Star-Gazette from Elmira, New York • 23

Thursday, July 6, 1372 23 STAR GAZETTE Elmira, N.Y. Evonne Jean Soar into Wimbledon Final dered and she vent into what Australians call a One shot after another missed the lines. Chris Evonne broke back in the ninth game, lobbing skillfully and floating a beautiful back hand across the court. American girl lost the points that mattered most. Chris, completely unaffected by the feverish atmosphere in the packed crowd, hit her shots with steady precision.

She broke service to lead 4-2 in the opening set. At deuce Miss Evert hit a backhand return down the line. In the next rally Miss Goolagong closed in at the net and Chris coolly stroked a backhand past her Then Chris began to run away with the match'. Evonne's concentration van the second. The Australian girl held her service with a struggle and cut the lead to 3-1.

At this stage it looltecl odds on for an Evert victory. But in the fifth game Miss Goolagong hit a remarkable winner a sizzling backhand return from a strong smash by her opponent to break service. Evonne's walkabout was over. She began to score with her cross-court shots again and the pressure was on Chris. The Australian hit some of her best shots to break service and lead 4-3.

She lured Chris -forward and passed her with a forehand, then angled a clever forehand across court. From then on Evonne went forward more and more often to stab away her volleys. Chris's accuracy wavered under the pressure, and she dropped service against at 3-6. The final set went to 3-3, and then the match hung in the balance during two long and exciting games. There were net cords, close line calls, shots that dipped the lines.

Miss Goolagong won the first and Miss Evert squeezed home in the second to make it 44. But the tension of those two games left its mark on Chris. Throughout the struggle neither girl queried a single line call or showed a sign of petulance over bad shots. The crowd rose to both of them at the finish. Miss Casals made a spirited beginning against Mrs.

King, but failed to maintain her sparkle against machine-like serving and volleying. From 2-2 Bille Jean won four games in a row to win the first set She dropped service at the start of the second, but again won four games in a row and strolled away with the match. Mrs. King has reached the final six times in seven years. She won the title in 1966, 1967 and 1968.

Tis was her 19th victory over Miss Casals in 20 matches during the last two years, If mBBP (A A WIMBLEDON," England AP) -Chris Evert, cool to the last, ended her first Wimbledon tennis bid Wednesday by bowing to the brilliance of Evonne Goolagong. The curly-headed Australian, 20, came from behind to beat 17-year-old Chris, from Fort Lauderdale, iS, 6-3, 6-4 in a tense and dramatic semifinal match. An enthralled crowd of 15,000 at the center court watched the duel. Hundreds of fans had waited all night outside the All-. England Club to see the first clash ever between the two girls.

Billie Jean King of Long Beach, as expected, downed Rosemary Casals of San Francisco 6-2, 6-4 in the other semifinal. Miss Goolagong will defend her crown against Mrs. King in Friday's final for the $6,240 top prize. Miss Evert, who has become the darling of the Wimbledon crowds, appeared calm throughout the thrills pf her 1 hour, 35 minutes match. "The pressure was on me this time," she said philosophically as she came off court.

"But I will be playing Evonne many times again, and next time the pressure will be on her. There are plenty more Wimbledons ahead." Evonne, bubbling with vitality, pressed forward aggressively. Chris, cool as an iceberg, fired from her baseline. Evonne was the more creative player and showed more imagination in varying the pace of the game. She also was the more erratic.

Chris was steady from first to last and made extraordinarily few unforced errors. At one stage it looked as if the even poise of the American girl would take her through to the final. After winning the first set she led 3-0 in the second and was then 30-love up against service. At that point Evonne, whose concentration had been lapsing, pulled her game together. She made more mistakes later, but her greater experience and shrewdness gave her the edge.

Vic Edwards, Evonne's coach and legal guardian, gave her tactical advice before she went on court, deviating from his usual method of allowing X'-'-JS? I r.y fy m'tir, zih- i I ir i EVONNE IN ACTION Aussie Evonne iGoolagong, defending Wimbledon champ, gets set to return a shot off the racket of the United States' Chris Evert in their semifinal match. (AP Wirephoto). Brooks' Belt LOW RETURN Billie stretches a low to return a mary Casals in their semifinal meeting at Wimbledon. (AP Wirephoto). Bannister's 8,120 Decathlon Total Ranks as World's Best This Year Chisox -quietly won the next game against service to wrap up the first set and then went to 3-0 in day, jumping from fifth position in the over-all standings to first briefly.

