years. A victory in the men's final today by Stan Smith over Ro- mania's Ilie Nastase would give the Americans a sweep of the singles crowns. The women's final lacked at- mosphere and excitement and offered little high class tennis. But Mrs. King, 28, from Long Beach, Calif., said it meant more to her than any of her thr e e previous Wimbledon triumphs. "It's difficult playing a Wim- bledon final," she said. "You don't have to play greattennis. You just have to be better than your opponent." And -off yesterday's showing she was certainly better than Miss Goolagong, the 20-year- old Australian who came from- nowhere to win the title last year. Mrs. King played efficiently, though not as w-ll as in earlier rounds. Miss Goolagong was freouently off tafget with her first service and lost many points on her soft and vulner- able second service. A crowd of 15,000 on Wimble- don's center court watched the match quietly. Hundreds of them, in the standing areas, had camped all night on the sidewalks outside the All-En- gland Club. The fans had hoped for a re- peat of the dramatic semifinal of two days ago when Miss Goolagong came from behind to beat 17-year-old Chris Evert of Fort Lauderdale, Fla. But after that epic yesterday's encounter was all anti-climax. The pattern was set from the start. Mrs. King held her service in the opening game despite two double faults. Miss Goolagong then lost her service after net- ting three ground strokes.. Mrs. King took her lead to 4-p before the Australian showed any sign of her best form. Miss Goolagong then broke back, but Mrs. King had cruel luck. The American, leading 40-30, served what most of the crowd thought was an ace. The lines- man called it out. Even Miss Goolagong look e d unhappy about it, but she hit a winning backhand return on Mrs. King's second service and then pro- duced two more good back- hands to win the game. J u s t as Miss Goolagong seemed poised to: get back into the match, her form struck rock bottom. She poked her racket at a ;high ball that looked to be going out and lost her chance of levelling at four games all. Mrs. King lured her opponent forward and Miss Goolagong made three errors to lose the game. ::.,. Mrs. King held her service to love and won the first set 6-3. The second set went to 3-3, with neither player getting more than a single point against service at any one game. to h In the seventh game Miss :} .:;>>::.::: :-;:: Goolagong led40-15, when aud- denly Mrs. King produced a stream of winning volleys and broke service. At this stage Miss Goola- " ' -" 't{st>ax ..:':; gong's first service had deserted X ** her completely. Mrs. King mov- ed in close for the soft second4 delivery and seized the initiative. "4 " WITH A 4-3 LEAD, Mrs. King never looked like losing her grip on the match. She hit a beautifully angled backhand volley in the- course of holding her service for a 5-3 lead. Miss Goolagong served to save s the match and led 30-0. But Mrs. King then hit four con- vincing -winners-two backhand passes, a forehand across the court and another backhand pass-to close out the match. The fans were all behind Miss Goolagong, who is a great fa- vorite here. They sometimes clapped even when Mrs. King made a bad shot. "That was unfair and it wor- 0avids pitss Mirgliks Tied me," Miss Goolagosg said Here's spit in your eye afterwards. Memphis Merlyn, world champion phlem flinger, is shown waiting But the defeat didn't appear for a good tailwind while practicing for the 81st annual Spit to worry her at all. She wore Spectacular to be held in Biloxi, Mississippi later this month. her usual sunny smile as Mrs. s he is better known by fellow spit freaks, spots a Daily King made the winning shot, and went on smiling and chat- photographer silently taking this intimate shot of him in action, ting with the new champion as Incensed by this clandestine effort, Lips lets go a mucous bomb they waited for the presentation. that inundated the cameraman, nearly causing him to drown. ORIOLES GROUNDED Tigers stomp faltering Chisox Page Eleven Hill shares leadin Can Open golf FORT ERIE, Ont. (/P)-Dave Hill sark putts of 25 and 45 feet on his last two holes en route to a 66 and a tie with Lou Graham for the second-round lead in the $150,000 Canadian Open Golf Tournament yester- day. The veteran Graham had a two-under-par 69 and matched Hill's total of 136 for two rounds over the 6,751-yard Cherry Hill Golf Club course. They shared a one-stroke lead over former Masters cham- pion Gay Brewer, who had a 70-137. Australian veteran B r u ce Crampton, who hasn't yet had a bogey, notched a 70 and head- ed a group of four at 138, just two strokes off the pace in this national championship. Crampton was tied with Charles Sifford, Bobby Mitchell and longshot Leonard Thomp- son. Sifford scored four birdies in a row at one stretch for a 67, while Thompson had a 68 and Mitchell 69. South African Garry Player, who .shared the favorite's role with defending titleholder Lee Trevino, moved into contention. Player had three deuces on his card as he put together a 69 for 140 Trevino encountered some putting troubles - he missed three inside of three feet-and had to settle for a '73-142. He was tied at that figure with Arnold Palmer, who had an- other 71.. "Just one of those rounds where nothing really happened," said Palmer. "It's a funny damn game," said Trevino. "1 hit the ball better than I did yesterday and I score