Saturday, March 14, 1987 THE STARS AND STRIPES Page 27dnadian captures•' . • /en's skate titleL fffci_ J ' *i_L^ ^t^t_ • ' ' ••••.• • ' 9i press dlipalchetCINCINNATI — Canada's BrianOner vaBted out of his runner-up rutThursdayfcight by winning the men'stitle at * World Figure SkatingCharnpionslips.The 25-war-otd Oner, who wassecond in tnllast three World Cham-pionships anojabo won a silver medalal the 1984 Clymplcs, hit six of hisseven triptejunlps as he took the longprogram. The* performance liftedhim from third Ace 10 the title.-It fell real go*," he said. "This is* much nicer WT% to finish off theyear. It's going toVike a few weeksbefore it really seum"The victory was luured when de-fending champion Wan Boitano ofSunnyvale, Calif, ham a bad turn-induring a combinatiotnmimp, Boitano,who surged from fovh place lastyear to the championinfc by winningthe freestyle in which wrser skatedpoorly, also fell on his wempt at aquadruple jump.Manley out of hebpitalWASHINGTON — WkhingtonRedskins defensive end Dei&r Man-ley was released fromUniversity Hospital ThursdS albeing admitted by his wife fofcncohol-relaied problem, his agcnl"This is Dealer's first steppersonal commitment toward:• problem he has with alcohol,"'Robertson, Mar ley's agent sair*prepared statement."Al this time, the Manleyrequests thai the press respejFtlwishes of privacy during thisMRiculime. jT"Dexter and his wife Gliam thankall ihe people who have Jtprcsicdconcern for him and asks* under-standing and support," thMflaiementsaid.Faxon takes UORLANDO, Fla. M- LongsholBrad Faxon played ff bogey-freeround of S-under-parjIb and look aone-shot lead ThuraK in the firstround of the $600,WBay Hill GolfClassic. •Steve Pate had aware of the leaduntil he thrce-putUB for a bogey onthe ISth hole antflropped one backat 67.Tom Kite, a ffiner winner of thistitle. Brad BryaaKnd Scott Simpsonwere two off ueBce at 68.U.S.unlikfypickin'96COLORACV SPRINGS, Colo. —Paris and Awis will be in the bestposition lo Sit the 1996 SummerOlympic Gajps no matter which drybecomes ihjf top bidder from thiscountry, rajHesemives from 14 U.S.cities werefld Thursday.The pJpability of a U.S, city get-ting theCHnpics in '96 is pretty low.Talk «n*s around the home of theOlympic*— Athens, Greece. Parishad a s«ng bid in '92 and will beback ioV6, said George D. Miller,cxecutjB director of Ihe U.S, Olym-pic Cejtr.ThaBSOC held a one-day seminarfor UM cities that want lo be the siteof Ihjp996 Summer Games.ui SO delegates attended thei, representing Atlanta, Cleve-land Columbus, Pallas, Denver,Honolulu, Houston, Indianapolis,Miami. Minneapolis-Si. Paul, Nash-ville. San Diego. San Francisco andWashington. D.C.sports wireRobinson, D Md Davis were selectedby more thjjr 400 men and womencoaches, sorts editors and writers,and other JBskelball officials.The twmith Award is presented:aTipoff Club.a senior at Navy, out-„Steve Alford of Indiana,JSmilh of North Carolina,Danif Manning of Kansas and Reg-jie Jftlliams of Georgetown to earnihewtn annual men's trophy. ThoseCwplarers comprise the 1987 Nais-ft All-America men's team,kobinson, who finished his college_&use aganJn the firstrment, averaged 27.S points and 11.8' rtboundspergamethisscason.Davis, a sophomore at Texas, out-polled Cindy Brown of Cal Slate-Long Beach, Katrina McClain ofGeorgia, Andrea Lloyd ofTexas andClemette Hasktns of Western Ken-tucky, all of whom join Davis on the1987 Naismith All-America learn,McPherson wins boutNEW YORK — Middleweighti Mark McPherson of Lakeview, N.Y.,kin his first start after a nine-month(jayoff because of a fractured bonear his left eye, registered a unani-pus 10-round decision over Mikeoplw of Monticello, N.Y., Thurs-r night."cPherson, 162, is now 20-2. He isbrother of Miles McPherson, aJer defensive back for the SanDieft Chargers. Peoples, 160,I to 9-14-3.UApfealed junior middleweightMarkWeintnan, 156, of New York,extendU his streak lo nine victories,six by*nockout, when he stoppedMarvmWcDowell, 149£, of Balti-more, a(KQ4 of the fifth round of aschedule&ight.NFL, nVworks mumNEW Yiball League' : — A National Fool-an on