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Ron Bennett Powerful Arthur Ashe upsets Connors for title Women's Kb Caroline Svendsen, the part-time cocktail wiatress and construction worker from Virginia City, is carrying women's equality in sports to a maximum. She has applied for a boxing license. By next Thursday, she should know if the license is granted. It seemed inevitable a lady would try to break into boxing, a sport which has long been preserved for men only. Women are moving into all areas of sports little league baseball, football, wrestling, and others.

Thev are demanding equal opportunities, money and news coverage on all levels from high school through professional. Therefore when a Virginia City woman said she was going to box, she didn't surprise many. Whether she sincerely wants to box or is just pushing a cause remains to be seen. Either way, boxing and women's equalitv in sports stand to gain little by the move. Fighting is brutal.

And women physicially, are not boxers. ot to many women would feel pride at seeing a -member of their own sex in the ring. A group of northern Nevada high school werstlers today participated in a freestyle wrestling tournament with a --team from Hughson, Calif. "The freestyle competition is a step in the right direction but northern Nevada still has a long wav to go before it becomes a sophisticated wrestling area. There's no college wrestling.

And most high school werstlers participate in freestyle, the kind of werstling in international competition, in onlv a few tournaments. -High schools use American collegiate rules It is similar to freestyle, but there are some key differences. One of the -biggest changes is in freestyle any movement of the shoulders toward the mat costs the wrestler points. For example, when a high school werstler uses a "switch," a common move, he would lose points in a freestyle match. The high schools are actually training werstlers some bad habits for international competition.

-The trend nationally is slowly changing national federation rules to correspond with freestyle rules. But it's change. Many areas supplement their high school programs with By JEFF BRADLEY WIMBLEDON, England (AP) Arthur Ashe moved invincibly to a two-set lead then fought off a determined Jimmy Connors to win the Wimbledon men's singles title 6-1, 6-1, 5-7, fr4 today, becoming the black ever to hold the prestigious men's crown. Ashe, serving and volleying with power and precision, eezed through the first two sets, breaking Connors' serve five times But then Connors battled back in the third set, breaking Ashe's powerful serve for the first time in the match to even the set at 3-3 Both players then held serve to 6-5, when Connors broke serve again. Connors appeared to be regaining the form that won him the Wimbledon title last year as the fourth set opened.

He burst into a 2-0 lead, breaking Ashe's serve at 15. But after trailing 1-3, Ashe battled back. He lobbed, smashed and played a delicate A $22,000 prize awaits the winner of the center court battle scheduled to start at 8 a.m., EDT, on the final day of the Wimbledon championships. Billie Jean King won the wome 's singles title for the sixth time Friday by breezing past Australia's Evonne Goolaeong Cawlev It was the San Mateo, star's final singles tournament, and the climax of a 15- year career at Wimbledon in which she has won a record-equalling 19 titles. 13 of them in doubles.

"I have to quit sometime," the 31-year- old Ms. King said after collectinl the $15,400 winner's prize. "And I want to go out on a high." She will continue to compete in doubles and World Team Tennis, she said, but wants to concentrate on her television interview show and sports magazine. "Winning three Davis Cups, Forest Hills oiiiaaucu aim pzayea a aeiicaie winning tnree uavis Cups Forest Hills drop shot at the net to break Connors' serve and this year's World Championship Tennis for the seventh time. Ashe held service to title were probably my greatest thrills even the final set 3-3.

Both held onio service said a relaxed Ashe as he headed for the and the score was 4-4. showdown with Connors. But Ashe broke Connors' serve in the Being black added a bit of pressure he ninth game to take a 5-4 lead then held said, especially from West Indians and service forthe match. other blacks living in Britain nave sent The first black to hold a single's title here him notes saying, "You've got to do it for was Althea Gibson in 1957 and 1958 when she us." won the women's singles titles. Despite his efforts to encourage black Facing perhaps the toughest challenge of youngsters around the world to take up his career, Ashe was not thinking of himself tennis, Ashe admits that when he retires it as a hero in the eyes of black Americans.

mav be 10 years before another black The fact that I'm the first black finalist player reaches the top rank. esn't matter. It's not a nnvpltv anv int nt Jimmy Connors falls during his men's singles championship match against Arthur Ashe Saturday at Wimbledon, England. The heavily-favored Connors Oops lost, 6-1, 6-1, 5-7, fr4. Ashe's victory makes him the first black in the history of the eyent to win it.

