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1 Saturday, Sept. 29, 1984 The Philadelphia Inqui rer 3-C McEnroe and Connors beat Australians for 2-0 US. lead From Inquirer Mire Servu.es PORTLAND. Ore. John McEnroe methodically disposed of Pat Cash in straight sets yesterday and Jimmy Connors breezed to a win to give the United States a 2-0 lead over defending champion Australia in the semifinals of the Davis Cup.

The U.S. squad can clinch the best-of-five competition and advance to the final of the international tennis event if McEnroe and Peter Fleming defeat Paul McNamee and Mark Ed-mondson in today's doubles match at Memorial Coliseum. McEnroe put away Cash, 6-3, 64, 6-1, and Connors overpowered John Fitzgerald, 6-3, 6-3, 6-2. The American lefthanders never dropped their own services. McEnroe's victory was accompanied by his animated and persistent complaints about line calls tactics that appeared to rattle the Australian teenager.

Two of Cash's service breaks came after McEnroe argued with the umpire. McEnroe won one argument when the referees reversed a line call to give the American game point. McEnroe said Cash had a right to protest the action because the referees had waited too long to overrule the line judge. "He has a right to get upset when they wait that long," said McEnroe. He said that although Cash's ball was cleanly out, he had hesitated before accepting the point.

"But it's not my job to overrule the officials," he said. "I waited 10 to 15 seconds and gave him the arguing time he deserved. There was nothing else I could do, nothing else a professional can do. I didn't want him to think that was the reason I beat him." Cash and Australian team captain Neale Fraser argued at length, but the decision stood. The winner here will advance to the Davis Cup final against the winner of the semifinal between Sweden and Czechoslovakia.

Sweden took a surprising 2-0 lead against the Czechs as Mats Wilander defeated Tomas Smid and Henrik Sundstrom stunned Ivan Lendl. McEnroe, who has led the United States to the Davis Cup championship in four of the last six years, broke Cash's service once in each of the first two sets. Connors, scheduled to play throughout the Davis Cup series for the first time in his long career, overpowered Fitzgerald from the outset. The Australian, ranked 40th in the world, had special trouble with Connors' powerful return of service. Connors said Fitzgerald's big serve was not a problem.

"When I'm returning it like that, it really doesn't matter," he said. The second set was a virtual carbon copy of the first. Many of those in attendance left after Connors broke Fitzgerald's service in the fifth game of the third set. At Bastad, Sweden, Sundstrom, 20, won the dramatic match from Lendl, 4-6. 3-6, 6-3, 6-1, 6-1.

on slow and heavy clay courts. It was the Swede's finest victory, although he had beaten the French Open champion in their previous match on clay, in the Monte Carlo Open last spring. "It was my best match ever. Trailing so badly and still coming back to win against a player like Lendl is unbelievable," said Sundstrom. Mats Wilander, Sweden's No.

1 player, won the opening singles, 7-5, 7-5, 6-2, over Tomas Smid. The doubles match will be played today and the reverse singles tomorrow, with Sundstrom facing Smid and Wilander playing Lendl. In other Davis Cup action yesterday from which the winners will advance to the final 16 in next year's cup competition Yugoslavia, with the help of Slobodan Zivojinovic's upset victory over John Lloyd, led host Britain, 2-1, after the opening matches. Zivojinovic completed a 4-6, 7-5, 5-7, 6-3, 10-8 upset victory over Lloyd, Britain's No. 1 player, before Lloyd and Colin Dowdeswell beat Zivojinovic and Yugoslavia's No.

1 player, Marco Ostoja, 6-3, 9-7, 6-1. in doubles. Also yesterday, host West Germa ny, playing in front of only 300 fans, took a 2-0 lead on the first day of its series with Romania. Hansjoerg Schwaier of West Germany needed only 73 minutes in his Davis Cup debut to defeat Adrian Marcu, 6-2, 6-0, 6-1, in the opening singles. Michael Westphal defeated Andrei Dirzu, 6-2, 7-5, 7-5, in the second singles, which lasted two hours In Denmark, India's heavily favored Vijay Amritraj and Ramesh Krishnan blasted Danish opponents to take a 2-0 lead after first-round singles.

