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Richard O‘Brien Chromcie Statt Another chapter in Wateriloo Tigers ragsâ€"toâ€"riches story is complete. _ f Tigers, after a dismal season a year ago, have won their first Interâ€"County Major Baseball League pennant in the Hame) division since the iate Merie (Champ) Glassford brought them into the league six years ago Tigers captured the division pennant Thursday in London with a 6â€"3 win over the Majors. Saturday, they lost 4â€"3 at home to the St. Thomas Elgins and Sunday night they dropped a 10â€"1 decision on the road to the Kitchener Panthers One player who has been with the team since its beginnings with Glassford is Jim Taylor, who played in the ouifield against Kitchener Sunday. Taylor compared this year‘s edition of the Tigers to others. _ ‘"*We‘ve got a lot better pitching." Taylor first two years were good, too. ‘(Tm-s season) e_ve;ything came together at one time. When the Americans weren‘t coming through, the local guys were, and vice versa. Derailed Despite a fine week, the big one‘s a ‘nightmare Tiger dream partially complete ‘Hope Champ knows what we‘re doing‘ Richard O ‘Brien photo ‘~Somehow I hope Champ knows what we‘re doing. He started it off really well." Tigers finished the season with a 21â€"13 record, the same as Brantford Red Sox of the Halpern division, following the weekend losses. Sunday‘s loss to Panthers offered little excitement to the fans. . "Nobody said anything," said Taylor,. ‘"but maybe when we won the pennant we had nothing else to gain .‘ Tigers‘® lone run Sunday came in the third inning. Dennis Schooley took first and second base on the same throwing error to first, then was driven in by Mike Yosurack‘s single. Bl‘l.l‘g;ck(;w";k-l‘ was the big man for Panthers with a iwoâ€"run double in the first inning as well as rbi singles in the third and fifth. He was fourâ€"forâ€"four at the'plaw‘ . P;nt&:sudiw;â€"fln; in the third as Greg Egan, Win Stigter and Murray aiso hit rbi singles. V‘:li.i;«;r;â€";a;;“fibâ€"'an;ifier four runs in the fifth, two on passed balls before starting pitcher Tim Barone was yanked from the mound in favor of Mike Simpson. b ud LkE 2 L e i e C CAEL s Byckowski and Egan also had rbi singles in the fifth as Richard O‘Brien Chronicle Statf Jane Young borrowed a shot from Carling Bassett to help her reach the ladies final of the Western Ontario Open tournament this weekâ€" end, but then she suffered from a nervousness that was all her own. She breezed past Claudia Steffen 6â€"1, 6â€"3 in the semiâ€"finals using a shot learned from Bassett when she lost to her in the Canadian senior championships a week ago in Ottawa before nervousness set in during a 6â€"2, 6â€"3 loss to Mary Dailey in the final Monday afternoon. _ "It was like a nightmare out there," said Young, who has now lost in the finals of the tournament at the Waterloo Tennis Club the last three years. <â€" _ â€" c "I was trying so hard to get into the match but my brain and my feet wouldn‘t get together. "I was way too nervous. I don‘t know why. J guess I really wanted to play well. Lately I‘ve been playing well." _ _ S Young has played well enough lately to recently win the Ontario underâ€"18 singles title for the second year in a row. And her 6â€"2, 6â€"3 loss to Bassett was respectable. ‘"‘She‘s good," Young said of Bassett. "Her all round game is steady. I picked up something from her. I hit a looping bail with topspin and waited for the short ball."‘ o That moonâ€"bailing style of tennis helped Young dispose of Steffen but it was a different uorz:uinst Dailey, when things only went well for her briefly in the second set.. c _ The 2iâ€"yearâ€"old Dailey had entered the tournament only for the first time and apparentâ€" ly had less uouglewnlthe bail in play on the "B;ib;y;."&"fi-h. Penn., also teamed up with Jane Neville of Michigan to win the ladies windy afternoon. Egan collected his 49th rbi to set a l_eagug record Panthers Mike Yearout went the distance on the mound, striking out !1 and giving up five hits. Tigers started Nick Noonan on the mound in the seventh and the three Waterloo pitchers combined to give up 11 hits. Saturday, Tigers lost in the top of the ninth inning when Eigins‘ John Clem tripled and raced home when the throw from the outfield hit him and eluded third baseman Mike Yosurack. Clem‘s run broke a 3â€"3 tie. _ Tigers had held an early 3â€"1 lead, but Elgins tied the game with two runs in the eighth. i B 2 ts 1e 0 o Rerou o s 0d auéu‘m" B':uie): ;tâ€"a;ted on the mound for Waterloo and gave up three hits through seven innings. In the eighth he was relieved by Kevin Rood, the eventual losing pitchâ€" er. Thursday‘s pennant winning victory was highlighted by Nick Noonan‘s threeâ€"run single in the sixth. Winning pitcher was Rocky DiPonzio, who now has a 4â€"1 record. Playoff dates had not been determined at press time. Kurt Deluca and Barone both hit doubles for Waterâ€" doubles titles 6â€"2, 6â€"4 over the Cambridge team of Mary Ann Gaskin and Rose _ rasso. Alison Manning and Norm W« ber of «. â€" host club reached the finals in mixed doubles, only to lose 6â€"1, 6â€"2 to Adrienne Benoit and lan Grieve of Toronto. ' The men‘s singles final featured 35â€"yearâ€"old Jon Hainline of Birmingham, Mich., going against 18â€"yearâ€"old Australian Brett Greenwood, the number one seed. Hainline, the second seed, had won the men‘s singles finals here in 1967 and 1969, and was a tough competitor despite giving way to Greenâ€" wood‘s strong ground strokes and passing shots as he lost 6â€"3, 6â€"2. . Greenwood, who was the eighthâ€"ranked junior in Australia last year, teamed up with Brendon Macken of Toronto to take the men‘s doubles with a 6â€"2, 6â€"1 win over Bruce McRae of Winnipeg and Kurt Carter of Toronto. Greenwood came to Canada in June to compete in the Alcan circuit in Quebec "His next stop is Montreal, where he‘ll try to qualify for the Player‘s Challenge. During the tournament the firstâ€"seeded Young also beat Janet Petras 6â€"2, 6â€"2 and beat Irene McCord 6â€"0, 6â€"0. Dailey, the seventh seed, beat Neville 7â€"6, 3â€"6, 6â€"4 a{wr eliminating Jennifer supmme second seed, 7â€"5, 6â€"3. Ha had beaten last year‘s winner, Nige! O‘Rourke, 6â€"3, 6â€"3 in the semiâ€"finals while Greenwood was winning 6â€"0, 6â€"3 over Brent Saiâ€" geon. Jerry Karzen, the 1979â€"81 winner in men‘s singles, did not compete this year. Neither did ::;nsluer. Cathy, the deleud{ng ladies chamâ€" After her loss Monday, Young was preparing to enter the Ontario junior open championships at Doon Pines. ‘ for Jane