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Efforts to hold this Wake orest North Carolina State football game in China have fallen through Wake orest officials confirmed yester day Gene Hooks Wake athletic director said that negotiations to stage the game at Beijing Workers Stadium on Nov 25 broke off during the weekend when it became evident that corporate sponsorship could not be secured by June 1 The game will be played at Groves Stadium on Sept 16 as originally scheduled would have been a great opportunity for our Hooks said it would have been significant for the university in terms of public relations disappointed that we get all the details worked Hooks cited the recent student demonstrations and political unrest in Beijing as the crucial blow to the chances Negotiations involving Wake State the Chi nese government and a marketing firm based in Salt Lake City Utah had been going on for more than a month At one point in the negotiations which all parties agreed to keep from being publicized at the See DEACONS Page 22 EATURES E9 STANDINGS Winston Salem Journal Monday May 29 1989 PAGE 17 Hl red sox fall flat PAGE 20 SIMPSON WINS AT ATLANTA LI LJ LJ I TOM HARPER REMEMBERED I Lj LJ 41 I page 22 I preps 21 golf 19 I COLLINS 21 it Lakers Complete Third Straight Sweep Advance to inals Again i jpr zZlILz a a iZ BYRON SCOTT: Leads the Lakers with 35 points THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOENIX The Los Angeles Lakers keep making history and Phoenix Suns learned another hard les son Byron Scott scored 12 of his 35 points in the final 9:56 yesterday as Los Angeles swept its third straight playoff series with a 122 117 victory over the Suns The 35 points were a career playoff high for Scott The Lakers two time defending champions will advance to the NBA finals for the eighth time this decade as they seek their sixth title of the 1980s times in 10 years pretty consis said Coach Pat Riley of Los Angeles who tied Red record for playoff victories at MATCHUP WHO: The Detroit Pistons at the Chicago Bulls in Game 4 of the best of 7 Eastern Conference inals WHEN: Today at 3 pm (a) at Chicago Stadium BACKGROUND: The Bulls won the opener 94 88 but the Pistons came back to even the series with a 100 91 win in Game 2 The Bulls took a 2 1 lead in the series after a thrilling 99 97 victory Saturday in Chicago SW 98 think opened a few eyes You can call it respect In a subtle way I think our guys are motivated by that We went out and showed what we are world Los Angeles will face either Chicago or Detroit in the finals The Bulls lead that best of seven series 2 1 and Game 4 will be played today in Chicago be ready to play whoever we face just happy to be in the said Magic John son who scored 10 of his 21 points in the fourth quarter and added 20 assists and six rebounds healthy our bench is playing well Everything is clicking right now We just got to keep it The Lakers are 11 0 in the playoffs this season an NBA record with sweeps of Portland (three games) Seattle and Phoenix Cotton itzsimmons the coach said hurt our feelings all they hurt the team of the but we might be the team of the Los Angeles led 87 74 at the end of the third quarter and 91 78 with 9:56 left after Scott hit his third 3 pointer of the game Phoenix rallied in the fourth quarter behind 17 points from Tom Chambers who finished with a career playoff high 41 Chambers scored seven points in a span of 2:02 to lead the Suns on a 10 4 run Kevin three point play with 53 seconds left cut the Suns deficit to 116 114 But Michael Cooper hit two free throws with 38 seconds left and Magic Johnson who had 10 points in the final 8:27 made two free throws with See LAKERS Page 22 Milwaukee trades Terry Cummings to San Antonio Page 18 Waltrip Streaks to 4th Victory of Season AP WIREPHOTO Darrell Waltrip pushes his Tide machine toward the finish line at Charlotte Yesterday's victory marked fifth win in the May race 1 IBBHHnMIlMKlKZ jl J' i bLkt 'k oihL oV tinflHf bmpy 'w 1 2 Wr r''" JhB MMHBMiKCHKMIM 1 lv wkT l' kT kk '''v i''? i i 'g: 'W O' 7 World 600 provides ull Day of Activity for ans By Mike Mulhern A JOURNAL REPORTER CHARLOTTE The day began with a spine tingling sonic boom fly over by the Air new bomber that left the crowd breathless Then came a surprising invitation from Bill rance Jr president for Honda to join the Winston Cup Tour if the Japanese American automaker so desires And then there was a fairly rousing pre race ovation for Darrell Waltrip by a good portion of the 150000 some fans attending the World 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway The afternoon ended with another heartbreak for Alan Kulwicki and with another giant step by Waltrip toward the $1 million bonus offered by RJ Reynolds Tobacco In between all that: Rusty Wallace Dale Earnhardt Davey Alli son and 10 more men were sidelined with blown engines Richard Petty asked for relief from Jimmy Means who drove the final 300 miles in No 43 A badly bruised Kyle Petty played ironman and went the distance And NASCAR staged a successful debut for its new caution flag scoring sys tem Earnhardt was never a serious threat during the race and his engine died on lap 233 of the 400 lapper That cost him dearly in the points race Ten