European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 07, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday september 7,1977 the stars and stripes Page 21 Tracy reaches quarters at Forest Hills by Fred Rothenberg Forest Hills . A tiny Tracy Austin the nerveless retriever from rolling Hills calif., absorbed Virginia re Aci s hardest shots and beat the Power hit Ting romanian 6-3, 7-5 monday to Advance into the quarterfinals of the United state open Tennis championships. The 14-year-old Austin due to enter the ninth Grade sept. 15, gave the enthralled Center court crowd a lesson in sensationally steady Tennis. Whenever Ruzicki would unleash a Dyna mite forehand Austin would defuse it with a Well placed return. The rallies often were Long but the pigtailed youngster wad Kins defies Thunder Weiskopf s lightning to win series in a Breeze Akron Ohio a Lanny Wadkins undisturbed by rolling Thunder in the Dis Tance and the lightning unleashed by Tom Weiskopf nearer by leaped and Cavor Ted to a five under  65 that brought him a five stroke Victory monday in the prestige Laden world series of Golf. Wadkins 27, broke by one stroke the course record at the Long wearying South course of the Firestone country club with a 72-Hole total of 267. That was 13 under  on the layout which Many of the touring pros Call the toughest on the tour. The fired up Wadkins who spent couple of potentially productive years in a Post operative slump that ended with his dramatic Victory in the recent Prana tonal championship aggressively ripped his shots dead at the flags. He galloped out of bunkers sometimes falling on his Knees charging Pell Mell up the rolling Hills hop Ping happily in the air on each Birdie and played his Best when he needed it most. 9th brings needs that started on the ninth tee. Weiskopf who had opened the Day s play five strokes Back vaulted into a tie. He birdied the first four holes five of the first six and with a 12-foot putt on the eighth had gone six under for the Day and tied Wadkins for the Lead. The Gritty Little Gambler from Advance n.c., did not falter at All. With $100,000 at stake and facing one of Golf s most talented performers on one of his Best Days wad Kins Shook the moisture from his Long Blond hair and went to work. He birdied the ninth from 12 feet. He Bir died the 10th. He hopped into the air when a 12-foot Birdie putt ducked into the Hole on the 12th. And when Weiskopf bogeyed that Hole after missing the Green Wadkins had made up four strokes in four holes. Wadkins led by four with six holes to play and judging from the slump of Weis Kopf s shoulders and a grim glum express Ion on his face it was All Over. Weiskopf who played the front nine in 29, had an Ordinary uninspired 36 Over the Back nine and drifted Back into a tie for second place with Hale Irwin at 272. Irwin who had to win last week to get into this elite event closed with a 69. It was the second time in As Many years he was run Nerup in the expanded enriched tournament. Weiskopf and Irwin each won $35,000 from the total purse of $300,000. Hayes is fourth Mark Hayes 69-277 was fourth followed by defending titleholder Jack Nicklaus Ray Floyd and South african Gary player All tied at 278. Nicklaus had a final round 68, Floyd and player shot 69s. Tom Watson the tired and overplayed Winner of the British open masters and three other american titles shot 69-282 . Open Champion Hubert Green had 72 292. Watson collected $7,000 and pushed his leading Money winning total to $305,428 for the year. With Nicklaus and the absent Johnny Miller Watson became Only the third Man to surpass $300,000 in winnings in a single season. Nicklaus remained second on the Money winning list this year. He won $8,-375 and went to $281,718 for the season. Wadkins received $100,000 More Thanh totalled in the combined seasons of 1975 76 when he was struggling Back from Gall bladder surgery for his fifth career title increased his season s winnings to $238,920 and strengthened his position As one of the game s brightest most dramatic youngsters. After putting away Weiskopf with his surge that ended on the 12th, Wadkins eased off for three holes then took sight on the course record. He boldly came out of the rough and Over the scary Little Pond that guards the Green on the  five 625-Yard 16th Hole Firestone s famed  Wadkins got it close and birdied to go 13 under. He also birdied the 17th, which he needed to offset a three putt bogey on the 18th that merely Cut into his impressive winning margin. The record was Safe. He finished one snot better than the 268 then considered an All but impossible performance by Floyd in the 1969 american Golf classic. Showed the physical and mental strength of a seasoned Veteran. Down 5-3 in the second set Tracy turned Tiger and broke Ruzicki s serve. Then Down a pair of set Points in the 10th game Tracy held serve for the first time since the second game of the set to draw even. A Crisp forehand passing shot gained her a decisive service break in the Lith game then she ran out the set and match holding her serve at love. Ruzicki apparently rattled by the persistence of her 5-foot-l, 93 Pound opponent contributed errors off the forehand and backhand in the final game. After Austin stroked a forehand Winner to end the 1-hour, 40-minute match she permitted herself to enjoy the emotions of youth for the first time thrusting her arms skyward. Austin who downed fourth seeded sue Barker of Britain on sunday will meet Betty stove the no. 5 seed in the Quarter finals. Stove of the Netherlands a Wimble Don finalist earlier this summer beat Kathy Kuykendall of Miami 6-3, 6-0 on monday. The Wimbledon Winner 32-year-old Vir Lanny Wadkins $100,000 Hale Irwin $35,000 Tom Weiskopf $35,000 Mark Hayes $15,000 Jack Nicklaus $11,166 Gary player $11,166 Ray Floyd $11,166 Graham Marsh $8,000 Siveriano Ballesteros $7,500 Tom Watson $7,000 Ben