Budd Avoids Protester on Way to Mile Victory

Zola Budd won the women’s mile in a meet at Edinburgh Tuesday, leading all the way to beat Irena Nikitina of the Soviet Union in 4 minutes 23.14 seconds. Nikitina was clocked in 4:27.97.

Budd, who was born in South Africa but was granted British citizenship before the 1984 Olympics, was again a subject of anti-apartheid demonstrations. One demonstrator ran onto the track. Budd said later: “The demonstrator took me out of my rhythm, and I had to take avoiding action, but it did not really upset me that much. . . . That was my best race of the season, and the crowd were tremendous at the end. That’s the best reception I’ve had.”

An anti-apartheid protest by the Edinburgh City Council caused a blackout of live television coverage. The council of the Scottish capital put up a banner declaring “Edinburgh against apartheid” on the main scoreboard.

A clause in the contract between the British Athletics Board and television companies forbids political messages being displayed.

“There was no way we could show an hour’s live coverage without showing the scoreboard,” a television spokesman said.

The San Francisco 49ers have sold out their season tickets, leaving a waiting list of 8,000 names.

Ticket manager Ken Dargel said the 49ers sold 58,500 season tickets earlier in the year to 1984 season tickets holders. The remaining 750 were sold in less than an hour Monday at 60 Ticketron outlets in the Bay Area. Dargel said many people had camped out near the outlets since Sunday, but only the first few in line at each place were satisfied.

Winners of the Pac-10 Conference Medal, awarded annually to outstanding senior student-athletes at each school, were announced. They were swimmers Bengt Baron of California, George DiCarlo of Arizona and Bruce Hayes of UCLA; basketball players Wayne Carlander of USC and Blair Rasmussen of Oregon; baseball players Pete Stanicek of Stanford and Kurt Waananen of Washington State; gymnast Brad Rot of Arizona State; football player Dan Eernissee of Washington, and track and field and football star Kenny Taylor of Oregon State.

The National Sports Festival begins today in Baton Rouge, La., with pairs and dance competition in figure skating at the 12,000-seat Centroplex that also will be the site of hockey, speed skating, fencing, table tennis and weightlifting. Diving, cycling and team handball begin Thursday, with most other events set to get under way Saturday. The festival, which will feature many of the country’s future Olympic stars, has been held in the past in Colorado Springs, Colo.; Syracuse, N.Y., and Indianapolis. The Festival will end on Aug. 4.

The United States Football League is reviewing the San Antonio Gunslingers’ franchise, USFL Commissioner Harry Usher said Tuesday, a day after the team waived all 46 of its players. The Gunslingers released all of their players about 4 p.m. Monday, an hour before a union-imposed deadline for making good on two overdue paychecks.

A state judge signed an arrest warrant for a Tulane University business student who became the ninth suspect in the drug and point shaving scandal that brought the end to the school’s men’s basketball program.

The suspect was identified as Ken Turkel, whose age and current address were unavailable. Local newspaper and television reports identified him as a former roommate of Gary Kranz, the suspect who most recently pleaded guilty in the case.

Turkel had not been arrested, but prosecutors said he was expected to surrender himself later in the week.

He was charged with conspiracy to commit sports bribery in connection with an alleged scheme to pay off players to control scoring at a game last February.

Two homes belonging to Dallas Cowboys running back Tony Dorsett were seized by the Internal Revenue Service in an effort to collect more than $400,000 in income taxes owed for three years, an IRS spokeswoman said.

The homes could be sold within 30 days if the tax debts allegedly owed for 1979, 1980 and 1983 are not satisfied, IRS spokeswoman Marlene Gaysek told The Dallas Morning News.

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The Texas Rangers have acquired right-handed pitcher Jeff Russell from Cincinnati to complete a trade that sent third baseman Buddy Bell to the Reds for outfielder Duane Walker. Russell, 24, will be assigned to the Rangers’ Triple-A farm club at Oklahoma City.

Vasily Solomin, 32, a boxer who represented the Soviet Union in the 1976 Olympics, has been jailed for 10 years for his part in a robbery in which he was hired to knock out the victim, according to the government daily newspaper, Izvestia.