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Chris Evert Continued to struggle with the flu and her opponent at the U.S. Open Clay Court Championship Wednesday. Evert said the second against Wendy White on Tuesday was "the closest I've ever come to defaulting. If she had won the second set I probably would have quit the match." Wednesday's victory was the first time since 1975 she has gone three sets in a match at Indianapolis. (Banner-Graphic photo by Steve Fields).

Wethersfield has not changed says Littler

WETHERSFIELD, Conn. (AP) When Gene Littler won a golf tournament here two decades ago, Dwight Eisenhower was president, the Chicago White Sox were heading for the World Series and the first prize was $3,500. Littler, with more than $1.5 million in career earnings, is among 156 entrants in this week’s Sammy Davis JrGreater Hartford Open. He shot a 2-under par 69 Wednesday in the pro-am event preceding today’s start of the 72-hole tournament. “The course is very much the same,” Littler said Wednesday at the 6,534-yard Wethersfield Country Club course. “It’s in much better shape now than it was then. I thnk that accounts, in part, for the lower scoring.” Littler won the tourney then known as the Insurance City Open in 1959 with a -

Richard doesn't even know his secret

By FRANK BROWN AP Sports Writer The question puzzled Hous ton’s J.R. Richard as much as he had puzzled Los Angeles batters: “Can you name a reason why you’ve beaten the Dodgers 10 times in a row?” “If I knew what I was doing to beat L.A., I’d use it to beat other clubs,” he replied. “I wouldn’t have 11 losses ” One explanation was pure power pitching, which was what Richard used to beat the

Cougar frosh to report All North Putnam High School freshman boys interested in playing football this fall should report for equipment issue Aug. 20atl p.m. Prospective players should bring completed physical forms and $lO for a practice package. Practice on this day will last until 6 p.m. as the players will observe the Cougar varsity practice. Midget race Saturday

Lincoln Park Speedway at Putnamville is ready and the track is sure to be fast for the 1979 “Tommy Gray Memorial Championship TQ Midget Race” Saturday night. Practice laps begin at 6 p.m. and time trials at 7 p.m. at Lincoln Park. The trophy dash gets underway at 8 p.m. with four to 10 lap heats to follow. A 15-lap semi-feature will proceed the 51-lap “Tommy Gray Memorial.” THE UNITED MIDGET Racing Association TQ

under par total of 272. It was his third of four PGA triumphs that year, when he won a total of $38,296. The 28th annual GHO carries a first prize of $54,000 this year. “The faces are different, of course, but the competition isn’t harder; there’s just more of it,” the 49-year-old golfer said. “There’s no difference in the top 10, but there’s a whole lot in the top 100. There’s a lot more depth.” Littler credited the junior and college golf programs with creating that difference. “They come out here ready to play. They’ve had tournament experience and they’re psychologically ready. They know they have to play aggressively.” Littler, who has a total of 29 tour victories, recorded his best finish of the season three months ago •

Dodgers 4-1 Wednesday night. He allowed just six hits, struck out 12 to improve his major league-leading total to 209, and walked just two while squaring his record at 11-11. In the other National League games Wednesday, the Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the Chicago Cubs 5-2 in 10 innings, the Cincinnati Reds trimmed the Atlanta Braves 3-1, the St. Louis Cardinals downed the New York Mets 8-4, the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Montreal

midgets has been the stepping stone for many big name race drivers. Some drivers that started on the TQ midget level include Dana and Pancho Carter and Johnny Parsons Jr. Morris Coffman of Greencastle “might” be one of the entries Saturday night. Coffman is driving on the USAC midget circuit this summer, but race promoter Roger Hughes said that if he could find a ride the Putnam County native would be entered and could possibily be considered the favorite

Uoyd feels better, but that's about it

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - A tired Chris Evert Lloyd, still weakened by the flu, is praying the steamy weather will cool down a bit before tonight’s quarterfinals in the U.S. Clay Court tennis tournament. Lloyd, a four-time winner and seeded No. 1, survived her third-round match in 90-plus degree heat on Tuesday, but she was forced to go to three sets for just the second time in 23 matches here since 1972. “I feel a little better than I did last night,” she said after the 46, 6-1, 6-2 victory over Czechoslovakia’s Renata Tomanova. “The virus is still hitting me. It’s just going to take a couple days. In the meantime, I’m still in the tourney and if I lose, I lose.” The 24-year-old Lloyd has won 46 of 48 sets in the U.S. Clay Court tourney. She won the singles championship in 1972-75 but bypassed the tourney the past three years to play on the now-defunct World Team Tennis circuit. “The first set I felt tired and

