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1 Some Difference A Year Makes 1 U.S. Teensf Chris, Jim, Win Again 6 V. 0 A year ago this month, Chris Evert, the new darling of Wimbledon, was starring In the Florida Junior Championships at the St. Petersburg Tennis Center in this case a back court match before an audience of one (left). Thursday, 16,000 at Wimbledon and millions on television watched her win her third-round match on the famed center court.

Stiff Photo 1 1 WIMBLEDON, England (J) American teenagers Jim Connors and Chris Evert continued their winning ways in the All-England Tennis Championships Thursday before a jam-packed center court crowd. AP Connors, 19, a left-hander from Belleville, beat Adriano Panatta of Italy 6-3, 0-6, 6-4, 8-6, In a duel that ended on a sour note. The fans whistled (Europe Clidlo McLoin Swifch Leo wfimR Friday, June 30, 1972 SECTION I I CLASSIFIED ATLANTA HI Denny McLaln and Orlando Cepeda, each controversial and each a winner of baseball's Most Valuable Player award, each got their wish Thursday. McLain, a pitcher relegated to the minor leagues earlier this year, was purchased by the National League Atlanta Braves, as part of a deal In which Cepeda, a slugging first baseman, was traded from Atlanta to the Oakland A's of the American League. Cepeda goes to the A's for an undisclosed amount of cash and the right to purchase McLain's contract from Birmingham of the Southern League, the Braves, who made the announcement of the deal, said.

Atlanta immediately bought McLain and he was expected to join the Braves Thursday night in San Diego. The Braves said McLain will start the first game of their doubleheader July 4 with Chicago in Atlanta. Cepeda, reached In San Diego, said he was happy. "It's a challenge and you can't look back." Cepeda had a knee operation last winter and was troubled because he wasn't playing. Two weeks ago, he walked out on the Braves and was suspended for two days.

At the time he had said he wanted to be traded or released. Thursday, the NL's MVP In 1967 got his wish. McLain, after early season problems at Oakland with a 1-2 record and 6.05 earned run average, was sent to Birmingham. He had a 3-3 mark with a 6.32 ERA there. Last week, however, McLain, claiming he was only down there to get in shape, flew to Oakland and reportedly asked A's Owner Charles 0.

Finley for a return trip to the A's. Finley The Atlanta Braves traded Orlando Cepeda (right) to the Oakland A's for cash and the right to purchase Denny McLain (left) from Birmingham of the Southern League. The Braves bought McLain and he'll start in Atlanta July 4. an sign of decision) at a doubtful line call which gave Connors a vital service break in the next-to-last game. It was a scene seldom seen in the famed Wimbledon arena.

Chris, 17, from Fort Lauderdale, played on the center court for the first time and cooly outstroked Janet New-berry of La Jolla, 6-3, 6-0. Connors was one of three Americans who got into the last sixteen of the men's singles. The others were the top seed, Stan Smith of Pasadena, who overcame Alexan-er Mayer, of Woodmere, N.Y., 6-3, 7-5, 3-6, 9-7, and Jim McManus of Berkeley, who slammed Patrick Hom bergen of Belgium 6-0, 6-4, 6-1. Two U.S. Davis Cup team members, Tom Gorman of Seattle, and Erik Van Dillen of San Mateo, have still to play their third-round matches.

Fourteen of the last 16 places had been decided Thursday night. They were filled by three Americans, two Australians, two Romanians, two Czechs, a Spaniard, a Russian, a South African, a New Zealander and a Frenchman. A i Witt's Closing 75 Still A Winner hinted he would try to get McLain back to the majors, if not with Oakland. McLain, a two time Cy Young Award winner (1968-69), also captured the MVP award in 1968 when he won 31 games for the Detroit Tigers. After winning 24 games in 1969, he began to run into difficulties on and off the field.

