European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 03, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday november 3, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 21 of sports Usel of open 86 season with 9 teams Memphis Tern up the United slates fool Ball league will be reduced from 14 teams to nine for the 1986 season and one of inc franchises will be shifted. Usel commissioner Harry usher announced. The announcement came during a meeting at which Usel owners Laid strategy for moving from a Spring to a fall schedule. The league has lost almost j100 million i three years of operation. These nine franchises Are very Strong very secure teams usher said. We now have Strong very popular teams. Frankly All systems Are usher did not Rule out the possibility that some of the teams now dropped from the league s plans could still play in 1986, provided they proved financially secure. But by the conclusion of the two Day meeting Friday Only nine teams had provided letters of credit and other information that satisfied the league s financial require ments. Usher also announced that the Denver Gold franchise would move to Portland ore., where they would be re named with fan holding franchises under the current plan Are new Jersey Baltimore Jacksonville Orlando Tampa Bir Mingham Memphis. Phoenix and porn land. Dropped from plans for the 1986 season were los Angeles. Oakland. Houston and san Antonio. The los Angeles express usher said is somewhere Between terminal and usher said a league composed of an even number of teams would be desirable but we can equally manage with an Odd he also said the Usel had an excellent Chance of winning its antitrust suit against the National football league. The Usel contends that the nil holds a monopoly Over the three major television networks. Usher said that while the Usel has Access to esp and other Cable programming the advertising dollars there Are a fraction of those available in a contract with the three major networks Abc Abc and lbs the opening Day of inc Usk season labor Day will coincide with the Nofia season opener. The championship game will be held in Jacksonville. Season tickets will go on Sale soon usher said. The Gold owned by Colorado automobile dealer Doug Spedding has been looking for 3 new Home for the club coached by Darrel Davis. Club officials sought the move because of the difficulty in competing with the nil Den ver Broncos. The Seattle Breakers lost All their players to free agent status in August after failing o meet the payroll for the last four games of the season. The Usel players association then sued Breakers owner Joe Canizaro and the league for si.2 million. Cani Zaro a new Orleans real estate Developer was unsuccessful in raising s5 million from Portland investors to pay off team debts and finance the franchise for another season. Celts clip Hawks a photo Boston s Bill Walton. Leads late surge by celtics from press dispatches Boston Bill Walton filling in for slump Ridden Robert Parish put Boston in front with a three Point play with less than two minutes remaining and the cel tics withstood a 40-Point performance by Dominique Wilkins Friday night in a 109-105 Victory Over the at Lanta Hawks. Larry Bird scored 25 Points Kevin Mihalc 22 and Danny Ainge 18 in leading the celtics to their third consecutive Victory since an opening upset by new Jersey. Dennis Johnson scored 16 Points and Walton had 14. Most of them Down the stretch As Boston rallied from a five Point deficit in the final 2 a minutes. After Wilkins hit on a fall away shot giving Atlanta a 96-91 Lead Walton triggered a 10-2 Boston surge by scoring on a pass from Bird. After Johnson Sank two free throws Walton took an other pass from Bird scored on a Layup and added the free throw on a foul by tree Rollins. That put Boston ahead to stay 98-96. Walton who also grabbed eight rebounds while play ing most of he second half scored on another free throw with 1 23 remaining. The teams battled Down to the wire until Johnson Sank four free throws in the final 12 seconds. With Aings scoring 14 Points Boston took a 26-20 first period Lead. Led by Wilkins the Hawks 1-3, battled Back and closed to within 54-52 at halftime. In other Aba games Friday night spurs 116. Live rocks 107 san Antonio Mike Mitchell scored 24 Points and Alvin Robertson added 22 to Pace