European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 3, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 22 the stars and stripes february 1981 grueling 24hour endurance race Redman porsche wins at Daytona Daytona a the team of Brian Bobby Rahal and Bob driving a Lowro file porsche Turbo 935 rolled to an easy Victory sunday in the grueling 24hour Challenge sports car endurance who combined with the late Peter Gregg and englishman John Fitzpa trick to win this race in put his new team on top to slay just six hours into the the with the winning Cost endurance racer in the world among Active taking the final finished 12 laps and nearly half an hour ahead of a porsche 935 driven by Boben Slishman Derek Bell and Craig the top which divided up about in prize completed 708 laps and they in something of a litre Navratilova rips czech in net finale Chicago a to seeded Martina Navratilova Defeated Sec on seeded Hana Mandrikova of Czechoslovakia 62 sunday to win her fourth consecutive Avon championship Tennis with the she became the first woman Ever to capture four women Tennis association titles in the 24yearold czech now residing in the United used her Cannonball serve and great drop shots to devastate Mandrikova in the second Navratilova had lost two service Breaks in the opening nailing Down the firs place prize of and Only could hold service Only five times in the opening each player lost her service and then the set was deadlocked at 22 and 33 before Navratilova broke Hanas service in the seventh but Mandrikova fought Back to tie the set in the eighth Only to have her opponent win the next two games and the each player held her service in the first four games of the second but when Mandrikova double it set the tone for Navratill Martina then proceeded to win the next four games going utilizing several vicious forehand smashes and deadly placement shots just out of the reach of Navratilova Victory was her Sec Ond in the three Avon tournaments played this she had beaten an Drea Jaeger in the finals of the championships of Kansas sundays match was the fourth meeting Between the Navratill currently ranked 3 in the beat Hana in the finals of the Amelia but lost out to Hana in semifinals of the tournament and in the round of 16 at the All during Martinas 1981 Avon won lost re Cord now is she has taken 29 of 32 1 was surprised after the second game of the first set that neither of us was having trouble returning the others Navratilova Gnu cars the lowest of three classifications in the race and As much As 60mph slower than the top category it which go Over 200 Mph on the straight ways finished third and a porsche driven by Rob William Koll and Jeff Kline was a Distant 61 laps behind the top fourth 81 laps went to a Dat Sun Zyx piloted by Frank Dick a Lancia driven by the italian team of Carlo Martino Fin Otto and Emanuele slipped into 98 laps a 42yearold English Road racer now living in Lake found the quickest route around Daytona International speedways he took advantage of a Long pit Stop by the Leader Danny Ongais to move on top at about a Challenge from the porsche driven by Ted Field and Milt Minter ended several hours later when Ongais tapped a slower car coming out of one of Daytona High banked got hit from behind by another car and slammed into the Ongais was but the car was out of action Tor and the who had lost almost All of a three Lap advantage be cause of an extended pit Stop for a manifold came out of the pits following Ongais Accident still clinging to a narrow Lead Over the new 2 a porsche driven by Ludwig Heimrath and Lud wig Heimrath that car eventually ran into engine prob lems and faded off the while the 28 year old a Road racer from North and 47yearold a Rac ing engine builder from followed Redman behind the wheel during the hours of darkness and steadily built an insurmountable the the demands of endurance Rac ing and accidents eliminated the seven fast est qualifiers for the As Well As More than 40 of the 69 blown engines and other broken parts contributed to the demise of a series of Early leaders All of them in the dominant porsche 935s including former world endurance driving Champion Don Whitting defending Champion and pol Winner Rolf Stemmelen of West defend ing world endurance Champ John Paul and another member of last years winning Volkert Merl of West Merl was eliminated saturday night while leading the race when he Cut a tire on the High sheared off his rear Axle and spun wildly into the he was not there were no other serious accidents and no injuries even the losing team found pro Bow great experience Honolulu a Sam Rutigliano is afraid he might not be invited Back to the pro we just we rent very the Cleveland coach said following his Ameri can football conference teams 217 loss to the National football conference i just Hope in not the first pro bowl coach to be he added with a big the arcs offence featured Cleveland Brian Sipe and san Diego Dan Fouts at Houston Earl Campbell among the running and John Jeffer son and Stanley Morgan among the receive but despite the High powered the acc was Able to come up with just one we had some poor throws and some dropped passes that Hurt said Rutillia we had All the opportunities we in disappointed that we but it was a great said the games most spectacular play was a 55yard scoring bomb from Atlanta quarterback Steve Bartkowski to Falcon receiver Alfred the fourth Quarter touch Down pulled the pfc away from a 97 the touchdown play was called As an option but i gave Steve our signal when i saw the cornerback come said Jenkins this is a great Way to end a Tampa Bay linebacker Lee Roy who spearheaded an outstanding performance by the pfc said our secondary did a great Job and gave the defensive line time to get to the pfc coach Leeman Bennett of Atlanta said the game went pretty much As he thought it i Felt it was about As expected other than for the Early Bartkowski played Well and Laid in that pass when he had most of the players on both sides spoke of How enjoyable the week in Hawaii and the game itself playing in my first pro bowl was a great experience despite the said new England John Ottis Anderson pro bowls leading rusher pro continued from Page 21 acc was penalized nine times for 74 Yards and the pfc 10 for there were also a total of three fumbles lost and four interceptions in the game played before an Aloha stadium record crowd of the pfc defense was particularly successful in shutting Down the arcs Rushing holding league leading runner Earl Campbell of Houston to just 24 Yards on eight the acc Rushing game Tot aled just 65 Yards on 22 Bartkowski completed nine of his 21 passes for the for 173 Yards and the one pfc Ron Jaworski of Bartkowskisr was six of 16 for 47 the Nils to rated passer last sea completed 10 of 15 throws for 142 but was intercepted twice and lost the Ball on a Louis Ottis Anderson was the games leading gaining 70 Yards on 10 car Tanner trounces Fibak for pro indoor net title continued from Page 21 Volley but Tanner got the break Back on the third breakpoints of the 11th game when his opponent netted a fore hand serving for the match Tanner didst repeat the events of the 10th winning the 26minute match when Fibak netted a backhand return of Tanner showed no effects of the leg cramps he suffered saturday in a five set Victory Over Frances Thierry to who made the final Here in 1978 but lost in straight sets to registered the first service break of the match in the fourth game at Fibak was Long with a backhand Volley and Tanner followed with a backhand Volley to Lead 31 in the first after Tanner fought off one break Point to go up the two players held serve the rest of the tanners leaping backhand Volley earned him set Point in the eighth game and Fibak followed with a Long passing backhand to lose the both players held serve through the 12 games of the second Fibak fought off two break Points in the second game with winners off his serve while Tanner survived a break Point in the 11th in the Tanner was at set Point Fibak registered two winners off his serve to Force a Tanner led 53 in the tiebreaker but erred on two backhands As his opponent Drew to Tanner then took the advantage with a Cross court backhand vol Ley and also won the next Point to take the tiebreak 75 and end the 62minute in the doubles the seventh seed de team of Marty Riessen of Boca and Sherwood Stewart of Wood Defeated the second seeded pair of Brian Gottfried of fort Lauder and Raul Ramirez of the winners split a first