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Show 0 DESERET NEWS, WEEKEND OF SEPTEMBER 3, 6 1977 HACK ITIILLGR won again - ' FOREST HILLS, N Y. (UPI) Wimbledon champion Virginia Wade and Rosemary Casals, twice the losing finalist here, both scored straight sets victories today to advance o the third round of the U S. Open Tennis .Championships. Wade, the No. 3 seed and winner of the first U S. Open title in 1968, had some trouble with the soft stroking game of Maggie Riley in the opening set, but warmed up to her task under a on broiling sun to beat the Dallas girl, 4, a crowded side court. Meantime, in the stadium court, the sixth seeded Casals beat Pam Teeguarden of Los Angeles, winning the tiebreaker 6-- I 6-- 6-- '7-- Wade said it had been a long time since she was faced with the kind of game played by Riley, then added, I think basically I played pretty well. Each match on clay seems so different from the other. And I won the last set at love, so it's all right. Casals, who lost in the finals here to Margaret Court in 1970 and to Billie Jean King in 1971 , said the major fault in her game now is that shes not hitting out enough. Im too tentative, she said, but added she .till liked her chances here Ive got the best draw because Im in the right quarter. The men started their third round activity today and among those advancing to the round of 16 were 15th seed Wojtek Fibak of Poland, a 1 victor over Doug Crawford, Weston, In other matches, Mass. Butch Walts, Atherton, Calif., beat Zeljko Franulovic of Corrado Barazzutti of Yugoslavia, Italy beat Mark Edmondson of Australia, South African Ray Moore beat Ricaido and John Feaver of Ycaza of Ecuador, England beat Mike Fishback of New York, 6--1, 6-- 6-- 6--0; 6-- 6-- 2; 2-- 6-- d action of the Wendy Turnbull of Australia beat Cynthia Docmcr, Fresno, Calif., 64), 6 2; Brigitte Cuypers of South Africa beat New In other second-roun- womens singles, Zealander Pauline Elliott, Michele Tyler of England beat Rboin Han is. La Jolla, Barbara Jordan, King of Calif., Prussia, Pa., beat South Africas Greer Stevens, For the first four days of this championship, through sweltering heat and lightning thunderstorms, and with the fates and fortunes of 225 players at stake, the chief conversation at the U.S. Open Tennis Championships always seems to return to the same subjects. In other matches Wednesday, the other 6-- 6-- 6-- 6--4; 6-- The top woman seed, Chris Evert over0 whelmed Pam Whyteross of Australia in 36 minutes; No. 4 Sue Barker of England beat Iris Reidel of West Germany, and fifth seed Betty Stove defeated Dana Kloss of South Africa, The top men won thc-i-r second rounds ; No. 1 Bjorn Borg of Sweden eliminated John James of Australia, 7 5, and defending champion Jimmy Connors, on his 25th birthday, beat Bob Lutz of San Clemente, Calif. No. 3 Brian Gottfried, of Lauderhill, Fla., worked hard to turn back Marty Riessen of Fourth-seede- d clay-couChicago wizard Guillermo Vilas defeated Gene Mayer of Mendham, N.J Manuel Orantes of Spain easily passed Australian Fred Stolle, Sian Smith, the 16th seed, fell stunningly to Mike Fishbach of Great Neck, N.Y., and his peculiar racket, No. 8 Vitas Gerulaitis defeated Tomas No. 9 Eddie Smid of Czechoslovakia Dibbs outlasted Fred McNair of Chevy Chase, 6-- 6-- 6-- 6-- 6-- rt 6-- fifth-seede- 6-- d 6-- 6-- little-know- 6-- 6-- AKRON. OHIO (UPI) Hale Irwin knows about defense. He was an all-bi- g eight defensive back at the University of Colorado back in the 1960s. So, now hes put a little defense into his golf game ; "It was pretty much a continuation oi last week," said Irwin after his 67 Fnday gave him a share of the lead in the $300, 000 ! World Series of Golf with Ray Floyd and Tom Weiskopf "I was just trying not to' make that " unrecoverable error," said Irwin, winner of last week's Hall of Fame Classic at Pmehurst, N.C. My object f was 18 pars I guess I was three ahead J of the game. Irwin had 15 pars and three birdies on the 7.180-yarFirestone par-7Country Club South Course and will lollow the same game plan in today's second round "I see no reason to abandon that J strategy." he said Both Irwin and Weiskopf, paired t together in the last of 10 twosomes in f the search for the $100,000 first prize, J birdied the final hole for their share of the lead t - d , 0 Md., No .6-- 6-- Dick 10 Deseret News special - Officials Utah State University met here Friday LOS ANGELF.S of with representatives of the Pacific Coast Athletic Association to discuss possible USU membership in the league Utah State president Glen Taggart. i athletic director Ladell Andersen and vice provost Richard Swenson took part in the meeting with PCAA president J Frank Bowman of Long Beach State "The talks were productive, but only t exploratory in nature." said Bowman