European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 1, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 26 the stars and stripes sunday March 1,1987 Caps Down oilers far 4th straight Landover my. A Michat Piv Otika Mike gunner and Dave Christian scored second period goals to Lead the Washington capitals to their fourth straight Triumph a 5-2 Victory Over the Edmonton oilers in Friday s Only National hockey league Garni the loss was the fourth straight Tor the oilers this is their longest losing Streak since hey dropped four in s Row in february 1984. Pete peelers had it relatively easy night in recording his seventh consecutive Victory. The oilers were held to 13 shots on goal Over the first two periods and 17 Overall scor ing on a 50-Foolcrby Glenn Anderson at 21 seconds or the second period. The capitals scored the Only goal of the first period when Kelly Miller deflected a pass from Gaetan Duchesne past grand Fuhr at 7 48. Pivonka began the capitals second period attack with a shot from the right Circle that beat Fuhr at 8 46, Gartner gave the capitals a 3-1 Lead when he scored Short handed at 11 58. It was Gartner s 33rd goal of the season and his 23rd in the last 8 games. Christian made it 4-1 at 19 30 of the second period splitting the Oiler defense and putting the puck Between Fuhr s feet Tor his 18th goal of the season. Edmonton s Mike Kru Shelyski Cut the Lead to 4-2 at 14 46, but the Capi tals answered in less than a minute with Mike Ridley go Ling his 27th goal of Floc season at 15 39. The capitals finished the game with 38 a jails on goal and far the Sec Ond Lime if As Many meetings since he Al Star break they Helt league scoring Leader Wayne Gretzky with out a snot on goal. Washington s Garry Galley is knocked to the ice by Mike Krublit Znyski. A photo track from page21 match goes on for nearly 4 hours lend outlasts Annicone in 5 sets key Biscayne Fla. A top seeded Ivan lend of Czechoslovakia wore Down Paul Annai. In in the Florida heat Friday coming from behind to win a five set match lasting nearly four hours and Advance to the third round of the $1-8 million International players Cham i on ships. Len who Tell behind two sets to one raised the level of his play in the final two sets despite 80-Dcgree temperatures and outlasted Annacone 5-7, 7-6,4-6, 6 2,6-2. I won ii Only because 1 was Able to physically play the same in the fifth set As 1 did in the first set said Lendl who maintains a rigorous conditioning and training schedule that he says eliminates fatigue As a Factor for him in matches. He was gelling lir cd lend added. It must psychologically put him Down a Little bit 10 Sec in still running Down shots and not getting tired after four the match highlighting a program filled with first round doubles matches lasted three hours 46 minutes. That was three hours longer than it took Martina Navratilova the women s no. I seed to defeat third round opponent Halle Cioffi naw Lilova needed Only 43 minutes id beat Ciotti she broke her opponent s serve in the first game of the opening set and again in the third and. Think my Landing was restricted because of the shortness of the Pil. That was nol my optimum performance the powerful and fast Orch ser who also is ranked no. I in the world in the women s 200 meters in which she twice equated the world record fast year said she thought she would be Able to jump farther next week during the inaugural world in door championships at Indianapolis be cause the track there is but there he Victory is what mat ters because it s the world championships she said. After the first jump scare Rcch scr adjusted her run up moving Back slightly then nailed the record on her second try in addition to having to adjust her run up she was forced to fix her jumping shoes because the surface at Madison Square Garden was too smooth we have plastic a cts under our spikes and the track is very smooth she explained. That s Why i put adhesive tape on my soles to take away the smoothness thai made it a Little rougher meanwhile the 24-year-old Conley ranked no. I in the world in the triple jump won the National indoor title for a third consecutive year with the record leap on his final attempt. Comers record of 57-7m, set earlier in the Competition by Protsenko. He also came close to the world outdoor record of 58-1 Ivi by american Willie Banks. Conley said before his final jump i had to make up my mind whether i would Settle for second place or set a world record. I be never set a world or american record Bui 1 knew i Hod to do Conley said after his sensational leap i knew i had it. My toes were almost coming out of the pit. Three other finals were held at Prince ton University and East germans won two of them. East German Ulf Timmermann former world indoor and outdoor record Holder took the men s shot put at 70-1 easily beating Sergey Simov of the soviet Union the runner up at 67-11 it. Ilona Briesenick of East Germany look advantage of the absence of outdoor world record Holder Natalya Lisovskaya of the soviet Union to capture the women s shot put at 6m a. No explanation was Given for Lisovskaya s withdrawal. Ramona Pagel the american record Holder finished second at 64-0 a. American Lance Deal by the absence of three time defending Champion Jud Logan won the men s 35 Pound weight throw at 74-s. Baseball from Page 23 last year. Evans who led the american league with 40 Home runs in 1985, will turn 40 on May 26 the House of. Astros Wilh first base Man Glenn Davis still unsigned invited free agent first baseman Dan Driessen to training Camp. Eric Ssan 34, hit .292 in 17 games for the astros last season. The astros said they have upped their offer to Davis to $210,000 for one year. Davis made s120,000 lost season and is seeking $140,000, the club had offered 1170,000. Greg Swindell weighed in at Cleve land s Camp at 22s pounds Midway be tween his 230 pounds at the end of last season and his 220-Pound goal Swindell drafted out of the University of Texas last june had a 5-2 record for Cleveland
