European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 19, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday november 19, 1988. The stars and stripes Page 21 sports Mavericks top hornets 105-93 by the associated f invt Dallas Mark Aguirre scored 10 Points during a Jj-12 third period thursday night As the Dallas Mavericks beat the Char Lotte hornets 105-93. Aguirre had 26 Points and Rolando Blackman added 21 fur dal Las which erased a one Point half no Roundup time deficit with 10 straight Points to open inc third period. Kelly Tripucka led the Horn cos with 15 Points. In other games thursday. Nets ids. Bucks 96 Milwaukee Roy Hirw Onscore 23 Points and waiter Berry 21 As new Jersey used an 11-0 run in the fourth Quarter so beat Mil Waukee. The Nels who won Only three Road games last season capture their second straight away Victory. Rockets 113,1 Leal 107 Houston Akem Olajuwon had 29 Points and 13 re Bounds and sparked a third Quarter burst As Houston beat winks , 0-6, rallied to Lake ils Only Lead at 62-61 on a Basket Tyanthony Taylor with s 37 left in inc third period. But Houston responded with 15 consecutive Points including seven by Taju won to take control Nair gifts 139,sursll2 Denver Danny Schayes had Al minis and grabbed 14 rebounds As Cit re routed san Antonio. Schayes shot 12 of 15 from the Field and was 7-for-9 from the foul line. San Antonio loss its fourth Urai Ghl game and has not won in Denver since 1986. Jan 1j3. Trail blazers 99salt Lake City Darrell. Griffith scored eight of his 40 Points during a 14-Point run to Start the fourth Quarter As Ulah beat Portland. Karl Malone scored 29 Points and Thurl Bailey 17 for Utah. Clyde Drax scr Ted Portland with 24 and Reserve Steve Johnson had is. Bird out 3 months Brookline mass. A the struggling Boston celtics who had Trou ble winning even with All Star Forward Larry Bird now must find a Way to win a shout him for the next three months Bird will undergo surgery to remove Bone spurs on Holh Hethe. Probably be fore the weekend is Over. The Aba team Hopes to have him Back healthy and rested for the final 30 games and the playoffs. A decision was made thursday calling for Bird who has been hobbled this sea son by Bone spurs that irritate Bot Achilles tendons to have the spurs re moved. The operation is to be performed anew England Baptist Hospital in Boston by drs. Roger Mann and Arnold so Hollcr the latter the team physician the celtics said. K is expected to be per formed As soon As the doctors and the Hospital can work it into their schedules. Boston general manager Jan Volk Sai Bird is expected to be out at least three months. The loss of Bird who had missed just 27 games in his previous nine Aba regu Lar seasons is a serious blow to inc cel tics Boston lost four of its first five games before beating Miami on tuesday Niht and Golden stale on wednesday night. Boston reached the Aba championship series four consecutive season before losing the Eastern conference finals to Detroit last season. Second year forwards Reggie Lewis and Brad Loha usand 6-foot-Uguard Jimj Anson arc candidates to till Bird s Start ing spot. There was no indication who the celtics would sign to fill the roster spot after Bird is put on the injured list each team that we play has different strengths up front and weaknesses up front Boston coach Jimmy Rodgers said. _ we just move along and hold practice and set a game plan if Larry s not going to be with us for a while i Don t think you can dwelt on  he said the starter for a panic Jar game would depend on matchup with the opposition. Passon started wednesday night s107-104 Vittory Over Golden state which had 6-7 Chris Mullin at Small for Ward Lewis was expected to get the Call in Friday s game against the Washington bullets who have Bernard King at Small Forward. We re Good enough to make the play offs. 1 think we re a very Good team with out Larry Boston guard Danny Ainge Larry Bird Wilt undergo surgery to have Bone spurs removed front both heels. Said. Obviously we re not As Good. In the Long run it s going to be much better for us because i Don t think the chances of Larry being healthy Down the stretch and continuing to play seemed Loo Good. The possibility of surgery and the rest Loo and getting Larry Back to Ward the end of the. Season will be Benefi Cial to  Volk said Bird saw a doctor unaffiliated with the celtics on thursday be fore reaching the decision logo ahead with surgery. Larry is resigned to