European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 27, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday april 27, 1994 sports the stars and stripes Page 31 Holyfield announces retirement from wire reports Atlanta evander Holyfield diag nosed with a congenital heart condition announced his retirement from boxing tuesday four Days after losing the world heavyweight title to Michael Moorer. Holyfield s personal physician or. Ron Ald Stephens said the condition was diag nosed after Holyfield lost a 12-round Deci Sion to Moorer Friday night in Las vegas. It was not life threatening he said. Or. Holyfield fought this fight in heart failure and it s an absolute Miracle he could fight for 12 rounds in this condition the doctor said. It s hard enough to fight in perfect condition. In a conference Call Stephens said Holyfield could live a Normal Active life but he could no longer Box. Stephens said the condition diagnosed As a non compliant left vent ical prevented sufficient oxygen from being pumped to Holyfield s mus cles and body tissues Holyfield a two time heavyweight Champion made the decision to quit the ring As soon As he knew the results of tests taken monday at Atlanta s Craw Ford Long Hospital. He was airlifted to Atlanta from Las vegas sunday night. pretty Good now. I be recovered a Little bit Holyfield said. I m Happy in one Way. At least i know what the prob Lem is retains title Inglewood Calif. Julio Cesar Borboa of Mexico stopped countryman Jorge roman at 2 30 of the fourth round monday night to retain his if super Fly weight title. Borboa improved to 22-4 with his 19th knockout. World notes Starks Mason to play new York the new York Knick activated All Star guard John Starks Mon Day and returned suspended Forward an Thony Mason to the roster for the playoffs. Starks underwent surgery and missed 21 games after damaging cartilage in his left knee March 12. He replaces Eric an Derson on the roster. Mason was suspended for the last three games of the regular season for what coach Pat Riley termed detrimental conduct to the team. Pacers activate Fleming Indianapolis Indiana activated guard Vern Fleming and removed for Ward Malik Sealy from its playoff roster on monday. Fleming Cut his right knee earlier this month. 2 padres arrested new York san Diego padres Pitcher Scott Sanders scheduled to Start tuesday night s game against the new York mets was arrested Early tuesday along with outfielder Derek Bell for try ing to pick up a prostitute police said. Bell and Sanders both 25, were in a taxicab in new York when they approached an undercover police officer at about 2 ., police spokesman John my Cluskey said. The players face Misdemeanour charges and if convicted face up to three month sin jail and fines up to $500. Pitino stays Jot Kentucky 2 jays pitchers charged Lexington by. Kentucky coach Rick Pitino said tuesday he will remain with the wildcats and is not taking a Job As the los Angeles lakers coach. Pitino was responding to reports he had talked with the lakers while in los Angeles. Tampa Fla. Toronto pitchers Dave Stewart and Todd Stottlemyre were charged with Battery on a Law enforce ment officer and resisting arrest for their part in a scuffle with police outside a nightclub in february. The third degree felony charges were filed monday by the state attorney s of fice. No arraignment Date was set. Yanks Cut Ojeda Loose new York Bob Ojeda s career with the new York Yankees ended Mon Day when the team designated the left hander for assignment. Ojeda 36, made two starts with no decision allowing eight runs and 11 hits in three innings. The Yankees have 10 Days to Trade Ojeda or place him on waivers. Jordan hit Streak Greenville . Michael Jor Dan extended his hitting Streak to 12 games monday with a two run single in the fifth inning of Birmingham s 7-6 loss to Greenville in the Southern league. He s hitting .320 in 50 at bats. Graf wins in Hamburg Hamburg Germany Steffi Graf returned to the court where her rival Monica Seles was stabbed last year and blasted Silke Frankl 6-0, 6-0 in the open ing round of the citizen cup tuesday. Graf looking relaxed despite death threats rolled past her fellow German in 35 minutes a Hamburg newspaper received an Anonymous letter fast week warning that Graf would be attacked if she played in Hamburg Martin wins 3 upset Duluth a. Second