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0 WimbledotT title line jean regains 1 Saturday, July 8, 1972 I Goolagong outclassed in straight-set defeat Associated Press WIMBLEDON, England Billie Jean King outstroked Evonne Goola-gong 6-3, 6-3 in a tame tennis final yesterday and regained the Wimbledon women's singles crown afier four years. A victory in the men's final today by Stan Smith over Romania's Hie Nastase would give the Americans a sweep of the singles crowns. The women's final lacked atmosphere and excitement and offered little high class tennis. But Mrs. King, 28, from Long Beach, said it meant more to her than any of her three previous Wimbledon triumphs.

"Its difficult playing a Wimbledon final." she said. "You don't have to play great tennis. You just have to be better than your opponent." -tils ttr A 'rt-Sfc 'JTJ i feU vpAf ri It 9 ffeO -'i yesterday's encounter was all fiiiniiir'''' title at Wimbledon. Mrs Asiooated Press King defeated Evonne 6-3, 6-3, to regain the title Billie lean King, left, of Long Beach, flashes her victory smile after taking the women's singles Jim Ryu Ft reezes Tez Arizona. Republic Portland defeats Phoenix By BOB EGER Vhen ynu get right down to the hastes, it was just one swing of the hat and one swipe of the glove that destroyed the Phoenix Giants last night.

Pinch hitter Gomer Hodge provided the swing, crashing a Charlie Williams curve over the right field fence for three runs in, the eighth inning as Portland registered a 4-3 victory. Kurt Bevacqua contributed the swipe, diving at the last second in left field to snare Dave Schmidt's liner and prevent two Phoenix runs from scoring in the bottom of the ninth. The setback dropped the Giants five games off the pace in the Pacific oast League East as co-leaders Albuqurque and Salt Lake City continued their sizzling pace. Phoenix hopes to make up snme ground tonight in a doubleheader against the Beavers. Skip Pit lock 2-li and Jerry Crider (0-0) are the likely Phoenix hurlers against Rick Sawyer (5-5) and former Giant Jim Mover (6-7) of Avondale.

Though the Giants felt they should have won. perhaps justice was served after all. There certainly was no more deserving individual on the field than Portland pitcher Steve Dunning, the former Stanford star who went right from the college campus to the big leagues in 1070. Dunning didn't make the Cleveland club this year and he had been lloundcr-ing with a 2-7 record and 5.47 earned run average for Portland entering last night's game. Rut he was close to untouchable against the Giants, pitching no-hit ball for innings before Phoenix pitcher Charlie Williams laced a triple to center field to break the spell.

"lie threw great." said Williams. "My first time up he blew three by me. The second time just guessed right and made contact." Jimmy Rosario followed Williams' triple with a walk and after Jeff Mason hil into a run-scoring fielder's choice and Gary Thnniasson walked. Jim Ray Hart delivered a two-run double to center to make it 3-1 Phoenix. That was the only damage off Dunning, who permitted two hits, walked three and struck out eight in seven innings.

Williams, meanwhile, was struggling but getting the job done. He had given the Beavers just one run on nine hits through seven innings when disaster struck. Rob Marcano and Alan Ashby hit one out singles in the eighth, then Hodge, who made his living as a pinch hitter for Cleveland last year, belted Williams' first offering far over the right field barrier. Continued on Page 8fi Imports Page 83 Goolagong, right, stretch and finished fifth. Even after moving up to fourth, he was still one place from qualifying.

The final of the 1.500 today, however, still has Howe, the fastest American and the AAU champion: fast-rising Wottle, the champ, and Ryun, who looks back in stride. Ryun. last after the half mile, assumed command with 5M meters to go in his race by circling, the pack coming off the final turn. He led with one lap left and then simply cruised home looking very relaxed. Earlier, Tom Hill blazed to a 13.2 time for the 110-meter high hurdles and showed he has fully healed from injuries the past two vears.

He won the 1970 AAU title. His heat victory qualified him for the finals of the event. Hill, 22, a former Arkansas State student who is now a private in the Army, equalled the world record but was aided by excessive winds of 4.7 miles per hour. Anything over 4.473 m.p.h. disallows a mark for record purposes.

