European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 01, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday september 1,1977 the stars and stripes Page 21 Borg Connors to play with injuries Renee Richards ready for . Open by Martin Lade Forest Hills . Up snap crackle and pop before it even starts the . Open Tennis tourney has the Unm Ista Keable air of developing into a medical curiosity. First defending Champion Jimmy con nors came up with an aching Back and on the eve of the tournament top seed Bjornberg injured his right shoulder forcing both to miss wednesday s opening  pushed the debut of the two men stars in this $464,000 tournament to thurs Day the same afternoon or. Renee Rich Ards a medical phenomenon makes he debut against Virginia Wade. Borg the Wimbledon Champion who lost to Connors in the final of this tournament last year Hurt his shoulder while playing with Young pro Billy Martin at a Tennis club on Long Island. He immediately re Quested that his match against Trey Waltke of St. Louis which was to have led off play in this 12-Day tournament at 11a.m. Wednesday morning be pushed Back to thursday. Connors the no. 2 seed severely trained his lower Back Muscles in prac Tice last saturday and was forced to dropout of the . Pro championships. He Oral tired at Forest Hills for an hour tues a with Hie Nastase and said he would Beeady to make a run at the $33,000 top prize beginning thursday. It s still a Day to Day thing Connors said after his workout with Nastase on the grandstand court watched by about 100 people including his Mother  be got to make a showing Connors said. I Don t want to let anyone just Walkin and take away my title with the absence of Borg the Honor of starting play on the stadium court wednes Renee Richards. Used court order Day morning fell to two unseeded players Peter Fleming of Chatham n.j., and Colin Dibley of Australia. Following them in the spotlight will be fourth seed Guillermo Vilas of Argentina against spaniard Manuel Santana Nas Tase against Fred Mcmillan of South Africa and Roscoe Tanner of Lookout Mountain tenn., against Matt Mitchell of Palo Alto Calif. The two opening night matches feature former Champion Ken Rosewall the no. 14 seed from Australia against Tim Gullik son of Dayton Ohio and John Mcenroe of Douglaston ., a Surprise semifinalist at Wimbledon against Eliot Teltscher of Palos Verdes Calif. The women begin their singles play thursday when the most interesting match will pair Wimbledon Champion Vir Ginia Wade against Renee Richards the transsexual who required a court order to gain entry into this tournament. I have absolutely nothing against Renee said Wade the third seed. Shews dressed up last night and she looked absolutely super. I had no Strong feelings at All. But it does t sit quite right with me that she s playing. There s Only a Remote Chance of it Hap pening again of a transsexual playing in the women s division but it s a very  As for the match Virginia said there s no reason i m going to lose this match unless i screw up and i m not going to screw  action around the National league phils clobber braves behind Kaat by the associated pres Jim Kaat of the Philadelphia Phillies knows it takes More than endurance to win253 games and pitch 4,001 innings. I threw relaxed. I got ahead of the hit ters and had Good stuff he said tuesday night. And i also got a lot of  Katt scattered 10 hits in raising his season record to 6-7 and tying Carl Hubbell for 25th place on the al time list for career victories. He ranks 25th for number of innings pitched. Those Are Nice honors but you can t lean on them the 38-year-old lefthand Derraid. The Phillies backed Kaat with a 15-hit attack crushing the Atlanta braves 11-2,to retain their four game Lead in the National league East race. The important thing is what you redoing now Kaat said. I Don t think any body really cares what you be done in the past. The Only thing that s impressive is to keep  the Phillies Are doing just that having won 21 of their last 27 games. Jay John Stone paced Philadelphia s assault wit three hits scoring three runs while Garry Maddox added a three run  s a completely different Pitcher now Catcher Bob Boone said of Kaat now in his 17th year in the majors. He was strictly a Power Pitcher when he came up. Now he s a finesse Pitcher. He re vamped his whole motion his whole a if he had t done it he probably Wouldhave been out of  in other no games tuesday Cincinnat edged Montreal 4-3 Houston Defeated new York 6-2 san Diego stopped St. Louis 7-4 Pittsburgh downed san fran Cisco 3-1, and Chicago Defeated los an Geles 4-1.Philadelphia chased Atlanta starter Preston Hanna 1-3, in the second inning pounding the right hander for five runs and six  carnage continued in the fourth and fifth innings As the phils scored five More runs highlighted by Maddox Lith Homer of the season and Ted Sizemore s fourth. Junior Moore homered for Atlanta. Cubs 4, dodgers 1rick Reuschel became the major league s first 19-game Winner hurling Chi Cago Over los