European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 4, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday february 4,1989 the stars and stripes Page 27 sports wire Giordelli captures men s Alpine combined Beaver Creek Colo. Luxembourg s Marc Girardelli the hottest skier on the world cup men s circuit flashed to the Gold medal in the men s combined Competition Friday at the world Alpine ski championships. Girardelli the world cup Overall and downhill standings Leader finished a Mere one Hundredth of a second behind Italy s Michael Mair in the combined downhill Friday. Coupled with his third place finish in monday s slalom it gave Girardelli a clearcut Victory in the combined. Paul Accola of Switzerland survived an out of control run to claim the Silver medal and Guenther Mader of Austria took the Bronze. Switzerland s Pirmin Zurbriggen rebounding from a bad fall during practice on wednesday finished fourth in the combined. Girardelli who has won three of the last four world cup downhills and was a heavy favorite following his solid slalom placing easily overtook the top two slalom finishers Norway s Ole Christian Furuseth and swe Den s Jonas Nilsson both of whom rarely compete in downhill. Girardelli was 76-hundredths of a second behin Furuseth in the slalom but was More than 10 seconds faster than Furuseth in the downhill. The event was delayed by one hour because of fog but there was an absence of the Gusty winds that aborted two previous Days of training. Guidry stays with yanks new York Ron Guidry the Yankees Captain who was let go in december As too old returned Tonew York today agreeing to a new one year contract. Guidry the 38-year-old left hander who had led the Yankees pitching staff for most of his 12-year career had been talking with the Toronto Blue jays and the Minnesota twins but instead he decided to return to the Only major league team he has Ever played for. Guidry a 20-game Winner three times wanted to stay with the Yankees even after being declared new look free agent by an arbitrator last october. But on dec. 20 he became a free agent when the Yankees failed to offer him a 1989 contract. I just wanted to know what took you so Long Guidry asked Yankees general manager Bob Quin during a Telephone conference Call. Good things Cometo he who  for the Yankees getting Guidry Back was a com plete turn from their plans to go with a younger pitch ing staff in 1989. Quinn however said that the Yan Kees always wanted Guidry Back. We had never said we did t want to sign Ron Guidry Quinn said. In fact i Don t think we saw the real Ron Guidry in 1988." Guidry missed the first half of the 1988 season while recovering from shoulder surgery. He went 2-3 with a 4.18 earned run average in 56 innings. Manager Dallas Green has said he wanted younger pitchers and was seen As the Force behind the earlier decision to let Guidry go. Guidry who has a 170-91 record won 20 games or More in 1978, 1983 and 1985. He was the unanimous Winner of the 1978 american league by Young award going 25-3 with a 1.74 Era. Browns sign 2 aides Cleveland the Cleveland Browns on Friday hired George Sefcik the Kansas City chiefs offensive coordinator and a former United states football league coach As an assistant coach. Sefcik offensive coordinator for the chiefs during the1988 season and the Browns offensive Backfield coach from 1975 to 1977, will be the Browns new running backs coach the Browns said in a news release. The other new addition to the coaching staff is John Teerlinck 37, whose last coaching Job on the professional level was with the Arizona wranglers of the Usel. Bud Carson the Browns new head coach said Sef Cik is a Good addition because he s familiar with the Browns offence As a result of the time he spent work ing under Lindy Infante former Cleveland offensive coordinator when Infante was in Cincinnati. Infante now is head coach of the Green Bay packers. I think it s helpful that he s from this Community and he s worked for the Browns before because that will make his adjustment easier Carson said. Oilers change executives Houston Mike Holovak was named the hous ton oilers general manager thursday following the Surprise resignation of Ladd Herzeg. Holovak 69, was about to move to Sarasota Fla., Tobe an Oiler scout and he had purchased a House there. Herzeg s resignation wednesday changed that. Holovak joined Houston in 1981 and most recently Wasan assistant to Herzeg. His previous duties included player personnel director. He is credited with the draft picks that helped Houston make the playoffs the last two seasons. Bobby Allison has surgery Allentown a. Bobby Allison recuperating from serious injuries suffered in a june race crash at Poco no International raceway underwent additional surgery thursday to remove four steel rods from his left leg. Eddie Gossage a spokesman for the Miller High life racing team said Allison 50, also had a shunt installed to dram fluid buildup inside his Skull following the Acci Dent removed during the four hour operation. The longtime Lascar Stock car Star a former Winston cup Champion and Winner of 84 races was Origi Nally treated at the Lehigh Valley medical Center