European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 9, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday. May 9, 19bb the stars and stripes Page 23 commentary a systems go for bears is. Cowboys dont worry. The bears cowboys game is As Alyc. As Aba Day rumours spread recently that fear of libyan terror would keep the National football league teams from flying to London for i hair aug 3 encounter. Can that. Bill Granholm of the nil s new York office said this week the league does t know where that Story started. They rumours arc definitely not coming from the nil or either of the clubs said Granholm who s going to London next week to firm up the helps that Granholm fought for Pallon. The Way he figures if they Buzz bombed London maybe there would t be a game.". ,. So it s three months until the biggest Kickoff in Europe s history. Yep. This is Lough to believe but it s bigger than Dusseldorf anal much Lyndon Birmingham Milan Bologna local Grid rivalries you migh Lve heard of. This time football in Europe grows up fast Chicago is. Dallas at Wembley stadium. Be thereas if you needed a reminder. Since the nil announced that exhibition two months ago loads of Mili tary callers have expressed interest in attending the game. They weren t just pranks. Less than two weeks after Wembley announced How to Purchase tickets All seals were sold All 40,000 scats. Now if you want one of the 40,000 standing tickets you re still in business. Are you listening anti football an viewers do you get the idea that to watchers love pro football and if they re not at Wembley they la sit in front of the tube when Abc shows it if you doubled the nil s drawing Power forget it. Nothing in sports compares. If you live on the Conti nent would you Shell out to Cross the Channel for an exhibition featuring the lakers celtics met Yankees canadians Oilen put in this Way Mcenroe Lendl plays at Wimbledon every year and you re not hopping Over for that. But the bears cowboys. Now there t a travel agent s dream. Sweetness is. Too tall. Animal is. Danny. Fridge v5.t.d. Those people Over there Are interested in those teams Gronholm said while leading five nil players around Germany and Italy last month. We knew to do this scheduling the Star studded bears and cowboys meant snubbing the us Angeles rams. Georgia fron tiers who owns the rams did t like that. Seems she has a summer Home in England and had initiated the idea of a . Exhibition. When the nil adopted the London idea but bulled the rams frontiers fumed. I Felt badly for her said Jim Collins the rams linebacker who visited Europe on Granholm nil us tour because she came up with the whole idea. Then the nil look Over. She got the rams out of the Hall of Fame game and she was going to make it a big vacation. It was using to be More of an event than flying and playing a preseason game. We were going to do things like visit troops. I m assuming that the other owners do not have As elaborate plans As Georgia. But at least i be heard we re next in line for it Granholm defended against frontiere s offence by saying As much As she Aid we did the bears and boys will have to do More. This is an extra preseason game meaning an earlier Start of training Camp. I m looking Forward to it said Chicago fullback mall Suhey another player on thai Uso tour. Our Only apprehension is that training Camp opens Early july 19. You know How dreaded training is. Was he surprised his bears landed the invitation no said Suhey one of the heroes of Chicago s super bowl Triumph. The bean Are known so Well throughout the country throughout the world. Our performance is so positive. Mcmahon might be crazy but he works hard. Paylon is respected and but to surpass the cowboys As had liners we should said Suhey. We beat Dallas 44-0. And Chicago epitomizes the work Why will the nil go through the trouble of trans. Parting More than 100 behemoths and Mounds of gear across the Atlantic one word television. There s so much interest in american football in Britain Granholm began. Budweiser is sponsoring a league there. But mainly it s because a the great Tele vision As Many As 8 million britons watched the super bowl on Channel 4. And football interest continues there while the nil rests. A recent daily mail feature compared a Reading renegades player. 5-Foat-g Steve ice cube Mcmahon with 300-Pound refrigerator Perry. If the rest of Europe catches up maybe Thi continent will Host an nil game in a few years a carding to variety Magazine the super bawl reached some 5 million Homes in a dozen countries on the Conti nent via Rupert Murdoch s Sal ellitch to Cable sky Chan Nel. That does t include the French who watched on canal plus an Over the air operation the italians who watched a National tape delayed Deal or the germans whose adapted to sets pulled in an s reception. Or All the regular a in viewers. But Heck that s Only to. Wembley will go live in August to fan tin Shin no from Page 21 the cubs. Dave Anderson opened the seventh with a double off Jay Bailer. Mike Scioscia walked and Mariano Duncan singled to Load the bases for sax who hit mis third Homer of the year. Sax also had a run scoring grounder in the game for a career High five Bis on the night. Giants 7, Plune 5 Pittsburgh Bob Brenley hit a two run double in san Francisco run first inning and the giants built a 6-2 Lead Over Pittsburgh on Candy Maldona do s rib double in the fifth As san Francis co won its fourth in a raw and took Over first place in the West. ,.brenley s double fell Between left fielder . Reynolds and Center fielder Joe Orsu Lak on the warning track scoring Chris Brown and Jeff 4, padres 3 St. Louis Ozzie Smith led off the Isth with a triple and scored the winning run on a single by his backup at Sho Rutop Jose Oquendo to end St. Louis Home los ing Streak at giving up a two run Homer to Steve Garvey in the first and an rib double by Pitcher Eric show in the second cards starter John Tudor pitched eight scoreless innings giving Way 10 Todd Worrell who finished with iwo More shutout innings. Jack Clark hit a two run Homer for St. Louis. Lendl wins twice in tog new York up on a Day when almost half the seeds in the held were eliminated Ivan Lendl won two matches wednesday to reach the third round of the 1615,000 tournament of champions. The defending Champion who had considered defaulting a Day earlier because of a knee injury completed a 6-3, 6-4 Victory Over Francesco Cance Lolli then returned in the Cool of the evening to defeat John Lloyd 6-2,6-2. Boris Becker seeded second behind Lendl and recovering from a cold also was feeling a lot better than a Day earlier As he beat Eddie Edwards 6-4,6-1. Third seed Joakim Nystrom also won hand ily beating Glenn Layendecker 61,6-4, but seven seeds were eliminated during second round play. The victims included no. 5 Kevin Curren no. 6 Brad Gilbert no. 8 Andres Gomez and no. To Jimmy Arias. Curren ranked Toth never was in serious Contention against Diego Perez bowing 6-2, 6-2 to the uruguayan who is ranked 63rd in the world. Gomez lost to Bruno Ovcsar of Yugoslavia ranked no. 123,7-5.5-4. Gilbert with a world ranking of u. Bowed to 18-year-old mexican Leonardo Lasalle 1-fi, 6-4,6-3 and Arias lest to Milan Grejber a 6 fool-8 czech 4-6,6-4,6-2
