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INSIDE SPORTS D2 Wednesday, Aug. 25, 1 993 ESS International League Eastern Division TELEVISION Pet GB Rochester 67 63 .515 Ottawa 68 64 .515 Pawtucket 60 72 .455 8 Scranton-WB 57 73 .438 10 Syracuse 52 77 .403 14Vi Western Division Charlotte 75 55 .577 Richmond 73 BS .557 2 Columbus 71 59 .546 4 Norfolk 67 64 .611 SV4 Toledo 63 68 .481 12Vt i 'I i I 1 .1. 1 .1 rrnim .1.1.1 i.r Monday's results Richmond 7, Norfolk 2 Ottawa 9, Charlotte a Scranton-WB 10, Pawtucket 2 Columbus 8, Toledo 6 Tuesday's results Toledo Norfolk 3 Richmond 9, Columbus 3 Pawtucket 9, Scranton-WB 8 Rochester 5, Syracuse 3 Ottawa 12. Charlotte 2 Today's games Toledo at Norfolk, 7:15 p.m. Columbus at Richmond, p.m.

Rochester at Syracuse Scranton-WB at Pawtucket Charlotte at Ottawa Qi.m. Auto Racing: Motorsports TV Hour (on Continental Cablevision Channel 26). 4 p.m. lTM) Baseball: Atlanta at San Francisco. 7 p.m.

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$559,379 $542,765 $524,285 $506,863 $498,782 i $469,181 $460,918 $450,162 $444,794 $430,162 $413,224 i $410,438 i $393,601 $391,649 $384,066 $371,548 $367,779 I $363,647 $361,046 $350,584 $342,023 $338,782 $337,715 i $333,636 I $325,133 $324,647 $320,647 $318,744 $313,625 I $309,283 $295,932 $293,341 $293,011 $291,281 $284,918 $279,509 $272,631 $270,960 $263,316 $259,787 $250,256 $248,233 $245,723 $234,219 $227,683 $226,898 $225,753 $224,767 $224,686 $221,562 $216,433 $208,713 $204,822 11. Fred Couples 12. Steve Elkington 13. Phil Mickelson 14. Chip Beck 15.

Jeff Maggert 18. Scott Simpson 17. Vljay Singh 18. Jim McGovem 19. Gil Morgan 20.

Davis Love III 21 Mark Calcavecchia 22. Nolan Henke 23. Fulton Allem 24. David Frost 25. Joey Slndelar 26.

David Edwards 27. Fuzzy Zoeller 28. Rick Fehr 29. Howard Twrtty 30. Dan Forsman 31.

Jim Gallagher, Jr. 32. Tom Watson 33. John Huston 34. Grant Waits 35.

Mark O'Meara 36. Tom Lehman 37. Jay Haas 38. Scott Hoch 39. Marti McCumber 40.

Brett Ogle 41. Mark Wiebe 42. Donnie Hammond 43. Keith Clearwater 44. John Cook 45.

Ben Crenshaw 46. Dudley Hart 47. Fred Funk 48. Brad Faxon 49. Craig Parry 50.

Mike Standty 51. BobEstes 52. Loren Roberts 53. Billy Andrade 54. Dave Rummeils 55.

Steve Pate 6. Curtis Strange 57. Russ Cochran 58. Andrew Magee 59. Greg Twiggs 60.

Lenny Wadkln 61. Hsle Irwin 62. Billy Mayfair 63. John Adams 64. Bruce Fleisher 65.

Michael Allen rDespite Shaq's attacks, sumo wrestling in no danger Forget finesse. Forget subtlety. When the 7-foot--1 Shaquille O'Neal met the Japanese media for the first time Tuesday in Tokyo, the subject was breaking backboards. And how to dunk. And just why it is that he's so big and tall.

