He had another birdie on the 17th , where he his a 6-iron to six feet .


Mayfair bogeyed the 17th , missing a five foot par putt , and dropped from solo second place to a three way tie for second .


It was the second successive year in which Mayfair has finished runner up in this tournament .


He lost to Greg Norman in sudden death last year .


The defending champion was in contention , two behind Mickelson for much of the day , until he bogeyed the 13th and 14th holes .


GOLF - SCORES AT THE WORLD SERIES OF GOLF .


round of the $ 2.1 million NEC World Series of Golf at


Firestone C.C , 7149 yards , par 70 ( players U.S. unless noted ) :


292 Wayne Westner ( South Africa ) 77 68 73 74 , Sven Struver (


Cup tennis tournament on Sunday ( prefix number denotes


5 - Andrei Medvedev ( Ukraine ) beat Martin Damm ( Czech


Luke Jensen and Murphy Jensen ( U.S. ) beat Alexander Volkov


( Russia ) and Handrik Dreekmann ( Germany ) 6-3 7-6 ( 7-5 )


$ 450,000 Toshiba Classic tennis tournament on Sunday ( prefix


4 - Kimiko Date ( Japan ) beat 1 - Arantxa Sanchez Vicario ( Spain )


RALLYING - LEADING POSITIONS IN 1,000 LAKES RALLY .


Sunday after 23 special stages in the 1,000 Lakes Rally , sixth


1. Tommi Makinen ( Finland ) Mitsubishi Lancer three hours


2. Juha Kankkunen ( Finland ) Toyota Celica 12 seconds


3. Marcus Gronholm ( Finland ) Toyota Celica 2:09


4. Jarmo Kytolehto ( Finland ) Ford Escort 2:23


5. Kenneth Eriksson ( Sweden ) Subaru Impreza 2:39


6. Carlos Sainz ( Spain ) Ford Escort 3:03


MOTOCROSS - SWEDISH 500CC GRAND PRIX RESULTS .


Swedish 500cc motocross Grand Prix on Sunday :


3. Gert Jan Van Doorn ( Netherlands ) Honda


World championship standings ( after 11 of 12 rounds ) :


5. Darryll King ( New Zealand ) Honda 178


MOTOCROSS - GERMAN 125CC GRAND PRIX RESULTS .


the German 125cc motocross Grand Prix on Sunday :


1. Sebastien Tortelli ( France ) Kawasaki


5. Collin Dugmore ( South Africa ) Honda


5. Michele Fanton ( Italy ) Kawasaki 160


MOTOR RACING - LEADING PLACINGS IN POKKA 1,000 KM RACE .


Sunday 's Pokka 1,000 km motor race , seventh round of the


International Endurance GT championship :


1. Ray Belim ( Britain ) / James Weaver ( Britain ) / J.J.Lehto


( Finland ) Gulf McLaren FI GTR 171 laps - 6 hours 18 minutes


48.637 seconds ( average speed 158.82 kph )


2. Anders Olofsson ( Sweden ) / Luciano della Noce ( Italy ) Ennea


3. Andy Ballace ( Britain ) / Olivier Grouillard ( France ) Harrods


4. Thomas Bscher ( Germany ) / Peter Kox ( Netherlands ) West McLaren


5. Fabien Giroix ( France ) / Jean-Denis Deletraz ( Switzerland )


6. Lindsay Owen-Jones ( Britain ) / Pierre-Henri Raphanel


( France ) / David Brabham ( Australia ) Gulf McLaren F !


7. Jean-Marc Gounon ( France ) / Eric Bernard ( France ) / Paul


Belmondo ( France ) Ennea Ferrari F40 167


8. Bruno Eichmann ( Germany ) / Gerd Ruch ( Germany ) / Ralf Kelleners


9. Stephane Ortelli ( France ) / Bob Wollek ( France ) / Franz Konrad


10. Cor Euser ( Netherlands ) / H. Wada ( Japan ) / N. Furuya ( Japan ) GT2


Fastest lap : Gounon , 2 minutes 03.684 seconds ( 170.680 kph )


Championship standings after seven rounds :


ATHLETICS - LEADING RESULTS AT SHEFFIELD INTERNATIONAL MEETING .


1. Sarka Kasparkova ( Czech Republic ) 14.84 metres


1. Deon Hemmings ( Jamaica ) 55.13 seconds


1. Charmaine Crooks ( Canada ) two minutes 00.42 seconds


3. Margaret Crowley ( Australia ) 2:02.40


MOTOR RACING - BELGIAN GRAND PRIX RESULT .


Sunday 's Belgian Grand Prix motor race :


1. Michael Schumacher ( Germany ) Ferrari 1 hour 28 minutes


15.125 seconds ( average speed 208.442 kph )


2. Jacques Villeneuve ( Canada ) Williams 5.602 seconds


3. Mika Hakkinen ( Finland ) McLaren 15.710


4. Jean Alesi ( France ) Benetton 19.125


5. Damon Hill ( Britain ) Williams 29.179


6. Gerhard Berger ( Austria ) Benetton 29.896


7. Mika Salo ( Finland ) Tyrrell 1:00.754


8. Ukyo Katayama ( Japan ) Tyrrell 1:40.227


9. Ricardo Rosset ( Brazil ) Arrows one lap


10. Pedro Lamy ( Portugal ) Minardi one lap


11. David Coulthard ( Britain ) McLaren 37 laps completed


12. Martin Brundle ( Britain ) Jordan 34


14. Rubens Barrichello ( Brazil ) Jordan 29


16. Jos Verstappen ( Netherland ) Arrows 11


Did not start ( failed to complete one lap ) :


Heinz-Harald Frentzen ( Germany ) Sauber


Fastest lap : Berger 1:53.067 ( 221.857 kph )


MOTOR RACING - SCHUMACHER WINS BELGIAN GRAND PRIX .


Germany , driving a Ferrari , won the Belgian Grand Prix motor


Canada 's Jacques Villeneuve finished second in his Williams


and Mika Hakkinen of Finland was third in a McLaren .


Frenchman Jean Alesi came fourth in his Benetton with


Britain 's Damon Hill fifth in a Williams and Gerhard Berger of


World drivers ' championship standings ( after 13 rounds ) :


RALLYING - LEADING POSITIONS IN 1,000 LAKES RALLY .


after six of Sunday 's 12 special stages in the 1,000 Lakes


Rally , sixth round of the world championship :


1. Juha Kankkunen ( Finland ) Toyota Celica 2 hours 30 minutes


3. Tommi Makinen ( Finland ) Mitsubishi Lancer 8 seconds


2. Marcus Gronholm ( Finland ) Toyota Celica 1:46


4. Jarmo Kytolehto ( Finland ) Ford Escort 1:56


5. Kenneth Eriksson ( Sweden ) Subaru Impreza 2:05


6. Thomas Radstrom ( Sweden ) Toyota Celica 2:23


MOTORCYCLING - WORLD SUPERBIKE CHAMPIONSHIP RESULTS .


nine of the superbike world championship on Sunday :


1. Yuuchi Takeda ( Japan ) Honda 38 minutes 30.054 seconds


2. Noriyuki Haga ( Japan ) Yamaha 38:30.140


3. Wataru Yoshikawa ( Japan ) Yamaha 38:32.353


4. Troy Corser ( Australia ) Ducati 38:34.436


6. Aaron Slight ( New Zealand ) Honda 38:41.756


7. Norihiko Fujiwara ( Japan ) Yamaha 38:43.253


8. Carl Fogarty ( Britain ) Honda 38:49.595


9. Akira Ryo ( Japan ) Kawasaki 38:50.269


10. Shiya Takeishi ( Japan ) Kawasaki 38:52.271


1. Takuma Aoki ( Japan ) Honda 38:18.759


World championship standings ( after nine rounds ) :


6. Pier Francesco Chili ( Italy ) Ducati 175


7. Simon Crafar ( New Zealand ) Kawasaki 132


8. Anthony Gobert ( Australia ) Kawasaki 117


Revised placings for second race after the disqualification


of Japanese rider Noriyuki Haga for using an illegal carburettor


10. Keiichi Kitigawa ( Japan ) Suzuki 38:42.333


Revised world championship standings ( after nine rounds ) :


7. Simon Crafar ( New Zealand ) Kawasaki 133


MOTORCYCLING - JAPANESE WIN BOTH ROUND NINE SUPERBIKE RACES .


Teenager Yuuichi Takeda , racing in only his first season , outclassed the big names to win the first race in round nine of the world superbike championship on Sunday .


Takeda , 18 , showed poise far beyond his years to overtake Australian Ducati rider Troy Corser , last year 's championship runner-up , with four of the 25 laps left .


Honda 's Takeda was pursued past Corser by the Yamaha duo of Noriyuki Haga and Wataru Yoshikawa with Haga briefly taking the lead in the final chicane on the last lap .


But Takeda found one more spurt of power to just take the flag first with Haga second and Yoshikawa third .


Haga had the consolation of recording the fastest lap at 147.159 kph .


Corser , who crashed during practice on Friday , limped in fourth , four seconds behind Takeda with championship leader Aaron Slight of New Zealand 11 seconds behind the winner .


In the second race , Takeda again challenged strongly until the fifth lap from the end when he crashed while running second to eventual race winner Takuma Aoki .


Aoki , the elder brother of reigning 125cc world champion Haruchika , had a race-long duel with John Kocinski of the United States on a Ducati before taking the chequered flag .


Kocinski led for the early laps before he was passed first by Aoki , who recorded the fastest lap of 147.786 kph , and then by Takeda .


With Takeda out of the race , Kocinski regained second place but he could not overtake Aoki .


Haga again was the unlucky rider finishing third ahead of Slight with Corser in 10th place .


But the strong showing by the Japanese riders did not alter the championship table with Slight still leading on 280 points , followed by Corser with 269 and Kocinski with 254 .


RUGBY LEAGUE - EUROPEAN SUPER LEAGUE RESULTS / STANDINGS .


CRICKET - POLLOCK CONCLUDES WARWICKSHIRE CAREER WITH FLOURISH .


South African fast bowler Shaun Pollock concluded his Warwickshire career with a flourish on Sunday by taking the final three wickets during the county 's Sunday league victory over Worcestershire .


Pollock , who returns home on Tuesday for an ankle operation , took the last three wickets in nine balls as Worcestershire were dismissed for 154 .


After an hour 's interruption for rain , Warwickshire then reached an adjusted target of 109 with 13 balls to spare and record their fifth win in the last six games .


Warwickshire are currently in fourth position behind Yorkshire , Nottinghamshire and Surrey .


Yorkshire captain David Byas completed his third Sunday league century as his side swept clear at the top of the table , reaching a career best 111 not out against Lancashire .


Lancashire 's total of 205 for eight from 40 overs looked reasonable before Byas put their attack to the sword , collecting his runs from just 100 balls with three sixes and nine fours .


Yorkshire eventually reached their target with only four wickets down and 7.5 overs to spare .


SOCCER - HINCHCLIFFE CALLED INTO ENGLAND SQUAD .


England manager Glenn Hoddle called up uncapped Everton defender Andy Hinchcliffe on Sunday to the national squad for the opening World Cup qualifier against Moldova next weekend .


Left-back Hinchcliffe , 27 , replaces Tottenham 's Darren Anderton who has a recurring groin problem .


CRICKET - ENGLAND 326 AND 74-0 ; PAKISTAN 521-8 DECLARED .


their second innings at the close of the fourth day of the third


Scores : England 326 and 74-0 ; Pakistan 521-8 declared .


SOCCER - ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE SUMMARY .


Manchester United 2 ( Cruyff 39th minute , Solskjaer 70th )


Blackburn 2 ( Warhurst 34th , Bohinen 51st ) .


