Miscellany

Maurice Greene, the world champion at 100 meters, equaled the world indoor 60-meter record at the Stuttgart Games in Stuttgart, Germany, clocking 6.41 seconds.

A record 16 yacht clubs will compete in the challenge for the America’s Cup in Auckland, New Zealand, in February 2000.

Artax led all the way to win the $107,200 Santa Catalina Stakes for 3-year-olds at Santa Anita in Arcadia, Calif., by 5-1/2 lengths over favored Souvenir Copy. Artax covered 1 miles in 1:42-1/5. As the second choice in the field of six, he paid $6.20 to win.

Anna May “Hutch” Hutchison, a star in the women’s professional baseball circuit immortalized in the film “A League of Their Own,” died at the age of 73 in Racine, Wis.