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MONDAY, AUGUST 6, 1990- THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR B-5 Briefly in FROM STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS BASEBALL HALL OF FAME RAINED OUT The Hall of Fame Induction ceremonies scheduled for Sunday at Cooperstown, N.Y.. were postponed when heavy rain started moments before the event was to begin. Hall of Fame officials rescheduled the ceremonies for 9 a.m. EST today. The annual Hall of Fame exhibition game between Montreal and Baltimore is still slated for 1 p.m.

The rain spoiled the planned celebration for Jim Palmer and Joe Morgan. "It's a shame, because a lot of people may not be able to make it," Palmer said. "It's sort of like looking forward to a big game and having it rained out." Palmer and Morgan both work as broadcasters for ESPN, which was slated to televise the event, putting them in a unique position to provide expert analysis." MIAMI GROUP BIDS FOR EXPOS Montreal Expos owner Charles Bronfman has been offered $117.4 million for the team by a Miami group, $30 million more than his asking price, but he is continuing to search for a local buyer, according to a published report. The Montreal Gazette reported Sunday that a Miami group is willing, to make a down payment on the team, which would move to Miami as soon as construction on a new stadium is completed. "My partners and I are willing to fly to Montreal and get the thing done," Kal Ross, a California-based promoter who represents the Miami investors, told the paper.

"But so far no one has responded to us. We sent them seven fax pages and background material and we've spoken to people on the team's board. "Our intent is to buy the team and move it to Miami. If we have to run it in Montreal for a year, that's fine. But we'd move it to Miami." Bronfman, the Expos principal owner, has said that he wants to sell the team for about $87 million, but would prefer to sell the franchise to a person or group who would keep the team in Montreal.

TALKS PRIVATE, SEAVER SAYS Tom Seaver says he has talked with New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner regarding a Job with the club, but won't confirm a report he will be named the team's general manager. "The gist of what we talked about is, in my opinion, private," Seaver said. "Mr. Steinbrenner and I have had a conversation about my possible association with the New York Yankees," the three-time Cy Young Award winner said. "We do not have a date for another meeting if, in fact, there will ever be one." The New York Daily News reported in its Sunday editions that Seaver.

the star of the New York Mets in the 1960s and 1970s, will STAR PHOTO KEITH PRITCHAR0 Al Unser Jr. (5) and teammate Bobby Rahal duel at Michigan International Speedway on the way to their 1-2 finish Sunday. CART were off in a world by them-' stives," Unser said. "The reason I was slower at first was because it was surprising to me." In the end, it was Unser and Rahal who were off by themselves. Third-place finisher Mario Andretti was two laps be-, hind in the martI lavoline LolaChevy.

Eddie. Cheever, was" fourth In the Target PC-; 18Chevy. eight laps behind. laps belonged to polesitter Emerson Fittipaldi. The 1989 Indy 500 winner led 134 of the race's 250 laps and at one time appeared ready to put a lap on the entire field.

Fittipaldi consistently recorded laps in the 224 range and only after the yellow came out for Arie Luyendyk's blown engine on Lap 141 were Andretti, Unser and Rahal able to stay with him. Unser went around Fittipaldi for the lead on Lap 151. but the engine blew on the Marlboro PenskeChevy 90 on Lap 155. CART STANDINGS 1. Al Unser Jr 126 2.

Michael Andretti 104 3. Rick Mears 102 4. Bobby Rahal 95 5. Emerson Fittipaldi 90 6. Arie Luyendyk 78 7.

Danny Sullivan 73 8. Mario Andretti 72 9. Eddie Cheever 53 10. A.J. Foyt 39 The race-long pace amazed Unser.

who wondered aloud what It must have looked like in the stands. "The first five or six cars were really hooked up Ihey Continued from Page 1 "1 didn't know when he (Unser) stopped but it wouldn't have mattered because he got the yellow," said Rahal, who finished second for the fifth time this season. "The pace car is always looking for the guy in first or whoever Is next and it happened to be me." While the race ended with a Galles-Kraco flavor, the first 150 FIBA rules changes bring games closer Be Your Own Chef The rules, which govern both men and women, take effect Sept. 1, so the changes will not affect the men's World Championships, which start Wednesday. The present international rule on sideline violations allows players to Inbound the ball themselves.

The rule often led to chaos as well as to easy baskets. Now. an official must hand the ball to a player, as Americans are used to seeing on all levels of play. The free throw option is a rule which some NCAA conferences will experiment with this season. It allows a coach to retain possession on a foul rather than chance missing a free throw.

All free throws will now be taken in international Among the other changes approved by the congress: Players must now wait for a free throw shooter to release the ball before entering the lane, as Is the rule In the United States. When time Is stopped to attend an injured player, that player must either be substituted for or a timeout taken, as Is the rule in the United States. There will still be major differences between U.S. college and international basketball. The international lane will still be 6 feet wider at the base' line.