SOCCER - ENGLISH LEAGUE RESULTS / STANDINGS .


Standings ( ( tabulated under played , won , drawn , lost , goals


CRICKET - ENGLAND V PAKISTAN FINAL TEST SCOREBOARD .


the third and final test between England and Pakistan at The


England first innings 326 ( J. Crawley 106 , G. Thorpe 54 ; Waqar


Pakistan first innings ( overnight 339-4 )


Total ( for eight wickets , declared ) 521


Bowling : Lewis 23-3-112-0 , Mullally 37.1-7-97-3 , Croft


Bowling ( to date ) : Wasim Akram 7-0-35-0 , Waqar Younis


CRICKET - PAKISTAN DECLARE FIRST INNINGS AT 521-8 .


innings at 521-8 on the fourth day of the third and final test


SOCCER - SCOTTISH PREMIER DIVISION RESULT / STANDINGS .


Standings ( tabulated under played , won , drawn , lost , goals


CRICKET - PAKISTAN 473-6 AT TEA ON FOURTH DAY THIRD TEST .


Pakistan were 473-6 at tea on the fourth day of the third and final test at The Oval on Sunday in reply to England 's 326 .


CRICKET - RUN-OUT GIVES LEWIS AND ENGLAND SLIM SATISFACTION .


Chris Lewis did his best to forget his controversial omission from the England one-day squad on Sunday but could not prevent Pakistan reasserting their dominance in the final test at The Oval .


A super piece of fielding by Lewis , dropped as a disciplinary measure after arriving only 35 minutes before the start on the fourth morning , provided the only bright spot for England as the touring team batted on to reach 413 for five at the interval , a lead of 87 .


The solitary wicket to fall was Asif Mujtaba , run out for 13 attempting a second run to third man where Lewis was lurking with a point to prove .


There seemed scant danger until the Surrey player swooped on to the ball and returned off balance to county team mate Alec Stewart who whipped off the bails .


Lewis , though , could not make similar waves with the ball as Salim Malik and Wasim Akram batted through the rest of the session with few alarms .


Wasim rattled along to 30 not out , outscoring his partner who was unbeaten on 24 at the break , although the weather was again threatening to play the dominant role .


Rain arrived just as the players left the field for lunch , forcing the ground-staff into action yet again .


The weather delayed the resumption for over an hour , the umpires finally announcing play would start again at 1445 local time ( 1345 GMT ) .


CRICKET - ENGLAND NAME SQUAD FOR ONE-DAY INTERNATIONALS .


The England cricket squad was announced on Sunday for the one-day international series against Pakistan starting on Thursday .


Squad : Michael Atherton ( captain ) , Alec Stewart , Graham Thorpe , Nick Knight , Graham Lloyd , Matthew Maynard , Ronnie Irani , Adam Hollioake , Robert Croft , Darren Gough , Peter Martin , Dean Headley , Alan Mullally .


tennis tournament on Sunday ( prefix number denotes seeding ) :


3 - Wayne Ferreira ( South Africa ) beat Todd Woodbridge


tennis tournament on Saturday ( prefix numbers denotes


3 - Wayne Ferreira ( South Africa ) beat 7 - Todd Martin ( U.S. )


Todd Woodbridge ( Australia ) beat 4 - Marcelo Rios ( Chile ) 6-0


SOCCER - TOGO BEAT CONGO 1-0 IN AFRICA NATIONS CUP QUALIFIER .


in their African Nations Cup preliminary round , second leg


SOCCER - ETHIOPIA BEAT UGANDA ON PENALTIES IN AFRICAN NATIONS CUP .


( halftime 1-0 ) in their African Nations Cup preliminary round ,


SOCCER - LEADING GOALSCORERS IN POLISH FIRST DIVISION .


first division after the weekend 's matches :


5 - Slawomir Wojciechowski ( GKS Katowice )


4 - Jacek Dembinski ( Widzew Lodz ) , Marcin Mieciel


( Legia Warsaw ) , Ryszard Wieczorek ( Odra Wodzislaw )


3 - Jacek Berensztain ( GKS Belchatow ) , Marek Citko ( Widzew ) ,


Adam Fedoruk , Dariusz Jackiewicz ( both Amica Wronki ) ,


Bartlomiej Jamroz ( Hutnik Krakow ) , Tomasz Moskal


( Slask Wroclaw ) , Krzysztof Piskula ( Lech Poznan ) , Mariusz


Srutwa ( Ruch Chorzow ) , Emmanuel Tetteh ( Polonia Warszawa ) ,


SOCCER - ROMANIAN FIRST DIVISION RESULTS / STANDINGS .


soccer matches played over the weekend :


Sportul Studentesc 4 Universitatea Craiova 2


Standings ( tabulate under played , won , drawn , lost , goals


SOCCER - POLISH FIRST DIVISION RESULTS / STANDINGS .


SOCCER - RUSSIAN PREMIER DIVISION RESULTS / STANDINGS .


Alaniya Vladikavkaz 3 Zhemchuzhina Sochi 1


Baltika Kaliningrad 2 Zenit St Petersburg 0


Chernomorets Novorossiisk 2 Rostselmash Rostov 1


CSKA Moscow 4 Kamaz Naberezhnye Chelny 2


Tekstilshik Kamyshin 2 Krylya Sovetov Samara 1


Lokomotiv Nizhny Novgorod 2 Uralmash Yekaterinburg 2


Standings ( tabulate under games played , won , drawn , lost ,


Note - if more than one team has the same number of points ,


precedence is given to the one with most wins .


team has the same number of wins and points , precedence goes to


the side with the most successful record against the others ) .


AUSTRALIAN RULES-AFL RESULTS AND STANDINGS .


Standings ( tabulate under played , won , drawn , lost , points


for , against , percentage , total points ) :


RUGBY LEAGUE - AUSTRALIAN RUGBY LEAGUE RESULTS / STANDINGS .


Results of Australian rugby league matches played at the weekend .


Premiership standings ( tabulate under played , won , drawn ,


lost , points for , against , total points ) :


Malaysian Open badminton tournament on Sunday ( prefix numbers


2 - Ong Ewe Hock ( Malaysia ) beat Indra Wijaya ( Indonesia ) 1-15


2 - Zhang Ning ( China ) beat 1 - Wang Chen ( China ) 11-7 11-8


3/4 - Marlene Thomsen / Lisbet Stuer-Lauridsen ( Denmark ) beat


1 - Yap Kim Hock / Cheah Soon Kit ( Malaysia ) beat Lee Wan Wah / Chong


BASEBALL - RESULTS OF S. KOREAN PRO-BASEBALL GAMES .


Standings after games played on Saturday ( won , drawn , lost ,


winning percentage , games behind first place )


BASEBALL - MAJOR LEAGUE RESULTS SUNDAY .


Baseball games played on Sunday ( home team in CAPS ) :


BASEBALL - MAJOR LEAGUE STANDINGS AFTER SATURDAY 'S GAMES .


standings after games played on Saturday ( tabulate under won ,


lost , winning percentage and games behind ) :


Rafael Palmeiro 's two-out single in the sixth inning scored Roberto Alomar with the go-ahead run as the Baltimore Orioles rallied past the California Angels 5-4 and took over the American League 's wild-card berth on Saturday .


The Orioles trailed 4-3 when pinch-hitter Mike Devereaux led off the sixth with a triple against reliever Kyle Abbott ( 0-1 ) and scored the tying run on Alomar 's single .


After Brady Anderson sacrificed , Palmeiro hit the first pitch into right field for a single , scoring Alomar .


In Boston , former Mariner Darren Bragg 's first career grand slam in the sixth inning off reliever Randy Johnson lifted the Boston Red Sox to their fifth win in six games , a 9-5 victory over Seattle .


" Just one of those things , I was just trying to make contact , " said Bragg . "


The bases were loaded and I had two strikes .


I was just trying to put the ball in play .


I got the good part of the bat on it and it carried out . "


In Cleveland , Kevin Seitzer 's two-out single in the top of the 10th brought home David Hulse with the winning run as the Milwaukee Brewers sent the Cleveland Indians to their third straight extra-inning defeat 4-3 .


Bob Wickman ( 5-1 ) , acquired from the New York Yankees on Friday , earned the win in his Milwaukee debut despite allowing the tying run in the eighth inning .


At Minnesota , Marty Cordova and Matt Lawton hit solo homers and Frankie Rodriguez allowed six hits over seven innings to earn his first win as a starter in a month as the Minnesota Twins held on to beat the Texas Rangers 6-5 .


" Yeah , you know it 's fun , it 's always fun when you 've got a chance to go to the ballpark and win a game that 's important , " said Rodriguez . "


Every game should be important , but it 's a little more important now . "


In New York , Wally Whitehurst allowed two runs over seven innings for his first win in more than two years and Paul O'Neill 's three-run double snapped a sixth-inning tie as the New York Yankees held on for a 5-4 victory over the Oakland Athletics .


Whitehurst , promoted from Triple-A Columbus on Wednesday , allowed seven hits and struck out one without a walk .


It was his first win since defeating the St. Louis Cardinals on May 28th , 1994 when he was with the San Diego Padres .


In Kansas City , Jose Rosado came within one out of his third complete game and Michael Tucker homered and drove in three runs as the Kansas City Royals broke a six-game losing streak with a 9-2 victory over the Detroit Tigers in a battle of cellar-dwellers .


Rosado ( 5-3 ) allowed two runs -- one earned -- and seven hits over 8-2/3 innings with three walks and six strikeouts .


In his last four starts , the 21-year-old left-hander has given up only four earned runs in 29-2/3 innings .


Fred McGriff went 5-for-5 and homered twice , including a three-run blast with two out in the bottom of the ninth inning that lifted the Atlanta Braves to a 6-5 victory over the Chicago Cubs on Saturday .


" I was just trying to hang in there and hit it up the middle , " said McGriff about his homer in the ninth . "


I was just looking for the ball , trying to stay on it .


Brad Clontz ( 6-2 ) picked up the win in relief for Atlanta , which has won 11 of its last 13 games .


In Colorado , Mark Thompson threw an eight-hitter for his third complete game and Ellis Burks homered and drove in three runs as the Colorado Rockies beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 9-3 .


Vinny Castilla and Dante Bichette each added two RBI for Colorado , which improved the major league 's best home mark to 44-20 .


At Florida , Kevin Brown scattered seven hits over eight innings and Kurt Abbott snapped a sixth-inning tie with a two-run double as the Florida Marlins defeated the tired Cincinnati Reds 5-3 .


The Marlins won for just the third time in nine games , taking advantage of a Reds ' team that has not had a day off since August 8th and was playing its fourth game in 43 hours .


In Los Angeles , Tom Candiotti allowed two runs in seven innings and singled home the go-ahead run and Mike Piazza and Todd Hollandsworth drove in two runs apiece as the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the New York Mets 7-5 .


Candiotti ( 8-9 ) walked one , allowed five hits and struck out a season-high eight batters for Los Angeles , which has won 10 of its last 14 games .


In San Diego , Joey Hamilton allowed two hits over seven innings and Rickey Henderson hit his major league-record 69th leadoff homer as the San Diego Padres defeated the Philadelphia Phillies 7-1 for their fifth win in six games .


Hamilton ( 12-7 ) won his second straight start , allowing just a sixth-inning run and a pair of singles .


In San Francisco , Pedro Martinez allowed two hits in eight innings and David Segui drove in two runs as the Montreal Expos shut out the San Francisco Giants 3-0 for their third straight win .


Martinez ( 11-7 ) , who lasted just 1-1/3 innings in his last start against San Diego five days ago , pitched eight-plus innings , walking four and striking out 10 .


