European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 28, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday january 28,1990 the stars and stripes Page 27 sports wire def gets see Brenner vote of Confidence from wire reports new York George Steinbrenner meeting wit local writers vowed to keep Bucky Dent As manager of his new York Yankees through the 1990 season forecast a successful comeback for Dave Winfield and expressed Hope that Don Mattingly will remain with the team forbears to com. With Dent looking on Steinbrenner in a talkative and Mellow mood at the news conference thursday night said. Yes. I la Tell you Ducky s going to be my manager All year. Bucky s one of my Guys. He s won everywhere he s been. He s very Strong on loyalty. We re going to keep this Guy for awhile. When the principle owner of the Yankees was reminded that Dent is his 17th manager in his 17 years As head of the team. Steinbrenner said again Bucky Dent will be Here army manager this year. If hey get off to a bad Start or a great Start or a great Stan and can t hold it together he s still my manager. The owner has battled Winfield a Star outfielder who missed All of last season following Back surgery in court rooms and in the Media but he said i be got a Hunch he s going to come Back and give us the offence we need. I m looking Forward to some leadership from him. I received tremendous criticism in the past for persecuting him. But i stood up for what i believed in Andin the end i was proved  haltingly. Who is the Star first baseman of the american league team is heading into the final year of a Long term contract and could become a free agent at the end of the 1990 season. I want to sit fact to face with him when we discuss his  Steinbrenner said. He s an important player to me and. More importantly he s an important person to  want Don Mattingly with this bal club if at All possible. He has certainly proved himself Lime and  the owner was critical of the huge salaries being doled out this year to both big stars and Journeyman players. 6 major leagues sign new York Greg Gagne Kevin Seitzer and three other players agreed to one year contracts Friday and reliever Dan Quisenberry agreed to a two year contract with the san Francisco giants. Ganc. Who is eligible for free Agency after the 1990season, agreed to a $ i million contract with the Minne Sota twins a raise of $430,000, Feilzer eligible for arbitration for the first time settled with the Kansas City royals at si.001.2so. A raise of $661,250. Infielder Brad Wellman and Kansas City agreed to $295.000. A raise of $104,000, and outfielder cur Ford and Philadelphia settled at $195,000, a raise of $84.000. Pitcher Greg Harris who had been a free agent before agreeing to salary arbitration with Boston settled with the red sox for about $600,000 and free agent Pat Perry signed with los Angeles. The signings leave 116 players in arbitration. Hearings Are scheduled for the first three weeks of february. Maple Leafs rip devils 5-1 East Rutherford no. Gary Leeman and Dave Reid scored 37 seconds apart late in the second period As the Toronto Maple Leafs won a season High fifth straight game beating the new Jersey devils 5-1 Friday night. Nil standings Friday s summaries on Page 24. The Victory was the Maple Leafs ninth in 11 games and gave former new Jersey coach Doug Carpenter a win in his return to the Brendan Byrne Arena. Toronto which killed off nine new Jersey Power plays broke a la tie on iceman s shorthanded goal at 18 22 of the second period. Reid poked in a rebound 37 seconds later. Daniel Marois and Luke Richardson added third period goals. Soviet defens Eman Alexei Kasal nov had his first nil goal for the devils. Hahn women gain Safe tournament Hahn a West Germany Hahn s women reached the Safe championship tournament by beating Pitburg 72-66 saturday in the Continental sports conference basketball tourney. The Hawk ties 3-1, and Ramstein 3-0, arc the Only teams left in the Csc meet and both a Vanceto the Safe tourney feb. 8-11 at Tilburg. The Barons dropped out of the Csc s double elimination event with a 2-2 record. Hahn plays Ramstein at 2 . Sunday for the Csc title. If the Hawks win a second Gam would tip off at 6 . Sheila Lumar led Hahn with 26 Points and 14 rebounds. Tracy Tolburt scored 16 Points and Amy Breeze and Kathy Sheppard 10 each. Shep Pard pulled Down 16 rebounds and Breeze 10. Troll any Turner dished out seven assists. For Tilburg Gabrielle Baltimore scored 21 Points. Lolila Hill 16 and Dacunna Bright 14. Balti More grabbed 14 rebounds. Hill had six assists. Armour leads Phoenix open Scottsdale Ariz. A ragged tracked up Green foiled Tom Purtzer s last Hole