Lewis, Leg Injured, Pulls Out of European Track Tour

Carl Lewis, who won four gold medals in the Los Angeles Olympics, has pulled out of a European track tour this summer because of an injury, it was announced Friday in London.

Lewis sustained a leg injury after the first Grand Prix track and field meet of the season in May, and it has not recovered sufficiently for him to compete in the sprints or long jump.

He has withdrawn from the Amateur Athletics Assn. championships July 13-14, the Peugeot Talbot Games July 19-20 and the Edinburgh Games July 23.

Aaron Pryor, fighting his mother Sara’s bid to commit him to a drug treatment program, says he will start training Monday for another bout.

Pryor, 30, the International Boxing Federation’s junior-welterweight champion, has left his Cincinnati home and now lives in Miami.

Pryor, plagued by personal problems in recent years, including a divorce and a court battle with his manager, Buddy LaRosa, said he has hired a Miami attorney to defend him against an attempt by his mother to force him into a Miami drug and alcohol rehabilitation center.

Pryor said his mother “wants to have me taken and put away so she can start handling my checkbook.”

The boxer told the Cincinnati Post in an interview: “I’ve taken drugs before. I’ve done it because I’m human and because they are in the world. But I’m not on drugs now, and I’ve never used drugs to the point where they would hinder my ability as a fighter. I just fought 15 rounds on March 2, and now I’m supposed to be a drug addict. That doesn’t make sense.”

In Pryor’s last fight, he won a decision over Gary Hinton. Pryor is 36-0, with 32 knockouts.

An Associated Press story on a survey of major league baseball players’ attitudes about boycotting this month’s All-Star game reported erroneously that all but seven of 516 players questioned opposed it.

The correct information was that only seven of 317 players who offered an opinion said they would favor a boycott of the game. The other 199 players had no comment.

The prospect of a Harvard-Princeton showdown in the premier race at the 146th Henley Royal Regatta, the Grand Challenge Cup, neared reality when both universities advanced to the final four at Henley, England.

Harvard scored an impressive 4 1/2-length victory over the Danish national lightweight crew and is on target for its first win in the Grand since 1959. The last American crew to win the Grand was the Charles River Rowing Assn., in 1980. Harvard meets Cambridge today in the semifinals.

Princeton’s time was six seconds slower than the Harvard eight, but the Tigers eased off at the end of their one-length win over Australia. Princeton next meets the University of London.

Officials of the New York Yankees defended security precautions at Yankee Stadium as police continued their investigation into the shooting of a pregnant woman at the ballpark Thursday night.

Joanne Barrett, 34, of Bronxville, N.Y., was shot in the hand as she watched the game from a box seat along the first-base line. She was treated at Montefiore Hospital and released.

“She was sitting there, minding her own business, when she heard the shot, looked down and saw that the bullet had passed through her right hand,” Sgt. Diane Kubler said. Police said it was the first shooting in memory at Yankee Stadium.

Alarmed that only three of 28 first-round draft choices have been signed by NFL teams, 12 players’ agents will meet Monday in Chicago to discuss how they can handle the tough negotiation stand now being taken by the league’s owners.

The Ontario Athletic Commission has joined its Quebec counterparts in rejecting a request by Montreal boxing promoter Regis Levesque to stage a bout between retired heavyweights Joe Frazier and Robert Cleroux. Frazier is 41 and Cleroux 47.

Names in the News

At Marstrand, Sweden, Lars Hjortnaes of Denmark narrowly retained his World Finn dinghy sailing championship, finishing just 0.1 point ahead of Oleg Kopersky of the Soviet Union.

Outfielder George Bell of the Toronto Blue Jays was suspended for two games for his actions during a June 23 game with the Boston Red Sox. Bell was suspended for charging and then kicking Boston right-hander Bruce Kison after being hit by a pitch.

Paulino Uzcudun, known as the Basque Bull and a two-time European heavyweight boxing champion, died Thursday in Torrelaguna, Spain, at the age of 86. His last bout was in 1935, when he suffered the first and only knockout of his career at the hands of Joe Louis.

Mary Decker Slaney set an American record in the women’s 1,000-meter run at Eugene, Ore., Thursday. Slaney covered the distance in 2:34.8, eclipsing the U.S. record of 2:37.6 held by Madeline Manning since 1976.