European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 29, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May the stars and stripes Page 21 celtics crush lakers 148114 Boston up Danny Ainge scored 15 of his 19 Points in the first Quarter to key a record setting Boston outburst powering the celtics to an easy 148114 thrashing of the los Angeles lakers in the opener of the Aba championship the looking to become the first team since their 196869 counterparts to Register Bac Toback Aba titles vaulted to a 7949 Lead at halftime with a dazzling display of near perfect the who spent the first three playoff rounds holding leads similar to their deficit never recovered from the onslaught before the startled but delirious crowd of Boston will Host the second game of the Besto seven series thursday the scene then shifts to los an Geles for games if game Bostons Point total was the most Ever scored in a championship the celtics also set title series Marks with their 79 Points at the half and their 30point halftime Lead was the largest Ever in a title they held a 10879 Lead after three quarters and coasted to the Triumph using reserves in the final Boston led by As Many As 37 in the fourth Scott Wedman came off the Bench to hit 11ofl 1 shots another title record including All four of his three Point Fiel goal Aba playoffs r Boston remained the leagues Only undefeated Home playoff team this the celtics Are 90 this season and have won 12 straight postseason games and 21 of the last 22 at the Boston their last loss at Home during the playoffs came one year ago monday at the hands of the lakers in game 1 of the championship who got into Brief scuffles with Byron Scott and magic Johnson in the third also helped hold the hot shooting Scott who hit 65 percent against Denver in the last round to just two Feight shooting at half Wedman and Kevin Mchale each scored 26 Points for Boston while Larry Bird had 19 and Robert Parish James worthy had 20 for the lakers and Johnson added 1 the previous record for the most Points in a title game 142 was set by the celtics against the lakers in the 1965 monday s Boston Victory also represented the larg est winning margin in a title the celtics canned 11 of their first 12 shots of the second Quarter to expand their 3824 Lead after one Quad Wedman hit a Trio of three Point Fiel goal attempts As Boston led by As Many As 33 Points in the Boston shot 62 percent for the half while the lakers hit just 42 percent and did not get an offensive rebound until 1 1 minutes into the the celtics checked the lakers Daing fast break holding to just three baskets on the los Angeles had no second Hance baskets in the first 24 Boston has beaten the lakers in All eight of the previous title los Angeles led 98 with left in the first Quarter but the celtics ran off an 183 burst to take a 2612 Ainge had six Points in the run As the celtics time and again found the open Man under the Basket for an easy Basket while denying los Angeles second shots on the offensive the lakers got six straight Points after a time out to get within 2618 with to go in the first Quarter but Boston retaliated with a 102 spurt and they led 3824 after 12 the lakers appearing in their fourth straight title be fared no better in the second being outscored 4125 in the the celtics fell just five Points of the Al time title record for Points in a Boston began by scoring 11 of the quarters first 12 Points for a 4725 the celtics hit 1 1 of their first 12 shots of the period and Birds two free throws before halftime for their largest Lead of the half at Ever Lloyd presses grand slam bid with win Over Thompson Paris a Chris Winner of the australian open championship last began the second leg of the Tennis grand slam tuesday with a 64 Victory Over 18yearold australian Lethander Janine Thompson in the million French but her countryman Jimmy seeded 16 in the mens tumbled out of the Competition when he was beaten 75 by qualifier Roberto Saad of a because of her australian seed Here behind mar Tina is the Only female player eligible to win a million Dollar Bonus offered by the International Tennis federation to any player who wins the Tennis grand slam the Wimbledon and United states on the Center court before Ever Lloyd was Frenchman Yannick who de lighted the Home fans with a 67 6 64 Victory Over Libor Pisek of in a Battle of two Tennis the 6foot4 seed who was Champion two years stormed Back after sur rending the first set on a was swept aside in the Sec Ond but rallied to produce two closely fought third and fourth cheered on by his Noah held his concentration and took the Hie the Veteran romanian was forced to pull out of the tournament tuesday because of a leg his place in the draw was taken by Lucky loser Emilio Sanchez of who beat Goran Prpic of Yugoslavia to Advance to the second Jimmy Connors overcame an error lit tired Start to beat West Germany Wolf gang Popp in straight sets and to also reach the second the 32yearold american won but was visibly annoyed with him self during the Early stages As he made a string of unforced the bad to Force the Pace against a consistent but unspectacular opponent and squandered a 41 first set Lead victorious Chris Ever Lloyd another step toward the big Bonus to allow the West German to level at eventually he took the which had five service and went on to Domi Nate the defending Champion Martina Navratilova cruised into the third round of the women singles by beating Veteran Bri ton Virginia Wade the Czechoslovakia born who dropped Only one game in her open ing match against american Pam tee Guarden again was in dominating form against the 39yearold in mens singles Joakim nys the seed from dropped a set to the West German qualify Hansdieter but advanced to the second round Bettels Boris successfully adapted his All action style to the slow Clay courts at Roland Garros by beating the experienced american Vitas who won the world Young Mas ters title at in Jan won 67 61 in after winning the second set tie Gerulaitis appeared to be Back in the but the powerfully built West German crushed the 30yearold new yorker in the final two the net Rushing american found few weaknesses in Beckers it was Only when he slowed the match Down in the second set and hugged the Baseline that he achieved better results and broke Beckers serve in the eighth game to Lead Becker immediately broke Back and eventually forced the set into a he also had two Points for the but Gerulaitis saved them with some delicate touch play at the net before leveling the match on his second set but the americans Challenge rated in the next two sets As Beckers serve again gave him the spend a Buck wins million Cherry a spend a the Kentucky Derby Winner who br6ke tradition by skipping the won the Jersey Derby by a neck monday and collected the richest purse in horse racing the Ridden by Laffit Pincay and leading All the covered 1v4 Miles in to beat or Csc Al Basco was another head Back and 43a lengths ahead of purple the Victory by the Oddson favorite earned him a million Bonus for sweeping the Cherry Hill the Garden state the Kentucky Derby and the Jersey he also earned from the Jersey derbys million the record payday boosted spend a Jucks career earnings to mov ing him into second on the Al time list be Hind the gelding John who has earned owner Dennis Diaz and Trainer Cam Gambolati had drawn criticism from racing traditionalists for skipping the Preakness at Pamlico May 18 in favor of the Jersey thus denying spend a Buck a shot at the triple the triple crowns final leg is the mile Belmont stakes june Diaz has said he has not made a decision on whether spend a Buck will run in the Sullivan win Worth indy purse hits Al time record Indianapolis a Driver Danny Sullivan and the Penske racing team will take Home More than a Hal million dollars from a record purse of almost million for winning the Indianapolis driving in his third Indiana Polis beat Mario Andretti by less than three seconds in sundays the Victory was Worth a record the Driver normally gets a fixed percentage of the team the former record was set last also by the Penske for Driver see indy on Page 23