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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 19, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday april 19,19flb the stars and stripes Page 37 sports wire Britain told to drop Budd or miss olympics from press dispatches London the same people who helped Annj Zola Budd to Britain four years ago so the South Afri can native could compete in the olympics now have to drop her from their Rosier or face having no track and Field competitors in Seoul. Next sunday the British Amateur athletics Board will announce whether it has agreed to comply with a request from its governing body to bar Budd for at least 12 months for contacts with her Homeland outlawed from International athletics because of its apart Heid  the Baab does not Britain s entire track and Field team could be absent from Seoul. There Are 23 other olympic sports but of course athletics is inc ,1 said Charles Palmer chairman of the British olympic association. I am not about to decide to impose a decision on the Baab. I want to rive them Lime to sort their thoughts out. At a meeting of is 23.mcmber Council on saturday the intermit Liana Amateur athletic federation asked the Baab to ban Budd for at least 12 months taking in the olympic games and the world track championships next March. The Isaaf gave British officials 30 Days to respond. The Baab said it would announce its Nel move at a meeting in London on sunday. Since emigrating to Britain in March i9b4, on the strength of her paternal Grandfather s having been bom in Buntain Budd has been plagued by anti apartheid demonstrations and accusations that she returned too often to South Africa. The Campaign against her reached a head when m was alleged she had taken part last june in a Domestic Meel in South Africa. The allegations led to Budd s pulling out of last month s world Cross country championships in new zealand averting a threatened Boycott by Black Afri can nations. She firmly denied she raced in South Africa but admitted she was present at the Brakpan Transvaal meet. While it considered the charges against her the Isaaf suspended Budd from future Competition. In its ruling saturday the Leafs 2j-rnember coun cil said that while Budd May have obeyed the letter of Hie Law she had violated the intent of the rules. Just by being Al the Brakpan meet she had effectively taken pan it  Council said it was particularly concerned by Zola Budd s fraternizing within a sporting Environ ment with members of a suspended  Al Sheba wins by nose Arcadia Calif. Aly Shatha edged Ferdinand Fay a nose in the �530,000 san Bernardino Handicap at Santa Anita sunday in the third meeting of the two Kentucky Derby champions. Argentine bred Good taste finished a surprisingly close third another head Back. Al Sheba has now beaten Ferdinand twice after also winning inc is million Santa Anita Handicap last month. Ferdinand won in the 13 million breeders cup classic last november at Hollywood Park. With Chris Mccarron Riding Al Sheba and Bill Shoemaker on Ferdinand the horses battled head to head Down the stretch in me i i mile race. Good taste with Gary Stevens aboard and holding a 14-Pound weight advantage came on Strong to Chal Lenge in the final sixteenth. Good taste set the Early Pace with Al Sheba and Ferdinand close behind. The two passed the Argentine on the far turn with first Al Sheba and then Ferdinand taking the Lead. At the three Quarter mile Mark it was Al Sheba then Ferdinand edged into the Lead Only to lose it again. Although the difference was officially a nose the photo verified that Only a couple of inches separated the two thoroughbreds As the 19b7 Kentucky Derby Champion edged the 1986 Winner. The Winner timed in i minute 47 1-5 seconds returned s3.60, j2.zo and 12.10. Ferdinand paid s2.20 and 12.20 and Good taste paid 12.20. The crowd of 47,839 had established Al Sheba As the slight favorite at 4-5 with Ferdinand at even Money. Al Sheba earned s350.000 to boost his career Eam in to $4,045,642. Ferdinand earned 160,000. Labonte races to Victory North Wilkesboro . Terry Laboule took advantage of Dale Earnhardt s misfortune to Lake the Lead with 11 laps to go and win the 1351,345 first Union 400 Lascar Smilon cup race on sunday. Earnhardt was comfortably leading the race on the five eighths mile Oval until a right rear lire went Flat with less than 20 Apt remaining. Laboule in a Chevrolet had been trailing Earnhardt through much of the race but passed the two time defending Winston cup Point Champion nine Apt later and went on to win by 1.49 seconds Over Ricky Rudd in a , also in a Chevrolet had to Settle for third place after leading 265 of the 400 laps. Fourth place Rusty Wallace in a Pontiac and fifth place Kyle Petty in a Ford were the Only other Drivers on the Lead  out the top 10 were Richard Petty Phil Parsons Davey Allison Geoff Bodine and Bill Elliott. Labonte s average Speed was. 99.075 Mph. There were five cautions totalling 20 laps. A Wirtick record crowd estimated at 33,000 watched Labonte pull out the Victory on the Home track of team owner Junior Johnson. Johnson whose