European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 19, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes Page 21 sports 76ers clip bullets in playoff opener Philadelphia up Moses Malone scored 26 and Maurice Cheeks led a Fine Philadelphia defensive Effort in the last four minutes wednesday night that lifted the 76ers to a 10497 Victory Over the Washington bullets in the opener of their Aba playoff the who won their first Home playoff contest since game 2 of the league championship series in May took a 1 0 Lead in the Besto five series with game 2 scheduled for before a spectrum season Low crowd of the mixers trailed 9392 when Washington Gus Williams Sank a free throw with but held the bullets to just two foul shots Over the next four minutes while sparking 10 Points with their Cheeks jumper with remaining gave the mixers the Lead for Good at 9493 and malones steal led to Julius Ervings jumper 28 seconds after Cheeks forced Williams into a double Malone hit a foul shot to make the score Malone then batted a Loose Ball to an Drew who went in for a Layup at the Mark for a 9993 after washing tons Jeff Ruland Sank two free Toney hit three free throws to Seal the Vic Erving added 24 Points and Cheeks and Charles Barkley 17 apiece for the Cliff Robinson scored 24 Points to Pace the bullets while who missed 43 of the previous44 games with a shoulder came Back to add the bullets shot 65 percent from the Field in the third Quarter to overcome an 11 Point deficit and tie the score 7676 enter ing the the mixers broke out to a 9085 Lead on Ervings breakaway Dunk with but the bullets got a three Point play from Ruland and two free throws and a jumper from Robinson to take a 9290 Lead with after Ervings Tapin tied the Williams free throw gave Washington its last the bullets played the entire second half without Jeff their 2 scorer during the regular who suffered a rib Erving scored 16 Points in the first half to spark the mixers to a 5548 Lead at the in Malone and Toney hit baskets in the first 30 seconds of the third Quarter to boost the margin to 11 before the bullets marshalls j1 thinning hit lifts dodgers Over afros Zimmer restrained a photo Don Chicago cubs third base is held Back by Umpire Frank Pulli during a argument in the chicag Philadelphia Phillies game wednesday in Chi plate Umpire Doug Harvey ejected Zimmer for his confrontation with from press dispatches los Angeles Mike Marshall singled Home Duncan from second base with two out in the Bottom of the Lith inning wednesday lifting the los Angeles dodgers to a 10 Victory Over the Houston Duncan led off the 11th with a single off Frank Dpi the fourth Houston and Bill Russell Sacri after Ken Landreaux struck out and Pedro Guerrero was walked Marshall delivered his Gam winning single to left enter As Duncan scored Orel pitched three witless innings for the Dipino fell to 01 with the the dodgers threatened in the ninth when Russell led off with a single off reliever Jeff Calhoun and was sacrificed to second by after Guerrero was walked Dave Smith relieved but Marshall failed this fanning on a 32 Mike Scioscia then flied Houston Mike Scott and Rick Honeycutt of the dodgers each pitched scoreless balls before leaving after eight Scott allowed just four hits while striking out five and walking Honeycutt permitted three hits with a walk and three Jose Cruz collected the first hit of the a double in the second but was doubled off second when Enos Cabell lined to shortstop the who never got a runner to second base until Pinch hitter Terry Whitfield doubled with two out in the managed Only singles by Marshall in the Scioscia in the fifth and Russell in the seventh off reds braves 1 Atlanta Nick Esasky drilled three hits and drove in two runs and Tom Browning scattered six hits As Cincinnati beat Atlanta for a sweep of their no Roundup three game ahead 21 after five the reds broke the game open with three runs in the Dave Parker led off with a took third on Cesar Cepenos single and scored on Esasky Dave Conception followed with a single to drive in Cedeno and Esasky eventually scored on Dave Van orders sacrifice the reds added a run in the ninth on Eric Davis Home run off reliever Craig Cincinnati took a 20 Lead in the fourth when Pete Rose advanced to second on parkers single and came Home on a single by who has collected eight hits in his last 15 Esasky later scored on Steve Bedrosian wild the braves scored their run in the fourth when Dale who has hit safely in the braves first eight took third on Bob hornets flout and scored on Rick crones infield cubs Phillies 4 Chicago Keith Moreland atoned for three errors with a three run seven thinning double that gave Chicago a Victory Over Philadelphia and the cubs seventh win in eight games this Ozzie Virgils two run Homer off Chicago reliever George first of the season for the had Given Philadelphia a 31 Lead in the top of the but in the Bottom of the the cubs chased Phillies starter Shane Rawley with singles by Pinch hit Ter Steve Lake and Bob then Ryne Sandberg singled off reliever Kevin to Load the bases with no Lake scored on a passed Ball and Dave Lopes walked to Load the bases again and set the stage for see no on Page 23 Brewers Darwin slows tigers with 2hitter by the associated press the Detroit tigers wont go 90 like they did in and manager Sparky Anderson insists they wont go 355 they did in but that Doest mean they wont repeat As world champions in just when the american league East was starting to fret about another Detroit the Milwaukee Brewers slowed things Down wednesday by nipping the previously unbeaten tigers 20 behind the two hit pitching of Danny the 1984 tigers didst lose until their 10th the 1985 edition Only went 0 before so this is a better club than ill answer that for you right Anderson i cant even compare the two this team is just but in the american league East youd better be were going to lose one like we did anybody pan beat you once in a Al Roundup were going to lose four in a but when you stretch this thing Over 162 were going to be alright be cause weve got a Good the tigers division Lead was trimmed to one game Over Milwaukee and Balti which Defeated Cleveland who lasted just 4 innings in his first walked one and struck out two in besting Detroit Ace Jack who scattered six Jim Gantner singled Home the first run in the fifth inning following two out singles by Ben Oglivie and Bill Gantner tripled to Lead off the eighth and scored on Paul molitors sacrifice this is a big Confidence said who came Over from Texas in an of season theres nothing like pitching a shutout against the world champions to make you feel the coming off a injury filled 1984 Are As confident As they can we believe in said Gant if we can keep everybody healthy and in the that like making a major Well be a Good i think people forget that we had a lot of people Hurt last in this you lose that Many people and youre on the Bot Tom in a it surely will take More than one loss to destroy the tigers i sure would have liked to have gone 9 0 again because maybe those Are some games we wont have to win Down the said shortstop Alan but i think were going and i feel the same attitude around Here i Felt last we saw some Good pitching that what orioles indians 3 Cleveland Fred Lynn had three hits and scored and Cleveland committed two eighth inning errors to help Baltimore score three with the score tied Lenn Sakata singled to open the reliever Jose roman threw wildly to second on Rick Dempsey and Dan Ford then Bun Ted safely to fill the Sakata scored when Cleveland third baseman Brook who had homered to tie the game in the booted Wayne Gross grounder and Dempsey scored on Cal Ripkens Dave von Ohlen walked Lynn to reload the bases and Gary Roenicke infield hit drove in the final Blue jays rangers 1 Toronto Jesse Barfield smashed a three run Homer off reliever Dave Stew Art in the Bottom of the 10th inning after Texas had broken open a scoreless game in see Al on Page 23