Hill was one of eight hurdlers qualified for tomorrow's finals of the event. Among those also qualifying were Rod Milburn at 13.5 and Willie Davenport at 13.4. Other qualifiers included Jerry Wilson, the NCAA champ from Southern California, Charles Rich of UCLA, and Tommie Lee White of the Southern Cal Stridors. The favorites all made it into tomorrow's finals of the 40ii-meter dash, but the leader by time was Fred Newhouse, who bettered his liletime best by eight-tenths of a second. Newhouse, now competing for the Associated Press EUGENE, Ore.

Jim Ryun, running with authority the way he did five years ago. blazed the last 800 meters in 1:53.6 and easily qualified for the 1.500-meter finals at the men's U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials last night. The 25-year-old former Kansas star, holder of the world 1 mark of 3:33 1. was clocked in 3:42.2 but eased up and walked into the tape while leading the field by five yards.

Ryun's last lap was clocked in 54.2 seconds and he showed he had much left at the wire. In the first heat of the 1.500, Bowling Green's Dave Wottle ripped off a 54-second last lap to qualify for today's finals. The 21-year-old Wottle bolted out of a box with 150 meters left and finished nearly in a dead heat with Jerome Howe, the AAU champ from Kansas State. Howe actually was the heat winner. Roth were clocked in 3:44.7 and they appeared to be trying to finish equal with each other.

Howell Michael, the former William Mary ace, was the winner of the third heat but was disqualified for bumping another runner in the stretch. That elevated Peggie McAfee of North Carolina into first. McAfee's time of 3:43.9 was seven-tenths back of Michael. Former Stanford star Duncan MacDonald was moved from third to second and fourth-place Cliff West of the Bay Area Stridors moved to third and into the finals. Tom Von Ruden, one of America's top hopes in the race, faded badly in the And on 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 well as in earlier rounds. Miss Goolagong was frequently off target with her first service and lost many points on her soft and vulnerable second serv- ice. A crowd of 15.000 on Wimbledon's center court watched the match quietly. Hundreds of them, in the standing areas, had camped all night on the sidewalks outside the All-England Club.

The fans had hoped for a repeat 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. rials Newhouse, who suffered a serious foot injury early in the season, said he is just rounding into shape. "I ran 45.3 at the AAU meet and I've been working on my start and my kick. I think I've got my race back together." His previous lifetime best was 45.0 last year when he ran third in the National AAU meet.

He was third again this year. World record holder Randy Matson led 12 qualifiers into the shot put finals earlier yesterday, but the surprise performance came from unheralded Brian Old-field. Matson had throw of 69 'i inch and George Woods was second at 6fi-Wa. Oldfield. a 6-foot-5, 260-pounder from Middle Tennessee State, hurled the shot 68-9'' 4 for third place.

His performance was the eighth longest of all time and the fifth best effort ever by an American. All competitors in the shot put finals will start even today, since no qualifying marks carry over into the finals. The year's best shot putter, Al Feur-bach of the Pacific Coast Clubx also made it into the finals, but said he was having pains in his right wrist. Oldfield, considered the happy-go-lucky fellow among America's shot and discus throwers, laughed it up after becoming history's eighth longest shotput-ter. "It felt good," he said of his toss.

"I had to put fear into the hearts of the other guys. I'm coming from nowhere and I want to let them know I'm around." Oldfield recently won the discus at the U.S. Track and Field Federation Championships and two weeks ago recorded a lifetime best 198-5 in the discus. "I just wanted to qualify, really," said Oldfield, "I've never been to a meet this big. and I just wanted to get used to the ring, the crowd and everything else.

Preston Carrington of Wichita, achieved a career best in qualifying for the long jump, leading 12 men into the finals with a leap of 26-M. In the hammer throw, NCAA champ Al Schoterman hit 229-8 to lead 12 men into tomorrow's finals. Hal Connally, seeking a fifth Olympic trip, was fifth among qualifiers at 211-6. Baseball American League East Pet. GB .53 .549 1 i .478 6 .429 9 .414 10' 1 .630 .562 5 .521 8 .500 9' i .440 14 Baltimore Detroit Boston New York Cleveland Milwaukee Oakland Cnicago Minnesota Kansas City California 40 31 39 32 34 34 33 36 40 29 41 West 46 27 41 32 37 34 j4 36 33 42 Texas 30 43 Yesterday's Results .411 16 Milwaukee v.

