European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 6, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday july 6, 1994 sports the stars and stripes Page 33the fad without a face has passed by Steve Hummer the world cup is once More the sole property of tourists and immigrants. It is again the strange seed washed upon our Shore. It is All their show from Here to july 17, which is Only right because we newcomers. We carpetbaggers. We passengers on the foot pow cred bandwagon have intruded Long enough. Eric Wynalda can now put away his pen. A i signed 10 million autographs Over the last couple of weeks but Only a couple people knew my name a said the . Forward. The fad without a face has passed. A Little deflating maybe. But it is also fair. The . Nationals lingered As Long As their ability allowed. Any longer would have stretched the concept of the miraculous too far. Well write it the Way the . Played it in losing to Brazil 1 0 a Lovely Day really. And what an Honor to be on the same Field with a three time world cup Champion. Sure Hope our pants done to fall Down during the game. Now let s go out there and keep it close. A this is the Way it was supposed to be a said . Midfielder Cobi Jones a no Way we re better than the Best team in the world. An upset would have been Nice. But soccer is about  the fantasies spawned by this fourth of july the . Found some Way to hold Back the Brilliant brazilians and then won the shootout at the end of a 0-0 regulation and overtime. The reality is that on any give world cup commentary Day Brazil  the dream team around Here and the . Is the plucky pretender. All of monday seem played in the Shadow of the . Goal. The distance Between the teams was far greater than 1-0. Brazil kept firing balls off the Post or just wide. But the Point is it kept firing. One time too Many the Ball landed at the feet of the brazils strength. A Romario and Beneto coming Down the Field a said defender Paul Caligiuri a is like Michael Jordan and magic Johnson coming Down the  on the 74th minute Romario pushed the Ball up the Middle through the . Defense chipped it to Beneto on the right Side who deposited the Ball in the far Corner of the net. Done in by a Beneto. It is like losing to a cartoon character. But that a soccer reality in pure 3-d. Meanwhile brazilian goaltender Claudio Taffarel was seen slapping himself singing out loudly drinking Large quantities of Coffee anything to stay awake monday. Against the ., he faced All the stimuli of your average Long haul trucker. Just three shots on his goal few enough to qualify As bugs on his Windshield. I Jias been 11 Days since the . Last scored a goal a meaning it is pretty Well on its Way to rehabilitation. Sooner or later though staying clean and scoreless will catch up to you in this tournament. At the risk of someone from Atlanta Quot using a hockey analogy to describe a soccer situation the .  score monday despite being on a 45-minute Power play. It was a Man up for the entire second half after the infamous Leonardo was ejected for cracking Tab Ramos Skull with a swinging  new York kicks might consider signing Leonardo to a Long term Deal. For the ., there was plenty of we re just Happy to be Here in mondays loss. Both on the Field and off. With about 20 minutes to play . Soccer federation president Alan Ruthenberg reported turning to a Friend and saying a no matter what happen Snow we be won. We Haven to embarrassed  leave the rest of this world cup to teams with higher Ambir Lions. Quot Quot seize the Day was the halftime cry when the . Upset Colombia in the first round. A survive the Day was mondays Call to arms. That Sall Fine when you Are just learning to walk at this level. The next step was explained by defender Marcelo Balboa. A no longer arc we Happy or satisfied with a respectable  soccer a biggest Day was partially about How far the . Has come. And just As much about How far it must go. A in some ways we re still a thousand years behind the rest of the world a said Wynalda. Meanwhile play on world. The Atlanta Roumal canal lotion. Raise i by Cox news service when fifa fined Ireland coach Jack Charlton $15,000 for arguing with federation officials and. A referee during a june 24 loss to Mexico pubs around Ireland took up a collection for the Man they Call a big  As of monday the Irish had Assad the hat to the tune of 150,000. While touched by the gesture Charlton said he wont take any of the Money. Instead he wants the fund sent to the family of slain colombian defender Andres Escobar Escobar was murdered