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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Monday, March 4, 1991

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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 4, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sports wire Jarrett nips Wallace in Good wrench 200 r from wire reports Rockingham . A Dale Jarrett drove into the Lead 10 laps from the end then held on for a narrow Victory Over Kenny Wallace in saturdays Good wrench 200 Busch grand National Stock car race. Jarrett,7who started ninth in the 40-car Field kept his Pontiac grand prix near the front throughout the 197-Lap race at North Carolina motor Speedway. He led for two laps at the Halfway Point then stayed in Contention before passing Bobby Labonte to take the Lead for Good on Lap 188. Labonte who led from Lap 123 on the 1.017-mile Oval until Jarrett drove past tried hard to stay with the Leader but spun coming off turn two on the 194th Lap bringing out the last of eight caution flags. Labonter a Oldsmobile tapped the inside Wall and All four of his tires were Flat after the incident. He finished sixth a Lap behind. The Green Flag came out for the final time with Only ? one Lap remaining and Jarrett getting a Good jump on the restart was Able to hold off Wallace a Pontiac by 16-hundredths of a second at the finish line. A pole starter and defending race Winner Dale Earnhardt was third followed by Todd Bodine and Harry Gant. A a a a a. V a. A a. Jarrett the younger son of two time Winston cup Champion Ned Jarrett now has six grand National vie. Tories. He won $12,525 and averaged 110.775 Mph in saturdays 200-mile  give Florida state win new Orleans a Jimmy Lewis pitched a two hitter and Pedro Grifol accounted for All the Florida state runs with a pair of homers As the seminoles Defeated Tulane 3-0 in Busch Challenge v saturday night in the Louisiana super dome. Flu ranked fourth nationally improved to 11-3. The Green wave is 5-3. Lewis 4-1 struck out 13 a one Short of the Challenge record a and allowed Only one runner to reach third  Champion prevails san Jose Calif. A Champion Dinagan Tho Bela of South Africa defended his first world boxing organization lightweight Belt with a unanimous 12-round decision Over Mario Martinez of Mexico on saturday. Tho Bela who controlled the Tempo throughout finished with a 120-109 card from judge Marshall Walker of the United states 119-111 from Wiso Fernandez of puerto Rico and 118-111 from Cesar Ramos of puerto Rico. Tho Bela 24, weighing in at 134v2, raised his record to 24-0-l Martinez 25, weighing in at 135, fell to 48-8-2.american women break record Glasgow Scotland the team of Terry Dendy Natasha Kaiser Marilyn Gillard and Jearl Miles set a new american record in the women a indoor 1,600-meter relay sunday at a meet against Britain. The time of 3 minutes 34,68 seconds broke the record set last year by the University of Florida by More than a second. The old Mark set at the 1990 Mcaa indoor track and Field championships in Indianapolis. Was 3 35.92. Ottey sets record in 200sindel Fingen Germany a Merlene Ottey of Jamaica set a world indoor record of 22.24 seconds in the women s 200 meters sunday. A Ottey warmed up for the indoor world championships this week in Seville Spain by slashing .03 seconds off the Mark of 22.27 set by hike drechsler of Germany four years ago. The jamaican sprinter also won the 60 meters in 7.04, the second fastest indoor time this year. A. The men s 60 went to Ben Johnson winning his fifth of eight races since beginning a comeback following a two year suspension for use of drugs. He clocked a comeback fastest 6,58 in leading All the  set Mark in 800 relay Glasgow Scotland a British sprinters Linford Christie Darren Braithwaite Ade male and John Regis broke the world record in the menus indoor 800-meter relay sunday in 1 minute 22.11 seconds. The previous record was 1 22.32, set by the italian National team in february 1984 in Turin , Harrison on track Yokohama Japan a american sprinter Evelyn Ashford won the women s 60-meter dash sunday at the Yokohama International indoor track and Field meet. Ashford the former 100-meter world record Holder breezed to a 7.39-second finish Well off the world record of 7.00 held by the Netherlands Nelie Cooman. Top ranked american triple jumper Kenny Harrison scored his second straight Victory Over romanian rival Khristo Markov Clearing a disappointing 55 feet 6 a inches. Markov made 53 feet 7 inches. In the menus 400 meters american Antonio Pettigrew won easily in 47.02, and compatriot Joe Greene won the Long jump with 25 feet 1/  surprises Lendl Rotterdam Netherlands a rising italian Star Omar Camporese ranked 42nd in the world rallied to claim consecutive tiebreakers and Down top seeded Ivan Lendl 3-6, 7-6 7-47-6 7-4 in sundays final of the $450,000 an Amro world Tennis tournament. It was the second straight three set Victory for Camp Orese. He reached the final by beating dutchman Paul a Laarhuis 7-6, 2-6, 7-6 in saturdays semifinal. Lendl beat swede Anders Jarryd 7-5, 6-4 in his Semi bean leads doral Ryder by 1 Miami a Andy bean followed up 68s in his first two rounds with a 67 saturday to take a 1-Strokc Lead after 54 holes of the $1.4 million doral Ryder open. Trailing Beans 203 total by one shot were Russ Cochran and Rocco mediate both of whom shot 68s saturday on the Par-72 Blue course of the doral country club. Davis love Iii also carded a third round 68 to share fourth place at 207 with Mark Calcavecchia who had a 69  overtakes Mclean Saint Raphael France a a collapse Over the last three holes by Michael Mclean of England who led for three rounds enabled welshman Ian Woosnam to retains his Mediterranean open title sunday. Woosnam picked up the $130000 first prize after Mclean dropped four strokes Over the final