European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 21, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May the stars and stripes Page 21 lakers slip past nuggets behind worthy from press dispatches Denver Center Kareem Abdul who scored a game High 29 and Forward James worthy combined to Lead a fourth Quarter flurry sunday that carried the lakers past the Denver nug gets 120116 and gave los Angeles a 31 Edge in their National basketball association playoff the lakers can Clinch the Besto seven Western conference final series in game 5 wednesday night in los with Abduljabba dominating the boards and feeding teammates for four baskets the lakers built an eight Point with five min utes to Denver forced to play without Lead ing scorer Alex English Over the final 17 minutes when English suffered an injury Aba playoffs a photo Kareem Abduljabba rules boards to his shooting hand battled Back be Hind Forward Calvin who scored eight straight Denver Bac Toback three Point baskets by Elston Turner and Mike Evans Drew the nuggets into a 116116 tie with to who rebounded from first half foul trouble to score 11 Points in the final scored on a tip in the lakers fifth shot at the Basket with 20 seconds left for a 118116 guard Byron Scott tacked on two free throws with five seconds left to account for the final los Angeles continued its hot playoff shooting hitting on 65 percent of its Fiel goal attempts in the first but still trailed Denver 7068 at the who shot Only 46 percent in the got 16 More Fiel goal at tempts thanks to a 3021 rebounding Edge in the half and Only five turnovers to the lakers English had 26 Points at the half and got an Early Basket in the third but injured his hand with left in the third Quarter and didst the lakers showed signs of pulling away in the but made Only three of eight foul shots after going 15 of 15 in the first and the third Quarter ended in a 9393 worthy scored five straight Laker four of them on a pair of baskets underneath after passes from Abdulrab to give a 10699 worthy slam again on a feed from Abdul gave the lakers their biggest advantage at Scott had 26 Points for the lakers and worthy finished with Natt shared Den vers scoring honors with English at a cheer a photo French Tennis Star Yannick Noah Ian Miloslav Mecir in the italian ten kneels on the court and celebrates his Nis open in Rome Noah won hard fought Victory Over see sports Page indy vet Rutherford squeezes info lineup Indianapolis a three time Winner Johnny Rutherford led a quartet of Drivers sunday who bumped their Way into the 69th Indianapolis completing the fastest starting lineup in Auto racing history who qualified for his 21st indy was one of three veterans who came Back sunday to get into the lineup after being bumped he finished a dra Matic four Lap qualification run with an average at Mph in a Boswor throw ered March race car during the final hour of time he joined Kevin Cogan and Ireland Derek both of whom qualified March Osworth earlier in the and indy Rookie Rich who followed Rutherford Quick run in another Marc cos Daly was clocked at Cogan at acid Vogler at the fast foursome raised the average for the 33car Field to a record that Breaks both the year old Indianapolis Mark of and the Al time racing record of set last september by a 24car Field at Michigan International a 47yearold won As the fastest of the last Days qual although he was far More concerned with making the race than being Dalys qualifying run bumped out Rutherford first weekend Speed of and in bumped indy Rookie Michael Roe of Ireland out of the Roe had a firs week Speed of today been awfully Tough on the said the joyous who gave a loud War whoop As he squirmed out of his open cockpit its been the Long est Day in All of our we had to sit and wait for someone to bump us or withdraw the car and go ahead with the if some thing had happened to this wed have been i had Confidence in them and the that a Little better than the other no personal Mike but i had to go out and youll get your in the defending Canam blew an engine in his backup car earlier in the but he did get two More chances to make it Back into the lineup in the final 15 minutes with a rebuilt engine in his he Only managed two laps at just Over 201 on one attempt and was still too slow after completing four laps on his final attempt the last of the that left Tony who qualified on As the slowest Driver in this years Field at whose original qualification run of Mph during the first weekend of qualifications had been knocked from the Field on made his sunday at tempt moments after the Start of the Days time trials he bumped Steve Chassey from the whose team purchased a backup car from the Patrick racing team earlier last made the first of three allowable qualifying attempts Early in sundays ses completing a Lap at and an other at before coming off the mile on his second his laps ranged from to Vollers qualification bumped Veteran Pete Halsmer from the who was in for a sports car endurance race on had qualified on the first weekend at Tom a Veteran of nine indy made two attempts sunday but failed to Complete a Lap on the sunny and but Windy we were Gonna withdraw the first car and qualify this one even if it the first car didst get explained who actually was disappointed by sundays this was a Brand new it had never even turned a wheel before we got it out on the track on and in five i had it up to the other car had some kind of problem that we never could but we just  get it up Over 205 in the two weeks we worked on i was a Little disappointed sunday be cause the wind kicked up just As we got out there and i never was Able to get through a single Corner without lifting on the the wed been doing 208 pretty Jerry a Veteran of six indy 500s but without a Start Here since crashed sunday while trying to find More Speed in a 1982 Karl escaped injury and later moved into a 1983 sundays race will be the first all200 Mph starting Field thirty three cars qualified above 200 Here last but Ca Nadian Rookie Jacques who had gotten into the Field at was unable to Start the race after suffering a concussion see indy on Page 23