"I've broken five backboards and fractured one," O'Neal told a standing-room-only crowd of mostly Japanese reporters while on a promotional tour for Reebok. "And I plan to do it a couple times more." His first dunk in an exhibition game against a three-man Japanese company team proved too much for the rim, which hung limp and twisted as the crowd roared "sugoi," or "awesome." Despite Shaq's dunking exhibition, sumo wrestling appears to be in no danger of playing second fiddle to the NBA in Japan anytime soon. Door-slamming, TV-bashing hot tips for team meetings 'l' Former pitcher Steve Blass of the Pittsburgh Pirates was asked by Paul Meyer of the Pittsburgh to provide some keys to an effective team meeting and how a manager can best get the players' attention. "Door-slamming at the start and at the end is good," Blass said. "Volume on doors is very important.

And it should be unstructured. Tipping over the set is good, something like that, something that can't be readily fixed. "At the end of the tirade, muttering is good. Muttering so they can't quite hear it. That leaves the players not only chagrined and ashamed, but also little bit confused.

They aren't sure if he's muttering about a specific player." Jeff George Whine goes on special in Indianapolis yt, Quarterback Jeff George may be in for a rougher time from Indianapolis Colts fans than opposing teams now that his wish to be traded Football 1993 PRESEASON SPORTS NETWORK DIVISION l-AA POLL HUNTINGDON VALLEY, Pa The top 25 teams in the preseason 1 993 Sports Network Division l-AA football poll, with first-place votes In parentheses, 1992 records and total points: Pta 1992 7:04 p.m. Baseball: Chicago Cubs at Montreal. WGH1310AM. 1498 12-3-0 HEADED FOR HALL? Baseball Hall of Fame officials say they want to acquire the Durham Bull that sits atop the right field fence in Durham, N.C. The old field will be torn down this year.

ap has been stuffed and he's reluctantly rejoined the team. George didn't like all the boos he heard from the fans last year. Now many, many more are surely on the way. Merchants are already cashing in on the situation. One hot-selling T-shirt in Indianapolis pictures George in a sandbox saying, "My mommy won't let me go to camp." Moreover, some liquor stores are running specials on "Jeff George Whine." Forget about the record, angler just wants the meat Jim Montgomery has had pretty good luck fishing for salmon over the years, but he'd never seen anything like the nearly 4-foot-long, 43-pound Chinook he caught over the weekend in Lake Michigan.

Apparently, neither had state officials. But salmon records apparently mean little to him. "I almost decided not to have it weighed," Montgomery said. "I'm basically a meat fisherman and was just planning to cut it up and eat it." From wire aervlce reports def. Chanda Rubin, 6-2, 6-1 Asa Carlson def.

Veronika Martjnek, 6-1 2-6, 6-3. Hamlet Cud 1380 10-3-0 1355 11-3-1 1265 12-2-0 1202 11-3-0 1198 90 1156 9-4-1 1059 7-4-0 1021 10-3-0 879 9-30 848 7-40 740 10-1-0 728 11-1-0 714 9-3-0 601 9-2-0 457 9-30 421 6-5-0 COMMACK, N.Y. Results Tuesday 121. Robert Wrenn $92,224 1. Marshall (37) 2.

Middle Tenn. St. (6) 3. Youngstown St. (10) 4.

Northern Iowa 5. Delaware 6. Idaho (5) 7. McNeese St. (1) 8.

Western Carolina (1) 9. NE Louisiana (2) 10. Eastern Kentucky 1 1 Georgia Southern 12. Troy St. 13.

Citadel (2) 14. Samfofd 15. William Mary 16. vlllanova 17. SW Missouri St 18.

Appalachian St 19. Richmond 20. Alcorn St 21. Jackson St 22. Montana 23.

Central Florida 24. Western lilinoia 25. North Carolina Two Rivers Country Club: 135 Skeeter Heath 68-67 137 Webb Heintzeiman 7067 139 Larry Ringer 70-69 Jack Smiling 69-70 140 Don Slebodnik 66-72 141 David Ouelland 69-72 Richard White 68-73 142 Glenn Barrett 70-72 7-50 397 387 337 327 246 235 227 218 7-4-0 7-4-0 7-4-0 6- 5-0 64-0 7- 4-0 9-3-0 from tne 300.000 Hamlet cup tennis tournament (seedings): First Round Stefan Edberg (1) def. Brad Gilbert, 6-3, 64. Andrei Chesnokov def.

