Bucks Will Remain in Milwaukee

Milwaukee investor Herbert Kohl will buy the Milwaukee Bucks and keep the NBA team in the city, but he said the Bucks must have a new arena if they are to prosper. Terms of the purchase from owner Jim Fitzgerald were not disclosed.

“This was a project that needed to be done, and I was lucky enough to be in a position to be able to do it,” Kohl, 50, said. “The Milwaukee Bucks are in Milwaukee, and they’re going to stay in Milwaukee.”

The Bucks have the smallest arena in the NBA with a capacity of 11,052.

Santa Ana city officials came out in favor of building a $35-million, 18,500-seat sports arena that could be used to lure a professional hockey or basketball team to Orange County.

One of the franchises that the arena project developers, Gardens Partnership, had hoped to attract was the Milwaukee Bucks, but that ended when the new owner announced they would remain in Milwaukee. The developers said ground could be broken early next year at the site now occupied by Santa Ana Stadium. The arena could be in use by 1987.

Boston Marathon officials broke with tradition and said they will pay expenses for top runners in next month’s 89th running of the race. Marathon administrator Guy Morse said the race committee will pay for hotel accommodations for 20 of the top runners, defined by the committee as “elite marathoners.”

This was not enough for three-time winner Bill Rodgers, however, as he said he is skipping the marathon to run in a more profitable New Jersey race.

San Francisco 49er running back Carl Monroe, who scored the first touchdown in Super Bowl XIX, had a drunken driving charge against him dropped after an investigation showed he was in the passenger seat during an accident.

World Boxing Assn. featherweight champion Eusebio Pedroza shot a man who was trying to steal his late model BMW from the garage of his Panama City, Panama, home and was slightly injured in the incident. After surprising the thief, who attempted to escape, Pedroza gave chase and tore a muscle in his right leg. After firing a warning shot and shouting at the thief to stop, Pedroza shot the man in the leg.

Names in the News

William J. Flynn, Boston College athletic director and former president of the NCAA, is the National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame’s distinguished American award recipient for 1985.

Dick Atwell, 75, former infielder with the Los Angeles Angels of the old Pacific Coast League and the barnstorming House of David baseball team, died of a lingering illness in a West Covina medical center.

Seattle first baseman Alvin Davis, the American League’s Rookie of the Year, has reached an agreement to play with the Mariners for the 1985 season.

WBC heavyweight champion Pinklon Thomas must undergo a medical examination before he can fight again because of reports he has an eye problem.