France’s Pelen Scores Women’s Slalom Victory

Olympic silver medalist Perrine Pelen led France to a 1-2 finish in the women’s slalom and gave her country its first gold medal of the World Alpine Ski Championships at Bormio, Italy.

Christelle Guignard raced a blistering second run to jump from ninth place to second overall and win the silver medal.

Olympic champion Paoletta Magoni of Italy took the bronze after a risky second run on the Ortler course to give the host country its first medal of the championships.

Pelen, 24, who won in 1:29.58, took over when first-run leader Erika Hess of Switzerland, the defending World Cup overall champion, fell just nine seconds into the second run.

Guignard was timed in 1:29.93 and Magoni 1:29.98.

The best finish by the United States was 10th place by Eva Twardokens, 19, of Squaw Valley, Calif., in 1:31.25.

Heidi Bowes of Steamboat Springs, Colo., was 17th in 1:34.00.

Tamara McKinney of Lexington, Ky., the 1983 World Cup overall champion and the tour’s defending slalom champion, had another disappointing race. Just as in the giant slalom, she posted the second-fastest intermediate time of the first run only to fall before the finish.

The University of Southern Mississippi football program has been placed on a two-year probation by the NCAA with only a minor sanction, officials said.

The probation was announced during a news conference by the school and the NCAA Friday night in Hattiesburg, Miss.

David Berst, NCAA enforcement director, said the school was in violation of recruiting practices. The only sanction against the school will be the reduction of paid on-campus visits by prospective athletes to 60 rather than the normal 95.

Montreal pitchers David Palmer and Bert Roberge won salary arbitration decisions while Expos catcher Bobby Ramos lost in the first three cases to be decided this year.

An arbitrator ruled that Palmer, who was 7-3 with a 3.84 earned-run average, should receive the $375,000 salary he requested. The Expos had offered $235,000.

Ramos, who hit .193 in 31 games, asked for $150,000, but an arbitrator ruled he would get the $115,000 salary figure the Expos submitted.

Roberge, who was 3-3 with a 3.76 ERA with the Chicago White Sox before being traded to Montreal in December, was awarded the $95,000 salary he sought. The Expos had offered $60,000.

South African-born running star Zola Budd set a British and Commonwealth record for the 3,000 meters in her international indoor debut for Britain against West Germany at Cosworth, England.

Budd beat runner-up Brigit Schmidt of West Germany by 19 seconds and was timed in 8 minutes 56.13 seconds.

The time was nearly nine seconds off the world best set last month by Mary Decker Slaney of the United States.

Olympic gold medalist Andrea Schoene of East Germany won two events at the women’s World Speed Skating Championships at Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.

Schoene took the 500-meter sprint in 41.00 seconds, ahead of Irina Fateeva of the Soviet Union with 41.30. American Bonnie Blair and Seiko Hashimoto of Japan tied for third place in 41.40.

Schoene also won the 3,000 meters in 4:34.49. Blair was 18th in 4:54.20.

Former major league pitcher Bill Lee, 38, has signed a one-year, personal services contract with Martin Stone, owner of the Class AAA Phoenix Giants of the Pacific Coast League.

Lee, was let go by the Montreal Expos in 1982 after walking out on the team for releasing his close friend, second baseman Rodney Scott.

Quarterback Wayne Peace left camp just two days after he was acquired by the Portland Breakers and said he won’t play again in the the United States Football League.

The Breakers had given the Tampa Bay Bandits two No. 1 draft choices Wednesday to get Peace.

Peace, a former University of Florida star, said the only reason he joined the USFL was to play in Tampa.

“I’m just glad I’m not in Portland,” he said. “I don’t want to be there. It’s a nice place, and they have a good team, but I don’t want to play there.”

Arizona State Athletic Director Dick Tamburo said he has extended the contracts of all nine Sun Devil football assistant coaches by six months to Dec. 31.

The coaches’ contracts had been valid only through June 30, and the staff was left in limbo by Wednesday’s departure of coach Darryl Rogers to the Detroit Lions of the National Football League.

Names in the News

James E. (Ted) Bassett III, president of the Keeneland Assn. in Lexington, Ky., was elected president of the Thoroughbred Racing Assns.

Bob Marcus, horse racing handicapper for the San Francisco Chronicle under the name of Mark Roberts since 1940, died of a stroke. He was 62.