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Show Stan Smith Pulsating Finale! alt vikt ffibtin Monday Morning, July 10, 1972 Second Section Page 20 Sports )Urr or by 4-- 5 Tribune Sjnrt Editor Place in Pro Football javwin- ner of the Pioneer Award, which will be given periodically to an individual who has made significant innovative contributions to pro football. The award will be given in memory of the late Dan Reeves, Gehrkes old boss with the Cleveland and Los Angeles Rams. While Gehrke played a lot of the Rams 'in Cleveland alack r in 1940 and 1945 and for the Rams in Los Angeles from 1940 through 1949, ZZ2. hLS contribution to pro football came Fred Gehrke off the playing field. Gehrke, now assistant general manager and director of player personnel for the Denver Broncos, recalled: Dan Reeves was always trying to professionalize our uniforms, to improve them and make them more distinctive. . . We were changing all the time, adding a border to the numbers, adding new stripes, always something to make the uniform more colorful. At the time I was closing out my football career, was working part-tim- e in the art department of Nortfcrup Aviation. But I guess Dan got me thinking about making a change and the first thing that needed improving was that plain, solid brown helmet. With r the blue background. Coach Bob Snyder liked the idea and Fred had the assignment of painting the design on 75 game helmets. While the fans and coaches liked the new idea, Gehrke may have regretted his innovation, for he had to repaint the designs week after week as the helmets were battered during the season. When the new plastic helmet was unveiled in 1949, the Rams talked the manufacturing company into baking Gehrkes design beneath the surface of the transparent plastic. Now almost every professional football team has its insignia on the helmet, but it was Gehrkes brainchild which inspired the practice and earned the former Ute the award. Wliats in a Name? It may come as something of a shock o our high priced athletic heroes, but their names may not be on the tip of every tongue. For example, seventh grade students in Jefferson Junior High school in Helenville, Wis. were asked to identify names in the news and when they came to Kareem-Jabba- r, here were some of the answers: Kareem-Jabba- r is river. The ruler of India. A A person that lives on earth. A man that studies animals under the sea. He or she is a ping pong player. He was the man who predicted the population would double by 2000 A.D. She is helping with the population problem. Betcha under Kareem-Jabbar- s old name of Lew Alcindor the kids would have known the Milwaukee basketball star. , Observation Ward Come to think of it, who would want to roller skate Baseball Standings American League National League Eastern Division Eastern Division W L Pet. 40 40 35 34 Western 5 Cincinnati 45 Houston Los Angeles 40 36 Atlonta SonFrancisco San Diego 34 33 36 42 48 .592 .577 .526 .462 .415 .VI Sunday's Results 29 48 1 5 10 14 Monday's Probable Pitchers San Diego (Arlin at Montreal (Moor e night. San Francisco (Barr York (Gentry night. Angeles (Downing delphia (Reynolds (Only games scheduled). at New at Phila- Pacific Coast League Oakland Chicago Minnesota Kansas City California Texas 42 29 43 GB ' 32 4 8Vi 10 48 43 37 38 35 33 27 33 36 37 42 43 .640 .566 .507 .507 .455 434 5's 10 10 14 15'i Sunday's Results Kansus City Cleveland Detroit Chicago New York 9, Minnesota 6 Oakland 3, Milwaukee Texas 3, Baltimore 2 16t Cincinnati Chicago San Diego 5. Philadelphia 4 San Francisco 5, Montreal I Los Angeles 2, New York 0 Pittsburgh 7, Atlanta 4 Houston 12. St. Louis 6 LOS ui .541 .541 .493 .486 .425 .403 Western Division Division 31 34 34 36 36 Californio 3, Boston 0 Monday's Probable Pitchers at Caliror-- . New York (Kekicb ma (Wright night. at Oaklond Boston (McGlothen (Holtzmon night. at Detroit Texas (Stanhouxe (Lolich night. ot CleveChicago (Lemonds land (Perry night. at BaltiKansas Citv (Crogo more (Cuellar night. at MinneMilwaukee (Lonborg sota IPerry night. Eostern Division Associated Press