European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 26, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday August 26,1988 the stars and stripes Page 27 sports wire see ers founder Art Rooney or. Dies from press dispatches Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Steeles founder Art Rooney sr., died thursday eight Days after being hospitalized for a stroke. He was 87. Rooney had been in a coma at mercy Hospital since monday. At 7 45 . This morning the chief. Passed away in his sleep with his family at his bedside said or. Theodore Gelet Rooney s personal physician. Rooney was hospitalized aug. 17 after becoming dizzy at the National football league team s offices at three Rivers stadium. Although he appeared to improve last weekend his condition deteriorated monday. Funeral services will be saturday at St. Peter s Church in Pittsburgh. Rooney bought the Steeles in 1932 with $2,500 head won betting then watched them struggle for 40 seasons before becoming the nil s most dominant team of the 1970s. They Are the Only team to win four super bowls. He is survived by five sons Dan the Steeles presi Dent Art jr., a vice president and former scouting director and Pat Tim and John who Are involved in various family related businesses. Kures pulls Tennis upset Rye Brook . Michael Kures of Willow Springs 111., a three time All America at Urcla upset seventh seeded Christian Bergstrom former swedish Junior titlist 2-6, 6-3, 6-3 wednesday to Advance to the round of 16 in the rain delayed $ 123,400 Rynex open. In the Only other first round match Javier Sanchez of Spain overtook Gilad Bloom a member of the israeli Davis cup team 6-7 5-77-6 12-106-4. The match halted by rain tuesday with Bloom leading 2-1 in the first set was interrupted again wednesday with the israeli holding a 6-5 Edge in the opening set. Graf crushes teen foe Mahwah . Top ranked Steffi Graf needed just 44 minutes wednesday to defeat unseeded 16-year old Arantha Sanchez of Spain 6-2, 6-0 in a second round match in the $200,000 United Jersey Bank classic. Grass forehand dominated As the West German the tournament s top seed advanced to a meeting with fellow West German Sylvia Hanika the sixth seed in thursday s quarterfinals. Rain had forced the match to be postponed tuesday night with Sanchez leading 1-0 in the first set. Eagles Carter agents indicted Mcknight leads . Amateur Chicago three agents and Cris Carter of thenal s Philadelphia eagles were indicted wednesday on charges ranging from racketeering to perjury follow ing an investigation of illegal payments and threats used to sign dozens of athletes. New York based agents n9rby Walters and Lloyd loom Are accused of offering athletes Cash cars clothing and trips in Exchange for signed in som cases Post dated agreements allowing Walters and Bloom to represent them in professional contract negotiations. Also indicted was agent Dave Lueddeke of Sherman Oaks Calif. . Attorney Anton Valukas said 43 College ath letes who signed with Walters and Bloom Many of whom subsequently became pros avoided prosecution with pretrial agreements to perform Community service and to reimburse a portion of their scholarships. The group also agreed to testify if the Case goes to trial and includes nil players Ron Morris of Chicago Ronnie Harmon of Buffalo and Paul Palmer of Kansas City plus the Aba s Brad Sellers of Chicago. Carter who left Ohio state with a year of eligibility left and ended up with the eagles in a supplemental draft was charged with obstruction of Justice for concealing a $5,000 payment delivered by Lueddeke from the Federal grand jury investigating the Case. Carter who also had dealings with Walters and Bloom also was charged with mail fraud. Lendl Rolls to Victory Jericho . Top seeded Ivan Lendl prep Ping for defense of his . Open title beat Jakob Hlasek of Switzerland 6-2,6-3, in the first round of the $190,000 Hamlet Challenge cup Tennis tournament wednesday night. Lendl relied on a Strong service game and needed Only 61 minutes to win the match. Lendl ranked first in the world won the last . Opens and has spent the last 10 Days working with his coach australian Tony Roche. To today hot Springs a. Tom Mcknight reinstated Asan Amateur in 1984 after his pro Golf aspirations soured celebrated his 34th birthday wednesday with a 4-under Par 66 that earned him medallist honors after the first two rounds in the 88th . Amateur championship. Mcknight finished at 137, five under Par after a 71 