European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 10, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday september 10. 19bo the stars stripes Page 23 Mcenroe puts crimp in Borg legend so much Tor the grand slam along with it the question of whether Biorn Dorg ranks among Llie greatest Tennis players of All Lime. Someday maybe. Right now though you can scratch his name from both categories. John Mcenroe took care of thai personally Sun Day defeating the often invincible swede in in up Down 7-6, 6-1, 6-7, 5-7, 6-4 knuckle Biler for his second straight us. Open Tennis title. In doing a Mcenroe a curly haired Al year old Long islander with a powerhouse serve a marked disinclination to to the growing legend of Bjorn Borg blighted whatever Hopes the a Tom. Five time Wimbledon Winner had of joining Don Budge Rod Laver this year As the Only players Ever to achieve the fabled grand Starn. Mcenroe also demonstrated that with Al Borg has accomplished on the Tennis court in his 24 years it has been considerable he still does t quite rank with the likes of such Hall of pamirs As Hill tit Dan Fred Perry Ellsworth Vina Jack Kra Mer badge Laver. Not yet. Anyway. Coming into this is. Open Borg had a perfect Opportunity of achieving the grand slam. He had already won the Wimbledon unit French lilies this year putting him two legs up now All he needed was victories in the . Open the australian championship later this year. When he cot by Roscoe Tanner in the quarterfinals South Africa s surprisingly Lough Johan Kriek in the semifinals most people figured he was a goad Bello beat inc second seeded Mcenroe the same Way he did in this year s Wimbledon final. It did t turn out thai Way Al All. More disappointing Slit to Borg was the fact this was his ninth futile attempt at winning the . Open he seem to be falling into the same rut in Jenaii Sam Snead has in Golf. Snead has woo countless tournaments All Over the world never has Beta Able to win the . Open. The same with Borg who has captured virtually every other title. I think he s the Best player around today he can t actually be considered among inc Premier players of All Lime until he wins the open said Budge who won the title twice. Bobby Riggs another two time open Winner who has won More than so National titles agreed with Budge. Milton Rich Naniuk i m not yet ready to concede he rates with the greatest players of All Riggs said. The Way i rank players is . And . That s before Tilden after Tilden like . And . Borg has an awful to going for him hut he Slit in t in a class with Tilden that Bunch. They Tell me he makes j5 million a year counting everything i would t doubt it. He s a helluva Back court player maybe the Best that Ever was he still does t have that classic serve it was Borc a erratic serves that had him in trouble almost from the Start sunday he looked sluggish in the first set Mcenroe had a minimum of difficulty winning the 7-4 tie breaker. Bjorn Borg a Bis loss la Mcenroe. Finding . Open futile Borg seeming o ice his concentration after grow ing upset Over a Linesman s Call at 4-4. His game deteriorated to such a Point in the second set that he looked almost pathetic on the court. Let s go. Bjorn called out some of those in the crowd at the National Tennis Center when he fell behind 3-0. A Mon. Borg others tried to encourage him. In inc upper reaches of the stadium one Spectator asked his companion have you Ever seen him look so terrible never came the reply. Borg lost that set then rallied to win the next iwo having gone four years since losing a five set match to anyone it appeared he was on his Way. But Mcenroe keeping Borg on the defensive repeatedly with his blistering first serves broke his service Al 4-3 i hat was the turning Point of the s second consecutive . Open Victory was Worth 146,000. Bringing his earning to $409, 182 for the year he pointed to the first Sel us the one which did Borg in. I think he gave me the first set Mcenroe said. "1 did t Ihrk i was in control. He threw it away thai gave me the momentum. I Don t think Bjorn played Well the whole match. But that Hap pens. I Don t think i played that Well either for that matter. Bjorn has t reached his Peak Yel neither have 1. We can both play Borc denied he Well physically said it was his serve that ruined him. I never served As bad As i did today he commented. "1 was t getting my first serves in i had 10 work on my second serves All match. It s very tiring. I Don t know what happened it the second Sel. I did t have any feel for the Mcenroe still fell Borg is the no. T player around today thai he said made i Victory Over him the most satisfying Ever. Borg said he was going to keep using to win the . Open. That s going to be my us billion he added. Although neither Mcenroe nor1 Borg played up to their full capabilities their match was an exciting one for most of the spectators. For one indy particularly. During the fifth