Kingsport Times-News from Kingsport, Tennessee • 19

IntidsL Sports Kingsport Times-News Thursday June 24 1982 McEnroe rolls into third round Ed Pope Those who did finally get in their first-round matches and who emerged winners yesterday included 12th-seeded Mark Edmondson and Buster Mottram the 15th seed Among the unseeded women advancing were Kathy Rinaldi 15 the youngest woman in the tournament Pam Casale Leslie Allen Zina Garrison and Renee Blount Lloyd Bourne of Pasadena Calif advanced to the second round with a four-set win over Ilie Nastase the oldest player in the draw Bourne will meet Cassio Motta of Brazil for the privilege of meeting McEnroe my first Wimbledon it was pretty awe-inspiring to play on grass against Nastase on Court Bourne said had a slight attack of nerves but this was one of my best days so far and I have no Looming in Bourne's future is McEnroe who did not have a good day against Edwards with dither his tennis or his temper Despite 13 aces six on game points the No 1 seed served erratically and made an inordinate number of volleying errors probably lucky to win and Eddie play that McEnroe said of the two-hour match was frustrated the way I played When McEnroe is frustrated he often takes it out on others and umpire George Armstrong was the victim yesterday McEnroe had several squabbles with Armstrong None was serious although he did receive his first conduct warning of the tournament The warning was for of and came after McEnroe had opened the third game of the final set by netting an By STEVE GOLDSTEIN Knight-Ridder Newspapers WIMBLEDON England Perhaps they intended to give John McEnroe a head start on the rest of the field hoping he would lose and go away Whatever the reason McEnroe advanced to the third round of the Wimbledon tennis championships yesterday with 30 men yet to strike a ball that mattered The defending champion defeated South Africa's Eddie Edwards 6-3 6-3 7-5 on yet another day where rain forced an abbreviated program Most of the matches between unseeded womefi were completed but the seeds and nearly one-fourth of the men have yet to play It seems inevitable that the tournament committee will be forced to start play on some days before the hallowed time of 2 pm easy volley The volatile New Yorker slammed a ball into the net in disgust and it skipped over the net cord to the other side violation Warning Mr McEnroe Abuse of intoned Armstrong go out of the McEnroe protested know it but it is Abuse of Ball anyway" McEnroe pressed the point but get anywhere Afterward he was generally critical of Armstrong and said he didn't think that hitting a ball at the net constituted Yet McEnroe already had revealed the source of his anger his errant play Perhaps he was in a foul mood to begin with since the noise the swirling wind and the constant threat of rain made for poor playing conditions Rain delayed the start of play for 30 minutes then halted the McEnroe match after only three points had been played One hour and 17 minutes later McEnroe returned to hold serve in the first game Edwards has a mediocre serve which he dropped in the second game giving McEnroe the edge he needed for the first set Up a break in the second set McEnroe served badly but hung on to take a 3-1 lead By now he was visibly agitated calling himself and looking to the skies for solace Edwards continued to cooperate and McEnroe broke again in the ninth game to take the second set Then came the dispute with Armstrong which left McEnroe edging toward the kind of blowup that riled Wimb-ledqn last year The crowd however was heavily for McEnroe K-Mets top Bristol for first victory By RON BLISS Executive Sports Editor BRISTOL Tuesday disappointing opener was one of those says Kingsport Mets pitcher Dwight Gooden think the way we played tonight is more like going to said Gooden the No 1 draft pick last night after he pitched a strong seven innings to earn his first professional victory and lead Kingsport to a 5-4 victory over the Bristol Tigers at DeVault Field players were really up for this said Gooden been in game like we had last night before (a 9-1 loss) That was just one of those The victory set the stage for home opener at Fred Johnson Stadium against the undefeated Johnson City Cardinals Game time is 7 Lefthander Randall Myers a No 1 secondary draft pick from Brush Prairie Wash will be on the mound for Kingsport Longtime fan Newt Johnson will throw out the first ball and Carla Campbell of Kingsport