Boris Becker (2), 6-4. 3-6. 6-2. Michael Stich (4) def. Fabrice Santoro, 6-7 (6-8), 7-6 (11-9), 6-1.

Marc Rosset def. Ronald Agenor, 6-4, 6-4. Cedric Pioline def. Jaime Yzaga. 7-5, 6-2.

Luis Mattar def. Jan SiemMnk, 6-7 (1-7), 6-4, 7-6 (7-5). Amaud Boetsch def. Petr Korda (6), 6-2, 6-2. Eyal Ran def.

Jonas Svensson, Croatian Open UMAG, Croatia Results Tuesday of the $400,000 Croatian Open tennis tournament (seedings): First Round Thomas Muster (1) def. Emanuel Ras-berger, Horst Skoff (3) def. Marcus Naewie. 7-5, 6-3. Guillermo Perez-Roidan (4) def.

Bart Wuyts. 7-6 (7-3), 6-2. Renzo Furlan (5) def. Martin Strelba, 5-7, 6-3, 60. Alberto Berasategui (6) def.

Fed-erico Sanchez, 6-2, 6-3. Juan Gisbert def. Jordi Arrese (7), 7-6 (7-4), 6-4. Jose Francisco Aitur def. Andrea Gaudenzi, 7-5, 6-7 (7-5), 7-5.

Oliver Fernandez def. Lars Jonsson, 6-3, 5-7, 6-4. Franco Davin def. Mikaei Tillstrom, 6-2, 6-1. Francisco Roig def.

Joao Cunha-Silva, 7-6 (7-3), 6-3. Daniel Orsanic def. Filip De Wutf, 6-3, 64. Gabriel Markua def. Martin Stringari, 6-3, LPGA Money Leaders Through Aug.

22: 1 Patty Sheehan $468,424 2. Betsy King $378,057 3. Helen Altredsson $344,298 4. Lauri Merten $325,717 5. Hiromi Kobayashl $319,613 6.

Tammle Green $304,336 7. Brandie Burton $285,039 8. Trish Johnson $283,212 9. Nancy Lopez $266,478 10. Michelle McGann $248,177 1 1 Sherri Steinhauer $243,560 12.

Rosie Jones $236,956 13. KristjAlbers $233,808 1 4. Dottle Mochrie $21 3.989 15. Donna Andrews $211,32 16. Laura Davies $206,599 17.

Meg Mallon $206,270 18. Deb Richard $198,775 19. Tina Barrett $196,653 20. Kelly Robbins $189,880 21. JaneGeddea $189,510 22.

Dawn Coe-Jones $184,797 23. Kris Tschetter $183,228 24. Missis Berteottj $1 72,127 25. Dana Lofland-Dormann $1 70,167 26. Jane Crafter $166,991 27.

Hoilis Stacy $161,634 28. Pat Bradley $159,601 29. Cindy Ranck $1 57,673 30. Elaine Crosby $154,760 Seniors Money Leaders Through Aug. 22: 1.

Dave Stockton $700,699 2 Bob Charles $660,846 3. Jim Colbert $636,070 4. MikeHHI $598,137 5. George Archer $570,694 6. Rsy Floyd $542,010, 7.

Chi Chi Rodriguez $523,978 HE PGA Statistical Leaders Through Aug. 22: SCORING LEADERS 1, Nick Price, 68 92. 2, Greg Norman, 68.94. 3, Paul Azinger, 69.32. 4, Payne Stewart, 69 69.

5, Tom Kite, 69.81. DRIVING DISTANCE 1 John Daly, 287.9 yards. 2, Davis Love III, 278.2. 3, John Adams, 277.7. 4.