Thursdayrefused to coVirm or deny publishedreports 121 %9 Olthat ibe NFL isclose to agreement on a new three-year television mckage.A spokcsmantir NBC, one of thethree major netwks talking with theNFL, would dKy say thai noagreement has yeneen reached.According to se»ra! published re-ports, the league ma tne three net-works — NBC, CBSfcd ABC —havenearly reached agrifaeni on theirdeals, with the IcagueKpecting to re-ceive less money thai the networkspaid in 1986, ihe fuuJfeear of a $2.1billion, five-year contiThe New York Ttmesbid Ihe newcontract would give a Ale networkal least eight Sunday nfcht games.The newspaper also said BBC, whichtelevised 16 Monday nighwmes andfive other prime-time "sokiali ineach of the lasi five years, %uld buyonly the Monday night pack%, leav-ing ihe five other primc-timf gamesfur inclusion in the cable package.Market ends mixedin moderate tradingNEW YORK (UPl) —The slock mnr.kct closed mixed in moderate tradingThursday, but most broad market in-dexes reached new highs.The Dow Jones industrial averageslipped 1.78 lo 2267.20, but gainers ledlosers 895-660 among the 1.975 issuestraded on the New York Stock Exchange.The New York Stock Exchange com-posite index of all its listed commonSlocks climbed 0.57 to 165.96, passing Isold high of 163.57, set Tuesday, Stan,dard S. Poor's 500-siock index climbed0.91 to an unprecedented 291.22. Theprevious record was 290,86, set Tuesday.Volume on the New York Slock Ex-change totaled 174,470,000 shares, downfrom 186,880,000 shares Wednesday.The American Slock Exchange's indexclimbed 3.12 to a record 131.99, sur-'passing the record of 329,57 set Friday.The National Association of SecuritiesDealers index oCOver the Counter slocksclimbed 1.05 lo 432,48, its second con-secutive record.Peter Furniss, vice president of equitytrading at Smith Barney, Harris Upturn,said the market was caught between theeuphoria of having gone so high so fast"and concern about assessing stocks'"true valuation."Furniss said concern about the up-new york exchange> In Mawcoming March 20 "triple-witchinghour, during which Mock index futurescome due and options on those futuresand on individual stocks expire simulta-neously, caused selective selling,But he added that money managersarc cautious about selling too much."Interest rate* arc stable, and IRAmoney is coming In," Furniss said."There's still a lot of cash around and themajor upward trend has not been bro-ken."On the Big Board, Occidental Petrole-um was the most active NYSE-listcdissue, up % lo 31. Phillips Petroleum fol-lowed, up V* to 14U,AT&T was third, up 'A to 24H. Re-gional telephone companies rose, Nyncxgained Vj to 67ft, Amerilech rose I'A to89% and BellSouth closed up 3/i al 40.Coca-Cola fell H to 41 'A. tl and Boe-ing, which dropped 1 to 52Vi, have beenadded to the group of JO heavily capital-ized companies that make up the DowJones industrial average.Inco gained 'A to 1554 in active trad-ing, tnco and Owens-Illinois, which isbeing purchased, were dropped from theDow al the start of Thursday's trading.Harper & Row closed up 16 at 49ft, Itreceived a $50-a-sharc takeover bid fromHarcourt Brace Jovanovich after [hemarket closed Wednesday. HarcourtBrace rose '/: to 33Vi.In the high-technology and semicon-ductor group, IBM advanced 2Vi toI44V*. Cray Research dropped 3% to127%.Prices rose in active trading on [heAmerican Stock Exchange. Wtcfccs ledthe Amcx actives, up 'A lo 4. It was fol-lowed by Home Shopping Network,which gained I Vk to 25'/'i.eompoEUQ trading "nil radiy.upZHOHV.upl*upiHConColBKiuncoipArcoN (UPI) — Thursdaying rmcpr the U.S. dollar \oajt cur-rencies. (Kaures are exprcsscdpfdollarsto the Britifc pound and o|Jpr local cur-rencies lo donmra.)tslroonBngm pound -jaF 15915HonnWioppingTiuiMrTunorBrdctlAICHCoipKJUnt — DM Jaw dotktfl.„_ are commercial rates end canlcd only to the use of foreign cucy by U.S. forces for official business.94a.ll BI.3S 943.U216.45 2IU1 SI 7.30CourtMy of Merrill Lynch AO, Frankfurt —74 &9149 1RUmnFU 91765E02RlHIl Dacn 106 49cfiui»r« 1* 26174)4U4Tinh derd 61 2Twir,n. 148 4Tl»ra 94 ETint Inw 1MTWA 17 7