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Chris The Giants Is Dead' Charlie Dressen Once Said fi't. Prtrraburfl JTimf a Sunday, July 2, 1972 SECTIONl England 10 American teenage tennis stars Jim Connors and Chris Evert both won again Saturday and reached tht Wimbledon quarter-finals. Connors, 19-year-old lefthander from Belle vllle, IlL.whlpped France's Francois Jauffret sl Chris, 17, from Fort Lauderdale, wore down Julie Anthony of Malibu, 64, 6-2. Connors and Stan Smith, the No. 1 seed from Pasadena, are the only Americans in the quarter-finals of the men's singles.

Miss Evert Is one of five Americans in the women's quarter-finals. The others are Btllle Jean King of Long Beach, Nancy Gun-ter of San Angelo, Rosemary Casals of San Francisco and Patti Hogan of La Jolla, Calif. Evonne Goolagong of Australia, defending champion and top seed, also reached the quarter-finals. Miss Goolagong trailed 3-5 to Olga Morozo-va of Russia in the final set before pulling out some of her best shots to win Chris i Jim 6-2, 6-3, 8-6 "IT Chris Denies Love Match Willie Mays: Heart Of Giants were in last place and they needed inspiration the way some women need silicone. Each game was more humiliating than the last.

A San Francisco Chronicle headline even read: "Giants Make Like Keystone Comedy." Willie Mays was gone and Joe AUoto was there to rally his team and a radio announcer with a tired clgaret-choked voice started the play-by-play paraphrasing "The "So with the mayor here, we can't lose. Joe Alloto will make them a deal they can't refuse." It was a long way. from heroism. When Willie Mays was traded it should have hit the town like one of the' earth-tremors everyone Is paranoid about. By JOE ESZTERHAS SAN FRANCISCO About a month ago, the two guys who wrote the song about leaving your heart in San Francisco ate their own Jncrative words.

They apologized. The cjt? they wrote the song about is dead, they said. San Francisco has been replaced by a cold-blooded highrise filled with schizoids and zomboids. Or, as Herb Caen, columnist and town conscience, said: "The city is cruel to the weak, deaf to those who love it, subservient only to those who are wrecking It. Like all neurotics, the city hates its friends and loves its enemies." Whatever happened to San Francisco? A long time ago, when It was known as the Paris of America, yon could believe in romance.

It was a sesty and full-flavored town. The air was filled with saltwater, coffee, sourdough, steam beer and eucalyptus. Legends haunted the sidewalks and shrubbery of Nob Hill, Union Square and North Beach. Lucius Beebe fandangoed In his princely fey style. Jack London looked weatherworn and worldwise in his battered leather jacket.

Willie Mays belonged in that lore-filled time, the larger-than-life hero of a heroic world. That he was never treated here with lionized respect, that his heroics were almost taken for granted, goes a long way toward explaining why the songwriters say their song is a lie. Willie Mays Is gone and nobody cares. Life goes on with a foghorn's drone. The price of Parisian bread and Irish coffee keeps going up.

Faded and time-kissed downtown offices keep coming down. Fog hangs over it all like some apathetic fate. Willie Mays Is gone and Herb Caen, cornered by an ecstatic New York skycap, is jolted by the thought: "I don't recall a San Francisco skycap having anything good to say about Willie Mays." A generation ago, when the Giants came to Candlestick from the Polo Grounds, another columnist, the wise and ornery Charles McCabe, wrote: "San Francisco has been saying for decades that it is big league. In -its secret heart it has never been quite sure. These days it is." Willie Mays is gone, there is a mile-wide psychic crater out there in centerfield, and if San Francisco has a secret heart, then it belongs to people like the mayor, Joe Alloto, and not to Willie Mays.

