European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 3, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday july 3, 1994 sports the stars and stripes Page 35 Spencer nips Irvan in i 5 briton Damon Hill gestures after beaming out teammate Nigel Mansell for the pole position in the French grand prix during saturdays final qualifying. Hill nudges a. A Quot a a out of pole Magny Cours France a Nigel Mansell moved up a to the top a then settled for the outside of the front Row for the French grand prix when Wil Liams Renault teammate Damon Hill won the pole saturday. Mansell who on sunday will drive in his first formula one event since winning the title in 1992, went from seventh position in fridays provisional qualifying to first saturday. But Hill took the pole from him with five minutes left in the time trials. Hill had a fast Lap time of 1 minute 16.282 seconds averaging 124,656 Mph on the 2.461-mile track. Mansell who had predicted he would improve on his time through familiarity with the car was nearly two seconds faster than Friday with a Lap of 1 16.359. He said his presence a probably helped a bit in pushing Hill to the pole. His teammate agreed. A it was very valuable to have two sparring partners in the team to push each other a Hill said. ,. A this is the first time 1 have Ever had a British teammate and i have never been so proud a said Mansell driving because of an open Date in his indy car schedule. A to have been Able to push him like i did today makes me very Happy. A it is incredible to have the Opportunity As a guest Driver for just this one race. 1 would like to take the Opportunity to thank the Newman Haas team. For having made it possible for me to be Michael Schumacher a. Winner in five of the first six races this season and holding the provisional pole entering sat urday a session fell to third with a Lap time of 1 16.707 in a Benetton Ford. The pole was the third of Hills career. He credited Mansell for motivating him. A it was very useful for Nigel to come Here and give his impression and input a Hill said. Fourth in qualifying was Frenchman Jean Alesi in a Ferrari. His teammate austrian Gerhard Berger was fifth. Eddie Irvine of Britain was sixth in a Jordan Hart followed by teammate Rubens arrichello of Brazil. Rounding out the top 10 were Jos Verstappen of the Netherlands in the other Benetton Ford Mika Hakkinen of Finland in a Mclaren Peugeot and Heinz Harald Frentzen of Germany in a Sauber Mercedes. Boardman out pedals Indurai in Lille France a Chris Boardman of Britain won the prologue saturday in the tour de France while three time Winner Miguel Indurai of Spain took an Early advantage in the Battle of the favourites Boardman timed 7 minutes 49 seconds in the 7-Kilorneter 4.3-mile prologue from the grand palais in Lille to the business Complex of eur Lille started the 81st tour. The race ends july 24 in Paris after covering a course of 3,986 Kilometres 2,479 Miles. Indurai was second 15 seconds behind but four seconds ahead of Tony Rominger of Switzerland. They Are expected to Battle for the Overall title throughout the race. A. Fourth was another Swiss rider Alex Zulle 22 seconds behind Boardman. Armand de Las Cuevas of France was fifth 24 Back. American Lance Armstrong who won tour de trance the one Day world championship last year was More than 38 seconds behind Boardman but still in the top 20. The first full stage is sunday 229 Kilometres 142 Miles from Lille to Armen Tieres with three Bonus sprints giving extra seconds along the Way. Using a special Cycle similar to the one he had in winning the 1992 olympic Pur suit time Boardman was expected to do Well in the Speed event. He held the record for one hour cycling briefly. 1 he will probably hold onto to the leaders yellow Jersey when the tour crosses into England next week with relatively Flat stages. The tour de France started saturday with 189 riders in the Field but Many experts say cycling a most prestigious event is just a two Man race this year. From wire reports Daytona Beach Fla. A Jimmy Spencer pulled past Ernie Irvan on the final Lap and posted an upset vie tory saturday in the Pepsi 400 at Daytona International Speedway. Spencer earning the first Victory of his Winston cup Stock car career beat series Point Leader Irvan to the finish line by 08-seconds, less than half a car length. It appeared that Irvan was on the Way to his fourth Victory of the season when he charged Back from 12th place after a late pit Stop and took the Lead 29 laps from the end of the 160-Lap race. But Spencer who was among the leaders most of the Day moved into second place with 11 laps remaining and kept the pressure on Irvan in the Battle of Ford thunderbird. On the