European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 10, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 22 the stars and stripes february 1981 Gerulaitis romps Over raging Roe Toronto up Vitas Gerulaitis used a crushing serve to upset John Mcenroe in four sets winning the Tennis Challenge championship in a match punctuated by overruled outrage from Mcenroe and loud derision from the Cic ulaitis allowed one break against his serve by the erratic and error prone winning 6 3 to claim a disputed Calls stopped play i 2 on three occasions the Umpire overruled line at one the tournament referee intervened to sort out one overruled Call As a crowd of some fans who Seldom needs encouragement spiced his disputes by throwing his Racket to the kicking his Racket and smashing a Tennis Ball into the in another he drove another Tennis Ball 70 rows up into the in another unexpected which this tournament did not 1 ranked Bjorn Borg defaulted and did not play his scheduled Consolation match against Jimmy con sending word to tournament officials that he had the Mcenroe stretched Gerulaitis serve to Deuce once in the first but then he lost the game by driving an easy forehand out of the the 26yearold Gerulaitis then held serve throughout the allowing Mcenroe Only one Point in the deciding both players fought through repeated Cross courts ral but Mcenroe failure to mount a consistent attack at the net forced him to continually fight from behind As he Duffel soft drop shots and forehand into the net and clubbed easy winners out of from would have been fur ther behind if Gerulaitis serve had not sustained seven double faults through the first two it was a double fault by Gerulaitis with the 10th game tied 3030 that set up a passing shot by Mcenroe on set Point to deadlock the Gerulaitis used four aces in holding serve through the first four games in the third then broke Mcenroe in the the 2ranked who had upset Borg the previous night in the frittered the third set away in a ninth game that stretched to Deuce five growing Ever More the 21yearold open Champion suffered two double including one that gave Gerulaitis advantage and set up an overhand smash for the winning in the third game of the fourth with Gerulaitis Umpire Karl Allison overruled a line Call that allowed Gerulaitis to take a 4030 after the tournament referee intervened to support Allison Mcenroe drove a Tennis Ball some 150 feet into the Lietzke wins 3way san Diego playoff a photo celts Chris Ford hangs onto Ball closely guarded by clippers Phil Smith Tea conscious kicks race past 116102 san a Bruce Lietzke converted a 5foot Birdie putt with his Cross handed style and won a sudden death playoff on the second extra Hole Sun Day for the first prize in the Wick Sandy Williams san Diego open Golf Lietzke had to outlast Ray Floyd and Tom Jenkins to become the first two time Winner of the Young season on the pea he won the Bob Hope desert classic last Floyd and Jenkins All birdied the 72nd Hoyte of regulation play on the Yard South course at the Torrey Pines Golf club to finish with scores of 10 shots under five shots Back with eight holes to came out of the pack with a final round his 14th consecutive round of Par or better this who counts the masters and pea National championship among his 12 career just missed an Eagle putt that would have won it on the final Hole of regu he tapped in for a Birdie and a Clos ing the Longshot whose Only Victory came six years ago in had a closing they went to the 15th tee to Start the Jenkins missed the Green and Floyd and Lietzke both had two putt on the a Floyd put his tee shot on the Green but far from the Lietzke threw a High shot in the drizzling rain to within five feet of the dripping who lost a playoff to Snead in this tournament six years missed his Birdie putt and the left hand Over the dropped his it was the seventh Victory of his career and marked the first time hed come from Well Back to Jenkins and Floyd each collected from the total purse of George who led most of the Way Over the final 18 holes of finished one shot out of the he had to Birdie the last Hole for a 71 and a 279 also at that figure were Gary Hallberg and Jeff Hallberg had a Mitchell Craig who had shared the 54 Hole Lead with struggled to a 73 and was tied at 280 with Jack Renner and Jim Renner had a closing Simons Johnny once within a single stroke of the top four putted the 15th Hole for a double bogey that dropped him out of he had a 71 and a 281 Tom the 1980 Winner never really got in the multiple Man he had a closing 73 and a 285 Lietzke and Jenkins All led or shared the Lead at one time Over the last and Burns led by three at the but he bogeyed three of four holes beginning on the 11th and dropped three shots Back when the Day missed the Green and then three putted the first Hole for a double bogey and appeared out of any thought i had of winning left head right he but he got the two strokes Back by the then played the Back in including a two putt Birdie from 35 feet on the final the one he had to have to gain the my continued from Page 21 and joined teammates Maurice checks and Darryl Dawkins with 16 Points the who lost a seven game win trailed 9785 Midway through the fourth period before pulling within celtics clippers 107 Rick Robey scored a season High 24 Points and combined with Rookie Kevin Mihalc for 26 Points in a second period Blitz to spark the celtics Home Bucks bulls 109 in Junior Bridgeman scored 27 Points and Quinn Buckner added 26 to Power the Bucks to their third straight spurs Mavericks 98 at san George Gervin and James Silas scored 27 Points each to help the spurs overcome an 18point first Quarter deficit with a 3011 Streak in the second suns bullets 107 Walter Davis scored six of his 32 Points in overtime to lift the suns Over washing ton in Davis jump shot with 21 seconds left in regulation capped Phoe Nix comeback from a five Point deficit in the last tying it at 101 and forcing the extra pacers pistons 101 Rookie Louis Orr and James Edwards each scored 21 sparking Indiana past Detroit at Phil Hubbard collected 24 Points for the warriors jazz 101 in Lloyd free poured in a season High 39 Points and Bernard King hit 10 of his 23 Points in the fourth Quarter to Lead Golden utahs Adrian Dantley had 37 Trail blazers Kings 123 Mychal Thompson scored six key Points in overtime to Lead the Trail Blaz ers to a Home the Kings Reggie King had sent the game into overtime with a jumper at the final with 24 got six of the blazers first nine Points in supersonics nuggets 112 James Bailey scored 24 Points and Fred Jack Sikma and Vinnie Johnson added 18 each in Seattle to help the supersonics escape the Pacific division cel David Thompson had a game High 32 Points for the diminutive Hamilton is skating King san Diego a when a child Hood disease stunted Scott Hamiltons leaving him sickly and his worried Mother saw ice skating As a therapy to improve his because of that gentle nudge on to an Ohio ice Only 5foot3 and 110 is americas new figure skating the 22yearold native of Bowling claimed the Crown sat urday night in the figure skating holding off Veteran David Santee and Robert Wagenhoffer in a spectacular three Way runner up for the fourth time in 10 compared the remarkable showdown to the 1975 world series be tween Cincinnati and regarded by Many As one of baseballs most exciting world All the players were honoured to be part of what happened in that and that the Way i feel about said of Park everyone went out to outdo the other there was an electricity in the air a magic and the next Guy was passing it to the in glad i went first because i  have wanted to follow those skating after Santee brought the crowd to its Hamilton produced a pair of perfect scores for the first continued on Page 25