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Sr. Petersburg Timet, Sunday, June 25, 1972 5C TENNIS: Is Smith Ready For Wimbledon Test? I Av 1 I How They're Seeded MEN WOMEN 1. Stan Smith Evonne Gooiagong Evonne Gooiagong rated if women's favorite. 2. Billie Jean King 3.

Nancy Gunter 2. UieNastase 3. Manuel Orantes 4. Andres Gimeno 4, Chris Evert WIMBLEDON, England HI Stan Smith, favorite for the Wimbledon tennis crown In a depleted field, starts his bid Monday after a mere six days of competition on English grass. For a man who before last week had last played on grass at the 1971 Forest Hills tournament, that is scanty preparation for the world's most important title at the All-England Club.

"Of course it isn't enough," said the big U.S. Army corpo-ral from Pasadena, Calif. "Normally I like to have two or three weeks in Britain, playing on the tournament circuit and warming up for Wimbledon. This year it wasn't possible because the Davis Cup must come first." Smith, along with Tom Gorman and Erik Van Dillen, helped the United States to victory over Mexico in the Davis Cup and didn't arrive in Britain until six days before the start of Wimbledon. That left Smith with the London Grass Court Championships at the Queen's Club in which to get acclimated.

And he was eliminated in the quarter-finals there by little-known Briton John Paish. All the 32 contracted pros from World Championship Tennis will be missing men like reigning champion John None of these has ever progressed very far on Wimbledon grass. Nastase is seeded behind Smith, followed by No. Orantes and No. 1 Andres Glmcno of Spain.

Despite the absence of the WCT stars, Wimbledon promises to have all its old glamor. There's a first prize of (13,000 in the men's singles. Ticket sales have been heavier than ever. For months it has been impossible to buy a seat for the center court. The quarrel between the International Lawn Tennis Federation and the WCT had been settled, but not in time for this year's event.

The dispute did not affect the women's entries. Evonne Gooiagong of Australia Is defending her title. Chris Evert, the 17-year-old from Fort Lauderdale every tennis fan is talking about, is among her challengers. Chris made her Wimbledon debut a week ago and beat Britain in the Wightman Cup almost single-handed. She's a top box-office attraction and is certain to be put on display early on the center court that famous arena which has undermined the nerves of many experienced players in the past.

"It doesn't worry me," Miss Evert said. "I have come STAN SMITH top seed. through other pressures like Forest Hills and the Wightman Cup. I'm just looking forward to playing there." The women are seeking a first prize of $5,240. Billle Jean King of Long Beach, who won Wimbledon in 1966, 1967 and 1968, has come back to her best form recently and is rated the favorite by many critics.

But Miss Gooiagong was made top seed, with Mrs. King second, Nancy Gunter of San Angelo, third and Miss Evert fourth. New combe, Red Lavcr, Ken Rosewall, Arthur Ashe and Cliff Richey. Smith, who lost to Newcombe in the 1971 final, was the obvious No. 1 seed.

Thebookies rate him an 11-8 favorite. The men likely to challenge him all seeded to reach the quarter-finals include European clay court specialists like Hie Nastase of Romania, Manuel Orantes of Spain, Jan Kodes of Czechoslovakia and Alexander Metreveli of Russia. BOXING: Quarrys Vs. Soul Brothers' jtj fa. TRACK: Olympic Trials Open Thursday l'-a mmsssk LAS VEGAS, Nev.

(UPI) -Muhammad All, a one-man happening, steals the spotlight wherever he goes and that's the way it will be Tuesday night when he battles Jerry Quarry, a rugged Californian, Ntw York Tlnrn Sirvlct (c) NEW YORK -It's a lot different from four years ago. Athletes won't be concerned about Mexico City's altitude and the black power forces headed by Harry Edwards i 1 vi i fa in a scheduled 12-round bout leading the way to a crack at heavyweight champ Joe Fra-zier. The program at the Convention Center also features a 15-round title fight between light heavyweight champion Bob Foster and Jerry's younger brother, Mike Quarry. For the first time in boxing history, a world title fight takes second billing on a dou-blcheader program and that's only because the ebullient All dominates the card. The Foster-Quarry fight goes on first at 9:30 p.m.

