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Show tU'iyiwiny! For Sports Information For Recorded Scores Call Call 237-200-1 Local 237-202-5 Section C Tuesday Morning, September 8, 1981 Page One Gerulaitis, Manson Post Open Upsets JL NEW YORK (UPI) Vitas Gerulaiti3, a fallen giant since losing the U.S. Open final to John McEnroe two years ago, and unseeded Bruce Manson and Ramesh Krishnan turned this years unpredictable championship into further disorder with startling upsets Monday. Gerulaitis, down to No. 17 on the computer after being ranked in the top four for a couple of years, knocked off third seed Ivan Lendl in five sets, following which Manson, ranked only 74th in the world, bounced fifth seed Jose-Lui- s Gere in straight sets. The final surprise came late at night when seventh seed Gene Mayer pulled up lame and had to retire from his match with Krishnan of India. Mayer, who also dropped out of a first-roun- d match at last years Open with a pulled hamstring, won the first two sets, before Krishnan took the third winning the Mayer had been within two points of victory in the With Mayer serving at 6 in the fourth set, he suddenly became unable to move. He finished out the game weakly, with Krishnan taking the set Then Mayer pulled out. Although his effort was to cost him $1,250 in two separate fines, Gerulaitis heard the approving roar of his hometown fans once again when he staved off a late bid from Lendl for a 4 victory. Gerulaitis made the decisive break in the seventh game of the final set of a match that lasted 3 hours and 27 minutes. Manson followed on the same grandstand court to knock off Clerc, It was the third time in as many meetings Manson has beaieu the Argentine ace. Its very nice to have a guy ranked lucky. Another at that. 15-4- 6-- 5, 3-- 6-- 1, 6-- 6-- 6-- 6-- I their match in the U.S. Open tennis champion-bac- k ships. Manson went on to upset the favored Clerc. 6-- 6-- 6-- 6-- 0. 6-- 7-- 7-- 6, 7-- 6-- 3. Unseeded Bruce Manson slams a forehand return to Jose-Lui- s Clerc, seeded No. 5, during 6-- 6-- 7-- 5. 3-- 5 McEnroe, although extended for 62 minutes in the opening set, ran out an hold. easy triumph over Kevin Curren while Serving for the match, Gerulaitis was Chris Evert Lloyd, Tracy Austin, Marbut the quick-foote- d New tina Navratilova and Hana Mandlikova down all moved into the quarterfinals, drop- Yorker saved two break points, then gained the victory when Lendl sent a ping a total of eight games among backhand into the net. Gerulaitis imthem. blew kisses to the standing mediately McEnroe, still not playing the way he room crowd of 7,000 in the grandstand would like,, beat Curren, court. Evert, the defending womens champA year ago, Gerulaitis was ousted in ion, won the la'st 11 games to rout No. 12 the second round of the Open, and since 6-No. 3 Bettina Bunge, Austin then he lost in the third round of the turned back Rosemary Casals, No. 4 Navratilova disposed of No. 14 Italian Open, the first round of the Wimand No. 5 French and the fourth round at Kathy Jordan, bledon. Mandlikova beat Duk Hee Lee of South Korea, It was typical Gerulaitis following the Also gaining the quarterfinals were match, though. After saying he would No. 6 Sylvia Hanika, No. 11 Barbara come to the interview room, he made off in a Rolls Royee with two bodyPotter and unseeded Barbara Gerken. 5 Hanika scored a victory over guards, saying he was going to get He returned to the Sharon Walsh; Potter struggled for 2 some groceries. hours and 18 minutes at night to hold off stadium later, and when asked by a amateur Andrea Leand, 67, 63, friend why he left, he said, I wouldnt and Gerken, another amateur playing stay around to talk to these people. in her first professional tournament, Gerulaitis was fined $750 for abuse came back from her upset of Wendy of spectator," when he hit a ball into the Turnbull Sunday night to beat Jo Durie, stands, and another $500 for failing to 61. attend an obligatory interview. 5-- 6-- Ieand, like Gerken playing in her first professional tournament, won the but Potter opening set won the second and then made the decisive break in the eighth game of the final set. Evert, who said she expected a tougher match from Bunge, Tuesday meets Mandlikova, the woman she beat for both last years Open and this years Wimbledon championships. Lendl, whose parents came over from Czechoslovakia to watch him play for the first time in the United States, double-faulte- d at 630 in the seventh game of the final set to give Gerulaitis tripip break point, and although he followed with an ace, Lendl couldnt 7-- upset occurred 6-- k. 6-- But in the womens singles when Anne Smith, primarily noted as a doubles player, registered what she called my biggest singles win ever" by defeating eighth seed Pam Shriver, 1, I had chances but I had a lot of bad said Shriver, who double-faulte- d breaks, three consecutive times during the