European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 11, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                It s bombs away . 3-po/nfers sink Australia Toronto a dream team ii with its Quick striking offence on target again is Halfway to its goal of a world championship of basketball Gold medal. The . Team averaging 120.5 Points game or three a minute pulled away from Australia for a 130-74 Victory tues Day night giving the americans a fourth. Straight Victory and. A 1-0 record in their quarterfinal round Robin. Reggie Miller made five 3-pointers an scored 23 of his 31 Points in the first 11 minutes of the second half As dream team ii rediscovered its 3-Point shooting touch by hitting 14 of 22 after missing 13of 16 sunday against Brazil. Miller led a barrage that turned a 14-Point halftime advantage into an 101-58 rout with 8 33 remaining. World basketball the original dream team averaged117.3 in going 8-0 in the 1992 olympics. At the Pace dream team ii is scoring i would average 144 Points in an Aba length game. Mark Price scored 17 Points and Dan Majerle 14 for the United states. Andrew gaze scored 23 Points and Mark Bradtke 16 for Australia which finished second behind Croatia in its preliminary Pool. Shaquille o Neal who went into the game leading the team with a 20.3 aver age did not play in the second half an finished with six Points. He has been bothered by a stiff Back. The United states which beat China by 55 Points earlier in the tournament faces puerto Rico a 101-85 loser to. Rus Sia on tuesday As the quarterfinals continue wednesday night. The americans face Russia on Friday followed by the semifinals on saturday and the Gold medal game sunday. True to his word coach Don Nelson rotated his lineup starting Price an Steve Smith the Only two players on the team averaging less than 10 minutes pregame and Derrick Coleman who sat out the second half against Brazil on  alignment did t work too Well As Australia opened a 17-10 Lead and still had a 24-19 Edge when Nelson made his first substitution o Neal for Coleman. Two 3-pointers by Price sandwiched around a Layup by o Neal gave dream the stars and stripes August. 994 Page 36 team ii its first Lead at 27-24, but. A 3-Pointer by Andrew Vlahov and two free throws by gaze put Australia in front again. A Basket by o Neal finally put the americans ahead to stay at 33-29 with8 33 left in the first half. A 14-3 spurt with Kevin Johnson and Kemp scoring six Points each extended the . Lead to 53-40, and it was 62-48 at halftime As the americans shot72 percent from the Field. American Golf greats Tom Watson and Arnold Palmer Stop for water during pea practice round tuesday. Non americans Eye Golf sweep Tulsa okla. A a non american sweep of of s major championships would be Good for Golf Reg Norman said. An unprecedented sweep is More than a possibility going into the pea championship the last of the year s big four events which begins today on the Southern Hals country club course. The winners of the first three majors Jose Mari Olazabal of Spain masters Ernie Els of South Africa . Open and Nick Price of Zimbabwe British see Page 28 for pea pairings open join the australian Ace Norman among the leading contenders in the 151-Man Field. A Victory by one of them or any other non Ameri can not Only would be Good for world Golf it could be of Benefit to the american game Norman said tuesday after a practice round. Maybe it would Wake them up he said. There s no question that at one time american dominated the world game he added. It s just the Way the game of Golf has changed Over the last few years. Now it s Aryl International  Norman a two time British open Winner has had hand in that  have Olazabal and fellow spaniard seve Balleste rps Els Price and Nick Faldo of England to mention a few. We All had someone to follow someone to look unto Norman said. In his Case it was David Graham an australian win Ner of the pea and . Open. Faldo followed eng land s Tony Jacklin. Price and Els followed South Afri can Gary  panic rumours discounted from wire report Sas baseball s players and club owners inched closer to a seemingly unstoppable work stoppage after thursday s games hosts of the 50-Day players strike of981 surfaced tuesday. According to word emanating fro some clubs owners Are saying they have been told that once the players strike they will come Back after missing their second  would be sept. 15. Donald Fehr the players Union Leader instantly and emphatically labelled that thought  licensing Money the first Check will not be distributed until sept. 15,"Fehr told reporters at his office tuesday. He referred to a strike fund of Between see pages 29,30,32,33 and 34 for More baseball $175 million and $200 million from which the players will receive Money if a strike goes beyond a month. The players association has told play ers that checks will be mailed sept. 15 and sept. 29. The report of expected player panic re called a similar circumstance in the Days leading up to the 1981 strike. That year the owners chief labor executive Raymond Grebey told owners the players would t strike. When they did anyway Grebey assured the owners that the players would comeback after they missed their first paycheck. The strike ended 50 Days later after the owners strike insurance ran out. This strike is scheduled to begin after thursday s games. Talks Between players and owner ended wednesday with no Progress re ported. No further negotiations we rescheduled. At this Point i see no reason to be Lieve anything of significance will occur today or anytime soon Fehr said after meeting with Richard Ravitch chief negotiator for the owners. There s no Point to just having meet Ings Fehr said. There s no reason to have a meeting just to say you had  wednesday update indians 5, Blue jays 3 Toronto a Jason Grimsley pitched six Strong innings to win for the fourth time in five starts wednesday As Cleveland beat Toronto in its final Gam before Friday s strike deadline. The indians have an off Day thursday. Pats obtain Steeles Thompson Smithfield , a the new England patriots added depth to their in jury depleted Backfield wednesday by obtaining Leroy Thompson from the Pittsburgh Steeles. Thompson gained More than 1,000 total Yards last season. The patriots got Thompson 26, for what coach Bill Parcells called Undis closed  46850"000504