BRIEFLY : HAMILTON GETS FIRST WINSTON CUP WIN.

Bobby Hamilton won the Dura-Lube 500 at Phoenix International Raceway on Sunday, earning his first Winston Cup victory and giving car-owner Richard Petty his first win in 13 years.

With a record raceway crowd of 104,000 on its feet and shouting its approval, Hamilton's No. 43 Pontiac, decked out in the traditional Petty Blue and STP Red colors, led the final 30 laps on the one-mile oval.

``We've come close before this, but we didn't quite have it together,'' said Petty, who was the driver when a Petty Enterprises car last won, in October 1983 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. ``Today, they had it all together and this really feels good.''

Meanwhile, series points leader Terry Labonte was able to ignore his injured hand and drive to the brink of his second Winston Cup championship, finishing a strong third.

FOOTBALL

Four athletes from Southwestern Oklahoma State, including a football player who scored the winning touchdown in the Bulldogs' 19-15 victory over East Central Oklahoma on Saturday, died in a traffic accident in a driving rainstorm early Sunday.

BASEBALL

Harry ``Handsome Harry'' Shuman, a former relief pitcher for the Philadelphia Athletics, Phillies and Pittsburgh Pirates, died of heart failure. He was 81. Shuman was stricken Friday while working at his desk at the Democratic City Executive Committee office in downtown Philadelphia.

TRACK AND FIELD

Isaac Garcia, a physical education instructor in the Mexican Navy, won the Marine Corps Marathon in Arlington, Va., in 2 hours, 15 minutes, 9 seconds.

HOCKEY

Nancy Deschamps scored on a rebound at 11:30 of the third period to give Canada a 1-0 victory over the United States in the final of the inaugural Three Nations Cup women's hockey tournament in Ottawa.

SKIING

Steve Locher of Switzerland won his first World Cup race in three years, capturing a men's giant slalom in Soelden, Austria. Locher was timed in 2 minutes, 3.20 seconds on a course that dropped 1,184 feet through 42 gates on the first run and 45 on the second. He led after the first run with 58.56.

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