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Tuesday, August 7, 19847The Battalion/Page 7 Sports " Lewis zeroes in on Owens, takes 2nd gold am has not pht >uld| h 301 are req^ r as a degrtf hytheEt.! ^athenutiul ar a drivtr sed to Ian wcenti 11 ■ to 5 p,!51 United Press International LOS ANGELES — Carl Lewis, stealing the show on a day of marvel- ms performances, Monday finished [half his mission and captured his [second Olympic gold medal by leap ing 28 feet, 'A inches to win the long jump. Lewis, passing the midway point in his pursuit of Jesse Owens’ four [gold medals in track and field, got [off his winning jump on his first at tempt. In other medal action, Joaquim [Cruz of Brazil, whose powerful run ning style is reminiscent of Cuba’s Alberto Juan torena, broke Juantore- U.S. takes 2 medals in diving United Press International I LOS ANGELES — Surprising Syl- |vie Bernier became the first Ca nadian ever to win a gold medal in diving Tuesday, edging American Kelly McCormick to win the Olym pic 3-meter springboard competi tion. Bernier, 20, also became the first diver from her country to win an medal in diving since 1956, when Irene McDonald captured the bronze. McCormick, daughter of four time gold medal winner Pat McCor mick, wound up winnig the silver medal and American teammate Chris Seufert rallied to earn the bronze. Bernier, bronze medal winner at the Pan American Games last year, took the lead after the third compul sory dive and never trailed. But McCormick, 24, of Columbus, Ohio, winner of the Olympic trials, nearly came back in the last two dives after trailing by more than 14 points with two dives. But her total of 527.46 points fell short of Ber- I'cvvef s .7 Q CoVa\. The key dive of the day at the pool on the University of Southern California campus may have been jaauMtgthe e jghth when Bernier, McCor- trom t* m i c k anc j u a ll performed a reverse It tuck. na’s Olympic record in one of the most memorable 800-meter races in the history of the Olympics. l In the 800-meter final, Edwin Koech of Kenya set the early pace with a 51.07 for the first 400. Then Cruz took over, stepping to the in side and confidently holding off world record-holder Sebastian Coe of Britain and American record- holder Earl Jones of Inkster, Mich. Coe, rounding back into his confi dent form of three years ago, holds the world mark at 1 minute 41.73 seconds, which until Monday was TANK MCNAMARA more than 1 ’/z seconds faster than anyone else has ever run. Cruz’ clocking of 1:43.00 was the second- fastest of all time and obliterated the Olympic record of 1:43.50 Juanto- rena set as part of his double-gold medal performance in the 1976 Games. It was Brazil’s first gold medal in a running event in the Olympic Games. “I’m very happy, but it’s tough to say how I feel/’ Cruz said. “I don’t know how to say it. I hope we (Bra zil) can do a good job in the future and see the Brazilian flag go up again.” In other finals, Roger Kingdom upset fellow American Greg Foster in the 110-meter hurdles and Amer ican Valerie Brisco-Hooks took the women’s 400-meters more than 1 Vn seconds faster than anyone else has ever run. Brisco-Hooks, of Los Angeles, es tablished a U.S. record with her 48.83 triumph over fellow American Chandra Cheeseborough. Brisco-Hooks and Cheesebo- rough had been trading the Ameri can record all year, and Cheesebo- rough’s silver medal time of 49.05 also was under her old mark of 49.28 set at the Olympic Trials. Kingdom, whose biggest hurdle prior to Monday was his own confi dence problem, came on with a last- ditch surge to nip Foster in an Olym pic-record time of 13.20. Arto Bryg- gare of Finland grabbed the bronze. Bill Green of Sunnyvale, Calif., set an American record in the hammer throw with a fling of 245-3, breaking his old mark by 1 inch. But it was good only for fifth place. The Italian team, already stronger than thought with three qualifiers in the men’s 200 meters, received an expected boost from Cova’s 27:47.55 triumph in the 10,000. Cova had to beat back a chal lenge from Martti Vainio of Finland. The women’s javelin final saw a tremendous upset and another dis appointment for the Finns. Sander son took the early lead with an Olympic-record toss of 228-2 on the first round and held it throughout, beating world champion and world record-holder Tiina Lillak. After 17 track and field events, the United States had built its lead ing medal count to eight golds, eight silvers and one bronze. MSCfo, views vgm mte- Sales, Sale ame