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— Griffin Daily News Friday, September 1,1972
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Time goof sidelines sprinters
By JOHN G. GRIFFIN
UPI Sports Editor
MUNICH(UPI)—Two Ameri
can sprinters were on the
sidelines for today’s 100-meter
dash final, out of the race
because a coach read an old
time table and the runners
missed their preliminary heat.
The 100-meter event, one of
the highlights of track and
field, has long been an Ameri
can-dominated event in the
Olympics and the U.S. runners
were expected to be in the thick
of it again this year, the 20th
annual games.
But Thursday, Eddie Hart of
Pittsburg, Calif., and Rey
Robinson of Lakeland, Fla.,
were late for their quarter-final
heats of the 100-meter dash and
were disqualified. Both had run
U.S. murdered off the field
By MILTON RICHMAN
UPI Sports Writer
MUNICH (UPl)—The U.S.
really is doing only so-so here.
Don’t go by the gold medals
or only by what U.S. competi
tors are doing on the field.
They’re getting murdered off it.
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9.9 s this year, equaling the
world record.
The third U.S. sprinter,
Robert Taylor of Houston,
barely made it in time for his
heat and qualified for today’s
semifinals despite not having
time to warm up. He finished
second to Russian Valeri
Borzov, now favored to bring
the honors to the Soviet Union
for the first time in Olympic
history.
A Brighter Day
It was a brighter day for the
United States at the swimming
pool, where Mark Spitz earned
two more gold medals to run
his total to a record-equaling
five and kept it perfect by
making them all world records.
His latest victories were in the
100-meter freestyle and anchor-
Every time there’s any
question over who should get
the shoddy end of the stick or
the sharp end of the pole, the
answer always comes out the
same. Stick it into the good, old
U.S.A. So what else is new?
For those at home keeping
ing the 400-meter medley relay
team. He has a chance for
seven gold medals.
In all, the United States won
nine medals Thursday, includ
ing six in wrestling, to bring its
total to 31 for the games. But
the Russians won 24 Thursday
to take the lead with 35.
Hart and Robinson, both
stunned by the tragedy, said
Stan Wright, the assistant
coach who handles the sprin
ters, told them they were
running at 7 p.m. so they would
go to the stadium at 5 p.m.
They left a little early to catch
their bus and noticed a race on
television in the building at the
bus stop.
Wright’s schedule, which was
18 months old, had the 100-
meter heats after the 10,000-
score, the U.S. has gotten it in
the neck four times here
already since the Olympics
began a week ago.
Four Times
Four times highly “questiona
ble decisions” have gone in
favor of other countries and
against the U.S. Once could be
anoversight; twice, a mistake;
three times, possibly some
computer error. But four
straight times?
The latest slap-down has to
do with a new-type American
fibre glass pole.
“It’s called a “catapole” and
Bob Seagren of Pomona, Calif.,
used it to set a world record of
18 feet 5% inches in a pole
vault event this summer at
Eugene, Ore. Many of the
world’s foremost vaulters, Swe
den’s new sensation, Kjell
Isaksson, to name one, like the
pole and used it, too.
But after Seagren set his
record, the International
Amateur Athletic Federation
(IAAF) banned the catapole, as
far as these Olympics were
concerned, anyway, because it
said the pole had not been
available to everyone around
the world for at least a year
before the games.
Seagren Appeals
Seagren didn’t let the matter
drop there.
He came here and appealed
to the technical committee of
the IAAF.
He talked, he pleaded, he
demonstrated.
He taped the catapole so that
nobody could detect any differ
ence between it and any other
pole. He showed where it was
actually four ounces heavier,
not lighter. The technical
meter heats, but the schedule
was changed to put the 100
hea»s first. Wright never got
the message and neither did
Head Coach Bill Bowerman of
Oregon or George Wilson, the
manager who is in charge of
track schedules.
