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LOS ANGELES TIMES G8 TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 1992SD NEWSWIRE Racing at a Glance Texas Outfielder Might Sue to Play Thursday, May 21 Reserve Day MONDAY'S RACES Amerlca3(USA-23)def. Stars Stripes (USA-ll), 1:47 Italians Send Kiwis a Message Let Start lstw lit I 2ndW UtR 2ndR 3rd 3rdW Finish Amenca3 Americas Americas America3 Americas America3 America3 America3 America3 noftoi 0:00:09 0:00:20 0.00:26 0:00:31 0:01:14 0:01:27 001:34 0:01:47 KEY: W-Wlndward, l-Utward, R-Bsach Elapsed Tune: 2:46:00 Comment' After three minutes of lulling towared the starting line. Stars 4 Stripes broke away to the left, with Americas following from windward tut going faster. Both boats were a length oft the line at trie 0jn, but America3 nek the controlling, right-hand position. The flrsl time they crossed, Americas slam-dunked Stars 4 Stripes back to trie left, but the second time Stars 4 Stnpes ducked America3's stem and was able to temporarily break through for dear wind.

Unable to hold that position. Denns Conner faked a tack to starboard and Buddy Melges tacked away, leaving Stars 4 Stripes free on the nght. But Conner never was able to take control. The fifth time America3 came back it was able to crass Stars 4 Stnpes on port tack and lead Stare 4 stnpes around the first mark by nine seconds. After a series of jibes downwind.

Stare 4 Stripes stayed in contact but was never able to make a move. Wrth owner B4I Koch taking the helm for the three reaching legs and Stare 4 Stnpes selecting a wrong sail for the second reach, America3 stretched its lead from 0:26 to 1:27 to break the race open. Wind Direction: 300 degrees at the start. 290 degrees at trie finish. Wind Speed: 6-7 knots at the start, Increasing to 1 1 knots by 1st reach, 12 knots at finish.

Maximum wind speed: l2knots. II Moro di Venezia fJTA-25) del. New Zealand 0:01 injured in an auto accident near Cumberland, Md as they were returning to school after spring break. Wilfred Klrkaldy, 19, a center who has played one season, was in serious condition in the intensive care unit of Cumberland Memorial Hospital. Lawrence Pollard, 21, a forward who has played two seasons, was in guarded condition in intensive care.

Police said that Pollard was driving the car Sunday night when it went off the right side of Interstate 68 into an embankment several miles west of Cumberland. Police said the car was "traveling at an excessive speed" in attempting to change lanes. Guard Clyde Drexler of the Portland Trail Blazers, who sat out the last four games of the regular season because of a sprained right knee, is expected to play in Thursday night's playoff opener against the Lakers at Portland. Forward Chris Mullln of the Golden State Warriors, who suffered a strained right ankle and a strained right calf during Sunday's regular-season finale against the Seattle SuperSonics, is expected to play against the SuperSonics Thursday night. Weightlifting Six Bulgarian weightlifters were banned from competition for two years after urine tests turned up a prohibited diuretic.

The six are Petar Stefanov, 1989 world champion at 110 kilograms; Plamen Bratolchev, 1989 world champion and at 82.5 kilograms; Nayden Russev, Vesselin Petraklev, Krastyu Mllev and Mltko Mltev. LeX Leader Martin Start Mora di Venezia 0:00:01 IstW New Zealand 0:00:13 IstL New Zealand 0:00:05 2ndW New Zealand 0:00:08 IstR New Zealand 0:00:09 2ndR New Zealand 0:00:09 3rdR New Zealand 0:00:09 3rdW II Moro di Venezia 0:00:19 Finish II Mora di Venezia 0:00:01 Names in the News Running back Freeman McNeil, basketball player Dave Meyers, golfer Corey Pavln, track athlete Wayne Collett, volleyball player Terry Condon, football player Jim Johnson, swimmer Robin Leamy, football-baseball player Jack (Moose) Myers and track-football player Woody Strode will be inducted into the UCLA Athletic Hall of Fame next month. Bjorn Borg, continuing his attempt at a tennis comeback, suf fered a 7-6 (7-5), 6-2 loss to 22nd-ranked Wayne Ferreira of South Africa in the Monte Carlo Open. Lothar Matthaeus, captain of Germany's national team and midfielder on Internationale of Milan in Italy, will be sidelined for at least six months because of torn ligaments in his right knee. Lynne Cox of Los Alamitos, known for her cold-water distance swims to promote international good will, said she will attempt to swim Lake Titicaca, 14,200 feet high on the border between Bolivia and Peru, in mid-May.

