Stewart Grabs One-Shot Lead

Payne Stewart, making a late run at a berth on the Ryder Cup team, shot his second consecutive 65 Friday for a one-stroke lead over Woody Austin after two rounds of the Buick Open at Grand Blanc, Mich.

Thirty-nine golfers in the 156-player field were still on the course when darkness fell. They will finish today.

Austin, finishing his rain-delayed first round early Friday, tied the course record with a nine-under-par 63, which had been equaled by six others.

But it all became moot when Jim Furyk, taking advantage of lift, clean and place rules, birdied his final five holes for a record 62 in the second round, putting him in a group at 134.

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Buddy Allin, a Bronze Star winner during service in Vietnam, shot a seven-under-par 63 and took a two-shot lead over Jay Sigel in the Veterans of Foreign Wars Senior Championship on the PGA Senior Tour.

Allin had seven birdies and 11 pars on the rain-soaked Loch Lloyd course at Belton, Mo.

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Newcomer Catrin Nilsmark of Sweden and veteran Allison Finney shot five-under-par 67s to share the first-round lead of the rain-delayed LPGA McCall’s Classic at Stratton Mountain, Vt.

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Jesper Parnevik shot his second consecutive 67 to take a two-stroke lead at 134 at the halfway point of the Scandinavian Masters in Barseback, Sweden. British Open champion John Daly barely made the cut at 145.

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Defending champion Tiger Woods shot a six-under 65 to advance to match play in the 93rd Western Amateur at Benton Harbor, Mich. . . . Raymond Floyd and David Gilford have withdrawn from the PGA Championship that begins Thursday at Riviera Country Club.

Jurisprudence

Former Washington Redskin defensive lineman Dexter Manley, 37, pleaded guilty in Houston to two counts of cocaine possession and was sentenced to four years in prison.

Steffi Graf acknowledged from New York that she was being investigated in Germany on suspicion of evading income taxes.

Basketball

The NBA, which last month locked out its players, filed an unfair labor practice complaint in New York against 14 player agents, charging they improperly interfered in labor negotiations.

Executives of the New York Knicks and Miami Heat met with NBA Commissioner David Stern for nearly eight hours in New York, giving testimony on the Knicks’ accusations of tampering involving former coach Pat Riley.

Miscellany

The Anaheim Bullfrogs took a first-half lead and held on to win, 8-7, at San Jose in a Roller Hockey International game.

Goalie Curtis Joseph, who fell out of favor with St. Louis Blue Coach Mike Keenan after a lackluster playoff, was traded to Edmonton along with college forward Mike Grier for first-round draft picks in 1996 and 1997.

The University of Miami announced a stricter drug policy after reports that former All-American Warren Sapp had tested positive and was allowed to continue to play.

Nevada boxing regulators approved Nov. 4 dates for both the Evander Holyfield-Riddick Bowe fight and a Mike Tyson bout against an unnamed opponent.

Former World Boxing Council heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis will face Tommy Morrison on Oct. 7 in Atlantic City, N.J.

Baseball Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle received blood transfusions to help combat anemia brought on by the chemotherapy being used to fight his lung cancer.

Tomas Brolin put in a rebound in the 74th minute, giving UEFA Cup champion Parma a 2-1 victory over the United States in the Parmalat Cup at East Rutherford, N.J.