Lansing State Journal from Lansing, Michigan • Page 31

Section QUaiuiirinisiI Borg ties record with 31st straight Wimbledon win Sunday, June 29, 1980, Lansing, Michigan Whitaker supplies punch with 3 RBIs -3i streak hits 9 Tigers roar der. "It's been a long time since I had three hits in a game. "I was looking for a breaking ball," he said of the pitch he hit for a two-run triple in the sixth inning. "I guessed right. It was a curve ball out and away.

I tried to pull it so it would drop in and it did." MANAGER SPARKY Anderson said TORONTO (AP) Second baseman Lou Whitaker, who came into the game with a .209 batting average, had three hits and drove in three runs Saturday to lead Detroit to an 8-3 romp over the Toronto Blue Jays and extend the Tigers' undefeated streak to nine games. "I'm glad to get the said Whitaker, the ninth man in the batting or- WIMBLEDON, England (AP) On a day in which five men's seeds were ousted, the magnificent Bjorn Borg tied the record for consecutive singles victories at rain-plagued Wimbledon Saturday. Borg won his 31st consecutive match at the All-England Club, defeating Rod Ffawley of Australia 6-4, 6-7, 6-1, 7-5. The four-time defending champion from Sweden and No. 1 seed here, Borg dropped his first set in the tournament.

He is tied with Rod Laver of Australia for the Wimbledon mark of consecutive singles victories. THE SEEDED men who lost were Americans Stan Smith and Pat DuPre, Victor Pecci of Paraguay, Jose Luis Clerc of Argentina and Ivan Lendl of Czechoslovakia. That left only eight of the original 16 seeds in the last 32 arhong the men. In the women's field, 10 of the 16 remaining players are Americans and a dozen of the 16 seeds are alive. The top challengers to Borg John McEnroe and Jimmy Connors each moved forward.

MCENROE OPENED the day with a 6-0, 7-6, 6-1 triumph over Dutchman Tom Okker, then grumbled about the conditions. Connors overcame plucky resistance from Heinz Gunthardt of Switzerland to win 6-7, 6-2, 6-1, 6-4. McEnroe's service, too, went like a dream in his first and third sets against Okker. But in between the 36-year-old Dutchman, who was playing his 17th Wimbledon and is one of the Gottfried's service worked like a machine at times. Gottfried served four times in the thjrd set and dropped only three points.

Smith managed only three points in the last four games of the match. Nick Saviano played his second marathon match in two days to put out DuPre, the No. 9 seed and a semifinal-ist here last year, 7-6, 1-6, 4-6, 7-5, 11-9. In the previous round, Saviano edged Britain's Buster Mottram in a five-setter in which the final set went to 13-11. Big-serving Phil Dent of Australia beat No.

8 Pecci 3-6, 62, 6-3, 6-1. Onny Parun of New Zealand, who had to go through the qualifying tournament, topped No. 16 Clerc 3-6, 7-6, 6-4, 6-3. Another heavy server, Colin Dibley of Australia, eliminated No. 10 Lendl 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 7-6.

PETER FLEMING, the No. 7 seed, won a rousing match against Hie Nas-tase 6-4, 3-6, 7-6, 7-6. None of the seeded women still alive in the tournament was upset after four had fallen out on Friday. The day's bravest losers were South Africa's Tanya Hirford and Betsy Na-gelsen, the 23-year-old from Winnetka, 111. Harford became the first woman to take a set off Navratilova in the championships ard broke service to lead 2-1 in the final set before the exiled Czech, seeking her third straight Wimbledon crown, won 3-6.

6-3, 6-3. Nagelsen saved eight match points and pulled up from 0-5 to 3-5 before bowing to Virginia Wade of Britain, the 1977 champion and the No. 7 seed. Wade, with the crowd at the No. 1 court all rooting for her, won 6-7, 7-5, 6-3.

No. 2 Tracy Austin was extended to three sets before eliminating fellow- Vv I rf Vx VS 5 1 he doesn't worry about Whitaker's low batting average. "He's played great, great defense all year, and that's all I'm really concerned about," he said. Al Cowens, playing his first game since a seven-game suspension, also had a hand in the victory, belting a home run and scoring another run late in the game after slapping a single. The last time Detroit won nine in a row was in July, 1975.