Barry Cheesman, 276.9. 5, David Jackson, 276.6. DRIVING ACCURACY 1, Doug Tewell, 84.2 percent 2. Dillard Pmitt, 82.5. 3, Fred Funk, 80.2.

4 (tie), Fulton Allem and Hale Irwin, 79.5. GREENS IN REGULATION 1, Fuzzy Zoeller, 73.5 percent 2 (He), Corey Pavin and Nick Price, 71 5 4, David Edwards, 71.2. 5. John Cook, 70.9. PUTTING LEADERS 1 Brad Faxon, 1 .738.

2, Greg Norman, 1.739. 3, Wayne Levi, 1.741. 4, Ben Crenshaw, 1.745. 5. David Frost 1.746.

TOTAL DRIVING 1, Nick Price, 47. 2, Greg Norman, 51. 3. Jeff Maggert, 57. 4, Fuzzy Zoeller, 61.

5 (tie), BiifGlasson and Gil Morgan, 66. EAGLE LEADERS 1 (tie), John Daly and Davis Love III, 11. 3 (tie), Keith Clearwater, Neal Lancaster, Dave Rummeils and Fuzzy Zoeller, 10. BIRDIE LEADERS 1, Payne Stewart 329. 2, Fred Funk, 320.

3, Jim McGovern. 31 5. 4, Keith Clearwater, 292. 5. John Huston, 266.

SAND TRAP SAVES 1 Larry Mize, 65.9 percent. 2, Nick Price. 65.7. 3, Gary Hallberg, 65.5. 4 (tie), Chip Beck and Jimmy Johnston, 65.1 ALL AROUNO 1, Payne Stewart, 202.

2, Paul Azinger, 245. 3, Nick Price. 249. 4, Fuzzy Zoeller, 260. 5, Steve Elkington, 271.

PGA Money Leaders Through Aug. 22: 1 Paul Azinger $1 .305.969 2. Nick Price $1,242,937 3. Greg Norman $1 ,098,537 4. Payne Stewart $844,475 5.

LeeJanzen $829 940 6. Tom Kite $728,211 7. Bernhard Langer $626 938 8. Larry Mize $610,568 9. Rocco Mediate $598.61 1 10.

Corey Pavin $559,831 1993 NCAA PREASEASON DIVISION II POLL OVERLAND PARK, Kan. The top 20 teams in the NCAA preseason Division II football poll with Urst-place votes in parentheses: Pts 1. N.Dakota St. (3) 77 2. North Alabama 76 3.

Pittsburg St, Kan. (3) 71 4. New Haven, Conn. 68 He. Portland St, Ore.

68 6. East Texas State 59 7. Hampton, Va 54 8. Texas 52 9. Edlnboro.

Pa 50 10. North Dakota 45 11. Westchester, Pa 37 12. ValdostaSt.Ga. 36 13.

Northeast Misouri St 33 14. Indiana. Pa. 27 15. Western St.

Colo. 23 16. Fort Valley Ga 21 17. MankatoSt Minn. 18 18.

Grand Velley St. Mich 12 19. Gardner-Webb. N.C. 9 20.

East Stroudsburg, Pa 2 I I OTB International SCHENECTADY. N.Y. Results Tuesday from the $350,000 OTB International Open tennis tournament (seedings): MEN First Round Ivan Lendl (1) del. Guillaume Raoux, 7-5, 6-3. Karel Novacek (2) def.

Jamie Morgan, 8-7 (7-5), 7-6 (8-6), 7-6 (7-4). Richard Fromberg def. Emilio Sanchez (4), 6-1, 6-3. Javier Sanchez (5) def. Mats Wiiander, 7-5, 6-2.

Carlos Costa (6) def. Andrei Olhovskly, 74 (7-4), 4-6, 6-4. Bemd Kar-bacher (8) def. Jaime Oncins. (7-4).

Kenneth Carlsen def. Byron Black, 6-3. 6-4. Niklas Kulti def. Grant Stafford.

