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By William Barnard AP Sports Writer NEW YORK The Los Angeles Lakers added to their treasure chest of stars today by drafting James Worthy of North Carolina as the first pick in the-opening round of the National Basketball Association draft Worthy a 6-foot-9 junior for- Win tne jsCaa cnampumsuip iasc Mason was the first of as many as nine underclassmen expected to be chosen in the first round The Lakers wasted no time In selecting Worthy who averaged 156 points per game for North Carolina last season and scored a game-high 28 points in his teams NCAA' championship game victory over Georgetown last March San Diego took half of their alloted five minuted before making Terry Cummings of DePaul another junior forward the second choice in the draft ThejS- A O'- Sints and 119 rebounds for the ue Demons last season The third choice by the Utah Jazz was 6-7 junior forward Dominique Wilkins of Georgia Wilkins compared by some scouts to Philadelphia star Julius Erving in his potential for generating excitement in the pros averaged 216 points per game during his career with the Bulldogs and was called the Top Dawg of Dunk The Dallas Mavericks choosing fourth became the first team to select a senior in the draft 6-9 Vi tijwmiis AAV eraged 181 points per game last season The pick-was somewhat of a surprise because it was believed the' Mavericks would take 6-10 center LaSalle Thompson of Texas after they had traded their starting center at the end of last season Wayne Cooper to Portland for guard Kelvin Ransey Monday However the Mavericks had acquired center-forward Pat Cummings late Monday from Milwaukee in exchange for Dallas 1982 second-roundJfefthMcea mediately snapped up Thompson the fourth junior selected with the No 5 pick Thompson averaged 186 points and led the na- tion with a 139 rebound average The New York Knicks then selected 6-5 senior guard Trent Tucker of Minnesota which brought boos from the large gallery of fans at Madison Square Gardens Felt Forum The fans had chanted for the Knicks to pick Ohio States Clark Kellogg Tucker averaged 148 points per game for the Gophers last a tuinuu Ittiiejr-a 6-3 guard from tire University of San Francisco who recently was placed on three years probation lor sexual assault was chosen by the Chica go Bulls as the No7 pick in the draft Dailey an All-American averaged 252 points per game for the Dons during the 1981-82 season Kellogg a 6-7 forward became the fifth junior taken in the draft when he was picked by the Indiana Pacers r'f -i 1981-82 rookies Isiah Thomas and Kelly Tripucka in the first round last year chose 6-8 forward Cliff Levingston of Wichita State Levingston also a junior Comeback begins JR Richard once one of the most powerful pitchers in the National League began his comeback from a stroke in tne minor leagues on Monday See story on his effort on Page 1 3 JOHNSON CITY PRESS-CHRONICLE Tuesday Evening June 29 1982 122 at Wimbledon SS: 111 fZ 'r St i i more information on the lessons call 929-7491 (Staff photo by Eddie LeSueur) kooks worried But I thought it was funny "Later he left saying Til wait I know you want to go to college Then he sent me a telegram saying 'I hope I didnt bother you My mother would pull me off the tour if she knew some of the strange offers Ive had Andrea said during one tournament a stack of letters from apparently the same person were delivered to the womens locker room "They were lewd drawings of all of us she said "Everybody except Evonne Goolagong got one Lloyd received a death threat in the Canadian Open at Toronto last year and had 18 security men guarding her throughout the tournament but that was not her most harrowing experience Chris -said there is a Florida man who writes letters to her every other day Bell courts on Monday Youth lessons are given at the courts Monday through Friday Two Cathleen Ohler takes a swing at a ball on a string as Allison Shockley watches during youth tennis lessons at the Liberty Women players bothered by By James Liike AP Sports Writer WIMBLEDON England Defending champion Chris Evert Lloyd pursued