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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Monday, April 22, 1991

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    European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 22, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday april 22. 1991 the stars and stripes by the associated press Palm Beach gardens Fla. A Jack Nicklaus raised to a 2-under-Par 70 sunday to dominate the 52nd pea seniors championship by six strokes and take his fourth seniors Victory in six starts since turning 50 a Little Over a year ago. Nicklaus had opened the $500,000 tournament with two straight 66s on thursday and Friday and when he wired a 69 for an eight shot Lead Over Bruce Crampton saturday,.the tournament was virtually Over. Nicklaus finished the 72 holes at 17-under-Par 271. Crampton shot a 68 sunday and finished at 277. Next was Bob Charles at 282 after carding a 71. Nicklaus fell three strokes Short of the tournament scoring record of 268, set by Sam Snead m 1973. Nick Lausz six stroke margin of Victory also Lell far Short of the tournament record of 15 set by Snead that same year before there was a senior pea tour love takes 3-shot Lead Hilton head Island . A Davis love fired a 3-under 68 to take a three stroke Lead Over Ian Baker Finch after saturdays third round of the $1 million heritage classic. Love who entered the Day a stroke Back of second round Leader Chip Beck was at 12-under 201 heading into sundays final  grabs 23rd tour win St. Mellion England a Germany a Bernhard Langer on sunday claimed his 23rd Victory on the Europe an tour by firing a final round 70 for a 2-under 286 in the $710,000 Benson and Hedges International. Langer who earned $100,000, birdied five of the final 11 holes in overcoming a five shot deficit. He finished two shots ahead of Fiji a Vijay Singh who also shot 70 for an even Par 288. V a Lenzi makes diving history Minneapolis a Mark Lenzi did something saturday that not even his idol Greg Louganis Ever did crack diving a equivalent to the 4-minute mile. And the fact that Lenzi became the first person in the history of his sport with 100 Points on a single dive was even More meaningful because it came on his final Effort and won him the 3-meter springboard title at the . Indoor diving championships. Lenzio a 101.85 Points on a reverse 3-somersault from the tuck position shattered the 1983 record of 99.00 Points set by Louganis on a 1 /2-somersault with 3>/2 twists. Lenzi finished with 710.84  gymnast triumphs state College a. A John Roet Lisberger hindered by a fractured left foot at the Start of the season won the Mcaa menus All around gymnastics tournament saturday after scoring 9.7 on the High bar and sports wire 6 shots owe to stay Tubbs. By the associated press Atlantic City . A heavyweight contender Riddick Bowe stayed unbeaten by throwing just enough left jabs to out Point former Champ Tony Tubbs and win a lacklustre 10-round unanimous decision saturday. Bowe 23-0 with 20. Knockouts seemed tentative at times As he tried to figure out Tubbs. It was the first time in the last eight fights that Bowe failed to Knock out his opponent. Tubbs 30-3 with is Kos tied up Bowe frequently in the later rounds and finished strongly getting the better of the inside fighting. Judges Frank Cairo and Richard strange had the fight 96-94 and Jean Williams scored it 97-93 for Tubbs. The crowd booed the decision. Williams retains if title Atlantic City . A Prince Charles Williams defended his if Light heavyweight title by stopping Janies Kinchen at 23 seconds of the second round saturday. Williams Hurt his opponent in the first round using a left uppercut to set up a left right combination to floor Kinchen the no. 1 contender. Williams 31-4-2 with 22 Kos had Kinchen against the ropes As the first round ended. Williams of Mansfield Ohio continued his assault in the second round hammering Kinchen 47-7-2 from san Diego with body punches and blows to the head. Referee Frank cappuccino stopped the fight with Kinchen helpless against the ropes. Floor exercise. Roet Lisberger from Minnesota trailed a clan a Scott Keswick by More than three tenths of a Point Ern tearing the compulsory is but outscored Keswick by More than a Point on the Pommel horse to take the title. Jaite survives problems in Nice Nice France a Martin Jaite of Argentina overcame service problems and beat Goran Prpic of Yugoslavia 3-6, 7-6- 7-16-3, in the final of the Nice open Tennis tournament , Fernandez gain final Houston. Top seeded Monica Seles won the first 10 games and beat hard working Sandra Cecchini of Italy 6-0. 62 to gain the finals of the Virginia slims of Houston tournament saturday night.