(UPI photo) doesn't matter. It's not a noveltv anv more," said the tall, elegant player from Miami, Fla. "Nobody talks about Evonne (Goolagong Cawlev) being aborigine or El Shafei being Egyptian. It's passe." In Connors, Ashe meets an opponent at the top of gams. The world's No.

1 player hasn't even dropped a set on his way to the final. By TED MEIER NEW YORK CAP) -Ruffian faces the supreme test of her fabulous career in a 5350,000 match race against Foolish Pleasure at Belmont Park Sunday. One of the biggest disappointments to Lowry High School basketball coach Pat Hart has to be that none of his state as the gr of eam scholarshi to turf aSs, is favored to Hart, who to coach at San Jose High School next wiping Se winnerTM toe season obviously has a hard time He figures Kentuckl Derbv in thil it might have something to do with the quaity of com- batUe of the sexes that Si petition the Buckaroos played and the location of Winnemucca. Several of the players intend to play college ball as "walk-ons," that is. those who don't receive scholarships but earn a spot on the team by trying out.

could just make it. Success isn't something new to the Winnemucca plavers. of It's hard to believe the summer is far enough along that the regular Little League baseball season is over, but the all-star playoffs will begin in the near future. For hundreds of players age 8 to 12, Little League is the activity for the summer. Many parents take it pretty seriously too.

When parents" enthusiasm is put to use in the form of scorekeepers. coaches, umoires, the program is beneifted. It's too bad some prefer to complain and criticize only. Quickened the heartbeat horse lovers. The ll-s-mile sports spectacular is expected to lure a record crowd of 83,000 and down in turf history as one of the great sports spectaculars Post time is about 6 p.m.

EDT, and the race will be nationally televised by CBS. Ruffian, known for her effortless style of running, has been on top all the way in each of her 10 starts. That is why she has been proclaimed by some as the greatest filly of all time. i a daughter of Reviewer has raced only against her own sex, many believe she can prove her supremacv only a i i Pleasure. It will be a stern test.

tough, but we're going to test her," Leroy Jolley. trainer of Foolish Pleasure, said. "The only way to beat her is to run with her. We'll test her all right." Since most match races have been won by the lead horse, it seems that Jacinto Vasquez, Ruffian's jockev, and Braulio Baeza, astride Foolish Pleasure, will bust out of the gate lickity split and stage a speed duel to get in front. "I've done everything I know to make her ready," said veteran trainer Frank Whiteley after Ruffian's recent five-furlong work in 58 1-5 seconds, dockers termed it "easy work." Foolish Pleasure has been a come-from-behind runner faces supreme test a lot of difference between myself and what Jackie Robinson did in baseball.

When he broke into the major leagues in 1947 there were lots of black players ready to take advantage of the barriers he broke down. But in tennis, I was the only one capable." Connors, the 22-year-old lefthander from Belleville, 111., said the final will be "just another day at the office." this year, but "Don't forget," said Jolley. "as a 2- year-old last year' when he was unbeaten, most folks thought he was just a speedball who wouldn't get the classic distances." Foolish Pleasure's last start was in the Belmont Stakes at 1 miles on June 7 where he lost to Avatar by a neck in Ruffian also ran in the Coaching Club American Oaks June 21, also at miles, which she won by nearlv three lengths in 2:27 4-5. i a a GAZETTE SPORTS Evening Gazette Saturday, July 5,1975 homebred owned by Stuart Janney Jr. oFMaryland, has earned $313,429 fn her 10 starts.

She can add $225,000 to that if she beats Foolish Pleasure. If not, she gets the loser's share cf $125,000. The New York Racing A i a i i arranged the match, bills it as a "$400,000 Match Race, richest purse in American turf history." However, $50,000 of that went to Mrs. Robert Lehmann, owner of the Preakness winner. Master Derby, "whose gracious withdrawal made this race possible." rSV YtS era fosses for Sunday's rreich race Fcrl- Staners--Sbfpcn.

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is pback. Will the Edsel. the erewcut and belt- 4a-the-back slacks be next? Wall, a superstar before the term became a cliche, but swept aside when Arnold J'almer and Jack Nicklaus led the vanguard golfs young lions 15 years ago, shot a third consecutive 67 Friday as the Greater Open golf tournament continued 30 resemble a '-fabulous fifties" weekend. "I admit I have been contemplating Reaving the tour. I don't know how much aonger I can play.

But I am not going to Ithink about that tonight," he said. Wall. 51, carried a three-stroke lead over -tJibby Gilbert and a 15-under-par 201 into Ifoday's final round of the 5131,000 tourney. Rod Curl, Mac MeLendon. Dave Hill, Hayes.

