Chemotherapy Treatment Puts Mantle in Hospital

Baseball great Mickey Mantle is back in the hospital after undergoing a debilitating chemotherapy treatment, one of his doctors said Monday night.

However, Mantle’s readmission to Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas on Friday does not suggest any worsening in his liver condition, Dr. Daniel DeMarco said.

Mantle, 63, underwent a liver transplant June 8 after being diagnosed with a malignant liver tumor.

Horse Racing

A predawn fire engulfed a barn at Ellis Park race track in Henderson, Ky., killing at least two dozen thoroughbreds. The cause of the fire was being investigated.

Stable hands ran through the blazing barn and released some horses so they could run to safety. One groom was slightly burned trying to free the horses.

The runner-up at the Kentucky Derby, Tejano Run, was in a barn away from the fire and was not hurt.

Richard Schnaars, the track’s vice president and general manager, put the number of dead at 24 to 26 horses, including two that were destroyed because of injuries.

Jurisprudence

Three current and former Idaho State football players were charged with statutory rape and ordered to appear in district court in Pocatello, Ida., for arraignment next week. District Judge Peter McDermott released the three on their own recognizance.

Ike Johnson, 22, and Thomas Washington, 21, both starters on the 1994 team, were charged with one count of statutory rape each, and Derrick Carter, 22, who quit the team after the ninth game last season, was charged with two counts. All three face maximum penalties of life in prison.

The alleged rapes, which occurred between February and April, involved 14-year-old girls.

NBA players Tyrone Hill and Brian Grant, who played at Xavier of Ohio, pleaded innocent in Cincinnati to charges related to a run-in with police officers. Hill, 27, of the Cleveland Cavaliers, was charged with resisting the arrest of another person and disorderly conduct, police said. Grant, 23, of the Sacramento Kings, was charged with resisting arrest.

University of Florida defensive end Johnie Church was charged with battery in Gainesville, Fla., after his wife complained that he “threw” her around their bedroom.

Former Bruce McNall associate Norman Morand was charged with one count of conspiracy and one count of bank fraud by federal prosecutors in Los Angeles. He is the seventh former employee of the one-time King owner to be charged in the on-going criminal investigation. He faces a maximum of 35 years in prison and a $1.25 million fine.

Basketball

Billy McKinney, who resigned as Detroit’s vice president of player operations in April, joined the Seattle SuperSonics as vice president of basketball operations.

McKinney, 40, has spent the last nine years as a coach, scout and administrator with Minnesota, Chicago and the Pistons.

The effort by some NBA stars to overturn the salary cap was put on hold when the National Labor Relations Board voted to seek a stay of a pending antitrust suit in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis. The group claims the salary cap and draft are illegal because the previous labor contract expired and the union no longer represents a majority of players.

Miscellany

The Anaheim Bullfrogs defeated the Los Angeles Blades, 10-6, in a Roller Hockey International game before an announced crowd of 10,619 at The Pond of Anaheim.

The Mighty Ducks bought out the contracts of defensemen Tom Kurvers and Myles O’Connor and right wing Jim Thomson, General Manager Jack Ferreira said. . . . The St. Louis Blues acquired 36-year-old defenseman Jay Wells from the New York Rangers for defenseman Doug Lidster, who came from the Rangers last year.

Mark McCumber beat Corey Pavin, 1 up, and Loren Roberts defeated Paul Azinger, 2 and 1, in the semifinals of the U.S. Regional of the World Championship of Golf at Kohler, Wis. . . . Danny Sullivan was in good condition after surgery to mend a broken pelvis sustained in Sunday’s Marlboro 500 at Brooklyn, Mich.