European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 12, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday August 12,1988 the stars and stripes Page 27 sports wire fans Rafe elated Over Gretzky Frade Inglewood Calif. A while irate Edmon ton fans flooded the oilers switchboard with complaints about the Trade of Wayne Gretzky the Losangeles Kings were receiving frantic Calls from new wants to see Gretzky play. People Are calling and asking for dozens of season tickets at a time and the leaving their credit card numbers said Keith Jacobson senior account executive for the of Calls for Kings season tickets have streamed into the team s Headquarters at the forum said Ron Muniz Kings director of Community relations and s very exciting Here. We got about 1,000 Calls yesterday and at least 1,300 Calls today Muniz said. Although the Kings do not have a ticket office operating in the forum dozens of people came in anyway. Some left behind personal checks or credit card num Bers As they filled out applications on the spot. The Kings play 40 regular season Home games an two exhibition games and top priced season tickets Are Between $900 and $1,000. The lowest priced sea son tickets Are $500.the Kings open the regular season oct. 6 against Detroit at the the burst of interest that followed the acquisition of Gretzky tuesday is translated into actual Purchase of season tickets the 1,000 first Day phone Calls could mean at least $1 million in ticket sales for the Cornin season and probably closer to $2 million. Even if a Quarter of the people who called actually buy tickets it will double the season seating said Jacobson who said the club sold 6,000 season tickets last owner Bruce Mcnall paid More than $10 million to the Edmonton oilers As part of the Gretzky Trade. But if the 27-year-old superstar plays another four or five years,.and if the Kings attendance increases significantly Mcnall May More than recoup his investment one ticket at a time. Yugo cagers make tourney new York a the yugoslavian National team was named wednesday As the fourth and final team for the second annual Mcdonald s basketball open the Aba and Fiba announced. The yugoslavian join the Boston celtics Scavoli Pesaro the italian league champions and real Madrid the Host team for the four team tournament in Madrid from oct. 21-23.the four teams will take part in a double header oct. 21, with the winners and losers taking part in a second double header on oct. 23. Mecir Duncan move up Prague Czechoslovakia a top seeded Miloslav Mecir of Czechoslovakia and american Lawson Duncan advanced to the quarterfinals of the $170,000prague Tennis tournament wednesday. Mecir disposed of West Germany s Michael West Phal 6-2, 6-1 on the Clay courts of Prague s Suvanice Tennis Complex while the fifth seeded Duncan a right hander from Asheville n.c., ousted Josef Cihak of Czechoslovakia 6-3, 7-5."i think Michael did t play All that Well today. He was t the same Guy we know from the Davis cup afew years Back Mecir said. When asked about his Hopes for the upcoming , Mecir said i m used to hard surfaces More than Clay and i certainly have a lot of Points to declined to make any prediction on the outcome of the american tournament seed advancing to the quarterfinals was Austria s Thomas Muster who beat Jorgen wind Hal of Sweden 6-2, 6-3. But Muster s compatriot Horst Skoff lost to Fernando Luna of Spain 6-3, 6-1. In the first round of the doubles Andrei Olkhovsky and Andrei Cherkasov of the soviet Union struggled past John Letts of the United states and his British partner Steve Shaw 6-4, 2-6,6-2. La area wants super bowl Anaheim Calif. A Anaheim stadium officials have asked the City Council to approve an innovative regional bid for the 1993 nil championship game based on the argument that being Host to the super bowl would be an economic boost for the entire los Angeles , with a 65,000-seat stadium competing against the 104,000-seat Rose bowl in Pasadena an the 93,580-seat los Angeles memorial coliseum has lost two super bowl bids in the last seven years. The nil is committed to go elsewhere through the1992 game. When the bidding for 1993 comes before the nil team owners next Spring several Anaheim official favor joining forces with los Angeles and Pasadena. It s a smart thing. No matter who gets the superbowl everyone gets the Benefit of it anyway said Greg Smith general manager of Anaheim stadium. While Pasadena has the biggest stadium los an Geles Anaheim and other nearby cities have most of the hotel rooms needed to handle the influx of visitors. Anaheim City Council members have decided to delay action on the proposal until next week because one member was absent tuesday. But Overall reaction was favourable. Wac backs Leonard bout Mexico City a the world boxing Council announced wednesday it will support the planned fight Between sugar Ray Leonard and Donny Lalo Defor the new super middleweight title. Jose Sulaiman president of the wac confirm shaving received the majority of votes of the executive committee in support of the fight. Which will be without a doubt one of the Best promotions of 1988," a Council statement has won three world titles and 33 of his 34 fights 24 of them by , currently the wac Light heavyweight Champion has won 29 of his 33 fights with 26 Kos. Judge rules against drug tests san Jose Calif. In a decision that could affect student athletes nationwide a state judge ruled