Ken Still and Gary McCord ere tied for third, each 11 under par for the par-72 Tuckaway Country Club McCord, an obscure second-year pro, fashioned a third-round 65 with the help of Jwo eagles Hayes, McGlendon and Curl posted Still 70. Hill and Gilbert a 69 each, and Wall, voted golfs player of the year in 1959 when he won the Masters and led tour pros in earnings with $53,167, recorded the last of his 13 victories in 1966. By his admission, he has been in a miserable 18-month slump He is not among the tour's top 100 money earners this year, and had not shot a competitive round in the 60s all season until Wednesday "Golf is a game you can still play in your 50s," he said "I never felt I can't still play. My game just hasn't been sharp enough in the last year and a half te make much of a mark against these young fellows." Wall had six birdies in the round, offset by a single bogey when he hit a second shot into a trap on the 524-vard sixih hole. He had parred the 18th hole Friday- morning to complete his second-round 67 for a 10-under-par 134 for 35 holes, a stroke ahead of Still and Gilbert.

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Centerfielder Dave Edwards broke a 7-7 deadlock in the 10th inning with a home run, and the Silver Sox appeared to have the game won. However, Lodi pushed across the winning runs in its half of the inning as pinch hitter Ed Pebley singled, Rich Cuoco singled, Shorty Richman singled Pebley home with the tying run and Gersan Jarquin scored the winning run on a safety squeeze bunt. The second game wasn't nearly as close. Lodi, behind the strong pitching of former University of South Carolina pitcher-Greg Ward (3-0), took com- mand early. Craig Ryan drove in four runs with a homer and a single to pace the Orioles- Reno's two runs in the second game came in the fifth inning.

Third baseman Mike Gatlin hit a bases- empty home run and the other run came on a Lodi error. The two teams play another doubleheader Sunday. Reno EcHcrdsSr fcrics2b Wynegorc Bsxerss Corieidh Aicno'b McSocddenp Ausmanp Toids HrslGame obrhb lodi 4 2 2 0 rVcrcIec? JorcjmJo Sryonrf Rycn lb Vandrhekcn Peblsvah-rf less 5 2 2 2 4 2 1 0 5 1 1 2 6 0 0 0 5 0 3 0 4 0 3 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 428126 Toiois abrhbi 6 2 2 1 60 1 5 2 4 2 3 1 5 4 5 0 3 0 3 0 2 0 1 1 1 0 5 1 1 5 0 0 0 2 2 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 000 210 400 1-8 002 031 433 2-9 Second Gome Reno Richcrds' leole! Ai'snoib Ccneic Bdcerss DISKED rf-l: Coep Vfeilso obrlibi 3 i 00 0000 2010 4 0 1 0 3 0 1 0 3000 3 0 1 0 3 2000 3 1 1 0000 0000 25251 Couco2o J'joqjm 3o Brvoncf lb lee's Pebley dn Vcnderhotc Wsrdo Ttcts obrhbi 3 1 0 0 3 20 2 3 2 0 3 1 2 4 4 2 3 2 4 2 2 1 4 1 3 2 3 1 1 0 4 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 3113 16 10 103 23 Richards. S3 2. fliaao.

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Imen's team led 64-53 and the girls were ahead Houston McTear, 18, of Baker, who had tied the world 100-yard dash record of nine seconds flat two months ago, dominated his two events and claimed hushed attention from the crowd in the moments before his races started. He took the 100-meter dash in 10 2, tying the meet record set bv Michigan State's Marshall Dill in 1972. McTear was lead-off runner and gave his 440- yard relay unit a 10-foot edge at the first baton pass The team of McTear, Dwayne Strozier of Flint, Joel Andrews of Bakersfield, and Lamar Preyor of Elkton, was clocked in 396, tying the old standard set by an American team in 1972. Brenda Morehead, 17, of Toledo, Ohio, ran the women's 100 in 11.4, toppling the record -of 11 54 by Russia's Ludmilla Yushatik i 1 9 7 2 a a 16, of Jacksonville, Fla was second, also in 114 Mits Morehead was leadoff runner on the record-breaking 440-yard relay record, timed in "44.8. The old mark was 45 25 by an American team last year.

i i Miss Morehead were Evelyn Ashford, 18, Highland. Bernadine Given. 16. New a a i Cheesborough. In the men's 400 hurdles, Zhasiliy Arkhipenko was timed in 51.5, tying the standard by America's George Haley in 1973 a a 1 8 Philadelphia, had a 53-9 effort in the triple jump, breaking the 53-5 record by Russia's Milikail Svegal in 1972 America's two entrants in the decathlon were Dave Morey of the University of Pennsylvania and Anthony Hale of Fisk University In the 100, Morey was clocked in a winning 10 9 seconds, nipping Anatoliy Novikov, ll.o In the shot, Sergei Savalev was first with a 41-10 3 4 effort.

