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Many times they ran bumperto-bumper, door-to-door at speeds of about 180 miles per hour around the mile tri- GEORGE SCOTT Two Hits In Loss Birds Win Two From Brewers CHRIS EVERT CHRIS Biggest BALTIMORE (AP) more rallied in the seventh inning on Earl Williams' two-run homer for the lead, but needed three more runs in the eighth inning to snap a tie, lifting the Orioles to a 10-7 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers Wednesday. After the Brewers had tied the game at 7-7 in the top of the eighth Baltimore countered with three runs on Rich Coggins' RBI single and Paul Blair's two-run hit to take the game. "It was the the Orioles' third straight come-from-behind decision over the Brewers. MILWAUKEE BALTIMORE SUSPENDED GAME abr bi ab rh bi Coluccio ri 4000 Bumbry rf 3110 3b 3011 Cabell If 1000 Money DMay cf 5000 Coxxins cf 2000 If 5121 Rettennd cf 1 1 0 0 Briers 1b 5010 Blair 14 301 Scott dh 4111 Baylor If 110 O)Brown Porter 3221. JPowell 16 301 00 0001 Grich 2b 510 Garcia 2b 4 0 4000 3 0 Hendreks 4122 Crowley dh 5110 T.Johnson AS 0 0 Belanger 5S 3000 EdRdsez 0000 TDavis ph 1011 Gardner 0 0000 FBaker SS 0000 Linzy 0000 LBrown 3b 2010 Short Chmpion 00 0 0 BRobinsn 3b 0 0 0 BReynlds Alexandr 0000 G.Jackson 0000 Jefferson 0 0 Total 37 4 10 4 Total 34 6 8 5 One out when winning run scored.

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Garcia, Money. Staton Champion Cellar Watt. BReynids (W.5-3) WIMBLEDON, England (AP) Chris Evert defeated Margaret Court for the first time on grass Wednesday, shattering the Australian's hopes for a Grand Slam of tennis and ting up the first all-American women's singles final in 16 years. The 18-year-old star from Fort Lauderdale, triumphed 6-1, 1-6, 6-1 in what she said was her "best win ever." In Saturday's final, Miss Ev-lhas consecutive loss to Pearson in Firecracker 400. He came in only a half car length behind Pearson in the 1972 race.

Petty has won five times at Daytona, all in the February 500. He has never won a Firecracker event. Placing third was Buddy Baker, who started his Dodge in 31st position. Coming in fourth was 1973 Indianapolis 500 winner Gordon Johncock in a Chevrolet. Fifth was Benny Parsons, also in a Chevrolet.

Sixth through 10th paces went to Dave Marcis, Marty Robbins and Joe Frason in Dodges; David Sisco in a Chevrolet and James Hylton in a Ford. Pearson's share of the purse was $15,150. The sy-going driver now has taken home $142,815 this year and has a career mark of $969,550. Petty, who cleared the $1 million hurdle in 1971 picked up $9,225 for second place, taking ert will attempt to wrest the title from Billie Jean King, who needed eight match points beat Australia's Evonne Goolagong 6-3, 5-7, 6-3 in an untidy duel. Not since Althea Gibson quered Darlene Hard in 1957 have two Americans met for this prestigious crown.

And when the 29-year-old Mrs. King takes to the court, she will by vying to win Wimbledon for the fifth time, something no woman done since the legendary past the $100,000 mark the fifth season in a row. The Randleman, N.C., ace now stands at $1,469,538. RICHARD PETTY Loses 400-Mile Duel Joval speedway. Most of the crowd stood the final half hour of the race as the two veterans did their thing.

Among the standees were presidential assistant Melvin Laird, Commerce Secretary Claude Brinningar, Astronaut Gordon Cooper, and more than 75 winners of the Medal of Honor. Pearson's average speed for the race was 157.159 m.p.h. It could have been faster, but two yellow light situations slowed the pace for a while, once when a light rain fell on the south end of the speedway. The greying Pearson, known around the elite grand national circuit of the National ation for Stock Car Auto Rac-000 ling as "The Gray Fox," pleted the 160 laps in 2 hours, 3 minutes and 27 seconds. For petty, who had started his Dodge in fourth place in the 40-car lineup, it was the second Long Drought Ended Teammates Give Support As Wood Gets 15th Win ARLINGTON, Tex.

