European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 07, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 26 the stars and stripes sports sunday february 7, 1993 2 More races delayed in world skiing Morioka Shizu Kunishi Japan up officials saturday scheduled two races or sunday in an Effort to get the weather marred world Alpine ski championships Back on schedule. Men will compete in their combined slalom while women Are scheduled to race a giant slalom organizers noun cd. Earlier rain and warm weather forced cancellation of two events saturday. Both the women s downhill originally to have been staged last thursday and the men s combined slalom were wiped out by the poor weather which arrived on the heels of heavy Snow Friday night. The 12-Day series is nearing the half Way Mark with Only one medal race the women s combined out of 10 completed. The jury decided around Dawn on a Rainy saturday that the regularly scheduled women s downhill could not take place due to rain falling on it. Kotaka Kura. The substitute race the men s slalom valid for the combined medals was put Back to Start at 11 30 . But More rain softened the track and made even that event a non starter. The cancellations leave organizers with eight Days in which to Complete the pro Gram. Women must still compete in the Sla Lom giant slalom downhill and super giant slalom while men Are lacking those races plus the combined slalom. Under the latest alteration of the pro Gram the men s combined slalom was to begin at 10 . Sunday with the second leg at 1 . Legs of the women s giant slalom were set for noon and 2 30 . Volunteers Sprinkle slalom course with ammonium sulfa to to Harden Snow for men combined race at world championships in Japan. But the race was postponed. Dream team ignites fire Chicago preps protest King High recruiting by Mario Fox Chicago a Chicago a City famous for mob Ana political Battles now has a basketball War Between King High and other schools that say it is abusing a Liberal Transfer Rule to build a dream team. King led by a pair of 7-footers, a shard Griffin and Thomas Hamilton have a Ca rolled opponents of the Wayto a 19-0 record. The jaguars top the a s class mail Lino is poll and rank second in Usa to Day s National rankings. Some coaches say King has assembled an unbeatable team by unfairly luring to athletes from other schools and they Are threatening to Boycott games in protest. The coaches feel King is stacking the deck against them coach Joe Ware of Bogan High school said Friday. King dislike the Aba s dream  the disgruntled coaches from the pub Lic league s red Central division with the support of their athletic directors and principals warned that King s final four games of the season against City oppo cents will go unplayed unless the Board of education does something about the matter. Already one team has stayed away from a game. Gage Park High s team did t show up for thursday s contest at King resulting in an automatic forfeit by a score of 2-0. That s the closest any team has come to beating the jaguars this season. Grady Jordan District superintendent for High schools met with the disgruntled coaches and school officials on thursday and promised to study the matter. Or. Jordan promised he would Check and see if the transfers Are allowable said Dunbar High coach Fate Mickel. We re going to leave it to  coaches in the red Central division plan to meet monday to decide whether to wage a Boycott he said. The threat was prompted by the recent transfers to King of two highly touted basketball players Michael sermons from Westinghouse High school and Toporis Nash of near North High. The kids want to be with a Winner Ware said. If my son who is 16 and goes to Bogan wants to go to King there s nothing Bogan can do about it. The transfers Are Legal. What can be done Chicago has a policy that allows any student to Transfer from one Public school to another City school no mat Ter How far from his Home As Long As that school offers a class the student s neighbourhood school does t. King offers a communications program unavailable elsewhere. The kids should have to be at a school for a certain time before being eligible to play said Ware whose team formerly was in the red division and played King regularly. A new state Rule going into effect this summer would limit the., use of student athletes who have transferred from out Side school  but the cur rent Transfer policy among Chicago pub Lic schools could provide a loophole. In our system it s too easy to Transfer. We need a penalty to curb that Westinghouse High coach Roy Condotti said. Taylor Bell head of the Chicago Sun times High school sports coverage thinks the coaches Are ganging up on King coach Landon Sonny Cox. Did anybody Call for a Boycott when Mark Aquirre transferred from Austin to Westinghouse Bell wrote Friday refer ring to a school switch in the late 1970sby the current Aba Veteran. Nobody is complaining about the open enrolment policy just How co uses it to his  in past years Cox has been accused of numerous violations but the charge shave never stuck. Again Cox is denying he is doing any thing wrong. Cox says the other coaches Are jealous of King Winner of the 1986 and 1990 state titles and a contender year after year. I think it s a sad Day when coaches keep their kids from playing Cox said. There have been no violations of  but the other red Central coaches feel Cox should feel an obligation to his own players and refuse to accept transfers. We feel King is to longer a High school basketball team but a collection of All stars Hubbard coach Bill Ociepka said. Navarro Hill Given big Bucks by Ronald Blum new York a two More pitch cars reached the $2 million salary level Friday while two players lost their arbitration cases. Jaime Navarro agreed with the Mil Waukee Brewers on a one year Deal Worth $2.1 million nearly five times More than the $430,000 he made last season. Ken Hill agreed with the Montreal expos at $2 million triple the $620,000 he made in 1992. Both cases were affected by Andy Benes Victory Over the san Diego padres baseball deals on tuesday. Benes 13-14 last season was awarded $2.05 million rather than the team s figure of $1.55 million. Two Days later the other pitchers with three years of major league service began agreeing to contracts. Kevin Appier and Kansas City settled at $2 million and Kevin Tapani and Minnesota at inc Sam figure. I was shocked very very surprised with the Benes decision Montreal Gen eral manager Bill Stoneman said. No body in this class was making $2 million last year. No Way you can say Andy Benes is better than Jack Mcdowell. No one in re cent history has the starting Pitcher num Bers that Mcdowell had after his  Mcdowell lost his hearing last year and made $1.6 million instead of his re quest for $2.3 million. Hill had asked for $2.2 million this sea son and the expos had offered $1.5 Mil lion. Navarro had asked for $2.3 million and the Brewers had offered $1.6 million. Meanwhile Oakland Utility Man Jerry Browne lost in a Case decided by arbitrator William Gould who ruled in favor of Benes. Browne who made $375,000 last season was awarded $625,000 instead of his request for $1.95 million. The Gap was the widest among the 100 players who exchanged figures with their clubs. Texas reliever Kenny Rogers who made $620,000 last year was awarded $1 million instead of $1.5 million by arbitrator Reginald Alleyne who ruled for padres outfielder Darrin Jackson earlier this week. Three other players settled their cases Friday leaving 49 in arbitration. Shortstop Omar Vazquel and the Seattle mariners agreed at $1,112,500, triple his $360,000 salary last season. Sec Ond baseman Lance Blankenship and Oakland agreed at $627,500, triple the $205,000 he made in 1992. Outfielder Chico Walker and the new York mets agreed at $635,000, More than double the. $275,000 he made last year. White sox sign Fisk for his 22nd season Chicago a Carlton Fisk signed Friday to play his 22nd major league season the Chicago White so said. Terms of the Veteran Catcher s one year contract were not available general manager Ron Schueler said. It was Good news for sox fans said Schueler attending the so fest Conven Tion at a downtown hotel. Fisk 45, has been chosen for 11 All mar games and ranks second Only to Bob Boone in career games behind the plate. Injuries limited his play last season when he batted .229 with three homers and 21 kbiinonlyl88at-bats