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ti (TUMI HBB.HtlUI.D, mi Toronto fans stay atvay Aussie raps media for thin net crowd TORONTO (AP) There were three winners at the $250,000 Molson Tennis Challenge, but one would be hard pressed to spot them among the gloomy faces at Maple Leaf Gardens. Australian Peter McNamara had a reason to be happy, having clinched a berth Wednesday in the semifinals with his second victory in two nights, but he was angrier than anyone else. Having knocked off American Gene Mayer, 6-3, 6-2, McNamara made a brief appearance before the press and blamed them for the poor turnout and listless tennis displayed during the first two nights of this eight-man exhibition event. "There wasn't really too much atmosphere out there," said an uncharacteristically irate McNamara of the 1,500 or so who showed up out of the announced 3,122 in paid attendance. "I think that the adverse press the tournament has got has made people think they're watching second-class tennis.

"It's not fair that the players who are here have to take the brunt of this. OK, so (Bjorn) Borg and (Ivan) Lendl aren't here, but don't screw up our chance to enjoy ourselves and to play good tennis." In two other lackadasical matches Wednesday night, Jose Higueras of Spain swept Tim Mayotte of the United States 6-4, 6-3 and Mats Wilander of Sweden dumped American Brian Gottfried 6-2, 6-2. Lendl, the defending champion, withdrew Monday because of a strained shoulder while Borg, who was to have made his last appearance here before retiring in April, cancelled Tuesday due to an infected little finger on his left hand. McNamara broke Mayer's serve in the fourth game and held that advantage to take the first set. In the second set, McNamara, ranked 10th in the world, broke in the third and fifth games to open up a 5-1 lead which he kept to win the match.

While McNamara has wrapped up the one semifinal berth in Group of the round-robin segment of the tournament, Mayer and Wilander will be left to battle for the second spot Friday night while Gottfried, winless in two matches, has been eliminated. In Group A draws tonight, Jimmy Connors, with a 1-0 record, faces Mayotte, 0-1, while Vitas Gerulaitis, 0-1, meets Higueras, 1-0. McNamara faces Gottfried in a meaningless match tonight. The top two players in each group advance to the semifinals Saturday. All-sports banquet scheduled May 9 The 1983 all-sports banquet honoring Del Rio High School athletes has been scheduled (or May 9 at Del Rio Civic Center, according to Laura Sinclair.

The Lions Club again will provide and serve the meal. Ticket information will be announced after a meeting Monday of the Rams' All-Sports Booster Club directors. The banquet is the No. 1 social event of the school year for the athletic teams. Its top players in each sport are honored and the outstanding male and female athletes are announced.

Trophies will be presented. All athletes participating in spring sports will be introduced at a 7:30 p.m. meeting on Feb. 17 of the booster club. The meeting will be held in the Little Theatre at the high school.

sweet for Cleveland CLEVELAND (AP) Cleveland State University seems to have defeated the University of Akron 82-82. In the record books, the score of Tuesday night's game reads Cleveland State 83, Akron 82. But a review of the game has shown that Cleveland State was mistakenly awarded an extra point in the first half of the contest, and that proved to be the margin of victory when the Vikings' Lee Reed scored on a desperation shot at the buzzer. "I honestly don't know," said Cleveland State sports inform aton director Merle Levin when asked why the error was not caught. "I can't give you an answer because I don't know." "It was just one of those things that got by everybody," said Akron sports information director Ken McDonald.

"I have to take the blame for this. In 20 years, that's the first time it's ever happened to me." Torre still likes big but happy about Atlanta JL By WILL GftlMSLEY Associated Press Writer In Joe Torre's ease, you can take the man out of the city but you can't take the city out of the man. "I always enjoy coming back to New York," said the swarthy onetime manager of baseball's New York Mets, now head of the brain- trust for the rich and pennant contending Atlanta Braves. "I've still got strong roots here a couple of brothers and a couple of sisters, a lot of pals going back to my Brooklyn boyhood days and baseball contacts that I still maintain. "I've sold my restaurant but still do an ad for Ponte's, owned by a longtime friend, and keep certain commercial ties.

"But Atlanta is a great city. It's good to be with a winner. I am excited about the coming season." Torre blew into town with a snowstorm this week, a feathered cowboy hat sitting jauntily on his head, a fur-collared coat protecting him from the cutting winds and gn eight-inch cigar sending up smoke like a factory chimney. "No, I never have chewed tobacco as most of the guys do," he said, disdaining one of the game's most revered traditions. "I just smoke cigars." In fact, Torre is the national spokesman for Friends of the Cigar, visiting key cities in behalf of the weed's marketing association.

