Top Four Players Lose at Tokyo

Stefan Edberg, Boris Becker, Michael Chang and Andrei Medvedev, the top-seeded players in the $1-million Seiko Super tennis tournament at Tokyo, all lost their quarterfinal matches Friday.

Todd Martin beat the top-seeded Edberg, 6-4, 6-4; ninth-seeded Ivan Lendl outlasted the second-seeded Becker, 6-3, 1-6, 7-6 (7-2); 130th-ranked Greg Rusedski saved four match points in a 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (8-6) victory over the third-seeded Chang and Paul Haarhuis beat the fourth-seeded Medvedev, 7-5, 6-1, on the artificial surface at Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium.

“It’s just a bit of luck,” Lendl said of the upsets. “Anything can happen.”

Natalia Zvereva defeated Martina Navratilova, 6-3, 7-6 (7-5), in the quarterfinals of the Porsche Grand Prix at Filderstadt, Germany. Navratilova, who will turn 37 on Monday, was not upset about the defeat. “It’s a relief that it’s over,” she said. “I’m not physically tired. I’m emotionally tired.”

Hockey

Norm Green, the owner of the Dallas Stars, said he wouldn’t have moved to Texas had team officials known the NBA’s Mavericks owned exclusive advertising rights to Reunion Arena.

The Stars sold advertisement rights to the rink boards to Miller Brewing for $435,000, but discovered that the Mavericks already had an exclusive arena advertising contract with Anheuser-Busch.

The team didn’t learn about the contract until Oct. 6, when only hours before the Stars’ season opener the city came in and tore down ads for Miller beer and Molson Ale that had been placed along the ice rink and on an ice-smoothing machine.

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Chris Chelios of the Chicago Blackhawks, who set two team records for penalty minutes in a game Thursday night against the Hartford Whalers, was suspended for an indefinite period until the NHL completes an investigation.

Chelios was assessed eight penalties during the game, one short of the NHL record, and set two team records for penalty minutes--51 for the game and 37 for one third-period brawl.

“He’s a terrible person,” said Brian Propp of the Whalers, who was knocked down by Chelios. “He’s the kind of a guy who would stick your eye out. He has no repercussion (sic) over doing that to anybody.”

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Vancouver Canuck left wing Dixon Ward was suspended without pay for three games and fined $500 by the NHL for checking from behind in a game against Calgary on Oct. 9. No penalty was called on the play.

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David Roberts had two goals and Mike Dunham made 23 saves to lead the U.S. Olympic hockey team to an 8-0 victory over Boston University in Boston.

Golf

Bob Lohr birdied his last two holes to gain a four-way tie for the lead after 36 holes of the Texas Open at San Antonio. Lohr, who shot a 64, is tied with Billy Andrade, Dan Forsman and Gil Morgan.

Lauri Merten shot a one-under-par 71 to move into a first-place tie with defending champion Meg Mallon after two rounds of the World Championship of Women’s Golf at Naples, Fla.

Chi Chi Rodriguez shot a seven-under-par 65 and took a one-stroke lead after the first round of the Raley’s Senior Gold Rush at Rancho Murrieta.

Defending champion Bob Charles and Richard Bassett were at 66 and Walter Morgan was another stroke back.

Colleges

Duke assistant basketball coach Pete Gaudet argued in a Durham, N.C., court that an NCAA rule limiting his annual income to $16,000 has caused him irreparable harm.

Gaudet sued the NCAA, Duke University and Deblin Inc., a company headed by Duke Coach Mike Krzyzewski.

Gaudet’s lawsuit contests an NCAA “restricted earning” rule that limits him to a $12,000 annual salary from Duke and $4,000 from a summer basketball camp.

Before the bylaw was enacted last year, Gaudet claims to have been making more than $21,000 a year from the university and more than $50,000 from the summer camp, operated by Deblin, Inc.

Runnin’ Joe, a tomahawk-wielding Indian caricature with bared teeth and angry eyes, is being eliminated at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro. The school will keep its 61-year-old nickname of Indians. . . . Chancellor David K. Scott has decided to drop a proposal to change the Minuteman logo of the University of Massachusetts. Campus activists say the logo promotes sexism, racism and violence. The Minuteman logo, selected by a student referendum in 1972, replaced the school’s old Redman logo.

Wide receiver Jason Shelley of the University of Washington, arrested after a high-speed chase, will be charged with obstructing a police officer, a misdemeanor. Shelley is suspended for the season.

Pro Basketball

Shawn Bradley, the 7-foot-6 former Brigham Young center taken by the Philadelphia 76ers with the second pick in the NBA draft, made only three of 21 shots in his debut, a 101-84 exhibition loss to the Heat in Miami.

Terry Catledge, 30, a 6-foot-8 forward, was waived by the Orlando Magic.

Miscellany

Discuss and hammer thrower Roshawn James has been declared ineligible for four years because he failed to appear for drug testing. . . . The U.S. national soccer team, which tied Mexico this week, 1-1, will play tonight against Ukraine at High Point, N.C.