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Chris A- Chris Labors: 8-6, 8-6 Stan, Too: 8-6, 4-66-2, 6-4 WIMBLEDON, England UB Stan Smith, favorite to win the men's singles title in the prestigious Wim-bledon tennis tournament, moved falterlngly into the quarter-flrials Friday, while little Chris Evert, 17, continued her winning form in the women's division. Smith, the big soldier from Pasadena, still was below, his best form but beat Australia's Ian Fletcher 8-6, 4-6, 6-2, 6-4. Chris, from Fort Lauderdale, worked hard on the center court to overcome Mary Ann Eisel of St. Louis, It was a great day for the American girls. Eight, Including Miss Evert, reached the final 16 of the worn- nals and that long-awaited dream match with Evonne, I assuming of course that the Australian star also keeps winning.

Chris has now won three matches, in which she dropped only one set (to Valerie Ziegenfuss in the second round). i Smith showed his top form sporadically. But he stepped up his game when it counted particularly! in the fourth set. Smith led 2-0 in that set but lost his service and allowed the Australian to tie at 4-4. At that point, the Army corporal turned on the heat.

He went to a lead by serving and volleying, then broke through with a spectacular cross-court backhand and a forehand pass down the line to clinch the 1972 ill I iM.m II en's singles. Billle jean King won and so did her archrival, Evonne Goolagong, the defending titiist from Australia. Two more victories will put Chris into the semif i- Saturday, July CLASSIFIED fo) O) ACECUST Holdout Fischer Given Stern Warning match. Four men have reached the quarter-finals, thus far. Smith will meet Alexander Metreveli of Russia and Onny Parun of New Zealand will be paired against Jan Kodes of Czechoslovakia.

Two other Americans are gunning for a place in the quarter-finals. Jim Connors of Belleville, 111., plays Francois Jauffret of France and Tom Gorman of Seattle, faces No. 2 seed Die Nastase of Romania. Gorman overcame Jaime Fillol of Chile 6-4, 7-5, 24, 4-6, 8-6 Friday in a tense match. Gorman, who lost to Smith in the semifinals last year, played strong tennis for two sets before faltering.

Fillol drew even at two sets apiece, then broke service at 3-1 in the final set. The two men had then been on court for nearly 2 hours and Fillol appeared to have the edge. But. Gorman's backhand carried him to victory. Three times in the fifth game, he hit winning returns against first services, and Fillol was broken.

Gorman finally volleyed his way to victory in the 14th game. Two American men were AMSTERDAM The president of the World Chess Federation has threatened American champion Bobby Fischer with blacklisting following reports he is holding out for a cut of the gate receipts from his Series with Boris Spas- sky of Russia. DR. MAX EUWE: 7 don't like Mr. Fischer in our chess world' ASS: Wherever Fischer money ranks V-v exhibition at Arlington, Tex.

bigger chew of tobacco than UPI When little Nellie Fox was a star second baseman with the Chicago White Sox, he sported one of the biggest "chaws" in (be majors. And as a coach with the Texas Rangers, he still does. But Nellie met his match when the Rangers and Shiney DaspiJe Icelan Bugs Bobby, But He The Foxes At Play their wives played a Softball Joanne Fox turned up with a husband Nellie. Lead flinson one ahead in Cleveland: 3-C birdied the final hole with a 25-foot putt Miss Ehret, who finished play before the thundershowers, was alone in second place at 148 and Pam Barnett fol-. lowed at 149.

When darkness overtook the No Mumps, Just bogey five on the 10th hole before thundershowers held up play for nearly two hours. When she returned to the drenched Winged Foot Golf Club East course, she carded three bogeys and a double bogey and reached the 18th in a tie with Gloria Ehret. However, the spunky Miss Engel-horn, making her return to competitive golf after a year's layoff with ankle surgery, Holds Plans To Win MAMARONECK, N.Y. (B-Shirley Englehorn saw a sub-par score and a three-stroke lead melt away with the rain Friday but birdied the hole and retained sole possession of first place at the. halfway point of the U.S.