Andersen added that "further details I will be released within the next month ' or so " "There will be no further announce-- ments on this matter until the Utah t State people have ample opportunity to I , 6-- 6-- 6-- TOKYO (UPI Japanese slugger Sadaharu Oh belted his 756th home run Saturday to surpass the U.S. major league record of 755 set by Hank Aaron Oh's 40th homer of this year came at lu second at bat in the third inning in a game between the Yoniiuri Giants and the Yakult Swallows at Tokyo's Korakuen Stadium, packed with an estimated crowd of more than 50,000 persons. As Oh circled the bases, the spectators stood and saluted hnn with thunderous applause, many waving i ' ; 6-- 6-- Borg, who suggested Thursday that he might default the Open if a shoulder ailment continued to bother him, said his arm hurt more on Friday. As I keep playing, it gets sorer. It needs rest and I am off until Sunday, which should help. He said he would play no tennis before then. jubilant Ms King emerged from a grueling final set against Miss Smith, whose A future classmates were starting college at Trinity University The only reason won that was I took her Dr. Pepper away, said Ms. King. Miss Smith had taxed her similarly before, forcing her to three sets m the second round at Wimbledon Ms. King said her knees, which kept her out of singles play for more than six months as she recovered from surgery, felt good "I can walk down stairs for the first time in about five years without holding the rail. she said said. Now there's a reason I wont release him. If I did I would start a precedent that would ruin me and the school. Everyone who got mad at me would quit. We have an investment in that young man. We spent a lot of money to recruit him. We have taken one of our 30 scholarships and given it to him. He has cost us money while at the school and he has occupied a position which another athlete could have had." 1 Weiskopf, m fact, birdied the final two after getting out of the starting blocks with another pair of birdies. I made a lot of good shots and a couplo of bad ones, said Irwin "But you're going to hit some bad shots on this course. Overall, Im very pleased." "I drove the ball well and putted very well and thats about it. summed up Weiskopf. The three leaders have a one shot lead o er Mark Hayes, who holed a chip shot for a birdie on the 18th for a 08. Another shot back with 69s were defending champion Jack Nicklaud Spaniurd Severiano Ballesteros, South African Gary Player, Australian Graham Marsh and PGA winner Lanny Wadkins Jerry McGee, the leader much of the way before taking a triple bogey eight 71 as on the 16th hole, finished at did Ben Crenshaw and Ernesto Perez Acosta of Mexico. Masters and British Open champ Tom Watson joined U.S. Open champ Hubert Green at 72. Then came Mike Morley at 73, Bruce Lietke, Lee Trevino and Japans Isao Aoki at 74 consider the various aspects of the matter," said Bowman. Utah State sports information director Craig Hislop said, however, that USU officials made some proposals linked to its membership which the PCAA official would not accept "The next few weeks will be a period of compromise," he said The PCAA is a six member conference, but only five of the schools play tootbull In order to qualify for a share m NCAA television football reieipts the conference must add a sixth football playing school by Jan 1, 197S USU all ready has a limited membership in the conference and partici pates in spring sports championships Oh Hank, Oh has the record 4 of Stockton banners and flags and shouting "Banzai" (long live). Among them were Oh's parents The 37 year-olfirst baseman was greeted by his teammates as he approached home plate, waving both hands to the fans d The home run capped the current "Oh Boom" in Japan, where baseball is the national pastime Television stations interrupted their regularly scheduled programs and flashed to Oh each tunc tie came to bat Jimmy Connors slams match of U.S. Open. The No. 2 two-hand- ed return to Bob Lutz in second-roun- d seeded Connors clipped Lutz 6-- 2, 6-- 2. Same quiz at ASU who'll be By Hack Miller q-ba- ck? freshmen Deseret News sports editor TEMPE Frank Kush's tongue is in his cheek this year. He's not sure whether his Arizona State team will come out of its doldrums. He hopes it will. But hes not popping off as this proud Pollock is prone sometimes to do. Coach Kush is a popular coach. The press can trust him. What he says is as he means it to be. No bid talk Just levels with you, Kush does. And this time hes level. We were so embarrassed last year (4-- overall, 3 in the WAC). We lost that first one and then against UCLA should have won that second one against California (ASU lost Then everything seemed to fall apart. The kids quit at that point. Not alone their