European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 27, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 24 the stars and stripes wednesday september 27, 1978 Connors whips Borg again to grab first place in Argentine net tourney Buenos Aires Argentina a american Jimmy Connors staged a replay of his . Open Mastery Over Sweden s Bjorn Borg monday night beating him 5-7, 6-3, 6-3 for first place in a four Star round Robin Tennis tournament Here. Romania s Hie Nastase fought hard to beat Argentina s Young Jose Luis Clerc 6 7, 6-3, 6-1 for third place in the tournament. Nastase had lost to Borg 6-3, 6-1 in his first round Robin match and to Connors 6-4, 6-0 on sunday. It was . Open Champion Connors third win in six meetings with Borg this year. In the first set a charging Connors Ashe slams Gottfried in . Tourney los Angeles a seventh seeded Arthur Ashe ended each set by breaking Brian Gottfried s service monday night in scoring a 6-2, 6-4 Victory Over his second seeded opponent in the championship match of a $200,000 men s Tennis tournament. The 35-year-old Ashe earned $30,600 with his Victory at Urcla s Pauley Pavilion. Gottfried 26, collected the $15,300 second prize. In the first set Ashe broke Gottfried s service in the fourth sixth and eighth games while Gottfried broke service in the fifth game. In the second set Ashe broke in the fourth and 10th games while Gottfried broke in the seventh game the match ended when Gottfried double faulted. Ashe also won this event 15 years ago and again in 1975. Evert wins opener in Atlanta Atlanta a . Open Champion Chris Evert playing on an unfamiliar artificial surface won her opening round match Over Valerie Ziegenfuss 6-3, 6-0 monday in the $100,000 Atlanta women s Tennis classic. I can never remember playing on this before Evert said after her Victory. I was just trying to get my footing and get my timing  in other opening round action fourth seeded Wendy Turnbull of Australia Defeated Pam Teeguarden 6-3, 7-5 and no. 7 seed Virginia Ruzicki of Romania topped sue Barker of England 6-3, 7-6. Turnbull a finalist at last year s . Open said i was playing very Well Early in the match and then i just sort of relaxed toward the end of the first set and Early in the  Competition earlier monday saw eighth seeded Kathy May Register an easy 6-3, 6-2 Victory Over Betsy Nagelsen. Swept All Over the court to break Borg s service and build up a 2-0 Lead. But the imperturbable swede warmed up to take the next three games As Connors repeatedly netted easy balls. The uninspiring play continued into the seventh game when both players bewildered the crowd with spectacular shots Down the line and Low Cross court returns. Connors phantom like movements fast reflexes and perfectly timed drop shots made him appear the More Complete player but As the score indicated Borg s counterattacks matched the american s More artistic scoring abilities. Again in the second set Connors broke Borg s service in the first game and rushed to a 3-0 Lead helped by Borg s poor stroking and erratic play. But the swede recovered the initiative in the following two games to break Connors serve with a perfect lob and aced his opponent twice. Connors stronger All round play wore Borg Down however and the swede con ceded his last serving game with three double faults for a 6-3 Connors win. Scoring with admirable consistency Connors maintained the pressure in the third set and Borg s aim went to pieces in repeated double faults. Connors served out the set for a 6-3 win taking first place in the tournament in just Over two hours. Tommy Prothro left departs and Don Coryell arrives ,. Both feel chargers Are better than their record Prothro resigns Coryell new coach of chargers continued from Page 21 yell flew to los Angeles to discuss the possibility of coaching the rams. Coryell had two years remaining on his St. Louis con tract. In order to obtain him now the chargers have agreed to give St. Louis their third round draft Choice in 1980. Klein has offered Prothro an open titled position with the team to work in personnel areas such As drafting trading and player selection. I May follow this course said Prothro. But before deciding i want a while to consider what i want to do with my future. I am also interested in doing some travel ing and playing a lot of  Prothro said his wife Shirley was very relieved with the  Vikings dump bears 24-20 continued from Page 21 on the outcome and once on a pass interception when Doug Plank picked off a tar Kenton pass on the bears two stopping a threatening Minnesota drive. The game was billed As a contest be tween the running of Payton for the bears and the passing of Tarkenton for the Vikings and the Vikings came out ahead in every category. Payton who set a league record 275 Yards Rushing in his last appearance against Minnesota was limited to 58 Rush ing Yards in 24 carries but scored twice and caught four passes for 37 Yards. Two Viking Ball carriers Payton s Uncle Rickey Young and Foreman out gained him. Young had 74 Yards in 15 carries and Foreman 73 in 17. Tarkenton completed almost 75 percent of his passes 14 of 20 for 152 Yards and had one interception and one touchdown. White caught six of Tarkenton s completions for 82 Yards. Avellini forced to play catch up in the final few minutes connected on 22 of 36 attempts for 207 Yards but had no touch Down throws. Minnesota 14 o 7 324 Chicago 733 720 Micv-white33passfrom Tarkenton Danmeier kick min Blair 49fumble return Dameler kick Chi Payton 3 run Thomas kick Chi Fig Thomas 27 Chat Fig Thomas 32 min Foreman 1 run Danmeier k ick Man Fig Danmeier 30 Chi Payton 1 run Thomas kick a 53,561 Prothro s record with the chargers was 21-39. Before Corning to san Diego he was the head coach at Oregon state for 10 sea sons starting in 1955, the head coach at Urcla from 1965-70 and the los Angeles rams head coach in 1971-72. He sat out the 1973 season. This was a very difficult thing for me said Klein. I like and respect Tommy greatly and Hope that he stays with the organization in a personnel  Coryell was the head coach at san Diego state from 1961 to 1972 before going to the cardinals. His san Diego state teams com piled a 104-19-2 record. I certainly Hope i m Worth it said the 53-year-old Coryell of the third round draft pick. I m pleased with the Opportunity to coach again in san Diego because it s like a dream come  it had been rumoured for months that Coryell would succeed Prothro As the chargers head coach. Terms of his agree ment with the team were not divulged. I thought i could take the year off with out coaching football but i started to get itchy when i attended a Dallas san Diego Rookie scrimmage in Irvine Coryell said. I Haven t seen the chargers play this sea son except on television but with a few Breaks the team could be 4-0. When i walk into the dressing room i probably won t even recognize most of the players. I Don t know them personally but i do know there is tremendous personnel with the  Coryell said he plans to keep the staff of assistant coaches and noted that the Over All philosophy of the chargers offensively and Desensi Ely is very close to his own. How they stand american league East new York Boston Milwaukee Baltimore Detroit Cleveland Toronto West Kansas City California Texas Minnesota Chicago Oakland Seattle w 94 93 90 86 84 68 59 89 83 8271 69 68 55 l 62 63 67 69 72 85 96 68 73 74 86 87 90 99 pet. .603 .596 .573 .555 .538 .444 .381 .567 .532 .526 .452 .442 .430 .357 monday s results Kansas City 7, Seattle 2 chlcago6, Oakland 2 Texas 3, Minnesota 1, 11 innings go 1 4vj 7vj 10 win i 5v