Sel she gave birth to a boy in the stadium parking lot. In All likelihood inc baby s name will be John because she said she was going to name Laai after the Winner. Yanks rally in 9th to win o s cop 2 by Fred me mane up sports Fri let Baltimore s Earl Weaver has often been called a magician when it comes to managing a baseball learn bul manager Dick Howser of the new York Yankees appears to be the one Wilh the bag of tricks this season. Try As they might. Weaver s orioles can t overhaul the first place Yankees be cause dowser s club is pulling games out of . Monday night was the perfect example. The orioles swept a pair of games from he Detroit tigers 9-2 8-6. Yet could make up Only a half game on the Yankees who staged a four run ninth inning rally to defeat the Toronto Blue jays. 7-4. The Yankees Victory their eighth in a so if left them four games ahead of Balti More in the american league East. It also marked the i6lh Lime the Yankees had come from behind in the last three innings to win a game this season. Trailing 4-3 in the ninth inning Bobby Murcer doubled kor cd on a triple by Oscar Gamble to tic the score Fowser then sent up Bob Watson to for Jim Spencer he sliced a single n score Gamble with the go ahead run. Rack be Al Roundup Rone followed Wilh a two run Homer to Cap the inning make Tommy John a 20 game Winner for the third time in four seasons. Orioles 58, Tir frs 2-6 Eddie Murray hit a Ihrck run Homer in the opener Ami delivered a pair of run scoring singles in the second game. Murray s 14lh Homer a three run shot in the first inning of the opener climaxed a for run uprising that started Baltimore on its Way to the first game Triumph. He also singled in runs in the firs second innings of the Nightcap of the orioles scored three times in each inning to take a commanding 6-0 Lead. Red sax id indians 4 Jim Dwyer who hit two Home runs in 1979, belled a pair of Solo homers Carton Fisk drove in four runs to spark an in hit attack that carried the red sox to a rout of the indians. Mike Torres 9-13. Was the Winner while Dan Spillner 14-10, took the loss. White & x 3, mariners 1 Wayne Nordengen s run scoring single Wilh two our in the Izish inning gave Limo White sox a Victory in a game played under protest. With one out in the 12th, Dave Heaverlo 5-3, hit Chol Lemon with he pitch . After two were oat. Lemon stole second scored on Nordhagen s single to Center. Seattle Maury wills protested the game in the eighth because of a balk Call against reliever Shane Rawley. Ringen 6, a 1 Rookie John Butcher making Hia major league debut because of the suspension of Ferguson Jenkins tossed a six Hitler in pitching the rangers to Victory. John Grubb i two run Homer in the fifth a Home run by Rusty staub in the Smith a two run single by Mike Richardl gave Butcher the support he needed. An gab 7, Rotili 4 Carney Lansford had three hits including a double a Homer drove in three runs in helping the Angels snap a four game losing Strajk. Kansas City s George Brici the major leagues leading hitter with a j96 average Sal out his Sec Ond straight game Wilh � sore right hand. Buckeyes top a poll c on Tinute from Page it first regular season ratings there was some some shuffling around. Pill remained in third place with three first place votes 1,009 Point Oklahoma fifth in the preseason rankings edged ahead of Southern Cali fornia which had been fourth. The sooner received the remaining first place Vole 928 Points to 920 for Southern cd. Pill Oklahoma us All were Idle. Texas jumped from 0lh to sixth with a 23-17 Triumph Over Arkansas which dropped from Sim to i Fath. Notre oame to Limo cd from 1 Ith Lowvenia by defeat ing Purdue 31-10. The boilermakers slipped from ninth to 20th.ntbraskn dropped from seventh to eighth place with 26 Points White hous ton fell from eighth to ninth Wilh 723. Florida slate 16-0 Winner Over Louisiana slave founded out la top ten. Ohio St. Leads up ratings continue from Pat i onto inc no. 3 rating while Pittsburgh remained at no. 4, with three first place Voles 454 Points. Southern California held Neady Al no. 5 with 421 Points us Alabama was the Only team among the top five to Sec action last saturday. Texas moved up three Nul Chei to no 6 on the basis of its 23-17 Victory Over Arkan Sas on sept. I. Nebraska remained Al no. 7 notre Dame a 31-10 Winner Over Pur Tiue. Jumped Tum no. Iilono.8. Houston which did not play dropped Ihrck spots to Michigian replaced Purdue no. 10. Hounding out the top 20 Are no. Ii Florida stale up from no. 16 on the strength of its 16-0 Triumph Over Louisiana state no. 12 Penn stale which demolished Colgate 54-10 no. 13 North Carolina a 35-13 Winner Over Furman no. 14 Stan Ford no. 15 Georgia up five spot front no. 20 after a 16-1 i Victory Al Tennessee. Even with its loss. Arkansas remained in the top 20 Al no. In followed by no. 17 Missouri 1 Sill ranked Washington newcomers Tsas am no 19 South Carolina no. M
