European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 26, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday Hay 26,19bb the stars and stripes Page 17 sports Power outage halts oilers Bruins game App Hotd Oiler Wayne Creaky in darkened Boston Garden. s suspended game by Howard Ulman Boston a the fourth game of the Stanley cup finals Between he Edmonton oilers and the bos Ion Bruins was postponed with the score tied at 3 and 3 13 left in the second period when a Power failure hit Boston Garden tuesday night. Nil president John Ziegler citing nil bylaws said the game will be replayed if necessary at the end of the series As game 7 in Boston on june 2. Edmon ton leads the bust of seven series 3-0. Zieder met with Mufti Ciao Iron Bath sides for about 10 minutes and decided not to continue play even when Power Wai restored because most of the crowd had been evacuated for Security reasons. The fourth game of the Stanley cup finals is scheduled for Edmonton on Thun Day night. The game could not be replayed in Boston wednes Day or thursday night when the Boston celtics will be at the Garden for inc first two games of their Aba Eastern conference final against the Detroit pistons. Nate Greenberg a spokesman for the Bruins said there s no guarantee the building will be viable for the celtics game the Power failed moments after Craig Simpson scored his second goal of the playoffs to tie inc score for the oilers. The bylaw really told us what we had to do bos ton general manager Harry Sindon said. It seems to me it was probably put in by Hornc of the old timers in the league to prevent someone from pulling a switch. Maybe we should examine it. I can t really com ment whether it should be changed or should t be if Boston wins game 4 in Edmonton on thursday night the fifth game would be played saturday in bos Ion. Game 6 would be in Edmonton on May 31. We just have to play it Over Boston coach Terry o Reilly said. And now we go Back 10 Edmonton and have to win there. Even if we had won Here tonight we would have had to go Bock to Edmonton and win Iacre so it really does t make that much after the goal play had not yet resumed when the electricity failed Al 9 32 . Not and emergency Power was turned on. At 10 07 the lights came Back without i help of Generator. Several players came Back on the ice but 9 percent of the crowd had been evacuated. Tie third goal was a big goal for us Edmonton s Jari Kerri said it would have Hcan worse had we nil playoffs been losing. The same thing happened to me Hen 1 was on a Ink in Finland once. The Light went out so i m used to fifteen min Lei after he Power failure Zomon oar Den president Larry Muller was among several people on the ice waving fans out of the stands. 1 he Power failure prevented any Public address announcement id evacuate the 60-year-old building. Bruins spokeswoman Heidi Holland said the build ing was cleared for Security reasons police hurried everybody out of the Garden saying the emergency lights would not stay on Long. About 10 30, it was announced that play would not continue. It a he second blackout to affect a in wins playoff game this year. The first one occurred Ai Mner Cal in the opener of the second round series. Ziegler said inc loss occurred when a 4.000-Niltwitch overloaded on a transformer outside the build ing tripping another Wilich and shutting Down the Mam Power in the building. Corridor lights with Power supplied by Boston Edison co. Remained . Allowing inc Garden crowd to exit. Boston Ediwn sent some Crews Over to the Garden to Check out the problem Utility spokesman Mike spa Laro said. Our preliminary analysis is that it ii not nne Dison related problem it might be a Garden related problem. We Don t have any reports of any other Oulagai in inc North station he said. The Power failure also resulted in the loss of to coverage by esp. The game was also played in a fog resulting from High temperatures in the building. Several Lomci during the second period play was delayed because of inc fog. Simpson s Goat assisted by Steve Smith and Wayne Orcus by had blunted a Boston comeback built on a pair of second period goals by Rookie Glen Wesley Hal gave Boston a 3-2 Lead. Wesley s first goal came while the Bruins were Short handed. He stole the puck from Groci by at Skiston s left Point and raced up the right Side. Defonse Mankevic Lowe got Back to try to Slop him and lesion s Ken Linsman skated up inc Middle of inc ice on a iwo on on break. Wesley fired a 20-Footet that goalie Gram Fuhr slopped with his pad but the rebound bounced out to Ruhr s left and Wesley Pul inc puck by him. Guerrero suspended 4 Days for throwing Bat new York a Pedro Guerrero of the los Angeles dodgers tues Day was suspended for four Days and fined a reported $1,000 by the National league for throwing his Bat to Ward new York acts Pitcher David Cone sunday. The dodgers said Guerrero will not Appeal and they will continue to pay his salary during his suspension. Guerrero third in inc no with a .326 batting average will i three games in Philadelphia and one i Momma and will be in uniform when the dodgers begin a three game series in new York monday night. I think it s All right but i m concerned that the Pitcher does i get suspended or fined Guerrero said. I m being suspended four Days and lie s Mill the incident occurred in the sixth inning of inc acts i-2 win Over the dodgers their third straight in a series that knocked los Angeles out of first place in no West. After two inside fastballs one of which was fouled off Cone threw a curve thai glanced off Guerrero s shoulder and nil his Balling helmet. Guerrero glared at Cone then threw his Bat in inc general direction of the Mound. Missing conc by about 20 feet. As he began to walk toward Cone Guerrero was grabbed by acts catch Rbarry Lyons and third baseman How Ard Johnson As both benches emptied and Cane shouted Al him it was a curve Ball no punches were thrown. It was a curve Ball and i Don t think that he really wanted to Hurt me. If he did he would have thrown fastball Guerrero said. A Bat con become a potentially lethal weapon one Aga into which another player really i no defense National league president Bart Gio Malti said in announcing inc suspension. Braves in when lose under new manager by the associated pm Chicago Russ Nixon s first game As manager of the Atlanta braves was a Success but by the second game of tuesday s double header the braves were Back to their losing ways. That s the roughest Day i be put in Here in All inc years i be come to la Park Niton said after the braves beat the Chicago cubs 3-0 in 10 innings in the opener Liwa a great Day. Winning he first game was a Confidence builder for won the second game 2-1 on Damon flurry his s sixth inning single. It was b pitchers Day but they All Dida Good Job Laid Nixon whose previous major league managerial stint was wit the Cincinnati red from july 1982 through the 1983 season they were two Good Ball games. I was Happy to depart of it. Ii feels Good great to be the games were played with 31 Mph winds blowing in from left and Center Fields making it easy for the pitchers Ken Oberkfell s rib double off starter Jamie Moyer 2-5, broke a scoreless lie in no Roundup the opener. Dale Murphy led off the lol with a walk went to second on a passed Ball to third on a grounder and scored on the double. Druce Lac edict doubted to score perk full and Albert Hall singled off re Liever Mike Capel to score Benedict. Fete Smith pitched seven shutout innings sind allowed seven hits. Paul As san Machor Jose Alvarez and Bruce Sut Ler combined to Complete the shutout Alvarez i 32-Ycitr-oltl Rookie gained his first major league Victory and Sutler pitched the 10th inning for his fifth save. In the second game Palmeiro started the winning rally when his pop Fly 10 Shon left dropped for a wind blown Dou ble with one out in the sixth. An out later. Berryhill singled off Charlie i Ulco,0-1 to score Palmeiro. Al Nipper 1-2, allowed six hits in six innings for his first National league Vic tory. Frank Dipino pitched two inning Saa no on Page 22