first set. However, it was business as usual for the other top seeds and dull business 7-- tie-bre- he joked. hes not my pigeon. Ive just been very 6-- 4, 6-- JL No. 5 as your pigeon, 7-- 6, Baseball: Yanks , Guidry Stop Brewers, Continue Streaks Tribune Wire Services It seems that the home runs give him 293 and passes former Houston Astros slugger Jimmy Wynn e for 46th place on baseballs home run list. Nettles vacation brought about by the baseball strike was just the thing Yankee lefthander Ron Guidry needed. Guidry, 163, won his fifth decision without a setback since play resumed as the Yankees defeated Milwaukee 2 Monday with Graig Nettles slugging two homers and Dave Winfield another. Ive been pitching good, said Guidry, who allowed only three hits but both Brewers runs before giving way to Ron Davis in the seventh. Rich Gossage pitched the ninth to earn his 19th save. The clubs been scoring runs, Guidry said, and scoring them early. Its easier to pitch when youre ahead early. Ive just been able to throw the ball well with good velocity on the fastball and my slider. Since I added the changeup, it has made all my pitches more effective.! New York is now 0 under Bob Lemon, who returned to New York for the first time as manager since replacing the fired Gene Michael on Sunday. The victory was the Yankees fourth straight and ninth in their last 11 games. Lemon was greeted warmly by the crowd of over 55,000 fans at Yankee Stadium. mid-seaso- n 4-- 2-- career homers all-tim- AS 2, Rangers 1, at Oakland Mickey Klutts and Dwayne Murphy each singled home runs and Mike Norris pitched a seven-hitte- r for his 10th victory, leading Oakland to a triumph over Texas. Norris, 166,. picked up his first victory since Aug. 11. The As victory came before a crowd of 36,393, which gave them a new single-seaso- n attendance record of 1,096,480 despite the loss of 22 home dates during the players strike. The As previous best attendance was 1,075,518 iii 1975, after the team had won world championships the previous three years. Mariners 9, White Sox 5, at Chicag- oTorn Paciorek blasted a three-ru- n home run and Casey Parsons and Paul Sema both hit their first major league homers to lift the Mariners to the victory. Parsons homer and Pacioreks ninth of the year keyed a second inning that lifted Jim Beattie to his second five-ru- n victory against one defeat and sent the White Sox to their 10th loss in 11 games. Twins 4, Blue Jays 0, at Minnesota John Castinos two-ru- n double in the Canada Cup: USA Stuns Czechs, 6-- 2 Tribune Wire Services Mike Eaves bruised brain is just fine now and suddenly theres nothing wrong with his shooting either. The Minnesota North Stark center teamed with Dean Talafous to score 18 seconds apart Monday night as Team USA broke a 2 tie in the third period to upset Czechoslovakia 62 in the Canada Cup hockey tournament at the Montreal Forum. Eaves, who had limited duty with the North Stars last season because of a brain concussion, said he was feeling after good mentally and physically the triumph over highly favored Czechoslovakia. I had a bruise on my brain, but Im fine now," said Eaves in the jubilant Team USA dressing room. Then, referring to the Americans inability to score more than three goals in any of its previous three games, Eaves said, Before tonights game, we had just stopped shooting. In fact, we had not even started. By whipping the Czechs, Team USA evened its record at 2 and assured itself of a berth in the semifinals Friday night along with Team Canada and the Soviets, the two teams that have beaten the Americans in the tournament. h Prior to the game at the Forum, Team Canada had clinched its spot in the semifinals with a 3 triumph over Sweden on Gil Perreault's goal at 6:55 of the third period. Then, over in Winnipeg, the Soviet Union crushed winless Finland 61 to assure itself of a spot in the semis. The Americans handed the surprising Czechs, who had posted ties with both the Canadians and the Russians earlier in the tournament, their first loss and puiled into a tie with them for third place, both with four points. The Yanks can clinch third place in the tourney with a victory over the winless Finns. Im proud of our effort, said Team USA Coach Bob Johnson after the upset 2-- 2-- U.S.