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-1 Si-ings Si Burick Will King Be Queen of Wimbledon? Daily News Sports Editor Sports World Friday, July 7, 1972 Page 16 Wide World of Sports Cramping Baseball's Space In any normal year, this would be the time principally for the boys of summer, a phrase which, capitalized in the proper places, also happens to be the title of Roger Kahn's captivating best seller on the old Brooklyn Dodgers. Usually, the boys of summer are baseball players, to whom almost undivided sports page attention is paid. But things seem to be different this time. Interlopers from other fields of friendly strife are stealing headlines the way Joe the semifinals and confessed the finals might be equally difficult. "Billie Jean is always in there fighting," said the curly-haired champion.

IN THURSDAY'S men's semifinals, U.S. Army Cpt. Stan Smith beat Czech Jan Kodes 3-6, 6-4, 6-1, 7-5, while fiery Romanian Hie Nastase cut down Manuel Orantes of Spain 6-3, 6-4, 6-4. After Smith had won his match he laid on the massage table and watched Nastase as he destroyed Orantes with surgical precision. "Nasty is one of the best players in the world, with an awful lot of talent," Smith conceded.

Nastase, who predicted before the semifinals that he "might beat Smith in the final," was still brimming with hope. Like most top Europeans, Nastase is considered better on clay than on grass. WIMBLEDON, England IT) "It's nice to be back," said Billie Jean King as she played in her seventh women's singles final on Wimbledon's imposing center court today. The effervescent tennis star from Long Beach, met defending champion Evonne Goolagong of Australia. Mrs.

King seemed completely unworried by the encounter with her younger rival. "Of course Evonne has wonderful talent and has all the determination of a defending champion," said Mrs. King. "But I'm so pleased to have reached the Wimbledon final again because I haven't been playing too well for three or four years." MRS. KING, now 28, first hit the Wimbledon headlines 11 years ago when she beat the then No.

1 seed Margaret Court of Australia in her opening match. Since then Mrs. King has taken the Goolagong King coveted Wimbledon crown three times in 1966, 1967 and 1968. The next two years she was beaten in the finals. In 1971, she became the first woman to win $100,000 in a year on the tennis circuit.

Mrs. King expects the 15,000 fans to be behind her opponent, who beat her in the semifinals here last year. "IF A CROWD started shouting for me I'd really be surprised," laughed Mrs. King. "I'd have to stop and ask them "What's the "But I don't mind, ame." It's all in the Miss Goolagong, 20, had to be at her best to beat 17-year-old Chris Evert in Morgan swipes bases.

This week, while All-Star baseball balloting goes on and teams strive for the lead in the four big league divisions, two girl tennis players drew as much attention as the 600 men who play ball in the major class. I never thought I would hear people ask, "How did Evert and Goolagong come out?" as often as they inquired about Johnny Bench, Pete Rose and Tony Perez. But they did want to know how the American Chris Evert did against unbeatable as well as almost unspellable Evonne Goolagong of Australia, and genuine disappointment was expressed over the former's defeat. I PROVES POllST Evert Quilici New Twins' Boss MINNEAPOLIS-ST. PAUL (1 Frank Quilici, who was told in March he would have no chance to manage the Minnesota Twins until he got some minor league experience, makes his debut tonight at the helm of the club on which he has spent his entire major league playing career.

5 oL UPI Telephoto The Twins will try to snap a four game losing streak against the New York Yankees at Metropolitan stadium. Twins President Calvin Griffith named the former utility infielder to succeed Bill Rig-ney, who was fired Thursday after 2'2 years on the job and with his club 9'2 games behind front-running Oakland in the West division of the American league. "Frank made a believer out of me," Griffith told newsmen. "He has shown maturity and I think he is just the man we need to get our team on the right track again." Quilici, at 33 the youngest major league manager, rejected an offer from Griffith during spring training to manage the Twins' Class A team at Wisconsin Rapids. He recalled the March conversation: "I told Calvin you can manage for 20 years and not be an experienced manager." Rigney, the dean of American league managers in his 17th season, had a 90-minute session with Griffith.

'I've just been fired," he told newsmen. "Calvin said we are not selling any tickets and that he wants to go with a local man," Rigney said. Griffith said the most important reason for the change in managers was because of the reaction of the players on the field. "Too many of them were too nonchalant," he said. The Twins led the division HOUSTON'S CEDENO TRIES BUT FAILS TO BREAK UP DOUBLE PLAY Bucs' Second Baseman Stennett Gets Throw Off to Complete Double Play on Lee May 2 Late Rallies Kill Astros; Reds Now Lead by IV2 Games Quilici early in the season, but slid from a 16-5 record on May 14 to 36-34 when Rigney was fired.

