European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 6, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse July 1985 the stars and stripes Page 21 Curren beats Connors in semis England a Kevin Curren powered his Way into his first mens singles final at the Wimbledon Tennis championships annihilating Jimmy Connors 61 in just one 32 the South Africa born naturalized american who ousted defending Cham Pion John Mcenroe in the quarterfinals in straight served 17 aces and a Stream of service winners to Send the 3 tumbling of the currens opponent in sundays final was still to be with West Germany Boris Becker and Anders Jarryd of Sweden locked at Onset All when a driving Rains torm the second in a few hours at the All England club suspended play for the Jarryd had taken the opening set Becker the second 76 and the score in the third was 11 when officials decided to Call off the semifinal until the match was set to resume at before the final of the women singles be tween defending Champion Martina Navratilova and her longtime Chris Evert in thursdays defending Champi on Martina Navratilova battled into the Wimbledon women singles and Chris Evert Lloyd cruised into saturdays title setting up another chapter in the longest running show in Tennis pressed by the inspired play of eighth seeded Zina Navratilova fought Back every Challenge to emerge a 76 Evert Lloyd was never tested in her Romp Over Kathy the twin victories set up the 66th meet ing of their careers the longest rivalry in the sport and the fifth time they have clashed for the championship at the All England Lawn Tennis and croquet currens Victory ensured a new name on the mens trophy this Anders Jarryd of Sweden and West Germany Boris neither of whom have reached the were meeting in fridays other Semi i play began almost two hours late because of a driving rainstorm that swamped the All England club and sent torrents of water cascading off the three Trees were struck by when play Curren thundered Down an Ace on Only the second Point of the reliving the horror of last years final against Mcenroe when he won just four suffered another crushing de managing Only 16 Points against cur rens Winner after Winner flashed by the 32yearold american and two time who Only occasionally managed to produce his renowned service when he was not being beaten by the Pace of his eight seeded opponents Connors made a Host of unforced especially from the Back of the court from where he netted a spate of it was a bad Day at the said who still holds a 43 record against the first South african born Wimbledon finalist since Brian nor ton in two years Curren served a remarkable 33 aces to beat Connors in the fourth round that Connors was the defending Ive played him on All but on grass its Hes goes for it when Hes Hes said Connors after beginning with an Ace and three service winners in the opening cur Ren then broke for a 20 in the third Connors had his Only break Point of the match when Curren Dou but a searing Ace saved the game and Connors never had another Chance to threaten his opponents cleverly mixing topspin with sliced ground forced Connors into mis takes and broke the two time Wimbledon Champion again in the eighth game to win the opening set in 32 the pattern continued for the rest of the Curren serving Ven Mously and skilfully mixing up his ground put Guidry wins 9th straight Yankees ease by twins 32 by the associated press the new York Yankees just cant seem to lose on the fourth of the Way Ron Guidry is he cant lose on any both the team and the player continued relentless streaks thursday in a 32 Victory Over the Minnesota twins the Yan Kees winning their eighth straight game on Independence Day and Guidry winning his ninth straight this we knew we had enough for Gator in the first said Ken whose single helped the Yankees score three runs right off the Guidrysr 103 record is his Best Start since his 253 season of when he won the by Young he had Good a Good breaking a Good change up and he spotted his fastball said Yankee Catcher Ron he kept them off the last time the Yankees lost on july 4 Al Roundup was in when they were beaten by they were rained out in 1978 and the 1981 season was interrupted by a whose Streak is the longest by a Pitcher in the Al this hurled a six the Yankees bunched four hits in the first inning to score three runs off John who lost for the sixth time in his last seven Don Mattingly drove Home one run with his league Lead ing 23rd another scored on Don Baylor single and a third came Home on Willie Randolph sacrifice Guidry retired the twins in order Over the first three chalking up five of his eight Kirby puck Ett tripled on the first pitch of the fourth inning and scored on Gary Grettis one out Tom Brunansky hit his 18th Home run of the who has not lost in his last 12 did not walk a in other american league games White sox indians 0 Cleveland Britt Burns tossed a four hitter and Carlton Fisk collected two hits and knocked in a run to Lead the White sox Over Cleveland for their third Victory in their last 14 this is an important Road trip for Burns weve got to get something struck out five and walked two while pitching his fourth Complete game and second shutout of the the Lethander has Defeated Cleveland three times this season without allowing a run in 23 Burns pitched the first five innings of a 40 shutout Over Cleve land on May 8 before pitching a Complete see Al on Page 23 Ting Connors on the twice in the second Curren served three aces in one game As his bewildered opponent stayed rooted to the attacking Connors weak second who lost to Mats Wilander in the final of the australian broke his opponent twice More to carve out a command ing two set the third set was even More on sided and not even a shout of come Jimbo from a Spectator in the could Rouse Connors into a the 32yearold american grew even More frustrated and won Only one More game when he served to save the match at any Hopes of a comeback were As Curren served out the match with three More aces and a i knew Jimmy has the Best return in the game and that i could not let him into said it was very humid when we came out and the balls were a bit the conditions were very but that actually helped me on his serve because it gave me time to the first Black american woman to reach the semifinals of this prestigious event since Althea Gibson won the title in 1958 for the second successive gave Navratilova All the Lethander could see Tennis on Page 26 up photo Ron Guidry 10th win of season players oppose Allstar says Survey new York a major league baseball players would overwhelmingly oppose a Boycott of the Allstar game As a tactic in negotiating a new contract with according to a Survey of players conducted by the associated in a Survey take last All but seven of 516 players responding in an a Survey on contract negotiations said they favor boycotting the which is scheduled for july 16 at the players Are among the nearly 700 members of the major league players association who have been working without a contract since there were 199 players who had no comment on the con tract although the Allstar game was not wiped out by the seven week player strike of the contest was moved Back nearly a month and was the first baseball action following the the Allstar game is especially to the and i want to take that away from said Atlanta Dale whose response was echoed by most others who oppose a Milwaukee Pitcher Danny Darwin was one of the few who favor a Boycott the Allstar he there simply has to be a Point where this stuff Boycott the agreed Baltimore Catcher Joe Nolan get something done and get it done Pittsburgh outfielder Doug Frobel said he Doest think a Boycott of the game would be that would Only Hurt the players and the because that who the game is Frobel Tito an outfielder with the Louis was Evert More we cant Boycott the Allstar he the fans get and How Many More times Are they going to keep coming Back to the Parks after a strike Detroit Jack starting Pitcher for the american league in the 1981 also came out against a but added that players must serous by consider taking some action f i think we but strike Siris Joel giants said the Pla jars the Allstar Gar play the Allstar Lymor Socia Tion would the san Francisco Boycott use the players As anything unethical in regards to strike he said a strike must be announced 30 to 60 Days prior to the the two sides have been negotiating for More than nine months with Little reported players with each of the 26 major league teams have Given strike authorization to the the unions executive Board will meet in Minneapolis on july the Day before the Allstar to set a strike Don executive director of the said and our Hope is that sometime prior to the strike the owners will decide that they want to try and reach an and Well be there and ready when they Fehr said in an interview on abcs Good morning America
