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section Bruce Keidan 2 Horse racing 6 Jim Bjishline 7 Obituaries 8 TVRadio' 9 sports Friday, June 24, 1977 Stanky quits 3d seed Vilas fails to Martin Ramirez also loses at Wimbledon after one nigh in the dugout fir '4 1 iTTf I' ft W.A pty vSA Associated Prest MINNEAPOLIS Eddie Stanky abruptly quit after only one game as manager of the Texas Rangers yesterday to return to his former job as a college coach. Third base Coach Connie Ryan was named interim manager by Eddie Robinson, executive vice president of the Rangers. It was expected that Ryan will take over for the remainder of the season. Robinson said no decision would be made on another manager until he discussed the matter with team owner Brad Corbett. Stanky, 59, made his comeback as a major: league manager as Texas beat Minnesota, 10-8, Wednesday evening.

Frank Lucchesi was fired as the Rangers' manager less than 24 earlier. Stanky signed a contract that carries through the 1978 season, but with the clause that he could quit at any time. A startled Robinson received a telephone call about 8:15 a.m. yesterday from Stanky, who was at the airport here heading home to Mobile, Ala. "You've got to be kidding," Robinson said he told Stanky.

Robinson said Stanky responded that he had thought it over all night and decided that he couldn't leave his family and aged father. "He had deep pangs of remorse," said Robinson. Robinson said Stanky told him, "You've got a good ball club, you've given me a wonderful contract and 1 know what I'm turning down." "1 should have known better," Associated Prest WIMBLEDON, England-It was a black day for Latin America's top seeds at Wimbledon yesterday. Billy Martin, a chunky 20-year-old from Palos Verdes, shocked third-seeded Guillermo Villas, the touch artist from Argentina, 6-2, 64, 6-2, in the third round of men's singles at the Wimbledon Tennis Tour-. nament." Then, Tim Gullikson, the right-hander of the twins from Onalska, upset the No.

7 seed, Raul Ramirez of Mexico, 6-3, 6-4, 3-6, 7-9, 6-4, in a four-hour match. Another shock in the men's singles came when Kim Warwick of Australia eliminated Bob Lutz of San Clem- ente, 6-4, 3-6, 6-4, 2-6, 8-6, in the third round. Thus far, seven of the 16 male top seeds have been wiped off the grass at Wimbledon. Bjorn Borg of Sweden, the reigning titleholder, managed to get through in a marathon match that ran only three sets but lasted 37 games. Borg, the No.

2 seed who had a second- round fright against Mark Edmond-son of Australia Wednesday, ousted Nikki Pilic of Yugoslavia, 9-7, 7-5, 6-3. By contrast, the seeded women had it all their own way today. Chris Evert, the No. 1 seed and defending champion, led a procession of five seeds who all won without dropping a i single set. Evert, the precisionist from Fort Lauderdale, beat Britain's Winnie Wooldridge, 6-0, 6-2, then complained gently that she wasn't play- ing her best because so far she hadn't had enough hard matches to sharpen her game.

Her match got Evert through to the third round. In the first round, she has had another easy victory in beating Ruta Gerulaitis of Kings Point, N. 6-0, 6-3. The only ranked woiran who had anything of a fight was Francoise Durr of France. Virginia Ruzici of Rumania took her to the 12th game in the second set, but even then Durr won, 6-3, 7-5.

The other seeded women who won were Sue Barker of Britain, who beat Ann Kiyomura of San Mateo, 6-2, 6-1; Martina Navratilova, the Czech who has exiled herself in the United States, who defeated Lesley Charles of Britain, 6-2, 6-2, and Mima Jausovec of Yugoslavia, who downed Wendy Turnbull of Britain, 6-4, 6-3. Vilas, who won the French Open on clay nearly three weeks ago, hasn't (See WIMBLEDON on 4-C) Stanky said later, after arriving in Mobile. The Rangers were in a third-place tie with Kansas City in the American (See STANKY on 2-C) Associated Press Heading home, Eddie Stanky talks to a reporter while changing flights in Atlanta Eddie Robinson spreads the news omesick Stanky stays step ahead of shark Analysis in doing what is so difficult for others. He had walked away, more or less intact, after two stormy terms as a major league manager in St. Louis and Chicago.

He had stayed in the game, but at a less hectic level, running the program at the University of South Alabama. For nine years, the siren song that baseball sings to its people had fallen on deaf ears. But the game never gives up. It saw the twinkle in Stanky's eye and it (See ANALYSIS on 2-C) But Stanky has to be the first of the breed to develop homesickness and if anybody else had it before him, certainly none of them discovered it faster. Stanky lasted exactly one night on the job, piloting Texas to a hardly serene 10-8 victory over Minnesota.

It took him only nine innings to figure out that this was not the place for a 59-year-old man to work his way toward Social Security. Oh, it wasn't the job, said Stanky, it was the geography. If the Rangers could just relocate to Alabama, there'd be no problem at all. Then he could be close to home, his aged father and family, and still be back in the big leagues, all at the same time. Major league baseball is like a narcotic to the men who make this game their careers.

They cannot simply walk away from it, shut the door and start new lives. Always, in the backs of their minds, there is that one more chance at the big leagues. Stanky, it seemed, had succeeded By Hal Bock Associated Press Eddie Stanky never was exactly predictable. He had the guts of a burglar on the ballfield and he showed yesterday that the years' have not robbed him of his mischievous nature. Less than 24 hours after returning to the major leagues as manager of the Texas Rangers, Stanky walked away from the job.

