European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 20, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 26 the stars and stripes saturday May 20.1989 shoe of bid Adieu los Angeles a jockey Willie Shoemaker who has Ridden k.71 1 winners and won More than $120 million in makes Money Dur ing an extraordinary career announced thursday he will retire next year after a worldwide fare Well Lour. The tour Wil Zurich. move on through eng land. Ireland. Begin june 4 in Holland. West Ger Many. Swe Den. Den Mark. Spain and Italy. The shoe will return to the Shoemaker United Stales in july where Hewill appear throughout North America until october. The tour will then take him to Australia new zealand. Japan. Singapore and Malaysia before in concludes Back in the United Stales where Shoemaker has Ridden for parts of the last five decades. Shoemaker s final ride will come in California in either Jan uary or february said spokesman paler Debreceny. The 57-year-old Shoemaker has no specific plans for what he will do in retirement Debreceny said thursday. Don t be surprised though if he slays in thorough bred racing in some capacity he added. Up and Down hoops predicted by lakers Inglewood Calif. A magic Johnson has a prediction As the los an Geles lakers prepare for their Aba West Ern conference finals meeting with the upstart Phoenix suns. It s going to be a Tough John son said after the lakers practice session at the forum on thursday. Phoenix docs a lot of things Well. They have an excellent transition game and great out Side shooting. Kevin Johnson makes it work. He gets Down the court so fast. It s going to be up and Down basketball that s for the lakers and suns who finished i 2 in the Aba West this season and split their six regular season meetings begin their Bcst-of-7 series the final step to the Aba championship round at the forum on saturday. Although Phoenix is wingless in All five previous playoff appearances against los Angeles and has i won at the forum in five years the lakers almost certainly Aren t going to take the suns lightly. They re not Here by Chance lakers coach Pat Riley said. They re Here be cause they re talented and have beaten the pants off they have a great transition game. They have great players lakers Forward James worthy said. They re capable of scoring a lot of Points. And so Are we. There Are a lot of similarities be tween them and us and when the match Are balanced you win by playing Good defense. They re confident and worthy said of the suns and they have great chemistry. They Are Able to grow As a game goes on. They keep making Good adjustments on the the regular season series was a matter of Home Sweet the lakers beat the suns 125-Iii. 134-122 and 118-116 at the forum. The suns retaliated by humbling the two Aba playoffs Lames worthy 42 says defense will he key to Western finals against suns. Lime defending Aba champions 111-96, 114-97 and 127-104 in Phoenix. The suns were virtually unbeatable at Home posting a 28-1 record against Western Competition. The lakers by virtue of their 57-25 record to the suns 55-27. Will have the Home court Edge in the series Nie Aning they will Host the seventh game if it goes thai far. We both beat each other bad during the regular magic Johnson said. But that was the regular season and that does t have anything to do with the while Johnson said the matchup Fig ures to be a running affair both teams have shown they can slow Down and play half court if they have to. Bolh learns can do it he said. You have to be Good at both. That s Why we finished 1-2 in the West this Byron Scott bruised his right wrist on a Dunk during thursday s practice but he said he does t expect in to bother him saturday. Kevin Johnson had said after Phoenix beat Golden state in the conference semifinals we be wanted la. All year Long and we be finally got the they be got us no double Aboul Scott said smiling. Chippy Chelios gets Down and dirty the Washin titon Post Montreal when Chris Chelios was introduced to the saddled me crowd in Calgary before the opening game of the Stanley cup championship series he was greeted with a Crescendo of Boos. After what Chelios did to the flames wednesday night inc fans in Calgary figure to dislike him even More. Chelios produced the winning goal on a 45-foot Blue Darter and Sci up iwo others with Clever passes As the Montreal canadians whipped the flames 4-2 and were to come Home f9r Friday s third game All even in the bust of seven series. Although Chelios ranks among the Best in the National hockey league he is widely disliked because of his Chippy often dirty style of play. In inc Prince of Wales conference finals he raked flyer Brian Propp into the Glass with an Elbow and be came Public enemy no. I until Ron he Lall moved into thai spol Wilh his assault on Chelios in inc finale. Terry o Reilly the former Boston coach refused to pick Chelios for the nil All Star game saying i have no respect for him. I would t want him on my however o Reilly is gone now so Calgary coach Terry Crisp no doubt was Correct when he said i d imagine there arc 20 other clubs in inc nil besides Montreal who would love to have him in their lineup. He s been an irritant to a lot of clubs and he s one hell of a hockey player Chelios made a Superb pass wednesday to Start the play that resulted in Bobby Smith s goal and a 2-0 Mon Treal Lead. Then he made a skate save on Doup s shot toward the seemingly empty canadians net. Despite his efforts the flames pulled even at 2-2 and in was not a Happy group of players that gathered nil of avots everybody s dirty says Montreal s Chris Chelios. In the canadians dressing room at the intermission. But Chelios a Leader even though he wears no a or a followed coach Pat Burns Brief talk with one of his own then went Oul and practice what he preached by scoring the game Winner and feeding Russ court Nail for the clincher. "1 did t want everybody to get frustrated said Che Lios a 1984 . Olympian was like a nothing nothing game going into the third period and we needed some voices in Here just to gel our Heads up. It was 2-2 heading Home and they d just Poulshot us 16-4. We found out what we should have known Hatif we take a period off against i Csc Guys Well wind up paying for it. But we were still in the game. We just had to come out and get the Job done. We do in to Gelhar and i said when we win. We win Logcher and when we lose we lose Togo Lucr but Lei s work we rely on each other but with the amount of ice time i get icy depend on me and expect More from Craig Ludwig Chelios defensive partner said he s what makes everything go for us. I d put him in the same category As Ray Bourque and Paul Coffey. He s the key to our team and the Success we be been having. He s certainly my meal said Chelly has proved All season Long that when things were Tough he d show up. Even when he s not at inc top of his game he s out there giving Effort and providing leadership. In my eyes he s one of the Besl hockey players i be Ever took a lot of heal in Montreal fora lot of things but he s proved beyond All double he s a professional his heart s in Montreal and he wants to be a Montreal Canadien. He s matured and he s a definite asset to our learn. He sometimes plays up to 40 minutes and he plays very Well. If he does t win the Norris trophy for Busl dec Seni Ansom Ching s wrong. Maybe he docs l gel the respect for the Norris because when you give him a shot he gives one often gives the first shot and in t Reluct and to run an opponent from inc Back a question Abl lactic but Legal Check in the nil. With highly publicized 9ff-Icc adventures to Bool Chelios has an unsavoury reputation."1 Don t listen to what other teams say Chelios said. I play the game. 1 do what i have to do. 1 Don t know what s dirty. Everybody s dirty. I play physical when i have to. That s just the Way inc game
