Royals Get Sundberg in a Four-Team Trade

Jim Sundberg, a catcher for the Milwaukee Brewers, was traded Friday to the Kansas City Royals as part of a four-team deal that involved six players.

The Brewers will receive pitcher Danny Darwin and a minor-league player to be named later from the Texas Rangers. The Rangers obtained catcher Don Slaught from the Brewers and sent pitcher Frank Wills to Tidewater, the Mets’ Triple-A farm team. The Mets gave up pitcher Tim Leary, who goes to the Brewers’ Vancouver farm club.

Sundberg batted .261 last year, with seven homers and 43 runs batted in.

Willie Hernandez, the Detroit Tigers’ reliever who won the Most Valuable Player and Cy Young awards in the American League last season, agreed to a contract estimated at $4.5 million that will keep him with the team through the 1989 season.

Donnie Moore, relief pitcher for the Atlanta Braves, filed for salary arbitration after the team refused to meet his demand for a $490,000 salary.

Tug McGraw, a 17-year veteran pitcher, will not be offered a 1985 contract by the Philadelphia Phillies. McGraw, 40, pitched only 38 innings last season because of a shoulder injury.

Contract talks between major league baseball players and the club owners will resume in New York next Friday.

Shirley Muldowney, who’ll undergo bone-graft surgery on her right leg Tuesday, has hopes of resuming her drag-racing career in 1986. Muldowney fractured both legs in a crash last summer.

Marathon runner Alberto Salazar will undergo surgery on his left kneecap and is expected to return to competition in April, according to Newsday, a Long Island, N.Y., newspaper.

Dallas Cowboys fullback Ron Springs was charged with felony aggravated assault on a police officer after an altercation with police at a Dallas nightclub.

Springs was arrested about 5:30 p.m. Friday at the Million Dollar Saloon after a disturbance at the club, police Sgt. Gary Kirkpatrick said.

He was freed six hours later, after posting bonds totalling about $5,000, on charges of aggravated assault on a police officer, misdemeanor criminal trespass, and misdemeanor Class C assault, a jail spokesman said.

Although the official announcement won’t be made until Feb. 5, Cotton Bowl winner Boston College is set to play national champion Brigham Young in the Kickoff Classic, according to a report on WCVB-TV in Boston.

The game will be at the Meadowlands in East Rutherford, N.J., Thursday Aug. 29. Boston College would be playing without Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Doug Flutie, who has no more eligibility. Ben Johnson of Canada edged Sam Graddy of the United States to win the men’s 60-meter dash on the first day of the World Indoor Games at Paris Friday. Johnson was timed in 6.62 seconds, beating Graddy, the Olympic silver medalist in the men’s 100-meter dash, by one-hundredth of a second. Names in the News

The NCAA said that swimmer Jens-Peter Berndt, an East German defector who left his team at an Oklahoma City airport 10 days ago, is ineligible to compete this season for the University of Alabama.