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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 28, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday Juris 28,1987 the stars and stripes Page 21 Lendl Mayotte struggle to grab Wimbledon wins it by Andrew Warshaw Wimbledon England a Ivan lend and Tim Mayotte survived scare from a pair of american underdogs to Advance at Wimbledon saturday. However Steffi Graf the second seeded West German had no such problems. She beat Laura gilded Cistero Peru 6-2, 6-1 to move into the fourth round of the women s draw. The three games Gilde Mcinter won were one More than Graf had dropped inner first two matches combined. Lindl the men s second seed from Czechoslovakia dropped a set and needed to rally to Force a fourth set tie breaker in beating Richey Reneburg a qualifier a 6-7, 6-3, 7-6 in the Ifird round. Mayolle the Idle seed from the United states overcame countryman Tim Wilkison 6-3, 4-6, 6-7, 6-2, 6-4 in the second rout. Mayotte never has been ousted from Wimbledon before the fourth round Wilkison never has made it past the third. One of those streaks nearly ended on Center Conn. Dreams of Wimbledon championship ended for three other seeded players on a partly Cloudy Day. American and Gilbert the men s 12th iced lost a third round match to Alexander Volkov of the soviet Union 7 6, 0-6, 6-3, 6-4, All of Vollov s victories at Wimbledon his first grand slam tournament have come Over americans and he is the tint soviet men s player to reach the fourth round since runner up Alex Metreveli in 1973. Barbara Potter of the United stat Sand Joa Lum Nystrom of Sweden both were ousted Poller in the second round by Mary Joe Fernandez of the United states 6-1.6-0, and Nystrom in the third round by Jakob Hlasek of Switzerland 5 7,6-3,67-6. Their losses meant that with the Sec Ond round barely finished 11 of the 32 seeds had been eliminated eight we tout Friday including defending Champi on Boris Becker. Other seeds had belter results sat urday. The men s 11 the seed. Pat Cash beat his australian compatriot Paul Mcnamee 7 5, 6-4, 6-2 in the second round. Andres Gomez of Ecuador seeded eighth Defeated Ken Flach of the United states in the third round 6-4,6-3,1-6,7-5. Henri Loco Nile of France the ninth seed beat Gilad Bloom of Israel 6-3, 7-6, 7-5, while fourth seeded Stefan Edber gof Sweden ousted Matt anger of the United states 7-6.6-2.6-2. The women s fourth seed Helena us see Lendl on Page 25 Tim Mayotte returns a shot in route to his Victory 01 or Tim Wilton at Wimbledon. Lewis wins 50th consecutive Long jump san Jose Calif. A Carl Lewis scored his50th consecutive Long jump Victory Friday in the Best Competition in the Cuenl j history then captured lie200-meter dash in the Usa Mobil outdoor track and Field championships at san Jose City College. Lewis the 1984 olympic Long jump Champion took Only three Othis allowed no jumps winning with a leap of28 feet 4tt inches. He beat Larry Myricks and Mike Conley who Abo cleared 28 feet it was the first time that three jumpers surpassed 28 feet in the same meet. Myricks the last jumper to beat Lewis when he won the 1981 National indoor championships had a 28-3vthe Best of his career and Conley had a wind aide Effort of 28-0%. Lewis later took the second step toward a possible triple Gold medal performance by winning the 200 in a stadium record 20. I 2 seconds. Lewis trying to conserve his Energy for the 200-meter final opened the Long jump Competition with a jump of27.gs, then passed during the next rounds att stood up but when Myricks leaped 27-11 in round four Lewis uncorked what proved to be the winning jump. Myricks weal 28-pv in the fifth sound a distance matched by Conley in the sixth round. Myricks pulled into second place on his final jump. In the 200 final Lewis unperturbed by a false Start caused by an electronic malfunction burst out of the blocks in the restart and held the Lead throughout he slowed near the finish but won easily Over Wallac Spearmon. Who was timed in 20.33. Calvin Smith the 1983 world Champion was third in 20.34. Lewis recorded his first triple in the 1983 National championships by winning the 100 and 200-Mclcr dashes and the Long jump. Later that year he won golds in the 100, Long jump and 400-Melcr relay in the inaugural world championships at Helsinki Finland. A year later he swept olympic golds in the 100, 200, Long jump and relay. He will try to duplicate that four Gold feat when the second world championships Are staged at Rome from aug. 29 through sept. 6. I did t want to see him take one jump and sit the rest of the Day out Myricks said of Lewis. "1 think the Days of him Taki Zgonc jump and winning Are  in the 1984 los Angeles games Lewis was booed for Carl Lewis leaps 28-4 / in Usa meet at san taking Only two jumps one his winning 28-ow a Fibre the other a foul and then passing his final four tries. There was no booing Friday when he passed three times. Myricks said that Lewis might have jumped eve belter if he had t been bothered by an ailing left knee injured slightly during thursday s qualifying Carl is probably the greatest Long jumper now but America loves the underdog Concy said about the crowd s support for him and Myricks. It s like 5-fool-7 Spud Webb winning the Ida s slam Dunk contest Michael Jordan might be there but the crowd still roots for the  Myricks said the fans like to see someone Chal Lenge him. If he had won in wild one jump it would have been a dead  in his winning Streak Lewis has won in 33 outdoor meets and 17 indoor meets. This was his 39th consecutive meet jump Over 27 feel and 47th Overall and the 36ih time Over 24 meets that he has jumped 28 feet. Lewis has twice achieved a career Best 28-10 a in the 1983 outdoor championships at Indianapolis and in the 1984 millrose games at new York s Madiso Square Garden. In his Only other Long jump Competition this year. Lewis became the first jumper to record six 28-foot jumps in one meet. The Best was a wind aided 28-9 a and he also had two Legal 28-5s in the mount san Antonio College relays at Walnut Calif., on april 26. Friday s Competition also marked the second time in history there were four 27-fool jumpers in the same meet Gordon lain reached that distance on his final try leaping 27-0 a. For the first time Ever in the same meet three american women went Over 200 feet in he discus. Connie Price won at 212-5. Followed by Carol Cady at 205-11 and Ramona Pagel at 203-2. Duncan Alwood who resumed to Competition tos month after being suspended for 18 months for using steroids won the javelin with a heave Al 271-5, his Best since the new javelin was introduced last year. " modified my training while i was oui of  Alwood. The Winner of the . Olympic trials in 1984. Said. I had planned to take 1986 off anyway but not quite in the fashion i did. I needed a break from cum petition. It did make a difference that i a  
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