Miscellany

Sat., May 18, 1996

Compiled From Wire Services

Olympic organizers have released a third wave of previously sold-out, high-demand tickets.

Some 40,000 tickets to 52 sessions of swimming, diving, synchronized swimming and water polo, as well as all 13 equestrian sessions go on sale by telephone and Internet at 6 a.m. PDT today.

After a four-year search for a Triple-A baseball team, a group of Fresno, Calif., investors announced it had signed a contract to buy the Phoenix Firebirds of the Pacific Coast League.

The team will be called the Grizzlies and should begin play in Fresno in 1998, the year the major league Arizona Diamondbacks begin play. The Grizzlies would become California’s lone Triple-A team.

Paul “Red” Carr, who managed boxing champions Jimmy Goodrich and Jimmy Slattery in the 1920s, died Wednesday at age 101 in Buffalo, N.Y.

Ronald “Winky” Wright used an effective right jab to take control early, then held off a strong finish by Bronco McKart to claim the WBO junior middleweight title in Monroe, Mich.

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Miscellany

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