Sampras Uses Big Serve to Overpower Becker

Defending champion Pete Sampras easily defeated Boris Becker, 6-2, 7-6 (7-3), in the second round of the ATP Championships Wednesday at Frankfurt, Germany.

Sampras served powerfully, with 12 aces to six for Becker. The American, now 2-0 in the round-robin portion of the $3.3-million event for the top eight players in the world, hit 11 serves at more than 120 m.p.h. and never faced a break point.

Becker dropped to 1-1 in the White Group, in which Wayne Ferreira defeated Yevgeny Kafelnikov, 3-6, 7-6, 6-1. Thomas Enqvist upset Jim Courier 6-3, 6-2 in the Red Group, in the first match for both.

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Conchita Martinez recovered from a first-set wipeout to defeat Iva Majoli, 1-6, 7-5, 6-0, and advance to the quarterfinals of the WTA Tour Championships at New York.

Majoli was one point away from serving for the match before Martinez reverted to the form that has produced six tournament victories this year and a No. 2 ranking.

Martinez, seeded second, will next face against Brenda Schultz-McCarthy of the Netherlands in this season-ending event at Madison Square Garden.

Baseball

Randy Levine, the owners’ new labor negotiator, presented officials of the players’ union with a bargaining proposal for the first time since March during a two-hour meeting in New York. The meeting was described as cordial, but neither side would discuss specifics of a proposal that sources said is tied to a fluctuating payroll tax based, in part, on team revenue. The union said it would begin a review of the proposal and likely hold technical sessions with Levine and his staff next week.

Jurisprudence

The jury deciding whether boxing promoter Don King committed insurance fraud reheard testimony in which accountant Joseph Maffia accused his former boss of directing him to make up a business expense. Maffia’s testimony bolstered the prosecution’s argument that King instructed others to tell Lloyd’s of London he had paid $350,000 in training expenses to Julio Cesar Chavez for a 1991 bout that was canceled.

Albert Belle of the Cleveland Indians has been charged with a misdemeanor as a result of a dispute with five teen-agers who allegedly threw eggs at his house on Halloween. Richmond Heights police Chief Gene Rowe said the Indian outfielder was charged with reckless operation of a vehicle for allegedly chasing the teen-agers onto private property with a car. Rowe said Belle was served with a citation Monday night.

Soccer

The Netherlands scored a 3-0 victory over Norway in the final night of qualifying for next summer’s European Championship, advancing to a playoff against Ireland for the final berth. Norway slipped from first to third with the loss at Oslo. With the Czech Republic defeating Luxembourg, 3-0, to finish first in Group Five, the Dutch wound up even with the Norwegians and gained second place because of better results head-to-head.

For the first time, women will be allowed to officiate soccer matches at the Olympic Games this summer in Atlanta. The decision was announced on the third day of a FIFA symposium in Prague by deputy general secretary Michel Zen-Ruffinen. Zen-Ruffinen added that if all goes well, women could also be officiating matches at the 1998 World Cup in France.

Miscellany

The Shreveport Pirates plan to move to Norfolk, Va., for the next Canadian Football League season. The team will play its games at Old Dominion University’s Foreman Field, a 24,000-seat stadium built in 1929. The move was initially challenged by Baltimore owner Jim Speros, who said he owned the rights to the area. However, CFL officials researched the franchise agreement and determined Speros did not have territorial rights.

Black students at Holy Cross are boycotting athletic and other extracurricular activities after the college’s student government association voted to change the Black Student Union’s charter. The Student Government Assn. voted 31-21 to eliminate a clause in the black student group’s charter that limited its executive board to people of African descent. The college’s 23 black varsity athletes stayed away from practice Tuesday, after a call from the Black Student Union.

Names in the News

A memorial service for Glenn McCormick, an Olympic diving coach and International Swimming Hall of Fame member, will take place Sunday at 2 p.m. at Grace Church in Cypress. McCormick, of Huntington Beach, died Oct. 21. He was 69. Charles Woods Jr. was injured in a fall during the sixth race at Churchill Downs. He was treated for four broken ribs on his right side, a broken jaw and severe cuts to his left hand.