6-2, 63. Magnus Larsson def. Chuck Adams, 4-6, 6-2, 6-2 WOMEN First Round Sabine Hack (2) def. Rachaet McQuillan, 6-4. 6-3.

Claudia Porwik def. Nicole Provis (5), 6-2. 6-3. Emanueia Zardo def. Yone Kamio, 6-4, 6-1.

Ginger Helgeson 8. Gibby Gilbert $499, 1 55 Preseason Monday's rssutt New Orleans 20. Chicago 14 Thursday's gams Pittsburgh at Minnesota 9 p.m. Friday games Kansas City at New England, 7 p.m. Atlanta at Buffalo, 7:30 p.m.

Philadelphia at Cincinnati, 7:30 p.m. Cleveland at Tampa Bay, 8 p.m. Detroit at New Orleans, 8 p.m. Indianapolis at Green Bay, 8 p.m. NY Jets at Washington, 8 p.m.

Dallas at Chicago, 8:30 p.m. Denver at Phoenix, 10 p.m. Saturday's gamea NY Giants at Miami, 8 p.m. Seattle at Houston, 8 p.m. San Diego at San Francisco, 8 p.m.

LA Raiders vs. LA Rams, 9 p.m. End Preseason Austin favors TV U.S. Open Tracy Austin will skip the jAJ.S. Open, putting her tennis on hold while she continues her career as a television commentator.

USA Network said Austin had informed them on Tuesday that she would not play in the Open, which begins Aug. 30 "Tracy's position is she can't do the commentary and the ten-' his at the same time and do them both well," USA Network execu-t producer Gordon Beck said. The 30-year-old Austin, who "twice won the Open as a teen-ager but has played sparingly in the past 10 years, won an opening-round match in the Canadian Open last week, then lost to '-Jightly regarded Nathalie France 6-4, 6-1. A teen phenom, Austin was beset by a serious of injuries in 1980's. In 1989, she broke her 9.

Al oeiDerger $468,064 10. Simon Hobday $413,784 H.JimAlbus $408,643 12. Rocky Thompson $406,601 13. Bob Murphy $397,963 14. TomWargo $373,291 15.

LeeTrevino $358,215 16. IsaoAoW $350,522 17. J.C. Snead $326,668 1 8. Larry Gilbert $31 7,648 19.

TomWeiskopf 20. Kermrt Zarley $270,879 21. Dale Douglass $265,519 22. Bruce crampton $264,070 Edberg defeated Brad Gilbert 6-3, 6-0, in the first round of the $300,000 Hamlet Cup in Com-mack, N.Y. Fourth-seeded Michael Stich struggled to beat Fabrice Santoro 6-7 (6-8), 7-6 (11-9), 6-1, while sixth-seeded Petr Korda fell to Arnaud Boetsch 6-2, 6-2.

Ivan Lendl downed Guillaume Raoux 7-5, 6-3 in the opening round of the $350,000 OTB International Open in Schenectady, N.Y., and Richard Fromberg upset fourth-seeded Emilio Sanchez 6-1, 6-3. AUTO RACING. The 1.5-mile oval track at Charlotte Motor Speedway, whose condition has been criticized by many Winston Cup drivers, will be repaved at a cost of $1 million, track officials said Tuesday. A new polymer-based material that can withstand temperatures as high as 165 degrees without cracking will be used in the turns. The corners are more susceptible to cracking, Wheeler said.

The new surface will be in place in time for the 10th running of The Winston All-Star race, which will return to CMS on May 22, 1994. "This is only the third time the speedway will be completely repaved in its 33 years," speedway president H.A. "Humpy" Wheeler said. The repaving work will be part of $2 million in capital improvements that will start immediately after the Oct. 10 Mello Yello 500 Winston Cup race at the speedway.