In Houston , Orlando Miller 's two-run homer with one out in the bottom of the ninth off Todd Stottlemyre gave the Houston Astros a 3-1 win over the St. Louis Cardinals and left the teams in a virtual tie for the lead in the NL Central division .


Shane Reynolds ( 16-6 ) fired a five-hitter , walking one and striking out six .


BASEBALL - MAJOR LEAGUE RESULTS SATURDAY .


Baseball games played on Saturday ( home team in CAPS ) :


SOCCER - CHAMPIONS PORTO KICK OFF SEASON WITH A DRAW .


Portuguese champions Porto kicked off the season with a disappointing 2-2 home draw against Setubal and were lucky to squeeze in an equaliser in extra time .


Porto , who are fighting to take their third consecutive title this season , were 2-0 down until the 86th minute when a header by Mario Jardel found the net after a string of missed opportunities , including a penalty taken by top league scorer Domingos Oliveira in the 60th minute .


Domingos redeemed himself by netting the equaliser just into extra time .


Setubal , who put on a skilful counter-attack throughout the game , opened the scoring 16 minutes into the match when an unmarked Chiquinho Conde shot around Porto 's new Polish keeper Andrejez Wozniak .


Conde scored his second in the 70th minute .


Benfica , also playing their first game of the season at home , were held to a 1-1 draw by northern side Braga despite the fact that the visitors were reduced to 10 men in the 54th minute after Rodrigo Carneiro was sent off for a second bookable offence .


Benfica dominated the game but their lack of a first-class striker was apparent throughout and in the 30th minute they lost key Brazilian midfielder Valdo who suffered a light knee injury .


Benfica finally opened the scoring in the 81st minute with a penalty taken by Helder after Luis Baltasar tripped up captain Joao Pinto under the referee 's nose .


Braga defender Idalecio gave his team their equaliser seven minutes from the final whistle with a header into the back of the net .


SOCCER - PORTUGUESE FIRST DIVISION RESULTS .


SOCCER - FIORENTINA WIN WITH BATISTUTA DOUBLE .


Argentine striker Gabriel Batistuta gave Fiorentina the perfect 70th birthday present on Sunday with two goals that gave the Italian Cup winners a 2-1 Supercup victory over serie A champions Milan .


The victory , coming on the eve of the founding of the Florence club in 1926 , also marked the first time since the pre-season trophy between the Cup winners and league champions was started in 1988 that the Cup winners had won .


Batistuta gave Fiorentina the lead in the 11th minute .


Sweden 's Stefan Schwarz picked him out with a lob to the edge of the box and Batistuta did the rest , chipping veteran defender Franco Baresi and scoring at the near post .


Montenegrin midfielder Dejan Savicevic equalised for the home team , weaving past a defender , checking and firing in a left-footed shot in the 21st minute that gave young Fiorentina goalkeeper Francesco Toldo little chance .


The scored stayed level to the final minutes but with a penalty shoot out looming , Batistuta took charge .


French international midfielder Marcel Desailly fouled the Argentine , whose coach at Boca Juniors before he joined Fiorentina in 1991 was new Milan coach Oscar Tabarez , and Batistuta rammed home the free kick from 30 metres out .


The 83rd minute shot , curling over the defence and dipping in under the bar from the striker dubbed Batigol by adoring Fiorentina fans , was just reward for Fiorentina who looked a far more impressive team .


Milan 's player of the year George Weah missed a good first half opportunity but otherwise looked a little rusty while Italian team mate Roberto Baggio did not play due to injury .


New Dutch signing Edgar Davids came on late in the second half as a Milan substitute but made little impact .


The league season starts on September 8 .


SOCCER - FIORENTINA BEAT MILAN IN ITALIAN SUPERCUP .


league champions Milan 2-1 ( halftime 1-1 ) in the pre-season


Supercoppa ( SuperCup ) in Milan on Sunday :


Fiorentina - Gabriel Batistuta ( 11th , 83rd )


SOCCER - NORWAY ELITE DIVISION RESULTS / STANDINGS .


Standings after weekend matches ( tabulate under played , won ,


drawn , lost , goals for , against , points ) :


SOCCER - SUMMARY OF GERMAN FIRST DIVISION MATCH .


MSV Duisberg 0 Bayern Munich 4 ( Klinsmann 15th , Zieger 24th and


SOCCER - RESULT OF GERMAN FIRST DIVISION MATCH .


Bundesliga standings after Sunday 's game ( tabulate under


played , won , drawn , lost , goals for , goals against , points ) :


SOCCER - SWISS PREMIER DIVISION RESULTS / STANDINGS .


Standings ( tabulated under played , won , drawn , lost , goals


GOLF - LEADING PRIZE MONEY WINNERS ON EUROPEAN TOUR .


winners on the European Tour after Sunday 's German Open ( Britain


11. Frank Nobilo ( New Zealand ) 209,412


14. Padraig Harrington ( Ireland ) 202,593


15. Retief Goosen ( South Africa ) 188,143


Swiss Grand Prix World Cup cycling race on Sunday :


1. Andrea Ferrigato ( Italy ) 5 hours 51 minutes 52 seconds


7. Frank Vandenbroucke ( Belgium ) all same time


8. Fabio Baldato ( Italy ) 11 seconds behind


10. Laurent Jalabert ( France ) both same time


Leading World Cup standings ( after 8 of 11 rounds ) :


CYCLING - FERRIGATO SPRINTS TO SECOND STRAIGHT WORLD CUP WIN .


Andrea Ferrigato of Italy sprinted to his second cycling World Cup win in successive weekends with victory in the Swiss Grand Prix on Sunday .


Ferrigato , winner of the Leeds Classic last Sunday with a one second win over Britain 's Max Sciandri , posted a similarly narrow margin of victory again .


The 26-year-old Italian surged past compatriot Michele Bartoli and last year 's winner and defending World Cup champion Johan Museeuw of Belgium in the final few metres of the 237km race .


All three clocked the same time of five hours 51 minutes , 52 seconds .


Former world champion Lance Armstrong of the United States was in front as the leading pack of seven riders turned into the Oerlikon velodrome for the final one lap sprint but quickly faded and settled for fourth .


The back-to-back wins vault Ferrigato from sixth to second in the overall World Cup rankings with 112 points but Museeuw continues to hold a commanding lead with 162 points after eight of the 11 rounds .


the German Open golf championship on Sunday after the final


round was abandoned because of torrential rain .


Scores after three rounds ( Britain unless stated ) :


199 Thomas Gogele ( Germany ) 67 65 67 , Robert Karlsson


200 Diego Borrego ( Spain ) 69 63 68 , Miguel Angel Martin


202 Greg Turner ( New Zealand ) 70 67 65 , Heinz-Peter Thul


SOCCER - PSV BEAT GRONINGEN 4-1 TO PULL AWAY FROM AJAX .


Belgian international Luc Nilis scored twice on Sunday as PSV Eindhoven came from behind to beat Groningen 4-1 in Eindhoven .


PSV and Vitesse Arnhem are the only unbeaten teams after two rounds of the Dutch league .


Defending champions Ajax Amsterdam were defeated 2-0 loss away to Heerenveen on Saturday .


Groningen took the lead in the seventh minute when Dean Gorre intercepted a back pass from Ernest Faber to goalkeeper Ronald Waterreus and shot home .


Faber made amends in the 32nd minute when he headed in a corner to score the equaliser .


PSV took control in the second half but could not score until Groningen striker Romano Sion was sent off in the 58th minute .


Five minutes after his dimissal , Nilis gave PSV the lead and in the final 15 minutes he added another as did Zeljko Petrovic .


Vitesse Arnhem upstaged Utrecht 1-0 despite ending the match with only nine men following the dismissal of defenders Raymond Atteveld and Erwin van der Looi .


Gaston Taument scored twice and newly signed Argentine Pablo Sanchez once in Feyenoord Rotterdam 's 3-0 victory over Volendam .


SOCCER - BELGIAN FIRST DIVISION RESULTS / STANDINGS .


division soccer matches at the weekend :


Standings ( tabulated under played , won , drawn , lost , goals


SOCCER - DUTCH FIRST DIVISION SUMMARIES .


Feyenoord Rotterdam 3 ( Sanchez 27th , Taument 44th , 57th )


Vitesse Arnhem 1 ( Van Wanrooy 58th ) Utrecht 0 .


Twente Enschede 1 ( Hoogma 30th ) Roda JC Kerkrade 1 ( Roelofsen


Graafschap Doetinchem 3 ( Ibrahim 20th 63rd , Godee 54th ) RKC


Waalwijk 2 ( Dos Santos 38th , Van Arum 73th penalty ) .


Willem II Tilburg 0 Fortuna Sittard 1 ( Hamming 65th ) .


NAC Breda 1 ( Arnold 70th ) Sparta Rotterdam 0 .


Heerenveen 2 ( Wouden 53rd , Dahl Tomasson 74th ) Ajax Amsterdam


SOCCER - DUTCH FIRST DIVISION RESULTS / TABLE .


Standings ( tabulate under played , won , drawn , lost , goals


DUTCH CAPTAIN BLIND ENDS INTERNATIONAL CAREER .


Dutch soccer captain Danny Blind has decided to end his international career , Ajax spokesman David Endt said on Sunday .


Endt told Dutch news agency ANP that Blind , 35 , would no longer be available for selection for the national squad .


The Ajax defender , who led the Netherlands into the quarter-finals at June 's European championship finals in England , had decided to devote his attention to playing for his Amsterdam club , Endt said .


Blind , who played in the 1990 World Cup and the 1992 European championship , was capped 42 times for the Netherlands .


CRICKET - INDIA BANS SIDHU FOR 50 DAYS .


Indian opener Navjot Singh Sidhu was on Sunday given a 50-day ban from international cricket for quitting this year 's tour of England , the Press Trust of India said .


The right-handed batsman will have to forfeit half the money he was due to earn from the tour , the news agency said after a disciplinary committee set up by the Board of Control for Cricket in India met at Mohali , near the northern city of Chandigarh .


Sidhu abandoned the Indian team after the third one-day international against England at Old Trafford in Manchester on May 26 , before India began a three-test series , citing serious differences with captain Mohammed Azharuddin .


Azharuddin was sacked after the tour and replaced by Sachin Tendulkar .


Sidhu was not considered for the four-nation Singer Cup beginning in Sri Lanka this month and the Sahara Cup against Pakistan scheduled to be played in Canada next month .


Sidhu , whose ban ends on October 14 , will be free to play domestic cricket .


He will not be considered for a test match against Australia starting on October 10 in New Delhi , the United News of India said .


RUGBY LEAGUE - Australian rugby league standings .


Australian rugby league premiership standings after matches played at the weekend ( tabulate under played , won , drawn , lost , points for , against , total points ) :


RUGBY UNION - All Blacks relive triumph .


PRETORIA , Aug 25 - Captain Sean Fitzpatrick and his All Blacks revisited the test venue today to relive some of the magic moments of yesterday 's momentous rugby victory over South Africa , NZPA reported .


Most of the test 15 who beat the Springboks 33-26 to secure New Zealand 's first-ever rugby series in South Africa stood in the middle of the empty 50,000-seat Loftus Versfeld .


Magnificent , ' ' said Fitzpatrick , New Zealand 's most capped player and the world 's most capped forward .


The players relived the moves and tries , the tackles and what might have been as the emotions of victory continued .


Zinzan Brooke , the only No 8 in test rugby to have scored a dropped goal when he kicked a three-pointer against England during last year 's World Cup , added a second to his name yesterday .


I was right here , ' ' he said standing at the spot where he had received the ball for the kick .


The maul was there and I was going to go in but I thought I should hold off because we had the ball .


When ( halfback ) Justin Marshall got the ball he was going to go on the openside where Jon Preston was so I emptied my lung at him to get the ball this way .


