Pattersons Are First Father-Son Boxing Champions

Tracy Harris Patterson's first surprise came when he hurt Thierry Jacob early and often. The second came when Jacob managed to answer the bell for the second round.

"I caught him with some good punches toward the end of the first of the first round, and I was kind of surprised I hurt him," Patterson said after stopping Jacob in the second round last night in Albany, N.Y., to take the WBC super-bantamweight championship away from the Frenchman.

After connecting on a half-dozen right hands at the end of the first round, including two in the last seconds that sent the champion to the canvas, Patterson raised his arms, thinking referee Arthur Mercante Jr. would stop the fight.

"I thought he was going to stop it there because he (Jacob) was wobbling all over the place," Patterson said.

Mercante didn't, but Jacob didn't last much longer. The challenger finished him off with some left-right combinations, then one last right, and Mercante stopped the fight 50 seconds into the second round.

The victory made Patterson, 27, and his father, two-time heavyweight champ Floyd Patterson, the first father-son team to win championships. The elder Patterson is his adopted son's manager and trainer, and he embraced Tracy after his victory..

"As I said before the fight, if he could win, this would be the proudest moment of my life. He won, and this is the proudest moment of my life," Floyd said.

-- OLYMPICS

The African National Congress will ask South African sporting bodies to pull out of all international sports including next month's Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, in protest of a massacre of township blacks.

Steve Tshwete, ANC sports chief and national executive committee member, said today in Johannesburg that the black opposition movement would call a summit of sports bodies soon to hear the ANC's request.

"The country is in a state of mourning. We will ask sporting bodies to reimpose the moratorium until the political situation is normalized," Tshwete said.

-- JURISPRUDENCE

The head of the Clark County, Nevada, grand jury says an investigation of UNLV, including the resignation of basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian, has uncovered evidence that crimes were committed, and that several public officials and private citizens may be involved.

Forewoman Patricia Randell says there is also evidence that federal laws, state civil laws and state ethics codes may have been broken.

Her accusations came in a letter to Legislative Counsel Lorne Malkiewich.

-- FOOTBALL

The owner and general manager of the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League will meet with free-agent quarterback Mark Rypien tomorrow in Portland.

They reportedly plan to discuss a two-year offer worth $6 million with the former Washington Redskins player.

-- Scott Baldwin, Nebraska running back who was found not responsible by reason of insanity in two January assaults, won't play this year, his attorneys said today.

-- BICYCLING

Giorgio Furlan of Italy held on to his overall lead in the Tour of Switzerland through the race's toughest leg today ending in La Punt.

French cyclist Eric Boyer won the eighth stage, a 148-mile run, the longest of the tour's 10 stages.

Furlan finished in a pack of about 10 riders immediately behind Boyer, and will take a comfortable 31-second into the last Alpine stage tomorrow.

-- SOCCER

Mike Burns scored two goals to lift the U.S. Olympic team to a 3-2 victory over the Miami Freedom in Hialeah, Fla.

-- SKEET SHOOTING

Matt Dryke of Sumner hit 99 of 100 targets and was in second place after the first day of the four-day U.S. International Shooting Championships in Chino, Calif.