Sports People
Franzi van Almsick of Germany won two more gold medals at the European Swimming Championships in Vienna, Austria, giving her four in three days. One of the golds came in the 400-meter freestyle where she posted the fastest time of the year - 4 minutes, 8.37 seconds. … Eugene McDowell, the seventh-leading scorer in Florida basketball history, died after collapsing at a nightclub in Casselberry, Fla., early Thursday. He was 31. … Josephine Morabito Fox, one of the first women to have majority ownership of a professional sports franchise, died of congestive heart failure in San Jose, Calif. The Cupertino resident combined her 30 percent share in the 49ers franchise with the 25 percent share of the other cofounder’s widow in 1964, eight years after her first husband’s death.
She was 84.