SPORTS
Tuesday, July 4, 2017
East Oregonian
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WIMBLEDON: Murray, Nadal advance easily in men’s bracket
Britain’s
Andy Mur-
ray cele-
brates after
beating Ka-
zakhstan’s
Alexander
Bublik in
their Men’s
Singles
Match on
the open-
ing day at
the Wim-
bledon Ten-
nis Cham-
pionships
in London
Monday,
July 3,
2017.
Continued from 1B
with her older sister, Isha,
before returning. When the
proceedings resumed, the
moderator asked that the
topic of the crash be avoided,
saying, “Venus is willing to
take a couple more questions
about other things. Tennis,
perhaps.”
The 10th-seeded Williams’
return to action, and difficulty
in addressing the off-court
matters with the media — just
last week, the police report
was released, and a day later,
the estate of the man who
died sued her — were the
most noteworthy happenings
on Day 1 at the grass-court
Grand Slam tournament.
There
was,
though,
on-court news, too, of course,
starting with this: No. 3-ranked
Stan Wawrinka, a three-time
major champion and the
runner-up at the French Open
just three weeks ago, dealt
with a bothersome left knee
and bowed out 6-4, 3-6, 6-4,
6-1 to Daniil Medvedev, a
21-year-old Russian ranked
49th who had never won so
much as one Grand Slam
match in his career.
“For sure, I wasn’t feeling
the way I wanted to feel,”
Wawrinka said.
“Apparently,” he said
with a grin, “grass is not the
best surface for my knee.”
Wawrinka has won each
of the other majors once
apiece but Wimbledon has
given him fits over the years.
AP Photo/Kirsty
Wigglesworth
AP Photo/Tim Ireland
Spain’s Rafael Nadal serves to Australia’s John Millman during their Men’s Singles
Match on the opening day at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London
Monday, July 3, 2017.
He has yet to get past the
quarterfinals and this was his
sixth exit in the first round.
Another seeded man
hobbled by an injury departed
when No. 20 Nick Kyrgios,
a talented if temperamental
Australian, stopped playing
because of a hip problem.
He dropped the first two
sets against Pierre-Hugues
Herbert of France before
calling it quits.
Two of the four men
who have divvied up the
past 14 Wimbledon trophies
won easily Monday: Andy
Murray and Rafael Nadal.
Murray was asked about
what advice he might give
Williams.
“I don’t know exactly
what happened. I just read
kind of more, like, headlines,
rather than the whole stories
about it. But it’s obviously
horrific when anything like
that happens,” he said. “I’m
sure it must be tough for
her to focus on her tennis
just now. But I don’t know
how you advise someone on
that. ... Unless you’ve been
through it, you don’t know.
You don’t know what to do.”
Williams has not been
cited or charged, and police
say she was not drunk, on
drugs or texting, but that she
drove her SUV into the path
of a car carrying a married
couple. Williams, who owns a
home near the crash site, told
investigators her light was
green when she entered the
six-lane intersection but she
got stopped midpoint by traffic
and didn’t see the other car
before she crossed their lane.
“I mean, obviously, I
think it would weigh on any
human being, and Venus is
no different,” said Williams’
coach, David Witt. “Venus is
the nicest person, and (this is)
just some random thing that
could happen to anybody,
any day. But she’s looking to
focus on the tennis. I’m sure
it’s weighing on her but we’re
going day by day and getting
good practice in. Once she
enters the court, I think her
mind’s on the match and
tennis and winning here at
Wimbledon.”
Asked
Monday
how
difficult the recent weeks have
been, Williams replied: “Tennis
is still the love of my life. You
know, it gives me joy.”
She is a former No. 1 and
the owner of seven major
singles titles, along with 14
Grand Slam doubles titles, all
won with her younger sister,
Serena.
Against Mertens, whom
she beat 6-3, 6-1 on red
clay at the French Open last
month, Williams played
unevenly.
She took a 3-0 lead, then
let that evaporate. She led 6-3
in the tiebreaker, then needed
five set points to close it. She
fell behind 2-0 in the second
set, then took five of the
next six games. She failed to
convert two match points at
5-3, before a 33-minute rain
delay. She needed three more
match points to finally end
the first match of her 20th
Wimbledon appearance.
“I have no idea what
tomorrow will bring. That’s
all I can say about it,”
Williams said. “That’s what
I’ve learned.”
ANTHEM: Red Sox first to pair ‘The Star Spangled Banner’ with flag presentation
Continued from 3B
Red Sox. The Chicago games
were played at Comiskey
Park, the home of the White
Sox, instead of their new
home at Wrigley Field,
what was called Weegham
Park at the time, because it
held more fans. But in a city
jittery over the bombing and
weary from the war, Game 1
that day attracted fewer than
20,000 fans, the smallest
World Series crowd in years.
