European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 10, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                January 1978 the stars and stripes Aba boxes Page 23 Jam in ii t u Tim 11 h up to that i m a Flatt slim Lei h Csur Soner Solcs ii Colden Static Al Al Pacen lakers 1u us t i Wynn 1 11 Azul Luw h 1 m pm 11li tout m hmm Una 111 new our to n h i i Orr m to film Netje Metw film a him baht Tom w than plan 111 own twi 1 m i it m if u ii in a a n it Toth mow Connors captures masters from Borg Itic Ratowe Issri Agob y Connors la the masters tort Uhwat in a phots  Page 111 Borg the important Point Tor me was at when i was leading 21 in the third tie came Back to you always have to be ahead of i lost that game and i Felt Borg said the noise from the crowd of Iso bothered him a Little but added that he Felt his strength draining u the match wore i didst have that much Borg i was missing a lot of tint Borg would not admit thai Connors is but just shrugged his shoulders and that sup to you to like Many of the great rivalries in Tennis neb As Perry on and the Between Connors and Borg have been Long and the fiery american and stoic swede had previously faced each other u with Connors dominating the Fivey Earold Borg won their first meeting in three gets in Stockholm in but con nors took aver from there to capture their next seven including a Memora 76ers hold off Boston rally for 9491 Victory built in pm m to Chin if Vii utri  up Pacu writer Lloyd free scored u of his 20 Points in Ibe final Quarter sunday to stave off a late Boston rally and preserve a 9491 Triumph for the Philadelphia Mere before a National television 11 was Only my second game As said Tom Patch who replaced Tom Heinsohn last but 1 saw some Nice signs out there our Guy ran very Sanders was particularly pleased after the celtics rallied from a Sims deficit with Aba Roundup remaining in us second Quarter and dosed to 7173 at the end of the third Quarto to White scored nine Points and Curtis Howe had seven Polonti in the third period while us Boston defense was bold ing Philadelphia to just is temporarily hushing a sellout crowd of at us but free broke Loose in the final period and helped the mixers open a four Fame Lead Over the Idle new York kicks in toe i other Aba Denver Defeated Chicago Indiana edged los an Geles Washington nipped new Jersey Portland downed new or leans Seattle trimmed Golden state and Milwaukee topped Kansas Johnson dismissed by Kings continued from Page 21j Point Doest imply dial we think he has lost control of the there is no chaos on the dub and the learn attitude appears to be very Good despite the said its just Plain that the winning Chemis try int there and Phil u just As caucuses about the reasons As Johnson was the fifth Aba coach to be fired this Philadelphia dismissed Gene Detroit axed Herb Seattle fired Bob Hopkins and Boston sacked Tommy Mwai last Straw axe son indicated that the loss to the kicks was the final Factor in the decision to Fin asked it Johnson would have been Dis missed if the Kings had won saturday axe son not at thai the general manager made the decision about sl30 saturday after heated meeting with the executive no Elfiea Johnson of the change by Telephone about i cant put my thumb on whats wrong with the Ball i know Phil worked very but the chemistry just want they Nave not i dons know woo to but in situations like this you Uniat by Point at he said axe the general made it Clear that the Kings management was also unhappy with some of the players and thai some personnel changes might be were not All that choked up about How two or three of them have been he bad been sitting tight but now were going to it we can make a were certainly were not necessarily going to keep All the bolls Dan scored 20 Points and held sex teammate Artis i Lowre to 21 As Denver scored its sixth straight David Thompson finished Wiki a game High 23 and Rookie Anthony Roberts added pacers Lakert it two clutch free throws by Danny round held with is seconds to play preserved the pacers Victory Over the John Wil liaisons 24 Points and Ricky sabers 20 ensured that Indiana never but los Angeles three limes got within one Tom hendersons 28foot jump shot at the Buzzer gave the bullets a on Point Vic tory Over new Henderson grabbed a rebound of a missed shot by Kevin Porter with five seconds remaining and drove the length of the court for his shot blazers Jan in with Lionel Hollins scoring 27 registered us 39ui straight Victory at Home with an easy win Over the Maurice Lucas scored u of his u Points in a third period Hiliu that buried the jazz and brought on the Blazer Bench for the rest of the zanies warriors u Marvin Webster scored 17 Points and grabbed 17 rebounds and the Solca held off a late rally by Golden stale in the final minutes or the it was the sorties 19th Victory in their in games since Lenny i Intens look Over As Fred with in and Jack Sikma and Dennis Johnson with u each backed websters Rick Barry led the warriors with 20 Points and Nate Wil Liams scored Bucks u3 the under new coach Larry Sta Cut a 24poirt deficit to eight Points in the final period before losing lob Bucks Scott and John Kuester each scored 20 Points for Kansas City while Brian Winters led the Bucks with Junior Bridgeman scored 21 pm Thor ble 01 Victory in the finals of the 1976 Bora had the upper hand in 1977 Howe As tie Defeated Connors 6 m in the finals Al Wimbledon and 6 m in the finals of a tournament in six of their matches have been in the of tournaments and four in the who lost Ibe finals at both Wimbledon and the open in 1977 but still won Over appeared thoroughly beaten Ai he trailed 02 in the third but after breaking Bong and holding to pull ahead 32 on Connora regained Confidence and nearly broke Borg in the Borg ought off three break Points to but fell behind 1mo in the loth with two break Points working for Connors was going for broke and slammed a forehand Winner for the match Connors aggressive style was reflected both in the number of he commuted and the number of winners he put Connors committed 57 errors to bergs 27 but nil m winners to bergs Borg had his problems on his first serv miking Only 47 percent la 67 Brian Gottfried received the third place prize when Guillermo citing his sore defaulted the Consola Tion whose Only toss in the Louman enl came in a Semi final thriller against Connors played an exhibition against Raul Ramirez prior to the feature Vilas and who actually finished each received the Birthplace prize Cannon was seen on two National television networks Abc showed a Mont hold tape of Connors in a act tournament just before lbs showed the Connors born match Navratilova cools off stove to grab Tennis meet Landover my api Martina Navy Talova benefited from the change of balls sunday to win her third title in four years Here by defeating 4 seed belly stove m in the ship of the Washington Stop on the women pro Tennis the 21yearotd Winner of the tournament Here in i97s had Little difficulty in disposing of s year old native of the in one hour and 10 she captured the 000 first prize before a crowd of at the capital Centre in suburban stove look Home in the doubles Navratilova teamed with Bulie Jean King id defeat the learn of stove and Wendy Tum buil 75 to win the first prize of while the losers won both players agreed after the final that the deciding Factor in both Seta was the change of Halls Navratilova Able to handle the lighter ones better than the Ball change in the first set came with Izavra Lilova Down in games and she went no to win the last three game for change in the second set came afew the Malin was lied Hamilton win Ning the last l Points for the m just didst have any touch after they changed us from the hem said who has now Tost to a Avnukova and five limes Treyve played on the Lour and Only won twice from her in 10 Matchet