European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 27, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                It Ward passed Over the stars and stripes by the associated press Tallahassee Fla. Although he was one of the most proficient passers in College football history Heisman trophy Winner Charlie Ward Wasny to picked in the nil draft. T no team was willing to take a Chance on the two sport Florida state Star also one of the nations top Point guards in basketball and a Likely draft pick by the Aba. Ward is the first Heisman Winner by Assed in the College draft since Mike Tozier of Nebraska in 1983. Rozier went to the . Football league and was part of the nil s supplemental draft of Usel players in 1984. Another Heisman Winner army a Pete Dawkins was not taken in the 1959 draft because of his military commitment. A a it a a situation he has presented himself a Green Bay general manager Ron see Page 27 for nil draft results trades Wolf said monday. A no Rne is really sure How important football is to  but the Minnesota Vikings said they would offer a contract to Ward. Warren Moons Only backups Are Gino Torretta a the 1992 Heisman Winner a and Brad Johnson. Neither has thrown a pass in an nil game. A a whether or not he accepts it that a up to Charlie Ward a coach Dennis Green said. A a free agent contract is not very lucrative but what it gives you is Opportunity. If he a interested in the Opportunity to play in the National football league then head have that  nil teams had encouraged Ward in recent weeks to let them know if he was interested in a pro football career. A if he said football was what head have wanted to do head have been drafted in the first two rounds a said Green. A the was a great College  Ward completed 69.5 percent of his passes for 3,032 Yards and 27 touchdowns while throwing just four interceptions last season when be led the seminoles to their first National title. The 6-foot, 182-Pound Ward holds several Atlantic coast conference records including the highest career completion percentage 62.3 and most touchdown passes in a season. A a in be done everything i could possibly do to get drafted by the nil a Ward said monday. April 27,1994 Page 32 Quot a s f a i y s it is t \ a Ltd a f Ltd a 4 v Quot % / j a. A y. It a. A a it a a a a Wmk  a a. It a up no nil team was willing to take a Chance on two sport Star Charlie Ward. A file a now the Aba draft is coming up and .1 have a Chance to prove myself in that sport a he said. There has also been speculation Ward would try to continue playing both sports by signing with a Canadian football league team and then joining an Aba team after that season ends in november. But Ward said monday he is rethink ing the Wisdom of trying to play both pro sports. A now i want to concentrate probably on one sport so i can perfect that sport a he said. Ward was Florida states starting Point guard for four years and finished As the schools All time Leader in steals and third in assists despite missing nearly a half of the last two seasons because of football. Mets lose Gooden for 4 to 6 weeks new York a Dwight Gooden has what some Call a turf toe a and he Hasni to even pitched on artificial turf this season. Gooden the Ace of the new York Metsy staff will be sidelined four to six weeks because of ligament and cartilage damage to his big right toe. The 29-year-old right hander has see pages 28 and 30 for mondays Al no games been experiencing pain and further injured the toe pitching last thursday in los Angeles. He Hurt the toe on opening Day at Wrigley Field in Chicago then missed a Start and pitched against Houston at Shea stadium. The damage was discovered monday during an mr1 exam at the Hospital for special surgery. A a we re certainly disappointed. I  use the word devastated a said de Lynch the assistant to general manager Joe Mcllvain. An Fri on Bobby Bonilla showed the third baseman has a strained ligament in his left shoulder but he is Day to Day. Gooden probably will be replaced by Bobby Jones in wednesday nights game against the san Diego  stave off elimination by the associated press it appears the Pittsburgh penguins done to need Mario Lemieux to score goals to win a playoff game. Claude Lemieux is another Story for the new Jersey devils. Even though Mario Lemieux failed to score for a third straight game the penguins managed to beat the Washington capitals 3-2 monday night and stay alive in the nil playoffs. Jaromir jagr and Kevin Stevens scored to reignite the penguins offence As they staved off elimination and sent the series Back to Landover md., with the capitals still in charge of the seven game series at 3-2.  a a a a we played with desperation and we started pushing each other a Stevens said. A it was just like when we won the Stanley cups in 1991 and 1992everybody was pushing each  meanwhile the devils were pushing the Buffalo sabres to the Brink of Elmi nation with a 5-3 Victory. They can wrap nil playoffs up their Eastern conference series with a win in game 6 wednesday night in Buffalo. In monday nights other game the Montreal canadians beat the Boston Bruins to also take a 3-2 Lead in their series the playoffs were to continue tuesday night with games in the Western conference. Detroit was at san Jose Chicago at Toronto and Vancouver at Calgary. The Detroit san Jose and Chicago Toronto series Are tied 2-2, while Calgary leads Vancouver 3-1. The penguins rallied from a 2-1 second period deficit to avoid what would have been their second straight Early ouster. They went out in the second round last season to the new York islanders. The capitals Are trying to avoid losing a 3-1 playoff series Lead for the third time in franchise history. Mike Ridley and Kevin Hatcher scored 1 35 apart in the second period to put the capitals up 2-1. Shawn Mceachern had Pittsburgh s other goal. Lemieux a goal less Streak is uncharacteristic. The penguins Star had never before gone longer than one postseason game without scoring until this  2, Bruins 1, of at Boston Kirk Muller scored with 17 18 gone in overtime and Patrick Roy stopped 60 shots for Montreal. Muller backhanded a rebound of a Patrice Brisebois shot Over prone Boston outplayed wanted by goalie Jon Casey who like Roy was Brilliant for most of the game. Casey stopped 34 shots. John Leclair sent the game into overtime when he tied it with 5 01 left in the third period. Leclair wrapped the puck around the Boston net and it went in off a Bruins skate skidding past a helpless Casey. For the second straight game the Bruins out shot and the canadians but were to roys brilliance. Roy who missed game 3 because of appendicitis got out of the Hospital in time for saturdays game 4 and beat the Bruins 5-2 despite a 41-15 Boston advantage in shots. Game 6 is wednesday night in  5, sabres 3 at East Rutherford n.j., Claude Lemieux scored in the third period to break a tie for the devils. Lemieux who has struggled All season was the catalyst for new Jersey scoring twice and setting up two goals by John Maclean the last an empty Netter with 7.1 seconds to play. Stephane Richer had the other devils Oal and Martin Brodeur made 17 saves. Ust three in the last period. Yuri Komly eve Derek Plante Ana Alexander Mogiln scored for Buffalo. Nb246850