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IINGLEWOOU, Calif. (AP) —The
Angeles Lakers, already armed
Ith the homecourt advantage in the
eet at 7 pjf in al game of the NBA Finals, found
even bigger edge Monday: The
|troit Pistons’ Isiah Thomas was on
itches and, according to the team
liner, almost certainly out of the
me.
[Thomas, who scored 43 points in
so. Miat'sul Slnday’s sixth game against the
5m/sstear.B]< ers> sprained his ankle during
itrywillm '.|^ e quarter. He scored an
NTA-finals-record 25 points in that
plriod.
■“I don’t think he is going to play,”
; Ktroit trainer Mike Abdenour said
■cmday. “If this was regular season
OQ m would be out a minimum of 10
Hys to two weeks.”
^Abdenour said Thomas has a “se
verely sprained right ankle and can’t
put any weight on it.”
BThe trainer said Thomas was be-
ini; treated with ice at the Los An-
Hles Raiders’ training facility and
alf j would not practice Monday.
mtsandlilfiM The pressure is on both teams
which havB w ’ but I give us the advantage be-
najor factor: cause we ’ re home,” said Lakers cen-
kVilsonsaid tei ^ areem Abdul-Jabbar, who will
idea bd M making his 222nd career playoff
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1 by maiLj>j| WIMBLEDON) England (AP) — Defending cham-
ith and pj (in p at Cash, top-seeded Ivan Lendl and two-time
Bampion Boris Becker overpowered their first-round
are not be:. ■. )0nents M on( j a y a t the Wimbledon tennis cham-
hey haven pl^ships.
nodandDr-jHL eiu ji anc i Becker each served 20 aces, while Cash
son said -Bed a strong service return to win their matches at the
ling than All England Lawn Tennis Club.
oved or is 5 JCash, playing the first match on Centre Court, de-
IDA appn f»ted 17-year-old Todd Woodbridge of Australia 6-1,
product an g-1,6-2. Lendl beat David Felgate of Britain 6-4, 6-1, 6-
3atid Becker defeated John Frawley of Australia 6-3, 6-
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and the runner-up at Wimbledon the past two years,
e investiplcM eezec j p ast Felgate in 84 minutes before early evening
at 30 ski showers caused a one-hour rain delay.
the state.
point guard Magic Johnson said of
playing the game at the Forum. “But
you’ve got to make it worth a lot. It’s
worth something, but you’ve got to
make it worth more than that by
coming out here ready to play and
make it a real advantage.”
The Lakers forced the seventh
game by winning 103-102 Sunday.
They trailed 102-99 going into the
final minute, but a jumper by Byron
Scott and two free throws by Abdul-
Jabbar with 14 seconds left kept Los
Angeles alive.
“We want the championship bad,
and in order to get it you’ve got to
overcome things like this,” the Pis
tons’ John Salley said. “We’ll be all
right.”
Thirteen NBA finals have gone
the seven-game limit, and the home
team has won 10 of them.
In the Pistons’ favor, however, is
■
I just couldn’t pick his serves up,” said Felgate,
ranked 362nd in the world. “I couldn’t figure where
they were going. I tried everything, but it didn’t make
am difference. He was just pounding them down.”
win at Wimbledon
Cash had only one ace against Woodbridge, but his
service returns were deadly.
“I just returned so well today and that set everything
up,” Cash said. “The court is pretty slow, so you have
some time to get the ball back.”
Becker, the champion in 1985 and 1986, overcame
three break points in the final game against Frawley
and closed out the match with an ace.
“The way it started today, I think I should be very
satisfied,” said Becker, who was upset in the second
round last year by Peter Doohan. “It could not get any
better than that.”
Lendl, a natural baseliner who has never felt com
fortable on grass, was pleased with his opening-xound
play-
“I served quite well, which 1 didn’t do in practice,”
said Lendl, who appeared to be recovered from a shoul
der strain suffered during a quarterfinal loss at the
French Open.
“I didn’t have to hit many volleys and the few times
that I did, they were pretty easy,” Lendl said.
Strange captures Open in playoff
the knowledge that two of the last
three seventh games have been won
on the road. Boston beat the Lakers
in Game 7 at Boston in 1984, but be
fore that Washington won at Seattle
in 1978 and Boston won at Milwau
kee in 1974.
Thomas, who scored 31 of his 43
points in the second half, isn’t con
cerned about the Lakers’ supposed
homecourt advantage. He even ad
mitted that the Pistons came to Los
Angeles believing they would need
two games to win.
“The best team will end up the
winner,” Thomas said. “We know it’s
going to be tough. We were expect
ing to play two hard basketball
games, and so were they. That’s
what we’re going to do.”
The Lakers have won 10 cham
pionships, five of them before mov
ing to California from Minneapolis,
and are seeking to become the first
team since the Celtics in 1969 to re
peat as champions.
Thomas said the Pistons need to
get forward Adrian Dantley back
into the offense.
Dantley scored 14 points Sunday
and was only 3-for-10 from the field.
He averaged 28.6 points in the Pis
tons’ three victories and 15.7 in their
three losses in the series.