seeded Todd Martin a playing his first Clay court tournament of the year advanced Mon Day to the second round of the at to Challenge while three other seeded play ers were eliminated. / Martin beat Howard Herr an Atlanta area teaching pro 6-1, 6-1. Herr qualified in a special tournament for local Hope Fuls. Martin was returning from a three week Layoff. Marcelo Filippini of Uruguay ranked 77th, beat fourth seeded Aaron Krickstein 6-4, 6-2, and Fernando Meli Geni of Brazil ranked 102nd, Defeated Mikael perfors of Sweden the seventh seed 6-0,6-2, Steve Bryan ranked 88th, beat sixth seeded Brad Gilbert 6-2, 4-6, 6-4, despite 29 aces by Gilbert. Coghlan retiring new York Eamonn Coghlan the world indoor record Holder in the mile and the Only masters runner to break four minutes for the mile will not run competitively again. Claiming it is too painful to train be cause of a lingering injury to his upper right leg the 41-year-Olcl Coghlan has cancelled his Spring season and announced his retirement. Cycle Victor disqualified Salamanca Spain France s Laurent Jalabert finished second but was awarded tuesday s second stage of the tour of Spain when apparent Winner Adriano Baffi of Italy was disqualified for elbowing teammate Mario Cipollini in a chilling sprint finish. Switzerland Tony Rominger two time Winner of the tour of Spain kept the Overall Lead by finishing in the pack in the 112-mile stage Rominger won Mon Day s first stage. Race officials not Only stripped the Vic tory from Baffi but also fined him $350. Sports on afim Centra european time television nil playoffs game to be announced 2 15 Thursday joined in Progress. Radio baseball san Diego at new York 1 35 Thursday. . Alba i Canazzi Italy a the United states gave France a taste of the rough and Tumble nil out muscling the frenchmen 5-1 monday night inthe final opening Day game of the world hockey championships. The americans mainly nil players not in the playoffs came out banging hard letting elbows Fly and exchanging words an shoves with the frenchmen. Bill Lindsay of the Florida pan thers scored twice and the americans also received goals from Quebec s Scott Young an Aheim s John Lilley and Pitts Burgh s Patrick Neaton we wanted to establish phys Lindsay Cal superiority to let them know we were stronger and at the same time Quick . Coach Ron Wilson said. I think they backed off considerably. That s nil France jolted the United states Early when Benoit Laporte intercepted a pass and dumped the puck Over goalie Guy Hebert s shoulder 2 22 into the game. But Neaton evened the score skating in from the left and poking the puck past French goaltender Petri Ylo Nen. The americans went up 2-1 at 14 04 when Edmonton s Doug weight slipped a pass from behind the net to Lindsay who drove the puck Home. The americans came out even More aggressively in the second period. Ylonen held on until 15 40 when Young took a pass from Doug weight of Edmonton. Young skated Between a pair of defenders and flipped the puck Between the goalie s legs. Lindsay added his second goal at 8 17 in the third and Lilley tallied at 16 33. " Dougie weight made a couple great passes to me Lindsay said. He s extremely gifted and i just had to the . Team will get a boost from wednesday s expected arrival of Craig Janney of the St. Louis blues and Phil Housley of the Boston Bruins. In tuesday s first game defending Champion Russia demolished Over matched Britain 12-3 at Bolzano. The russians got 12 goals from 11 players including six during a 12-minute Span of the first period. Scorers included Alexei Yashin of the Ottawa senators Igor Ulanov of the Winnipeg jets and Valery Bure a Mon Treal Canadien Prospect who scored two. It was the russians first game of the two week tournament. Canada which is coming off a 4-1 Victory monday night Over Italy was to play Austria tuesday evening and the czech Republic was to face France. The czech Republic s roman hamrlik considered a franchise player by his Tampa Bay team suffered a serious knee injury in his first game of the world championships and is on his was Back to the United states for surgery. The 20-year-old defens Eman was no. 1 in the 1992 injury happened in monday s 4-4 tie with Fin land when hamrlik was tripped by Jere Lehtinen. There was no penalty called on the play. To an to . 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