Quilici, who played five seasons with the Twins, was a spark on the 1965 pennant winner. He was called from the minors to replace injured Jerry Kindall at second bas in July and helped solidify the infield, playing his first 44 games without an error. In the first game of tht World Series, Quilici tied Series record by getting two hits in one inning. He had a lifetime batting average of .214 and in his best season, 1968, hit .245 in.9.7 games. Griffith said Quilici will continue on his one-year contract that he held as a coach.

Salary was not divulged, but sources said it would be in excess of $30,000 a year. This week, despite pro-and-con discussion over sportswriting rookie Richard Nixon's selection of his own lifetime's All-Star major league teams, a chess match with wrestling overtones made instant househould names out of Boris Spassky and Bobby Fishcer. Focus on Muirfield, Scotland Until quite recently, identifying Boris and Bobby would have stumped most panels of experts. Now everyone knows they are masters of chess who manipulate kings, queens, bishops, knights, rooks and pawns as expertly as Jack Nicklaus usually makes a golf ball do things his way. The "question, after countless runouts, is whether Spassky and Fischer actually will sit down at the board Tuesday, as now scheduled, or re-scheduled.

Barring bad health, Nicklaus will be doing his thing at Muirfield, Scotland, in the British Open next week. There is no way he can avoid facing up to his problem at the precise moment the schedule calls for. A golfer can't postpone, or evade an issue like a chess player. And thank goodness for that. As far as sport is concerned, next week belongs to Jack, the one-time Ohio Fats from Columbus whose presently svelte figure could serve as a model for Mr.

Nixon's Council on Physical Fitness. Seeking Great Britain's Open, Nicklaus hopes to attach it to a belt that already includes notches for his successes in this year's Masters and U.S. Open. And if he makes it at Muirfield, Jack will be only a step, albeit a giant step, away from the hitherto unreachable dream of modern golf competition the Grand Slam. Only the PGA will remain then for his asking.

Or taking. Jones Set Precedent Bobby Jones, of course, created the first Grand Slam 42 years ago by winning the U.S. and British Opens and the Amateur titles of the same countries. That kind of slam conceivably could be equalled by an amateur golfer of unusual talents, but since there has been no simon-pure like Jones since Bobby abruptly retired in 1930, the two Opens, the Masters and our PGA must do. There was no Masters in Bobby's time the Augusta tournament was his own creation in later years and he was, of course, ineligible for the PGA.

Since he captured the U.S. Open over Pebble Beach's oceanside course, Nicklaus has been aware of the goal ahead. There is no way he would want to forget it. And there is no way he would be permitted to forget. The first questions asked of him after he beat the winds at Pebble Beach had to do with his feelings about "The Slam." Wherever Jack has been since, there has been no effort to hide what is on every golfer's mind.

Golf being a pressure game, all these references make Nicklaus' problem of concentration more difficult than normal. Jack has proved he can shut out the pressures of money, prestige and all that goes with these elements by going ahead to add championship upon championship. His latest U.S. Open victory, his 13th title, matches Jones previously unequalled total. Football, Olympics, etc.

Picking up No. 3 toward the Grand Slam, or trying to, will be a mental hazard never before faced by Nicklaus. It will be his most testing time ever as a champion golfer. And if he should succeed in Britain, the August PGA would be infinitely more troublesome. The point of all this is that baseball, whose glory time this normally is, will have to vie for sports page and air-time attention with the other sports that have unusual angles working for them.

Aside from tennis, golf and chess, consider that Paul Brown has scheduled a luncheon next mid-week to do a little chit-chatting about the Bengals' upcoming season. Football practice is just around the corner. This, too, is an Olympic year, and it may have political asides that could out-controversy even the iron-fist salutes of 1968 Mexico City. Athletes of this country and the world may plump for change in the simon-pure code, making the standards more modern as well as realistic. Soon the problem must be settled, too, of whether two young athletes doing time in jails, that is and who may make the U.S.

team, would be offensive to the Olympic ideal. It seems to me that since both are on the way toward recapturing their own respect, we should do nothing to destroy their chances for total rehabilitation. Baseball will get its just dues in the coming days of summer, but sports interest will go far beyond normal parochial attitudes, and the old pastime will find itself in an unusual struggle for space. Baseball is alive and well, but it doesn't have the center stage to itself. Davalillo brought him home with another double to left-center off loser Jim Ray.