When they got there, they
didn’t make much noise,
though that could have had
something to do with the
1-0 masterpiece Ruth was
pitching — yes, pitching —
for the Red Sox.
“There was no cheering
during the contest, nor was
there anything like the usual
umpire baiting,” reported one
Boston newspaper.
Then, in the seventh
inning, a band from the Navy
training station north of
Chicago started to play “The
Star-Spangled Banner.”
The song had been played
before at major league
games, from at least 1862
and on opening day in 1897,
in Philadelphia, Thorn said.
But this time, reported The
New York Times, something
happened that was “far
different from any incident
that has ever occurred in the
history of baseball.”
Players took off their caps
as they faced a flag that flut-
tered atop a pole in right field
as the 12-piece band began to
play.
All of them except Red
Sox infielder Fred Thomas .
Thomas was in the Navy
during the series — he
played on the team fielded by
the Great Lakes station that
was also home to the band
— but was granted furlough
so he could play. When the
Wisconsin native heard the
music, “he turned toward
the flag, kept his hat on and
gave a military salute,” said
Jim Leeke, author of “From
the Dugouts to the Trenches:
Baseball During the Great
War.”
A few fans began to sing.
Then others joined in “and
when the final notes came,
a great volume of melody
rolled across the field,” the
Times reported. And when it
ended, “onlookers exploded
into thunderous applause and
rent the air with a cheer that
marked the highest point of
the day’s enthusiasm.” The
Red Sox went on to win the
game and the series, part of a
Cubs’ championship drought
that ended up lasting 108
years but was a mere decade
old in 1918.
Not everyone thought
what happened was a big
deal. Chicago sportswriter
Ring Lardner mentioned it,
but only as a punch line as
he reported that Thomas had
stood at attention three times
during the game, once during
the anthem and twice when
the umpire was calling him
out on strikes.
The leader of the Navy
band at the time was
conductor and composer
John Philip Sousa. He
was not at the game, but
had recently arranged the
standardized version of
the song that is still played
today The 1918 World Series
would have been one of the
first times the band could
test drive the new version,
according to Mike Bayes,
senior chief musician for the
Navy Band in Washington.
“It was a very important
thing for him to put the
anthem on a national stage in
its new form,” Bayes said.
It wasn’t until 1931 that
Congress and President
Herbert Hoover officially
designated the song as the
national anthem. Still, it was
clear the song was on its way
after that day in Chicago.
For one thing, it was
played when the series got
back to Boston. And as
one story goes, Red Sox
owner Harry Frazee was so
impressed with the way the
song quieted rowdy fans
that the next season that he
ordered the band to play it
while the flag was presented
on the field.
“It was a turning point and
from then on it was played at
all opening days and World
Series games,” Leeke said.
The song was played
just on holidays or special
occasions for years, in part
because ballparks didn’t have
the kind of sound systems
they do today and owners
were loath to pay for a band
more than they had to. It
wasn’t until the 1940s during
World War II that major
league teams started playing
it every day. Ironically, Cubs
owner P.K. Wrigley decided
the song would be played
only on major holidays and
for special events.
“Wrigley thought it
cheapened the anthem to
play it every day,” said Marc
Ferris, author of “Star-Span-
gled Banner: The Unlikely
Story of America’s National
Anthem.” In 1967, the Cubs
put the song on the daily
playlist, a patriotic gesture
during yet another war, this
one in Vietnam.
On a recent day at
Wrigley, fans stood as one
for the anthem.
“It still sends a chill down
my back,” said 90-year-old
Victor Holliday of Champaign,
Illinois, his time as a Marine
during World War II written
right there on his red cap.
The respect for the song
was not lost on his son, who
recalled the Vietnam war era
when the anthem was not
always warmly received.
“It changed radically after
9/11,” said Shawn Holliday,
58. “And even today, with
so many differences in the
country, so much division,
I think we again are falling
back for comfort on these
kinds of symbols.”
And if anyone did not
show the proper respect
for the song, others in the
stadium were ready.
“Come on, they can cool
it for a minute and a half
and put down their phones,”
said Wayne Messmer, who
has sung the anthem nearly
5,000 times over more than
three decades of performing,
most notably before Cubs
games at Wrigley. “I will
stare people down if they are
talking when I’m singing.”
———
AP 360 degree video of
an anthem at Wrigley Field:
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=xi7H5GnTGaQ&-
feature=youtu.be
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