European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 03, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 26 the stars and stripes Friday june 3, 1977 Ramirez Gottfried pull off French open upsets Paris Dpi Raul Ramirez of Mexico upset defending Champion Adriano Zanatta 7-6. 6-3, 7-5, thursday to reach the semifinals of the $330.000 French open Tennis championships Ramirez the no.5 seed always had the Edge Over the italian whose game was never at its sharpest it was the second year in a Row that the mexican reached the semis Here and he will face Guillermo Vilas of Argentina who downed Wojtek Fibak of Poland 64. M. 6-4.in a Sec sawing quarterfinal finished late wednesday night Brian Gottfried battled from behind to upset top seeded Hie Nastase 4-6.3-6.6-2.6-2,6-3. Gottfried of fort Lauderdale Fla. Is the Only . Player left in the men s tournament which no american has won for 22 years. Sports briefs skating Union bans soviet judges Paris ii the International skat ing Union has decided to suspend soviet figure skating judges for one year starting Jan. 1978, because the judges were biased. Isu president Jacques Favart of France announced wednesday. Favart told newsmen this decision was made because of the National partiality of the soviet judges which has been no lived Over the past four years by the Isu decision Means that there will be no soviet judges at any of the world s largest figure skating events next year including the european championships in Strasbourg. France the world Champion ships in Ottawa Canada or at the Junior world championships in Meg eve France. The soviet Union has the world s largest National skating federation and Many soviet skaters such As Vladimir Kovalev Irina Rodnina and Alexander waists cd rank among the world s Best. The women s doubles title went to Cali Romian Teeguarden and Regina mar Sikova of Czechoslovakia who teamed up for the first time to beat Rayni Fox of Flor Ida and Helen Gourlay of Australia 5-7,6-4. 6-2. In the Ramirez Zanatta match the first set went right Down to the wire with serv ice. At 6-6 in the tie break. Zanatta hit a backhand Over the Baseline and then went wide with a forehand passing shot to hand it to Ramirez 8-6. Zanatta appeared out of steam in the second set and the Start of the third. But when he led 5-1 in the third set Ramirez made the mistake of letting up and Zanatta scrambled his Way Back to 5-5. But the Effort Cost him a lot physically and when Ramirez pulled his concentration together the mexican held his service logo 6-5 up and then broke Zanatta s serve in the final game when the italian faded badly and hit a succession of Loose strokes. I m very tired. I have just played too much Tennis this year Zanatta admitted he was worried when the italian came Back at him from 1-5 in the last remembered what he did last year and How he kept coming from behind. I should be stopped thinking about that and . Sports columnist twombly Dies san Francisco up ii Wells twombly 41, much honoured sports columnist of the san Francisco examiner died Here of an acute internal disorder. His death of cured at Kaiser Hospital in nearby Redwood City where he had been undergoing his seven years at the examiner. Twombly received numerous National and local sports writing awards. Besides writ ing six columns a week he was the author of four . Button s Best sports stories of the year contained twombly works in 16 of the 20 years he wrote was born and reared in Connecticut and was graduated from the University of Connecticut his first newspaper Job was As sports editor of the Willimantic Conn daily chronicle he later worked for the Pasadena i Calif i Star news and the san Fernan do Valley times before becoming sport columnist of the Houston chronicle. Fol lowing two years with the Detroit free press he joined the examiner. Adamek wins Chicago Wyba meet Chicago up ii Donna Adamek. A Rookie from Monrovia. Calif., won her last six match play games wednesday night to win the women professional bowlers association Columbia 300 Chicago classic. The Victory was Adamick s first pro win and carried with it a prize of $.1.000.Adamek won 11 of 12 match play games Wal Degaard wins acropolis rally Athens. Greece api Sweden s Bjorn Wal Degaard. Leading throughout the 2.759 Kilometres in one of Europe s Tough est Road competitions was declared the Winner of the 24th acropolis rally thurs Daywan Lyngaard who had missed out in eight previous attempts took the rave led Prie with co Driver 11. Thor a Iii in u Ford escort s Roger Clark and John Porter started Ramirez said. But i knew eventually i would play two Good games in a Row and that s the Way it happened he said. I did t think there was any Point in serving hard so 1 concentrated on spinning the first serve and going to his forehand a lot. I would attack the net but Only behind a my goal this year is to do Well Here at Wimbledon and Forest Hills and not worry so much about the grand Gottfried Nastase match flowed Back and Forth in an extraordinary Way. There was a lot of Brilliant Tennis but both men had erratic spells As the tension mounted and gusts of wind played tricks with the Ball. Darkness was falling on the Center court of Roland Garros when the Marathon ended after three hours and 15 minutes of Cut and was touch and go whether the Umpire would order the match halted until mom ing. But he looked up at the darkening sky and told them to play on and Gottfried found the strokes to finish the a men s doubles semifinal thursday Gottfried and Ramirez Defeated Bob Hewitt of South Africa and Nastase 6-4, 6 3. Wednesday and posted a pinball total of 4, 254 for the tourney to outdistanced runner Spain Rutherford. Oroville. Calif., who finished at 4.143 to collect $2,000 in prize place went to Patty costello Scranton. Pa., who took Home $1,500, and Betty Morris. Stockton calif., was fourth. In a Ford escort its were second followed by Sweden s Harry Kallstrom and g. Bil Stam in a Dat Sun 160-j. The much sought after manufacturers cup was won by Ford of England. Of the 160 cars that started at the foot of the acro Polis on monday Only 29 managed to finish the was Finland s Veteran rally Driver Simon Lampinen and Swen Andreasson in a Fiat Barth 131. Brian Gottfried in route to win Over uie Nastase. Last american left in French open men s singles Richards to play with wet s nets Cleveland up ii transsexual or Tenee Richards thursday signed a con tract with the Cleveland Pittsburgh nets to play world team Tennis Lor the club through the 1978 season details of the pact were not disclosed. I signed her because she is a Good Plaver and it will add depth to our team said owner Joe . This also will be a tremendous drawing card for he said negotiations to sign Richards an ophthalmologist. Came up quite recently and it did not take much time to reach agreement. Hopefully she will help our club. Zingale said i think she is quite capable of playing for us and will play singles and doubles depending on what player coach Marty Wiessen pm Gale said he did not seek wet approval to sign the 42-year-old woman i did t ask them this is the Way 1 want he said. There s a lot of politics involved when you try to get approval from everybody for such a la St month. Richards withdrew from the French open in Paris apparently after failing again to pass an olympic style chromosome test Richards dropped out of the event after receiving but nol reveal ing test results. She earlier had failed i sesame test in Rome before withdrawing from the italian open. Richards applied to play Al the . Open last fall but was denied admission be cause she refused to take the chromosome test. The women s Tennis association has also taken a stand against Richards participation in women s events though former Sta president Billie Jean King has played with and against Richards in Lionel cup matches. Richards name used to be or. Richard Raskind and was ranked nationally As a mans Amateur singles player. Cross country event scheduled for Hanau Hanau. Germany the Hanau Community will hold its Cross country championships on june 7 near the Camp Pond area Here it has been announced. The event which is slated to Start at 2 p.m., includes three divisions open 10.000 meter senior s 3,000 and women s 3.000and is open to All Active military. For further information persons May con tact their local sports directors within the Hanau Community. The top 10 qualifiers in the open the top four finalists in both the senior s and women s Competition will Advance to the v corps championships on june 11 at Mainz
