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B-3 Town Talk, Alexandria-Pineville. Thursday. December 31, 1981 Pfister Upsets Guillermo Vilas MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) Hank Pfister, a hard-serving Calif ornian, upset uillermo Vilas, the top seed, 6-3, 6-4, 6-4, Wednesday in the third round of the $400,000 Australian Open tennis tournament. Vilas, a two-time winner of the event, vowed not to return next year unless he had a proper grass court build-up. "I needed more and more matches to do well on grass," said Vilas, who credited Pfister, 28, with playing a nearly flawless match.

"Everything I was doing he was doing better." Pfister said he had the drop on Vilas because he had played a similar opponent in young Swede ans Simonsson on Tuesday. Kim Warwick, the runner-up last year, swept past fellow countryman Phil Dent, winning 6-3, 6-3, 6-0. Warwick, who has been troubled by a right shoulder injury, switched from a wooden to an aluminum racquet after last week, and said the change meant more power. He said he was playing better with each match but his record against Pfister, whom he meets in the quarterfinal, is not impressive. The American holds a 3-0 lead in their encounters.

Fourth-seeded South African Johan Kriek outlasted Chris Lewis of New Zealand in a five-set tussle, 7-5, 7-5, 3-6, 2-6, 6-4. Kriek, who has taken off most of the year and dropped from 12 to 20 on the ATP computer rankings, now faces American Tim Mayotte. Neither has played together before. Second-seeded Australian Peter McNamara squeezed through to the quarterfinals with a five-set win over countryman Paul Kronk, John Alexander, who advanced to the third round with wins over Fritz Buehning and French junior Thierry Tulasne, was stopped by American Steve Denton in a thrilling five-set battle that went to 11-9 in the tie-breaker. Denton scrambled into the quarterfinals after a 6-7, 4-6, 7-6, 7-5, 7-6 win.

He'll meet Israel's Shlomo Glickstein, who dashed Wimbledon semifinalist Rod Frawley's hopes, 6-2, 6-3, 6-2. Australian Mark Edmondson, the 1976 winner here, advanced to the quarterfinals by beating Cliff Letcher. Edmondson scored an effortless 6-2, 6-0, 6-3 win over the former Austrian Davis Cup player. Five Golfers Chase $500,000 in Sun City MIL CM STORES WDH.D. BE x.

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The tournament format calls for the five competitors to play each round with a different two-man team of celebrity amateurs, including actors Sean Connery, Telly Savalas, Ernest Borgnine, and Efrem Zimbalist Jr. and former New York Yankees slugger Joe DiMaggio, who will be competng in a concurrent pro-am event The course is the Gary Player Country Club, adjacent to the sprawling hotel-casino. "It's a very, very tough course. The rough is so severe you have to work pretty hard just to keep the ball in play," said Trevino, who won a tournament on this course earlier in the year, a performance that may make him a slight favorite. The event is sponsored by Sun City and its managing director, Sol Kerzner, who called the tournament the biggest sporting spectacle ever attempted in South Africa.

And, according to Player, it could get even bigger, "There's the possibility," Player said, "that next year it could go to a $2 million purse with a full tournament field, perhaps 100 players." He indicated that the tournament may seek a date on the U.S. Tour schedule. But Deane Beman, commissioner of the U.S. Tour, said he hasn't been approached in connection with the event and declined comment on the tournament. SUN CITY, Bophuthatswana (AP) The richest tournament in the history of golf, with only five men chasing a total purse of $1 million, begins Thursday in an exotic setting on a course carved out of the South African bush.

It's billed as the Sun City Million Dollar Golf Challenge with Jack Nicklaus, Lee Trevino, Johnny Miller, Seve Ballesteros of Spain and host Gary Player competing for a $500,000 first prize. The man in last place after four days of medal play will receive $100,000, matching the biggest winner's purse of any event on the U.S. Tour. "For that kind of money, I'd come if I had to swim," said Trevino. But Tom Watson, leading money-winner and Player of the Year four of the past five seasons on the U.S.

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$999 TO EA 750 ML Case NORWALK, Conn. (UPI) -John McEnroe, runnerup to Bjorn Borg in the national professional tennis rankings the past two years, Tuesday was named the No. 1 player in the world for the 1981 season by Tennis Magazine. Chris Evert Lloyd was named the No. 1 women's player for the eighth time in the last nine years.

The rankings, determined by an international panel, were as follows: Men 1, McEnroe; 2, Borg; 3, Quits Aussie Open MELBOURNE, Australia (UPI) a veteran linesman walked off the court at the $450,000 Marlboro Australian Open Tennis Championships Wednesday after a verbal run-in with a player. Veteran Davis Cup umpire Tom Gray of Adelaide doffed his straw bat and walked off an outside I court after an outburst by New IZealander Chris Lewis in a doubles match with Rod Frawley Jagainst the Aussie duo Peter Mac-JNamara and Paul MacNamee. I Gray, who paid $400 of his own Tmoney to get to Melbourne, claimed Lewis had ridiculed him. PRICES ITEMS GOOD THRU SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1982. SAVE ON LIQUOR SPECIALS! Ut Jkms OsWnu Jr.

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