European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 4, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes june 4,1991 Page 28 London to bowl Hast Rutherford . A a precision offence unit rarely turned inc Ball Over and an aggressive defense that allowed the fewest Points in the league made the London monarchs the Best team in the world league of american football in the regular How to play that Way for 20 minutes against the new York new Jersey knights in the playoffs almost Cost Olaf playoffs the monarchs i0-1 a trip Home for the world How next sunday against Barcelona 9-2. A to. V a v Quot ,. The monarchs Ralhf carom an Early 17-Point deficit to Salvage their first world league of a american Hob tall season on sunday As Stan Gelbaugh passed for 301 Yards and five touchdowns to Lead Lon. Don to a 42-26 Victory Over the knights at giants stadium. A. A a a. Quot Stan Gelbaugh is a great quarterback and a Tough Tough competitor a said London coach Larry Kennan. A you can t get him Down a a. I he monarchs did life easy on themselves As three blown coverages in the secondary led to two Jeff Graham touchdown passes to Kip Lewis and a 17 0 new York new Jersey read Early in the second Quarter. A. A a i thought we d continue to Bury them at that Point a said knights c Oach. Mouse Davis. Quot but a few Calls got then Hack in it on a touchdown drive and we aided them with turnovers. Still we had Pur Quot chances a a a. The knights did t take advantage though and finished the season at 5-0 leaving Barcelona and London to Battle for the first Olaf title. Barcelona which Defeated Binning Ham 10-3 on saturday in the other Olaf playoff game split two regular season Ganies with London wanning the season finale at Wembley 20-17. The monarchs who won All three games with the knights this season did no to take the Lead for Good until Gelbaugh hit Pat Davis with a 1-Yard touchdown pass Early in Thea third Quarter for a 21-20 Lead. _ a a Gelbaugh who completed 25 of 41 passes hut also threw three interceptions added a 68-Yard scoring strike to a jump ing Jon Horton later in the Quarter Lor a 28-20 advantage. New York new Jersey Drew within 2826 on a 6-Yard i d run by Eric Wilkerson with 6 04 left in the to Piaf Quarter Llew Ever Graham failed to hit Lonnie. I Erncr on a two Point conversion attempt Fumble by Graham on a snap at the London 26 with eight minutes to play killed one drive and Corris Ervin intercepted a Graham pass at the monarchs 5 with 3 38 to play. The game played at giants stadium because of soccer matches at Wembley Drew a crowd of 23,146. The monarchs will he Home next week in a matchup of the Olaf s my two teams. V Chicago up the los Angeles lakers opened the 1691 Aba finals in stunning fashion sunday knocking off the Chicago bulls 93-91. Sam Perkins 3-Pointcr with 14. Seconds remaining put the lakers in front to stay a but not before Michael Jordan got a last Chance. Jordan who finished with a game High 36 Points sent a 20-footer in and out of a the Basket. A a a this is the Way basketball is supposed to be played from every players Starr Point a a said Laker magic a on that last shot of his my breath almost stopped Quot the matchup of guards Jordan and Johnson is at the heart of this series. Johnson had 19 Points 11 assists and 10 rebounds. Jordan had 12 assists and eight rebounds. A. A but the lakers stole the Home court advantage when the bulls reverted to letting Jordan be their whole Story. The lakers got far better distribution. Forwards Perkins and James worthy each scored 22 Points and Center Vlade Divac 16 Points and a career playoff High 14 re. Bounds. A a a / \ bulls coach Phil Jackson suggested some of his players were stricken by a Case of jitters. A a a a the bust of seven series resumes wednesday night at Chicago stadium be it fore shifting to los Angeles for three. Games. The loss ended Chicago a. 15-game Home playoff w inning Streak an Aba record. Quot this series is not Over because we lost one game a said Jordan w to insisted repeatedly beforehand that he would not gel into a one on one style of game but did. A we certainly can go out and win. One there.�?