European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 07, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse If the stars and stripes ports saturday update August 1994� Gordon rules Brickyard Indianapolis a Hoosier bred Jeff g9rdon, the youngest Driver in the Kneup escaped the Bodine Brothers family feud and passed Ernie Irvan with four laps to go to win Lascar s inaugural Brickyard 400 saturday. It was the first non indy car race at the Indianapolis motor Speedway in More than 80 years. Gordon who grew up in nearby Pittsboro ind., averaged 131.770 Mph and finished .53 second Over Brett Bodine. Bill Elliott was third followed by Rusty Wallace Dale Earnhardt Dar Rell Waltrip Ken Schrader Michael Waltrip Todd Bodine and Ricky Rudd. The top 10 finishers were Sepa rated by just 9.3 seconds. Red sox 8, indians 4 Boston a John Valentin had a career High five hits and drove in five runs As Boston red sox Defeated Cleveland in the first game of a Day night doubleheader. Mavericks woo Tarpley Dallas a the Dallas Mav Ericks have made Forward Roy Tarpley an offer to return to the team it Hewins reinstatement to the Aba. Victory dream wins hambletonian East Rutherford . A Trainer Ron Gurfein knew what he was talking about Victory dream re bounded from his poorest performance of the year and won the hambletonian for 3-year,-old Trotters. World basketball dreamers awaken rip China by Bill Barnard Hamilton Ontario a to be compared with the greats of basketball you Nave to play both ends of the floor. In its opening game against Spain dream team ii s offence was there but the defense was More like a Nightmare. Thursday night s 115-100 Victory was More an embarrassment than an accomplishment. Then there was Friday night against of sense was there again As the . Team won 132-77, sur passing the original dream team s Best offensive Gamin the 1992 olympics by five Points. But the defensive Effort was also there in the second game As the United states forced 36 turnovers against a chinese team that coach Don Nelson diplomatically called one of the Best ,. Passing teams in the world basketball championship. The americans were especially overwhelming in the final 1 19 of the first half scoring 16 Points and forcing four turnovers in that Short Span. After leading 45-33 with four minutes left the United states had a 71-38 bulge a halftime during a timeout with 2 50 left i told everyone this was the time we could Bury these Guys guard Joe do Mars said. It worked to _ defensive opportunities combined with an already impressive amount of firepower resulted in that 132 Post outburst surpassing the dream team i High of 127ngmnst Brazil and Lithuania in the 1992 olympics. We can outscore anyone in this tournament but what creates opportunities is defense Reggie Miller said. If we play defense like we did tonight we should beat any team Here by 30." after combining for 18 Points in the game against Spain the two . Centers had a dominating performance. Shaquille o Neal had 22 Points on 10-for-ll shooting and mourning who fouled out in nine min utes against Spain came Back with 13 Points Friday night 11 in the first Hal we played a lot harder but we can still play bet Ter o Neal said of _. The United states plays its final Pool a game Sun Day against Brazil which lost to China in overtime thursday night. Two pools of four teams each will be set up Tor a round Robin quarterfinal playoff round with two teams from each of those pools advancing tothe final four. In ife5 of her p�o1 a game Juan Antonio san Epifano al7-year Veteran of the Spanish National team scored All 18 of his Points in the second half in a 73-67 Victory Over Brazil 0-2in Pool a Croatia and Australia clinched quarterfinal berths Croatia with a 104-53 thrashing of South Korea and Australia with a 93-87 Victory Over Cuba. In Pool a Russia and Canada both advanced to the playoff round with 2-0 records. Russia whipped Angola 94-57, while Canada behind Kory Hallas 31 Points beat Argentina 91-73. In Pool a Michael Koch had 27 Points to Lead Ger Many to an 81-74 Victory Over puerto Rico As both teams go to 1-1. Greece remained unbeaten with a 69-53 Victory Over Egypt. Voss. V in a Tok Sruv a Ito .v.-.l. He a a ". Cd Wea / a m a x v a if f a ? re if to it c f cow to v vol a Toa a 4& up of a ? vow Jbf pm Lek it a showing their colors is Michael Abrams Hiya Alhaj i Utle to. Red � y Flag having Ashly Atherton swirl past manager Loren Schoenhof ? on saturday in Kaiserslautern Germany isse be e Bratma their 5-3 Victory Over Belgium which gave them the 1994 european Little league championship. The Victory puts the perennially powerful saudi squad into a i?5l a world series at Williamsport pa.,aug 22-27. See Story on Pagi 35. 0"246e50"00050411