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la of wind Sunday Am1ca3 d. Stars A Stripes, 2:09 Monday America3 d. Stars Stripes. 1 :47 Today lay Day Wednesday Stars Stripes vs. America3, 12:15 Thursday Stars Stripes vs.

America3. 12:15 Friday Stars 4 Stripes vs. Amertca3, 12:15 Saturday Stars Stripes vs. Amenca3, 1 2:45 Sunday Stars Stripes vs. America3.

12:45, (necessary Monday, April 27 lay Day Tuesday, April 28 Stars Stripes vs. Americas, 12:15, rf necessary Wednesday, April 29 Stars Stripes vs. Americas, 12:15, if necessary Thursday, April 30 Stars ASlnpes vs. America3, 12:15. if necessary Friday, May 1 Stars 4 Stnpes vs.

America3, 12:15, ifnecessary Saturday, May 2 Stars Stripes vs. America3. 1 2:30, if necessary CHALLENGER FINALS (Best-of-9) He Zealand and II Moro Veneris tied, 1-1 Sunday New Zealand d. II Mora di venena, 1 :32 Monday ll Moro di Venezia d. New Zealand.

0:0 1 Today Lay Day Wednesday II Moro di Venezia vs. New Zealand. 1 2:40 Thursday II Moro di Venezia vs. New Zealand, 1 2:40 Friday lay Day Saturday II Moro di Venezia vs. New Zealand, 12:40 Sunday II Mora di Venezia vs.

New Zeand. 12:55, rf necessary Monday, April 27 LayOay Tuesday, April 28 II Mora di Venezia vs. New Zeand. 12:40, rl necessary Wednesday, April 29 Mora di Venezia vs. New Zeaand.

12:40. ifnecessary Thursday, April 30 II Moro di Venezia vs. New Zealand, 12:40, ifnecessary AMERICA'S CUP FINAL (Best-of-7) Saturday, May 9 Defender vs. Chatkmger selection series winners, 1 2:05 Sundey, May 10 Defender vs. Chanenger selection series winners, 1 2:30 Monday, May 11 lay Day Tuesday, May 12 Defender vs.

Chalkjnger selection series winners. 12:30 Wednesday, May 13 lay Day Thursday, May 14 Defender vs. Challenger selection series winners, 12:30 Friday, May 15 LayOay Saturday, May 16 Defender vs. Challenger selection series winners, 12:30, ifnecessary Sunday, May 17 Defender vs. Chanenger selection series vrinners, 12:30, rf necessary Monday, May 18 Lay Day Tuesday, May 19 Defender vs.

Chanenger selection series vrinners, 12:30, rf necessary Wednesday, May 20 Lay Day "We set too big a sail and we had a bad jibe," Cayard said. "A terrible jibe. But we were able to eke it out. That's the type of race that makes America's Cup interesting. Certainly I imagine either one of us would like to make it easier on us.

If we can get our act together Cayard's crew has been taking heat some from Cayard for getting outmaneuvered by the Kiwis, and one Italian journalist Monday compared their performance to a yo-yo, perhaps not fully realizing how an American might take that. "Believe it or not we're trying our best," Cayard replied. Later he added with a grin, "We're just a yo-yo, but we'll try to stay on the upper end." Monday's victory also supported Cayard's contention that the boats are relatively competitive. best electronic tracking gear money can buy, including the same Global Positioning System (GPS) the committees use to place the inflatable buoys within a few feet of where they're supposed to be each day. Told of Koch's assertion, Cayard agreed.

"I'd say it's probably true," he said, tongue in cheek. "The defenders are much faster than us, and we'll just be hanging on the best we can in the Cup match next month just happy to be participating. Probably some more fine work from the good ship Guzzini." The reference was to Koch's James Bond-type spy boat that has dogged the challengers to distraction the last few months. Stan Reid, chairman of the Challenger of Record Committee, would neither confirm nor deny Koch's claim, saying only, "I'm glad that he thinks that. I'm pleased to hear that very pleased, indeed." Apparently, what Reid is pleased about is that his mind game is working on Koch.

"It's four feet shorter," Reid said later. Cayard: "That's why we're so much faster." Conner pooh-poohed the whole point, correctly pointing out that AUTHORIZED Kdnica April Special Konlca2028 COPIEH DEALER aa From Staff and Wire Reports The University of Texas has prohibited freshman outfielder Stephen LaiMn from playing baseball because he suffers from a heart condition. Larkin, the younger brother of Cincinnati Red shortstop Barry Larkin. has hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, which is an enlargement of the walls of his heart causing restricted blood flow into the pumping chamber. Larkin said that he is considering transferring from the school if he is not allowed to return and has asked his parents to consider seeking an injunction against the school that would allow him to play.

