Daily Sports Capsule

*Index*
HOCKEY	AUTO RACING	TENNIS	HORSE RACING

HOCKEY

The Providence Bruins completed their journey from worst to first by winning the American Hockey League's Calder Cup with a 5-1 victory over the Rochester Americans Sunday night before a sellout crowd at the Providence Civic Center. Joel Prpic had a goal and two assists and linemate Marquis Mathieu added a goal and an assist to lead the Bruins, who won the series four games to one. ...Andy Murray, an assistant coach for three NHL teams, will be the new coach of the Los Angeles Kings, the Press-Telegram of Long Beach reported.

AUTO RACING

BMW, racing for only the second time under its name, captured the Le Mans 24 Hour race on Sunday after a tense finish with Toyota. Pierluigi Martini of Italy held off a late challenge to give BMW its first victory in the famed endurance race. Martini, Yannick Dalmas of France and Joachim Winkelhock of Germany completed 365 laps, one more than Toyota. "I knew we had a chance to be in the top three," Winkelhock said. "But the last few hours were so close that I nearly had a heart attack." Dalmas won for the fourth time at Le Mans, following wins in 1992 with Peugeot, in 1994 in a Porsche and in 1995 with McLaren. Only Belgium's Jacky Ickx (six) and Britain's Derek Bell (five) have more wins. ... Mika Hakkinen finally found some Montreal magic, winning the Canadian Grand Prix after failing to finish six of seven previous starts at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. Michael Schumacher, who stopped Hakkinen's string of five straight poles, crashed after leading the first 29 laps and fell behind the defending Formula One champion by four points, 34-30, in their battle for the 1999 title. Hakkinen picked up his third victory of the season, his second straight and 12th of his career. He averaged 111.946 mph in a race that took 1 hour, 41 minutes, 35.727 seconds.

TENNIS

Eight days before he defends his Wimbledon championship, Pete Sampras won his first title of 1999 by beating Tim Henman 6-7 (7-1), 6-4, 7-6 (7-4) at Queen's Club. Sampras, who reclaims his No. 1 ranking today, is honing his grass-court game in a bid for a sixth Wimbledon crown in seven years. This was the second time Sampras has won the Queen's Club title. ...Top-seeded Anna Smashnova of Israel used a powerful backhand to win the President's Cup with a 6-3, 6-3 victory over third-seed Laurence Courtois of Belgium. The 22-year-old Smashnova, currently ranked 43 in the world, played from the baseline and caught her opponent off-guard with strong serves. Courtois, ranked 100 on the WTA tour, was kept on the defensive throughout the match. ... Unseeded Fernando Vicente won his first-ever ATP tournament when he held off third-seeded Hicham Arazi in the finals of the Merano Open on. Vicente, ranked 62nd in the world entering the clay-court event, won $46,000 after defeating Arazi, 6-2, 3-6, 7-6 (7-1). Arazzi earned $27,000 for finishing second.

HORSE RACING

Silver Charm, the 1997 Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner who thrilled racing fans with his whisker-thin victories and defeats, has been retired after a fourth-place finish in a stakes race at Churchill Downs. The 5-year-old horse will start a career as a stallion, his owners, Bob and Beverly Lewis, said. Silver Charm retires in third place on the thoroughbred career earnings list behind Cigar and Skip Away. "He's given so much to horse racing and he's performed beautifully and given a lot of excitement for all of us," Beverly Lewis said in an interview from the couple's home in California. "The time has come."
--Compiled from wire reports