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— Griffin Daily News Friday, February 6,1976
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Shelia Young (48) of Detroit, Mich, skates to a gold medal in the 500 meter women’s
speedskating event in the 12th Winter Olympics. Young, with a time of 42.76, became the
first double medalist for the U.S.A. In background is Poland’s Erwlna Rys. (UPI)
Shelia Young
wins gold
INNSBRUCK (UPI) - Sheila
Young, wearing her skates on
her bare feet so she could get
the feel of the ice, won the
women’s 500 meter speed
skating title today to become
America’s first gold medal
winner and the first double
medalist at the Winter Olym
pics.
Young, a 25-year-old super
athlete from Detroit, won the
gold medal with a time of 42.76
seconds after having come up
with a silver in Thursday’s
1,500-meters.
Saturday she’ll bid for a third
medal in the 1,000-meters.
Second in the 500, which was
raced in partial fog at the
Innsbruck oval, was Canada’s
Cathy Priestner, 43.12, with
Russia’s Tatiana Averina fin
ishing third in 43.17, 4-100ths of
a second ahead of Leah Poulos
of Northbrook, 111.
Earlier in the day Russia won
its third gold medal of the
Games when Nikolai Kruglov, a
26-year-old serviceman
from Gorky, took the 20-
kilometer biathlon in 1-14:12.26
ahead of reigning world
champion Heikki Ikola of
Finland and another Russian,
Aleksandr Elizarov.
With five titles decided, the
Soviet Union leads the medal
race with seven against three
for the United States.
Young’s winning time broke
American Anne Hen
ning’s
Olympic record but was well
short of the world record 40.91
she set at Davos, Switzerland,
last weekend. The first five
finishers, in fact, broke Hen
ning’s old mark.
Young skated in the fifth of
14 pairs and then had to wait
nearly 30 minutes to see if her
time would hold up.
It did, but Young said the
waiting was terrible, although
it all became worthwhile when
she won the medal and when an
Griffin Academy
tourney today
Griffin Academy’s “B” Team
Invitational Tournament gets
under way today at 4 p.m. with
Twiggs Academy playing the
Indian Springs Academy girls.
Three more games are
scheduled today.
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admirer thrust a bouquet of
yellow tulips into her hands as
she walked toward the dope
control—all medalists must
submit to a dope test.
“It was all so weird,” said
Young, who plans to marry
.when the season is over. Her
fiancee, Jim Ochowicz, and her
parents suffered with her while
she waited for the other
potential medalists to finish.
“I wasn’t really sure I had
won till everyone finished
skating. After Leah (Poulos)
and Tatiana (Averina) were
done, then I had a little more
confidence I could hold on.
Then I had this rush through
my body and it felt so good.”
Young, who skated around the
oval, “watching the clock,
watching the skaters and just
getting nervous," declined to
say how she’d do in the 1,000.
“In the past, the 500 has
always been my best race, but
at the beginning of this season,
I thought it would be the 1,000.”
The third U.S. representative
in the 500, Lori Monk of
Madison, Wis., finished ninth in
44.00.
In the biathlon Lyle Nelson of
Boise, Idaho, and Martin Hagen
of Jackson, Wyo., finished way
down the field. Peter Das
coulias of Franklin, N.H., fell
and didn’t finish because of a
faulty rifle.
After three of four rounds in
the men’s luge, West Ger
many’s Detlef Gunter led with
an aggregate time of 2:35.906,
while East German Margit
Schumann was ahead in the
women’s division with 2:07.969.
The women race over a shorter
course.
Kruglov finished with a time
of one hour, 14 minutes, 12.26
seconds.
Ikola, the reigning world
champion, finished with a time
of 1-15:54.10. Elizarov clocked
1-16:05.57.
Two of the three Americans,
Lyle Nelson of Boise, Idaho,
The Beechwood girls play
Griffin Academy at 5:30, the
Beechwood boys take on Twiggs
at 7 p.m. and Griffin Academy
plays Indian Springs at 8:30
p.m.
Winners of those games will
and Martin Hagen of Jackson,
Wyo., finished in the last third
of the field. The third Ameri
can, Peter Dascoulias, sub
stituting for the flu stricken
John Morton, did not finish. He
fell on the course and damaged
his rifle.
Thursday she opened her
second Olympics by taking a
surprise silver medal in the
1,500-meters, a distance she
dislikes, by finishing second
behind former Russian world
champion, Galinia Stepanskaya,
in a time of 2:17.06.
Speaking of her medal,
Young said, “for me it was
unexpected and gives me
encouragement and confidence
to go into my favorite race with
a silver medal.”
The biathlon will be the other
gold medal awarded and this
time the United States has little
chance of pulling the kind of
surprise Bill Koch did Thursday
in the 30-kilometer cross
country event, when he took the
silver medal behind Russia’s
Sergei Saveliev.
