European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 29, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                August 1985 the stars and stripes Page 17 sports Mcenroe survives Glickstein new York a defending Champion John Mcenroe tottered on the Brink of elimination tuesday before capturing a fifth set tiebreaker to Edge israels Shlomo Glickstein 76 and Advance into the second round of the open Tennis with the Mcenroe narrowly escaped becoming the first 1 seed since 1971 and Only the sixth in the 104year history of americas Premier Tennis event to fall in the opening the Victory kept alive his bid for his fifth title in seven years Here at the National Tennis Cen but Glickstein also walked off the court As a kind of Winner before the crowd of As he battled Mcenroe on even terms throughout the 51minute the Stocky israeli matched Mcenroe shot for game for game and set for in the final the second of the he fought off four match Points before Mcenroe cracked a backhand Cross court that Glickstein hit into the Mcenroe won the tiebreaker then raised his hand High into the obviously pleased with the result if not his it surprised me How Flat i was Mcenroe i lost my concentration he jerked me around and had me on the i dont remember when i was Ever that Ive never been so Happy to win an opening round Wimbledon Champion Boris Becker easily Cap tured his first round dispatching Peter Doohan of Australia also moving into the second round of the mens singles were 3 Mats Wilander of a 64 Winner Over India Vijay Amrit Raj 12 Johan Kriek and 13 Tim winners in the women Field tuesday included 3 Hana Mandrikova of 5 Claudia Kohl Kilsch of West 12 Wendy Turnbull file photo John Mcenroe Sloppy 10 double faults of 14 Bonnie Gadusek and 15 Carling Bassett of Mcenroe sailed through the opening set with and it appeared As if he would cruise into the second round in near record but Glickstein tenacious Ness and Mcenroe owner rows almost proved to be Glickstein captured the second set tiebreaker then took the third bringing him just one set away from the biggest Victory of his career and one of the biggest upsets in Tennis but it was not to although Mcenroe helped his opponents cause considerably with Sloppy play and 10 the who has won at least one grand slam tournament singles title every year since held his serve in the 12th game of the final set to Force the tie then streaked out to a 63 giving him three match Glickstein won the next three pulling to before Mcenroe put away a smash to take a 76 Lead and another match again the israeli pulled but Mcenroe slammed a service Winner to reach match Point for a fifth and this Glickstein had no the mens 2 Ivan Lendl of and the two top Chris Evert Lloyd and defending Champion Martina were scheduled to play their first matches on As was fourth seeded Jimmy a five time open a finalist Here in 1980 and rolled past Amanda Brown of Britain 61 Turnbull ousted Romanias Virginia Ruzicki 61 and Bassett struggled before eliminating Iva Buda Rova of Czechoslovakia 6 using his big serve and downed Paul Mcnamee of Australia while Mayotte stopped fellow american Terry Moor by an identical Guillermo Vilas of the last no american to win the open in 1977 battled his Way into the second round with a 61 Marathon Victory Over australian Wally Rookie Burroughs spark jays by the associated press Minneapolis Rookie Steve taking Over after starter Tom Filer left the game with a sore pitched four innings of one hit Relief american league and won his first major league decision tuesday night As the Toronto Blue jays held Minnesota to three hits and beat the twins Jeff Burroughs keyed a 15hit to Ronto attack by driving Home three runs with a pair of the Victory increased the Blue jays Al East division Lead to five games Over second place new which lost to Oakland tuesday Filer entered the game with a 70 but departed after pitching a witless first recalled from the minors gave up Only a four thinning single to Kent Hrbek and walked none while striking out Dennis lamp relieved Davis and threw three innings of one hit Bill Caudill pitched a witless in other Al games tuesday As Yankees 0 Tommy John pitched three hit baseball Over seven innings for the 259th Victory of his Ca and the Oakland As totalled eight hits off new York Ace Ron Guidry to beat the Steve Ontiveros pitched the last two allowing one and completed the combined four hitter and the fifth shutout of the season by the Oak file photo Toronto Jeff Burroughs delivers 3 Bis land the Rookie reliever earned his seventh had won 15 of his last 16 the As touched him for single runs in the third and fourth and had at least one hit in each of the first five the As scored an unearned run in the third on a throwing error by Don it was just the third error of the season by the new York first base White sox rangers 4 Chicago Harold Baines and Bryan Little drove in two runs apiece As Chicago won its third straight Britt was the Dave Wehrmeister pitched four innings of witless Relief for Bis first see Al on Page 21 braves Edge pirates 76 on homers or in 9th by the associated press Atlanta a Bob homers three run Homer with two outs in the last of the ninth inning tuesday night capped a five run Atlanta rally As the braves beat Pittsburgh 76 to hand the pirates their 16th consecutive Road the Victory gave braves interim Man Ager Bobby wine a 20 wine re placed Eddie who was fired Mon and guided Atlanta to a 21 Victory Over the pirates monday wine has 39 More games in which to prove should he former Atlanta Pitcher Phil now with the has expressed interest in Man aging his old Chuck the pirates Veteran was reported to be another name on the braves list of potential braves owner Ted Turner said his Choice for manager in 1986 is something we will worry about after the homers 21st a drive off loser Don scored Rafael Rami rez and Dale Murphy to make a Winner of Gene Hast won on the Road since a Victory at los Angeles on july Dale Murphy launched his major league leading 34th Homer in the fourth Jason Thompson hit a three run Homer in the eighth for the in other no games tuesday cardinals reds 4 Cincinnati Willie Mcgee two run triple in the eighth inning lifted Louis Over Cincinnati and extended the no East leading cardinals winning Streak to seven Mcgee hit his 16th tops in the off loser Ted who came in with a 43 Lead in the eighth and failed to retire a the Victory gave the cardinals their National league longest winning Streak of the buddy Bell cracked his first Homer As a a Solo shot in the Cincinnati player manager Pete Rose did not see action and still needs 11 hits to break to Cobbs Al time record of dodgers mets 1 new York Lethander Jerry Reuss came within an out of a but settled for a seven hitter tuesday night to break a personal five game losing Streak against new Darryl Strawberry Homer with two out in the his accounted for the Only new York and knocked Reuss Tom Niedenfuer got the final out for his 14th padres Phillies 1 Philadelphia Mark Thurmond struck put a career High eight batters in 7 innings As san Diego snapped a three game losing who gave up seven walked just John took the carmelo Martinez secured the Victory for san Diego with his 16th Homer in the giants expos 1 Montreal Brad Wellman keyed a five run ninth inning with a base loaded triple As san Francisco downed Wellman cleared the bases when he hit a sinking line drive to the opposite Field off loser Jeff astros cubs 4 Houston Bill Doran hit a triple and a drove in a career High five runs and scored the winning run to Power Houston past Dave was the Winner in re Lief for Houston and Ron took the loss in