European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 04, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday october 4, 1994 sports the stars and stripes Page 31 Golf tourneys 3-shot shift lifts Gilbert to Victory by the associated press Clemmons . Former club pros Are dominating these Nior Golf tour. Three time pea club pro Cham Pion Larry Gilbert took advantage of a 3-shot swing on the 16th Hole Sun Day to defeat Raymond Floyd and win the Vantage championship. Gilbert shot an 18-under-Par 198 for his second win this season. His three consecutive 66s netted him $225,000 in the tour s richest event and moved him to eighth on the Money list with $778,053. Former club pros Jim Albus an Tom Wargo Are also haying Banner seasons on tour. Albus is fourth on the Money list and Wargo is sixth. Gilbert was tied with Floyd at17-under through 15 holes sunday. Following a 5-minute wait on the 16th tee Floyd hit his 5-Iron tee shot on the 183-Yard Par 3 into the crowd. After a free drop he chipped Short of the Green. Floyd s second Chip rolled to four feet from the cup while Gilbert holed his 25-footer for a Birdie. Dave Stockton who shot an opening round 63, finished tied for third with Jim Dent at 201. Ballesteros wins playoff Mot zen Germany Spain s seve Ballesteros charged from be Hind monday at the $937,500 Ger Man masters completing a dra Matic Victory Over Ernie Els and Jose Maria Olazabal with a Birdie on the first Hole of a playoff. Ballesteros made up six strokes in the final round and won the playoff after Spain s Olazabal an South Africa s Els settled for Par. The Winner carded a 5-under 67 to finish 18-under at 270. Olazabal who began the final 18holes three shots behind Els car ded a 70. Els shot a 73. Elkington gets Victory Pine Mountain a. The final round of the Buick Southern open was rained out sunday giving Steve Elkington his fourth pea tour Victory. Elkington finished with a 54-Hole total 16-under-Par 200. Steve Rintoul finished five shots Back. Neumann triumphs St Louis a Sweden s use Lotte Neumann built a 5-stroke Lead with three birdies on the frontline sunday and finished the Lyga heartland classic at 2-under-Par 70 for a 3-stroke Victory sunday Elaine Crosby and Pearl sinn who led by four strokes after two rounds tied for second. Nil trial balloon on stadium punctured by . Officials by the los Angeles times los Angeles the nil floated an apparent trial balloon sunday saying it might enter into a partnership to build a football stadium in los Angeles to keep pro franchise Here and serve As site of the super bowl on a rotating basis. But  officials quickly Dis missed the idea As unrealistic. Paul Tagh Abue the league commissioner talked of the possible stadium in a halftime interview on the Fox television network which has a contract that re quires the nil to keep a team in the los Angeles area or receive less in payments from Fox. With the rams and raiders telling annul owners meeting in Dallas last week that neither now has a contractual agreement to keep playing in the los an Geles area Tagliabue said the purpose of a new stadium built in partnership with the City or the state of California would be to keep the nil Strong in los an  we think maybe we be got a concept that lag work if it s keyed to the super bowl playing the super bowl on a rotating basis he said. On the Fox pregame show a commen Tator said an 80,000-seat stadium was contemplated. But a Short time later Greg Aiello the nil s director of communications said at this Point it s an idea without a great amount of  it has such Little detail los Angeles City Council president John Ferraro said that i be never heard anything about  two other officials who declined to be identified said they believed that Taglia Bue s comments resulted from a variation of an old negotiating ploy by Raider owner Al Davis. As new negotiations begin for a Long term Raider contract at the coliseum in Exchange for building luxury boxes there Davis has As he has so often in the past started talking about a proving elsewhere one official said. It sounds so much like Davis in the background the second official said he got our stadium rent free this year and now he s already pushing us for next  the raiders could t be reached for comment. The obstacle to Tagliabue s suggestion of a partnership to build a stadium and possibly attract a new team los Angeles officials said is that the City and stat have no Money to put up for such a stadium. And besides they said the coliseum could become everything the nil wanted for much less Money. First step taken by nil sides by the associated pres Toronto the first step toward beginning the nil season was taken on what was supposed to be Day 2 of the league s most successful year  commissioner Gary Bettman and Union head Bob Goodenow agree sunday to resume negotiations tuesday in an Effort to reach a collective bargain ing agreement and get the season started by oct. 15. The site and time of the talks have not ret been set although they Are Likely to e held in new  games were postponed Over the weekend and two More were scheduled for monday night. Talks broke off last wednesday and if Bettman feels their re sumption makes Progress the season will begin with the postponed games to be made up throughout the  have wide differences no doubt about that Goodenow said. We have a lot of work ahead of us if we re going to put this thing  at an nil players association meeting saturday 102 players reviewed the Situa Tion. We tie trying to find common ground but the owners keep moving the target around Toronto defens Eman Jamie Macoun said. Isles sigh Brett Lindros Uniondale by. Brett Lindros the new York islanders top draft Choice in 1994, signed a five year contract Sun Day. Lindros brother Eric plays for the