European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 31, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Faces new York a sports labor problems Are not confined to baseball. The nil has a one that threatens keep training Camps from opening. The Dallas morning news quoted an unidentified source tuesday As saying that commissioner Gary Bettman will order a league wide lockout beginning monday. There will be no hockey whatsoever without an agreement the source told the news. " management s position is that it makes no sense to Start then Stop and then Start a strike or lockout is a distinct possibility said Mike Gartner president of the nil players association. I Hope neither one of them happens but they Are possibilities.". Aside from one Issue the Toronto for Ward does t see any similarity Between the baseball strike and the current stale mate in hockey contract talks. But Gartner thinks that one Issue a salary Cap is big enough to Force hockey into a similar circumstance As baseball a work stoppage. R Reneberg. ---.,-.- ". ,\.,- by Bob Greene new York a what a differ ence a grand slam makes. At Wimbledon in june Veteran Lori Mcneil pulled off the biggest upset of the year when she ousted defending Champi on Steffi Graf in a first round match. At the us. Open tuesday Graf the defending Champion sped past her open ing round foe but Mcneil a Wimbledon semifinalist fell to Anna smash Nova of Israel playing in Only her fourth grand slam tournament All this year. Graf top seeded in the 128-Playerwomen s Field but troubled by an Ach ing Back needed Only 45 minutes to oust 19-year-old californian Anne mall making her debut Here 6-2,"6-1. Smash Nova who had to go through qualifying to Gam the main draw at the australian open in january shocked Mcneil Becker who is 13th-seeded, 6-2, 6-4. In another upset american Richey Reneberg ousted seventh seeded Boris Becker 6-1, 6-4, 4-6, 1-6,76 7-5 in match that finished Early tuesday. Fifth seeded Kimiko Date easily won her first round match tuesday beating fellow japanese Rika Hiraki 6-0, 6-2 and no. 8 Gabriela Sabatini Defeated Larisa Neiland 6-0, 6-1. Stefan Eulberg twice the men s Cham Pion and seeded fifth brushed past Fel Low swede Lars Jonsson 7-5, 6-1, 6-1. An other former Champion from Sweden Mats Wilander fell to Frenchman Guy forget 7-5, 6-1, 6-4. Graf said her Back Begani hurting her during a tournament in san Diego. Tuesday update us. Open Sabatini said her game is better now than when she won this tournament but notes she must be aggressive attacking All the time especially today with the Way that the players Are playing. They re hit Ting the Ball so hard and if i Don t hit the Ball hard i m not going to Becker could Only come up with a Long list of excuses after losing to Reneberg a player More accustomed to Success i doubles than singles. On opening Day which did t end until shortly after 12 30 this morning Becker and several other seeded players were knocked out of the year s final grand slam tournament. They made the court extremely slow this year especially Center court and the grandstand and they changed the balls Becker moaned. They made them very heavy and very soft and that is very bad for my it took six match Points but Reneberg finally prevailed the winning Point com ing on a smash Becker was t the Only one ousted. Markus Zolecke of Germany ousted no. 2 Goran Ivanisevic 6-2, 7-5, 3-6, 7-5 in the men s singles while Gigi Fernan Dez bumped no. 12 Sabine Hack of Ger Many from the 128-player women s Field. And 16th-seeded Petr Korda of the czech Republic withdrew from the tournament with a pulled Groin muscle. Not every seeded player had problems monday however. Among the men no. 3 Sergi bruguera stepped Bryan Shelton 6-0, 6-2, 7-5, and no. 6 Michael Chang Defeated Andrei Cherkasov 6-4, 6-2, 6-2. The women were led by French open Champion Arantha Sanchez Vicario seeded second who eliminated Linda Ferrando 7-5, 6-1, and Wimbledon Winner Conchita Martinez seeded third who Defeated Veronika Martinek 6-1,6-0. Jackson Powell collect Gold Bfrun a hurdler Colin Jack son and Long Juniper Mike Powell split a Jackpot of about 44 pounds of Goki tues Day by winning their a scots at the staf track and tick meet. Jackson ran the fastest 1 to meter hurdles of the season 1vu2, while Powell won he k no jump Ai 2t feet 11 inches to Dami fhe richest prize in track and Field. Friesz beats out Shuler Ashburn a. A four year Veteran John Fries u is picked tuesday Over top draft Choice Neath Shuler As the Washington redskins starting quarterback. Flies was signed As a free a Enedin my the of sea Sofi. Set pages 37, 38 for More i ski. We re still talking about a salary Cap which we Don t want to have anything to do with either said Gartner. There Are a lot of other problems in the game that have to Beironed-out." salaries Are the main Issue. Owners Are seeking to tie salaries to team reve Nues. Players Hope to have salaries set bythe open Market. Players have been without a contract since sept. 15. They last met with owners for three hours last week but have no formal meetings scheduled at this Point. The stars and stripes August 31,1994 r Page 40 Ohio state s Eddie George is brought Down at the 1-Yard-line. He scored on next play. Ohio state runs past Fresno pigskin classic Anaheim Calif. A one big question during the summer was whether Ohio state could withstand the loss of Allbut one offensive linemen from last season. Considering what happened monday night in the pigskin classic the answer Hasto be yes. Led by its revamped line no. 20 Ohio state generated a solid ground attack in a34-10 Victory Over Fresno state. I must have been asked a million questions about How the line s going to be quarterback Bobby Hoying said. The line did a great Job especially considering that Hoying had planned to Challenge Fresno s two fresh men cornerback. But because the Buck eyes were successful running the Ball Hoy ing did t have to rely on the passing game. We wanted to keep pounding on them until they got tired Ohio state tailback Lundie George said. We knew they weren t really big up front so we wanted us fila smash Mouth George set the Tempo Early and scored two of the buckeyes first three Toi a Downs. He also is a Fust time starter re placing Kan unit Harris Shii cd Ohio stale list so Ason with ,34 ids. Ohio state s Otu i Wensuc threat Usi Civ in i r i piss l u ii.,. A. J in Quarter put the buckeyes ahead 14-0. The pass was the longest in the pigskin classic s five year history. Fresno state meanwhile could not move the Ball. The bulldogs who were playing their first game against a big ten team had Only one sustained drive. The bulldogs went 63 Yards on 12 plays late in the first Quarter scoring on a 4 Yard shovel pass from Adrian Claiborn Eto tailback Michael Pittman. The Bull dogs then trailed 21-7. Pittman rushed for All but seven of Fresno state s 89-Yards. Ohio state Ranfor 183 Yards. I Felt like we could have switched the momentum but we just made too Many mistakes Fresno state coach Jim Swee Ney said. And the momentum stayed in Osu s favor. On their first Possession of the Sec Ond half Fresno state fumbled a punt that gave Ohio state the Ball at the bulldogs Yard line. Ohio state converted the Fumble into a 24-Yard Field goal by Josh Locum that increased the Lead to 24-7. We re going to develop every week Hoying said. "1 think at the end of the. A i it might be a better offence than we had u Jalloway added an ,s-\.nd Lovard Field go i the scoring for Ohio state
