European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 2, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 26 the stars and stripes sunday. April 2,19b9 Thomas master returns � shot in route to Victor Over Yannick Noah Lendl wins by default As a Reck ousts Muster key Biscayne Fla a Ivan a Chi was declared the men s singles Champion at Hie International players championships saturday after Thom As Muster who was scheduled to meet him in sunday s final suffered a knee injury in a -. ,. Muster suffered damage to. Both major ligaments in Hisle Lyneo in he wreck which occurred ices than two. Hours after he beat Yannick Noah in five set semifinal match Friday night. Muster ranked 14th in the world planned to return Home to Austria saturday for major reconstruction surgery said or. Charles Virgin who diagnosed the injury. Sunday s final was scheduled to be televised .10 40 countries. Tournai. Ment chairman Butch Buchholz said several options were being consid ered including an exhibition match to replace the men s singles match. Muster was getting something out of the trunk of a car when the vehicle was struck head on by another car tournament Security official Bob Brandts said. The second car which was driving on the wrong Side of the Street pushed the parked car into Muster s leg and knocked him Down. Muster 21, beat Noah j-7, 3-6, 6 3. 6-3, 6-2, . Noah planned to leave Miami saturday be. Unavailable for a match sunday Buchholz said. Lendl ranked no. I beat Kevin Curren in Friday s other semifinal. 1 St soviet player leaves his Marx Calgary Alberta a Sergei Kriakin of the soviet Union received a compliment from an unexpected source after making his debut in the National hockey league. He s Good. Better than i first thought said Edmonton general Man Ager coach Glenn Sather who watched from the press Box Friday night As pria Kin and the Calgary flames Defeated Winnipeg jets 4-1 in one of Only two nil games. Rarely if Ever been a complimentary id anyone in the flames family. Usually he is sneering at them from behind the Bench of the reigning Stanley cup champions during Many bitter Bat Les of Alberta. And of course vice versa. I respect Calgary for the work in did in getting him. He s a player who can score 20 goals a season easy.". Kriakin. The 25-year-old Captain of so Viet wings who signed with Calgary on wednesday said Little about his performance in replaying game no. I mostly he talked about the Atmo sphere playing before an olympic sad dec Dame crowd of 20,002. It was like a giant Holiday he said through an interpreter in a Post Gam news conference. The rink. In was great to play in front of so Many people. The size of the crowd. That was the biggest difference from the soviet Union ,.,. -. . It appears Canadian fans Are More interested in hockey than fans in the soviet Union. As to Why i Don t the 6-foot-3, 210-Pound Kriakin the first front his country to appear in the nil Roundup nil with the blessings of the soviet tee hockey federation played 14 minutes working a regular shift on a line with Center Theoron Fleury and Wing Mac Tim Hunter. Jets Captain Dale Hawer Chuk rained d Little on the soviet player s Parade. I m no crazy about it said Hawer Chuk who welcomed Kriakin to the league with a solid body Check on his first shift a hit that dropped the soviet to thrice. I Hope they re not taking jabs away -. Kriakin did not get on the scor Sheet in his debut but was of the ice for a Calgary goal. He also had one shot on goal a 25-foot wrist shot on which Winnipeg goalie Bob Essensa made a big Stop. I lost in air the hoopla of Kriakin s opening night was Joe Mullen s cracking the to Golf plateau for the first time in his career. ,. The Point was Mullen s 107th tying the single season record for an amen can born p Ayr. Set in 1987-88 by Edmonton s Jimmy Carson who was play ing then in los Angeles. In Friday s other game North stars a red wings 1 Detroit Mike Gartner had a goal and three assist and Jon Casey slopped 33 shots including a Penally shot As Minnesota broke a five game Wonless Streak by beating do Troil. K Minnesota clinched third place in the Norm division and will face the blues in the first round of the Stanley cup playoffs. Division Champion Detroit will meet Chicago or Toronto rangers fire Bergeron. ,.-.v- a new York a Michel Berge Ron was fired saturday As coach of the new York rangers and replaced by Gen eral manager Phil Esposito. The move came As a Surprise because. The rangers Are in third place in thenal s Patrick division and have clinched a playoff spot with a 37-33-8record Esposito took Over the team immediately and conducted a workout in Pitts Burgh where the rangers were to play a key game against the penguins saturday night. New York trails the second place penguins by one Point. The regular sea son ends sunday night and How they finish will determine Home ice advantage in the playoffs. Bergeron was in his second year. Arrangers coach and led the team to its Best showing since the 1983-84 coached the Quebec nordic us for seven seasons. Esposito will serve As general manager and coach through the 1989-90 season according to John Del scr executive Vic president of the Madison Square Garden sports group which owns the rangers. Also fired with Bergeron was ass san coach Charlie Tiffault Aba from Page 25 foot Majur. Helped the celtics go four games Over .500 for the first Lime this season. New York. While the bullets and a Ellics were extending their Home domination the team leading its division the a mks. Was routed at Home it was just the fourth Home loss this season for new York which dropped both games against Golden slate this season the Only team the kicks did t beat. Mitch Richmond scored 37 Points and Chris Mut Lin added Ujj. Gerald Wilkes cd new York with 23 Points. Hawks 116, nets 99 Atlanta Dominique Wilkins scored 31 Points and Moses Malone 2 even though both sat out the final Quarter. Chris Morris led the nets with 31points/and Mike Mcgee had-17. 76crsll4, Hea 93 Philadelphia Charles Barkley needed only31 minutes to score 24 Points pull Down 1 3 rebounds and make three steals. He sat out the final Quarter As the 76ers handed the heal its 31 St loss in 33 Road games. Cavaliers 109,bulls100 Chicago Cleveland s dynamic Bac coun of Mark Price and Ron Harper combined for nine Points in a 16-7 in the fourth Quarter and scored 25and 21 Points,.respectively, As the Cavaliers ended the bulls six game winning Streak. Suns 172, Bucks 104 Phoenix Tom Chambers scored 34 Points and Eddie Johnson had 28, including a club record six 3 print cars for Phoenix which tied a club record with nine 3-Pointcrs in 16 attempts. Phoenix already has earned its first playoff berth in fou years. Pistons Iii super sonics 108 Seattle Detroit overcame a 25-Poinl deficit As the sonics missed their last 17 shots arid lost their fifth in. A Row Joe Dumars led Detroit with 27 Points and Mark Aguirre finished with 22. Derrick Mckey had 23 Points for Seattle clippers 109, spurs 106 los Angeles Quintin daily scored 11 of his18 Points in the fourth Quarter and los Angeles Hung on for its third straight Victory the team s longest Streak in three years paid to recant sex aggie says College station Texas apr former Texas am football player George Smith says he received$30,000 in recant allegations of hush Money paid by former coach Jackie Sherrill. In a copyright Story. The Dallas morning news re ported saturday that Smith agreed to a news Confer ence to withdraw his comments Only after being prom ised More promised me enough to finish my education which is All i Ever really wanted to do 530,000, in that neighbourhood he said Friday. The University released a report Friday acknowledging that Sherrill gave Smith Money. But the univer sity said it could not find evidence the Money was to keep Smith quiet about alleged Mcaa rules violations. The Mcaa has had the report Sinee he University concluded the investigation in Early february. The re port is expected to go before a meeting Mcaa infractions committee in april. The newspaper reported that Smith met in March wis the Mcaa for a second interview at which Smith revealed he had falsified his recantation
