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2-D The College STATE Clemson 16, N. Carolina 13 Florida St. 56, S. Carolina 26 Citadel 24, W. Carolina 20 Furman 17, James Madison 10 Elon 33, Newberry 16 Gardner-Webb 28, PC 21 Wofford 28, Ga.

Southern 7 S. C. State 26, 6 ACC Duke 46, W. Forest 26 Penn St. 54, N.

c. State 0 Ga. Tech 38, Virginia 32 Maryland 18, Maimi, Fla. 17 EAST Air Force 27, Army 9 Boston Col. 34, Massachusetts 21 Central 37, Delaware St.

31 Connecticut 13, Boston 10 Cornell 26, Yale 20 Dartmouth 56, Columbia 41 Harvard 24, Holy Cross 17 Lafayette 47, Princeton 37 Maine 31, N. Hampshire 14 Navy 20, Syracuse 18 Northeastern 59, C. Connecticut Notre Dame 31, Pitt 16 Penn 21, Colgate 13 Rhode Island 20, Lehigh 16 W. Virginia 20, Temple 17 Alfred 57, 7 Am. International C.W.

Post 13 Amherst 10, Trinity, Conn. 7 Bowdoin 33, Bates 14 Buffalo 42, Albany, N. Y. 14 Buffalo St. 11, Grove City 10 Clarion St.

23, Westminster, Pa. 7 Case Western 25, Bethany 24 Concord 17, Glenville St. 14 Cortland St. 21, Ithaca 17 Delaware Val. 14, Moravian 6 Dist.

of Columbia 30, Fayetteville St, 6 Duquesne 34, St. Francis, Pa. 14 E. Stroudsburg 24, Bloomsburg St. 7 Edinboro St.

34, Lock Haven St. 7 Framingham St. 17, W. Connecticut 12 Frostburg St. 24, California, Pa.

19 Gettysburg 28, Franklyn Marshall 18 Glassboro St. 14, Wm. Paterson 0 Hiram Col. 28, Allegheny 3 Hobart 21, Brockport St. 12 Hofstra 27, Fordham 21 Iona 38, St.

Peter's 8 John Carroll 20, Carnegie-Mellon 14 Kutztown St. 17, Mansfield St. 0 Lebanon Val. 30, Dickinson 21 Lycoming 21, Albright 10 Mass. Maritime 30, Maine Maritime 12 Montcliar St.

70, N. Jersey City 0 Muhlenberg 17, Johns Hopkins 14 New Haven 36, Coast Guard 21 NY Maritime 14, Fairfield 9 Norwich 27, N. Y. Tech 14 Plymouth St. 35, Bridgewater, Mass.

15 St. John's, NY 41, Georgetown, D.C. 12 St. Lawrence 35, RPI 24 Shepherd 35, Fairmont St. 3 Shippensburg St.

28, Indiana, Pa. 9 Slippery Rock 20, Millersville St. 14 S. Connecticut 47, Pace 7 Susquehanna 20, Juniata 13 Swarthmore 12, W. Maryland 10 Towson St.

41, Kings Point 26 Trenton St. 26, Kean 17 Tufts 34, Colby 3 Union, N. Y. 28, Middlebury 0 Upsala 45, Col. 15 Wagner 16, Springfield 14 Washington Jefferson 16, Thiel 13 Waynesburg 30, Salem St.

0 W. Chester 17, Cheyney St. 16 W. Virginia St. 10, W.

Virginia Tech 3 W. Va. Wesleyan 35, West Liberty 21 Widener 21, Ursinus 3 Wilkes 45, FDU-Madison 6 Williams 27, Wesleyan 24 Worcester Tech 27, Hamilton 12 SOUTH Alcorn 41, Miss. Valley 34 Auburn 30, Rutgers 7 Brown 23, 22 Bucknell 21, Davidson 0 Carson-Newman 36, C. Florida Catawba 11, Guilford 10 E.

Kentucky 34, Tenn. Tech 7 Florida 35, N. C. 7 Georgia 44, Florida 0 Grambling 31, Alabama St. 14 Jackson St.

34, Texas Southern Liberty Baptist 13, Morehead St. LSU 20, Alabama 10 Louisiana Tech 35, McNeese St. Louisville 35, Indiana St. 23 Marshall 22, VMI 20 M. Tenn.

St. 31, W. Kentucky 16 Morgan St. 12, Virignia Union 7 Murray St. 21, Austin Peay 7 N.

