European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 21, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Poge 24 the stars and stripes thursday september 21, 1978 How they stand a american league East w Mew Rork Boston Milwaukee Baltimore Detroit Cleveland Toronto pet. Go .607 w m 85 to 61 u m 70 57 72 West Kansas City 83 a5 California 1 72 Texas 75 73 Minnesota 68 82 Oakland 8 86 Chicago 7 85 Seattle 55 w tuesday s results cteveland2, Baltimore 1 milwaukee2, hew York 0 Boston 8, Detroit 6 California 4, Minnesota 1 chicago8-7, Oakland 4-3 Kansas cily 9, Seattle 8 National league East w l .56 53 .533 .440 383 .567 .529 .507 .453 .442 .441 .372 Ivi 6 � 11 25 33v, s a 9 17 1� 19 29 Philadelphia Pittsburgh Chicago Montreal St. Louis new York los Angeles Cincinnati san Francisco san Diego Houston Atlanta 82 68 81 Tel 74 76 71 81 65 87 62 89 West 72 83 82 79 68 67 60 68 69 73 82 84 pet. Go .547 .5x0 1 .493 8 .447 12 .428 18 .411 20vj .605 .550 8v� .543 9 a .520 13 .453 23 .444 us tuesday s results Pittsburgh 12, Chicago 11,11 innings Montreal 5. Philadelphia 2 5, new York 3 Atlanta 3, Houston 2 san Diego 4, san Francisco 1 los Angeles 8, Cincinnati 0 it playoffs finals Best of five tuesday s result Boston 27, los Angeles 26, of los Angeles leads series 2-1. Andretti others seek i Roc spots of Angeles a Mario Andretti the newly crowned formula i driving Champion Heads a list of eight who will compete for the final four spots in the International race of champions Competition. Also competing Are Niki Lauda of aus tria John Watson of Ireland Emerson fit Tipaldi of Brazil Patrick Degailler of France Alan Jones of Australia american Peter Gregg the Only non formula i Driver and Frenchman Jacques Lafitte who replaces the late Ronnie Peterson of swe Den. Those eight will race oct. 14 at River Side with the first four finishers vying at the same track the next Day in the opening iroc race. The Field race will include . Foyt al Unser Gordon Johncock Tom Sneva Cale Yarburough Bobby and Don Nie Allison and Neil Bonnett. The final race will be March 17, 1979, at Atlanta with Points in that and the River Side event determining who will collect the$75,000 Winner s prize. Ref i a Bursae by Dvis Virnue i it of la. Leads wet series 2-1 lobsters nip strings 27-26, in by Charles j. Lewis tie the match 26-All and Send it into Over los Angeles an Early 1 los Angeles a the Boston time. Emerson and Dale o fixed doubles team of Tony Roche and Ann the strings took a 4-2 Lead in the 13-Point doubles. Tilth Defeated los Angeles Ilie Nastase super tiebreaker but Smith served an Ace Boston s Martina of i mixe Smit Angeles and Ann Kiyomura 7-5 in a super tiebreaker tuesday night to give the lobsters a 27-26 Victory Over the strings in the world team Tennis championship playoffs. The overtime Triumph keeps the lob sters Hopes alive in the Best of five series. Los Angeles now leads 2-1, with the fourth match scheduled to be played Here thurs Day night. The strings held a 24-20 Lead entering the final set mixed doubles but Roche and Smith topped Nastase and Kiyomura 6-2 to to Tim eth super tiebreaker by past Kiyomura to draw the lobsters to within one Point. Nastase then hit a forehand into the net tying the score 4-4, but Kiyomura hit an overhead Winner to make put the strings Back on top. Kiyomura then hit an overhead wide and Long making it 5-5, and Roche closed out the match with a service Ace against Kiyomura and a backhand shot that Nastase could t reach. Brothers Vijay and Ashok Amrit Raj gave to Lead by Downing r0v Emerso Collings 7-6 in men doubles. Boston Navratilova who did t play in the first two matches of the championship series because of tendinitis in her left shoulder then downed Chris
