European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 24, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday june 24, .1991 the stars and stripes. B Page 25 record gives Fittipaldi pole from wire reports Portland Ore. A Emerson Fittipaldi set a track record saturday in Cap Taring the pole for sundays Portland 200 indy car race. Fittipaldi had Only the eighth Best time after fridays initial qualifying round and trailed first Day Leader Rick Mears by nearly 1.5 seconds on the 1.9-Miie Road course. But after Fittipaldi screw changed the Wing position on his car and made a few More minor adjustments the brazilian native was Able to set a Portland International raceway a time of 56.497 seconds and a Speed of 122.470 Mph. That eclipsed the Mark that Mears had set the Day before of 56.603 seconds and 122.242 Mph. Mears was to sit next to Fittipaldi in the front Row marking the first time this season that the Penske racing Drivers captured the top two qualifying spots. For most of saturdays 30-minute qualifying session it appeared Fittipaldi would wind up second in the Grid for sundays race. In fact it Wasny to until his final Lap of the Day that he ripped off the track record. A you never want to wait to do it on the run a Ait final Lap a Fittipaldi said a the Flag could have come up before i got the last Lap after a relatively poor showing Friday Fittipaldi was amazingly consistent saturday,.turning in seven laps under the 57-second Mark. Quot yesterday Friday did no to rut lot a Fittipaldi said. "1 was always w ing behind Rick on when Mears was asked How it Felt to lose the pole to his teammate he replied a better him than someone else. That s racing. That a to be expected from time to time. You always know it can possibly the biggest Surprise saturday was Scott Pruett who bad the third fastest qualifying time. That is his Best showing m two years of indy car racing. He qualified ninth two weeks ago at Michigan and then sixth last week in Detroit. Oddly Pruett has one of the slower cars in the straights but one of the fastest through Pirn a nine turns. A a in a pretty pleased with the. Way things Are going a he said. A a a a. Pruett is driving the first american made indy car since 1985, when Dan Gurney campaigned a pair of his eagles Michael Andretti turned in the fourth Best qualifying time which was showing after he broke the track record Friday in out the top 10 of the starting Grid will be in order a Unser jr., Danny Sullivan Mario Andretti Bobby Rahal i Eddie Che Var and Arie Luyendyk. In other . Racing news saturday. Brown tops Stock cars Myrtle Beach . Chuck Bown recovered from two Flat tires to score his second Lascar Busch grand National Victory of the season in the $96,253 Carolina Pride Budweis or 250 at Myrtle Beach Speedway. Down who started on the pole and led /. The first 37 laps fell to the end of the Lead Lap Early in the race due to a pair of Flat tires on his Pontiac. But he slowly worked his Way Back into Contention and put. Him self into position to Lead the final 138 laps of the 250-Lap race on the .538-mile track. Bown won $15,284. Robert Pressley driving an Oldsmobile finished 4.8 seconds behind Bown with Steve Grissom third in an Oldsmobile Kenny Wallace in a Pontiac and Joe Nemechek in a Chevrolet rounded out the top five. Grand National Points Leader Bobby la Montc finished 21st after losing 31 laps in an Accident. Mander wins arca 200 Brooklyn Mich. Dave Madr Iii took Over the Lead on dip 45 and held on for his first Victory in the rain shortened arca 200 at Michigan International Speedway. The 100-Lap race was called after 59 laps because of heavy rain Madr making his second arca career Start took the Toad from Bobby Bowsher who made a pit a caution Flag on Lap 56 enabled Madr of May Lonc ala., to Nang on to the Lead until the race was halted he had started the race from the 2tst position. Roy Payne of Llue town ala., finished in second place and Rich Bickle jr., of in second place and Kun Edgerton wis., was third. Lakers Divac ponders Italy a Rome apr Vlade Divac the yugoslav Center of the los Angeles lakers said sunday he might Transfer to Italy when his contract with the Aba team expires next year. Giving strength to recent published reports that he would join Dino Radja at Messaggiero Rome in 1992, Divac said a Italy is my favorite country and i want to play in the italian league sooner or a i feel Well in los Angeles but my contract with the lakers expires in one year. I am a professional and i will go where i aim Given the Best terms. Radja told me that he feels great in Rome a Divac added Divac arrived in Rome to play for Yugoslavia in the final round of the european championships a few Days after losing the Aba title in the playoff series against the Chicago bulls. -. -. A. He said that Michael Jordan who led the bulls to Victory in a series of five games against the lakers a is a real a. A a if the bulls sign a Good Center they can dominate the Aba for several years a the Divac said. Divac will team in the tourney with Toni Kukoc one of the Best european players who has recently rejected bids by the bulls to join Benetton Treviso in the italian league. A i can to say if he was. Wrong or right. 