European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 02, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday september 2, 1977 the stars and stripes Page 21 Forest Hills Vilas Nastase Chalk up impressive Victorie Sas . Open Tennis tourney gets under Way Yale Sachare Forest Hills . A fourth seeded Guillermo Vilas of Argentina posted his 40th consecutive Victory on Clay wednesday and fiery Hie Nastase of to mania the no. 7 seed made a successful debut at the tournament he said he would never compete in again. Their matches highlighted the first Day of play at the $462, 420 . Open Tennis championships. Vilas who came into the open with a string of six consecutive tournament triumphs had no trouble disposing of 39 year old spaniard Manuel Santana 6-1, 6 0, in a match that was interrupted for 1 hour 15 minutes because of rain during the second set. Nastase who vowed one year ago that he never would return to the West Side Tennis club came Back to the famous con Evert still would ban is. Richards new York a Chris Evert top seeded this week at the . Open Tennis championships says opposition to trans sexual or. Renee Richards among other women players has eased As they be gotten to know her but that she remains opposed to allowing or. Richards to play the women s circuit. You have to draw the line someplace she said advocating a Rule of australian Tennis that prevents a player from competing As a woman if she has Ever played As a male. Evert said she opposed inclusion of Richards from the major women s tour be cause there Are differences Between her physical capabilities and those of the other women. A lot of women have gotten to know her and like her a lot so they Don t have an unbiased View of the situation she said. I be never met  Evert said it looked to her As though the women s Tennis association which represents 110 players would admit Richards to its membership but that individual opinion of her was split. It s hard to say How Shell do at Forest Hills she said adding she had Only seen Richards play one set in a televised match. She was aggressive Quick and she has a great serve. She looked  dodgers ask waivers on vet Boog Powell los Angeles a the los an Geles dodgers placed Veteran first base Man John Boog Powell on waivers wednesday night to make room on their roster for Catcher Jerry Grote. Grote was acquired earlier wednesday from the new York mets for two minor league players to be named later and Cash. Grote will be eligible to appear in Post season action for the dodgers. Powell 36, played in Only 50 games for the dodgers this year batting .244 with no Home runs and five runs batted in. All pro tackle Kunz signs Multi year Colts pact Baltimore a All pro offensive tackle George Kunz has signed a Multi year contract with the Baltimore Colts the National football league team announced wednesday. However Baltimore still has four play ers unsigned Fred Cook Nelson Munsey John Dutton and Roger Carr. Carr and Dutton have not reported to train ing Camp. Crete Horseshoe stadium court and beat Frew Mcmillan of South Africa 6-0,6-0. Although the Day was devoted to first round men s singles matches most of the top rated men had the Day off. The top two seeds Bjorn Borg of Sweden and defending Champion Jimmy Connors both were nursing injuries Connors a chronic bad Back Borg a strained Shoul Der. Both were scheduled to play their first round matches thursday  neither was expected to be 100 per cent physically neither was expected to with draw. Also thursday the women were to begin play including the celebrated debut of 43-year-old transsexual or. Renee Rich Ards who had to go to court to gain a place in the women s Field. She is paired against third seeded Virginia Wade of England in a match that has aroused much inter stand emotion. Vilas Victory was expected but the ease with which it was fashioned was not. The 25-year-old Lethander had his base line game working to perfection running Santana from one Side of the court to the other with precisely placed ground strokes. The Spanish Veteran who won this title in 1965, never was in Contention. He Romania s unpredictable Hie Nastase. Plays beautifully and without incident won Only one Point holding service in the third game of the first set. I thought i played really Well much better than i had expected said Santana making his first singles appearance Here since 1968. But there was no Way to win any Points against Guillermo at All. He is playing with such Confidence it seems like he has no weaknesses at  Vilas never has won one of the major tournaments Wimbledon Forest Hills or the world championship Tennis final but thinks this May be the year. I entered the tournament to win he said. If i cannot win i go Home. I can Only play my  his Best could Well be Good enough to win especially in Light of the injuries to Borg and Connors. But Vilas is not count ing on those ailments. They did t pull out of the tournament he reasoned so they can t be Hurt too  Nastase was Brilliant in his Victory which was played without any of the Dis Putes or incidents which marred his appearance Here last year. When he walked onto the court there was Little reaction from the crowd of 11,585. Nastase had his Power game going full blast serving Well and repeatedly beating Mcmillan with Strong passing shots. He hit six service aces and a total of 19 other win ners wrapping up the match in 46 minutes. I Don t remember when i be played this Well or beaten a top flight player 6-0, 6 0," said Nastase. I Don t think i made More than two errors in the entire match and i Don t remember  everything i did was  the biggest upset of the first round was provided by Ricardo Ycaza an unknown 19-year-old from Ecuador. He ousted sixth seeded Raul Ramirez of Mexico who occasionally has his problems on Clay 6-3, 6-2. In other first round matches 1 unseeded Roscoe Tanner of Lookout Moun Tain term., Defeated Matt Mitchell of Palo Alto Calif., 4-6, 7-6, 6-1 no. 12 Harold Solo Mon of Silver Spring md., outlasted Bernie Mitton of South Africa 3-6, 6-3, 7-5, and 13th-seeded Mark Cox of Britain was upset by hard hitting Butch Walts of Ather ton Calif. ,7-6, 7-6. In night action 42-year-old Ken Rose Wall of Australia who last appeared at Forest Hills in 1974 and first played this tournament in 1952, easily beat Tim Gullik son of Dayton Ohio 6-0, 6-4. And in a Battle of 18-year-Olds, John Mcenroe of Douglaston ., beat Elliot Teltscher of Palos Verdes Calif., 6-1, 6-3. In a match marred by disputes Over line Calls and in which Mcenroe lost one Point because of a conduct penalty imposed by the Umpire. . Open Tennis meet results Irwin moves up to 5th in pea earnings list Washington a Hale Irwin s five stroke Victory in the Hall of Fame Golf classic not Only netted him $50,000, but moved him from 16th to fifth place in the professional golfers association Money winnings list for 1977, the pea announce monday. The Victory which boosted Irwin s total Money winnings to $156,456, also qualified him for this week s world series of Golf at Akron Ohio. . And British open Champion Tom Watson continued to head the Money win Ning list with $298,428, followed by Jack Nicklaus at $273,343, Bruce Guetzke at $188, 597, Tom Weiskopf at $162,639, Ray Floyd at $152,095, Lanny Wadkins at $138,920, Hubert Green at $133,193, Rik Massengale at $ 126,256 and Lou Graham at $ 121,409. Forest Hills . A summaries of wednes Day s matches at the . Open Tennis championships men singles first round Peter Fleming chatam n.j., beat Colin Dibley austra Lia 7-5,6-2. Butch Walts Atherton Calif., beat Mark Cox England 7 6, 7-6. Tomas Smid Czechoslovakia beat Belus Pray our Chile 6-2, 6-4. Victor Amaya Holland mich., beat George Hardie Long Beach Calif.,6-2, 7-5. John Lloyd England beat Deon Joubert South Africa 6-2,