The 20-year-old skier from
Guilford, Vt., became the first
ever American Olympic cross
country medalist.
Koch said, “it makes me
very feel very excited and I
hope the American people are
very excited too.”
Where Young was a favorite
today, the U.S. hockey sextet
was the decided underdog in its
opening match of the five
game, round-robin champion
ship bracket against the Soviet
Union.
The Russians, the same
players who barnstormed North
America and swept five victo
ries in eight games from the
proud National Hockey League,
were favored by as many as
seven goals to take the first
successful step toward retain
ing their championship.
But the U.S. team was far
from being downcast.
play for the tournament
championships tomorrow
beginning at 5:30.
Awards will be presented the
winner, runner-up and the most
valuable player.
★★★★★★★★
SPORTS
★★★★★★★★
Masters
arranges
sudden death
AUGUSTA, Ga. (UPI) - The
Masters Golf Tournament has
decided on a new playoff
format if there is a tie for first
place at the end of 72 holes in
the April 8-11 tourney.
Masters Chairman Clifford
Roberts said Thursday in case
of a tie, a sudden-death playoff
will be held instead of holding
an 18-hole playoff the following
day.
“This is a subject we have
reviewed a number of times
over the years,” said Roberts.
“The latest advice from tourna
ment officials, golf association
officers, the news media, and,
more particularly, the golf
oriented public indicates an
overwhelming preference for a
format that produces a winner
on the same day the tourna
ment is scheduled to end.
“Another 18 holes the follow
ing day is anticlimatic.”
Roberts said the Masters is
sold out, but said daily tickets
would be available at the gates
for practice rounds on April 5,6
and 7.
I College I
scores
By United Press International
East
Cal. Pa. 61 Lock Haven 58
Clarion 71 Sippry Rock 60
E. Nazarene 88 Gordon 65
Indiana Pa. 92 Juniata 53
King’s Pt. 79 Wagner 77
Marquette 78 Manhattan 59
Marshall 74 M. Harvey 64
Mercyhurst 89 Pt. Park 74
Nichols 70 Worcester St. 69
Potomac St. 79 Hagrstwn 75
Providence 76 Niagara 67
Rutgers 86 W. Virginia 76
Shawnee 58 Beckley 54
Upsala 95 FDU-Madsn 80
Waynesbg 105 Geneva 99
South
Berea 88 Cumbrlnd 79
Centenary 133 H.-Simmons 94
Charleston 75 F. Marion 57
Covenant 81 Maryville 79
G’town Ky. 81 Cmpbllsvl 72
Ga. Coll. 75 La Grange 72
gjacksonvl 79 Samford 75 ot
Ky. St. 87 Thomas More 73
NE La. 88 So. Miss. 72
Tenn.-Chat 74 Bellarmine 70
Tenn. Wslyn 61 Car.-Nwmn 59
Troy St. 86 Delta St. 76
VMI 97 S.E. DC 57
Wm&Mary 74 Old Dominion 61
Rockhrsts7Cent.Mo.St. 54
Midwest
Bethl 103 Grnd Rpds Bible 68
Elmhurst 55 Wheaton 54
Grn Bay 70 Stevens Pt. 50
Wichita St. 84 Bradley 71
Southwest
H. Payne 78 Okla. S&A 70
Lamar 92 La. Tech 66
McNeese St. 75 Tex-Ari 61
Pan Am 90 Houston Bapt 70
SW La. 86 Arkansas St. 84
West
Calif. 73 Oregon St 72
No. Ariz. 85 Boise St 83
Oregon 72 Stanford 59
Pac. 73 Fullerton St. 65
S.D. St. 73 S.J. St. 73
UCLA 92 Washington 87
Wash. St. 80 USC 72
Weber St. 71 Ida. St 70
Willmette 81 Ida.CoU. 74
Chapman 85 Pac. Chris 76
Cal Bapt 114 Pt. Loma 96
Griffin girls
play tonight
Griffin High’s varsity girls
and “B" team boys and girls
will play Rockdale County
today in Conyers.
Griffin’s varsity boys play
Bernie Znberer
rolls 526
Bernie Zuberer rolled a 189
game and a 526 series yesterday
in the Thursday Morning
Bowling League.
Other leading bowlers were:
Chris Hudgins 191, Gail Bush
154, Fran Gordon 177, Betty
Imes 159, Carol Cox 154, Evelyn
Williams 165, Evelyn Britt 158,
Ann Ellison 157, Barbara
Stinson 191, Laura Doster 167,
Margaret Woodall 150, Betty
Garrett 164, Barbara Triplett
160, Pam Chapman 153 and
Jolene Taylor 170.
The Headpins beat the Early
Birds 3-1, the Streaks stopped
the Alleyoops 3-1, the Gutter
Dusters beat the Sleepyheads 3-
1 and the Hopefuls beat the
Smilies 3-1.
