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't 1 Palm Beach Post-Times, Saturday, October 14, 1978 D5 Tennis is the Only Thing Liess Wants To Do 7 can't settle for less. If I can't be best, I don't play. Like cards. I don't like cards because I always lose. I don't like to do something I can't win at so, like poker, if I can't win I don't Zenda Liess The United States had clinched the cup with Kathryn Jordan's win over Anthea Cooper of Great Britain 6-2, 7-5, earlier yesterday.

gave the United States an insurmountable 6-1 lead in the best-of-11 matches (eight singles and three doubles.) In other matches yesterday, Barbara Hallquist of Arcadia, defeated Kate Glan-cy of Great Britain, 6-2, 6-4, and Pam Shriver of Lutherville, the United States' No. 1 player, beat Anne Hobbs of Cheshire, England 6-2, 6-2. Shriver said she was elated with her country's victory, though her performance last night did not directly determine that win. "To win the matches so decisively over Great Britain was an honor and I was glad to have contributed to that," said Shriver, who beat Great Britain's Durie, 6-0, 6-4, Wednesday night. "It was a pretty nice feeling to be on the team.

Though if this match tonight would have been the decisive match, I might have tried a bit harder, for my pride. I didn't want to lose to them." Liess differed in discussing her match which also came as an insurance to the U.S. triumph. "I don't think it would have mattered; I would have played just as hard if we hadn't won it yet," Liess said. In the final doubles match, the U.S.

team of Pam Shriver and Kathy Jordan defeated Anne Hobbs and Joann Duries of Great Britain 6-2, tona Beach all she had was about $2 cash and a checkbook. On the way home, the Datsun twice puttered to a stop and once suffered a flat tire. But Liess, who was due at her Spruce Creek High School to keep score for the boys' basketball games, and her car never gave up. All three times she flagged down help, pleaded for a battery jump start and, after writing out $5 checks to all those who helped her, finally made it by the third quarter of the junior varsity game. "Any other girl would have given up," Liess said proudly.

"But not me. The car would putt-putt-putt to the side of the road but I knew I'd make it. Some other girl would have been scared to death." Liess said that incident best typifies her action on the court never giving up, never crying in agony before the final point. Liess showed that unrelenting quality yesterday when she disposed of JoAnna Durie of Cheshire, England 6-2, 6-3, on the newly-built clay courts at Deer Creek before a crowd of 1,200. It was Liess' second victory for the United States team for which she was playing in the annual Connolly Cup matches against Great Britain.

But though Liess fought with all her gusto, her victory last night was just a cushioning of the United States' cup victory for the fifth time in six years in the event named in honor of Maureen (Little Mo) Connolly Brinker, the first woman to earn the Grand Slam of tennis title (winning Wimbledon and the U.S., French and Australian opens.) By PEGGY GOSSETT PMt Stiff WriUr DEERFIELD BEACH Zenda Liess is a lot like her old car, "the Little Blue Putter." When either she or the 1970 Datsun runs out of gas, they run on sheer determination. "I don't do anything halfway; when I go for something I go all the way at all costs," Liess said yesterday at the Deer Creek Club where she was competing in the Connolly Cup International Tennis Matches. "I can't settle for less. If I can't be best, I don't play. Like cards.

I don't like cards because I always lose. I don't like to do something I can't win at so, like poker, if I can't win I don't play." So when Liess, the 18-year-old from Daytona Beach, begins losing energy in a tennis match, she pulls down deep within her resources and draws on her innate determination to settle for nothing but the best. Just like her Datsun, the ramshackle heap in which she made it home from Miami despite three breakdowns and an empty wallet. The story of her impossible ride home would take too long to retell in its entirety. But in short: Liess turned 18 last Dec.

13. She celebrated by tearing through the Miami Jai-Alai fronton, the dog tracks and the bars in which she sampled her first legal sips of alcoholic beverages. Her 28-year-old brother Dennis and his wife escorted Liess through her birthday escapades, and when it came time for her to return to Day- Live On WEAT Radio 850 Ifinsiila Slate Piiwes'slt AT 1 i i Mississippi Slate Saturday, October 14th Airtime 2:15 PM Kick Off Action 2:30 PM EDT 4 fy PURDY LANE PUB PURDY LANE MILITARY TRAIL CONTINUOUS ENTERTAINMENT 1 I 11 AM TIL I SrWHWJM HWOWRDjS rflHMnWB WtHmnkM BBWWW WMHII BWPlJ FTi Bj'ffJMMM PWWM PWWIM PMWM(bW fPWM jiJ IkMaMiWifl LtHtiilfliM IbMMiuakkfH battUkglM (amf jnjugjf BlMHMattHi BiiAUitaWafl MifcMWMw KtlUiiitjMfta UMUUuiiia PkhjiM P-'f11 "itlj lUttUHItliH lltlKltt" 1 li 1 I i it. COUPON OFFER vex-. 1 1 -vCr i r---i i hi i 1 1 ill V5S! rvrn fun ff-- I pm-i ini MiiDLiairg rrtii 1 3 3 0 Pacers' Rick Robey Gets Position but not Rebound Cavaliers Open Season (m95 ith Win Over Celtics 1 11 alignments or more for one low Any American car NBA Komi chip Does not include commercial vehicles.

