European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 4, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 20 the stars and stripes saturday july 4, 1959 i in player s final round 68 captures British open Bullock Van Donck 2d Mirfield Scotland a Gary player 23-year-old South african,.Friday shot a four under 68 to win the British open Golf Champion ship and become the youngest Champion since Scotland s fabled Tom to tic 11 1 pc won in 1868. Player turned in improving Golf each Day in the 72-Hole championship Ove the 6,806-Yard Mirfield links. Player finished with a total of 284 and had a two stroke Edge overfed Bullock England and Flory Van Donck Belgium tied for Sec Ond place. Toughened in South african professional toughened on the american circuit had rounds of 75-71-70-68. Player finished Early and then sweated it out for two hours wait Ting for the last two men Bullock and Van Donck to finish. Bullock and Van Donck came tothe 72d Hole needing Birdie threes to tie player and Force a hunkered his drive took three to get on the Green and finished with a five. Van Donck was on the Edge of the Green in two and then three putted from about 20 Yards. Olmedo easily puts Down for Wimbledon singles Crowni f Wimbledon England a Alex Olmedo Peru Friday became the 1959 Wimbledon men s Cham Pion with a 6-4," 6-3, 6-4 win Over Rod Laver Olmedo 23, thus rounded off a glittering year that brought him the . Indoor title the australian title and glory of winning the Davis cup for the . It also is almost certain to bring him a$100jooo offer to turn pro. The. Easy going Olmedo is the first South american Ever to win at wiry Little Rod Laver 20, it meant the end of a bid to make spa Flye no trims is 7-0 Span Dahlem Germany Spe Cial Span Dahlem s spartans behind lefty Frank Starks turned the Long a waited Safe Germany District meeting with Wiesbaden into a Whitewash Here 7-0. Starks limited Wiesbaden s Fly ers to three scattered hits while Dan Haas personally demolished Bruce Nelson s six game win Streak with homers in the fourth and sixth innings. Starks now has an 8-0 record while Nelson is 6-1.spang upped its league leading record to 17-2. The flyers Are 11-4.george Mccoy and Bill Soo each drove in a pair of runs in the 11-hit spartan outburst. Bit Burg Germany special Roy Hord doubled Home a run in the fifth inning Here to give the Pitburg. Barons a 4-3 Safe Ger Many District Triumph Over the Rhine main rockets. Adam Yopp was Way out Boston s Jackie Jensen is togged out by Cleve land second baseman Granny Hamner. Calling the play is Umpire Larry Napp. The indians won. 5-4. A photo Lemon belts three run Homer in 10th to give senators 6-3 Victory Over botox the Winner yielding six hits. Bill weekly took the loss.1 Tenn. A i coach quits for Post with Cleveland of nil Nashville . Up Johnny Mclendon has resigned As basketball coach at Tennessee i to become coach of the Cleve land papers of the National Indus trial basketball league. Mclendon 44, has been at a five years and compiled a remark Able record of 151 wins and 18losses. For three consecutive years his Tennessee a i teams have won the naia basketball title. Mclendon signed a two year con tract with the Cleveland team and Wilt get a salary somewhere be tween $10,000 and $15,000. Olson to assist mover for july 10 title bout Portland Ore. A former middleweight Champion Carlbo to Olson is coming Here from san Francisco to help Young Denny Moyer prepare for his july 10 title fight with welterweight Champi Ondon Jordan. Sid Flaherty who. Manages Moyer and once handled Olsom said the sex Champ will be a spar ring partner for the undefeated youngster Olson recently launched a comeback in California. He has Pri Pouf straight bouts a. Washington a Jim Lem on belted the Washington. Senators to a 6-3 Victory Over the Boston red sox thursday with a dramatic three run Homer in the Bottom of the 10th inning. Lemon s blast into the Center Field seats was his 19th Home run of the year. He clobbered a Leo Kiely pitch with one out in the extra inning with Harmon Kille Lemon sour Boston Washington and u h Al ii u Keough. Of 412 Asprom Mie. 2b 2 0 0 Dhu Ilia. Of 100 Hall Ord. 21 000 Hui gels 21 400 a Joec Lucr 1 0 0 Williams. If 400 Cleveneer p 000 Tielborg. Ii 000 Stolls p 000 Navilla 1 0 0 a i Ortr o 100 Wirtz in 412 Allison of 512 . Ii 1 0 1 kill threw Job 522 Liaison of 411 Sli Vars in 310 . So 50 -1 Lemon. If418 Daley. B 000 lir Dueberry. Of 4 0 0luiuciiii, so so 2 801 Sullivan i 200 . 000 plows0 i i Cyde p Stephens. If 0 0 � console is a Green Bertola. 2b totals .3 totals s3 0 0 a doubled for Fischer 8 a filed out for Bainfil. Sio popped up for Sullivan. 0 a Flud out for Kuuku 0 a struck out for i Elker u of run for Courtney u a filed out for stouts 9., Boston Washington Sullivan Kiely a 2.2 Fischer a Clovi Uke Stobbs Lydo a 1-1 100 000 020 0,3 001 000 020 36 in h 8 7 Ivy 28 8 0 6 1 0 r Erbb so a pitched to i Batter in oth b Consolo. Sullivan. To a Boston 28-10, \vtthhlii8ton 80-18. Do Jensen. Wirtz tunnels Odd in Hurt lob Boston 10. Washington 7. 2b Orfin Lemon kill Lebrett. Nil Keouli Allison Jonson. Lemon. 