European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 9, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                1981 the stars and stripes Page 21 to Meef Mcenroe defeats gains final winning figures european women figure skating Cham and third place Winner Claudia Kristof Pion Denise Bellmann from Switzerland in Binder from Austria in accepting a Center is joined by second place Winner Colades and Flowers for their perform Sanda Dubravcic from Yugoslavia left Mances in a Toronto up John forging another classic tiebreaker with Bjorn Defeated the super swede 76 108 saturday to Advance to the finals of the Tennis Challenge against Vitas in a match whose ebb and flow bore More than a modest resemblance to the 34point tiebreaker Borg won last year from men the two players struggled for two hours and 50 with Mcenroe squandering four match Points before prevailing when his opponent plunked an innocent forehand shot into the in a late the seventh ranked Gerulaitis used a lightning Quick serve in rack ing up 13 aces As he stormed Back after losing the first set to upset 3 ranked Jimmy Connors 67 earning a shot at the first it was Mcenroe first Victory Over the five time Wimbledon Champion since the finals of last years Borg suffered his second upset loss in As Many Connors beat him for the first time in two years in straight sets in fridays third it was just a great Mcenroe i just didst want to lose to him in Holman wins open Bowling title Houston a Marshall Holman took advantage of three consecutive open frames by Mark Roth to win the open bowl ing tournament saturday his second Texas Victory in As Many i love this is the first time Ive won Bac Toback said the Bowler after collecting his first prize in the professional bowlers association Holman won the Quaker state open in grand last Holman came from third place in the Stepladder finals and rolled three straight strikes Midway through the championship match to take a com manding then coasted to an easy Victory with a 200 21 pins ahead of of Spring Lake to get to the final game against who had led the tournament at big Texas lanes for five Days and 56 the 26yearold Holman downed Larry Laub of Santa and Ernie Schleger of Laub had opened the finals by defeating Bill Coleman of Roth missed a 2 pin in the second a 28 spare combination in the third Frame and took out Only the 10 pin from a 310 combination in the fourth Frame As he fell behind by 34 shooting for his 25th career Aba Victory and his first major rebounded with four straight strikes beginning in the fifth Frame but could Only erase 10 pins from the deficit As Holman neatly kept Pace until missing a meaningless spare in the 10th after the match had already been place not set King to help stage Coone Norton go new York a Don King picked up a piece of the shattered boxing show once set for Madison Square Garden on 23 when he stepped in As co promoter of a Gerry Coon Eyken Norton heavy weight fight some some i just found out that Don King will co promote the Coone Norton fight with Sam Glass said at the end of a news conference called to officially announce the death of this is the big four fight card that was to have been co promoted by Muhammad Ali professional sports maps and Tiffany of which Glass is the 23 show began to crumble Fri Day 30 when there were reports that maps was involved in a California Bank Wells Fargo National Bank filed a civil charging embezzlement and naming Harold Board chairman of and two other maps officials among the maps assets also were Smiths whereabouts were unknown As of i did want to continue in said who made efforts throughout the week to save the card by getting the fighters to re Duce their purses they totalled Mil lion for the four fights and by attracting new managers of the fighters were willing to reduce their but the original purse figures were so High that no Happy medium could be Glass Glass also said that he would promote Wilfredo Gomezs world boxing Council Junior featherweight title defense against Mike Ayala but was not sure if it would be part of Glass had Given up on the Light heavy weight title bout Between we Champion Matthew Saad Muhammad and Eddie Mustafa the world boxing association a couple of Days they were to have received purses of million Bilal manager of Saad said his fighter would defend against Vonzell John son 28 at Las vegas or Atlantic As for the other fight which was to be on 23 Aba welterweight Champion Tommy Hearns Wilfred Benitez Glass said they Are going to put on that promotion in Detroit or new that hearsay but that what i under King said Coone Norton is a great the Winner will fight Larry Holmes for the championship in late summer or Early in so Happy to be part of the pro it gives Cooney the Chance to show Hes the 1 its Okay with said the wac by Telephone from his Home at but i  fight the Winner until tax Holmes is set to defend against Trevor Berbick at Las vegas april 11 on Home Box office and to meet former Champion Leon Spinks May 22 at Las vegas on Glass said the Coone Norton fight Proba Bly will be on network this is it was going to go on close circuit with maps heavily involved in Glass said Tiffany would have been the onsite pro the which was merely to be the now will have an empty Arena 23 and is faced with the task of refunding John president of Garden said the Garden got a release Fri Day from Tiffany but still must get one from maps before it can begin refunding the Garden is bound to maps until 12 when a payment is due to the if there is no ticket refunds can begin 13 at the Condon said the Garden had taken in Between and in ticket the top ticket Price was this especially after i had gone ahead in the first 1 could have lost 75 in the third and it would still have been a great but if you lose too Many of they say youre not a usually he Borg is one Guy i dont mind losing he is the 1 player in the world and he Doest want to lose to me because he wants to protect his it makes for tremendous it was in the 10th game of the third with Mcenroe holding a 54 that the match played before some often loud and unruly fans reached High dra Mcenroe stretched the game to Deuce five times and twice failed to convert at match at one Point in that Borg executed an unbelievable scoop shot on his Knees near continued on Page 22 scoff snaps world Mark up Steve Scott broke for the Lead at the Halfway Point and used his kick to race to a world indoor record time of in saturday nights invitational run at the Mason Dixon games in Freedom i was feeling said a University of California Irvine product who has built a reputation As one of americas Premier he now runs for the sub 4 track the Victory helped Scott overcome a disappointing fourth place performance in Friday nights Wanamaker mile at the millrose games in mad Ison Square i had my doubts whether i could do it tonight because of last said who took a Victory mile while throwing kisses to the crowd and giving the audience a thumbs up the performance amid a standing ovation broke the 1973 world indoor record of set by Emiel Putte mans of another of Putte mans in the was broken Friday night by Tanzania As Suleiman Nyambri in the Mill Rose Steve running for the South Ern California was second in a time of and new zealand olympic Gold medallist John Walker faded late in the race to finish third in Scott credited his Victory in part on a fast Pace set by Sam a for Mer University of Tennessee runner now competing for the Knoxville track he did a great Scott the Rabbit was it Felt really who regularly competes in the said he tried to avoid con continued on Page 22