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The Palm Beach Post sl SECTldNC SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1988 Sports Everfs illness puts Graf in final Oh, Canada! Green salves '88 wounds with tourney win They didn't leave a wake-up call, but at 4 a.m. Monday morning, Ken and Ellen Green found themselves awakened to the same silent alarm at a Holiday Inn in Burlington, Ontario. Time would pass. They'd toss. They'd turn.

They'd think. They'd talk about everything. The hours went by slowly 5 a.m., 6 a.m., 7 a.m. until it was finally time to get out of bed and go to the golf course. i 'rf hv vv if JX T.

1. V' By JANET GRAHAM Palm Beach Post Staff Writer NEW YORK Chris Evert, whose place in tennis history already has been assured, became a footnote to Steffi Graf's Grand Slam bid Friday when she was forced to withdraw from the U.S. Open semifinals. Evert, a six-time Open champion, has been suffering from acute gastroenteritis since Wednesday night and spent Thursday in her hotel room with a 103-degree fever. The tournament physician, Dr.

Gary Wadler, said she had symptoms of diarrhea, vomiting and fever and although she had improved to a 101-degree fever when he saw her Friday morning, both agreed she was in no condition to play tennis. "I'm disappointed," Evert, who lives in Boca Raton, said in a prepared statement. "It came so suddenly after my match on Wednesday. I got through all my previous matches with the girls I was supposed to beat. I was really looking forward to playing Steffi and being part of her Grand Slam bid.

I could have gone out there with no pressure, TV: Channels 34, 4, 1 1 a.m. Spotlight on lesser seeds 1 1 Results HC hit out and really have given it a shot against Steffi. It's the first time in 18 years of Grand Slams that I've had to default." The last time Evert had to default a match was in the third round of this year's Italian Open against Canadian Helen Kelesi, when she suffered from foot problems. The only other woman to withdraw from either a semifinal or a final match at the U.S. National Championships was Annabella Wis-tar in 1892.

Elisabeth Moore advanced to the final because of the default and defeated Mrs. Alan Harris. Moore then lost to the defending champion, Mabel Cahill, in the Challenge Round. The last player to withdraw from either a semifinal or a final was H.L. Doherty in 1904.

This is the first year since 1974 that Please see OPEN1 1C i "We tried to pretena like we were sleeping," Mrs. Green said from her new four-bedroom home at Bear Lakes Estates. They weren't pretending hard enough. "We were on that edge," said husband Ken from Milwaukee, "waiting to see what would happen." What happened later that morning at Glen THE ASSOCIATED.PRESS Zina Garrison (right) congratulates Gabriela Sabatini after Sabati-; ni's 6-4, 7-5 victory in Friday's U.S. Open semifinals.

Tim rosaforte -1 Late kick lifts Vero I by Panthers By SCOTT ROSENBERG Palm Beach Post Staff Writer FORT PIERCE G.T. Parris had been in similar; situations, so the mind games didn't bother him. Faced with a 26-yard field goal with five seconds; left that would give his Vero Beach Indians a win in the season opener, Parris first had to deal with a timeout called by his coach, Billy Livings, then another called! by Fort Pierce Westwood coach Jim Palla. 4C Summary Parris threw his arms in the air after Palla'sj timeout, but then made the field goal as Vero Beach; beat Westwood 17-14 at Lawnwood Stadium. l.

Abbey was very big in mmmmmmm Ken Green's golf career. After runner-up finishes at Greensboro and Westchester, Green went north instead of south and won the Canadian Open. But it certainly allowed Green to look back on it content rather than with contempt. With that one-stroke victory over Scott Verplank and Bill Glasson, Green moved to 15th on the Tour's 1988 money list with $413,097, and over $1 million in a nearly seven-year career. "Amazing how (the win) turned it around," Green said before the start of the Greater Milwaukee Open.

