Barrie Examiner, 20 Aug 1979, p. 5

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WH wMMIw 4aa Borg meets McEnroe in TORONTO cm Battle lines are drawn for todays mens singles final at the Players International Cana dian Open tennis champion ships Ill come into the net lot said John McEnroe of the United States whose vic tory over fourthseeded Vitas num Gerulaitis of the US earned him berth in the final against to ed Bjorn BorgofSw en John has very strong serve said Borg 63 61 victor over Ivan bend of Czechoslovakia in the other semifinal Sunday You have to return very well and in Ontario Barrie Hustlers are number one The Hustlers Complete Mobile Wash in the Barrie and District Ladies Softball League won the Ontario Pro vincial Womens Intermediate Softball championship in Port olborne Aug 1849 Barrie was the only team of the nine competing that went undefeated in the two days of play In the first round Hustlers defeated Richmond Hill 71 avenging 91 loss Hustlers suf fered to the same team three weeks ago in Walkerton Hustlers took four run lead in the third inning then scored one run in the fourth inning and two in the fifth inning Rich mond Hill managed to get on the scoreboard with one run in the sixth inning Gail Gibb led Hustlers with double and single while Holly White hit two singles Darlene Carlson Jean Partridge and Teddy Teterenko each hit singles Patti Purves who pit ched all four games for the Hustlers picked up the win In the second round Hustlers defeated Ottawa 53 Ottawa opened the scoring in the first inning with one run but Hustlers came back with run in the second inning another in the fourth and three in the sixth inning Jean Partridge Judy Pizzetta Beaver Schurr and Terenko each hit singles The third round saw Hustlers edge Lakefield 32 The win was particularly gratifying because Lakefield defeated Hustlers in the qualifying round to take first spot in the division Carole Warnica and Jane Partridge hit zilngles and Gail Gibb hit dou Hustlers needed 11 innings before they overcame Rich mond Hill 21 to win the cham pionship The teams were lock sports shorts Simcoe Hotel winner Simcoe Hotel downed the Barrie Merchants Sunday in first round Barrie and District Recreational Softball League playoff action to take the series three games to one In other action the Barrie Optimists evened their bestof five series with 21 win over anplas lndustries The two teams are back at it tonight for the deciding game at MatMorrison Simcoe Hotel struck for four runs in the fifth another in the the final frame in comefrom behind win With two out in the fifth inn ing Mike Cassidy singled two basesonballs followed before Ron Charlebois singled and Al Maguire tripled The Optimists bunched three hits in the fourth inning includ ing runproducing double by Hugh Church and RBI single by Dave Beauchesne to get all the runs they needed Beauchesne went the distance on fourhitter for the Editor David Fuller7264537 Barrie Hustlers berone the oxamlnor Monday August 20 1979 Canadian Open final put lotsofpressureon him Elsewhere at the York Wikstedt of Sweden 24 61 replaced the rain that On several occasions line tacticsof his own and walked net withetowel and proceed Whatever the strategy the Umversnty Tennis Centre on 53 in the womens doubles postponed play Saturday and calls questioned by McEnroe to the back of the court just ed to wipe McEnroes knees match brings together two of Sunday LauraDupont of the final forced the mens singles final were met with boos by the as McEnroe was preparing dry the best in the game Both US beat Brigitte Cuypers of Earlier Sunday Gerulaitis and mens doubles final of capacity crowd for his second serve We kidded around to ease have different styles Borg South Africa 64 67 61 in beat Paul Kronk of Australia the $210000 Grand Prix event Following one such diSCUS Gerulaitis grabbed towel the tension McEnroe said is content to play from the the women smgles final 61 in quarterfinal tobeheld today sion concerning line call in and wiped his arms then his The womens final was baseline until his opponent Lea Antonoplis of the US match that had been McEnroe used his strong the deciding set McEnroe legs McEnroe then beckoned dull affair as could be ex makes mistake white and Dianne Evers of suspended Friday night serve toblast past Gerulaitis faulted on his first service to Gerulaitis