Oanland 4 Boston 5. California 3, 10 innings Detroit 6, Chicago 4 Minnesota 5. New York 2 Kansas City 6, Cleveland 3 Texas 5, Baltimore 4 Today's oamts Texas (Hand 5-6 and Cox 1-0) at Baltimore (Dobson 9-7 and Alexander 3-41, 2, fwinighf; Kansas City (Nelson 2-2) at Cleveland (Kilkenny 1-1); New York (Stottlemve 7-10) at Minnesota (Blv-leven 8-10'; Det-oit (Slavback 1-2) at Chicago (Bahnsen 10-9); Milwaukee (Brett 4-8) at Oakland (Hunter 10-41; Boston 'Culo 5-7) at California (Allen 2-5). night. 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 netting three ground strokes. Mrs. King took her lead to 4-2 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 linesman called it out. Even Miss Goolagong looked unhappy about it, hut she hit a winning backhand return on Mrs.

King's second service and then produced two more good backhands to win the game. Just 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 leveling at three 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. In the seventh game Miss Goolagong led 40-15, when suddenly Mrs. King produced a stream of winning volleys and broke service.

At this stage Miss Goolagong's first service had deserted her completely. Mrs. King moved in close for the soft second delivery and seized the initiative. 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 the match and led 30-0. But Mrs. King then hit four convincing 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 favorite here.

They sometimes clapped even when Mrs. King made a bad shot. "That was unfair and it worried me," Miss Goolagong said afterwards. But the defeat didn't appear to worry her at ail. She wore her usual sunny smile as Mrs.

King made the winning shot, and went on smiling and chatting with the new champion as they waited for the presentation. Mrs. King won $6,240 Miss Goolagong $3,380. Bob Hewitt and Frew McMillan, the South Africans, beat the U. S.

Davis Cup pair, Smith of Pasadena, and Erik Van Dillen of San Mateo, 6-2, 6-2, 9-7 to win the men's doubles title for the second time. They were also the champions in 1967. Rain stopped play for the day with Mrs. King and Clark Graebner of New York City locked in a mixed doubles semifinal tussle with Ilie Nastase of Romania and Rosemary Casals of San Francisco. Nastase and Miss Casals had taken the first set 9-8 and the second set was tied at 5-5 when it rained.

A second semifinal of the mixed doubles featuring Australians Kim Warwick and Miss Goolagong vs. Peter Cramer and Pam Pretorlus of South Africa was postponed until today. Standings National League East 46 43 39 39 32 26 Pcf. .630 .589 .5:4 .527 .438 .351 ct New York Si. Louis Cnicaao Montreal Philadelphia Cincinnati Houston Los Angeles Atlanta San Francisco 27 30 34 35 41 3 7 7' 14 west 44 29 .603 44 32 579 39 35 .527 5' 3 36 40 474 9 32 48 400 15'i 77 48 360 It San Uiego Yesterday's Results St.

Louis 3. Houston 1 Los Anaeles 6. New York 1 Montreal 7, San Francisco 2 P-iiladelohia San Diego 2, 1st San Diego 6, Philadelphia Chicago 2, Cincinnati 1 Pittsburgh 10. Atlanta 2, 1st Atlanta 3, Pittsburgh 2, 2nd Toaav-s Oames San Diego (Caldwell 3-4) at Philadelphia (Chamoion 4-4), night; Pittsburgh (Blass 9-2) at Atlanta (Reed 7-8). night; San Francisco (Marichal 2-10) at Montreal (McAnally 1-1C), night; Los Angeles (John 741 at New York (McAnOrew 5-3); Chicago (Reusrhel 3-0) at Cincinnati (Nolan 11-7); Houston (Reuss 5-7) at St.