Wonw en's Open Championship with three-over-par 147. Miss Englehorn covered the front nine in two-under 34, then lost a stroke with a NEW YORK (UPI) The more Bobby Fischer thinks about it, the more it bugs him. Why Reykjavik, Iceland? "Why not Rome?" Fischer would like to know. "Why not Paris, Oslo, Zurich, Dallas or New York? Or even Moscow? Any large city where there's people, activity and decent restaurants would be fine. Someplace at least where there's something to do at night." 'Bobby Fischer, America's 29-year-old chess genius, has a theory about why Reykjavik was picked as the site of the world championship which starts this Sunday.

The Russians are the ones who picked Reykjavik. Fischer thinks the Russians ha ve a motive. He thinks they want to "hide" the championship ber cause he feels he's going to take it from the Soviet Union's Boris Spassky. What's more, Fischer thinks the Russians know he's going to do it In this own way, Fischer is a demonstrator. He has been demonstrating the way he feels about Dr.

Max Euwe, the world federation president and veteran Dutch grandmaster, said Thursday night that if the 29-year-old American fails to appear Sunday for the start of the world chess championship in Reykjavik, Iceland, he stands to lose his rights to play for the world title "not only this time but perhaps forever." A scheduled Icelandic Airlines flight to Reykjavik, site of the championship match, left New York early Friday but an airline spokesman said Fischer was not aboard. Fischer was seen at the airport late Thursday but he refused to talk to newsmen and disappeared into the parking lot. The next flight from New York to Iceland was Friday night. Bat Fischer in the past has refused to fly on the Jewish Sabbath, between sundown Friday and sundown Saturday. Informed sources in Reykjavik said that Fischer informed the Icelandic Chess Federation that he wouldn't play unless he got 30 per cent of the gate receipts.

This would be in addition to his share of the $125,000 purse and 30 per cent of the receipts from the sales of television and film rights already agreed to. Icelandic federation was reported seeking a compromise In negotiations with Tred Cramer, former president jf the American Chess Federation, who is acting as Fischer's advance man. The Icelanders said they have already spent about $200,000 on preparations, and if they meet Fischer's demand they can't breakeven. The gate receipts probably will be considerable. Matches will be played three to six days a week in a sports palace with seats at $5 each, and the series is expected to last six months.

Euwe said he didn't expect the Icelandic Chess Federation to meet Fischer's demand. He added that it would' have grounds for legal action against the American challenger if he didn't show Sunday. ''I don't like Mr. Fischer in our chess world," said Euwe, world chess champion 1935-37. "He's a good player but every day we are getting another ultimatum from him like this." A spokesman for Soviet news agency Tass said that Fischer is waging "a war of nerves" and is showing dis- respect for the championship organizers by not informing them of his actions.

"It is characteristic that his spokesmen are lawyers and not chess players," Tass commentator Allan Starodub said. "Wherever Fischer is, money ranks first, pushing aside, all sporting motives." "Good By ALAN SUTTON Of Th Tim Staff Bob Kennedy, St. Louis Cardinals director of player development, was in the St. Petersburg Cardinal dressing room Friday night after the Cards had split a doublehead-er with the Cocoa Astros at Al Lang Field. 4 He was peering at a videotape machine that had recorded the swings of Cardinals Gary Raco and Mike Potter, trying to find some answers for the recent Cards hitting slump.

milton 4 BOBBY FISCHER will he show? (J-5), Kirby (5-7) J), Bryant (W) richman (See WIMBLEDON, 3-C) with a 74 going into the day's play. She went to one over after Friday's front nine but three bogeys coming home left her one stroke off the pace. Miss Englehorn blamed her rocketing score on the long delay. "I lost my momentum in the clubhouse," the 31-year-old pro, who is one of the most consistent players on the tour, said. "I couldn't fhivk.

I just wasn't with it." While Shirley was pacing in the warmth of the clubhouse to limber her left leg, which has a fused ankle, Miss Barnett was huddled in a hotdog stand on the windswept course. "It was kinda spooky out there," she said. "We were right by the TV tower. And it was so cold standing there in the mud." To make matters worse, the' concessionaire closed shop and left her and her fellow players hungry! Four strokes off the pace, at (See OPEN, S-Q Flood Located On Majorca By Miamian MIAMI (ft Curt Flood, controversial former baseball star, who dropped from public sight several weeks ago, now is living on the island of Majorca off the coast of Spain, a Miami sportscaster said Friday. "I found him in a bar called the Rustic Inn," said Bob Sheridan of radio station WGBS.