He was, he said, homesick. Now you must understand that the task of managing a major league baseball team has been known lo send otherwise stable men off into the night, mumbling incoherently to themselves. Hair Jurns gray, stomachs bubble. Those problems come with the territory. Call them the managerial Everett gets unanimous decision Cauthen comes back in his winning style In his second ride, he finished seventh on Sara Crewe in the third race.

On his other two mounts, Cauthen finished third on Secret Visit in the fifth race and eighth on Capulet's Song in the eighth. The victory on Little Miracle was the nation's leading rider's 277th win of the year, but his first at Belmont Park. It was at Belmont on opening day, May 23, that Cauthen went down when Bay Streak broke a leg. The rider suffered a broken wrist, a fractured rib and cuts of the hand and face in the mishap, in which Jorge Velasquez was also hurt. "I enjoyed my rest," Cauthen said yesterday morning.

"I was relaxed for the first two weeks and then I got better. And when you get better, you want to race." Cauthen then replaced his uniform of jeans, sports shirt and a summer straw hat with jockey silks and went out and did his thing. Cauthen came back as an apprentice, but the hve-pound weight allowance that goes with that status will be taken away Tuesday. Associated Prest NEW YORK Steve Cauthen, cheered from the paddock to the post, returned to the races yesterday after a month's layoff because of injuries and won with his first mount, a 4-year-old claimer named Little Miracle The 17-year-old riding sensation sent Little Miracle between horses an eighth of a mile from the finish and, with the crowd rooting him on, finished lengths ahead of Pilot's Son. "Thataway, Steve! We missed ya!" bellowed one fan as Cauthen brought Little Miracle to the winners circle, where they were surrounded by a battery of photographers and television cameramen.

"Thanks a lot," shouted another bettor, who obviously was Headed for the cashier's window. Little Miracle, a slight favorite, paid $8.20, $4.80 and $3.40. Cauthen's return came in the second race, on a sunny day and Little Miracle was his first of four mounts an the program. Mike Everett, the brother of slain junior lightweight contender Tyrone Everett, won a unanimous decision over Rocky Ramon of San Antonio at the Arena last night on an evening dedicated to his brother's memory. As more than 1,200 fans watched, Everett knocked Ramon out of the ring in the tenth round of the bout, which was the feature attraction of an 8-bout benefit card.

All proceeds go to the Tyrone Everett Memorial Scholarship Fund at Bok Vocational Technical High School, which both Everetts attended. Everett's victory came in one of the two 10-round bouts on the card. Everett weighed 142 pounds and Ramon 140. Everett, who is ranked seventh by the North American Boxing Federation, upped his record to 23-4-1, while Ramon, who came into the fight with i ff11 tr 41-R Ramon had won 19 fights by knockouts in 1975 alone. In the other 10-rounder, Philadelphia light heavyweight Matthew Franklin, 175, took a sixth round technical knockout over Ed "Savage" Turner, 179, Orlando, Fla.

Referee Bob Polin stopped the fight at 52 seconds of the sixth round. There were six preliminary bouts as local fighters volunteered to appear in the benefit. Winners included featherweight Ernie Bing; heavyweight Mike Montgomery, who won by a knockout in the first round; middleweight Dane Snyder; featherweight James Washington; lightweight Ron Aurrit and featherweight Willian "Caveman" Lee, who also won with a knockout. Associated Press The Belmont crowd loves a winner, and Steve Cauthen savors his comeback A. J.

Foyt booed as he wins pole at Pocono By Bill Simmons Inquirer Auto Editor LONG POND, Pa. There's no doubt that A. J. Foyt will race in Sunday's seventh annual Schaefer 500-mile race. Or is there? j.

The 42-year-old Texan, who less than a month ago scored the 58th and most popular victory of his'20-year-career at Indianapolis, grabbed the pole position in the final half hour of yesterday's time trials and actually was booed by many of 10,000 spectators at Pocono International Race than 35 laps practicing on the tracK, stayed in the background for the most part yesterday, then raced for cover as soon as his qualifying run was over. He refused to pose for Pocono's official photographer and the traditional front-row picture, preferring to head, for the garage area. He was swarmed by a group of young autograph seekers and stayed until he had signed every scrap of paper thrown in front of him. "The kids are beautiful," said the two-time Schaefer 500 winner, "but the adults sure as hell aren't." Petty grievances aside Foyt's performance was typically breathtaking. It was just after 5:30 p.m.

when Foyt pulled away from the starting line for his two-lap, five-mile run. His first lap was clocked at 189.434 miles per hour and his second was slightly faster at 189.514. His five-mile average of 189.474 failed to approach the 1973 track record of 190.648 by the late Peter (See POCONO on 4-C) siderations. Foyt declined to enter the June 12 Rex Mays 150 at Milwaukee and maintained until the last minute yesterday that he didn't know if he would race on Sunday. "I came here to test a new nose on the car, and the driver I wanted to use didn't show up so I qualified the car," Foyt said.

"Now, since I qualified, I assume I'm going to run the race." Foyt, who didn't even show up until Wednesday morning and spent less way. "I don't like the way the people act. Why should bellowed the four-time Indy and six-time national champion after his late, two lap dash around Pocono's 2Vi-mile trioval nudged Johnny Rutherford off the pole. "Those guys who boo don't know what they're talking about. Bleep those guys who do." Foyt has been sulking ever since he became the first four-time Indy winner over the fact that as such he isn't entitled to special monetary con Frank Dolson is on vacation.

His column will resume upon his return..