European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 7, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday june 1886 the stars and Strupes Paga 23 commentary Sampson ejection launches rockets when or. Naismith scram tiled up that rickety ladder at Springfield College with a peach Basket lucked under his Arm inc idea was id create a non Contact sport. Nice try. Doc. La did no quite succeed. There was. For example thursday night s fifth game of the Nha Finah Between the Boston celtics and Houston rockets. They could have used boxing promoters Bob arum and Don King to singe the Brawl. When Houston s Ralph Sampson 7-foom and 230 pounds Worth of heavyweight was finished fighting celtics Euadis Jerry Sichling and Dennis Johnson and Reserve Center Bill Wilton be was thrown out of inc game and the rockets were thrust into it. Strangely Sampson s ejection might have been the Best thing that could have happened 10 Houston. Even though he was playing inspired basketball the Roel tyls were not exactly dominating the Javate until he started throwing haymakers after he left. Houston played on a ave of adrenalin thai turned the game around and made it a 11 rockets rout sending the series Back to Boston with the celtic leading 3-2. Had Houston conch Bill Fitch seized the emotion or the moment with a stirring sideline speech to Spur his team to Victory the speech Fitch suit was when 25 Points walked into the locker room Sampson w often criticized for being too timid Wen i a i it final with Sichling 15 inches Shorter it 6-1, there was a preliminary a change of elbows followed Hallock by some big league Basing. "1 Don l even know Why he hit  Sichling . What could i do i threw a couple of elbows and then he was punching  Johnson at 6-4 a foot Shorter than Sampson. Lame out of the scrap with a Cut Al the Corner of 1m left by. Al was just an incident thai  he said. Ralph hit me with a right i got hit and i bled. I won t need major surgery. The surgery was performed instead by the rockets. Now faced with playing the rest of the game without one of their most important weapons. Poor Houston. Surely the roof was about to tall in on the rockets. Guess again. Maybe we relaxed Boston s Kevin Mihalc decided. Maybe they got Vircil up. It s Tough to  should t it have been easier for the celtics Mil having to Cope with Sampson maybe. Mihalc thought that was precisely the problem it was t easier at All he said. They in Marc aggressive. They played much belter after that i Dnn i now Why we did t react in an aggressive manner. I definitely Don t think they Are better without Ralph. 1 think psychologically we Wop Down after the fight and they seemed to turn it up with Sampson gone. Boston managed Only four Bas vols for the final 9v minutes of the second Quarter one of them a Gaal Landing Call against Alteon Olajuwon. They went from one Point behind when Sam Sim was ejected to ii Down at the half and it put worse after that. We lost our  Larry Bird said. There s no question they got the majority of inc Calls i think the refs thought they had to protect  not to worry. The Rit Kali were perfect  of taking care of themselves. We nil Hung  guard Robert Cut said. I Laid Ralph Calm Down Well tale care of it. Ever Hing will be a right we just stretched i1 out and helped put each  Olajuwon had 32 Points and four other rockets including Sampson with \2 were in double figures. Reid had 17 assists and Jim Peter san Sampson s re placement had 12 rebounds. Sampson answered no questions about the fight preferring to Issue a statement in which he said. The incident on the court was unfortunate. I m Kerry in happened. The Aba is not that to pc of league. Somebody jumped at me. I did what i had to do to protect myself. Then he made a Promise. "1 was very emotional during the game and i will continue to by emotional for the rest of the series. Rut there won t be any More  or Naismith would be thrilled. The ally let Dpi padres caught in four out triple play Atlanta shuts Down san Diego 4-2 by the associated Erfft san Diego the Atlanta braves first triple play in eight Yean resulted in four outs. San Diego s Tony Gwynn Kevin Mcreynolds and Leon Roberts were thrown out on the bases and to ampule Steve Garvey was thrown out of the game for arguing. Al s unbelievable did t say anything said Carvey ejected from a game for inc no Roundup first Lime in his 16-year major league Ca reer. "1 did t Realise i had been thrown out of the game until i was tossing the Ball around the  the braves with their triple play and a Strong Effort by Pitcher Zane Smith went on to beat san Diego 4-2 thursday night. With visiting Atlanta leading 2-1, Rob erts led off the third inning with a single and took third on a single by Gwynn. My Reynolds followed with a grounder Bact to Smith Olio threw to second baseman Glenn Hubbard for a Force out. Hobbard relayed 10 first baseman Bob Homer for the second out while Roberts broke for the put. A crack threw to Catcher Ottie Virgil and  under the tag but missed the plate. Virgil then tagged out Rob erts. Roberts padre manager Steve Boras and Garvey. Who was the on Feck Batter began arguing with Home plate Umpire Charlie Williams. Moments later Williams ejected Carvey. I had a Good Angle t saw flip