fault. It was mine. And I knew it and no matter what I did I couldnt get them on top of themselves after Kush said by way of that, review. Darrell Royal once told me the year after youve been named Coach of the Year (Kush got that honor for his 1975 season from the American Football Coaches Association) you have to watch out. You get involved with activities whuh take your mind from football There are requests for speeches on the national level. You are wanted so much in so many ways "About the start of the 1976 football season I figure J I was in that rut. How I remember what Coach Royal told me. I still remember it. I was so humbled last season I decided to get back into the game. I have taken on more of the coaching of the team. 1 have become personally involved in the personnel side. 1 have got buck into coaching "1 decided to get rid of all the dissidents. I kicked five players off the squad last spring for training rules violations. Suddenly I realized, as the spring season progressed, I had gotten rid of most of my problem players "This year 1 have eliminated 4-- 7 (28-1- ). about football quitters Just before Kush treated us to some hard scrimmage Thursday night under the lights he took ti' .e to talk shop with a couple of us. He had been informed a few minutes before one of his men had decided to quit football and had left the camp. Kush shrugged his shoulders. I think he wanted to say something to someone. So he told us about his quitters. And this conversation might have been precipitated by the action Tony Mason had taken in recruiting some of his former Cincinnati players for his new assignment at Arizona U. Can that player be transferred to another school and play against you, I asked Kush. I thought I knew his answer but didnt know his reasons. I will not release him, Kush said. He must be released from Arizona State before he can be given aid at another school. He can leave ASU and play for someone else after laying out a year but he cannot receive assistance. He must go on his own," Kush edged past Australian John and No. 12 Harold Solomon of Silver Spring, Md., beat Paul Getken of Norwalk, Conn., Wojtek Fibak, the 15th seed from Poland, ousted India's Sashi Memon, Carrolton, Tex Alexander, rllSU, PCAA officials talk t J Talk 6-- 6--2, has three leaders first-roun- 6-- 6-- Golf's World Series , 0 6-- 6-- 6-- 6 4, 3-- 4-- ed.tc this year There will be no more skywriter jaunts into this area. The Anzona teams will, in 1978, be fully the West Coast clubs. affiliated with the Pac-1Frank Kush, the Anzona State coach of some fame, was the one man who wanted to stay with ou Western Athletic Conference. Like he often said, he would rather be able to compete and be a frog of some size in a compatible pool, than the doormat of a bigger league. He liked the WAC, had a great deal of respect for it. By the same token the WAC teams, including the writers, had respect for Kush. He was always comfortable to be around. He turned down some big offers to go to other schools because he liked where he lived and coached. His kids liked it too. Danny, who played for his father, is now doing graduate work in mechanical engineering specializing in aeronautics. David, his son, is heading for meaical training has a 3.6 average and a keen determination to be a surgeon. 6-- 6-- s All of the official goodbys have been TEMPE offered heie at Axizona State. The Sun Devis sr.,1 their plajmg partners from Arizona University to the south, will show in the WAC for the last official time seventh seed, Billie Jean King struggled for one hour and 56 minutes to beat a powerful junior player, Anne Smith, 18, of Dallas. 6-- brc-- A from the varsity camps. Freshmen go through an indoctrination program of their own. I am trying to get them over their homesickness. I want them to stay. But I also want to keep the varsity in its class. There is no more open practice. There are no distractions at the workouts that way. Football is our business and were running a tight ship. Sure it was poor coaching last year. We had one of the best receivers in college football in John Jefferson and we couldn't get the ball to him. We didn't have a passing game. This year, if Marc Malone works out (ahead of Dennis Sproul and Fred we will have the balance we need. Passing is our problem. Mor-tense- have the runLane, George Perry, Brian Felix) so we wont worry too much about that. We dont have the breakaway men we had a couple of years ago, but one of these men could come through in that department. W'e know we ning backs (Arthur "The whole answer is bad. He said it would be better this year. He nodded that it couldnt be any worse. But on scholarunder the ships it cannot come acropper in a single season. it Kush is not sure about his various positions. It seemed from his rundown