European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 25, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                R sunday july 25, 1993 sports the stars and stripes Pago 31 Ramstein s Smaltz cards double Eagle Ramstein Germany a forget the birdies eagles and holes in one it was double Eagle time for Herb Smaltz at the Woodlawn Golf club Smaltz made the rarest shot in Golf saturday when he scored a �?o2�?� on a Par-5 Hole. The. 3-under-Par double Eagle is also know As an Albatross. The Long hitting Smaltz who has been stationed at Ramstein less than a year canned his 5-Iron second shot on Woodlawn a 507-Yard, Par-516th Hole. Smaltz was playing in his regular foursome with Mike Carlton Mallory Mcdaniel and Bob Colella and on the 16th, he Blister his drive Down the Middle and smashed the 5-Iron Home. Colella knows How Smaltz feels a he double Eagle the 466-Yard, Par 5 11th Hole last year in a Woodlawn club tournament. Smaltz a 3-handicapper, finished saturdays round with a 72, which is 2-Over-Par on the 6,044-Yard Woodlawn layout. A he recently placed fourth in the Woodlawn invitational a tournament that attracted 166 golfers from clubs throughout Germany and the Benelux. V will face Gustafsson Stuttgart Germany a Michael Stich s big serve was missing but the German still managed to oust defending Champion Andrei Medvedev 1-6, 6-1, 6-4 saturday to reach the final of the Mercedes cup. Stich will face Sweden s Magnus Gustafsson who spoiled an All German final by eliminating Stich s Davis cup teammate Marc Goellner 6-4, 6-3. Stich s serve had helped carry him to the 1991 Wimbledon title but the worlds Stich seventh ranked player was broken Early and often by Medvedev. The ukrainian consistently slammed hard to handle returns at the germans feet. The 1993 French open semifinalist broke Stich a first service game behind a double fault then went on to sweep the first set in a 20-minute rout. But in the second set Medvedevs in forced errors on the fast Clay courts allowed Stich to climb Back into the match. Quot i never had any doubt i could decide the match for myself a Stich said. A i feel comfortable on these courts.�?�. Stich proved that a despite having his service broken twice in the third set and trailing 3-1 to Medvedev ranked eighth in the world. He proceeded to break Medvedev s serve three times in succession and finally held serve at 5-4 to close out the match. Stich the 1991 Champion will be seeking to add to the Queens and German open titles he has won in recent months. The 18-year-old Medvedev had swept to the title last year As a qualifier then catapulted himself into the world top 10 earlier this year with a Strong Clay court season capped by his French open finish. Goellner despite the wild cheering of 6,000 fans in attendance never threatened Gustafsson. The world no. 34 managed to break the swedes serve in the second set to climb Back into the match at 3-3, but dropped his next service game. Spain australian gain federation cup final Frankfurt Germany a Spain led by Arantha Sanchez Vicario beat France saturday while Nicole pro vis powered an australian comeback Over Argentina to reach the final of the federation cup. The top seeded Spanish team looking to repeat its 1991 Victory in the women s version of the Davis cup won both singles against the sixth seeded France before retiring in the doubles to take the Best-of-3 series 2-1. Australia last reached the final in 1984, losing to Czechoslovakia with its current non playing team Captain Wendy turn Bull and Elizabeth Smylie playing the doubles. Smylie known As Sayers in 1984, partnered Rennae Stubbs on saturday to give Australia a 4-6, 6-2, 6-3 Victory in the decisive doubles. Argentina and Australia both unseeded split the singles Argentia Sines Gorrochategu beat Michelle Jaggard Lai 6-4, 6-2 before australians Nicole Provis evened the score by rallying for a 1-6,6-2, 6-3 Victory Over Florencia Labat. Earlier Conchita Martinez outlasted Julie Halard 6-1, 3-6, 6-3 in an error filled match to put Spain ahead. At european from staff wire reports Ramstein a politics took Over sat urday on the first Day of the european Little league championships. Israel won its opener by forfeit when Jordan refused to play Quot due to political  Brian Pompili european director for Little league said the forfeit was a an unfortunate  five games were played saturday As 12 teams showed up for the nine Day tournament which annually produces one of the entries for the Little league world series in Williamsport a. The top game of the Day pitted american boys from Wiesbaden Germany and Rota Spain. Dave Hefren shut out the Rota team 1-0, As Nathan Goodwin Drew a walk in the second and scored on Michael atone a a groundnut. In other openers Belgium Defeated