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El Paso Times from El Paso, Texas • 52

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El Paso Timesi
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El Paso, Texas
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Page 6-t THE EL PASO TIMES, Sunday, May 20, 1973 Riggs Just Getting Going Attention Coming At Long Last EP Parks Offer Net Instruction Riggs has enlisted his older brother, David, to serve as a buffer. Only the closest friends are able now to get through to the middle-aged tennis sensation. He is busy and difficult to reach. "I've had calls from television networks and most of the talk shows," Bobby said. ''They want me to endorse everything from baby bottles to dog food.

Promoters and agents are giving me fits." ll ll-f'" International Trio To Spice Bullfights If a call gets through, the caller is unlikely to find Bobby, at home, anyhow. He is out on the courts at Newport Beach, LaCosta, Atlarita'or Las Vegas doing what he does perhaps as well as. any man in the world hustling a few bucks, usually a few hundred bucks, at his favorite art. His next public appearance is still up in the air. "Imagine that Billie Jean trying to get me to play at Hilton Head for a measly $10,000," Riggs exploded.

"She must be out of her cotton-picking mind. Doesn't she realize that my price now has gone up? Fifty thousand is a more realistic figure." The most talked-about athlete of the moment is. an unim-posing wisp of a man, 5 feet, 7 inches tall and about 140 pounds. He wears hornrimmed glasses and plays tennis in a white visor, made famous by Helen Wills back in the 1920s. For the fifth, consecutive year, the El Paso Parks and Recreation Department will offer qualified tennis instrucv tion for 'adults and youths of varying skills when the department's summer tennis program gets under way June 4 at numerous high scchool courts throughout the city.

Boh the adult and he youh programs wiM begin on June 4, but the youth instruction will last for a total of six weeks while the adult program will consist of two three-week sessions. Regisration for both programs will take place at he site of the insruction during the first week of the summer tennis program. The first adult session wiM run from June 4 through June 22 and will be conducted Monday through Friday in the evenings from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Coronado, Austin, Burges, Eastwood, and Irvin high schools.

The second adult session will be conduced from hi i -m- CHECK THAT FORM! Elva Carreon, one of the prettier tennis instructors in the El Paso Parks and Recreation Departments summer tennis program, displays the form she will be using during her instructional sessions in the adult and youth programs. Chris Taylor Ea ger For Shot At Russians tt now sr FULL RANGE STEREO AND SAVE over factory installed prices CUSTOM INSTALLATIONS IN ANY NEW OR LATE MODEL CAR OR PICKUP COMPARE BEFORE YOU BUY AUTO TECH 105 S. Concapcion At Alameda 778-8510 After Madison, the U.S. and Russian teams will compete May 26 at Columbus, Ohio; May 29 at Brockport, N.Y., and June 2 at Madison Square Garden in New York. Taylor, probably the top attraction on the tour, will wrestle in New York but will skip the other stops except for Madison, where he will appear as a favor to Russ Hellickson, ELOY CAVAZOS find Plaza Mexico, the world's largest bullring, located in Mexico City.

B2 WED. 522 523 I NEW YORK (AP) At age 55, creaking at the joints, dim of eyesight and "with one foot in the grave," as he puts it, little Bobby Riggs is enjoying a world spotlight that escaped him a quarter of a century ago when he was the terror of the tennis courts. like being reincarnated," the bouncy, voluble Cali-fornian exulted as he drank in the heady dregs of attention that followed his smashing 6-2, 6-1 victory over Margaret Court a week ago in their battle of the sexes. "It's beautiful. It's by far the greatest thing I have ever done, bigger than Wimbledon, bigger than winning the pro tour.

This is the highlight of my career." At Bobby's three-level, $400-a month townhouse at Park Newport in Newport Beach, the telephone rings incessantly. It now takes two postmen to deliver the mail. Promoters and con men are beating a path to his door. a teammate and the University of Wisconsin assistant coach. Taylor lost his first match in the 1972 Munich Olympics to two-time gold medalist Alexander Medved, then came back to beat four consecutive opponents and win a bronze medal.

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If there is a strong turnout for the first two sessions, a third session may be added at a later date during the summer months. The cost for the adult instructions will be $9.00 per session. Ysleta, Coronado, El Paso High, Austin. Jefferson, Burges, Eastwood, and Bel Air high schools will be the locations for the youth program which will run for six weeks starting June 4 and continuing through July 13. The youth instructions will take place from 8 a.m.

to 12 noon Monday through Friday. Cost for the six weeks of instruction will be $8.00. Gene Stogner, tennis program director for the El Paso Parks and Recreation Department, stated the aim of the adult and youth program was to stress correct techniques of tennis for persons of all skills, levels from beginners to advanced players. ty of Wisconsin fieldhouse in Madison on Wednesday. "It's harder for me to get as up as I used to.

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