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Show Page 16—THE HERALD,Provo, Utah Sunday, August 15, 1971 Nobody Likes Pancho Except Fans Racing Title By IRA BERKOW NEA Sports Editor NEW YORK—iNEA)—Rod Laver will be the favorite in Tennis Open at NEW YORK (UPI). —Dr. the US. Robert Magoon's victory in the Forest Hills in early Septem recent Hennessy G-andPrix off her. Pancho Gonzales, the . has 43-year-old grandfather, will assured him the American also play and all the other Power BoatAssociation U.S. players are aware of this wary of this: They know ocean racing title for 1971. The Hennessy triumph earned Gonzales can still win, and will all be rooting the 37-year-old Miami Beach they against him eye surgeon 400 points to give “Pancho is still capable him an unsurmountabletotal of It is Pancho’s volatile ten. perament which, Laver be. es. is an important fac Assured 1,800 for the season, 1,050 more than his nearest pursuer, Bill vity, as well fans s| drawing Laverrecalled, Gonzales accused Laver of quick-serving in a match, in the third set “He shouted at me. ‘God of preparing himself mental- damnit, ‘Why have you waited till now to say anything?’ | yelled back Hetries to throw you off balance with his outbursts of r in his recent autobiography in any meet. (Though Laver angry, he felt he could Newly installed president Don blue and white flags to decorate annual Awards Banquet held in world ocean powerboat cham- was University Ave.the four days of pion who designed the Ciga- understand Gonzales’ bitter- Tregaskis explains that while club members attend as many BYU atheltic events as pessible the big emphasis is on the football season. Club members will have a steak fry Aug. . 23 at Rotary Park. The 6:30 p.m.affair is an annual kickotf for the grid season. On Sept. 8,-the club will also treat the team to a chuckwagon dinner at 6:30 p.m, at Cougar Stadium. Beginning Monday, Sept. 13, following the North Texas State game,the club beginsits weekly meeting with Coach Tom shows game Coach Hu films and reviews the action and highlights of the previous game and gives a report on the upcoming game. home games, Bumper stickers may be obtained from members of the club's Board of Directors. That board includes Don Tregaskis, president; Stan Moore, first vice-president; Stan Nielsen second vice-president; Harmon Steed, treasurer; Gene Lamb, secretary; and directors Gordon Bullock, Brent Beck, Merril Oaks, Jerry Miller, Duane Bunnell and Floyd Taylor. The club also may be sponsoring some buses to Laramie for the Wyoming game Oct. 1€ but plans are not yet definite. Another project under wayis the ‘Old Cat and Kitten’? program. The program is a buddy program for members of the freshman football team. Eachfrosh player is assigned ness becausethe old pro had At that time trophies are rettes. presented to the top athlete in Named after the legendary been taken advantage of in each of BYU's intercollegiate rum-running boats of prohibi- financial dealings in earlier years.) sports. The Downtown Coaches tion days, his Cigarettes have Last year, Gonzales beat also present the Dale Rex-won every major offshore Me lemorial Award which goes power boat race in the world Laver twice in big matches, annually to the Utahn who has ee their introduction last at Madison Square Garden in the $10,000 winner-take-all contributed the most to amateur athletics in the state. The 1971 winner was BYU’s world record holder Ralph Mann. Over 300 members are expected to participate in this year’s activities although the numbers of membersis in no way limited. The regular membership dues are $15 per year and there is a jumor membership available also for $5 to those 18 and under. Memberships maybe obtained from anyofthe club’sofficers or at the steak fry Aug. 23. care for the feeling.” Laver is learning to use that anger with others. In a match against Brian Fairlie against Gonzales and accuses him of being a ‘‘complainer.” to join, and sued for $250,- to negotiate his own deals ‘The Education of a Tennis Plays ‘that I play better too when I'm mad—at least against Pancho. But I don't PANCHO GONZALES,above, the George Blandaof tennis, will be back again this # fall at the U.S. Open at Forest Hills, battling players up to 20 years younger than he. One of the people who won't be rooting for him to win—and mostof those are his fellow players—is favored Rod Laver, left, who as a long-standing grudge tion in 1963. A rule of the IPTA stated that only members could playin their tournaments. Gonzales refused 000 for violation of antitrust laws. Gonzales won, though the players didn’t have to pay. Gonzales got the right in Teheran earlier this yea Laver heard Fairlie s: an official, “Hope you don't match, coming from two sets hours and 