Torrence Pulls Left Hamstring

Olympic sprint champion Gwen Torrence was carried from the field on a stretcher Wednesday after suffering a torn left hamstring in a track meet at Bratislava, Slovakia. After having won the women’s 100-meter event in 11.12 seconds, Torrence pulled up and collapsed on the track 50 meters from the end of the 200.

Nigeria’s Daniel Effiong won the men’s 100-meter and 200-meter sprints. Effiong ran 10.08 in the 100, edging Dennis Mitchell, and beat Vyacheslav Dologodin of Ukraine and John Regis of Britain in the 200 meters, winning in 20.51.

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Butch Reynolds, world record-holder in the 400 meters, asked a federal appeals court for a rehearing on his dispute with the International Amateur Athletic Federation. Last month, a three-judge panel of the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals threw out a $27.4-million settlement Reynolds had been awarded.

Basketball

In accordance with the terms of their trade with Atlanta in acquiring Dominique Wilkins, the Clippers said they will take the Hawks’ 1994 first-round draft choice. When the Clippers sent forward Danny Manning to the Hawks for Wilkins on Feb. 24, they also received a first-round draft choice either this year or next year.

Miami Heat Coach Kevin Loughery’s agent, Lonnie Cooper, met with club officials for eight hours, and a new contract has reportedly been offered Loughery, whose current three-year deal expires next month. . . . Geoff Petrie was named vice president of basketball operations for the Sacramento Kings. Petrie, who quit a similar job with the Portland Trail Blazers last month, reportedly signed a $2.5-million, five-year contract.

Football

Two former All-American football players at Florida State have denied allegations by Sports Illustrated that they took money for phony summer jobs. LeRoy Butler, an All-Pro safety with the Green Bay Packers, and Lawrence Dawsey, a wide receiver for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, told the Florida Times-Union that they had not worked for Florida State booster Rick Blankenship, identified by the magazine as having given money to the players. This week’s edition of Sports Illustrated quotes a Jacksonville woman who said Butler and Dawsey took money from Blankenship for a job they didn’t perform at Blankenship’s veterinary clinic.

The NAACP likened the hiring practices of the Dallas Cowboys to a plantation and said it may ask those who do business with the club to boycott the Super Bowl champions. Almost three-fourths of the Dallas players are black, but all 11 front-office positions are held by white males, Shannon Reeves, NAACP southwest regional director, said.

Buffalo Bill quarterback Jim Kelly will not need surgery on his sore throwing shoulder, the club announced. . . . Jack Stroud, an All-Pro offensive lineman three times during a 13-year career with the New York Giants, died. He was 66.

Soccer

The Netherlands routed Hungary in a World Cup warm-up at Eindhoven, Netherlands, 7-1. In other games, Romania played a scoreless tie with Slovenia, and Norway beat Denmark, 2-1.

Names in the News

Stefan Edberg moved into the quarterfinals of the Beckenham grass-court tournament in London, beating Britain’s Paul Hand, 6-4, 7-6 (7-4). . . . Al Arbour, who coached the New York Islanders to four consecutive Stanley Cup titles, has retired from coaching to become the team’s vice president of hockey operations. . . . Ricardo Punsalan, the brother of Olympic ice dancer Elizabeth Punsalan, has been declared mentally incompetent to stand trial in the stabbing death of his father. . . . John David Jackson, stripped of the World Boxing Assn. middleweight title for participating in a non-sanctioned fight last month, has asked a New Jersey judge to restore his title.

Miscellany

After nearly three decades being televised on ABC, the U.S. Open golf tournament will be on NBC next year. ABC will televise its 29th and final U.S. Open on June 18-19 at Oakmont in Pittsburgh. Next year, NBC will show its first Grand Slam golf event from Shinnecock Hills in Southampton, N.Y.