-Czec- 4-- six-tea- of the Czechs. fourth inning backed a combined eight-hi- t shutout by Darrell Jackson and Doug Corbett which enabled the Twins to snap a four-gam- e losing streak and end Torontos three-gam- e winning streak. Jackson, 62, struck out a nine batters in his longest career-hig- h performance of the year, 6 Js innings. Jackson left in the seventh with a stiff shoulder. Orioles 9, Indians 2, at Baltimore Eddie Murray cracked four hits, in' cluding his second grand slam of the season, to power the Birds to the victory. Murrays fourth career grand slam capped a five-ru- n inning that gave the Orioles an 0 lead and allowed Jim Palmer to breeze to his first victory since Aug. 21. Lou Tigers 3, Red Sox 1, at Detroit Whitaker tripled to right centerfield with two out in the bottom of the eight inning to score A1 Cowens with the run and give the streaking Tigers their eighth triumph in nine games. Jack Morris picked up his 12th victory in 16 decisions and allowed only two hits. Royals 7, Angels 1, at Kansas Gty Willie Wilson stroked four singles, stole a base and scored two runs in the first meeting between the two traditional Western Division rivals in this strike-toseason. It was the fourth straight loss for the Angels. National League Cubs 10, Cardinals 0, at St Louis Bobby Bonds, who was released by St. Louis last winter, drove in five runs with his second and third homers of the d year, powering Chicago to its victory. Bonds blasts over the left field all the runs he wall gave Doug Bird, needed. Mets at Pittsburgh Pirates Omar Moreno went 6for-5- , scoring twice and driving in the winning run in the nightcap as the Pirates swept the doubleheader from New York. Steve Nicosia and Willie Montanez hit solo homers to give the Pirates the opening , victory. Expos 5, Phillies 4, at Philadelphia Tim Raines, who stole his 67th base in 81 games, extended his hitting streak through 12 games with a seventh-innin- g run as single that drove in the the Expos pulled within a game and a St. half of Eastern Division-leadin- g Louis. Woodie Fryman, the third of four Montreal pitchers, boosted his record to 62, with Jeff Reardon pitching three shutout innings in relief to gain his fifth save. Reds 8, Padres 7, at Cincinnati Johnny Bench had his home run swing going for him as he hit two out of the in the park, including the game-winnseventh to give the Reds a victory. Bench, who now has three home runs in his first three starts after coming back from a broken left ankle, tied Joe DiMaggio for 27th on the e list with 361 homers. Tom Padres Seaver, victim of a six-ru- n uprising in the seventh, got credit for his Uth victory against two losses, although he gave up all seven San Diego runs. Astros 3, Braves 2, at Atlanta Jose Cruz belted a leadoff homer in the ninth inning to lift the Astros to the victory. Cruz smacked a pitch down the left field line off loser Rick Camp, for his 13th home run. Houston reliever Dave Smith, picked up the victory with Joe Sambito pitching the Astros out of a ninth-innin- g jam to notch his ninth save. 8-- m lop-side- 4-- 2, We came back and we just didnt quit. After we played the Soviets, I told the players not to quit just to keep working. Its a good feeling when some of your players who dont score goals suddenly start scoring like that. It was Eaves and Talafous, with a goal each in the second period, who brought Team USA from a 0 deficit and started a surge of six straight goals. Eaves, who played but 48 games for the North Stars last year, added two assists in the third period, giving him four points for the game. With the United States tied 2 entering the third period, Talafous, standing near the boards, slapped a 46footer past Czechoslovakia goalie Karel Lang at the 26second mark during a power play. Eaves then blazed a wrist shot over the goalies shoulder 18 seconds later to make it 2 for the Americans. That blitz brought on relief goalie Jiri Kralik, who was greeted three minutes later by goals from the Buffalo Sabres Richie Dunn and the Hartford Whalers Warren Miller 19 seconds apart to turn the third period into a rout. 2-- 2-- 4-- Team Canada, meanwhile, had an unexpectedly tough time with Sweden, which had won only one of its first three games in the tournament. The Canadians, who have one more preliminary-roun- d game against the Soviets Wednesday in Montreal, took a 2 lead on Perreaults goal early in the third period and held off the Swedes. 4-- 2-- 5, 4, go-ahe- Chicagos Lamar Johnson and Seattles Julio Cruz Geft) seem to be doing the but really, two-ste- p, 0 7-- 2, Dodgers 5, Giants 1, at Los Angeles homer to Ron Cey slammed a two-ru- n lead Los Angeles to its third straight earned the victory. Bob Welch, victory, his third straight and his sixth in seven career decisions against the Giants. 7-- 5, i 9-- Chargers Destroy Browns Air controllers CLEVELAND (AP) strike or no, Air Coryell is flying again. Everything just fell into place, obviously, said Don Coryell, coach of the San Diego Chargers. And he was obviously talking about Dan Fouts passes. Fouts completed 19 of 25 passes for 330 yards and three touchdowns in a near-recor- d performance and, when the Chargers werent flying, Chuck Muncie was rambling wherever he wished. The New Oi leans reject equaled his single-gam- e rushing high with 161 yards and a touchdown. It all added up to a 4 victory over the Cleveland Browns Monday night. We expected a shootout, said Cleveland Coach Sam Rutigliano, but d we didnt expect it to be so the only thing positive I can say is that we have 