final trip around the 21/2-mile, High banked Oval Spencer tried going High around Irvan in the first turn but pull alongside. Coming off the second turn Spencer moved Low of the track and rocketed alongside Irvan. The two stayed Side by Side the the Way nearly touching several times coming off the final turn and racing for the Check ered Flag. The Victory came in Spencer a 129th career Start and gave team owner Junior Johnson who also Fields cars for Bill Elliott his first win of the season. Date Earnhardt who started from the pole finished third followed by Mark Martin Ken Schrader Geoff Bodine Todd Bodine Jeff Gordon and Morgan Shepherd. The race was slowed by four caution flags. There were no serious accidents and no injuries reported. Hardaway eyes a Orlando a the Orlando magic confirmed that Point guard Anfernee Hardaway will exercise a contract option and become a restricted free agent. The magic immediately tendered Hardaway a qualifying offer which Means the team can match any offer he receives and retain his services. Hardaway runner up to Chris Webber in Aba Rookie of the year balloting had signed a 13-year, $65 million Deal with Orlando just before training Camp last october. The contract included a one year escape clause to allow him to become a restricted free agent. Hardaway averaged 16 Points 6.6 assists and 5.4 rebounds for the magic he was the Only Rookie in the Aba to Start All 82 regular season games. Person bought out Minneapolis the Minnesota Timber wolves decided to buy out the final four years of Chuck persons contract after no team was willing to Trade for the 30-year-old Forward. The move frees up both Money under the salary Cap and a position in the line up for Donyell Marshall the teams first round draft Choice. The Timber wolves acquired person on. Sept. 8, 1992 from Indiana along with guard Micheal Williams for Pooh Rich Ardson and Sam Mitchell. The 6-foot-8 person averaged 19 Points on 48 percent shooting in six seasons with the pacers but just 14.2 Points per game on 43 percent shooting for the wolves Richter tops list new York a goaltender Mike Richter who helped the new York rangers end a 54-Ycar Stanley cup drought headed a list of 108 nil players who became eligible for free Agency. Richter was included among .64 re world notes a stricter free agents whose rights can be retained should their clubs match offers from others. Signing of any of those players would require compensation Quot to their former clubs. Another 42 players a the most prominent of whom Are Crnic Nicholls of the new Jersey devils Al Mclnnis of the Calgary flames and Glenn Anderson of the rangers a were on the list of unrestricted free agents. They arc free to sign with any team without compensation. . Undefeated Taipei Taiwan Law Keshia Frett a Sophomore from the University of Georgia scored 18 Points to Lead the unbeaten Usa basketball team to a 77-57 Victory Friday Over previously undefeated Korea in the Jones cup tournament. The Victory left the americans 6-0 and advanced them to saturdays semifinals against Taiwan a Nan a. Williams widens Lead Portland Ore. A Walter Ray Williams second place finish in last weeks professional bowlers association Northwest classic helped him Widen his Lead in the latest ism Power rankings. Williams the reigning Aba player of the year from Stockton calif., has now been the top ranked Bowler for the last 35 consecutive tournaments. Williams who won his 14th career title earlier this year extended his Lead Over Norm Duke from 114 to 172 Points. Williams has 1,907 Points. . Crew sets Mark Henley England a the United states National heavyweight eight set one record and equalled another saturday As it reached the final of the grand cup the Premier event at the Henley Royal regatta. Rowing under the name of Charles River and san Diego the Crew beat the dutch National Crew Holland acht Roie vereeniging and moved into position to become the first americans in nine years to win the grand cup. Weekend sports on the air Antral european Tim an television baseball a Chicago cubs at Houston 8 45 . Sunday Minnesota at Cleveland 2 . Monday. A Tennis a Wimbledon menus final 3 . Sunday. World cup soccer a . Is. Brazil 9 30 . Monday. An radio baseball a Seattle at new York Yankees 7 30 . Sunday Cincinnati at Florida 7 30 . Monday. World cup on eur sport saturday a Germany is. Belgium 7 05 . Switzerland is. Spain 10 35 . Sunday a Sweden is. Saudi saudi Arabia 7 05 . Romania is. Argentina 10 35 . Monday a Ireland is. Netherlands 6 05 . Brazil is. ., 9 35 . Tuesday a Italy is. Nigeria Mexico is. Bulgaria 10 35 . Note mondays game Between the United states and Brazil will also be carried live on Germany a second program Adf at 9 35