C. Central 7, J. C. Smith 3 NW Louisiana 38, Nicholls St. 6 Ole Miss 45, Tulane 14 Southern 26, SE Louisiana 19 Tennessee 29, Memphis St.

3 50, Appalachian St. 7 Vanderbilt 23, Kentucky 10 Virginian St. 13, Norfolk St. 7 Alabama 27, Clark Col. 6 Elizabeth City St.

16, -Salem 7 Ferrum 24, Lees-McRae 17 Ft. Valley St. 48, Savannah St. 3 S.C., Sunday, scores November 7, 1982 Paladins Hold Off James Madison Hampton Inst. 34, St.

Paul's 0 Jacksonville St. 41, 10 Kenyon 34, Centre 13 Livingstone 65, Bowle St. 27 Mississippi Col. 27, Delta St. 6 Morris Brown 27, Albany, Ga.

21 Randolph-Macon 26, Bridgewater, Sewanee 31, Illinois Col. 28 Troy St. 4 45, Livingston 0 Tuskegee 25, Miles 7 Valdosta St. 48, Kentucky St. 13 Washington Lee 41, Catholic U.

Bowling Green 28, Ball St. 7 E. Illinois 36, SW Missouri 7 E. Michigan 9, Kent St. 7 Kansas 24, Iowa St.

17 Illinois St. 31, Morehead St. 28 Indiana 20, Wisconsin 1 17 Miami, Ohio 23, C. Michigan 0 Michigan 16, Illinois 13 Missouri 35, Colorado 14 Nebraska 48, Oklahoma St. 10 Northwestern 28, Michigan St.

Ohio State 35, Minnesota 10 Oklahoma 24, Kansas St. 10 Purdue 16, Iowa 7 S. Illinois 36, Ohio 0 W. Michigan 17, Toledo 0 Wichita St. 38, Drake 29 Youngstown St.

28, W. Illinois Adrian 33, Alma 19 Albion 21, Kalamazoo 21, tie Anderson 14, Hanover Augsburg 24, St. Olaf 17 Augustana, Ill. 27, Elmhurst 24 Baker 49, Culver-Stockton 0 Baldwin- 17, Wooster 3 Beloit 36, Lake Forest 31 Butler 31, St. Joseph, Ind.

16 Capital 23, Heidelberg 7 Carleton 62, Grinnell 34 Carthage 26, Wheaton 21 C. Iowa 28, Luther 14 C. Missouri 52, Evangel 8 Concordia, Neb. 34, Dana 7 Concordia, Wis. 35, Concordia, Ill.

20 Cornell 40, Coe 3 Dayton 28, Salisbury St. 0 Defiance 10, Earlharr 7 Denison 24, Ohio Northern 24. DePauw 41, Oberlin 12 Doane 17, Neb. Wesleyan 9 Dubuque 20, William Penn 15 Eureka 17, lowa Wesleyan 16 Evansville 33, Ashland 31 Ferris St. 20, Saginaw Val.

St. 17 Findlay 25, Bluffton 10 Ft. Hays St. 28, Mo. Southern 28 Franklin 54, Indiana Central 6 Georgetown, Ky.

23, Valparaiso 21 Graceland 21, St. Ambrose 16 Grand Valley St. 20, Northwood, Mich. Gustav Adolphus 34, Macalester 7 Hillsdale 51, Michigan Tech 0 Hope 40, Olivet 0 Huron 31, Peru St. 15 Ill.

Benedictine 27, Lakeland 6 Jamestown 44, Dakota Wesleyan 0 Kansas Wesleyan 40, Ottawa, Kan. 30 Kearney St. 13, Pittsburg ro St. 0 Mankato St. 23, S.

Dakota St. 21 Mayville St. 20, Bemidji St. 17 Midland 29, Hastings 22 Milliken 25, Carroll 22 Minot St. 23, Northern 14 Missouri-Rolla 12, SE Missouri 0 Mo.

Western 37, Washburn 21 Monmouth, Ill. 16, Knox 13 Mount Union 28, Muskingum 14 Neb-Omaha 13, N. Colorado 3 North Central 21, North Park 7 N. Dakota St. 12, Iowa 7 NE Missouri 70, Lincoln 0 N.

