Pain Makes Mantle Want to Remain in Hospital

Baseball Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle has told doctors that he doesn’t want to leave Baylor University Medical Center until his pain and discomfort stop, a close friend said Monday.

“He said, ‘Look, I don’t want to go home and keep coming back’ to the hospital,” Roy True said. “He said, ‘I want to feel good just like before . . . Keep me here.’ ”

Mantle is fighting anemia caused by chemotherapy he was given for lung cancer. The cancer was discovered after Mantle underwent liver transplant surgery about two months ago.

Mantle received one blood transfusion Friday and a second on Sunday. He probably will receive more transfusions, said his gastroenterologist, Dr. Daniel DeMarco.

Hockey

Mighty Duck forward Todd Ewen was awarded a retroactive salary of $435,000 by arbitrator Claude Foisy. The award, which will be prorated because of the lockout-shortened NHL season, is $50,000 more than the $385,000 figure submitted by the Ducks and $90,000 less than the $525,000 Ewen requested. The Mighty Ducks can retain his rights by offering him at least a 10% raise for next season. Otherwise, he can become an unrestricted free agent.

Dirk Graham, captain of the Chicago Blackhawks the last 6 1/2 years, will retire and join the team as an assistant coach. Graham, 36, was drafted by Vancouver in 1979 and broke into the NHL with Minnesota in the 1983-84 season. In a 12-year career, Graham played in 772 games with 219 goals and 269 assists. His best season was 1988-89, when he had 33 goals and 45 assists.

The Detroit Red Wings pulled Mike Vernon’s two-year, $4-million contract offer off the table and are attempting to work out a new agreement with the 32-year-old goaltender, Vernon’s agent, Larry Kelly, said.

The Philadelphia Flyers signed left wing Shawn Antoski, 25, to a new undisclosed contract.

Tennis

M. Marshall Happer, executive director of the U.S. Tennis Association for more than five years, resigned.

Former champions Mats Wilander of Sweden and Guy Forget of France were first-round losers Monday in the $1.8-million ATP Championship in Mason, Ohio.

Jurisprudence

Nebraska running back Riley Washington faces a scheduled Aug. 31 preliminary court hearing on an attempted murder charge. Washington, a 22-year-old junior from Chula Vista, is charged with shooting Jermaine Cole, 22, outside a local convenience store last week. Cole has been released from the hospital. Washington was being held on $100,000 bond.

Derrick Carter, a former Idaho State football player, pleaded innocent to two charges of statutory rape. Two current players, who have been suspended from the team, asked for delays in their arraignments on single statutory rape charges.

Miscellany

Carol Semple Thompson, 46, of Sewickley, Pa., shot a course-record five-under-par 67 to take a four-stroke lead after the first round of stroke play in the 95th U.S. Women’s Amateur Championship at Brookline, Mass.

American mile record-holder Steve Scott, fully recovered from testicular cancer, will run in the 5,000-meter PruCare Eat and Run Road Race on Aug. 19 in Westwood, it was announced by Don Franken, race organizer.

Toney Penna, 87, whose innovative golf club designs earned him patents and praise throughout professional golf, died in Palm Beach, Fla. . . . U.S. District Judge Thomas McAvoy ruled the Internal Revenue Service wrongfully imposed a tax lien on Edith LiButti, owner of the racehorse, Devil His Due, in an attempt to collect back taxes from her father, Robert LiButti. McAvoy ordered the IRS to lift a levy it had placed on the horse Aug. 25, 1994, after the IRS contended he had an undisclosed financial interest in the 6-year-old, who has accumulated purses totaling nearly $4 million.

Final eliminations in the NHRA Northwest Nationals at Seattle International Raceway will resume today after rain halted racing for the second consecutive day.