The Tigers have won 14 of their last 16 games to move from last place in the AL East they won only two of their first 11 games this season to third. The loss was Toronto's fifth in a row. Dave Rozema went seven innings to even his record at 4-4, giving up seven hits, striking out two and walking one, before giving way to relievers Dan Schatzeder and Aurelio Lopez. THE BLUE JAYS opened the scoring in the second inning when John Mayberry singled and came home on Lloyd Moseby's double. The Tigers, held in check by Toronto starter Jack Kucek, 1-1, through the first five innings, broke loose in the sixth.

Tom Brookens started the rally with a double, Stan Papi drew a walk and Whitaker, who entered the game with a .209 batting average, knocked them in with a triple. Reliever Jerry Garvin gave up an RBI single to Rick Peters before ending the inning. COWENS PADDED the Tigers' lead in the seventh with his first home run since coming to Detroit in a trade earlier this month. The Tigers scored twice in the eighth without a base hit. An error by shortstop Alfredo Griffin, three walks one by reliever Joey McLaughlin with the bases loaded and a sacrifice fly by Steve Kemp made it 6-1 Detroit.

A two-run homer by Damaso Garcia, his third of the year, in the eighth accounted for Toronto's other runs. Whitaker, who earlier had singled, capped a two-run Detroit ninth with an RBI double. The Tiger prey It started in Chicago, in a game most remembered for fisticuffs, and this wild Tiger win streak has been going like a brush fire ever since. Here's the recap, prior to Saturday's 8-3 whipping of Toronto: June 20: A John Wockenfuss double in the 11th inning scored the winning run to lead a 5-3 victory over the White Sox in a game punctuated by Al Cowens' brawl-inspiring charge to the pitching mound. Aurelio Lopez got the win in relief of Dan Petry.

June 21: Milt Wilcox hurled the Tigers past the Sox, 4-1. Wockenfuss batted in two runs and scored a third. June 22: The Tigers surpassed the .500 mark, sweeping the Sox 7-1 and 6-4. Dave Rozema got the first win and Lopez relieved Jack Morris in the nightcap as Detroit benefitted from eight unearned runs in the two games. June 23: In Cleveland, Dan Schatzeder earned a 5-4 relief victory, Tom Brookens getting a pair of RBIs in the comeback win.

June 24: Richie Hebner did everthing but rake the infield, knocking in six runs on two hits and scoring two more himself in Detroit's 9-4 win over the Indians. Reliever Roger Weaver got the win; it was another save for Lopez, his eighth. June 25: Steve Kemp took over in the hitting department, knocking in three runs on three hits in a 13-3 Tiger route of the Indians. Wilcox went the distance for the win. June 27: Lance Parrish's three-run homer set the stage for a 7-2 win over the Blue Jays in Toronto.

Hebner had a pair of RBIs and combined with Rick Peters for six of the Tigers 12 hits. most experienced campaigners on these courts, caused some problems. In the second set, Okker turned back the clock and played the kind of strokes that have delighted fans over the years feathery drop shots, delicately angled returns and one magnificent looping forehand which dropped on the line and gave him a set point in the tiebreaker. MCENROE FALTERED for a while. He missed frequently with his first service and tried a half-dozen lobs, all of which landed over Okker's baseline.

But once McEnroe had saved a second set point with a forehand volley, Okker faded. McEnroe won the tiebreaker 11-9 and then raced through the third set. Fourth-seeded Vitas Gerulaitis dropped a set to fellow-American Bruce Manson in winning 6-4, 4-6, 7-5, 6-4. Roscoe Tanner, last year's losing finalist and the No. 5 seed, beat Paul McNamee of Australia 7-6, 6-4, 6-4.

No. 6 Gene Mayer trimmed Adriano Panatta of Italy 6-3, 6-3, 6-2. American Barbara Potter 6-2, 6-7, 6-2. Chris Evert Lloyd, No. 3 seed, strolled smoothly on, defeating American Lesley Morse 6-1, 6-4.

Evonne Goolagong, No. 4, was in trouble against Betty Stove, the big Dutchwoman, but came from behind to win 3-6, 6-2, 6-3. Billie Jean King, seeded fifth and after her sixth singles crown and 20th overall title here gave 19-year-old countrywoman Peanut Louie a lesson in grass court technique and won 6-2, 6-2. NO.6 WENDY Turnbull of Australia beat Sherry Acker of the United States 6-3, 6-2; No. 8 Dianne Fromholtz of Australia overwhelmed American Stacy Margolin 6-4, 6-3; No.