Michigan 30, N. Dakota 6 SOUTHWEST MIDWEST Bluff 31, Prairie View Arkanas State 20, Lamar 19 Baylor 24, Arkansas 17 SMU 41, Rice 14 Texas 50, Houston 0 Texas Tech 6, TCU 14 Tulsa59, W. Texas St. 21 Abilene Christian 36, Sam Houston St. Bishop 33, Texas Lutheran 3 Cent.

Okla. 52, Langston 6 Henderson 36, 12 Ouchita 28, Arkansas Tech 24 S. Arkansas 7, Harding 6 Panhandle St. 74, Lubbock Christian 14 Texas St. 42, Angelo St.

16 Stephen F.Austin 27, Howard Payne 10 Sul Ross St. 32, Austin Col. 25 Tarleton 12, McMurry 3 FAR WEST Arizona 41, Stanford 27 Brigham Young 13, Wyoming 13 Fresno St. 31, Fullerton St. 14 Montana St.

32, N. Arizona 19 N. Mexico St. 30, N. Texas St.

19 Vegas 36, Colorado St. 31 Southern Cal 42, California 0 Washington St. 10, Oregon 3 Utah 42, Utah St. 10 Washington 10, UCLA 7 Cal Lutheran 34, St. Mary's, Cal.

29 Cal-Davis 41, Hayward St. 6 C. Washington 21, W. Washington 0. Dickinson St.

29, Rocky Mountain 17 Ft. Lewis 35, N. Mex. Highlands 10 Hamline 32, Colorado 22 Lewis Clark 16, Willamette 14 Mesa 56, W. Montana 22 Oregon Tech 40, E.

Oregon 23 Puget Sound 32, Carroll, Mont. 14 S. Colorado 33, Adams St. 24 S. Oregon 23, W.

Oregon 13 Western St. 24, Colorado Mines 0 By TEDDY HEFFNER State Sports Writer Va. 16 For the most part, it was not a typical Furman victory. "Overall, we just didn't execute very well," said quarterback David Charpia, who threw for a touchdown and ran for another in a 17-10 Paladin victory Saturday over James Madison. But head coach Dick Sheridan's team, 7-2 and ninth-ranked in NCAA Division I-AA, committed some unFurman-like mistakes and failed to deliver the knockout punch to a beaten opponent, allowing the Dukes to rally from a 17-0 deficit and have a chance to tie, or win, in the final seconds.

But, when it came down to 'gottahave-it' time, the Paladins had what counted, offensively and defensively. The defense 1 made a much-needed goal-line stand early in the second quarter after Madison, 6-3, put together a solid 1 drive to pull within 17-3. A superb 52-yard punt return by the Dukes' Gary Clark gave James Madison a first down at the Furman 11. Three plays later, it was fourthand-inches and a dive off left guard netted nothing as tackle Ricky Moody led a swarm of purple-shirted tacklers. "We had a stunt on and I stunted inside, right into the ballcarrier," Moody said.

"I'd just as soon it be fourth-and-inches as fourth-and-three or so when it's that short you know 16 0 Barry State Bowled Over Florida State's Greg Allen barrels over South Carolina's Glenn LeGrande after short gain Saturday. Terriers Come Alive, Trounce Eagles 28-7 Bangley-Stanley nley Combination Boosts Elon Past Newberry Special To The State ELON COLLEGE, N.C. John Bangley completed 14 of 20 passes for 239 yards and three touchdowns Saturday, leading the Elon Fighting Christians to a 33-16 thumping of Newberry in a South Atlantic Conference football matchup. Elon's big-play offense thwarted Newberry's attempts to play catch-up ball, and one play in particular turned the momentum in favor of the Christians, 6-3. With the Indians trailing 14-10, Bangley abruptly ended a 73-yard drive, hitting Kelly Stanley for a 47- yard touchdown with 6:53 to play in the half, opening a 10-point Elon lead.

Mike Renn's extra-point attempt was blocked by Bobby Wells. Bangley and Stanley had teammed for a 19-yard scoring play with 3:54 to go in the first period after Eddie Taylor's field goal put the Indians on top to give the Christians a 7-3 lead. Newberry's first score came with 7:39 left in the quarter, set up when Terrance Dover recovered an Elon fumble at the Newberry 42. The Indians moved to the Elon five, but lost an earned first down on an offsides GREENVILLE Special To The State STATESBORO, Ga. Charlie Bradshaw hit halfback Tim May with a 48-yard touchdown pass, sparking Wofford's rally from a 7-6 halftime deficit Saturday night to a 28-7 victory over Georgia Southern in a nonconference game at Womack Field.

