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I i ii. my i ymwwwiiw i ffl if a I ftt tfptirltitrn iTimen I VCUJ zv InlS(glirDrD m3 3 aAssiFiEp a Of REYKJAVIK, Iceland (UPI) Bobby Fischer failed to appear for the opening game in his world championship chess match with Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union Sunday, but the match was postponed for two days to give the American challenger one more chance to play. it lW j7 'A-F Pi it imimsim i i MAMARONECK, N.Y. (UPI) Susie Maxwell Berning, who thought she had no chance to win the tournament after taking a 79 on opening day, posted a one-under-par 71 Sunday and overhauled third-day leader Pam Barnett to win the USGA Wo-men's Open golf championship for the second time. 1 Mrs.

Berning, who previously won the Open in 1968 at Fleetwood, posted nine- Two-way tie at Cleveland: 3-C hole scores of 34 and 37 to finish with a 72-hole total of 11-over-par 299. That was one stroke better than Barnett, Judy Rankin and Kathy Ahern, with Betty Burfeindt two strokes farther back at 302. Barnett posted a 76, Rankin had a 73 and Ahern a. 70, the lowest score of the tournament. Burfeindt came in with a 75.

Barnett began the day with a three-stroke lead over Burfeindt, Rankin and Betsy Rawls. But Berning reduced Barnett's lead to one stroke after nine holes as she posted a two-under-par 34 while Pam slipped to a 37. The turning point of the match came on the difficult 200-yard, par three 17th hole, which had been a disastrous hole throughout the tournament. Berning hit her tee shot to within 20 feet of the pin and sank a difficult birdie putt to tie Barnett for the lead. Berning then took the lead for good when Barnett took a bogey four on the same hole.

Berning, who earned $6,000 for her victory, said, "When your opening round is 79 you don't think you'll be in contention. It takes a good golf course like this where everybody has a chance for me to have still been in contention. I thought I would need to shoot a 68 today to win it." 1 Berning, who left the tour in 1970 after giving birth to her daughter Robin, said she felt much stronger this year than she had last season when she (See OPEN, C) 1 iOTilillBIP I iMiilia UPI Minnesota catcher Glen Borgman must have thought he was in the wrong sport Saturday when Chicago's Rick Reichardt barrelled into him at home plate to score. Borgman should have remembered that Reichardt Is an ex-Wisconsin Football Tf)0 Edflv ww football player who hasn't forgotten blocking fundamentals. Flying ball, mitt and players made action-packed play at the plate.

White Sox won 5-1 and followed up with a Sunday dou-bleheader. See story, 2-C. Its Sh Double Can as. Up "The simplest and maybe correct way to deal with this would be to disqualify Fischer from championship play," Dr. Max Euwe, president of the International Chess Federation (FIDE), said in announcing the postponement.

The postponement was made primarily to protect the Icelandic financial backers of the match and to preserve the image of the game Itself, Euwe said. Freystrinn Thorbcrgersson, an Icelandic friend of Fischer's, arrived In New York Sunday night In an effort to persuade the unpredictable Brooklyn, N.Y., man to go to Reykjavik. He refused to answer newsmen's questions and said only that he knew "where to find" Fischer. Robert Byrne, an American grandmaster, said he spoke to Fischer by phone from Reykjavik Sunday. "He said he was not fatigued and he was not sick," Byrne said.

"He won't come because they (the organizers) are not meeting his financial demands." Gudmundur Thorarinsoon, president of the Icelandic Chess Federation, said he still believed that the "financial differences could be overcome." He said Fischer also had demanded very strong security measures to protect (See CHESS, -C) Jolly Wlllie McCovey his 14th slam. after McCovey and Kingman opened the inning with successive walks. Dave Rader belted a run-scoring single and Alan Gallagher added a sacrifice fly for a 2-0 lead. Bill Russell's leadoff double, Sutton's single and Bobby Valentine's sacrifice gave the Dodgers a run in the third before starter Juan Marichal was chased when the Dodgers moved into a 2-2 tie in the fifth. The Giants cracked the 2-2 tie with two runs in the fifth on Bobby Bonds' homer.

nales Giant 1 ii 'I: BORIS SPASSKY idle toasts. Seagren: A Vault Record EUGENE, Ore. (I) Soaring through 95-degree heat, Bob Seagren shattered the world pole vault record with an effort of 18 feet 5 Inches Sunday in the U.S. men's Olympic Track and Field Trials. Seagren's height was first announced at 18-6 but after it had been measured a third time, officials listed It at 18-5.

It was still 1 inches over the old world mark, Bob Seagren i soars trials. shared by Seagren and Sweden's Kjell Isaksson. The metric equivalent of Seagren's height was 5.63 meters. Seagren's effort came after ne nad quaniied for the Munich Olympics and it took away the spotlight from the two newest members of the 18-foot-plus club. Seagren missed on his first two attempts, then made an aggressive plant with his recently acauired Dole and stint over the bar by inches.

Also making the U.S. team were Long Beach State junior Steve Smith and Alabama's Jan Johnson, who became the fifth and sixth men in history to clear 18 feet. Smith made 18-0 on his first attempt and Johnson on his third. Seconds earlier. Ralnh Mann surged back from early season form problems and a recent Injury to crack the American record In the 400-meters intermediate hardies.