top-seeded Martina Navratilova and sentimental favorite Billie Jean King into the quarterfinals of the All-England Tennis Championships at Wimb--ledon today but fourth-seeded Andrea Jaeger was ambushed by Anne Smith and No 7 Pam Shriver was stunned by Barbara Potter Lloyd stormed back from a first-set tiebreaker loss to post a 6-7 6-3 6-1 victory over 15th-seeded Virginia Ruzici of Romania Navratilova overcame some strong early play to subdue 18-year-old Zina Garrison 6-3 6-2 while King playing in her 102nd singles match at the All-England Club tripped sixth-seeded Wendy Turnbull of Australia 6-2 6-3 Smith the No 13 seed upended Jaeger 6-4 6-2 while the lOth-seeded Potter ousted Shriver with surprising ease 6-2 6-4 American Joanne Russell did in ninth-seeded Sylvia Hanika of West Germany 6-4 6-7 6-3 Third-seeded Tracy Austin had little trouble ousting West Germanys Claudia Kohde 6-3 6-3 All seven women advanced into the quarterfinals of the rain- Reynolds downed fellow Amer ican Pam Teeguarden 5-7 6-3 8-6 to move into the fourth round Reynolds now will face No 11 Bettina Bunge in the final fourth-round matchup On the mens side sixth-seeded Gene Mayer gained the round of 16 with a 7-6 6-3 6-0 victory over fellow American Larry Ste-fanki No 12 Mark Edmondson of Australia defeated Ramesh Krishnan of India 63 1-6 61 6-4 and No 16 Steve Denton completed a match begun Monday by outlasting South African Schalk van der Merwe 67 7-5 3-6 64 1611 Shriver i The match was suspended at two sets each and 10-10 in the final set Monday because of dark- ness The fifth set went to 24 games because Wimbledon like the French Open does not use the tiebreaker to decide the final set In the final game van der Merwe was serving to save the match at 30-40 and hit what appeared to be an ace But when the umpire announced deuce point Denton refused to change courts maintaining the service had skimmed the net and should be called a let Because the match was played on one of the outer courts and there was no net judge the umpire yielded to Denton and ordered the point replayed Denton finished the match on the next point and as an angry van der Merwe left the court the American remained to play his next match against New Zealander Chris Lewis which followed immediately Navratilova heading towards an expected final match against defending champion Chris Evert Lloyd nearly overlooked Garrison last years Wimbledon and US Open junior girls champion and a surprise quarterfinal ist at the French Open The young American broke service in the third game to take a 3-1 advantage But Navratilova ripped off the next five games including breaks in the sixth and eighth games to capture the set "Shes fast so you really have to pick your spots Navratilova said "I got rattled in the first set then tried to slow the pace "She hits really hard So the harder I hit the ball the more chance she has to hit a wjnner As Garrison became tentative Navratilova pressed her attack from the net gaining a break in the third game to go up 2-1 and then exchanging service until the seventh game when she broke again with a series of crisp volleys 'ft -4 i sessions are held each day with one beginning at 10 am and the second one at 1 pm For they got rid of him She said there Was one fan who followed her all the way to Wimbledon "He came up to me and I said How did you get here? He said he wasnt telling me anything But he was just a young man I figured he was just one of the two members of my fan club when I played team tennis for the New York Apples "But I couldnt help thinking of Son of Sam He killed girls' first" Seventeen-year-old Andrea Jaeger of Lincolnshire HI confided to John Husar of the Chicago Tribune last week that when she was 16 a man followed her from Ohio to Florida "He was a murderer who wrote that he was getting out of jail on my birthday she said "He followed me to Florida He said he loved me and wanted to marry me My mother and father were By Will Grimsley AP Special Correspondent WIMBLEDON England The globe-circling ladies of the tennis tour have their own names for them weirdos" "kooks "crazies "sex fiends They rarely