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-Fit, June, 30, 1989 Asbury Park Press 6 Horse Racing 8 Golf 10 Outdoors Franco admits giving Rose scores Bill IIANDLEMAN to Taking it one horse at a time minute ticker in the players' lounge during games." Besides having been reported as being familiar with Rose's gambling activities, Franco also is said to have introduced Rose to Michael Bertolini, the 23-year-old Brooklyn native who has been the Reds manager's partner in memorabilia shows. Bertolini also is alleged to have handled bets for Rose through an unidentified Staten Island By BILL MADDEN New York Daily News CINCINNATI RELIEF pitcher John Franco, the first player to be directly linked to Pete Rose's gambling activities, has admitted "running" pro football scores and results to the Reds' manager during the course of baseball games. 'J The Brooklyn-born Franco, who led the National League in saves last -year, is named as "one of nine peo- testimony. Besides Franco, the only other person not previously linked to the investigation was Reds broadcaster Marty Brennaman. According to the depositions, Paul Janszen, who has said he placed Rose's baseball bets with bookmakers, told one of Dowd's investigators that there were "nine people" who knew of Rose's gambling activities.

Franco was never interviewed by Dowd and admittedly was surprised to learn his name had come up in the depositions and exhibits that support the Dowd report. "Am I the only player in it?" Franco asked The Dayton Daily News. When informed that he was, Franco replied: "Well, I know he (Rose) gambles big, but I don't know anything about baseball. "Me and (fellow Reds reliever) Ron Robinson used to check on the football games for Pete on the 10- Baseball Commissioner Bart Giamatti meets with Rose's lawyers Page D4 pie" said to have direct knowledge of Rose's gambling in the seven volumes of evidence compiled by baseball's special investigator, John Dowd. The other eight are primarily the assorted bookmakers and Rose confidants who already have provided Evert, McEnroe win at Wimbledon i By SALLY JENKINS The Washington Post WIMBLEDON, England To be a player of note was to be imperiled on this strange, nerve-wracking afternoon at Wimbledon, as third-seeded Gabriela Sabatini and fifth-seeded Zina Garrison were upset, and Martina Navratilova, Chris Evert, Pam Shriver and John McEnroe all were threatened in only the second round.

It was almost too much to cope with yesterday, the turns and twists in matches across the green expanse of the All-England Club. Garrison, a U.S. Open semifinalist last year, rallied from a 0-5 deficit and saved five match points only to succumb to Australian Louise Field, ranked just No. 121, 1-6, 6-2, 7-5. Sabatini, ranked No.

3 and only three years ago a semifinalist here, was defeated, 6-4, 6-3, by No. 36 Rosalyn Fairbank of South Africa. "I lost the match and didn't even realize what happened," Sabatini said. "It went so fast." That was a sentiment echoed across the lawns, as numerous favorites found themselves at unforeseen deficits. Twenty seeded players began second-round play with what should have been routine matches.

What was most surprising at the end of a hectic, rain-soaked day was that with all of the threatened upsets, only four came to pass. The other two seeded players who lost were No. 15 Mikael Pernfors, to fellow Swede Peter Lundgren, 7-6 (7-4), 6-2, 6-4, and No. 16 Susan Sloane was upset lost to Laura Gilde-meister, 6-3, 7-5. No.

8 Shriver had to save three match points in the final set against Sara Gomer of Great Britain before she finally advanced at dusk, 6-4, 3-6, 8-6. No. 4 Evert trailed Hu Na, a U.S. citizen who defected from China, by 1-5 in the first set of their match on Centre Court. But she won the next nine games consecutively and went on to a 7-5, 6-3 victory.

Navratilova's fate was still in doubt, the only women's seed not to finish play. That is because she lost the first set and was down by a service break in the second before she evened her match, 3-6, 6-3, against 1 9-year-old Kristine Radford of Australia. Radford is ranked 1 76th in the world and has earned only $13,211 since turning pro last January. At a tuneup event in Birmingham two weeks ago, Navratilova had beaten her 6-4, 6-2. There, Navratilova saw that Radford did not have proper grass-court sneakers, and made her a gift of three pair.