I just hit through and I was punching the air before the ball got there .


The decision to attempt a dropped goal was a spontaneous one , Brooke said .


It was just like the World Cup , the ball came and the chance was there . '


Centre Frank Bunce said he had never felt so exhausted during a match .


We were gutted and there was nowhere to hide , they just kept coming at you , ' ' he said .


I was gone in the first 20 minutes , completely exhausted , but you had no choice .


It 's amazing just how big this ground was yesterday . '


Two-try winger Jeff Wilson said he was so tired that he kept asking Bunce where he should be while defending .


He told me I 'm buggered too so just hang in there ' , ' ' Wilson recalled .


About 4000 New Zealander supporters were partying into the early hours of today in the South African capital .


Messages of goodwill continued to roll into the team hotel .


All Blacks coach John Hart said Prime Minister Jim Bolger rang him today to offer his congratulations .


He thanked us on behalf of the country , which is really nice for the team , and I understand we had tremendous support at home . '


Australian Rules - AFL results and standings .


Results of Australian Rules matches played at the weekend .


Standings ( tabulate under played , won , drawn , lost , points for , against , percentage , total points ) :


Rugby league-Australian rugby league results .


Results of Australian rugby league matches played at the weekend .


South Africa yet to hear from apartheid enforcers .


South Africa 's truth commission begins issuing subpoenas this week in a bid to dig beneath the political rationales and find the sinister figures who have the blood of the country 's race war on their hands .


Leaders of the major parties involved , from right-wing whites to radical blacks , appeared before Archbishop Desmond Tutu 's Truth and Reconciliation Commission last week to paint the broad picture of their actions for or against apartheid .


Most , including former president F.W. de Klerk and African National Congress Deputy President Thabo Mbeki , offered apologies for any mistakes they had made and accepted broad responsibility for the actions of their foot soldiers .


But none named those guilty of ordering or carrying out any of the gross violations of human rights which Tutu is investigating .


Human rights lawyer Brian Currin said the hearings last week were not intended as a form of confessional and that those who personally committed crimes during apartheid would testify only before a separate arm of the commission , the amnesty committee .


" I do n't think one should have expected more than what one got , " he said . "


That was not the amnesty committee where perpetrators are expected to open their hearts and souls and to tell it all . "


The commission , which has the power to grant amnesty to those who confess to abuses , has begun hearing the testimony from people already in jail for their deeds .


But others , such as self-confessed secret police hit-squad leader Dirk Coetzee , have yet to testify .


Tutu 's deputy chairman , Alex Boraine , told reporters the commission would begin issuing subpoenas to suspects who refused to appear voluntarily some time this week .


He added that former hardline apartheid president P.W. Botha could be among those called .


But Currin , who is advising several people regarded as perpetrators , said this was not the best way to achieve the commission 's aims .


" A person can be forced to appear , but the only way one is going to get to the truth in its totality is if people feel it is a good idea to go to the amnesty committee .


He cited Coetzee , who was charged with murder after confessing in media interviews to dirty tricks .


His trial is due to start in December but the truth commission intends to decide on his amnesty application before that .


Currin said the law had to be changed so all judicial prosecutions were automatically suspended for those who approached the truth commission .


Last week 's submissions to the commission by the ANC , de Klerk 's National Party and the right-wing Freedom Front of General Constand Viljoen left many South Africans unsatisfied .


Boraine said the picture was incomplete because officers of the apartheid-era security forces had yet to make their scheduled , separate submission , but one black caller to a radio talk show declared :


" This whole thing is utterly useless , it does n't help us at all .


What the people expect is to have houses , to have jobs . "


Political scientist Jannie Gagiano said he doubted that the National Party , which implemented apartheid in 1948 and began dismantling it in 1990 , felt it carried a burden of guilt and needed to be exculpated through the commission .


" Therefore I have some doubts about achieving some form of reconciliation .


One has to feel a bit guilty to feel the need for reconciling yourself to a historical adversary , " he said .


Professor Tom Lodge of the University of the Witwatersrand demurred , saying :


" In the irritation , in the jokes , in the anger that white South Africans express about the commission , I think there 's a moral uneasiness , and I think that 's healthy .


Responsibility is percolating downwards . "


Moslem refugees seek to vote in Serb-held town .


Thousands of Moslem refugees denounced Bosnia 's elections as a farce on Sunday because Serb incomers would be able to vote in their old home town , cementing partition of the country .


They said they were ready to force their way back across post-war ethnic lines to Serb-held Doboj , one of several towns where NATO troops fear violence involving refugees determined to vote where they once lived .


The refugees , rallying in Matuzici on government territory two km from Doboj in northeast Bosnia , waved banners calling the polls a farce staged by the United Nations and the European Union . "


We demand to vote in Doboj , " other banners said .


Bosnia 's Moslem-led central government and many displaced Moslems are angered by a key provision of the Western-organised September 14 elections allowing people to vote in post-war " new places of residence . "


As a result , separatist Serb authorities have packed former Moslem majority towns with refugees of their own or registered other Serbs to vote there .


Critics say that what was billed as an electoral process to reintegrate Bosnia as a single , multi-ethnic state is shaping up as a referendum on partition , de facto or de jure .


" Only our physical presence in Doboj will mean that the Dayton peace treaty has truly been implemented , " Edhem Efendija Camdzic , Doboj 's Islamic imam-in-exile , told the refugees .


" The main point of this rally is to highlight to the world powers what misfortune they brought upon us , " said Reuf Mehemdagic , head of Doboj municipality-in-exile .


" Eleven thousand Serbs who came from elsewhere to Doboj will vote there .


How can we then expect the reintegration of Bosnia ?


But no one will stop us from returning to our homes . "


Mirhunisa Komarica , a government refugee official , said : " We want to vote where we were thrown out from .


This is a protest of warning and the next step is entering our town using all means possible , so let them shoot . "


Bosnian Vice President Ejup Ganic , a Moslem , told the refugees : " We have a message for the Serbs who are now in our homes not to plan the future of their children there because there will be no good fortune in that . "


To loud applause , he added : " We will enter Doboj , untie the Doboj knot and ensure free movement for all .


We have to enter Doboj to free the Serbs from their own ( separatist ) politics . "


The Dayton peace accords guaranteed refugees the right to return to their homes and ensured freedom of movement across ethnic lines .


But local police , controlled by nationalist parties in Moslem , Serb and Croat sectors of Bosnia , and civilian mobs have turned ceasefire lines into virtually impassable borders .


The majority of refugees from Bosnia 's 1992-95 war are Moslems from the Serb-controlled north and east .


NATO-led peace troops beefed up their presence in the Doboj area on Sunday to deter any sudden emotional attempt by the refugees to cross the Inter-Entity Boundary Line into Doboj .


But the crowd dispersed without incident .


Moslems and Serbs have scuffled several times along the line in the past when Moslem refugees tried to surge into the town .


Eight people died on Sunday in a blaze at a Moscow casino which the fire service said might have been started deliberately , Interfax news agency said .


The number of casinos has soared in Moscow since the collapse of communism .


The mayor has said he wants to cut their number to five as part of a war against organised crime .


President Boris Yeltsin signed a decree on fighting crime in July and handed wide-ranging powers to security chief Alexander Lebed , currently engaged in making peace in breakaway Chechnya .


Russian troops start pullout , but not in Grozny .


Russian troops began to pull out from southern Chechnya on Sunday under a ceasefire agreement between Russian security chief Alexander Lebed and rebel leaders .


But in the capital Grozny , the commander of Russian Interior Ministry forces in Chechnya , General Anatoly Shkirko , told Interfax news agency he was delaying a pullout of troops there after a group of Chechens disarmed an armoured column .


Reuters cameraman Liutauras Stremaitis said a column of around 40 vehicles , including tanks , armoured personnel carriers , artillery cannons and lorries , escorted by Chechen rebels , pulled out of the village of Shatoi towards the border , around 50 km ( 31 miles ) to the north .


In Grozny , Shkirko told Interfax he was suspending the pullout of troops from the capital until weapons seized by the Chechens were returned .


Chechen rebel spokesman Movladi Udugov confirmed the weapons had been seized but that it was a maverick group of Chechens .


He said later that the rebels had handed them over .


The pullout of the Russian troops is a key element of the peace plan brokered by Lebed , which aims to end the 20-month Chechnya conflict .


Leftist Mexican armed group says troops in capital .


The leftist Popular Revolutionary Army ( EPR ) in a published report on Sunday said it operated throughout Mexico , including the capital , and denied government assertions it was isolated to one state .


Commanders " Vicente " and " Oscar " , guarded by a dozen EPR gunmen , said in an interview with La Jornada outside Mexico City that the armed group was committed to overthrowing the government .


" They ( government officials ) want to present us before public opinion as a local problem , as just being from Guerrero and as irrational radicals , " Commander Oscar told La Jornada .


They said the ERP , whose fighters first appeared wearing military fatigues and brandishing assault rifles in the southwestern state of Guerrero on June 28 , had a 23,000-strong membership , but this could not be confirmed independently .


La Jornada also reported on Sunday that the Mexican Army has discovered a 37-page , EPR manual detailing guerrilla tactics and strategies .


It quoted the manual as saying : " The objective of the Basic Course on War is to provide for combatants of the EPR basic military knowledge for the armed conflict against the police and military apparatus of the bourgeoisie . "


It was the second time armed " commanders " of the EPR have granted interviews outside Guerrero state , an extremely poor and volatile region where leftist protesters often have clashed violently with authorities .


Unlike the better known and unrelated Zapatista rebels in southeastern Chiapas state , the EPR has never taken on the army in direct combat , according to official reports .


There have only been a few skirmishes in Guerrero in which a handful of police , soldiers and civilians have been killed or injured .


Ten people gunned down in northwest Colombia .


Unidentified gunmen dragged 10 men out ot their homes in a rural area of Colombia 's northwest province of Antioquia and shot them to death , authorities said on Sunday .


Police said the killings occurred on Saturday morning in the municipality of Anza but news of the massacre only reached the provincial capital of Medellin early on Sunday .


Anza is only 20 miles ( 30 km ) west of Medellin , but there are no roads linking it directly to the city .


Police initially said leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia ( FARC ) rebels were prime suspects in the killings .


But gunmen of the left and right have killed with impunity across Antioquia for years , and there were unconfirmed reports that the latest bloodshed was the work of a right-wing paramilitary group .


Two Thai border police wounded by Burma gunmen .


Two Thai border policemen were seriously wounded on Sunday when members of a Burmese rebel splinter faction ambushed their patrol in northwest Thailand , security officers said .


The two were wounded in the early hours of Sunday when some 30 members of the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army ( DKBA ) ambushed their patrol on the Thai side of the border with Burma , to the north of the town of Mae Sot .


The Thai army commander in the area , Col Suvit Maenmuan , told reporters the DKBA , which is allied with the Rangoon military government and based in southeast Burma , had recently stepped up cross-border infiltration .


Suvit said the motive for their intrusions was not clear but he had ordered reinforcements to beef up security along the porous frontier .


The DKBA was formed in late 1994 by hundreds of guerrillas who split from the anti-Rangoon Karen National Union ( KNU ) and allied themselves with Burmese government army , their former enemies .


DKBA members have since launched intermittent cross-border attacks on Karen refugee camps in Thailand , where the majority of inhabitants are KNU supporters , and on Thai villages and police posts near the border .


Bangkok has complained to Rangoon about the raids but Burmese military authorities say they have no contol over the faction .


Thai army commanders reject the explanation , saying they have evidence the Burmese army supplies and directs the renegade ethnic minority splinter faction .


U.S. F-14 catches fire while landing in Israel .