"My brother, Wrank, got me started when 1 was 19," he added. "1 smoke half a dozen a day, maybe more when 1 am frustrated. 1 go crazy when I can't smoke in the dugout." Frustrations are coming fewer and farther between for the old National League slugger now that he has fled the five years of futility with the Mets and found a haven in the land of "Gone With the Wind," where TV tycoon Ted Turner's dollars cascade like a waterfall. In his first year at Atlanta, he brought the Braves out of the gate with a 13-game winning streak, hit a mid-season slump, then rallied to gain the playoffs and challenge for the National League pennant, losing to the world champion St. Louis Cardinals but gaining Manager of the Year honors.

Torre is aware as is his boss that the Braves have become America's adopted team, shown on television in every state in the country, including Hawaii and Alaska. There is a special incentive to succeed. "I can tell by the mail," Torre said. "I get letters from everywhere, many more than when I was managing the Mets. They are also different in tone.

When I was in New York, the letters tended to be critical and tel me how to manage. These people are very loyal. When you lose, they sympathize. When you win, they cheer you on. "You can't let people like that down." McEnroe advances despite ailing arm RICHMOND, Va.

(AP) Top-seeded John McEnroe defeated Mark Dickson 6-4, 6-1 in his opening match of the $300,000 United Virginia Bank Tennis Classic, but the big news was that McEnroe played at all. Earlier Wednesday, there was a real possibility McEnroe would have to withdraw from the tournament because of tendinitis of the triceps muscle leading to his left (playing) shoulder. McEnroe suffered the injury Sunday in his victory over Ivan Lendl in Philadelphia. The world's No. 1 player pulled out of the doubles but kept his singles commitment.

"I decided earlier in the day that I was going to try to play," McEnroe said. Obviously, I was worried about it, but I came down here and I wanted to play." He indicated there was no guarantee he would able" to'cbhtihue ifr the'single's 1 'saying it was a day- to-day situation. He was due to play unseeded Roscoe Tanner tonight in the second round. "I'm not saying I'm going to play. I want to play, but I don't want to risk any further injury.

I don't want to jeopardize my career," McEnroe said. Although he was never in serious trouble against Dickson, McEnroe said the pain in his shoulder bothered him throughout the 75-minute match. "I was definitely aware of it the whole time" he said. "It hurt me to hit (certain) shots. I tried to play the percentage shots.

I was serving two-thirds three-fourths at most. I just wanted to get the ball in and make him win the points." In another first-round match Wednesday night, No.2 seed Guillermo Vilas of Argentina beat Cassio Motta of Brazil 6-2, 3-6, 6-1. Earlier Wednesday, Steve Denton, Brian Teacher and Eliot Teltscher all scored second- round victories to advance to the quarterfinals. The sixth-seeded Denton defeated Jimmy Arias 6-3, 6-4 and No.8 seed Teacher beat Henri Laconte of France 6-3, 6-3. Teltscher took a 6-2, 6-3 victory over Mike Bauer, who on Monday had ousted No.3 seed Wojtek iFibak.

Seven ex-champions iin field at Sarasota SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) All seven former champions of the $175,000 Sarasota Classic were I back to attempt to become the first two-time win- Iner of the Ladies Professional Golf Association event. It's the eighth year for the 72-hole event, which was to start today. Former champions Kathy Whit; worth, Judy Rankin, Nancy Lopez, Sally Little, JoAnne Carner, Amy Alcott and Beth Daniel are in field. A week-old record for the largest field to enter an (LPGA event should be tied with 133 players scheduled to tee off.

i There were also 133 entries for last week's Arden Classic, won by Lopez, and 132 for jthe season-opening Mazda Classic of Deer Creek weeks ago. The star-studded field, ready to test the Bent Tree Golf and Racquet Club jcourse, includes 88 of the tour's top 100 money winders from a year ago. Jan Stephenson, ranked 10th on the money- 'winnings list in 1982, is the only Top 10 player missing from the field. Whitworth, the all-time leading winner on the tour with 83 victories, won the inaugural tournament in 1976 while Lopez, who won her 26th tournament last weekend, recorded her first career triumph here in 1978. Daniel, runner-up to Pat Bradley in the Mazda Classic, is the defending champion.

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