American Danny Harris, who last month snapped Edwin Moses` 122-race winning streak, posted a narrow victory over American Nat Page in the 400-meter hurdles in the 21st Citta di Formia meet in Formia, Italy. Harris held off Page to win in 48.91 seconds. Page clocked a 49.02. Moses was not entered in the competition. Five other Americans won events: Sydney Maree in the 3,000 meters (7:43.13 seconds), Calvin Smith in the 100 meters (10.24), Michael Franks in the 400 meters (45.55), Hollis Conway in the high jump (7 feet 7 3/4 inches) and Robert Cannon in the triple jump (55-10 1/4).
Indianapolis Colts quarterback Jack Trudeau has agreed to admit he struck a policeman in a Feb. 13 altercation in Indianapolis rather than go to trial Monday on charges of disorderly conduct and battery on a police officer. Trudeau will admit that he struck Patrol Officer Ricky Lee Dean, will apologize to Dean, pay $55 and promise not to violate any laws for a year. In exchange, the charges will be dropped at the end of the term.
Colombia posted a 2-1 victory over 1986 World Cup champion Argentina and gained third place in the Americas Cup soccer tournament in Buenos Aires. Defending Americas Cup champion Uruguay meets Chile for the title Sunday.
Russell Hairston caught 12 passes for 247 yards and six touchdowns, and Brendan Folmar completed 22 of 42 passes for 318 yards and seven touchdowns to lead the Pittsburgh Gladiators (4-0) to a 49-32 Arena Football League victory over the Dynamite (2-2) in Denver.
Perry McDonald of Georgetown scored 18 points to lead the United States basketball team to an easy 98-57 victory over Belgium at the World University Games in Zagreb, Yugoslavia. The U.S. got off to a slow start and led by only two points with 6 1/2 minutes to play in the first half. But B.J. Armstrong`s basket sparked a 20-0 burst over the next five minutes that put the game away. . . . In other events, Romanian swimmer Noemi Lung and Soviet gymnast Yury Korolev became the first triple gold-medal winners at the Games. Korolev won the rings in the men`s individual apparatus finals with 19.70 points. Lung collected her third gold in the women`s 400-meter medley. After six days of competition, the Soviet Union held a commanding lead with nine gold medals to four for the Romanians and just three for the U.S. After three days of swimming competition, the American team continued its poor showing. In five finals on Saturday, the Americans collected just three silvers and two bronzes.
Brian Shorter, a 6-7 1/2 forward who was rated as one of the top 20 high school players in the nation, cannot play basketball as a freshman at the University of Pittsburgh because he failed to score 700 on the SAT for the fourth time.
Kansas basketball coach Larry Brown is denying the latest rumors that he is talking with the New York Knicks about becoming their coach. The reports came after Al Bianchi, a friend who coached Brown in the American Basketball Association, was hired as general manager of the Knicks. ”I also coached against him in that league and we`ve been good friends a long time,” Brown said. ”But he hasn`t even called me since he got the job. I haven`t talked with anybody on the Knicks. . . . Bianchi came in and said he was going to look at all the names on the earlier list of candidates. My name is on that list. I can`t help it if my name keeps coming up.”
Doctors are increasingly optimistic about the condition of injured hydroplane driver Steve Reynolds as he made attempts to speak Saturday. Reynolds, 40, suffered a fractured skull and other injuries when his hydroplane crashed on the Ohio River during last Sunday`s Madison Regatta. He remains in serious but stable condition and is still unconscious.
Bob Theoret was reported in stable condition after being thrown from his boat during qualifying for Sunday`s Spirit of Detroit Grand Prix hydroplane race. Theoret, 44, was conscious and in critical condition when taken to Detroit Receiving Hospital, where doctors said he had multiple puncture wounds of the left lung, a laceration of the tongue and a possible broken nose.
Cooter cruised to a fourth-place finish in the final race of the One Ton North American Championships on Lake Michigan and took home the championship trophy in the weeklong regatta. The Flowery Branch, Ga., entry needed only to finish in the top 14 of 19 boats competing to garner enough points to take first place. Cooter, skippered by sailmaker Mark Ploch, finished with 121 3/4 points in the seven-race series, easily besting Tuff Enuff-Texas Style (111 1/4 points) and Pendragon III (109). Spitfire, a Chicago entry, took first in the seventh and final race.
Avi Ran, Israel`s national soccer goalkeeper, was killed when a speedboat struck him while he was riding on a water bicycle in the Sea of Galilee.
Dr. Thomas Waddell, a member of the U.S. decathlon team in the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, died of complications related to AIDS. He was 49. Waddell is survived by his wife, Sara Lewinstein, and their 4-year-old daughter, Jessica. The brother of Brazilian race car driver Emerson Fittipaldi and another man were seriously injured when their Corvette sped out of control and smashed into a light pole in Los Angeles. Witnesses told police that the 1964 Corvette had been weaving in traffic at up to 65 miles an hour just before it went out of control. The driver, James Fittipaldi, 29, lost control on a curve and the car slid an estimated 70 feet into a light pole. Firefighters had to cut the two men from the wreckage. The passenger, John Duke, 34, was in critical condition at St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank with multiple trauma and head injuries, a hospital spokesman said. Fittipaldi suffered a fractured wrist, ankle, collarbone and possible broken ribs.