EDT as a preliminary to the main event. Both bouts will be shown on closed circuit TV at Tampa's Curtis Hixon Hall. Doors open at 8 p.m. Admission prices are $7.50 for reserved seats, $5 for general admission. All calls Jerry Quarry "the last of the white hopes" and has tagged himself and Foster, the black battlers, as the "Soul Brothers." be up to Bob Wheeler and Je- rome Howe to take the lead with 600 left and push the pace if they are to withstand the finishing kicks of Ryun, Wottle, Howell Michael and Jim Crawford.

RUN Un- less George Young has been working miracles in the mountains for his 35-year-old legs, Steve Prefontaine is in a class by himself. Leonard Hilton is quick but erratic and may yield to Tracy Smith's experience. RUN Florida's Frank Shorter and Jack Bacheler will step up the action on Greg Fredericks in the last mile to avoid a repeat of his Seattle surge. With trials and a final, strength should help Tom Laris and Gerry Lindgren. MARATHON Shorter and Ken Moore will dominate.

110-METER HIGH HURDLES Rod Milburn will be first at the finish line unless he falls down. But Willie Davenport, the 1968 Olympic well, that's part of the past, too. Instead, Munich promises to be a wide-open Olympics where the United States track and field team may even fail to dominate in the sprints and face especially tough competition from the Eastern Europeans, Africans and the International Olympic Committee. That's what will be going through the minds of the best U.S. track and field athletes at the Olympic Trials In Eugene, which begin Thursday and continue to July 9.

Will Jim Ryun make a successful comeback? Will potential gold medalists Lee Evans (400 meters), Jay Silvester (discus) and George Woods fchnf nnM whn wprn rnn- UPI It's Fischer Against Russia's Spassky (Left) Again This Time For World Title KEN BUCHANAN guaranteed $125,000. Young Duran Predicts KO CHESS nected with an aborted profes "The Soul Brothers will Of Buchanan wh'p the Quarry Brothers" i the former Cassius Clay in tones. It's Your Turn, Bobby Shorter Ryun sional track tour several years ago, be cleared by the IOC? Unlike 1968, where a series of trials were used to pick the track team, the competition at Eugene will be the sole determinant. Here is a capsule look, by events, of the favorites for the American team: 100-METER DASH No Bob Hayes, Jimmy Hines or John Carlos has emerged thus far this year. Ray Robinson, a Florida athlete as was Hayes, has shown consistency.

So have Warren Edmond-son, the national collegiate champion, and Eddie Hart. 200 METER DASH In recent weeks, Chuck Smith has looked impressive. Mi-amian Larry Black, anchorman for North Carolina Central, may be the best American bet in Munich, but has been bothered by tendonitis. 400-METER DASH The 400 final may produce a world record with John Smith, Lee Evans, Vince Matthews and Wayne Collett charging toward the tape. 800-METER RUN With Rjlun, Dave Wottle and Tom Von Ruden dropping down from the 1,500, this event could be the most fascinating of the trials.

A fast pace in the final is a must for Mark Winzenried and Juris Luzins to strip the kick from Ryun and friends. Man to watch: Willie Thomas, the Tennessee freshman. RUN Marty Liquori's absence will dictate a different strategy for the last half-mile. It will NEW YORK IT) Ken Buchanan, a master boxer from Scotland, and Roberto Duran, a slugger from Panama, will meet in a scheduled 15-round fight for Buchanan's world lightweight championship Monday night at Madison Square Garden. Buchanan is guaranteed $125,000, a record purse for a lightweight, for his third title defense, all of them in the United States.

The fight promises to be a classic boxer-slugger confrontation. Buchanan is a stylist who can make an opponent look awkward, and Duran is a former street fighter always looking for a knockout. In fact, the 21-year-old challenger has predicted he will knock out Buchanan in nine rounds. The champion's only prediction has been that he will win. Buchanan does not rely solely on his boxing ability, having scored 16 knockouts in his 43 victories against one loss as a pro.

The unbeaten Duran has knocked out 24 opponents, nine in the first round, and won four decisions. The fight will be shown on live television in many cities, but will not be televised in the Tampa Bay area. Beside experience, Buchanan, who will be 27 two days after the fight is, at 5-foot-7y2, one-half inch taller than Duran and has an important reach advantage of almost four inches. Oddsmaker Jimmy The Greek rates All a 5-1 favorite over Jerry, whom he stopped in three rounds at Atlanta in October of 1970 because of an eye cut. Foster, S3, a mature boxer and sometimes stunning puncher, is rated 8-1 over Mike, just 21 and with a 36-0 record over an unimpressive list of foes.