"I want to stay here, but if they say he can't play, I'm going to go somewhere else," Larkin said. Larkin, 18, said his father, Robert, and brother Byron, a former basketball star at Xavier, have the same condition and have never encountered problems with it. Larkin has not played in the fourth-ranked Longhorns' last seven games despite being the team's third-leading hitter with a .338 average. Pro Football The Indianapolis Colts probably will keep the first two choices in Sunday's NFL draft and use them to select tackle Steve Emtman of Washington and another defensive player. General Manager Jim Irsay said.

He added that plans to meet with Emtman's agent this week in hopes of signing the 6-foot-4, 290-pound winner of the Outland Trophy and the Lombardi Award before the draft. Basketball Two West Virginia University basketball players were seriously Summerall Off Indefinitely By LARRY STEWART TIMES STAFF WRITER CBS has given sportscaster Pat Summerall an indefinite period off to take care of what it calls "a personal medical problem," a network spokeswoman said Monday. The spokeswoman called it a private matter, but other sources indicated that the problem is alcohol-related. Summerall, who has been with CBS for 32 years, will be welcomed back when he is ready to come back, the spokeswoman said. In the meantime, Jim Nantz will replace him on televised golf assignments.

Summerall, 60, has been battling alcoholism for some time, and after a bleeding ulcer almost killed him on Dec. 9, 1990, he quit drinking. But for how long isn't known. During the past year, he has at times been seen holding drinks. But Summerall, in an interview with USA Today last January, denied that he had resumed drinking.

"They witnesses don't know what was in the drink," he said. "It sure wasn't liquor. Only I know what I have to go through and how I'm handling it." Summerall's ulcer ruptured after he had worked an NFL game in Washington and was flying home to Florida. On a flight to Atlanta, where he had to switch planes, he had a couple of drinks and began vomiting. While waiting to board a plane for Jacksonville, he vomited again, and after boarding the plane, he coughed up blood.

"When the plane landed, I felt weak," Summerall told USA Today. "I called a friend and he got me to the hospital. I remember a doctor asking me if I was Catholic. I said, 'No, He said, 'If you were, I was going to call for a priest to give you last rites." "Then I heard someone say they'd have to operate. But someone else said, 'We can't because he doesn't have any blood The next thing I knew, it was four days later." It was after that brush with death that Summerall said he could no longer drink.

"It's simple," he said. "The doctors said, 'If you drink again, you "Since I like to live, I had no choice. I stopped drinking 100." Guest Pro -Coaches Have Included: James Worthy A.C. Green Mark Eaton Cliff Levingston Michael Cooper YOUTH GAMPS Los Angeles Camp Pacific Palisades High July 20-Juiy 24 A-l Telecommunications, Inc. By ALAN DROOZ TIMES STAFF WRITER SAN DIEGO Racing against New Zealand has hardly been la dolce vita for II Moro de Venezia, but Monday showed there might be some staying power in the Italians after all.

In their second race in a month decided by one second, the Italian boat caught the favored Kiwis on the seventh leg, then held on to win by a bow length to even the best-of-nine series at one apiece. Though II Moro and New Zealand were clearly the best boats in the challenger semifinals, there was some question whether II Moro could win head to head. Discounting last month's one-second semifinal race won by New Zealand but later awarded to II Moro because the Kiwis brushed the final mark, II Moro hadn't beaten New Zealand since the first round in January. The Italians are 2-5 against New Zealand. In their most recent meetings, New Zealand had won by 18 seconds in heavy winds, one second in moderate winds (the disqualification) and 2:20 in light winds.

So Monday's victory might have been uplifting for the Italians, and it might give the Kiwis pause. New Zealand skipper Rod Dixon had heard the whispers: The Italians weren't good enough sailors tp hang with the Kiwis. "I think everybody thought it was gonna be a 5-0 deal," Dixon said with a knowing smile. "I don't think anybody is going to go through this unscarred." Paul Cayard, the American-born skipper of II Moro, said, "We've been slated as the underdog so it's not the end of the world if you go down 0-2, but being even in (what is now a best of seven is a boost. I always felt we can win the series.

Evening it up shows everybody." Monday's race was a tactical duel in which New Zealand led for three-quarters of the course, but never by more than a few boat lengths. "When it's tight like that every single tack is a very particular situation," Cayard said. "Every two minutes was a new situation." New and harrowing. "Sure it is," he said. Cayard made his move on the last windward leg, as New Zealand tried a slam dunk amidst a furious tacking duel.