to do the same pected after topseeded McEnroe looks for quick Australia beat Chris ONeil because of rain in match that got many of Gerulaitis the fourth seed to him Without missing Evonne Goolagong withdrew opening forawinner of Australia and Mimmi Warm sunny conditions the 7000plus fans involved decided to use some delay beat Gerulaitis went to the earlier in the week ed at 11 after the first inning Carole Warnica singled Jean Partridge hunted and Gail Gibbs single drove in Warnica for Barries first run In the bottom of the eleventh Patti Purves made it to first base on an error to Richmond Hills rightfielder Purves then stole second With two out Deb bie Emms hit the ball at the Richmond shortstop and then beat the throw to first while Purves came home for the win ning run The Barrie Hustlers last won the championship three years ago and five members from that team were on this years championship squad Debbie Emms Gail Gibb Beaver Schurr Linda Lougheed and Jean Partridge The Hustlers move into league playoffs Tuesday night when they meet Ivy in first round action Edmonton girl double winner MOSCOW CP Wendy Quirk of Edmonton was dou ble winner Sunday as opening day competition at the Canada Soviet Union dual swim meet concluded with the host country holding an 8975 points ad vantage and setting world mark in the process Canadian women took four of Barrie Fair road race Road Race held Sunday Aug l9 Jones finished in 8958 just ahead of Torontos Cathy Mollenhauer Steve Thomas of Kitchener took the Open Mens division in 7029 90 seconds ahead of Barry Aulf of Huntsville Examiner Photo Elain Jones of Willowdale finished first in the Womens Open division of the Barrie Fair 20km Basketball star awarded $33M Sixth inning and two more in win Dave Lowe took the loss Peter Robson advances Peter Robson Carpet Mart moved on to round two of the Barrie and District Slow Pitch League playoffs after first round win Sunday against Superior Propane In other firstround play Transmission King and White Partridge Farms split the first two games of their bestof three set The rubber match is set for Wednesday at Painswick Round two begins Sunday at Shear Park with the leagues top regular season club Howards Heroes meeting the win ner of Wednesdays contest RP Oilers the second placed club after regular season play will meet Peter Robson in the other roundtwo series The winners will meet for the league title an honor that Howards Heroes has copped for the past few years Peter Robson took the first game Sunday at Shear 54 got bombed in game two but came back big to take the series with an 84 victoty Larry Corbett provided the Carpet Mart club with spark going three for three in the final game and bashing homer Fiftytwo runs crossed the plate during the two games of the second series Transmission King took the opener 1710 but White Iartrilge Farms came back with 196 win Little help from friends Colleen Hillery of Mahopac port at the end of the 26mile 30349 AP Photo Ickx takes over first with CanAm win BRAINERD Minn tReuteri Belgian driver Jacky Ickx won his fourth race in the CanAm auto series Sunday to move into first place in overall points Ickx driving his FMCIC HaasHall showed no concern when he failed to win the pole position at Bralnerd Interna tional Raceway He only qualified third But Ickx ran his usual strong race to wm and extend his lead over Keke Rosberg when theFinnish driver based in West Germany failed to turn an offic1al lap Rosberg who had qualified first pulled his Spyder into the pits Spurting oil on the pace lap amass NY gets some sup 385yard marathon run an event at the Empire State Games Colleen was the first woman over the line with time of seven events with Quirk posting victories in the 200 metre freestyle and the 200 metre butterfly Cheryl Gibson of Toronto won the mmetre backstroke event with Quirk Carol Klimpel of Toronto Nan cy Garapick of Halifax and Ann Gagnon of Vancouver combin ing to take the 4x100metre freestyle relay The Soviet Union dominated the mens competition with vic tories in five of seven events including Vladimir Salnikovs worldrecord time of three minutes 5140 seconds in the 400 metre freestyle He shaved onehundredth of second off his own mark set earlier this year Peter Szmidt of Edmonton finished second to Salnikov and in doing so set Canadian record with 35631 clocking