In Santiago, Chile, Chile took a 2-0 lead over Brazil. Hans Gildermeister. Chile's top player, defeated Brazil's No. 1 player, Cassio Motta, 64, 64, 6-2 in less than one hour. In the second singles match, Pedro Rebolledo of Chile beat Marcos Hocevar, 7-5, 7-5 6-2.

Penn State-Texas should offer some game answers Temple hoping Florida State is next giant to fall 0 Western Carolina, Guilford and Newberry, was 2-8 in 1983 while surrendering 322 points. In other games involving area teams, Princeton (1-0) hosts Buck-nell (2-1) as Tigers quarterback Doug Butler goes for his eighth consecutive 200-yard passing game; Rutgers (2-1 puts a streak in which it has not permitted a touchdown in 11 quarters on the line against visiting Cincinnati (1-2); Glassboro State (1-2) goes for its second New Jersey State Conference win at Trenton State (0-3); Widener (2-1) plays Lycoming (2-1) at Willamsport, Delaware State (3-0), ranked No. 7 in the Division I-AA poll, plays at Bethune-Cook-man (2-1 in a game that may decide the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference title; Delaware (2-1) visits Lehigh (2-1); Lafayette (1-2) plays at Columbia (0 1); West Chester (2-1) visits Indiana State (2-1); Delaware Valley (2-1) goes for its third Middle Atlantic Conference win in a game at Moravian (1-1); Cheyney (1-2) will be host to Bloomsburg (2-1) in a Pennsylvania State Conference game, and Ur-sinus (0-2) is at Swarthmore (1-1). By Sarajane Freligh Inquirer Matt Writer High on hops and drunk on his team's 56-18 rout of William Mary last Saturday, a Nittany Lion fan jabbed his forefinger into the air and crowed: "The Orange Bowl! We want Nebraska in the Orange Bowl!" Only a cockeyed optimist would dare to be so premature, even presumptuous. Only an optimist would overlook the remainder of Penn State's killer schedule, which reads like a Who's Who of college football.

The realists count Penn State's players in that number took a more cautious tack, setting their sights on the short-term goal of securing a victory over second-ranked Texas today in the Meadowlands' Giants Stadium. The matchup figures to be an interesting one. Both teams are undefeated, Penn State (No. 4 AP, No. 6 UPI) after three games and Texas after one appearance against Auburn two weeks ago.

Penn State's defense has permitted an average of 15.7 points and 296.3 yards total offense. Today, that defense will try to stop a Texas team that, in the absence of premier running back Edwin Simmons, scrapped the ground game and relied on the passing of quarterback Todd Dodge to blitz Auburn for 215 aerial yards and 35 points. Simmons is out with a knee injury. Long known for its defensive prowess, Texas was surprisingly ineffective against Auburn. Last year's unit, which allowed only 9.5 points per game, was decimated by graduation and is but a memory.

Although the Longhorns are led by all-America weak safety Jerry Gray, who recorded 14 tackles and an interception against Auburn, they yielded a surprising 436 yards in total offense and 27 points to the Tigers two weeks ago. Penn State's offense is similarly a mystery. Not even Joe Paterno knows for sure whether it is as capable as it appeared to be against William Mary last week. "It wasn't a good test for them offensively," he said of his team, which rolled up 417 yards rushing. "It's tough to evaluate how good this team really is." Against a defense that appeared tentative, according to Penn State quarterback Doug Strang, the Lions were able to do as they pleased, so it was difficult to gauge whether there was improvement from the previous week, when the offense appeared hesitant at times.

"They IWilliam Mary's defense seemed unsure out there at first," said Strang, who suggested that the full house at Beaver Stadium might have unnerved the Tribe, accustomed to playing in more modest confines. "By the time they regrouped, we were ahead, 21-0." Penn State's offense possibly will be strengthened by the return of running back D.J. Dozier, who missed the Iowa and William Mary games with a groin pull. Wide receiver Rocky Washington, who will see his first action of the season after missing three games with a hamstring injury, could be an important cog in the offensive scheme. His speed provides Penn State with a breakaway threat that the Nittany Lions hope to use to exploit Texas' man-to-man defense.

"Them playing man to man, it's kind of a gamble if someone blows an assignment," Strang said. "That leaves us wide open, and we can take advantage of it. "Playing man to man is a good chance for the wide receivers to show what they can do," he said. "Or what they can't do." Despite the statistics that suggest the Longhorns are not what they used to be defensively, Paterno still figures Texas will be a challenge for his offense. "They are as good a defense as we'll face all year, maybe the Paterno said.

