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WIMBLEDON, England — The
difference between men’s and wom
en’s tennis was made quite obvious at
Wimbledon Tuesday, and there’s no
denying that the men put on a more
popular show.
While Martina Navratilova and
Chris Evert Lloyd emphasized again
how one-sided the women’s matches
can be, the top men players toyed
with disaster.
Of the seven seeded men in ac
tion, four were forced to five sets
and two others went four sets. All,
however, managed to survive.
In sharp contrast, the top six
women’s seeds breezed through
their opening round matches, losing
a total of 13 games between them.
Only two players were forced to a
deciding third set.
No one injected any more drama
into their first round match than
14th seed Bill Scanlon and Eric Ko-
rita, who battled valiantly for four
hours and nine minutes before Scan
lon perservered, 7-6, 6-7, 6-2, 3-6,
13-11.
In the 23rd game of the final set,
Scanlon held at love and then made
the decisive break with three back
hand passes in a row and a forehand
service return.
Scanlon, the man who stunned
John McEnroe in the fourth round
of the U.S. Open last September,
was just pleased to be moving on.
“I’m happy to have survivied,”
Scanlon said.“You just play the best
you can play. You know it’s going to
end pretty soon.”
Also put to a severe test were No.
4 Mats Wilander of Sweden and No.
5 Jimmy Arias of the United States,
making his Wimbledon debut.
Wilander, so troubled by an in
jured right wrist that he hesitated to
hit the ball hard, needed two hours
and 40 minutes to subdue American
Sherwood Stewart, 6-4, 6-4, 6-7, 7-5.
Arias, so nervous that he started
to get leg cramps in the fourth set,
overcame South African Bernie Mit-
ton, 3-6, 6-3, 6-2, 6-4.
routed Elene Elisenko of the Soviet
Union, 6-1,6-0.
Continuing this one-sided domi
nation, fourth seed Pam Shriver de
feated Eva Pfaff of West Germany,
6-0, 6-4, fifth seed Zina Garrison was
a 6-0, 6-0 winner over Rina Einy of
Britain, and No. 6 Kathy Jordan
breezed past Heather Ludloff, 6-1,
6-1.
Also winning in straight sets were
No. 8 Kathy Horvath, No. 9 Wendy
Turnbull, No. 12 Claudia Kohde,
No. 13 Barbara Potter, No. 14 He
lena Sukova and No. 15 Andrea Te-
mesvari.
Angola ‘cops out’
of Summer Games
Extended to five sets along with
Scanlon were 12th seed Johan Kriek,
No. 13 Tomas Smid and No. 15 Vi
tas Gerulaitis. Kriek edged Briton
Michael Westphal, 6-3, 6-0, 2-6, 6-7,
7-5; Smid beat Larry Stefanki of the
United States, 6-4, 6-7, 0-6, 6-4, 6-2;
and Gerulaitis subdued Tony Giam-
malva, also of the United States, 3-6,
6-1, 6-4, 6-7, 7-5, in 3 hours and 13
minutes.
Requiring three sets to win were
10th seed Jo Durie, who beat Kim
Shaefer, 6-2, 6-7, 6-0, and No. 11
Lisa Bonder, a 2-6, 6-3, 6-3 winner
over Jo Louis.
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Navratilova, in quest of her fifth
Wimbledon crown, needed one set
to regain her bearings and then
swept through the second set in 14
minutes to beat Peanut Louie, 6-4, 6-
0; Evert Lloyd, a three-time Wimble
don champion, crushed Sabina
Goles of Yugoslavia, 6-1, 6-1, in 54
minutes; and third seed Hana
Mandlikova of Czechoslovakia
Arias, a clay court specialist, said
he worked hard for the last two
weeks on his grass game, which he
calls his least favorite surface, but
still was hesitant to serve and volley
in the early going.
“I knew his shoulder was hurt
ing,” the 19-year-old Arias said of
Mitton. “I kept waiting for his big
serve but he kept sending in bloop
ers. I started going to the net after
the first set. He was serving so slow I
figured I should take advantage of
LOS ANGELES — Angola, the
last of 142 nations to accept an invi
tation to participate in the Summer
Games, Tuesday apparently re
versed its decision and became the
15th country to join the Soviet-led
boycott.
Radio Moscow said the reason was
that “the United States authorities
are turning the Games into an arena
of confrontation,” according to
Olympic Organizing Committee of
ficials monitoring the broadcast.
A statement from the official An
golan news agency gave no reason
for the decision. A spokesman for
Angola at the United Nations in said
no senior official was immediately
available for comment.
Angola has long been aligned with
the Soviet Union in world affairs
and has thousands of Cuban troops
stationed on its territory.
Peter Ueberroth, president of the
LAOOC, told the Los Angeles
Times the Angolan withdrawl “ap
pears to be isolated for the minute,”
but, he added, "I really believe the
Soviets are still trying every possible
thing” to pressure more countries
into boycotting.
