Soviet Union Beats U.S. to Win World Cup Wrestling

The Soviet Union won its fourth consecutive World Cup Wrestling championship by defeating the United States, 7-3, in the final round of the round-robin competition held at the University of Toledo.

The United States and the Soviet Union had won their previous matches against Egypt, Canada, Cuba and Japan in the 13th annual competition.

The Soviets started out strong at 105 1/2 pounds, with Alexander Dorzhu beating Rich Salamone, 9-3. The United States came back with a victory by Randy Willingham at 114 1/2 before the Soviets took three in a row, including a pin by Sergey Beloglazov at 125 1/2.

Olympic gold medalist Dave Schulz of the United States won his match at 163 pounds, but his brother, Mark, at 180 1/2, was defeated.

The Soviets took the next two weight categories, and the United States ended with a victory by Olympic champion Bruce Baumgartner in the heavyweight class.

University of Washington forward Detlef Schrempf scored 16 points to lead the West to a 97-90 victory over the East in the 23rd annual Coaches’ All-America basketball game at Lexington, Ky.

The West used a balanced attack to offset a 19-point, 7-rebound effort for the East by Lorenzo Charles of North Carolina State. Charles was named the player of the game.

Iowa State’s Barry Stevens, Iowa’s Greg Stokes and Oregon State’s A.C. Green scored 12 points each for the West.

Boston College’s Michael Adams had 14 points for the East, and South Alabama’s Terry Catledge added 11.

Canada defeated Sweden, 6-2, to win the 1985 Air Canada Silver Broom World Curling Championship at Glasgow, Scotland.

For skipper Al Hackner and Rick Lang, who were aided by Ian Tetley and Pat Perroud, it was a second world championship victory.

A mining executive and a restaurateur have been approached to buy part of the financially troubled Birmingham Stallions of the USFL but say they are not interested, a published report said Sunday.

Drummond Coal Co. President Larry Drummond and Neil Andrews, chairman of Pasquales, both said they turned down the deal, the Birmingham News reported.

Stallion principal owner Marvin Warner has turned over his share of the team to a group of smaller investors, team officials said. Warner’s financial empire is in trouble because of the recent collapse of his Home State Savings Bank in Ohio.

Among other problems, Warner and other officials of the savings institution have been sued for $432 million by the bank’s conservator.

New York Knicks forward Bernard King, the NBA’s leading scorer, is scheduled to undergo reconstructive surgery on his right knee today in New York.

King suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament and torn cartilage in the knee last Saturday night in a game at Kansas City. Knicks team doctor Norman Scott, who will perform the surgery at Lenox Hill Hospital, expects King to make a full recovery.

“I am confident that with Bernard’s athletic ability, he’ll be fully recovered by the start of next season,” Scott said.

Three thoroughbred horses were electrocuted Sunday morning at Woodbine race track in Toronto when the machine that was walking them malfunctioned.

Snow Swoop, Stalwart Prince and Greenwood Piper, all geldings, were attached to a hot walker, a circular machine widely used to cool horses after morning exercise, when they died. The machine has four or five branches, each of which attaches to the halter of a horse, and a motor that is used to turn the branches as the horses walk in circles.

“I don’t know how it happened,” said trainer Tino Attard. “Nothing like this has ever happened to anyone.”

The worth of the three horses was between $60,000 and $90,000. None of the three had raced during the 1985 season.

Gerhard Hartmann of austria won the second Vienna Spring Marathon Sunday in national record time of 2 hours, 14 minutes and 59 seconds.

Yelena Tsukhlo of the Soviet Union finished 100th in the field of 2,500 to take the women’s title in 2:39:01 at Vienna, Austria.

Among the men, John Skovbjerg of Denmark finished second in 2:16:00 and Czeslaw Wilczewski, Poland, was third in 2:16:05.

Henrietta Fina of Austria was second among the women in 2:40:42 and Malgorzata Balbuza of Poland was third in 2:40:53.

Conditions were near ideal for the race, which began at City Hall and ran through downtown streets and parks to the finish in Heroes’ Square near the Hofburg, the old Imperial Palace.

The temperature was 57 degrees under a cover of high clouds.