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Show Sunday. March 27, 1977, Barker Stuns Navratilova, Meets Evert in Slims Finale - NEW YORK (UPI) Chris playing close to perfect tennis, Rosie Casals, 61. Saturday British sensation Sue upst second-seede- Evert, blasted and Barker Martina d to advance to the finals of the $150,000 Virginia Slims championship. Navratilova, Evert, again playing under the watchful gaze of her steady companion, actor Burt Reynolds, needed just 48 minutes to whip Casals for the 21st iL 1 -- . J "Z, I "A , ! i time in 22 career meetings. Evert allowed Casals only six points as she swept through the first five games. Casals held for the first time at but Evert crushed her with a baseline shot down the line to win the 1 opening set in only 13 minutes Casals saw her first two services broken in the second set as Evert raced to a lead Casals held for the second and last time at then won only three more points the rest of thp match "I don't think 1 an play better than that," said the Evert, who won $124,500 in capturing five tournaments on the Slims circuit this season. "I was very happy with the way I played. I'm definitely working on my serve. Rosie has helped me as far as my swing is concerned. We're trying to help each other in practice. It's still not Blues Nu dge Eagles, Clinch Title Fishing Top CHICAGO (UPI) -- While figures usually are inexact, many surveys on sports participation rate fishing the No. 1 U.S. Herald Sports Writer says Arizona schools will join the tourney. Utah State has indicated its soccer the American City Blues clinched the regular championship of the Central Hockey League Friday night by coming from behind twice to defeat the Salt Lake Golden Eagles in the Salt Palace. The Eagles led and but the Blues kept charging back and finally scored the winning goal at 14:28 of the third period, when Ken Richardson scored in wild scramble in front of the Eagle net. Richardson paced the Kansas City club to victory with a pair of goals. Other K. C. red lamps were scored by Ken Mann, Larry Giroux, Mike Bloom and player-coac- h Barclay Plager. Top scorer for Salt Lake was Gary Holt, who came up with a pair of goals. Other Eagle goal scorers were Angie Moretto, Charlie Simmer, and Tom team also will ! WHAT GREAT STAR HAP THE HIGHEST YANKEE CAREER AVERAGE? A. 3A0E 9. LOU RUTH GEHRIG C. JOE PIMAGGIO Cauthen Pro of Month - NEW YORK (UPI ) Steve Cauthen, old sensational jockey, won the the February poll in the race for the 28th annual's. Rae Hickok "Professional Athlete of the Year" Award. Auto racer Cale Yarborough was se- cond and basketball star Pete Maravich was third in the voting. Limited Time Service Special! most schools. "Although all of these teams have 'club' status, the level of competition and skills will be as high, if not higher, than any other NCAA recognized college in the nation," observes 15-1- 6 Wyoming and Utah. YANKEE 91UGGER MICKEY MANTLE HAP A CAREER .196 PATTING AVERAGE. 0 ticular is very popular at as will Nevada-Ren- The first such meeting schools are expected to involving the WAC soccer enter BYU's Spring teams was held last year Invitational Soccer Tour- at Fort Collins, Colo., and on the the Lobos were named nament April campus, winners of the Cougar tourney. according to host coach In addition to the men's Jim Dusara. Invitations have been competition, BYU will extended to and accepted also host a women's diviby Colorado State, Texas-E- l sion, with Colorado State, Paso, New Mexico, Northern Colorado, Utah There is also a chance that one of the two cturers Association: equipment is cheap. The Kansas participate, ! injury-plague- Athletic Conference sport. The reason is simple, Fishing Tackle Manufa- season SALT LAKE CITY Soccer teams from six the eight Western i hampered by it Saturday as she hit deep and hard throughout the match to move Navratilova around the court and keep her from the net. "This is the best I've played on the whole circuit," said Barker, who won two tour events this year. "Playing today has given me a lot of confidence. Tomorrow is the big day of my life." Barker saw her first service broken as Navratilova, a lefthander, took a lead in the first set, but Barker quickly broke back twice to go ahead 32 and " up up the first set when another Barker's stunning victory over the wrapped backhand landed inches away from the Navratilova was only line. the third time she has beaten her in the Barker broke Navratilova's service nine times they have met three times in the second set and never Barker's winning shot, ironically, trailed. was a cross-cour- t backhand, formerly "My shoulder got worse as the match the weakest weapon in her arsenal, and said the blue-eyeprogressed," the the emphasized progress blonde has made in the last three years Navratilova, who was more composed as she moved up from 48th to third on in defeat than she was last fall when she exited crying after losing in the the Slims' circuit The victory also avenged losses to first round at the U.S. Open. "I think I Navratilova in the finals of three Slims' have tendinitis. It started hurting when I played Chris last week in Philadelphia tournaments earlier this season. and it gets worse when I have to hit too Navratilova, bothered by a sore many backhands." shoulder, had difficulty with her serBarker knew this and constantly atvice, holding only five times in the two sets Barker also had complained of a tacked the Navratilova's backhand in sore shoulder but did not seem both sets. single-eliminatio- Sport By RAY SCHWARTZ of 11 age r I want it to be." Evert, who will be going for $50,000 and her fourth Virginia Slims title Sunday, and Barker, in the finals of her first Triple Crown event, assured themselves of at least $30,000. "If Sue and I both play well, it will be a good match," Evert said of Sunday's finals "We seem to have the same style, stay on the baseline. I'm alway nervous with Martina because I respect her game. But Sue has never beaten me. so it's harder for me to get keved WAC Soccer Test campus April 15 16. According to Coach Jim Dusara, Escobedo is an important part of the Cougar defense. Utah-P- where BYU Will Host EDUARDO ESCOBEDO, a freshman from Mexico, hopes to lead BYU to victory in the WAC soccer tournament on the Provo THE HERALD, Provo, n Dusara. "Our tournament at BYU will provide fans with a fine brand of soccer." Dus?ra also pointed out and New Mexico soccer has been in that expected. Coach Dusara said that existence for a long time soccer is one of the as a club or extramural fastest growing sports in sport, but has not been the country, and the fully accepted as an incollege game in par tercollegiate sport. Total Special Price We Use: 95 Motor Craft Filter Ford 10-4- 0 W. Oil (5 qts. Labor 10 Point Check plus 10 point check FREE N VFRS TY V l LINCOLN MERCURY -- CAPRI 1150 North 500 West Provo - r 373-122- 6 6--5, 5-- 1 Sundberg. Putting on the best display of passing and aggressive play they have shown in the last several Palace appearances, the Eagles jumped into a 1 lead on first period goals by Holt, off a great behind-trie-npass by Lyle Bradley, at 12:31, and by Moretto 15:15 on a deflection of a shot by Tom Sundberg, who set up the whole play with a great individual effort. Mann fired home a rebound at 14:54 for Kansas City's lone goal of the first period. Sundberg upped the Eagle lead to 1 in the second period when he fired an acrobatic shot into the net at 1:35. He went crashing into the boards after making the goal and was knocked unconscious for a few moments. However, he recovered sufficiently to return to action after a brief rest. Back came the irrepressible Blues, as Richardson scored out of a scramble at 4:38 and Giroux hit the net at 7:33 on a slapshot to tie the game at r 2-- 3d Survivor steel belted radials. Features polyester cord radial ply body, 2 fiberglass belts, one steel belt. 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