European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 4, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes August 4,1991 c Page 24 reds Stop giants by Joe Kay Cincinnati a the san Francisco giants marked the end of their 11-game winning Streak the same Way they built it a without much emotion. The giants let a pair of leads and their longest winning Streak in a Quarter Cen Tury slip away Friday night. Barry Larkin and Joe Oliver hit two run homers to rally the Cincinnati reds to a 5-4 Victory other major league games on Page 22 that ended the longest winning Streak in the National league this season. A Well Well Start another winning Streak tomorrow a manager Roger Craig said. Bud Black 8-9who let a pair of leads slip away also chose to look at the fresh beginning the Streak has provided rather than the end that finally came Friday. A fall along everybody knew we had a Good team and we played poorly the first two months a Black said. A we played like we re capable of playing the last two weeks. If we continue to play this Way Well Chip  the winning Streak was the giants longest since they won 12 straight in 1966. San Francisco has had Only one longer winning Streak 14 games in 1965. The Streak helped the giants make up 5 it games since the All Star break. They re in fourth place trailing Cincinnati by a game Ana a half and first place los Angeles by nine. Randy Myers gave up an rib single to Willie Mcgee and a two run single to Robby Thompson in the first inning then settled Down. Kevin Mitchell led off the third with his 21st Homer and Myers allowed just one More hit before leaving with two out in the seventh. Women marathoners pass a Street poster of cuban revolutionary hero Che Guevara As they run through Havana on saturday. A i a pan am games begin 15-Day run in Havana by John Nelson Havana a Fidel Castro opened the pan american games and in what could Well be a turning Point for the worlds Lone Island of hard line communism Cuba welcomed americans for the first time in 32 years. If he did not exactly embrace the United states Castro at least accepted its people and their dollars into a country whose Economy is crumbling even More quickly than its Rococo 1950s architecture. Quot a a distinguished guests athletes and countrymen a he said at Friday nights opening ceremonies. A i proclaim the 11th pan american games inaugurated. Thank you very  it May have been the shortest speech of his reign As president of Cuba. And while the crowd received him enthusiastically there was an undertone of worry. A cubans done to want the pan americans a goes the joke of the week among its people. A they want pan  a a pan is Spanish for bread. At a Cost of More than $100 million perhaps As much As Cuba has in its entire National Reserve the cubans have got the pan american games like it or not. With them the games have brought More than 10,000 foreign visitors about 2,000 of whom Are americans. There Haven to been this Many americans in Cuba since. Castro took Over from Batista in 1959, and they be got their dollars with them. The opening ceremonies were a pre cursor to two weeks of games involving 39 countries in 31 sports. The actual games began saturday and right away Cuba had its first Gold medal Winner in Alberto Cuba. The 26-year-old Cuba Yon the Marathon the games first event and became the first cuban to do so since a Dames Gonzalez in the 1979 pan am games. Then came one of the games Premier showdowns a Usa Cuba basketball a saturday afternoon. A i expect the crowds to be pro toward any country that a playing against the United states a Abc sports studio Host Brent Musburger said. A and when the . Plays Cuba in basketball i expect an enormous outpouring for the cuban  a there Are no tickets for the events. The cuban people get in free until the building or stadium is full. Just another line they must endure. The others though Are for things like bread gasoline and toilet paper. The . Menus basketball team has a Long losing Streak going in major International Competition. They Haven to won a Gold medal since the 1986 world championships and have lost an olympics a world championships a pan am games and a Goodwill games since. On the flip Side is the women a basketball team perhaps the most dominant team in International Amateur sports. It has a 41-game winning Streak in International Competition including seven major championships. The women began their Norman grabs Buick open Lead grand Blanc Mich. A Greg Norman shot a 65 on Friday to take a one stroke Lead Over Scott Hoch at the Buick open. Normans round of 7-under left him at 132, one better than Hoch the first round Leader who followed his tournament record tying 63 with a 70. Defending Champion Chip Beck pea Champ Wanye Grady and Brad Faxon were third at 134, a shot ahead of Gil Morgan and Gene Sauers at Warwick Hills Golf and country club. David Edwards Barry Jaeckel and Rookie Marco Dawson were at 136. Nick Faldo Howard Twitty and 1989 Buick open Winner Leonard Thompson were in a group at 137. Payne Stewart the . Open Champion shot 74-79 and missed the Cut. Other notables missing the Cut at 3-under 141 included Davis love 111, Wayne Levi and Mark Calcavecchia. Norman started the round four shots behind the Leader and promptly holed a w Edge shot at the first Hole for an Eagle 3 to go 7-under Overall. Birdies at the fourth fifth and sixth holes got him to 10-under but that Streak ended with a bogey at no. 8, a 181-Yard Par-3. On the Back Side Norman Winner of the 1989 and 1990 Vardon trophy for Low scoring birdied 12, 13 and 14 to go 12-under. Norman one of golfs most charismatic players was the Tours leading Money Winner in 1990 with $1.2 million. But he a 45th on the list this year with $243,081. Hell pocket $180,000 if he wins Here. Pan am tournament today against Canada. Also on the schedule were menus springboard diving and team gymnastics. The cuban organizers put together a colourful Well orchestrated opening ceremonies highlighted by the card Section which spelled out the names of each participating country As it marched into the stadium As Well As showing pastoral Island scenes and the ornate architecture of old Havana. Political slogans were conspicuously missing at the new 35,000-seat pan american stadium. That a the Way the . Olympic committee wanted it too a no politics just athletics. A a we re not Here for any reason related to governments or political relationships or social or economic systems a soc president Robert Helmick said. A a we re Here simply for the youth of our country to participate with the youth of 38 other countries from throughout this  Well and Good but think about this for a moment before 26-year-old Jim Schreiner of Day n.y., walked into the opening ceremonies when was the last time anyone marched in Cuba with an american Flag and did no to bum it Schreiner a kayaker who has multiple sclerosis was elected . Flag bearer for the games. A a it a a great Honor. In a the Only one see games on Page 23inside sports Lions Broncos Post wins a Page 18 Bavaro giants reach settlement a Page 18 bears aiming for Berlin experience a Page 21 Tucson makes pitch for teams a Page 23