Hospi Tal after the crash. He then went to a Hospital in Birmingham ala., near his Home in Hueytown ala., before being re leased oct. 3. Despite continued physical therapy since his release Allison has suffered severe pain from the injuries to his left leg. Gossage said doctors have told Allison the surgery should relieve some of that pain. Allison will be on crutches several weeks. Mears Burns Phoenix track Phoenix Ariz. Rick Mears the defending Indi Anapolis 500 Winner unofficially broke the track record thursday at Phoenix International raceway during a test session of his team s new Penske pc 18 race car. Mears a three time indy Winner had a fast Lap on the one mile Oval of 20.9 seconds 172.249 Mph. The official record which can be set Only during qualifying or a race is 21.716 seconds 165.776 Mph. Mears also ran a Lap clocked at 21.2 seconds. The conditions were absolutely Ideal he said. It was like Happy hour at indy he added referring to late afternoon practice in May at Indianapolis motor Speedway when a Cooling track and Calm air generally raise the Lap speeds to the fastest of the Day. Danny Sullivan Mears Penske racing teammate won the cart pig indy car series championship last year in a Penske pc 17. Bowler Pedersen reclaims first Miami Randy Pedersen of Santa Maria calif.,climbed Back into the Lead thursday after three rounds of the professional bowlers association $160,000 Budweiser classic. Pedersen who collected his fifth career Aba Crow less than three weeks ago in Torrance calif., scattered 4,066 pins for his 18 qualifying games to take a 15-Pinlead Over Sam Zurich of Melbourne Fla. Zurich a two time Champion who last won in 1983,knocked Down 4,051 pins for second place. Reigning Aba player of the year Brian Voss of Seattle and Steve Wunderlich of St. Louis Are tied for third with 4,019 pins each. Wunderlich was runner up in last week s event in grand Prairie Texas. Four time Winner Dave Ferraro of Kingston n.y.,jumped from 16th place to fifth to Complete the top five. Ferraro s pinball is 4,017. The top 24, from the original Field of 160, face 24 match games before the top five emerge Friday night for saturday afternoon s nationally televised championship round. 89 super bowl rates no. 5 new York the super bowl Between san fran Cisco and Cincinnati was watched by 110,780,000 peo ple the fifth highest number of viewers in super bowl history Abc said thursday. The total was 6 million fewer than Abc s original Esti mate and 10 million fewer than Abc had predicted. Gerald Jaffe vice president of sports research for Abc said he believed the actual number was higher. . Nielson co. Said the broadcast s total rating was59.2, the percentage of households in the United states that watched any six consecutive minutes. The average rating was 43.5 and the share was 68, the percentage of television sets on at the time that were tuned to the game. Part of the reason the actual number is higher has to do with the people meters Jaffe said. There Are boxes for eight total people per household. We know that in about 2percent of the households All of the guest boxes had been filled up and there was additional viewing besides that. In addition people who watched outside of a measured household were not counted people who watched in bars hotels stores. According to a stud done by Abc in the past that is about 7 percent. What s the real number i would be guessing about10 million higher. This would t be just for this super bowl this would be for any super  the most watched super bowl was in 1986 betwee the Chicago bears and the new England patriots when 127 million people tuned in. Eskimos sign Nebraska s Taylor Lincoln neb. University of Nebraska quarterback Steve Taylor on thursday announced he has signed a three year contract with the Edmonton Eski mos of the Canadian football league. Sch Ottenheimer hires staff Kansas City to. Chiefs coach Marty Schot Genheimer is bringing three members of his old Cleve land Browns staff including his brother Kurt wit him to Kansas City. Sch Ottenheimer picked to succeed Frank Gansz announced his first staff appointments thursday. Tom Pratt an assistant to Hank Stram when the chiefs went to two super bowls will be in charge of the defensive line. Kurt sch Ottenheimer will coach special teams and Darvin Wallis will be a special assistant coach in charge of Quality control. Pratt 53, has 26 years of nil coaching experience,15 of them with the chiefs. He had coached the defensive line at Cleveland since 1981. 72 olympic skate Champ Dies Mannheim West Germany a Ondrej Nepela the 1972 olympic figure skating Champion from Czechoslovakia has died after a Long illness the West Germany ice skating Union said Friday. He was 38. Nepela died late thursday in a Mannheim Hospital. The federation s statement did not specify Nepela s illness. Nepela became Czechoslovakia s first olympic Fig ure skating Champion when he won the men s title in the 1972 Winter games in Sapporo Japan. He reigned As world Champion from 1971 to 1973 and won five european titles Between 1969 and 1973.Nepela then joined the american Holiday on ice show. 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