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This Pay in Sports Yc Nes inflr nennnwisnaaiB BASEBALL At Yankee Stadium. Mfnne- YiiS P-m- IWIWCA-. HORSE RACING At Aqueduct: Post p.m.; at Monmouth; Post 2 p.m. HARNESS RACING At Roosevelt: Post 8 P.m at Monticeilo: Post 8:30 p.m. WITH PHIL PEPE 3 Orahtes Hikes Tennis Grand Prix Margin Boston, July IS (AP) Manuel Orantes of Spain, who won the Swedish International Championships last week; increased his lead in the $375,000 Commercial Union Grand Prix tennis tournament.

Orantes now has 380 points, 60 more than second-place Hie Nas-tase of Rumania. Stan Smith of Sea Pines, S.C., is in third place with 287 points. Billie Jean King of PalmAire, held onto first place in the women's division with 359 points, while Evonne Goolagong of Australia picked up 20 points for winnig the Irish Open and increased her second-place point total to 310. Nancy Richev Gunter of San Angelo, is" in third native trailed until midway in the final set, when a service break in the seventh game seemed to uplift his play. Owens is the nation's 19th ranked player.

Connors Tops Gergken Top-seeded Jimmy Connors, of Belleville, 111., a 19-year-old southpaw, beat Paul Gergken, 6-4, 6-4. Connors and Owens will meet in one quarter-final match tomorrow and Dirk Stnrktnn Port Washington, N.Y, will meet mm auik, Covington, In the second quarterfinal. in a CO 'LEARN BUfl BOB FELLER, 17-vear- OU? IOWA FJPgAU-fc, iTCHgP IM HIS- FIRS-TMAJOfc FOR ft.eVEl.ANP. HB TWIRUBP TriRge Me GRAY MAPg HI9 OF TriB N. PUAyEP ASr JOg 5-3.

There are times when we working stiffs find it difficult to understand the special people who play games for a living. Why does Floyd Patterson, who doesn't need the money, continue to fight at age 37? How do you explain the petulance of Bobby Fischer? What makes Duane Thomas tick? Or Alex Johnson? "We find it difficult to comprehend, but Tom Hetzel doesn't; he understands it very well. The reason Hetzel understands is that he is one of them, with his own hangup, his own goal, his own windmill to fight. Tom Hetzel's hangup, his windmill, is the English Channel. "I think everybody in the world has his own English Channel," says Hetzel.

"It's in every man. Every man has a little Don Quixote and a little Walter Mitty in him." Floyd Patterson's English Channel is the heavyweight championship of the world. Bobby Fischer's is white and black chess men on a board. Duane Thomas and Alex Johnson's English Channels are well-kept secrets. Swims It Because It's There Try to get Hetzel to explain why he swims the Channel.

It isn't easy. He swims it for the same reason Sir Edmund Hillary climbed Mt. Everest. "Because it's there." "Maybe I'm lacking something," Hetzel admits. "Or maybe I have too much of something.

I don't know. All I know is that going to the Channel is liking going on a pilgrimmage. It's like my personal quest for the Holy Grail." Hetzel will renew his quest next month. He leaves for England Aug. 8 and sometime between Aug 16 and Sept.

6, when the tides are right, he will try to become the first American to swim the channel five times. 360 PROGRAMMING $449 I place with 17a CONSOLE OPERATION KEY PUNCH SI49 APPVO. FOR VETS STATE 10ANS Columbus, Ohio. Julv 18 "UPn Charles Owens, 1972 NCAA AUTHORIZED TO ACCEPT P3 NON-IMMIGRANT ALIEN STUDENTS borne of Honolulu, the nation's small college singles champ, pulled a mild upset in the second round of the $25,000 Buckeye Tennis Championships today with a three-set victory over Jim Os- COMPARE! E3J CPU t51 I WAY. N.Y.t Efjj 12th ranked player.

The scores were 5-7, 7-6, 7-4. mm innnniMir I The 21-year-old Tuscaloosa. i im.iMMj in ml -iin i i in i "I'll keep doing it," Hetzel says, "until the channel loses its luster for me. It's still the only challenge for me, even though I've done it four times already and have never failed to do it. People ask me why I keep going back, what I am trying to prove? I've already done it four times, they say, what will it mean to do it five times or six or seven "My answer is that Babe Ruth didn't stop hitting home runs after he hit his first one.

Or his 100th. Or his 700th. In some ways it frightens me. Maybe, in my subconscious, I'm hoping to fail. I sometimes wonder what it would be like to fail? Maybe, if I've failed, then that will be it.

I will have had enough." It is, in a way, like the horse player who doubles up on winning bets, who refuses to leave the track with money in his I. i i i pocket. It is like Floyd Patterson, chasing another heavyweight championship. It is, to some, a death wish, a form of sports masochism. Tore Shoulder in Powerful Current Hetzel is a former New York City policeman, who is on a medical retirement from a torn right shoulder, incurred in the rapids of the Channel.

It happened, he remembers, in 1969, when the current was so powerful, he hit shore eight miles down the beach from nis planned landing. "The pain was excruciatine." Tom recalls. "I tore muscles and ligaments and tendons in my arm so badly, the doctors thought I would never swim again. I can remember tears streaming down my face and cloirgine up my eoe-eles. and every time I made a stroke with my right arm, people tell me I let out a horrifying scream.

siiisjiiiiiiiMif Nwia -C Miy i 1 1 'f "Some months later, I saw Johnny Weissmuller, who Is still the greatest swimmer of all-time. I told him this story, and he saia, "ine screaming is the only thing that brought you If there is one thing that frustrates the channel swimmer. says iletzel, it is not the waves or the current, it is the lack of I '( 4 recognition for all that hard work. "When they talk of the loneliness of a long-distance runner, are they kidding?" To prepare for his fifth swim, Tom averages three or four nines a day in a pool in Liong Beach, where he has a job as in structor-and life guard. Since Jan.

1, he has covered 420 miles and will have over 600 miles of preparation before he gets to England. Punishment at Ills Own Expense And about the time young Olympians are swimming short dis tances lor gold and glory, Hetzel will be punishing himself, he Knows not why, in the toughest waters of all and at his own expense. "Im still paying back a loan I took in 1967, the year of my urst cnannei swim," he says. Yet, he goes back, searching for the Holy Grail, fighting his windmill, seeking his quest because, as he says, "everybody has his English Channel. Mine just happens to be between England Nuxe Scot 5 Ambassador.

ana ranee." Representing Scotch at its lightest. Here are the answers to yesterdav's Yankee-Met quiz. 1, Duke Carmeh 2, Rob Gardner. 3, Phil Linz. 4, Jesse Gonder.

5, Yogi Berra. 6, Billy Cowan. 7, Bob Friend. 8, Tom Sturdivant. 9,.

Ralph Terry. 10, Bill Short. 11, Gene Woodling. 12, Marv Throneberry. 13, Ron Swoboda.

14, Charlie Smith. 15, Hal Reniff. The first correct answer (right order, right first names) comes from Aaron woien, Woodhaven, N.Y. Your Yankee tickets will be on their BLENDED SCOTCH WHISKY, 86 PROOF. THE JOS.

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