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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 21, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday september 21,1989 the stars and stripes Page 23 sports wire new zealand seeks Appeal of cup ruling from wire reports Wellington new zealand new zealand Syndicate chairman Michael Fay said wednesday he will attempt to Appeal a new York court decision Al lowing the san Diego yacht club to retain the Ameri Ca s cup. We have always expected this dispute would go All the Way to the final court Fay said. Mercury Bay is committed to seeing it through and we arc going to  Fay described the court decision As a  he said Mercury Bay boating club s Appeal the final step in the Legal process should be completed within four months and should not interfere with plans to race the next America s cup in 1992. In a 4-1 decision tuesday the appellate division of the new York state supreme court declared san Diego the Winner of last year s regatta reversing a lower court verdict that disqualified the . Defender and awarded the America s cup to new zealand. Fay said the a Cuison made a mockery of the idea of sportsmanship. The idea that a competitor can fix a contest to win makes a nonsense of any sport. Ii is wrong Plain and simple Fay said. Justice Bently Kassal s dissenting opinion maintained that last year s cup races were manifestly unfair in every sense because the United states raced a catamaran against new zealand s Mon Hull. Fay said the appeals court itself was sharply divided on fundamental issues. If this ruling is not Over turned sportsmanship and the cup Are out the win Dow he said. Under new York Law either the appellate division or the court of appeals the state s highest court mus give Fay permission to Appeal. George Tompkins jr., Fay s lawyer said the court of appeals accepts about 10 percent of the cases it is asked to hear. Fay has 30 Days in which to ask for permission to Appeal. Patricks win pair of hurdles new Delhi India the husband wife duo of David and Sandra Patrick led an american medal haul at a two Day International track meet with victories in the 400-meter hurdles wednesday. American athletes won 25 of the 84 medals at stake in the two Day meet taking the United states to the top of the Competition that saw 210 Al Cletes from 28 countries at the Jawaharlal Nehru stadium in new Delhi. The americans won 11 Gold seven Silver and seven Bronze medals. The highlights of the american domination wednesday were the Patricks David won his hurdles race in 49.99 seconds and minutes later Sandra Farmer Patrick won her race in 54.89. Other americans who won golds tuesday were Danny Everett 400 meters Evelyn Ashford 100 me Ter Kenny Harrison triple jump. Rick Noji High jump and Floyd heard 200 meters voters Back Oakland Effort Oakland Calif. Oakland voters strongly sup port local Affons to lure the raiders Back to the East Bay a new poll shows. In the poll released tuesday by the Oakland Alameda county coliseum Board 60 percent of 400 registered voters polled by Telephone said they would like to see the raiders return while 21 percent did t approve of the idea and 19 percent had no opinion. People clearly want that team Back. I m very encouraged said Alameda county supervisor Don per Ata who has campaigned hard for the raiders return to Oakland from los Angeles. Mets scuffle nearly escalates Chicago a shouting match tuesday Between new York acts manager Darcy Johnson and right fielder Darryl Strawberry in front of the entire team turned so heated that at least one player had to step Between them to prevent a fistfight. The incident took place in the acts clubhouse about an hour before their game against the Chicago cubs. Johnson had called a team meeting to have Strawberry and Kevin Mcreynolds apologize to the players for returning to the clubhouse in the ninth inning of a 10-6 loss to Chicago on monday night. Mcreynolds and Strawberry were also fined $500 each. Mcreynolds paid the Fine by Check before the game. Strawberry said he had not been told about the Fine but said he would pay it. As far As i m concerned the Hatchet is buried Johnson said. According to several players this is what happened at the meeting Mcreynolds and Strawberry each apologized to the team for returning to the clubhouse in anticipation of defeat. Strawberry though levelled into Johnson for carrying Over his anger to another Day and turning the incident into a major controversy. Johnson had loudly reprimanded both players Mon Day night. Strawberry thought that was the end of  when he arrived for work tuesday he Learned he was not in the lineup. He screamed at Johnson for benching him and for telling the Media about the Fine. Johnson did t Back Down. He shouted Back at Straw Berry. Quickly Johnson and Strawberry were in a face to face argument that ended when Pitcher Ron Darling and perhaps other players stepped Between them. Mayotte Wilander ousted los Angeles two highly seeded players. No. 4 Mats Wilander and no. 3 Tim Mayotte were eliminated in the first round of the Volvo Tennis men s tournament at the