Budd Wins British Indoor 1,500 Title

Zola Budd won the 1,500 meters final Saturday at the British National Indoor Track and Field Championships at Cosford, England, after easily winning her qualifying heat Friday.

The 18-year-old barefoot runner from South Africa was clocked in 4:11.20. Second was Yvonne Murray of Scotland in 4:16.09. Budd passed Murray at the start of the final lap, running wide to avoid being spiked.

The meet was Budd’s first indoor competition.

In the men’s 200, Ade Mafe, second in the World Indoor Games the previous week, finished last in a four-man field, with American Mel Lattany winning in 21.36. In the pole vault, world record-holder Sergei Bubka of the Soviet Union finished second to his brother, Vassili. Vassili cleared 18-4 1/2, while Sergei, whose record of 19-5 3/4 was set outdoors last year, could manage only 17-8 1/2.

Ohio State will play home-and-home football games with Louisiana State and USC in the next five years, OSU Athletic Director Rick Bay announced.

Ohio State will play LSU Sept. 26, 1987 at Baton Rouge and Sept. 24, 1988 at Columbus.

USC, which beat Ohio State, 20-17, in the 1985 Rose Bowl, will meet the Buckeyes Sept. 23, 1989 at the Coliseum and Sept. 29, 1990 at Columbus.

“I like those games because the USC series is obviously an extension of the relationship between the Big Ten and the Pac-10,” said Bay. “It draws more national attention to our conferences.

“With LSU,” he said, “I thought it was important simply because we haven’t been exposed to much Southeastern Conference football in the Big Ten. They were as interested as we were.”

In World Cup skiing, Marina Kiehl of West Germany won a women’s super giant slalom race at Arosa, Switzerland, covering the 1,460-meter course in 1:25.07. The course had 37 gates and a vertical drop of 370 meters.

Finishing second was Eva Twardokens of Reno, in 1:25.41. Wind gusts and shifting fog banks marred the race, causing 36 competitors to withdraw and 14 others to drop out during the competition. American Tamara McKinney was among those who dropped out.

In near-perfect conditions at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, West Germany, Helmut Hoeflehner of Austria tuned up for this week’s world championships at Bormio, Italy, by winning a World Cup downhill race for the third time this season. His time over the 3,320-meter track was 1:54.56. Second was Peter Mueller of Switzerland in 1:54.78. Bill Johnson of Malibu finished 17th.

At the World Nordic Ski Championships at Seefeld, Austria, Grete Nykkelmo of Norway won the women’s 20-kilometer cross-country endurance test, and Jens Weissflog of East Germany won the 70-meter ski jump.

Ted Turner, the Atlanta Braves’ owner and cable television mogul, will pay $30 million into a central fund over five years, with each of the other major league teams receiving $230,000 annually, according to a report in the Atlanta Constitution and Journal. In return, Turner will continue televising his team’s games across the nation on cable TV.

Mike Durbin of Chagrin Falls, Ohio, won a $150,000 Professional Bowlers Assn. tournament at Grand Prairie, Tex., when top-seeded Mike Edwards failed to convert the 4-9 split in the 10th frame of the title game. Edwards, of Tulsa, Okla., needed a mark of any kind in the 10th frame to win his first PBA title, but he left the split and finished on the short end of a 218-214 score.

Walter Ray Williams Jr. of Chino finished third.

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Minnesota freshman forward Mitch Lee was dropped from the basketball team after being arrested and charged with criminal sexual conduct for allegedly attacking a female college student.