European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 17, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 30 the stars and stripes Friday june 17, 1977 Pfister whips Tanner for 3rd upset in Queens London up honeymooning Hank Pfister a 23-year-old from Bakersfield. Calif., claimed his third seeded victim thursday with an upset quarterfinal Victory Over fellow american Roscoe Tanner in the 100,000 Queen s club Tennis Tournai Tanner from Lookout Mountain term., went the same Way As loth Sec did Stan Smith and third seeded Hie Nastase did wednesday both losing to Pfister. The 6-Foou californian ranked Only 44th in the ., out served Tanner who is reputed to have one of the biggest serves in the world and won 9-8, 9-8, holding the Edge in both decisive lie break first set went by without a service break and it was not until the eighth game of the second set that a break was made when Tanner took a 5-3 Lead. But Pfister playing in Only his fifth tournament on grass broke Back immediately and then Hung on grimly to Clinch a semifinal place. Pfister who is on a Tennis honeymoon with his wife of nine Days Kim could Well have been a cripple 18 months ago after snapping his ankle ligaments. I had to have total reconstruction surgery and it was questionable whether t would Ever be 100 per cent again he the strength of his performance at Queens Pfister stands out As a Potenti Alth Reat at Wimbledon where he is in the same Section As Sweden s defending Champion Bjorn Borg and meets Nikki pulic of Yugo King Evert Triumph in singles Lead Into federation cup semis Eastbourne. England api Billie Jean Kisir getting better with every match she plays is now looking As Good a bet As anyone apart from Chris Evert the defending Champion for Wimbledon which starts next , Back to playing singles after a two year retirement helped steer the Into the semifinals of the women s federa Tion cup International Lawn Tennis Competition Here thursday with a 6-0. 6-0 Victory Over Frederique Thibault of France that look Only 37 , plus a 6-t, 6-3 win by Evert in the lop singles match against Francois Durr. Sends the Against South thursday King and Rosic Casals Learned to defeat Durr and Gail Locra sheriff 6-3. 7-5, in a doubles match for a 3 0 sweep of doubles match was not without Inci Dent at one stage the americans trailed 3 5 before getting Back into gear and winning four straight games to Seal the set and tie. In the singles. King gave a controlled display of Power and touch and the big. Academic parity labelled solution for College Grid Atlanta i up i Fred Davison. Chairman of the newly formed College football association said wednesday i colleges could agree on adequate academic standards that Many of the other prob lems facing big time football would fall into of academic problems will of course create some other said Davison. Also president of the University of la create some problems As we solve others but the feeling is that As the big problems fall by the Wayside the smaller ones will Start taking care of them selves sixty of the top College football Pwers were Here wednesday and thursday for the organizational meeting of the Cha. Founded earlier this year after Many schools expressed displeasure with the Economy trends taken within the Mcaa. We plan to work within the Mcaa and. At this time there is no move to form a so Perate Davison said. What we Are Here to do is to form an Organiza Tion which can propose legislation within the Mcaa to help solve the problems we now face Penn state s Joe Paterno. Head of the coaches of the Cha. Said the new Organiza Tion " or the first time in 27 years gives College coaches some solid input into pro posed Mcaa legislation in the past we be had too Many individuals who voiced com plaints after the fac but never before have we had an Opp Dimity to ban together to express our views ahead of said he agreed at a earlier meeting in Chicago to serve As chairman after learning that the group really is interested in improving academic Stan Dards " Strong Thibault could make Little impression on one rally. King muttered loudly. Come on. Billie Jean Here we go. Keep your Eye on the Ball " it was a winning shot that brought her personal reprimand such is her perfection. She conceded Only 20 Points in the match six in the whirlwind first was an exuberant display and Over shadowed Evert. Evert did not reach the Heights of King but she was economical and efficient in disposing of Durr. Evert took Early control of her match to Lead 5-0 in the first set. There were some Lively exchanges As the first six games of the second set were split but always Evert gave the impression that she could win when she liked. She did so with a powerful finish which saw her take the last three King who Lias won six sin Gles titles at Wimbledon said since arriving Here on monday 1 have been practising hard every Day and now i am beginning to feel the Benefit. I was very Happy with the Way i played today and if i can Only keep up this form i know i shall enjoy third time said Slavia in the first round. Fourth seeded Brian Gottfried the top ranking player left Here gained the Semi finals at the expense of italian Adriano , from Bonaventure Fla scored a comfortable 6-3, 6-4 Victory Over the eighth seeded italian who had saved match Points in overcoming his two Previ Ous opponents. Gottfried s semifinal opponent is fifth seeded mexican Raul