European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 22, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday september 22, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 21 Dallas stuns giants 16-14 East Rutherford. . Al the death watch on the Dallas cowboys hns slopped for now. Ind one just might be beginning for the Mew York giants. The cowboys got three Field goals from Roger Ruck. Survived .1 he min Etc scare and ended their longest regular season incising Streak since l%3 by defeating he giants 16-14 sunday hand ing he super bowl champions their Sec Ond straight toss. It Pelt like winning the  said Veteran nose tackle Randy White. It s a great feeling. What we needed was a game like this to get the Confidence Back and get Roll ing on the right track it the strike happens i i probably screw everything up. But it was great to win the game  the cowboys came Inlo giants stadium desperate for a Victory on the eve of what might be a players strike. They had not won a regular season game since defeating san Diego 24-21 last nov. 16 and they were in danger of losing their seventh More from the nil s week 2 on pages 23, 25 and 26 Union s preparations for season Long nil strike on Page 23 cardinals rain tigers slip baseball roundups on Page 26 straight game something the club had not done since its expansion season in i960. The cowboys won because they made the big plays when they had to. And the giants did t. The biggest one the giants missed came with us seconds to play when Raul ally arc was wide left with a 46-Yard Field goal attempt after the giants drove from their 2 to the Dallas 29 in the final minute i m Down said giants team Captain Harry Carson. This one Hurt. We were the super bowl champions. We have yet to play like super bowl champions. We have not played Well. We re getting injuries. The thing is it would be one thing if we were playing Well and teams beat us. We arc not playing Well though said the linebacker there is no denying thai the giants arc not playing Well. Dallas beat them in almost every offensive category holding the Ball for 41 42. The cowboys defense also picked Oft four Phil Simms passes and recovered a Lionel Manuel Fumble. Four of those mistakes came in the open ing half when Dallas opened a 10-7 Lead. Bill Bates interception and 28-Yard return set up u 1-Yard to pass from Danny White to Thornton Chandler. Ruck kicked a 46-Yard Field goal on Dallas second offensive series. New York had taken a 7-0 Lead in tie first Quarter on a 5-Yard pass from Simms to Stacy Ribinson that capped a 71-Yard drive. It was the of mints Only scoring drive of the game. Their other score cami1 Midway through the to Laird Quarter when safely Terry Kinard made his second of three interceptions and returned it 6�. Yards to the Dallas i. Simms who completed 17 of 3d passes for 219 Yards then hit Mark Hanjiro for a Uio new York Lead. Re i k pm the margin to one Point with a 43-Yard Field goal late in the third period. Dallas got its winning score by marching 65 Yards in it plays with Ruek hitting from 28 Yards out with 5 12 to play. The giants last ditch drive came Alicr they stopped Herschel Walker on a Burih and Gnal play at he i with 1 52 to play a coaching decision that left Tom Landry open for second Guesser a. They did t have any timeouts left and i Felt even if we did t gel the score they still had 99 Yards to go undo said. When you lose six straight you do crazy things. I guess that was  interceptions carry Browns Over Steeles Cleveland a a bizarre interception by Mike Johnson set up an 11-Yard tic breaking pass from Guernic Kosar to Gerald Mcneil and Clay Matthews returned an interception 26 Yards for his first career touchdown sunday As the Cleveland Browns Defeated the Pittsburgh steclcrs34-to. Cleveland which intercepted Mark Malone five times broke a 10-10 tie with Mcneil s third Quarter touchdown reception. The Browns i i then ran off 17 Quick Points in the fourth Quarter to beat the sect cars. I i for the sixth straight time in Cleveland stadium. Matthews had two of the interceptions of Malone who was benched and replaced by Bubby Brister mid Way through the fourth Quarter. Malone completed 12 of 36 passes for 151 and no touchdowns. He was sacked three times Blister was intercepted on the last play of he game. Kosar completed 17 of 29 passes for 174 Yards and two touchdowns. Johnson intercepted a third Quarter pass at the Pittsburgh 23-Yard line after receiver Louis Lipps dropped the pass but kicked it just before it hit the ground. Five plays later Kosar scrambled to his right and threw a hard pass to Mcneil at the 2-Yard line. Mcneil turned and fell into the end zone to put the Browns ahead 17-10. Cleveland defender Al Gross right bats the Ball away from Pittsburgh receiver Charles i Oclair on sunday. Arbitrator rules against baseball owners new York a an arbitrator ruled monday that baseball owners Eon Spires to destroy the free Agency mar Ket after the 1935 season by not offering contracts to players on other learns. Players Union head Don Fehr said arbitrator Tom Roberts 17-Page decision holds about As flatly As possible that they violated the agreement. In other words the owners corked the  Kirk Gibson Domic Moore and Tony Bernazard were among 62 free agents affected by the ruling. The arbitrator found that the clubs entered into a common scheme the effect of which was to destroy free Agency Fehr said it was about As Strong an opinion As we could have hoped  Roberts handed his decision to Fehr and Barry Rona head of the owners player relations committee during a 1 hour 20-Minutc meeting at the Plaza hotel. There was no immediate comment from Rona or commissioner Peter Ueberroth. We will ask the arbitrator in some fashion to determine the nature of the remedy and make sure that it will never happen again Fehr said. Fehr also said he will ask that players be awarded full and Complete damages whatever they May  Roberts also will hear the damage por Tion of the proceeding. Roberts did not offer any suggestions with his ruling but Fehr said he expected in meet with Roberts to work out some remedies by the end of the week. Fehr predicted the ruling would help the Union s cose in a similar grievance regard ing 1986 free agents including Andre Daw son Tim Raines Jack Morris and Lance i Arrish. A decision on that action is not expected until late november. It s enormously to our Benefit it certainly sets a precedent Fehr said. Gibson who re signed with Detroit after the 1985 season when he did not receive offers from any other learns said obviously 1 definitely agree with the decision. But what the consequences of today s decision will be is what i la be interested in. To Don t think it s rent Clear what it All Means. Obviously it s belter that he ruled in the players favor than the own ers  the players Union filed the grievance feb. 2, 1986. Charging that the 26 clubs acted in concert a Amsl signing any of inc 198 5 free agents. Of the 62 players who became free agents that year Only two signed with a different major league team before open ing Day Juan Beniquez who left the California Angels for inc Baltimore Ori Oles and Dane Long who left the Kansas City royals for the san Diego padres. Others available after the 85 season included Don Sutton Carlion Fisk. Danny Darwin. Phil Niekro and Tommy John. Roberts began hearing the Case last summer but was fired by the owners aug. 5, 1986. Three Days later the Union filed a grievance hat challenged the owners right to fire the arbitrator in the Middle of a proceeding. Richard Bloch who had been base Ball s impartial arbitrator prior to Rob erts heard this new grievance sell. 3. 1986. And eight Days later he ruled thai the owners had acted improperly