of personnel he is still making assorted shitts. I got the idea he wont be sure of his starting teams until kickoff time. Kush kept bringing up the subject of personal problems." Seems he has a team filled with troubles so much so he admitted he jogged with one of the .players who was having marital problems so Kush could keep the player from quitting the team. That player remains a problem and failed to show for the first day at camp. It is quite possible the Kush kids at this years camp have more than their share and this is what might have brought disaster upon Arizona State football fortunes last year. Could be very much the same this year. Kicking just five men off (he roster might not solve all problems pas- sing In private sessions this writer talked to Fred Mortensen. He is the No. 1 quarterback right now. He led out in the spring He has more confidence in himself than Kush does. Mortensen, who served an LDS mission in Taipei, had a good season last year but was slighted by the coach got going great in the final three games when the Sun Devils had blown themselves out of contention. It appears too, Kush might be looking past this year for his first year in the Pac-10- . Sproul and Mortensen are pretty reputable quarterbacks. But Kush is looking way past them to his junior varsity man, Malone, who, Kush admits, needs a lot of learning. And he, like mentioned too that newcoming be playing, or transferees. other coaches, often the role freshmen will the incoming Even w'th Mortensens strong finish Kush leans now toward Malone, a sophomore from California, who is learning to throw the ball, has exceptionally good speed (4,6 at 40 yards) and who will ripen about the time Kush goes into the Pac-11978. in the first big year He also says his Arizona State team has a chance As for delense Kush said it no was horrible last year tackles and linebacking was And it does, but only if all Kush said about his internal problems is not true. 0 Kush picks Colorado State to win the WAC title defensive personnel, with BYU coming in a hard second. He figures the coaching change will hurt Wyoming. The case of Bruce Hardy Some of us in the Beehive State blamed Kush for prepster, Bruce mishandling of our Hardy. Hardy was the No. 1 athlete three years ago in the the most sought-afte- r United States player. He could do anything. Yesterday I sat with Bruce at lunch and we talked about Kush and the Hardy days at ASU. Bruce is not bitter. He wonders if he got the right shot at the right positions and if he could have done better for himself at some other school. Possibly! I got it from many sides here at ASU that while Hardy had all the talent it took, he came into camp and failed to pay the price. Of course he was misused. Every athlete is who goes in with overwhelming stature. Remember when the great Terry Baker of Oi egun, fit st pro draftee, fizzled out in the pro game? It happens. Bruce hasnt fizzled. Hes studying geography and won't graduate on time because of his emphasis on football. Hes looking for a pro career and h will get the invitation. Hes still a great athlete. But one must wonder, when all facts are figured, if Hardy really paid the price gave it the extra that was required of him. He played the No. 1 position in scrimmage Thursday. But Kush says his backup man is just as good and may beat Hardy out this season. If he does thats Bruce Hardys fault. This is the year when Bruce Hardy, prep athlete, should have been in line for tight-en- d honors. But as it appears now this is the year when Bruce might not even make the first team at Arizona State. advances in U.S. amateur golf BYU trio Deseret News special - NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. Its not hurting Brigham Young Universitys golf reputation at all that two former players and one current team member are still in contention for the U.S. National Amateur Golf championship. John Fought, Tualatin, Ore., a 1976 BYU graduate, Patrick McGowan, Colusa, Calif., a senior on the 1977 squad, and Mike Brannan, Salinas, Calif., who has one year left with the Cougars, all won third round matches Friday. Playing at the Aronimink Golf Club course in suburban Philadelphia, Fought defeated Michael Peek of Prairie Village, Kan., McGowan defeated Gary Cowan, Kitchener, Ontario, 2 and 1, and Brannan had the easiest lime of all with a 4 and 3 v ietory over Michael Hopson of Athens, Texas. Fought and Brannan are two of only three U.S Walker Cup team members to survive as five Cup players were eliminated. Also defeated in Frida i play were three former Amateur champions. Cowan, McGowans victim, is a former two-time winner. World of Wheels, IMUU IU9 fen rv ra rI 4 n ! riSBMS Skateboards Bicycles Accessories ALL Makes Expert Service Hillside Plaza 2410 East 7000 South, 1 943-434- |