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The Gazette from Montreal, Quebec, Canada • 55

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The Gazettei
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Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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55
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55 The GAZETTE. Montreal. Wednesday. July 2. 1980 Jarry Park set for ladies' tennis Soviets erect ring ofsteei about Games Quebec City and people were complaining ment.

People always want to see the same big names and don't realize that some of the girls who will be here are the up-and-coming stars. Everybody coming here played at Wimbledon. "A few years ago, I remember being in because the only people uiey naa were two kids Bjorn Borg and Jimmy Connors. It was great tennis. The same year, Borg won Wimbledon, but nobody had heard of him three months before." Disabled Canadian wins fifth gold medal in track The competitors will play on an artif ical surface similar to that used at Forest Hills.

It took about six weeks to install snd the courts have already been tested. "The grounds had to be completely altered," Lamarche said. "The stadium had not really been used for the last few years, at least not for the type of crowd. 'It had to be renovated top to bottom and concession booths had to be fixed up. The locker rooms had to be altered because it is a women's tournament" From home to first One court will run from where home plate used to be to the former location of first base.

The second front court will run down the right-field line. There will also be two courts right along the bleachers. And while the seating capacity will be 9,000 this year, it will increase to 14,000 for next year when it is expected that a men's tournament will also be held. "I have a fence coming down on both sides so it will seem that the thing is enclosed. It's a great stadium and I doubt that anyone could afford to build something of that magnitude." The draw for the tournament will be held a week from today.

By GLENN COLE of The Gazette Out where Mack Jones became the mayor of Jonesville, there is a new look. Instead of the bright green grass, there is a $200,000 artificial surface and lines defining four tennis courts, replacing the foul lines and the basepaths where the Expos frolicked in their first seven years. New-look Jarry Park is ready to welcome several of the top women's stars for the Player's Challenge Ladies Professional Tennis Tournament July 12-20. Among those entered are Martina Navratilova, the 1979 women's tennis player of the year and Andrea Jaeger, the pony-tailed 15-year-old prodigy from Illinois, who lost to Chris Evert Lloyd yesterday in quarterfinal play at Wimbledon. Other entries include Rosemary Casals, Evonne Goola-gong-Cawley and Pam Shriver.

Fans want big names "It's always the same thing," said Pierre Lamarche, the 33-year-old tournament director. "People always look for the big names. Two weeks ago, we announced Jaeger would be here and people were saying who is Andrea Jaeger. She only happens to be the most popular player at Wimbledon. "We feel it will be a very strong tourna- ARNHEM, The Netherlands (UPC) -Ann Farrell from Botwood, completed a grand slam of her amputee track and field events yesterday, bringing her tally in the Olympics for the disabled to five gold medals and five world records.

Farrell, the 19-year-old who now trains in Thunder Bay, heaved the javelin 30.90 metres yesterday, surpassing her own world mark of 29.58. "I was hoping for 35 metres today but I didn't get it. Still I'm pleased with the new world record," said Farrell, who had previously racked up wins in the "100-metre dash, long jump and discus. Farrell, who participates in the amputee below-knee class, also tossed the shotput for gold and a new. world mark of 8.68 metres on her second try.

The teen-ager lost her lower left leg under a train wheel at age four and competes with a specially designed sport leg. In shooting, 57-year-old Yvon Page of Montreal, the oldest Canadian competitor, took his second silver medal, this one in the standing position of air rifle for qua-draplegics. Page scored 338 out of a possible 400 but Johan Kristensen of Denmark marked up 346. Page won a silver in the prone position event Monday. In other amputee events yesterday.

Sue Grimstead of Niagara-On-The-Lake, was awarded the gold medal in above-the-knee long jump. (UPI) Less than three weeks before the opening of the Olympic Games, Soviet authorities have thrown a net of unprecedented security precautions around all sites connected with the athletic contests. "This is supposed to be a sporting event," said one Westerner recently arrived in Moscow, "but it looks more like an'armed camp." Metal detectors of the type used at many airports have been stationed at entry points to all Olympic sites, 'including the work area and hotels assigned to journalists arriving to cover the Games. All cameras, tape recorders and notebooks must be yassed through separate X-ray machines. Special passes are required of everyone connected in any way with the Games, and they usually are necessary to Jeave an Olympic site as well as enter it.

Checking the passes, manning the metal detectors and yrowling the streets of Moscow are an estimated 35,000 cjrtra militiamen brought into the Soviet capital especially Jor the Olympics. "Months ago dissidents said the Soviets would put up a Jring of steel' around Moscow for the Olympics," one western observer said. "And now it's all coming true." Middle-level Soviet officials privately criticized the xtent of the security precautions, but said they were powerless to reverse their orders. No one could say why such extraordinary security was deemed necessary. "Everyone remembers Munich," one reporter said, Referring to the terrorist attack at the 1972 Olympics, "but only people wearing tightly controlled passes can get in here.

Why the metal detectors? Do they think some reporter is going to smuggle a bomb in in his notebook?" With only one security gate serving the press centre fomplex. lines quickly formed outside as grumbling reporters waited their turn to empty their pockets into one of four plastic trays, set down their tape recorders or cameras on a conveyor belt to be X-rayed and walk through the metal detector, a model with flashing red and green lights and a pameplate that announced it was a "Frisk 'Em," made in the A. The Soviet militiamen staring nervously at the crowd of complaining reporters and photographers sometimes tried tabe helpful, but they also sometimes displayed a curiosity mjre appropriate to their normal duty stopping suspicious cHaracters on the street. Muny Muscovites have reported recent encounters with militiamen who seemed entirely unfamiliar with the capital 'Squads of officers, who function as police, traffic con trpi guards and also perform all types of security details, have "been seen travelling around Moscow in buses, apparently taking crash courses in the city's complicated geography. f-x: 4 mm munis "--v.

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