to ih< Applicant! al Secuntt Wedn» 'sdavs: ami tons will lx ice, 801 [ Denson at day isive driv. at the Ra- reive a Id ; dismissal e Ramada by Jeff Millar & Bill Hinds ME TMlkJKft '”V / AMC? TMe CrOLp MERAL Me'Sj A e>PCRT£> U WlhiUStZ IN -TEAM MAWemL AMklOUlOCGR1S>^_ M£AT WAY ftXJKl 17 OF CCMWOMl^ifOG BeruTFN SOAF*> Ak>(7 iME OLYMPICS • Olympic boxers record 20th win has no media problems attention n IPs ities that!, ind acco U.S. State! ' he and oik 1 come to D i a t< losed area md other ie U.S. In ie Soviet w State Depi ption for ir this pai 35 2 'A somersault tuck. Bernier re corded a B0.48 while McCormick and Li both were off in their dives and received 51.24 from the judges. Bernier led after the compulsories with a 230.91, just ahead of McCor mick's 230.64. However, Seufert, 27, was only fifth after the compulsories and needed a 70.47 rating — highest of the day for any dive by any compet itor— on her final dive to clinch the bronze. Her dive was a reverse 1 '/z somersault with two twists. The Canadian victory marked only the fourth time in Olympic competition — not including the 1980 boycotted games — that an American diver did not capture the 3-meter event. Pat McCormick won both the springboard and platform competi tions in the 1952 and 1956 games, the only diver to accomplish the feat. McCormick, who nearly quit div- ne one month before the trials, was also coming off a serious back injury. United Press International LOS ANGELES — The little bit of private life Mary Lou Retton had outside the walls of Bela Karolyi’s gym is over. At least until the United States’ fervor over its newest Olympic heroes and heroines cools, reporters promise to be waiting to record ev ery word uttered by the new queen of gymnastics. Photographers will be looking to immortalize any physical faux pas and folks will be asking her to autograph everything and any thing from restaurant napkins to the bare arms of teen-aged boys smitten by her big, dark eyes and toothpaste- ad smile. But that’sjust fine with Mary Lou Retton, who left the Olympic Village at the University of Southern Cali fornia Monday to spend a few days showing her four individual Olym pic medals and team silver to her friends and relatives. She told U.S. Olympic Committee officials she would return for the Closing Ceremony Sunday. She also has agreed to join two national post- Olympic tours being sponsored by the USOC and U.S. Gymnastics Fed eration. “I’m gonna love it!” Retton said of the hubbub that will result when the millions of TV viewers who fell in love with her during her gold-medal performance in the Olympic all- around competition get within touching distance. “I like it (attention) a lot,” she told reporters. “I like the exposure. I think it’s neat.” No wonder. Most of life’s little pleasures par ticularly those reserved for pretty, perky teenagers have been off limits to Retton since she left her native Fairmont, W. Va. two years ago at age 14 to train for the Olympics un der the strict regimen of Karolyi, the former Romanian Olympic coach who also turned Nadia Comaneci into a superstar. Retton’s mother, Lois, had hoped the youngest of her five children might return home to a life of nor malcy after the Olympic. But Retton has no such plans. “I’m going to continue with my gymnastics. I’m only 16. I have a ig way to go,” she said. Sne considers the O ,on ^ - ^ Sbe considers the Olympic all- around gold medal ‘\he biggie,” in her words, the individual silver in vault and bronze in floor exercise and uneven parallel bars and the re wards of international gymnastics competition more than fair compen sation for her sacrifices. “It’s true I don’t live a normal 16- year-old’s life,” she said. “I don’t go to school dances or to school football games. But other 16-year-olds don’t get to travel around the world and see the things I’ve seen or meet the people I’ve met.” At the U.S. Olympic trials in Jack sonville in June, Retton said that her next goal after the Olympics would be winning a gold at the 1985 world championships. There she would face competition not only from Romania’s Ecaterina Szabo, winner of the silver Olympic all-around and three individual gold medals, but from East Germany’s Maxi Gnauck and other Eastern bloc g ymnasts left out of the Summer !ames by the Soviet Union-led boy cott. United Press Internationa] LOS ANGELES — World cham pion Frank Tate pushed the U.S. Olympic boxing team’s record to 20- 1 Monday with a 5-0 win over Italy’s Romolo Casamonica, who later com