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t.f.g' THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS Aw 1 1, I Ashe And Orantes A Classic Clay Court Finale 1 I To Meet For Clay Court Title (' I Ashe Orantes "I won 20 matches in a row earlier this year and the tension" finally got to be too much," said Orantes. "I lost the streak in the finals of the Italian Open to Paul Ramirez. I know what Guillermo was going through." As Vilas chatted amiably with some countrymen, looking really relaxed for the first time all week, he said, "I need some time off. I have been playing a lot lately. "Obviously I wasn't in the same shape as when I played (Harold) Soloman in the finals at Washington.

I ran all night then. Today I couldn't run very long ones. But Manuel passed very well." The 32-year-old Ashe, who didn't look a day over 22 on some of his maneuvers to get at shots yesterday, knows that and -he'll no doubt counter himself tonight. He did at Wimbledon against Connors and it earned him one of those major titles te likes so much. smile and courtly manners, wasn't the least surprised by his victory, against a player who had been devastating all week.

"I like to play Guillermo," he said. "The last two times I played him I played well. His game suits me. He doesn't come to the net much." Orantes said he tried to hit cutting return shots to counter Vilas' topspin, and Manuel felt Guillermo might have gotten into trouble by altering his game in an effort to end Orantes' "He had played topspin, it didn't work, so he tried new things and they didn't work," said Manuel. "Then Guillermo started to make some mistakes." Guillermo, who says he'll try for some time off before going to Forest Hills later this month for the U.S.

Open, admitted fatigue helped do-him in, and Orantes sympathized with Vilas' pressure problem that had built from the long winning string. beating Orantes, a master stylist, at his own game. "The odds are I can't stay in the backcourt and beat him (Orantes)," said Ashe yesterday after he had foilghtback from a 5-2 deficit in the second set to beat Onny Parun of New Zealand, 6-4, 7-6, in a semifinal match following Or-, antes' stunning victory over Guillermo Vilas. "I can't rally and beat him," continued the second-seeded Ashe who will meet the No. 3 seed tonight in a best-of-three-set match.

"He has a better chance of doing that than I do." Orantes, who continued his mastery over Vilas with an almost -f 6-4, 6-2 triumph that ended the Argentinian's winning streak at 21 matches, beat Ashe, 6-2, the only time the two have played this year at Monte Carlo. "That was in about 60 minutes," said Ashe, smiling. "It would have been 40 minutes, but I took a long time changing courts." By DICK DENNY The names aren't the same, but tonight's finalists in the men's singles of the 1975 U. S. Open Clay Court tennis tournament offer an almost duplicate of the contrasting styles that made the 1974 finals so intriguing.

Jimmy Connors, whose power game destroyed everything in sight at Wimbledon, came to Indianapolis and proved he could play equally well on clay by beating a clay court specialist, Bjorn Borg of Sweden, for the title. Arthur Ashe of Miami will be the Jimmy Connors of this year's finals and Manuel Or-antes of Spain will be the Bjorn Borg. They'll begin play at 7 on the Indianapolis Racquet Club's stadium court, and if form holds, as it likely will, the match should be outstanding. Ashe, who covets major titles almost as much as Jack Nicklaus, admits he'll not add the Clay Court crown to his Wimbledon championship by be labeled an upset, because the 26-year-old Spaniard who won the Clay Court title in 1973 held a 6-5 career edge on his 22-year-old foe going into the match. Orantes now has beaten Vilas three straight matches and has taken seven consecutive sets from the powerful left-hander who had won successively the Dutch, Washington International and Louisville Pro Classic titles.

The left-handed Manuel, one of the most popular players ever to appear in Indianapolis because of his enormous Getting serious, the 1967 Clay Court champion said, "Orantes is better off the baseline than Parun. Onny gets the ball back, but Orantes gets it back with some speed, and he'll probably dropshot me to death. "The only thing I have to worry about are my approach shots. Everything else I can handle. My approach shots make me or break me.

