THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 2014 SPORTS Late Matuidi goal gives labored PSG 1-0 victory PARIS: Blaise Matuidi struck in the 89th minute to give Paris Saint-Germain a 1-0 win against struggling Evian at the Parc des Princes yester- day and take the capital club to the brink of the title. It looked like PSG would have to settle for a point against their 10-man opponents until Lucas played in fellow substitute Matuidi and the France midfielder slotted the ball through the legs of goalkeeper Jesper Hansen at the near post. The result leaves the reigning champions 10 points clear of nearest challengers Monaco with only four games remaining and means they can clinch a second consecutive title with a win NAPLES: In this March 1959 photo, members of the LPGA International team pose away to Sochaux on Sunday, or 24 hours earlier for their first group photo at the Titleholders Golf Tourney. Kneeling in the front row if Monaco lose at relegated Ajaccio. from left to right are, Patty Berg, St. Andrews, Ill.; Bonnie Randolph, Naples, Fla.; Fresh from winning the League Cup by beat- Louise Suggs, Sea Island, Ga.; Marlene Hagge, Delray Beach, Fla. and Wiffie Smith, St. ing Lyon 2-1 in the final last Saturday, Laurent Clair, Mich. Standing in back row from left are, Kathy Cornelius, Lake Worth, Fla.; Blanc’s side were looking for revenge on Evian, Mickey Wright, San Diego, Ca.; Betty Jameson, San Antonio, Texas; Marilyn Smith, who beat them 2-0 in the reverse fixture back in Wichita, Kansas; Beverly Hanson, Indio, Calif., and Fay Crocker, Wichita, Kansas. December. Beverly Hanson, rear, second from right, who died April 12, won 17 times and three Evian are still scrapping to avoid relegation majors in the first decade of the LPGA Tour. —AP but they have performed well against the lead- ing lights in Ligue 1 this season, taking four points out of a possible six against Monaco and Beverly Hanson, forgotten also holding Lille. They were unlucky not to take an early lead pioneer in women’s golf as well, Danish international Daniel Wass hitting the crossbar from a long-range free-kick in the NEW YORK: It didn’t take Beverly Hanson long addressing the ball, it started to roll. We wore fifth minute. to realize that playing golf was more rewarding skirts in those days, and I can still see her pulling Wass then forced home goalkeeper Salvatore than writing about it. The pay was better, too. her up her skirt and looking between her legs Sirigu into a good save from a header shortly Equipped with a journalism degree from watching her ball roll away. She was the class after, as a PSG team still missing injured top scor- North Dakota, she went to work at The Fargo clown, so to speak, so good-natured. She was a er Zlatan Ibrahimovic and showing seven Forum for 50 cents an hour and was assigned to good kid.” changes from that which beat Lyon struggled to cover a men’s golf tournament. Her first byline Hanson won her third major at the find their rhythm. was under the name “Ben Hanson” because the Titleholders in 1958, the year she claimed the When they did, Hansen raced off his line to PARIS: Evian’s French midfielder Olivier Sorlin (right) vies with Paris Saint-Germain’s French editor assumed the writer made a typo. LPGA money title with $12,639 and the Vare deny Ezequiel Lavezzi and young midfielder midfielder Yohan Cabaye during the French League football match. —AFP Then, she was playing golf in Florida that Trophy for the lowest scoring average. She Adrien Rabiot fired over as the first half ended winter in 1944 when Hanson discovered lawn retired three years later when she married goalless. Abdallah picked up a second yellow card for a just a minute remaining, Matuidi struck his attendants were making more money. “That’s Andrew Sfingi, and they raised two sons. The early kick-off meant the Parc des Princes foul on Lucas Digne. fourth goal of the season much to the relief of how I decided to be a golfer,” Hanson told The Hanson stayed active as the women’s golf stands did not really fill up until the second half, Visiting coach Pascal Dupraz shook his head the home fans. Forum years later. instructor at Eldorado Country Club in Indian but most of the drama was saved for after the on the touchline, mindful of the onslaught that Meanwhile, Lyon had to settle for a 0-0 draw Hanson died April 12 in Twin Falls, Idaho, Wells, Calif., for 35 years. restart. was to come, but Hansen saved from Lavezzi away to Toulouse, a result which leaves Remi from complications of Alzheimer’s and