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THE CAPITAL TIMES SPORTS SCORES: WIBA 238-2601 SATURDAY, JULY 8, 1972 Don Diamond, who does forced to do research on a under a tree near the 16th get out from under but had to the final 36 holes. Army Corporal Seeks Wimbledon Title BULLETIN WIMBLEDON, England P- Steady rain delayed the start of the men's singles final of the Wimbledon Tennis Championship today, WIMBLEDON, England Stan Smith, the giant U.S. Army corporal from Sea Pines, S.C., tangled today with Ilie Nastase of Romania in the finals of the Wimbledon men's singles. If Smith wins, he'll be the first American since Chuck McKinley in 1963 to carry off the world's premier tennis crown. If Nastase wins, he'll be the first Eastern European player to carry off the title.

Jaroslav Dronbny won in 1954, but he was exiled from his native Czechoslovakia and was playing under Egyptian colors. If Smith wins, it would be the first time since 1955 that Americans captured both singles tities. That year, Tony Trabert took the men's crown and Louise Brought the women's. research at the university, is golfing subject as his ball stops fairway Friday. He managed to settle for an 80 to qualify for There hole for Caravello, nightmare was no putting nine time city but the rest of the for him in the second Brewers Tag Vida Blue For Loss OAKT AND, Calif.

(UPI) The Milwaukee Brewers today try for a second victory in a series with the Oakland Athletics with Jim Lonborg on the mound from which the Great Vida Blue once pitched. Blue "The Has Been" pitched Friday night in the first game of the series, and let go of two balls in the first inning that resuited in two back-to-back home runs. It was perhaps a bad omen for Blue, as the Brewers went on to a 9-4 victory while the 1971 Cy Young award winner got booed in the process by his home town fans. Dave May and George Scott stunned baseball fans at the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum here as both put a couple of Blue's pitches over the center field wall, 425 feet from home plate. The A's tied it in the second, as Ken Brett ran into trouble, but their rally failed to carry through the third as May swung and connected once again.

The Athletics got runs in the second on doubles by Dave Duncan and Bert Campaneris. May's hit was only a sacrifice this time, but it gave Brett, on third with singles by himself and Ron Theobald, the clear lane home. Blue then went through nine Brewers, but Brett did the same to nine Athletics. Fans showed their disgust with Blue's general performance when he was tossed out at first on a slow roller from second. If that wasn't enough to upset (Continued on 2nd Sports Page; problem on this city tourney.

champion Steve day, Caravello day was 10 strokes off round of the David Sandell). Simonson Holds 4 Stroke Lead in City Golf Meet After lead sharing 72 the first had a horrendous 83 Friday, the pace. (Staff photos by Frank Parkinson, Maple Bluff's veteran tournament. At the age of 74, Parkinson is golfer, poses with the trophy he has in his still in the running for this year's honors collection for winning the city championship scoring an 80 Friday to qualify for this in 1942. The trophy was donated by The weekend's 36 final holes.

Capital Times, then sponsor of the annual Chess in Iceland a Blood-Thirsty Game By ANN HENCKEN (Associated Press Sports Writer) NEW YORK (P) The insulted egos and white-knuckled tensions before the FischerSpassky chess match may seem to be a blazing battle, but pale beside the tales of blood-thirsty games in Medieval Iceland. Chess boards in the 12th and 13th centuries were often the center of treachery, revenge, intrigue and murder, according to sagas of the time. Games were often interrupted because somebody was getting hacked to pieces. When a certain King Louis lost a chess game to Rognvald, he stood up in a fury, shoved his chessman into a bag and smashed his opponent in the face with it, leaving him a bloody mess. "Take that!" exclaimed the king.

Rognvald rode off in a panic. But his brother stayed to split the king's skull open. This year, Billie Jean King already has won the women's title for the fourth time since 1966. She beat the defending champion Evonne Goolagong of Australia, 6-3, 6-3 in a low-key final Friday. Smith, last year's runner up and the No.

seed this year, started off the gruelling tournament as hot favorite. But Nastase, primarily a clay court expert, has been playing better and better in each round. whereas Smith has been stambling. Smith himself admitted after his four-set semifinal against Jan Dodes of Czechoslovakia that his confidence hadn't been as good as he'd wanted so far this year, but insisted that he was reaching his peak with every match and would be ready for the final. Nastase, the Romanian Army Lieutenant who delights the crowd with his artistry and speed, has been improving withevery match.

His semifinal against Spaniard Manuel Orantes was one of the classics of the 1972 Wimbledon a tournament spoiled from the academic tennis point of view because the top pros are under contract to World Championship Tennis and were unable to play here this year. Billie Jean King of Long Beach, Calif, holds aloft the women's singles plate after she had won the title for the fourth time at the All-England Lawn Tennis Championships at Wimbledon Friday. (AP Wirephoto) Ryun Blazes 1.500 Meter By BONNIE RYAN 401 The Capital Times Sports Staff) As Harry Simonson walked off the 18th green at the Maple Bluff Country Club Friday he spied Rev. Joseph Niglis in the gallery. "There are some good days, and a few bad ones, Simonson smiled at his golfing friend.

This was one of those good days for the five times city champion, and the state's senior champion at age 57, who scored a 73 on his home course 1 to take a four-stroke lead over the rest of the field at the halfway point of the Madison M.n's Golf Tournament. With a 72 at Odana Hills Thursday, Simonson has a 36 hole total of 145, four strokes less than young Mike Plautz, 1969 champ, and clubmate Warren Dailey each of whom posted 75s for a 149 total. Soaring out of contention was nine times champion Steve Caravello, like Simonson, a grandfather, who had shared the first round lead. Shooting one of the worst rounds in his tournament career, the smooth swinger just "played real bad" and wound up with an 83. Unusual, for him, were two three bogeys.