Then Bannister came back for a 200-11 javelin and regained the lead. The two ran almost arm-in-arm through the last half lap in the 1,500 as both clocked 4:25.5. "I know Jeff likes to set the pace," said Bannister, "and I like to run behind. He had to beat me by seven seconds to win this thing and we agreed that if we were close to each day, two days late. They wanted Euwe to declare Spassky the winner of the first game.

This would give Spassky a 1-0 advantage in the score at the outset of play. Chess experts said that in such a long match it was a disadvantage that Fischer could probably overcome. The match could last as long as two months. From the frequent trips by Spassky and his second, Yefim Geller, to the gray three-story Soviet Embassy here, it was apparent the Soviet game was being played on directives from Moscow. The maximum aim of the Soviet officials could be to obtain an initial scoring advantage they hope will permit the title to stay in Russia, where it has been since 1948.

Or they might be playing more modestly to regain the psychological advantage for their champion. This would mean that in the end they would accept a decision by Euwe not to penalize the American. Fischer's apology said, "We are sorry the world championship was delayed. The problems causing the delays were not with world champion Spassky whom I respect as a man and admire as a player. "If Grandmaster Spassky or the Soviet people were inconvenienced or discomfited, I am indeed unhappy, for I had not the slightest intention of this ocurring.H Though officials were clearly worried at one point that the Russians might pull out, Spassky was not behaving like a man who was on the verge of leaving.

EUGENE, Ore. (APJ They call it a "little club of ours" and they refer to the members as they would love ones. It's the rugged, gruelling, two-day-ten-event test known as the decathlon the event Jeff Bannister calls his own Bannister, a graduate of New Hampshire who stands 6 feet 3 and weighs 10 pounds less than normal today, captured the U.S. Olympic Trials decathlon Jean King shot to Rose Tuesday with 8,120 points, the top total in the world this year. He conquered 97-degree heat as well as little Jeff Bennett of 'the Army.

Bennett, with 8,076, and Bruce Jenner, a longshot from Iowa, with 7,846, also made the U.S. team which goes to Munich this summer for the 20th Olympic Games: "I just wanted to get on the team. It's been a long wait," said a champagne-drenched championship chess match. The winner will get $231,250 and the loser $168,750. A few thousand dollars and prestige went to previous world champions.

Spassky, the defending champion from Russia, had complained that Fischer's conduct had "insulted me personally and the country I represent." The American, in a statement prepared by his lawyers and read by Max. Euwe, the president of the International Chess Federation, said he respected Spassky as a man and admired him as a chess player. The apology was the latest Fischer's Apology May Not Satisfy Hard-Line Russians his pupils to plan their own strategy. "He told me to get in as close as possible and to cut my backhands short," Evonne explained afterwards. Evonne followed his advice from the start.

She played Chris at her own baseline game for one long rally after another, hitting her ground strokes with heavy spin and trying to keep the initiative away from her young rival. But she cleverly varied the pace with short cross-court backhands and lured Chris forward. That usually was when the Legion Tops Candor Pete Trifoso and Snyder combined Tuesday to lead the Denny talents Elmira Legion baseball team to a 4-2 victory over the Candor Legion in a game played at Candor. Trifoso, besides tossing and fanning 16, rapped three hits to help his own cause. Snyder banged out two hits and knocked home two runs.

