Alomar Has a Broken Leg, but Won’t Need Surgery

Second baseman Roberto Alomar of the Toronto Blue Jays does not need surgery on his broken right leg and will probably be able to start spring training on time, team officials said Friday.

Alomar, who broke the fibula during a winter league game in Puerto Rico on Wednesday, will be re-examined Monday to verify that an operation will not be required.

With no surgery, Alomar should be ready to work out in late February or early March.

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Lenny Dykstra, Philadelphia Phillie outfielder, and Pennsylvania state Sen. Earl Baker, of Chester County, got into a shouting match last week at a suburban restaurant and nearly came to blows over Dykstra’s alleged use of foul language.

Baker was having lunch on Dec. 22 with his wife, his secretary and an aide when two “scruffy” young men sat at the next table, according to Baker, who added:

“We started hearing these loud four-letter words.”

Baker said he turned to the men and said “in a loud and stern voice, ‘Would you please watch your language?’ So his (Dykstra’s) reaction was to keep it up, even louder. So I turned to him again and said, ‘I’m asking you again to please watch your language.’ ”

They then stood up and faced each other, Baker said.

“If you’re going to come into a place like this, you owe it to other people to clean up your language,” Baker said.

“I’m going to drop you, dude,” Dykstra said, according to Baker.

The maitre d’ stepped in and restrained both men.

Jurisprudence

Two University of Louisville football players were arrested on felony assault charges.

Tom Carroll, a senior, and Chris Hampton, a junior, are charged with beating Kevin Netherton in the parking lot of the Golden Nugget Lounge in suburban Louisville. Both players took part in Tuesday night’s Liberty Bowl at Memphis, Tenn.

A misdemeanor assault charge also was filed against Carroll for allegedly hitting Laura Probus, 23, in the same incident.

Arraignment is set for today.

Names in the News

Buffalo Sabre center Derek Plante has decided to forego playing for the United States hockey team in the Winter Olympics in order to stay in Buffalo. . . . The NHL suspended left wing Bob Errey of the San Jose Sharks without pay for two games for hitting Frank Musil of the Calgary Flames from behind during a game Tuesday. . . . Alex Antonitsch upset an ailing Andrei Medvedev to give Austria a 3-0 victory over sixth-seeded Ukraine in the first round of the Hopman Cup team tennis championship in Perth, Australia. . . . Retired Chicago Bull star Michael Jordan was named the most popular international athlete of 1993 in a survey by Gazzetta dello Sport of Milan, Italy’s largest sports daily.