Ex-Coach Named General Manager For Philadelphia

-- PRO BASKETBALL

Gene Shue, the fourth winningest coach in NBA history and a former coach and player of the 76ers, was named the Philadelphia team's general manager today.

Shue was given a two-year contract. No terms were released.

His teams won 784 games in his 23 season as an NBA head coach. He, Bill Fitch, Don Nelson and Cotton Fitsimmons are the only coaches in league history named coach of the year twice.

``I think we're very fortunate to have a man like Gene available for this job,'' said owner Harold Katz. ``After meeting all the candidates, I felt that Gene's experience and his know-how made him perfect for the job.''

Shue succeeds John Nash, who resigned at the end of last season and is now general manager of the Washington Bullets. Katz also announced that Bob Weinhauer had been promoted from his position as personnel director and chief scout to assistant general manager. ``He (Weinhauer) will be directly responsible to Shue,'' Katz said.

In six years at Washington, Shue won four division titles and reached the playoffs five times.

-- The NBA and its players' association continued to act like partners instead of adversaries when they jointly announced a unique pre-pension plan designed to guarantee former players income between the ages of 30 and 50. Of more immediate interest, however, was the announcement that the league and players had agreed to minimum salary-cap levels for the final four years of their collective-bargaining agreement.

-- TENNIS

Zina Garrison and Jennifer Capriati won singles matches and Garrison teamed with Gigi Fernandez for a doubles victory as the United States defeated Poland 3-0 in the first round of the Federation Cup in suburban Atlanta. Garrison beat Katarzyna Nowak 6-0, 6-1 and Capriati defeated Magdalena Mroz 6-3, 6-1 in singles. Garrison and Gigi Fernandez beat Mroz and Renata Skrzypzynska 6-0, 6-0 in doubles.

-- Ninth-seeded David Wheaton defeated Malivai Washington 6-4, 6-4 and 11th-seeded Richey Reneberg beat Gilad Bloom 2-6, 6-2, 6-1 in the first round of the $1.5 million Player's International in Toronto.

-- GOLF

Lou Allemann shot a four-under-par 67 to take a one-stroke lead after two rounds of the 54-hole Rosauers Open Invitational tournament in Spokane. Pat Fitzsimons shot a 66 to add to his first-round 68 for 134 on the 6,300-yard, par-71 Indian Canyon course.

-- BASEBALL

Chris Gomez drove in the winning run in the ninth inning as the United States beat the Cuban national team 6-5 in Tennessee, tying their exhibition series at a game apiece. The decisive game of the three-game series will be played tonight. The series serves as preparation for the two teams before traveling to Seattle for the Goodwill Games and to Edmonton, Alberta, for the IBA World Championships.

-- BOXING

Undefeated Humberto Gonzalez of Mexico City successfully defended his World Boxing Council light-flyweight championship for the fourth time last night with a fifth-round technical knockout of Jung-Keun Lim of South Korea.

Gonzalez floored Lim with a punch late in the fourth round and opened the fifth with a flurry of blows including a powerful right-hand shot that spun Lim around. Referee Rudy Ortega stopped the fight 34 seconds into the fifth round of the fight in Inglewood, Calif.

-- COLLEGE BASEBALL

The Pac-10 North's all-star team dropped its second straight 7-6 decision yesterday in the Haarlem Baseball Tournament in The Netherlands. Scott Hatteburg of Washington State had four hits in five at-bats to lead the Pacific-10 Conference team. Jason Geis of the University of Portland batted 2 for 3, including a double; and Kevin Stocker of the University of Washington had two hits in four at-bats. The tournament will conclude Sunday. On Sunday, the Pac-10 lost its opening game 7-6 to the Chinese-Taipei team.

-- COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Colorado tailback Eric Bieniemy has been suspended for one game and will sit out CU's Aug. 26 opener against Tennessee because of an alleged fight with an Aurora firefighter. Coach Bill McCartney announced the suspension yesterday of CU's No. 4 all-time leading rusher, saying that it was not an easy decision.

CU faces Tennessee Aug. 26 in the Disneyland Pigskin Classic in Anaheim, Calif.

-- LOCAL NOTES

Donny Marshall of Federal Way scored 26 points and Bryant Boston of Seattle's Garfield High had 13 yesterday as the Washington State senior all-star basketball team beat Utah 66-63 at the BCI tournament in Tempe, Ariz. The Washington team today was scheduled to play New York Riverside Church, the defending national champion.

The Seattle junior all-star team lost to Long Beach, Calif., 82-62. Whitney Dixon of Tacoma's Wilson High scored 15 points and Fred Brown Jr. of Mercer Island had 11.