A U.S. fighter plane blew a tyre and caught fire while landing on Sunday at Israel 's Ben Gurion airport , an airport spokesman said .


" A U.S. F-14 military plane while landing at Ben Gurion airport blew a wheel and a fire broke out , " said spokesman Yehiel Amitai , adding that the two pilots on board were not injured .


" Airport officials declared an emergency situation at the highest level and the fire brigade put out the flames while the plane was landing , " he said .


Egypt hopes jars will reveal secrets of mummies .


Archaeologists in Egypt have found pots used by ancient Egyptians in burial rites that they say may reveal the secrets of mummification .


Mohammed Saleh , director of the Egyptian Museum , told Reuters television a U.S. team found the pots , some of which contain human intestines , in a tomb built into the rocks while digging in Dahshour , a village 40 km ( 25 miles ) south of Cairo .


Dahshour is the site of Egypt 's second largest pyramid , built for the pharaoh Seneferu more than 4,500 years ago .


Saleh said the team -- from New York 's Metropolitan Museum -- found four Canopic jars and two unguent jars in the tomb , which belongs to an unidentifed person who lived during the 12th Dynasty ( 1991-1786 BC ) in the Middle Kingdom .


" This finding is important because one of the jars still contains substances and materials used in the conservation of mummies and the conservation of the intestines and all the things which were in the cavity of a person we have not identified yet , " Saleh said .


" We hope that the analysis of such substances and liquids will reveal some secrets of the mummification process and materials used in this process , " he added .


Saudi Arabia executed on Sunday a Pakistani man accused of belonging to an armed gang of robbers , Saudi television reported .


It quoted an Interior Ministry statement as saying Shabir Ahmad Muhammad Jalil was executed in Mecca .


He was the 26th person executed this year in the kingdom .


Saudi Arabia beheads convicted drug smugglers , rapists , murderers and other criminals .


These are some of the leading stories in the Jordanian press on Sunday .


Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy .


No going back on democracy ; attempts to tamper with security and stability will not be tolerated .


Information Minister Marwan Muasher says there is evidence that " some official parties in Iraq " were behind the disturbances in the south .


- Government asks senior Iraqi " diplomat " to leave , reviews status of others .


- Japanese foreign minister arrives for talks on peace process , bilateral ties .


- Prime Minister Abdul-Karim al-Kabariti says government commited to lifting ceiling of democracy .


- Saudi Prince Sultan telephones prime minister .


- Jordan releases 32 from southern town of Karak .


- Jordan expresses anger at conduct of some Iraqi diplomats in Amman which are incompatible with diplomatic traditions .


- Kabariti and parliament speaker meet to discuss ways to reactivate parliament 's legislative role .


- State security court starts investigating suspects in unrest .


Netanyahu , Weizman consult on Arafat invitation .


Israeli President Ezer Weizman , weighing a possible meeting with Yasser Arafat , consulted on Sunday with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu , a spokesman said .


Weizman and Netanyahu met at the president 's official Jerusalem residence and planned to speak to the media at the end of their talks , the prime minister 's spokesman said .


Earlier , the director of the president 's office denied a report in Israel 's Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper that Weizman had already invited Arafat to his private home for talks in the coming week on the future of the Israel-PLO peace process .


But the official , Aryeh Shumer , said it was only fitting that Weizman and Arafat should talk after the Palestinian leader sent the Israeli president a letter which Yedioth Ahronoth reported contained an emotional appeal to save the peace proces .


The newspaper said Netanyahu , who is cool to meeting Arafat himself , opposed talks between Weizman and the Palestinian president .


After Moslem suicide bombers killed 59 people in Israel in February and March , Weizman called for peace efforts with the PLO to be suspended .


Shumer said his current position was that the peace process must continue .


These are some of the leading stories in Israeli newspapers on Sunday .


Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy .


- Palestinian President Arafat opens civilian struggle against Israel , calls on Palestinians to build in self-rule areas .


- Seven ministers and governor of Bank of Israel will visit the United States at the end of September and in October .


- Israel bans plane donated by the Netherlands to Arafat to land at Gaza airport .


- Former prime minister Peres to Morocco today .


- Israeli President Weizman invited Palestinian President Arafat to meet him at his private residence .


- Netanyahu opposes transit camps for foreign workers facing expulsion .


- Foreign Minister Levy to visit Egypt soon .


- Palestinian Authority has taken over education in East Jerusalem .


- Syrian armoured columns on the move in Lebanon .


- Shimon Peres to Morocco , will stay at king 's private residence .


- Palestinian Minister Erekat says Israel-PLO talks will begin by September 2 .


- Prime minister names former general Avraham Tamir to staff after failing to establish national security council .


- Cabinet puts off decision on foreign workers .


- Internal Security Minister Kahalani warns cabinet of increase in organised crime .


Voting begins in second round of Lebanese election .


Voting began on Sunday in north Lebanon in the second round of parliamentary elections with 580,000 voters eligible to choose 28 members of the 128-member parliament .


A thin trickle of voters began casting their ballots in this northern port city for the five rival lists of candidates as polling stations opened at 7 a.m. ( 0400 gmt ) .


Israeli president invites Arafat to home - paper .


Israeli President Ezer Weizman has invited Yasser Arafat to meet him at his private home , Israel 's biggest newspaper said on Sunday .


The Yedioth Ahronoth daily reported that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu , who has said he has no desire to hold talks with the Palestinian president , opposes the meeting due to be held this coming week .


The newspaper said Weizman scheduled the meeting at his private residence in the central Israeli village of Caesarea after Arafat sent him an emotional appeal " to save the peace process " .


Netanyahu met Weizman last Tuesday and voiced his opposition , Yedioth said .


" I am prepared to postpone the meeting under one condition -- that you give me a commitment right now to meet Arafat yourself within 10 days , " the paper quoted Weizman as telling Netanyahu .


It said Netanyahu had yet to give Weizman an answer .


The office of Israeli president is largely ceremonial .


But Weizman , a former defence minister and an architect of Israel 's peace treaty with Egypt , has spoken out frequently on the peace process with the Palestinians -- at times urging the former Labour government to slow it down .


Corporate America taking new view on compensation .


Corporate America is planning major changes in employee compensation in the next few years , according to a recent study .


What it comes down to is this : If you 're highly skilled , you 'll benefit nicely .


But if you 're not and cannot contribute to your employer 's goals , you 'll be paid less .


The survey , conducted in late 1995 and the early part of this year by management consulting firm Towers Perrin , showed that the focus will be on an employee 's overall value to the company 's bottom line -- rather than how well an employee performs a specific task .


Presently , for example , if an accountant 's job involves doing five specific tasks , he or she can expect a certain salary , said Sandra O'Neal , a Towers Perrin principal .


In the future , the accountant will be evaluated solely on " knowledge , skill and abilities , " she said .


In addition to using accounting skills , the accountant will also have to be creative , work well in a team , be sensitive to customer needs and set productivity goals .


" The good news is , if you 're highly skilled and have many abilities , you 'll be paid more , " said O'Neal .


" The bad news is , if you 're not skilled and ca n't contribute to a team , to customer service and the organisation 's goals , you 'll be paid less . "


Of the 750 mid-to-large size corporations surveyed , 81 percent had undergone a major restructuring in the last three years , and more than two-thirds reported that productivity and profits were up as result .


Next on the agenda for these firms is developing a new compensation structure , and 78 percent report that they are considering a new , skills-based plan for both management and non-management employees .


This coming shift , O'Neal said , " is not just isolated or a fad .


After World War II , corporations adopted a " military model " creating hierarchical organisations where " the concept of defined tasks worked great , " she said .


But as the economy became global , customers were more demanding and problems became more complex .


" Multi-layers kept management at a distance from its customers , " O'Neal said .


Now organisations must change to stay competitive .


O'Neal says firms will place a greater emphasis on teams and team performance in giving raises .


If your team does well , you 'll do well .


If it does n't do well , do n't expect a raise .


Is this fair to an employee who can go the distance but is on a team that ca n't keep up ?


" That 's an important question we used to ask a lot , " said O'Neal . "


The more important question is -- ' Do we have results ? '


To get those results , 27 percent of the companies surveyed plan to eliminate base pay increases in favour of cash bonuses and incentives , such as employee and team award programmes and education .


Companies that can change their culture and view employees as business partners will do well , O'Neal said .


For example , the survey rated some participants in the survey as " high-performing " companies , based on their return on equity above 16 percent .


Those companies also said they already offer employees variable pay and business education , give their managers more control over pay decisions and celebrate employee and team success .


" They respect employees more , they trust employees more and they value their employees more , " O'Neal said .


" The key to success at high-performance companies is engaging employees in a business partnership .


It will improve a company 's bottom line . "


Belgian police arrest detective in Dutroux affair .


Investigators arrested a senior police detective on Sunday in connection with their inquiries into Belgium 's child sex scandal , Public Prosecutor Michel Bourlet said .


" Georges Zicot was arrested and will be charged with truck theft , insurance fraud and document forgery , " Bourlet told a news conference .


He said there had been searches at three sites on Sunday , including one at the Charleroi judicial police headquarters where Zicot worked .


Zicot , 45 , is a specialist in tackling vehicle theft .


Belgian media reported that he had been questioned twice in the past two years about thefts but released both times .


He was promoted to chief detective earlier this year .


Bourlet said two other people had also been arrested .


One was Gerard Pignon , the owner of a warehouse where stolen vehicles were allegedly stored .


Bourlet said the investigation into the vehicle theft ring would be added to the inquiry into the paedophile sex scandal in which five other people have already been arrested .


He said the connection was through Bernard Weinstein , an accomplice of convicted child rapist Marc Dutroux -- the central figure in the paedophile scandal that has sent shockwaves across Europe .


Weinstein was found dead last weekend alongside the bodies of eight-year-olds Julie Lejeune and Melissa Russo in a house belonging to Detroux , who said they starved to death earlier this year , nine months after being abducted in June 1995 .


Two other girls have been rescued and police are hunting for at least two more who Dutroux has admitted kidnapping a year ago .


" Dutroux has admitted killing Weinstein after a disagreement between the accomplices in an affair of truck theft , " Bourlet said .


Another four people were also questioned at the weekend but had not been detained , Bourlet added .


Anne Thily , public prosecutor in the eastern city of Liege where Julie and Melissa lived , said this was a major case involving some 50 investigators -- including two from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation .


French 1997 budget due around September 10 - Juppe .


Prime Minister Alain Juppe said on Sunday the draft 1997 budget and plans for funding the social security system would be pubished around September 10 .


" The texts are practically ready , " he told reporters after a weekend of talks with President Jacques Chirac in a Riviera fortress .


The budget had been widely expected a week or so later .


19 die as bus falls in river in Pakistani Kashmir .


A bus fell from a mountain road into a river in Pakistan-ruled Azad ( free ) Kashmir on Sunday , killing at least 19 people and injuring 11 , police said .


They said dead included five refugees from the Indian-ruled part of Kashmir , where Moslem militants have waged a separatist revolt since early 1990 .


The police said 14 of the 45 passengers on the bus died instantly when the vehicle fell into Kunar river from a narrow road leading from the state capital Muzaffarabad to the nearby Pakistani town of Garhi Habibullah northwest .


North Afghan highway opening put off , radio says .


The planned reopening of Afghanistan 's main northern Salang highway as a result of peace talks with an opposition alliance has been put off until Wednesday , official Kabul Radio said on Sunday .


The embattled Afghan government said last week that the Kabul-Salang highway would be opened on Monday or Tuesday following talks with the Supreme Coordination Council alliance led by Jumbish-i-Milli movement of powerful opposition warlord General Abdul Rashid Dostum .


The radio said on Sunday the postponement of the opening had been made due to " precautions " .