Wlreohoto Wimbledon mens singles champion Stan Smith kisses cup presented to ' Sunday's Results Sad Lake 4, Hawaii 1 Tacoma Albuquerque Tucson 5, Eugene 4 Ptiand at Phoenix, night 7 - DETROIT (UPI) Righthander Don Stanhouse, recalled by the Texas Rangers from the Denver farm club over the weekend, will start Monday in the opener of a three-gam- e at Detroit. v. the Sunday, from Sea Pines, S.C. becomes the first American since Chuck McKinley m 1963 to win the mens title at Wimbledon. And with Billie Jean King the victor over Evonne Goolagong Friday, it marked the first time Amen cans have shared the coveted freckle-facesince double and Louise Trabert Tony Brough took the titles in 1955. The Americans game, by contrast, seems limited to the , huge serve, the onrushing j ley and hardline ground shots, but on those crucial points with the match in the balance out would 'come a delicate drop shot and the concealed stop volley. vi The test of his talents and courage came as early as the fifth game of that first set. He double-faultewas serving at Nastases and then running save with the ball VV'W's V, 4' i' him by Duke of Kent after defeating Tile Nastase in long, tense finale. n Vi V' A I - . A it - 40-1- S Smith had said it himself: The Beehivers are slated to experiment . with a speed-ubaseball game that will, feature no warm ups for pitchers and no infield practice between innings. Moeller was forced to leave the game in the seventh ipning when he injured a tendon in his shoulder. Aurelio Monteas By Ray Herbat Tribune Sports Writer p For Bruce Heinbechner, the young and talented pitcher of the Salt Lake Angels, toiling in the Pacific Coast League has been a mat-o- n ter of a hot and cold experience. Heinie has been in an unusual streak latelyone great game and one bad one. udo came on to give up the. walk to Xeoli and Heinbech-ner- s timely single. Joe Azcue, Angel catcher, is out indefinitely due to reinjuring a pulled groin muscle while batting Saturday night. In addition Dave Sells, the spectacular Angel reliever, may miss another game or In the sixth game, Stan was unlucky. At game point a backhand hit down the line rattled the netcord and then scratched off the wood of Hies racket for a winner. It and could have been Smith serving. Instead there he was and in and then at trouble. Nastase was skipping his returns off the Americans shoelaces and he could only volley defensively. Five times Stan staved off game points. Nastase finally broke him and then took the set at 4 and e in broke him again to two because of a twisted knee he suffered Saturday. 4-- 2 Former Salt Lake hurler Dennis Bennett, new with the Islanders, will undergo eye surgery Monday at Holy Cross Hospital. Mickey Rivers, serving a military commitment over the weekend, is expected back Monday night. AP Wirephoto ' Stan Smith Aiming for the Stars 5-- one-lov- the second seL another With the match driftin: away, Smith began his charge. The shots that he had just were now falling missed sweetly. I feel confident, he had said all through this Wimbledon. Ill get better. Indeed he did. Three games running and then the second set was his, . Stan Trails in the Smith trailed love-tw- o third set and then won another brilliant patch of three games in a row to end the set at sparkler for the chucker as he set down Hawaii on three hits as the Angels defeated the Islanders, to right themselves once again. In his last four appearances Heinbechner, has alternated between being knocked out and then going the route while pitching a masterful game. After Tucson defeated him two weeks ago, Heinie came back to defeat the Toros on a He opened this current Hawaii series and went some five innings and gave up 10 hits. 6-- " But Sunday Heinie was at his best again and he contributed greatly with his bat. Going Hawaii starter Joe Moeller had a going until two men were out in the fifth. Bruce Christenesen singled to left for the first hit. During one stretch early in the game Moeller had retired 12 men in a row. Moeller, however, ran into trouble in the seventh. Jerry DaYanon, batting in