Arkansas Wins Four Races in the Penn Relays

Arkansas dominated the 91st Penn Relays Saturday to become the fourth team ever to win four or more relay titles in a single year at the Philadelphia track and field meet.

The Razorbacks set a national collegiate and meet record of 14.50.2 in the 6,000 meters, a meet mark of 1:20.9 in the 800 and captured the 400. They won the distance medley on Friday.

Villanova holds the all-time record of five relay championships in one year, a feat the Wildcats have accomplished four times, the last in 1978.

Arkansas also had four individual victories--Matt Kobza in the discus and shotput, Bill Jasenski in the high jump and Mark Klee in the pole vault.

Willy T. Ribbs, just hours after becoming the first black driver to make a lap around the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, was withdrawn from the 1985 Indianapolis 500 entry list race.

George Bignotti, crew chief for Ribbs’ car, said the driver was disappointed, but he thought it was for the best because he was not familiar with his 1985 March-Cosworth or the speedway.

Ribbs, 29, of San Jose, drove around the track Saturday morning during the second day of a rookie orientation session.

Senior wide receiver Randy Grant of Illinois was declared ineligible by the NCAA because he appeared briefly in a junior-college practice game before being hurt.

The NCAA does not allow a redshirt year for injured junior-college players, so that season counted as one of the four allowed a player, even though Grant sat out the rest of the season at Chabot College in Hayward, Calif.

Cincinnati Bengals’ defensive end Glen Collins has filed a $1-million damage claim against Orleans Parish Civil Sheriff Paul Valteau and a deputy who served a lawsuit on him in a locker room at the Superdome in New Orleans.

Collins claims that the “loud and obnoxious” suit service caused a fight between Bengal Coach Sam Wyche and Deputy Charles Kertz--and made Wyche think that Collins “may be unstable and unfit to play professional football.”

Chile has been fined $5,770 for spectator violence and “poor stadium organization” at a March 24 World Cup qualifying game against Uruguay at Santiago, one of four fines announced by the International Soccer Federation (FIFA) at Zurich, Switzerland.

Also fined, all for $3,850, were Uruguay, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

Viacheslav Bykov scored two goals early in the second period and led the Soviet Union to a 5-1 victory over Czechoslovakia and a seventh straight victory in the World Ice Hockey Championships at Prague, Czechoslovakia.

In another game, Kevin Dineen scored twice as Team Canada turned back Sweden, 6-3. The Canadiens play Czechoslovakia and the Soviets face the United States in the medal round Monday.

South Korean champion Chang Jung Koo won a 12-round decision from Mexican challenger German Torres at Seoul, South Korea, and retained his World Boxing Council light-flyweight title.

The favored Korean encountered strong opposition in his second bout against Torres for the sixth defense of the title he won in March, 1983.

Names in the News

Frenchman Dominique Litaudon, 31, was killed when he lost control of his Kawasaki and crashed in the Le Mans 24-hour motorcycle race.

Ned Yost, a free-agent catcher formerly with Texas Rangers and Milwaukee Bresers, was signed to a minor league contract by the Montreal Expos.

Former Dodger catcher Dave Sax was sent to Pawtucket of the International League by the Boston Red Sox to make room for right-handed pitcher Mike Brown, who was recalled from Pawtucket.