Sampras Uses Big Serve to Overpower Becker

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

Sampras had 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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Natasha Zvereva upset third-seeded Arantxa Sanchez Vicario, and defending champion Gabriela Sabatini was aided by a disputed line call against Lindsay Davenport in the first round of the WTA Tour Championship in New York.

Zvereva defeated Sanchez Vicario, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4; Sabatini ousted Davenport, 6-4, 6-3; and Conchita Martinez recovered from a first-set wipeout to defeat Iva Majoli, 1-6, 7-5, 6-0, and advance to the quarterfinals.

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.

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.

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.

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.

For the first time, women will be allowed to officiate soccer matches at the Olympic Games this summer in Atlanta.

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.

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.

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. . . . Jockey Charles Woods Jr. was injured in a fall during the sixth race at Churchill Downs and was treated for four broken ribs on his right side, a broken jaw and severe cuts to his left hand. . . . Jockey Julie Krone rode her 3,000th career winner at Aqueduct.