Kenosha News from Kenosha, Wisconsin • 17

I Monday August 29 1988 Sports News Kenosha News 17 Graf Sweden serve for slams Layne delay chance to spend wins the Open it will give Sweden a sweep of the major titles in 1988 Wilander won the Australian and French Opens while Edberg beat Boris Becker to win the Wimbledon championship Wilander and Edberg were in action today when the US Open started its two-week run at the National Tennis Center Wilander seeded second behind Ivan Lendl opened play on center court against American Greg Holmes Edberg seeded third played Libor Pimek of Czechoslovakia on the grandstand court Other seeded men scheduled to play today were No 5 Becker No 13 Svens son No 14 Andres Gomez and No 16 John McEnroe -Becker met Todd Nelson of San Diego Svensson faced Todd Witsken of Carmel Ind Gomez was paired against Javier Sanchez of Spain and McEnroe played Leonardo Lavalle of Mexico Six seeds were By Rick Warner i NEW YORK (AP) Two Grand Slams may be completed at the 1988 US Open one by Steffi Graf the other by a country Graf can become the first player in 18 years to win the four major tennis championships in the same year Her quest has been well publicized Another possible Slam has not If Mats Wilander Stefan Ed-berg or a lesser-known Swede Charles hitstree but still saves day LEXINGTON Ky (UPI) Bob Charles who saved par after striking a tree with his final drive Sunday won the $250000 Senior Golf Classic by one stroke Charles a 52-year-old lefthander from New Zealand shot a 1-over-par 71 for a three-day total of 10-under 200 at Griffin Gate course scheduled to play today No 5 Gabriela Sabatini No 8 Natalia Zvereva Ngrl9 Lori McNeil No 10 Claudia Kohde-Kilsch No ll Zina Garrison and No 16 Larisa Savchenko Sabatini played Bettina Fulco of Argentina Zvereva met Kim Steinmetz of St Louis and McNeil faced Iva Budarova of Czechoslovakia In other matches it was Kohde-Kilsch vs Angeliki Kanellopoulou of Greece Garrison vs Nicole Provis of Australia and Savchenko vs Laura Golarsa of Italy The top four seeds Graf Martina Navratilova Chris Evert and Pam Shriver are scheduled to play Tuesday Navratilova has won four of the last five US Opens including the last two But Graf enters the tournament as the heavy favorite having lost only one set in Grand Slam competition this year If Graf wins she will become only the fifth player to win the Grand Slam The others were Don Budge in 1938 Maureen Connolly in 1953 Rod Laver in 1962 and 1969 and Margaret Court in 1970 Lendl hasn't won any Grand Slam events this year but he is seeking his fourth straight US title: The last man to win four in a row was Bill Tilden who captured six straight from 1920-25 1 "Four in a row would be Lendl said not really thinking of that just focusing Tin trying to win the To do that he may have to beat Andre Agassi in the semifinals The 18-year-old from Las Vegas has won seven tournaments this year and risen from No 25 to No 4 in the world rankings won a Grand Slam tournament yet If I do it this early it would be icing on the he said The and singles champions each receive $275000 while the runner-ups get $137500 FINAL DAY TUESDAY EAGLE GT Aggressive Performance Radial EAGLE ST Road Gripping Performance Radial AKRIVA Great Traction In Any Weather TIEEPO Steel Belled Strength AH Season Tread fiDEsnas era wstm EAGLE GT4 SPEED RATED High Performance Radial With Tear Round Traction INYICTA Popular Original Equipment Radial EAGLE High Radial Round Unique Tread FINAL DAY TUESDAY EAGLE ZR TheUltimate Racing Eagle EAGLE GATORBACK The Formula EAGLE GT SPEED RATED Aggressive Performance Radial GT4 Performance With tear Traction VR For Success Los Angeles Times Doak Walker will tell you that Bobby Layne not only was adept at calling audibles on the field but ofr it as well He recalled when Layne showed up one year at the -Detroit Lions training camp with $14000 he had won in a Dallas poker game was carrying it in a black satchel" said Walker took out the money and spread it out on the bed Then he said got to help me No matter what I say give me more than $500 a day With luck we can make this last clear through training Walker continued: got a call late one Saturday night It was Bobby and he said I know what told you but got to have more I said Bobby already given you your said but after midnight another Said San Tony Gwynn defending Carmelo Martinez against some negative press: biggest rap against Carmelo is that he play defense But so It was Martinez of course who uttered these immortal words when asked about his outfielding: "My only problem is with fly Said Los Angeles broadcaster Vln Scully when a trumpeter sounded a that was as feeble as the Philadelphia attack Sunday: sounded like the last charge of Gunga Trivia Time: Fifty years ago Don Budge completed the first tennis grand slam in the US Open Who did he beat in the finals? Would-you-believe-it department: If the New York Yankees had maintained the same pace they did under Billy Martin they would be leading the American League East by 1 2 games Under Martin they were 40-28 Under Lou Pinlella they are 28-32 When Mark Gastineau of the New York Jets called the Twins limited to two hits in Clinton CLINTON Iowa Righthander Rod Beck shut down the playoff-bound Kenosha Twins on two hits Sunday to lead the Clinton Giants to a 3-1 Midwest League win Beck 12-7 outpitched Mike Redding 6-7 who also pitched an impressive game The regular season will end with game at Clinton One of the hits figured in only run in the fourth Jarvis Brown led off with a walk and stole his 71st base JT Bruett singled Brown to third where he scored on catcher Markus passed ball The only other hit Beck gave up was to David Smith in the fifth rBeck allowed three walks giving him only 27 this season and struck out seven giving him 123 in 177 innings The complete game was his fifth in 23 starts since coming out of the bullpen in May Clinton took a 1-0 lead in the first Jamie Cooper singled stole second and stole third as Elanis Westbrooks struck out Cooper then scored on Juan single Bill Carlson then singled but Redding retired the next 15 Giants in order until Guerrero singled with two outs in the sixth Clinton took its 3-1 lead in the seveuth Carlson led off with a single advanced on Craig short-to-first ground out Dickens Benoit doubled down the rightfield line to score Carlson John Barry singled in Benoit but was thrown out Bruett to Carlos Capellan (7-4) trying to stretch it into a double The paid crowd of 2871 put Clinton over the 100000 mark for the season for the first time in it Bobby Layne press conference at which he would announce his engagement to actress Brigitte Nielsen there was much snickering in camp Said the Sporting News: told about it one player said know the big secret Gastineau's pregnant That explains his mood Add Sporting News: It ran this item on San Antonio forward Walter Berry who was Mike Tyson's companion during the Mitch Green rumble: hardly endeared himself to new Spurs Coach Larry Brown when he said Brown fundamentally a sound coach and my game does not consist of Speculation is that Berry is soon to be an ex-Spur Now-it-can-be-told department: Said Minnesota -Vikings Coach Jerry Burns still chuckling over the reaction of Swedish fans to the exhibition game against the Chicago Bears: Jones dives 10 yards through the air and makes an amazing catch for a touchdown and there is a little polite applause Then the guy comes on and kicks the extra point and man they went Trivia Answer: Gene Mako who was also his doubles partner Quotebook USC basketball Coach George Raveling on Oregon State basketball Coach Ralph Miller who is 69: was a high school All-American but there a hell of a lot of Americans in those TENUIS CLEARANCE 31 Models prince ALL FRAMES 25-50 on DEMOS FOR SALE ALL BAGS 25 oh Just Arrived! 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