four strokes higher, "But par at this stage ain't too bad. Par isn't too far from winning the tournament." Bunky Henry, the first-round leader, bogeyed the second hole and double-bogeyed the third as he drifted back with a 74. He was one of a large group at 139. Sam Snead, among the lead- ersafater the first round, also took a 74 and was at 141. MCAT-DAT Home Study Review and Testing Program For information write: GRADUATE STUDIES CENTER P.O. Box 386, N.Y., N.Y. 10011 By The Associated Press CHICAGO - Tony Taylor drilled a tie-breaking triple in the eighth inning, then scored on Aurelio Rodriguez' single as the Detroit Tigers beat the Chi- cago White Sox 6-4 last night. The victory lifted the Tigers within one game of front-run, ning Baltimore in the American League East. The White Sox have lost four straight baseball games. Paul Jata opened the eighth with a walk and, when he broke for seconds on a hit-and-run play, Taylor slapped a ground- er past first and down the right field line for a triple that broke a 2-2 tie. Two outs later, Rodri- guez singled to right. A single by Mike Andrews, a walk and Jay Johnstone's pinch single cut Detroit's lead to 4-3 in the bottom of the eighth but the Tigers wrapped it up in the Professional League Standings: ninth on run-scoring singles by Taylor and Al Kaline. Pat Kelly tripled and scored on Alvarado's single in the last of the ninth. Chicago had taken a 2-0 lead in the fourth on singles by An- drews, Rich Morales, pitcher Dave Lemonds and Kelly, but home runs by Ike Brown in the fifth inning and Kaline in the sixth tied it up. Orioles clipped BALTIMORE - Ted Kubiak's tie-breaking, two - out double in the fifth inning carried the Texas Rangers to a 5-4 victory over Baltimore last night, snap- pingntherOrioles five-game winning streak. Ted Ford and Joe Lovitto sin- -gled and Kubiak belted a double off loser Rorie Harrison, 0-2, to end Texas' three-game losing streak. The Orioles' largest crowd of the American League baseball season, 43,851 T-shirt Nighters, was on hand to see Texas jump to a 4-0 lead in the first two innings, Baltimore errors mak- tug all the runs unearned, Don Mincher knocked in two of the four runs with a sacrifice fly and single. The others scored on a Boog Powell error and a wild pitch. Mets starve NEW YORK - Don Sutton limited New York to three sin- gles, one a bunt, and pitched the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 6'-1 National League victory over the hit-starved Mets last night. After a one-out walk to Har- relson in the third, Ken Boswell grounded into a double play and Sutton retired the Mets in order until Ed Kranepool sin- gled leading off the eighth. The slumping Mets, who have lost three in a row, were held to two hits Thursday in a 14-in- ning 1-0 loss to San Diego. Reds reamed CINCINNATI - Joe Pepitone cracked his first home run of the season and Paul Popovich snuffed out a Cincinnati threat with a fielding gem as the Chi- cago Cubs downed the Reds 2-1 last night, Pepitone, back with the Cubs since June 30 after a brief re- tirement, blasted a pitch from Wayne Simpson, 4-3, over the right field wall to give Burt Hooton, 7-7, the only run the rookie right-hander needed. Cincinnati threatened in the sixth when Pete Rose drew a walk-one of three issued by the Cub pitcher-and moved to second on Bobby Tolan's single, Johnny Bench lined what ap- peared to be a single to right- center, but second baseman Popovich made a leaping one- handed grab and turned it into a double play. American League East W L Pet. GB Blite 40 31 .563 - Detroit 39 37.549 _ Boston 33 34 .493 5 New York- 33 30 .471 6 Cleveland 30 40 .429 9"> Milwaukee 28 .41 .406 11 west Oakland 46 26 .639' - Chicago 41 32 .562 5'', Minnesota 37 34 .521 8Y2 Kansas City 36 36 .500 10 California 33 41 .446 14 Texas 30 43 .411 162 Yesterday's Results Milwaukee at Oakland, inc. Boston at California, inc. Detroit 6, Chicago 4 Minnesota 5, New York 2 Kan a, City 6, Cleveland 3 Texasa 5, Baltimore 4 Today's Games Texas (Hand, 5-6 and Cox, 1-0) at Baltimore (Dobson, 9-7 and Alexan- der, 3-4), 2, twinight Kansas City (Nelson, 2-2) at Cleveland (Kilkenny, 1-1) New York (Stottlemyre, 7-10) at Minnesota (Blyleven, 9-10) Detroit (Slayback, 1-2) at Chicago (Bahnsen, 10-9 Milwaukee (Brett, 4-8) at Oakland (Hunetr, 10-4) Boston (Culp, 5-7) at California (Allen, 7-5), night National League East W L Pet. GB Pittsbttrgh 46 27 .630 - New York 43 30 .589 3 St. Louis 39 34 .534 7 Chicago 39 35 .517 It%/ Montreal 32 41 .438 14 Philadelphia 26 48 .351 20f west Cincinnati 44 79;603 - H-ouston 44 32 .579 11 Los Angeles 39 35 .527 5/2 Atlanta / 36 40 .474 9', San Francisco 32 48 .400 15% San Diego 27 48 .360 18 Yesterday's Results St. Louis 3, Houston 1 Los Angeles 6, New York 1 Montreal 7, San Francisco 2 Philadelphia 4, san Diego 2, 1st San Diego 6, Philadelphia 1, 2nd Chicago 2, Cincinnati 1 Pittsburgh 10, Atlanta I, sat Atlanta 3, Pittsburgh 2, 2nd Today's Games san Diego (Kirby, 5-8) at Philadelphia (Champion, 4-8), night Pittsburgh (Blass, 9-2) at Atlanta (Reed, 7-8), night San Francisco (Marich4l, 2-10) at Montreal (McAnally, 1-10), night Los Angeles (John, 7-4) at New York (McAndrew, 5-3) Chicago (Reuschel, 3-0) at Cincinnati (Nolan, 11-2) Houston (Reuss, 5-7) at St. Louis (Cleveland, 9-4), night S AVE! Up to 3313% Buy Used Text Books at F@LLETT'S STATE ST. AT NORTH UNIV. 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