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Friday, July 7, 1972 Fort Collins Coloradoan 17 mm of the three heats advance to Saturday night's finals. Oregon star Steve Pre-fontaine breezed home a heat winner in the run, coasting to the tape in 13:51.2. Prefontaine, 21-year-old American record holder at 13:29.8, was followed by former Oregon Stater Tracy Smith in 13:52.8, and the Los Angeles policeman was just ahead of ex-Washington S'ate runner Gerry Lindgren in 13:53.6. In the other heat, 34-year-old George Young of Casa Grande, took it easy and settled for fifth place in 14:11.6 as Tarry Harrison of Club West and Leonard of H'lton of the Houston Track Club earned the top two spots of respective times of 14:06.2 and 14:07.0. Twelve men altogether advanced to Sunday night's finals.

Young won a bronze medal in the steeplechase during the 1968 Olympics, but decided last year to writch to the 5,000. Willie Davenport of the Texas Striders, the 1968 Olympic Gold medalist, advanced in the 110-meter high hurdles with a 13.6-second time in winning one heat of the quarterfinals. In another heat, Rod Milburn of Southern University, world record holder in the 120-yard EUGENE, Ore. (AP) Jim Ryun, who said he "felt under control all the way," moved another step nearer his Olympic goal Thursday night a quarter final victory in the race at America'3 Olympic Track and Field Trials. The former Kansas star, whr just missed a U.S.

berth in the 800 meters, advanced to the 'emifinals 'onight by turning in a 55-second final lap in winning his heat of the 1,500 in 3 minutes, 45.1 seconds. Dave Wottle, the Bowling Green standout who finished No. 1 in the 800 meters last weekend, also advanced with a winning 3:43.7 clocking, but will be in more danger than Ryun tonight. Wottle will be in a fast third flight against such threats as Tom Von Ruden of Stillwater, Howell Michael of the Marine Corps and Jerome Howe of Kansas ate. The three top men from each high hurdles, hit six of the 10 barriers but still clipped the tape first in 13.5.

Tom Hill of the Army, formerly of Arkansas State, also turned in a 13.5 as 16 advanced into today's semifinals. In the 400-meter dash, world record-holder Lee Evans of the Bay Area Striders and John Smith, who holds the world mark at 440 yards, both advanced into today's second round. Evans, 1968 Olympic gold medalist, finished third in 46.8 seconds in one heat as Tommie Turner of Sports International (45.6) and James Redd (46.4), the Southern University sprinter, finished 1-2. Smith and runnerup Maurice Peoples of Washington D.C., lead another heat, each timed at 45.7. Wayne Collett, like Smith a former UCLA standout, finished second in 46.1 behind Army's Fred Newhouse (45.4) in another heat as 16 sprinters advanced.

-fly A tA cy1 aP Iports v. 1 i i T' Qualifying means more Hhan winning in '400-meter event, at Olympic Trials Jim Ryun (second from right), trying the field enters the final lap in the Olym-for an Olympic berth in the 1,500 meters pic Trials at Eugene, Thursday, after failing in the 800, is running fifth as Legion wins in Longmont meet with late comeback LONGMONT The American Legion George Beach Post No. 4 baseball team execu ed its biggest comeback of the season here Thursday night in a 7-6 win over Aurora in the Longmont Invitational. The Legion will play at 8 p.m. tonight against Wheat Ridge, which defeated host Longmont, 6-3, on a grand slam home run.

Greeley beat Ar-vada, 7-0, and Broomf eld shut out the Denver Merchants, 7-0, in other games. Fort Collins put together a five-run seventh inning to cap a comeback from a 6-0 deficit after the fourth inning. Don Grenz highlighted the rally with a grand slam home run with Kevin Hoyt, Dennis Moddelmog and Mike Brown aboard. Catcher Jim Honn came in with the winning run when he er in the event at 43.8 seconds, said he's worried about drawing lane No. 1 in one of the next three races.