Since the 142 acceptances were
announced June 4, one other coun
try, Bolivia, said it will not attend the
Games.
Other nations in the boycott are
Afghanistan, Bulgaria, Czechoslova
kia, Cuba, East Germany, Ethiopia,
Hungary, Laos, Mongolia, North
Korea, Poland, South Yemen and
Vietnam.
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Selling team brings tears to eyes of Twins owner
" That was when Griffith and his sister I cried like a baby, Griffith says grabbed him and embraced him said and write on the invitation:
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What would you do if you sud
denly came into $32 million?
Would you dance, sing or cele
brate or maybe take that around-
the-world vacation you always
wanted?
Calvin Griffith cried.
Not little tears, big ones. You have
to remember he’s the last of base
ball’s old dinosaurs. They don’t shed
little tears. When they cry, they
really cry.
He couldn’t help himself. It wasn’t
the money, it was the principals, and
in this case, the principals were the
ballplayers with his Minnesota
Twins.
That needs a little clarification.
They were his Twins, his and sister’s,
Thelma Haynes, until last Friday.
That was when Griffith and his sister
sold their 52 percent controlling in
terest to Carl Pohlad, a Minneapolis
businessman, technically, now they
are Pohlad’s Twins, and that chang
ing of hands terminates the Griffith
family’s 65-year control of the ball
club.
If you want to be like the lawyers
and get real technical about it, the
Griffiths still own the Twins. No fi
nal contract has been signed yet, nor
has the American League approved
the sale.
Both are mere formalities,
though. Griffith and Pohlad signed
their names to a letter of intent in a
ceremony at home plate at the Met-
rodome in Minneapolis, the home of
the Twins, Friday evening, and that
was when the tears began to flow.
“I cried like a baby,” Griffith says
without a trace of self-consciousness.
“My heart was very heavy when I
was signing the paper, but the thing
that really made me cry was when
the ballplayers came up and said,
‘Thanks for the opportunity,’
‘Thanks for the things you’ve done
for me.’ I just broke up when they
came up to me like that. You
should’ve seen ‘em. (Tom) Bru-
nansky, (Kent) Hrbek, (Gary) Gaetti,
every single one of ‘em had some
thing to say to me. The manager,
Billy Gardner; all the coaches, every
one.”
Even some of Griffith’s old play
ers like Bob Allison and Hall of
Famer Harmon Killebrew were on
hand for the occasion. The way they
grabbed him and embraced him said
everything.
To some, that might’ve seemed a
bit strange. Those would be the ones
who usually have heard Griffith de
scribed as “stingy” and “penny-
pinching,” the tighest owner in the
big leagues with a buck.
They don’t know the real Calvin
Griffith. They never saw him at
work. They never saw the avalanche
of solicitations that come in to him
regularly, requests for contributions
in every possible form, that some
times ran as high as $10,000 or
$15,000 a week. Many of the re
quests are disguised as charity din
ner invitations and they come from
all sections of the country.
More often than he likes, Calvin
Griffith has to take his pen in hand
and write on the invitation:
“I’m sorry I don’t have enough
money to buy a table.”
And then he signs his initials.
But he has never turned down an
invitation from the state of Minne
sota.
“How could I?” he says. “Those
people supported me.”
Admittedly, it’s a little hard to get
too worked up about team operators
who own franchises, in baseball or
out, because I’ve never heard of one
who ever had to have a benefit run
for him. But Griffith, it seems to me,
has taken a lot of criticism he didn’t
deserve.
It’s true, he was economical. So
what? He couldn’t have survived had
he not been. Nobody paid his bills
for him.
Parrish wins
home run
hitting duel
United Press Jnten»tion*l
Vol 79
ARLINGTON — Texas Ran;,
ers slugger Larry Parrish hit 1®
balls out of Arlington Sladwi
Tuesday night to eliminate
fornia's Fred Lynn in a home
hilling contest.
Last month Parrish knodtf
Chicago's Ron Kittle from Ik
competition ith 16 homerunsi
eluding six in the first imm
Tuesday, the 30-year-old out
fielder broke a scoreless tie in tk
second inning with lour hotntt
into the lefl-centerlieldbleachm
Parrish, who recently sett
Ranger record with at least out
RBI in 11 straight games,
lower! with three more how
into the left-centerfield scats it
the third inning to takeaV-Oltai
and added one each to lefiliet
and dead centerfield in the fount
for a 9-1 lead.
Lynn, who has Ireen inandou
of the Angels’ lineup recmtlr
with back spasms, had to hit intotl
wind blowing from right to kt
field, which favored the rigk
handed swinging Parrish.
The lefthanded hitting Lyttll
only homer occurred in tk
fourth inning when he ploppi
one into the right field bleachmi
Each baiter was credited wit;
point for a home run, and an®
for each swing resulting in a not
homer, with a five-inning liB
imposed.
Earlier, Ranger designated ft
ter Dave Hostetler outsluggedS
year old Doug Dalbey, five Iioe
ers to none as part of a
Morning News promotion
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