chronic Golf author and historian Rhonda Glenn saw Lavezzi was unable to convert a Rabiot cut- and Matuidi somehow missed the target after Garde’s side in fifth spot, two points behind obstructive pulmonary disease. She was 89. Hanson at the USGA’s centennial celebration in back from inside the six-yard box before Evian the Evian defence made a hash of dealing with a rivals Saint-Etienne and three clear of Marseille Louise Suggs twice finished runner-up to 1995. Hanson was still making them laugh with were reduced to 10 men with an hour played low ball across goal by the Argentine forward. in sixth. OL must finish in the top five to qualify Hanson in major championships. She’s troubled a story about Jones presenting her the trophy at when former Marseille defender Kassim It looked as if Evian would hold on until, with for next season’s Europa League.—AFP that Hanson’s career has largely been over- East Lake. looked, even in death. “She said, ‘When I was presented that trophy “I’m surprised nobody picked up on the fact from Robert T. Jones Jr., I stood there with a she passed away,” Suggs said Tuesday from her smile on my face bigger than when I got mar- Cyclist Rogers cleared to race after doping case home in St. Augustine, Fla. “I knew Bev from the ried, bigger than when I came home from my very beginning. We played amateur golf togeth- honeymoon. It was the greatest day in my life,’” AIGLE: Former world time trial champion Michael Japanese race but consulted the World Anti- Rogers’ teammate, Alberto Contador, was er. She was a clever person, always quick on the Glenn said. “She was so smart, and so funny.” Rogers can race again after cycling’s governing Doping Agency before deciding “he should not be stripped of the 2010 Tour de France title and draw. She was a great addition to the tour.” Glenn put together an obituary for the body accepted that meat he ate in China likely sanctioned any further.” served a two-year ban after testing positive for Hanson was a key link to the formative years USGA’s website. The LPGA Tour has made no caused his positive doping test. Rogers, an Olympic “Over the past four months, my family and I clenbuterol in the final week of the race. of the LPGA Tour, even though she was not mention of Hanson’s passing on its website. bronze medalist, helped persuade the International have endured a very difficult time,” Rogers said in a Contador claimed he ate a contaminated steak among its 13 founding members. The year the Mark Johnson returned to his roots in North Cycling Union that he was not intending to cheat. statement. “The UCI’s decision means I can return bought in Spain where the substance is banned LPGA was formed in 1950, Hanson won the U.S. Dakota nine years ago when he became head “Upon careful analysis of Mr. Rogers’s explana- to racing immediately, and I am looking forward to but could not prove his case at the Court of Women’s Amateur at East Lake - Bobby Jones pro at Fargo Country Club, where Hanson’s tions and the accompanying technical reports the getting back to work, competing in the sport I Arbitration for Sport. Still, the court panel decided presented her the trophy - went 3-0 in the father long ago was a member. He recalls see- UCI found that there was a significant probability love.” Rogers had been provisionally suspended last he ingested clenbuterol in a supplement and had Curtis Cup and finished the year by beating ing a framed photograph in a short hallway that that the presence of clenbuterol may have resulted December from racing for Team Tinkoff-Saxo. not intended to dope. China and Mexico have been Patty Berg in the Texas Women’s Open as an leads to a dining room in the clubhouse. It was from the consumption of contaminated meat from “I wish to show my gratitude to the board of identified for several years as a risk for athletes to amateur. She won her first event after turning Hanson posing with the U.S. Women’s Amateur China,” the governing body said in a statement. Tinkoff-Saxo for the professional manner with eat meat because of clenbuterol use in farming. pro in 1951 by beating Babe Zaharias in the trophy. Rogers raced last October in China, where clen- which this ambiguous ordeal has been handled,” he In 2011, FIFA found that players from 19 of the Eastern Open. Hanson won 15 more times over “I thought that was pretty neat,” Johnson buterol is widely administered to livestock to build said. Rogers won three straight world titles from 24 teams at the Under-17 World Cup played in the next decade, including three majors.