12 minutes over two days (the match was called because of darkness and resumed the following zales’ triumph over Charley Gonzales plays muchless than he usedto, entering perhaps half of the 40 or more scheduled professional tournaments. But this year he has already won the Pacific Southwest and Pacific Coast down. And in the $17,000 finals at Las Vegas. Nothing, however, was any more amazing than GonPasarell at Wimbledon in 1969. Gonzales, then 41, and Pasarell, then 25 and rated the No. 1 player in the United States, played the longest tournament match in history, 112 games, in five inind if I beat the big man.” “The ‘big man’ was me,” said Laver. “And that made me really want to skunk him.” Laver won 6-2, 6-1. “I need that kind of motivation nowadays. “T can understand how it has worked for Pancho. I appreciate him more now, and he amuses me. 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He's easier for the fans to identify with.” Laver, though, has learned from Pancho. “I found,” said Laver, who wrote as much ~ ae wh, Thirty years ago a group of having Team Appreciation days provide a “home away from But there was no question carried far he sued hi local sports enthusiasts got to become better acquainted home’ for the team members. about his triumph this year, He fellow face ono hed together to help promote the with the players. Theclub also plans a “Meet Jed all the way,finishing more formed the Intrnational athletic program at BYU. It Each week the club will also The Team” Night for the than eight miles ahead of Professional Tennis Associasecond place winner Vincent Balestrieri of Italy. Third place went to Doug Silvera of Nassav, who had nosed out Magoon byfour minutes to win the Bahamas 500 on June 3. The first three boats across the finish line in the Hennessy were Cigarette hulls, marking another triumph for Den ronow of Miami, two-time continued hat helps him in a matet because he hoy to upset you Also, it helps him. His Has 25 Years Service basketball squad which is scheduled for Nov. 15. Two meetings with Coach Stan Watts are another part of this year’s calendar. Despite all the activity in Downtown Coaches Club is no be in ful! swing again this year boosting the football and exception as a number of ac- with bumper stickers, pom poms basketball programs,the largest project of the year for the tivities are planned from August and even T-shirts. Members are also in the process of getting Downtown Coaches Club is the7 to May. y: You've been doing it all afternoon Downtown Coaches Ciub treat the week's top player toa dinner. The coaching staff chooses a top performer after going over the game fms. The Downtown Coaches’ ““at’s Go Blue” campaign will you served before I was ready. ly and physically for the Martin of Clark Township, N.J. prime occasions,” said LaDriving the 36-foot Aeroma- ver, “but he will never be rine I owned by engine wizard one of the boys. He’s still a E.C. Kiekhaefer of Fond du moaner and a coinplainer, although he’s mellowed a Lac, Wis., Magoon covered the 28.9mile course off Point little. He still plays jike he if he loses he'll be Pleasant in 2 hours, 57 minutes thinks lynched and 23 seconds, averaging 69.7 All of us (top tennis play miles per hour. For the Aeromarine engineer- ers) used to secretly, and drive teem of Kiekhzefer and some openly, root against Moor. {left) and Stan Nielsen, Clubactivities DOWNTOWN COACHES CLUB president Magoon, the victory marked 2 him. But nowI find myself start with a steak fry Aug. 23 at Rotary Park. Don Tregaskis (center) discusses “Let's Go third first in five starts in enthralled to watch him Blue” Campaign with vice-presidents Stan competition this year. In the just like any otherspect other two contests, Aeromarine But old grudges die hard.”” Gonzales has always been was second. Magoon, APBA outboard a loner. He rarely associates champion in 1968 and 1970, also with any other tennis playwon the Hennessy Grand Prix ers off the court. last year, but that victory was “One of us might ¢ iy somewhat tarnished because he ‘Hey, let’s call Pancho for was awarded top honors only lunch,’ said Laver, “and after the first two drivers to Pancho will say, ‘Don't During the season the toa member of the Downtown finish were disqualified for bother me.’” By MIKE TWITTY Downtown Coaches will be Coaches whose family will missing a checkpoint. Herald Sports Writer Pancho’s l|one-wolfness flourished for a couple of years and then was stagnant during last half of the war when the Cougars didn’t field teams. It was revived in 1946 and during the intervening 25 years has been strong. This year’s car “He's the master ¢ man.” said Laver INNES SPORTING GOODS 316 West Center 374-0155 Come In And See Us We Have Everything For the Archer |