European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 27, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 20 the stars and strikes monday january 27, 1969 standings american basketball  astern division won lost pet. Behind Minnesota 26 ,18. .501 Kentucky. 23 81indiana 26 Miami 19new York. 12 8328 32western division .523.021 .452.2tt 8 614 Oakla not 3d 5 .875denver 26 18 .691 11 new Orleans. 22 24 .478 10los Angeles. 21 24 .467 1614 Dallas 17 23 .426 18 Houston 3 28 .317 22 saturday result Indianapolis 131, Denver 122 Houston at Dallas ppd., stadium conflict new Orleans 123, los Angeles 116minnesota 112, new York 77 Kentucky 105. Miami 95 National basketball  division won lost pot. Behin Baltimore 36 13 .72d Philadelphia 33 14 .702 1hboston 31 17 .646 4 new York 34 21 .618 4 Cincinnati 26 22 .642 8 Detroit 21 29 .420 15milwaukee 15 38 .294 21mi Western division los Angeles 33 17 .860 Atlanta 33 is .647 ,4chicago 22 29 .431 11 i san Francisco .21 28 .429 11v4san Diego 21 30 .412 12h Seattle 16 36 .308 18phoenix 0 41 .196 23h saturday s results new York 113, Milwaukee 96 Philadelphia 124, Detroit 106san Diego 133. Phoenix 120 Atlanta 112, Baltimore 109only Barnes scheduled National hockey league East division w l t  gait ton 27 8 10 64 175 114 Montreal 2613 7 Toronto 231210new York 24 18 4 Detroit 22 17. 8chicago 3 19 4 West divisions. Louis 22 13 11 Oakland 17 25 6los Angeles 15 22 6 Philadelphia 1 24 12minnesota 1129 7 Pittsburgh 10 30 7 saturday s result Montreal 6, Philadelphia 3 Toronto 2, Pittsburgh 0new York 3, Chicago 0 Boston -1, St. Louis 0detroit 5, Oakland 3 Minnesota 3, los Angeles 2 american hockey league Eastern division w l t pts. Of a Hershey 2417 3 51181137 Providence 2020 3 43151175baltimore 1317 6 42114156 Springfield 15 23 6 36 147 161 Western Divisio Buffalo 25 8 8 58 171 100 Cleveland 1919 a 44120141quebec 1521 8 38132140 Rochester 14 25 g 34 147 189 saturday s result Buffalo 3, Cleveland 3 Hirshey 8, Providence 2springfield 7, Rochester 1 Only games scheduled Central hockey league Northern division w l t pts. Of a sulfa 151514 44153147 Kansas City 141814 42140165 Omaha 1821 6 42148166memphis 82810 26135207 Southern division Oklahoma City 29 9 7 65 191 157 Houston 2316 7 63141132fort Worth 19 15 12 50 142 138 Dallas 2115 7 49157123 Amarillo 1223 9 33 125 144saturday s results Houston 2, Dallas 2 Oklahoma City 9, Memphis 2omaha 5, Kansas City 3 fort Worth 6, Tulsa 2 Baltimore a there hot Atlanta Hawks rallied from a 22-Point deficit an whipped the Baltimore bullets 112409 saturday night for their21st Victory in the last 24 National basketball association games. The Hawks pulled to within one half game of the Western division leading los Angeles lakers while the bullets had their Eastern division advantage Over the Philadelphia Mer Cut to 1j4 games. Baltimore outscored atlanta22-0 during one part 6f the Sec Ond period and led 63-44 at half As the Hawks managed Only 14 rebounds in the opening 24 minutes. ,. But Lou Hudson scored 26 of his 42 Points in the second Naif and Joe Caldwell 11 of his 19 to Pace the Atlanta comeback with coach Richie Guerin com ing off the Bench to direct the 59 157 127 66 134 114 52 126 113 62 153 137 50 162 140 55 128 95 40 119 154 36 95 124 34 100 133 29 107 158 27 116 163 continued from Page a the first period on two goals by Ferguson a leading candidate for Rookie of the year honors. Minneapolis St. P a u l up Bill Goldsworthy scored twice saturday night As Minne Sota Defeated los Angeles 3-2 for the North stars first National hockey league Home Victory in 10 games. A final Buzzer rebound Goalby los Angeles real Lemieux was disallowed by referee ver Buffey to preserve the Minnesota Victory. It was the North stars second straight win since general Man Ager Wren Blair returned to the coaching Bench after John Muckler was relieved. Cesare Maniago who kicked out 40 of 42 los Angeles shots lost his bid for his second shut Bronco Grid staff adds Joe Collier Denver Colo. A Joe Collier former head coach of the Buffalo Bills has joined the Denver Broncos of the Ameri can football league As a defensive coach officials announced saturday. Lou Saban general manage Rand head coach said Collier 36, rounds out the team s coaching staff of three defensive coaches and three offensive , a Long time associate of sabans will work with Dick Macpherson and Stan Jones in coaching the Bronco  said Collier assumes his new duties immediately. Hands honoured North Brunswick . Up Chicago cubs right hander Billy hands of Parsippany has been named new Jersey s professional athlete of the year by the new Jersey sportswriters association. Out when Bryan Campbell beat him Midway through the final period. Ted Irvine brought Losangeles to within a goal when he scored with just Over three minutes left in the game. Minnesota held a 3-0 Lead wit Only half a period to go. Cister Mich. Ures naia indoor track continued from Page 18 winners set records saturday night but Bynoe set a new Mark of 1 12.3 in Friday night preliminaries in the 600-Yard run. He won the event in 1 13.0. Nesbitt won the 1,000 in 2 12.5and Ellis the two mile in 8 54.9. Eastern Michigan suffered Ablow in the 880 when Roger Tremblay faded to sixth place after setting an naia record of 1 54.6 in the preliminaries. Felix Johnson of Prairie View am won the half mile in1 55.1. Other Winner s included Bob by Brown of Arkansas am a in the 60-Yard dash in 6.2 Willia Tipton of Eastern Michigan in the 60-Yard High hurdles in 7.4and Prairie View s Fred new House in the 440 in 49.5. The Long jump was completed Friday night with Davis Johns ton of state College of Arkans Swinning with a leap of 23 feet 10% inches. Detroi ters for third straight Philadelphia a the Philadelphia 76ers won their third straight game by beating the Detroit pistons 124-106 sat urday night in the National basketball association. Dave Bing s five Points go Detroit off to an Early 9-3 Lead but Philadelphia came Back Totake Over at 15-13. Halfway through the first period and never trailed thereafter. At halftime Philadelphia built its Lead to 56-50. Darrall Imhoff scored 10 Points in the third period As the 76ers led 85-75 going into the final period. Hal Greer led Philadelphia with 22 Points to move into eighth place in the Aba All Tim scoring list passing Paul Ari Zin. Greer has 16,279 lifetime Points. Detroit s Walt Bellamy led All scorers saturday nigh with 24. Attack. Atlanta outscored Balti More 42-24 in the final