15 more games. We have been at this point before. Fouts preferred to shunt aside the 44-1- ... one-side- personal praise he received and spread it around. Im confident in our team and in our ability to move the ball, he said. We havent played since a week ago Friday (a 3624 exhibition loss to Buffalo). The extra time we had to practice this week was a key. So was the Cleveland Browns. I dont think we covered well; we didnt get good pressure, said Rutigliano. I dont think they intended to run that much, but they tried it, saw it worked and stuck with it." This was a welcome surprise, said Muncie. I said we could come out and take it to them. It wasn't easy, though. If my body could talk, it would say its pretty beat up. Fouts, who shattered his own National Football League single-seaso- n passing yardage record in 1980 with 4,715, completed 15 consecutive passes in one stretch, a club record and within two of the league mark, established by Balti- - come-from-behi- all-tim- . Johnson is out at second as White Sox try for the double play Monday. Seattle scored 5 victory er 4-- However, Perreaults game-winnw ill be the last goal he'll score for Team Canada in this tournament. A member of Canadas Dream Line with Guy Lafleur and Wayne Gretzky, Perreault was injured in the third period when he attempted to jump over a sprawled Gretzky, jamming his skate into the boards. He suffered a fractured ankle and will be sidelined for six to eight weeks. my AnocWad Prtu Lawrptoto Special Effort Prevails RUIDOSO DOWNS, N.M. (UPI) Special Effort splashed to immortality Monday in the $1.3 million All American Futurity, posting a four-lengvictory in the worlds richest quarter horse race and becoming the sports first Triple Crown winner. colt earned The unbeaten $528,000 for the victory in pushing his years earnings to $1,026,723 in nine outings. With victories in the May 21 Kansas Futunty and the July 26 Rainbow Futurity, he became the first quarter horse in the All Americans 26year history to capture the Triple Crown. He was nudged at the start by the No. 9 horse, Exclusive Roula, who had been bumped by No. 8, Cute Investment, then thundered to the lead In the 446yard dash, covering the distance in 21.69 seconds before 8,690 fans. The colt went off as the 5 favorite th mores Bert Jones on Dec. against the New York Jets. In that span were third-quart- touchdown passes of 13 yards to rookie running back James Brooks and four yards to veteran back Hank Bauer. Fouts also connected with Ron Smith on a 36yard TD pass in the fourth period. Brooks, the Chargers No. 1 draft choice out of Auburn, opened the touchdown run scoring with a four-yar- d in the first period. And Muncie, obtained in a trade with New Orleans four games into the 1980 season, matched his e rushing record of personal 161 yards, set in 1979 against Atlanta. Nine of his yards came on a touchdown run in the second period. It was a devastating performance by Fouts and his receivers, most notably Charlie Joiner, who caught six passes for 191 yards. In all, the Chargers rolled up 535 yards on 66 plays, an average of 8.1 yards per play. Brian Sipe, the NFL's Most Valuable Player and statistical passing leader last year, tried in vain to keep the Browns in the game. He completed a 31 passes on 57 attempts for d 375 yards, including touchdowns of 18 yards to Ricky Feacher in the second quarter and four yards to Greg Pruitt in the third quarter. Sipe was also intercepted twice, the only two turnovers of the game. Rolf Benirschke kicked field goals of 50, 43 and 33 yards to complete the scoring for the Chargers before a Municipal Stadium crowd of 78,904. That crowd put the NFLs seasonopening weekend total at 866,788, surpassing the leagues first weekend record of 837,755 set two years ago. The game was only 4:10 old when the Chargers took the lead on Brooks run, drive capping a seven-plahighlighted by Fouts 16yard pass to Dwight Scales on San Diegos frst play of the game. The Chargers made it 160 with eight seconds remaining in the first quarter on Benirschke's 56yard field goal. And Benirichke made it 267 with his field goal 3:45 from halftif e. one-gam- club-recor- and paid $2.60, $2.40 and $2.20. Jockey W.R. Hunt, who rode last t, years AH American champion, to victory, had the colt pulling away at the wire from Go for Bugs, which finished second, and Classy Native. Owners Dan and Jolene Urschel of Canadian, Texas, achieved some immortality of their own with Special Efforts victory. The Panhandle couple owned the 1979 All American winner Pie in the Sky and last years runner-up- , Mighty Deck Three. Monday's lace was run on one of the sloppiest tracks at the All American since Easy Jet sloshed to victory in 1969. The favorites in two of the previous three All Americans with muddy tracks were beaten. Special Effort joined Higheasterjet as quarter horse racings second High-easterje- mud-splatter- 15, 1974, d |