European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 1, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday february 1.1987 the stars and stripes Page 23 stars & stripes wins cup opener  i Smrha api a fun Jii s, f3\t Denim Conner and Sun a Mneri an Carl Edge in hit afm j l i up  com a. Plasm the Light  im1 like a it govt. Pin cd slur & Sifi Poi loan res Victory Over austra Lia t  Iii in the Dpi Finif race. It it it in j  in the Hosl else in Uris who Vic Tulleo for sunday. Irmi trip a Peru who said his boat Reighl nut lie fal enough id match him or nimble australian defender in Light Wjk. Ounce grabbed 3 7j-Sccond Lead Alire the i irm Iff. Anil was never headed. K his Liwra 111 skipper lain Murray wiil Conner did i Good Jonh a Llic Sun. What icel 10 us was Preidy much filch Connor Aid he picked up a favourable u degree wind shift just at the Start huh helped Prapro him into the Lead. Onil Ruhly Al hum after the Light Coghlan from Page 21 flukey winds forced a 20-Minuic delay in starting the race stars & stripes glided from a dead even Start to Lake a dominating Lead. Murray had no Chance thereafter to use Kookaburra ill s fast turning ability to try 10 Cau a up. The final margin was 1 minute. 41 seconds and Conner led by As much As 2 00 a tier the seventh of the eight legs. However. Murray was far from ready in concede. I m not a great believer in Luck in racing Murray said bul the anxiety level is High when the wind is shifting around Lite thai. It was t a very fair Day to make a judgment about our boat speeds. We ought to wait for a reason Ante sea Breeze. On inc second upwind leg Kookaburra Iii did pick up 39 seconds cutting the deficit from 1 20 to 41 words but lost time Al every subsequent buoy until the final leg. " Felt As if i had a thicken Bone stuck in my Throat Conner said about Kookaburra i s gain. Bul the australians lost most of the Lime they gained on inc next leg falling 1 14 behind stars & stripes. They never threatened again. Conner hinted i May have gotten some indirect help from an unlikely source calling the Fleet control by patrol boats Gross and saying that it particularly inhibited lie trailing bout. The race rendition were More like Newport r.i., where Conner lost the cup to the australians in i9s3, rather than what usually prevails on the Indian Ocean course Here the winds were never stronger than 16 knots seas were mild and the customary burning summer Sun was under a Cloud. Conner played the wind shifts masterfully on the opening leg. As the Breeze mean dered As much As 60 degrees. The race Marks had to be changed three limes. The 44-year-old san Diego skipper whose Ihrcke year Mission has been to win Back the cup blew away conventional Wisdom As Well As Kookaburra 111, analysis said stars & stripes was slower than the australian yacht downwind. Hut Conner increased his Lead on every Spinnaker leg. Including a sizzling 43-Scc Ond jump to the next to last Mark. They also said thai Peter Gilmour Kookaburra s starting helmsman would outbox Conner despite his 13 years of cup experience. Instead Conner is Mied Gilmour just before the starting gun. Forcing him to tack away. Then stars & stripes was Given her head to Lope in rough the easy swells on Speed alone without having to slow to tack. On the sixth leg Murray tried to pick up water by tacking repeatedly. It did t gain him anything. In fact he lost a second. Conner s Crew work was flawless. The Veteran Crew performed Spinnaker and Jib changes in the inconstant winds without Ului Iliin  Foster said he was Bolh cred by Stom Ach cramps. Nehemiah said i did everything to lose. I lost sight of everything 1 had to do. I ran in everybody else s Lane. I had a lot of Power and Speed bul no control in the men s 60-Yard dash Mcrae of the University of Pittsburgh and Holder of the world indoor Best of 6.00, was out of the blocks first and never relinquished the Lead clocking 6.12. Lewis Winner of four Gold medals in inc 1984 olympics and Holder of the world indoor Best until Mcrae broke it last year never seriously challenged and finished second in 6,14. Among those who were beaten in the heats and failed to make the six Man final were Calvin Smith the world Oul door record Holder at 100 meters and two Lime olympian Harvey glance. Evelyn Ash Ford and Jean tic Balden who share inc world indoor Best in the women s 60-Yard dash also failed to make the final won for the second straight year by Owen Torr acc of the University of Georgia in 6,63, Ashford a double olympic Gold med Alist in 1984 and inc world record Holder in the women s 100, never has won a millrose sprint one of the few lilies that have eluded her during her illustrious career. Greg Foster right and Rynaldo Nehemiah in inc millrose games men s 60-Yard High hurdles. Foster wan in 6.98 seconds. Aba from Page 21 Indiana scored the first six Points of the third Quarter lied the game at 82 and look the Lead for Good when Larry Bird blocked a John Long shot retrieved the Ball and passed to Dennis Johnson for a fasl break Layup with 1 09 to play. The score gave Boston a 96-94 advantage and Indiana which made Only five of 21 shots from the Field in the final Quarter then missed five consecutive shots after grabbing four offensive re Bounds. Spurs 124, clippers 120 01 los Angeles Alvin Robertson jeered six of his game High 25 Points in overtime to lift san Antonio Over los Angeles. La Kun Irude. 11c appeared in 71 games and batted 179 Abr the Munts. He also played for the giants aaa affiliate in Phoenix for a time. He played briefly with the a s during the 1983 season