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...A.T.P., now grown to 96 members, tried a legal counterattack, but a British court ruled that it had no jurisdiction in the case. So the players' group, which includes such U.S. competitors as Arthur Ashe, Cliff Richey and Stan Smith, decided that it had to stand on its own. After a three-hour meeting in London's Westbury Hotel, Drysdale announced: "This is the saddest statement I have ever had to make, but we feel we have no choice but to instruct our members to withdraw." After another meeting-which A.T.P. Executive Director Jack Kramer characterized as "wrestling...
...President over the Watergate bugging incident. The Republican side got subpoenas covering ten reporters and executives of the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Washington Star-News and TIME. Rather than surrender confidential files, notebooks and tapes, the publications resisted (TIME, March 12). But Judge Charles Richey quashed the subpoenas on the grounds that they violated the newsmen's rights under the First Amendment. "This court cannot blind itself," he said, "to the possible chilling effect the enforcement of these subpoenas would have on the press and the public...
Default. That was not the first time Nastase has annoyed his fellow touring pros. In Paris last December he used similar antics to needle Cliff Richey into flubbing a match. A month later Nastase ran into an American with a temperament equal to his own: Clark Graebner. The two traded insults; suddenly, Graebner leaped over the net and grabbed Nastase. Order was restored and the set completed, but the rattled Rumanian then walked off the court and defaulted the match...
Unpersuaded, Judge Charles Richey, after a closed-door session, ordered Bailley committed to St. Elizabeths Hospital for mental observation...
...people who play on the local level relate to us more than they do to a Rod Laver or a Pancho Gonzalez. Our game is more like theirs." The Richmond tournament last month, which Mrs. King won with a final-round 6-3, 6-3 victory over Nancy Richey, was sold out before it opened. And with the first women-only tour booked for seven cities and $82,500 in prize money in the first two months of 1971, Billie Jean can rightly say: "We've come a long way, baby...