"I hope I'm not the unlucky guy," said the 25-year-old veteran of the quarter mile. "The turns here are tighter and when you're running in that inside lane, you have to run the bend all the way. A guy on the outside someplace is part way into the first turn on the stagger when the race starts." Collett said he had been bothered by pollen in the past when he runs in this Willamette Valley city. "I hope this isn't serious. I really feel lousy." Smith, the world record-holder for 440 yards, said his comeback from hepatitis and lack of Can nioiiA Taps New By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Steve Arlin, San Diego's pitching dentist, must have given the New York Mets a dose of sleeping gas Thursday night.

And when the Padres finally got around to operating on Ar-lin's baseball patients, it was anything but painless. Arlin pitched 10 brilliant innings, allowing only one hit before turning the Mets over to reliever Gary Ross, who permitted just one more hit in four innings. Finally, the Padres pushed across a run on a bases-loaded walk in the 14th inning for a 1-0 victory. Arlin, who holds a degree in "I think every guy here will get a personal best and you know what that means for Lee, don't you?" Evans said the fourth-place finisher in the 1968 Olympic trials ran 44.6 and didn't make the team and Mathews chirped in, "And that guy was me. I don't want that to happen again." Jim Bush, UCLA coach of Collett and Smith, said he would stick with his early season prediction.

"I think it will take 43.7 to win this and 44.0 to make the team. It's a fast track, you have some great competitors and a good crowd. "In fact, I think it will take 44.6 just to make it into the finals," Bush said. Ali, Patterson set 12-rounder NEW YORK (AP) Muhammad Ali is thinking about two rematches one with former heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson Aug. 28, the other with present champion Joe Fra-zier sometime this year.

"It's gonna come about soon," said Ali Thursday in talking about a fight with Fra-zier while signing for one with Patterson in Madison Square Garden. "In the meantime I've been fighting and he's been retired to a chicken plantation (Frazier owns a planta'ion in South Carolina). "I think it'll be this year. Right now, it's him that's ducking. I think he's still shook up from the fierce beating I gave him." Ali stopped Pa'terson, a two-time champion, after 12 rounds Nov.

22, 1965, while Ali was still champion. EUGENE, Ore. (AP) Winning wasn't that important to Lee Evans, Vince Mathews, Wayne Collett and John Smith In toe first round of the 400-meter dash at the U.S. men's Olympics Track and Field Trials In fact, Smith said he lets his mind wander; Evans talked about his worry he might have to run in the inside land; Collett said he had chest pains, and Mathews said he worried ibout running in the outside lane. But winning wasn't important, they said; just qualifying, and besides, "It could take a world record to win this thing," Collett said.

Evans, the world record-hold Fischer loses UldW III UIC33 championships REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) Bobby Fischer lost the draw Thursday night, giving Boris Spassky the first move, and the world championship chess match will finally start next Tuesday. Unless the American challenger or the Soviet champion pleads illness and gets another postponement. The confusion of the past week was summarized by the old woman selling cigarettes who asked in the beginning: "Fischer come?" Near the end it was: "Spassky go?" "I'm very pessimistic," Dr. Max Euwe said at 10 a.m. At noon: "It's a very delicate situation." At 7 p.m., the president of the International Chess Federation sighed: "There's hope." That was Tuesday.

It could have been any day in the garbled prelude to what chess lovers say is the match of the century Spassky of the U.S.S.R. vs. Fischer of the U.S.A. Spassky arrived early to wait for Bobby. Saying "I came to play," he philosophically accepted the first postponement when Fischer didn't show.

Later he demanded an apology or he wouldn't play. Henry leads Canadian Open Ryun boxed in followed Grenz' slam with a double and scored on wild pitches. Mark Muniz started on the mound for Fort Collins, and gave up three runs on three hits, including a homer by Mike Quinn, in the opening inning. Aurora followed with two more Scores in the second inning on a couple of singles, a walk and a batter hit by a pitch. Winning pitcher Bob Fister came in in relief during the third inning, and allowed one run in the fourth on two singles.

Grenz' homer gave him four runs batted in. He had three hits in four times at bat. Honn was three-for-three at the plate, including his seventh inning double. Coach Bill Brown said he planned to start Don Grenz as the 28-year-old former Georgia Tech football placekicker said after his opening round Thursday. "That's the only time I led National Airlines," he recalled of his lone tour victory more than three years ago.