"It seems so much better now. There is the win now. This year wasn't a shutout. It definitely makes Westchester and Greensboro easier to swallow." It also put him ahead of Mark Calcavecchia in both career victories (three to two) and career money. Green is at $1,227,879, 71st on the Tour's all-time list.

Calcavecchia, whose best finish this year is runner-up in the Masters, is 81st at $1,151,119. Two of the boldest They are also tied for second in the Tour's statistical category for eagles with 11 each, one behind Boca Raton's Joey Sindelar. Green and Calcavecchia are two of the boldest players in America, whether it's at Bear Lakes or the PGA Tour. "We give each other a lot of razzing," Green said. "We bust each other pretty good." Their friendly rivalry goes back to the early 1980s, before the nouveau millionaires struck it rich.

Green took an early lead in their series with victories in the 1985 Buick Open and 1986 International. Then Calcavecchia won the 1986 Southwest Classic and went on to finish 10th on the 1987 money list. But if 1987 was Mark Calcavecchia's year, with a victory in the Honda Classic and a spot on the United States Ryder Cup team, this year has belonged to Green. With a little luck, he could have had three victories and a chance to be PGA Player of the Year. Had it not been for a three-putt bogey on the 72nd hole in the Greater Greensboro Open, where he shot a final-round 67 but lost to Sandy Lyle on the first hole of a playoff, Green would have made the Masters.

Instead, Green spent the week at his home in West Palm Beach. Later in the summer, Green lost to Seve Ballesteros in sudden death at the Westchester Classic, a tournament that meant as much to him as the Hartford Open, since both events are close to his hometown of Danbury, Conn. There was more dignity to this second-place finish, since he was in a playoff with Ballesteros, Greg Norman and David Frost. Another difficult finish It was hard to tell whether Ken Green retained Parris, a senior, was coming off a knee injury that) limited his role as a wide receiver. But he was well enough to kick, and even though he earlier missed an extra point, he was full of confidence.

"I've been in this situation before," said Parris, who kicked a field goal to beat Palm Bay last season. "Coach said they'd call a timeout to psych me out, but he told me not to worry. "It was really nothing but a chip shot." Don't tell that to Palla. He watched his Panthers (h 1) tie the game 14-14 with an 18-play, 86-yard drive that took 6 minutes, 49 seconds. When Robert Cobb threw a 6-yard touchdown pass to Cedric Moore with 7:03 to play, the Panthers pulled to within two points.

Cobb and Moore hooked up again for the two-point conversion. But Vero Beach (1-0) held the ball the rest of the way, and Palla took off for the safety of the team bus, refusing to talk to the press, after Parris' field goal. "I thought it showed that Westwood was more motivated than us. They were quicker and they have a lot of great athletes," Livings said. "But I'm proud of our kids for hanging tough.

RICH VOORHEESStaff Photographer Fort Pierce quarterback Robert Cobb looks for a receiver in the 17-14 loss to Vero Beach. Standardize penalty for positive drug test Si- IS? tin." Mr Please see VERO BEACH4C U.S. keeps Cup; court test coming i The Associated Press SAN DIEGO Dennis Conner won his third America's Cup Fri-; day in a breeze, completing a 2-0 whitewash of New Zealand. But the angry series is headed for a final decision in a courtroom. Sailing at times faster than the 1 wind, Conner drove his 60-foot cat-! amaran across the finish line miles ahead of his huge Kiwi rival.

The race was a repeat-of the first match Wednesday, with the 132-foot New Zealand monohull hopelessly out of it after the first few minutes. New Zealand's owner, Michael Fay, who sued twice to become challenger in a race the Americans did not want, said before Friday's race he would go back to court regardless of the outcome. He claims America's Cup rules outlaw a match between a catamaran and a monohull. New York State Supreme Court Judge Carmen Ciparik, trustee of Please see CUP7C Craig Dolch PRO FOOTBALL Dexter Manley and Lawrence Taylor both are found guilty of substance abuse for the second time in their starry NFL careers. Manley is suspended for four preseason games, costing him $2,000 in lost salary.