los Angeles Tennis Center on tuesday. Canadian Andrew Sznajder won a tight 6-4, 3-6, 7-5 Victory Over Mayotte while Derrick Rostagno ousted i Lander 6-7,7-5,6-2. Top seed Michael Chang advanced easily with a 7-6,6 0 win Over fellow californian Pete Sampras but defend ing Champion miracl pc Runfors needed two hours six min utes to eliminate Mark Woodforde 4-6,6-3,6-4. Fernandez Routs Rinaldi Dallas Mary Joe Fernandez meeting fellow floridian Kalny Rinaldi for the first time called virtually All the shots in a dominating 6-1, 6-4 Victory tuesday at the Virginia slims of Dallas. That advanced Fernandez to the second round of the $250,000 Dallas women s pro Tennis tournament. Fernandez ranked 13th, was set Back when she lost in the first round of the . Open to Wendy  regained some Confidence with a Good showing in the open doubles raised her game last week in the Wightman cup and came into Dallas Sharp. Fernandez sprinted to a 6-1, 4-1 Lead. After a momentary slowdown she took advantage of a double fault and broke Rinaldi for the match by Rushing the net and forcing an error. Andrea Temesvari of Hungary ranked 39th As she pursues her comeback from two years off the tour with ankle injuries beat Robin White of san Jose Calif., 7 6 8-66-4, in a meeting of two players who had just arrived from Japan. Penn St. Suspends starting a a state College a. Penn state starting Quarter Back Tom Bill has been temporarily suspended for Viola Tion of team policy coach Joe Paterno announced tuesday. Paturno said Sophomore Tony Sacca will replace billin the Starling lineup saturday against Boston College. Sacca s backup will be Sophomore Matt Nardolillo. Paturno said the suspension was for an indefinite term and would be reviewed when reasonable and proper to do  Paturno refused to discuss the specifics. Bill was cited Early monday for Public drunkenness on Campus according to court records. According to the citation Campus police found Bill at 2 . Sitting on a sidewalk in an intoxicated  grinder died of enlarged heart Birmingham Ala. Marcus Samuel Jones a freshman football player at Samford University col lapsed and died because of a vastly enlarged heart the team s physician said , an 18-year-old freshman from Pascagoula miss., died monday following a Light practice. Or. James a. While Side the team s doctor Sii us an autopsy determined that Jones condition was developmental and was not directly related to his athletic participation. Jones a 6-foot-3, 235-Pound offensive lineman had not yet played this season. He broke a wrist the first week of preseason practice. Bills lose linebacker Conlan Orchard Park . The Buffalo Bills found out tuesday that pro bowl linebacker Shane Conlan suffered a serious knee injury during monday night s loss to Denver that will sideline him for at least six  Jim Kelly also injured in the game has a sore right knee that in t expected to keep him out of sunday s game against the Houston oilers but May affect his mobility. Soviet defects to Turkey Ankara Turkey a soviet  who won the featherweight division in the world championships in Athens went to the turkish embassy and asked for Asylum the foreign ministry said tuesday. The 125-Pound weight lifter Hafiz Suleymanov per formed last week but ministry spokesman for Hal Ata Man would not say when the defection took place. Government officials said a charter plane will Besent to Athens to bring Suleymanov who is an ethnic Turk to Turkey. Injury May Idle Driver Bonnett Dover Del. Race car Driver Neil Bonnon was released tuesday from Kent general Hospital after suf Fering a broken sternum in a crash sunday at the i eak performance 500 Lascar Stock car race  with Bonnott s racing team said the Driver probably won t be Able to drive in the next two scheduled Winston cup races sunday at Martinsville. Is. And oct. 1 at North Wilkesboro . Formula one Driver fired Brussels belgian formula one Driver her Trand Gachot was fired after publicly criticizing the Onyx team his former Boss said  chief Jean Pierre Vanrossem also said he will soon announce a major sponsor to team up with West German car maker porsche in a five year agreement that will bring porsche Back into the of i Arena. On Gachot s departure Vanrossem said i am sorry but i took this decision As if it were my own son. Gachot said everything went wrong with Onyx the team Mig tit file for bankruptcy if it were not for him and that he already a new contract with another team for the 1990 season Vanrossem said. Well he won t be driving an Onyx car any longer that s for  to today supers Atlon an to thursday s programs 0600  0630 can sports 0700 Asci Gubine. 0730 3-2-1 Contact 0600 sue Small Island 0630 an morning Mott the to Kennedy of. Story 1010 goodnight. Beam own 1035 wheel Fortune 1100 Enteria ment tonight 1130 jeopardy game topics include it weird celebrity new Nages. State Toog Rybic and no Noons. 1200 Abc nightly news 1230 Donahue Mutt guests discuss court ruling on me spiritual custody of cd Rydren it Wen physical custody. 1320 general Hospital 1405 Guk Hng Light 1450 just Tor Khu. 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