U.S. to Play at India in Davis Cup
The United States will play at India in a first-round Davis Cup match next March, it was announced Tuesday. The match is expected to be played on grass in New Delhi, Calcutta or Madras.
The United States won matches in India in 1961 and 1963 and is 5-0 against India in Davis Cup play. India reached the semifinals this year, losing to Australia, 5-0. Australia, which will play Germany in this year’s final, opens next year at Russia.
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Jennifer Capriati will sit out the rest of the women’s tennis season because of bone chips in her right elbow.
Hockey
The four-game suspensions of Chicago Blackhawk defenseman Chris Chelios for his part in a melee and Detroit Red Wing forward Bob Probert for his part in a stick-swinging incident were meant to deter repeat offenses and protect on-ice officials, said Brian Burke, the NHL’s senior vice president and director of hockey operations.
“Both involved not abusing a linesman, but an effort to resist a linesman, and that will not be tolerated,” said Burke, who determines punishments for the league.
Toronto’s Bob Rouse, involved in the same incident as Probert, also received a four-game suspension. Burke gave Hartford’s Doug Houda a five-game suspension for head-butting Buffalo’s Randy Moller.
Sailing
New Zealand Endeavour, an 84-foot ketch skippered by Grant Dalton, won the first leg of the Whitbread Round the World race after sailing from England to Punte del Este, Uruguay, in 24 days 7 hours 19 minutes 2 seconds. That was 37 1/2 hours faster than Steinlager 2’s time when it won every leg of the 1986-87 race.
No other boats had finished, although Chris Dickson’s Whitbread 60 Tokio was only 44 miles out of port, leading the larger maxi Merit Cup by 70 miles.
Pro Basketball
Karl Malone, who was upset by Larry Johnson’s $84-million deal with the Charlotte Hornets, received a two-year extension from the Utah Jazz.
Malone had five years remaining on his contract, including the current year. He reached agreement on a new contract that provides $9 million over the extension period, the 1998-99 and 1999-2000 seasons, and the package is worth $28 million over the seven years.
Doug Edwards, the No. 1 draft pick of the Atlanta Hawks, underwent surgery on his right calf and is expected to be sidelined for six weeks.
University of Missouri basketball players Jevon Crudup and Melvin Booker were found guilty of misdemeanor charges of disturbing the peace for fighting after a campus dance. Crudup and Booker were fined $25 each and ordered to pay $19 in court costs.
Sidney Green, 32, cut last week by the Philadelphia 76ers, announced his retirement.
Names in the News
The Cincinnati Reds told Kevin Mitchell to get another opinion on whether to have surgery on his left shoulder to repair a torn rotator cuff. Mitchell appeared in 93 games this season, batting .341 with 19 home runs and 64 RBIs.
William Brown and Tharen Todd, wide receivers for Marshall University, pleaded innocent to scuffling with a police officer last weekend in Huntington, W. Va. Todd is a junior transfer from Santa Monica College and went to Fairfax High.
The Western Athletic Conference announced that Cal Poly San Luis Obispo has been admitted as an affiliate member in baseball, beginning in 1995.