Ali is guaranteed $500,000 from live gate and television receipts. Jerry Quarry is to get $175,000, Foster $80,000 and Mike Quarry $45,000. Ali has drawn crowds of about 1,000 at $1 a pop for his workouts in the plush Collos-seum, an auditorium at Caesar's Palace, a casino-hotel that features the boxing motif with Joe Louis, former heavyweight champion, as a greet-er. Jerry Quarry, 27, with a ring record of 39-54, knows this is his big chance. Ali, ith a 36-1 record, says, "he's getting a second chance against me.

He has nothing to lose. I may lose everything if he hurts me." Quarry says: "It's the biggest fight I've ever fought. It's everything. I've got to win this one to get a shot at the title." Foster should not have too much trouble with young Mike. The champ first won his title by decking the late Dick Tiger with a crashing left hook in the fourth round of a bout on May 24, 1968.

His formal education ended when he dropped out of Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn in his junior year. "I couldn't waste my time with all those stupid kids" and with teachers "even stupider than the kids," he said. Now 28, a gangling 6-foot-2, 185 pounds, and good looking with penetrating eyes and a shock of unkempt brown hair, Fischer lives quietly in Los Angeles. Few seem to know what he does or how he lives. He has few friends and virtually no life outside of chess.

With an unsurpassed memory and encyclopedic knowledge of the game, Fischer is a great positional player and ferocious attacker. But his complaints about flashbulbs, noise, living conditions and spectator movement have been known to drive tournament directors wild. At one tournament, the Prince of Monaco asked the American Chess Foundation to send two grand masters to a match in Monte Carlo under one condition one of the players had to be Fischer. Following the match, two years later there was another request from Monaco but this time the condition was that neither of the two players could be Fischer. If Fischer ever were to admit that a chess game for him was a challenge, he would acknowledge that he faces his toughest test in Spassky.

Before Fischer won the right to meet the Soviet champion by defeating Tigran Petrosian in Buenos Aires last year, Spassky said, "Fischer's competition results are better than mine but preliminaries are one thing and a challenger's match another." American experts are confident of a Fischer victory. Rosser Reeves, president of the Manhattan Chess Club, said, "Bobby is the strongest player who ever walked the earth." Andrew Soltis of New York, who has played an exhibition with Fischer, said, "You know you're going to lose. Even when I was ahead, I had a feeling. His mind is the closest thing to a machine you'll ever see." Fischer, characteristically, shares their opinion. Without any false modesty, he once explained his overriding passion for the game "I'm good at it.

Why should I do something at which I'd be an also-ran?" NEW YORK (UPI) There are (M.aw.wo.tjoo.aro.ixw, (w, possible moves in the average chess game. Robert James (Bobby) Fischer learned the first dozen or so from his sister in Brooklyn, N.Y., when he was six years old. He picked up a few more from a stockbroker in the neighborhood and stunned the chess world by becoming the United States champion. As a child, Bobby would cry when he lost. He doesn't cry anymore possibly because he never loses.

Fischer has won an unprecedented string of victories in the past two years and next Sunday, in Reykjavik, Iceland, he will stare across the board at world champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union. Fischer has not been seen in public or heard from since he played in a celebrity tennis tournament in California more than a month ago. But few doubt that Fischer will compete for the world championship that has obsessed him since he started playing. As an added incentive, the winner of the Fischer-Spassky match will take home $125,000 in prize money. By his own estimation, Fischer merely will be going through the motions in Iceland since he has frequently and publicly, to the outrage of many grand masters, proclaimed the superiority of his own talents.

Once asked whom he thought was the world's greatest player, he replied, "It would be nice to be modest, but it would be stupid if I did not tell the truth. Its Fischer." Fischer's supreme self-confidence has been a major factor in his ability to consistently defeat, overwhelm, outrage and awe his opponents. He has even sued one. In 1961, Bobby walked out of a match with former U.S. champion Samuel Reshevsky, and when judges ruled Fischer had forfeited, he filed suit in New York Supreme Court to bar his opponent from appearing in any other games until the match was completed.