9 Hana Mandlikova of Czechoslovakia ousted Ros Fairbanks of South Africa 6-2, 6-4; American Kathy Jordan, seeded 10th, defeated countrywoman Pam Tee-guarden 6-4, 6-3; No. 11 Greer Stevens of South Africa topped American teenager Bettina Bunge 6-4, 6-3; and 15-year-old American Andrea Jaeger, ranked 14th, walloped Jane Stratton of the United States 6-1, 6-1. BRIAN GOTTFRIED of the United States was the most convincing of the giant-killers. He humbled No. 15 Smith, the 1972 Wimbledon champion, 6-2, 6-3, 6-2.

Tiger pitcher Dave Rozema allowed seven hits, walked one and struck out two in seven innings to earn Saturday's win. Ertl No. 2 at Western Am Sports on TV Hesitant Kuhn fears union view of fines TODAY 1-3 (Ch. 4, 10) Basketball. 1980 U.S.

Olympic Team vs. 1976 Team. 1-2 (Ch. 41) Tennis. Jack Benny Memorial Tournament.

(Ch. 7D) Golf. U.S. Senior Open. 3-4 (Ch.

2, 3, 6, 9C, 25) CBS Sports. Profile of motorcycle jumper Gary Wells. 3-5 (Ch. 4, 5, 8, 10) Tennis. Wimbledon Classic.

SHAKER HEIGHTS, Ohio (AP) -Ionia native Sue Ertl finished second in the 80th Western Golf Association amateur tournament at Shaker Heights Country Club, dropping Saturday's championship match, 5-3, to Kathy Baker of Clover, S.C. Clover, a sophomore for the collegiate champion University of Tulsa golf squad, downed Ertl in the scheduled title match to capture the W.A. Alexander Trophy. MATCH PLAY BEGAN Tuesday with 144 golfers. Sixty-four were in the championship flight.

Baker, 19, said she never felt comfortable with her lead until her opponent conceded a par putt on the 33rd hole to end the match. Baker was National LPGA junior champion in 1978, Carolinas amateur champion in 1979, Eastern Amateur champion in 1979 and quarter finalist in the U.S. Amateur in 1979. "I KNOW SUE is a super player and can hole in from anywhere," she said. "I wasn't ready to claim anything until the last putt had dropped, but she didn't make me putt it." Ertl, 22, has been a 1979 North-South Championship semifinalist and 1977-78 Big Ten Champion.

She is a graduate of Michigan State University in accounting. The match was the first national final of her career. "I just didn't go out there and hit the ball," she said afterward. "I think I was concentrating too much on making par at the beginning. The beginning was so bad that I was never any closer than two behind, and every time I would win a hole, I would lose the next one.

"I TRIED ALL I could, but Kathy played so consistently, and I just played all right." The W.A. Alexander Trophy was donated to the tournament in 1901 and is named for the Western Golf Association's first president. pout." "Changing the penalty for misconduct is a matter of negotiation. If management wants to make a proposal, they know the mechanism," Miller, the union's executive director, told The Associated Press. MILLER AGREED with Kuhn's remark that data does not back up "what a lot of people feel," about the supposed increased number of beanballs.

Kuhn said he examined data "that shows there's hardly a change from previous years. There were six beanballs through June 24 this year, and seven in that period last year." When comparing such figures, Miller added, it should be noted that beanballs are "in the judgemental area. How can anybody really say whether a certain pitch was accidental or NEW YORK (AP) The "problem of union rights" is an obstacle to preventing beanballs and the violence that sometimes results, says baseball Com-" missioner Bowie Kuhn. In an interview, which NBC aired on Saturday, Kuhn was asked about the highly publicized brawls this season that have been triggered by brushback pitches. "If you say fine them, believe me you'll hear from the union," Kuhn said of the batters who have charged the mound after being hit or decked by pitches.

MOST RECENTLY, Al Cowens of the Detroit Tigers was suspended by American League president Lee Mac-Phail for fighting pitcher Ed Farmer of the Chicago White Sox. But Marvin Miller of the players' association called Kuhn's remark "a co- Soccer. New (Ch. 7D, 41) York at Vancouver. 4- 6 (Ch.