i tuesday s opening round at the Homestead s Par-72 lower cascades course and wednesday s round on the Mountain resort s cascades layout. Mcknight took medallist honors by one stroke Over Eric Meeks who holed three shots from off the Green in route to a 67 at the cascades on wednesday for a 138total. One shot behind Meeks in the 291-player Field was Oklahoma state Sophomore Bob May who shot a 68 at the cascades. Anthony wins 42nd tourney Canton Ohio Earl Anthony captured an unprecedented 42nd professional bowlers association title wednesday night when he beat John Hricsina or. 213-204, in the $ 115,000 Ebonite senior championship. Anthony who retired from the tour full time in 1983after being named Aba player of the year a record sixth time was b9wling in Only his third Aba senior event. He became eligible when he turned 50 last april. Joking about his age Anthony said i would twant to go out and bowl him again. I m tired. This is past most of our  his win earned him $16,000. In the semifinal game Hricsina rolled past John hand regard 267-180. Handegard left three splits in that loss. Before that Hricsina knocked off Darrel Curtis 214-210. Curtis opened the telecast by eliminating Glen Pierce 212-192. Hricsina earned $8,500 for second place. Handegard got $6,100 for third Curtis received $5,000 for fourth and Pierce banked $4,000 for fifth. . Slams Spain 28-0 Grosseto Italy Robin Ventura and Redwood connected for grand slams and four other americans hit Home runs As the United states pounded Spain 28-0 in the world baseball championship wednesday. In other games defending Champion Cuba Defeated Italy 11-1, Japan beat Nicaragua 7-0, puerto Rico shut out the Netherlands 12-0, Taiwan crushed Canada 14-2 and South Korea beat the Netherlands Antilles 12-0. Besides the six homers that scored 15 runs the Ameri can 25-hit attack included eight doubles. The americans scored four runs in each of the first three innings seven runs in the fourth and five runs in the fifth. To Griffin hit a Solo Homer and Tino Martinez added a two run shot in the second. In the fourth Ventura hit his grand slam and Dave Silvestri added Atwo run Homer. De Sprague hit a two run Homer in the fifth and Wood hit his grand slam. Smith s 3-Pointer sinks Aba Denver Point guard Charles e. Smith scored20 Points including a 3-Point play with 23 seconds left in overtime to give the . Olympic men s basketball team a 105-103 Victory wednesday night Over a squad of Aba players. The Triumph improved the olympians record against Aba Competition to 6-1. The tour concludes with a game against Aba players at Las vegas  saturday and a final game at los Angeles against athletes in action next week. Cordero Given suspension Saratoga Springs . Angel Cordero jr.,seeking to reclaim the Saratoga Riding title he won for 11 straight years before finishing behind Jose Santos last year was Given a 10-Day suspension wednesday by the stewards for a ride on sunday. Cordero will Appeal the ruling which will allow him to keep Riding. Entering wednesday s races the first of the final week of the meeting he had 30 wins to 22 for Pat Day and 20 for Santos. Cordero was suspended for his ride on Fourst Ardavin the Gallant Man stakes on sunday. He finished second but was disqualified and placed fourth for impeding both blew by pm and Harp islet on the first turn. Two share Lead in German open Frankfurt West Germany Jimmy Heggart of Northern Ireland and Mike Harwood of Australia both shot 6-under-Par 65 s to share the Lead after thursday s opening round of the $470,000 German open Golf championship. One of the main attractions at the event British open Champion Severiano Ballesteros of Spain shot a 68. West Germany s Bernhard Langer who has won the German open four times had a 72. Langer has been struggling throughout the 1988 sea son with Back problems and has missed the Cut in eight tournaments so far this year. Ballesteros is coming off three european pea tournament wins this year including his third British open title. Oliver Eckstein of West Germany Brett Ogle of Australia and irishmen Des Smyth Eamonn Darcy and Christy o Connor were in second at 66. Jets to waiver Petitbon Hempstead . The new York jets asked waivers thursday on linebacker Richie Petitbon a free agent from Maryland and the son of Washington redskins defensive coordinator Richie Petitbon. They signed linebacker Steve Hammond to take his place on the 60-Man roster. 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