races into the season Waltrip has 1479 points followed by Geoff Bodine (1458) Earnhardt (1430) Kulwicki (1375) Sterling Marlin (1374) Mark Martin (1368) and Wal lace (1313) Wallace said of his blown engine just got to get this worked out We broke another See RACING Page 22 By Mike Mulhern JOURNAL REPORTER CHARLOTTE Darrell Waltrip is close enough to smell that Winston Million Waltrip who had vowed to play the of the World 600 watched his toughest challengers fall by the wayside one by one yesterday And the rejuvenated racer kept up his torrid comeback pace with a record breaking fifth victory in longest and most grueling race The $226400 victory (including a $100000 bonus from RJ Reynolds) was sweet revenge after last bitter loss to Rusty Wallace in The Winston The triumph puts Waltrip in line for million dollar bonus if the Daytona 500 winner can now add the Labor Day Southern 500 tro phy to his collection Reynolds execu tives will now spend the next three months flying Waltrip around the country to promote the Winston Mil lion NOT ALL Waltrip has now taken the lead in the Winston Cup points standing away from Dale Earn hardt who never led under green and then fell out at the halfway mark is a fitting end to a trying Waltrip declared after scoringthe first tour victory for new Lumina fans this week made the difference I never ever in my wildest dreams thought have the fan sup port that had this week The fans PREVIOUS WINNERS 1971 Bobby Allison 140442 1970 Donnie Allison 129680 1969 LeRoy Yarbrough 134361 Darrell Waltrip 144077 Darrell Waltrip 124460 Kyle Petty 131483 Dale Earnhardt 140406 Darrell Waltrip 141807 Bobby Allison 129233 Neil Bonnett 140707 1982 Neil Bonnett 130053 Bobby Allison 129326 Benny Parsons 119265 Darrell Waltrip 7 136674 Darrell Waltrip 138355 Richard Petty 137676 1976 David Pearson 137352 Richard Petty 145327 1974 David Pearson 135720 Buddy Baker 134890 Buddy Baker 142255 have been great There are a lot of things I could have done But the fans all told me they were glad about the way I it I take the Winston Million? Hey never won the Southern 500 But at the start of the year never won the Daytona 500 So I think going to win the Southern 500 this time And look at those RJ Reynolds guys: chain smoking The win was fourth this season and his 77th on the tour It was See WALTRIP Page 22 Waltrip Becomes a Good Guy And Has Wallace to Thank CHARLOTTE As Darrell Waltrip round ed the bend and headed for home in the World 600 yes terday the crowd roared louder than any stock car en gine The scene fit the situation but not necessarily the main character This was like Richard Nixon returning to Washington on the shoulders of common men or like Sher lock Holmes holding a fund raiser for Moriarty This was conclusive proof that in stock car racing as in Saturday night rasslin' bad guys can become good guys Sometime between first 600 mile win in 1978 and his fifth trip to the circle yesterday a man once con sidered a brash party crasher was trans formed into the lovable life of the pit party Not even Wal trip knows why the other good guys died I Waltrip said Almost all of the other fast cars died yesterday including the Pontiac driven by Rusty Wallace More than anyone Wallace triggered latest climb in the popularity polls With about two See RAWLINGS Page 22 KT A Yr LENOX RAWLINGS Wake State Plans To Play ootball In China Collapse By John Delong i JOURNAL REPORTER AP WiREPHOTO Emerson ittipaldi (right) who won with an average speed of 1 67581 mph celebrates with owner Pat Patrick 'Z vkJ xi vV' a' ittipaldi Outduels Unset Wins Indy THE ASSOCIATED PRESS INDIANAPOLIS Emerson ittipaldi bumped aside the new generation yesterday and won an Indianapolis 500 worthy of his dreams a race! What a itti paldi exulted from Victory Lane after fighting off two scions of Indy leg ends first Michael Andretti then Al Unser Jr with the second fastest Indy ever and few in the crowd of 400000 would dispute him cannot believe it I dreamed so much of this ever since I was a little said ittipaldi a 42 year old two time ormula One champion from Brazil The final challenge from Unser Jr was not thwarted until l'a laps of the 200 laps were left when itti paldi survived a deadly serious game of bumper cars at more than 200 mph After 497 miles that included the fastest laps the 500 has ever seen ittipaldi and Unser found them selves virtually side by side going into the third turn of the 199th lap around the 216 mile oval ittipaldi was on the inside all fpur wheels under the white line that is intended to separate the race track from the apron Unser was sand AP WIREPHOTO ittipaldi (20) takes the lead on lap 199 as Al Unser Jr slams into the wall wKHKMih dzlX feta wiched between ittipaldi and a slower car ittipaldi moved up Unser down Their wheels touched right front to left rear car started going a little side ittipaldi said But it was Unser who spun into the wall out of the lead and out of the race hit all that hard but we hit hard enough not to keep Unser said after being checked and released from the track hospital wanted the race as bad as I did and when got two race car See INDY 500 Page 22 Ayrton Senna dominates the Mexico City Grand Prix for ormula One cars Page 18 MATCHUP PREVIOUS WINNERS.