European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 27, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Sports wire Sidney gets Back on winning track from wire reports san Jose Calif. A like a Flash from the past Mary Decker Slaney emerged from years of injury and obscurity saturday with a Flash of her old flamboyant style. An iffy entry at the Bruce Jenner Syman Tec classic she won the 1,500 meters in 4 minutes 4.92 seconds the fastest women a time in the world this season. Although Slaney 32, had placed second in a Low key 1,500-meter race two weeks ago her fragile physical history since 1983 cautioned against expecting too much at san Jose. But she delivered the unexpected winning in emphatic fashion. Slaney ran a characteristic race a darting to the front setting a fast Pace and hanging on. Pattisue Plumer finished second in 4 05.04, and Christine Cahill of Britain was third in 4 07.60. Ferree leads by shot Malvern a. A Jim Ferree Sank a 35-foot putt to Birdie the 18th Hole saturday and take a one shot Lead into the final round of the Bell Atlantic classic. Ferree shot a 3-under-Par 69 for a two Day total of 8-under 136, one shot ahead of Jim Colbert who fired a 6-under 66 saturday. Richard retains Corning Lead Corning . Deb Richard fired a 69 saturday to stay three strokes ahead of a sizzling Betsy King through 54-holes of the Lyga Corning classic. King made seven birdies and almost no mistakes in a round of 65 which left her at 9-under 207 after three rounds. Richard had six birdies saturday and a 204 total Ayako Okamoto of Japan the 1989 Corning Champion and Colleen Walker were in third at 7-under.ballesteros tops British pea Virginia water England seve. Ballesteros put on a spectacular putting display in moving into a two stroke Lead after three rounds of the British pea Golf championship sunday. A the spaniard who started the Day two strokes be Hind co leaders Wayne Riley of Australia and Bernhard Langer i Germany shot a 65 for a 54-Hole total of 15-under-Par 201. Ballesteros Sank four putts of Between 20 and 30 feet including a 30-footer for an Eagle on the 483-Yard 12th Hole. He holed a 20-footer on the 15th and finished with consecutive 25-footers on the final two greens. No a a. A a a. A / a. For the second straight Day Langer bogeyed the Par-5 17th Hole. He finished with a 69 and dropped into second place at 203. Nick Faldo of England seeking a fifth consecutive British pea title collected seven birdies in shooting a 65 and moved into a third place tie with Colin Montgomerie of Scotland at 204. Five players were at 205, including Riley Eamon Darcy of Ireland Rodger Davis of Australia and Jesper Arnevik and Joakim Rystrom of wins team Tennis Dusseldorf Germany a Stefan Edberg Shook off a thigh injury and helped Sweden to a 2-0 Victory Over defending Champion Yugoslavia in sundays final of the world team cup Tennis i Edberg the worlds no. 1 player beat Goran Ivanisevic 6-4, 7-5, after Magnus Gustafsson Defeated Gora Schwantz captures German grand prix Bockenheim Germany up a Kevin Schwantz of the United states became the first rider to Lap the Hock Nheim circuit in under 2 minutes sunday on his Way to Victory in the German grand prix race for 500cc motorcycles. In the 11th of 18 laps Schwantz clocked 1 min Etc 59.952 seconds for the 6.7s-Kilomctcr Lap. Averaging 201.854 Kilometres per hour Schwantz won on a Suzuki in 36 20.491, .007 of a second ahead of fellow american Wayne Rainey on a Yamaha. But australian Michael Doohan remained in first place in the world championship standings after a third place finish in sundays race. Doohan tops the 500cc standings with 106 Points ahead of Rainey a 94 and 75 for Schwantz. In the 250cc class Helmut Bradi won the 15-Lap race by the huge margin of 13.517 seconds. Bradl who averaged 191.079 Kilometres per hour for the 101.880-Kilometer race clocked 31 59.456 on a Honda. Prpic 6-2,3-6, 6-4. Prpic and Slobodan Zivojinovic later won the doubles match for Yugoslavia defeating Edberg and Gustafsson 3-6, 6-3, 6-4, but the damage had already been done. It appeared on saturday that a strained thigh muscle might keep Edberg out of the final. But the two time Wimbledon Champion showed no sign of injury sunday. Edberg needed Only 34 minutes to win the first set against Ivanisevic. The second set was tied 5-5, before Edberg went ahead for Good 6-5, and won the match after one hour 26 minutes. Gustaffson Defeated Prpic in 1 44. After they split the first two sets and Gustafsson went ahead 4-3 in the third set play was suspended for about 45 minutes because of rain. Gustaffson overpowered Prpic when play resumed and won the match. Sweden also won the title in 1988.Cane takes Bologna tourney Bologna Italy a Italy a Paolo Cane rallied to beat Sweden a Jan Gunnarsson 5-7, 6-3, 7-5 and win the Bologna at tournament sunday. The Victory marked canes return to form after an operation on his spine. Cane lost the first set in 57 minutes but he came Back to win the second set in 33 minutes. The third set lasted More than two hours As Cane had eight match Points. In the doubles final the top seeded team of Luke Jensen of the United states and Laurie warder of Australia Defeated the brazilian team of Luiz Mattar and Jaime Onins 6-4,7-6 7-5 Lendl withdraws from French Paris a third