outside a Medellin nightclub Early saturday morning by fans apparently upset with his role in colombians 2-1 loss to the United states june 22, Escobar inadvertently scored the first . Goal. A the Money a going to the colombians family a Charlton said. Quot that a what i want. Its Only the right thing to  Ramos update . Midfielder Tab Ramos sustained a slight fracture of the parietal Bone Over his left Eye after being elbowed by Brazil s Leonardo in mondays game at Stanford Calif. Ramos who lapsed in and out of consciousness while being world cup notes treated on the Field was taken from the Field on a Stretcher and transported to Stanford medical Center where he was kept overnight for observation. Record attendance the .-Brazil standing room Only crowd of 84,147 was the largest in Stanford stadium history breaking the record of 83,769 set june 26 when Switzerland played Colombia. Long dry spell the United states now is 0-6 against Brazil and has not scored on the South americans in 64 years. In fact the United states has been outscored 21-3, with All three goals coming in a 4-3 loss aug 17,1930, . Games Leader by playing against Brazil Marcelo Balboa became the All time . Leader in games played. Balboa has made 94 appearances with the. United states one More than sex Forward Bruce Murray. Goalkeeper Tony Meola 89 appearance defender Paul Caligiuri 871 and midfielder Hugo Perez 78 round out the top five for the . Team. Several tour de France riders crash behind Dja Molodi Abdu Saparov left and two other leaders As they sprint to the finish in sundays leg at Armenti arcs France. One cyclist hit a policeman setting off the pileup. Belgian nabs Lead in tour Calais France a Belgium a Johan Muse eur took the Lead in the tour de France after the team time trial tuesday and defending Champion Miguel in Dii rain gained a slight Edge in the Battle of the favourites. Muse eur seized the Overall Lead from Britain a Chris Board Man who had held it since the prologue saturday but dropped to 20th, 54 seconds behind. Boardman a Gan team was More than a minute behind my seeuws go my team. Muse eur took the individual Lead by 10 seconds Over indu rain. Third was Denmark a Rolf Sorensen another member of go my 19 seconds Back. American Lance Armstrong moved into fifth 22 seconds behind As his Motorola team was second in the team race six seconds Back of the winners. The team time trial the Tours third stage covered 41 Miles from Calais to the Chan Nel Tunnel. The next stage goes 127 Miles from Dover to Brighton. The last time the tour had stages in England was 20 years ago. The go my team led tuesdays stage with a time of 1 hour 20 minutes 31 seconds. France s Bruno Corni jct fell and broke his Collarbone tuesday knocking him out of the race. Three other racers injured in a finish line crash sunday also have been forced out.. Rowers capture 4 golds at Henley regatta Henley England a the United states dominated the Henley Royal regatta sunday winning four Gold medals in eight events including the grand cup the most prestigious event of the 155-year-old regatta Only one trophy for eights eluded the americans a Success rate never previously achieved. Only in 1980, when americans won six Henley events have they left the historic regatta with a bigger haul of winning medals. Victory in the grand cup was achieved with unexpected ease by the National heavyweight eight Charles River and san Diego against the French National Crew sport Nau Tique comping be and society do encouragement do sport. Any race won by More than five lengths at Henley is described As a easily a and is not officially measured. This was the first time in 30 years the grand cup has had such a result with observers saying the americans won by up to eight lengths. A we set out to go fast the whole race Quot . Coach Mike Spracklen said. A but i did no to expect to win by this  the . Team included four of last years world championship Bronze medallists. The ladies plate was won by the . National lightweight eight College boat club by two thirds of a length Over the British lightweight St Juad London rowing club and Nottinghamshire county rowing association. Brown University last years Winner in the ladies plate won the thames cup with s freshman Crew beating the Cambridge University Crew by iv2 lengths. The school amp of eight of St Paul a of Concord n.h., won the Princess Elizabeth cup by a lengths Over Atlantic City High school Canadian Marnie Mcbean an olympic Gold medallist in double sculls beat Germany a Kathrin Boron in the women a single sculls final