1 can say Toni possesses the qualities for doing Well in the Aba. If you love basketball you dream of playing in the states. I proved to myself i could have done Divac said he Felt very tired after the exhausting playoff finals. A. A a a a a a. A however ill do my Best to help the. Teammates to win the european title.�?T? Yugoslavia the defending european Champion plays its first game of group a against Spain at Rome a pal. Eur monday. There were five Lead changes in the race and three caution flags due to three accidents. -. A. Boh Brovak spun into the Wall on Lap 18. . Taylor Mark Gibson and Bob Keselowski collided on Lap 39. Craig re Brigu hit the Wall on Lap 56. None of the Drivers were injured. A Italy is my favorite country a says Vlade Divac sex Miami official confesses Lauderdale lakes Fla. A a fired University of Miami official says he faked hundreds of financial Aid forms to help needy students for More than a decade but Only began charging kickbacks in the past two years to feed a cocaine habit. Former associate academic coordinator Tony Russell said saturday he charged $85 to Miami students mostly football players to falsify financial Aid applications so he could support his addiction. The 43-year-old Russell under investigation by the Fri made the admissions in a lengthy interview at his Home with a selected group of reporters. A a the of big a got my statement a he said. A they know in a guilty i deserve it for what i did for the last two years. There a no question in my was at Miami for two years before being fired in May but he said he falsified As Many As 60 applications a year for at least 12 years meaning 700. Or More Stu dents from the nation might have gotten Money for which they should not have qualified. A i done to know How they re going to find them a Russell said a a lot of the athletes Are gone. Some Are in the a v a a y. Sam Jankovich Miami a athletic 1983 until leaving last december to become the. New England patriots chief operating officer issued a statement on saturday that said a a it a hard for me to believe this kind of thing could happen Given the Structure of the financial Aid a a. Russel said he used the federally funded Pell Grant designed to help needy students to get the students Between $250 to $2,400per year. Russell said he kept his dealings secret from at us. And he said no one including his Boss Ever asked him Why he was doing financial Aid work when he worked in the academic department. Sembach wins Safe soccer by murid1th Winder a. . Bureau Lakenheath England a Melville Lewis scorcher from just outside the penalty area with eight minutes to play in sundays second overtime found its Way through tie goalkeepers hands to give Sembach a 1-0 Victory Over Span Dahlem and the Safe soccer championship. ? the game Winner came after Lewis picked up the Ball at Midfield of the wet and Slippery Field dribbled Down to just put Side the penalty area and fired the bail Down the Middle. Goalkeeper James Coulter an Al tournament selection made a near miraculous Stop but hold onto the Ball but Span Dahlem no. 2 seed from the Continental sports conference Wasny to ready to concede. The sabers kept forcing the Ball into sen Ibach a half of the Field and Only Sembach a tenacious defense and Heads up play from. Goalkeeper Steven Ilc Agerty prevented the equalizer. A a a a a in a relieved that this is finally Over a said Sembach coach Dave Fisher whose team was the regular season Csc Champion a they had me worried through most of he game. Their goalie was Good and made three tremendous saves Early on. This was our hardest fought game of the the game was a defensive struggle from the outset which suited the runners up just Fine. A we arc not a scoring club, Spang coach tie Vor Tummings. A we rely More on our defense. But they got a break and took the tigers also took three berths on the Safe Al tournament team As sundays hero Lewis was joined on the squad by teammates Michael Pirson and Elaudo Martinez. Also named were Spang a Coulter Iraklion a John Karapiperis and Floyd Brown Derrick Fosters and Kevin Freswick and Lakeah Cathy a Billy Mcgregor Ernie Friday and Leighton Chang. Fisher was named the All Star coach. Mannhe in grabs tit i e Wurzburg Germany a Mannheim downed Stuttgart in three straight close games to win the women a army. European volleyball championship sunday at Leighton Barracks. A a. The Mannheim team representing 21st Talcom won the Bosl of five final from Vii corps Stuttgart 1510,13-12 and 16-14. A. A the four team double elimination tournament began saturday Best of three matches Hanau edged Stuttgart 15-13, 15-12 Mannheim topped 7th army training corny by duplicate 15-8 scores Stuttgart beat 7th acc 16-14, 15-6 Mannheim Defeated Hanau 15-6, 15-5, and Stuttgart then ousted Hanau 15-7,15-5
