The Battalion
SPORTS 5
Friday, June 30,1989
McEnroe, Evert advance to third round
Top women’s seeds Sabatini, Garrison upset at Wimbledon
WIMBLEDON, England (AP) —
Former champions John McEnroe
and Chris Evert climbed out of deep
holes Thursday to move into the
third round at Wimbledon, while
two top women’s seeds were upset.
McEnroe, who rallied from two
sets down to beat Darren Cahill in
the first round, tamed his temper
and regained his touch after falling
behind in the third set to beat fellow
American Richey Reneberg 6-3, 3-6,
6-3,7-5.
“It’s not going to be easy,” said
McEnroe, who was warned for
racket abuse in the third set. “When
people play me, they really want to
do well. I’m just happy I won. That’s
the important thing.”
Evert, who took a month off this
summer because she was playing so
poorly, fought back from a 5-1 defi
cit in the first set to defeat American
HuNa 7-5,6-3.
Two-time champion Boris Becker
breezed into the third round with a
6-3, 7-5, 6-4 victory over Richard
Matuszewski of the United States af
ter play began following a three-
hour rain delay.
But the No. 3 women’s seed, Ga-
briela Sabatini, and No. 5 Zina Gar
rison were ousted from the grass-
court tournament.
Rosalyn Fairbank of South Africa,
who nearly upset eight-time cham
pion Martina Navratilova in the
quarterfinals last year, beat Sabatini
6-4, 6-3. Garrison, a semifinalist
here in 1985, rallied from a 5-0 defi
cit in the final set and saved four
match points before falling to Aus
tralian Louise Field 1-6, 6-2, 7-5.
“The chances were there, I just
didn’t take them,” Garrison said.
“It’s not like she blew me off the
court.”
Navratilova had a tough time in a
match that did not finish, splitting
two sets against a qualifier from Aus
tralia.
French Open champion Arantxa
Sanchez, ninth-seeded Natalia Zve
reva, No. 12 Mary Joe Fernandez,
No. 14 Hana Mandlikova and No. 15
Lori McNeil advanced to the third
round with straight-set wins.
Miloslav Mecir, the No. 7 men’s
seed and a semifinalist last year, ral
lied from two sets down to beat Aus
tralian Mark Kratzmann 6-7, 4-6, 6-
1, 7-5, 7-5 in a match that was sus
pended by darkness on Wednesday.
In another match that spanned two
days, 13th-seeded Aaron Krickstein
eliminated Javier Frana in five sets.
Fourth-seeded Mats Wilander
reached the third round with a
straight-set victory over Karel Nova-
cek of Czechoslovakia, but 15th-
seeded Mikael Pernfors was upset by
Swedish countryman Peter Lund-
gren 7-6, 6-2, 6-4.
Navratilova, the No. 2 women’s
seed, lost the first set against Austra
lian Kristine Radford and was trail
ing 3-1 in the second before rallying
to win the final five games and even
the match as darkness fell.
Play was suspended at that point.
Defending men’s champion Stefan
Edberg was leading Todd Wood-
bridge of Australia two sets to one
when the match was halted. Michael
Chang, the 17-year-old French
Open champion, never did get on
court for his scheduled match
against Ronald Agenor of Haiti.
McEnroe lost five games in a row
as Reneberg won the second set and
took a 2-0 lead in the third. After
serving the fifth of his eight double
faults to drop the opening game of
the third set, McEnroe tossed his
racket and received a warning from
umpire Bruno Rebeuh of France.
The admonition infuriated the
three-time champion, who had
slammed his racket to the court seve
ral times earlier in the match.
Although he questioned some line
calls — and muttered repeatedly to
himself — McEnroe kept his temper
in check the rest of the way and
turned his game around just when it
looked like he might be eliminated
in the second round at Wimbledon
for the second year in a row.
With Reneberg leading 40-0 and
needing just one point for a 4-2 lead
in the third set, McEnroe battled
back to break the former Southern
Methodist University star when he
sent a volley over the baseline.
The fifth-seeded McEnroe then
broke Reneberg at love in the eighth
game and finished the set with an
ace. Reneberg grabbed a 5-2 lead in
the final set before McEnroe won
five straight games.
Baseball gives no signal
of next move on Rose
CINCINNATI (AP) — Baseball
gave no indication Thursday of its
next move to try to untie Commis
sioner A. Bartlett Giamatti’s hands
in the Pete Rose case Thursday.
Giamatti was in Washington,
where he gave a deposition to Rose’s
lawyers, and denied that a compro
mise was in the works.
“It wasn’t that kind of a meeting,”
the commissioner said.
Robert Pitcairn Jr., one of Rose’s
lawyers, had said earlier that attor
neys for the Cincinnati Reds man
ager were willing to discuss a possi
ble settlement.
Giamatti, when asked if the depo
sition session with Rose’s lawyers
were successful, said, “I don’t know.
