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REPUBLIC mm Gljjuly; The Arizona Republic Tue 3 1984. Greatest Show on Earth, featuring 300 circus performers and scores of animals, including rare white tigers, will stop in Phoenix for 25 performances beginning today. C5. Baseball C2 PCL C2 Update C3 Scoreboard C4 yWJ life Irony accompanies Wranglers' big victory along with the first-year highs and lows we've had. But this is about as low as you can feel.

"To be in control for so long and end up losing it in that fashion is very tough. "But give Arizona credit They didn't need many opportunities." Guard Billy Kidd, noting all the wasted opportunities, said, "We had all the confidence in the world that we were going to win. But we didn't have that killer instinct to put it away." The Wranglers know the feeling. It probably was like looking in a mirror. The Wranglers dominated the Express in Los Angeles only to lose, 24-17, several weeks ago.

There were other games like that Wranglers, C4 Mack Boatner usually replaced Kevin Long and Tim Spencer. Dennison said he would describe his career "as one of dependability." And, he said, "I enjoy my work." With a little more than seven minutes to play Sunday, it did not seem possible the Wranglers could win. They trailed, 16-3, at the time. The Wranglers scored 14 points in the final 6:11 and won. It left some Gamblers players bewildered.

"I don't know what happened," said running back Todd Fowler. "All I know is that we destroyed them on the field, and they beat us on the scoreboard." "I guess," said Gamblers head coach Jack Pardee, "it goes right He had two good years in Dallas. In 75, he played 13 games, rushed for 383 yards and scored seven touchdowns. Dennison's best season was '76, when he ran for 542 yards and scored six TDs. However, his career slowly played out After laying out the 79 season, Dennison struck out for Canada, where he played with Toronto of the CFL in '80, then retired.

"It really was a premature retirement," Dennison said, "because I tore up my knee." He could have played on, he said. "It was a question of whether I wanted to." Last year, he joined Allen with the Chicago Blitz. Dennison's role evolved this season into more of a receiver coming out of the back-field. On passing downs, he and ByWaltJayroe Republic Staff For four NFL seasons, 1974-77, George Allen and Doug Dennison were "enemies" of the highest order in football. Dennison was a running back for the Dallas Cowboys at the same time Allen was coaching the Washington Redskins.

Big rivalry. Strangely, Dennison's catch of an 11 -yard pass Sunday in Houston gave Allen his first USFL playoff victory, 17-16, and nudged the Arizona Wranglers into the Western Conference final Saturday in Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe against the Los Angeles Express. So what are their feelings now? "I respect George Allen," Dennison said. "He used to get to coach Tom Landry, and I never knew why. "I can understand that now.

Everybody wants to beat George Allen, whether it's marbles, football lorwhat." Allen was quoted by a Houston reporter as saying, "Well, I like some of those former Dallas Cowboys." It was Dennison's first touchdown catch of the season and came on a crossing pattern over the middle. Another Landry, Greg, the Wranglers' quarterback, threw the pass. Dennison, 32, was one of those small-college unknowns that the Cowboys' scouting system had a knack for uncovering. After playing at Kutztown State in Pennsylvania, he was bypassed in the NFL draft. The Cowboys signed him as a free agent.

API Sure thing Jim Kelly, rookie quarterback of the Houston Gamblers, was selected USFL Player of the Year. Update, C3. AP McEnroe win over Scanlon anticlimactic By Steve Daley Chicago Tribune WIMBLEDON, England John McEnroe rid himself of a nemesis, but Ivan Lendl all but acquired one in the seventh day of play at Wimbledon. McEnroe, defending his men's singles title, dispatched Bill Scanlon in straight sets, 6-3, 6-3, 6-1, and advanced to the quarterfinal round. Lendl, winner of the French Open and seeded second, needed every shot at his disposal to get past unseeded Californian Scott Davis, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4, 5-7, 7-5.

Others moving into the quarterfinals were Jimmy Connors, Pat Cash, Tomas Smid, Andres Gomez, Paul Annacone and John Sadri, who upset Vitas Gerulaitis. For the women, top seed Martina Navratilova advanced to the quarterfinals when her opponent Elizabeth Sayers of Australia, retired because of breathing difficulties after a 6-0 first set. Chris Evert Lloyd, seeded second, had her fourth-round match with fifth seed Claudia Kohde-Kilsch of West Germany postponed because of darkness. It will be played today. Hana Mandlikova, the third seed, beat Helena Sukova, No.

14, in straight sets. Pam Shriver, Kathy Jordan and England's Jo Durie advanced, along with Bulgaria's Manuela Maleeva and Sweden's Carina Karlsson, who ousted Andrea Temes-vari, the No. 15 seed. McEnroe made a shambles of his long-awaited match against Scanlon, who beat him in the U.S. Open last year.

He took the play away early in an uneventful match. The umpire, a mother of five, didn't get in the way of a controversy at any point in the match. "When he's going to play like that," said Scanlon, "I can't be ashamed. I'd have to say, without a doubt that's the best he's ever played against me." Mac the Nice was understated, pleased and proud to make the quarterfinals, where he'll face Sadri, who is useeded. "Everybody was making a big thing out of our match," said McEnroe of Scanlon, "and I expected we were just going to play it.

