European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 28, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                January 197b the stars and stripes Poge 2 almost Defeated Connors Advance in pro indoor Tennis tourney Philadelphia api Boom Wimbledon Champion rum joined Jimmy Connors in the quarterfinal round of the pro indoor Tennis championship thursday night after coming within two Points of a loss to 22 Stevens gain net semis los Angeles a second seeded Martina Navratilova and unseeded Crecy Stevens scored straightest victories thursday night to earn spots in the Semi finals of a women Tennis tournament at the sports formerly of Czechoslovakia and now living in eliminated is year old Tracy Austin of rolling the tournaments eighth 4 while Stevens of South Africa upset third seeded Virginia Wade of Britain earlier fourth seeded sue Barker and fifth seeded Rosie Casals darned berths in the quarterfinals of the tournament with second round singles vie lories Over unseeded Barker of Britain downed Zenda less of continued on Page 22 notre Dame defensive cod Ross Browner with recently received Lombard award Browner honoured As player of year by Maxwell football club by Ralph Bernstein Philadelphia a Dame s Ross once described by his Mother As too frail and fragile to play foot was honoured Here by the Maxwell football club As College player of the i remember my mom youre too youll break All your the 259pound All America defensive end said at a press it want until i was in the eighth Grade and my Marks were Good in school that she consented to my going out far re called the 6fooh Browner of he joined a list of Maxwell winners that began with yales Clint Frank in and includes such football greats As the late Davey Tom Bill Glen Doc Chuck Bedna Roger John Archie Griffin and last year Tony Browner said he ran the 440 and High jumped in and the next year jus Mother okayed she still tells me to look take care of reminds me that i respect what she said the powerful looking end who recently received the vice Lombard award As the nations out standing collegiate a cinch to be a High tint round pick in the upcoming National football league player really cant under stand Why anyone should doubt that notre Dame deserved its ranking As the 1 College football team in the who was the i team in the nation when we went to the Cotton bowl to was he we were the last learn with a Chance to beat that the reason we went to we won and should be  Browner prefer to have had a playoff or the National title among the pre tenders to the throne i dont believe College football should have a championship Browner that makes for an extremely Long ii would be too a bowl is a Bonus for a Good that in january you begin a new semester and two More games would leave you behind in your school someone asked about the Gold earring in i continued on Page 25 j year old Pelcer Fleming of an intense struggle of almost Twa hours ended with Fleming serving a double fault to hand the second seeded Borg a by third round the top experienced no such difficulty in dispatching England Buster Fleming made Good use of his 6foots Frame to Pound his service at he scored with Well placed volleys and drives Down the line to dominate the first which he won with a service Borg held on and the second set was decided by a tiebreaker in which Fleming was two Points from winning at Borg then hit a drive from behind the Baseline that struck the net and shot past the charging that put Borg at Fleming tied at 66 As Borg overdrive the a Strong serve by Borg Drew a netted backhand for 76 and then Flem ing hit borgs shot Over the Baseline to lose the who broke Flemings service in the third game of the third reached match Point by hitting an overhead smash to Flemings feet As he moved toward the Flemings return hit the net before he double faulted on in another third round John Mcenroe of new York Defeated s Manuel Orantes of Spain Sandy Mayer of upset his doubles fourth seeded Vitas Geru 7s in an earlier match thurs the Victory put Mayer into the Quarter final Good for Ngerul Altos earned 3 seed Brian Gottfried of fort Lau wan a closely played match against Wojtek 13 seed from Fibak lobbed Over the base line to lose the first set hut recovered from loss of service in the first game of the second set and played even until the tiebreaker went to Gottfried 73 when Fibak returned a serve out of 7 seeded Raul Ramirez of Mexico eliminated 12 seed Ken Rosewall of Australia in a tight lose Wall lost a 31 Lead in the opening his service was broken in the ninth game and Ramirez won the set in the 10th game on the second set Point As Rosewall hit a return into the Ramirez ran out the second set from 10 seed Roscoe Tanner of Palm entered the quarterfinal round with a 60 Victory Over t Plienas Lassof in a match Between two handed tack hand hitlers from 6 seed Eddie Dibbs of Miami Beach outmatched Harold Solomon of Miami Dibbs ran out the second set from judge rules his fight was a draw Quarry has rude Awakening by Paul Stevens Apt Mike Quarry went to bed tuesday night the Winner of his first professional boxing bout in eight he woke up wednesday morning to learn he haunt won after what happened was that in Between the Lime Quarry was declared Law Winner of a split decision Over Hal Lacy of Wichita and us Lime he was awakened to find the match was declared a a judge look a closer look at the Rule Book two judges scored the 10round Light  bout while the third Judae gave a former title con a 9697 chief judge Bud Fairchild said after id Minics of Delibac Rainn that under the Lapoint mint system Quarry was the Winner by a Une paint but about 4 Fairchild Dis covered he was i kept worrying about the decision during the night and Roi up Early this morning and looked it up in the Rule Fairchild said i found the Sec lion which showed i had been the Rule Book slates thai Points shall be used Only for determining the Deci Sion on individual card of the judges and the and that Tho majority decision of the judges determine uie he since two of the three judges called the bout a Fairchild reversed his ruling of the night he younger brother of former  fighter Jerry agreed with the Rule interpret but he called the scoring of the judges claiming none was licensed to work a professional i continued an Page 14