"They look you in the eye and dare yoa to throw the ball. There's nothing fancy about it. They're strong and very tough physically. "Doug is really ready to pick it up By Chuck Newman Inquirer Stall Writer With his pro size and pro speed, and with his ability to play either cornerback or safety, Anthony Young, who owns a share of Temple's career interception mark, figures 10 go high in the next National Football League draft. The 6-foot-l, 190-pound senior is playing safety these days because opponents stopped throwing in his direction when he played cornerback, prompting Coach Bruce Arians to put Young where he couldn't be ignored, especially if the opposition decided to go for the long ball.

Young may get a chance to surpass Temple's record of 18 interceptions, which he shares with Arnold Smith, when Temple plays ninth-ranked Florida State in Tallahassee at 7 p.m. today. But Young's versatility and pro credentials will be sorely tested. Temple, coming off a 1.3-12 upset of Pitt, faces a team that is ranked fourth in the nation in total offense (483.3 yards per game) and third in points per game (42.7) and that is not reluctant to go for the big play at any time. The Seminoles (3-0) have the nation's top-rated quarterback in Eric Thomas, a 64 percent thrower; a fleet of speedy receivers led by Jesse "The Jet" Hester (11 catches for 190 yards and 102 yards and two touchdowns on two reverses) and Hassan Jones (a 22.3-yard average on six catches), and a Heisman Trophy candidate running back, Greg Allen, who has a 7.3-yard running average while being used mostly as a decoy in wins over East Carolina, Kansas and Miami, Fla.

Those ingredients give Florida State the makings of a blowout if the Owls don't find a way to stop the big play. "They will get their points." said Arians. "But we have a chance if we make them work for them." Temple, which withstood a physical assault by Pitt, will face a different challenge against Florida State, a team that banks more on finesse than muscle. Arians isn't happy about that. "Our kids are tough," the Owls' coach said before the team departed for Tallahassee, Fla.

"I think we might play better against a team like Pitt than we would against a team like Florida State." But, Arians added, "This is a great opportunity for us. We just can't give up a succession of big plays." Much of the responsibility for stopping the big plays will be Young's. "Anthony has to stop the home run," Arians said. "He's the all-purpose safety valve." The Temple-Florida State game highlights a weekend of football involving area teams that includes a Franklin Field meeting between Davidson (0-3) and Penn (1-0). Based on the statistics, the visitors face the same sort of challenge that Temple does in Florida.

Penn ran up 55 points at defensive-minded Dartmouth last week, collected 335 yards rushing, got a 14-for-21, 203-yard, three-touchdown performance from quarterback John McGeehan and appeared almost indefensible. Davidson, coming off losses to Lions return to the site of a stunning loss this week," Paterno said of his quarterback. "He's much more confident in his receivers, and they're more acclimated to him. We're definitely going to have to throw to beat them. How much will be dictated by the game.

There's no way we can beat Texas by just running the ball." Paterno suggested earlier in the week that if the two teams are equal physically, then Penn State's two-game edge will certainly be to the Lions' advantage, an assessment with which Texas coach Fred Akers agreed. "They've been successful in three ball games," Akers said, "and there's no way to measure the confidence they've developed. They've had some time to work out problems that maybe they didn't anticipate during practice because there's always problems that crop up during the game that weren't evident during practice. "I wish we had already played a couple of times to grow up a bit." Notes. A sellout crowd of 76,891 is expected for today's game at the Meadowlands, and would be only the second collegiate sellout in the stadium's eight-year history.

The original game time of 1:30 p.m. was switched to 12:20 p.m. to accommodate ESPN, which will televise the game nationally Texas won the coin flip and will be the home team, while the Lions will wear their all-white uniforms as the visitors. Although the Meadowlands technically is a neutral site, Akers thinks that Texas fans likely will be outnumbered. "I'm not sure how neutral it is," he said, "considering the location.

I would have preferred Amarillo." In other top games today, visiting Nebraska is a 24-point favorite over Syracuse, but coach Tom Osborne still expressed concern. "We beat them badly 163-7 in Lincoln last year'," he said, "but as I looked at the films, I realized it was one of those situations where the when State was just 7-5. But that became the springboard for back-to-back 11-1 seasons. And after an 84 struggle in 1979, the Lions went 31-5, with a national championship, the next three years. The trends are clear, and they suggest that State will be back and bristling again.