He won $40,000 for one week's work in the Miami sun that time and hasn't totalled that much since. playing too well for three or four years." Mrs. King, now 28, first hit the Wimbledon headlines 11 years ago when she beat the then No. 1 seed Margaret Court of Australia in her opening game. Since then Mrs.

King has taken the coveted Wimbledon crown three times in 1966, 1967 and 1968. The next two years she was beaten in the finals. Mrs. King expects the 15,000 fans to be behind her opponent, who beat her in the semifinals here last year. "If a crowd started shouting for me I'd really be surprised," laughed Mrs.

King. "I'd have to stop and ask them 'what's the "But I don't mind. It's all in the game." Miss Goolagong, 20, had to be at her best to beat 17-year-old Chris Evert of Fort Lauderdale, in the semifinals and confessed the finals might be equally difficult. "Billie Jean is always in Oaks defeat Bears, 5-1 DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) Iowa's Oaks snapped a four-game losing streak Thursday night by defeating Denver 5-1 on Glenn Abbott's five-hit pitching. Doug King's solo home run, his 12th of the season, gave the Oaks a 3-0 lead in the third in-ing before the largest crowd in two years, a turnout of 6,277.

It was Abbott's second start since being promoted from Birmingham. He didn't walk a a great number of races this year put him behind in his training for this meet until last week. "I feel like a quarter miler now," said the former UCLA champion in two NCAA meets. "Today I might have been faster but I just wanted to run relaxed." Evans said he wanted to win his heat, but "I felt bad at the start so I just relaxed." He said finishing in the top four was the only thing that mattered so, "It doesn't matter that I didn't win." "I would have been surprised if any of us had won; said Collett. "I went into my race not wanting to win, just qualify." Asked what it will take to win, Collett said: pniUt' Vorll, 1-0 dentistry from Ohio State University, matched zeroes with the Mets' Jerry Koosman for 10 innings before Ross and New York reliever Tug McGraw took over.

By then, the Mets were mesmerized and they never did wake up. Despite the outstanding pitching of Arlin and Ross, the Mets were still tied in the 14th because the Padres had been unable to cash in on any earlier scoring opportunities. When they loaded the bases with none out on two singles and a fielder's choice at the start of the 14th, it looked like there was no way they couldn't score. But they almost didn't. number Thursday night with a six-hit, six-strikeout performance, a 7-0 shutout over Kansas City that halted Detroit's four-game skid.

The Tigers battered five Royals pitchers for 13 hits en route to the triumph that kept them within two games of the front-running Orioles in the East Division. 36-34 when Rigney was fired. Griffith chose Rigney to succeed Billy Martin after the 1969 season when the Twins won the West Division, but lost three consecutive playoff games to the Baltimore Orioles. Martin, popular with Minnesota fans, was a tough act for Rigney to follow, but he duplicated the 1969 effort with another divisional title and lost three straight to Baltimore. Last year the Twins slumped to fifth place in the West.

Quilici, who played five seasons with the Twins, was a spark on the 1965 pennant winner. He was called from the minors in July and helped solidify the infield, playing his first 44 games without an error. Griffith indicated he would offer Rigney the opportunity to stay with the Twins organization, but said scouting was the only assignment open this year. Royals for 10th victory Detroit's Coleman blanks imith, iillie Jean in Wimbledon finals pitcher today against Wheat Ridge. FORT COLLINS Dennis Modcietmog, 3b Mlk Brawn, Don Grenz, rt Jfm Honn.

Mark Muniz, Bob Fister, Kevin Hoyf, Diane Rein, 3d Gary TrullHo, Mike Haddorff, 16 Larry Ekblad, ef Mike Buderus, is Totals AURORA Scott Harris, rt Homer Dutcnkowskl, H-ltl Mike Quinn, Bob Lackey, 3b Paul Forecael, a Dave Schessler, lb-p Mike Letotsky, Jb Dave Seaty, 3b Mike Hunt, Keith Bailey, Butch Bridges, cf Larry Obreza, cf Totals Fort Collins AB RBI 4 30 AB RBI 2 0 11 3 17 9 4 12 2 4 1 3 4 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 1110 0 0 0 10 0 0 2 10 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 57 4 000 002 7 320 100 0-4 Aurora Muniz. Fister (31. Hovt end Hmo Bailey, Schessler (7) and Hunt, winner Fister. Loser Bailey. Errors Fort Collins 1, Aurora 2.