Radford wore a pair Thursday. No. 5 McEnroe, who had come from two sets down in the first round against Australia's Darren Cahill, had an only slightly less difficult time yesterday in defeating No. 106 Richey Reneberg of the United States, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 7-5. He trailed by service breaks in both the third and fourth sets.

"It just says you can run into a tough player at any time," McEnroe said. trr. try I ii rff-fc Associated Press to Hu Na. Xri r': OCEANPORT There aren't a whole lot of people who know Dick Christopher, at least not by name. Some of the denizens of the backstretch know him only as the van driver.

And the people who read the ine print in the Racing Form, they now him as Don Christopher, trainer and part-owner of a'Jightly-raced gelding named Bittyf Sun. To make a long story short, Don fhristopher is Dick Christopher's eousin and the agent for James Terry, who happens to ride Bittys Sun for Dick Christopher. Got that? Furthermore, because Dick Christopher's real name is Dominique, and because Dominique must have founded a lot like Don to some clerk fjmewhere along the line well, you Jtnow how it goes. Dick Christopher doesn't mind, though. As long as they send the check him and not to his cousin Don, he live with all the confusion, tj But speaking of checks, Christopher and his partner, Linda Carpenter, recently received one, right jkher Bittys Sun broke his maiden June i5 at Monmouth Park.

You may not have read about it, it didn't prompt any headlines. Six-furlong events involving Jersey-bred maiden claimers rarely do. That was fine with Christopher too. As was the fact that Bittys Sun ran fifth against a fairly tough group of Jdjrsey-bred claimers yesterday. After all, this was only his second time out tliis year, and only the fourth race of Bis career.

Considering the company hi was keeping, he ran a pretty decent r3ce. "And he came back all right," said Christopher, "so we'll be here to njn tomorrow." Tomorrow being whenever he can find another spot for Bittys Sun. See, that's his stable Bittys Sun. And l)ad it not been for Linda Carpenter, who talked him into this modest venture, there' wouldn't be any stable at all. 3 Christopher had washed his hands this business of training horses.

The lak straw was Grey Drizzle, a green CMy who never made it to the races. I hey say she was born on a drizzly 4y, and she was gray. That's how she gat her name and that's about how (Christopher felt when he couldn't get io much as a morning breeze out of So they gave Grey Drizzle away a couple of years ago and Christopher went back to driving other peoples' horses around from track to track, doing some plumbing on the side. 2 Then Linda Carpenter saw Bittys Sun and he reminded her of Bet Twice, the way he looked, and she persisted, not that it sounds like Christopher needed too much prodding. He may be a master rjjumber and all, but pipes and fawcets don't seem to stir his dreams.

Christopher grew up in a house that sat on a hill overlooking what is now Monmouth Park. At age nine, he tyas playing in those woods, when the Army wasn't conducting maneuvers anyway. By the time he was 1 3, there wjre no more woods and he was sneaking into the track. Soon he was handing out Jack's Little Green Card fot" "a deuce a day." In 1954, he went into the Navy arid traveled the world. He cruised the Mediterranean.

He was in Cuba before Castro was out of the hills. He was all over the place. But somehow he always managed to get the latest issue of Turf Magazine. And wouldn't you -know, his furloughs always seemed to coincide with the Monmouth's racing dates. Anyway, one thing led to another, and pretty soon he was taking care of some real fine horseflesh for the late Cnarlie Sanborn, among others.

"One day I'm rubbin' $6,500 claimers that are life and death to get around the' track," he says, "next day I'm rubbin' Qui Native and North Course." Then he gets his license and he and Linda Carpenter are in business. That was, what, 12 years ago? Seems like yesterday to Christopher. For 1 ,000 they bought a filly named BywayofNewYrk. She made them a little money down at Atlantic City. She could run all day, but she was slow.