Intelligence reports from Happy Valley say Paterno, fresh from a remarkable recruiting swoop, is fit, feisty, revved up. The preseason talk was that Penn State, which plays as many as 13 sophomores, was probably still a year away from being ready for another assault on No. 1. Given its youth and schedule, which is ranked the most difficult in the country, that still seems an accurate assessment. turn Watkins Glen International Race Circuit course in 1 minute, 39.090 seconds, an average speed of 122.688 m.p.h.

The track record for GTP cars was 1:41.966 (119.228), set in July by Derek Bell of England in a turbocharged Porsche 962. Football NEW YORK New York Jets defensive end Mark Gastineau and quarterback Ken O'Brien are being sued for $500,000 by Charles McGin-ley, 29, of Union City, N.J. McGinley said they "violently, dangerously, and maliciously" beat him about the head, shoulders and body without provocation in a brawl at Studio 54 on Sept. 30, 1983. Gastineau and O'Brien were tried on misdemeanor assault counts in connection with the melee.

O'Brien was acquitted of all charges. Gastineau was convicted of third-degree assault on John Benson, 22, of Union City, a Studio 54 employee, but was not convicted of hitting McGinley. Boxing ATLANTIC CITY Light-heavyweight Steve Traitz (20-1) of Norris-town scored a TKO of Maurice Moore Eagles need CB Young in secondary EAGLES, from 1-C leg over the other and the muscle pulled again. I just trotted off the field. I didn't even stop.

That set me back." Earlier, Young was being treated with a device that used electrical impulses to try to speed the healing process. Lately, he has been alternating ice with deep heat treatment. "I felt all right going into the game the other day, but afterward it was pretty sore," Young said. "It's still pretty tender. In the nickel, it's all right when I have to cover a specific area.

But when I have to play a normal defense, I have all kinds of difficulties. All I can do when I'm in there is hope it doesn't pull on me again." In Young's absence, Brenard Wilson has been filling in at left corner-back. But Wilson is a safety, and his transition has been difficult. Things may be even more complicated tomorrow. Free safety Wes Hopkins also is injured, his ailment being a strained knee.

If Hopkins can't play, Wilson will shift to safety and Elbert Foules will play left cornerback. The Eagles did get some encouragement yesterday that Hopkins might be available. "We miss Roynell," Campbell said. "He's just a damn good cornerback. He's got good hands, he's tough, he's aggressive.

The other guys are battling and doing a good job, but we have a guy out who's been to the Pro Bowl. He's hoping to get back to that level, and from an attitude standpoint and all his off-season work, that's where he was headed. We miss that." Joe Paterno Sees big test for his ofjense score wasn't indicative of the game. We had more trouble blocking Syracuse than anybody we played all year. What I'm trying to do is convince you that this isn't going to be a pushover." Even Syracuse's 19-0 lqss to Rutgers last week doesn't sway Osborne, he said.

"I'd rather be playing a team coming off a win than a loss," he said. "I think it will probably bring out the best in Syracuse." Other games today involving top 20 teams are Clemson (No. 13 AP) at Georgia Tech (No. 18 AP), third-ranked Ohio State at Minnesota for a night game, Washington (No. 6 AP, No.

5 UPI) at home against Miami of Ohio, Oklahoma (No. 7 AP, No. 4 UPI) entertaining Kansas State, and Oklahoma State (No. 10 AP, No. 11 UPI) at Tulsa for a night game.

Also, Southern Methodist (No. 11 AP, No. 12 UPI) entertains Texas Christian at night, Georgia (No. 12 AP, No. 10 UPI) visits South Carolina under the lights, Michigan (No.

14 AP, No. 13 UPI) is at Indiana, LSU is at Southern California (No. 15 AP, No. 14 UPI), Rice visits No. 16 Miami, at night, UCLA (No.

17 AP, No. 15 UPI) is at Colorado, Notre Dame (No. 19 AP, No. 17 UPI) visits Missouri, and Tennessee is at Auburn (No. 20 AP, No.

19 UPI). Publicly, Paterno, ever the pristine poor-mouther, moans: "This is the youngest team and toughest schedule we've ever had." Privately, however, he was said to be miffed that others regarded State's win at Iowa two weeks ago as a surprise. A win over Texas would be a surprise. But anything after that wouldn't be. "You never know about young teams and how they will react," Paterno said.