will sing the National Anthem Gooden lived up to his billing last night allowing just two hits and no earned runs while striking out five batters and walking three He gave way after the seventh to reliever Nick Brandt who picked up a save while blanking the Tigers the final two innings I was getting a little said Gooden whose fast ball was timed at 91 mph "In high school you only pitch seven innings and I guess I was used to All four runs off him were unearned Dave Haynes reached on an error in the first advanced on a single and a passed ball and scored on a ground out A walk to Marc Washington a stolen base an error and a wild pitch produced another Bristol run in the second Gooden was coasting along with a 5-2 lead in the seventh When he walked Bob Williamson and saw Jim Irwin reach on an error Then after striking out Washington Gooden deflected Paul double-play grounder turning it Wimbledon is best of Britain LONDON Far inside ivied green walls so like those of Augusta National Golf Club Bill Scanlon rags and jibes John McEnroe Scanlon is unfamous and trying to make a living at tennis and McEnroe is famous and terribly rich and Scanlon never lets up on him Vitas Geruiaitis sits and wishes Wojtek Fibak were here instead of injured so Geruiaitis could make a conversational run at him Brooklyn-born Geruiaitis dislikes Fibak perhaps because the Pole reads Dostoevsky instead of comic books and also owns the biggest collection of his art Far beneath slate-gray roof so like those of the Kentucky Churchill Downs home a little steward named Leo Turner fights the peccadillos of most of the finest tennis players alive are so Turner said spend the fortnight refereeing arguments Last year the gentleman in No 1 the lockers have nothing to do with player rank his shoes to the chap in No 2 and when No 2 won a match wearing the borrowed shoes he want to give them back But No 1 had won in them too so he demanded them again And there I was rushing back and forth with them for nearly two weeks frantically juggling The world may boil and bubble into toil and trouble Britons break noses after 30-second arguments over the Falklands David wife Lynne has taken off on him and the third Mrs Freddie Laker has departed Sir bed and board in the wake of his $270-million airline debacle and London's subways are struck and stilled But strawberries (12 to the plate right by the count) and cream for Wimbledon and its 375 members who pay a grand total of $17 a year in dues and sit in the best seats outside the royal box great many people particularly Americans understand the reserved character of the British and especially of old-fashioned bodies like said Mark Cox who was a good tennis player before he became a good commentator for BBC That government network is carrying no less than 120 hours of The Big NBC will air a record 23 hours and 45 minutes about the same as the Home Box Office cable network Americans may not understand Wimbledon But they have taken to the televised version with zest just short of that reserved for the quadrennial Olympics and their annual NCAA basketball-World Series-Super Bowl-Monday Night Football axis Why? What accounts for the magnetism of Wimbledon from a site that cannot compare with the Masters for beauty the Derby for compacted frenzy with basketball and baseball and football championships for hysterical partisanship? the whole scene" Roy McKelvie explained McKelvie is an essayist for The London Sunday Express who also ramrods press operation This alone could explain the stature of Wimbledon It so overwhelms this tight little island that what would amount to blatant conflict of interest in American journalism is taken here as a compliment to the impeccably efficient 70-year-old McKelvie grass the grounds the tradition" McKelvie summed up so That and more Americans intrinsically want to love their roots and so many of those roots run so deeply back to here Americans may giggle over seemingly suicidal political chaos They may scoff at royalty In their hearts though a great many Yanks want to see the best of England Wimbledon is tt Louis Thornton fouls off pitch in first inning of last game with the Bristol Tigers The Mets came back to post a 5-4 victory and square their record coming into home opener at Fred Johnson Stadium for a 17-year-old A man makes an error behind him and it bother him He has a lot of character for a man his Olsen said his team a win to show that we can do but said he wasn't all