European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 17, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse February 1981 the stars and stripes Page 21 Petty wins 7th Day ton a 500 Daytona a Richard Petty got a break when favored Bobby Allison ran out of Gas coming in for his last pit and the King of Stock car racing roared on to his seventh Daytona 500 Victory a seven Lime Lascar Champion and the Al time grand National Leader with 193 never led before the 175th of 200 laps on Daytona International speedways High banked fighting running duels with Neil Bonnott in the Early going and defending Champion buddy Baker after the Halfway appeared in command As he headed for his last scheduled pit Stop on Lap Baker followed but Allison suddenly slowed to a crawl because of an empty Gas tank and barely limped into the Ricky Rudd inherited the Lead for one but lost out when he too had to that left Petty on top and the 43yearold Veteran from finessed his final pit Stop into a seven second he shot into the Lead on Lap 175 staying with the same pitted Only for enough fuel to finish the driving a controversial Pontiac j Ivi i Iii Wiit us i Ruig Vav Jylli Uvrl Mai full Irwin snaps record on 23uncfer Victory in hawaiian open Honolulu a Hale Dis on the tougher courses was equal to Livino taif Hook pro that atm Oln Oao catch pc ttys Buick re the Winner crossed the finish line four seconds ahead of Allison second place Rudds Oldsmobile Cutlass was followed by Baker and defending Lascar Champion Dale Earnhardt Pontiac grand who won Only a pair of Short track races last gained his first super Speedway Victory since he averaged picking up from the record purse of Allison a limited edition with a sloping rear appeared by far the Honolulu a Hale Dis playing the dogged determination that helped him to a couple of american nation Al put on a Birdie Eagle Fin ish for a 3underpar 69 and scored a re six stroke Victory sunday in the hawaiian open Golf Irwin snapped a 19month wingless string with a 265 a whopping 23 strokes under Par on the Waialae coun try club course and a tournament he picked up from the total purse of for his 12th pea tour it was his first Victory since scoring his second open Triumph in while he led All the set a scor ing record and the margin of Victory May have been this one didst come a 10underpar 62 in saturdays third round had staked Irwin to a five shot Lead going into the last 18 holes of but he made consecutive bogeys on the seventh and eighth holes and John the Only Man with any realistic Hopes of overtaking birdied the that Cut Irwin Lead to two but the Gritty Guy who makes a habit of winning on the tougher courses was equal to the no one Ever got he added a Little margin with a Birdie on the then closed with a record setting Irwin threw his tee shot some 34 feet from the Flag for a birdie2 on the difficult that nailed Down the Victory and he was one shot off the tournament scoring record set by Andy bean a year he reached the par5 18th with his Sec Ond shot and rammed in a 1518 foot Eagle putt that put him 23 shots under Don a 51yearold slow moving Veteran and sometimes participant on the seniors came on to take second with a 68 and a 271 Ben Terry Diehl and japans leading Isao were next at Diehl shot a 70 in the almost windless Aoki had a 69 and Crenshaw closed up with a the group at 273 included Tom George John Mahaffey and Mahaffey and Archer had Watson 68 and Schroeder matched Par Lee Trevino shot Hale Irwin Birdie Eagle finish four players sink winners by the associated press the last two minutes Are supposed to be Nitt Gritty time in the National Basket Ball but several teams Cut it even finer than that san Antonios James Silas popped in an 18foot jump shot with three seconds left to lift the spurs to a 110108 Victory Over the Milwaukee Bucks in a Battle be tween division Larry Bird followed his own missed shot and scored the winning Basket with 56 seconds remaining As the Boston cel tics pulled out a 120118 Triumph Over the Denver Otis Birdsong scored on a pass from Phil also with three seconds to Aba Roundup give the Kansas City Kings a 107105 Vic tory Over the Seattle who had rallied from a 21point Cliff Robinson scored 36 including a jump shot with 22 seconds left that broke a tie and gave the new Jersey nets their first three game winning Streak of the season with a 134132 Victory Over the Golden state