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— Griffin Daily News Thursday, August 31,1972
Page 18
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MUNICH—The first trackman across the finish line in the
Olympic Games is West Germany’s Dieter-Wolfgang
Buettner, (r), followed by the Soviet Union’s Victor
Pros set for another weekend
By United Press International
The National Football League
opens another long “weekend”
of exhibition games tonight
when Coach George Allen and
his Washington Redskin “Over
the Hill Gang” host the Miami
Dolphins.
The NFL is featuring another
five-day weekend which won’t
end until Day night when
Houston is at Minnesota.
On Friday night, the Balti
more Colts—minus injured Bub
ba Smith—will meet the Detroit
lions at Tampa, Fla. in a
nationally televised contest.
There will be seven games on
Saturday including a nationally
televised night game in Kansas
City where the Chiefs will host
the Super Bowl champion
Dallas Cowboys.
The New York Giants face
the Philadelphia Eagles at
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Princeton, N.J., and the New
York Jets will meet the Atlanta
Falcons at Georgia Tech’s
home—Grant Field—in Atlanta.
In Saturday night games
besides the Kansas City-Dallas
game, St. Louis is at Green
Bay, Los Angeles is at San
Diego, New England is at
Denver and New Orleans faces
Pittsburgh at Memphis.
On Sunday afternoon, Buffalo
is at Chicago, Cincinnati faces
Cleveland at Columbus and
Oakland is at San Francisco.
Then the Houston-Minnesota
battle on Monday night will
wrap up the fourth weekend of
exhibition action.
Dallas and Oakland are the
only unbeaten teams at this
stage of the exhibition schedule.
After one more weekend of
practice games, the teams will
start playing the games that
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Olympic Stadium. (UPI)
count in the standings on Sept.
17.
The schedule this weekend is
dotted with such “traditional
rivalries” as Cincinnati-Cleve
land, Dallas-Kansas City and
Oakland-San Francisco. But to
former all-pro Deacon Jones,
the big one is Ix>s Angeles-San
Diego.
Jones feels the Rams treated
him a bit shabbily when they
traded him away to the
Chargers and he wants to show
them he’s still a first-rate
player. Charger Coach Harland
Svare also wouldn’t mind
winning since he’s a former
Ram coach.
All the NFL squads are now
down to 49 players and the
teams will have to cut five
more players next Tuesday
before getting down to the
regular season roster of 40 the
following week.
Scrimmage set
for TD club
The Griffin High football
team will stage a special
scrimmage session for mem
bers of the Griffin Touchdown
Club Tuesday at Memorial
stadium beginning at 5:30.
Following the scrimmage, hot
dogs, hamburgers and other
siack supper goodies will be
served Touchdown Club
members.
GAULT CLAIMED
IRVINE, Calif. (UPI)-Quar
terback Don Gault, a reserve
quarterback with Cleveland for
the past three years, was
claimed on waivers Monday by
the San Diego Chargers.
Former Los Angeles Rams
linebacker Doug Woodlief was
also added to the Chargers
roster over the weekend.
By JOHN G. GRIFFIN
UPI Sports Editor
MUNICH (UPl)—The United
States swimmers have won six
gold medals, the U.S. basket
ball team is 4-0, the boxers 7-1
and the wrestlers 27-5-8, but the
20th Olympic Games didn’t
start until today for many
persons.
That’s when the track and
field competition began.
Right out of the starting
blocks come the 100-meter
runners, the most glorified men
of games. The big question this
year is whether the U.S.
sprinters—without guys like
Jim Hines, Bob Hayes and
Bobby Morrow—still can main
tain their mastery over the
Europeans, especially Russian
Valery Borzov.
The most severe blow to
American pride in the Games
would be to lose the sprints to a
Russian. It’s never happened in
Olympic history.
But Borzov has run the 100 in
10-flat. He’s beaten the Ameri
cans in the United States and
there’s money around Munich
that says he’ll do it here.
