European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 3, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday december 3, 1991 the stars and stripes Page 25 Stewart wins $260 with 3-foot skins k by the los Angeles times la Quinta Calif. When the ninth annual $540,000 skins game finally ended sunday John Daly was still talking about the Honor of playing with Jack Nicklaus whom he reverently helped shut out on his Way to winning Rookie acclaim Here at pea West. But it was the other skins Rookie who won the most Money the most skins and the championship in the final Day of play on the stadium course. Dressed in his now trademark National j Bomball league garb a this Day appropriately in support of the Washington redskins a Payne Stewart was finally Able to shut Down the aggressive Daly for at least one Hole to win eight skins and $260,000. Despite hitting into the water twice in nine holes Stewart came out the Winner when he Sank a 3-foot Birdie putt on the 14th Hole to win the most Money Ever won on a single Hole and the second most Money Stewart has won in a single event. A funny thing about the skins game i played Well today and except for the shot i hit on 17, i was 3-under-Par a i just kept getting capped a said Stewart who had never played in this event before. Daly haunted Stewart through the final holes saturday and the Early holes sunday Matching some of stewarts great shots with those of his own. Just when Stewart thought he had a Chance for a skin there came Daly who had shut out All the players saturday by winning six skins and $120,000. A i think its important to get a skin Early a it frees you up a Stewart said. A after i got that skin a granted it was for $260,000  feet got lighter and the swing got Freer and in a sure John Felt the same Way  Stewart and Daly left the course with the heaviest wallets. Daly won a skin $40,000 and a car on the second playoff Hole against Curtis strange when he Sank a two foot putt for Par on the infamous 17th Hole a 166-Yard, Par-3 named Alcatraz because the Green is surrounded by water. It gave Daly seven skins $160,000 and three cars for both Days. A a year ago i was right Here at pea West at qualifying school playing the other course grinding it out trying to get my tour card a Daly said. A so i think this was a big  strange defending Champion the past Payne Stewart reacts after sinking Birdie putt on no. 14, which was Worth $260,000. Two years won three skins sunday by sinking a 12-foot Birdie putt on the 17th Hole Worth $120,000 and two cars. Nicklaus came up empty for the first time since 1986. His Best Opportunity for a skin came on the 18th Hole but his five foot Birdie putt broke left and missed setting up a playoff for the final skin. Nicklaus and Stewart were eliminated after the first playoff Hole the 10th when their drives landed in the water. Strange and Daly tied the Hole and advanced to the second playoff Hole which Daly won. A a it a not a lot of fun to play the Way i did today a Nicklaus said. A a it a a very humbling game. We Veall been a part of that. You finish up and everybody beats you. So you go Home and Cut your wrist and somebody says a How about playing tomorrow at 9 a.m.? and you say  a Bruins outlast whalers by the associated press Boston Peter Douris and Boh Carpenter scored goals 15 seconds apart in the first minute of the third period sunday night As the Boston Bruins held off the Hartford whalers 5-4. The Victory enabled the Bruins to climb Over the .5 h Mark Tor the first time since beating the new York rangers on opening night. It also moved Boston one Quot Point ahead of Hartford into second place in the Adams division. Douris retrieved a 90-foot drive by Ray Bourque off the backboards and fired the puck past goalie Kay Whitmore 44 seconds into the third period. Carpenter then raced Down the Slot to convert his own rebound and give the Bruins a 4-1 Lead just 59 seconds into the period. In other games sunday oilers 7, canucks 0 Edmonton Alberta Bill rant Ord turned in a Sterling 33-save performance and Edmonton s previously dormant offence came to life to Combine for a drubbing of Vancouver. The canucks tops in the Smythy division and third Overall in the nil allowed the oilers to jump out to a 3-0 first period Lead. Then Ranford went to work stopping 16 shots including a penalty shot by Greg Adams in the second period. Jets 3, Blackhawk 2 Winnipeg Manitoba a Thomas Steen tied the game with seven seconds left in regulation and Darrin Shannon scored 1 09 into overtime As Winnipeg handed Chicago its fifth straight loss. Shannon took a pass across the Slot from Pat a Lynnik and whipped the puck into the net extending the jets unbeaten Streak to seven games. Steen playing his second game of the season since returning from a Back injury sent the game into overtime by Bac handing a rebound into the net for his first goal. Phil Housley also scored for the jets and Bob Essensa stopped 25 shots in his eighth straight Start. All new univ returns to top 25 up Flie in Lvi a Jerry Tarkanian. Res can beat anybody Las vegas a when he lost five starters from his no. 1-ranked running rebels last year univ coach Jerry Tarkanian promised this years club would be pretty Good. He proved his Point saturday night when univ beat no. 9 leu 76-55. The Victory bounced univ 2-0 Back into the associated press top 25 at no. 24. A a we re capable of beating everybody a Tarkanian said monday a but we re also capable of losing to  Tarkanian said he was surprised his club was Back in the National rankings. And he said a series of problems that has hammered his program May have generated a higher level of intensity among the players. Duke the defending National champions who ended in Lvi a quest for a second National title remained no. 1. Duke 2-0 received 63 of the 64 first place votes and 1,599 Points from the nationwide panel of sportswriters and broadcasters to easily outdistanced Urcla which received 1,415 Points. The Bruins 2-0who were fourth last week Are ranked highest since holding the no. 1 spot for two weeks in the 198283 season. Arizona 2-0 held third with 1,403 Points followed by Ohio state 2-0north Carolina 40seton Hall 2-0 and St. Johns 3-0which All jumped two places from last week. Seton Hall received the Only other fat place vote. Oklahoma state 5-0which won the preseason nit with victories Over Pittsburgh and Georgia tech moved from 11th to eighth. Indiana 11which was second in the preseason poll moved up a spot to ninth and Kansas 3-012th last week rounded out the top 10. Arkansas second last week dropped to 11th following an 8671 loss to Michigan state in the Maui invitational final. The win moved the spartans 3-0 into the rankings at no. 22. Following Arkansas were no. 12 Connecticut Utah Kentucky Alabama leu Georgia tech Georgetown Oklahoma and Depaul. Iowa was 21st, followed by Michigan state Wake Forest univ and Michigan. The Blue devils next play no. 7 St. Johns in Greensboro n.c., on thursday night in the no. 1 seed matchup of the final acc big East Challenge. Tarkanian opened his final season at univ with a 97-69 win Over by Hawaii the 600th of his career and followed that with the 76-55 thrashing of leu. Univ Center Elmore Spencer held his own against All american Shaquille of Neal. Spencer scored a career High 20 Points and had 12 rebounds. A a they re a Damn Good basketball team a leu coach Dale Brown said of the rebels. A this is a top 20 team. They will not lose at Home and  probably win their league handily. They whipped us in every part of the