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Page 8/The Battalion/Wednesday, July 3, SPORTS TANK MCNAMARA® by Jeff Millar & Bill Hinds A FAKJ RIOT AMP MC&MRO& IM THE FIKJALE. £>K<G r Ef5 England'* MoM |rr«*pcnsiL|e T Old golf pros dedicate new LPGA Hall of Fame Associated Press SUGAR LAND — Eight of the nine living members of the Ladies Professional Golf Association’s Hall of Fame reminisced and helped ded icate the hall’s new home at Sweet water Country Club Tuesday. “It’s taken us a long time to find a home,” said Patty Berg, who was one of four original inductees into the la dies’ hall in 1951. “I remember when we played five tournaments a year with five players for $500. Now it’s the greatest organization in the world.” The veteran women pros remi nisced about the early clays of the women’s tour and visited the new fa cility in conjunction with the $300,000 Mazda Hall of Fame Clas sic scheduled to begin Thursday at Sweetwater, the home base for the LPGA. “I think we’ve come a long Way,” said Berg, pointing out her first pro victory netted her a $100 war bond in 1941. "It's taken us a long time to find a home. I remem ber when we played Five tournaments a year with five players for $500. Now it’s the greatest organiza tion in the world.”— LPGA Halt of Fame r Patty Berg The winner of the 72-hole event beginning Thursday will earn $45,000. Other Hall of Famers attending the dedication were Betty Jameson, Louise Suggs, 1951; Betsy Rawls, 1960; Kathy Whitworth, 1975; Sandra Haynie, Carol Mann, 1977 and JoAnne Carner, 1982. Mickey Wright, a 1964 inductee, did not attend. The only other mem ber of the Hall is the late Babe Di- drikson Zaharias, admitted in 1951. Acceptance into the Hall of Fame is one of the most difficult in sport. A player must be a member of the toiir a minimum of 10 consecutive years and win 30 regular tour events, inclyding two major tourna ments, or obtain 35 victories and one major, or 40 tour victories. The hall originally was housed in Augusta, Ga. and moved fo Pine- hurst, N.C. in 1977. “The silperstars of today’s game don’t have to look very for to find their roots,” LPGA Commissioner John Laupheimer said. “Our heri tage is a living heritage.” Carner, noting the plush new hall facilities at Sweetwater Country Club, said, “I don’t very often take an elevator to the locker room.” Horned Frogs’ star running back buys $1 million worth of insurance TCU’s Kenneth Davis (above) is insured by Lloyd’s of London. Associated Press DALLAS — Texas Christian University running back Kenneth Davis, who led the Southwest Conference in rushing last season, has paid for a $1 million insurance policy with Lloyd’s of London protecting him against a ca reer-ending injury his senior year. Davis, 22, led the nation in per-carry average at 7.6 yards and is consid ered a potential first-round National Football League or United States Foot ball League draft choice next year. The TCU athletic department is in the middle of a campaign to bring Davis into the running for the prestigious Heisman Trophy, the award given to the best college football player in the nation, Davis, his sister and brother-in-law co-signed a $10,000 bank note to cover the cost of the premium, columnist David Casstevens said in Tues day’s Dallas Morning News. “I play because it’s fun,” Davis said. “But I’ve got to think about my fu ture. I hope to play pro ball, but you never know what might happen.” Davis, TCU’s all-time rushing leader, carried the Horned Frogs and Head Coach Jim Wacker to their best season since the 1950s. Long Distance Telephone Service tOCALLY OWNED AND OPERATED If saving money rings a belt... AGGIE SPECIAL SET-UP FEE! Cali STAR TEL! 779-2830 Bryan, Tx. your advertising dollars do better in the classifieds 845-2611 ^Wimbledon Leconte upsets No. 2 Lendl ; to advance to quarterfinals Associated Press WIMBLEDON, England — A spoiler of dreams, Henri Leconte of France upset second-seeded Ivan Lendl Tuesday, joining de fending champion John McEnroe and No. 2 seed Jimmy Connors in the men’s quarterfinals of the Wimbledon tennis champion ships. Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert Lloyd, the co-top seeds in the women’s singles, also reached the quarterfinals, along with sur prising American Molly Van Nos trand, a qualifier. Leconte, who upset his Davis Cup teammate and doubles part ner Yannick Noah in the French Open last month, overpowered a befuddled and eventually dis couraged Lendl, the world’s sec ond-ranked player, who has won ~ id r zerland and Chile’s Ricardo Acuna, a qualifier. Joining Navratilova, Lloyd and Van Nostrand in the women’s quarterfinals were seventh- seeded Helena Sukova of Czecho slovakia and four other Ameri cans: No. 5 Pam Shriver, No. 8 Zina Garrison, No. 16 Kathy Ri naldi and unseeded Barbara Pot ter. But if Leconte’s victory over Lendl was an upset, Van Nos trand’s 7-5, 6-2 triumph over Bul garia’s Manuela Maleeva, the No. 4 seed, was a shocker. “I feel great, but I am not satis fied,” Van Nostrand, 20, said. “If you’re playing a top seed, you’ve just got to forget who you’re play ing. If you think about it, that can get in the way of your play. only one Grand Slam title in his career. “I give Lendl so much trouble because I play so well,” Leconte joked after his 3-6, 6-4, 6-3, 6-1 victory on the grass courts at the All England Club. The victory sends Leconte against 17-year-old Boris Becker, the hard-serving West German, in a quarterfinal match Wednes day. Becker shrugged off a sprained ankle to outblast Ameri can Tim Mayotte, the No. 16 seed, 6-3, 4-6, 6-7, 7-6, 6-2. Others reaching the men’s quarterfinals Tuesday were No. 5 Anders Jarryd of Sweden, No. 8 Kevin Curren of the United States, Heinz Gunthardt of Swit- “I was playing the ball, not the person. McEnroe ousted No. 2 seeded Ivan Lendl (above) was upset by unknown French man Henri Leconte during Wimbledon play Tuesday. n< West Ger many’s Andreas Maurer 6-0, 6-4, 6-2; Curren defeated No. 14 Ste fan Edberg of Sweden 7-6, 6-3, 7- 6; Connors eliminated fellow American Sammy Giammalva 6- 3, 6-4, 6-3; Acuna downed Amer ican Robert Seguso, another qual ifier, 6-4, 7-6, 6-2; Jarryd clob bered South Africa’s Dame Visser 6-1, 6-4, 6-1, and Gunthardt ousted India’s Vijay Amritraj 6-4, 6-4, 6-1. Among the women, it was Lloyd over fellow American Anne Smith 6-0, 6-4; Potter over Britain’s Jo Durie 7-6, 6-7, 6-1; Rinaldi over Australia’s Elizabeth Smylie 6-2, 6-1; Sukova over France’s Pascale Paradis 6-4,7-6; Garrison over Catherine Tanvier of France 6-1, 6-3; Shriver over No. 11 Steffi Graf of West Ger many 3-6, 6-2, 6-4, and Navrati lova over South Africa’s ReneUys 6-2, 6-2. In Wednesday men’s quarterfi nals, it will be McEnroe against Curren, Connors against Acuna, Jarryd against Gunthardt, and Becker against Leconte. The women’s quarters will send Lloyd against Potter, Rinaldi against Sukova, Garrison against Van Nostrand, and Shriver against her doubles partner, Nav ratilova. Upset win makes life sweet for young American netter Associated Press WIMBLEDON, England — Life is sweet again for Molly Van Nostrand, whose tennis career has been dogged by family tra gedy and injury. Her brother, John, and an other young player were killed last year when their automobile ran off a mountain road in Mex ico while they were en route to a satellite tennis tournament. And four months ago, the blonde from Brightwaters, N.Y., underwent major foot operation — the second of her career. But, courts Tuesday, Van Nostrand posted the biggest victory of her career, upsetting fourth-seeded Manuela Maleeva of Bulgaria 7-5, 6-2 to reach the quarterfinals of the Wimbledon tennis champion ships. Because of the operation, playing on the grass of the All England Club which involved two bones being removed from her foot, the 20- year-old Van Nostrand nearly didn’t make it to Wimbledon — her first tournament in 3'/2 months. And she had to win three qualifying matches to reach the main draw of this prestigious Grand Slam event. “I almost didn’t come,” Van Nostrand said after beating Ma leeva. “There was always a ques tion in my mind, but I thought that I had to start somewhere and this was the best place.” Before Wimbledon, Van Nos trand had won only one match in the seven Virginia Slims tourna ments she had entered this year. But in seven matches on grass in the past two weeks, she has lost only one set — to Larissa Sav chenko of the Soviet Union Mon day. “I feel great, but I am not satis fied,” said Van Nostrand, whose previous best performance was reaching the semifinal of last year’sjapan Open. The match against Maleeva was a see-saw baseline battle in which the Bulgarian squandered a 5-3 lead in the opening set and a 2-0 advantage in the second. . The American’s penetrating service returns surprised Ma leeva, who found herself down 3- 1 in the first set before winning the next four games. But Van Nostrand refused to wilt in the warm sunshine and, af ter holding serve, broke Maleeva at love, then won two more games to clinch the set. 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