A CAPITAL IDEA? SCP EYES SPORTING GOODS ACQUISITIONS

          IMG/Chase Sports Capital Partners (SCP) is "on a buying
     spree of internet sports-goods retailers," according to
     Adrian Michaels of the FINANCIAL TIMES.  While SCP has
     "already taken" a 72% ownership in The Golf Warehouse,
     Managing Partner David Moross said that it "would be buying
     about 'half a dozen' prominent retailers in other sports
     such as tennis, skiing and mountain sports."  Moross added
     that SCP was looking for "just the most prominent
     retailers."  Moross: "In each sport, there'll only be one or
     two."  Michaels writes that with each deal, the fund "will
     put up some of the money and invite its investors to put up
     the rest."  Moross "has been hunting for ventures in London
     this month and is also targeting Asia" (FINANCIAL TIMES,
     10/14).  SCP is a venture between IMG, Chase Manhattan and
     Whitehall Financial Group (THE DAILY).