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BASEBALL—KOREA defeated the U.S. two games to none in Newark , Ohio to win the first World Friendship Series (page 42). BOATING—The 36-foot sloop Sweet Okole, skippered by DEAN TREADWAY, won the overall title in the Los Angeles -to- Honolulu Transpacific Race. The winner's corrected time was seven days, 21 hours, 44 minutes and 48 seconds for the 2,225-nautical-mile run. Elf Aquitaine, a 59-foot catamaran skippered by MARC PAJOT, set a west-to-east transatlantic record by sailing the 2,925 statute miles from Ambrose Light off Sandy Hook, N.J. to Lizard Point, England in nine days, 10 hours and six minutes. BOWLING—TED HANNAHS defeated Tommy Hudson 181-172 to win the $90,000 Waukegan (Ill.) Open. BOXING—MICHAEL SPINKS won the WBA light heavyweight title from Eddie Mustafa Muhammad with a 15-round unanimous decision in Las Vegas (page 18). Kim Hwan-jin scored a 13th-round knockout of Pedro Flores in Taegu, South Korea to win the WBA junior flyweight title. CANOEING—FRANCE won seven of nine gold medals at the Wild Water World Championships in Bala, Wales . MICHAEL HIPSHER and ELIZABETH JOHNS were the only U.S. victors, in the C-2 mixed event (page 14). CYCLING—France's BERNARD HINAULT won his third Tour de France by finishing first in five legs of the 24-stage, 2,325-mile race. His overall time was 96:19:38, which was 14:34 better than Lucien Van Impe of Belgium , the overall second-place finisher. GOLF—BILL ROGERS shot a 276, four under par, to win the British Open in Sandwich by four strokes over Bernhard Langer (page 22). Dave Barr survived an eight-hole playoff among five golfers to win the $200,000 Quad Cities Open in Coal Valley, Ill. The five all finished regulation play at 270, 10 under par. |
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