(AP) -On May 28, Chicago White Sox knuckleballer Wilbur Wood was under intense pressure. With a 13-3 record, he was looked upon by many as a cinch to be the next 30-game winner and a longshot to post 40 victories. But since June 8, when he won his 14th game, Wood has been subjected to another kind of pressure, simply to win No. 15. During a three-week span, Wood lost six games in a row as the Sox dropped from first to third place in the American League West.

Chicago Manager Chuck Tan- ner, however, would hace part of blaming Wood for the team's skid. "Our main problem with Wood pitching has been lack of runs," said Tanner. "In his last five games we scored four runs for him. No, Wilbur has been pitching as well as he ever did." On Tuesday night, Wood continued to dazzle with his knuckler and his teammates ended; their nonsupport, blasting out 15 hits while Wood fired a fourhitter, beating the Texas Rangers 15-1 for the long-awaited No. 15.

"I knew that, someday we wtuld break out for said Tanner. Reminded that Wood is halfway to 30 victories with less than half of the White Sox' games played, Tanner said, "I didn't talk about 30 victories before, and I'm not now. The closer you get the more pressure there is. Roger Maris hitting 61 homers I think is a much greater feat than Babe Ruth hitting 60. Ruth had 1 no pressure.

So as far as Wilbur is concerned, 'I'm just looking for 16. "I haven't worried about Wilbur at a all this season," said pitching coach Johnny Sain. "He just has a great attitude. He's not too happy or overconfident when he wins nor too down when he loses. Yastrzemski, Errors Help Sox Grab Sweep NEW YORK (AP) Rogelio, Moret pitched a six-hitter and Carl Yastrzemski's single produced the game's only run, leading the Boston Red Sox to a 1-0 second game decision over the New York Yankees and a sweep of their baseball doubleheader Wendesday.

In the opener, the Red Sox took advantage of two New York errors for two unearned runs in the ninth and rallied a 2-1 victory. Rick Miller opened the fifth inning of the second game with a walk off George Medich, 6-4. After Reggie Smith flied out, Miller moved into scoring position by stealing second, on Yastrzemski's single to center. Moret, naking only his second start of the year, struck Big Names Missing From Open Tourney: MILWAUKEE (AP) With golf's glamor names among the missing, a clear-cut favorite failed to emerge the field of the game's second line players arrayed for the $130,000 Milwaukee Open. The 72-hole tournament, which has had at least four consecutive years of conflict with the British Open, begins Thursday on the 7,010 yards of rolling hills that make up the par 72 Tuckaway Country Club course.

Although the British Open isn't until next week, airline schedules and the six-hour time difference are such that it's all impossible for a player to compete both here and in Troon, Scotland next week. That knocked out more than a dozen of the game's top names, including Jack Nicklaus, Lee Trevino, Arnold Palmer, Tom Weiskopf and Australian Bruce Crampton. They've won more than half the events on the American tour this year and along with U.S. Open champ Johnny Miller and Masters king Tommy Aaron-are en route to Scotland for one of the game's Big Four tournaments. Still others--including Helen Wills Moody won between the two world wars.

"It would be my greatest tennis thrill," Mrs. King said. "I love playing at Wimbledon. And being patriotic, I'm very happy at an all-American final. It was a sad day for Mrs.

Court, 30, who saw her last big tennis dream disappear. She had won the Australian and French titles this year and hoped to win Wimbledon and Forest Hills for an unprecedented second Grand Slam be- The Firecracker was the first race under new NASCAR rules that require a new form of (buretor restrictor place on all cars, coupled with a new air intake system. The rules changes are aimed at slowing- the big stockers down. But a combination of drafting-one car riding in the slip stream of another--and some! fancy driving kept the race speed above 180 m.p.h. for much of the early part of the race.