four holes to open the Way for his opponents one stroke Victory. Woosnam returned a final round 67, 4-under-p a to. Finish on 5-under-Par 279. \ Mclean a closing 71 left him with a 4-under-Par\80. Jose Maria Olazabal. Who posted a closing 69, finished third place with 282. Olazabal fined saturday for complaining about the course opened his round with an Ace on the second Hole. It was a record sixth Ace in the four Dav  throws Gutter Ball loses Baltimore a Del Ballard jr., needing just seven pins rolled a Gutter Ball on his final shot saturday to lose the fair lanes open to Pete Weber in one of the most bizarre finishes in professional bowlers association history. A i could have thrown it Down the Middle and hoped Lor seven a a disappointed Ballard said. A i wanted to be aggressive on the shot and just rushed  Weber of Florissant mde a won the match 213-207 to collect $30,000 from a $ 150,000 purse. Ballard won $15,600. It was webers 16t h tour title and first of the , giants get together Scottsdale Ariz. A Matt Williams who had 122 Bis to Lead the National league last season agreed saturday to a $2.6 million two year contract with the san Francisco giants. Williams who made $215,000 in 1990, will make $600,000 this season and $2 million in 1992, when he would have been eligible for salary arbitration. He batted .277 last season with 33 homers tied for fourth in the National league with Barry Bonds and trailed Only Ryne Sandberg 40darryl Strawberry 37 and teammate Kevin Mitchell 35 Merle wins super a title  Japan a Carole Merle of France locked up her third consecutive world cup super giant slalom title on sunday when the last scheduled race in that discipline was cancelled due to inclement weather. Twenty one women had run the course when International ski federation technical delegates called a halt. There had been two delays earlier in the Competition because of High winds. Merle a Victory at Furano gave her an 88-70 Lead Over Austria a Petra Kronberger in the event standings. _ Kronberger enjoyed a Victory of sorts because the cancellation reduced Merle a slim Chance of overtaking the injured austrian in the Overall  Marathon goes to swede Mora Sweden a swedish Veteran Jan Ottosson came Back alter a slow Start to win the 67th edition of the Vasalo pet Cross country ski Marathon sunday. Ottosson 31, a member of the swedish team at the recent world nordic ski championships in Italy covered the 56 Miles in 5 hours 7 minutes and 11 seconds. Jaanus Seppan of Estonia was the top foreigner among 9,195 starters. I be was fifth in 5 11 18. Quot austrians dominate ski jump Quot Lahti Finland a austrians Andreas Felder Heinz Kuttin and Werner Haim took the lop three places in the 70-meter ski jumping at the Lahti world cup games on saturday. _ Colorado Springs Colo. Apr a Pepe Reilly who had Little Success at 106 and 119 pounds in past . Amateur boxing championships won the 147-Pound title saturday  Griffin of Clouston the world 106-Pound Champion won his first National title but Javier Alvarez 29, of san Antonio failed to win a third straight 201-Pound championship. Alvarez a 4-1 toss to John Bray of Van Guys Calif., was booed by the crowd at the Broadmoor world Arena. Oscar de la Moya an 18-year-old High school senior from los Angeles won lit 132 Tor his second National title. But another 18-year-old High school senior Steve Johnston of Denver failed to defend the 139-Ppund title. The 5-foot-10 Reilly of Glendale Calif., scored a 5-0 decision Over Pat Bri Ceno is of Vancouver wash., in a bout moves up to championship status . Amateur boxing marked by toe to toe exchanges. Reilly 19, took charge in the third round rattling Briceno with head shots and knocked him Down with an overhand right As the bout ended. Reilly fought at 106 pounds in 1988 and at 119 last  peppered Orlando Malone of Westminster Colo., with lefts and rights to the head and stopped him at.-2p9 of the third round. Malone missed by one second becoming the first of Griffin a four opponents to go the distance. A i fought like a stiff a Bray told an acquaintance after his third Victory Over Al Varez in four meetings. The other three were in 1989. A it looked As if Bray was looking to land a big punch but in Quot doing so it appeared he was outscored by Alvarez a not in the eyes of four judges however. _ de la Hoya who won the 125-Pound title last year controlled the first two rounds of his bout with Patrice Brooks of St. Louis with a mixed body head attack. In the third round de la Hoya who got a 5-0 verdict dominated with right hand leads and counters to the head. Johnston lost 4-1 to Vernon Forrest of Marquette mich., Forrest knocked Johnston Down with a right hand counter and made him take a standing 8-count in the first round. In the last two rounds the aggressive Johnston scored with head blows but took a lot of counters in return. Sergio Reyes of the marines at Camp Lejeune , retained the 119-Pound title by hulling his Way to a 5-0 Victory Over Wayne Chandler of Miami. _ a. Raul Marquez the 1989 Champion at .147pounds, won the 156-Pound title and Chris Bird the 156-Pound Champion two years ago  165-Pound title. Marquez of Houston landed the  and made Julian Wayne Blair of Miami take a. Standing 8-count, but just got by with a 3-2 verdict. _ the 6-foot-1 Byrd a Southpaw from mint mich., jabbed and counter punched his Way to a 5-0 Over Ronald Simms of Kelly _ fab Texas. It was the third straight runner up finish for Simms at 156. _ John Herrera of Corpus Christi Texas the 106-Pound. Champion last year was unable to win the 112-Pound title when i in Austin of Cincinnati came on Strong to gain a 5-0 Victory. Other champions were Ivan Robinson of Philadelphia .125 t Erry Mcgroom of c hic ago 178, Ami Larry Donald of \ in Cannati super heavy weight  
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