Ramirez who dropped the first set to Jim Delaney of Potomac md., before winning 34,6-1,6-2. The big news wednesday was the withdrawal of top seeded Jimmy Connors and the defeat of second seeded Guillermo Vitas Connors favorite in this tournament and for Wimbledon next week withdrew officially claiming a sore thumb. But the 21 year old Lethander from Belleville iii., later told newsmen my thumb is quite Okay but i Don t think i will play any More matches at Queen s on the indoor Connors tuesday had threatened to pull out of the tournament Over having to play on indoor courts instead of grass because of rain. "1 did t come All this Way to play on boards he major upset came when Vitas of Argentina was Defeated 4-6, 84, 6-4, by australian Ross Case in a second round , in the third round Pfister. Scored a 6-2,6-3 Victory Over Nastac the temperamental romanian who was no. 8 seed. Nastase was unhappy at playing under Billie Jean King. Shows old form South Africa fourth seed was the first country to reach the semifinals by beating the Netherlands 2-1, Early thursday. Next to get through was Australia which Defeated West Germany also by 2-1. In both cases everything depended on the thursday morning s singles. South Africa s Greer Stevens needed Only 48 min utes winning the first 10 games to defeat Elly wessies. 6-1,6-3. Then Betty stove lev eled things for the Netherlands by beating Brigitte cuypers 6-2.6-1.South Africa made no mistake in the decisive doubles with their Young pair. Linky Boshoff and Inanna Kloss. Whipping stove and wessies 6-1,6-3.australia had a setback when Dianne Fromholtz. 20-year-old Lethander was beaten by Katja Ebbinghaus of West Ger Many. 6-4.04.44. But Kerry Reid squared it by defeating Helga Masthoff. 6-3.6-t. And teamed with Wendy turnout to pin a 24,6 .1. 6-3 defeat on Masthoff and Ebbinghausen the doubles and gain the semifinals against Britain second set and asked for the referee to be brought on court. He told the Umpire if you Don t get linesmen i Don t three extra lines men were brought on to court in response to this request. Pfister annoyed at the delay told Nas task hurry up and make a decision. I am getting argued with the crowd and was generally in one of his More bad tempered moods. Pfister refused to lose his concentration during the confrontations with Nas s semifinal opponent Friday was to be Britain s Mark Cox who edged australian Colin Dibley 8-9.6-3.104. Gottfried won an ail american third round Battle against Bob Lutz of san Clem Ente. Calif., 7-5. 6-1. And Delaney scored a 34. 6-2. 6-1 Victory Over Britain s John Feaver who had received a free passage following Connors defection. Ramirez edged Dick Stockton from Carrollton. Tex. 34. 6-3. 9-7 in another third round match 1980 Winter Gomes preparations Lake Placid group reassures Ioc Prague i Apt a six Man delegation from Lake Placid. . Answered awk Ward questions from the International olympic committee Ioc thursday and said the Little ski Community is Well on top of plans for the 1980 Winter olympics. Ioc members were concerned about accommodation for press and spectators. The americans said there Are permanently 10.000 Beds for visitors in the Lake Placid area another 20.000 within a 30 Miles radius and Between 1.000 and 2,000 additional Beds Are being planned for 1980.they also said the new York state legis lature is preparing a Bill to control hotel prices during the games. Ron my Kunzic president of the Lake Placid organizing committee told a news conference later that All fears about Lake Placid going through with the games can be environmental people Are Satis fied and Federal funds Are growing me Placid hosted the Winter olympics d 1932 but the games have grown beyond recognition since then and Lake Placid is a much smaller place than recent Host cities Grenoble. Sapporo and Ioc members and the International ski federation f1s. Have been worried Over Lake Placid s ability to Cope with the games now a world wide spectacle on television. Many in olympic circles have feared that Lake Placid might follow Denver which was granted the Winter games of 1976 but pulled out. After environmental objections. If such a thing happened a second time it would do untold harm to the olympic the six men from Lake Placid in an interview lasting nearly 1 a hours apparently convinced the Ioc that All is Well. Mckenzie said Lake Placid is ready Socope with two new events a 1-Kilometer biathlon race and a 20-Kilometer women s Cross country. The biathlon and ski federations have proposed adding both of these events to the program but the Ioc has not yet appro1, them Mckenzie said schools throughout new York state will raise funds to help the 1,600 athletes expected from other countries with their expenses. In this Way the schools will feel they Are part of the olympic games Mcken Zie said. We expect this to be a great Public relations Jim a Borrali. Canadian member of the Ioc. Read a report from the Montreal organizing committee. The total debt left to Montreal taxpayers from the games has been estimated at Between $200 and $300 million. But the report showed that the organizing commit tee actually made an operational profit of $126 million. This excess has been in part remitted to the City of Montreal and the government of Quebec province As a contribution to enormous construction costs incurred by the report said. The remainder will be remitted to
