European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 01, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday May 1, 199t the stars and stripes b Page 27sports wire fatal tackle draws manslaughter charge. From wire reports Brisbane Australia a a Rugby player has been charged with manslaughter following the death of a rival player who collapsed after a blow to the head during a weekend match. Kevin Sharkey 25, collapsed after being tackled by Richard Here in an Amateur league match Between teams from the Brisbane suburbs of Browns Plains and sunny Bank on saturday. Sharkey was taken to Hospital where he lapsed into a coma and died sunday afternoon. An autopsy showed he died As a result of a blow to the head. Here was released without bail after appearing in court tuesday. He was not required to Lodge a plea to the charge pending a hearing june 25. He was ordered to surrender his passport. Here was thrown out of the match by the referee As a result of the tackle and later suspended for eight weeks by the Queensland Rugby league disciplinary committee. Tucker stops Thomas in 1 43 Inglewood Calif. A Tony Tucker knocked out Over matched Journeyman James Ray Thomas in one round at the los Angeles forum on monday night. Tucker a former International boxing federation heavyweight Champion whose last loss was to Mike Tyson in 1987, charged across the ring after the 205-Pound Thomas at the opening Bell. Tucker pounded Thomas with straight right hands and left Hooks and did no to let up until Thomas was Flat on his balt in a Neutral Corner. The fight was stopped at 1 43 of the  s Sharks set 91 openers san Jose Calif. A the san Jose Sharks will open their inaugural nil season in Vancouver on oct. 4 and play their first Home game against the canucks the next night the expansion team announced monday. Competing in the smythe division the Sharks will play their Home games at the cow Palace in Daly City Calif., for two seasons before moving to a permanent borne Arena under construction in downtown san  apologizes for letter Portland Ore. A the Seattle times has apologized to the Portland Trail blazers for printing a scathing letter about the Seattle supersonics that was signed a Marshall Glickman  Glickman the blazers senior vice president for marketing did no to write the letter. Don Shelton an assistant sports editor at the times said the papers policy is to Call each letter writer for  it turns out we did not confirm it this time a he said monday. The letter published in the sunday Seattle times began a Why should teams like our Portland Trail blazers have to play first round games with non competitive teams like the Seattle a sub part sonics a a your million Dollar players such As Clyde Drexler Are risking serious injury by playing in such lopsided games a it continued. A it is a proven fact that serious injury is More Likely to occur during Competition Between mediocre teams like Seattle and   to stay in Cager s foot Memphis Tenn. A doctors ruled out at least for now an operation to remove a Bullet from the right foot of Memphis state basketball player Anfernee Hardaway. Hardaway Quot was shot sunday night when four men attempted to robbed him and a Friend in the driveway of a relatives Home police it. Dennis Hodges said. Police have no suspects. Hardaway sustained three Bone fractures and the Bullet remains lodged in the foot doctors feared nerve damage if they tried to remove it Memphis state Trainer Eddie Cantler said. A Anfernee should be ready to go for basketball sea. F son a cart ice said. A the was very  injured downhill Ace released Bergamo Italy a italian world cup skier Kristian Ghedina seriously injured in a car crash earlier this month was released from the Hospital tuesday a spokesman said. Meg Porter 27, said she was Busy getting ready to leave the stadium and did not see the bail. �?o1  feel anything from the shoulder  Porter whose left Arm is bruised and in a  has Short Day at office Hamburg Germany a world no. 2 Steffi Graf needed Only 55 minutes tuesday to defeat fellow German Market a Kochta 6-1, 6-3 in the second round of the $350, Kex citizen cup women a Tennis tournament. A Kochta 15 and ranked 149th in the world lost the first set in Only 22 minutes. A i #1 a it. In of Avi in i Mhz . A. Jackson s  shows Progress Connors ick in Madrid a a 1j 1 ii n m a t #. 1.1 a a 1 of a a my a a a gym it 1. A. A. A a Birmingham Ala. A a sports Medicine specialist who examined to Jackson for about four hours monday said the two sport Star is making significant recovery from a hip injury but cautioned that he  get rid of his crutches yet. A a we did not expect him to heal this injury during this period a said or. Jim Andrews an orthopaedic surgeon at the Alabama sports Medicine and orthopaedic Center. A the Bone appears to be undergoing a Healing process. This was the real positive aspect of the examination today. You can see reformation of Bone injured when he was  starts College program Portsmouth Ohio a a1 Oliver who collected More than 2,700 hits during his 18-year major Draguc career was named monday to begin the baseball program at Shawnee state University. Oliver a Portsmouth native who played for Pittsburgh Texas Montreal san Francisco Philadelphia and Toronto will be the first baseball coach at Shawnee state. Oliver had a .303 lifetime batting average 2,743 hits and 1,326 Bis. Madrid Spain a Jimmy Connors was beaten in his first Clay court tournament in two years tuesday at the Villa de Madrid at Tennis tournament. Brazilian Cassio Motta outlasted the 38-year-old Connors 7-6 8?. 