seeded Ivan Lendl a three time French open Champion and 13th-seeded Jonas Svens son withdrew sunday on the eve of the Clay court tournament because of injuries. Lendl who won the tournament in 19s4. �?T86 and �?T87, pulled out because of recent surgery on his right hand. Svonsson a French open Semi Marist two of the past three years has had Back problems in recent wins Geneva a Manuela Malcova frag Nicro of Switzerland Defeated Helen Kelocsi of Canada 6-3,3-6.6-3 sunday and won the european open women s Tennis gains Lacrosse final Syracuse . A Tim Bargers Only goal broke a fourth Quarter tic and lifted Towson state to a 15-11 Victory Over Maryland on saturday in the semifinals of the Mcaa division i Lacrosse championship. The Victory moved the 1 Ltd seeded tigers into mondays championship game against top ranked and unbeaten North Carolina a 19-13 Winner Over three time defending National Champion Syracuse earlier saturday.2 Drivers injured at Charlotte Concord . A for the second time in eight Days a Lascar sportsman race at Charlotte motor Speedway resulted in serious injuries. Tom do eath broke a Bone in his neck and de Gartnerjr. Suffered a compound fracture of his right leg and a cracked sternum when the two were involved in a four ear wreck saturday during the Duron Maxwood 100, track spokesman Eddie Gossage said. Doctors said do eath 45, of fair Haven mich., was not experiencing any paralysis and was in stable condition. Do eath a world Champion unlimited hydroplane racer is probably Best known As the Pilot of the miss Budweiser Craft. Gartner 39, of Green Brook no underwent surgery saturday afternoon to repair a fractured nabs pole record Lime Rock Conn. A Tom Kendall took the pole position with a record breaking performance saturday at the i Mesa Lime Rock Ftp. Kendall of la Canada Flintridge Calif., gained first position with a record breaking 44.647-Sccond Lap in his Chevy intrepid. The average Speed was 124 players implicated Las vegas a a Man convicted in a Point shaving scandal entertained three members of in Lvi a 1990 National championship team at his Home a newspaper reported sunday. The Las vegas review Roumal said it had obtained photographs of Richard Perry with David Butler Anderson Hunt and Moses Scurry at Perry a Home near the Start of the 1989-90 season. Perry pleaded guilty in 1984 to conspiring to commit sports bribery in the Boston College Point shaving scandal. He w As sentenced to a year in cyclist triumphs Olbia Sardinia a Philippe Casa do of France edged out fellow countryman Didier thu eur in a final sprint to win the first stage of the tour of Italy cycling race on sunday. Casado finished the 12-0-mile course in 4 hours 37 minutes and 54 finds Galaxy s fan support unbelievable by Walt Morrissette staff writer Frankfurt Germany a a i could play Here a said an Static Ronnie Lott at halftime about the Wald stadium record crowd of 51,653 saturday night. A the fan support Here is unbelievable a Lott said. A a they re playing a that a the Way i like it by . And Ronnie Lott the Sunshine band and in be Neyer heard 40,000 people sing a Rock song together like that before. A a they be got me pumped up a Lott said. The crowd pumped up the visiting Sacramento surge 3-7 More than the Frankfurt Galaxy 7-3. The surge took advantage of numerous Galaxy errors to snap Frankfurt a five game winning Streak with a 24-13 Victory in the regular season finale for both teams. Frankfurt a playoff Hopes now ride on London a beating Barcelona on monday night. World league officials at the game confirmed that the 51,653 was second to the 53,000-plus that Montreal had for its Home opener. A playing in front of a crowd like this its noisy and exciting a said Lott who did the color commentary with play by play Man Joe. Starkey for Sacramento a Krak. Starkey also does play by play for lotto sold team the san Francisco 49crs. Lott flew to Frankfurt from Al Segun do Calif., site of the minicams of his new team the los Angeles raiders. His world league impressions afer spending the season with the surge a for a first year league the Quality of Prav and Job they be done is amazing. And you can to beat a crowd like this. A they should let some of the retiring veterans come Over Here to play. They could lend their names and reputations to the teams. Us old Guys who retire now done to have a place to go a Lott said. But this a a old Guy All pro did have a place to go after the 49ers wanted him to take a big pay Cut. A i approached the raiders when i became a free agent. I Felt if the 49ers did t think i was one of their Best 3�?o players then it was time for me to move Lott want Waling to finish k san Francisco in 1991. A if they had Given me $9?/jd� a i would have played one More year then walked away. In a going to play two More years with the raiders and that will be _ Lott is justifiably excited about wearing his same so. 42 and playing Corne Feack for Raider owner a Davis and coach an Shell. A i played against him a Lon said about Shell. A a he a a players coach. He a. He former 49er teammate Roger a. Los Angeles a makes it a Xvi Row ctr f 0 it b i a situation Dot the moot Lott said he s keep a n \ \ 7 % 2 a i to co i m san Francisco bound. Like the Quot z says i left my he Art in san Francesco in a leaving my Home there a