the Philadelphia 76ers trounced the Atlanta Hawks the Indiana pacers downed the Chicago bulls the los Angeles lakers Defeated Silas Birdsong the Dallas Mavericks the new York kicks whipped the Phoenix suns 115101 and the Portland Trail blazers crushed the Utah jazz in san they Call Silas Cap Tain late for his Endo game which Are rapidly becoming it was the second game in a Row in which Silas fired in a lon distance jump shot in the closing seconds to Seal a Victory for the this one stretched their record Home court winning Streak to 17 what can you say about Jimmy said coach Stan the Guy is a marvelous athlete and a fierce compete Silas had connected on another Field goal from the same spot 15 seconds giving the spurs a 108106 Milkau Kees Junior Bridgeman tied the game on two free throws with 16 seconds remain whether the Guy is All Over me or play ing off of ill take whatever they said san Antonios George Gervin led All scorers with 33 Points and Silas added Marques Johnson led Milwaukee with Kings supersonics 105 Birdsong Gam winning Field goal was preceded by a 25foot three Point Basket by Ford with eight seconds left that produced a 105105 after Fords Seattle called a timeout to set up its final but Ford intercepted John Johnsons inbound pass and heaved the Ball Down court to Ford led All scorers with 23 Points and Reggie King added 20 for Kansas Paul Westphal came off the Bench to score 20 for which trailed by As Many As 21 Points in the first half but fought Back to Lead by six with left in the nets warriors 132 new jerseys Robinson matched the 36 Point performance of Ernet Bernard whose Basket with 39 seconds remaining tied the score at Mike new Lin added 35 Points for the nets while Joe Barry Carroll had 27 for the who led 111101 at the Start of the final continued on Page 22 fastest car on the track he dominated until the Pivotal pit Bonnetts Ford thunderbird succumbed to a Cut ire and a Loose retiring on Lap while Bakers Cutlass challenged but stay with the top three at the there were 49 Lead changes among nine Drivers in the exciting it was the first Victory for Buick in a grand National race since there were fears the new cars in use this season would be forced to Tun farther apart continued on Page 23 Garner beats Germain on 1st extra Hole a vet eran Joanne Carner battled winds and Rains sunday to climb Back on top and win a Lyga Golf tournament on the first Hole of a sudden death playoff with Dot the defending Bir died the 18th Hole after three earlier bogeys to catch Carrier and tic the 54holc ladies professional Golf association event at Carner had started the round in a five Way tie for two strokes behind who led most of the bog cd the 17th to lose her but she shot Par on the 359yard first extra Hole to wrap up the first of 1 Germain hit her second shot on that play off Hole into a front Bunker to the left of the Fairway and then soared Over the Green on her third her fourth put her 10 feet from the Hole and she the first round had rounds of 74 and 72 on the Pasadena Golf club Germain had rounds of 71 and 70 before settling for a 2overpar 74 Jan step Hanson finished 1 stroke behind the leaders at 216 and Cynthia Hill closed at Jane Kathy Whitworth and Patty Hayes All finished at a motorcycle Accident kept Carner off much of the Lyga tour in but she came Back Strong in 1980 and won five tournaments and about in prize Germain did not play in the Lygas opening 1981 event two weeks ago at Deer Field and missed the Cut last week in North Miami her Victory in this tournament a year ago was her Only Triumph in five years on the Windy conditions hampered play throughout the three Day tournament and sundays round was played in intermittent winds gusted up to 25 the tournament began with 109 entrants and 72 survived the Cut at 10overpar Germain won step Hanson collected and Hill for the tour moves on to Sarasota next week for a 72hole Germain said she was disappointed that she manage any birdies until the i was trying to get some birdies to catch Joanne All along the Back Jaeger wins second in tourney a teenager Andrea giving away 20 years experience to her wore Down Virginia Wade and won 61 sunday in the finals of the Avon championships of the seeded won her second tournament title of the year despite playing on sore which bothered her throughout the she got for the Victory while got for her Best tournament showing in 11
