European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 31, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 26 a a the stars and stripes tuesday july 31,1990yugoslavs slip past . 85-79soviet gymnasts dominate american boxers score Goodwill games by John Nelson Seattle apr the . Basketball team finally can forget Seoul. Now americans got a new basketball loss to  Defeated the americans 85-79 sunday night for the menus basketball Gold medal at the Goodwill games. Two years ago in the Seoul olympics the soviets beat the United states and won the Gold medal. Earlier this week the soviets beat the americans again in a rematch but were taken out of Gold medal Contention in the semifinals by the yugoslavs. While the soviets sat on the sidelines during the basketball championship they dominated women a gymnastics. Time ran out on americans tiny tumblers. Soviet gymnasts took All but one Gold medal in the individual apparatus while americans settled for a pair of Bronze medals by 14-year-old Kim Zmeskal. Only two Days earlier . Gymnastic coach Beta Karolyi had boasted a we Are on the heels of the  the americans just had won the Silver in the team Competition but they failed to win a medal in the individual All around saturday and fell Short of expectations sunday. A of course it is Best to have Good Competition but perhaps we got our second wind after the first night a soviet coach Alexander Alexandrov said. Americans boxers meanwhile were gaining momentum. Led by world Champion Eric Griffin . Boxers won five of their six fights. Griffin forced his opponent Alcis Bel Flores of Venezuela to take a standing 8-count in the second round and totally dominated him. A i knew this Guy was going to respect me a Griffin said. A a in a a world Champi it. On. The american baseball team moved into the medal round with a 15-2 rout of Mexico. Basketball this is the third straight major Competition without a Gold medal for the once powerful . Team. The United states won the 1986 Goodwill games Gold medal but lost to Brazil in the 1987 pan american games to the soviets in the 1988 olympics and now to Yugoslavia. The . Team struggled from the out Side and never was Able to take advantage of a yugoslav manpower shortage created by an injury to Zarko Pas Palm. Pas Palm who played for the san Antonio spurs last season sprained his right ankle eight minutes into the game and did not get Back in. Yugoslavia led 78-67 with 4 39 left and the United states got no closer than 81-78 with 1 48 to play. The . Team had two chances to get within one but Billy Owens missed a shot and Doug Smith lost the Ball out of Bounds. Jurij Zdovc led Yugoslavia with 21 Points. Owens had 25. The soviet Union won the Bronze medal game 109-103 Over Brazil. Valeri Tikhon Enko led the Way with 30 Points while Oscar Schmidt had 44 for Brazil. Gymnastics Zmeskal and her . Teammates sought redemption sunday but earned Little of it. Zmeskal was the standout gymnast in team Competition but she Felt off the uneven parallel bars in the individual All around saturday. She wound up sixth As soviets Natalia Kalinina and Svetlana Roginskaya swept the first two places. Sunday she earned Bronze medals in the uneven bars and the floor exercise. She scored a 9.900 on the bars a score that might have put her into Contention a Day earlier in the All around. A we competed very strongly and very closely to the Best in the world a Karolyi said. A i see a great achievement even with the few medals we won tonight. Its a great perspective for the future and a tremendous  Kalinina had two Gold medals on the balance beam and floor exercise in which she tied for first with Roginskaya. Another soviet Oksana Chousovitina won the vault and Xia Zhang of China captured the uneven bars. Boxing Griffin a 106-Pounder, was so dominant in his fight that one of the five judges had him winning by an almost unheard of 10 Points. Also a Winner was Light heavyweight Jeremy Williams who scored a first round knockout of Ljubomir Agov of Bulgaria. All five soviets fighting also won. Baseball Scott Hatteberg and Jorge Fabregas each homered and drove in four runs As the United states clobbered Mexico. Yugoslavia a Toni Kukoc 7 and Zarko Pas Palm 8 defend against Alonzo  nips Elliott for win . Talladega Ala. Apr Dale Earnhardt out dulled Bill Elliott Over the last 50 laps to win the diehard 500 at Talladega super Speedway on sunday and move within one Point of the Winston cup Lead. The margin of Victory was just 0.26 seconds with Earnhardt a Chevrolet Lumina less than a car length ahead of Elliott a Ford thunderbird. Earnhardt a sixth Victory of the season and his second on Talladega a 2.66-Niile High banked Oval gave him 2,508 Points in the Driver standings one fewer than Mark Martin who came into the race leading by 48 Points and finished ninth. The leaders were racing through the third turn on the final Lap when Ken Schrader and Jimmy Spencer both lapped earlier crashed in turn two. Schrader hit the outside Wall and Spencer flipped twice before Landing on his wheels. Neither Driver was injured and Spencer was Able to get his battered car across the finish line. That was Only the third incident in the fifth fastest race in Winslon cup history. Earnhardt who led a race record 134 of 188 laps averaged 174.429 Mph just shy of lemme Ponds 19 /8 record of 174.700 Mph. Marlin was Earnhardt s strongest challenger most of the Day but fell from a close third to ninth when he was forced to Stop for fuel 10 laps from the end. That left the Battle to Earnhardt and Elliott who had been battling since Lap 148. Elliott grabbed the Lead on Lap 151, but Earnhardt regained it on Lap 169 and held on to win his fourth Talladega race. Earnhardt who has 45 career victories earned $ 152,975, including a $68,400 Bonus for winning from the pole position. It was his first pole Victory in three years. Earnhardt led 519 of 736 laps and won three of four races this year a two Here and two at Daytona International Speedway a where Lascar requires Carburettor restrict or plates to limit Speed. The three time Winston cup Champion failed to win the Daytona 500 when he shredded a tire while leading two turns from the end and wound up fifth. Sterling Marlin was third on sunday followed by Alan Kulwicki and Ricky Rudd. Terry Labonte the defending Champion of this race went out first when he blew his engine on the seventh Lap. Rusty Wallace the defending Winston cup Champion who was Ilerd m joints also fell Oul of the race Early Wuh an engine problem. From Page 25 sent a 1-2 fastball Over the left Field Fence. Mitchell dished out 10 strikeouts nine walks and six hits. In other action monday Kmic 8, Israel 3 Kmic pushed in five nuns in the third for a 7-0 Lead before Israel mustered a counter attack with a three run fifth inning. Jerew Francisco belted three hits and scored once for Kmic Trevor Playford went 2 for 3 with an rib Justin Baltazor went 2 for 4 with a run scored and James Lowery had a hit and scored twice. Spain 11, Czechoslovakia 4 a six run fourth inning muscled Spain Over wingless Czechoslovakia. Norris gathers jacked a two run triple to get the inning rolling As Spain picked up its first win. Gathers finished 2 for 3 with three Bis. Teammate Sieve Loisel was 2 Tor 2, while Lynn Robbins had two hits and two Bis. Chris James also had two hits and two Bis