what he has to face Volk said. He s kind of anxious to �0 Forward and get it going he said Bird s right Heel is causing the most trouble but that the left Heel cause problems last year and is Likely to give him difficulty in the near future. Rather than go through rehabilitation for one Heel Only to have to do it again for the other one soon after the decision was made to have surgery on both heels at the same time. The recovery period is not so appreciably longer that it in t the right thing to do Volk said. If Bird returns by mid to late february the celtics would have about 30 regular season games left. Bird sat out his first game of this sea son wednesday night when Boston played Golden stale. He plumed 16 min utes the previous night in an 84-65 Victory at  had similar although less painful problems during the last Aba season and opted against surgery. His current troubles began during training Camp initially 1 thought we had made goo Progress and i thought there was a realistic possibility maybe not a probability but a possibility of avoiding sur Gery Volk said. Paxson obtained last february in a Trade who Portland had his Best scoring game As a celtic on wednesday night there s a lot of Good scoring Opp Ortu. Nitiss in the Small Forward position he said. It s one game and it s a Confidence builder but you have to look Al each game individually and what the matchup  Lewis who came off he Bench to score 10 Points in 25 minutes against the warriors said he can t let the pressure of playing in Bird spot affect him. It s a Good Chance for me 1 just have to make the Best of it go out there Don t Force anything and play some Good solid. Defense he said. Blues 3-1 win ends flyers 16-year hex by the associated press Philadelphia Bernic Fiderko scored two goals As the St. Louis blues broke a 15-year wingless Streak Al the spectrum with a 3-1nhl Victory Over the Philadelphia flyers thursday night. Trie tucs had not won in 34 previous games at the spectrum since Jan. 6, 1972. Accumulating a 0-31-3 record on the flyers ice. The blues had Only 16 shots and the flyers 15 for a spectrum record Tow of 31 i the previous Low was 34 on dec. 9,1976, against Boston. Fiderko who lied the game with his first goal of the night in the second period scored the game Winner on a Power play Al 7 16 of the third. In other games thursday. Canad Lens 5, Bruins 2 Boston Mike map need scored two goals an Rookie Steve Martinson scored the go ahead goal As Montreal spoiled Boston s 60th birthday party with a Victory Over the Bruins.  the canadians beaten Only once in the last nine games spotted the Bruins a 2-1 first period Lead before storming Back to move into a tie with Boston for the in i round up Adams division Lead each has 23 Points but Mon Treal has played two More games in Brief ceremonies attended by Bobby Orr and Sev eral other former Boston greats fans Sang Happy birthday on the 60th anniversary of the opening of the Boston Garden. Flames a devils 3 East Rutherford. No. Joe  a Macinnis scored first period goals to Lead Cal Gary Over new Jersey. It was the flames fourth Victory in a Row and their eighth win in 10 games on the devils ice. La broke a three game devils unbeaten Streak and was Only their second loss in their last eight games. Nieu Wandyk opened the scoring at 11 10 of the first period when he redirected Rookie Jiri Hrdina s Sho past devils goalie scan Burke. It was in Ouwendyk s 11 the goal of the season. " Macinnis scored a Power play goal with 13 seconds  the first period As he fired a 6 Bot snapshot from the Point through a screen. North Stan 7, canucks 6. V Bloomington Minn. Dave Gagnor score two goals to fuel Minnesota s four goal third period rally he second with 4 42 to play to snap a s-5 tie an lift Minnesota past Vancouver. V Minnesota still the nil s worst team at 4-12-3, trailed 5-3 before Dino Ciccarelli scored his second of three goals with 1255 logo. After North stars goalie Kari Takko stopped Brian Bradley from close Range Gagner worked a give and co with Frantisek Musil and tipped the puck past Kirk Mclean to tic the score. About 5 minutes later Gagner thought he had won the game bin his shot hit the Post. He finally had reason to raise his stick in Triumph seconds later when he swept a rebound Between Mclean s pads. Biccs Rulli completed his 14th career hat trick with 3 14 left for a 7-5 Lead. Two minutes later.  s third goal made it close but Vancouver remained wingless for a sixth straight game