But all of the other countries
had their runners at the
stadium; the sports writers
knew the revised schedule, and
it was carried in the major
English language newspapers in
Europe.
“It’s my fault,” Wright said
with tears in his eyes. “This is
by far the worst thing that has
ever happened to me in my
life.”
Two Medals in Track
The only two gold medals in
committee agreed with him
there was no advantage in
using the pole and lifted its
ban.
That was four days ago.
Now the IAAF says the pole
is banned again.
Why? East Germany protest
ed.
Why did East Germany
protest?
Wolfgang Didn’t Do Well
It seems that Wolfgang
Nordwig, its top vaulter, tried
using the catapole and didn’t do
very well with it. East
Germany saw the handwriting
on the bleacher wall. Goodbye
gold medal. If their boy,
Wolfgang, couldn’t win it, why
should the American Seagren?
Protest!
Seagren, upset and disgusted,
says the whole thing is “a
vendetta against me.”
Isaksson, who used the
catapole to do 18 feet 1¥« in a
special meet at El Paso, Tex.,
last May, is more disgusted
than Seagren. He packed his
things here and left.
That was only one decision
that cost the U.S. They also
came out badly in three others.
Tim McKee of Newtown
Square, Pa., finished in a dead
heat for first place with
Sweden’s Gunnar Larsson in
the 400-meter individual medley
swim, but Larsson got the gold
medal, not McKee.
I,oooth of a Second
Generally, in all international
swimming competition the
times are taken to 100th of a
second. For some unexplained
reason, they were taken to
I,oooth of a second this time.
Larsson’s time was 4:31.981 and
McKee’s 4:31.983 so it was
decided the U.S. had finished
second—despite the dead heat.
Reggie Jones, a light middle
weight from Newark, N.J., was
another American “loser” in
pretty much the same way
Tuesday.
All he did was stagger his
Russian opponent three times
in the third and last round,
Moody his eye and practically
dispatch him to Berlin. Two of
the judges voted for Jones. One
voted for the Russian, while
another judge and the referee
called it a draw but gave the
decision to the battered Soviet
because of, now get this,
“superior style.”
Probably the most flagrant
example of what is happening
here to the U.S. occurred in
last Sunday’s wrestling match
between Chris Taylor of Dowa
giac, Mich., and Russia’s
Alexander Medved.
The referee, a Turk, not only
gave Medved all the better of
it, but also the nod, after which
he was expelled for poor
officiating.
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Marie Rosendahl of West
Germany in the women’s long
jump with a leap of 22-3 and to
Peter Frankel of East Germany
in the 20-kilometer walk in
1:26:42.6. The Americans were
shut out in both events with
Larry Young’s lOth-place finish
the best in the walk.
The six medals won in
wrestling were the most taken
by the Americans since 1924.
Golds went to lightweight Dan
Vable of Waterloo, lowa,
welterweight Wayne Wells of
Norman, Okla., and light
heavyweight Ben Peterson of
Comstock, Wis. Peterson’s
brother, John, a middleweight,
and Rick Sanders of Lakeview,
Ore., won silvers and 400-pound
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MUNICH—Great Britain’s Dave Bedford (274) and Emile
Puttemans of Belgium (61) seem to be chatting amiably as
they move around the track in the first heat of the Olympic
10,000-meter event for men. Whatever the subject of
conversation, it all wound up amiably, with Puttemans and
Bedford finishing first and second, respectively, in the heat.
Puttemans’ time of 27:53.4 was an Olympic record for the
distance. (UPI)
BASEBALL
By United Press International
National League
East
w. 1. pct. g.b.
Pittsburgh 77 46 .626 -
Chicago 67 58 .536 11
New York 63 58 .521 13
St. Louis 60 63 .488 17
Montreal 57 65 .467 19 1-2
Philadelphia 44 79 .358 33
West
w. 1. pct. g.b.