Bill Drake and Tom Yarnell knocked in Elmira's other runs. Elmira A Post 443 Candor A Post AB RBI AB RBI Drakess 5 0 11 Smith 3b 3 0 0 0 Tritosop 4 2 3 OConsolviass 3 1 0 0 Snyder 3b 1 2 2Jahonen 4 0 0 0 Reidylb 4 0 1 lCollyer2b 4 0 2 1 Yarnellc 4 1 1 iVosec 3 0 10 S'outhr2b SOloKulzelf 0 0 0 0 Dunlavyrd 4 0 0 0Rose 2 0 0 0 Snyder cf 1 0 0 0 Brown cf 3 0 0 0 Stage If 2 0 0 0 Saunders cf 0 0 0 0 Stephenscf 3 0 0 OVanRiperrf 3 0 10 Banfleidp 2 0 0 0 Mott 2b 0 0 0 0 Bowen 2b 0 0 0 0 Totals 37 4 tOTotals 37211 McNally needed after getting out of a first-inning ham. With two out in the first, Dick Allen doubled. McNally then walked Rick Reichardt, but on the fourth ball Allen was picked off second by Catcher Andy Etchebarren. Carlos May singled to lead off the second and the Sox didn't get another hit until ike Andrews led off the eighth with a single.

then loaded the bases on singles by Ed Herrmann and Rich Morales but McNally fanned pinch hitter Luis Alvarado and got Williams to hit into a double play. CHICAGO abrhbi WWIIamjrf 10 0 0 BALTIMORE abrhbt Bulord If 4 0 10 Yancy 3b DAIIen lb Rechrdt cf CMayll Andrews 2b Hrmanne Orta pr Brnkmn Morales ss Woodp Alvrdoph Acostap Total 4 0 0 0 Blair cf 4 0 0 0 4 0 10 Grich ss 4 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 Baylor rf 4 0 2 0 3 0 10 DJ'hnj'nJb 4 0 0 0 3 0 10 BR'binsnJb 4 111 3 0 10 Powell lb 4 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 Etchbrn 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 McNally 3 0 10 3 0 10 2 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 5 0 Total 35 1 7 1 Baltimore Chicago cw. Williams 010 000 0001 MO 000 000-4 DP Baltimore LOB Baltimore 7, Chicago Buford, D. Allen; 3B Baylor 2B HR B. Robinson SB Baylor.

IP ERBBSO McNallyW.7 5 0 0 2 4 Wood 12 9 8 7 1 1 0 4 Acosta 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 A 15.584. DROPS OUT LONDON (AP) Argentina's Roberto de Vicenzo, 49, has withdrawn from the British Open Golf Championship which begins at Mu'irfield, Scotland CHICAGO (AP) Brooks Robinson's second-inning home run backed the five-hit pitching of Dave McNally and led the Baltimore Orioles to a 1-0 American League baseball victory over the Chicago White Sox Wednesday. McNally, 9-7, posted his fifth shutout of the season in out-dueling Wilbur Wood, 12-9. Robinson cracked his third homer with one out in the second, and that was all 'Drome Slates Championships Qualifying races for championships in all three classes will start the racing program Saturday night at 8 at Chemung Speedrome. Following intermission, the first of three championship runs will take place.

Doug Rundell of Sherbourne, the top MINI Stock driver, will" be on hand to defend his title in the 20-lap championship. In the Sportsmen class Cy Sanders of New Albany, will be the driver to beat. Cy hopes to be able to grab the 40-lap championship race. Then the Late Model drivers 2ill take to the track for their 40-lap championship. After the races, the fireworks display will be shown.

The rain date is Sunday afternoon and the fireworks held over until the following Saturday night. Bannister on the track, moments after completing the final event, the run. Bannister was asked about his own performance but preferred to speak in glowing terms of his competitors "I was so happy to see Jeff do so well in the pole vault, and Bruce make the team. I love all these guys. We compete against each other so often." Bennett went 16 feet 7 inches in the pole vault Tues move in a complicated preliminary between the Americans, and the Russians before they even got to the Italian marble chess board on the stage at Reykjavik's Sports Palace.

Fischer's holdout for money postponed the scheduled start of tire match Sunday. Spassky's countermove, a protest and a demand for an apology by Fischer, moved the starting date of the series to today. Officials said they weren't even certain about that. They had to deal with the demand from the Soviet Chess Federation that Fischer be penalized for his arriving Tues- REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) Bobby Fischer apologized. He told Boris Spassky and the Soviet people Wednesday he was sorry if he insulted them by disrupting the world chess championship.

