European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 29, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Braves tie la. For Lead Atlanta apr Charlie Leibrandt is a believer now that the braves have finally caught the dodgers in the National league West. The left hander allowed four hits and struck out a career High 13 in eight innings of a 3-2 Victory Over the expos on tuesday night. Leibrandt 13-11who won his fourth consecutive game has a 1.22 Era Over his last 37 innings. His latest Victory lifted the braves to 69-56, the same As the dodgers. Los Angeles lost 2-1 to the cubs earlier tuesday. Jim Clancy pitched a perfect ninth for his seventh save. A a we be played Well the second half a said Leibrandt. A a we re charging now and we feel like we can win a a we re Happy to be there a said braves manager Bobby Cox. A now we be got to find a Way to get ahead of them dodgers and stay other major league games on Page 22 the braves in first place on May 17, fell As far Back As 9vi games at the All Star break. They have won 30 of 46 since including five of their last seven games. The braves seeking to become the first team in history to go from last to first the next season have not been in first place this late in the season since aug. 28, 1983. A a in be got to believe the braves Are going to win it a said Montreal a Delino Deshields. A a they re playing together. The fans Are with them and it looks like they re All pulling for each Greg Olson and Mark Lemke drove in runs As the braves took a 2-0 Lead against Chris Nabholz 2-7 in the second inning. Leibrandt in his 10th major league season gave up a Solo Home run to Deshields on the first pitch of the game and another bases empty shot to Ivan Calderon in the seventh. It was Deshields eighth of the year and no. 17 for Calderon. Leibrandt whose previous High in strikeouts was 11 on july 31,1988, at Baltimore when he was with Kansas City walked just one. The braves took the Lead with a pair of runs in the second when Brian Hunter singled with one out. Jeff Blauser walked Olson singled to score Hunter and Send Blauser to third from where he scored on a sacrifice Fly by Lemke. Atlanta added another run in the fifth when Lonnie Smith singled took second on a ground out and scored on an rib single by Ron Gant. Connors tops Little Mac in 41/3-hour, 5-set thriller by Steve Wilstein new York apr the legendary duels of Connors and Mcenroe took a dramatic wild turn at the . Open before a roaring crowd whose hero quit. Five time Champion Jimmy Connors who played so Many memorable matches against John Mcenroe thrilled fans with one of his greatest comebacks to beat Little Mac a Johns younger brother Patrick a 4-6, 6-7 4-76-4, 6-2, 6-4 in a 4-hours, 20-minute Duel until 1 35 . Wednesday. In an Early wednesday1 match second seeded Monica Seles continued her successful return to grand slam Tennis eliminating Emanuela Zardo 6-0, 4-6, 6-0 at the . Open. Seles sailed through the first set with no problem but found some difficulty m the second against the 21-year-old from Switzerland. Zardo broke her in the fifth game and took the set. But Seles regained her touch dominating the third set breaking her opponent at love in the second game and winning easily. Connors who turns 39 monday shed years As the match wore on leaping and lunging in the fifth set on adrenaline and sheer inspiration after limping through part of the first two sets. Few moments in . Open history have matched the excitement of Connors comeback from three break Points in the last game to win on his third match Point a a service Winner against a courageous opponent. A whenever you play a Mcenroe its a big occasion whether in a playing John Patrick or Johns son Kevin a Connors said. A this is what i live for a he said of the fans. A they pulled me through this . Open jubilant Jimmy Connors. Celebrates great comeback match. Patrick let me Back in the third set and the crowd pulled me it was the first time that Connors and Little Mac played and they produced excitement that recalled the spirit if not the brilliance of the previous generation of Connors Mcenroe matches. By the fifth set the Battle had grown so fierce and Connors so Strong that his every Winner provoked frenzied shouts from the thousands of fans who stayed to watch it All. Connors got into a verbal Battle with the chair Umpire Dana Loconto in the third game of the fourth set after an Ace by Mcenroe gave him the advantage. Television replays showed the Ball clearly was out and Connors stormed Over to Loconto screaming for the referee. A a you re out you re out a bellowed Connors who had complained earlier about a Lack of Calls on several of Mcenroe a aces. But the referee never came out. T Connors brought himself under control and returned to the Baseline while the crowd stood and jeered the Umpire. Mcenroe waited patiently but then served amid the Boos and won the game to go up 2-1 when Connors muffed an overhead into the net. Connors held serve then once More revved up the crowd by breaking Mcenroe to 3-2 with a Cross court forehand that a lunging Mcenroe dumped into the net. When Mcenroe netted a backhand to let Connors capture the fourth set fans began bowing to Connors As they cheered him. Two other seeds won in straight sets tuesday but not without some difficult moments. No. 1 Boris Becker beat Martin Jaite 7-6 7-36-4, 6-3 while Jim courier no. 4, had an easier time beating Nicklas Kulti 6-3, 6-4,6-4. In women a matches no. 4 Arantha Sanchez Vicario beat Katia Piccolini 6-0, 6-1 no. 5 Mary Joe Fernandez beat Larisa Savchenko 6-3, 6-3 no. 6 Martina Navratilova beat Patricia Tarabini 6-2, 62 and no. 9 Jana Novotna beat Ann Grossman 6-3,4-6,6-1. The stars and stripes August 29,1991 Page 2449ers place Montana on injured list by the associated press Joe Montana whose sore right Elbow has resisted All treatment was placed on injured Reserve tuesday and will miss the 49ers�?T opening game for the first time in a decade. Montana will be replaced by Steve Young his restless backup for monday around the nil nights opener against the giants and for at least three More games. The deactivation of the a Fly a Premier quarterback a three time super bowl most valuable player and the leagues map the last two years was the major development on a Day of mane vering leading up to this weekends openers. The cardinals placed Eric Swann their High risk first round draft Choice on injured Reserve with a knee nil on Page 23byu unveils new Detmer against flu tonight inside sport Safe West preview a chiefs favored a Page 18 Complete 1991 nil schedule a i a Page 20 draw Down shakes up prep scene a Page 21 Baltic May be separate for�?T92 games a Page 23 Anaheim Calif. A How do you improve on a Heisman trophy season to Detmer faces such a Challenge this year and he a also coming off surgery to repair a separated right shoulder. Nevertheless his coach at Brigham Young says Detmer will do just Fine. A i done to think there a any question Detmer is going to be a better quarterback than he was last year a Lavell Edwards said. A i done to know if his numbers will reflect that. He a got a new cast this year. A the appears to be even stronger this year than he was before. During the rehabilitation of his shoulder he spent a lot of time in the weight Detmer will get his first Opportunity to work with his new cast thursday night when by ranked 19th in the associated press preseason poll faces top ranked Florida state in the pigskin classic at Anaheim stadium. A a it a Tough being a Young team getting ready for the no. 1 team in the nation a Detmer said. A a it a been Tough trying to get everything together. We be gotten better through Detmer enters his senior season needing Only 426 Yards passing to become the Mcaa career passing Leader. Last year he passed for an Mcaa single season record 5,188 Yards and a career High 41 touchdowns. The cougars 10-3 last season will be providing the opposition for a preseason no. 1 selection for the second straight year. They can Only Hope for the same result a they upset Miami 28-21 in 1990. A it would be Nice if we had a game under our Belt a said Detmer recalling that the cougars had beaten Texas Elpaso 30-10 before upsetting Miami a year ago. A but this is probably As Good a time As any to play Florida state coach Bobby Bowden said its time to find out if his seminoles Are indeed the nations Best team. A a we be talked about How Good they Are a he said before his team left Florida. A now we re about to find
