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Earle Sports Tuesday, June 26, 1984AThe Battalion/Page 9 Carl Lewis even faster than Muhammad All sneakers': >u$e TIQlt United Press International LOS ANGELES — Muhammad Ali used to say he was so fast he could hit the light switch, dash across the room and be in bed before the room got dark. Using that as a guideline, Carl Le wis can probably hit the switch, dash across the room, get in bed and fall asleep before the room gets dark. If Lewis had antlers, there’d be an open season on him. If he ever took up swimming you’d be able to water ski behind him. He is, quite simply, the world’s fastest human. In the past three years he has proven beyond a doubt that he is the most consistently bril liant sprinter on the planet. The books show Calvin Smith of the U.S. as the world record holder in the 100 meters and Pietro Men- nea of Italy as the world record holder in the 200. liut Smith has fallen a long way from his brilliance ofa year ago, missing the U.S. Olym pic team this year, and Mennea is no longer considered much of a threat. It seems only a matter of time be fore Lewis shreds both world marks. He went up against most of the top sprinters in the world, his American teammates, last week at the U.S. Olympic trials, and he made them look like children chasing a man in both the 100 and 200. But his best event remains the long jump, an event he has domi nated as thoroughly as any man in history. In the final of the Trials, his nearest competitor could only come within 18 inches of Lewis’ leap of 28- And, as with the sprints, it seems only a matter of time before Lewis Carl Lewis said. “Thtti ack soyoucoti s three lids •: in the outhots ■diumandlart [cracks one of track’s legendary re- a would not ising it, Knaj United Press International WIMBLEDON, England — Quietly and efficiently, with nary a whisper of discon tent, John McEnroe opened defense of his Wimbledon championship Monday with a four-set victory over Australian Paul McNa- mee. Then, having lulled everyone into believ- Thel| ing all was serene, McEnroe lashed out at British television and refused to allow them at his news conference. “It’s really a shame the way things are done over here,” McEnroe said following his hard-fought 6-4, 6-4, 6-7, 6-1 victory I over McNamee. “There’s no sense of caring ' re ? t0 5 for you as a human being. It’s hard to un derstand. I really can’t put into words how I feel about this.” CITIZENS 7:30 9:30 ;iES"(PSI :15 9^5 (PG) 19:45 iES^IESU 9:45 KID^jP£L 9:45 :ING cords. Bob Beamon’s remarkable leap of 29-2 1-2 in the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. One or two or even all three of those world records could fall to Le wis this year. With the 1984 Olym pics only six weeks away, Lewis will head back to his home in Houston to prepare himself for the assault. “I’m sure I’ll be even better at the Olympics than I was at the Trials,” Lewis said. “Now I have time to get ready. I can now concentrate en tirely on just one meet, the Olympic Games.” Lewis has run a 9.97-second 100 meters and a 19.75 in the 200, and he’s jumped 28-10 1-4, tantalizingly close to Beamon’s mark. “I feel a 30-foot longjump is very possible under the right conditions,” he boldly predicts. “And I definitely feel I can run faster than both of my times in the sprints.” Lewis, who possesses what is possi bly the most powerful and graceful stride of anyone who has ever run, has grown accustomed to his daz zling accomplishments. While others gasp at his speed, he prepares for the next race. “I’m not surprised anymore by what I do,” he said. “Once an athlete gets confidence in what he can do, then there are no more surprises. “The Trials were not a big sur prise to me. I was happy with the re sults, but not surprised by them. I knew I was ready.” In five brief days in the Trials, Le wis put himself in position to run and jump with a legend, Jesse Owens, who won four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics. Lewis, who will also run on the American 4 x 100 relay, knows the same feat is well within his reach. “All I have to do is compete well, as well as I did here, and it can hap pen,” he said. “There’s no reason why I can’t do it.” After the Olympics, Lewis said he’ll leave it up to others to discuss his place among the immortals of track and field. “If I win four gold medals, then people can say that I set my goals high and achieved them,” he said. “They can say that I endured many, many days of training, of hard work and sacrifices. “But any talk of being the greatest ever, well, that’s above me. If I keep being the best I can be, that’s all I want. If someone some day says, ‘He was the best,’ that’s fine. But that’s out of my control.” Third time’s a charm; Larry Bird named MVP United Press International SALT LAKE CITY — Larry Bird, the supremely gifted and versatile forward who led the Boston Celtics to the NBA championship, Monday was named the league’s Most Valu able Player. Bird, who finished second in the MVP balloting in each of his last three seasons, earlier was named MVP in the league’s championship playoff against the Los Angeles Lakers. The Celtics defeated the Lakers in seven games. The MVP Award was announced at the