The Salang highway , Afghanistan 's main route to Central Asia , has been controlled by Dostum since he began fighting President Burhanuddin Rabbani 's government in Kabul in January 1994 in alliance with Hezb-i-Islami party leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar , then prime minister but rival to the president .


Hekmatyar rejoined the government as prime minister last June under a peace pact with Rabbani and has since been trying to persuade other opposition factions to follow suit .


Earlier this month , Jumbish denied a Kabul government statement that the two sides had agreed to a ceasefire in the north .


Students burn Hasina effigy , battle police .


Students backed by opposition parties battled police and burned an effigy of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina during a strike in the north Bangladeshi town of Bogra on Sunday .


The strikers barricaded streets , attacked the local office of the ruling Awami League , fought running battles with police and set alight hundreds of copies of the popular " Janakantha " newspaper , alleging it was pro-government .


Police used batons and teargas to try to disperse students who were throwing stones and home-made bombs , witnesses said .


The strike , called by the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party ( BNP ) , to denounce the deaths of four students killed by police over the last few days , coincided with a visit to the area by Hasina .


Local officials said one policeman was killed by gunshots during clashes with pro-opposition students on Thursday .


Hasina told a cross section of people at the Bogra police headquarters on Sunday that the government had already suspended three police officers and ordered a judicial probe into the violent incidents .


The prime minister offered financial grants to the families of those killed , ordered the best possible medical care for the injured and urged Bogra residents to call off the strike .


Opposition legislators walked out of parliament in Dhaka on Sunday denouncing " unprecedented police barbarity " against opposition students and supporters .


They renewed their call for the resignation of Home ( Interior ) Minister Rafiqul Islam .


Hundreds of police raided the Dhaka university on Sunday , arresting nearly 30 outsiders who had been living in student dormitories and seizing weapons , university officials said .


Police stormed ten residence halls on the campus , flushed out people at gunpoint and searched their baggage .


They seized revolvers , sawn-off rifles , shotguns and knives .


The students were later allowed to return .


The swoop followed the resignation of the university 's Vice-Chancellor Dr. Emajuddin Ahmed on Saturday over the deteriorating law and order situation on the campus .


Authorities closed down the 28,000-student university on Wednedsay following gunbattles between students and police .


Police said they fought armed activists from the BNP , headed by former prime minister Begum Khaleda Zia .


Hasina told police the home ministry had already given a " blanket order " to arrest terrorists and possessors of illegal firearms irrespective of their political identities .


Nearly 100 students have been injured in the clashes in Dhaka and Bogra , police told reporters .


16 die as bus crashes in Pakistani Kashmir .


At least 16 people were killed and several injured on Sunday when a bus fell from a mountain road into a ravine on a river bank in Pakistan-ruled Azad ( free ) Kashmir , police said .


They said 14 out of 45 passengers on the bus died instantly when the vehicle fell from the narrow road while on its way from the state capital Muzaffarabad to the nearby Pakistani town of Garhi Habibullah in the northwest .


FEATURE - Fertile Ukraine faces drought of cash and rain .


BATKIVSHCHYNA COLLECTIVE FARM , Ukraine 1996-08-26


Four shiny new green-and-yellow John Deere combines parked at this 1,750-hectare ( 4,325-acre ) farm in the grain-growing regions south of Kiev do n't fill its chief agronomist with enthusiasm .


" They did a good job this year , but they need good diesel and good engine oil , " said Ivan Odnosum . "


God help us if there is a breakdown , " he said of the machinery , loaned to the farm after the Ukrainian government bought it earlier this year .


The country 's grain harvest this year is forecast to fall by more than 23 percent to only 28 million tonnes and two harsh factors are to blame .


A drought scoured the steppes in May and June , stunting the growing wheat .


And the farming sector , making the painful transition from Soviet central planning to a market economy simply has no money .


Ukraine 's black soil is so fertile that a diplomat described it as " rich enough to grow rubber boots " .


But recently Ukraine has been losing its reputation as a breadbasket of Europe , earned in the years before brutal forced collectivisation under Soviet dictator Josef Stalin .


" The wheat will not be of a good quality this year , " said Hryhory Borsuk , a scientist at the Mironivka Wheat Institute , run by the Ukrainian Academy of Agrarian Sciences .


" The temperature on the ground reached 62 decrees Celsius ( 143.60 Fahrenheit ) this summer .


We 've never seen anything so bad , " he said in an interview in his office , unlit since the government cut off electricity because of unpaid power bills .


The harvest is gathered in the dry areas , but rainfall in Western Ukraine has delayed harvesting there .


While Mironivka 's scientists , some unpaid for months , carry on developing new strains of wheat resistant to Ukraine 's extreme continental climate , Borsuk said the lack of cash in Ukraine 's agricultural sector is as bad as the drought .


Collective farms and Ukraine 's nascent private farming sector have no money for fertiliser , no money for herbicides and pesticides , no money to repair old or buy new machinery , no money for fuel , and none to buy good seed .


This year 's harvest is down from last year 's 36.5 million tonne harvest , which in turn compares with 50 million tonnes in 1990 , the year before independence .


The decline is all the worse for people who recall wasteful Soviet times , when the Kremlin imported grain but priced bread so cheaply that people bought it to feed their pigs .


" Agriculture is very expensive , and there are no solutions to our problems on the horizon , " said Odnosum .


He said his farm , its 260 workers now readying the fields for winter wheat sowing , expected the land to yield 5.2 tonnes per hectare ( 2.5 acres ) but ended up with 3.9 tonnes -- still better than the national average of 2.11 tonnes per hectare this year .


" We did not have money for fertiliser , we 're in debt for fuel , and we 're borrowing diesel , " Odnosum said .


A few kilometres ( miles ) down the two-lane road which passes Odnosum 's farm , where the occasional horse-drawn buggy passes by , is the 1,700-hectare ( 4,200-acre ) Shevchenko collective farm , built next to a village still neat and tidy despite post-Soviet decay .


Chief Accountant Natalya Sypron said the collective is strapped for cash , earlier this year bartering 220 tonnes of grain for diesel to fuel six rickety grain combines and tractors badly in need of repairs and basic maintenance .


The average family earns 160-200 million karbovanets a year ( $ 800 - $ 1,000 ) -- but many have not been paid in months , Soprun said . "


People are working out of their own dedication . "


Borsuk said the farm sector has two options : " We can sit down and cry , or we can do something . "


He said the government plans to increase the sowing of the winter wheat which will be harvested next year .


Planted in late summer and early autumn , the grain is Ukraine 's largest export item and traditionally grows better than summer wheat in Ukraine 's soil .


Further plans , he said , called for full provision of resources like fertiliser and herbicides for 25 percent of Ukraine 's arable land next year , for 50 percent in 1998 and 100 percent of the land in 1999 .


" If we follow this we 'll be able to sell 10 million tonnes of grain by the year 2000 , " Borkus said .


The government has been trying to phase out huge subsidies to the farm sector , and in a move back to pre-Soviet days has given up to 50 hectares ( 124 acres ) of land to some 36,000 private farmers willing to go it alone .


Collective farms will last for the next few years , because most private farms now only produce enough to feed themselves with maybe a little extra to sell , said one private farmer : " In the future , maybe , but it 's better not to hurry .


" Collectivisation brought us a lot of pain .


Privatising too quickly can also have a negative outcome . "


Gencor Ltd on Monday said it had swelled its year attributable profit and streamlined operations to strengthen it for the current financial year despite a variety of divisional setbacks .


Announcing the group 's results for the year ended June 30 , chairman Brian Gilbertson said : " Happily the strong improvement in financial performance is not an illusion arising from the recent weakness of the rand relative to the dollar . "


Gencor raised attributable earnings to 1,803 million rand from 1,003 million rand previously - in dollar terms an increase to $ 469 million from $ 279 million - and won despite the group 's Impala Platinum Holdings Ltd posting dismal results .


We 've had substantial production difficulties at a number of our operations .


The most obvious one with the greatest effect on the corporation was at Impala where we had the furnace failure , " Gilbertson said .


Implats posted year attributable profit of 176 million rand from 281 million previously .


Not only did the company lock in 3.92 rand per dollar in February / March , but it suffered output losses due to a furnace shutdown last August .


The rand was last bid at 4.5350 against the dollar .


Nor was Implats the only operation to fail output targets .


Ingwe Coal Corporation Ltd was hit hard by heavy rains .


It forfeited nearly one million tonnes of production to flooding at its mines in Mpumulanga province .


But Gilbertson said the greatest gloom in the year came from the European Commission 's blocking of Implats ' proposed merger with Lonrho Plc 's platinum interests .


" The big disappointment for the year was the failure of the platinum merger .


From Gencor 's perspective we are taking the position that it is not on , " Gilbertson said .


Looking ahead to the current financial year , he said that Gencor would boost earnings further .


" Gencor is well placed to take up the challenges of the future .


The group is soundly structured and prudently financed and is blessed with an excellent portfolio of world-class businesses .


I think we can look forward to further growth " .


Citing the disposal of Gencor 's stake in industrial holdings group Malbak Ltd for one billion rand among other smaller disposals , Gilbertson said Gencor had pruned its portfolio to concentrate on core assets .


" We 've tried to clean up our overall portfolio by disposing of non-core assets .


leaving Gencor clearly structured along commodity lines , " Gilbertson said .


He added that the group still had about 85 million rand after tax invested in various shares , which were market for disposal when required .


Referring to Gencor 's increased 41.5 percent stake in Ingwe , Gilbertson said the group would wait for coal shares to be cheaper before considering snapping up more .


" I think we would have liked to have more of Ingwe but it 's the question of adding value .


at quite a bit lower than the price is now ...


maybe if we just wait another few years for the next downturn in coal . "


Finally , Gilbertson said a growing proportion of Gencor 's income was coming from offshore and unlisted investments .


Advanced Medical Inc. said Monday it will buy IVAC Medical Systems Inc. , a former Eli Lilly & Co .


unit , for about $ 400 million in cash , creating one of the world 's largest makers of intravenous infusion therapy products .


Under the agreement , IVAC and Advanced Medical 's wholly owned subsidiary , IMED Corp. , will merge to form a new company that will develop and manufacture infusion pumps that regulate the amount of intravenous fluid being administered to a patient , as well as proprietary disposable products .


The combined company will have estimated revenues of $ 353 million .


Advanced Medical , through IMED , is already one of the nation 's largest developers and manufacturers of intravenous infusion pumps and proprietary disposable products .


San Diego-based IVAC is a major provider of infusion systems and related technologies to the health-care industry .


It has manufacturing plants in San Diego ; Creedmoor , N.C. ; Hampshire , England ; and Tijuana , Mexico , and distributes its prodcuts in more than 120 countries .


Eli Lilly sold IVAC on Dec. 31 , 1994 to DLJ Merchant Banking Partners LP , River Medical Inc. and other investors .


Advanced Medical said it expects to take an unspecified one-time charge to pay for the merger .


It did not say when the charge would be taken .


" The addition of IVAC is expected to contribute to financial results in the full second quarter of 1997 , " the companies said .


The merger will add to both companies ' historical leadership in infusion therapy and technology-based drug delivery devices , they said .


In 1968 , IVAC introduced the world 's first infusion therapy monitoring device .


A year later IVAC improved its system with the addition of an IV pump that regulated the flow of liquids through positive pressure .


IMED introduced the world 's first volumetric infusion pump in 1974 .


IMED had profits of $ 1.7 million , or 6 cents per fully diluted common share , on $ 53.9 million in revenues in the first half of 1996 .


Excluding the effect of a one-time restructuring charge of $ 17.4 million , IVAC had net income of $ 4.2 million on net sales of $ 112.8 million for the 1996 first half .