-. A Quot Seles wars to play second seeded Mary Joe Fernandez in sundays finals. Fernandez broke Linda liar Rev wild a serve seven times in route to a 6-0, 6 3 Ictor in the other semifinals match. A a Rainey tops motorcycle trials Mon in Erey Calif. A defending world Champion Wayne Rainey of Downey Calif., earned the pole position saturday for sundays United Stales grand prix Mot Ocyle event qualifying at 91.432 Mph. Rainey bumped Marlboro Roberts Yamaha teammate John Kocinski of Modesto Calif., to second. Kevin Schlaht a a of 1 Louston Rode his Lueky strike Suzuki to the third  Mara runs year s Best 10,000 Walnut Calif Frank o Mara of Ireland turned in a 56.4 second filial Lap to successfully defend his 10,000 meter championship saturday at the my. San Antonio College relays. O Mara s closing Rush brought him Home in 27 58.01, the fastest Lime in the world this  nabs first Aba Victory Windsor locks Conn. Billy Young of Oklahoma City earned his first Aba title and the $30,000 top prize with a come from behind Victory in the Tunis classic on saturday. It Young got by David do Entremont of Parma Ohio in the title match 203-201. The top seeded Young failed to Mark in the first two frames of the final game. Trailing by 31 pins through five Young hide a Ball change and then rolled four consecutive strikes. No strike Aba officials say new York a contrary to a published report Aba referees have no plans to strike during the playoffs the general counsel for the officials said saturday. A a strike that a premature. We Haven to even begun the negotiations a a Fred Slaughter said by Telephone from his California  wins Japan classic Tokyo a Ryan Thornton of Southwest Missouri state scored 24 Points siriday As the Midwest . Allstar team beat the South 108-105 and won the Japan classic. Andy Kennedy of Alabama Birmingham scored 33 Points for the South. The West paced by 28 Points by Sean Green of Iona Defeated the East 112-102. The Midwest West and East All finished the three Day tournament with 2-1 re Lay cords but the Midwest won the title on the basis of the narrowest defeat among the three a four  playoff series at 1 -1 by the associated press the St. Louis blues and Edmonton oilers bounced Back in the nil playoffs saturday. The blues Defeated the Minnesota North stars 5-2 to tie their Norris division finals at a game apiece. The oilers did likewise in the smythe with a 4-3 double overtime win Over the los Angeles Kings. Both series will resume with game 3 on monday night a the Norris in Minneapolis and the smythe in Edmonton. Norris division blues 5, North stars 2 St. Louis a Adam Oates got the game Winner on a rebound shot at 7 55 of the third period. Oates scored on a rebound of a shot by Brett Hull to snap a 2-2 tie. Jeff Brown made it 4-2 with Stanley cup 6 19 to go when he put the puck into an empty net on a two on none break converting a pass from a Dave Thomlinson. Rich Sutter added an empty net goal with 19 seconds remaining. Smythe division oilers 4, Kings 3,2 0t los Angeles Petr Klima scored 4 48 into the second Over time to Lead Edmonton. The play began when Craig Mactavish brought the puck out of Edmonton a zone and across the Kings Blue line on the left Side and threw a Cross ice pass to Esa Tikkanen. Tikkanen threw the puck Down Low and Klima redirected it past Kelly Hrudney from 10 feet out for his third goal of the playoffs. For the second game in a Row Luc Robitaille scored a tying third period goal for los Angeles. With the Kings Down 3-2 at 6 32, Robitaille broke Down the left Side and fired a slap shot from the face off Dot that sailed Over Grant Fuhres left shoulder for his seventh playoff goal. Los Angeles got off two shots in the last 10 seconds right in front of the oilers net but Fuhr saved both and Edmonton went into its fourth straight overtime game. By the associated press London Portugal a Rosa Mot a added to her list of titles sunday in romping to victories in the world cup and the London Marathon. Mota the world olympic and european Champion broke away from a top Quality Field at 4 mites and won by 1 minute so cd ads in an unofficial --6 14, the second fastest time in the world this year. Azov Tolstiko of the soviet Union raced away from the menus Field and won in an unofficial 2 09 17. Portugal s Manuel Matias finished second edging Jan Hurtuk of Poland both clocked an unofficial 2 10.21. American Francie Larrieu Smith w to placed second in last years London Marathon wound up second again in the women a race with her fastest Ever Marathon. Larrieu Smith 38, was timed in an unofficial marathons 2 27 35. In other european marathons sunday de Castella tops Rotterdam Rotterdam Netherlands a Rob de Castella of Australia won the Rotterdam Marathon for the second time clocking an unofficial time of 2 09 44. Dioni Cio Ceron of Mexico finished second. A dutch woman joke Kleyweg won the women a race in 2 34 18. Pole conquers Hanover Hanover Germany Marek Adamski of Poland won the first Hanover Marathon raking in a winners Cheek of $3,000 and a minibus Worth $26,000 for the Victory. Adamski 30, clocked 2 hours 15 minutes 04 seconds in an event hampered by cold weather.  event ended with a soviet 1-2. Elena Jeg Erova passed the finish Tine at 2 36 39, Well ahead of Luisa Belleva. Tanzanian takes Madrid Madrid Spain a John Burra of Tanzania won the Madrid Marathon breaking the course record with a time of 2 hours 12 minutes 19 seconds. Fabiola Rueda of Colombia Winner of the Rome Marathon two weeks ago was the women a Winner in 2 38 45. A  
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