The go-ahead touchdown was set up by a fumble recovery by defensive tackle Floyd Pittman at the Wofford 49 with eight minutes left in the third kick moved Newberry within 14-10 with 10:03 left in the half. Newberry got the ball back and marched to the Elon 36, but Eddie Taylor's 53-yard field goal attempt was short with four minutes left in the half. Elon took the ball from there and scored nine plays later. Darryl Brown went up the middle for a one-yard score with 1:13 left, but Bangley's pass for a two-point conversion was incomplete, and the hosts went to the locker room with a 26-10 advantage. Elon's final touchdown came late in the third quarter after Keith Murrell intercepted a Newberry pass at the Indians' 42.

On the next play, Bangley knifed the Newberry secondary with a strike to Jessie Jones for 42 yards and the TD with 1:02 left in the third quarter. Late in the game, Newberry went 72 yards in four plays, with Mike Motley scoring on a six-yard run. A 29-yard pass from Neil Kirkpatrick to Donald J. Johnson with 7:09 to go set up the score. Newberry slumped to 2-3 in the SAC-8 and 4-5 overall, while Elon improved to 4-2 in the conference.

Motley finished with 83 yards rushing on 15 carries, and Fred Jordan led Elon rushers with 15 carries and 89 yards. JM Furm First downs 17 17 Rushes-yards 38-140 59-234 Passing yards 188 143 Return yards 126 62 Passes 29-15-3 15-7-0 Punts Fumbles- 1-1 6-1 Female possession 26:17 6-53 33:43 5-35 James Madison 10-10 Furman 737 0-17 Fur -Charpia 3 run (Tanguay kick) Fur-FG Tanguay 30 -Fox 35 pass from Charpia (Tanguay kick) -FG Stinnett 33 JM -Coe 31 pass from Bowles (Stinnett kick) A- they're probably going to try the dive and that's what we were looking for." The offense, which played about the entire last three quarters without Stanford Jennings, the Southern Conference's leading rusher, then turned in a time-killing, ground-oriented drive that carried to midfield. Dennis Williams' strong inside running carried the load in the move, but Sheridan nixed a gamble on fourthand-short and punted. It didn't take the Dukes long to make a few of the alumni in the homecoming crowd of 12,375 squirm in their seats. Tom Bowles fired a 31- yard scoring pass to running back Brian Coe with 1:43 to play to make it 17-10.

Furman recovered an onside kick attempt, but on fourth-and-one the Paladins showed why Sheridan refused to gamble earlier, fumbling the ball away at the Madison 43. Three players later, Mark LEGRANDE quarter. Two plays later, May took the pass from Bradshaw coming out of the backfield and scampered down the sideline for the touchdown with 6:56 showing. Bradshaw passed to fullback Bernard Wilson for the two-point conversion, giving the Terriers a 14-7 pad. Georgia Southern took a 7-0 lead in the second quarter on a 46-yard drive that was set up by Bernard Wilson's fumble, recovered by Eagles' linebacker Jimmy Kerfoot with 12:58 left.

The Eagles drove the 46 yards in eight plays, the touchdown coming on a seven-yard pass from Tracy Ham to Scott Conners at 9:40. Kevin Spurgeon added the extra point. Wofford took over on the Georgia Southern 45 with 4:01 left in the half after a 28-yard punt by Brit Barker, and May kept the drive going when he rammed for seven yards on fourthand-one at the 36. Wofford was penalized for illegal procedure at the four, making it thirdand-goal at the nine. Bradshaw then hit May in end zone with 11 seconds left in half to pull Wofford the within one, but John Hairston's extrapoint attempt was blocked, ending his string of 33 successful one-pointers.

Wofford was denied a touchdown on its second possession of the game when Wilson was stopped for no gain on a fourth-and-one play at the Georgia Southern five-yard line. The short drive was set up at the Eagles 28 on a fumble recovery by Scott Steinmeyer. Wot GaS First downs 20 20 Yards rushing 67-340 54-255 Yards passing Passes 12-4 72-10 Intercepted by Fumbles- lost 2-1 Punts Penalties 6-35 3-14 Wofford 28 Ga. Southern GS Conner 7 pass from Ham (Spurgeon kick) May 9 pass from Brashaw (kick blocked) May 48 pass from Bradshaw (Wilson pass from Bradshaw) Lang run (Hairston kick) Maddox 2 run (Hairston kick) "I feel like we beat a good football team. We had a lot of mistakes we had a chance to put them away early and instead they were able to stay in the game." Dick Sheridan Bridgeman stepped in front of a desperation Bowles pass to finally seal the Furman victory which had appeared so assured all afternoon.