Taylor is suspended for four regular-season games, costing him $250,000. It doesn't take an instant-replay official to determine the punishments for these similar crimes were not handed out equally. NFL Commissioner Pete Ro-zelle doesn't offer any apologies for the discrepancies. That's because he doesn't look at the league's get-tough drug-enforcement policy in punitive terms. "This is more a health issue than a punitive issue," Rozelle said.

"We're more concerned with the health of a player than how many regular-season games he may miss. If we find out a player has a substance abuse problem in the preseason, we're not going to wait until the regular season to get him some help. He needs help right away." The timing of the punishments anything from those experiences coming down the stretch in the Canadian Open. If the tournament had been completed Sunday, it might be easy to look back and say he did. He had no problem sleeping Saturday night, never waking until 11 a.m.

Sunday, two hours before his tee time. Through 11 holes, he never hit irons any better. Then a storm blew in and Green had to sleep on it or try one more night. He had a three-shot lead until the 16th hole, when he three-putted. At No.

17, a tap-in putt picked up momentum and stopped 6 feet from the hole on the other side. Green was thinking about the consequences of four-putting when he came to his senses. "Oh my God, you can't four-putt!" he said. He didn't, making the 6-footer. Verplank made it easier for Green at No.

18 when he missed a birdie putt. That allowed Green to lay up with an 8-iron and hit a sand wedge onto the green for a two-putt par rather than ripping a 1-iron and needing birdie. Green's first putt stopped inches away so close that there was no way he would miss it. "It's not my nature to hit putts easy," Green said. "But it's not that I want to be that aggressive." It might have been tough on Green, but how do you think Ellen Green, who is pregnant, felt watching this? "It was easier this time for some reason," she said.

"I felt much calmer." It was her last tournament of the year. She is at home, taking care of her two children, due to have her third Oct. 15. She was there every step of the way at Greensboro, Westchester and in Canada. "I learned how hard it is to win out there," she said.

"In my mind I had Kenny winning while he was playing. You get so far ahead of yourself, thinking about how he'll win, rather than thinking in the present." The present looks good for Ken and Ellen Green. Ken is 12th on the current Ryder Cup points standings, four spots behind Calcavecchia. The only thing better than them making the 1989 Ryder Cup team would be a sudden-death playoff showdown in the $2 million Nabisco Championships of Golf at Pebble Beach in November. Picture this: The players are tied after shooting 67 in the final round at Pebble Beach.

As they're heading out to the playoff hole, a late-afternoon storm blows in off the Pacific, postponing the showdown until Monday. Now that would be worth losing sleep over. may have come under criticism, but almost everyone around the NFL has supported Rozelle's stepped-up drug program. At an owners meeting in Miami last March, Rozelle said he wasn't satisfied with the way individual clubs were handling drug problems, and that he was going to start running the program himself. This was not lip service.

Ro- Please see DOLCH7C THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Conner and his crew defeated New Zealand by an anticlimactic 21 minutes, 10 seconds. SCOREBOARD FOR SEC OPENERS i i' Ball Florida coach Galen Hall says his team's SEC opener Saturday against the University of Mississippi, on the Rebels' home field, presents some special challenges for the Gators. STORY, 8C NATIONAL LEAGUE New York 7 Montreal 3 Pittsburgh 5 Philadelphia 2 St. Louis 6 Chicago 2 Atlanta at San Diego late Cincinnati at Los Angeles late Houston at San Francisco late FLORIDA STATE LEAGUE Daytona Beach 2 WPB Expos 1 SL Mets 4 Tampa AMERICAN LEAGUE New York 3 Detroit 2 Boston 7 Cleveland 4 Toronto 8 Baltimore 1 Minnesota 1 Chicago 0 Milwaukee 2 Seattle 1 California 5 Texas 3 Oakland at Kansas City late Standings 6C Roundups 6C.