European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 23, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday. January 23. 1990 the stars and stripes Page 21 sports Becker survives Mecir scare by Steve w1lstein Melbourne. Australia a John Mcenroe s cursing Racket smashing Tantrum in the australian open was t his worst but it Cost him a shot at $200.000 and put into question his future in Tennis. Mcenroe the first player thrown out of this grand slam event in its 85-year history plans to continue his comeback but still has to prove he can play Tough matches without losing his temper. He Lew Home to Malibu. Calif., monday brushing silently past reporters with his wife actress Tatum o Neal and two sons their trip to Australia Cut Short and spoiled by Mcenroe s costly outburst. Hours later the open nearly lost another big name. Boris Becker barely kept alive his bid for a third straight grand slam title when he came Back from two sets Dow against Miloslav Mccier to win 4-6,6-7 6-86-4.6-1. Becker the Wimbledon and . Open Champion and no. 2 seed Here reached the quarterfinals for the second Lime. He was two games away from a straight sets loss but came up with aces at key Points and gradually overpowered Mccier last year s runner up to Ivan lend. The $6.500 Fine Mcenroe was slapped with was minor though it Cut a big chunk out of the $ 14,000 he won for reaching the fourth round. Had he gone on to win the match sunday against miracl pc Runfors after leading 6-1,4-6, 7-5, 2-4, Mcenroe would have won Al least $24,000 for reaching the quarterfinals. More important Mcenroe s default Cost him a real Chance at his first grand slam title since he won Wimbledon and the . Open in 1984. Mcenroe would have met Yannick Noah in the quarters and probably defending Champion Ivan lend in the semis but might have beaten anyone the Way he was playing. The Winner gets $200.000, the Mac Pittsburgh s Mario Lemieux right glides past the net after his third first period Roal for the Wales  Doug Williams left or goalie Mike Vernun of the Campbell conference could prevent the score. Lemieux paces 12-7 Victory Pittsburgh a Mario Lemieux rising to the occasion of the first nil All Star game in his Home Arena scored a record lying four goals three in the first period As the Wales conference walloped the Campbell conference 12-7. With sunday s sellout crowd of 16,236 at the Pittsburgh civic Arena cheering on their local hero the penguins super Star dominated the nil s mid season classic As few before him. Millions More watched the nil s first game on National television in a decade. Lemieux scored just 21 seconds into the game and twice More in an opening 20 minutes punctuated by a record seven goal splurge As the Wales conference took a 7-2 Lead. He added a fourth goal Early in the third period to tie the All Star record set by Wayne Gretzky in 1983. It was an unbelievable Day Lemieux said. I had five or six Good chances and i scored on four of  the Pittsburgh Star also picked up his record third most valuable player award. He previously nil All Star aame won in 1985 and 1988. The expected Battle Between Lemieux and Gretzky never materialized in this game the highest scoring of the nil s 41 All Star encounters. Gretzky the superstar Center from los Angeles has won two All Star map awards including last year in the Campbell conference s 9-5 win at Edmonton. This time it was Lemieux regarded As Gretzky s heir apparent As the nil s Premier player who stole the show. Lemieux s contribution plus two goals each fro Buffalo s Pierre Turgon and new Jersey s Kirk Muller helped give the Wales their 1 he Victory in 14 games in the current conference series. Turgon had both his goals in the first period. Muller scored once each in the second and third periods. Also scoring for the Wales conference were Buffalo s Dave Andrychuk Philadelphia s Rick toc Chet Shane Corson of Montreal and Cam Necly of Boston. Runner up $100,000. Mcenroe is the first player ejected for misconduct in any grand slam since pros and amateurs began play ing together at the Start of the open Era in 1968. Two other players one in the 1950s at the . Nationals and another in the Early 1960s at the French were defaulted for bad behaviour. Mcenroe s exit dominated talk at the australian open monday overshadowing Becker s comeback and unseeded David Wheaton s 7-6 7-56-4, 6-3 Victory Over fellow american Aaron Krickstein the fifth seed who was playing with a Groin injury. No. 3 so can Edburg who joined Whealon in the quarterfinals by beating fellow swede Jonas Svonsson. Said Mcenroe Only has himself to blame for getting thrown out. I think he s done worse things than he did a Star see Becker on Page 26 Scott Sparks lakers win Over pistons by the associated press Auburn Hills Mir. Byron Scott scored 12of his 14 Points in a third Quarter run As the los an Geles lakers snapped a seven game losing Streak against Detroit with a 107-97 Victory sunday. The lakers entered the game with the Best record in the Aba but had lost three straight on the Road and eight Overall away from Home. The lakers trailing by three at halftime. Opened the third Quarter with a 9-0 run including five Points by Aba Roundup Scott and led by As Many As 11 in the period. Scott gave the lakers their first Lead. 55-53, on a three Pointer with 10 26 left in the Quarter. They never trailed again. James worthy led the lakers with 31 Points and magic John a added 21. James Edwards had 26points for Detroit. In other games sunday bulls 117, knickst09 Chicago Michael Jordan scored 42 Points As Chicago extended its Home winning Streak to 15. The Triumph was the third straight for the bulls and coupled with Detroit s 107-97 loss to the los Angeles lakers put them Back into first place in the Centra division. Bucks 127, heat 101 Milwaukee Ricky Pierce scored 11 of his 22 Points in the second Quarter As Milwaukee won its fourth straight game. The Bucks led 6341 at halftime after Pierce hit to consecutive three pointers during a 21-6 run. Milwaukee expanded the Lead to 89-61 late in the third Quarter and went on to Post its biggest Victory margin of the season. Warriors 120, celtics 115 Boston Chris Mullin scored 20 of his 30 Points in the second half and Golden state beat Boston. The Victory snapped a 12-year losing Streak Al bos ton Garden Lor the warriors and gave coach Don Nel son his 600th Aba Victory. Nelson who helped the celtics to five Aba championships As a player became the 10th coach in league history to win 600 games. He has a 600-404 record in 13 years. Trail blazers 115, hornets 100 Portland Ore. Jerome Kersey scored 26points and Kevin Duckworth had 23 to Lead Portland Over Charlotte. The Victory was the Trail blazers 16lh in their last 17 games. An sports television pro basketball los Angeles ukers it new York 2 . Wednesday. Radi College basketball Rutgers at Missouri 1 30 . Wednesday