European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 03, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday augusts 1994 sports the stars and stripes Page 29 Ellison becomes fifth new celtic 8 Boston a Pervis Ellison a free agent Center Forward is the. Fifth player my Carr has added to the Boston celtics since he took Over As the team s director of player personnel. Ellison signed with Boston on monday. Carr has already picked up forwards Blue Edwards and Derek Strong in a draft Day Trade with Milwaukee and signed two free agents Dominique. Wilkins and David Wesley on july 22. Ellison a 6-foot-Lo shot Blocker who has battled injuries throughout his Ca reer thinks Carr has the celtics pointed in the right direction. Boston s had a hard few years Elli son said monday. But now with Dominique Wilkins Blue Edwards and myself on the team i feel we have the nucleus to become bet Ter  season Boston finished. 32-50 25 games behind the Atlantic division Champion new York kicks. They missed the playoffs by 10 games. Carr thinks the Trio of newcomers along with no. 1 draft Choice Eric Mon Tross a 7-foot Center from North Carolina already make the celtics better. With the Quality Talent we new have Well be Able to compete every Day in practice and on into the regular season and the playoffs Carr said. People May think i m joking but we Are changing things Here and now regard ourselves As a championship  pistons add West to list of centers Auburn Hills Mich. A last year the Detroit pistons could t find a Center they were Happy with. Now they have plenty to choose from. The pistons obtained Mark West from the Phoenix suns on monday for two second round draft picks one in 1996 and one in 1999. Detroit already has acquired Bill Curley and Eric Leckner in the off season to go along with Greg Cadillac Anderson who played Cen Ter last season after Bill Laimbeer retired and Olden to Lyme was traded. In acquiring Mark we continue to meet our Post season objective to improve our front line said Billy Mckinney pistons vice presi Dent of basketball operations. The Trade of West who will make $2 million this season also dears the Way for Phoenix to try to sign free agent Danny Manning. West who will be 34 in novem Ber was the Only suns player to play in All 82 games last season starting 50. He averaged 4.7 Points 3.7 rebounds and _1.3 blocked shots. West has played in 501 consecutive games Over seven seasons trailing Only  Green among Active players. He possesses the physical pres ence and toughness that we have been seeking since the retirement of Bill Laimbeer Mckinney said. Laimbeer s retirement last de Cember forced Anderson to move from Forward to Center. Sex Laker arrested _ for spouse abuse Corrales . A Michael Cooper the former los Angeles lakers Star and current assistant coach was arrested for Battery and assault after threatening his wife with a vase. He was arrested the night of july 27 after police responded to a Domestic disturbance Call at the Coopers Home. According to a Corrales police depart ment report released inn Day Cooper was arrested and taken to a Hospital for Obser vation. Cooper 38, later was booked into the Sandoval county jail and released on Bond for an undisclosed sum. A lakers spokesman said the team would not immediately corny ent. Ellison could help a great Deal by Shak ing the injury Bug. His latest ailment was a knee that required surgery in 1993. I be had injury problems he said but i la spend the rest of the summer in rehabilitation. I Don t see myself As being injury prone. When you count it i be Only had three injuries my entire  since his freshman year at Louisville when never nervous Pervis led the cardinals to the Mcaa title and was the most valuable player of the final four Ellison has always been considered a potentially dominant Talent. He was the no. 1 pick Overall by Sacra mento in 1989, but played in Only 34 games in an injury plagued Rookie sea son averaging 8 Points per game. Traded to the bullets the following year Ellison started to Blossom under then Washington head coach Wes Unseld. He averaged 10.4 Points in 76 games his first year with the bullets then had his Best season in 1991-92. Playing in 66 games Ellison averaged 20 Points 11.2 rebounds and 2.7 blocks per game in 91-92 and appeared to be emerging As an All Star Caliper  last two seasons again  by injuries Ellison played in a total of 96 games. He averaged 7.3 Points and 5.1 re Bounds for Washington last year. Terms of Ellison s contract were not revealed but it is believed the five year Veteran  six year Deal for about $12 million. America s Shannon Miller gets a congratulatory kiss from Yelina Liskum of Belarus after her great individual events performance. Miller reigns in individual events by Stephen Wilson St. Petersburg Russia a Shannon Miller would t Settle for Sec Ond Best this time. R a Day after finishing second in the All around Competition the  re asserted her dominance monday by win Ning two Gold medals and two silvers in the individual apparatus finals i like a Challenge the 17-year-old Miller of Edmond okla., said. I like to Rise to the Challenge. I did at this Competition and Heel really Good about that Miller the most decorated . Gym Nast in history won Gold in the balance beam and Flo or exercise arid Silver in the vault and uneven bars. That brought her 1 medal total for the games to five two  three silvers. Miller finished ahead of Russia s Dina Kochetkova who had beaten her by .057 Points for the All around title sunday. It was Miller s  in two years. Shannon Miller proved she is the Best j gymnast in the world coach Steve Nunno said. After yesterday we had a Little discussion and i told her you have another Chance. You can prove it by showing you Are better in every event. You have the Opportunity to redeem yourself she did and she walked away with a fistful of  Miller scored 9.824 in the vault to Fin ish behind Liliya pod Kotyeva of Ukraine with.9.831. On the uneven bars Svetlana Khorina of Russia won with 9.862 Goodwill games Points while Miller had 9.850. Miller won the beam finals with 9.875 Points. She started with a front somersault to the bar and ended with a full twisting Back double somersault. In be tween she added a pair f reverse splits arid had a series of a Back Handspring followed by two Back aerials Miller capped. Her Day with an out standing floor routine earning a 9,937. I knew had to come in and hit my routines she said. I tried to do my Best in both  seems i got better As the Days went by. I Goj More used to the equipment Miller said she had gotten Over the Dis appointment of finishing second sunday in the All around her first loss since Tak ing the Silver at the 1992 olympics. It does t help to look Back and think what if she said. It was so close. I Don t look at it As a loss. I won a  _ there was another medal for the United states but this one was a Surprise. Marianna Webster 15, who trains with Miller at the Dynamo Academy in okla homa won a Bronze in the beam. It was Webster s first medal in major International Competition it really Means a lot to me she said. I think that this kind of makes a name for me in the International  Webster was originally listed in fifth place with a score of 9.625. But Nunno appealed to the judges arguing that they had no awarded her enough Points based on the difficulty of her routine. The judges revised Webster s score to 9.725, moving her up to third. The judges were absolutely wrong Nunno said. They admitted it and they changed  it was one in a series of scoring errors and computer glitches during the three Days of women s gymnastics. But there were also problems at the Yub Ileine Palace of sports venue for the Short track and figure skating competitions. Workers were still pouring water on the Concrete floor to make the ice Mon Day but unseasonably hot weather was slowing the freezing process. Practices were moved to an adjacent rink where the ice was soft and Brown. I can t imagine having a Competition As big As this one and having this happen american skater Elaine Zayak said. Organizers were forced to delay tues Day s Short track skating events for six hours but promised the ice would be ready for wednesday s figure skating. In other events monday Olga Sudakova of Russia won the Gold in the Solo Competition of synchronized swimming. Becky by. Roen Lancer of the United states was Sec Ond. Dyroen Lancer teamed with Jil Sudduth to win the duet Competition. In women s volleyball the United states beat Germany 3-0