Weibring Holds One-Stroke Lead

D.A. Weibring shot a six-under-par 65 Thursday and held a one-stroke lead after the first round of the Greater Milwaukee Open golf tournament.

David Toms, Lon Hinkle, Michael Allen and Olin Browne all had 66s.

Tied at 67 were Tom Sieckmann, Duffy Waldorf, Brian Kamm, Bob Estes, Joey Sindelar, Jay Haas, Mark Calcavecchia, Blaine McCallister and Bill Kratzert.

Baseball

A San Mateo County commissioner who halved Barry Bonds’ monthly family support payments last month has restored the original payments and removed himself from the case. Commissioner George Taylor drew criticism when he asked for an autograph from the San Francisco Giant outfielder at the conclusion of last month’s hearing. Before the request, he lowered Bonds’ family support payments from $15,000 a month to $7,500 a month.

The New York Yankees acquired pitcher Scott Bankhead from the Boston Red Sox and sent pitcher Paul Gibson to the Milwaukee Brewers, both for players to be named.

Pitcher Pat Mahomes of the Minnesota Twins was charged with drunk driving, two other alcohol-related counts and careless driving in Minneapolis.

Mahomes, 24, wrecked his car on a Minneapolis bridge Aug. 15 and was unconscious when taken to a hospital. His blood-alcohol level was measured at .184, almost double the Minnesota threshold for drunk driving.

Services will be held Saturday at 9 a.m. at Holy Spirit Catholic Church, 5400 Pico Blvd., for Dan Crowley, Southland baseball personality who died Monday at 87.

Crowley played for the Hollywood Stars of the Pacific Coast League in the 1930s and was a scout for the Yankees, Detroit, Cleveland and Boston Red Sox for nearly three decades.

Swimming and Diving

Fu Mingxia, China’s Olympic champion, had the best set of dives but Americans Mary Ellen Clark and Eileen Richetelli were second and third as diving preliminaries started at the World Swimming Championships in Rome.

Miscellany

As expected, John Easterbrook, associate athletic director at Fresno State for the past nine years, was named athletic director at Cal State Fullerton.

Coors Brewing Co. announced that it will renew its sponsorship of the Colorado Silver Bullets women’s baseball team for the 1995 season. The Silver Bullets have won six of 44 games against semipro and college teams but have drawn sizable crowds.

The NHL and its players resumed negotiations on a collective bargaining agreement as Commissioner Gary Bettman’s rollback of training camp benefits began. “It’s a blatant economic attack on the players,” NHL Players Assn. director Bob Goodenow said of the sanctions, which include the elimination of meal allowances and force players to pay their own way to camp and for their own life, medical and disability coverage.