show their faces They lurk in the shadows They are always around Writing letters Sending gifts Making Obscehe telephone calls in the middle of the night "It happens to almost all of us says Chris Evert Lloyd Americas queen of the courts "Sometimes we try to laugh it off We joke about it But all of us realize it could be serious "I get alarmed sometimes when I am in a strange city or country all my myself" Lloyd echoes the sentiments of most of her contemporaries when she speaks of this not entirely Gooden Thornton lead Mets rout of Cards new but growing menace of secret admirers and warped minds who attach their fantasies to the graceful divas of the courts "Its as old as time itself says 72-year-old Ten Tinling a Wimbledon fixture for more than half a century "It happened to Suzanne Lenglen just after World War I and to Helen Wills in the 1920s "If you are to be a hero or a heroine you must take the consequences These special human beings (stars) consummate the secret dreams of humanity JoAnne Russell a statuesque 27-year-old New Yorker said she was constantly pestered by a man who wrote her letters and enclosed self-addressed envelopes in an attempt to set up a rendezvous "I turned it over to the police she explained "Then the police came back and said He has an unlisted number1 1 said "Youre the police arent you? Finally quired before restart Then in the top of the fourth the plats umpire John Wesley Smith called for some work in the plate area which required five minutes Tbs Mets continued to scoro when plsy was resumed with Gooden having no problems retiring the Cardinals "It was mv first hit of the aea-son" said Thornton who brought nickname of "Sweet Louie to Kingsport with him "I was 0 for 13 coming into tho game The homer with Andy Lawrence Ken Bodle and Russ Orrick aboard wu his only hit of tho gama leaving Thornton with a current 1 for 18 Thornton went ahead to say "ita my mothers birthday too" Thornton is from Hope Hull Ala Tve only struck out thres times Thornton said "1 would have had other hits but a lot of good plays kept me from getting more But Ea (Olsen) has confidence In ue and kept me in the lineup 5xnd baseman Richard Dlu had two doubles and a single in five tripe and Lawrence had a double and two singles for the Mets Lawrence had singled Bodle doubled and Onrick was hit by a pitched ball to load the bf --( vr- i v-vrv'v -V--- i i 4 4 'Mr L': '1 'MS I- 1 -iky in-' i Ev 'y -( m- yr -t 4 i- 1 -V: -v --y -C' -'v- Jl )-V '-Vi'j i i-1 r-rr-- "'tr' if--- -v -A 'i1 'V I i-- -a -I -a By Jimmy Smyth Executive Sports Editor The superb pitching of right-' pander Dwight Gooden ana a grand slam home run by center fielder Louie Thornton propelled the Kingsport Mets to an 11-0 blanking of the Johnson City Cardinals on a rainy Monday pight at Howard Johnson Field The loss was the third in a row for manager Rich Hacker's club which had dropped 4-2 and 161 ''decisions at Elizabeth ton the pro- irious two nights "We were overmatched Hack-er said later referring to the two-5 hit pitching of Gooden a 17-year 1 old from Miami Fla who limited 1 the Red Birds to two hits one of I the infield variety I Gooden struck out nine Cardin- ale and walked three In racking lop his second straight decision while Carlos Sanches who pitch- ed seven innings and gave up 10 hits including the second inning grand slam by Thornton loot his first game after winning one ear- Uer The game was interrupted by rain lor 15 minutes in the bottom of the third after the Mets had jumped out to a 5-0 lead But the "atorm subsided quickly wlfr some work on tho mound re lK i I 1 i AlVr --n In 1 1 -r 4 1 -A! I -s ainna ml i il nmwl- mm Staff Photo by Cordon Vt Johnson City's Terry Pendleton makes head first slide into third base as Mets' Harris waits on ball Just prior to Thornton's homer in the eighth inning after short- ''d Ken Harris tripled to com- Sanchez gave up eight of the Carl Hollis doflgnated hitter stop Jerry Yfcing had wlked P)ts tha three-ron inning and Kingsport runs and Brent Milti-for the Mets hit a two-run homer Diaz followed with a double KingsporfS scoring (Continued on Page 13) i.