If I hit those, I'll do all right." Nobody had been able to counter Vilas' difficult topspin shot for almost a month, but Orantes did, and it couldn't Sparky Reveals Secret: Always 3 Hot Hitters i-o 5 T-'-lnrftiffiwiiErr Sunday games are played too early for his normal banana-nut or chocolate-chip dessert. Norman, the diminutive left-hander who has worked his way into the regular rotation, stopped the Expos on three hits through five innings, but a three-run homer by catcher Barry Foote ended his shutout hopes in the sixth. After Larry Parrish singled, righthander Rawly Eastwick came on to record two strikeouts and hurl scoreless ball the rest of the way. Despite the healthy run production, the Reds only took two out of three from the Expos to close out the season series at 8-4. The Reds dropped Friday night's game, 8-7, after taking an early 5-0 lead.

The win put the Reds 37 games over the .500 mark and kept the lead over second-place Los Angeles at 15 games. CINCINNATI (AP)-Cincinnati manager Sparky Anderson divulged the secret of his club's hitting prowess yesterday, but it was too late to help the Montreal Expos. "We always seem to have two guys not hitting and then three guys that are hitting," he, said after the Reds pounded out 16 hits en route to an 11-3 victory. "That's the1 secret. If you get three guys hitting at one time, you don't have to worry." Cincinnati hitters improved on Anderson's secret over the weekend, as they sent Montreal pitchers staggering out of town, victims of 27 runs in three games.

The total gave the Reds 52 runs in their last six games as the Western Division leaders continue scoring at better than a 5-run-a-game pace for the season. Everybody was hitting in yesterday's game, as each starter had at least one safety in the barrage against four Montreal pitchers. The Reds jumped out to a 5-0 lead for winner Fred Norman (7-3), who won his fifth straight game and extended his sterling Riverfront Stadium record to 21-6. Darrel Chaney's single in the fourth inning produced the first run, and the Reds kayoed loser Don Carrithers (1-1) with four in the fifth. Singles by Johnny Bench and Tony 1 Perez added two more in the sixth, then another Bench single and a three-run homer by George Foster closed out the scoring in the eighth.

Bench's three hits boosted his average to .302, the fourth Cincinnati starter hitting over .300. Foster's home run, his 19th of the season, brought his RBI total to a career-high 59 even though he missed his usual pregame icecream. "I had some yesterday. I guess it carried over," he joked, adding that I 1975: The Year Jack Gave Away Slam Jack Nickla us smiles after 4th PGA win. UPI.

Mcklaus, who now has four PGA titles, can tie Walter (Hagen for the most PGA wins DOM'TGET next year at Congressional in Washington, D.C. "I'd like to be able to tie that record," he SQUEEZES BV THE GAS CRUNCH. AKRON, Ohio (UPI)-Tom Weiskopf said it and jack Mcklaus agrees. "I'm sure Jack will look back at this year as the year he gave the grand slam away," said Weiskopf. "Yes," said Nicklaus following his fourth PGA title and 16th major tournament win yesterday at the Firestone Country Club, "I suppose of the four major tournaments, I had a better chance to win them this year than ever Aiimougn tne victory was But he settled down and-from the third hole to the 18th, which he double-bogeyed after driving under an evergreen tree, he was near perfect.

"I said to myself, 'You make a four at 17 and go to 18 and do anything you And I did," he said with a laugh. But Crampton, who missed a 10-foot birdie putt at 17 which could have trimmed the final spread to just one shot, said he felt Nicklaus wouldn't have taken a six at 18. Nicklaus agreed. his 16th major one, Nicklaus said he savored it as much as the rest, except possibly the first. "Each one adds its own dimension," said the Golden Bear.