NHL. Left wing Pat Conacher and right wing Gary Shuchuk, who helped the Los Angeles Kings reach the Stanley Cup finals last spring, have signed multi-year contracts with the team. Conacher, 34, signed a two-year contract and Shuchuk, 26, signed a three-year deal, Kings general manager Nick Beverley said Tuesday. AAU. The Amateur Athletic Union has scheduled a news conference Wednesday to announce Louis Marciani as its new executive director.

Marciani will assume his new duties next month. Since 1991, Marciani has been athletic director at Western Kentucky University. Prior to that he was an associate athletic director at Southern Mississippi and AD at East Stroudsburg University and Salisbury State University. BOXING. IBF super middleweight champion James Toney celebrated his 25th birthday Tuesday with a unanimous 10-round decision over Larry Prather at The Palace in Auburn Hills, Mich.

Tor.ey improved his record to 39-0-2 while Prather fell to 10-11. Jackson stopped Mike Dixon in the fifth round Tuesday night, beating the WBA's seventh-ranked heavyweight contender at Atlantic City, N.J. Jackson improved his record to 29-1 with 27 knockouts. Dixon is now 13-9. From wire service report Ml 23.

Walter Zembrisk! $260,395 24. Jim Dent $257,51 0 25. Jim Ferree $251 ,034 1. 26. Bob Bettey $250,100 27.

Jack Kiefer $238,517 28. Miller Barber $232,377 29. Tom Shaw $227,823 30. Gary Player $208,031 Middle Atlantic PGA Championship JAMES CITY Top scores after the second round at par-72 at Governor's Land at leg in an auto accident and final- King praises Whitaker, Chavez ly decided this year to give the tour one more chance. I Austin will join John McEn-; roe, who also reiterated his desire to not play in the tournament, on the cable network's team of ana-lysts for the tournament.

4 Promoter: This fight doesn't need hype By Ed Schuyler Jr. The Associated Press MORE TENNIS. Unseeded Andrei Chesnokov eliminated second-seeded Boris Becker 6-4, 3-6, 6-2 in the first round of the $300,000 Hamlet Cup in N.Y. Top-seed Stefan The elusive Whitaker, a master boxer, was referred to by King as the Scarlet Pepperell. And Chavez, a fighter who applies constant pressure, was described as "a surgeon who makes the patient crumble from the method-yism of taking away his liver." Chavez, a sports idol in his native Mexico, also was described by King as a pied piper.

"They'll becoming down from the mountains on ponies and burros for this fight," the promoter said. The fight will be held in Alam-odome, set up for 75,000 fans at prices ranging from $1,000 down to $10. The match is an intriguing one between two of the best fighters in the world. Whitaker, 29, of Norfolk, has a 32-1 record, with 15 knockouts. The former undisputed lightweight and IBF junior welterweight champion won the 147-pound title by outpointing Rafael Pineda July 18, 1992, and in his first defense, out-I pointed James "Buddy" McGirt March 6.

The 31-year-old Chavez, a for-" mer WBC super featherweight and WBC and WBA lightweight champion, has an 87-0 record, with 75-knockouts. "You can be 2,000 and 0 and: have a bad night," Whitaker "Everybody thinks this will be the-toughest fight of my life. I think it" will be the easiest fight of my "I'm prepared to exchange punches or chase him for 12 rounds," Chavez said. "I'm going to win no matter which way he fights." Terry Morris, the WBC super jwelterweight champion, and-Azumah Nelson, the WBC super featherweight champion, also will make defenses on the card. Nor-, ris, of Campo.Calif., will fight Joe Gatti of Jersey City, N.J..

Nelson, of Ghana, will fight Jesse James Leija of San Antonio. 17 'ilM! NEW YORK Champions Pernell Whitaker and Julio Cesar Chavez shared the dais for the first time at a news conference Tuesday, predicting they would beat one another, and listened to promoter Don King. And listened, and listened, and listened. At one point during King's ramble at a mid-Manhattan restaurant, Chavez yawned and looked at his watch. "This fight don't need hype," King said of Whitaker's WBC welterweight title defense against Chavez, the WBC super lightweight champion, Sept.