That was when pole sitter Bobby Allison and the other front row starter, Cale Yarborough, both in Chevrolets, hooked up in a lead swapping duel unlike anything. seen at Daytona in years. Allison held the lead 11 times during the first. 200 miles, while Yarborough was in front of the pack five times. But Yarborough brought out the first yellow light of the day a tire blew on bis Chevro-1 let as he roared down the front tri-oval at 158 m.p.h.

The stocky 36-year-old lost control and swerved into the concrete jouter wall head on, but escaped injury. Allison went out at the 300 mile mark when the engine erupttd in his Chevrolet, also in front of many of the front grandstand spectators. That left the battle for the lead to Pearson and Petty and the two pros responded by weaving through traffic as if they were towing each other on a crowded freeway. There were a total of 25 lead changes between five drivers. Twenty-nine cars completed the run in temperatures that reached the low 90s shortly after noon.

Felton Is Victor Driving Camaro DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) Gene Felton eased his embarrassment over selling cosmetics in grease-stained hands by breezing to a $3,000 victory in Wednesday's Paul Revere 250-mile sports car race. The Atlanta driver turned in a record 109.310 miles per hour pace in his GTO-class Chevrolet Camaro, five miles faster than the old Paul Revere standard, to finish about 15 seconds ahead of runnersup Peter Gregg and Hurley Haywood of Jacksonville, Fla. "It's an unusual occupation for a racing man, I guess," said Felton about his connection with the -owned beauty supply firm. "I get kidded a lot about it, especially when people look at my hands." After winning the $17,500 International Motor Sptrts Association race which began at midnight, EDT, here, Felton plans to take a few days off from his business to concentrate on his 427-cubic-inch engine aro, which revved up to speeds of 194 miles per' hour on the front straightaway to outdistance 43 competitors.

Felton, an admitted pessimlist, had won the pole position for the race over Daytona International Speedway's 3.81- mile, road and track course, but said, "I was not so sure I could hold the lead." His main fear was the two pit stops he needed to fuel his car and the single pit stop needed by the smaller Porsche Carerras Gregg and Haywood and of (fourh-place finisher Mike Keyser of Towson, Md. As it turned out, Felton needed only 45 seconds for his pit stops and surrendered the lead for only two of the 66 laps after his first stop. Residential ROOFING Free Estimates CALL ROGER BURNS 253-0325 RJT INDUSTRIES fore retiring. Mrs. Court won all four titles in 1970, joining the late Maureen "Little Mo' Connolly as the only two women in tennis to do so.

Mrs. Court's service let her down, with nine double faults including four in one vital game in the final set. But Miss Evert beat her fairly. As the center court match reached the nail-biting stage for the crowd of 16,000, only Chris herself retained her cool. Mrs.

Court had hammered Miss Evert unmercifully at Newport, R.I., in their only previous meeting on grass. But Chris won the first set of the Wimbledon semifinal with ease, running up a 4-0 lead before Mrs. Court got in a game. Whenever the tall Australian advanced formidably to the net, Miss Evert calmly lobbed. the ball over her head and on to the baseline.

Chris then dropped her service, but hit a beautiful lob break Mrs. Court for a lead. Then Margaret hit the ball back from beyond baseline only to see Miss Evert drop a dainty shot over the net for the set. Mrs. Court then came to life, driving deep for the lines and volleying confidently while Chris seemed to let up and the second set was Margaret's in 15 minutes.

Miss Evert, trailing 0-40 on her service at the start of the set seemed beaten. But she bounded back and won that game with a drop. In the next! game Mrs. Court hit four double faults and worry lines crossed her face. Chris pitched "lucky" lobs to the baseline, spun her drop shots like fine lace and drovejover.

deeply and accurately to the corners. Mrs. Court held service in the fourth game, but that was all she could manage. The whole crowd rose tol Chris at the end, and the KingGoolagong duel paled in com-! parison. Miss Goolagong, the 1971 champion, and the defending titlist from Hilton Head, S.C., played erratically, but Mrs.