Angeles. Gene Clines drove in two runs and Jose Cardenal collected three hits to Lead the Chicago attack. Reuschel 19-5, walked two and struck out four in gaining his fourth consecutive Victory. Bruce Sutter came on in the ninth to gain his 26th save of the season. Reds 4, expos 3george Foster smashed his 44th Home run of the season and drove in three runs increasing his major league leading rib total to 126 and helping Cincinnati Bea Montreal. Foster rocketed a two run Homer High Over the Loftfield Wall in the first inning. He drove in the eventual winning run with a single in the seventh. Pirates 3, giants 1the pirates equalled the no season High by stealing six bases against san Francis co in support of a four hitter by John can Delaria 154. Phil Garner swiped three and Frank Taveras two As Pittsburgh recorded Only its second Victory against the giants this year. Candelaria was the winning Pitcher in the other game too. San Francisco averted a shutout on Derrel Thomas sixth inning Homer. Astros 6, mets 2 a two run double by Enos Cabell sparked Houston s four run outburst in the fifth inning As the astros Defeated new York behind Joe Niekro s 11-hitter. Niekro Cap tured his fourth Complete game Victory in four Home starts this season and increased Houston s winning Streak to six games. Padres 7, cardinals 4george Hendrick and Jerry Turner combined for five hits and five runs batted in to Lead san Diego Over St. Louis. It was the cardinals sixth straight loss. Rookie Lethander Bob Owchinko 7-9,got the Victory his fourth straight Over St. Louis this season with Relief help from Dan Spillner. Garry Templeton smashed a two run Homer for St. Louis. Phillies Jim Kaat. Pitches 253rd win courageous will defend America s cup by John Nelson Newport . A courageous the 1974 defender skippered by flamboyant Georgia millionaire Ted Turner was chosen tuesday by the new York yacht club to make the 23rd defense of the Amer Ica s cup. She will meet Australia Alan Bond s new 12-meter yacht which completed a 4-0 sweep of her Best of seven final series against sverige of Sweden tuesday. In a race that turned out to be an embarrassment for the first Ever swedish Chal Lenger Australia won by 13 minutes 19 seconds the worst defeat of any boat in cup racing this summer. The decision by the new York yacht club selection committee to eliminate Enterprise from the final defense series came after Turner had beaten her by 1 26. The Enterprise Crew had been at the Dock at Newport shipyard for Only about 20 min utes when the traditional launch the bearer of bad tidings motored across Newport Harbor from selection committee Headquarters to advise Eddu Moulin head of the Enterprise Syndicate that his boat was through for the summer. The elimination of Enterprise came Only one Day after the committee had eliminated Ted Hood s Independence courageous sister yacht in the Kings Point Syndicate. It was a rags to riches yachting Story for the 38-year-old Turner who got his first Dinghy from his father when he was 11. Turner started sailing in 1950, but it was not until 1974 that he got his first shot at the America s cup. It was As skipper of the then new yacht Mariner a Britton Chance or. Design. It proved extremely slow an embarrassment for Chance and for Turner. This year however Turner has himself a proven product courageous designed by Olin Stephens and redesigned by Ted Hood the Man who skippered courageous to the 1974 cup Victory Over Southern Cross. The new York yacht club s decision was not As much a Surprise As its timing. Most observers had expected Enterprise to remain in Competition for at least another week. The decision by the committee Means that courageous will not race again for about three weeks since the final cup continued on Page 24 Taiwan s la champions strike out with the Carters Washington up Taiwan s world Champion Little league Ball players came to the White House tues Day and left feeling like the diplomatic equivalent of the bad news bears. No member of the presidential family was available to Greet the Little league baseball Kings from nationalist China even though such visits some times Lead to a picture taking session with the president himself. There was no offence intended said press Secretary Jody Powell. But Little league tour Leader John Pyron said the 12-year-old taiwanese players were disappointed because they had hoped to meet some member of the Carter  said he suspected the delicate state of . Relations with the communists meaning the peking government May have caused the family not to meet with Taipei s Little league  he said Chip Carter one of the presi Dent s sons had been scheduled to do the honors but he was sent to  Chip and his family moved Back to Georgia recently to help with the family Peanut business. In any Case the Taiwan team which won the Little world series in Williams port pa., took the Standard White House tour and moved on to visit Capi Tol Hill along with Little leagues from Spain Canada Venezuela Elcanon Calif., Youngstown Ohio and Hattiesburg miss