European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 06, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday september 6,1977 the stars and stripes Page 21 Tracy reaches final 16 at Forest Hills by Steve Wilstein Forest Hills . Up one by one they marched into the final 16 of the . Open Tennis championships sunday Bjorn Borg Jimmy Connors Brian Gottfried Chris Evert Billie Jean King five of the Best Tennis players in the world and some of the greatest Ever to play the game. And skipping along with them came Little 14-year-old Tracy Austin pigtails flapping and braces gleaming in the Sun. It would be an understatement to say she stole the nationally televised show with her 6-1, 64 rout of England s 4th-seeded sue Barker. Borg the Wimbledon Champion and top seed survived another painful test of his sprained shoulder to dump new zealand s Onny Parun 6-1, 6-3 second seeded de fending . Champion Connors Kafoed Zan Guerry Lookout Mountain tenn., 6-1, 6-4 and third seeded Gottfried of Lauder Hill fla., whipped czechoslovakian Veter an Jan kodes 6-4,6-2. Chris Evert the women s top seed and three time defending Champion lost three More games than she did in her first two matches but still easily Defeated Helena Anliot of Sweden 6-2, 6-2, and three time . Champion Billie Jean King scored an other three set Victory 6-1, 2-6, 6-1 Over Sheila Mclnerney Rome . But none of them could share the spot Light with Austin. Austin was nothing less than spectacular. Little More than a cute Novelty at Wimbledon earlier this summer when she went As far As the third round before losing to Evert Tracy is being taken very seriously Here. Tracy s great King said. She does t know what s going on yet. She does t know How to choke yet. She Proba Bly won t be Able to assess this until she s 22 or 23." if she plays As Well As she is now she should make the semis Evert said. Evert noted one big difference Between herself and Austin. I never had a smile on my face that often Evert said. Austin better than Evert at the same age needed Only 59 minutes to crush Barker a Wimbledon semifinalist and finalist in the Virginia slims championship. This is the biggest win of my life said Austin who committed just 19 unforced errors in 17 games to Barker s 39. I m very Happy. I was surprised because she was ranked so High. I just tried to keep away from her forehand. Once you make errors it s hard to come  Barker speaking softly and sadly said i Haven t played Well All week. I just did t feel confident out there especially around the american league with the crowd acting the Way it  the capacity crowd was with Tracy All the Way but fair to Barker when she Man aged Good shots. The age did t have anything to do with it said the 21-year-old  just Don t like playing someone i Haven t played before. Tracy played very Well and did t make any  i think her attitude is bad and i hate to see her play that Way King said of Barker. You can t give in. If you do you la never get your Confidence  Austin was next to meet Virginia Ruzicki of Romania on monday. Ruzicki Defeated Patricia Bostrom Seattle 6-2,6-1. Borg looked Ripe for a beating. His first serves were soft and he disdained Over head smashes. Only his trusty ground strokes and two listed backhand saved him and the fact that Parun was simply not up to the task. After Parun held service in the first game Borg gave up Only 12 Points in win Ning the next seven games. Parun who double faulted twice in the third game of the first set double faulted again at set Point. Borg was tiring and obviously in pain As the match wore on and was Lucky it lasted Only two sets and just one hour. It will be interesting to see whether he can continue to survive in the next match when he faces loth seeded Dick Stockton of Carrollton,tex., in a five setter. There s no Way i can win the tournament if it his right shoulder does t get better Borg said after he was mobbed by girls Rushing around him and kissing him following the match. It affected my serve a lot. There s no Way i can score any Points with my serve. I have to concentrate on my ground strokes. The Only thing is to  anybody who plays decent has got a shot at him Parun said. Connors had no trouble handling Guerry. Only in the second set when con Tracy Austin upsetting no. 4 sue Barker. She does t know How to choke yet Kansas City defeats Brewers 6-2 by United press International the streaking Kansas City royals won their sixth straight game and strengthened their hold on first place in the american league West sunday defeating the Mil Waukee Brewers 6-2. Al Cowens drove in three runs with a pair of singles highlighting a four run third inning outburst against loser Mike Caldwell with a two run base hit. Cowens knocked in the royals final run with his second single after Hal a s league leading 46th double. George Brett also scored two runs and knocked in a third As Kansas City swept its fourth straight Home weekend series. It was the 25th Victory in the last 29 games at Home for the royals. Marty Pattin 7-2, threw a five hitter but lost his