King won the first set comfortably then moved to a 5-4 lead in the second and was serving' the match. Then the crowd awoke. Miss Goolagong saved two match points, the second with high lob to Mrs. King's baseline, and sent the match third set which proved far from perfect but nevertheless exciting. The Australian dropped servlice in the first game but broke back for a 3-2 lead.

At this Mrs. King looked tired 4-Run Seventh Spurs SF Club CINCINNATI (AP) Gary Thomason's run-scoring triple highlighted a four-run San Francisco seventh and the Giants scored a 6-2 baseball victory over Cincinnati Wednesday, snapping the Reds' four-game winning streak. Cincinnati used four pitchers in the seventh as the Giants fought back from a 2-1 deficit and downed the Reds for only the second time in their last eight Ed Goodson led off the seventh with a double to right and scored on Thomasson's triple to dead center. Dave Rader then brought Thomasson home with a single. After Tom Bradley sacrificed and Gary Matthews was walked intentionally, Arnold scored one run with single and when Bobby Tolan! failed to pick up the ball cleanly, the fourth run came around.

Cincinnati had taken a 2-1 lead off Bradley, 7-7, in the fifth when Johnny Bench drove in his 61st run of the year with a two-out double to the rightfield corner scoring Pete Rose. The Reds had taken a 1-0 lead in the second on Davel. Concepcion's infield out. That run was offset in the fifth as the Giants tied the score on Bradley's run-scoring double. SAN FRANCISCO CINCINNATI abrh bi abr bi Matthews, 3000 4100 Rose Morgan If 2b 3110 4000 0 Arnold ph 1011 Driessen 3b 4000 Fuentes 2b 1000 Bench 4011 Maddox cf 5 0 20 TPerez 1b 3110 Bonds rE 5010 Tolan rE 4020 Goodson 3b 1100 4220 Concepen Geronimo SS cE 10 4001 0 0 55 Thomasn 1b 3 11 Stahl rf 2 0 0 DvRader 4122 Hall 3000 Bradley 3011 Borbon 000 0 Sosa 0 0000 Tomlin 0 0 Carroll 0000 Sprague King ph 0 6 0 Total 34 6 10 5 Total 32 2 5 2 SanFrancisco 000 010 410- 6 Cincinnati 010 010 000- 2 E--Concepcion, Tolan.

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But the American received, won the next game and pulled out all her reserves to take the next three games and the match. In the last game, Miss Goolagong saved five more match points, all of them with fine strokes. But at last Mrs. King angled back sharply, Miss Goolagong hit out and it was The men take to the center court Thursday for their semifinals, which include three ropeans and one American. Cards Explode To Whip Pirates ST.

LOUIS (AP) The St. Louis Cardinals exploded for eight runs, including two-run singles by Ted Sizemore and Ken Reitz, in the fourth inning and used the barrage to coast to a 1 11-3 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates Thursday. The Cardinals, winning their fourth straight game, sent 12 batters to the plate during their biggest uprising of the season and pinned the loss on starter Bob Moose, 6-8. Bernie Carbo contributed two singles 1 to the big inning, which was produced by seven hits. Righthander Tom Murphy, 1- 13, contributed a double and a single to the 15-hit Cardinals attack off Moose and Tom Dettore and spaced 10 hits in notching his first National League baseball victory.

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2B- A. Oliver, Simmons, Murphy, Clines, Reitz. 3B--Brock, Clines. (11), SE -Brock. IP RER BB 50 Moose 31-3 8 6 3 Dettore 4 2-3 7 3 1 Murphy 9 10 3 2 HBP-by Murphy (Gonzalez).

WPMoose. PB--Simmons. out five and walked four in raising his record to 2-0. The Yankees, who managed 12 hits in the doubleheader, loaed the bases in the only, first inning and put runners at the corners in the ninth, but could never get to the plate. FIRST GAME BOSTON NEW FORK ab rh bi ab rh bi RMiller RSmith If cf 4000 4120 BAllen Clarke ph 101 2b 3010 Ystrmski 1b 4 1 1 0 Callison rf 3 0 0 Cepeda dh 3000 FAlou ph 100 0 Harper Pr 0000 White 40 0 0 Petrocelli 3b 4 0 Murcer cf Fisk 4010 Blomberg 1b 3 0 0 0 DEvans rE 4000 Sanchez ph 1000 Aparicio Guerrero 25 3010 3010 Hart GNeltles dh 3b 3 3000.