Two others who will be closely pressing Simonson the next two days will be John Aehl assistant city editor of the Wisconsin State Journal, and Tim Byrne, the young insurance man with great golfing potential. They both recorded second round 76s into 1 the final onslaught. The third round starts at one this afternoon for the 36 qualifiers at Cherokee. The final 18, with the same starting time, will be Sunday at Yahara Hills West. Three veteran golfers, seven srokes back of the lead are Orv Walsvik, who will be playing his (Continued on 2nd Sports Page) been the downfall of Eric Plovpenning, a wise ruler, it is said.

He was lured to the chess table by his blackhearted brother i in the summer of 1250. The brother abused Eric as he sat playing chess, and Eric was killed that very night. "Poor King: Little did he merit so cruel a checkmate!" was the comment from Fiske. of on Fischer Not Popular with Icelanders REYKJAVIK, Iceland (UPI) Louis If popularity were a determining factor, defending world in one chess champion Boris Spassky his would retain his title hands up for a down. game, With the bickering apparently lost.

out of the way and the beginun- of the 24-game still three days away, chess-mad Icelanyou ders continually speculate who chess will win and compare the differ-ing personalities of Spassky and American challenger Bobby Fischer. EUGENE, Ore. Jim Ryun pressed his bid for another Olympic berth in the run Friday night as the world record-holder once again shot from behind in the final lap to collect an impressive victory. The former Kansas star whipped around a tightlybunched pack for a 54.2-second last lap as he won a heat in 3:43.2 at the U.S. Men's Olympic Track and Field Trials.

Ryun. who set the world mark of 3:33.1 five years ago, left Hayward Field without talking to newsmen. Bowling Green's Dave Wottle, who earned America's No. 1 berth in the 800 meters earlier, also anvanced in the race. He said the pace would be fast tonight "because the heats Bud Melges of Zenda, Wis.

is at the tiller as he pilots Teal to a berth in the Soling event at the Olympics trials this week at San Francisco. Billy Allen of Minneapolis and 800 Here Wisconsin's Bud Melges is on his way to a victory In the sixth race of the Olympic Soling trials at San Francisco. It was his third straight win and he easily qualified for the Olympics. (AP Wirephoto) haven't been they've tactical for qualifying. We to run tomorrow.

"I'd like to see 3:33.1 Ryun's record go, but I don't know who will do it, if anybody does." Wottle was second in the heat won by Jerome Howe of Kansas State, the AAU champion. Both were clocked in 3:44.7. Howe, who has run the second-fastest 1,500 in the country this year, said "it depends on Ryun and Wottle" if tonight's pace is fast or tactical. "I prefer a faster race," he said, "and I think it will take a 3:37 or 3:38 to win it." Tom Von Ruden of Stillwater, considered one of the leading contenders in the 1,500, failed to advance. And Howell Michael of the Marines, formerly of William (Continued on 2nd Sports Page) Bill Bentsen of Chicago are the crew for Melges, a well-known competitor in Madison waters.

(AP Wirephoto) Melges is US Olympic Soling Hope BELVEDERE, Calif. (UPI) A 42-year-old Zenda, man will represent the United States in August at the Olympics. Bud Melges Friday, in the last of seven races, won a ticket to Munich for the sailing competition. Melges, with crew members Bill Allen and Bill Benson, during soling trials here compiled a record of three wins, two second places and one fifth place. He took second in the final race Friday.

Melges was leading, but pulled over to the port side on the course to cover his nearest competitor in the series, Lowell North of San Diego. John Dane, 22, New Orleans, held to the favored starboard side and won the race. The final standings: Melges, 16; North, 27.7; Bruce Gold(Continued on 2nd Sports Page) been have These stories are sagas Willard Fiske's "Chess in Iceland and in Icelandic Literature," published in 1905. It is said that American chess champion Bobby Fischer has gotten the highest stakes in history of chess for his series beginning Tuesday in Reyjavik with Bor's Spassky, the world championm Even though thousands doliars of prize money the line, today's championship prize is chicken feed. Rognvaid played King for his head.

A woman was the prize knightly saga. A king put horse, falcon and sword maiden and engaged in a winner toke all. The king He left the game on foot, armed and unloved. "Little consolation do derive from the game of for now I own your costly jects:" said his competitor. Talk about concentration.

Today, Fisher feels the flare of the elaborate chess table in Reyjavik may be too bright. It I may distract him. Fischer could take a lesson from King Valdemar, in the year 1157. The king concentrated so hard on his chess game that when Canute gave him a big kiss, he didn't even look up from the board. It took a troop of enemy soldiers rushing into the room to get his attention.

The king lept up to fight. He fell with a wounded thigh. But his men covered him with their bodies for protection. They were chopped to bits. an the king escaped.

The game was never finished. Concentration could have Spassky, a Russian, mixes freely and appears to be just about everybody's favorite. Fischer has in effect cut himself off. As one of his seconds put it, the 29-year-old New Yorker "lives in his own world." Fischer's actions in turning up late for the match, which was scheduled to have begun last Sunday, and in fighting for more money have hurt his reputation here. "We don't like Fischer," said a Reykjavik waiter.

"He be a great chess player but he is behaving like a child." Spassky, 35, purportedly a journalist, arrived more than two weeks ago and moved into a hotel as just another guest. He goes shopping alone, plays tennis and goes swimming with his advisers but without a police guard. He always has a ready smile the many fans who want to exchange a word or get his autograph. He eats in the hotel (Continued on 2nd Sports Page).