\ Thursday, December 4, 1986/The Battalion/Page 13 ston home h yin streak ends Hartford ueei |HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The Bcs spared Boston by ending B 48-game home winning streak I maleBartford, their home away from offe (ome. “It’s too bad,” the Celtics’ Kevin s besMcHale said Tuesday night after the i haiffem’s 117-109 loss to the Washing- lilies taBullets before more than 15,000 iding {Sunned observers at the Hartford itrDrlvk Center. “But if it’s going to nahat !nd, it might as well be in Hartford.” Broil Ijlie streak also began in the civic iowbo Biter, 110 miles from the Boston Bden, its old parquet floor and all those championship banners. The enoi jellies play three regular-season es in Hartford each year, he Celtics had not lost a home e since Dec. 6, 1985, when they !fe beaten by the Portland Trail ;ers at the Boston Garden. The winning streak started four days I f>late f when they defeated the Atlanta ' ^jflawksin Hartford. Bhe Celtics last season broke the previous record for consecutive home victories, 36 games, set by the Badelphia 76ers in 1966 and k B7. Bfhis ended our streak even though we weren’t at the Garden.' Iflwere the team in white, so it was ^wHorne game for us,” Celtics Coach K,C Jones said. ■ones had never lost a game in flit ford as head coach. ■I used to say that I didn’t like aks, but now I realize that I do like them,” he said. “They don’t start talking about them until they reach V |bout 10 games and they’re only bilken by one loss.” Baid Moses Malone of the Bullets, “1|isn’t the Boston Garden, but we belt them.” Boston’s misfortune was Washing- Bs salvation as the team recorded ■first win af ter seven losses on the i road this season. TANK MCNAMARA® THREE HoOR^ Ak)P 5Z MiNJuree>. VU&'tfE HEAPIKkS for a kjeuj MR- RGCORt? FOR TH6 LOMeeE-T &AME. by Jeff Millar & Bill Hinds HEY, AGS ! 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He has been very busy signing with the ■wboys in May after stints with Birmingham, Washington and Orlando in the U.S. Football ! f g ue - ■The big difference in trying to learn the sys- tm here and in the USFL is that you have to take the books home and work every chance you get,” P llier said. 'In the USFL, the playbook wasn’t that big or complicated. We studied in class before going on the field to practice what we’d studied, and that ras it. You couldn’t keep up if you tried that iere.” |ln addition to studying, Collier’s three years of experience and outstanding accomplishments in OFF Year End Inventory Reduction Sale Manor East Mall (adjacent to Clothworld) Texas Avenue at Villa Maria Bryan, TX 10am-7pin Weekdays 10am-6pm Sat. A Placelb Discover." the USFL have put him into the Cowboys’ No. 2 quarterback slot, even after veteran Paul McDon ald was signed. “All you try to do is be ready every game,” Col lier said. “Last year at this time, Steve Pelluer had no idea he’d be the Cowboys’ starting quar terback.” Collier, who went to college at Southern Mis sissippi, signed with the Stallions in 1983 after being told by the Cowboys that he might have to play a skill position other than quarterback. “The Stallions guaranteed me I could play quarterback,” Collier said. “I was out practicing one day when I heard Dallas had drafted me (in the sixth round). I wondered then why they’d bother, but now I guess I understand they wanted the NFL rights to me, just in case.” Through the spring and summer of this year, Collier studied and worked daily with the Cow boys’ quarterback book, but when his first chance for NFL action came it was as a wide receiver. “We had a bunch of injuries and they asked me to go outside for a month,” he said. “I played a few downs against Detroit and Atlanta.” Since then, he has moved back to quarterback, and he played well during the final minutes of the Cowboys’ 41-14 loss to Washington on Nov. Collier’s talents as a passer-runner had just the right showcase at Southern Mississippi, where Bobby Collins was running the same option he would later bring to Southern Methodist. When it came time to select an academic major in college. Collier, a football and basketball star in Biloxi, Miss., was ready. “I was already at ease with reporters and cam eras and all that,” he said, “so I got into TV-radio communications. Maybe I can make something out of it when football is no longer my thing.” For Collier and his wife, Cynthia, their idea of a big day is Tuesday. That’s the Cowboys’ day off and although Cynthia, a speech therapist in the Plano school system, has to work, there’s a brief respite from the study-and-praedee routine that necessarily must consume an aspiring NFL quar terback. And maybe, if Collier can find them, there may even be time for some collard greens and smoked neck bones. Becker hammers Nystrom in Masters tennis tourney NEW YORK (AP) — Playing tith a cool demeanor and a hot 6rve, West Germany’s Boris ecker easily advanced Wednes day night to post his 18th consec utive match victory as the SOO,000 Masters tennis tourna ment began at Madison Square -arden. Becker, a two-time Wimbledon amp, crushed Sweden’s Joakim Kystrom 6-1, 6-3 to begin the Bound-robin portion of this sea son-ending tournament. I Swedes were more successful in Wednesday’s other matches as third-seeded Mats Wilander de feated Henri Leconte of France 6-1, 7-5, and Stefan Edberg stopped Ecuador’s Andres Go mez 6-2, 6-3. Becker has been unbeatable in his last four outings, winning three Nabisco Grand Prix tourna ments and an eight-man exhibi tion in Atlanta where he toppled John McEnroe in the final. Tonight, Edberg will face Yan nick Noah of France, top-seeded Ivan Lendl of Czechoslovakia will play Gomez, and Wilander will face Nystrom. Bass set for surgery HOUSTON (AP) — Astros rightfielder Kevin Bass is sched uled to undergo arthroscopic sur gery later this month in Los An geles for a bone spur in his right shoulder, a spokesman for the Na tional League team said Wednes day. Bass was examined in Houston last week and on Tuesday in Los Angeles by Dr. Frank Jobe, Hous ton Astros spokesman Richard Fairly said. Bass had soreness in his right shoulder for most of the 1986 sea son and it persisted afterwards. 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