�. Chicago after erasing a seven Point deficit Early in the i Ouitha Quarter moved it ahead 89-86 with 2 37 remaining. Perkins responded with a jumper and made one of two free throws to tie the score again with 1 22 left. _ Scot tie Pippen put the bulls Back ahead 91-89 by converting a pair of free throws with 62 seconds to go. Divac missed a 15-foot jumper that would have tied the score with 47 seconds left and. Jordan then missed a turnaround Bank that could have clinched the game with 23 seconds left. Los Angeles got the rebound and the teams exchanged timeouts. Terry Teagle in bounded at mid court to Johnson who dribbled toward the top of the key and dished to Perkins on the right Wing. Perkins then Sank the3-Pointer to put the lakers in front 92-91 with 14 seconds to Quot fit. A v a a a Quot id like to say 1 designed it Tor the said lakers coach Mike Dunleavy Quot hut he took the three Pointer on his own. Its his Oware Hoice. Ile can step in 2, 3 feet or pull the trigger.�?�. After a timeout Jordan drove the Baseline Blit got caught up in traffic. He tried to push a pass inside hut Oil a los Angeles player out of Jordan got Quot the one More Chance. After another timeout Pippen i hounded to Jordan hut his jumper from the left w ing Sam Perkins of los Angeles knocks the Hall from Michael Jordan a hand during came 1 of the Aba finals on sunday. A rimmed out with four seconds remaining. The lakers Byron Scott got the rebound. Was fouled and hit one of two free throw s with_2jseconds to go to Cap the scoring. With both teams out of timeouts Pip pen put up a half court heave at the Bizzer that hanged off the Hack of the rim. A a a a a a / a a. A a Pippen finished with 19 Points the Only other Bull in double was seven of 19 from the Field fellow starters Bill Cartwright Horace Grant and John Paxson finished with six Points apiece. "1 Felt our. Players w Ere Sjo to quite in game shape a said Jackson whose team played its first game since sweeping the Detroit pistons last monday Quot at the end. Michael a shot rolled iut that would have Given us a four print. Lead a with 23 seconds to go and then the one that rattled in and out. It was just a matter of w hich one Jordan had 18 Points eight assists and five rebounds in the first half while limiting Johnson to six Points All free throws. The bulls Poulshot the lakers 59 percent of 44 percent in the half and led 53-51 after Pippen s two free throw s with 2.7 seconds a tight third Quarter in which Chicago led 68-67 with under two minutes remaining worthy hit a jumper arid Johnson a 3-Pointer with 30 seconds left los Angeles got the Ball Back Johnson dribbled up court and hit another 3-Pointer to put his team ahead 75-68 entering the final Quarter. A i thought the lakers played their game kept it at their Tempo a Jackson said. A your defensive pressure stepped it up a bit in the fourth the bulls,"who1 Shula dismal 27 percent in the third Quarter ran of i 10 straight Points to Start the fourth period with Jordan scoring three of the baskets and setting up the other two. Los Angeles which missed its first six shots of the period came Back for a 78-78 tie and it remained close the rest of the Way. A. A a a. ,. A a a. �?o1 think this will be a Tough hard fought series a Laker . Green said. A i done to even want to think about game 2after the one we played for the first Lime in this years playotes the bulls got off to a slow Start falling behind by As Many As six Points Midway through the first Quarter. Inside sports Montreal a Buck Rodgers whose Montreal expos were in last place in die National league fast was tired monday ending his seven year tenure As manager. A upon dismissing Rodgers whose team had a 20-29 record and was 13 games out of first place. Expos general manager David Dombrowski replaced him with third base coach Tom Runnells. Rodgers 52, was die fifth major league manager fired this season. With a career record of 520-499, Rodg ers was the Winni Gesl manager in live expos 22-year history surpassing Gene Mauch in that category on the final Dav of the 1990 season. Rodgers joined Montreal prior to the 1985 season after having Milwaukee Brewers and the expose class aaa affiliate at Indianapolis. A a a a a. Other managers fired this season were Don Zimmer of the Chicago cubs Nick Cyva of Philadelphia John Walhan of Kansas City and rank Robinson of Baltimore. Schrader holds off Earnhardt Page 22 French open action on monday a Page 25 pirates win 9th in Row a Page 26 Andrades Birdie takes title. A Page 27
