Banner Graphic, Volume 19, Number 204, Greencastle, Putnam County, 4 May 1989 — Page 10

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THE BANNERGRAPHIC May 4,1989

Jabbar going out playing hard

By The Associated Press For someone who has announced his impending retirement, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar seems determined to hang around as long as possible. The 42-year-old center, in his 20th and final NBA season, scored 22 points and ignited a thirdquarter Los Angeles rally as the Lakers beat the Portland Trail Blazers to sweep their best-of-5 first-round playoff series. Los Angeles is 18-0 in the first round since the 16-team playoff format started in 1984. “OUR STARTING LINEUP was superb,” Lakers coach Pat Riley said. “Kareem had one of the best games he’s had in a long time.” In other Wednesday night playoff action, Chicago beat Cleveland 101-94 and Houston downed SeatUe 126-107. After a day off today, the playoffs resume Friday night with Cleveland at Chicago,

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SeatUe at Houston and Atlanta at Milwaukee. The Bucks lead that series 2-1. Byron Scott scored 25 points and James Worthy added 24 for the

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Lakers, who have won the last two NBA championships. ABDUL-JABBAR SCORED nine points in the third period after Portland took a 54-49 halftime lead. Magic Johnson added 17 points and seven assists for the Lakers. Terry Porter scored 24 of his 29 points in the first half for the Blazers, who were swept for the first time in the franchise’s history. Clyde Drexler added 25 points. “Kareem has been working on his shot during practice and it’s paying off,” Johnson said. “He really looked good. It helps the whole team to see, ‘OK, he’s here; he can give us this kind of game, especially on the road.’” “That’s the shot I’ve tried to take all my career,” Abdul-Jabbar said. “I’m going to try to get back to that. Every time that they guarded me one-on-one, I tried to take the best shot I could.” PORTLAND COACH Rick Adelman praised the Lakers. “The way they got ready for this series and the way they approached it, it just shows the kind of coach he (Riley) is and the kind of people they are,” Adelman said. Bulls 101, Cavaliers 94 Michael Jordan led Chicago with 44 points, including four clutch free throws in the final seconds, as the Bulls took a 2-1 lead over Cleveland. Jordan scored 15 points in the first seven minutes of the third quarter and the Bulls held

Large field may yet hurt Easy Goer

LOUISVILLE (AP) The number on Easy Goer’s stall is unlucky “13.” But that’s OK, says Shug McGaughey, who trains the Kentucky Derby favorite. He’s only a little superstitious. “Everything has gone perfect so far,” he said. “Knock on wood.” ANYWAY, SHUG’S wife Mary Jane, who is pregnant with their second child, found a lucky fourleaf clover the other day before Easy Goer could eat it. It didn’t go in the baby book. She pressed it in her Kentucky Derby book, on the page with Secretariat’s 1973 victory. With a big field of 16 expected to enter the Derby today, racing luck

leads of 22 points in the first half and 16 in the second half, then had to fight off a late surge by the Cavaliers. John Williams kept Cleveland in the running by scoring 16 of his 22 points in the fourth quarter. The Cavaliers closed within 91-88 with 2:43 to play, but Jordan converted a three-point play, stole the ball and went in for a slam dunk that made it 96-88. Cleveland got within 9794, but Jordan’s four free throws in the last 21 seconds proved insurmountable. Jordan opened the Bulls’ secondhalf scoring with a three-point play and then connected on another with 1:53 remaining and Cleveland within three points of the lead. Rockets 126, Sonics 107 Sleepy Floyd, noted for his clutch playoff performances, scored 22 of his 28 points in the first half as Houston beat Seattle for the first time in three playoff games. Floyd, who had six assists and hit a club playoff record three straight 3-point baskets, got the Rockets off to a fast start with 10 first-quarter points as Houston used an 11-0 spurt to take control. Dale Ellis, playing despite a broken nose that forced him to wear a protective brace, led Seattle with 26 points. Akeem Olajuwon scored 19 points and led the Rockets with 18 rebounds. Otis Thorpe added 23 points.

will play its part when the 115th Run for the Roses goes off Saturday afternoon. It’s not that Easy Goer needs to be lucky; he just can’t be too unlucky. “If Easy Goer is lucky enough to run his race Saturday, they will have a hard time beating him,” McGaughey said. “I’m not saying they can’t beat him, but they’ll have a hard time.” ONLY A MONTH ago, experts predicted as few as 10 in the Derby because of Easy Goer’s big victories in the Swale, Gotham and Wood this year following his 2-year-old championship campaign, But, before the withdrawal of Majesty’s Imp, the probable field actually grew to 17, three short of the maximum. “There’s somebody out there drinking coffee and reading the Racing Form and saying, ‘There’s three spots still open. Let’s go,”’ McGaughey said. “It could be

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somebody who just won their maiden race. “I don’t think I’ve ever seen more horses at 100-1 ... If I had a horse that was 150-1, I don’t think I’d want anybody to know about it.” THE MAIN STARTING gate at Churchill Downs will accomodate 14. Any horse with a post position beyond 14 will start in an auxiliary gate, and McGaughey did not like the prospect of being one of them. “I really don’t care how many are in there as long as we run out oi one gate,” McGaughey said. “1 j ( don’t want to have to worry about getting stuck in the auxiliary gate.” Easy Goer, running as an entry with stablemate Awe Inspiring, is bound to go off as the odds-on favorite, with the Charlie Whittin-gham-trained Sunday Silence and D. Wayne Lukas’ entry of Houston and Shy Tom next. The last time there was an odds-on favorite, it

was Spectacular Bid in 1979, and the field was 10. WHILE MANY HAVE compared Easy Goer with Secretariat, McGaughey still believes the 1973Triple Crown winner was the best colt he has ever seen. “He was a 2-year-old champion. He was fast. He was a good 3-year-old. He won the Triple Crown. He could race the classic distances, and later on, he was able to carry weight and win,” McGaughey said. “He was very versatile.” Pat Day will ride Easy Goer, and he 100 stops just short of declaring Easy Goer the next Secretariat. “He’s a class act, and he’s got a tremendous amount of talent,” Day said. “I’M NOT ONE for handing out praise easily, but he’s deserving of everything I said about him. He’s the best horse I’ve ever had a chance to ride, and possibly the best I’ve ever seen,” said Day. Yacht club files appeal NEW YORK (AP) The San Diego Yacht Club, calling a court ruling that stripped it of the America’s Cup “drastic and unfair,” has asked a state appeals court to reverse the order and restore its prize. The lower court “completely disregarded the rules of the sport governing the determination of protests” when it awarded the cup to a New Zealand boating club, the San Diegans argued in court papers Wednesday. State Supreme Court Justice Carmen Ciparick ruled March 28 that the San Diego club “violated the spirit” of the race by using a 60-foot catamaran to defend the cup against the Mercury Bay Boating Club’s single-hulled yacht, which is about 90 feet long at the waterline. The judge called the September contest, which the San Diegans won easily, “a gross mismatch” and ordered the 138-ycar-old silver cup forfeited.

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