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Webster got in early foul trouble and had just nine points. HOUSTON (1111- Barry 5 4-4 14, Tomiano-vich 9 2-2 20, Valone 11 7-10 29, Murphy 10 0-0 20, Reid 3 0-0 6, Dunleavy 7 6-6 20, Jones 0 0-0 0, Watts 1 0-0 2, Bradley 0 0-0 0. Totals 46 19-22 111. NEW YORK (107)- Gondrezick 5 1-2 II, McAdoo 1 1 4-9 26, Webster 3 3-5 9, Beard 3 0-0 6, Cleamons 0 0-0 0, Haywood 6 0-0 12, Williams 7 8-15 22, Bunch 2 0-0 4, Richardson 2 1-1 5, Knight 3 2-4 Glenn 2 0-0 4. Totals 44 19-36 107.

Houston 35 32 20 24-111 New York 27 24 19 37-107 Total fouls-Houston, 27. New York, 24. Prices shown in this ad available at Firestone Stores. Competitively priced wherever you see the Firestone sign. 0 0 0 0 0 Post Wirt Strvfces BOSTON Veteran Walt Frazier triggered a decisive third-period with 12 of his 18 points last night to help the Cleveland Cavaliers rally for a 115-101 victory over the Boston Celtics in a National Basketball Association opener before a packed crowd of 15,276 at the Garden.

Frazier, starting his 12th pro season, caught fire at the outset of the second half as the Cavaliers moved from a four-point deficit to a 12-point lead 80-68 in nine minutes of Play-Boston closed to within six points, 84-78, at the third-quarter mark, but Cleveland pulled away again on the shooting of Austin Carr early the fourth period. CLEVELAND (IIS)- Russell 9 3-3 11, er 3 0-0 6, Chones 6 0-0 16, Fraiier 9 0-0 18, Walker 3 4-6 10, Lambert 1 0-0 4, Furlow 9 4-5 22, Carr 7 2-2 16, Mitchell 0 0-0 0, Davis 1 0-0 2, Hlggs 0 0-0 0. Totals 51 13-16 115. BOSTON (101)- Maxwell 3 6-6 12, Knight 4 7-8 15, Cowens 7 2-2 16, Archibald 6 3-4 15, White 7 6-6 20, Barnes 5 0-0 10, Tatum 1 3-4 5, Chaney 2 2-2 6, Williams 1 0-2 2, Judkins 0 0-0 0, Awtrey 0 0-0 0. Totals 36 29-34 101.

leveland 31 23 30 31-115 Boston 31 27 20 23-101 Fouled out-None Total fouls Cleveland 27. Boston, 20. a Double belted DLC-78 RETREADS 117 101 Pacers Hawks PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) Bob Lanier set a club record with 21 points in the final quarter, but it wasn't enough for Detroit as the Pistons dropped a 107-105 decision to the New Jersey Nets. The game marked the NBA coaching debut of Detroit's Dick Vitale and it was the first basketball game ever played in the Pontiac Silver-dome.

Last year, the Pistons played at Cobo Arena in Detroit. The crowd of 13,688 was a record for a Detroit home game. The old mark of 13,121 was set Dec. 4, 1959 at Olympia Stadium. Lanier, the 6-foot-ll superstar center, scored only nine points in the first half before finding the range.

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WHITEWALLS: Add $2 LANDOVER, Md. Elvin Hayes, Larry Wright and Mitch Kupchak scored 18 points apiece as the Washington Bullets opened defense of their National Basketball Association championship with an easy 117-101 victory over the New Orleans Jazz. Hayes scored 14 of his points in the first half while leading Washington to a 57-38 advantage as the Jazz shot only 35 percent from the floor. He had 10 rebounds before leaving with 4:36 left to play. NEW ORLEANS (101) James 4 1-7 9, Robinson 5 1-1 11, Kelley 9 4-5 22, Goodrich 4 4-4 12, Maravich 7 4-4 18, Griffin 2 1-2 5, McElroy 6 0-0 12, Meriweather 4 0-1 8, Hardy 0 0-0 0, Green 1 0 0 2, Bailey 1 0-0 2.

Totals 43 15-19 101. WASHINGTON (117) Ballard 3 0-0 6, Hayes 9 0-0 18, Unseld 2 5-6 9, Grevey 7 1 2 15, Henderson 5 1-2 1 1, Wright 9 0-0 18, upchak 7 4-4 18, Johnson 4 0-0 8, Dandridge 3 0-0 6, Corzine 0 0-0 0, Phegley 3 2-2 8. Totals 52 13-16 117. New Orleans 16 22 33 30-101 Washington 27 30 30 30- 117 Fouled out None. Total fouls New Orleans 15, Washington 20.

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