European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 10, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse February the stars and stripes Page 21 Leslie Allen first since Althea Gibson unseeded Awen wins Avon title Detroit up unseeded Leslie Allen toppled to seeded Hana Mandrikova of in the Avon Tennis tournament sunday to become the first Black woman to win a major Tennis tournament in 23 currently ranked picked up More than half her 1980 earnings of the last Black woman to win a major tournament was Althea Gibson in in Mand Livona and her Betty stove of were by Rosie Casals of and Wendy Turnbull of the win ners split who turns 24 on March pro fessed Little Surprise at her it was really a Long process in me get Ting and not an allow sudden she asked if being the first Black woman to win a tournament in 23 years had any meaning for she in sure it its just i wanted to treat this like it was just a first round the new York City res ident and if All those people wanted to come out and watch a first round match that was Fine with the Victory Over the 19yearold Mandli the fifth ranked player in the cannot be considered a Allen Defeated fourth seeded Virginia Ruzicki in straight did the same to number six Mima Jasovec and took a tight three setter from the unseeded but hot bar Bara Potter in the who won had her serve broken in the third game of the open ing she lost her service to Start the second set and was Down 52 before she broke Allens service to Start what looked like a i didst want to read in the papers the next she almost had but Allen said i just decided i was going to go get wrap up Victory at foul line Bruins hand Irish 4th loss by United press International notre Dame and Urcla Are two of the finest teams in the and yet neither could hit a Field goal Over the last seven minutes that left it up to the foul despite the howling and waving of the crowd of at South Duclas concentration proved better than notre and the 14thranked Bruins nipped the 9 fighting Irish Michael Holton and Rod Foster hit the key free throws in the final 15 in a helluva foul shooting said Urcla coach Larry weve been shooting into flags for the last we made the crucial free throws today that we Haven been making this Kelly who led All scorers with 18 made one of two free throws to give the Irish a 4846 Lead with Darren who scored 12 made both of his with left to tie the game for but said it want notre Dame has one of the better crowds in the there is no doubt about Daye you just have to concentrate and put them that the Way it stayed until 84 percent from the foul made one of two free throws with 15 seconds left to put the Bruins ahead notre Dames Tracy Jackson missed a 20 footer with eight seconds left and Foster was 91 percent at the hit two with five seconds left to Seal the the loss was notre Dames fourth in 20 games this season and ended a 13gamc Home winning the game was close from the though Urcla behind the shooting of Mike who scored 12 of his 16 Points in the first half opened a 2616 Lead with left in the in other action 17thranked South Alabama routed Jacksonville 8665 and Clemson pounded South Carolina 115 de Rains scored a game High 21 Points and Rory White added 18 to spark the jaguars to a Sun Belt conference South 193 and 72 in the also got 15 Points from John the jaguars led 3523 at the half and stretched the Lead to 72 36 with left in the kicks rip 116102 by United press International a loss to the Dallas Mavericks is Good for a Little renewed vigor on the part of Many humiliated but who would imagine it could prompt the new York kicks to think team Ball before the 16 loss to Dallas we had too Many one none situations when we counted on our own Talent to kicks Forward campy Russell said Sun Day after scoring 24 Points to Lead five players totalling 17 or More Points in a 116102 Victory Over new some times that will win Ball but most of the time that int the Triumph was the fifth straight for the who have been criticized for their Lack of team and put them 13 Aba Roundup games above for the first time this it was also their eighth win in 11 games since the shocker in we had a meeting after that Dallas said because we were embarrassed to have lost to a team like we sat Down and went Over what had gone wrong and one of the things we Felt was that we had to Correct our we haunt been aggressive on defense and so after that meeting the whole team made an Effort to work harder i think that it paid off since Michael Ray Richardson and Ray Wil Liams scored most of those easy after leading 5452 at new York broke open the with Richard son netting 14 of his 20 Points and Wil Liams 8 of his 17 to take a 9570 Lead into the final it was our defense that caused those easy agreed for the who dropped their fifth Cliff Robinson scored 25 a shared emotion former Boston celtic Center and Captain Dave Cowens left is embraced by for Mer celtic coach and now general Man Ager red Auerbach during halftime ceremonies sunday in Boston Cowens retired in october after a 10 year career in which he helped the cel tics win two world he Maurice Lucas had 20 and Mike Newlin in other Aba games 76ers lakers 99 at Julius Erving slammed Home a Dunk with 18 seconds remaining to thwart a los Angeles rally continued on Page 22 was also the nabs Rookie of the year and at the 25minute ceremony in which Auerbach hailed him As a True Cowens waved repeatedly to a sellout crowd that included 18 former at the his 18 Jersey was retired and Hung from the a photo girls wrestle with social Issue Iowa Iowa up the wrestling careers of two girls on the boys wrestling team of Central High school have been Cut Short by a Board of education decision to generally bar girls from joining boys sports there Are no girls wrestling teams in where wrestling is a major after the school Board decision last a school official said a girls wrestling program could be started at Central if enough girls show Caroline Lee and Julie both 14 year Olds in the 9th Grade at vigorously trained to make their High school boys team they admitted their tenure on the team was not All fun and a couple of the Guys were really Good about Puffer others would Call us wed ignore whose interest in wrestling was sparked by her three said few people cheered for her in a recent she lost her match to a who said wrestling just int a girls wrestling coach Robert Sta Lander said at first he understand Why people would object to the girls after thinking about it for a i guess its that it int Ladylike for girls to Tumble around on the floor with he i cant see any big there in uniform and they go out there for the same purpose to