Dan Thomson of Toronto in the loometre butterfly and Rob Wallenius of Sudbury Ont in the zoometre backstroke were the only members of the Canadian mens squad to post victories WINS FREESTYLE Quirk won the 200metre freestyle in 20390 finishing 63 seconds ahead of Klimpel and had 1598 clocking in the 200 metre butterfly HOUSTON AP Star cen tre Moses Malone of Huston Rockets said Saturday that pro basketball players now will think twice before fighting on the courts of the National Basktetball Association Malone was commenting on verdict reached Friday by federal court jury in Houston awarding $33 million to Rockets forward Rudy Tom janovich for injuries suffered when hit in the face by former Los Angeles Lakers forward Kermit Washington It will make lot of ballplayers and especially owners wonder what will hap pen to them if something like this ever happens again said Malone recently named most valuable player in the NBA for the 1908 79 season Owners are going to realize that it shouldnt happen again that violence This may put stop to it The jury of five men and one woman listened to two weeks of testimony deliberated five hours and returned an award $600000 more than what had Sets national record at canoe championship WELLAND Ont CPi C01 in Shaw won four gold medals and set national time record in the process to lead Lachine Que Racing Canoe Club to the Canadian Canoe Association championship on the abandon ed portion of the Welland Canal on Saturday Lachine won 10 of 39 junior intermediate and senior age class finals to finish with 132 points Cheema Aquatic Club of Dartmouth NS finished se cond in overall point standings Fight John Confeh left of England lands punch on the face of Matthew Saod Muhammad Matthew with three victories in the final four races of the day including the featured senior mens 1500 metre war canoe event Cheema finished with total of 72points Mississauga Ont Canoe Club defending Canadian champions was third with 67 points and Cartierville Que Boating Club was fourth with 63 Rounding out the top 10 finishers were Ottawa Rideau with 61 points Quebec Chateau Guay with 60 Hamilton action Mohawk with 41 Banook of Waverly NS with 36 Bur naby BC 33 and Dartmouth NS Micmac 32 Shaws time of one minute 522 seconds in the junior mens single kayak event was one of 11 national time records set Clubmates Yves Schmidt and Mark Granger lowered the na tional standard in the juvenile mens C2 500metre event in 12565 Lachines womens war canoe set record with time of 02i in the 500metre event Franklin of Philadelphia in the third round of the WBC world lightheavyweight championship fight in Atlantic City NJ Saturday AP Photo beenaskedby lawyers forTom The Rockets organization against the Lakersorganiza janovich still has $14 million suit tionfor loss of Tomjanovmhs serVices Stephane Bonneau captures unior tennis championship MONTREAL CP The to 61 Dewis was seeded new Canadian junior tennis first champion for boys 18 years of In the boys 16 and under age and under is Stephane Bon secondseeded Bruno Clermont neau of Chicoutimi Que of Laval Que beat topseeded Rick Bengston of Vancouver 67 64 The match marked pionship were played here and in Ottawa Bonneau was seeded first in the tournament Barg seeded sixth was surprise finalist Bonneau scored come The girls 18 and under cham frombehind 26 62 62 victory pion is Karen Dewis of London Clermonts fifth threeset over Alan Barg of Montreal Ont She defeated second comefrombehind victory of the The finals of the Pepsi cham seeded Fatima Ravat of Toron mumament sports hall of fame This weeks mystery sports persons hold the clues to identify their favorite pastfime but not their identities husband and wife team this couple won the two top prizes at the Kempview Bowls husband and wife tournament held recently at the Barrie Country Club if you know their names send in yours along with your address and telephone number to Sports Hall of Fame co The Examiner Box 370 Barrie L4M 4T6 Winners are selected at random from correct entries received by Saturday Debra Williams of Cedar Trail RR Barrie wins last weeks contest for correctly identifying Bob Bogardis Commodore of the Barrie Yacht Club ontest winners will receive an eightslice three item pizza from Mothers Pizza Parlour and Spaghetti House 312 Hayfield SL 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