The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 207, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 30, 1991 Page: 28 of 45
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THE BAYTOWN SUN
Sunday, June 30, 1991
1-B
Sports
Photo by Brian Blalock
Match Play Champ
Judy Linscott (left), Special Events Tournament Coordinator for the Women’s Golf Associ-
ation of the Goose Creek Country Club presents the championship trophy to Melba
Spears (right) for winning the championship flight of the first-ever Women's Match Play
Tournament, completed June 23.
Rematch belongs to Tyson
Former champ gets decision over Ruddock
Sun finally shines on Wimbledon
By Tim Dahlberg
of The Associated Press
LAS VEGAS (AP) — For six
rounds, it looked like Mike Ty-
son and Donovan “Razor” Rud-
dock were stuck in some sort of
a strange time warp in the same
rjng where they first met little
more than three months ago.
Just as he had in their first
fight, Tyson knocked Ruddock
down twice in the early rounds.
Just as he had done on March
18, Ruddock had rocked Tyson
with some brutal left hands.
This time, however, the fight
didn’t end in controversy in the
seventh round, This time it went
12 rounds.
And this time, Ruddock had
no complaints.
“1 think I should have put out
a little more,” Ruddock con-
ceded after dropping a unanim-
ous decision Friday night.
Ruddock took Tyson the dis-
tance in a foul-plagued fight be-
tween the heavyweight divi-
sion’s top two contenders in a
fight that in most part was a bad
repeat of Tyson’s earlier win.
Once again, Tyson landed the
more effective punches and
landed them more often. But just
as he did before, Ruddock
landed some heavy punches that
shook Tyson and at times
stopped him, dead in his tracks.
“God, he'hits hard,” Tyson
said. “I know he was punching
harder this fight than in the first
fight.”
Tyson, despite losing three
points on the ringside scorecards
for hitting after the bell and hit-
ting low, managed to take a rela-
tively easy decision.
He bloodied Ruddock’s
mouth but couldn’t follow
through on a pre-fight promise
to knock the Canadian out be-
fore 15,880 people.
Tyson knocked Ruddock
down in the second and fourth
rounds, but Ruddock was up
quickly after both and Tyson
failed to show the finishing in-
stincts that helped make him
such a dangerous fighter.
The first knockdown fittingly
came just after Tyson was
wamet)' by referee Mills Lane
for low blows. As the fighters
prepared to resume, Tyson
launched an overhand right that
put Ruddock to one knee.
In the foutth round, Ruddock
was down again, this time on the
seat of his trunks after Tyson
countered a missed uppercut
with a right 35 seconds into the
round. Again, Ruddock got right
back up and again he easily sur-
vived the round.
Ruddock, who fought mainly
with his left hand in the first
fight, once again looked to load
up with the left hook and only
sporadically heeded the pleas of
his comer to use both hands and
try and box Tyson.
Both fighters spenl the entire
bout looking to land the big
punch, but in the process spent
much of their time waiting on
the other fighter to punch first or
being tied up in clinches.
Tyson, who ran his record to
41-1, was penalized twice for
hitting below the belt in the
ninth and 10th rounds and once
in the fourth round for hitting af-
ter the bell. Ruddock also lost a
point after the eighth round
when he hit Tyson late.
Ruddock, 25-3-1, showed
some effects of the 10 extra
pounds he carried at 238 when
in the final round he was unable
to mount any effective attack.
Both fighters earned $5 mil-
lion, with Tyson reportedly
promised more in a cut from the
pay-per-view revenues.
The win apparently cleared
the way for Tyson to make a
Nov. 8 date against undisputed
heavyweight champion Evander
Holyfield, but promoter Don
King said Holyfield’s promoter,
Dan Duva, will have to bend to
some of Tyson’s terms before
that fight can be signed.
WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Gabriela Sa-
batini and Arantxa Sanchez Vicario led five wo-
men’s seeds into the third round today as Wimble-
don basked in sunny weather for the first time all
week. ■"j
Sabatini, seeded second, struggled early in her
6-4, 6-2 victory against Karine Quentrec.
Fourth seed Sanchez Vicario also started
slowly, losing the opening three games of her
match against Amanda Coetzer before easing to a
6-4, 6-1 triumph.
Also winning second-round matches were Zina
Garrison, Amy Frazier and Judith Wiesner.
Garrison, the sov«atfr*$eed and a finalist last
year, defeated Elena Pampoulova 6-3,6-1. Frazier,
seeded 14th, won 7-5, 6-4 against American com-
patriot Robin White.
Wiesner, seeded 16th, won 6-3,6-0 against dou-
bles specialist Larisa Savchenko.
Saturday’s dry weather came too late to save a
century of tradition. Faced with a daunting back-
log of matches and a pessimistic weather forecast
for next week, Wimbledon finally gave in and de-
cided to play this Sunday — breaking a 114-year
ritual of a mid-toumament rest day.
“No person should have to work for 14 conse-
cutive days,” Chris Gorringe, executive director
of the All England Club said. “There are so many
people working in the championships, and it’s
only right for them to have a day’s rest.”
But the numbers mandated Sunday play. As of
Friday night, only 122 of the 128 first-round sin-
gles matches — and one second-round match —
had been completed.
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 207, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 30, 1991, newspaper, June 30, 1991; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1051434/m1/28/?q=%22~1%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.