The 28-year-old right-hander filed for bankruptcy and then was suspended for half a season in 1970 by Commissioner Bowie Kuhn for allegedly carrying a gun. After a 3-5 record in 1970 with Detroit he was traded to Washington, where he was 10-22 last year. In March he was traded to Oakland. He owns a 128-86 major league lifetime record. By PHIL GULICK Of Thi Tim Stiff Witt Wilkerson got his breakfast down okay Thursday morning, but his putter felt like a snake on the first green and his home course at Lakewood Country Club seemed as strange as the Burma jungles.

It didn't seem to help, either, in Witt's own mind, to know he was the Lakewood junior club champion, or that he'd fired a 67 there two weeks ago during a practice round. Still, the 75 he shot Thursday in the final round of the U.C. Barrett Junior golf tournament gave him a 54-hole total of 213, two under par for the event, and the overall trophy. Randy Seay, son of Airco head pro Howard, turned in a 70 (as did Jim Brehme) for the best round of the day to pull into Be AP Witt Wilkerson trophies and young admirers. That was a strange looking line-up by normal Wimbledon standards.

But it was the way things worked out in the absence of the American and Australian stars of the World Championship Tennis (WCT) group. Connors, a Wimbledon favorite since he upset seeded Bob Hewitt of South Africa in the first round, enjoyed fluctuating fortunes. Panatta completely mastered the American's service in the second set and hit a stream of winning forehand returns. Connors got in front with a superb cross-court forehand, which gave him a service break and a 4-3 lead in the third set. From that point he went on to take a 2-1 lead in sets and battled to 6-6 in the fourth.

The controversial line call came on game point in the 13th game, when Connors hit a forehand return which ap- (See WIMBLEDON, 5-C) Complete Barrett Scores, 3-C a second-place tie with former St. Petersburg High Star Brad Baldwin at 216. Seay captured the 15-16 age group, 10 shots better than runnerup Pete Jones. Randy's brother, Ronnie, skied to an 82 over the par 72, Lakewood course, but still held on to win the 13-14 division with a 226 total. Jim Gerber won the 11-12 division with a 253 and Susan Hanna, although she found a number of difficulties with her nine at Lakewood, survived to win the girls division with a 138.

Her sister, Karen, beat her by one shot Thursday with a 54 to finish second. The battle of the day over the tough, wind-blown course turned out to be between Gary Deja and Louis Winters, two tiny golfers who played to a tie in 10-and-under last year. Deja won that title on a sudden-death playoff, but this year he was two shots better, 148-150, for the title in that age group. Baldwin, a lanky, loose-limbed swinger who transferred from the University of Florida to St. Petersburg Junior College for the upcoming school year, had three shots to make up on Wilkerson going into Thursday's final rund.

The two were identical through the first four holes before (See BARRETT, 3-C) "I am happy as hell," McLain said from Birmingham. "It's super. I can't be any happier. It's being back in the big leagues with a good ball club. You can't ask for anything more." Cepeda, a .298 lifetime hitter with the San Francisco Giants, St.

Louis Cardinals and Atlanta, was batting .298 this year with four home runs and nine runs batted in. The 34-year-old from Puerto Rico claimed he was happy with the deal. "I am always happy. Only when I do not play am I unhappy. My only concern is my knee." If 11 ill Not Jane's Day The day began brightly for controversial Jane Blalock, when it was ruled she could keep any money won In the U.S.

Women's Open Championship. Unfortunately, her 78 was far off the first-round pace (as indicated by gloomy look above). Story, 3-C. 1 Organizers Seek To Restrict Coverage Of Chess Match Robinson (Far Left) being compared to Bob Hayes (below) Fischer still among the 7-C. vussing: Rey Robinson: Confident By HARRY ROBARTS Tltntt Correspondent TALLAHASSEE Reynaud Robinson is a sprinter with a short leg.

He is a virtual rookie in competition. But he minces no words in telling you he fully expects to win the 100-meter dash in the Olympics. The calm, relaxed youngster from Lakeland is barely 20 but has already run most of his competition into the ground. and comment from a U.S. chess grand master.

