European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 16, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 26 the stars and stripes August 1985 Navratilova Doest scare Montreal up Vitas Gerulaitis says he would have an easier time beating Martina Navratilova at her Best than John at his worst in a singles on my worst Beer Drunken f would rather play having trained for 12 rather than having crawled out of bed after not sleeping for seven pc ulaitis said at a news con Ference made the comments after beating Victor Pecci of Paraguay in the first round of the players and Bobby will play women doubles champions Navratilova and Pam Shriver in a Best mixed doubles match at Atlantic City on ranked 25lh on the mens Cir reiterated his statement that any of the top 100ranked mens players could beat Martina is a fantastic he i Admire but there is no Compa Rison play Wise Between mens and women she beat the 100th Navratilova playing in the match is an attempt to pump her he when told by a reporter that Navratilova said last week that she would play Gerulaitis in a singles match if he stopped playing for two he replied that no i mean take Seattle put 12 people on her Back and she wont run so fast whats it going to prove if she beat me after i sat on my butt for two months Gerulaitis biggest worry about the up coming match is that Riggs will drop dead of a heart three out of five is More of an endur Ance he i just Hope my partner Doest have a heart attack or something when were Riggs has been training hard for the match and the two will practice together in Atlantic City next he we dont want to he quite a few of the Guys Are telling me i should go in there and Nail the in doing it for the weve got to hang in Tennis needs something like this for a shot in the it shows there is a fun Side to the Mcenroe tops Wilkison Montreal a defending Cham Pion John Mcenroe Defeated unseeded Tim Wilkison 64 in a second round match at the players International ten Nis tournament the 1 had difficulty handling Wilkisos and his ground strokes lacked the Power and deadly accuracy they usually up photo Bobby Riggs overt Hill codger old Hustler Riggs hyping sequel to Battle of sexes by will Grimsley a special correspondent Bobby the feisty con Man of the courts who has spent most of his life hustling the Rich and Calls it the Best and the last of his bizarre imagine a overt Hill codger getting somebody to pay half a Mil lion dollars to watch me in a doubles match with a couple of he this is going to be my every year ill get a part Ner to help me Challenge the Best women till be like a to twelve years after his celebrated Bat the of the sexes against Billie Jean King in Houston the Little manipulator has finally conceived and orchestrated a sequel multiplied by it is called simply the Riggs and 31yearold Vitas a ranking but fading mens will face the Champion women doubles team of Martina Navratilova and Pam Shriver in a Besto five set showdown next Friday in Atlantic cites convention the pot winners get losers ticket prices Are equivalent to a big ranging from to when i lost to Billie i had hoped she would give me a return but she Riggs this was concocted As an i made a couple of trial i teamed with Pancho Segura who is 64 and we beat one of the Best women teams on the West then i played with Mai Anderson a 49yearold australian and we easily beat the 1982 women doubles Rose Mary Casals and Wendy i knew then i could take a younger Man like who can still hold his own on the and destroy the legend of the Navratilova Shriver Las vegas Odd makers have the women listed As 95 hardly a now Riggs is 12 years older than when he played at 5 714 inches and 135 he is Bow legged and Knobby need and bears no resemblance to an he hides the Gray in his shaggy hair with a Mustard he wears hearing aids in both his glasses Are so he cant see the net without he swings a King sized Racket that looks like a it seems implausible that this rickety survivor of a thousand Tennis wars could stand up under any kind of constant but that exactly the scene the Hustler wishes to ill play close to the net and shoot everything at Riggs said of Navratilova and who won 109 straight matches and eight grand slam titles before losing in the final last month at Riggs first grabbed the worlds attention in 1939 As a 21yearold at sacred Wimble a ranked and he was intrigued by the 251 Odds posted by London Legal so he got All the Money he could Muster and made a swing around the betting on i parlayed the bet to both the mens doubles and mixed he Riggs stunned the Tennis establishment by beating Elwood Cooke for the singles then teaming with Cooke for the mens doubles title and with Alice Marble in mixed doubles for a triple he returned Home with he added the championship in 1939 and won again in then he turned pro beating Don Budge in their Cross on night stands and spoiling Jack kramers professional debut at Madison Square Garden in december outraged at Kings constant cry for equal prize Money for women in Riggs challenged the country top player to a she spurned but when Riggs played Margaret court in on mothers May and easily beat her King changed her he conned Margaret by presenting her with a bouquet of roses before the King said at the i believe it when she i let him get away with their match proved one of the Tennis events of the time Magazine put Riggs on the depicting him As tar Zan in loin cloth and As Henry Viii with a naked showgirl on his King went into training like a prize for two weeks prior to the Riggs partied swallowed 450 Vitamin pills a Day and held round the clock court in his hotel he hardly the match in the Astrodome on Drew the largest crowd to attend a single match with an Esti mated 50 million watching on Riggs was just a Shell of the Man who had beaten court a few months he lost his Solace Likely came from the million he claims he earned from the Houston loses 7foot eager Hor Ford Dallas a Tito the prize 7foot basketball recruit from the dominican is a free no longer bound to Houston by a letter of in the Dallas morning news reported David a member of the collegiate commissioners association that adminis ters the Lettero intent program for the told the newspaper Hor Ford could go to another school with no it would be As if he never signed a one of the most intensely recruited student players last reported to Houston monday for freshman Orienta Tion and Learned he will be ineligible to compete for the Southwest conference school because of recruiting Hor Ford apparently was contacted Ille Gally by assistant coach Donnie Schverak last Houston coach Guy Lewis told the in we plan the Appeal army win in interservice tournament the Navy raised its record to 40 in the women interservice softball tournament beating the air Force 20 and the marines it was the second Day of the army also won two games wednes Topping the marines 32 and the air Force both games went extra the army has a 31 record in the with All of its victories coming in extra air Force has a record of 13 and the marines Are navys Lori Griggs pitched her second straight shutout in defeating the air Force scattering seven Jill Jacobs paced the Navy attack by scoring one run and knocking in in the the Navy pounded out 15 hits against the with six differ ent players getting two hits the Navy had three runners thrown out at the which kept the game for the Annette Pitt nans single to deep right Center scored Sheila Granger with the winning run in the ninth inning to give the army a 32 win Over the in its second the army exploded for five runs in the top of the each team was to play two More games thursday with an i necessary game fight fight but spare the of a a full fledged Brawl Between the offence and defense hit the University of Pittsburgh football team by the time it quarterback John Congemi had a split lip that needed three and freshman defensive end Darrel Woods was banished from the rest of the Brawl unfolded As Congemi rolled left on an option play in the teams first practice in pads at training Camp at Edinboro Quarter backs Are not supposed to get hit on the but Woods popped Congemi after the quarterback pitched the and the two got into a shoving full Back Darnell Stone raced to the Rescue of his quarterback and a Melee ensued Between the offence and