Top American Sprinters
The top American sprinters
are Eddie Hart of Pittsburgh,
Calif., and Reynaud Robinson
of Lakeland, Fla., and Florida
A&M, both of whom have run
9.95, the best times in the world
this year. Robert Taylor of
Texas Southern, the other U.S.
sprinter, has a 10-flat.
The answer to the question of
who is the world’s fastest
human won’t come until Friday
in the finals. Other events
opening day include heats in
the 4004neter hurdles, 800
meters and the 10,000 meters.
The only final was the 20-
kilometer walk.
The U.S. won two gold
medals and a total of seven
Wednesday to push its total for
the first four days of the
Games to 22. East Germany is
second with 15 and the Soviet
Union is third with 11. The U.S.
has seven golds and East
Germans and Russians have
five each.
Latest Golds Won
The latest golds were won by
John Writer of Clarendon Hills,
111., and by the women’s 400-
meter freestyle relay team.
The swimmers on the relay
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MUNICH—“Save the last dance for me—and no argum zrts,” appears to be what 400-pound Chris
Taylor of Dowagiac, Mich., is saying to 240-pound Wilfred Dietrich of West Germany as he traps
him in an arm lock during their bout here. Taylor won on points. (UPI)
team were Shirley Babashoff of
Fountain Valley, Calif., Sandra
Neilson of El Monte, Calif.,
Jenny Kemp of Cincinnati and
Jane Barkmann of Wayne, Pa.
Writer, 28, broke the world
record with a score of 1,166,
one more than the mark held
by a Russian, and teammate
Lanny Bassham, 25, of Fort
Worth, Tex., won the silver
medal with 1,157. The women’s
relay also set a world record of
3:55.2.
The other silver medals went
to Tim McKee of Newton
Square, Pa., in the 400-meter
individual medley and Tom
Bruce of Sunnyvale, Calif., in
the 100-meter breaststroke.
McKee was second to Gunnar
Larsson of Sweden by 2-I,oooths
of a second and Bruce was
second to Japan’s Nobutaka
Taguchi, who set a world
record of 1:04.94.
Bronze Medal Winners
The American bronze medal
winners were John Hencken of
Santa Clara, Calif., in the 100-
meter breaststroke and Craig
Lincoln of the University of
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Minnesota in the springboard
diving.
Vladimir Vasin of Russia won
the diving and Shane Gould, the
Australian super swimmer, won
her second gold medal by
capturing the 400-meter frees
tyle in a world record 4:19.04.
The Americans finished fourth,
fifth and sixth—missing a
medal for the first time in a
swimming event—as an Italian
took second and an East
German third.
Other gold medal winners
went to lightweight Mukharbi
Kirzhinov of Russia in weight
lifting, Witold Woyda of Poland
in foil fencing, Sawao Koto of
Japan in men’s all-around
gymnastics, Luidmila Turist
schewa of Russia in women’s
all-aroundgy mnastics, Angelika
Bahmann of East Germany in
women’s canoeing kayak sin
gles slalom and the East
German team of Walter Hoff
man and Rolf-Dieter Amend in
the Canadian pairs canoeing.
A Big Scare
The biggest scare of the
games for the led States came
in the basketball contest where
the Americans were trailing
Brazil by seven points with 11
minutes remaining. But Doug
Collins of Illinois State scored
six clutch points and the
Americans won, 61-54, stretch
ing their unbeaten Olympic
streak to 59 over 36 years.
The water polo team also
raised its record to 4-0 for the
games with a 7-5 triumph over
Mexico and the modern pen
tathlon team won the swim
ming event to move to fifth and
within striking distance of a
bronze in today’s final event,
the 4,000-meter run.
Boxers Ricardo Carreras of
New York and Jesse Valdez of
Houston advanced to the round
of 16 and two freestyle
wrestlers ran their records to 5-
0.
The wrestlers were light
weight Dan Gable of Waterloo,
lowa, and welterweight Wayne
Wells of Norman, Okla., who
won two matches each Wednes
day. Super heavyweight Chris
Taylor of Dowagiac, Mich.,
came through with his third
straight victory after an
opening round loss.