European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 14, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 18 the stars and stripes August 1977 Connors reaches Clay semis Indianapolis up to seeded Jimmy Connors needed a Marathon third set Friday to subdue 5 Dick Stockton to gain the mens semifinals of the Clay courts the weather moderated after four straight Days of delay because of including torrential amounts thursday that flooded the Indianapolis Racquet Bright Sunshine and temperatures around 80 degrees spurred the spirited while Connors stopped Nancy Richey bested her German opponent Iris to earn a finals spot saturday night against 3 seeded Umra Dupont who won against Cynthia Doerner of ii seeded Balazs Paroczy of Hun Gary continued his string of upsets with a 62 Triumph Over 3 Harold Pompano in a quarterfinals Paroczy beat seventh seeded Jaime Fillol of Chile slaved off five match Points against Belle before he lost when Connors charged the net on four straight Points in the 18lh three of the match Points were in the seventh game with Connors who won a three set match earlier Friday against Buster Mot ram of rallied to take a 65 but he never Sot defending Champ Connors Down to match Point in the 58minute con Connors played a third round match ear beating Brian Beverly Stockton Victory Over the ninth seeded englishman was joining Connors and Paroczy As semifinalists were 8 Phil Dent of Australia and 2 Manuel Orantes of Dent beat 18yearold Wimbledon sensation John in the while Orantes battered Terry san was going after her seventh women Clay she has not been in the finals since How and prize Money has increased to 000 this Dupont is in the finals for the first in other third round mens play Salomon beat 10 Zeljko Franulovich of 62 Moor outlasted 6 Eddie Miami 75 Mcenroe beat Bill 75 Orantes Defeated Victor Mich and Dent beat Alvaro Bentancur of 2 Maryland allows girls to participate in Al male sports Glen i up i the Mainland Board of education has decided that ugh school girls will be allowed to try out for foot wrestling and other sports previously considered Al male the Board passed regulations re Quiring schools to allow females to try out for any sport in which it does not offer a female a Board member said u a ugh school has a but not a football women must be Al Lowed to compete Lor a position on the violation of the new regulation could Lead to a teams suspension from play or Inelie Ibguy for championship Man of steal is at it again Lou Brock of the cardinals steals second base against the Montreal expos in Friday nights game at Louis As Chris Speler Falls in attempt Cobbs Al time record of the car ing to make the with 887 Donals edged past their visitors by a 21 needs six More to break to a photo braves win on grand slam Homer As Sutton continues in doldrums by Hal Bock a sports writer Don Sutton continues in the postal Star game doldrums and it is becoming a cause for concern for the los Angeles Sutton has made five starts since being named the most valuable player in the All Star game last Hes lost three and was knocked out and not involved in the decisions in the other the latest setback was a 52 loss to at Lanta Friday night in which Sutton took a 2 no Roundup 1 Lead into the ninth inning Only to be beaten by Rod Gil breaths grand slam Home elsewhere in the National Louis edged Montreal Pittsburgh swept a doubleheader from new York 32 and the second game going 12 san Diego topped Houston san fran Cisco edged Cincinnati 43 and Philadel phia routed Chicago Suttons slump actually started before the All Star the dodger righthand or has not won since july and is now 107 for the Sutton went into the ninth Riding the slim Lead provided by Dusty Bakers 20th Home run of the but the with the worst record in the major suddenly derailed Jeff Burroughs Garry Matthews doubled and an intentional walk to Joe Nolan loaded the bases for who had driven in Atlanta first run with an in Field out in the the slender second baseman unloaded his sixth Homer of the All 1 was trying to do was hit a Fly Ball to get the run Home from third and tie the said i was i think Ive had Only about two hits off Don Sutton in my entire pirates men is Pitcher Jim Hooker drilled three driving in two runs and scoring the third As Pittsburgh beat new York in the dyers 12thinning single scored Ramie Stennett with the Winner in the the sweep moved the pirates into second place in the National league ahead of the Chicago cubs and three games Back of Dyer came into the game when de pit was thrown out following a six thinning tight with met second baseman Felix after Ott had barrelled into second trying to break up a double Millan yanks recall add pitching coach Fowler new York api the new York Yankees recalled third baseman Mickey Klutts from Syracuse of the International league Friday and added Art Fowler As the pitching who was Balling at Syracuse with 14 homers and 65 runs batted in for 85 was brought up to take the place of Craig who sprained a knee thursday night and will be out for about a was a coach under Yankee Man Ager Billy Martin with the Minnesota Detroit tigers and Texas has been out of baseball since the rangers fired Martin and several members of his staff during the 1975 Fowler won 54 games and lost 51 during a nine year major league career with the Cincinnati los Angeles dodgers and California punched him in the face and Ott retaliated by slamming Millan to the break ing his Phillies cubs 3 Tim Mccarver slugged a pair of Home l runs and Steve Cartton won his 17th game of the tops in the As Phila Delphia won its ninth it was Only the second Lime in Carvers career that he has had two homers in a the other time was Back in he i do you think t in an idiot expos i Jerry Humphrey doubled Home Pinch runner Rick Bosetti with the winning run in the Bottom of the ninth inning As Louis shaded walks to Ted Simmons and Pinch hitter Mike Anderson set the stage for Mumph reys winning Lou Brock had the 887th stolen base of his career five Short of to Cobbs All time giants reds 1 John Montefusco handcuffed Cincinnati on four hits through the first eight innings and then got Relief help from Gary Lavelle arid Randy Moffitt to Nail Down the Rookie Catcher Gary Alexander had a triple and Homer for san Francisco while Mike Lum homered for the padres astros 4 Dave King mans grounder in the ninth inning scored Dave Winfield with the deciding run As san Diego shaded Winfield had walked and raced to third on George Hendricks single before dash ing Home on King mans grounder to Short tie astros had tied the game in the top of the ninth on consecutive run scoring doubles by Ait Howe and de Herrmann against reliever Rollie fingers