European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 4, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday february 4,1990 the stars and stripes Page 27 sports wire Gilbert Berger Post Davis cup victories from wire reports Carlsbad. Calif. A Brad Gilbert Defeated Leconar. Do Lavally 6-3. 6-1, 7-6 Friday to Complete a . Sweep of the two opening singles matches in first round Davis cup world group Competition against Mexico. Gilbert survived three match Points before prevailing 10-3 in the third set tiebreaker to put the . Within one win of clinching the bust of five matches event. Jay Berger earlier rallied from a first set loss to beat Jorge Lozano 6-7 5-7. 6-4, 6-3.6-3. Both Berger and Gilbert were named to the american squad after injuries prevented Michael Chang and Aaron Krickstein from playing. On saturday. Rick Leach and Jim Pugh were scheduled to make their Davis cup debut in a doubles match against Lozano and Lavally. The event at the la Costa hotel and spa concludes sunday with the two Quot reverse singles Quot matches. In other Davis cup action. West Germany advanced to the second round saturday As Eric a clan and Michael Slich beat Michil schapers and Tom Nijssen of the Netherlands for an insurmountable 3-0 Lead in the Best or voc series. The Ecsi germans won the doubles 64, 6-2. 7-5, 64. On Friday. Carl Urc St cab beat schapers and Jelcin Defeated Nijssen in singles matches. West Germany has been forced to play the series without Wimbledon and . Open Champion Boris Becker who said he is skipping the first round because he was tired and wanted to concentrate on taking the no. 1 spot in rankings from Ivan Lendl. Australia look a 2-1 Lead in its first round match against France at Perth with a straight sets win in doubles. The australian combination of Pat Cash and John Fitzgerald overpowered frenchmen Guy forget and Yanuck Noah 7-6 8-66-4, 6-4. At Cagliari. Sardinia. Italy s doubles team crushed the swedish pair in three Swift sets to give Italy a 2-1 Lead and an excellent Chance of eliminating the vaunted swedes. The italian pair of Paolo Cane and Diego Nargiso beat Anders Jarryd and Jan Gunnarsson 7-5. 6-1. 7-5 m just i hour and 58 minutes before a crowd of4.000 italians who shouted and cheered As if they were at a soccer match. In the two opening singles. Cane beat Jonas Svens son in five sets Friday and Sweden s Mats Wilander outlasted Omar Camj Ercse 6-4, 6-4. 5-7. 6-7 7-16-4 in a Marathon match carried Over from Friday when bad Light stopped , Sanchez reach final Tokyo a Steffi Graf beat Manuela male Eva and Arantha Sanchez Defeated Akiko Kij Imuta saturday setting up a final match Between the worlds no 1 and no. 5 players in in Toray pan Pacific open Tennis tournament. Graf ranked no. I. Was a 64,6-4 Winner Over maleev3, who is ranked no. 8. Sanchez beat Kij Imuta Japan Stop player. 6-4.6-2 in the other semifinal on the artificial court in the no. 2 Toyogi National  leading senior classic Miami a Bruce Devlin shot up the key Biscayne course he designed 19 years ago. Firing a 7-Undcr 64 Friday for a 2-shot Lead after one round of the 5400,000 Royal Caribbean classic the firs full Field event on the 1990 senior pea tour. Two shots behind Devlin were Arnold Palmer Las week s senior skins game Winner and Jim Dent who shot 66s Over the Par-71.6.715-Yard links Cou  keeps share of Lead Pebble Beach. Calif. A acting on the advice of his partner. Los Angeles dodgers Pitcher Orel hrs his or. Payne sic wart convened a lilt a game of Quot pretend Quot into a share of the second round Lead in the Pebble Beach National pro am. Stewart the first round Leader let the Lead slip from his grasp Friday on a struggling string of three bogeys in four holes at Spyglass Hill. Quot you re not playing very Well right now arc you a Stewart quoted Hershiser As asking while they played their final Hole of the Day. Quot not at All a Stewart said. Quot Why Don t you just pretend today s round is 17 holes it s Over and you re playing the first of 19 holes in tomorrows  Stewart said Hershiser told him. Stewart said he took the advice played Quot pretend Quot hit a 5-Iron second shot 8 feet from the cup and made the Birdie putt that finished off a 71 and Lefi him in a three Way tie for the Lead. A since we were pretending that was the first Hole of the third round maybe that s a Good Omen for tomorrow Quot the pea Champion said after reaching the tournament Halfway Point in 137, 7 under Par. With two rounds to go. Sic wart shared the Lead with Bob Gilder and Rocco  up by 7 strokes Lake Worth Fla. A a Model of consistency in the first round of the Oldsmobile Loa classic. Pat Bradley was even better Friday when she shot a 7-Undcr-Par 65 in gusting winds to open a 7-shot Lead Halfway through the 5300,000 tournament. The bogey free performance left the Winner of 23 Lour events with a two Day Lota of 13-under-Par 131. Kim Bauer shot 4-under-Par 68 to move into  pm Narrows search Hempstead . A new York jets general manager Dick Steinberg is winding