European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 29, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday june 29, 1977 the stars and stripes Page 25 Frazier of Tennis Byril Grimsley Wimbledon England a _ Billie Jean King is the Joe Frazier of Tennis. Cut her to ribbons. Smash her from Dinar to Post. Knock her Down. Spit on  your Heel in her Eye. Then Pivot. She bounces Back swinging. Retire quit tournament Tennis you gotta be kidding the plucky. 33-year-old grand Dame of Wimbledon champions snapped after a humiliating 6-1, 6-2 loss to Chris Evert monday before a packed Center court gallery in the aged Wimble Don stadium. It just Means i be got a lot More work she said. I be got to make myself match Tough. I gotta be Tough mentally As retire quit tournament Tennis you gotta be kidding says King Well As physically. I gotta go out and kill myself for the next six months. It s a Long arduous pro Cess. I will suffer. But i la be  it s a warning her contemporaries would do Well to heed. Billie Jean May lose a Battle but she loses very few wars. People around Long Beach Calif., re member her As the Pudgy Little fireman s daughter who played baseball with her brother and other boys in the Corner lot sliding and slashing with the Best of them. Tennis she d never be a Good Tennis player they said. She did t have the Graceful strokes and the lightning Speed. All she did was pounce and puff fuss and by Randy Barnett racing Roundup with his Victory at Rouen France on sunday the Young american Star Eddie Cheever now trails by just two Points in the Battle for the european formula 2 Champion ship Good news indeed Cheever was i charge the whole weekend taking pole position in his halt Bow and leading the race from Start to finish. His margin Over run Crup Ricardo Patrese of Italy Chev Ron Bow was seven seconds. Third came Frenchman Didier Peroni in a Martin Ren Ault. It was Cheever s second f-2 Victory o the year his first coming on the null Burgr ing in May. Frenchman Rene amour. Who leads for the title had a Brief race Tan gling with his countryman Patrick Tam Bay on the first Lap. Both were out of the contest. The Rouen round was the eighth in the 15-Racc schedule almost As Many events As formula 1 and it s Alvery close. Amour has 30 Points. Cheever 28. Patrese 25, Peroni and Bruno Giaco Melli 20 each. All five of these Drivers Are very talented and there s no doubt about their formula 1 futures Patrese already in Al for Shadow. One of these five will Eddie Cheever take the formula 2 Crown this year and 1 Don t mind being partisan by hoping it s Cheever. Next f-2 round is july 10 at Nogaro prance. The formula 2 race scheduled for hoc Kenhelm on june 5, then cancelled has been replaced by a championship event aug. 7 in Misano Italy. A bad Day at zolder the formula Ford race at zolder Belgium last sunday proved a destruction Derby when about a third of the 34-car Field was eliminated on the first Lap during a downpour. At the Flag fell so did the rain and subsequent chaos. Going Uphill after the chicane top american contender Barney Barnes was quickly eliminated through no fault of his  bad placed ninth on the gird made a super Start and had moved up to Forth when he was forced to spin to avoid another car suming in front of him. Barnes Hawke for ended up against the Guardrail with to damage then three cars went off and bashed into the Hawke wrecking it completely but Barnes escaping serious  so Many cars out a restart was ordered and dutchman Michel Bleek Molen was the eventual Winner. Top Driver for the Golden lion trophy for German licensed do Era was Andreas Wietke who finished third and look maximum Points. American Drivers Steve Dixon and Bill Dawson took eighth and uth. Respectively while Points Leader Peter Kubber managed i2th in a badly damaged Vandiemen Ford. After six races. Krober has 88 Points Barnes has 80. Wietzke 57, Dixon 31, and Wolfgang Stahl 30. Next round is sunday on Germany s curb urging the Short course. Gardner to leave Tyrrell Derek Gardner the designer who introduced the six wheeled concept to grand Pri racing is re entering the Field of transmission design in october of this year. The new design director at be team Tyrrell will be Maurice Phillippe. Who formerly headed the design team at Lotus and Vel s Parnelli Jones racing team in California. A press release from the Tyrrell racing organization said that Gardner will join Borg Warner at their research my develop sent Center in Letchworth England and Wil work As Dos Iona do Ector of