BRIEFLY : REPORT: SCHOTT FALSIFIED REDS NAMES.

The names of Cincinnati Reds executives and relatives were among those that General Motors said Reds owner Marge Schott used to falsify 57 auto sales at her dealership, The Cincinnati Enquirer reported Saturday.

Acting chief executive John Allen is among the eight current and former Reds staffers on the list, which has been submitted as part of a complaint General Motors has filed with the Ohio Motor Vehicle Dealers Board.

The people whose names were used were unaware of the situation and weren't involved, the newspaper reported.

GM told Schott a year ago that her Chevrolet dealership was not meeting company sales standards. In June 1995, she reached a settlement with GM that she would surrender the dealership if it did not meet its quotas in two of the final three quarters of 1995 or the first two quarters of 1996.

There was no answer at Schott's home or the Reds offices Saturday.

An affidavit filed by GM auditor Eric Arundel said Allen was sold a four-door Lumina for $16,035 in September 1995. The car actually was sold to Schott Car and Truck Rental on Feb. 19, 1996, according to the affidavit.

Allen said he didn't receive a car and declined further comment.

The Texas Rangers agreed to a one-year contract with free-agent outfielder Mike Devereaux, who spent last season with Baltimore.

No additional terms of the deal were disclosed.

Devereaux, 33, batted .229 with eight home runs and 34 RBI in 127 games with the Orioles, who did not offer him salary arbitration.

TENNIS

Ex-UCLA tennis star Justin Gimelstob, a late replacement who had never played mixed doubles before this week, teamed with Chanda Rubin to give the United States its first title in the Hopman Cup tennis championship in Perth, Australia.

Gimelstob and Rubin beat Wayne Ferreira and Amanda Coetzer 3-6, 6-2, 7-5 in the decisive mixed doubles match to earn a 2-1 victory over South Africa in the final at the Burswood Dome.

Jim Courier, winner of 19 career titles including four Grand Slams, advanced to the final of the $635,000 Qatar Open in Doha, Qatar, by defeating two-time French Open winner Sergi Brugera of Spain 6-4, 6-2.

Courier's opponent in today's championship match will be Britain's Tim Henman, a 6-3, 2-6, 6-2 winner over Moroccan Hicham Arazi in the other semifinal.

WINTER SPORTS

Boyd Devereaux and Brad Isbister provided the offense and goaltender Marc Denis took care of the defense as Canada beat the United States 2-0 for an unprecedented fifth straight World Junior Hockey Championship, in Geneva.

The silver medal, meanwhile, represented the Americans' best showing at the tournament.

Japan's Kazuyoshi Funaki, repeating his triumph two years ago, won a World Cup ski-jumping event in Innsbruck, Austria.

Funaki won on jumps of 116 and 113.5 meters with a total of 254.10 points.

Primoz Peterka of Slovenia, who now leads the intermediate World Cup standings with 572 points, placed second with 253.10 points for jumps of 118.5 and 111 meters.

Third was Ari-Pekka Nikkola of Finland with jumps of 114 and 112.5 meters and 246.70 points.

Finland's Mika Myllyla captured his second World Cup cross-country ski race of the season in Kavgolovo, Russia, easily outskiing second-place Fulvio Valbusa of Italy in the 30-kilometer event.

Italy's Maurizio Pozzi was third, 46.8 seconds behind Myllyla.

Driving snow and thick fog didn't stop Pernilla Wiberg from powering through a World Cup slalom course in Maribor, Slovenia, for her third victory this season.

Wiberg had a combined time of 1 minute, 44.55 seconds, nearly .8 seconds ahead of Slovenia's Urska Hrovat. It was her 15th career win.