2B-Brown, Honn, Lack-my. HR Lackey, Grenz. Henry held a one-stroke lead over long-shot Tommy Sanderson, alone at 66, after one round of this national championship being played on the par 71 Cherry Hill Club Course. Sam Snead, the 60-year-old West Virginian who recently won the World Seniors Championship, headed a quartet at 67, four-under-par. there fighting," said the curly-haired champion.

In Thursday's men's semifinals, U.S. Army Cp. Stan Smith beat Czech Jan Kodes 3-6, 6-4, 6-1, 7-5, while fiery Romanian Hie Nastase cut down Manuel Orantes of Spain 6-3, 6-4, 6-4. After Smith, of Pasadena, had won his match he laid on the massage table and watched Nastase as he destroyed Orantes with surgical precision. "Nasty is one of the best players in the world, with an awful lot of talent," Smith conceded.

CSU signs three baseball standouts A Colorado high school baseball standout Dennis Johan-ningmeier of Regis in Denver and two Hawaiian prep stars have signed national letters of intent to enroll at Colorado State University next fall, Athletic Director Perry C. Moore announced today. Johanningmeier, an outfielder, was an all-city selection and played in the 1972 Denver all-star game. The Ram recruits from Hawaii are left-handed pitcher Steve Soo, an all-stater in baseball, football and basketball from St. Louis High in Honolulu; and Alan Yamashiro, an infielder from Punahou High.

Yamashiro was chosen all-conference and all-state and his team's Most Valuable Player. FORT ERIE, Ont. (AP) -Bunky Henry, who has had three years of deep, bitter frustration since h's one day in the sun, shrugged off his six-under-par 65 that was good for the lead in the $150,000 Canadian Open Golf Tournament. "The only time that leading is important is when you're leading after the 72nd hole," King seemed completely unwor-ried by the encounter with her younger rival. "Of course Evonne has wonderful talent and has all the determination of a defending champion," said Mrs.

King. "But I'm so pleased to have reached the Wimbledon final again because I haven't been AP Wirephot victor Quilici makes debut today as manager at Minnesota WIMBLEDON, England (AP) "It's nice to be back," said Billie Jean King as she played in her seventh women's singles final on Wimbledon's imposing center court today. The erfervescent tennis star from Long Beach, met defending champion Evonne Goolagong of Australia. Mrs. The By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS "If you can't win 20 games with this club, you don't deserve to win," said Detroit's Joe Coleman, who then predicted he'll do just that with a little help from his friends.

Coleman, the Tigers' ace right-hander who won 20 games a year ago, reached the halfway point toward that magic Quilici, at 33 the youngest major league manager, rejected an offer from Griffith during spring training to manage the Twins' Class A team at Wisconsin Rapids. He recalled the March conversation: "I told Calvin you can manage for 20 years and not be an experienced manager." Rigney, the dean of American League managers in his 17th season, had a 90-minute session with Griffith. "I've just been fired," he told newsmen. "Calvin said we are not selling any tickets and that he wants to go with a local man," Rigney said. Griffith said the most important reason for the change in managers was because of the reac.ion of the players on the field.

"Too many of them were too nonchalant," he said. The Twins led the division early in the season, but slid from a 16-5 record on May 14 to MINNEAPOLIS ST. PAUL (AP) Frank Quilici, who was told in March he would have no chance to manage the Minnesota Twins until he got some minor league experience, makes his debut, tonight at the helm of the club on which he has I spent his entire major league playing career. The Twins will try to snap a four game losing streak against the New York Yankees at Metropolitan Stadium. Twins President Calvin Griffith named the former utility in-fielder to succeed Bill Rigney, who was fired Thursday after 2 years on the job and with his club games behind front-running Oakland in the West Division of the American League.

"Frank made a believer out of me," Griffith told newsmen. "He has shown maturity and I think he is just the man we need to get our team on the right track again." Stan Smith of Pasadena, raises his arm in victory Thursday at the Wimbledon (England) Tennis Championships, while loser Jan Kodes of Czechoslovakia departs with lowered head..