Crispa and Toyota handily beat their local counterparts in a prelude to their two-game exhibition series in Guam.
Crispa, Toyota win in Guam
By Joe Quirino
Tempo
Published Monday March 5, 1984
GUAM, March 4 (via Philcom) — Crispa showed too much class in routing the Varsity selection, 134-109, Saturday night in a warm-up for its duel with arch-rival Toyota here.
It was a real treat for the thousands of Filipino fans who jammed the University of Guam gym as the multi-titled Redmanizers virtually toyed with the Americans.
Alberto Guidaben, the 1983 Most Valuable Player awardee, fired 13 of the Redmanizers’ first 19 points as Crispa spurted ahead, 31-11, after only 10 minutes and never looked back.
Toyota also badly outclassed the Guam All-Stars, 117-104, with Danny Florencio, one of the most popular players here, coming through with a vintage performance.
The games were nothing more than limbering up exercises for the Redmanizers and the Corollas, the giants of the PBA who will be parting ways with the disbandment of Toyota this year.
Fans here warmly received the players and the Filipinos are as passionate about the game as the fans back home.
Girls would line up to get the autographs of the players and the old-timers have good words for everybody.
It seems fitting that the Crispa-Toyota rivalry would end in this island where 30 percent of the 20,000 population is composed of Filipinos, most of whom are Ilocanos.
The promotion is a joint project of the Bayanihan Sports Club and the Guam Lions Club and was put together by Oscar Violago, a Makati businessman.
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