BRIEFLY : FREDERICKS OUTSPRINTS FAST FIELD KIPKETER WINS 800; OTTEY TOPS DEVERS.

Secure with his Olympic gold medal and world record, Canada's Donovan Bailey wasn't all that upset at finishing third in Monday's season-ending track and field meet in Tokyo.

``I'm just glad I was able to be here to participate,'' Bailey said after losing a showdown with Namibia's Frankie Fredericks and Dennis Mitchell at the Toto Super International meet.

Fredericks, who finished second to Bailey's gold-medal, world-record run in the Olympics, was timed in 10.02 seconds. ``It's such a good feeling to win against the world record-holder,'' he said.

Mitchell, the U.S. runner who was fourth in Atlanta, was second in 10.08 and Bailey third in 10.14, well off his record of 9.84.

Carl Lewis, who set a world record of 9.86 here in 1991, finished a distant sixth in 10.37 and said he was bothered by an injured left hamstring. He went home with a special award - some Japanese dolls from the sponsors.

Jamaican Merlene Ottey, 36, beat American rival Gail Devers in the women's 100, for the second time this month, in 10.94. Devers was second in 11.14.

In the day's best race, Wilson Kipketer, a Kenyan who runs for Denmark, turned in the fourth-fastest 800-meter time ever, covering the two laps in 1:42.17.

BASKETBALL

Alvin Robertson, 34, remained jailed in San Antonio after a judge rejected a plea bargain that would have given the former NBA All-Star a 10-year probated sentence for burglary of his former girlfriend's apartment.

A judge in Chesapeake, Va., dismissed a malicious-wounding charge against Golden State Warriors forward Joe Smith, who had been accused of striking a male dancer with a beer bottle in a bar. An elated Smith broke into tears immediately after the decision was announced. Witnesses were consistent in saying that Smith was not involved in what happened to the dancer.

Kevin Daley, who played last year as a true freshman at Nevada, has transferred to UCLA, Bruins head coach Jim Harrick announced.

SOCCER

Carlos Queiroz will resign as coach of the New York/New Jersey MetroStars after the Major League Soccer season to take a job in Japan that reportedly will pay him $2 million annually.

The United States will play its home World Cup qualifying game against Trinidad and Tobago in Richmond, Va. - switched from Foxboro, Mass. The game will be played at University of Richmond Stadium on Sunday, Nov. 10.

MOTOR SPORTS

A trio of drivers, injured in separate crashes in Sunday's Las Vegas 500K, were being held in the city's University Medical Center. Brad Murphy, who fractured his right hip in a collision, was in fair condition. Tony Stewart, the victim of a one-car crash which sent him hurtling into the wall, was in fair condition with a fracture to his left shoulder blade. Mark Dismore, also injured in a one-car incident, was in stable condition with a pelvic fracture.

ETC.

Sensitive to charges that his company's Southeast Asian factories are sweatshops where workers are underpaid and mistreated, Nike chairman Phil Knight took his case to shareholders. In a letter to them, and in comments at their annual meeting where Nike (a big maker of sports shoes and clothes) reported record quarterly earnings, Knight said his company has been a leader in improving working conditions in the Third World, particularly in Indonesia. . . .

Ski champion Alberto Tomba has agreed to pay a $1,000 fine in Fermo, Italy, sparing him a 20-day jail term for a fracas he had with a photographer two years ago, Italian news agencies reported.

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Photo: Frankie Fredericks of Namibia (14) crosses the finis h line in Tokyo ahead of Donovan Bailey, left, and Dennis Mitchell, right.

Associated Press