European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 17, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes Page 27 sports wire roman an women skaters leave olympics from pres dispatches Calgary Alberta Romania s three member women s Speed skating team and its coach left the Winter olympics on saturday the Day the games began without Ever competing official revealed Mon Day. Women s Speed skating does t begin until Nul monday. They were put on in International flight and Ken off by an olympic organizing committee official olympic press officer Terry Steward said. We were Given no reason for their  asked if any of the team members failed to pass stringent olympic tests Tor illegal performance enhancing drugs Steward said we have no information about  attempts to reach officials or the romanian team were not immediately successful. Officials Learned Tif inc team s departure monday when the chief of Mission for the romanian team contacted games officials to Settle up the Bill Steward said. There was no word about defections it s not  he said he said the head or the romanian delegation Oah Rielle Popescu checked the Speed skaters and their coach out of the athletes Village on saturday. Romania did not Send any mole Speed skaters to Calgary. When contacted about possible defections immigration authorities in Calgary and Edmonton said they had no information about any romanians seeking Asylum in Canada. The skaters who were sent Home were identified As Ileana Clete Scanu 17. Michala Dascalu. 18, and Cera Seta Hordo Butiu 7. The coach is Adrian Ciobanu. Viewers missed 2 . Goals new York. Viewers watching the .-Czecho Slovakia olympic hockey same on Abc monday night did t see two of the first three goals live because inc network was show no commercials at the Lime. The . Team jumped out to a surprising 3-0 Lead in the first period but the Only goal seen live was the second one. Abc showed the other two goals on tape after re Luming from commercials. Abc spokeswoman Cathy Rochl said there Are no timeouts in olympic hockey so there is always o Chance a goal will be scored during a commercial. We have to guess the Best Lime o go to Commer Cial she said. It s called Lake your Best shot " the Occas won inc game 7-5 Story on Page 21. Parrish to have knee surgery Arlington Texas Larry Parrish will undergo arthroscopic surgery on his knee thursday but is expected to be ready for inc Start of the season the Texas Rangin said monday. Parrish who set a team record last season with 32 Home runs Felt pain in his right knee while jogging last week near his Home in Hain Cecily Fla. Ili was examined monday by or. Dan Kanell in fort Lauderdale Fla., and was found to have suffered a torn lateral meniscus cartilage. Kanell said Parrish would be sidelined for about three weeks and should be ready to play by he Middle to today wednesday s programs superstition an tvs tngmm�n1iom anal p rangers outfielder Larry finish. Of March. We re not concerned right now rangers general manager Tom Grieve said. If it is what the doctor i posts it just Means he s going to miss the Marathon sessions of Spring training and be ready to tune up inc final three  Parrish who batted .268 last season with 100 Bis. Had surgery on his left knee in 1978 and arthroscopic surgery on the left knee in i9s5. Rangers sign busiest reliever Arlington Texas left handed reliever Milch Williams who made ifi5 appearances during 1986 and 1987. More than any other major league Pitcher has signed a two year contract with the Texas rangers. Terms of the contract announced monday were not disclosed Williams 23, was 8-6 with a 3.23 Era and six saves in 85 games last season. He was second in inc Ameri can league fourth highest in league history and set a club record in number of appearances in 1987. Wil Liams pitched 123 Relief strikeouts and held opponents to a .175 batting average the Lowit in the major leagues among pitchers who worked at least 100 innings. Soviets May play in nil Calgary Alberta two soviet olympic do  May be playing hockey in the nil it season the executive director of the National hockey league players association predicted monday there is no question soviet players will be made available this fall Alan Eagleson told Usa today. Eagleson said the soviet Union May let Defyn semen Aleksei Kasat nov 28, and Vyacheslav of Tlisov. 29, play professional hockey. If the soviets win the Gold medal Here it s possible that pc Tison and Kasal nov will be rewarded and get a Chance to play in the nil Eagleson said. That s the indication they T Given us but whether it happens or not remains 10 be  the new Jersey devils hold the draft rights to the highly regarded . Two other Soviel olympians considered to have nil potential Are Winger Vladimir Kurtov 27, and Sergei Makarov. 19, but Eagleson said the soviets Dort appear Likely to let them go to the nil whalers Streak Sciss ored Philadelphia Dave Brown s lip in goal Tram the crease at 1 25 of overtime gave the Philadelphia flyers a 5-4 Victory Over Hartford monday the whal ers first loss Aller two victories under new coach Larry Flea. Brown s goal came on a rebound of a shot by Der Rick Smith and ended a rough game thai included 36 penalties for 100 i nulls and tic Power play goals the whalers were penalized 19 limes for 52 minutes and the flyers 17 for 4$. In monday s other nil games the new York rangers handed visiting Montreal its fifth straight loss 3-1 and Steve a iceman scored his 45th goal As Detroit routed los Angeles 6-1. Detroit has won five of its last six games and is 14-4-4 Over the last 22 games Good for first place in the Morris division. Nil standing som mirth on Page 21. Infante adds two assistants Green Bay wis. Lindy Infante the Green Bay packers new head coach monday increased to Lix the number of assistant coaches on his Talt by announcing the appointments of Wayne buddy leis and Greg Blache. They joined defensive coordinator Hank Bullough and two coaches remaining from the staff of Infante & predecessor Forrest Gregg defensive Backfield coach Dick Jauron and offensive Backfield coach Willie Peele. Infante also announced that Virgil Knight 40, would be retained As the team s strength and conditioning coach and would he Given additional duties As the tight end coach. Knight has been with the packers four years. Gels. 41, who will coach receivers comes to the packers from Memphis stale where he was the Offen Sive coordinator and quarterback coach. Blache 38, will be a defensive assistant but his specific dudes have not yet been determined. He was inc special teams coach last year Al Kansas and was named last month to become defensive line coach Al North Carolina. Both coached under Infante with the Jacksonville bulls of the Usel in l9s4ond i9ss, Lindqvist Hanika Advance Oakland. Calif. Sweden s Catarina Lindqvist. The first seeded player to take the court in the 1250,000 Virginia slims of California Tennis tournament took Only 40 minutes to beat Akiko Kiji Mula of Japan 6-0. 6-1 monday. After the Victory by the eighth seeded Lindqvist. No. I Sylvia Hanika of Wen Germany struggled before edging new yorker Terry Phelps 6-4,6-4, Peanut Louie Harper of san franciscan who made the 32-Playcr singles Field by winning a qualifying lest got past the first round by beating Ratsma Adams of Chicago 7-6,6-1. 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