The Brandon Sun from Brandon, Manitoba, Canada • Page 8

8 THE BRANDON SUN, Thursday, briefly Chris Evert's Wimbleton debut successful from Sun dispatches Ray McClean scored both goals Wednesday night as Blues Wanked Olympians 2-0 in one of two Brandon Senior Soccer League games. Despite the loss, Olympians won the league title. In the other game, Spartans whitewashed Shilo 6-0. Goal scorers were not available. NESBITT Terry McTavish slammed a two-run homer and added two singles as Cardale rode the pitching of Bruce Stewart and wipped Brandon Wilton Mercuries 8-3 here Wednesday night in a NorthWest Midget Baseball League contest.

Shane Johnston suffered the loss. Russell Shaw added a pair of doubles for the winners with Greg Kindrat collecting two singles for Brandon. Curly MacKays whipped Nicholson Diggers 12-2 in a Brandon Ladies Fastball League game Wednesday night. Aideen Nordquist was the winning pitcher with Ev Oliver taking the defeat. PHILADELPHIA Dave Creighton, 42, veteran National Hockey League player from 1948 through 1960, is expected to be named today as general manager of Philadelphia Blazers of the new World Hockey Association.

There was a report that the Blazers also would announce the signing of Bryan Campbell, a centre with Chicago Black Hawks of the NHL. DUBLIN Canadian-bred Buscstopper, who brought a record $180,000 at the yearling sales in 1970, will be about 20 to 1 Saturday in the Irish Sweepstakes Derby. Derby favorite, however, is the United States horse Roberto, named for baseball star Roberto Clemente and owned by John Galbreath, who owns Pittsburgh Pirates for whom Clemente plays. WINNIPEG Manitoba Recreation Minister Larry Desjardins said Wednesday non-profit organizations such as the Winnipeg Blue Bombers Football Club would have to be taxed under the amusement act to provide reduced ticket prices to disadvantaged fans. Mr.

Desjardins said the government is undertaking a general review of the amusement tax structure, but said funds are not raised by taxing non-profit organizations such as the Bombers. EDINBURGH Ken Buchanan, former world lightweight boxing champion, flew in from New York Monday for a date with his doctor. Buchanan lost his title Monday night in New York to Panama's Roberto Duran on a TKO. He said he was suffering pain in his groin from Duran's final blow and blood in his urine. ATLANTA Defenceman Kerry Setter, the No.

1 expansion choice of Atlanta Flames, signed 'a multi-year contract Wednesday with the National Hockey League club, general manager Cliff Fletcher announced. Also signed by the club was defenceman Randy Manery, a No. 6 draft choice. REYKJAVIK Organizers of'the Bobby Fischer-Boris Spassky' world championship chess match will restrict move-by- moye coverage and photographs of the contenders inside the contest hall, it was announced Wednesday. The announcement brough protests from news wire services and from two television outlets which are planning in-depth accounts of the 24- game match based on move-by-move reports from The Associated Press.

The first game is scheduled for Sunday. WIMBLEDON. a (Reuter) Chris Evert, 17- year-old United States tennis prodigy, had a gruelling baptism in the 1972 Wimbledon championships Wednesday but came through it with resolve and maturity. After being out-powered and out-generalled in the opening set by her U.S. colleague a i Ziegenfuss, Miss Evert, seeded No.

4, won 1-6, 6-3, 6-3. The debut here for the high school student from Fort Lauderdale, who had dreamed of playing in the world's top tennis tournament since she was a little girl, attracted a capacity crowd of 9,000 spectators. Miss Evert's relentless driving finally wore down Miss Ziengenfuss. But the San Diego girl--ranked llth in the U.S., eight places below Miss a one stage threatened to pull ofi a big upset. In the second round of the men's single, unseeded Onny a 25-year-old New Zealand champion who last year reached the quarterfinals, completed a five-set upset win over fourth-seeded Andres Gimeno, 34-year-old former Spanish professional.

The match had been halted by rain Tuesday hi the final set. NEW YORK (AP) "If they don't want women in baseball, then women should not go to games," Bernice Gera said Wednesday hi her first public appearance since ending her one-game career as the sport's first woman professional umpire. Asked if she was advocating a women's boycott, she replied: "Every woman should think for herself." Gera, admitting "frustration and disappointment with baseball," said she decided Friday that a game between Geneva and Auburn of the New York-Pennsylvania League at Geneva, N.Y., Saturday night would be her debut, and farewell, as a professional umpire. "I decided after the umpire's meeting that I would The Parun took only 10 minutes to wrap up the victory by 6-4, 8-6, 6-8, 8-9, 6-4. The removal of Gimeno 'leaves fifth-seeded Jan Kodes of Czecholovakia as the likely semi-final opponent next week of top-seeded Stan Smith of the U.S.

Pancho Gonzales, the 44- year-old veteran, also was eliminated. Gonzales now has to make his head do the work for his legs. But the American found the burden too great against the power-hitting of Colin Dibley, 27-year-old Australian, who won 6-3, 6-3, 8-6. Romanian Hie Nstase, No. 2 men's seed, kept his temper and his tennis under control to beat Clark Graebner of the U.S.

6-3, 4-6, 6-1, 6-1, 6-2 in a second-round match. Billie Jean King, seeking to regain the women's title which she won three times between 1966 and 1968, made a i start to her challenge. The 28-year-old American, seeded No. 2 behind champion Goolagong of Australia, easily won her centre court match against Sharon Walsh, former U.S. junior champion, 6-2, 6-0.

The win put Mrs. King into third round. Miss Goolagong reached the third. round Tuesday. a boycott resign after one game," the 40 7 year-old housewife'from the Jackson Heights section of New York said at a news conference.

She said she knew after the six-hour umpires' meeting Friday that she was not going to get any co-operation from her colleagues. "Umpires must work as a team," said Mrs. Gera, "but I went on to the field alone. I had no partner." Mrs. Gera was assigned as base umpire for the game, while Douglas Hartmayer was behind the plate.

Hartmayer drove her to the game, Mrs. Gera said, but he refused to discuss signals with her, saying there "was nothing to talk about." Hartmayer also appeared on national television recently and was critical of Mrs. Gera. Tennis prodigy survives nerves, big crowd and first match by RONALD THOMSON WIMBLEDON, a (AP) Chris Evert, the United States' 17-year-old tennis prodigy, was floating on a cloud Wednesday as she made her debut at the 86th Wimbledon championships. "It was a cloud of nerves," she gulped afterwards.

The teen-aged blonde from Fort Lauderdale, conquered the Wimbledon butterflies and beat Valerie Ziegenfuss of San Diego, 1-6, 6-3, 6-3 for her first viqtory in this? hallo wed tournament. A 9,000 spectators watched the match on-No. 1 the biggest crowds I've ever played before," Chris said. "At first I just floated along on that cloud. I wasn't playing my real game at all.

"But," she said, "As'soon as I had one set under my belt I knew I had nothing to lose in the second and third sets." "After the first set I just blocked out the crowd and the thought that here I was, playing at Wimbledon. I told myself just to think I was playing a practice match, and then I played a lot looser." Chris said the experience was more nerve-wracktag than her first appearance in the U.S. championships at Forests Hills, N.Y., last year." "I wasn't, seeded so I had nothing, to lose," she told reporters. 'But-I'm seeded fourth at Wimbledon and that means I'm expected to get into the There's a lot of pressure in that." Miss Evert's opponent, in the second round will be Janet Newberry from La Jolla, Calif. "We've played each other four times and I won three of -those," Chris said.

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