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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 2, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday March 2, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 23 Magazine says it should give map award new York a sport Magazine in an open letter to com missioner Peter Ueberroth says it is being prevented from making its an Nual world series most valuable player award because baseball wants to sell a meaningful tradition. To the highest  during the 1985 world series baseball announced that it had with drawn recognition of sport s map award which has been presented since 1955, and was giving one of its own underwritten by Chevrolet with the vehicle going to Charity in the winning player s name. Ueberroth s office when asked for a response to the letter made Avail Able a position paper which said that baseball while it is a sport. Is also a business an entertainment business to be sure but nonetheless a business and that its corporate sponsorship program will involve a charitable  sport s map award in most years has included the presentation of a car. Last year s went to Pitcher Bret Saber Hagen of the Kansas City royals. Baseball s authorized map award to Saberhagen included a Van Given in his name to a Kansas City children s Home. In his letter to Ueberroth sport publisher Donald e. Hanrahan said major league baseball s lawyers had advised the Magazine that the words world series Are the exclusive property of major league base Ball in other words that our present ing an award to the map constitutes trademark  the letter also said sport had introduced the map award at a time when baseball was grateful for the interest of a National Magazine and. We have no intention of abandon ing a meaningful tradition just be cause you want to sell it to the High est  baseball \ from Page 21 him Mauch added. I be Only asked him whether he could play there if he had to. He said i could play it in my sleep " Joyner is the Only experienced first base Man on the Angels roster. Last year he batted .283 at Edmonton of the Pacific coast league after being one of the Angels brightest Spring stars with a .350 average. Right handers Don Sutton and Urbano Lugo missing from Early workouts for Bat Ter men arrived in time for Friday s prac Tice so the Only absentees were outfielders Rufino Linares and Raul Tovar who in t on the club s 40-Man roster but they Are expected for saturday s drills. The Atlanta braves worked out for the first time this Spring with a Complete roster including newcomer Omar Moreno who was signed As a free agent. Moreno was placed on the club s Rich mond roster of the triple a International league but will work out with the major league team. In addition reporting to Camp for their first Day of workouts were outfielder Clau Dell Washington infielder Andres Thomas and first baseman outfielder Inocencio Guerrero. Moreno 32, was released by the new York Yankees after last season. He batted .221 in 58 games with Kansas City and the mixers Down Mavericks on 3-po/nfer by a eng from press dispatches Dallas Julius Erving hit a three Point shot from mid court at the Buzzer to give the Philadelphia 76ers a 123-120 Vic tory Over the Dallas Mavericks Friday night. Erving who took the desperation shot on the run after Philadelphia unbounded the Ball in the backcourt with just two seconds left had 20 Points for the night. The mixers got their Opportunity to win when Dallas Mark Aguirre missed a Long no Roundup jump shot Moses Malone grabbed the re bound and the mixers took a time out to set up the winning play. The game see sawed into the final seconds with Malone s Short jumper pulling Philadelphia into a 120-120 tie with 24 seconds left. A swarming defense then forced Aguirre into taking a poor shot. Philadelphia s Charles Barkley led All scorers with a career High 35 Points while Aguirre had 34 for Dallas. Philadelphia improved its record to 38 21. Dallas lost its sixth straight falling to 29-29. In other Aba games Friday pistons 115, Hawks 103 Pontiac Mich. The Detroit Pis tons set a club record with their 10th consecutive Victory a Triumph Over Atlanta. Isiah Thomas led Detroit with 30 Points and Bill Laimbeer had 21. The Victory was the pistons 13th in their last 14 games and gave the club 14 consecutive victories at the Pontiac Silver dome. Atlanta suffered its first loss after four straight Home victories. The Battle for second place in the Aba Central division was close in the first half despite a 30-Point first half performance by Atlanta s Dominique Wilkins who led All scorers with 35 Points but sat out most of the fourth period after banging a knee in a collision involving several players. Celtics 124, clippers 108 Boston Boston scored the first seven Points and behind 26 Points each from Kevin Mchale and Robert Parish cruised by los Angeles for its 16th consecutive Home Victory. The celtics who improved their Home record to 25-1, never trailed. They built a 62-51 halftone Lead and stayed on top the rest of the Way. It was the fourth straight Victory for Boston and los Angeles third consecutive loss. Dennis Johnson had 21 Points for bos ton and Larry Bird had 20, the 31st time in the last 32 games he has scored at least 20. Bird also had 13 rebounds and 12 asap photo Julius Erving. Desperation shot pays off lists for his sixth triple double