European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 11, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sports wire Aripa Bay s Thomas shot in altercation from wire reports Tampa Fla. Linebacker Broderick Thomas of the Tampa Bay buccaneers was shot in the upper Chest  right Arm saturday a outside a nightclub  was reported in stable but serious  air Force staff sergeant was arrested in the shooting which police said took place at 2 40 am. Outside rumours nightclub North of the downtown area. Staff sgt. Frank Taylor jr., 27, assigned to the service so at Macdill fab in Tampa was charged with aggravated Battery with a firearm  released on his own recognizance. According to police an unidentified Friend of Thomas was involved in an argument with Taylor in the nightclubs parking lot. Thomas 23, intervened  apparently the Serviceman backed Down. As the car in which Taylor was a passenger departed Thomas swung his fist through an open window bruising Taylor a face  breaking his glasses. Taylor then pulled out a Small Aliber handgun  fired at Thomas police said. A Davey Allison gains pole Daytona Beach Fla. A Davey Allison went to the front of the pack saturday taking the pole position for the feb. 17 Daytona 500 with a Lap of 196.959 Mph. Ken Schrader who was trying for a record fourth consecutive pole in Lascar Winston cup racing a Premier event wound up eighth at 194.045. Allison the seventh of 49 qualifiers had an anxious wait however until Schrader a third from the last run. Allison a fastest Lap of Daytona International speedways 2.5-mile, High banked Oval was barely Good enough to beat Ernie Irvane a 195.639. Allison got around the big track in 45.929 seconds Irvan. V a  a a. A those two Are the Only Drivers who have clinched starting positions in the 500-mile race. The rest of the 42-car lineup will be determined by the results of thursdays two j2&?. By two More a Days of time  wins in Hong Kong Hong Kong a Germany a Bernard Langer carded a blazing final re find 63 sunday to cruise to a seven stroke Victory in the $200,000 Hutchison telecoms open. The eight under Par final round gave Langer 269, easily out distancing second place finishers Choi Sang to of South Korea  la Wen Ter of Taiwan who totalled at 276. Second round Leader Mike cunning of the . Shot 70 to finish fourth at 278. Langer a eight under final round Over the 6,732-Yard course at the Royal Hong Kong Golf club was just one stroke off the course record of 62 set last year by Britain a Nick  in charge at Tampa Tampa Fla. A Bob Charles shot an even Par 72 saturday to move into a one Strok Lead going into the final round of the Sun coast senior classic tournament at Tampa Palms Golf  country club. Charles a left hander from new zealand started the Day tied for the Lead with Frank Beard  Bob Brue at 4-under Par after shooting a 68 on Friday. But Brue struggled to a 75 to finish at 143, tied for fourth with Davey Allison 074 seconds faster than o Meara Walt Zembriski who shot a 74,  Don january who shot a 73. Beard had two double bogeys to finish with a 79. He was far Back in the pack at 147.lee Trevino shot a 71, one of Only three rounds under Par  was second at 141. Bobby Nichols was third to 142 after shooting a 73. Daniel s Lead dwindles to 1 Lauderhill Fla. A Beth Daniel shot a 73 saturday As her Lead dwindled from five strokes to one going into the final round of the Lyga phar mor classic. Q Daniel making her first Start of ,1991 after a nagging shoulder injury finished her erratic Day on the 6,286-Yard East course at Inverrary country club at 140, 4-under Par for two rounds. A Hiromi Kobayashi also had 73, with four bogeys on her first 10 holes  was second at 141.Wachter edges Tward Okens Wiesel Germany a Anita Wachter of Austria turned in a blistering second run to beat Eva Tward Okens of the United states  win a women a world cup giant slalom sunday. Wachter posted an aggregate time of two minutes 16.83 to win by a wide margin in scoring her first world cup Victory of the season. Tward Okens who led Wachter by 0.24 seconds after the first run failed to find her rhythm in the second heat  finished with a combined time of 2 17.69. Still it was her Best finish of the season. Vreni Schneider of Switzerland the slalom world Champion finished third sunday in 2 17.78. Sylvia Eder of Austria placed fourth in 2 18.37.norwegians capture Gold Val 01 i Emma Italy a Bjorn Dahlia of Norway won the 15-Kilometer Cross country freestyle at the world nordic ski championships saturday  Sweden a Gunde Sylan set an All time record for medals. Dahlien a Superb performances on the Tough Uphill stretches toward the end keyed a 8.4-Sccond Victory Over Svan  ended a nine year wingless Streak for the norwegian menus team in major meets. S Svans Silver medal gave him a total of to world . Olympic deals Matching the total of fellow swede Sixten Jerr Iberg  Veikko Hakulinen of Finland who it both retired in the Early 1960s. Norway had a. Great Day on the Cross country trails saturday As Fred Boerre Lundburg captured the nordic combined title two hours after Danlick s Triumph. Klaus Sulzen Bacher the 1988 olympic runner up earned another Silver medal  fellow austrian Klaus Ofner was third. I Lundberg was outstanding in the nordic combined a two Day event that combines ski jumping  Cross country skiing finishing with a Victory margin of 1 minute 11.1 seconds after the 15k Minniefield goes to prison Lexington by. A Dirk Minniefield a former Kentucky basketball standout was ordered to serve a 12-month sentence for violating