engineering and research in the transmission division. Since joining Tyrrell in 1970 Gardner designed Tyrrell cars have won 20 grand prix races and two world championships. Gardner s successor Phillippe meanwhile was responsible for two very famous racing cars the Lotus 49 and the Lotus 72. The Type 49 won 11 grands prix and the Type 72 captured 14. Fume Knock the cover off the Ball and beat  won four championships at Forest Hills. She became the sensation of Wimble Don winning six ladies titles and 13 Dou Bles and mixed doubles crowns. She became a dominant Force on the Vir Ginia slims  Jean intimidates us All said Chris  Jean came up at a time when women s Tennis was merely tolerated treated with disdain by most of the Menand some promoters. The girls got Little newspaper space. Prize Money was about a fourth of that paid out to the men. Billie Jean would come into the press marquee at Forest Hills and in the Dun Geon interview room at Wimbledon prop her feet on the table and blast away at these  staged sit Down strikes. She threat ened mass walkouts. She was suspended. She had purses taken away. But she won her Point. Women s Tennis grew to full stat  became the chief flame Carrier for women s sports lib. She headlined the Campaign by Cal inc Hobby rings in the famed Battle of the sexes in 1973. After winning her sixth women s title at Wimbledon in 1975. She retired from tour huge entry for British up lament Competition. She underwent a third knee operation. Her career appeared doomed. But she came  was tragic to see this game lady humiliated by her younger opponent monday. Sadness swept the crowd and lapped Over to the normally Callou cd press  Jean refused to submit to embarrassment herself or apologize. No i am not embarrassed she said. I gave an honest Effort. Chris played Well. 1 am not sure i could have beaten her had played my Best forget Knees Ankles brains no one May have beaten her  Chris was a relentless destroyer thread ing the Needles Eye with her passing shots. You could count her errors on a single hand. Billie Jean had no fire in her  Chris said afterwards. Usually she is full of zest talking to herself fighting. Today she looked like she Felt  Billie Jean   she said. The doctor says i have to give myself a year. I know what 1 can do mentally. Physically i m not  can t stand to Sec great champions try to hang on when they re finished. That s not me. One morning i Hope to Wake up and find it All together  Youthful Mcenroe Connors Gerulaitis win giving . 3 of 4 in Wimbledon semis Wimbledon England a John Mcenroe 18 years four months Upsel Phil Dent of Australia tuesday and became the youngest men s semifinal 1st in 100 years of Wimbledon. The fair haired left hander from Doug Laston. . Who plays As an Amateur among big Muney professionals won 6-4. 8-9.4-6.6-3.6-4. He set another record at the same time. He is the Fin Man Ever to make the Semi finals of the world s greatest Tennis tournament after playing through the qualifying Competition. I was t sure if i would gel into the tournament at  Mcenroe said. And when 1 did get in. I did t expect to win More than a few games in each  the Young hero of the Centenary tournament next faces the no. 1 favorite Jimmy Connors who Defeated Byron Bertram of South Africa 6-4.3-6. 6-4. 6-2.the other semifinal will be Between Vitas Gerulaitis of Howard Beach. .,and defending Champion Bjorn Borg of  comfortably overran Billy Martin of Palos Virdes Calif. 6-2. 8-9. 6-2. 6-2. Lorg played some of his finest Tennis to win 6-0. 8-6. 6-3 against Hie Nastase of to mania the Man he beat in last year s , an excitable youngster with a while headband around his Long Blond hair had Many moments of frustration before overcoming Dent. He throw his Racket shouted at a Linesman and fell full length on the grass More than once holding his head in his  he brought his emotions under control and came from behind to win the last two sets just when it looked As if Dent nine years his senior was taking  s most prolific stroke was his backhand. He hit a magnificent backhand past the australian to break service at 4-3 in the final set it proved to be the shot that won the match. He kept his Cool and held on to his  s most despairing moment continued on Page x before moving to where to  the French grand prix is this weekend. Let s make one jump ahead to the British grand prix which will be run saturday july 16. At Silver Stone circuit. The British have such a huge entry 41 formula 1 cars that they be ached continued on Page 26 John  return