Davalillo scored on Astros catcher Larry Howard's error when he dropped the ball on a throw to home plate. Two more runs scored on Al Oliver's single and Manny Sanguil-len's double off reliever Joe Gibbon. straight come-from-behind victory over the Astros 7-3. The victory moved the Pir-taes 2'2 games ahead of New York in the NL East while the Astros slipped l'2 games back of Cincinnati in the NL West. Relief pitcher Ramon Hernandez, the eventual winner, led off the decisive 17th with a double to left field, and Vic The Astros' big chance came in the fourth when they scored three runs to take a 3-1 lead.

Lee May's ground out scored one run. Doug Rader singled to left field for another and the third run came in on Tommy Helms' force out. Davalillo also drove in Pittsburgh's first run with a third inning single. HOUSTON MP It took the Pittsburgh Pirates a while to get warmed up Thursday night, but when they finally did in the 17th inning, their big offensive display was as im-. pressive as ever.

The Pirates were only three outs away from defeat in the ninth inning when first baseman Willie Stargell turned a 3-1 Houston Astros lead into a 3-3 deadlock with a two-run homer. Pittsburgh bats didn't erupt again until the 17th. Then they produced four runs on four hits to score their second ALL FOUR BAYNHAM'S men's shops STORES Reeling Cubs Enter Riverfront PITTSBURGH HOUSTON ob i bl ab bl Stennett 2b 8 0 10 Metioer js 8 0 10 FLORSHEIM CLEARANCE Selected Styles 7 12 0 7 12 0 6 0 0 1 6 12 0 6 0 11 4 0 10 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 6 0 11 2 0 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 Clemcnte rf 8 2 2 0 Wynn rf Davalillo If 8 13 2 Cedeno cf Stargell lb 6 13 2 LMav lb AOIiver cf 8 12 1 Watson If Songullln 7 0 3 1 Rafter 3b BRobrtsn 3b 3 0 0 0 Edwards MMoy oh 1 0 0 0 Fenwlck pr Ellis pr 0 0 0 0 Howard Paaon 3b 4 0 0 0 Helms 2b Alley ss 2 0 0 0 DWIIson Hebner ph 1 0 0 0 Griffin JHrnandzs 0 0 0 0 Gladding Cash 2b 4 0 10 Stewartph Moose 2 12 0 York Cilnes ph 1 0 0 0 JAlou ph Glustl 2 0 0 0 JRoy Vairoskl ph 1 0 0 0 Gibbon RHnand: 1)10 Culver Stinson ph By JIM FERGUSON, Daily News Sports Writer CINCINNATI The Cincinnati Reds, still trying to find a winning formula for Riverfront stadium, returns to action tonight against the Chicago Cubs, a team that has had trouble winning in any stadium lately. Total MM Total 59 3 10 3 Pirates Astros 001 000 002 000 000 04- 7 000 300 00 00 000 00- 3 Stennett, Poaan, Howard 3. DP Pittsburgh 3.

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Tonight's game will be the first in National league play for the Reds since Tuesday, but they did play some baseball TThursday night, facing their top farm team in an exhibition at Indianapolis. The Reds topped Indy, 6-5, as Johnny Bench, the NL's home run leader, crunched a pair of two-run homers and George Foster bombed one. Bench slugged his in the first and third innings off losing pitcher Pat Osbourn, Foster's also came in the third and Ted Uhlaender scored what proved the winning run after a fifth-inning triple. The Cubs have lost 13 of their last 17 games to fall from a strong challenging position in the Eastern division. The Reds are still on top in the West, despite their incon-s i play before home crowds.

Much to the consternation of Manager Sparky Anderson, the home record remains under the .500 mark at 16-17. Wayne Simpson, who nursed a no-hitter into the seventh inning in San Diego in his last outing, will try to boost the Reds to the break-even mark in an 8:05 game against Burt Hooton, who kept HIS no-hitter going for the full nine innings back in the first week of the season. THE TEAMS play again Saturday afternoon at 2: 15 (Gary Gibbon 14 1 1 0 0 1 Culver 1- 0 0 0 0 0 -J Rnv. PB-Howord. A- 23.540.

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Kuhn, here to address a Rotary Club luncheon, said the 24 major league teams would meet In Chicago today to review procedures for dealing with collective bargaining problems. change in the clause. "In the area of the reserve system there's pretty good indication how they're thinking," Kuhn said. "I guess they feel they'll press the a for free agency after a certain number of years, whatever that might be, two years, four, five or six yeaYs. The concept would be HOUSTON Wl Baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn says he thinks there may be some changes in baseball's controversial reserve clause.

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