New Zealand failed, and II Moro ducked inside, taking the lead for good and building a 19-second lead around the final mark. Then the Italians had a sloppy jibe, New Zealand picked up a fresh breeze and it was a dash to the finish, with Cayard squeezing New Zealand toward the mark to cut the Kiwis' angle. New Zealand protested the maneuver to no avail. CUP Continued from CI of II Moro all the way. The Italians took the lead by dipping and ducking the Kiwis' stern by inches and driving through their lee to clear air, forcing New.

Zealand to tack away. The boats never were more than .19 seconds less than three boat lengths apart at any mark of the 20.03-nautical mile course. Or long it is. Koch raised that question Monday after sailing his America3 away from Conner's Stars Stripes by 1:47 for a 2-0 lead in the defenders' best-of-13 finals. The two finals are being conducted by separate race committees on separate courses west of Point Loma, and it's been noted the challengers have sailed -their course 4V4 and 10V4 minutes faster the first two days, suggesting that they have faster boats.

The courses are supposed to be -the same, but Koch said, "The distances that the challengers race is not the same as the distance the aeienaers race, ana i can ten you Lllttl Willi Illgll UCglcc Ji iciiuin- He should know. Koch has the CopyMasters rJ ffiOlT, 223-7360 Since 1978 Lo Angela jTjSM-rm Rjveraide Sv Sao Bernardino TaW'" KEY: W-Wtndwert, I leeward. R4teac Elapsed Time: 2:35:31 Comment: il Moro forced New Zealand to the left and the boats were going In opposite directions at the gun. When they converged 90 seconds titer the Italians were four boat lengths in front the largest margin for either boat In the enure race. The third time they met New Zealand was able to tack in front of II Moro, and the next time crossed the Italians on port tack a dear boat length ahead.

The Kiwis led by 13 seconds at the first mark, but when they approached the leeward mark on opposite jibes II Moro was able to daun Inside position and keep pressure on the Kiwis. Both boats threw protest flags, which were waved off by the umpires. New Zealand held a dose lead through the second windward leg and the reaches, but late on the last windward leg II Moro skipper Paul Cayard, converging on port tack, dipped his bow inches behind New Zealand's stem, and Kiwi skipper Rod Davis was unable to tack over quickly enough to prevent Cay8rd from driving through his lee to dear wind. Davis caned "mast abeam," daiming II Mora was not far enough ahead to luff. Cayard protested for a false daim, but the umpires green-flagged that, as wen.

A few minutes later, II Moro forced New Zealand to tack away for dear ay from its trailing windward position. II Moro led by 19 seconds at the last mark, but New Zeauutd fought back downwind, ranning virtually even on the last jibe to the nnJsh line. In the last two lengths, Cayard turned downwind from his reaching angle to 'shoot" the line and push his billowing spinnaker over one second In front of New Zealand's smaller red gennaker. New Zealand protested that II Moro had squeezed them off at the buoy. The call was green-nagged.

Wind Direction: 295 degrees. Wind Speed: 12 knots at the start and the finish. Maximum wind speed: "I don't know that I've ever really discounted the boat speed of II Moro to New Zealand," he said. "We can beat the boat. I don't know if we've ever sailed as well as they've sailed.

Speed isn't what makes a team win or lose out there. "The racing side of things is heating up now. We were fast enough and good enough to win Monday. We've got to work today a lay day) to get better Wednesday. If you don't continue to grow, you'll be passed." New Zealand syndicate boss Peter Blake noted, "What a race.

That's yachting at its best. We always knew this was going to be a real fight and that was another reminder. No excuses." For one day, at least, the Italians didn't need any either. even if the boats were sailing the same courses, the times are meaningless. This isn't Indianapolis, without variables such as wind, currents and waves.

All Conner knows is that it doesn't matter whether Stars Stripes is slower than the challengers if it's slower than America3, which it appears to be. As in Sunday's race, sailed in slightly lighter wind conditions, Stars Stripes was competitive early in the race but lost distance on every leg until America3 sailed out of reach on the off-wind legs. Conner had one fine moment when America3 helmsman Buddy Melges went for his fake tack, giving Conner starboard-side control, but he couldn't make it stick, "It's possible that Bill has done a nice job with America3 in speeding her up in the conditions where we used to be more even," Conner said. "I think there's some chance that we're more competitive now when it's windy. We have have to have those conditions to find out.

"It's possible that the America3 boat is more tender now (worse in strong wind. It's still a long way from being over." Conner admitted he is worried, but that's not new. "I started worrying in January," he said. Motorola 8000 Handheld $225 Moloroli UCH Handheld $415. Motorola BCY Handheld 1475.

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