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LOS AN GELES— Harold “Pee
W ee” Reese, the Hall o f Fame short­
stop o f the Brooklyn Dodgers whose
friendship helped Jackie Robinson
break baseball’s color line, died today
in Louisville, Kentucky. He was 81.
The D odgers announced the death
o f one o f their all-tim e greats but
gave no other details. Reese spent
his entire 16-year career with the
Dodgers, appearing in seven W orld
Series. He played 15 years in B rook­
lyn and follow ed the team to Los
A ngeles for one m ore season before
retiring in 1958.
Sampras Defeats Champ
B y TERRY K IN N E Y
.c T he A ssociated P ress
MASON, Ohio — Pete Sampras
avenged last year's loss to Patrick Rafter
in the $2.45 million ATPChampionship.
beating the Australian 7-6 (9-7), 6-3 on
Sunday for his 60th tournament title.
Sam pras has w on 22 consecutive
m atches and four tournam ents, in­
cluding the Queen ’ s Cup, Wimbledon
and Los A ngeles, in the second long­
est streak o f his career. He won 29 in
a row in 1994.
“ Pete never let m e play well, it's
as sim ple as th a t,” R after said.
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“C ouldn’t get into the game. He ju st
serv ed too big and too hard. There
w eren ’t long points out there, and it’s
ju st too hard to play tough ten n is.”
Sam pras served 12 aces, landing
67 percent o f his first serves.
“ From the first couple o f gam es, I
felt like m y rhythm w as th e re ,”
Sam pras said. “ I felt 1 was hitting big,
and I was hitting close to the line.
A nd you com bine those two, I think
he felt it was going to be tough to
break m e.”
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1990s, the happier it seemed to m ake
her W hen she was playing in the
1980s and ju st dominating, she never
looked that happy and I think she really
learned to appreciate the gam e the
older she got and the more she played.
I definitely remember watching her
when I was growing up and she was
always dominating. She has a great
place in the history o f w om en’s tennis.
Woods Takes Home
Trophy After Thrilling
Victory
B n DOUG FERGUSON_______________
Mets Complete What They Started
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M E D IN A H , 111. — T ig e r
W oods w ins an o th er m a jo r c h a m ­
p io n sh ip and g o lf m ig h t finally
h av e a real riv alry to c a rry w ell
into the 21st cen tu ry .
Leading the PGA C ham pionship
by four strokes S unday, W oods
stared dow n from the 13th tee box
across Lake K adijah at w hat m ust
have looked like his reflection.
T h ere w as th is k id — at least
c o m p a r e d to th e 2 3 - y e a r - o ld
© T he A ssociated P ress
the Retirement of Steffi Graf
The New York Mets came within
one gam e o f a record that few people
cared about. Sammy Sosa is within one
homer o f Mark M cGwire in the chase
that everyone keeps talking about.
K enny Rogers pitched the M ets’
first com plete gam e o f the season -
stopping their streak o f 139 gam es
w ithout one - and N ew Y ork beat the
San Francisco G iants 12-5 Sunday.
Sosa meanwhile hit two-run hom ­
ers in each o f his first two at-bats,
giving him 46 overall, but the Chicago
Cubs lost to the St. Louis Cardinals 6-
5. Sosa is now one hom e run behind
M cGwire for the major league lead.
“ I know th ey ’re 1 and 2 and th ey ’ll
probably finish up that w ay,” C ubs
m anager Jim Rigglem an said. “There
are so m any variables, but n o thing’s
changed, and th ey ’re doing it again.”
S ports T icke . r
Billie Jean King "A n all-time great
singles player, I’m glad that she was
able to retire from w om en’s tennis on
her own terms. I hope she will keep
some involvement and commitment to
the sport for the rest o fh er life. W e will
miss her great athletic ability.”
Lindsay D avenport “It cam e as a
little bit o f a surprise. I was really
expecting her to kind o f end her career
at the U S. O pen, so it is a little bit o f
a surprise. Also, a little bit o f sadness.
She’s obviously one the greatest play­
ers that has ever played and done so
much for the sport. It’s kind o f am az­
ing to think that she is gone.
“W hat I thought was really great,
was the older she got and the more she
was winning, probably in the mid
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W o o d s — full o f e v e ry th in g b ut
fear. He skipped and sp rin ted dow n
fairw ay s, sm iled an d tip p e d his
cap to an ad o rin g g a lle ry and hit
sh o ts th a t p la y ers tw ic e his age
co u ld n ev e r im agine.
“ I ’m su re he re c o g n iz e d m e ,”
said S erg io G arcia, th e 19-year-
o ld w h o is ca lled “ El N in o ” and is
o fte n referre d to as the E u ro p ean
an sw e r to W oods.
W oods su rely rec o g n ize d w hat
fo llo w ed . G arcia m ade the 15-foot
b ird ie p u tt on th e par-3 13th to
g e n e ra te so m e
d ram a on the back
n in e o f M ed in ah
C o u n t r y C lu b ,
then p ie rc e d the
a ir w ith his fist
a n d lo o k e d t o ­
w ard W oods.
“ I w anted him
to know that I was
still there, and to
show them that he
had to finish w ell,”
G arcia said.
W o o d s
s t u m b le d ,
but
o n ly b rie fly . In
co n ten tio n for the
th ird straig h t tim e
in a m ajo r c h a m ­
p io n sh ip , he g ath ­
e re d h im s e lf in
tim e to m a k e a
clu tch p ar save on
the 17th h o le and
w in th e P G A
C ham pionship.
“ T o co m e o u t o f it on to p took
e v e r y th in g o u t o f m e ,” s a id
W oods, the y o u n g e st p la y e r sin c e
S eve B a lle ste ro s in 1980 to w in
tw o m ajo rs.
W oods, w ho had a fiv e-stro k e
lead w ith seven holes to play, m ade
a ro u tin e tw o -p u tt on th e 18 th hole
to clo se w ith an ev e n -p ar 72 and a
o n e-stro k e victo ry o v e r G arcia.
W oods fin ish ed at 11-u n d er 277
and w on $ 6 3 0 ,0 0 0 fo r his fourth
v ic to ry o f the year.
U n lik e his 12-stroke v ic to ry in
th e M asters tw o y ears ago, W oods
w a sn ’t all sm iles o v e r th e final
h o les, and he d id n ’t th ro w o ne o f
th o se w in d m ill air p u n ch es that
h av e b eco m e his tradem ark.
This was more a sigh o f relief.
A n d u n lik e th at h isto ric day at
A u g u sta N atio n al, no o ne is w ill­
ing to co n ced e the fu tu re o f g o lf
b elo n g s so lely to W oods — le ast
o f all G arcia.
“ I said w hen I turned pro that I
w anted to be the No. 1 golfer in the
w orld,’' G arcia said. “A nd so, I knew
I w as going to be a rival for T ig er.”
W oods has been d efle ctin g talk
o f a riv alry the p ast tw o y ears,
w h e th e r it w as E rnie Els o r Ju stin
L eo n ard , Phil M ick elso n o r even
D av id D uval, a fo u r-tim e w in n er
this y ea r w ho w as n o w h ere to be
fo u n d Sunday.
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h ap p en ed Sunday on a m agical day
at M ed in ah .
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