"Anytime I whip Why get stuffed into a small car to save gas? Unwind in a Volvo and save gas.tFrontlegroomis spacious (a Cadillac deVille has about the same). Rearlegroom is about as much asim tough golf course and a field like this, it's pretty satisfy ing." WHY PAY BIG CITY PRICES? I "xne open I had and gave it away," he said, "and the British was almost given to 4-Ply POLYESTER a Lincoln Continental FULL me." JNickiaus, whose winnings Mark IV. Even the trunk is big enough for six two-suiters standing up. Plus a Trips Creep Closer As Tribe Loses By Associated Press Evansville renewed its assault on the first-place position of Indianapolis in the American Association last-night, splitting a doubleheader as the Oklahoma City 89ers dumped the Indians for the second consecutive game. Evansville, which took its opener from Wichita, 5-4, then dropped the, i a 2-1, is'1 games behind Indianapolis in the Eastern Division.

Oklahoma City shut out the Indians, 7-0. Jerry Manuel socked a 370-foot homer in the eighth, pulling Evansville to its victory win over the Aeros. The Triplets' Chuck Scrivener forced it into extra innings with an RBI single in the seventh that tied it 4-4. In the second game, lefthander Jim Kremmel limited Evansville to five hits. the 89ers' Jim McCutchin was credited with a four-hitter over the Indians.

He held on for the shutout despite walking six three in the second inning. Dave Oliver, with a 3-for-3 performance, and second baseman Ben Heise with three RBIs led the Oklahoma City attack. Also in the American Association: "Brad Meyring, more accustomed to a relief role, drew a starting assignment for Omaha against the Denver Bears and handcuffed high-flying Denver on five safeties to win 6-1. Omaha put it out of react in the first with four a two-run single by Jamie Quirk. The Bears, trailing 2-1 going into the sixth, set off a big inning in the second game with two singles and a double steal with two out.

Chester, sLemon followed with a two-run single and Bob Gorinski smashed a three-run homer for a 6-3 Bear victory. Hector Cruz collected his 28th homer of the season in Tulsa's 6-1 i over Iowa. one-suiter lying down. So in the choice between a big car mileage and a small car's space, choose w- uur VOIVOS. Guillermo Vilas flits between-legs shot.

AP. MARIO SECOND AGAIN Redman's Victory A Mid-Ohio Habit LEXINGTON, Ohio (UPI) Brian Redman is making a habit of defeating Mario Andretti in Mid-Ohio Buckeye Cup Formula 5000 competition. Redman, a veteran driver from Yorkshire, England, took the lead on the 31st lap yesterday when Andretti's car broke down and went on to win the $67,500 race. Redman won by 27 seconds over his teammate, Al Unser of Albuquerque, N.M. Redman also beat Andretti in the Formula 5000 race on the same course last year when the Nazareth, driver was forced into the pits.

I "I feel -great about winning this race," Redman said. "That's what really matters. "Bui even after I had a big lead, I didn't slow down. I changed my shifting procedures somewhat, but in this kind of race you can't afford to hold off or make a mistake. It could mean losing the race," said Redman.

Andretti and Unser drove Vels-Parnelli cars; Third was David Hobbs, Upper Bodington, England, followed by Jackie Oliver, Walton-on-Thames, England. B. J. Swanson of Bristol, crashed at the start of the race, forcing the other drivers to go easy while debris was hauled from the track. He was reported in critical condition at nearby Mansfield General Hospital with severe head injuries.

Swanson's car slammed headon into a bridge on the winding course. Track officials blamed the accident on a stuck throttle. Hobbs' crew set a record by replacing the motor in his powerplant in 66 minutes after the timing chain broke I during the 50-mile qualifier. Oliver was followed by two native Australians driving American-made cars, Vera Schuppan and Warwick Brown. Americans filled out the rest of the top 10 with Tuck Thomas of Minneapolis, seventh, John Gunn of Miami, eighth, Evan Noyes of Indianapolis, ninth, and John Morton of El Segundo, 10th.

Redman won the 100-mile feature with an average speed of 93.24 -miles per hour over the winding, 2.4-mile course, a 27.22 margin over Unser. Unser, fighting to catch up with Redman, set a Mid-Ohio Formula 5000 record on the 41st lap when he recorded a 105 m.p.h. speed with a clocking of 1:22.285. US. Govt.

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