Gilbert victim of Crawley confidence INDIANAPOLIS (AP) A “more determined” Evonne Goolagong Cawley is calling her latest comeback in competitive tennis a success and anticipates winning a major tournament soon. “I know in my own mind that I can win,” said the 28-year-old Cawley Wednesday after advancing to today’s quarterfinals in the U.S. Open Clay Court championships with a 6-1, 6-2 verdict over defending champion Dana Gilbert. “I don’t know when I’ll stop playing,” said Cawley. “When I got married, (June 1975) I thought I’d quit. Then when we had our baby (May 1977) I thought I’d quit. “Now I feel like I’ll start thinking about quitting when Kelly goes to school,” she added. Cawley, seeded third here, missed nearly a year of competition when she was pregnant. Then, nagging heel and ankle problems forced the 1971 Wimbledon singles champion to default to Martina Navratilova in the semifinals at Wimbledon last year and kept her idle for more than eight months. At Wimbledon this year the Australian native reached the semifinals, losing to Chris Evert Lloyd. “I’ve just learned to be more consistent,” she said when asked about the major change in her game. “In the past, I’ve always had a few matches that I should have won easy and ran into trouble. “When I was out of tennis this time, I began to get a little more determined to play well. And I think I’m getting to be more determined every time I play,” she said. The family travels to many of her tournaments with a nurse along to help care for Kelly. “My husband realizes I still enjoy the competition. And we’re real lucky because Kelly has proven to be a good traveler. I feel a lot more secure with my life than I did when I started playing as a pro (1970). “Basically my main thing now is to get my confidence back. It’s just a matter of time. I want to play as much tennis as I can. I need it to be ready for the U.S. Open (Aug. 29-Sept. 6). It’s really just a matter of time,” she said.

Expos 4-3 and the San Francisco Giants held off the San Diego Padres, 10-7. Pirates 5, Cubs 2 Phil Garner’s three-run homer off Dick Tidrow in the 10th inning carried the Pirates past the Cubs for their sixth triumph in seven games. A fifth-inning homer by Bill Madlock and a seventh-inning shot by John Milner had given the Pirates a 2-1 lead, but Chicago tied it against Kent Tekulve in the ninth when Barry Foote’s

Oakland manager is giving Keough needed relief a little too late

By KEN RAPPOPORT AP Sports Writer What do you do with a pitcher who is still looking for his first victory this late in the baseball season? Oakland Manager Jim Marshall is finally doing something he’s sending Matt Keough to the bullpen. “This has really become a strain on him,” said Marshall. “Maybe he’s a little bit afraid of losing now and that only compounds his problems.” Keough’s problems include the longest losing streak in major league baseball, which reached 18 Wednesday with an 8-1 loss to the California Angels. Don Baylor was one of Keough’s • biggest problems Wednesday, pacing a 21-hit attack with four hits and three

she was just moving me around the court,” Lloyd said of her match with Tomanova. “I just hung in there and got the ball back. I didn’t do anything specific. In the second set, I thought if she moved me around the way she did in first set she would win. That’s what takes the steam out of me and makes me tired. I felt better in second and third set, which I don’t understand.” Lloyd’s second-round victory Tuesday night over Wendy White also was a struggle. She won the first set 6-2 but was taken to 7-5 in the second set. “That was the closest I’ve ever come to defaulting,” Lloyd said. “If she had won the second set, I probably would have quit the match.” The only other time she was forced to go three sets here was in the 1975 semifinals against Nancy Richey Gunter. Lloyd will play Yugoslavia’s Mima Jausovec tonight in the feature*match on the 10,000-seat stadium court at the new Indianapolis Sports Center.

single scored Jerry Martin from second. Reds 3, Braves 1 Bill Bonham, relegated to the Cincinnati bullpen in recent weeks, needed just 101 pitches to hurl a two-hitter and help the Reds beat the Braves. One of those hits was an RBI double by Barry Bonnell in the Atlanta fifth, but Cincinnati went ahead in the sixth on a two-run homer by Dave Concepcion and got insurance on Cesar Geronimo’s homer in the seventh.

runs batted in. Baylor raised his RBI total to 101. Elsewhere in the American League, the Cleveland Indians swept a day-night double-head-er from the Boston Red Sox 6-4 and 8-2; the Texas Rangers beat the Detroit Tigers 16-9 in the first game of a double-header before losing the second game 10-4; the Milwaukee Brewers defeated the Baltimore Orioles 8-4; the New York Yankees whipped the Chicago White Sox 4-3 and the Minnesota Twins turned back the Seattle Mariners 3-1. Indians 6-8, Red Sox 4-2 Bobby Bonds and Toby Harrah smashed three hits apiece to help Cleveland beat Boston in their afternoon game. Rick Wise allowed 11 hits but picked

Jausovec. who has lost all six previous times she has played Lloyd, advanced with a 6-1, 6-2 victory over Sherry Acker. Other women’s quarterfinal matches today pitted thirdseeded Evonne Goolagong Cawley of Australia, the runner-up to Lloyd in 1972, against Anne Smith; No. 4 seed Virginia Ruzici of Rumania against Renee Richards, and No. 5 seed Regina Marsikova of Czechoslovakia against Jeanne DuVall. DuVall advanced by default Wednesday when secondseeded Kerry Reid withdrew because of a leg injury she suffered Tuesday. All of the men’s top seeds who were still in contention advanced to today’s third round. No. 1-rated Jimmy Connors, the defending men’s champion who has won here every evennumbered year since 1974, handled Czechoslovakia’s Pavel Slozil 6-3, 6-2 to earn a spot against lOth-seeded Balazs Taroczy of Hungary. Taroczy, who lost to John