Cincinnati 78 46 .629 —
Houston 72 54 .571 7
Los Angeles 66 57 .537 11 1-2
Atlanta 57 69 .452 22
San Francisco 56 70 .444 23
San Diego 46 78 .371 32
Thursday’s Results
Los Angeles 5 Chicago 3
Houston 5 Philadelphia 1
(Only games scheduled)
(AU Times EDT'
San Diego (Kirby 10-14) at
Chicago (Hands 9-8), 2:30 p.m.
San Francisco (Bryant 10-5)
at Pittsburgh (Ellis 11-7), 8:05
p.m.
Los Angeles (Sutton 14-8 and
Downing 7-6) at St. Louis (Wise
12-14 and Durham 2-6), 2, 6:30
p.m.
Philadelphia (Reynolds 0-12
and Lersch 2-4) at Atlanta
(Reed 11-12 and Freeman 0-0),
2, 6:05 p.m.
New Ycrk (Seaver 16-9) at
Houston (Roberts 10-8), 8:30
p.m.
Montreal (Stoneman 10-9) at
Cincinnati (McGlothlin 7-6),
8:05 p.m.
Chris Taylor of Dowagiac,
Mich., won a bronze.
The only other medal for the
United States was a bronze by
Jerry Heidenreich of Dallas in
the 100-meter butterfly. Gym
nast Olga Korbut led the
Russian parade with two golds
and a silver.
The Soviet Union won golds in
the modern pentathlon team
and Viktor Sidyak took the
individual sabre fencing.
The United States finished
fourth in modern pentathlon, x
was second after two days in
the equestrian event, won its
fifth straight in volleyball game
by beating defending champion
Yugoslavia, 5-3, lost to West
Germany, 7-0, in soccer and
was idle in basketball.
American League
East
w. 1. pct. g.b.
Baltimore 67 57 .540 —
Detroit 67 58 .536 1-2
New York 66 59 .528 1 1-2
Boston 64 58 .525 2
Cleveland 58 66 .468 9
Milwaukee 49 75 .395 18
West
w. 1. pct. g.b.
Oakland 73 51 .589 —
Chicago 71 52 .577 1 1-2
Minnesota 61 60 .504 10 1-2
Kansas City 60 63 .488 12 1-2
California 57 67 .460 16
Texas 49 76 .392 24 1-2
Thursday’s Results
New York 7 Texas 0
Milw 7 Kansas City 3
California 4 Detroit 0
(Only games scheduled)
Today’s Probable Pitchers
(AU Times EDT)
Detroit (Coleman 14-11) at
Oakland (Holtzman 14-11), 11
p.m.
Baltimore (McNally 12-13) at
California (Wright 14-7), 11
p.m.
Cleveland (Wilcox 7-11) at
Minnesota (Woodson 11-12),
8:30 p.m.
Milwaukee (Colborn 6-4) at
Texas (Paul 6-5), 8:30 p.m.
Chicago (Lemonds 3-4) at
New York (Stottlemyre 12-15),
7:30 p.m.
Kansas City (Drago 10-14 at
Boston (Pattin 13-12), 7:30 p.m.
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after receiving her gold medal for a world record
performance in the 400-meter individual medley. On the
stand to receive their awards are Canada’s Leslie Cliff
(silver medal) and Italy’s Novella Calligaris (bronze). (UPI)
Braves call up
4 minor leaguers
ATLANTA (UPI)-In a move
to get more young talent on the
team, the Atlanta Braves have
called up four minor leaguers
and bought the contract rights
to two other players.
Richmond pitcher Jimmy
Freeman, who has thrown two
shutouts in his 24 starts, will
join the Braves today and is
scheduled to pitch the second
game of the Braves - Phillies
doubleheader.
Richmond’s leading pitcher,
Tom House, catcher Bob Didier
and outfielder Oscar Brown will
join the Braves next Tuesday in
Houston.
House has posted a 1.52
earned run average, while Di-
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Richmond in doubles with 16.
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