CUBS NOTES

The Cub old-timers rallied back for a 2-2 tie against their Redcounterparts. Milt Pappas drilled a hit off third base to score WaltMoryn, who chugged across the plate while Ernie Banks shouted, "Getthe lead out!"

Banks pointed to ousted ballgirl Marla Collins, who sat in thefront row behind her former workseat, and said, "There's Marla! Doyou think she'll pinch-hit for me?"

Banks also visited with Ron Davis and recalled, "I saw you pitcha doubleheader. In Pompano. You can pitch. Welcome back."

"Pitched a no-hitter in the first game, and a one-hitter in thesecond. I wish I had the same arm strength today," Davis said,adding he actually worked two-thirds …

Williams Sisters Move Into Open Quarters

NEW YORK - When you hear about SerenaandVenus Williams overpowering opponents, as happened Sunday at the U.S. Open to two recent Grand Slam finalists, it's easy to forget that the sisters are, indeed, individuals.

And as similar as their on-court styles might seem, all stinging serves and gargantuan groundstrokes, they are not quite carbon copies.

That point was driven home by their father and coach, Richard, who sat courtside for the final game of Serena's 6-3, 6-4 victory over Wimbledon runner-up Marion Bartoli, then watched Venus' 6-4, 6-2 win against French Open runner-up Ana Ivanovic.

"Serena reminds me of a pit bull dog and a young Mike Tyson, all in one," …

Philippine lawmaker wants the dead to stop voting

A Philippine lawmaker frustrated by rampant electoral fraud has proposed legislation to get the names of the dead off voter rolls.

Rep. Maria Victoria Sy-Alvarado said Monday she wants to make it mandatory for doctors and family members to report deaths to the civil registrar, which has to give the information to the Election Commission so it can update its …

Mikva to Quit Judgeship To Be Clinton's Lawyer

President Clinton Thursday named as White House counsel formerChicagoan Abner J. Mikva, whose main job will be to steer the WhiteHouse through the Whitewater shoals.

"You are the most important client a lawyer could dream ofserving," Mikva, chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for theDistrict of Columbia, told Clinton Thursday.

Clinton - whose White House has been criticized as unfocused andinexperienced - emphasized Mikva's "stature, integrity, judgment andexperience."

Appointing Mikva, 68, a Washington insider and respected formerIllinois lawmaker and congressman, underscores the "seriousness" withwhich the White House views the job, the president …

UN puts off destroying last smallpox viruses

GENEVA (AP) — Health ministers from around the world agreed Tuesday to put off setting a deadline to destroy the last known stockpiles of the smallpox virus for three more years, rejecting a U.S. plan that had called for a five-year delay.

After two days of heated debate, the 193-nation World Health Assembly agreed by consensus to a compromise that calls for another review in 2014.

The United States had proposed a five-year extension to destroying the U.S. and Russian stockpiles, arguing that more research is needed and the stockpiles could help prevent one of the world's deadliest diseases from being used as a biological weapon.

But opponents at the decision-making …

Texas sect teen gives birth to boy while state officials stand by

One of the hundreds of young polygamist-sect members taken into state custody has given birth to a healthy boy while child welfare officials, state troopers and fellow sect members stood watch outside the maternity ward.

"The boy is healthy and the mother is doing well," Patrick Crimmins, spokesman for the state Child Protective Services, said of the noontime birth Tuesday at Central Texas Medical Center.

The mother is "younger than 18," Crimmins said, and will remain with her new son in a nearby foster-care facility until a formal custody hearing will determine the pair's fate sometime before June 5. Crimmins declined to give any other …

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Lockport, New Trier prevail

Lockport (13-1) rebounded from its first loss of the season asMatt Otteman's RBI single in the bottom of the eighth gave the No. 2Porters a 3-2 victory over visiting Minooka on Saturday night.

It was a fastball away, and I was just trying to see the ball andreact," said Otteman of his game-winning hit. It was a great game.It's a great night, and we played together as a team. That's a goodfeeling."

Mike Ally led off the Lockport eighth by coaxing a walk on a full-count pitch. Nick Mitidiero sacrificed Ally to second. JakeChristensen was intentionally walked to get to Otteman, who delivereda 1-1 pitch into right field …