European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 7, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 26 the stars and stripes May 1985 Kite ends drought with champions win up Tom who entered the tournament mired in the worst slump of his 14year pro finished off a Sterling wire Gwirc performance by shooting a 3undcrpar 69 Sun Day to win the Mony tournament of champions by six Kite grabbed the Lead in the tournament when he birdied the second Hole in thurs Days opening round at the Tough la Costa country club he fell into a Brief tie with Lanny Wadkins on saturday but then rattled off Ihrck straight birdies and was never again he began the final round with a three shot Lead and boosted it to four strokes with Aba from Page 21 122108 loss to san Antonio with six games to play in the regular the lakers had won 26 of their last 28 the other loss in the string was to the the 1977 Aba maintained their record of never having been blanked in a playoff magic Johnson led the lakers with 31 Points and 13 Kareem Abdulrab pressured physically by two Blazer Pivot added 21  and Kenny Carr each Vandow Che Drexler added 15 Points for Drexler also had 10 assists and 7 Portland scored 20 Points off offensive rebounds to 15 for the a big change from the first three the were ahead 8274 at the end of the third Quarter and never trailed los Angeles closed to 108105 on two free throws by Johnson with to Thompson made a stuff shot with 30 seconds left to give Portland a 111105 Lead and then made 4 free throws with time running plagued by second period problems the first three trailed 30 23 after the first but they out scored the lakers 3619 in the second to Lead 5949 at nuggets jazz 118 Salt lakh City Alex English scored 40 Points As Denver held off a fourth Quarter Utah rally to take a 31 advantage in the Western conference Besto seven playoff English scored 22 Points in the first half As the nuggets ran to a 24point advantage at one but Utah whittled away at the Lead and pulled to within one Point late in the fourth the nuggets could wrap up the series with a Victory in the fifth to be played tuesday in which never held a 69 55 Lead at the half As the nuggets shot a torrid 56 percent from the Field to utahs 42 Adrian Dantley led Utah with 33 Points while Darrell Griffith added 28 and Thurl Bailey had Calvin Natt scored 18 for Denver and Mike Evans had including a Trio of three Point Wayne Cooper scored 14 Ana Dan Issel 12 for the jazz Cut Denver Lead to one 119118 with 45 seconds remaining in the game when Bailey dropped in a but Issel scored four of Denver last six Points to help the nuggets stay out of a Birdie on the par4 first he bogeyed the fifth Hole but got that stroke Back with a Birdie on and then put the tournament away on the 530yard 12th Hole when he drilled his third shot to within two feet of the pin and dropped the putt to move to 12undcr for the Tournai he birdied again at his fou Day score of 13underpar 275 included a course and tournament record equalling 64 in the opening round and a rare 18par round on the Victory was his first in the eighth of his career and Only the sixth wire to wire win in the 33year history of the it brought him and boosted his career earnings to sixth on the Al time pea his Best year was 1981 when he won to finish first on the Money Mark Mccumber finished second with a his fou Day score of 7under 281 earned him Scott who was tied with Mccumber on the 18th bogeyed the final Hole to drop into third he finished with a 73 for a fou Day score of 282 and earned in fourth place were Mark Omeara and fuzzy who made runs at Kite Fri Day and saturday but then was plagued with a painful a Fiare up of problems for which he underwent major surgery last Zoeller finished with a 73 and Omeara closed with a Fine both were at Larry Nelson was next at 4under 284 after a closing round defending Champion Tom Watson finished with a 70 sunday and was Well Back at 291 in the elite 27player Field of tournament winners in the past 12 Jack Nicklaus closed with a 74 and finished at 292 and masters Champion Bern hard Langer of West Germany finished at 288 after a final round alcott1 s 3under wins Moss Creek Hilton head Amy Alcott fired a 3 underpay 69 sunday for a four stroke Victory in the Moss Creek women invitational in a round delayed for longer than an Houran Dahal while Security officials removed an overzealous authorities suspected the Man had a but it turned out that a Security officer mistook a bottle of suntan lotion for a who started the Day one stroke off the Pace at 1 under posted a 72 Hole total of 284 four strokes ahead of Nancy Patty Kathy Postlewait and Juli who were tied at even Par of Santa collected for her Victory to boost her seasons earnings to More than it was her second tournament Victory of the year and her first at Moss Alcott Sank a 5foot putt on 5 and a 20foot putt on 6 for a pair of birdies and made the turn at 3 under she added birdies on 11 and 14 and while she bogeyed the 16th her Lead was enough to ensure Lori Garbacz started sundays round in the Lead at 2 but she ran into prob lems posting a double bogey six on the second Hole and adding two More be fore she made the she finished at 292 eight strokes off the sundays action saw two holes none on the 158yard 7 Hole at the Vickie Singleton used a 4iron to score an Ace while Myra Blackwelder of used a a photo tournament Winner Amy Alcott a 65 to take the purse Navratilova demolishes Burgin Houston a to seeded Martina in her longest match of the needed Only one hour to defeat her doubles partner Elise 61 Sun Day in the finals of the Virginia slims of Houston Tennis Navratilova won her 105th career tournament and sixth of the year and earned increasing her total for the year to Burgin received As the run Burgin battled with Navratilova in the first but Navratilova started to pull away by serving a love eighth game and broke Bur Gin in the ninth game on three unforced errors by Navratilova broke Burgin in the first and fifth games of the second set for a 41 Lead to take charge of the match and closed it out in the seventh she hit a Back hand net Cord that crept Over the net for a Winner to take the match to the first match Burgin then double faulted at match Point to end a Cinderella week that included upset victories Over fourth seeded Zina Garrison and second seeded Manuela a Navratilova swept through the week without losing a set and blitzed third seeded Helena 60 in a 46minute Kriek tops Arias to win vegas tourney Las up Johan Kriek overcame a firs set loss and scorch ing heat sunday to defeat Jimmy Arias 62 and win a grand prix Tennis in capturing his first tournament since August Kriek earned Arias won for second place in the 32 player which began goncourt temperatures sunday approached 100 the tournament is known As the Alan King Caesars Palace Tennis Arias of broke Kriek in the ninth game to go up 54 and then held serve to win the first a South african living in said being one set Down did not bother i have beaten him when i was Down a said who Defeated Arias three times in exhibitions in 30 in the world after being ranked As High As 5 last had prob lems with blisters on his a Trainer examined him during the third my feet Hurt and it took my mind off the said who added that Kriek just got better and Kriek said living in Florida made him used to the heat but he admitted the match was Tough and in not used to playing in so Many matches in one he ranked took away Arias vaunted forehand with Low slices and Flat deep Kriek had qualified for the finals by defeating Tomas Smid in straight