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Greencastles Senior Girls softball all-star squad defeated Cloverdale 9-5 in the Cloverdale double elimination girls softball tournament Wednesday night. The victory avenged a first round loss to Cloverdale. Members of the Greencastle all-star team are; front row, from left, bat girl Diane Kendall, Lisa Ray, Dee Eilar and Tammy

Cardinals 8, Mets 4 Pete Vuckovich pitched a complete game, thanks to Ken Reitz’ three-run homer in the St. Louis second inning. Reitz’ homer brought St. Louis within 4-3 and removed the possibility that Manager Ken Boyer would pinch-hit for Vuckovich when his pitcher’s turn came to bat. Phillies 4, Expos 3 Montreal first baseman Tony Perez fumbled a bases-loaded grounder by Bake Mcßride with two out in the ninth inning, allowing Larry Bowa to score

up his ninth victory in the last 10 decisions with four innings of relief help from Sid Monge. Rangers 16-4, Tigers 9-10 Eric Soderholm drove in six runs with a pair of homers and a single to power Texas over Detroit in the first game of their double-header. John Wockenfuss drove in five runs with a grand slam homer and a solo shot and rookie Bruce Robbins pitched no-hit ball through six innings as the Tigers defeated the Rangers in the second game. Brewers 8, Orioles 4 Gorman Thomas snapped a ninth-inning tie with a sacrifice fly and Sixto Lezcano added a two-run double as Milwaukee defeated Baltimore, handing

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McEnroe in the third round last year, stopped Warren Mahi r of Australia 6-2,6-4. McEnroe, seeded second, wore down India’s Ramesh Krishnan 6-4, 6-1 to advance to the third round against Ecuador’s Ricardo Ycaza. Argentina’s Guillermo Vilas, seeded third, stopped Van Winitsky 7-5, 6-3 Wednesday night. Vilas was matched against 12th-seeded Tomaz Smid of Czechoslovakia in today’s round. Jose Higueras of Spain, run-ner-up to Connors last year and seeded fourth this time, was

the run that carried the Phillies past the Expos. Bowa beat out a bunt to open the inning and stole second before Pete Rose walked. One out later Mike Schmidt was walked intentionally to load the bases for Mcßride. Giants 10, Padres 7 Left-hander John Curtis knocked in three runs with a pair of singles and Mike Ivie added two home runs for San Francisco, which built an 8-0 lead, then survived a late San Diego rally.

the Orioles their fourth straight loss. Yankees 4, White Sox 3 Chris Chambliss’ three-run, eighth-inning homer capped a four-run rally that led Luis Tiant and New York past Chicago. Detroit’s Steve Trout had given up only five hits through seven innings, but Willie Randolph and Bobby Murcer opened the Yankee eighth with singles. They moved up on a wild pitch and Lou Piniella singled Randolph home before Chambliss slammed his 14th homer one out later. Twins 3, Mariners 1 Ken Landreaux drove in the winning run with a fifth-inning single and relief star Mike Marshall notched his 24th save of the season as Minnesota beat Seattle.

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ter McNamara of Australia today. Higueras beat another Australian, Paul McNamee, 6-0 in Wednesday’s first set and was leading 3-0 when McNamee retired in the second set. Fifth-seeded Jose-Luis Clerc of Argentina topped Nick Saviano 6-3,7-5 to move to the third round against ninth-seeded Eliot Teltscher, a 6-2,6-4 winner over Australia’s Kim Warwick. Poland’s Wojtek Fibak, run-ner-up to Connors in 1976 and No. 7 seed, beat John Llojfd, Chris’s husband, 6-4, 6-4, to advance against llth-seeded Corpaired against 16th-seeded Pe-

Clark. Second row, from left, coach Barbara Rader, Lisa Kendall, Anne Napoli, Jenelle Broadstreet, Shelly Hunter and coach Pat Brackney. Back row, from left, Martha Giltz, Rose Moore, Denise Weinhoeft, Liz Mundy, Janet Roach and coach Anne Lear. Not pictured are Lisa Beaman. Debbie Inglert and LaShelle Wells.

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rado Barazzutti of Italy, a 6-3,6-0 winner over Czechoslovakia’s Jiri Hrebec. No. 8 Manuel Orantes of Spain, a three-time champion who has alternated with Connors every year since 1973, topped Mike Grant 6-2, 6-3. Orantes’ scheduled opponent today was Andres Gomez of Ecuador, who beat Chris Lewis 6-3,6-2. The Denver Nuggets led all National Basketball Association teams in home attendance in the 1977-78 season with a gate count of 657,673.

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