BRIEFLY : GRAF HURT, PULLS OUT OF FINAL VS. HINGIS.

Top-ranked Steffi Graf, succumbing to a knee injury that was aggravated during the semifinals, withdrew from today's championship match of the Pan Pacific Open tennis tournament in Tokyo against 16-year-old Swiss phenom Martina Hingis.

Graf, who was hurt last summer, said the injury flared up during Saturday's 6-1, 7-5 semifinal victory over eighth-seeded Brenda Schultz-McCarthy.

Graf's withdrawal prevented a title match between the two highest-ranked players in women's tennis.

Hingis, whose victory in the recent Australian Open made her the youngest Grand Slam winner in this century, got to the final by beating fourth-seeded Anke Huber of Germany 6-1, 5-7, 6-2.

Goran Ivanisevic made it to the final of the Croatian Indoors in Zagreb, the tournament he co-owns, and will play Greg Rusedski of Great Britain for the title. Top-seeded Ivanisevic easily defeated Javier Sanchez 6-2, 6-4 in 59 minutes.

Rusedski beat the Thomas Enqvist of Sweden in the other semifinal 6-4, 6-4.

BASEBALL: Two more players were arrested on game-fixing charges in a growing gambling scandal involving Taiwan's professional baseball teams. Eagles catcher Chang Cheng-shien and Whales outfielder Yang Chang-hsin both confessed to deliberately losing games to help gamblers win their bets, prosecutor Huang Po-ling said.

Gambling is illegal in Taiwan, but bets on professional baseball are rife, ranging from spectators making casual wagers to underworld syndicates seeking big profits.

Former Florida Marlins manager Rene Lachemann and longtime Oakland third baseman Carney Lansford were hired as coaches by the St. Louis Cardinals.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL: Miami football coach Butch Davis, who has led the Hurricanes to a share of the Big East title the last two years, signed a contract extension that runs through the 2003 season.