wednes Day that Stanford University cannot be required to test athletes under the Mcaa s drug testing program. Santa Clara county Superior court judge Conra Rushing issued a permanent injunction allowing All Stanford athletes to compete without submitting to the Mcaa s drug testing found the National collegiate athletic association s program invades student athletes privacy and interferes with the athletes right to treat themselves with appropriate Over the counter medications As other students november in a preliminary injunction Banning drug testing at the University Rushing excluded foot Ball players and men s basketball players saying they could be tested for steroids cocaine heroin and am s 28-Page ruling made after a full trial sought by the Mcaa said it appears the evidence i wholly insufficient to support the Mcaa program of drug testing in any cubans top . Norfolk a. Alejo o Reilly doubled Home Lazaro Vargas with one out in the 11th inning wednesday night giving Cuba a 5-4 Victory Over the United states olympic baseball team. Vargas set up o Reilly s game winning hit with a single off Joe Slusarski who took the loss. Euclides Rojas pitched the 10th and 11th innings for the cubans who Lead the seven game series 3-1, rallied from a 4-0 deficit tying the score in the seventh on a Solo Home run by Orestes Kindelan off Mike Milchin. . Wants Yankees til 2032 new York a new York mayor Edward Koch said wednesday he is still hopeful the City and the Yankees can close a Deal that will keep the club inthe Bronx through 2032. In a statement Koch said the Yankees have no been willing to sign the Deal they reached with the City and state nine months agreement was to extend the team s Yankee stadium lease for 30 years from 2002 to 2032, i Exchange for City and state funding of $90 million Worth of improvements including a new parking garage restaurant commuter rail station and 24 luxury said the team has recently been looking for changes in the Deal which was announced last of Yankees principle owner. George Steinbrenner say he is not interested in keeping the team in the Bronx after its stadium lease expires in 14 years according to the report in new York spokesman for Deputy mayor Robert Esnard said a top Yankees executive vice president William Dow Ling and a close Friend of Steinbrenner have both told the City that or. Steinbrenner is not interested i staying beyond 2002," when the stadium lease expires. A team spokesman declined comment on the threat of a Yankee departure. But he said Dowling stands by comments in this week s sports inc. Magazine in which he said continued talks Are pointless because the City s lease terms Are dodgers release Sutton Cincinnati Don Sutton thinks there s some life left in the right Arm that s pitched in 774 major league games Over three decades but hell have no regrets if he never plays , 43, was released wednesday by the los an Geles dodgers who were concerned with the Pitcher inability to get beyond the Middle innings. Sutton led All Active major league pitchers this season with 324victories, ranking him 12th on the All time list. It s a wonderful business and i be enjoyed it he said. If five years ago they would have said that s it it still would have been a wonderful business. It s not awake it s a change in he was told of his release before the dodgers 8-5victory wednesday night Over Cincinnati at riverfront stadium. He was surprised to be released one Day after being activated from the disabled list but not bitter. The dodgers filled Sutton s place by calling up their top minor league pitching Prospect 20-year-old right hander Ramon Martinez who will make his major league debut saturday in los Angeles against san has a lifetime 324-256 record with los an Geles Houston Milwaukee Oakland and is one of 19 pitchers in major league history to win 300 games. He is the dodgers All time Leader in eight categories including wins 233losses 181 and strikeouts 2,696. To today superstition an to Friday s programs 0600 Abc nightly news 0630 sports tonight 0700 Abc nigh line 0730 just Lor kids cartoons 0750 Zoobi Leeloo 0810 wild kingdom 0835 it figures 0900 Carol Burnett and friends 0930 the spectacular world of guinness records Fea tured is a couple with 1,138 Foster children. 1000 the Larry King show 1100 entertainment tonight 1130 jeopardy 1200 lbs evening news 1230 the Oprah Winfrey show animal rights activists Dis cuss the Protection of animals rights. They explain How research on cancer and acquired immune deficiency syndrome harms Laboratory animals. 1320 general Hospital 1405 guiding Light 1450 for kids Only cartoons 1510 Popeye Andson 1535 Berenstain bears 1600 the today show 1800 headline news 1830 an evening news 1900 head of the class after taking psychological tests. The students worry they Are abnormal. 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The Miami dolphins live after sports video Jukebox Challenge German television Friday s programs first program 1725 regional programs2015 movie one Little Indian american Stang James garner2330 movie now you see him american starring Peter program 1420 children s movie1725 movie Tarzan and the Huntress american Stang Johnny Weissmueller. 2015 crime movie "derrick"2250 movie fogged Harbor French starring Joan the Star and Stripe american to schedule is based on the latest information furnished by superstition an. However. The scheduled programming is subject to change
