She’ll Stay Out of Ring and Also Out of Sight

When it comes to British boxing, mum’s the word. At least it was.

Minna Wilson, 62, who burst into the ring last week and whacked her son’s opponent over the head with the business end of a high-heeled shoe, has been told to stay away from future fights.

“I’ve banned her from watching me again,” Wilson, a light-heavyweight, said Monday.

British boxing officials are investigating how she managed to clamber over rows of spectators, squeeze past security officials into the ring and end her son’s bout in Round 3 by clouting Steve McCarthy.

Wilson and McCarthy were fighting Thursday for a shot at the British light-heavyweight title. McCarthy had Wilson pinned against the ropes when Minna Wilson’s shoe opened a gaping wound in McCarthy’s head. The referee awarded the fight to Wilson when McCarthy refused to return to the ring.

Minna Wilson was unavailable for comment, but her son’s manager, Jimmy Tibbs, said: “She’s been quoted in the paper as saying she is ashamed, but she shouldn’t be ashamed. She’s done what any mum would do under the circumstances. She just blacked out. She didn’t know what she was doing.”

Trivia time: On Sept. 26, 1981, Nolan Ryan of the Houston Astros became the first player to pitch five no-hitters with a 5-0 victory over which team?

Pushing his weight around: Fred Hiatt of the Washington Post reports that Chiyonofuji--known as the Wolf--won his 965th bout Friday, a sumo wrestling record.

Writes Hiatt: “The achievement was all the more remarkable since Chiyonofuji is already 34, well past the normal retirement age for grand champions, and weighs only 276 pounds, a stripling by sumo standards.

” . . . Although a hero in Japan, Chiyonofuji excels at a sport that outsiders often find baffling, if not laughable, featuring as it does two outsized men, outfitted with oiled ponytails and diaper-like cloths between their prodigious buttocks, slapping their cellulite and pushing each other out of the ring in bouts that last only a few seconds.

“But the Japanese love sumo only a little less than baseball, and to them it is a sport of subtlety and skill, in which strategy, speed and strength determine who gets thrown in the few seconds after two wrestlers collide with thundering power.”

Trivia answer: The Dodgers.

Keep it high and tight: From Tim Kurkjian of the Baltimore Sun: “Pittsburgh Pirate coach Rich Donnelly pitched batting practice to four members of the Pittsburgh Penguins hockey team Thursday: Mario Lemieux, Dan Quinn, Paul Coffey and Kevin Stevens. Said Donnelly: “ ‘Lemieux is a shortstop type. They were all low-ball hitters. If you rolled it up there, they’d knock the hell out of it.’ ”

Said Pirate coach Tommy Sandt: “ ‘They look like a bunch of slap hitters.’ ”

Quotebook: Baseball scout Ellis Clary, on his playing career: “My coordination was so bad I had to pull my car off to the side of the road to blow my horn.”