in 10 games. Lakers 115, suns 103 Inglewood Calif. Kareem Abdul Jabbar scored 25 Points and Michael Cooper had 20, including a club re Cord five three Point goals As los Angeles Defeated Phoenix. Two minutes into the fourth Quarter the suns were within 83-79 before the lakers ran off a 13-3 spurt to Lead 96-82 with 8 25 to play. The suns could get no closer than 10 Points the rest of the Way. Nets 113, spurs 110 East Rutherford . Otis Birdsong scored eight of his 28 Points in the fourth Quarter and Buck Williams added 20 Points and 13 rebounds As new Jersey beat san Antonio. The nets who snapped a three game losing Streak led by As Many As 14 Points in the first half. Mike Mitchell led All scorers with 30 Points including 12 in the third Quarter when san Antonio outscored the nets 36 21 to get Back into the game. Mike Gminski had 20 Points for the nets. Darwin Cook added 15. Kings 121, pacers 100 Sacramento Calif. Guard Larry Drew triggered a surge three min utes into the final Quarter to Send Sacra mento past Indiana extending the Kings longest winning Streak of the season to six games. Sacramento was Able to break into a double figure Lead for the first time with 9 08 to go when Otis Thorpe hit a Layup on an assist from Drew to make the score 94 83. Drew added three Points to Sacramento s score with 8 47 left after he was fouled on a Layup. The 6-foot-2 Drew then re bounded on the following pacer shot to allow Forward Eddie Johnson to hit two with 8 31 left for a 99-85 Sacramento advantage. Bulls 116 Cavaliers 96 Chicago George Gervin scored 26 Points including 11 in the third Quarter and Chicago s defense held world b. Free to just 12 Points As the bulls beat Cleveland. During Chicago s third Quarter spurt Gene Banks added eight of his 16 Points in helping the bulls end a two game losing Streak. Chicago s balanced scoring saw Sid Green add 17 Points and Kyle Macy 16. Free who had been averaging 23.2 Points per game was removed after scor ing six Points in the third period. Mel tur pin had 18 Points and Roy Hinson 17 to Lead the cars. Bucks 102, bullets 84 Milwaukee Ricky Pierce scored six of his eight fourth Quarter Points in a 9-0 Milwaukee run that broke open a close game As the Bucks beat Washington to run their Victory Streak to 10 games. Pierce scored 19 Points in All. Sidney Moncrief had a game High 21 Points for Milwaukee scoring 11 Points in the fourth Quarter and five in the crucial Streak. The bullets went nearly six minutes without a Field goal in the fourth Quarter until Dan Roundfield s Basket at 3 34 moved Washington to within 92-80. The Bucks began their Pivotal Streak with the score tied 77-77/with 9 16 left. Washington called a time out and. A foul shot by Cliff Robinson made the score 86-78. But three cons Active baskets by the Bucks put the game out of reach. Robinson led Washington with 20 Points. Top 2 Virginia slims seeds win right hander Rick Rhoden of the Pitts Burgh pirates who requested a Trade Dur ing the of season missed his fifth consecutive Day of work while the san Francisco giants announced the signing of outfielder Dan Gladden to a one year contract. Oakland Calif. A top seeded Martina Navratilova had too much Power for Zina Garrison and second seeded Chris Evert Lloyd was too steady for Wendy Turnbull As the favourites eased into the semifinal round of the $150,000 Virginia slims of California Tennis tournament on Friday. In saturday night s semifinals Evert Lloyd was to meet sixth seeded Helena us Kova and Navratilova was to face unseeded Kathy Jordan. Evert Lloyd beat the seventh seeded Turnbull 6-1, 6-3. Navratilova Defeated Garrison 6-2,6-0 in 47 minutes. Navratilova said she is always Happy to meet the hapless Garrison who has never won a set from her in 12 matches. Everything she does i do with a Little More Power Navratilova said. I match her Speed and i come into the net All the time. I always get psyched up for her be cause i like her and i like to play her. It s her bad  As for Garrison she thought she was playing Well. I be seen her play others Garrison said and i Don t think she plays them As Well As she does  Evert Lloyd and Turnbull also have a Long rivalry with Evert Lloyd holding a 12 1 advantage in their Competition. She s 33 and she gets impatient and my record is so Good against her i be got a psychological Edge said Evert Lloyd 31. I myself go for More shots now because i m older. Definitely you get impatient when you get  Evert Llpyd seeking her 145th tournament win Here described her semifinal opponent Sutkova As a dangerous player with a lot of  in an earlier match Friday Sutkova sur Vived a scare to beat Sacramento s hard serving Alycia Multon 6-4,4-6, 7-5. Sutkova attributed her win to poise under fire. I did t let it bother me that i could t break her serves the 21-year-old czechoslovakian said. She had broken Multon Early in the third set to Lead 3-1, but blew the advantage and had to break again in the Lith game and then hold her own serve to win. The following quarterfinal match was a near copy. Jordan who had upset third seeded Hana Mandrikova beat Robin White of san Jose 6-2,4-6, 7-5. I was Lucky to get out with a win the world s 17th-ranked player said. She has really improved in this tournament. I played her last week in Boca Raton Fla and she is much much  White is ranked 33rd  
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