the place vacated by Chuck Vinson who was thrown out of the game by plate umpire A1 Izquierdo for beefing on a called third strike in the fourth, led off with a triple to right center. Doug Howard, slapped a single up the middle to score DaVanon and tie the score. Christensen followed with a single and Rudy Meoli walked to load to the bases. Heinbechner then drilled a single over second to score a par of runs and Frank Bakers groundout tallied the fourth run of the inning. The seventh game of this series will be played Monday at ) 7:30 p.m. Andy Hassler will pitch for the Angels against Hawaii's Ralph Garcia State Beehive The will play a 5 League to p.m. game at Derks prior Pacifregularly-schedulethe (7-8- (3-6- ). All-Sta- ic League encounter. Muser to Majors The -announced Chi- Sunday they are recalling first baseman Tony Muser from Tucson of the Pacific Coast League - in the l They were at fourth when Nastase struck again. This time with a running forehand pass that left Stan staring. That game was gone and so was the fourth set to Nastase at All square now and then the g battle of wills in that fifth game. Smith led and the Rumanian exploded. All afternoon he had penetrated Stans defense with a whipped topspin lob off the backhand the most difficult of shots and now he did it again. Deuce, then add in. Five times Smith was at game point,- Nastase reached for the stars. One break point, another and another he had, hnd Smith saved them all. A diving stop volley, a forehand into the corner and then the big serve. And finally that little drop shot that drilled over to put the big fellow at three-twThat game was crucial, I slowed said Smith later. myself down and took a couple of deep breaths." Now there was Smith at four-al- J $35 Life Heinbechner actually singled home the winning runs when Salt Lake sent 10 men to the plate and came away with all four of its runs in a big seventh. was touched Heinbechner for singles by Ivan Murrell in the second and ninth innings and a single by Steve Whitaker in the fifth when the Islanders scored their only run. With the bases loaded John Donaldson grounded weakly to first with Murrell, 0" base via a walk, scoring- - sc, 6-- m two-hitte- CHICAGO (AP) cago White Sox ll ll Angels Will And Sunday it was d seemingly put away made it deuce. Then Nastase had three advantage points before Smith rescued. S. L. Angels Subdue Hawaii, 4-- 1 d Eyes Mound Start First Victor t.emendous his triumph fr Gehrkes first improvement was to paint the brown helmet blue. Then he painted reddish gold Rams horns played the kind of tennis to dream about. for No shot is impossible him. liis speed around court is phenomenal. His anticipation and quick reflexes turn a gone bull into the outright winner. And to Smiths credit, he never panicked and the onlv gesture he made on court was to leap over the net at match marvelous This throbbed and pulsated for 160 minutes on center court and in the dying moments die Rumanian saved three match points and then muffed the simplest a ktraightfor ard shot of all smash when he was standing because every nerve at net in his body had been tuned to handling a difficult one. Gehrkes Headwork Gains Fred Gehrke, former Ute halfback, fancy diver, tosser and art major, has been named the first luck. WIMBLEDON, ENGLAND In one of the great finals in Wimbledon history, Stan Smith defeated Ilie Nastase to win the Sunchampionship day. And what it came down to in the end where all the words that mean courage. John Mooney elin Because Nastase was all that he had been bargained to be. This is no longer the deadpan comic with the throwaway shot nor the showoff. The Rumanian muttered a bit, mostly in Italian, and questioned a decision or two, but when it mattered most in those final sets, he percent guts and a little SO By Fred Tupper New York Times Writer 6-- nail-bitin- x m i, Jf sdl ' - Tribune Stuff Photo by Frank R. Porschatis o. Jon Mauss crouches to recover his ball on 13th green as Ernie Schneiter, right, looks on during the Patio Open Sunday afternoon. Mauss, Springs Fepsi-Colwho is Dinaland