And it seemed like she was always in the 10th race, which meant getting home to watch the sun come up. Long days, noon to 4 a.m. But they don't sound so long the way Christopher talks about them. 'i And now there's Bittys Sun. They picked him up for $5,000 or thereabouts.

Bought him off these people who have a farm on Easy Street, in Howell. "I like that, Easy Street," says Dick dhYistopher. Bill Handleman is an Asbury Park Press staff writer. His column appears Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Associated Press John McEnroe, during four-set victory.

No. 7 Miloslav Mecir of Czechslovakia trailed by two sets and then had to save a match point in the final set of his match against Australia's Mark Kxatzmann, thanks to his own double fault, before he prevailed over a player ranked No. 120, 6-7, (5-7), 4-6, 6-1, 7-5, 7-5. Their encounter had been halted by darkness Wednesday night. So had No.

13 Aaron Krickstein's against Javier Frana of Argentina. Krickstein had saved two match points Wednesday and went on to a 4-6, 6-3, 3-6, 7-6, 7-5 victory to make his career record in five set matches 16-5. In a more routine match, third-seeded Boris Becker of West Germany defeated Richard Matuszewski of the United States, 6-3, 7-5, 6-4. French Open champion and No. 7 seed Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario of Spain advanced with a 6-4, 6-3 victory over Julie Halard of Ninth-seeded Natalia Zvereva of the Soviet Union dismissed Eva Pfaff of West Germany, 6-2, 6-3.

Sabatini, a clay-court specialist who lost to American Mary Joe Fernandez in the fourth round of the French, was probably a prime candidate for upset. By comparison Fairbank was due to beat a major player at Wimbledon, after threatening Evert and Navratilova in the last two years. In J987 she took Evert to 7-5 in the third set of their fourth-round match. In 1988, she knocked off two seeded players and led Navratilova leading by a set and a 4-2 advantage in their quarterfinal encounter before she lost by 7-5 in the third. See WIMBLEDON, page D8 THOMAS P.

COSTELLOAsbury Park Press A Pro ft! 1 jr Chris Evert hits a two-handed backhand return Yankees get a win in Detroit By JACK O'CONNELL The Hartford Courant DETROIT Motor City madness finally ended for the New York Yankees last night, but not without a maddening threat by the Detroit Tigers in the eighth inning. A drive by Fred Lynn missed being a grand slam by a couple yardsticks. Dave Righetti drew another breath and got Lynn to line out to center. Righetti worked out of a less-threatening spot in the ninth to save the Yankees' 7-6 victory, their first in 10 games at Tiger Stadium since Aug. 8, 1987.

The Yankees lost two leads before going ahead again in the sixth. Seven of Detroit's last eight victories over the Yankees here came in its final at-bat, but Righetti prevented Tigers heroics this time, if only barely, one night after giving up a game-winning home run to Lou Whitaker. See YANKS, page D3 I Wall Township native Hindley is dedicated to game of soccer By DAN HIRSHBERG Special to The Press Gary Hindley left Wall Township in the mid-1960s to pursue his goals in life. He ventured into an uncertain world; one minute, he might have been secure; the next, he was left wondering where his next paycheck would come from. Welcome to the world of professional soccer in the United States.

After a successful high school career at Wall High School, where he starred in soccer, basketball and baseball, Hindley attended Trenton State College, playing soccer and baseball. Following graduation in 1969, Hindley moved on to Middlebury (Vt.) College, where he was the assistant soccer coach. Four years later, Hindley returned to Trenton State as the school's head soccer and baseball coach. Hindley's life would take on a roller-coaster look in the early 1980s when he decided to leave the world of college sports for the professional ranks. Currently, he is the head coach of the Orlando Lions of the American Soccer League, not to be confused by the other American Indoor Soccer League (now defunct).

See HINDLEY, page D8 "jay et 1 Gary Hindley on the sidelines..