BROOKLINE, Mass. (AP) — Cur
tis Strange achieved a personal goal
Monday with a par 71 that provided
hjm with a four-stroke victory over
Nick Faldo in their 18-hole playoff
for the U.S. Open Coif
Championship.
Faldo, the stolid Englishman who
owns the British Open title,
struggled to a 75 in the 28th playoff
for the American national
championship.
The victory was the first of
Strange’s career in one of the game’s
recognized major championships.
With three strokes in hand as he
marched up the 18th fairway at The
Country Club, the smiling Strange
saluted a cheering gallery with a
raised, clenched-fist salute, first with
his left hand then with his right.
His wife, Sarah, tears of happiness
streaming down her face, hugged
Strange’s twin brother, Allan, and
then embraced Faldo’s wife, Gill.
The 15th victory of Strange’s 11-
season career, and his third this sea
son, was worth $180,000 from the
total purse of $1 million, lifting his
season’s earnings to $548,525.
More importantly, it answered a
nagging question and confirmed his
stature in the game. The question
Strange no longer has to answer con
cerned what had been a gap in his
record, the lack of a victory in one of
golf s Big Four, the Masters, the U.S.
Cub fans to see
the light at night
CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago
Cubs said Monday the lights will go
on at Wrigley Field on Aug. 8 and
opponents vowed to continue fight
ing to keep them off.
The first night game ever at Wrig
ley will be against the Philadelphia
Phillies — more than five decades af
ter baseball debuted under the lights
and 40 years after the Detroit Tigers
became the last team to join the “en
lightenment.”
The Cubs’ announcement ended
weeks of suspense over when the
lights atop the left- and right-field
upper decks would be turned on.
At least one night-time practice
session is scheduled before the Aug.
8 game against the Phillies. The
game itself will end a 72-year tradi
tion of playing baseball only in the
sunshine at the major league’s sec
ond-oldest park.
“It is an historic event for our club
and fans,” said Don Grenesko, exec
utive vice president for business op
erations. “This is an opportunity for
more fans to experience Cubs base
ball.”
The Cubs’ owner, media con
glomerate Tribune Co., have fought
heated battles with Chicago aider-
man over ordinances, with state leg
islators over statutes and with neigh
borhood groups in court . since
acquiring the club and the North
Side park in 1981.
A City Council vote in February
removed the final roadblock, even
while limiting the team to eight reg
ular-season night games in 1988 —
although the Cubs will play just
seven this season — and 18 games
each season for the next 14 years.
Few signs of the neigborhood’s
once-formidable community opposi
tion, coordinated by a group called
Citizens Linked for Baseball in the
Sunshine (CUBS), were visible Mon
day.
Reds coast
past Astros
HOUSTON (AP) —- Tom Brown
ing allowed five hits in 7% innings to
win his fourth straight game and
Nick Esasky’s sacrifice fly in the sixth
inning scored the go-ahead run as
the Cincinnati Reds defeated the
Houston Astros 2-1 Monday night.
Browning, 6-3, defeated Houston
starter Jim Deshaies, his former tea
mmate at LeMoyne College, for the
second time in a week.
Browning struck out six, walked
three and gave up Kevin Bass’ sixth
homer in the fourth inning for
Houston’s only run. John Franco
earned his ninth save.
Deshaies, 4-5, allowed eight hits in
eight innings, walking four and
striking out five.
and British Opens and the PCA.
He recognized that shortcoming
after winning the Memorial tourna
ment last week.
“I want to win a major,” the 33-
year-old Strange said.
He got it in his next attempt. But
it was far from easy.
It was, in fact, a scramble
throughout a warm afternoon in the
Boston suburbs. Strange, prema
turely at age 33, may have added a
few more by hitting only seven
fairways and as many greens in reg
ulation. Yet he never trailed Faldo in
the playoff which was set up when
both finished regulation play on
Sunday at 6-under-par 278.
Kunkel propels
Rangers to win
ARLINGTON (AP) — Jeff Kun-
kel’s one-out RBI double in the bot
tom of the ninth inning lifted the
Texas Rangers over the Seattle Mar
iners 4-3 Monday night.
Leadoff batter Larry Parrish
walked and Cecil Espy ran for Par
rish. Mike Stanley also walked and
Espy scored one out later on Kun-
kel’s second RBI of the game, mak
ing a winner of Jeff Russell, 7-0.
Russell’s start matches the best in
Rangers’ history — Jim Kern did it
in 1979.
Mike Schooler, 0-1, took the loss
as the Mariners’ winless streak on
the road stretched to 13. They’ve
lost their last eight games overall.
Mariners starter Mark Langston
continued to pitch well against
Texas, allowing only two earned
runs and four hits in 7 Vs innings.
Langston struck out seven, raising
his season total to 114, second in the
league to Roger Clemens.
Seattle’s Mike Kingery snapped a
2-2 tie in the seventh with a two-out
RBI single. The Rangers tied it in
the eighth on Kunkel’s first homer.
Alvin Davis’ two-run homer in the
fourth gave the Mariners a 2-1 lead.
Switch-hitter Ruben Sierra tied it
2-2 in the sixth with a solo homer,
his 11 th and first homer this season
batting right-handed.
Sierra also drove in a run in the
first with a sacrifice fly.
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