plained that an injury made him a one-handed fighter. Casamonica broke his right hand three months ago and said he re injured it last week in his first Olym- g ic bout against Ireland’s Sam torey. He threw very few rights during his bout against Tate, relying almost entirely on a powerful left hook that rocked the American seve ral times. But Tate was the more consistent puncher following a slow start in the first minute of the bout. In the ninth session, three-time world champion Mark Breland, the leader of the U.S. squad, attempted to move into the welterweight quar terfinals when he fought Rudel Obreja of Romania and U.S. heavy weight Henry Tillman made his Olympic debut. Tillman’s originally scheduled op ponent, Marvin Perez of Bolivia, sus tained a broken hand during the weekend — without ever fighting — and Monday morning he was re placed by India’s Kaliq Singh. Tillman’s probable opponent in the final on Saturday, Willie deWit of Canada, scored a hard-fought 5-0 decision over Mohamed Bouchiche of Algeria despite being hit with dozen of heavy punches. Bouchiche never retreated against the bigger deWit, a heavy favorite for a gold medal, and appeared to hurt the Canadian heavyweight in the second round with three power ful left hooks. De Wit, however, landed the cleaner punches throughout, includ ing his own left hook in the final round that lifted the Algerian off hs feet. Tate’s win set up a probable gold medal showdown with Canada’s Shawn O’Sullivan, who scored a first-round TKO over Dal Ho Ahn of Korea. Sullivan knocked the Ko rean down twice in the first minute of the fight, once with a right hand and once with a left hand. Dal also received a standing eight-count be fore the referee stopped the car nage. Casamonica pounded Tate in the first and third rounds with the left hook, bulling his taller opponent into the ropes and rocking him with hard punches. Tate scored with both hands in all three rounds, but never hurt the Italian. The judges, from New Zealand, South Korea, Japan, Tunesia and Gabon, all voted for Tate, including a lopsided 60-57 score by the judge from Gabon. The win advanced Tate to the quarterfinals in the light middle weight (156 pounds) class. He will face Christopher Kapopo of Zambia on Wednesday. The second round was Tate’s best against the Italian. After Casamo nica had landed two good left hooks to his head, Tate responded with a four-punch combination capped by a whistling right to the jaw. Casamo nica, for the first time in the bout, began retreating but Tate was un able to do any further damage. Casamonica said his aching right hand was of little use in the fight. “It hurt so bad I couldn’t use it at all,” he said. “I thought I would have beaten him if I didn t have the prob lem with my hand. I really could only punch with my left.” Astros blank Giants; Rangers join division race United Press International HOUSTON — Bob Knepper pitched a six-hit shutout and doubled home two runs to cap a six- run sixth inning Monday night to lead the Houston Astros to an 8-0 victory over the San Francisco Gi ants. Knepper struck out five and walked one to improve his record to 10-8. It was the left-hander’s eight complete game of the year, the most on tne Houston staff, and his third shutout. Bill Doran and Craig Reynolds led off the sixth with consecutive dou bles off Bill Laskey (6-10) to give Houston a 3-0 lead. Denny Walling then singled in Reynolds. With two out, Jerry Mumphrey singled and Enos Cabell hit his sixth home run of the season to put Houston ahead 6- 0. Laskey then walked Terry Puhl and Mark Bailey singled. Knepper followed with a double into the right-field corner to score both run ners. Houston took a 2-0 lead in the sec ond on an RBI single by Bailey and a run-producing balk by Laskey. At Arlington, the Texas Rangers are talking again like contenters for the American League West title. The Rangers came back from a 4- 1 deficit Monday night to a 5-4 vic tory over Toronto. And Buddy Bell says that kind of victory may propel the Rangers closer to the bottleneck at the top. “Defense and pitching means an awful lot to a team, and we proved that when we cut down (Toronto’s George) Bell in the second inning,” Buddy Bell said. It was Bell’s two-out single off re liever Jim Gott that drove Mickey Rivers in from second base in the ninth inning to break a 4-4 tie and snap a two-game Ranger losing streak. THE BOOT BARN Justin Ropers S T COO Everyday Low Price! 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