10 at San Antonio. The two fighters will hold a news conference today at Los Angeles. 13 TtfAM MatM laMOM. We d-Z- MfUMEs! fePER. Ik (arpunes! 7 mi" H-s A jYbbwb' European leads U.S.

Amateur BASEBALL BALTIMORE ORIOLES Optioned Jeff Tackett, catcher, to Rochester of the International League. Activated Chris Hoiles, catcher, from the 1 5-day disabled list. CHICAGO WHITE SOX Signed Scott Christman, pitcher, and assigned him to Sarasota of the Florida State League. MILWAUKEE BREWERS Called up Mike Ignasiak, pitcher, from New Orleans of the American Association. ATLANTA BRAVES Placed Deion Sanders, outfielder, on the 15-day disabled list, retroactive to Aug.

22. Called up Tony Tarasco, outfielder, from Richmond of the International League. SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS Placed Trevor Wilson, pitcher, on the 15-day disabled list HOCKEY DALLAS STARS Signed James Black, center, to a one-year contract, and Cal McGowan, center, to a multiyear contract. DETROIT RED WINGS Signed Mark Pederson, left wing, to a multiyear contract LOS ANGELES KINGS Signed Pat Conacher, left wing, and Gary Shuchuk, right wing, to multiyear contracts. NEW YORK ISLANDERS Agreed to terms with Claude Loiselle, center; Danny Lorenz, goaltender, and Joe Day, left wing.

NEW YORK RANGERS Signed Eric Murano, center. TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING Re-signed Adam Creighton, center. Signed Martin Tanguay, center, and Marc Tardif, left wing. COLLEGE OREGON Named Ronny Thompson men' assistant basketball coach. TENNESSEE TECH Named Donley Canary coordinator of athletic fund raising and assistant baseball and Softball coach.

3 Scotland's Raymond Russell beat the steamy heat with an early tee time Tuesday, shooting a 4-under-par 67 for the first-round lead at the 93rd U.S. Amateur Golf Championships in Houston. Russell, a member of the 1993 European Walker Cup team, shot 35-32 on the Cypress Creek course at Champions Golf Club to top the field of 315 by one stroke. Chris Couch and John McClure, both of Florida, and Tim Herron of Wayzata, played Cypress Creek and were at 68. Defending champion Justin Leonard of Dallas shot a 1-under 71 on the Jackrabbit course, a round that included a hole-in-one on the 185-yard fourth hole.

The tournament is being played on two courses and the field will be cut to the low 64 players after two rounds of stroke play. Match play starts Thursday, with the championship scheduled for Sun- Davis Love III and Jim Gallagher" Lietzke finished with bogeys. MAPGA. First round co-leader Skeeter Heath of Williamsburg shot a 5-under-par 67 Tuesday at i Governor's Land at Two Rivers to claim a two-shot lead after two" rounds of the Middle Atlantic PGA sectional. Heath was tied with three other" golfers after Monday's first round, but his 67 tied for Tuesday's best round and gave him a two-stroke, cushion over Webb Heintzeiman, who also shot 67 on Tuesday.

Forrest Fezler, formerly of Kiln-Creek, is nine shots off the pace at, par 144, while Wade Briggs of' James River Country Club is at 147. The tournament concludes today. From atari, wire service reports day. Russell wasn't exactly used to Houston's 100-degree temperature and high humidity. "I practiced yesterday, but only played nine holes," Russell said.

"It was too hot. This morning it wasn't too bad, but tomorrow I have a 1 o'clock tee time, so it'll be a lot wanner tomorrow." FRED MEYER. Australian Steve Elkington sank a 35-foot par putt on the 18th hole Tuesday to give him and teammate Tom Purtzer a one-stroke victory in the Fred Meyer Challenge golf tournament in West Linn, Ore. Three teams came to the final hole tied at 16-under-par in the $750,000, best-ball event, which is not an official PGA Tour stop. Two teams Fred Couples- Call us: Our phone number is 247-4630.

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