Novikov took the decathlon long jump at 22-8. with Savalev finishing second Cathy Sulinski, 17, from San Francisco, took the- javelin with a 177-1 throw, beating Vera Portnova, 17510. Pat 18, Philadelphia, was first in the women's 400 in 53.1, followed by Sharon Dabney, 17, also of Philadelphia. i a 1 7 Titusville, took the women's 1,500 run in 4:26.6. Greg Robertson, 18, of South Bend, captured the 110 hurdles in 14.2.

Paul Buttermark, 18. a freshman at North Carolina State, ran the 1,500 meters in a half-second faster than Alexei Draitriev In the 400, Richard Massey. 18, of New York, was first in 47.0, followed by Tony Darden, 17, of Norristown, Pa. Alberto Salazar, 16, Wayland, Mass handily won the 5,000 run in 14:30 3. In the pentathlon shot.

Miss Zhilo was first with a 33-2 3 4 effort, followed by Miss Kindig at 31-3 3 4. Miss Zhilo also claimed the high jump with a 5-9 effort, followed by Miss Mitchell, 55 Jota Whitehurst wants to get better By JAY GOLDBERG John Whitehurst believes he's a good tennis player. He also believes it takes long hours of practice to stay good Whitehurst, a sophomore at the University of Nevada, Reno, gives lessons at Burgess Park in Sparks during the summer. He plays tennis at lunchtime instead of eating and plays following the afternoon session Does he get tired of the sport? "Tvo," Whitehurst, who was the No. 6 man on the UNR tennis team last season, said.

'-When I was nine years old. I saw all of my friends on the tennis courts and I wanted something to do So I started to play tennis and I'm glad I did. "Anyway. believe I am a good player Whitehurst would like to keep on playing tennis competitively after college. "I'd love to play tennis as a career," the 19-year-old pre-med student said.

"You need money and lots of practice to play in top quality tournaments." Whitehurst would also like to play top quality college competition before he graduates from college. like to go to a bigger school after my junior year," Whitehurst said. "3y practicing and playing in top tournaments, I have the capabilities to go to a bigger school." The Wolf Pack tennis team is one of the dominate small college powers on the West Coast, but it doesn't play the likes of fanford, UCLA or Southern California. The team doesn't compete in the open NCAA tournament because of a lack of funds. "I'd like to go to a good tennis school that wants to develop good players.

I think I am," Whitehurst said. Whitehurst will be playing the California tournament circuit this summer, looking for top competition. He's already had tough competition in Reno. Recently the Sparks High School graduate lost to Reno High School On the courts graduate Steve Johnson 6-1, 6-2 in the semifinals of the men's singles in the Reno Open Tournament. Johnson is the 2 singles player in the Missouri Valley Conference- He's alsa 19 and is a sophomore at West Texas State.

"He's got real tennis sense. He's smart and has been around," Whitehurst said in awe of Johnson's abilities. He's hoping someone will talk like that about him someday. Whitehurst will just keep on practicing until they do. LOBS The Nevada State Junior Tennis Tournament is scheduled for July 14-18 on the Reno Municipal courts on Plumas Street.

Today is the deadline for entering the tournament for boys and girls 10-18 years Entries are now being accepted for the Carson City Tennis Tournament to be held July 21-25 at Mills Park for boys and girls 12-18 years old. Entry forms can be picked up at the Carson, Reno and Sparks recreation departments. Nina Davis is the tournament Mike Baker of Reno competed in the National Junior Hardcourt championships in Belvedere, Calif. It was Baker's first year competing with 18-year-olds "and he lost to Scott McClane of Los Angeles who eventually became a finalist. Baker is in San Jose this week competing in the California State Championships There are tennis clinics at the Reno YMCA for those that have to work in the mornings The clinics are from 7 a.m.

to 8 a.m. The Northern Zone Governors Cup tournament for juniors is scheduled for Aug. 4, but a site has not been determined, according to tournament director Bob Fairman. He said he is trying to obtain the city (Plumas Street) and county courts so the tournament can be in one specific area Fairman also announced the Northern Nevada Open championship is scheduled for the- University of Nevada, Reno courts and will include play for class players. The tournament is for the benefit of the tennis fund at UNR..