European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 09, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Rangers penguins Bruins Nab 2-1 by Ken Rappoport a hockey writer the new York rangers Pittsburgh penguins and Boston Bruins have All regained the Home inc advantage in the nil playoffs. Judging by sunday nights play however they May not need it. A a those teams All won Road games to take 2-1 leads in their respective series. The rangers were especially impressive Stanley cup playoffs routing Washington 6-0 at the capital Centre in the Patrick division semifinals. The penguins won the other Patrick game 5-4 Over new Jersey while the Bruins Defeated Hartford 6-3 in one of the two Adams division games. In the nights other game Buffalo beat Montreal 5-4 in Buffalo to Cut the Ca a Dienst Lead in their series to 2-1. Action in the Campbell conference was to continue monday night with Chicago at Minnesota and str Louis at Detroit in the Norris playoffs and los Angeles at Vancouver and Calgary at Edmonton in the smythe All those series Aie tied 1-1.Patrick division rangers 6, capitals 0 Landover my. A Mike Richter had 37 saves in his first nil shutout and Ber Nic Nicholls had two goals and two assists to spark the rangers. Richter who had gone 76 games without a shutout was seriously tested on Only a few occasions a the last time a blast from the crease by Tim Bergland with 3 minutes left. He has allowed Only three goals in playing All three playoff games. It matched the capitals worst playoff loss and marked Only the second time Washington had been shut out in 71 playoff games. Washington had not been shut out at Home since feb. 6, 1988. The six goals represented the most against the capitals since an 8-2 loss to Calgary on feb. 15. The rangers chased Washington goalie Don Beaupre who had blanked them 3-0 on Friday after allowing Only two goals in the series opener. Beaupre allowed four goals in the first two periods before giving Way to Mike list for the final  4, devils 3 East Rutherford n j. The penguins beat new Jersey on a bizarre goal by Mark Recchi with 50 seconds left after do vips defens Eman Eric Weinrich the devils Doug Brown sails past Penguin goalie Tom Barrasso. Botched a Bloop puss in his zone. Weinrich was in the Low Slot when he failed to handle the puck which was flipped into the air by Phil Bourque from Center ice. Weinrich wanted to Glove the puck As it came Down but he missed it and then knocked it with his stick toward goalie Chris Terreri. Recchi streaking Down the Middle of the ice lunged at the puck with his stick and it went Between Terreri a legs for the game Winner and Recchio a second goal of the game. A i was of rechecking and the Guy just displayed it a Recchi said. A fortunately it bounced right to me. It caught me by sur prise too and Terreri was kind of caught in  new Jersey rallied from one goal deficits three times to tie the game. The last tie was forged when Doug Brown scored Short handed by beating penguins goalie Tom Barrasso Between the pads with a 45-foot shot with 5 14 left in  division sabres 5, canadians 4 Buffalo . A defens Eman Mike Ramsey a soft shot beat Patrick Roy to snap a tie and give the sabres their Victory Over Montreal. Ramsey moved in from the see nil on Page 22 the stars and stripes sports m april 9,1991 b Page 23umpires go Back to work new York a major league umpires and baseball reached agreement on a new contract monday but it came too late for the regular umpires to work baseball a afternoons season openers. Instead Crews of former major and minor league umpires along with College umps worked the six Day games american league spokeswoman Phyllis Mer Hige said a Crew of current major league umpires were to be in place for monday nights Milwaukee at Texas game at which president Bush was scheduled to throw out the first Ball. The leagues expected All major league umpires to resume work tuesday. The umpires walked out saturday for the sixth time in 21 years. But talks resumed sunday and a tentative agreement was reached Early monday morning the four year settlement was signed at noon. The terms include a salary scale of $60,000 to $175,000, see umps on Page 22inside sports Nicklaus rallies to win tradition a Page 22columnist puts a Knock on opening Day a Page 25kings equal Road losing record a Page 26owens staying in school says father a Page 27 i by de Schuyler or. A boxing writer Hollywood Fla. Larry Holmes is fighting again a in the ring and in the Street. The 41-year-old former heavyweight Champion began a comeback sunday night from 38 months of inactivity by knocking Down Tim Quot Doc Anderson twice  in 123 seconds. A thank god its Over a 8-year-old Larry Holmes or. Told his Mother Diane after seeing his father fight for the first time. The fight was Over but the fighting Wasny to. Holmes and a former adversary Trevor Berbick a 1 Soto pm e r h e Avyse in h t c h a m Pion held a punch out in front of the Diplomat hotel the scene of the scheduled fight. Berbick who lives at Miro mar Fla., attended Holmes Post fight news conference at which Holmes said he would never fight Berbick again because he did no to like his attitude Holmes defended the world boxing Council title with a 15-round decision Over Berbick april 11, 1981, in a fight that snapped a string of eight knockout wins for Holmes. Berbick later won the wac title which was Relin gushed by. Holmes. I after Holmes left the news conference Berbick claimed before television cameras �?o1 beat him 15 out of 15 rounds a then he charged that a woman Friend of i Lola est broke up his marriage. Holmes heard about and it and he and aides went looking for Berbick they found him in front of the hotel. He chased Berbick Down a driveway and the two exchanged punches the fight spilling out onto a Street before police broke it up. Back in front of the hotel Berbick hollowed a everybody saw Larry punch and kick  hearing this Holmes went Over two cars and landed on Berbick with his feet. A again the fight was broken up with police escorting Berbick Home and Holmes going to a pos fight party w Here he rapped with his musical group marmalade. A a done to judge me by what you saw tonight a Holmes told a crowd of about 2,000 people immediately after beating Anderson in a Diplomat ballroom a three and a half years is a Long time away ill get  indeed it was almost Imossi be to judge How much Holmes has lost in ability through age and inactivity. A the 32-year-old Anderson who weighed 202va pounds provided no opposition for the 236-Pound Holmes. Holmes Hurt Anderson with four rights to the body 55 seconds into the fight then knocked him Down with two rights to the body at 1 28. A 3 the end came when Anderson went Down from a right to the body right to the head and right to the body. He got up at the count of five but referee Eddie Eckert stopped the bout. The Victory was the 49th in 52 fights and the 35th by knockout for Holmes who snapped a three fight losing Streak. Larry Holmes 38-Mooth hiatus