A few weeks after the trade, the Giants met the Dodgers at Candlestick Giants is dead," Chuck Dresser once said). The mayor himself, once-accused felon and unabashed Hubert Humphrey cheerleader, showed np to inspire his team. The Giants Iplllli .5 3-6, 6-0, 9-7. Mrs. King trailed 1-4 in the first set against Britain's Winnie Shaw, but rallied for a 6-4 6-2 victory.

Mrs. Gnnter, the No. 3 seed, overcame Kerry Harris of Australia 6-3, 7-5. Miss Casals, seeded sixth, hammered Betty Stove of the Netherlands 6-3, 6-2. Miss Hogan, who is unseeded, defeated Pam Teeguarden of Cheviot Hills, 6-3, 6-4.

One other American girl was defeated. Laura Dupont of Charlotte, N.C., was overwhelmed by eight-seeded Francoise Durr of France 6-1 6-2. Miss Hogan, who upset fifth seeded Kerry Melville of Australia Friday, will be next to face Miss Evert. Mrs. King's quarter-final opponent will be her old Wightman Cup foe, Virginia Wade of Britain, who beat.

Helen Gourlay of Australia Miss Casals and Gun-ter, are paired against each other, while Miss Durr faces Miss Goolagong. Tom Gorman, the Davis Cup star from Seattle, was beaten by Die Nastase, the No. 2 seed from Romania, who rallied from 2-5 in the third set for a 6-3, 3-6, 8-4, 6-1 The big surprise was provided by Colin Dldley, the hard-hitting Australian, who crushed Pierre Barthes of France, the No 6 seed, 8-9, Manuel Orantes of Spain, seeded third, overcame Ion (See WIMBLEDON, t-C) Tlmot Win Strvlcti LONDON British newspapers, not nearly as reserved as the traditional national temperament, is suggesting rather strongly that a fullfledged romance has bloomed between American teenage tennis stars Chris Evert and Jim Connors. -The principals themselves are quoted by wire services, however, as denying they are in love. Chris said: "I enjoy Jim's company.

But all I'm thinking; about really is winning my matches." Connors, from Belleville, and at 19 two years older than Fort Lauderdale's sensation, said: "Chris and I are just good friends. Marriage doesn't, enter into it." "We've had dinner twice together, but that does not mean we are engaged or anything," Connors said. "We are just two young people on our first trip to Britain. Everything is very exciting and we get on well together. So it's natural we sometimes go out." The couple first met at the pre-Wimbledon tourna- San Francisco is 'subservient only to those who are wrecking it.

Like all neurotics, the city hates its friends and loves its enemies' illlli llllllir ill! llllll V( 1 Willie played 14 summers here. He became the second-biggest home run hitter in baseball history. He was always gracious, classy, eager to please. When little kids asked him for an autograph, he always took the time, perhaps remembering Rogers Horns-by's dictum that any ballplayer who won't sign autographs for little kids isn't an American, he's a Communist. The trade was announced, Horace Stoneham smiled and the town shrugged its shoulders.

The day it was announced was like any other. Carol Burnett was In town shooting a pn LA Jim Connors: Ha Says Not (See LOVE, S-C) Victories On Her Mind (See MAYS, 4-C) fe -Fischer Wocifs r4 tatonmin)ii' I 4 I iMz'MMJ-. -J iiiiiiiiiiiii mmmmmm ISSllliflilii- Schmid why the challenger had not arrived earlier, Davis contended that reporters had spotted Fischer at New York's Kennedy International Airport Thursday night and had prevented him from leaving. Fischer 'will not travel on Friday because of religious reasons, he added. He's a member of the Church of God.

i According to the rules, a player is allowed postponement of three games if he can show a medical certificate. Fischer, however, does not believe In doctors, nor, according to Davis, does he approve of the official position of the Chess Federation. Davis proposed that Fischer make an appearance today in a ceremony with Spassky to make the drawing for the first game that is, to flip a coin to see who would have the white pieces, which would give the player the advantage of initiative. If the Russians agree to this, Davis said, the U.S. delegation was prepared (See CHESS, 5-C) By HAROLD C.

