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Arias, Shriver survive
with other top seeds
United Press International
WIMBLEDON, England —
Americans Jimmy Arias and Pam
Shriver are the latest members of the
Wimbledon elite to scale a treacher
ous path to survival.
While Jimmy Connors, Ivan
Lendl and Martina Navratilova all
enjoyed pleasant afternoons
Wednesday to reach the third
round, Arias and Shriver couldn’t
have made it much harder on them
selves.
Arias, seeded fifth although play
ing at Wimbledon for the first time,
struggled past Italian Gianni
Ocleppo, 7-5, 5-7, 3-6, 7-6, 6-4, while
Shriver almost ran out of luck on
Court 13 before subduing chunky
Gigi Fernandez of Puerto Rico, 3-6,
6-3, 9-7.
“I don’t have the feel for the
whole situation yet,” said Arias, who
made the decisive break in the fifth
game of the final set. “I’m kind of
lost out there, I’m not sure of my
self.”
Shriver, seeded fourth and a
Wimbledon semifinalist in 1981, had
less excuse than Arias for her trou
bles against Fernandez.
“I feel lucky that I got through,
but in the end all you want to do is
come off the court a winner,” said
Shriver, who recently was sidelined
two months with a shoulder injury.
“I didn’t want to lose in the second
round for the second year in a row
to a player I shouldn’t lose to.”
Connors and Lendl, who are
headed for a probable semifinal
showdown, both made it to the third
round in straight sets. Connors, the
third seed and a two-time Wimble
don champion, needed only an hour
and 37 minutes to thrash Stefan Si-
monsson of Sweden, 6-2, 6-1, 6-3,
and the second seeded Lendl routed
South African Derek Tarr, 6-3, 6-1,
6-3.
“I hope I can play better than
that,” said Connors, who ran off a
string of nine consecutive games to
take control of the match, then over
came a 3-1 deficit in the final set by
winning the last five games.
Navratilova, in quest of her fifth
Wimbledon crown, had more diffi
culty than anticipated in disposing of
Amy Holton, ranked 108th in the
world, 6-2, 7-5.
“I definitely felt challenged in the
second set,” the top seed said. “She
pushed me and played well. I didn’t
expect it to be a laydown affair.”
Despite the troubles experienced
by some of the top players, all six of
the men seeds and all eight women
to see second-round action Wednes
day came out winners.
Advancing along with Navratilova
and Shriver into the third round of
the women’s singles, all in straight
sets, were No. 6 Kathy Jordan, No. 7
Manuela Maleeva, No. 9 Wendy
Turnbull, No. 11 Lisa Bonder, No.
13 Barbara Potter and No. 16 Car
ling Bassett.
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Morton fired from Denver Gold
DENVER — Craig Morton was
fired Wednesday as head coach of
the U.S. Football League’s Denver
Gold, but was offered a monetary
settlement and a job as a scout for
the team, a television station re
ported.
Gold owner Doug Spedding met
with Morton at 10:30 a.m. MDT to
discuss the offer, KUSA-TV said.
The station said the firing was defi
nite, and Morton was considering
Spedding’s proposal to buy out the
remaining year of his contract and
take the offer of a scouting position.
Spedding, a millionaire Denver
auto dealer, bought the Gold from
Ron Blanding earlier this season.
Morton was reached after the
meeting with Spedding and said
there was “nothing to be said yet.”
Morton, who quarterbacked 17
years in the NFL, took over as head
coach of the Gold midway through
the 1983 season after Blanding fired
Red Miller.
In his first full season this year,
Morton coached the Gold to a 9-9 re
cord and came under fire from
Spedding for his laid-back methods.
He was also criticized fornotsper
ing enough time at Gold head(|ii£
lets.
The team began the season will
7-1 record and then suffered an
collapse after Spedding took c
the team.
Spedding’s ownership has k
marked by controversy. In one p
icy change, he ordered dubsecre:
ies to open players’ mailinordet
cut down on personal mail ton
team headquarters.
Soviet-led boycott could lead to U.S. ‘gold rush’
United Press International
It’s been 136 years since Ameri
cans have had the chance to discover
this much gold in California.
The great Gold Rush of 1848 is
about to be re-lived, courtesy of the
United States Olympic team with an
assist from the Soviet Union.
With the Communist countries,
led by their Big Brother, the Soviet
Union, having pulled out of the
Olympic Games, which will be held
in Los Angeles July 28-Aug. 12, the
United States is in the enviable posi
tion of collecting enough gold to fill
Fort Knox.
Heck, King Midas never had it so
good.
The United States should find
gold as least as plentiful as the Soviet
Union did in 1980 when the Ameri
cans boycotted the Olympics in Mos
cow. Without Uncle Sam’s boys to
contend with, the Soviet Union won
80 gold medals (197 overall) and
East Germany, the other powerful
Soviet bloc country, took home 47
gold medals (126 overall).
The absence of the Communist
countries certainly opens up the
vault, so to speak, for the United
States.
Without the Communist countries
in the competition, the United States
should be favored to take home the
most gold medals in its Olympic his
tory. While the United States is tra
ditionally strong in such competition
as track and field, swimming, basket
ball and boxing, the Communist
boycott makes the U.S. gold medal
hopes much stronger in sports such
as weightlifting, volleyball, rowing,
gymnastics and shooting.
Track and field, referred to as
“Athletics” in Olympic parlance, is
the event which holds the public’s in
terest the most and is the true glam
our sport of the Games. The United
States, most likely, would have won
more gold medals in these events
than in any other even if the Com
munist countries were participating.
Without them, the gold should pour
put quicker than a Las Vegas slot ma
chine.
With such standout performers as
Carl Lewis, Edwin Moses, Greg Fos
ter and Evelyn Ashford, the United
States probably is fielding its strong
est track and field squad ever. Lewis,
in fact, has an excellent chance of be
coming the first track and field per
former since Jesse Owens in 1936 to
win four gold medals. He looms as
the favorite for the 100 meters, 200
meters and long jump and will par
ticipate on what could be a world re
cord setting relay team.
An American sweep is possible in
the men’s 100 meters, 200 meters
and 400 meter hurdles, but then a
sweep in those three events was pos
sible even if the Communists were
competing.
Where the United States will gain
ground with the Communist pullout
is in men’s events such as the high
jump, pole vault, javelin, shot put,
hammer throw and discus, and in
virtually all of the women’s events.
Sprinter Evelyn Ashford and dis
tance runner Mary Decker already
loom as gold medal favorites in the
women’s competition but suddenly
the United States has a chance at the
gold in previously Communist domi
nated disciplines such as the longer
distances and weight events.
In addition to track and field, U.S.
chances for a gold medal harvest
have improved tremendously in
swimming, too. The U.S. swim team,
which won 25 of 29 gold medals con
tested in the Pan American Games at
Caracas, Venezuela, last summer,
could see a repeat of that perfor
mance at Los Angeles.
With Russia’s Vladimir Salnikov,
the world’s outstanding freestyler
for the past six years, out of it*
Games as well as East Germain
powerful team, the U.S. might w
dominate the 15 events to be cc
tested in the men’s events. Oil
West Germany’s Michael Gross:-
the butterfly, Canada's VictorDaiy
in the breaststroke and Canadi
Alex Baumann, Brazil's Ricarc
Prado and Italy’s Giovanni Frantf
chi in the individual medley appe
to have a chance of blocking a l:
gold medal sweep.
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women’s swimming events forsoa
time and figured to do so in Los A:
geles. But with the East Germans:
compacting, the U.S. girls could pn
tically float to the gold in evr
event.
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