European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 20, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday february 20,1990 the stars and stripes Page 27 sports wire nearly perfect Graf voted athlete of year from wire reports new York perfection barely eluded Steffi Graf in 1989. But her masterly Rule Over women s ten Nis made her inc overwhelming Choice monday As the associated press female athlete of the , maturing from a Skinny teen Ager into a stronger More confident 20-year-old, captured the australian open. Wimbledon and the . Open for the second straight West German won 11 other tournaments and 83 of her 85 singles matches Overall losing Only Inch acc set finals in the French open against Arantha Sanchez Vicario and at Amelia Island against a Ancla swept the four grand slam events the australian. French. Wimbledon and . Open in 1988and added an olympic Gold medal but lost out in the female athlete of inc year voting to sprinter Florence Griffith gaining inc Honor for 1989. Graf easily out polled the runner up golfer Betsy King in the voting by sports writers and editors and joined a distinguished list of Tennis players who have dominated the top female athlete balloting Over the past two decades. Martina Navratilova won the award in 1986 and1983. Tracy Austin in 1981 and 1979, Chris Evert in 1980. 1977. 1975 and 1974. Gillie Jean King in 1973 and 1967 and Evonic Goola Gong in 1971. Kuehnen pulls Stuttgart upset Stuttgart. West Germany Patrick Kuehnen of Wisl Germany upset seventh seeded Thomas mus Ter of Austria 4-6. 7-6. 6-1 in the first round of a $1 million at Tennis tournament monday. But another Wisl German Davis cup player Michael Slich. Made an Early Cuil. Losing 7-6. 7-5 to Jonas Svonsson of other matches. Martin str Cuba of Czechoslovakia ousted Jordi Arrise of Spain 7-5. 6-3. While Gora Prpic of Yugoslavia outlasted Karl Novack of Czechoslovakia 6-3. 4-6. 6-4.the lop seeds. Ivan Lindl and Boris Becker Start playing on wednesday. Down Hiller Johnson to retire crested Butte. Colo. Down Hiller Bill John son save he will retire from Amateur ski racing by the end of this year meaning the . Alpine championships under Way Here will be his last race of any s been a Long Good Johnson said Sun Day. My Back s bothering me a Little bit. And it s time to go on to something , who will turn 30 next month plans to make a formal announcement of his plans at a new conference tuesday night. His career options reportedly include becoming crested Butte resort s official spokesman and a possible stint in pro racing either on inc . Lour or in Japan Merrick takes . Downhill crested Butte. Colo. A skip Merrick on the men s downhill. Inc opening event of the . Alpine ski championships on monday. Merrick. 20. Of Sun Valley. Idaho edged Veteran ski team member . Kitt by the acc hundredths of a Sec Ond on a course hat grew faster As the Snow was glazed Over by a Bright . Who placed ninth in the downhill Al last year s nationals was limed in i minute. 28.93 seconds. Kill of Rochester. . Finished in 1128.96.eric Keck of Mollp Click it. Took third in 1 29.37. Followed by Todd Kelly of Squaw Valley calif., Ini -29 48 and Bill Johnson of Tahoe calif., in 1 29.55. Chiefs get berth in London game Kansas City to. A the Kansa City chiefs will play an exhibition game this summer in London league and club officials commissioner Paul Tagliabue said this weekend at a banquet in Kansas City that the opponent had not been picked but most Likely would be the los Angeles raiders or Pittsburgh St Celers. Abc will be doing the game and they Are looking for an acc rivalry said chiefs presi Dent and general manager Carl Peterson. The Date of the game has not been determine but Peterson said it would be sometime during the weekend of aug. 3-5. It will be played at Wembley stadium. It will be the opener of the chiefs exhibition season and increase the team s exhibition sched ule to five games. The chiefs had pursued an exhibition Gam last summer in Germany but backed off at the request of the league. The league preferred that they handle the International stuff Peterson said. So we gave notice to Paul and his office that we would be most interested in playing one of the overseas jets hire Urcla aide new York Greg Robinson an assistant co Chat Urcla for the past eight years monday was named a defensive assistant for the new York jets. The 39-year-old Robinson was the Bruins assistant head coach and offensive coordinator last season and served As defensive line coach for seven years. Molitor Brewers agree Milwaukee third baseman Paul Mollor avoided salary arbitration by agreeing monday to Athree year contract Worth $9.1 million with the Mil Waukee Brewers. Mollor 33, hit .315 last season the sixth time in his career he has hit .300 or better and he has a .300 average in 12 seasons with Milwaukee. Wac coup reportedly in works Dallas an organized Effort is underway to oust world boxing Council president Jose Sulaiman and replace him with the organization s former trea surer. Sieve Crosson of Dallas according to a published report. Sulaiman s opponents arc preparing to use a feb. 15fax letter to Crosson to rid the organization of the Man who has been its president since 1975, the Dallas times Herald reported monday. The fax was a response to Crosson s resignation tuesday As wac treasurer. Crosson a Dallas real estate appraiser resigned his Post amid the controversy surrounding last weekend s Mike Tyson busier Doug Las world heavyweight championship bout in Tokyo. If my Best Friend is leaving the ship it Means thai 1should also for my wrongdoing Sulaiman wrote to Crosson. I will be presenting my irrevocable Resig nation to my position As president of the coming Emer gency meeting of february 21."opponents said Sulaiman has become too powerful and has stepped beyond his duties As president especially with the Way he handled the Tyson Douglas of is a Friend of most of us but you can t do what he did said Dallas insurance Man Dickie Cole chair Man of the wac ratings committee. He acted beyond the scope of the wac. He s a dictator and people won t accept Carbajal dethroned Deluca Phoenix former olympian Michael still trains in a makeshift gym in his backyard won his first professional boxing title sunday in his . 22, pounded out a unanimous 12-round decision to dethrone Tony Bazooka Mcluca and Winthe North american boxing federation Junior Fly weight 12-0 took control Early in the 108-Pound fight weakened slightly in the Middle rounds and the finished with a flurry to take the final three rounds and earn the title before a partisan crowd Al the Phoenix civic Plaza and a National television audience. Forsman wins by 2 shots la Jolla. Calif. Dan Forsman reeled off the Par that he needed and scored a 2-shot Victory sunday in the Shareon Lehman Hutton open Golf tournament. Forsman scored the third Victory of his Highl year pea tour career with a 275 total 13 under Victory was Worth $ 162,000 from the total purse of $900,000 and pushed his season s earnings to $200.992with the tour Only seven weeks old. Trevino holds off Crampton Naples Fla. Lee Trevino held off a Laic Chal Lenge by Bruce Crampton on sunday to win the Aetna Challenge by i shot his second senior Lour had a final round 67 for a 16-Undcr-Par 200 total Over three rounds at the 6.719-Yard, Par-72course at the club Al Pelican Bay. Crampon finished with a 66 and total of 201 and pocketed the $35.000 second . Who pocketed $60.000. Won 27 tournaments on the regular pea tour prior to joining in seniors in 1989. The Victory raised his senior Lour earnings to $169,258. He has earned More than $3million combined for the regular and senior Lour. Lyga tourney moves to France Cleveland the world championship of women s Golf has been moved from Buford Cia. To France and will be played this fall As inc first Lyga tour event in Continental 10-year old tournament was played for the past five years at the so Uffer i incl land resort As the Nestle championship and before that Al the Shaker Heights country club in Shaker Heights. Ohio As the Chevrolet year s event will be played oct. 11-14 Al the new cow Golf club designed by Jack Nicklaus. In cely in Birc about 30 Miles from Paris. Sabres Mogiln takes leave Buffalo . 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