that upset with the first-night performance was proud of them then too We did a lot of things right The ball just seemed to keep finding holes on us that night" ond and Jerry Young on first Hollis layed down a bunt that was fielded by Bristol catcher Kraig Priessman He threw Williams out at third but shortstop Dave relay to first was overthrown Then as Young dove head first to score the first run the relay throw bounced over the fence and out of play allowing Hollis to come all the way home on the play Other Mets runs came in the first when Rich Diaz scored on Ken Bodle's ground out and in the sixth when Louis Thornton reached on an error stole second went to third on an error and scored on Russ single hits were timely but we got ourselves in position for them too" said manager Ed Olsen pitchers did a good job too and that makes a big difference was really impressed with Gooden He had so much poise into a single and allowing Williamson to score and Irwin to reach third Irwin later scored on a sacrifice fly teammates backed him with an eight-hit attack Carl Hollis provided the winning run with a 365-foot home run over the left-center field fence in the seventh Hollis also played a key role in the fifth when the Mets scored twice With Leon Williams on sec Wallace calls the shots in Card win At Painstville Oriole hurlers Herb Crumley and Tim Mulca-hy combined for a three-hitter over the Yankees Appy notes: The Cardinals will be in Kingsport to play tonight with them will be farm director Lee Thomas a former Los Angeles Dodger slugger Twins catcher Jose Gile accidentally threw his bat into the stands last night on a third-strike swing it had spectators ducking Kevin Maris son of home run record-holder Roger Maris struck out in his first time at bat for the Cardinals none of the dignitaries (Willie Mays Ernie Banks or Hank Aaron) actually showed up fpr opener club president Paul Fyffe threw a wicked curve by saying they wotud attend 4 ford College before being selected by St Louis in the second round of the draft had some back trouble after an x-ray they thought it was a pulled muscle I went to a doctor yesterday and he said it was a weak spot similar to a stress fracture He wants me tp wear this Despite his size Wallace figured be drafted within the first five rounds It disappointed him when he learned there would be only two rounds this year He was the 49th player chosen In other Appy League games Pikeville toppled Pulaski 9-6 and Bluefield routed Painstville 7-1 At Pikeville winning Brewer pitcher Bruce Williams was spotted a 9-0 run over the first four innings By BILL LANE Times-News Sports Editor JOHNSON CITY As a cool breeze blew across Johnson Field last night Tim Wallace wearing a back brace took his position behind the plate and gave some more boot-camp commands that led Johnson City's Cardinals to a 9-2 victory over Elizabethton Everything this catcher with steel-belted guts does is with hustle At 5-10 175 pounds he knows never make a major league roster if he give it 100 percent physically and vocally over he yelled at pitcher Carlos Sanchez on each ball hit to the first-base side of the mound urging him to cover the bag he shouted to pound fire-baller from Venezuela pitching his first pro game is a real good catcher a leader back said Sanchez who threw rockets at the Twins for eight innings lost his steam in the ninth but still completed the game leadership helps a Wallace estimated pitching speed to be in the upper 80s "He threw 133 pitches but a big guy who takes care of his arm that many hurt him From the sixth inning on he picked up speed until the ninth" Claudio Rodriquez blasted a two-run homer to lead unbeaten Johnson 10-hit attack Tuesday I been in a game in nearly a said Wallace who played one season at Charleston Baptist College ai two years at Wof left-fielder Hector Hendricks as he fielded an Elizabethton double we got two he said to the infielders constantly reminding them of the out situation Perhaps the best catcher to come through the Appalachian League since Bruce Benedict Wallace is small but built like a rock He is not reluctant about dropping to the ground to block a pitch skipping along at 90 miles per hour He seems to enjoy blocking the plate with a 220-pound gorilla charging in Just as he did when Willy Finnegan pitched masterfully in an opening-night win over the Twins Wallace called the shots as Johnson City handled Elizabethton again 9-2 This time it yas Sanchez a 6-2 205-.