"That has become his daily hangout. A picture of him hangs on the wall." Flood had not been publicly heard from since the U.S. Supreme Court turned down his plea for eradication of major league baseball's reserve clause earlier this month. "Curt was very kind, but refused to tape an interview or talk about the case," Sheridan said. Sheridan said Flood told him that he is writing a second book which deals with his legal battle against major league baseball.

Sheridan said Flood drives around the island in a red sports convertible and is popular among the natives. "He seems to be loafing and doing a little writing," Sheridan said. "American tourists haven't overrun the place and he can manage to hide. It's like he was In exile." mm fe to- Ik i ft I layout, 17 of the 150 players were still on the course. They were to resume their round at 8 a.m., EDT, today.

The low 50 scorers and ties will begin the' J8-hole third-', round at 11 a.m. Miss Ehret, a 30-year-old pro whose only triumph was the 1966 LPGA championship in her second year on the tour, was only two over par UPI The first game was lost when the Cardinals took the field. Cocoa whacked three straight singles off starter Angel Torres, but only one run scored as shortstop Raco turned a line drive into a nifty unassisted double play. That only allayed the outcome. When Astro pitcher Paul Siebert doubled in two runs in the second inning, it wasn't hard to sense a loss.

The Cards averted a Siebert shutout with two runs in the (See CITY CARDS, 2-C) having to play in Reykjavik by taking his good old time getting there. This has shaken up a lot of people but Fischer had a reason for his actions. Call it one-upsmanship if you like. Boris Spassky needn't worry about Fischer not making it for their first match Sunday, though. Bobby Hull may or may not play for the Winnipeg Jets next season and Rick Barry may or may not play for the Golden State Warriors, but there is no way Bobby Fischer ever is going to miss playing for the world cham pionship of chess-Even in Reykjavik.

Mainly because he thinks he's going to win. 1 1 I wouldn't be at all surprised if he's right, and that has nothing to do with chauvinism. Spassky is good, but Fischer is better, and when the tall, curly-haired. New Yorker is right, he's like Joe Fra-zier and Tom Seaver when they're right. Meaning nobody's going to beat him.

Fischer doesn't hold back. He is exceptionally outspoken and honest, and when you hear his objections to playing in Reykjavik, they do make a good deal of sense. Fischer has been there, so when he talks about (See RICHMAN, 3-Q 'XV'V You Can't Keep A Good Man-ley Down Pan-American Games winner in 1971, got up and went on to win the event in the time of 8:34.8. Trying to avoid the fallen runner are Don Timm and Mark Larson. See story on Olympic Trials, page Z-C.

Mike Manley of the Oregon Track Club doesn't look like a winner here, He tumbled on the rim of a water barrier in the second heat of the steeplechase of the Olympic Trials at Engene, Thursday. But Manley, the Ball Club' Wins One, Loses One -BflSEBll scores 1 HnvimtiiaiMMimiPiRX: 'I. vmrnit. mmmn "They're a good ball club. They've hit a slump Just like the St, Louis club in the beginning of the year," Kennedy said.

Raco had apparently solved his problems before "watching himself on tape. He had five hits for the night and was three-for-three in the second game, which the Cards won 6-4. They dropped the first 8-2. Errors hurt the' Cardinals in the first game but a strong relief performance by Felix Cards Manager Roy Majtkya said. "Now all we need is a complete game from Mark Covert tomorrow (Saturday) night." Roque, who made his 27th appearance, allowed two hits it) his 2 innings of relief and had four strikeouts.

Reed would have gotten the win had he completed five Innings. The baseball rulebook says that in an official game of six innings or more, a starter must go five to receive the I Ittrttra: McOMhlin LA'STV Felix Roque relieves, wins second game. Roque saved them in the second. Roque, in relief of Don Reed, picked up his fourth victory against three losses. "The more he pitches, the better he is with his control," mm' L.A.

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