shutout bid in the ninth when Cecil Cooper doubled and Don Money hit his 23rd Homer. In other games new York shut out Minnesota 4-0 Baltimore beat Chicago 7-5 Oakland Defeated Detroit 7-5 Seattle downed Toronto 7-2 California trounced Cleveland 7-3. Yankees 4, twins 0 Cliff Johnson hit a grand slam Home run in the first inning and Don Gullett pitched a three hitter As the Yankees won their seventh straight game. Gullett 11-3, making his first Start since july 30, gave up singles to Rod Carew and Dan Ford in the fourth inning and retired the last 15 batters before Carew s single with two out in the ninth. Baltimore 7, White sox 5 shortstop Alan Bannister failed in an at tempt to get a double play As Al Bumbry raced Home in the ninth inning breaking a 44 tie in the orioles Victory. Eddie Murray then crashed his 19th Homer to give Tippy Martinez the Victory in Relief. Mariners 7, Blue jays 2 Lee Stanton Ruppert Jones Steve Braun and Jim Sexton All blasted homers to give the mariners a sweep of the three game series with the Blue  7, indians 3 the Angels left 14 men on base but connected on 16 hits in the Victory Over the indians. Don Baylor belted a two run Homer and Terry Humphrey drove in a pair of runs with a double to highlight the attack. California starter Ken Brett went seven innings in picking up his 12th Victory in 10 losses. A s 7, tigers 5 Mitchell Page knocked in four runs with a pair of homers and Jerry Tabb hit a Solo blast sunday to Lead the a s Over the tigers. Page a leading candidate for Al Rookie of the year honors connected off Dave Rozema with none on in the first and in the fifth Page cracked a three run oppo site Field blast his 19th, to put the a s ahead for Good. Red sox 8, rangers 4 in the Only Twilight game Rick Burleson hit his third Home run of the year on the game s first pitch sunday night and singled in another run in Boston s three run third to Pace the red sox Over the Texas rangers. Rick Wise who relieved starter Luis Tiant in the third retired the first 13 men he faced and improved his record to 10-5 with help from Bill Camp Bell who recorded his 24th save. Nors seemed to let up and started making an unusual number of unforced errors did Guerry come Back. Connors who lost just seven games in his first five sets Here led 5-2 in the second set before letting Guerry Back in the match briefly. Connors broke Guerry in the 10th game however to close out the match and move into the fourth round against Lith seeded Roscoe Tanner. I m Fine i m in Good shape i m Here to play Connors said playing Down his chronic Back soreness. It s Good enough to play. This championship is mine because i m american and this is the United states championship. I love this crowd i d rather play Here than anywhere else in the  asked How he d assess the condition of Borg Connors snapped i Don t care about  in a sunday night match interrupted by continued on Page 23 . Wins Leningrad swim meet Leningrad up the . Swim Ming team raced to a resounding 212-132 Victory sunday Over the soviet Union taking 23 of 29 first places in the two Day Competition. Americans also made clean sweeps of nine events while the russians managed to come up with Only one. In diving Competition the soviets topped the americans 52 to 36. The american Victory followed an ear Lier win Over an East German team. Although no world records were broken Here coach Frank Keefe said he was Happy with his team s performance. I thought that we would get about 190 Points he said. We did not know what the mental and physical attitude after such a Long trip would  against East Germany in Berlin the . Team squeezed by with a 176-168 Victo  who he thought the Best All around swimmer was Keefe said it was difficult to name a Man but As far As american women were concerned he nominated 14-year-old Tracy Caulkins. In one of the most exciting contests of the meet Rick Demont of the United states raced to a 1 52.09 finish in the 200 meter freestyle one tenth of a second Over teammate Jim Montgomery and half a second ahead of soviet Andrei Krilov. The american 4 x 100 freestyle relay team of Jack Babashoff Joe Bottom Demont and Montgomery clocked in first More than 7 a seconds behind their world record time of 3 21.11 set in Berlin but still almost four seconds ahead of the soviets. Caulkins sped to first place in the 200 meter individual Medley in 2.19.58. It was her second Victory of the meet. As expected soviet european Champion Yulia Bogdanova was number one in the women s 100-meter breaststroke. The 13 year old was timed at 1 11.83, almost a tenth of a second off her european Mark. She was followed by Cathy Treible an Caulkins. The men s 200-meter Medley was won by Andrei Smirnov of the soviet Union in 2 06.83 with american Scott Spann second in2 06.88. Brian Goodell had no trouble beating Vladimir Salnikov in the 1,500-meter free style winning by almost 7m seconds with a time of 15 15.78. Salnikov set a new 800-meter european record however clocking the distance in 8 06.40. The women s 4 x 100 meter Medley also continued on Page 23