The Icelandic Chess Federation contends that TelePromp-Ter's use of the AP reports infringes on its property rights, the company said. The federation has sold U.S. broadcast television rights to the American Broadcasting Company. Spokesmen for Channel 13-WNDT New York, which also has announced plans for telecasts based on move-by-move reports, said it was "absolutely outrageous to attempt to stop the free dissemination of news." "We are performing a service for the chess devotee," the Channel 13 spokesmen said. The station's plans call for five hours of continuous coverage on each day of the match.

ABC plans to use the film to which it has acquired rights on the network's "Wide World of Sports" program. Roone Arledge, president of ABC Sports, indicated he has no objections to the proposed plans for outside programs on the match. "I think that would be excellent programming and a good thing for them to do We're going to do it in a condensed, limited way. As long as we can do what we want to do, we'd be delighted to cooperate," Arledge said. REYKJAVIK, Iceland (B -Organizers of the Bobby Fischer-Boris Spassky world championship chess match will restrict move-by move coverage and photographs of the contenders inside the contest hall, it was announced Wednesday.

The announcement brought protests from news wire services and from two television outlets which are planning in-depth accounts of the 24-game match based on move-by-move reports from The Associated Press. The first game is scheduled for Sunday. Gudmundur Tborarinsson, chairman of the Icelandic Chess Federation, said the restrictions were decreed be-cause photographic and move-by-move coverage rights had been sold. Tborarinsson said journalists would be allowed to transmit move-by-move reports only three times during each gam? between the Soviet world champion, Spassky, and the American challenger. He said newsmen would be required to sign a pledge to abide by the agreement in order to obtain accreditation.

Spokesmen for AP and United Press International said they were lodging protests against any curtailment of news coverage. Joseph G. He could develop into the fastest man In Ij Groth, general manager of the TelePrompTer Manhattan Cable TV, said in New York: "If this capricious move succeeds, a large and interested segment of the public served by TelePrompTer Manhattan CATV will be deprived of one of the most exciting showdowns in the history of chess." The firm has announced plans for a move-by-move analysis of each of the matches, utilizing the AP service This Ump's Decision: See You SALEM, Ore. (UPI) The umpire disappeared Immediately after a Little League baseball game Wednesday night although neither players nor spectators had made strong objection to his calls. State Police said the missing umpire was Larry Lee Lereh, 25, an inmate of the Oregon State Penitentiary nearing the' end of the second year of a three-year sentence for forgery.

Lerch had been permitted to leave the prison to serve as umpire for the game. calm as Robinson: "Most of them are like a prancing horse, but he is calm before a race. Thirty-five minutes before the gun, he gets away from everyone and gets psyched up." Robinson must run twice Friday and again twice Saturday at Eugene, and finish in the top three to qualify for the Olympics. For the last two weeks he has been working all afternoon as a counselor in the national summer youth sports program, leading youngsters 12 and 13 through softball, touch football and swimming. He loves the work but doesn't want to coach "I don't have the patience, I want to get into physical therapy." He quit running for speed last week, now is working on the weight machine to keep his legs strong.

Lang said it is difficult to say what makes a sprinter great: "Most people don't know Rey has a short leg. Maybe that makes the difference. Obviously, he is a natural runner, but he works hard too. Nobody can take a 10 flat sprinter and make him into a 9.3 sprinter. If you want to make a rabbit stew, first you get the rabbit." Rey signs his name with the in school, but newspapers used an and sometimes he sips autographs that way.

But he wants papers to spell it with an explaining that a scholarly aunt picked out the French name for him. (See ROBINSON, S-O lusiury. Right now his goal is to bring the Olympics gold medal back to Florida duplicating the accomplishment of another Rattler Bob Hayes, In 1964. His coach, Bobby Lang, isn't awed at the possibility Robinson might break the world's records: "You can see he is young, not yet matured. Sprinters hit their peak later.

He has perfect form. You know he'll get stronger." I'm! I' Robinson Lang shakes his head and chuckles at the thought. Coach Lang and Robinson drove to Lakeland Tuesday where Robinson was to be honored at a dinner. They were to fly out of Tampa Wednesday for Oregon. Lang said he has never seen a top sprinter who was as.