2, 3, 6, 9C, 25) Golf. Memphis Classic 5- 6 (Ch. 4, 8, 10) NBC Sports. Olympic Track and Field Trials; Irish Sweeps Derby. Sue Ertl Old pros draw most attention for charity golf event Monday Ed Senyczko It was the game they loved ing home the biggest paychecks of their golf careers.

THE THREE veterans appear to be this year's biggest drawing cards, but the tournament field also features some of the PGA tour's rising stars, notably Mount Pleasant native Dan Pohl. Pohl, who ranks among the top 25 money-winners on the tour this year with over $90,000 earned, will show off the driving form that has placed him consistently at or near the top of the PGA's weekly long-driving statistics. He'll hit five balls off the first tee, drives that likely will be in the 300-yard range. The field also includes Frank Conner, who won the event last year with a sizzling 65; Wayne Levi, winner of the 1979 Houston Open; Ed Sneed, a winner of three tour events who tied for second in last year's Masters; Or-ville Moody, winner of the 1969 U.S. Open; Mark McCumber, winner of the 1979 Doral-Eastem Open; and Gary Golf is often billed as a sport for all ages.

Three men who prove that point will highlight Monday's 7th annual American Cancer Society Tournament at the Country Club of Lansing. Sam Snead, Art Wall and Tommy Bolt will fly to Lansing after this weekend's U.S. Senior Open to help raise money for the Ingham County Cancer Society and entertain golf fans at the annual fund-raising event. Snead, Wall and Bolt head a field of 45 pros from the PGA and LPGA tours who will each play with four amateurs in the event. Tee-off times are from 8 to 10 a.m.

and 12:30 to 2 p.m. Admission at the gate is $4. THE EVENT HAS raised more than $120,000 for the Ingham County Unit of ACS in the last six years, and organizers are hoping for the best financial reward yet from this year's tourney. Organizers were worried that economic hard times might make charity money harder to come by, but area golfers paid $250 each to fill the amateur spots in the field earlier than ever before. Having Snead, Bolt and Wall in the field is one reason for the enthusiasm.

The trio has won more than 110 PGA tour titles (84 by Snead alone). And It wasn't too long ago that the Lansing team was the class of the Midwest Football League the standard by which other league members measured their worth. Lansing severed its ties with the MFL three years ago but some of the league teams play on though no longer on a play-for-pay basis. Kalamazoo and Grand Rapids are in the Northern States Football league. Indianapolis and Columbus have gone with other leagues, and minor league football is flourishing.

The players are playing for nothing, but rosters show 50 players for home games and 44 on the traveling squad, BY CONTRAST, when Coach Turf Kauffman's Lansing All-Stars were riding roughshod over all, MFL rivals he had trouble getting players to show up for drills. The week before a crucial game with Columbus there were never more than 10 players at any of the practices. Now, even sans salaries, rosters list 50 players for home games and 44 on the traveling squad. Players do get expenses and share in the profits, if there are any, at the end of the season. And there will be playoffs after the regular season leading to a national champion.

WHILE LANSING no longer has any affiliation with MFL-level teams it does have the Lansing Crusaders of Joe Costello and the Capital Cardinals of Gary Feaster in the Michigan Charity League, -and some former MFL players are on the squads. Their players, too, play for no pay period. Not only are they not allowed to take any money, they play for charity and all gate receipts go to the Association of Leukemia Stricken American Children (ALSAC) at St. Jude Hospital. "We don't have any problem getting players," Costello says.

"We've been having 30 to 40 at prac-! tices and I feel we're better organized than some of the Lansing teams I played with in the MFL." And the players don't stop there. "They sell raffle 1 tickets and put on fund-raising dances and parties," Costello says. "We do everything we can to raise money for St. Jude Hospital and we play some football." THAT KIND of dedication deserves support. You 1 can see the Cougars play their home games at Everett High's Centennial Field, the Cardinals at Lansing Catholic's field.

Admission is $1 and it all goes to St. Jude Hospital, Costello promises. Ed Senyczko is Executive Sports Editor of The State Journal Sam Snead just when age seemed to take them out of the golf spotlight, the newly-created seniors' tour has made them stars again. Bolt and Wall combined to win the Legends of Golf title this spring, bring Koch, winner of the 196 Tallahassee Open and 1977 Florida Citrus Open. LOCAL FAVORITES in the field in-Concluded on page C-6.