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"Other than the shot clock, which I don't think we'll change, the games are getting very close," said University of Kentucky athletic director CM. Newton, a vice president of USA Bas-ketball and the group's representative at the congress. "There will be some differences but I think we'll see a continued coming closer together on the rules. What I'd like to see is a little more give on our part." The Best Just Got Better YOUTH ADULT FOOTBAI EQUIPMENT now available U7 GOLF CLUBS NEW. USED REPAIRS CUSTOM FIT CLUBS KEYSTONE GOLF 535 KEYSTONE 251-7775 WEBSTER'S SPORTING GOODS 'ii in Now Over 65 Items on Our Super Salad Bar! Create your own.

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W0J Hftlo' Mao Lost Allot hax Loii AO Ay 2b be named CM before owner Steinbrenner quits as general partner. The Daily News reported that the appointment "is more than a rumor. It is all but a done deal." GOLF KITE WINS AT MEMPHIS Tom Kite sank a 12-foot birdie putt on the first playoff hole to win the $1 -million St. Jude Classic at Memphis and become golf's 'first $6-million man. Kite and Cook both shot 4-under-par 67s Sunday to finish at 15-under 269.

The $180,000 first prize was much more than the $35,000 needed by golfs all-time leading money winner to break the $6-million mark. Kite's total winnings are $6,145 million. The victory was Kite's first of 1990 and 14th overall. CRAMPT0N TOPS SENIORS Bruce Crampton posted a 68 Sunday for an 1 1-under-par total of 206 to win the $450,000 Paine Webber Invitational PGA Seniors Tournament at Charlotte, N.C. Crampton, 54, winner of the Paine Webber in 1986, took home a purse of $67,500.

Crampton's only win of the season boosted his 1990 earnings to $238,928 and his all-time PGA Regular and Seniors tour to $3,298,082. In second place at 207 was Tom Shaw, followed by Bob Charles and Larry Mowry, who tied for third with 208. MUCHA GETS FIRST VICTORY Barb Mucha, who failed to qualify for the 1988 tour after playing in 1987, won her first LPGA tournament Sunday when she birdied the second playoff hole to beat Lenore Rittenhouse in the Boston Five Classic at Danvers, Mass. Mucha and Rittenhouse had finished the regulation 72 holes at 11-under-par 277, setting up the first playoff in the 11 -year history of the tournament. Rittenhouse shot 65 Sunday and Mucha had a 69.

TENNIS JAITE WINS U.S. PRO Argentina's Martin Jaite took advantage of Libor Nemecek's nervousness to win the U.S. Pro Tennis Championships, 7-5, 6-2. Jaite took 12 of the first 13 points of the match at Brookline, to defeat Nemecek. a 21 -year-old Czechoslovak who defected to West Germany.

Nemecek. who went through two' rounds of qualifying to reach the main draw of the event, won $25,000. more than he earned in 1989. GRAF TOPS MALEEVA Steffi Graf survived an error-plagued second set and a strong challenge by third-seeded Katerina Maleeva of Bulgaria for a 6-1, 6-7 (8-6), 6-3 victory in the final of the Canadian Open women's tennis tournament at Montreal. The top-seeded Graf won her fifth title this year and the 49th of her nine-year career.

EDBERG OUTLASTS CHANG Top-seeded Stefan Edberg of Sweden won two tiebreakers Sunday en route to a 7-6 (7-4), 2-6. 7-6 (7-3) triumph over No. 4 seed Michael Chang of the United States in the final match of the $225,000 VolvoLos Angeles Sunday at Los Angeles. MISCELLANEOUS INMAN TO INDIANA Maria Inman. a 5-6 guard.

Sunday announced she had committed to attend Indiana University on a women's basketball scholarship. She averaged 18 points a game as a sophomore last season for Bedford-North Lawrence and helped the team to a state runner-up finish. At IU she'll be teamed again with current teammate Carrie Mount, a senior this season who will attend IU in 1991. GLIDDEN WINS PRO STOCK Bob Glidden of Whiteland, the NHRA career wins leader, claimed his first title in six months, his 78th overall and second of the season at the Northwest Nationals Sunday at Seattle International Raceway. He drove the Pro Stock Motorcraft Ford Probe past Mark Pawuk's Oldsmobile in the finals, 7.388 at 187.14 mph to 7.435 at 185.18.

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Red Wings pitcher shuts down Indians ASSOCIATED PRESS Rochester. N.Y. Jose Bau-tista went the distance, surviving three balks, and Brad Komminsk homered and scored twice as the Rochester Red Wings beat the Indianapolis Indians, 2-1, in Triple A Alliance baseball Sunday. Bautista (6-7) walked one. struck out five and gave up eight hits.

Komminsk gave Rochester a 1-0 lead in the second with his first homer of the year. Indianapolis tied it in the fifth when Otis Green singled, went to second and third on Bautista balks and scored on a sacrifice fly by Esteban Beltre. Rochester made it 2-1 in the fifth. Komminsk singled, took second on a Jeff Tackett sacrifice bunt, went to third on a throwing error by catcher Dwight Lowry and scored on a sacrifice fly by Victor Hithe. Indianapolis starter Chris Nabholz (0-6) took the loss.

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