"Furman made the big plays when they had to we didn't when we had Madison head coach Challace McMillin said. Charpia threw 35 yards to Chas Fox for a touchdown with 10:59 to go in the third period on a busted play which began when Charpia bobbled the snap. Then Gary Keller fell on a Madison punt at the 12 and it appeared Furman was ready to deliver the killing blow. But it never came. Two penalties, including one on which it appeared Robbie Gardner had scored from the 12, aborted the drive and Tim Tanguay badly missed a 37- yard field goal attempt.

Tanguay had earlier kicked a 30- yard field goal in the second quarter when another promising Furman drive fizzled. A 54-yard pass from Charpia to Robert Capers had set up Charpia's three-yard scoring run in the first period. Jennings suffered a bruise above the knee early in the second period. He carried seven times for 22 yards. "We had a lot of breakdowns," Charpia said.

"We executed some good plays, and then we had some bad ones. offensive line played exceptionally well in that final drive and played good all day. "We missed Jennings, but I think out tailbacks played well. We just had some breakdowns." Williams, bothered most of the year with injuries, ran hard. He finished with 74 yards on 13 carries.

Gardner had 76 yards on 15 trips. Charpia completed seven of 15 passes for 143 yards and added 28 net yards rushing. Furman's defense limited James Madison to 140 yards rushing. "I feel like we beat a good football team," Sheridan said of the 17thranked Dukes. "We had a lot of mistakes we had a chance to put them away early and instead they were able to stay in the game.

"We came up with some big plays on defense, like we've been doing all year. We beat a good football team, but we weren't sharp not as sharp as we have been in other games." Still, Moody put things in perspective as far as Furman's concerned. "We had some problems," the big tackle said. "But we won the game. We did what we had to do to 24 20 0 17 28 10 14 Stuart Ignores Bad Knee, Propels G-W Past Presbyterian 10 6 Newberry Elon First downs 18 23 Yards rushing 40-178 59-219 Yards passing 154 248 Passing 10-39-2 15-21-0 Return yards Fumbles-lost 2-0 5-3 Penalties- 6-50 1-85 Newberry A NO 8 16 Elon 14 33 N- Taylor 26 -Stanley 19 pass from Bangley (Renn kick) -Ryan 30 run (Renn kick) -Motley 7 run (E.

Taylor kick) -Stanley 47 pass from Bangley (kick falled) -Brown 1 run (run failed) E- J. Jones 43 pass frem Bangley (Renn kick) N--Motley 6 run (pass failed) penalty. It became fourth and six, and Taylor was called upon to give Newberry the consolation of a 26- yard chip shot. Following a Newberry punt the Christians took nine plays to go 67 yards, and Mitch Ryan sprinted 30 yards to score with 30 seconds remaining in the quarter. Newberry scored two possessions later, after linebacker Mark Weeks recovered a fumble at the Elon 30.

A 22-yard pass from Jimmy Skipper to tight end George Taylor put the ball on the Christians' seven- line, and on the next play Mike Motley went around right end to score. Taylor's By JOEY HOLLEMAN State Sports Writer CLINTON Chip Stuart, who spent more time in the operating room in the past four years than the surgeons on M-A-S-H, hobbled off the table for the final time Saturday to pass Gardner- to a 28-21 victory over Presbyterian. Stuart had arthroscopic surgery on his gimpy left knee earlier in the week, but it didn't seem to make much difference as he riddled the PC secondary for 230 yards on 22 of 35 passes. "I wasn't going to miss my last game," confided Stuart, who has missed a portion of each of his four seasons with some kind of injury. "It (the knee) didn't bother me much, I hardly noticed it." Everybody else sure did, as Stuart resembled Joe Namath in his last days as a pro, appearing to ache just walking back to the huddle.

Still, he was only sacked three times for a total loss of 35 yards. And he got up after every hit like nothing was wrong. Stuart hit his favorite receiver, Gaffney native Cameron Brooks, on a picture-perfect post pattern for a 22-yard touchdown and lofted a flat pass to Doug Bonner for another TD of five yards. Both of those scores came in a four-minute stretch in the fourth period as the Bulldogs broke open a 14-14 tie. Mammoth (6-2, 215 and mean looking) tailback Jamie Pope did as much damage to the PC defense as Stuart, scoring on runs of five and four yards and powering his way to a first down late in the game after the Blue Hose fought their way back into the contest.

