European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 18, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 26 the stars and stripes saturday june 18, 1977 jets1 coach will Pilot red wings Detroit up Bobby Kromm coach of the Winnipeg jets of the world hockey association thursday was name to succeed Larry Wilson As coach of the Detroit red general manager Ted Lindsay acknowledged he was honouring a agreement made with Kromm when Alex Delvecchio was still pm of the red said when i took Over that i wanted to keep Larry in his position As coach Lindsay said but Bobby had an agreement with the organization."1 am pleased to announce that we Are establishing our own farm club i Oklahoma City of the Central hockey league and Larry has agreed to go Dow there and coach. We need consistency and a single system in the tangled situation began when Delvecchio hired Wilson brother of Pittsburgh Penguin coach Johnny Wilson in mid season last year luring him from the Philadelphia flyers was fired later during the season and Lindsay was tabbed to succeed him. He said at the time he wanted to retain Larry Wilson but was unaware the Detroit organization had agreed prior to last season to hire coached the jets from 1975-76 after starting out in the Chicago black1 Law organization. Winnipeg won the Avo cup. The wha equivalent of the Stanley cup in Kromm s first season and this past year the jets too the Quebec nordic is to Llic seventh game of the final round before losing. Stingers tap Demers As coach Cincinnati up the Cincinnat stingers thursday named Jacques Demers head coach of the world hockey association team for the 1977-78 coached the wha Indianapolis racers for the last two seasons. Although Demers had one year remaining on his contract with Indianapolis stingers Gen eral manager Bill Dewitt or. Received per Mission from the racers to negotiate with the 32 year old coach. Demers who signed a one year contract with the stingers replaces Terry Slater. Every King Pace win Over s. Africa . Gains fed cup finals Eastbourne England a the . Had an unexpectedly easy passage into the final of the federation women s Lawn Tennis cup Here Friday when Chris Evert and Billie Jean King needed Only 99 minutes Between them to end South Afri Ca s Challenge in the noisy anti apartheid demonstrations going on outside the grounds Alt the players found it difficult to concentrate but As it turned out the americans did thave much to beat. South Africa s two players. Briggitte cuypers and Greer Stevens played Well below their Best form and Between them they won Only four games against the pow Erful americans. King got her team off to a Good Start in the opening singles by beating Stevens 6-2, 6-0.the 22-year-old Evert soon made sure of her team s place in the finals saturday when she took s3 minutes to beat cuypers,6-1,6-1, with the South african hardly Able to string two Good shots the doubles Evert and Rosie Casals were pushed by the Welt drilled South Afri can pair of Linky Boshoff and Liana Kloss before coming through in three sets 6-0, 3 6,9-7.when the 20-year-old Stevens walked out onto the Center court with King the demonstrations outside the grounds were the noisiest of the week. The continual shouting of South Africa out and Down with apartheid went on All through the match. Of Watson clocks top time in swedish up practice ande Storp Sweden up John Watson of Northern Ireland drove his Brabham to the fastest practice time Friday covering the 2.48-mile scandinavian raceway in 1 25.545 for 105.01 Miles per hour in preparation for sunday s swedish formula 1 grand prix the eighth in the world championship african Jody Scheckter current Leader in the championships was runner up in a Wolf with 1 25.681, while american Mario Andretti in a Lotus was third in i-.25.889."i had no problems at All today Watson a 31-year-old Veteran said after the session. But i la have to improve my time during saturday s practice if i m going to remain in the pole Watson recorded the fastest time of the Day on his 63rd practice Lap before 4,000spectators. Scheckter came up with his Best performance on the same Lap while Andretti made his Best on the 60th. Reigning world Champion James Hunt was fourth in a Mclaren with 1 26.052. We had some problems today Andretti said but our mechanics will Beable to sort it out Over night. 1 am con Vinced i la race faster the first practice session former world Champion Emerson Fittipaldi of Brazil spun off the track in his Fittipaldi Cope Sucar but was unhurt. I lost a rear wheel and could not Stop my car he said. Fittipaldi Only 24th after the morning session improved to 17th place in the second session with 1 27.620.local Tavonte Ronnie Peterson also spun off the track without injury in the morning. He recorded the seventh fastest time a 1 26.383 with his Elf Tyrell in the second have problems with my the swede said. The Back tires Don t work like they should on this track. I Hope we found out what the troubles two More practice sessions were scheduled for saturday to determine the pole position for sunday s race. Scheckter leads the standings with 32 Points ahead of aus Trian Niki Lauda in a Ferrari with .11 and Carlos Reutemann of Argentina also in a Ferrari with 23. Brazil s Emerson Fittipaldi left i takes a grim look at his wrecked car during swedish grand prix practice. A photo Ledwards Stevens said 1 tried not to let the noise worry me Loo much. I knew what they were shouting but i did not take too much first King appeared to be just As perplexed As her Young opponent and Al though the 33-year-old american was soon 3-0 up in the opening set Many of he Points had come from the South african s nervous match began 90 minutes behind schedule because of rain. The rain caused another 23-minute delay As soon As Kin had taken the first set 6-2. When play resumed. King who was wearing Slacks under her Steve less Tennis dress to guard against the cold quickly re gained control and whipped through the second set without loss of a doubles it was the first set the Ameri cans had dropped in their run towards to saturday s an exciting match that was in doubt right up until the end the South africans illustrated vividly just How much discipline and understanding is needed to reach the lop in doubles. They were the Best doubles pair the americans had faced in the Fede ration cup and Are seeded third for the Centennial Wimbledon doubles one behind Evert and . Women were to meet the Winner of the other semifinal Between Bri Tain and Australia in saturday s Best of Inree match South african Captain Claude Lister said afterwards that he had Bee disappointed with his team s performance. The girls did their Best but it was unfortunate that they were both off form today he said. But at the same time the Ameri cans were very Good and i Don t see How they can be Cox Pfister tied As rain postpones Queen s Tennis London up Calif Oman Han Pfister and British Lethander Mark Cox were deadlocked at 4-4 in the deciding set Friday when rain halted their semifinal clash in the $100,000 Queen s club Tennis had won the first set 9-8, and Pis Ter took the next 6-1 to level. The match was to continue saturday a fortunate interruption for Cox who pulled a stomach muscle towards the end of the opening set. Pfister. 23, who is on his honeymoon has already beaten three Wimbledon seeds a Queen s and was hoping to add Cox to his list of impressive scalps Stan Smith Ili Nastase and Roscoe Tanner. The 6-foot-4 Calif Oman from Bakers Field led 3-1 in the opening set but was caught at 3-3 and Cox went on to capture the set by seven Points to five in the tie break was then Cox began to feel his Sto Mach trouble and offered Only Token Resis Tance in the second dropped his serve to Trail 1-3 in the final set but he bounced Back to reel off the next three games before Cox held his service for 4-4 and then the rain came. The other semifinal Between Brian Gottfried of Bonaventure fla., and mexi can Raul Ramirez never got underway an was also postponed until saturday mom ing. Tigers option Ruble to farm Detroit up the Detroit tigers activated right handed Pitcher Vern Rubl thursday and then optioned him to their Evansville farm club in the american association. Ruble had been on the disable list since May 20 because of tendinitis in his right shoulder