But the word from Moscow was tough, and today's scheduled start of the matches remained uncertain. The Soviet Chess Federation demanded that the American challenger forfeit the first game of the 24-game match because he didn't show up for its scheduled start on Sunday. Fischer's holdout, however, has brought the winnings and even the losings to the highest amount ever in any world other with 200 to go, we'd go in together. "We didn't want to make it a dog-cat-dog affair at the end. There was no need to.

We're both on the team." Bennett, a graduate of Oklahoma Christian, said his former home prepared him for the heat here and said, "besides, it'snotthatbad because it's not too humid." Bannister hadn't seen his mother since he was graduated from college 18 months ago. He sent his mother a plane ticket recently so she could see him compete. Now a Los Angefes resident, Bannister lost 10 pounds from the 200 he normally carries as he ran the 110-meter high hurdles in 14.5 seconds lor 905 points, threw the discus 142-3 and pole vaulted 13-1 in the second day. "I sure could improve my pole vault," he said. "I lose a lot of points there." His total was the best mark in the world this year, 36 better than Russia's Nikolai Avilov, but Bannister says "it'll take at least 8,200 to win in Munich." Stewart Pulls Out of Can-Am LONDON (AP) Jackie Stewart, Britain's reigning world champion racing car driver, has announced he was pulling out of the Canadian-American series of races on doctor's orders and cutting his racing program in half, for the rest of the year.

Stewart won the French Grand Prix only two days ago after a month's layoff because of a duodenal ulcer. The Scottish farmer's statement was issued through the Ford Motor Co, here. Stewart is at his home in Geneva. He said he will concentrate for the rest of the season on driving the Tyrrell-Ford car in his world championship duel with Emerson Fittipaldi of Brazil. "Much as I regret it," Stewart said in his statement, "I shall be pulling out of the Can-Am series of races in North America." He added: "The doctors ran a check on me as soon as I got home from France.

"Apparently the ulcer showed signs of having flared up again during the race-so they have told me I must operate on halfthrottle." soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooa 8 Has Yaz Lost His Once Mighty Swing: "71 1 the groove, altohough I've taken some extra batting practice. Homers? I'm not thinking about them. They'll take care of themselves." Despite his drop from home run leadership ranks, Yaz still is feared by American League rivals. '-'BOSTON (AP) A three-time American League batting Champion with 257 lifetime home runs, Carl Yastrzemski of the Bpston Red Sox still commands respect, but his days as a long ball threat may be over. Yastrzemski, who will be 33 next month, can't buy a homer, even if he could part with a big chunk of his $165,000 a year from the Red Sox.

Yaz, signed off the Notre Dame campus for a fat bonus, prepped two years in the minors before joining the Red Sox in 1961. He reached a career high with 44 homers as he led Boston to the pennant in 1967 and earned the most valuable which we didn't publicize and we certainly aren't going to publicize now. He hasn't any problems this year." Yaz got off to a miserable start this season and was hitting just .161 when he tore ligaments in his right knee sliding into the plate in California May 9. Sidelined a month, he returned to action with the knee strapped. He changed his thinking, forgot the long ball and his average climbed steadily and moved steadily toward .300.

"I'm just trying to hit the ball," the powerfully built outfielder said. "I've been getting some good rips, going to left and center when the pitches are there. I'm getting back into He slipped to 23 homers in 1968, but bounced back with 40 in each of the next two being rewarded with a hefty three-year contract. Yaz really hit the skids last year, finishing with only 15 homers, a .254 batting average and just 70 runs batted in. He was plagued by a hand injury and personal problems.

After playing in his fifth Consecutive All-Star Game, Yaz connected for only four homers, the last on Sept 3. He hasn't hit one since, even in 28 'exhibition games in spring training. "We don't know what the trouble is," Red Sox General Manager Dick O'Connell says. "Last year he had problems VHe's swinging like the Yaz of Manager Chuck Tanner of the Chicago White Sox said in a recent visit to Fenway Park. "As soon as he gets his timing down, he'll tear up a few ball parks.

"He can win games all by himself. He's worth three hitters in the batting order himself, the guy before him and the one after." ') I I CARL YASTRZEMSKI player award. 5 oooooooooooooocoooooooooocoooooooooewcoooooopoooooooootaccooooooooooo.