Louis (Cleveland 9-4), night. Army, ran 44.2, fifth fastest time on record in the event and the fastest time ever recorded at sea level. Wayne Collett of the Southern California Striders was the winner of the second heat in 44.8 ith world record-holder Lee Evans second at 45.0. Vince Mathews of the Brooklyn Over the Hill A A was 'second to Newhouse in 44 8 with John Smith of UCLA third in 45 2. Manzy win to Brown Gene Brown, in dire need of a sponsor last week, picked up one just in time and his luck continued through last night.

Brown's new sponsor, Aquazyme of Arizona, got its first return benefit last night at Manzanita Speedway when Brown captured the rain-shortened super modified main event. Mike Stewart won the cofeatured claimer race, his first of the season. Brown, in winning his second modified main of the season after missing last week's race due to a damaged radiator, passed Jerry McClung in heavy traffic on the 15th lap and led until the rains came on the 27th lap when flagman Norm Zeeman hurriedly waved the checkered three laps from the scheduled finish. McClung was still dogging Brown's tail when the heavy rains made the track slick and unsafe. The race marked the third time this year that Brown and McClung have run 1-2 in a modified main event Brown winning two and McClung one.

McClung had started in the second row and Br own the third but it was Robert Harrell, the current modified point leader, who had the furthest to go. Harrel came from the last row all the way to third at the finish, aided by early yellow flags and one restart due to a rash of first lap mishaps. Brown's victory over McClung also gave him a little more breathing room in their current battle for all-time main event wins at Manzanita 85-71. Billy Van Meter, Ronnie Shuman and Buster Kirk crossed the line after the three frontrunners with everyone finishing under a yellow flag. Stewart held off claimer point leader Larry Dagley, Jack Thompson, Phil Her-rel.

Gary Belcher and Jim Evans in one of the better claimer races of the year. Other modified winners were McClung in the semi. Herrell the dash and Bob Moore, Van Meter and Wayne McGona-gle in heat races. Claimer winners for the night included Thompson in the semi. Belcher in the dash and Herb Sperling, Keith Barone, Ed Bennett and Evans in heats.

MIKE GARRETT si 'S'Ty Sports today RADIO-TELEVISION I Tennis Slan Smitn vs. Ilie Nastase In Wim- a bledon men's singles finals (taoed from eirlier 3 tpdavl, Ch. 9:30 a.m.; Billie Jean King vs. i Evonne Goolaoong in Wimbledon women's singles finals (taped from yesterday), Ch. 12, 5 2 p.m.

Maior League Baseball Chicago at Clncln- nali (N.L.I, Ch. 12. 11 a.m.; Los Angeles at i New York (N.L.), KTAR (6201. 11:10 a.m.; Boston at California (A.L.). KXTC (FAA 92.3), .8 o.m.

Wildlife Views From Arizona (filmed), Ch. 3. noon. fi Wide World of Sports U.S. Men's Olympic fe Track and Field Trials at Eugene, Ore.

(taped) 5 jj and oreview of Bobbv Fischer-Boris Spassky a World chess championship match at Revkiavik, a Iceland (taped), Ch. 3. 5 p.m. a Rodeo National Intercollegiate Rodeo a K- Bojeman, Mont, (filmed), Ch. 8, 7 p.m.

I Box ng From Mexico (filmed), Ch. 21, cm. Pacific Coast Lcacuc Pet. .591 GB .438 ,427 13 14 420 l4Va EASTERN DIVISION Pet. GB Albuoueroue 53 36 .596 Salt Lake S3 36 .596 Phoenix 48 41 .539 5 Tucson 36 54 .393 Last Night's Results Albuquerque 10, Tacoma 1 Salt Lake 8, Hawaii 6 Portland 4, Phoenix3 Tucson 5, Eugene 2 WESTERN DIVISION Eugene 52 37 Tacorna 39 50 Hawaii 38 51 Portland 37 SI Tonight's Games Hawaii at Salt Lake Tacoma at Albuouerqu Portland at Phoenix, 2 Eugene it Tucson Republlc photo by Nyle Leatham tired on Fred Smith's grounder to third was Jack Heidemann (18), but throw to first was too late to catch Smith, who is out of picture.

Phoenix Giants' Dave Schmidt fires to first baseman Gary Thomasson in unsuccessful attempt to complete double play in third inning last night. Re- i.