European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 4, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 26 the stars and stripes August 1985 rain helps Fabi hold up pole by Randy Barnett motor sports editor Germany italian Driver too f Abi held on to pole position Here saturday for sundays German grand prix when Rains swept the Lucr Burgering to make it impossible for Drivers to improve on their after recording fastest the Lap Here Fri Day in a Tol Manhart car to win the provisional Fabi joked that he  mind if it rained during final qualifying on the Lallian Driver got his with Clouds forming up and the rain beginning just before the Start of the on hour it slacked off with 10 minutes left in the but it was too late to dry out the track Fabi provided some fireworks at the be ginning of the rain soaked practice when lie spun his Tol Manhart on first Lap he lost control coming but of the final turn and spun just before the finish the car Slid into the Barrier and its nose Cone was knocked the body was also slightly fortunately for the Toleman the damaged car was one of two spare ones and Fabi will Start sundays race with the regular car he used on regarding the Fabi said i just a photo Italy Teo Fabi showers bring smiles made a mistake in the wet and lost discussing the race he said like most everyone i Hope conditions for tomorrows race Are that could leave me with some slight disadvantage because my engine is not quite As Strong As some of the others running but the car is so in still hoping for a dry the fastest Driver in saturdays rain swept final session was the italian Elio de Angelis who recorded one More than 12 seconds off fridays top qualifying his fastest Lap came near the end of the session when the track was drying Only 21 cars from the 26 entered Here took part in the final the German Stefan Bellof had a bad time saturday in his Tyrrel Renault Turbo turning Only one Lap when Turbo failure ended his englishman Jonathan mean who drives for the German Zak Speed also had bad his Turbo engine blowing up in a huge Cloud of smoke late in the Fabi leads off the 67lap German grand prix from the front Row with a time of 1 an average Speed of Miles per hour Over mile nuer Burgering starting in the front Row across from Fabi is Sweden Stefan Johansson who drives a the German grand prix is the ninth round in the 16race world driving under cover a photo racing fans watch saturdays Rainy qualifying session at Germany Nuermburg the track was slow and fridays time posted by Teo Fabi of Italy stood up for pole eagles get another shot at Sembach Lakenheath gains baseball finals by Dave Walczak staff writer Simba ii Germany the Lakenheath waited a year to avenge last years loss to Sembach for the Usa it baseball now they have their the eagles earned their Chance with a 107 Comerro behind Victory Over the Rhei main rockets in the Safe semifinal the Victory put the conference champions into the title game against the who claimed the Crown Here in Ken heaths comeback focused on a six run sixth inning that erased a 74 Defi Cit and ended Rhei Mains bid at Sun Days i winning manager Cal Bates said he thought team was capable of a comeback against the 2 team from the Continental sports i thought we had a Chance All along with the kind of pitching Rhei main i was concerned for but All you can do is talk to the Guys and try to keep their Confidence Rhei main helped build Lakenheath Confidence with a bad play in the sixth that opened the door to the eagles Jeff Chapman opened the inning with a triple that chased Jim the second of four rocket Alex Lewis relieved and retired Jim Tinalli on a but Chapman scored on a Donnie Deason and Pat Mills Drew but Alex Dimuro setting the stage for the key play of the Steve Cote lifted a soft Fly to right fielder Frank Quinones started Back on the then came running the Ball landed a few feet in front of scoring with Mills and Cote moving up on the Bob Kundinger lashed a double Down the Loftfield scoring both runners and putting the eagles ahead Chad Sumner relieved and Cliff wisely sent his first pitch Over the Loftfield Fence to close the i really thought we had this said Rhei main manager Warren with a routine catch wed be out of that and you have to make routine plays if youre going to win games like but you have to give Lakenheath cred they seized the Opportunity when it presented who relieved starter Fred Smith in the pitched the final 3 innings to earn the despite his Homer and one hit the right hander had Little to it was a Good that Allim going to said who was hit hard by Sembach in the tigers 114 Vic tory wisely pitching came As a Relief to who hoped Smith would have a bet Ter i was hoping to get at least one More inning out of said but he was having control he was also a Little tired from pitching three Days in a Smith had relieved two Days in a Ron prices rib single gave the eagles a 10 Lead in the but Rhei main came Back with three runs in the Bottom of the Lakenheath regained the Lead with a three run third that chased rockets starter Ralph he was touched for five hits and three walked in 2 Sumners run scoring double in the Bot Tom of the third tied the and the rockets struck for three runs in the fourth for a 74 Jon Haratyk reached on a fielders Choice and scored when Drew Roy blasted a triple that hit the top of the Fence but bounded Back onto the Roy then stole Curt Lineback walked and Quinones Bobby Moss run scoring single chased Bates said his team would continue hit Ting sunday against Sembach Ace Chris who has yet to lose in 11 i think we can hit Hes the kind of Pitcher weve hit All the whole team is looking Forward to Bates Stanley could Only look i think this team went As far As it could he Bow flac Seguso duo keeps in Davis cup West Germany a americans Robert Seguso and Ken Flach won a dramatic quarterfinals doubles match against West Germany on saturday to keep the team in this years Davis cup the 75 Victory Over Wimbledon Champion Boris Becker and partner Andreas Maurer came after disappointing losses by the american squad in the opening singles rounds Friday when Becker whipped Eliot Teltscher in straight sets 63 and Hansjoerg Schwaier beat Aaron Krickstein 26 61 the final two matches of the Besto five series come on sunday with the reverse sin of said of the match we were having trouble they stayed Back and kept us the win after three hours and nine min utes of play stunned the crowd of which had been cheering and whistling wildly when it appeared the West germans would win in the fifth Many had assumed the West germans would win when they took the 43 Lead in that Becker is ranked 45 in the world in doubles while Maurer has the 105th Schwaier faces Eliot Teltscher of Palos in the reverse singles on the hard hitting who last month became the youngest Man Ever to win the Wimbledon faces Krickstein of Grosse Pointe Seguso and Flach convincingly won the first set despite the wild rooting by the crowd for the Home at the Wimbledon Champion Becker aced in the first game to put West Ger Many ahead Becker and Maurer won the but the americans then took the next five the american team broke Maurer in the third game for the first break of the played in wet the american team also broke Becker in the fifth overcoming two aces by the 17yearold from the Small town of West Germany on their Way to the 62 Deci in the second the americans broke Beckers serve in the first game and Maur ers in the Becker evened it up at 5 games each when he put the Ball Over Flachs head in the As Seguso raced in vain to his with the americans coordination break ing West Germany went ahead in the 11th game and went on to take the second set 86 and even the after a 1 hour and 20 minute delay for the team took the first four Points of the third set and went on to Down their opponents the West germans broke Seguss serve in the third game of the fourth set and held on to score with americas Davis cup chances on the line for this Seguso and Flach won a dramatic Duel with the West prevailing 75 in the fifth and final television baseball san Francisco giants at Atlanta