Murphy to Receive O.C. Hall of Fame Achievement Award

Dennis Murphy, commissioner of the Roller Hockey International and a key figure in the foundation of the World Hockey Assn., American Basketball Assn. and World TeamTennis, has been named winner of the 1994 Lifetime Achievement Award by the Orange County Sports Hall of Fame.

Murphy, onetime mayor of Buena Park, will be honored along with the 1994 Hall of Fame inductees--Nolan Ryan, Brian Downing, Steve Scott, Mary Decker Slaney, Rich Saul, George Latka and Josephine Cruickshank--in a ceremony Dec. 18 at Anaheim Stadium.

Ashley Bethel, a Lake Forest teen-ager who returned to competition after losing her right eye when struck by a golf ball and set a national age-group record in the pentathlon, will receive the Woody Dietch Memorial Courage Award.

First American Title CEO Don Kennedy, a member of Stanford’s national championship golf team in 1939, will be given the Ralph Clark Distinguished Citizen Award, annually given to a former athlete who has achieved great success in private business.