SCHONBERG Ntw York Tlmtt $trvlc (c) REYKJAVIK, Iceland Bobby Fischer has asked for a two-day postponement of his chess match with Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union, according to Andrew Davis, Fischer's laywer. Thus the match, and there Is no certainty that the International Chess Tournament will be held, would start Tuesday instead of today. There was no immediate reaction from the Russian delegation. It was learned that Davis in a meeting with officials of the Icelandic Chess Federation; the referee, Lothar Schmid; Max Euwe, president of the International Chess Federation; and Fred Cramer, who is acting for Fischer pleaded fatigue on the American chess player's part. Fischer, who has delayed his trip here several times, is now expected to arrive this morning.

'if Fatigue, Davis said, is an impediment to playing, and he pleaded that Fischer was not medically fit to start the match. Asked by JlSllSliliiili ipllplillil UPI Englehorn: Drops From Lead. To Fourth Barnett Leads By 3 As Englehorn Fades A 300-Pound Chess Board Is Kept Waiting For Fischer And Spassky Baseball Cards MAMARONECK, N.Y. UPI Pam Barnett fired a third-; round 75 Saturday and surged to a three-stroke lead in the $40,000 ILS.Women's Open golf championship, while Shirley En-- glehom, who led the first two rounds limped in with an 82. Miss Barnett, alone in third place with a 149 going into the round, didn't play well but gained the lead with a 54-hoIe total of 224.

She had three birdies and six bogeys, including a bogey five on the final hole. Gloria Ehret and Miss Englehorn, playing in the same threesome, also bogeyed the last hole. Gloria, second with a 148 starting the day, slipped to four strokes off the pace and a fifth-place tie with Susie Maxwell Berning, who carded a 76 for "a 228. In a tie for second, at 227, "-4M'' "Wf; 1 Deal Nostalgia By TOM KELLY TIrim Sports Editor Only one bored guest sat impassively watching Mickey Lol-Ich pitch against the Baltimore Orioles on the off-color television set in the lobby of the Princess Martha Hotel Saturday afternoon. The real baseball action was upstairs in the ballroom, where names such as Honus Wagner, Eddie Collins and Schoolboy Rowe were being bandied about by intense men hovering over long tables covered with white cloths.

The tables held baseball cards thousands of them dating back to the 1880s. The occasion was grandly titled the third annual National Sports Collectors Convention. There were bubblegum cards, Fatima cigarettes cards, Cracker Jack cards, Tip Top Bread Mother's Cookies cards, Dan Dee Chips cards, Briggs Franks cards. Thousands and thousands of brightly colored squares of cardboard. I couldn't decide whether it was a magnif icent monument to nos- talgla or the world's biggest fire trap.

"Fire" is perhaps the nastiest word you can use in the presence of a collector. Anyone walking np to a display with a lighted pipe or cigarette evokes the same reaction he'd receive in an ammunition dump. Card collecting Is a deadly serious '''J (See TIME FOR SPORTS, fcC) ft- were Betty fiunemat ana fourtime winner Betsy Rawls, who carded 74s, and Judy Rankin, who had a 76. Shirley, who braved rain and a bad ankle for two days on this sunny par 72 Winged Foot Golf Club East coarse, carded an 82 for a 13-over-par 229. Also at 229 were Kathy Cornelius, a former Open winner, Jocelyne Bourassa and Betsy Cullen.

"The pin placements were extremely tough," said 22-year-old Miss Barnett, who three-putted five times on the course which had the consistency of a wet sponge from Inside President Nixon covers all the bases, 6-C. Rico Carty thanks God for hitting talent, 2-C. NFL camps open this week, 7-C. LoUch wins No. 13, 2-C.

History of chess, 5-C. Looking over the 'competitors', 5-C. All Suns home games really are this year, 8-C. Time :) Sports V' 'V Stff Photo by Tony Lopi Baseball Cards Nothing New They Date Back To (See OPEN, 3-C).