Down the search process for a new coach and Hopes to name his Man by the Middle of this week Steinberg had two interviews with san Francisco 49crs offensive coordinator Mike Malmgrem while at the Indianapolis scouting Combine and planned to speak with him again before returning to new York on sunday. Steinberg also planned to meet again with Cincinnati offensive coordinator Bruce Coslit and Philadelphia offensive coordinator Ted plumb during the weekend. The three arc considered the finalists in the search. Holmgren and Coslit arc also under consideration for the Phoenix cardinals head coaching  wins on Home slope Cortina d am Pezzo. Italy a with exulting villagers to help ease the pain of a cracked rib Christian Ghedina on saturday lashed to his first Ever world cup Victory in a menus downhill race in his Hometown. Quot i am overjoyed Over this Victory in my Hometown. 1 had been expecting a Good showing on this course which 1 know by heart. Still its a dream coming True Quot said the 20-year-old italian. Ghedina who had cracked his fourth rib in a bad spill in Kilbi incl Austria on Jan. 20, revealed that he had an anti pain injection before skiing Down the Dolomite course. Ghedina who scored the first italian downhill Triumph since Michael Mairus Victory in 1988, was clocked in 1 minute 34.39 seconds Down a course shortened to 2,650 meters from the original distance or 3,100, because fog reduced visibility on the upper part. The italian a member of the b team until last year edged Swiss Daniel Mah Rurby. 16 of n second. The top 19 skiers finished within one second of each other. Switzerland a Pirmin Zurbriggen capitalized on his fifth place to extend his world cup Overall Lead to 260 Points. Austrian Veteran Helmut Hoefli Erncr who had taken the two previous downhills in Val d to scr. Missed a rare third straight Victory by .21 Ofa second. . Kilt a late american starter at no 46, pulled off a sensational fourth place finish filling a one Hundredth or a second Hole Between Hoelsc incr and Zurbriggen. Kill 21. From Rochester . Skied his Best downhill to give the . Men s team the highest downhill spot since 1985. When Doug Lewis was second in Valle de Las lamas. Argentina. Quot a fourth is fantastic unbelievable Quot Kin said. He was timed in 1 34.61 compared with to Felchner s 1 34,60 and Zurbriggen s 1 34.62.gutensohn-Knopf wins ski race vey Ponnaz Switzerland a Katrin Gul Ansohn Knopf racing her first season for West Germany broke a four year win toss Streak in world cup skiing with a Victory in a downhill saturday. Gutensohn who quit the team of her native Austria at the end of last season clocked 1 minute 17.41 seconds. She outdistanced a resurgent Carole Merle of France and Swiss Ace Mich la Figini by More than half a second. Meric finished second .54 of a second behind in the seasons seventh downhill event. Figini was third with a deficit of .60, but her finish lifted her to a joint Lead in the downhill standings with 98 Points. She is lied there with Petra Kronbar Ger of Austria who retains a 20-Point Lead in the Overall world cup standings. Cul Ansohn Knopf has embarked on a new ski career phase after marrying a West German and breaking with the austrian team where she repeatedly quarrelled with her coaches. Several racers have changed National affiliation since the world cup began in 1967, bul she is the first to win races for two  Auto rally cancelled Karlstad. Sweden a the swedish world championship Auto rally has become the latest casually of Europe s unusually warm Winter a it has Hin cancelled for tack of Snow. The mild Winter has already wreaked havoc with world cup skiing calendars the swedish rally 1 he Only All Snow event in the championship had been set for feb. 10-12, hut organizers decided Friday night n could t be run. The rally is driven on roads covered with tiny gravel which has to be Frozen and Snow Cov Rcd to Sun i a the rally vehicles rough treatment. Covered in mud and water the roads were  skates to Gold Leningrad  s r. A Viktor Petrenko of the soviet Union won a pressure packed menus final Friday jumping flawlessly to a Gold medal at the european figure skating championships. Petr Barna or Czechoslovakia who faltered on a Quad Pic jump us tempi was second. Viacheslav Gorod Muk of the soviet Union was  enters rehab Center new York a Darryl Strawberry entered a treatment Center for alcohol rehabilitation saturday the latest Chapler in the Story of the new York a cts struggling  jailed last week in a dispute with his wife voluntarily checked Inlo the Smithen Center in new York shortly before noon. It is the same facility that treated teammate Dwight Gooden for cocaine trouble in 1987. Last week Strawberry was arrested at his Home in los Angeles Alicr allegedly hitting his wife and threatening her with a pistol. He spent a Short time in jail before posting $12,000 Bond _ the mets said it was too Early to Tell How Long their five time All Star would be at Smithers. 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