probation. Minniefield 30, was put on probation last summer on the condition he remain drug free. He pleaded guilty june 25 to Misdemeanour theft charges  was Given a 12-month , All but 10 Days suspended. Fayette District judge Kevin Horne ordered Minniefield jailed after Minniefield admitted he had violated his probation. Minniefield was charged with nearly 30 counts of theft by deception last year. The charges a stemmed from bad checks. A Harris wins 600 in Iowa. Ames Iowa a Danny Harris the top 400-meter a Girdler in the world won the Mhz Yard dash saturday at the inaugural  memorial track  Field classic narrowly missing a world record. A a a Harris w to ran for Iowa state in the mid-1980s,-won a in. 1 minute 7.03 seconds. He was going after the world Best time of 1 06.87 on an indoor oversized track set by Butch Reynolds in 1987 at Johnson City team Frankie Atwater of Iowa state who finished right behind Harris set a collegiate record with a time of 1 07.73.Maggard leaves for Miami Berkeley Calif. A Dave Maggard athletic director at the University of California since 1972. Is leaving to take the same Job with the University of Miami in a Florida. A a a -. / a a a a Maggard who was a shot Putter on the . Olympic track  Field team took Over As Cal . At age 32 after serving two years As track coach at his Alma mater. He is now Dean of athletic directors in the Pacific-10 conference. A i Gilbert Cahill collide san Francisco third seeded Brad Gilbert beat top seeded Andre Agassi 6-1, 6-2 on saturday to gain a finals berth against Darren Cahill of Australia in the Volvo san Francisco Tennis tournament. The sixth seeded Cahill took nearly two hours to turn Back fellow australian Davis cup teammate Wally Masur the no. 7 seed 4-6,6-4, 7-5. It was the first time in three meetings that Cahill a doubles expert has beaten Masur. Gilbert had 12 services aces in beating Agassi the 20-year-old defending tournament Champion in a 59-minute match. Gilbert ranked 10th, is making his third appearance # in the finals Here. He won the tournament in 1989.-Wilkinsonrsolomon lose a Philadelphia Tim Wilkinson Harold Solomon  Robert Seguso failed to win their firs around matches saturday to qualify for the $ 1 million . Pro indoor tournament. Wilkinson fell to Jeff Tarango 6-3, 5-7, 6-4. Solomon lost to Chuck Adams 6-3, 6-2,  Seguso was Defeated by Todd Martin 6-4,6-2. Sundays matches were to continue narrowing the qualifying Field of 48 to six players who will join 42 others in the we Klong  gets assist Mark Denver a Adrian Hutt set an Mcaa division ii record with 25 assists saturday night As metro state Defeated Sacramento state 122-92. Hutt also had 12 Points six rebounds  five steals in 33 minutes of play. The old record for assists in the Mcaa division ii was 24, set in 1989 by Steve Ray of Bridgeport College of Connecticut. Ray later tied that record the same season Fred Brown had 30 Points to Lead seven metro state players in double figures As the team raised its record to 18-5. The roadrunners Are ranked 17th in Mcaa division ii. By j Aime Diaz Indian Wells Calif. Not one of the most Birdie filled shootouts in recent times was anticipated sunday As a tightly bunched group of players tried to Speed past Mark of Meara at the Bob Hope Chrysler classic. Quot o Meara shot a 5-under 67 at Bermuda dunes on saturday his highest round of the tournament to Post a four round total of 24-under 264. One shot Back is Tim Simpson whose 68 at the Arnold Palmer course at pea West another of the four courses being used included three three putt greens. A i Siope he a scared to death in a one Back of him a Simpson said. A but really its All going to come Down to putting. Under these conditions you be got to get that Flat stick working or you re going to get  nine players Svere within six shots of each other. In third place was the former Champion Corey Pavin who had a 66 at Indian Wells for a total of 266. One shot behind Pavin Are Fred couples  Blaine Mccallister. The scoring was so Good saturday that even the tournament Host got into the act. On the 501-Yard, Par-5 18th Hole at Indian Wells the 87-year-old Hope holed a 30-Yard Chip shot indeed the biggest reason for the anticipated Low scoring sunday was that All the pros who made the four round Cut would be playing Indian Wells at 6.478 Yards the shortest  possibly the easiest course the pros play All year. In addition the professionals would be playing without three Amateur partners for the first time in the tournament. Unless a change from the Calm 80-plus-degree conditions that have prevailed All week occurs the tournament record of 27-under 333, set by Lanny Wadkins in 1985, seemed Likely to fall. The 72-Hole Cut of 8-under was a tournament reefed  is believed to be the lowest in pea tour history. Perhaps the most compelling dress rehearsal for sunday occurred at la Quinta where Scott Hoch fired a 63. He was 9-Underafter 12 holes.  Hoch failed to Birdie the 508-Yard 13th when he hit a 3-Wood into a greens Ide Bunker. After that he lost his momentum. A a the last five holes i must have had a Lump in my Throat cause 1 sure played like it a said Hoch in reference to the pressure of trying to break 60  collect a $1 million Bonus being offered by Hilton hotel corp. A i started pressing. If i get in that situation again i done to want to react that  the Man playing the Best tee to Green Golf is probably Simpson who said he has hit 69 greens of the first 72 greens in regulation. A a a it a a Little sharper but it s not there., yet but it seeming a Simpson said