Poland 5-3 saudi Arabia used four pitchers to Blank the czech Republic 12-0 Italy stopped Holland 8-4, and Norway Defeated Austria 11-4. Prost on pole again Bockenheim Germany Frenchman Alain Prost won his ninth pole position of the year saturday leading qualifiers for sundays German grand prix. Prost drove his Williams Renault around Hocke Nheim a 4.2-mile track in 1 minute 38.748 seconds bettering his time in fridays first qualifying session by .298 seconds. He averaged 154.380 Mph. Proste a Williams Renault teammate Damon Hill was second with a time of 1 38.905, the Only other Driver to. Get under 1 minute 39 seconds during qualifying. German Michael Schumacher was third with 1 39.580 in his Benetton Ford just .832 seconds behind the Leader. Higgins shares Lead Lytham St. Annes England big hitting irishman Liam Higgins collapsed to a 5-Over-Par 76 for a 4-Ovcr total of 217 saturday and now shares the Lead with new zealand left hander Bob Charles who hit 71, at the British seniors open. Britain a main contender Tommy Horton and american Amateur Joel Hirsch were tied for third a stroke behind co Ceres gains Lead Noordijk Holland argentinian Jose co Ceres gave himself a Chance to make up for the disappointment at losing the italian open two months ago by moving into the third round Lead in the $975,000 dutch open saturday. Second round Leader Ronan Rafferty of Ireland is in second place on 209 after an even Par round of to saturday. Wood s 65 sets Pace Sutton mass. Willie Wood world notes turned in a 65 to take a one stroke Lead Over Bobby Clampitt Friday in the $1 million new England classic. Wood completed 36 holes in 9-under 133. Clampett first round Leader had 18 pars Over the 7,110-Yard pleasant Valley country club course. Baird ties course record grand rapids Mich. Butch Baird matched the course record with an 8-under-Par 63 to take a two stroke Lead after fridays first round of the senior pea Tours first of America classic. Baird tied the record shared by Miller Barber and Bruce Crampton by going 5-under on a six Hole stretch of the Back nine. Jim Colbert was second after a 65. Unseeded makes semis Washington a Aaron Krickstein beat Gianluca Pozzi of Italy 6-3, 6-0 Friday and advanced to the semifinals of the $625,000 Newsweek classic. Krickstein unseeded and ranked 77th, will meet no. 7 Todd Martin a 6-3, 6-3 Winner Over Japan a Shuzo Matsuoka. Second seeded and defending Champion Petr Korda was upset by no. 8 Amos Mansdorf 6-3, 6-3, and third seeded a Livai Washington lost 7-5, 6-4 to 11th seed Richey Reneberg. Capriati advances Mahwah . Second seeded Jennifer Capriati Defeated no. 6 Beverly Bowes 6-3, 6-4 in the quarterfinals of the path Mark exhibition Friday. Fifth seeded Lisa Raymond upset third seeded Manuela Malleva frag Niere 6-2, 6-4 and no. 4 Mary Pierce downed Camille Benjamin 6-4,6-0. Tigers sign Davis Detroit a storm Davis released after 19 appearances with Oakland signed saturday with the Detroit tigers. Davis was 2-6 with a 6.18 Era in 62vi innings for the athletics. The right hander who has pitched in the major leagues since 1982, Nas a 111-90 record and 4.06 Era. Davis also has pitched for Baltimore Kansas City and san Diego. Sports on an Cumby Nitim television baseball a Toronto at Texas 2 . Monday. Auto racing a Talle Daga 500, 7 . Sunday. Golf a . Women a open final round 10 30 . Sunday. Radio baseball Baltimore at Minnesota 10 . Sunday los Angeles at san Francisco 10 . Monday Indurai takes big Lead into tour s final Day Mon thery France a Tony Rominger of Switzerland upset Miguel Indurai in the final time trial of the tour de France saturday but Indurai still leads by almost five minutes going into sundays finale when the Spanish cyclist should win the race for a third straight year. Rominger captured the 30-mile 19th stage in 57 minutes 2 seconds. That was 42 seconds better than Indurai and both finished far ahead of Zenon Jaskula of Poland who had the third Best time of 58 50. Rominger a Victory moved him into second place 4 minutes 59 seconds behind Indurai. Jaskula was third 5 46 Back. Colombians Alvaro Mejia dropped from second to fourth 7 29 Back. Indurai finally showed signs or weakness in his Riding especially in the final Miles although he still gained time on All the Field except Rominger. It was the first major time trial that Indurai lost in the tour de France since 1990 when he was fourth behind Eric Breu link at Lac de Vassi Viere. That was where Greg Lemond overtook Claudio Schiappucci to vault into first and win his third tour de France. Since then Indurai has ruled. Barring Accident Indurai will win his third consecutive title sunday. The final stage of 122 Miles is a relaxed ride into Paris. Attacks Are rare As the riders feel the tour is Over with the time trial