August 25, 1986 | Volume 65, Issue 8

Phil Gleaves sent Wise Times out to beat his mentor in the Travers

Nugget rookie Maurice Martin's wheels were a mile high and then some as pranksters in the Denver front office did a little skyscraping with his BMW. Martin (inset) was a good sport about it.

Richard Harding and Jefferson would have to love it. Bette, too. The Davis count in the big leagues stands at nine. And if you think that's a lot—Davis is only the seventh most common surname in...

It's three in the morning in a hotel room where one of our writers is tapping furiously at a portable computer. The story is almost finished. Suddenly—pffft!—it disappears from the computer screen...

The San Francisco challenge to rescue the America's Cup from Down Under is a high-tech trip

Said Aouita came close but couldn't break Henry Rono's 3,000-meter record

SHOWS OF SENTIMENT

Mike Dodd, a world championship beach volleyball player, was holding a clinic earlier this summer on the courts at Manhattan Beach, Calif. When he passed out 40 Redsand volleyballs, everything on...

To those who had merely scratched the surface of the Paul Richards legend, he had two main claims to fame: He devised the oversized catcher's mitt used to handle knuckleballers, and he managed the...

BASKETBALL—The U.S. women's team, led by Cheryl Miller's 24 points, defeated the Soviet Union 108-88 to win the women's world championship in Moscow. The U.S. team jumped to a 20-point lead after...

DAVID KERBYPOINT ARENA, CALIF.David, 13, led the Pirates to second place in the Northern California District Little League with a 9-1 season record. He struck out 153 batters in 55 innings, batted...

NOW PITCHING FOR THE FARMERS

•Mike Flanagan, on fellow Oriole pitcher Mike Boddicker's fastball, which was clocked at an unusually high 88 mph during a recent game in Toronto: "We forgot about the Canadian exchange rate, so...

Sir:I thoroughly enjoyed your feature on sports in Appleton, Wis. (, Aug. 11). I'm a transplanted Appletonian, and reading your series of articles about my hometown was almost as good as going...