"Our 1967 team was so young, they didn't realize how tough their situation was. We beat Miami in the second game and then went on to lose only once for the next 2V2 seasons. You just never know." After today, we may. a cold day (15-9) of Lincolnton, N.C, 2 minutes 20 seconds into the fourth round of a scheduled 10-rounder at the Elsinore Atlantis Hotel Casino. Basketball LANDOVER, Md.

The Washington Bullets signed 7-foot-l free agent Tom Piotrowski, a former La Salle player. Contract terms were not released. Piotrowski, a third-round pick of the Portland Trail Blazers in 1983, played in 18 games last season. He averaged 1.7 points and had 16 rebounds. Whenever the Phillies win, you win, too.

Take the winning box score to Roy's for a juicy lb. hamburger at 990 Big Savings! Rogers LYON, from 1-C how good Texas is. But the suspicion is that the Longhorns are lethal at worst, unbeatable at best. From last year's team, which was only two points shy of a perfect season, Texas lost 28 players 18 of whom were drafted by the pros. Such losses usually signal a 4-7 kind of year while your young 'uns get their baptism.

But the Texases and Penn States of the football world rarely pause. "Rebuilding years here are different than rebuilding years at other schools," agreed Fred Akers, the Longhorns' coach. "We tend not to slip too far." Neither does Penn State. Under Pa-terno's stewardship, the pattern is Strange and Halldorson are hot on Bill Lyon that a season of slippage, a season such as the 8-4-1 of 1983, is followed by two or three robust years in succession. That pattern began early on; Pater-no's first year, in 1966, State was 5-5.

The next season, it began 1-2. But in the following 31 games, the worst the Lions did was tie. Once. There were two consecutive unbeaten seasons in there. Then, when State cooled off a bit and was "only" 7-3 in 1970, it responded with years of 11-1, 12-0, 10-2, 9-3.

There was another lull in 1976, Sports in brief Shriver posted an easy win over Pam Casale. Moulton, ranked 24th in the world, used cannon-shot serves, sharp forehand passing shots and crisp cross-court volleys to defeat Turnbull, 3-6, 7-6, 6-0. Shriver fired 12 aces to top No. 6 seed Casale, 6-2, 64. Garrison posted a 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 win, despite Holladay's booming serves.

Auto racing NORTH WILKESBORO, N.C. Seven-time North Wilkesboro winner Darrell Waltrip out-performed teammate Neil Bonnett by a tenth of a second to lead the first round of qualifying for tomorrow's Holly 400. Waltrip's Chevrolet was clocked at 113.568 m.p.h. on the five-eighths-mile track in North Carolina's northern foothills. Bonnett posted a one-lap speed of 113.043 m.p.h.

WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. Bill Whit-tington drove a Blue Thunder Chevrolet-powered March 84G prototype to a track record in the first day of qualifying for the $105,000 New York 500. He covered the 3.377-mile, 11- From Inquirer Wire Services ABILENE, Texas Curtis Strange sloshed through the wind, rain and cold yesterday to a 5-under-par 67 to tie Canadian Dan Halldorson for the lead midway through a $350,000 golf tournament. "When you get under par on a day like this," said Strange, "you feel like you are stealing. I was just as cold as everybody else, but I was just a little luckier." "I was ready to quit on the front nine," said Halldorson, a seven-year 'etcran who shot a 68 on the Fairway Oaks Country Club course.

"I couldn't see how they could let us play in those conditions, just wanted to get it over with." Strange shot a 68 during Thurs-lay's calm and had a bogeyless round yesterday to finish 36 holes with a 9-under-par 135 in occasional rain, with temperatures in the upper 40s and winds gusting over 20 m.p.h. Tennis NEW ORLEANS Unseeded Alycia Moulton stunned third-seeded Wendy Turnbull in the quarterfinals of a 150,000 tennis tournament, while iourth-seeded Zina Garrison struggled into the semifinals past Terry Holladay and second-seeded Pam IVY LEAGUE CHAMPION PENNSYLVANIA VS. DAVIDSON Twilight Football Franklin Field September 29, 6:30 p.m. Bring this coupon, and if you buy an $8 reserved seat, you get a second one free. Franklin field Ticket Office 898-6951.