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Page 12 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 1981 Sports Men resume play Thursday Shriver meets Lloyd in semis United Press International WIMBLEDON, England — Pam Shriver hopes to end her second jinx within a 48-hour span today when the women’s semifin als are played at the $650,000 Wimbledon Tennis Champion ships. Shriver scored her first victory over American Tracy Austin Mon day to reach the semifinals and today, the No. 7 seed aims to over come another player she has never beaten, Chris Evert-Lloyd, and reach Friday’s finals. To offset that all-American semifinal, the other matchup is an almost all-Czechoslovakian clash; second-seeded Hana Mandlikova, who still lives in her native Pra gue, meets self-exiled Czech Mar tina Navratilova, the No. 4 seed who says of her nationality, “I don’t know what I am.” Seventh-seeded Shriver’s task is immense: she has played Evert, the top seed and two-time cham pion, seven times and has never even won a set. reached the last four in 1976 and 1980. But Mandlikova currently holds both the Australian and the French titles. She scored a major upset when she ended Evert’s re markable run of 125 clay-court games without defeat in the semi finals in Paris — Evert’s only de feat this year. The men wait until Thursday to challenge for places in the final. Five-time champion Bjorn Borg faces old adversary Jimmy Con nors, the third seed from Bellevil le, Ill., while last year’s beaten finalist, John McEnroe, seeded No. 2, takes on unseeded Austra lian Rod Frawley. Connors had the toughest fight to reach the last four Tuesday, having to rally from two sets down to beat unseeded Indian Vijay Amritraj in a SVahour Center Court duel. The 28-year-old American needed his best passing shots to beat the lithe Indian, 2-6, 5-7, 64, 6-3, 6-2. Borg was troubled in the first set, when Australian Peter McNa mara’s serve and volley game was at its best. But after taking that opener in a tiebreak, the Swede swept through the match in an hour and 46 minutes, 7-6, 6-2, 6-3, to preserve his record of not drop ping a set at this year’s tourna ment. McEnroe was up and down dur ing his match. The first set was embarrassingly one-sided, with the American taking it 6-1. But after running up a 4-0 second-set advantage, he allowed South Afri can Johan Kriek to take the next five games. McEnroe regained his compo sure and went on to a 6-1, 7-5, 6-1 triumph. McEnroe’s opponent, Frawley, ended a “dream” first Wimbledon for current NCAA champion Tim Mayotte, 20. The Springfield, Mass., native aimed to emulate McEnroe’s 1977 performance of reaching the semifinals on his first appearance. But his young nerves could not stand the strain of the big points and he went down, 4-6, 76, 7-6, 6-3. Carpenter still wants out She surprised the third-seeded Austin — whose baseline game is a copy of Evert’s — by playing the right game, and she will aim to repeat it Wednesday. “I played almost the perfect match against Tracy,” she ex plained. However, Evert attributed Shriver’s success to Austin’s ner vousness and said she was looking forward to playing the 18-year-old from Baltimore. United Press International HOUSTON — For the first time in four years, Rob Carpenter has hired an agent. And for the first time in four years, he feels like he’s had to. On Jan. 7 the Oiler halfback demanded to be traded and what has followed has been months of bitter negotiations. “I have never lost to Pam, and I enjoy playing against a serve and volley player,” she said. Right-handed Mandlikova, 19, meets the powerful 24-year-old left-handed Navratilova, a power ful serve and volley player. Although seeded two places be low her opponent at No.4, Navra tilova has plenty of experience to help her through. She won the title in 1978 and 1979, and For the past three years. Car penter has played behind NFL rushing king Earl Campbell. It was a bitter experience for some one who gained 652 yards in his NFL rookie year of 1977, before Campbell arrived. “I just realized Rob Carpenter is not going to accomplish a whole lot talking to the Houston Oilers,” Carpenter said. “I was getting no where. I don’t know whether it was me or them, but now someone else is trying.” He agreed earlier this month to let Steve Earhart of Boulder, Colo., do his bidding. Carpenter refused to say whether he would go to training camp in San Angelo July 22 if no deal was worked out. So far his threatened jump from pro football to private business in his native Ohio has not happened. Carpenter said Earhart was talking to other NFL teams and working up a deal which would be offered to the Oilers. “I hope that if Steve got a trade worked up the Oilers would look at it realistically,” he said. “But I know that for the Houston Oilers to consider it, it’s going to have to be a great trade for them.” Meanwhile, Oilers offensive coordinator Jim Shofher said Car penter’s situation “really doesn’t affect my thinking. I feel like I know what we need to do offen sively. There are other guys on the team who can do the job. ” Last year Carpenter rushed 97 times for 359 yards, paltry sums in comparison to Campbell’s 373 car ries for 1,902 yards, and Carpen ter complained that former head coach Bum Phillips had failed for two years to make good a promise of more playing time. Phillips was fired Dec. 31 and replaced by defensive coordinator Ed Biles. ampus s :ers unh [dare 1 s. director Texas A :ofJ 1 pa salaries ’arsons • ege St at ers that Leaving one negotiating session with Herzeg this spring. Carpen ter slammed an office door so hard that it broke a window. In April he criticized Phillips and the team’s owner, K.S. “Bud” Adams Jr. arting s artment e $15,7( receive We ve a |ion), but eant ma e said e es more arsons s ices Dr. 3thing c: “Bum always told me to stick around because we were Super Bowl contenders, but I look around now, and on paper, they’re not Super Bowl contenders. I felt the Oilers had the talent the last three years to win the Super Bowl, but financially I really don’t think they were trying to.” PROBLEM PREGNANCY? Are you considering abortion? Free counseling and referrals Call (713) 779-2258 Texas Problem Pregnancy, Bryan, Tx. We Gets What Ya Likes In The Way Of Bikes! 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