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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 27, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              April 27, 1968 the stars and stripes Page 19 of stuns Emerson fit 2nd upset Bournemouth England jux Mark Cox British Ama j Navis cup Star demolished pm is Ono Australia 8-0, f?y7-5 thursday and made an ther Dent in the battered image 2 professional Tennis. Cox a 24-year-old left hander moved into the Semi finals of British hard courts Cham i ships the world s first Tennis tournament Jed sled an unbelieving crowd of 2 a was to face Australia s Bod Laver the world s top Oxey winning professional i Friday s semis. -. A two other stars of he tonal circuit Ken Josf crw Salia and Andrei Toet Toupain were paired Fet the other  by Elminti titty Veter m professional Pancho Gonzales of los Angeles and for two set sir Day he made Emerson Mac punishes Wichita state Kansas City. To. Of sure Here this week. 3foej Are frightened of losing and they Are not doing themselves  Emerson completely Ini Miu ated could manage Only nine Points in the first set which was Jall Over in 13 minutes. He did t fare much better in the second set. Shows old form then Emerson showed. Signs 1of the form that won him two Wimbledon titles and ran up a i4-1 Lead in the third set but just As it looked As if Cox might be losing his grip the englishman hit a Stream of service return Down the lines and the match swung Back his Way the crowd scented another big upset when Bobby Wilson Brit ish Davis cupper took a 5-2 Lead in the second set against Laver but the red headed australian turning on the heat when it mattered most came Back to win comfortably 8-2, 8-6, 6-2.gimeno, who was brought up on the hard courts of his native Spain hammered Fred Stolle of Australia 6-2, 6-1, 6-0.rcsewall Defeated Owen Davidson australian profession Al coach of the British Davis cup team 6-3, 7-5, 6-3.the irony of thursdays upset was that Cox playing it cautiously had chosen to compete for expenses of Only $120. Had shebeen going for the prize Moeny he would have already won a least $600. Valerie Ziegenfuss of san die go calif., the last american nope in the women s singles went out to British Star Virginia Wade 7-5, 6-3, in the Quarter finals. Bad moment at Monza Peter  loses a wheel on his Ferrari 275lm during the 1,000 Kilometre race Armonza Italy thursday. Unhurt he left the race. Winners were Paul Hawkins and David Hobbs of Britain in a Ford gt40. They toured the course in five hours 18minutes, 23.4 seconds averaging 190.332 Kilometres an hour. A porsche 907 place second and an Alpine Renault third. French skier Jean Claude Killy driving at Monza for the first time finished 10th in a porsche. A photo 106-105 in overtime pipers up hues tie Suffes at 2-2 new Orleans a Charlie Williams Sank a free throw with one second left i overtime to give the Pittsburgh pipers a 106-105 Victory Over new Orleans in the american basketball association championship playoffs thursday night. The Best of 7 series betwee the two teams is tied 2-All. The playoffs shift to Pitts Burgh for the fifth game Satur Day  s Connie Hawkins who led All scorers with 47 Points new Orleans fan drops charges against Heyman new Orleans up Joseph Juhas 23, an avid new wiemans Buccaneer fan thurs a night dropped assault barges against Pittsburgh Piper Forward Art Heyman. I.0n�nge a Kan. American Bas Weidall association commission a i vide the announcement poor to the fourth game of the current Aba championship series Between new Orleans and  re was an unfortunate Noi nor incident but it is All closed la said. The former Duke University ail american and the Thibodaux la., fan Shook hands inthe Middle of the court. Juhas also tossed out the game Ball. A spokesman at the Orleans Parish county Central lockup said the incident occurred when Heyman was leaving the court following the pipers 109-101 loss to the  approached Heyman a shoving match followed an Juhas apparently fell and hit his head on a Concrete step. Missed a shot with eight seconds left and the score tied 105 105 in the extra period. The Doug Moe fouled Williams who Sank his first shot but missed the second. The game went into overtime when new Orleans Larry Brown backpedal a to the 25-foot line and fired in a three Point Basket to tie the score 98-98 when the Buzzer sounded to end regulation  jumped in front in the overtime but new Orleans tied it 105-105 on a free throw by  big difference came in re Bounds. Pittsburgh led 76-52 i rebounds with Tom Washington pulling Down 25.Hawkins hit 17 of 34 from the Field and went 13 for 14 at the free throw line. Pittsburg Hoft wish inn 7 4-9 18 a Rand Hoy inn 0 1-2 1 Moo he Una 17 13-14 47 bbl Esvaughn 2 3-5 8 Brown a Viama 4 2-4 10 Jones Jarvis 4 1-1 8 Unis Porter 2 2-3 6 quran Van do 1 00 2 Dill 2 1-1 6 totals new Orleans Oft 8 7-7 19 9 -1-s 22 5 0-0 10 5 6-8 is 8 6-9 z 6 3-s 13 0 01 0 38 86-36 �0b39 27-39 106 total Pittsburgh. 25 22 26 26 8-10new Orlean. 28 24 so 16 7 ios three Point goals Vaughn Brown 2 four u out new Orleans Foreland total fouls Rit Uburth 2s, new Orlean 31.alu in lunch 7,000 phils Send Down 2 rookies recall Colton from pc Philadelphia up Phil Adelphia Phillies shortstop Don Money the big Man in the Trade which sent Jim Bunning to the Pittsburgh pirates an fellow Rookie outfielder Larry Hisle were shipped thursday tothe san Diego padres. At the same time the Phillie announced the recall of padres Pitcher Larry Colton and the Purchase of shortstop Roberto  Gene Mauch of the Phillies said Money and Hisle both subject to 24-hour recall were exposed to major league play after Fine Spring training performances As part of a club program for them. Lauded by Mauch both benefited from thei Brief stay with the club and now i believe it is Best for them Togo out and play every Day Mauch said. The 20-year-old Money batted.231 in four games with the Phillies this season. Hisle also20, appeared in seven Early games and batted .364. Colton a right hander was 1-2with the padres and had a 3.13 earned run average in three games to Date. Pena who was with the Chicago cubs in 1965and 1966, hit .234 in 146 games last season and was batting .219in 28 games this year. The two were due to report to the Philli Esin Atlanta Friday. Niagara Murphy to sit tight Niagara Falls . A Calvin Murphy the nation s Sec Ond highest collegiate score last season will continue his basketball career at Niagara University his new coach said thursday. Frank Leyden who takes Over officially july 1 As the purple eagles coach thus put to res persistent rumours saying Mur Phy would leave Niagara. Murphy had declined to com ment on the rumours although earlier this month he told news men i never said i would t be , who was chosen to succeed Jim Maloney said he talked with Murphy wednesday and that Murphy told him he wanted to play basketball for me and for  averaged 38.2 Points in 24 games for Niagara in the1967-68 Campaign. He was named to the associated pres second All american team. Johnson gets decision in Warthem match Portland Maine up Georgie Johnson of Trenton nj., outclassed eighth ranked middleweight Bobby Warthem of new York thursday night to gain a unanimous decision in their 10 round fight at the exposition building. Johnson won a split decision Over Warthem Here a year ago. Both weighed in at 165i thursday  
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