Southern sidelines
Robinson sympathizes
with owners, players
ATLANTA (UPI) — Eddie Robinson sympathizes with
both sides in baseball’s current player-management
battle.
After all, he spent 19 years in the trenches before he
started moving up through the ranks to become executive
vice president of the Atlanta Braves.
“Baseball doesn’t want to take advantage of the
players,” said Robinson. “I know we don’t. But, it’s a two
way street. The players shouldn’t try to take unfair
advantage either.
“Baseball clubs should be allowed to make a little
money.”
Robinson has been on both sides of the table. You can be
sure he puhed for every dollar he got back in the early ‘sos
when he drove in more than 100 runs three years in a row.
But he feels some players are pushing too hard now.
“There are those who figure they can get top dollar by
being free agents and playing one club against another.
But, they’ve got to realize that there are only so many
dollars to go around. No club can afford to carry payrolls
that keep them in the red year after year.”
Robinson is convinced that the present player
management impasse will be broken before the end of the
month.
“I’m looking forward to us going to spring training on
schedule,” he said. “I believe cooler heads will prevail
and that they wiill negotiate an agreement.”
Just when you think you have all the sports beats
covered, up pops another.
The World Professional Light Heavyweight Knockout
Karate Championships are being held in Atlanta this
weekend.
Top bout pits Canada’s Wally Slocki against defending
champ Jeff Smith of Washington, D.C.
A spokesmn for the event says there are now 5.2 million
karate enthusiasts around the world and that seven
nations will be represented at the largest gathering of
karate experts in more than 20 years.
Tennessee Coach Ray Mears predicts Saturday’s
MacPhail is hoping
for inter-1 eague play
SEATTLE (UPI) - Ameri
can League President Lee
MacPhail says an expected
agreement to expand to Seattle
in 1977 will force either a one
team expansion by the Nationel
League plus interleague play or
a second new AL team.
MacPhail told a Thursday
news conference that schedul
ing difficulties with 13 AL
teams would force the issue,
which might be resolved at a
joint league meeting next
Monday.
“We are in hopes the
National League will join us (in
expansion) and there will be
interleague play,” the AL chief
told a news conference.
MacPhail and Seattle busi
nessman Lester Smith said they
still had not reached agreement
on the proposed expansion team
for Seattle but both expressed
belief a settlement would be
made before the AL president
left town Saturday.
While admitting there pre
sently is sufficient NL opposi
tion to block expansion there,
MacPhail said, “if there are
enough outside pressures or
sufficient reasons to get them
to do so, they will do so.”
He said Baseball Commis
sioner Bowie Kuhn was in
agreement with a joint-league
committee recommendation fa
voring single-team expansion in
Rockdale County tomorrow at
5:45 at the Omni.
That will be a preliminary
game to a clash between the
Atlanta Hawks and Washington
Bullets.
The Hawks are celebrating
Griffin High and Griffin Youth
Basketball Night.
The four Griffin teams play at
Jonesboro Tuesday and close
the regular season here Friday
against Forest Park.
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regionally televised game between his Bth-ranked Vols
and the Kentucky Wildcats will be a high-scoring affair.
“It could be a very physical game,” said Mears. ” Mike
Phillips (Kentucky’s 6-10 sophomore) is a very physical
young man. We’re going to have to spend some time
trying to keep him from getting the ball and, once he does,
from maintaining it
“Kentucky likes to play a fast paced game like we do. I
think you are going to see a game where it could easily go
into the 100 s.”
It looks like 17th-ranked Louisville and 19th-ranked Cin
cinnati built a better mousetrap when they joined the new
Metro Six basketball conference.
Those two will be heavily favored to make it to the finals
of the three-day Metro Six tournament in Louisville the
first weekend in March — and thereby nail down berths in
the NCAA basketball playoffs.
That was the main idea behind forming the conference
when Louisiville and Cincinnati joined forced with
Georgia Tech, Memphis State, St. Louis and Tulane.
The six figured the NCAA’s decision to invite the top two
teams from each conference to its 32-team tournament
made it tougher than in the past for an independent to be
included.
Based on the present situation, Cincinnati (15-3) and
Louisiville (14-4) are expected to be seeded 1-2 in the
Metro Six tournament and draw first round byes. The
second night, Cincinnati is expected to meet either
Memphis State or Tulane and Louisiville either Georgia
Tech or St. Louis.
The Metro Six, which hopes to expand to the Metro
Eight by then, won’t start playing a regular-season
conference schdule until the 1977-78 season.
Georgia football coach Vince Dooley, under intense
alumni fire back in September when his Bulldogs suffered
their fourth straight loss, had his contract extended the
other day all the way to July 1,1980.
The Georgia Athletic Board blunted some of that fire
last September by handing Dooley a three-year contract.
lawsuit filed by the state, King
County and the city against the
American League for damages
incurred when the one-year
Pilots were shifted to Mil
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