8 Fischer. Sullivan. Lol a cough join in 2. Allison 4. Balk Fischer a i Parol left Hurley Stourt Nofu a la nil brew and Roy Sievers on base. Killebrew had doubled after Bob Allison grounded out and Sievers was purposely walked. The served Only to delay disaster for Lemon was the next Man up. Reliever Dick Hyde was credited with his first Triumph of the year. He got it after facing Only fou men in the top. Of the 10th. Marty Keough playing Center manager Mike Higgins his lineup led off Thefield a shuffled game with his fifth Home run Allison squared it in the third with a blast into the Loftfield bleachers his 21st four Bagger. Those were the Only runs until the eighth As Boston s Frank sul Livan and Washington s Bill Fischer waged a corking Mound Duel. Both starters gave Way to Pinch hitters As each club scored twice in the eighth. 3 Young pitchers sign with Detroit Detroit a three pitchers have signed minor league contracts with the. Detroit tigers. They Are southpaws Roger Arm Strong Gary ind., and Bernard Kazakavich right hander Wood Little Rock Ark. Armstrong was signed to a class contract. Only 17, he struck out 291 batters in four years of High school pitching. T Kazakavich 18,had a 16-4 High school Mark including two one hitters. He also signed class d contract. Gatewood 2q, who pitched for Arkansas state signed with Birmingham in the class a a Southern association. Scranton pa., a Daubrey x Lee Gate Jackie Jensen poled his 17th Homer with Vic Wertz aboard for Boston s scores. The senators retaliated with a pair on Lennie Green s double Killebrew s single and a two Bagger by Lemon the second of his three hits. De Joulia net paces tour Bordeaux France up Michel de Johannet regional Center won a sprint Victory overnight men who managed a break away in the eighth Lap of the tour of France Here thursday. Wimbledon history by being the first unseeded Man to win the top title of Amateur Tennis. Only two unseeded men Wilmer Allison of the . And Kurt Nielsen Den Mark had previously reached to hts final since authorities started seed ing the draw 32 years ago. Dropping Only one service Gam throughout the match Olmedo made it All look deceptively Esayas he kept his left handed opponent from gaining any hold on the play. Powerful serves and perfect volleys gave Olmedo the Crown in a final that lasted Only an hour and 12 minutes. From the opening games it was obvious to the 13,000 gathered around the Center court that Olmedo carried too much artillery for Laver. The Only time Olmedo lost disservice was in the eighth game of the opening set. Even then he still had a Lead of 5-3 and was Able to run off the set without Strain. He broke Laver in the first an fifth games of the opening set the seventh and ninth games of the second set and in the 10th game of the final set. Three match Point three match Points came up in that last game. The struggling aver saved one with a Well hit Volley. Olmedo blew the second Oneby returning service into the net. Both charged up to the net at the third one. They volleyed at lightning Speed with Olmedo forcing Laver to stroke weakly to the Bottom of the net. Olmedo scored eight aces and served three double faults. Laver racked up four aces and double Fay Ted five times once in the final game. In his first three service game sin the match Olmedo gave up Only two Points a remarkable scoring record. Twice in that set Laver came within a Point of breaking each time Olmedo crowded his opponent Back. Olmedo used More than brute strength. He scored several win ners with delicate lobs that floated just Over Laver s outstretched Racket. Men s singles finals Defeated Rod lox Olmedo. Peru Australia 6-4. B-3, of l. Laver women s doubles semifinal s Joanne Atli. St. Paul minn., and Darlene Hani Mont Olallo calif., Defeated Sandra Reynolds and Reno Schunn Nati. South Africa. N i poor Loy Flositz. Long Bench. Calif., of ? v0/ """1" Brilain to heated Rosar Oyos and Yola Ramirez Mexico 8-6. 6-1. Alex sidesteps All questions about reported pro offers Wimbledon England a Alex Olmedo new Wimbledon Champion dodged All questions Friday about turning professional and said i d like to come Back Here to Wimbledon next year1." he added i Haven t though seriously about turning pro and it s Tiuch too Early to say any thing definite about the .-futureyet.". The quiet spoken peruvian Howa student at the University of Southern California flatly denied British press reports that he had received an offer from Althea Gib son last year s woman Champion to turn professional in a newsgroup. Olmedo said plans Are to return to the . For the Davis cup matches. Asked Point Blank whether he wanted to turn professional Olmedo said i Don t know. I m thinking now about play be it-�.,my for the . Davis cup team then maybe going to Peru for a rest next year. But that s As far ahead As i m the new title Olcier said he was confident and sure of his game in 1 nday s big match on the Center court Here the main stage in this most venerated of All Tennis tournaments. I Felt confident that my Fine he said. I thought Leaver was nervous at first but so was i. He played Welt but thought i could move him around and i did manage to make his Olmedo said the Man he feared most in this year s Wimbledon tournament was India s Ramana than Krishnan. Krishnan upset the 23-year-old peruvian in a pre Wimbledon match. But the Indian fell victim to Olmedo s cutting service an whiplash backhand in the third round 6-4, 3-6, 6-4, 7-s