san Antonio past Dallas. The spurs broke the game open with an 11-4 run Early in the fourth period. Rookie guard Alfredrick Hughes capped the spurs Streak with a Layup that boosted their Lead to 101-89 with about eight minutes left in the game. The Mavericks had earlier Cut the Lead to 90-85 on a Dunk by Rookie guard act Kcf Schrempf who scored 12points. Dallas was led by guard Rolando Blackman who Tal Aba Roundup lied n game High 29 Points. San Antonio s Victory a a cd its record at 2-2. Dallas dropped to 1-2 with its ins san Antonio jumped to a 36-28 Lead at the end us lit first Quarter shooting 72 percent from the held. Nets 106, 7acrs 102 East Rutherford . Buck Williams had 27 Points and 13 rebounds and Michael Ray Richurd Sun added 20 Points to Lead new Jersey Over Philadelphia five Philadelphia players scored in double it Yuriv including Julius i ring with 21. Charles Barkcus Uilah 20. Moses Malone with 17. Sedate thread with id and Maurice checks with 13. New Jersey led 27-22 after one Quarter and 62-m a the half. The mixers took charge in the third period As threat poured in eight Points. A Basket by Mike o in run at the Buzzer gave new Jersey an 82-Ho advantage going into the final period. The nets then outscored the mixers 7-2 to go up x4-x2. Mike Gminski tipped in a Williams pass and Barkl i two free throws for Philadelphia. Otis Birdsong hit one of two for new Jersey. Gminski and Richardson then scored for new Jersey who led the rest of the Way even though Philadelphia Cut the margin to one Point with 2 m remaining when bar. Cly slam dunked. Birdsong canned a 2-on-l break. Mickey Johnson hit a foul shot Birdsong Sank a free throw and Richardson connected on a Layup for a 105-98 new Jersey advantage jazz 111, suns 110 Salt Lake City Pace Mannion scored 10 of his i 3 Points in the final Quarter As Utah held off Phoenix. The jazz led throughout the game including a 17 Point Lead in the second Quarter. But the suns closed the Gap to 106-102 with 1 10 r training in the game. Then Adrian Dantly. Who led All scorers with 3h Points hit a bucket and John Stockton drove the Anc for another and was fouled by Alvin Adams. Stockton converted the fou and it was 111-102. The ja/7 coasted from there. Nagelsen White win clinches Wightman will1amsburg, is. A Betsy Nagelsen and Anne White teamed for a 6 4, 6-1 Victory Over Annabel Croft and Vir Ginia Wade Friday night to Clinch a . Victory Over Britain in the 57h Wightman cup Tennis Competition. The United states which now holds a 47-10 Lead in the annual series had an unbeatable 4-0 advantage going into sat urday s final three matches. The doubles teams battled to 4-4 tie in the first Sci before Wade lost her service in the ninth game. The americans breezed to Victory in the second set with accurate serves and Nagelsen s Strong backhand. The match took 54 minutes. Pam Shriver overwhelmed Croft 6-0,6-0 ear Lier in the night to give the americans a 3-0 Lead. It took Shriver. Ranked third in the world Only 43 minutes of the 28th-ranked Croft. Shriver was most effective with her approach shots and kept the pressure on Croft by coming to the net constantly. Chris Evert Lloyd Defeated to Dune and Kathy Rinaldi downed Anne Hobbs in opening singles matches on Friday. The Competition was to end saturday with Shriver going against Durie Lloyd taking on Croft. Lloyd and Shriver were to team up against Durie and Hobbs in doubles. Pea bans a Seferos from . Tournaments Almancia. Portugal a so Acriano balls Lacros of Spain said Friday that the . Professional golfers association made a terrible mistake in Banning him from american Toura ments. It was a thoughtless decision that can Only harm International Golf Ballesteros said during the portuguese open. It seems to me the pea was under great pressure to take this stance. But i Don t know where the pressure came the pea announced thursday that Ballesteros a past Winner of the . Masters and the British open. A. Barred from . Competitions for not having competed in at least 15 pea tournaments this year. I Don t contest the decision but i believe the pea has made a terrible mistake Ballesteros said. He said he would study the decision before deciding on any action. Balls Lacros shot a four under Par 63 Friday for a 54-Hoe total of 209. One stroke behind first place Glen Ralph of Britain in the portuguese open
