Wiebe, Weibring Hit 67, Share Lead

Mark Wiebe, who is allergic to grass and trees, and D.A. Weibring each shot a 67, four under par, and shared a one-stoke lead at 136 through two rounds of the Kemper Open golf tournament at Potomac, Md., Friday.

Tom Lehman, Greg Norman, Omar Uresti and John Morse are in second place at 137.

After recently suffering from allergy symptoms, Wiebe went to a doctor who discovered the culprits: oak, elm and cottonwood trees, certain types of food, and Bermuda grass.

“[My doctor] thought it was pretty funny,” said Wiebe, who at 39 added that it was “too late to change occupations.”

Wiebe, who hasn’t won on the tour in 11 years, now gets weekly allergy shots. He said the medicine sometimes gives him a kind of nervous buzz when he’s putting and has missed the cut in four of his last six tournaments.

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Walter Morgan shot an eight-under-par 64 and took a three-stroke lead after the first round of the BellSouth Senior Classic at Nashville, Tenn.

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Kelly Robbins shot a 64, eight under, for a two-round total of 135 and a two-stroke lead in the LPGA Oldsmobile Classic at East Lansing, Mich.

Leta Lindley, who shot a 69, and Laura Baugh, who had a 67, are second. Baugh, 42, is playing while seven months pregnant with her seventh child.

Auto Racing

Bobby Hamilton, driving a Pontiac for car owner Richard Petty, earned the pole position for Sunday’s Pocono 500 Winston Cup stock car race at Long Pond, Pa., turning a lap at 168.089 mph on the the 2 1/2-mile course.

Second-fastest was the Ford of Dale Jarrett, who qualified at 168.026.

After crashing his primary car in practice, Scott Pruett qualified his backup Reynard-Cosworth at a record speed and won the provisional pole for Sunday’s Detroit Grand Prix Indy car race on Belle Isle. Pruett beat the qualifying record on the 2.1-mile, 14-turn temporary course with a lap at 108.664.

Another round of qualifying is scheduled today.

Tony Stewart, who drove his G Force-Aurora over 216 mph in both of his qualifying laps, will start on the pole tonight in the True Value 500k IRL race to the new Texas Motor Speedway at Fort Worth. The night race, a first for Indy cars on a superspeedway, is expected to draw more than 100,000 spectators.

Pro Football

New England signed second-round draft choice Brandon Mitchell and re-signed restricted free agent linebacker Marty Moore. . . . John Henry Mills, a free agent running back and linebacker with the Houston Oilers, signed with the Oakland Raiders. . . . Free agent safety Derrick Hoskins signed with the Green Bay Packers.

Names in the News

New York Knick guard John Starks, who runs a youth-oriented foundation in Tulsa, Okla., was chosen as male recipient of the 1997 Henry P. Iba Citizen-Athlete Award.

Donovan Bailey of Canada will race Linford Christie of England and six other runners in a 150-meter race with an $81,500 winner-take-all purse on June 29 at Sheffield, England.

Pat Harris, who played guard for Mike Krzyzewski at Army, was hired to coach the men’s basketball team at the service academy.

Heavyweights Gerrie Coetzee and Iran Barkley will fight Sunday night on a card at the Hollywood Palladium. Also on the card are former welterweight champion Carlos Palomino, who will fight Rene Arredondo in a middleweight bout.

Jurisprudence

Green Bay officials will drop battery charges against San Francisco 49er owner Edward DeBartolo Jr. if the NFL pays a $2,500 fine and publicly reprimands him for allegedly punching a Green Bay fan in a scuffle outside Lambeau Field after the Packers had beaten the 49ers last January in a playoff game.

Oliver McCall has agreed to pay a $250,000 fine and to serve a one-year suspension for refusing to fight during WBC heavyweight title bout with Lennox Lewis on Feb. 8.