league’s annual meetings. Bernard King of the New York Knicks finished second and the Lakers’ Magic Johnson was third. The nationwide panel of sports writ ers and broadcasters gave Bird 652 points to King’s 373 and Johnson’s 305. Bird receives the Maurice Podo- loff trophy, named after the league’s first commissioner. Rounding out the top 10 vote-get ters were: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar of Los Angeles, a six-time winner who received 153 points; Isiah Thomas TANK M C NA3MLARA® § A..T4E 0SFLCAU-STM&V1 , ^ 1 N 'F^O RECALL EeCORPS/' of Detroit, 115 points; Julius Erving of Philadelphia, 98 points; Adrian Dantley of Utah, 88 points; Sidney Moncrief of Milwaukee, 70 points; Jeff Ruland of Washington, 38 points; and Moses Malone of Phila delphia, the MVP the last two years, 35 points. Bird earned 52 first-place votes, King received 11, Johnson had five and Abdul-Jabbar, three. Thomas, Erving, Dantley, Moncrief and Rul and each had one first-place vote. Bird, an outstanding passer with uncanny court sense, averaged a ca reer-high 24.2 points a game, sev enth in the NBA. He was also 10th in the league in rebounding, averaging 10.1 rebounds a game. He also led the NBA in free throw percentage at .888 and led the Celtics with 6.6 as sists and 1.82 steals per game. Bird is only the third non-center in the past 25 years to be chosen MVP. The others were Oscar Rob ertson of Cincinnati in 1964 and Erving in 1981. He entered the NBA in 1979 after earning All-America honors at In diana State. In his first season with Boston the Celtics went from a 29-53 record to a 61-21 mark. Bird was voted Rookie of the Year that sea son. The annual meeting in Salt Lake City also focused on the NBA Com petition and Rules Committee dis cussion concerning instituting penal ties to curb fiagrant fouling. The committee also considered changing the homecourt rotation format used for seven-game playoff series. The committee will decide whether to recommend those rule changes to the Board of Governors at a meeting Monday, said Chairman Jerry Colangelo, general manager of the Phoenix Suns. “The one matter that took the greatest amount of time ... was the contact that was so evident during the playoffs,” Colangelo said. “We feel we have to come up with some thing.” Colangelo was referring to fouls committed by Los Angeles and Bos ton in the championship series in which players were knocked down and stopped from making a layup. by Jeff Millar & Bill Hinds PUT FRGAR UAPVEY FERcekhtle: a?MFARihJG rtFL Records? ai^p u^fl RECORDS? lb Like CONlFARlNte APPLFS AMP ORAMGGb ^ CRI9R PREMIUM APPLES AMP M0U7Y, TANK-... McEnroe wins quietly, then blasts British media “It’s really a shame ihe way things are done over here. There’s no sense of caring for you as a human being. It’s hard to under stand. I really can’t put into words how I feel about this. ”— John McEnroe. While McEnroe was fuming about the way he continually is misrepresented by British media, second seed Ivan Lendl was struggling for survival against 33-year-old Dick Stockton, a wild card entry who says he was here, “playing for laughs.” Lendl, the only man to beat McEnroe this year, had to fight for 2 hours and 37 min utes before subduing Stockton, 4-6, 6-0, 6- 3, 5-7, 6-4. Stockton, who has played only two singles matches since the U.S. open, said that when he was accepted by Wimble don, “I almost got a heart attack. I went on a crash exercise program.” Third seed Jimmy Connors, like McEn roe a two-time Wimbledon champion, reached the second round with a 7-5, 7-5, 6- 4 victory over fellow American Lloyd Bourne, and indicated it wasn’t as easy as the score suggests. “It was a pretty long match,” Connors said. “The most important thing is that I hit the ball well, I hit the ball solid.” McEnroe, who has reached the Wimble don final in each of the last four years, was all business against McNamee, a tough opening round foe. In fact, at No. 26, Mc Namee is ranked higher than Chris Lewis, the man McEnroe defeated in last year’s fi nal. The top seed broke service in the ninth game of both the first and second sets and seemed ready to complete the job in straight sets when he jumped to a 5-2 lead in the third set tie-break. But the 29-year-old McNamee, twice winner of the Wimbledon doubles championship, staved off two match points, then took the tie-break 9-7 after McEnroe was guilty of a double fault at 7-7. McEnroe made no mistake in the fourth set, winning the first three games and al lowing McNamee to hold only in the fourth game. McEnroe, after receiving a personal let ter earlier in the day from Buzzer Hading- ham. the new chairman of the All-England Tennis Club, assuring him he would be treated fairly, was determined to be on his best behavior, and never once in the 2 hour and 35 minute match did he protest a call. “I just decided I really wasn’t going to say anything, although there were a few mis takes made,” he explained. “I decided it was not in my best interests at this time.” SERVICE COPIES IBM COPIES • NO MINIMUM kinko's copies 201 College Main 846-8721 AUTO INSURANCE FOR AGGIES Call: George Webb Farmers Insurance Group 3400 S. College 823-8051 TYPING All kinds. 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