They were useful.”
He declined to say more about the
meeting, held in the law office of
John M. Dowd, who led baseball’s in
vestigation into Rose’s alleged gam
bling.
The deposition apparently had to
do with a court date next Thursday
in Rose’s attempt to block Giamatti
from holding a hearing or deciding
his fate over charges that the Reds
manager bet on his team’s games.
A state appeals court declined
Wednesday tc do anything about a
temporary restraining order
granted Rose by Hamilton County
Common Pleas Judge Norbert A.
Nadel. The 14-day order prevents
Giamatti from summoning Rose to
his office or from taking any discipli
nary action against the manager.
Baseball’s lawyers would not say
whether they would try to block
Thursday’s hearing before Nadel
when Rose will seek to have his pro
tection extended while the merits of
the case are argued.
While Rose is 2-for-2 in state
court, testimony developed in base
ball’s investigation could lead to se
rious trouble with federal authori
ties.
The Reds manager could face a
possible jail sentence if the Internal
Revenue Service can prove allega
tions by a former associate that he
tried to hide income from his gam
bling, memorabilia sales and card
shows. A federal grand jury in Cin
cinnati is studying his taxes.
With Jones leading the show, the real Cowboys no longer exist
After a painfully slow, lingering demise,
the final death blow to the Dallas Cowboys’
title as America’s Team was struck this past
spring.
The team lost nearly every trace of its
past glory when Tom Landry, Gil Brandt
and Tex Schramm left the club. These men
built the team into a dynasty that compiled
25 consecutive winning seasons. The old
order is now replaced by controversial
owner Jerry Jones, who has lived up to his
promise to be involved in everything for
socks to jocks, and his pal Jimmy Johnson,
who replaces Landry as coach.
The Cowboys’ magic faded in recent
years, but the team was still one of the most
beloved teams in professional sports,
despite not making the playoffs or having a
winning season since 1985.
I have been a Cowboy fan ever since I
was interested in football. Like many other
Cowboy fans, I was disappointed by the
decline of the team in recent years. I stayed
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Osborne
Assistant Sports Editor
with the team through victory and defeat,
championship or heartbreaking loss. I
vowed to remain loyal to the team even if
they lost every game they played (they came
close to doing this in 1988).
But the firing of Tom Landry was too
much for even a diehard like me to take. No
longer will I cheer for the Cowboys or
support them as a team. An era has ended
in sadness. Now when football season rolls
around, there will be a strange void. I will
still enjoy watching the Houston Oilers,
Chicago Bears and Phoenix Cardinals, but
it just won’t be the same.
The downfall began in 1984. After three
straight years of seeing the Cowboys
advance to the National Football
Conference Championship and falling
short of the Super Bowl each time, the
Cowboys failed to even appear in the
playoffs. After a short-lived revival and
false sense of hope in 1985, when they won
a conference championship, the team
fizzled. Now, with the Jerry Jones fiasco,
the Cowboys no longer exist, no matter how
many games they win.
Something mystic about the Cowboys
attracted fans ever since their ascendance to
power in the late 1960s. Who could forget
the infamous “Ice Bowl” championship
match with the Green Bay Packers in 1967?
The magic surrounding the Cowboys
would last about 20 years, and carry them
to five Super Bowls in the 1970s.
The Cowboys may not have won the most
Super Bowls, or even appeared in any in
the 1980s, but their position as the league’s
most popular team lasted until the Chicago
Bears won America’s heart in 1985. The
Bears have led the league in sales of
merchandise and overall popularity ever
since.
The Cowboys had a mystical quality
about them in the ’70s and early ’80s. Every
team that played them felt like they could
E rove themselves to the rest of the world by
eating the Cowboys (with the possible
exception of the Pittsburgh Steelers).
Three former members of the Cowboys’
coaching staff who worked for Landry now
have successful programs in the NFL.
These coaches are: Dan Reeves of the
Denver Broncos, Mike Ditka of the Chicago
Bears, and Gene Stallings of the Phoenix
Cardinals (who led Texas A&M to the 1968
Cotton Bowl as the Aggies head coach).
The success of these coaches are
evidence that Landry’s success lives on.
The Cowboys may be more successful on
the field in the future, but they will no
longer hold the same place in my heart or
the hearts of many fans who were insulted
by Jones’ callous handling of Landry’s
dismissal.
They still have Hershel Walker, Michael
Ervin and Troy Aikman, but somehow a
promising future seems less bright for the
fans of the old Cowboys who aren’t willing
to part with a grand past to accept a cold
and uncertain future.
Jerry Jones succeeded in doing what no
2-14 season or 44-0 loss could ever do—he
trashed a legend.
Happy endings in real life seem too few
and far between, and Tom Landry and the
entire Cowboy legacy of the past was rudely
thrown of its horse instead of being allowed
to ride off into the sunset.
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