European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 27, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 32 the stars and stripes sports tuesday july 27,1993 couples hits skins Jackpot pro Tennis $170,000 on 1 Hole Cali Don Ontario a Fred couples Sank a 12-foot Birdie put i and j and Wehka  string of 10 tied holes sunday in to win the inaugural  skins game at Devil s  1992 pea player of the year won $170,000 on the Hole and a total of$210,000 Over the two Day tournament. In a shootout with Jack Nicklaus Cou Ples won $20,000 by sinking an Eagle Putton the second playoff Hole. Couples Ana Nicklaus went to the tie breaker after shooting birdies on the first playoff Hole. It was Nice to win some Money but it was really a privilege to be invited to play with Jack Nicklaus couples said. It was especially thrilling to be Able to walk Down a Fairway wit him on a sudden death playoff Hole. Jack is a Golf  Floyd Sank Back to Back Bir die putts on the Par-3 16th and Par-417lh for $20,000 on each Hole on sunday. He won $55,000 Over the two  won one skin on saturday Worth $15,000.nick Price was shut out both Days. Archer takes playoff grand rapids Mich. A George Archer shot a record tying 8 under Par 63 sunday to Force a playoff then parred the third extra Hole to beat Jim Colbert and win the senior a Gator s first of America classic. Archer 53, is the first Back to Bac Winner on the senior tour this year. He also won last week s rain shortened ame Fitcch senior open. Rain Thunder and lightning delayed the Start of the final round for 3 a hours but the elements did t Cool Archer or Chi Chi  matched Billy Casper s course re Cord set in 1987, to finish at 14-Undcr 199, George Archer. Sinks winning putt Colbert also finished at 199 after closing 67 on the 6,419-Yard the High lands course. Rodriguez dropped out on the first extra Hole with a bogey leaving Archerald Colbert to Battle for the $82,500 win Ner s  never know what is going to Hap pen in Golf tournaments said  things happen in Golf Tournai  the third extra Hole the 398-Yard Par-4 18th, Archer hit his tee shot under tree on the left Side of the Fairway but made a daring second shot and was Able to scramble for a  had a Little opening through there said Archer. I m pretty Good hitting out of the Trees though. I get in them a lot. I you arc going to get in the Trees you be got to learn to get out of them Colbert and Rodriguez settled for $44,000 each and Lee Trevino wound up alone in fourth place with a 200 after a closing 66. He earned $33,000 from the total purse of $550,000. Azinger easy Winner Sutton mass. Up Paul a Inger shot a 3-Underrpar 68 sunday to win the $1 million new England Golf classic by four shots at the pleasant Valley country  finished with a 72-Hole total of 16-under 268 and claimed his second Vic tory of the season. A incr who also won the memorial tournament in june captured the$180,000 first prize Jay Delsing Annbruce Fleisher tied for second at 12 under 272. Delsin shot a final round 67 while Fleisher who won the tournament in 1991, a 2-Undcr 69. Azinger held a one stroke Lead after saturday s aging or third round and built the margin to three shots Early sunday. Bobby Clampitt sliced Azinger s Lea to one shot Midway through the final round but faded and finished tied for fourth with Joey Sinclar at 10-Undcr 274. Clampett shot a 3-Over 74, while sin Delar fired a 69. Tied at 275 were Peter Jacobsen cur tis strange Brad Bryant and Willie Wood. Jacobsen had the Best round of the four with a 68. Strange and Bryant carded 70s, and Wood shot a 72. Defending Champion Brad Faxon failed to make the Cut. The tournament known As the Bank of Boston classic until 1991, has never had a repeat Winner. The pleasant Valley country club is Apar-71,7,110-Yard layout. Capriati captures path Mark Mahwah . A Jen Nifer Capriati kept the Bounce in her game and wore Down Mary Joe Fernandez 6-3, 6-0 sunday to Cap Turc the path Mark classic exhibition. My serve was on said Capriati who finished off the match with aces on the final two Points. Ranked ninth in the world Capriati capitalized on 24 unforced errors by her opponent to take the opening set of the 72-minute match. After both players traded Servic Breaks the 17-year-old broke serve in the eighth game of the first set when Fernandez netted a fore hand. From that Point on Capriati Wasin control relying in a Crisp serve and powerful forehand. She gave up just nine Points Over the final seven games. In the second set she made no unforced errors and i got tired Fernandez said. Jennifer played really Well today. Her serve was really on. I could t hold on to my serve because she was returning  Mansdorf tops Martin Washington a Amo Mansdorf of Israel used a Strong Baseline game to stymie seventh seeded Todd Martin 7-6 7-47-5 in the championship of the$625,000 Newsweek Tennis classic on sunday. Mansdorf seeded eighth an