As for Witt, Becker Has Little to Say

East German Olympic figure skating champion Katarina Witt sat in the players’ box at Wimbledon Sunday, cheering for West Germany’s Boris Becker. Last year, she watched him win the singles title at the U.S. Open.

Following his five-set loss to Stefan Edberg in the Wimbledon final, Becker was asked by a reporter about the relationship, if any, between the two Germans.

Said Becker: “I know her. I’ve seen her on the ice.”

Trivia time: The only grand slam in an All-Star Game was by Fred Lynn, then with the Angels, in 1983. Who was the pitcher?

Career counseling: Argentine President Carlos Menem watched his country’s soccer team lose the World Cup final to West Germany on television in Buenos Aires, then issued a statement:

“Germany took the ball and dominated play. Argentina was an incomplete team, and we lost with an unfair goal because the penalty was not merited.”

On referee Edgardo Codesal’s expulsion of Argentina’s Pedro Monzon late in the game, and on Codesal’s awarding the penalty shot, Menem commented, “As far as the referee is concerned, he should take up medicine.”

Thumbs down, sort of: Several NASCAR drivers have complained that the racing movie “Days of Thunder” exaggerates the bumping and crashing in stock car races.

After Saturday’s Pepsi 400, in which an accident on the second lap eliminated half the field from contention, winner Dale Earnhardt was asked whether he planned to see the movie.

Said Earnhardt: “I’m a Tom Cruise fan, and I don’t want to tarnish the image I have of him.”

Same boat: Here’s an update on the controversy swirling around the ban on female competitors in professional bass fishing tournaments.

One of the arguments raised by the men-only camp is that proper restroom facilities are not always available for women.

Said Sugar Ferris of Arlington, Tex., publisher and editor of Bass’n Gal magazine: “All I say is, hey, turn the radio on high, face the front of the boat and whistle ‘Dixie.’ ”

Perfect day: Cal Ripken Jr.’s last error came on Friday, April 13. To break Kevin Elster’s major league record for shortstops, 88 consecutive games without an error, he’ll have to get past Friday, July 13. Is Ripken superstitious?

“I’d better not be,” he said. “I was married on a Friday the 13th.”

Dead aim: Scott Swinney of Colorado Springs, Colo., won his second consecutive U.S. Olympic Festival gold medal Sunday in the moving air-rifle competition. But somehow, he said, the fun had gone out of it.

Swinney’s complaint was that the targets had been changed from life-size drawings of pigs to ordinary circular scoring rings.

“I didn’t like it,” Swinney said. “I missed the pig. With the circles, there’s nothing to aim at. You just make an educated guess. (The pig) had a black cheek, a tusk and hairs. You’d put the (sighting) post on the mouth in front of the tusk and the dot behind the eye, in front of the target in the vital area behind the shoulder.”

No wonder figure skating at the Festival has been drawing bigger crowds.

Trivia answer: Atlee Hammaker of the Giants.

Quotebook: Announcer Al Conin, during the Milwaukee Brewers’ 13-run outburst in Sunday’s game with the Angels: “So, it’s a 12-run sixth inning . . . no, no, it’s still the fifth.”