Crenshaw $6,800 Jerry Mcgee $6,600 Hsieh min Nan $6,400 be Trevino $6,200 Bruce Lietzke $6,000 Mike Morley $5, to Hubert Green $5,500 Isao Aoki $5,500 Ernesto Perez Acosta $5,200 Mark Lye $5,000 69-66-67-65267 67-71-65-69272 67-68-72-65272 68-69-70-69276 69-73-68-6827 69-70-70-69-271 67-71-71-69278 69-70-71-70280 69-73-70-69281 72-72-69-69282 71-71-70-71283 71-68-74-71284 75-67-72-74298 74-69-72-74289 74-72-70-74290 73-69-75-74-291 72-77-71-72292 74-74-74-70292 71-73-76-75295 78-76-73-72299 Billie Jean King. Victorious but angry Ginia Wade who won the first . Open in1968 when Tracy Austin was 5, led a group of six seeded women into the fourth round Austin and stove were one round ahead of the rest of the Field the third seeded Wade a preacher s daughter from England survived a scare from Pesky Fiorella Bonicelli of Uruguay winning 4-6, 6-1, 6-2. Second seeded Martina Navratilova the czech expatriate living in Dallas beat Tanya Harford of Melrose Ohio 6-0, 6-2 no. 6 seed Rosie Casals Sausalito calif., outlasted Brigitte cuypers of South Africa 6-2, 1-6, 6-2 no. 8 Diane Fromholtz of Australia Defeated Michele Tyler of England 6-2, 6-3 no. 10 Mima Jasovec of Yugoslavia beat Jane Newberry of St. Petersburg fla., 6-1, 6-2. And no. 12 Wendy Turnbull of Australia downed Barbara Jordan of King of Prus Sia pa., 6-4,6-3. Billie Jean King a four time Winner Here survived a three set thriller with ninth seeded Kerry Reid of Australia. King the no. 7 seed won 6-1, 3-6, 7-6, taking the third set tiebreaker 7-5. There was some bad blood in the match. On one Point Billie Jean thought she had faulted but the rally continued and she lost the Point. Angered King belted a Tennis Ball far beyond the Wall at the end of the court. Reid asked that Billie Jean be penalized but there Are no penalties in women s Tennis at the . Open. At the changeover King tried to talk to Reid about the incident but the Australia refused to talk to her. I hate it when people won t communicate King said. What makes me angry is that she would t talk to me about it. She had every right to ask for the penalty  after the match she refused to shake hands with her opponent. I m still upset. I be always shaken hands before King said. In a surprisingly easy match stumpy Harold Solomon the no. 12 seed eliminated Vitas Gerulaitis the no. 8 seed 7-6, 6-3. Solomon a Clay court specialist be comes the first Man to reach the men s quarterfinal round. A match Between fourth seeded Guillermo Vilas of Argentina and Jose Higueras of Spain was scheduled to follow the Center court Duel Between Solomon and continued on Page 24 car Fon wins no. 20, belts Homer of phils split twin Bill with pirates by United press International Steve Carlton s Golden left Arm has won20 games for the Philadelphia Phillies and his Bat in t too shabby either. Carlton aided his own cause monday with his third Homer of the season and a run scoring single to become 1977 s first 20-game Winner when he pitched the Phil lies to an 11-1 Triumph Over the Pittsburgh pirates to Salvage a split of their double header. John Candelaria and Rich Gossage com no Roundup bind on a seven hitter in the opener As the pirates took a 3-1 , who has lost eight scattered eight hits walked two and struck out three before leaving for a Pinch hitter in the ninth. It marked the fourth time in his career and the second year in a Row that Carlton has reached the 20-Victory  Johnstone had a two run Homer for the Phillies and Richie Hebner a two run single but the pirates contributed to their opponents cause with four errors in a five run sixth  the first game Dave Parker Fernan do Gonzalez and Duffy Dyer each drove in a run to help Candelaria record his 16th Triumph against four defeats. Dyer tied the score with a Solo Homer in the second inning. Candelaria gave up five hits in the first two innings then settled Down and re tired 17 in a Row before tiring in the eighth. Gossage pitched the last 1 2-3 innings to gain his 19th save. Elsewhere in afternoon action Montreal edged new York 4-3, and Chicago Defeated St. Louis 4-2. In night action san Diego nipped los Angeles 1-0 Atlanta blanked san Francisco 4-0, and Houston topped Cincinnati 5-1. Expos 4, mets 3 Tony Perez and Ellis Valentine drilled Home runs off Jerry Koosman to Send the Veteran Lethander Down to his eighth straight loss and 18th Overall. Lee Mazzilli belted a two run shot for new York off Winner Wayne Twitchell. Cubs 4, cardinals 2 Bill Buckner drove in three runs with a t two run Homer and a sacrifice Fly monday to lift the cubs to Victory. Larry Biittner who was 3-for-4, opened the cubs scoring with his ninth Homer. The Victory went to Lethander Dave Roberts while Eric Ras Mussen took the loss his sixth career defeat without a win against the cubs. Padres 1, dodgers 0 Rookie Bob Owchinko pitched a two hitter and the padres scored an unearned run for the game s Only tally As san Diego ended a four game dodgers winning Streak. The Only hits off Owchinko were Dusty Baker s one out single in the fifth inning and an infield dribbler by Steve Yeager with two out in the eighth. Doug Rau suffered the loss. Braves 4, giants 0 Dick Ruthven hurled a three hitter and Gary Matthews drove in two runs to Lead the braves to Victory. Ruthven gave up singles to Rob Andrews in the first Marc Hill in the sixth and Bill Madlock in the seventh while going the distance for Only the fourth time this season. Both benches cleared in the top of the seventh inning with Tim Foli being ejected after exchanging words with  5, reds i Mark Lemongello tripled and scored one run while limiting Cincinnati to six hits in leading the astros to their 10th Victory inthe last 11 games. Tom Seaver who had his Streak of six straight Complete game snapped hit his eighth career Home run but suffered his first loss in his last nine decisions. Enos Cabell hit a Solo Home run for Houston in the first inning