ranked 29th in the world won for the sixth time in his career and for the first time since 1990. He earned $84,000. Youth has its fling As records Tumble by Owen Canfield san Antonio a the coun try s top Young swimmers arc having a big time in the . Olympic festival Pool and its Best Young skater came up big in front of a big big crowd. Four More festival swimming records fell sunday night making eight through two sessions. Leading the Way Are Cathy o Neill of Richardson Texas and Rachel Joseph of Springfield ore., a pair of16-year-Olds who each have three golds and two records to their credit. Earlier sunday 77-Pound Michelle Kwan won the ladies figure skating Gold medal before the largest crowd in . Skating history 25,691. She did it by stay ing upright while every other skater m the Field fell at least once. On a Day where temperatures neared 100 degrees athletes competed in 21 sports ranging from Archery to wrestling. The Gold medal matchup were deter mined in men s and women s basketball and a record fell in women s weightlifting. Competition was to continue monday in 21 sports with finals in four of them. O Neill broke the festival record in the 400-meter individual Medley in a time of 4 minutes 51.44 seconds then won he third Gold with a 1 12.20 in the 100 breaststroke. Her first came saturday night in the 200 breaststroke. I did t even know what the record olympic festival was o Neill said of the 400 in. Usually Don t look at them. I Don t like to know because if i m just off i la be disappointed. It would just upset me and that s not the Way to look at a  Joseph set a festival record in the 100backstroke with a time of 1 03.58. She took More than 3 seconds off the 200 backstroke record saturday night. Her other Gold came As a member of the winning 800 freestyle relay sunday night. Scott Jones of Houston has four med als in swimming three of them Gold Woof those came As a member of relay teams. Kwan s program sunday included six triple jumps. She planned to do seven but said one turned out to be a double when she landed it. No matter. The Alam dome Crow gave her a standing ovation when she finished. And the judges gave her a Row of5.5s to 5.8s for the technical and artistic segments easily the Day s highest scores. I would think this was my Best performance and most exciting especially in this big rink Kwan said. The . Figure skating association confirmed it was the biggest american crowd for competitive figure skating. Al though it could not cite previous Atten dance figures it based its conclusion on the seating capacities of Arenas that have held major figure skating events. Sunday s attendance also smashed the festival single session skating record of 14,527 set in 1990, and was the largest single session crowd for any festival sport. The previous Mark was 20,886 for the Gold medal men s basketball game in 1987. Michael Chack of Bricktown ., won the men s Gold medal late sunday while Amy Webster and Ron Kra the of bos ton won the Gold in ice dancing. In the pairs Competition the Goldmedal went to Karen Courtland of whip Pany ., and Todd Reynolds of Spring Texas. The Gold medal matchup were sorted out for men and women in basketball. The North men got 22 Points from Derek Anderson of Ohio state to beat the South 133-126. The North will play the West which rallied to beat the east104-94. Jeff Mclnnis who is headed for North Carolina had 19 Points and Kame Evans of George Washington added 16 for the North. The South 0-2 made a game of it after trailing 78-60 at halftime As Martice Moore of Georgia tech scored 21 and Scotty Thurman of Arkan Sas had 20. The West outscored the East 32-13 in the third Quarter to overcome Point halftime deficit. Jerald Honeycutt who s on his Way to Tulane had 22 Point Sand 10 rebounds for the winners Burt Harris of Southern Cal had 20 Points an seven assists. The East 0-2 got 23 Points and 11 re Bounds from Jerry Stackhouse who will play at North Carolina. It la be the South against the East forthe women s Gold medal. Both won Sun Day to get to 2-0 in Pool play. Crystal Robinson of Southeastern Oklahoma state scored 16 of her 24 Points in the second half As the South overcame a 17-Point deficit to beat the North 73-68. Latina Davis of Tennessee scored all13 of her Points in the second half for the South. Leslie Johnson of fort Wayne,ind., and Jannon Roland of Urbana Ohio scored 12 apiece for the North 0-2. Both will be freshmen at Purdue this fall. The East got 12 Points from Kristin Nicholson of Penn state and 10 apiece from Jennifer Root of Virginia tech and Lena Patterson of Maryland in beating the West 71-55. Gwyndolyn Hobbs of univ scored 14 for the West 0-2. In women s weightlifting 141-Pounderlea Rentmeester of Denmark wis., set Junior american records in the snatch 176v pounds and clean and Jerk 2143/4 to win the Gold medal. Her total of 3911/4 was another Junior american record