Advanced Medical reported profits of $ 8.4 million on sales of $ 29.2 million in the quarter ended June 30 .


William J. Mercer , IVAC president and chief executive officer , will become the president and CEO of Advanced Medical .


He led the transition of IVAC to a privately held company and was previously senior vice president at Mallinckrodt Group Inc .


Joseph Kuhn , Advanced Medical and IMED president , will become the new company 's executive vice president and chief financial officer .


The deal is expected to close by the first quarter of 1997 , subject to regulatory approval .


It has already been approved by both companies ' boards .


Dow rises on Philip Morris , other stocks lower .


The Dow Jones industrial average opened slightly higher on Monday , boosted by Philip Morris , which gained four to 92 .


Other shares were slightly lower , mirroring bonds .


The Dow was up eight to 5,731 , while the NASDAQ Index was off fractionally to 1,143 and the S&P Index down one to 666 .


New York Stock Exchange advances lagged declines by 476/698 while NASDAQ advances led declines 837/763 .


The 30-year U.S. Treasury bond was off 2/32 to yield 6.96 percent .


RUGBY LEAGUE - ST HELENS CLINCH SUPER LEAGUE TITLE .


St Helens completed their first league and Challenge Cup double in 30 years on Monday when they thrashed Warrington 66-14 to clinch the inaugural Super League title .


St Helens secured the two points they needed in the last game of the season at Knowsley Road to win their first championship since 1975 and their first double since 1966 .


In rain-soaked conditions , centre Alan Hunte grabbed a hat-trick of tries , while Tommy Martyn , Anthony Sullivan and Paul Newlove each scored two .


Captain and goalkicker Bobbie Goulding scored 18 points .


St Helens 's triumph marked the end of Wigan 's seven-year reign as British champions .


St Helens needed to win on Monday to take the title -- a defeat or draw would have allowed Wigan their eighth consecutive championship .


They were also the toast of London Broncos , who managed to scrape into the top four ahead of Warrington and qualify for the end-of-season play-offs .


St Helens have now set their sights on taking the treble by winning the end-of-season premiership which begins with next Sunday 's semifinal against London .


RALLYING - 1,000 LAKES RALLY RESULT / WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP STANDINGS .


1. Tommi Makinen ( Finland ) Mitsubishi Lancer 4 hours 4 minutes


2. Juha Kankkunen ( Finland ) Toyota Celica 46 seconds behind


3. Jarmo Kytolehto ( Finland ) Ford Escort 2:37


4. Marcus Gronholm ( Finland ) Toyota Celica 2:42


5. Kenneth Eriksson ( Sweden ) Subaru Impreza 3:22


6. Thomas Radstrom ( Sweden ) Toyota Celica 4.09


7. Sebastian Lindholm ( Finland ) Ford Escort 5:17


8. Lasse Lampi ( Finland ) Mitsubishi Lancer 12:01


9. Rui Madeira ( Portugal ) Toyota Celica 16:34


10. Angelo Medeghini ( Italy ) Subaru Impreza 18:28


RALLYING - MAKINEN STEPS UP TITLE BID WITH LAKES WIN .


Tommi Makinen took a significant step towards becoming world rally champion with a brilliant victory in the 1000 Lakes Rally on Monday .


Mitsubishi driver Makinen stopped experienced fellow Finn Juha Kankkunen in his tracks on the final day of the 1,452-km rally , doubling his lead on the first two decisive stages .


" This was the most difficult win - three days at 125 percent effort , " said Makinen , whose success completed his 1,000 Lakes hat-trick .


Kankkunen was runner-up in his Toyota as Finland 's Jarmo Kytolehto produced a remarkable drive to finish third in his Ford .


Swede Kenneth Eriksson kept Subaru in the hunt for the manufacturers ' title with fifth place in spite of a gearbox problem that nearly forced him off the road close to the end of the event .


Maakinen 's and Mitsubishi 's positions were strengthened by the late retirement of Spain 's Carlos Sainz when his Ford gearbox failed .


Makinen , with 95 points , now leads his nearest championship rival , Sainz , by 32 points .


RALLYING - MAKINEN WINS 1,000 LAKES RALLY .


Tommi Makinen of Finland , driving a Mitsubishi , on Monday won the 1,000 Lakes Rally , sixth round of the world championship .


SOCCER - SHARPE HITS WINNER TO EASE PRESSURE ON LEEDS .


Winger Lee Sharpe hit a superb strike from the edge of the penalty area to give Leeds their first win of the season on Monday and leave hapless Wimbledon anchored at the bottom of the England premier league .


Sharpe repaid a huge slice of the 4.5 million pound ( $ 6.98 million ) fee Leeds handed Manchester United for his services with a top-draw second-half goal to hand Wimbledon their third successive defeat .


Ian Rush , the Welsh striker signed from Liverpool in the close season , set up the goal , feeding Sharpe as he galloped forward and the former England winger cut inside onto his unfavoured right foot to arc a shot into the right-hand corner of the net .


The only goal of the match also brought some relief for under-fire Leeds manager Howard Wilkinson following the team 's poor start to the season .


Home fans frequently booed their own side until Sharpe turned the jeers to cheers .


SOCCER - ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE SUMMARY .


Leeds 1 ( Sharpe 58th minute ) Wimbledon 0 .


SOCCER - ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE RESULT / STANDINGS .


Standings ( tabulated under played , won , drawn , lost , goals


CRICKET - PAKISTAN 'S WASIM AKRAM JOINS 300 CLUB .


for Pakistan in England 's second innings at The Oval on Monday


Wasim becomes the 11th player to join the 300-club of


bowlers and the second Pakistani , after Imran Khan , to achieve


Other cricketers who have taken over 300 Test wickets :


Kapil Dev ( India ) 434 wickets , 131 Tests


Malcolm Marshall ( West Indies ) 376 , 81


CRICKET - ENGLISH COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP STANDINGS .


cricket standings after Monday 's matches ( tabulated under


played , won , lost , drawn , batting bonus points , bowling bonus


CRICKET - ENGLISH COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP RESULTS .


four-day English County Championship cricket matches on Monday :


At Colchester : Essex beat Gloucestershire by an innings and


Gloucestershire 280 and 188 ( J. Russell 57 , M. Lynch 50 ;


Essex 532-8 declared ( G. Gooch 111 , R. Irani 91 ,


P. Prichard 88 , D. Robinson 72 ; M. Alleyne 4-80 ) .


D. Fulton 64 , N. Llong 63 , M. Walker 59 ) and second innings


Glamorgan first innings forfeited and 273-5 ( H. Morris


At Northampton : Northamptonshire beat Sussex by 6 wickets .


At Trent Bridge : Match abandoned as a draw - rain .


Nottinghamshire 446-9 declared and 53-0 .


Worcestershire 205-9 declared ( K. Spiring 52 ; A. Giles


( C. White 181 , R. Blakey 109 not out , M. Moxon 66 , M. Vaughan 57 ) .


Lancashire 323 ( N. Fairbrother 86 , M. Watkinson 64 ; D. Gough 4-53 )


and 231-7 ( N. Speak 77 , N. Fairbrother 55 ; D. Gough 4-48 ) .


CRICKET - PAKISTAN BEAT ENGLAND BY NINE WICKETS IN THIRD TEST .


Pakistan beat England by nine wickets on the fifth day of the third and final test at The Oval on Monday to win the series 2-0 .


Scores : England 326 and 242 ; Pakistan 521-8 declared and 48-1 .


CRICKET - ENGLAND V PAKISTAN FINAL TEST SCOREBOARD .


third and final test between England and Pakistan at the Oval on


England first innings 326 ( J. Crawley 106 , G. Thorpe 54 ; Waqar


Pakistan first innings 521-8 declared ( Saeed Anwar 176 ,


Salim Malik 100 not out , Ijaz Ahmed 61 )


England second innings ( overnight 74-0 )


M. Atherton c Inzamam-ul-Haq b Mushtaq Ahmed 43


A. Stewart c Asif Mujtaba b Mushtaq Ahmed 54


G. Thorpe c Wasim Akram b Mushtaq Ahmed 9


J. Crawley c Aamir Sohail b Wasim Akram 19


Bowling : Wasim Akram 15.4-1-67-3 , Waqar Younis 18-3-55-1 ,


Mushtaq Ahmed 37-10-78-6 , Aamir Sohail 2-1-4-0 , Mohammad Akram


First test : Lord 's - Pakistan won by 164 runs


CRICKET - PAKISTAN NEED 48 RUNS TO WIN THIRD AND FINAL TEST .


England were dismissed for 242 in their second innings on the fifth day of the third and final test at The Oval on Monday leaving Pakistan requiring 48 runs to win .


RUGBY LEAGUE - EUROPEAN SUPER LEAGUE RESULT / FINALS STANDINGS .


Final standings ( tabulated under played , won , drawn , lost ,


SOCCER - ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH LEAGUE FIXTURES - AUG 30-SEPT 1 .


English division one - West Bromwich v Sheffield United .


English division three - Swansea v Lincoln .


English division one - Birmingham v Barnsley , Bradford v


Tranmere , Grimsby v Portsmouth , Huddersfield v Crystal Palace ,


Manchester City v Charlton , Norwich v Wolverhampton , Oldham v


Ipswich , Port Vale v Oxford , Reading v Stoke , Southend v


English division two - Blackpool v Wycombe , Bournemouth v


Peterborough , Bristol Rovers v Stockport , Bury v Bristol City ,


Crewe v Watford , Gillingham v Chesterfield , Luton v Rotherham ,


Millwall v Burnley , Notts County v York , Plymouth v Preston ,


Shrewsbury v Brentford , Walsall v Wrexham .


English division three - Brighton v Scunthorpe , Cambridge v


Cardiff , Colchester v Hereford , Doncaster v Darlington , Fulham v


Carlisle , Hull v Barnet , Leyton Orient v Hartlepool , Mansfield v


Rochdale , Scarborough v Northampton , Torquay v Exeter , Wigan v


Scottish division one - East Fife v Clydebank , Greenock


Morton v Falkir , Partick v St Mirren , St Johnstone v


Scottish division two - Ayr v Berwick , Clyde v Queen of the


South , Dumbarton v Brechin , Livingston v Hamilton , Stenhousemuir


Scottish division three - Albion v Cowdenbeath , Arbroath v


East Stirling , Inverness v Alloa , Montrose v Ross County ,


English division one - Queens Park Rangers v Bolton .


SOCCER - COSTA RICA AND CHILE DRAW 1-1 IN FRIENDLY .


drew 1-1 ( halftime 1-0 ) in a friendly soccer international on


Costa Rica - Ronaldo Gonzalez ( 10th minute , penalty


SOCCER - SEYCHELLES FAIL IN BID FOR HISTORIC VICTORY .


The tiny islands of the Seychelles failed to make soccer history at the weekend when they bowed out of the preliminary rounds of the African Nations Cup .


Trailing fellow Indian Ocean islanders Mauritius 1-0 from the first leg , they were held to a 1-1 draw at home on Saturday despite playing against 10 men for most of the match .


The 2-1 aggregate took Mauritius into the group phase of the qualifiers for the 1998 finals , and kept up the Seychelles ' record of never having won an official match in their 10 years of FIFA membership .


The Seychelles must have thought they were on course for a historic breakthrough when Mauritian midfielder Andre Caboche was sent off for a crude tackle in the 19th minute .


But the visitors responded to the setback immediately -- veteran striker Ashley Mocude scoring a minute later to give them a two-goal aggregate lead .


Although Danny Rose 's 50th-minute equaliser gave the Seychellois renewed hope they could not find the net again and were eliminated .


Mauritius now play in group seven of the qualifiers against Malawi , Mozambique and favourites Zambia .