"It was important to be ready to play every point and not get distracted. If I can keep this up, play as well as I did in the third set, I'll have a good chance in the matches later this week." Lendl needed five sets, Vh hours and 14 service aces to move past Davis, who earlier this summer eloped with Andrea Jaeger's sister, Susy. "I know he's a good player," said Lendl, who will meet Smid in the quarterfinals. "His serve-and-volley game is very well suited to grass. In the fifth set, I thought, 'Just hang in there and play every point Do the best you can, and maybe you can string it all Lendl succeeded barely.

He dropped the fourth set 7-5, after appearing to have the match under control at three sets to one. Wimbledon, C4 Displaying his classic power swing, Henry Aaron, baseball's long-ball king, follows the flight of his first- inning home run that gave the NL Old-Timers a 2-0 lead. "2 Old-timers still swinging: IML. HUlllCId DUUUUC ML Associated Press WASHINGTON The waistlines are bigger and the gait is slowed, but the home-run swings that cheered generations of America's baseball fans still were alive I ever hit" Bench, who at 36 was the youngest participant, was thrilled to be playing in his first old-timers game. "All these guys were heroes to I hope they ask me back.

I Monday night as the National iiomiA Kloof at tta uratr a a Q.A liaise virion, nor its Ameriron iarno would like to catch a Warren hpahn "vmmmmmmmmn counterparts in the third annual or Sandy Koufax, he said. Cracker Jack Old-Timers Classic. "It felt orettv eood to hit one Six home runs were hit on a rainy out," said Killebrew, who started 1 I fit iL night in the nation's capital his major league career with the original Washington Senators in Sll' 1954. "But it seems a lot longer going around the bases than I The five-inning game attracted a crowd of 29,698 despite the inclement weather. Hitting homers for the National League were Henry Aaron, Johnny Bench, Tom Haller and Billy Williams.

Harmon Killebrew and Andy Etchebarren homered for the American League. "This is Washington, the most rjowerful citv in the world. You've Aaron, baseball's all-time home got to bring your power when you run king with 755, splintered his come here," said former Chicago bat as he drove a pitch from Bob Cubs great Ernie Banks. "You never lose the joy, thrill, of hitting a home run," Williams said. Feller about 300 feet into the left-field seats for a 2-0 NL lead after one inning.

The biggest cheer of the evening was reserved for Joe DiMaggio. The former New York Yankees center fielder received a standing ovation. AP "Next to a home run I hit off Bob Gibson in the 12th inning on Among those who played in the Cracker D.C., were American League teammates opening day in Chicago one year, Jack Classic in Washington, Luke Appling (left) and Bob Feller. this has to be the biggest home run 8m miash Today UA's DiCarlo earns star status at' trials tv.rrv 1-1. i f.

I I triafs. ByTimPovtak Kostoff, who finished fourth at the mmmm mm Iff ltlfir Klfefii Orlando Sentinel INDIANAPOLIS Unheralded George DiCarlo never saw the clock during his freestyle race last Saturday night, but he knew exactly what was happening. The crowd of 4,000, growing louder with each lap, was telling him clearly. He was about to become the new star of the U.S. men's swimming team.

He was about to become America's premier distance swimmer. He was about to break the oldest American swimming record, set in 1976, just as he had broken the second-oldest record last Thursday. Little-known when the Olympic swimming trials opened, his status has changed drastically. "The last 400 yards the crowd carried me," DiCarlo said. "This was the biggesttneet of my life." DiCarlo won the 1 ,500 freestyle race easily in 15:01.51.

He was the only swimmer at the trials who set two marks. He also captured the 400-meter freestyle in 3:51.03. It was the first time he had won both in the same meet. DiCarlo, who lives in Denver and swims for the University of Arizona, was ranked No. 17 in the world at 1,500 meters in 1983.

Even this year at the NCAA championships, he finished second to Jeff With the Soviet Union's announced boycott of the Olympics, DiCarlo has a good chance at two gold medals in Los Angeles. Without the world's greatest distance swimmer, Vladimir Salnikov, in the Olympics, DiCarlo becomes the favorite. Not bad for a guy who wasn't even invited to the luncheon preceding the swim trials that honored the stars of the team. "We really haven't gotten a lot of recognition swimming in Tucson," DiCarlo said. While some members of America's Olympic team may be past their prime holdovers from the 1980 boycott and some may not have reached their prime, DiCarlo appears to be timing things perfectly.

"I came here thinking about winning both races," DiCarlo said. "Maybe I was able to sneak up on some people, but it didn't really surprise me." DiCarlo became the first American to swim the 1,500 meters under 15:10. The world record is 14:54.75 by Salnikov. "I want to be the first American under 15 minutes. If everything goes right, that could come in the Olympics," DiCarlo said.

Sports broadcasts Television Major league baseball Montreal at Atlanta, WTBS (cable), 4:30 p.m. Chicago at San Diego, WGN (cable), 7 p.m. Tennis Wimbledon '84, HBO cable), 5 p.m. Other Wrestling, USA (cable), 5 p.m. Radio Major league baseball California at Toronto, KIKO-FM (100.3), 4:15 p.m.

Chicago at San Diego, KCKY (1150), 6:40 p.m. ,4 Pittsburgh at Los Angeles, KTAIU (620), 7:30 p.m. I'-'l 4 George DiCarlo (wearing UA swim cap) reacts to his second record.