Brayton Injured in Crash at Indy

Scott Brayton spun during testing for next week’s Brickyard 400 stock car race Wednesday, crashing his Ford Thunderbird into the Indianapolis Motor Speedway wall and suffering a concussion and a broken ankle.

Brayton was expected to stay a few days for observation at Methodist Hospital. No surgery was scheduled.

Brayton, who finished 17th in this year’s Indianapolis 500 after starting on the pole, did a half-spin in the middle of the first turn. The car hit the outside wall, skidded across the track and hit the inside guard rail, speedway spokesman Bob Walters said.

Tennis

Despite a groin injury, Martina Navratilova said she “fully intends” to play Monica Seles in their exhibition match Saturday at Atlantic City, N.J. . . . Austrian Gilbert Schaller came from behind to eliminate second-seeded Alberto Berasategui of Spain 6-7 (7-5), 7-6 (7-4), 6-3 in the second round of the $500,000 Netherlands International tennis tournament at Amsterdam.

Soccer

First-division teams UNAM of Mexico and Maccabi Haifa of Israel meet at the Coliseum tonight at 8:30 in the championship game of Friendship Cup ’95. The Pumas advanced to the title game with a penalty-kick victory over Shirag Gumri of Armenia on Tuesday night after a 1-1 tie. In the third-place game at 6:30 p.m., Shirag Gumri will play El Salvador’s Luis Angel Firpo, which lost, 4-3, to Maccabi on Tuesday.

Jurisprudence

Dexter Manley was arrested for the fourth time in eight months by narcotics officers in Houston who have been investigating the former star lineman, authorities said.

The former Washington Redskin defensive end was charged with driving without a license and remains under investigation for drug possession, Harris County sheriff’s officer C.E. Gholar said.

Manley was permanently barred from the NFL in 1989 after failing his fourth drug test.

A prosecutor has decided against retrying Georgetown basketball player Allen Iverson for his role in a 1993 bowling alley brawl in Hampton, Va., according to a motion filed Wednesday.

Mississippi State Coach Jackie Sherrill said that an NCAA investigation into possible rules violations does not involve any current football players and will not affect the team.

A letter of inquiry from the NCAA dated July 18 and made public Tuesday detailed numerous possible violations, including questionable lunches, loans and bonuses. Mississippi State has until Oct. 4 to respond.

Statutory rape charges against two current members of the Idaho State football team involve a 14-year-old girl, according to a grand jury indictment in Pocatello.

Ike Johnson, 22, and Thomas Washington, 21, both starters for the Bengals last season, were charged with one count each of statutory rape for incidents that allegedly occurred between February and April.

Miscellany

Former Wimbledon champion Michael Stich will be among several tennis stars who will participate in the “ATP Tour Smash Tennis” Friday and Saturday at the Santa Monica Pier parking lot. More than 1,500 local children will take part in the two-day event. . . . World champion David Chapman will compete in the Pro Three-wall Handball Challenge this weekend at the Venice Beach Recreation Center. Finals are scheduled for about 1:30 p.m. Sunday.

Names in the News

World Boxing Organization welterweight champion Eamonn Loughran threatened to pull out of his Aug. 5 title fight against South African Luvuyo Kakaza at Belfast unless the challenger has an AIDS test. Loughran said he was concerned about recent reports that 34 boxers in South Africa had tested positive for the AIDS virus. . . . The Phoenix Suns will hire former Golden State Warrior assistant coach Donn Nelson for a similar post today, the Arizona Republic reported. . . . British middle-distance runner Diane Modahl said she had won her appeal against a four-year doping ban. Modahl, 29, was banned last December after tests revealed she had 42 times the legal amount of testosterone in her urine samples taken at a meet at Lisbon on June 18, 1994. . . . Canadian javelin thrower Karen Wilkinson has been suspended from competition for four years after failing a drug test.