Namibia , who drew 0-0 with Botswana in their first leg , won the second leg in Windhoek 6-0 to stretch their unbeaten run to eight matches and continue their remarkable progress on the African soccer stage .


They now play in group five with Cameroon , Gabon and Kenya .


German-based striker Bachirou Salou returned home to Togo to score the decisive only goal of their tie against Congo .


Salou , who plays for MSV Duisburg in the Bundesliga , scored in the 53rd minute of Sunday 's match in Lome for a 1-0 aggregate win which takes his side into group six , where they will meet Liberia , Tanzania and Zaire .


Ethiopia needed a penalty shoot-out in Addis Ababa to overcome Uganda after a 2-2 aggregate scoreline .


Both legs ended 1-1 before Ethiopia won the spot kick decider 4-2 .


Uganda 's elimination follows their humiliating 5-1 aggregate defeat by Angola in June 's World Cup qualifying preliminaries .


The other preliminary round second leg match , between Mauritania and Benin in Nouakchott , was postponed until Friday .


SOCCER - AFRICAN NATIONS CUP COLLATED RESULTS .


Collated results of African Nations Cup preliminary round , second leg matches played at the weekend :


Central African Republic walkover v Burundi


Winners progress to qualifying groups to start in October .


SOCCER - UKRAINIAN PREMIER DIVISION RESULTS / STANDINGS .


Prykarpattya Ivano-Frankivsk 0 Zirka-Nibas Kirovohrad 0


Chornomorets Odessa 2 Metalurg Zaporizhya 1


Standings ( tabulated under played , won , drawn , lost , goals


SWIMMING - POPOV IN `SERIOUS CONDITION ' AFTER STABBING .


Russian double Olympic swimming champion Alexander Popov was in a serious condition on Monday after being stabbed on a Moscow street .


A doctor said it was too early to say whether Popov , the only man to retain the Olympic 50 and 100 metres freestyle titles , would return to top-level sport .


" His condition is serious , " said Rimma Maslova , deputy chief doctor of Hospital No 31 in the Russian capital . "


But he is conscious and is talking and smiling . "


Maslova told Reuters she was not an expert in sports medicine , but said it was too early to judge Popov 's chances of returning to competitive swimming .


Popov , who won gold in the 50 and 100 metres freestyle at the recent Atlanta Olympics , was stabbed in the abdomen late on Saturday after an argument with a group of roadside watermelon sellers in south-west Moscow .


Maslova said the wound had affected a lung and a kidney .


Doctors operated on Popov , 24 , for three hours .


Popov told NTV television on Sunday he was in no danger and promised he would be back in the pool shortly . "


We 're going to be walking soon -- and swimming , " he insisted cheerfully from his bed in the intensive care unit .


Interfax news agency said police had detained one of the attackers .


It said the row started when Popov and a group of his friends were returning from a party .


Vitaly Smirnov , president of the Russian National Olympic Committee , said President Boris Yeltsin had given the swimmer Russia 's top award for his Olympic performance . "


I am not a doctor but I think he is doing all right , " said Smirnov .


Smirnov said the Olympic Committee might ask the government to take measures to protect the country 's best athletes , some of whom have already chosen to live abroad for fear of a surge in crime in post-Soviet Russia .


SOCCER - SLOVAK FIRST DIVISION RESULTS / STANDINGS .


division soccer matches at the weekend :


Petrimex Prievidza 2 FC Rimavska Sobota 0


Standings ( tabulate under games played , won , drawn , lost ,


SOCCER - HUNGARY FIRST DIVISION RESULTS / STANDINGS .


soccer results and standings from weekend and bank holiday :


Standings ( tabulated under played , won , drawn , lost , goals


*Name of Parmalat / Fehervar FC has been changed to Videoton .


SOCCER - CZECH FIRST DIVISION RESULTS / STANDINGS .


first division soccer matches at the weekend :


Playing Monday : Viktoria Plzen v AC Sparta Praha


SOCCER - MEXICAN CHAMPIONSHIP RESULTS / STANDINGS .


SOCCER - PLAYERS LEAVE MATCH EARLY TO CATCH PLANE .


Two key players left a Brazilian championship match early on Sunday because they had to catch a plane to Russia to play with the national team .


Sao Paulo midfielder Andre and Santos defender Narciso were both substituted during their teams ' game , taken to Sao Paulo airport and flown to Rio de Janeiro in a private jet chartered by the Brazilian Football Confederation ( CBF ) .


At Rio , they joined up with the national team squad for the journey to Moscow , where Brazil will face Russia in a friendly international on Wednesday .


The problem arose because the Sao Paulo-Santos clash was selected as the day 's televised live match , forcing it to be put back three hours from the usual kickoff time .


Santos suffered more from their loss as Narciso 's replacement Jean gave away a penalty from which Sao Paulo scored the decisive goal in a 2-1 win .


Sao Paulo lead the first stage of the championship on goal difference from surprise package Juventude , who beat Internacional 2-1 .


Corinthians , who played in a tournament in Spain last week , also faced a plane marathon as they attempted to keep up with a hectic fixture list .


They were due to leave Spain Monday night , arrive in Sao Paulo on Tuesday morning , catch another plane to the southern city of Curitiba one hour later and then play away to Atletico Paranaense in the Brazilian championship the same evening .


Botafogo striker Tulio , who was overlooked by Zagalo for the tour which also features a game away to the Netherlands on Sunday , scored his third goal in three games as the defending champions beat Bahia 2-1 away .


Tulio , who has been top-scorer in the competition for the last two seasons , has been struggling against injury for most of this year .


SOCCER - ARGENTINE CHAMPIONSHIP RESULTS .


opening weekend of the Argentine Apertura championship :


Playing Monday : Deportivo Espanol v Colon


Note : the Apertura is the first of two championships played


SOCCER - HONDURAS BEAT CUBA 4-0 IN FRIENDLY .


( halftime 3-0 ) in a friendly soccer international on Sunday .


Scorers : Juan Castro ( 3rd minute ) , Enrique Centeno ( 33rd and


SOCCER - BRAZILIAN CHAMPIONSHIP RESULTS / STANDINGS .


soccer championship matches played at the weekend .


Standings ( tabulated under played , won , drawn , lost , goals


Note : Top eight teams qualify for the quarter-finals .


teams are level on points , positions are determined by the


BASKETBALL - PHILIPPINE PRO-LEAGUE RESULTS .


Results of semi-final round games played on late Sunday in the Philippine Basketball Association second conference , which includes American players :


Formula Shell beat Ginebra San Miguel 89-86 ( 45-46 half-time )


SOCCER - RESULTS OF SOUTH KOREAN PRO-SOCCER GAMES .


Standings after games played on Sunday ( tabulate under -


won , drawn , lost , goals for , goals against , points ) :


BASEBALL - RESULTS OF S. KOREAN PRO-BASEBALL GAMES .


Standings after games played on Sunday ( tabulate under won ,


drawn , lost , winning percentage , games behind first place )


SOCCER - MOROCCAN FIRST DIVISION RESULTS .


TENNIS - QUENCH YOUR THIRST - IF YOU CAN AFFORD IT AT U.S. OPEN .


A message on television monitors all around the National Tennis Centre reads : " Due to hot weather please seek shade and drink plenty of fluids " -- sound advice until you check out the price of fluids .


Perhaps the advisory was cut off before concluding : " ...and bring plenty of money . "


A small bottle of a garishly-coloured sports drink at the sun-drenched U.S. Open is going for $ 3.75 , while a litre of basic , life-sustaining water will set you back $ 4.00 -- for water ?


" At the Olympics water was only a dollar , and that was the Olympics , " said one incredulous fan , noting that the Atlanta Games had been notorious for price gouging .


U.S. Open officials managed to insult most of the male tennis players last week with their controversial handling of the seeding and draw .


When the tournament began on Monday it was the fans ' turn to be offended .


" That baked lasagna better be good for $ 8.50 , " said New Yorker Rebecca Weinstein , a U.S. Open regular who was eating a sandwich she had brought from home .


A trio of hungry fans at the food court who had already forked over the lasagna money pronounced it good , but Carol Perry chimed in , " The water is ridiculous , they want four dollars for the water , you might as well get a glass of wine . "


Indeed , a nice glass of chardonnay or white zinfandel was going for $ 4.75 , while an imported beer was just a bit more than the water at $ 4.50 .


Maybe they want us to be alcoholics , " Perry joked before lifting her glass of wine .


Fans will be shelling out $ 12.50 for a hamburger and a large french fries .


And that little snack is guaranteed to make you thirsty .


Even a sandwich as pedestrian as a ham and swiss cheese is going for a whopping $ 8.00 .


Of course , it is served on a tuscan roll .


It must be the cost of flying those rolls over from Tuscany every day that drives up the price of the sandwich .


TENNIS - HUBER AND MALEEVA FALL , UP-AND-COMERS ADVANCE AT OPEN .


Martina Hingis led a youthful charge and Australian Open finalist Anke Huber and Magdalena Maleeva were fallen seeds on Monday in a hot , sunny opening to the U.S. Open tennis championships .


The 15-year-old Hingis , seeded 16th , was honoured to play the first match of the season 's last Grand Slam on Stadium Court but happy to hurry off with a straight-sets victory over the 112th-ranked Angeles Montolio of Spain .


" It was very hot and I did n't want to stay long on the court , " said a cheery Hingis , who had no worries in racing to a 6-1 6-0 victory against the overmatched Spaniard .


Hoping for a longer engagement on the cement at Flushing Meadows were the sixth-seeded Huber of Germany and 12th seed Maleeva of Bulgaria .


Huber , who lost to Monica Seles in the Australian Open final , fell victim to an unfortunate draw in bowing to dangerous floater Amanda Coetzer of South Africa .


Coetzer , ranked 17th , avenged her defeat to Huber in the Australian Open semifinals by winning 6-1 2-6 6-2 .


" I looked at it as not a first round match , just a great challenge for me , " said Coetzer , 24 . "


I was really concentrating on keeping my own momentum and my own rhythm .


" She is tough to play in that way because she plays very up and down .


She played one great game and than a few errors .


The challenge was just for me to keep playing my own game . "


Huber , who reached the final a week ago at Manhattan Beach , could only mourn her luck of the draw .


She was the first non- seeded player , " said the 21-year-old German . "


It 's always tough to play somebody like that in the first round in a Grand Slam .


" I think I did n't play that bad today .


It was maybe my best first round match in a Grand Slam I ever played . "


Monday brought the best out in U.S. Open rookie Aleksandra Olsza of Poland , ranked 110th .


The 18-year-old Olsza , last year 's Wimbledon junior champion , celebrated her debut in the main draw of the Open by removing Maleeva 6-4 6-2 .


The curtain-raising victories by Hingis and Olsza provided a ringing endorsement for the newest wave of women 's players coming up from the junior ranks .


The Swiss teenager , a twice French Open junior champion and a Wimbledon juniors winner , had already proven her main stage mettle by reaching the quarters at this year 's Australian Open .


" I hope I can get into the last 16 , " said Hingis , seeded to face third seed Arantxa Sanchez Vicario in the fourth round .


Hingis has been working hard on conditioning and has lost eight pounds ( 3.5 kilos ) in advance of the championships .


" There will be tough matches but I hope I can get there , " she said . "


Then we 'll see if Arantxa will be there , too . "


The fast-moving Olsza , 18 , was cool in her opening match .


" I was n't scared when I heard that I was playing Maleeva , " said Olsza . "


I know that if I want to play professional tennis I have to do my best to try to beat her and I ca n't be scared . "


Olsza is undaunted by the level of competition in the pros .


" In terms of tennis , I think the junior players are really good now .


In a few years , it could change a lot among the top players . "


Two big-serving women 's players made quick work of Japanese opponents .