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28--Aparicio, HR- -Murcer (15). Cepeda. IP RER BB SO Culp 8 4 1 1 0 Veale 1 0 0 0 Lyle Slottlemyre 8 1 1 I 0 0 1 Save Veale (8). SECOND GAME BOSTON NEW YORK ab rh bi ab Miller If 3100 Clarke 2b 30001 cf 4000 White 1f 4 0 20 Ystrmski 1b 3 0 1 1 MAlou rf 4 0 2 0 Copeda dh 3010 Murcer cf 2000 pr 0 0000 Hart dh 3010 Petrocelli 3b 4000 Swohoda pr 0 DEvans ri 3010 GNetlles 3b 4000 Mntgiry 3010 FAlou 1b 4 0 Guerrero Kennedy 4010 Moses 4010 26 0 00 Lanier SS 3000 Medich 0 Total 31151 Total 32 0 6 0 Boston 000 010 000- New York 000 000 000-0 1 E--Clarke, DP-Boston 1. LOB--Boston 8, New York 9.

2B -Moses, D.Evans. B- Yastrzemski, M.Alou, R. Miller, White. S-Montgomrs. Moret (W.2-) 9 IP 6 0 ER 0 BB SO 6.

Medich 9 5 1 I 3 7 HBP-by Medich (Cepeda). For Sale or Rent BOATS -ANDMOTORS I GORE'S MARINA BLUESTONE LAKE HINTON, 466-1883 JOHNNY BENCH Gets 61st RBI BECKLEY POST-HERALD PUBLISHED BY BECKLEY NEWSPAPERS CORPORATION 339-343 Prince Beckley, W. Va, 25801 Telephones All Departments Beckley 253-3321. Second-Class mail privilege authorized at post office at Beckley, W. and Hinton, W.

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IP ER BB SO 6 2-30 7 6 4 1-3 2 3 3 0. 3 3 1 2-3 2-3 2-3 6 4 1 3 0 04 1 3 9OAN 2 Casper and Hale Irwin, the winner and runnerup, tively, in last week's Western -decied to go fishing. The long, long tour schedule. now is in its 27th week and many players are beginning to wilt under the grind of seven months of competition. In fact, none of the top 2 money winners of the year are in the Milwaukee field and only three of the top 20.

They are Bob Dickson, Budy Allin and Homero Blancas. Other tournament winners from the year who are on hand are defending Milwaukee Open champ Jim Colbert and Hubert Green. Those five rank high among the list of potential challengers for the $26,000 first prize. Some other top contenders include Canadian George Knudson, Bob Murphy, Ken Deane Beman, Lee Elder, Dale Jones, Jerry Heard, Larry Hinson and Dave Eichelberger. Aiso on hand are veterans Dan Sikes and Bob Goalby and such multiple tour as George Archer, Bob Lunn, Dick Lotz, Dale Dougiass and; Bobby Mitchell.

Mike Hill and Garner Ddickinson withdrew Wednesday, BECKLEY SPEEDWAY 1 MILE NORTH OF BECKLEY PLAZA SHOPPING CENTER FASTEST MILE TRACK IN THE SOUTH SUMMER INVITATIONAL FRIDAY JULY 6 75 LAP 35 LAP FEATURE HOBBY RACE RACE 15 LAP ADMISSION: CONSOLATION 53 GENERAL $4.00 RACE FOR 0. PIT $5.00 CARS THAT RAIN DATE SATURDAY JULY 7 CAR ENTRY DO NOT FEE $10.00 QUALIFY 3 LATE MODEL HEAT RACES TIME TRIALS RACE Children Under 12 Free With 7:30 PM 8:00 PM SHARP Parent FREE PARKING CLEAN REST ROOMS CONCESSION STAND WARREN FRENCH MANAGER SUMMER INVITATIONAL FRIDAY JULY 6, 1973 1.

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