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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 20, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May 1985 the stars and stripes Page 21 sports 76ers Nab easy win Over celts Philadelphia a Andrew Toney scored 26 Points and Maurice Cheeks 22 As the Philadelphia Lead ing from Start to beat the Boston celtics 115104 sunday to stave off elimination in their Besto seven National basketball association semifinal the mixers now Trail the celtics 31 with game 5 at Boston wednesday Phila Delphia is bucking Aba history no team has Ever overcome a 30 deficit in a seven game series and Only four teams have come Back from the 76ers also got the fast break going that carried them to their earlier playoff victories Over Washington and it was the first game of the series in which Philadelphia has scored 100 the 76ers were helped when Boston experienced a col shooting first half in which it fell behind the celtics trailed 85 74 after three in the final Boston closed to with in eight at 8981 with to but Moses Malone scored three Field goals around one by the celtics Dennis Johnson and Cheeks followed Kevin Schales Bas Ket with one of his own to boost Phila Delphia to a 9785 Lead with to the celtics reduced it to eight again on baskets by Robert Parish and Mchale that made it but Toney and Bobby Jones ran off five Points that bolstered the Lead to 13 with less than minutes in the first with Cheeks scoring 10 and Rookie Charles Barkley Phila Delphia outscored Boston 218 to turn a 10 8 Edge into a 3116 the after the celtics sliced the margin to nine at 45 36 with left in the second out scored Boston 124 to Lead by 17 at 5740 with to in the third the celtics trailed throughout by double they were behind by 16 six the last at 8266 after a jumper by Bobby Jones with to the triggered by Johnsons 12 Points in the period got no closer than 10 with a six Point rally that made it 8272 with the 76ers boosted it to 13 on a 15foot jumper by Toney at the 47 Mark and led 8574 at the end of the Gura placed tanks with jockey Pat pulls ahead of chiefs carrying Donald to win the tanks Prospect takes Preakness Baltimore a stretch run Ning tanks Prospect caught eve Money favorite chiefs Crown just before the wire to win the Preakness stakes in record time tanks Ridden by Pat Day and trained by Wayne covered 1 Miles in clipping one fifth of a second off the official Pamlico race course chiefs Crown had taken the Lead from front running eternal Prince with a Quad termite to go before tanks Prospect came on to win by a eternal the second Choice in the finished third in the richest Preakness in tanks Prospect is an inconsistent per former who won the Arkansas Derby but then finished seventh in the Kentucky he was fifth on the final but moved from the rail to the outside and put away the front runners under Days heavy left handed the Victory was accomplished against a Field that did not include Derby Winner spend a who instead will run for a bigger payday in the Jersey Derby May 27 at Garden state that race would be Worth million if he chiefs the 2yearold Champi on who was third As the favorite in the finished lengths ahead of eternal who was another three lengths in front of i am the eternal who finished 12th in the Derby after failing to get out of the Gate grabbed the Early Lead under Chris a replacement for his Derby Richard Long shots sport and Hajji treasure ran 23 into the chiefs who was expected to be up front under Donald was fourth or fifth during that with a half mile to chiefs Crown began moving up and caught eternal Prince on the final tanks Prospect was sixth with a Quarter mile to by tanks Prospect had moved up to third behind chiefs Crown and eternal Prince and then prevailed in the final he won a purse of for his and Eugene Klein is the former owner of the san Diego chargers of the nation Al football on waivers braves beat cubs 43 Kansas a Veteran Pitcher Larry twice an 18game win Ner for the Kansas City was placed on waivers saturday for the purpose of giving him an unconditional the action was taken to make room on the roster for outfielder Lonnie who was acquired Friday from the National leagues Louis cardinals for minor league outfielder John i kind of knew last september my Ca reer was going to be ending with the Roy Gura said saturday from his hotel room in where the royals lost 72 to the they still have to pay that their not the royals must pay who was in the second year of a three year More than he is guaranteed in salary this for next year and a buyout on an option for a came to the royals in 1976 from the new York by United press International Rick Mahler drilled a three run double to support his major league leading eighth Victory of the season saturday and boost the Atlanta braves to a 43 Triumph Over the Chicago surrendered seven hits Over eight he walked two and struck out Bruce Sutter pitched the final inning to earn his seventh Atlanta took a 30 Lead in the second off starter Dennis Dale Mur Phy led off with a single one out went to second on a single by Rafael ram Glenn Hubbard walked to Toad the bases and one out later Mahler ripped his base Clearing double to Atlanta added a run in the sixth off reliever Lary Sorensen on an rib single by Bruce Chicago scored twice in the eighth off with two Ryne Sandberg singled and Gary Matthews ripped a 20 no Roundup pitch deep Over the Loftfield Fence for his fourth Home run of the in other no games saturday padres expos 2 Montreal Dave and Rich Gossage combined on a four hit Ter and Kevin Mcreynolds hit his fourth helping the padres Send the expos to their Firth toss in their last six Gossage earned his 10th Joe Hes took the reds pirates 0 Pittsburgh Tom Browning pitched a five hitter for his first career shutout to Lead the reds to their fourth straight Mike gave up five runs in six Dave Parker collected three hits against his former including his third Home run in As Many giants mets 2 new York Pinch hitter Gary Rajsich loth inning single broke a 22 tie and ignited a six run surge to lift the the loss was the mets second in 25 extra inning dating to july Mark was the pitching 1 yielding no Phillies dodgers 5 Philadelphia von Hayes broke a 55 tie with a two run Home run in the sixth to lift the Tom pitched getting All seven outs by but served up Hayes reliever Larry picked up the with Don Carman notching his first astros cardinals 5 Houston Nolan Ryan allowed six hits Over 8 innings and survived a two run ninth to notch his first Victory since april Kurt took the  
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