Birdie bid and let Tommy Armour Iii escape with the Lead Friday in the uncompleted second round of the Phoenix open. Moments after commenting to playing partner . Snead about How the greens had improved Purtzer stroked a 15-foot putt for the Birdie he needed to tic Armour for the 36-holc Lead. Inches from the cup on the final Hole the Ball hit a Spike Mark skidded to the right and missed the cup. Come again Snead said. The miss left Purtzer a local favorite whose parents and a Host of friends gathered in his gallery with second round 68 and a 9-Undcr-Par 133 total for two trips Over the pc of Scottsdale Armour who has yet to win in a 10-year career that has included three season stints on both the asian and euro Clark Burroughs and Dave Barr. Hampton entering nil draft Athens a. Rodney Hampton Georgia s Star running Back announced Friday that he will forgo his final season of eligibility to Ciller the nil draft this year. I believe it is in my Best interest and the Best inter est of the family to enter the draft at this time said Hampton who in three seasons rushed for 2,668 Yards. He becomes the third Georgia running Back in two years to turn pro after their Junior season. Tim Wor Luyand Keith Henderson did so a year ago. Cook snares Bowling Lead Pinole Calif. Steve Cook rolled a 279 in his last game of the fifth round to Lake the Lead Friday in the professional bowlers association $ 130,000 Ameri can recreation centers Pinole open. The 14-Timc Champion piled up 7,932 pins and pos Ted a tournament Best match play record of 12-4.bowlers receive 30 Bonus pins per win. Chris Warren dropped to second place after leading the fourth round. Warren whose Best Aba tour finish was a second place in 1987, knocked Down 7,907 pins. Don Genalo moved into third place with 7,772 pins. Gun Alo has six Aba crowns to his credit but none since 1986. Figini Wolf Nab ski wins Santa Caterina valour a Italy Michel Figini of Switzerland scored her first Victory of the season by winning a downhill Here saturday and Austria s Sigrid Wolf completed a women s world cup  by skiing to Victory in a super giant slalom later in the Day. Figini beat Miriam Vogt of West Germany by three tenths of a second in a downhill delayed by 24 hours be cause of heavy Fogal this italian Alpine resort. The 23-year-old Figini negotiated the 2,385-Mctcr a Csc dal course in i minute 28.20seconds. A few hours later Figini finished fifth in the super a .86behind wolfs winning Lime of 1 14.10. Carole Merle the 1989 super a Champion who is com ing Back from a knee injury had her Best race of inc season in finishing second. 18 Back of Wolf. Austria s Petra Kronbar Ger added a third in the super g to her third place finish in the downhill and moved into the Lead in the Overall standings with 220 Points. Kron Burger began the Day 18 Points behind teammate Anita Wachtor who Drew a Blank. Wachtor who rarely skis downhills skipped the first race in favor of a maximum Effort in the super a. But she failed to Complete the course and remained at 208 Points. West Germany s Mich la Gorg. Fourth in both races remained third Overall but trimmed the deficit behind Wachtor to 18 Points. Wolf the 1988 olympic super a Champion said she skied More aggressively than in the downhill and was rewarded with her fifth career Victory. Wolf was a will beaten 30lh in the downhill. It was the 26th career Victory for Figini the 1985 and 1988 world cup Overall Champion and her 17thin a downhill. Diann Roff of Williamson n.y., having her Best season since winning the world championship giant slalom Gold medal Here five years ago was an encouraging 10th in the super a. An event in which she Sel Dom scores Points. The sixth downhill of the season had been scheduled Friday but thick fog forced a 24-hour postponement. Because of repeated delays and cancellations due 10 poor weather in Europe organizers were forced to run the downhill and the super a on the same Day. Hoe Flehner takes men s downhill Val d Sere. France austrian skier Helmuth Flehner captured a world cup Victory saturday in a men s downhill marked by an icy course that cause several competitors to Tumble. Hoff Lehnst 30. Found the Patchwork course of fresh and artificial Snow to his liking however recording time of 2 minutes. 2.21 seconds in his eighth world cup skiing Victory. Norwegian Alle skaardal took second place with 2 02.21. And Swiss skier William Bess finished third with 2 03.43. Hoe Flehner. Skaardal and Bosse arc respectively ranked first third and fourth in world cup downhill Competition after four races this year. Hoc Fiener i ranked Numor 11 in the Overall Competition. 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