House and racing shop is just eight Miles away Al ingols hollow ., has now seen his cars win at North Witk Sboro in times More than any other Tram owner Johnson also won four times Here during a driving career that ended in 1966. Labonte. The pole Sitter with a track record Speed of 117.322 Mph became Only the second Driver in 20 years to win this race after starting from the pole. The other was Darreu Wall rip in 1982. S defense earns Honor King Houston Duke s Billy King a key member of Pic Blue devils final four team received the Henry Iba corinthian award sunday As the nation s top collegiate defensive basketball player. King won the Honor Over two other senior finalists jul Arr Clary Grant of Michigan and Forward Tim Perry of Temple King who also played in the final four with Duke As i Sophomore is considered one of the nation s Best on on one defenders and he did an outstanding Job on Temple freshman Mark Macon in the East regional championship game the one that sent no. 5 Duke to the final four. Macon the leading freshman scorer in the nation at 20.8, was held to a o-for-29 shooting performance in that game and King was mostly re  award was founded by the Houston rotary club of River Oaks. Mcgwire mad after being hit Oakland. Calif. Mark Mcgwire of the Oak land athletics reacted in anger sunday after being hit by a Pilch for the second time this season bringing his teammates and Chicago White son players onto the Field for a Brief confrontation. There was a lot of talking and a Little shoving but no fighting and no ejections. Oakland manager Tony la Russa was pulled away from the crowd by an Umpire at one , Balling with runners Al second and third with one out in the first inning was clipped on the ten Boulder by a fastball from Rookie Pitcher Jack Mcdowell. Mcgwire dropped hit Bat and glared at the Mound before Home plate ump Tim Welkoc jumped in front of him and pointed him toward first then went u the Mound to talk to the Pitcher. La Russa trotted onto the Field to discuss the Inci Dent and both benches and Bult pens quickly emptied. Two waiters later the a j Don Baylor was hit by a Pilch for the 256th Lime in his career. He took a slow curve Ball on his Balling Hernel forcing in a run and it was accepted calmly by him and the athletics. On april 8 in Anaheim Mcgwire was hit on the Balling helmet by the California Angels Kirk Mcciskill in his second ill Bat after hitting a Homer his first time up. He left inc game for precautionary reasons and resumed to the lineup the next night Wajih a game winning Homer. Padres retire Garvey s no. 6 san Diego Steve Garvey became the first player in san Diego history to have his number retired when the padres formally took his no. 6 Mil of play saturday , who became a free agent utter last season and was not offered a contract by any club received Bis Jemy from Keith mordant who has used the number since the padres acquired him from the Chi Cago cubs in an off season , Best remembered in san. Diego for his game winning two run ninth inning Homer in game 4 of the 1984 National league playoffs holds the my record for consecutive games played with 1,207. Garvey s .996 career Fielding percentage is a record for first basemen. He played 14 seasons with the los Angeles dodgers before signing with the padres As a free agent after inc 1982 season. Desimo sets Marathon Mark Rotterdam Netherlands Belaney dam into of Ethiopia Sei a world record in the Marathon sunday covering the 26 Miles 385 Yards in 2 hours 6 minutes and 49 , 31, bettered o three year old record set by Carlos Lopes of Portugal who covered the distance in 2 07,12 in the 1985 Marathon Here. A Cosimo was also last year s Winner in  sunday inc ethiopian athlete was 16 seconds ahead of his closest competitor Ahmed Salch from Djibouti who also bettered the old record with a Lime of 2 07.7.salch was followed by two More ethiopians Wojta no Butti and a Csc Mekonnen who finished in 2.08 44 and 2.09 33 respectively. Scandinavians win London race London Henryk  of Denmark and Ingrid Kristianscn of Norway won the men s and women s divisions of inc London Marathon sunday. Jorgensen who finished 30th in the race a year ago Tore past pacesetter Jose a Silva of Brazil about four Miles from the end and sprinted away to win in 2 hours 10 minutes 10 seconds Well off the course re Cord of 2 03 13 by Britain Steve Jones in 1985. Second in inc men s race was Kevin for scr of Brit Ain in 2 10 52, about zoo Yards behind the Winner. Third was Kazuyoshi Kudo of Japan in 2 10 59. Kristianscn faded in the second half of the race after Selling a world record Pace through the first 13 Miles but still easily won the women s race for the fourth Lime in 2 2s.40. The eighth fastest Ever. She had hoped u belter her world Mark of 2 21.06, set Here in 1985 runner up in the women s race was Ann Ford of Britain in 2 30,38, with Evy Palm of Sweden third. To today superstition an to tuesday s programs Uio 1&u 1600 wednesday programs to a invt 4 on no to go rid n Yon a Nett we of it aah up Vii or to Jav i Tor Row Cut Csc deft Fth i i Iwig to. 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