10 Die at Jammed Mexico City Soccer Stadium

At least 10 youths died and 50 people were injured Sunday as fans frantically tried to push their way into a packed soccer stadium in Mexico City for the nation’s championship game, the Red Cross said.

Thousands of people shoved the closed stadium doors, trying to enter the already jammed stadium, said Red Cross spokesman Jose Tinajero.

Tinajero told UPI that 10 people, aged 8 to 18, died in the melee.

More than 80,000 fans attended the game between American and University that ended in a 0-0 tie. The teams will meet again Tuesday in the two-game finals.

Proud Truth, ridden by Jorge Velasquez, squeezed past Cutlass Reality at the top of the stretch to win the $89,250 Peter Pan Stakes at Belmont Park.

Rebounding from a fifth-place finish in the Kentucky Derby, Proud Truth won the 1 1/8-mile event by 1 lengths in 1:47 3/5. The victory established the colt as an early favorite for the June 8 Belmont Stakes, the final jewel of the Triple Crown.

Long shot Salem Drive, with Eddie Maple up, finished third, 1 1/2 lengths behind Cutlass Reality. Fourth by 2 lengths was Kentucky Derby runner-up and even-money favorite Stephan’s Odyssey, ridden by Laffit Pincay.

Proud Truth, a Graustark colt owned by Pittsburgh Pirates majority shareholder John Galbreath and trained by John Veitch, earned $53,550 plus a $13,500 Breeders’ Cup award.

Proud Truth, sporting blinkers for the first time, stayed close to the pace instead of taking up his usual position near the end of the field.

“The blinkers made all the difference with this horse today,” Velasquez said. “He was very powerful and I had to take a good hold of him.”

Veitch said the colt’s next goal is the Belmont.

Milt McCrory, the World Boxing Council welterweight champion, scored a third-round TKO over Luis Santana in a non-title bout fought in the junior middleweight division in Miami.

Both fighters weighed 152 pounds.

The fight was stopped when Santana suffered a separation of the right clavicular area.

Before the fight was stopped, McCrory was easily in control. He knocked down Santana with a left hook to the chin in the first round.

McCrory improved his record to 26-0-1 with 21 knockouts. Santana dropped to 26-3-1.

Ramona Pagel of San Diego set an American record of 62-9 in the women’s shotput in the Southern Pacific Assn. TAC track and field championships at UCLA.

The old record was 62-7 3/4, set by Maren Seidler in 1979.

Pagel, 24, from Schurr High School in Montebello, attends San Diego State but is competing unattached this season.

Freddie Spencer of Shreveport, La. scored a rare double victory in the Grand Prix of the Nations at Mugello, Italy, taking the overall lead in the 250 and 500-cc classes after the fourth round of the World Motorcycling Championships.

Spencer rode his Honda to an easy victory in the prestigious 500-cc race. He faced tougher opposition in the 250-cc event but finally overcame Carlos Lavado of Venezuela to win the race.

Mickey Tadlock, a Pro Stock driver from Austin, Tex., was reported in critical condition with massive head injuries after crashing his car Saturday night during a qualifying round at the National Hot Rod Assn.’s $605,000 Cajun Nationals, officials said in Baton Rouge, La.

Tadlock, 45, had just completed a quarter-mile run in 8.05 seconds at 170.65 m.p.h. when he lost control of his 1983 Camaro and crashed into a power pole bordering the track beyond the finish line.