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Sports Briefs: Garber memorial set for Saturday at St. Paul's Episcopal
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Published: September 24, 2008
A memorial for Mary Garber, a longtime sportswriter at the Winston-Salem Journal who died earlier this week, will be held Saturday at 11 a.m. at St. Paul's Episcopal Church on Summit Street.
Garber, 92, died on Sunday.
The service is open to the public.
Garber graduated from Hollins College (now Hollins University) in Roanoke, Va., in 1938. She first worked in newspapers as a society and general news writer and a sports department fill-in during World War II, when the regular sportswriters were in military service.
Garber won numerous awards during her career including the prestigious Associated Press Sports Editors' Red Smith Award in 2005. She became the first woman to win the Red Smith Award.
Garber's career at the Journal and The Twin City Sentinel started in 1940 and continued until the late 1990s.
Soccer
■ The top-ranked Wake Forest men's team will play Appalachian State tonight at 7 o'clock at Spry Stadium.
The Deacons (6-0) are coming off a 6-2 road win over UC Santa Barbara.
Coach Jay Vidovich of the Deacons said: "It's going to be a very difficult turnaround for us to get ready to play a good Appalachian State team. Appalachian State is having a tremendous year. Their new coach has done a great job with them."
Appalachian State is 5-1 this season and is coming off a 1-0 win over Campbell.
Wake Forest leads the all-time series against Appalachian State 16-2, including a 14-1 record in games in Winston-Salem.
Basketball
■ Guard Juan Dixon signed a free-agent contract with the Washington Wizards yesterday, returning to the team that drafted him after he led Maryland to an NCAA title.
Dixon played his first three NBA seasons with the Wizards, from 2002-03 to 2004-05. He has also been with Portland, Toronto and Detroit, averaging 8.9 points, 1.7 assists and 1.9 rebounds over six seasons.
After beginning last season with the Raptors, Dixon was traded to the Pistons in February.
He was selected the Most Outstanding Player of the 2002 Final Four for helping Maryland win the national championship, then was picked in the first round of that year's NBA Draft by the Wizards.
■ The San Antonio Spurs signed George Hill, their first-round pick, yesterday.
The Spurs took Hill with the 26th selection, but didn't have to sign him. Hill participated in summer league with the Spurs and had been working out in San Antonio since Aug. 18, despite the fact that he hadn't officially signed.
Golf
■ Winston-Salem's Logan Jackson lost in the third round of match play at the U.S. Senior Amateur in Fort Worth, Texas.
Jackson shot an 11-over-par 153 in the stroke-play portion of the championship, just making the cut to advance to match play. He defeated Michael Kelly of Odenton, Md., 2 and 1 in Monday's first round, then rolled to a 6-and-5 win over Sam Till Jr. of Fort Wayne, Ind., yesterday.
Jackson later lost 1 up to a formidable opponent in yesterday's third round at Shady Oaks Country Club: Vinny Giles, a former winner of both the U.S. Amateur (1972) and the British Amateur (1975). Giles pulled out a 1 up win over Jackson in the round of 16.
Auto racing
■ Lewis Hamilton lost his appeal to overturn his penalty from the Belgian Grand Prix yesterday, leaving the McLaren driver with a one-point lead over Ferrari rival Felipe Massa in the Formula One standings with four races remaining.
Hamilton finished first at Spa this month but was docked 25 seconds and dropped to third place for cutting a chicane. The victory was awarded to Massa.
Hamilton's lead is down to one point after the Italian GP.
Hamilton argued his case Monday before a three-judge panel on the International Court of Appeal, hoping to increase his lead to seven points, but FIA maintained that the stewards made the correct decision at the time.
"Article 152 of the International Sporting Code states that drive-through penalties are ‘not susceptible to appeal,'" FIA said in a statement.
Hamilton arrived yesterday in Singapore to prepare for Sunday's F1 race.
■ Dan Wheldon will test at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Monday and mark his return to Panther Racing in a non-points race in Australia next month.
Wheldon, a 30-year-old Englishman who first drove for Panther in two races six years ago, will also test at Sebring, Fla., before heading to Australia for the Oct. 26 IRL race at Surfers Paradise.
Wheldon joined the IRL as a test driver for Panther in 2002 and made his first start late that season at Chicagoland Speedway, where he finished 10th. He won the Indianapolis 500 and the IndyCar championship with Andretti Green Racing in 2005.
Track & field
■ The NCAA upheld sanctions against Arkansas' program, although the school still hopes to keep two national titles in question.
Arkansas said yesterday it will ask an NCAA committee handling track-and-field scoring to clarify how many points the Razorbacks must vacate from the 2004 and 2005 men's outdoor national championships. The Razorbacks won the title both years.
Arkansas was penalized for violations involving sprint star Tyson Gay and a former assistant coach.
The NCAA handed down its decision last October, taking away the two national titles and giving the school three years' probation.
The school appealed, calling the penalties excessive. Yesterday the NCAA said it had denied Arkansas' attempt to change the start date of its probationary period -- and that meet results from when Gay competed should still be vacated.
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