The dispute was typical of Fischer's controversial career, but not to be unexpected from a man whose whole life is wrapped up in the 64 squares of the chess board. Fischer was born in Chicago March 9, 1943, and reared in Brooklyn, where his family moved when he was two. champion, will be pressed by Tom Hill, Paul Gibson, Tom-mie Lee White, Ron Draper and Leon Coleman. 400-METER INTERMEDIATE HURDLES Ralph Mann is trying to put it together again. Bruce Collins, the Penn sophomore, ran his greatest race in Eugene (49.1) last month.

HIGH JUMP Reynaldo Brown, who seemed a certain Olympian last year, has been tentative on the runway and at the crossbar in recent weeks. Ailing Pat Matzdorf, the world record holder at 7-6, cleared 7-1 for the first time this season last week, but it may take 7-3 to make the team. POLE VAULT Bob Seag-ren is back on top and hungry for another gold medal. Dave Roberts, off his 18-i4 last week, has his confidence now and Jan Johnson is competitive. LONG JUMP Wide open.

Henry Hines and Arnie Robinson seem certain, but Bouncy Moore has that Oregon crowd and Randy Williams come3 off a fine NCAA effort. TRIPLE JUMP John Craft is America's best. James Butts and Barry McClure follow. SHOT PUT The big battle is who's No. 1 Randy Mat-son, Al Feuerbach or George Woods? DISCUS Without Al Oert-er after 16 years and four golds.

Jay Silvester can relax. Tim Vollmer and Dick Dresch-er are next. HAMMER THROW Four A Comer Repeat? Juniors Try Again The event also attracted U.S. Curtis Cup members Laura Baugh, Hollis Stacy, Barbara Mclntire, Beth Barry, Jane Bastanchury Booth, Lancy Smith and Martha Wilkinson Kir-ouac. Miss Mclntire is a two-time U.S.

Women's Amateur champion and Miss Baugh is one of the youngest members in the field at 17. Kathy Ahem, 23, current champion of the Ladies Professional Golf Association, is one of the youngest pros competing. Foreign entrants include Hisako Higuchl and Masako Sasaki of Japan; Jocelyn Bouras-sa, Connie Deckert and Sandra Post Elliot of Canada; Sally Little of South Africa, and Mar-gee Masters of Australia. MAMARONECK, N.Y. (UPI) Defending champion JoAnne Gunderson Carner heads a field of 150 players who will tee off Thursday in the 72-hole United States Women's Open championship at the Winged Foot Golf Club.

A record number of 176 players entered the event, but because the field is limited to 150, a draw was conducted to determine the lineup for the $40,000 event. The winner gets $6,000. Ten other former Open winners, including four-time champions Betsy Rawls and Mickey Wright, are in the event. They are joined by past titlists Donna Caponi Young, Susie Max well Bcrning, Sandra Spuzich, Carol Mann, Murle Lindstrom Breer, Kathy Cornelius and Louise Suggs. him ineligible and leaves the field open for high school notables Witt Wilkerson (Lake-wood) and Jack Wileman (Largo).

Wileman won the Pinellas County Conference low scoring title with a 36.7 average while Wilkerson led his Lakewood High team to the state tournament. Returning champions include Gary Deja, Bobby Grace, Rick Yarrington and J. C. Goos-ie Jr. The second round of the 54-hole tournament is scheduled for Airco Flite 18 Tuesday and the third will be played Thursday at Lakewood Country Club.

Tee times begin at 9 a.m. Airco suffered no damage from the storm and a spokesman for Lakewood said the course "needed" the water. Barring another hurricane, the U.C. Barrett Junior Golf Tournament might just make it through this week. Monday at Hurricane Agnes-soaked Pasadena Golf Club, an 87-player field starts shooting for titles in five age categories.

The event was postponed a week because of Agnes. The golfers may be fighting the course more than themselves. After Agnes and the salt water from the Gulf hit, five fairways were flooded and the greens and fairways had to be washed with fresh water. Also, putting surfaces had to be rebuilt and new sand had to be shoveled into bunkers. Buddy Alexander, St.

Petersburg Junior College golfer, has been the star of the tournament the last three years, but his age makes JOANNE CARNER defending champ. men for three berths: George Frenn, Al Schoterman, Tom Gage and Harold Connolly bidding for his fifth trip. JAVELIN Fred Luke and Bill Schmidt are strong, but Milt Sonsky insists 280 feet is coming for him. i GOLF.