Mann flew over the last two hurdles to catch early leader Dick Bruggeman, sprinting hard into the tape in 48.4. It bettered the U.S. mark Mann shared with Geoff Bruggeman, the AAU Cham-pion from Ohio and fastest qualifier Saturday at 49.4, tired over the seventh hurdle, then rallied to turn back the challenge of the surprise Olympic berth Jim Seymour, a longshot from the (See TRACK, 3) t-l fit Dibley of Australia against third-seeded Manuel Orantes, the reigning Italian champion from Spain, and Connors against second-seeded Romanian Hie Nastase. On the women's side it's defending champion and top-seeded Evonne Goolagong of Australia against eighth-seeded Francoise Durr of France; Miss Evert, the fourth seed, against the unseeded Miss Hogan; Miss Casals, the sixth seed, against third-seeded Mrs. Gunter, and Britain's seventh-seeded Virginia Wade, the reigning Australian' Open titleholdcr, against Mrs.

King, who was seeded second. Of the newcomers, Connors, 19, has been the sensation of the tournament. "I'm happy to be playing on grass and am sat- (See WIMBLEDON, 6-C) London bookies installed Stan Smith of Sea Pines, S.C., and three-time women's champion Billie Jean King of Long Beach, as the favorites. Both are still alive in the competition, although Smith and Mrs. King haven't been as convincing as they should.

Jim Connors, fifth-ranked American player from Belleville, has reached the quarter-finals of the men's singles along with Smith while Mrs. King is supported by four other Americans Nancy Gunter of San Angelo, Chris Evert of Ft. Lauderdale; Rosie Casals of San Francisco, and British-based Patti Hogan of La Jolla, Calif. The quarterfinal pairings are: Smith against eight-seeded Alexander Metreveli, the first Russian to be seeded; Onny Parun of New Zealand against Czechoslovak Jan Kodes Colin WIMBLEDON (UPI) The 86th Wimbledon Tennis Championships move into their second week today' and for the first time since 1955 there is a good possibility both singles titles will be exported to the United States. Tony Trabert and Louise were successful in 1955 when the game was played for trophies and the word professional was a dirty word.

Now a total of $130,858 is there for the taking with the men's winner collecting $13,000 and the women's singles winner earning $6,250. Before the championships opened, with 32 of the world's leading men professionals banned because of a dispute with the International Lawn Tennis Federation (ILTF) and Lamar Hunt's World Championship Tennis (WCT) troupe, the canny Allison Win Severe Pol On AP pr Willie: Cards streaking, too: 2-C SAN FRANCISCO (f) Willie McCovey blasted his 14th career grand-slam homer, tying Hank Aaron and Gil Hodges for the all-time National League lead, to power the San Francisco Giants to a 9-3 victory Sunday over the skidding Los Angeles Dodgers. McCovey's fouth home run of the season followed singles by Tito Fuentes, Don McMa-hon and Jim Howarth In a five-run seventh Inning off Don Sutton, 9-4. Dave Kingman followed McCovey's blast with his 18th homer. The triumph was the Giants' fourth in a row and eighth In the last nine games, while the Dodgers dropped their fourth in a row and fell seven games oft the pace in the National League West The Giants started the scoring off Sutton in the second Grand Isaac's crew also changed engines after Saturday's 186.277 m.p.h.

pole-winning pace. Their work was more leisurely and 1 a precaution against a run of valve trouble which the former Grand National champ from Catawba, N.C., said has held him to a single victory on the Winston Cup series this ear. Guest driver Pete Hamilton tested it for a few laps of the 2.5-mile trioval and crew chief Harry Hyde put it under a cover daring the challengers to catch up before the 10 a.m. green flag start Tuesday. While others among the 15 first-day qualifiers tinkered and practiced to nurse a little more speed from their 600-horse-power engines, former champion Lee Roy Yarbrough of Jacksonville earned 16th starting place and $200 as the (See DAYTONA, 6-C) Stewart wins Prix, 3-C DAYTONA BEACH ffl -The third engine in Bobby Allison's Chevrolet proved a bit more of a charm Sunday, but not quite enough to boost him equal to pole-sitter Bobby Isaac's Dodge for the Firecracker 400 stock car race on Tuesday.

It took a second straight night of engine swapping to get Allison's car ready for the $105,334 main event, but it was first time out for a record run of 108.066 miles per hour in the Mustang, which the durable driver from Hueytown, will tool around a road course in the companion Paul Revere race, a 150-miler starting at midnight tonight. "We got the Chevrolet above 182 miles an hour," Allison said. "We caught op a little bit and I think we're headed in the right direction." Sorely Sunk Soling Winds of more than 30 knots and a choppy San Franciseo Bay spelled disaster for Man-rice Rattray's Soling sailer Sunday during. U.S. Olympic trials.

The heavy winds caught the spinnaker wrong, forcing the boat's bow under and it sank in 12 feet of water a mile offshore. The crewmen were rescued by the Coast Guard cutter standing by. Four other boats were dismasted. See sports in brief item, 6-C. More sailing, 4-C..