pro in Vernal, surged in with a 74. a Dick Kramer Wins Patio Springs Open By Steve Rudman Tribune Sports Writer EDEN, Weber County conservative golf Playing throughout and putting with a touch of brii- Dick liance, of Kramer Bonneville L won the Patio " ' Springs Pepsi- Ife Cola Open M as Sunday Bob Betley himself shot out of contention going the ( down stretch. Dick Kramer Kramer, who won $550 for f 'k r shooting a par 70, and Betley, who finished one-ovpar at 73, matched shots course over the with Betley appearing to have the advantage after sinking a eagle putt on 15. two-und- 7,100-yar- d 40-fe- One Stroke Lead It gave the husky shot-mak- from Montpelier, Ida., lead with three relatively easy holes left to a a Betley laced his tee shot far beyond the green and out of bounds, forcing him to drop out and take a penalty. one-stro- To compound his troubles Betley, .after chipping within to three-pu- tt 12 feet, proceeded and put himself out of the running. MeanGme Kramer, who purred the 16th by sinking a t putt, had come from one shot down to a two-shlead on that hole. four-foo- lead and even .augmented it by collecting a birdie three on 17 when he He held his tapped Li from 10 feet Tying with Betley at three-ove- r 73 was Rusty Guernsey, teaching pro at Riverside in Ogden. Betley and Guernsey both received $335. Jon Mauss of the Dinaland golf course in Vernal and Tommy Williams of Brigham City both shot 74s and pocketed $255. e play. Betleys ruination came on No. 16, a Using par 195-yar- d Bonneville rro Kramer, head pro at ville, went out in turned in and four Bonne- and regetting six birds bogeys along the 36, 34 way. His birds were on numbers one, two, four, eight, 11 and 17. He bogeyed numbers three, nine, 13 and 15. Curiously, all of his bogeys came as a result of the monstrous bunkers on this distinctive course. Every time I bogeyed it was because I got into the sand traps, Kramer said. He said that his putting aided him more than anything en route to his victory. "My putting was better than it has been in a long time, he said, adding, and that is what really helped me win this. Kramer indicated that his two biggest mistakes were on his approach using a to No. 9 where he bogeyed and on his pitch out of the sand trap on 15 which landed on the apron of the green almost 100 feet from the flag. But his overall game was in its best form and his iron shots and good putting paid off. well-place- d and Guernsey werent so lucky. Betley found himself in difficult spots al day only to recover well and Betley five-fou- then get back in trouble. The 16th proved to be his final undoing. First-Yea- . 6-- 5 Guernsey, a first-yea- r pro, played steady golf all afternoon with only a double bogey six on No. 12 significantly fattening his score. But he had other troubles. He missed several birdie putts when his ball rolled to the cup and either lipped it or died just before dropnjng. The Patio course, as usual, was difficult for everyone Sunday. Joey Bonsignore of Alpine, lor instance, twice drove his ball into water hazards and once took a penalty, when he had an unplayable lie. e PinrwniMr Mauss, while making a run at the lead on the second nine, sliced his tee shot on the 14th into the right rough and took a penalty stroke dropping out. 1F These incidents were not isolated. They occurred everywhere at Patio Sunday aod to everyone in abundance but Kramer eased through his trouble spots in good enough condition to win. "VS and Nastase serving e lro r r at Two match points. A forehand was saved by Ilies volley and a backhand fell over the line. Smith and down. The points came in a bunch and then the third match point. A forehand and Nastase bashed it away. Now the fourth match point. Up floated that easy return and Nastase netted. The Duke of Kent came down on center court and presented Stan with a golden trophy. A check for $13,000 came with it. Then Smith came into the interview room drenched in perspiration ami champagne. He grinned crookedly at the newsmen. It was never m doubt. (Copyright) V Jl')4o ! J I'ltf Front Disc Brake Reline?i4r |