Pope, who had amassed 370 yards in the past two games with Stuart out, finished with 83 in 23 attempts against PC. Down 28-14 with 7:53 to play, the Blue Hose mounted their best drive of the day, moving 83 yards in 11 plays to David Waldkirch's one-yard quarterback sneak with 3:07 on the clock. But Pope carried on six straight plays for 35 yards after the unsuccessful onside kick, and a PC fumble recovery on the one- line with 29 seconds left resulted in one incomplete pass and an interception by G-W's Ken Tate. "We just didn't execute on offense," explained PC coach Cally Gault. "We are very, very beat up, but that's no excuse for not executing.

They gave us plenty of chances, especially in the first half. We just failed to take advantage of them." Gault, who also spent a good portion of the game complaining about the officiating, identified the real culprit as the missed chances in the early going. The Blue Hose wasted a 65-yard interception return by Joe Blount early in the first quarter when the offense stalled at the G-W five and Doug Culler missed a chip shot field goal. Stuart came right back to hit six straight passes to lead the Bulldogs on a masterful 12-play, 80-yard march culminating in Pope's five-yard explosion into the end zone with 5:53 left in the first period. As he did after all of the Bulldogs' scores, Carlisle Koonts kicked the extra point.

A 43-yard punt return by Rodney Harris and a spectacular 13-yard catch by Randy Morris set up the first Blue Hose touchdown. Little Phillip Rippy used second-effort to clear the goal from two yards out with 46 seconds left in the first period and Doug Culler added the conversion kick. Just before the half, the Blue Hose marched 75 yards down to the nine before Waldkirch fumbled and Steve Crocker recovered for G-W. Early in the third period, a. fumbled punt set the Blue Hose up at the G-W 39, but a penalty and two incomplete passes thwarted Gault's team.

The Bulldogs, who finished their season at 7-3, 3, promptly moved 85. yards in 10 plays, the most productive being a 51-yard strike from Stuart to tight end Todd Greene. Pope bowled over from four yards out with 7:23 left in the quarter. The Blue Hose, now 4-4-1 overall and 3-1-1 in the South Atlantic Conference, tied it at 14-14 on a 33-yard interception return by David. Wise and Culler's kick at the 4:40 mark in the third period.

But Stuart, a senior from Warner Robbins, shook that off just as he did his knee injury to lead his team to two quick scores in the final period. A fumbled punt gave the Bulldogs the ball on the PC 21, and Stuart fired a bullet to Brooks on the next play to make it 21-14. After the Blue Hose offense stalled again and John Gayton shanked a 14-yard punt, Pope rambled 15 yards to the PC six and Stuart hit Bonner in the flat for the TD three plays later. G-W 10 First downs 18 yards 32-57 47-161 Passing yards 230 Total yards 287 270 Passing 22-35-3 8-28-1 Fumbles- lost 1-0 4-3 Penalties 6-75 8-70 Punts G-W --28 PC 0 -21 4 PC-Rippy 2 run (Culler kick) G-W-Pope 5 (Koonts kick) G-W-Pope 4 run (Koonts PC -Wise 33 Interception return (Culler kick) -Brooks 22 pass from Stuart (Koonts kick) G-W- Bonner 5 pass from Stuart (Koonts kick) -Waldkirch 1 run (Culler kick) Borg Breezes Past Lendl, Faces McEnroe United Press International SYDNEY, Australia Sweden's Bjorn Borg won the $150,000 first prize in the four-man international tennis challenge Saturday by defeating Ivan Lendl of Czechoslovakia 6-1, 6-4, 6-2. Borg took one hour and 19 minutes' to win the tournament and the $30,000 gold racket that goes to the victor, despite having had to play an extra match in the round-robin event.

The series goes to the player with the most wins over three rounds and, with two completed, Borg is the only undefeated player. Even if Borg loses his last match against John McEnroe Sunday, his flawless set averages will give him the edge over the rest of the field: Lendl, far from his powerful best, later claimed a gruelling five-set win over John McEnroe the previous night affected his performance. Vitas Gerulaitis posted an upset in the second match, beating fellow New Yorker. McEnroe 6-4, 5-7, 6-4, 6-3. In the final matches Sunday, Gerulaitis plays Lendl and McEnroe.

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