61-6, 6-1 in just under two hours. Top seed Emilio Sanchez Vicario of Spain was another first round victim losing to Renzo Furlan of Italy 4-6,7-6 7-46-3.stitch, Muster upset in Munich Munich Germany a Sweden a Magnus Gustafsson upset Michael Stich of Germany 7-5, 6-4, 6-3 tuesday in the rain troubled first round of the Bow German open. In other matches completed before rain wiped out the schedule1 German Uoo Iglewski Defeated Alberto Mancini of Argentina 6-4, 6-3 Aid Sweden a Christian Bergstrom Defeated Thomas Muster of Austria 6-1, 26,6-4. Rain caused suspension of the match Between John Mcenroe and romanian Dinu Pescari with Pescari leadin&2-l in the first set. Harkey faces shoulder surgery Wimbledon  prize Money Chicago a Pitcher Mike Harkey has been scheduled to undergo diagnostic arthroscopic surgery on his right shoulder the Chicago cubs announced monday. The surgery will be performed thursday by or. Michael Schafer at Northwestern memorial Hospital the team said. Harkey who has been placed on the 15-Day disabled list retroactive to april 27, was 0-2 with a 5.30 Era in four starts this  Mitchell drops Appeal new York a Kevin Mitchell of the san Francisco giants the National leagues leading Home run hitter with seven has withdrawn his Appellof his two game suspension imposed by no president Bill  Drew the penalty by charging san Diego Pitcher Bruce Hurst after being hit by a pitch and brushed Back. April 10. Mitchell was to begin the suspension tuesday night when the giants play in Philadelphia. Wimbledon England a the total purse for the Wimbledon Tennis championships will be a record $6.8 million but it wont be equally distributed among the men and women Wimbledon officials saij.1 tuesday. The breakdown of prize Money for the june 24-july 7 event has the men receiving $3.7 million and the women $3.1 million. The menus Champion will receive $408,000, while the women a Champion gets $367,000. Of the four grand slam events Only the . And australian opens offer the same prize Money to men and women. Wimbledon and the French open still pay More to the  retain table Tennis title Chiba Japan a Sweden remained King of world table Tennis tuesday with a come from Behill 3-2 Victory Over Yugoslavia in the first All european menus team final in 38 years. A Thomas Jose players of week woman makes sailing history new York a Frank Thomas who batted .550 with three homers and nine Bis for the Chicago White sox last week was named american league player of the week on monday. Felix Jose who batted .500 with two triples a Homer and six Bis for the St. Louis cardinals was named National league player of the week. Woman hit by throw complains Cincinnati a a woman claiming she was injured by a Ball Cincinnati Pitcher Rob Dibble threw into the stands after the reds beat Quot Chicago sunday said on monday that she has filed a complaint with the reds. Dibble hurled the Ball into the Center Field stands at riverfront stadium in an fit of pique after completing a save but giving up two runs to the cubs. Newport . A frenchwoman Isabelle Autis sier has sailed into history. When she crossed the Boc Challenge finish line off Brenton Point on monday she became the first woman to Complete an around the world Solo yacht race. Her performance was Good enough to capture sixth place Overall in the 27,000-mile, four continent race. She reached the finish just two hours after Mike Plant of Jamestown ., the sole american left ii. Class i portion of the race. Plants fourth place finish in 132 Days 20 hours 1 minute 2_seconds was the fastest Jime Ever recorded by an american Sailor in an around the world race. The $10k 0 first prize was won by Christophe a Guin who was first across the finish line in Groupe. Saeta last tuesday. A Duke Trio among 17 finalists for pan am squad Colorado Springs Colo. Apr three players from National Champion Duke a Christian laettner Grant Hill and Thomas Hill a Are among 17 finalists for spots on the . Basketball team that will compete in the pan Ameri can games this summer the finalists announced monday in elude 13 players who competed in the pan am trials and four athletes who were a Quot a granted waivers to miss the Competition. Thirty eight players participated in the tryouts. A a i think the strength of this team is the versatility of it a said Gene  Pur due head coach of the . Team. A a you be got some Guys who can play a lot of different  the finalists go to the . Training Camp that begins july 15 at Purdue. The roster will be trimmed to 12 before the squad begins play at the pan am games Vunich take place aug. 3-17 in Havana Cuba. The four players invited to training Camp after getting permission to miss the trials Are laettner Robert Horry of Alabama Byron Houston of Oklahoma state and Doug Christie of Pepperdine. One of the biggest surprises in the final group is Anthony Bennett a 5-foot-11 guard from Wisconsin Green Bay. A a it a a great Honor. Its truly a dream of mine come True a Bennett said. A i thought i had to play As hard As i could and then let the rest take care of itself.�?�. Also making the final 17 was Jim Jackson of Ohio state the big ten player of the year. Jackson said his failure to make another . Team a the one that played in last years world championships a gave him incentive to improve and a helped me realize i had a Long Way to go to become a Complete  other invited to the training Camp Are Terry Deere of Selon Hall Tom Gug Liotta of North Carolina state Adam Keefe of Stanford Eric Montross of North Carolina Tracy Murray of Urcla Mike Peplowski of Michigan state Elmore Spencer of univ Clarence Weatherspoon of Southern Mississippi and Walt Williams of Maryland. Among those who failed to Nunke the first Cut were Eric Anderson and Damon Bailey of Indiana Anderson Hunt of univ Mark Baker of Ohio stale and Alonzo Jamison of Kansas