European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 02, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes . Tuesday february 2,1993 claim on football linked violence disputed los Angeles a women s rights activists misinterpreted a report on Jop Bah s link to violence against women at a pre sup or bowl news conference the study s author says. Garland f. White a sociologist at old Dominion University in Norfolk va., said lawyer Sheila Kueht erred when she told reporters thursday that the study showed that beatings went up by 40 percent after games won by the Washington redskins during the 1988 season. We did t publish that White said sunday in a Telephone interview from his Norfolk Home. What we said was that after the redskins won the super bowl Irr 1992we found that women s trips to emergency rooms. Were slightly higher than average. We found that significant but something in need of much further on thursday Kuchl Linda Mitchell of watchdog group fairness & accuracy in reporting and other of activists said shelters and violence hot lines arc flooded with More Calls from victims on super bowl sunday than on any other Day of the year
