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Daily News from New York, New York • 534

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Friday, August 17, ,1990 The Long Island City YMCA is looking for referees for its touch-football season starting in October. Officials are paid between $15 and $25 a game. For information, call 729-6363. GLENRIDGE BASKETBALL LEAGUE FINAL STANDINGS EAST DIVISION TEAM Wrecking Crew 16.. -2 Renegades 14 4 PnmeTime 8 10 Hang Loose 4 .14 WEST DIVISION TEAM Black Magic 16 2 By RAY KKUEGER Gamblers 14 4 Tomahawks 10 8 Untouchables 5 13 NORTH DIVISION TEAM I Stalkers 15 a Rams 12 6 Jaa 11 7 Positive Gold 6 12 LLC.

YMCA INTERMEDIATE DIVISION IS UNDER was 4-for-4 with three RBI to lead J.K. Brands over Hot Stuff, 11-1. BASEBALL National Network stopped the Garden Square Royals, 7-4 Sunday to advance to the Queens Alliance Baseball League championship series. Dave Raskin homered and John Abbondanza pitched a four hitter for the winners. They will face the winner of the best-of-three game series between the Woodside Incas and the Ridgewood Rangers for the title.

BASKETBALL Former St John's University player Greg Laskow scored 21 points as Moriarty's St Teresa won 79-67 over the Stalkers in the St Teresa Night Summer League. Barney McNulty, the league's leading scorer, formerly of Florida Southern, netted 43 for the losers. first stroke for young swimmers on the drive to the Olympics. From here they graduate to the Junior Nationals and if they are successful there to the Senior Nationals, where they compete against the likes of multi-Olympic medal-winner Matt Biondi. The list of events in which Flyers earned All-America honors: Boys 50 Meter Breast-stroke: Brian Tribble, third place, 30.91.

Boys 200 Meter Breaststroke: Jonah Montgomery, sixth, 2:33.91. Boys 100 Meter Breaststroke: Tribble, sixth, 1:09.72. Montgomery, 12th place, 1:10.71. Boys 50 Meter Backstroke: Roddy O'Connor, eighth, 29.63. Boys 100 Meter Backstroke: O'Connor, 15th, 1:05.68.

Boys 200 Meter Backstroke: O'Connor, 16th, 2:25.30. Boys 400 Meter Freestyle: Paul Franco, 16th, 4:32.24. Girls 50 Meter Backstroke: Maryjo Pasion, seventh, 32.72. Boys 400 Meter Medley Relay: O'Connor, Tribble, Frank Rubino, Brian Finn 10th, 4:17.39. Boys 400 Meter Freestyle Relay: Tribble, Finn, Matt Smith, Rubino, 13th, 3:53.10.

Boys 800 Meter Freestyle Relay: Montgomery, Finn, Smith, Franco, 13th, 8:37.40. Boys 200 Meter Medley Relay: O'Connor, Tribble, Franco, Smith, 14th, 1:58.34. SOFTBALL In playoff action in the Queens Softball Association, the Players and the Sabres won the first games of their best-of-three semifinal series. Jeff Kagen picked up the shutout as the Players beat the Boosiers, 2-0. Vincent Tondi scattered four hits as the Sabres defeated Danielle's of Forest Hills, 4-0.

In the B.V.D. League's Lowenbrau Division, Camille Asaro tossed a three hitter and Diane Jennings went 2-for-5 as Anchor Inn sank Wood's Inn, 4-1. Jane Webb The term, All-America, goes a lot deeper than college football. For some kids from the Flushing area, it also applies where they swim. Last weekend at the campus of Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, eight local swimmers, all from the Flushing Flyers swim team, dove into the pool and came home with national All-America honors.

"That's what they call the first 16 finishers in every event," said their coach, Richard Finkelstein, about the YMCA National Swimming and Diving Championships. Although finishing in the top 16 may not seem like a success, with 860 swimmers from all over the country competing, it is quite an accomplishment Overall, the squad took 17th place out the 92 teams. The YMCA Nationals is the TEAM Astoria Youth A 7 St. Leo's 9 1 St. Francis 9 2 Elmjack 9 3 St Mary's 6 2 Astoria Youth 3 Cardinals 6 4 Elmcor 3 10 Cardinals A 2 13 Ridgewood 1 9 Flushing Bruins 0 10 B.V.D.

LEAGUE LOWENBRAU DIVISION TEAM Anchor Inn 13 2 Wood's Inn 13 3 Donovan's 11 4 J.K. Brands 10 6 Cooper's Ale House 10 7 Shetvirtettes .9 8 Hot Stuff 6 10 Timeout 6 11 Hummel's II 2 14 Lynch Balmers 0 17 RAY KRUEGER They are called hard-cores. These fans have full knowledge of what professional wrestling is and keenly follow its internal machinations. For connoisseurs of may-" hem, Anthony is offering a plan that includes bus trips and tickets to an NWA card Aug. 24 in the Meadowlands and the WWF's Summerslam show Aug.

27 at the Spectrum in Philadelphia, along with convention admission and autographs for $120. That's a serious price for a "sport" not taken all that seriously by most people. Aside from that, Anthony is expecting 1,000 people each day to see the likes of Sammartino and Funk. In baseball terms, their appearance "would compare to having a Mickey Mantle," Anthony said. 1 1- II 'fill former NWA World and WWF Intercontinental titlist Rick Steamboat and up-and-coming mat madman Cactus Jack Manson are among those scheduled to appear.

A ring will be set up and officials of the Monster Factory wrestling school will give try-outs to whoever wants to leave that 9-to-5 job behind. Magazines and pictures Nevertheless, this is still basically a wrestling-card show, without the cards. Admission is $5 each day, with some autographs available free and others costing up to $6. There will also be at least 25 memoribilia tables, with merchandise ranging from magazines to pictures and buttons, but no Spandex tights. John Anthony of Body Slam Sports, the promoter, says LaGuardia is a natural for the show.

"It's perfect" he said. "It's close to both the city and the Island. Also it is easy for fans to fly in." What do Mickey Mantle, Gregg Jefferies, Terry Funk, and Bruno Sammartino have in common? People will pay to meet them and get their autographs. Although you may not have heard of Funk and Sammartino, they are legendary names in the world of professional wrestling. Yes, the sports memorabilia craze is now climbing between the ropes of the pro wrestling ring by having a convention for its fans.

On Aug. 25 and 26, the Royce Hotel at LaGuardia Airport, which has hosted many a baseball-card show, will be the site of the First Annual Wrestling Fans Fantasy Weekend. Meeting its stars Just what constitutes a fantasy for a pro wrestling fan? Just like fans of any other form of entertainment, it is meeting its In addition to Funk, the their appearance 'would compare to having a Mickey Don't laugh. There is a lev- I NWA champion, and el; of pro-wrestling Tan ber -jf kiddie' corps want- I 'fi I' r- 1 I lj lug VV 1.1 1 V. 11 I.

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