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Show Daily Herald 8 qctut4tl16j toxesday, h Countv 19G( Uf erter Upsets A ilvest er in ISCUS Oerter Wins Unprecedented 4th Straight Gold Medal Watts there was This time he was 40 yards By JOHN G. GRIFFIN of Dave an from the finish line Editor Britain, Hemery Executive UPI Sports with East Germany's (UPI)-- As Boston University CITY MEXICO in a battle for Fromm Dieter Al amaza student, running truly long as ancient, aching the bronze medal. Farrell loses Oerter and swift Wyomia Tyus ing race to win the few bouts of nerve and he won the United men's hurdles in 48.1 seconds are competing, this one to give the U.S. a of not share .7 the under a will have pending States big only the world record of America's Geoff surprise third place. Olympic glory but today But there was no denying Yanks must split even that Vanderstoc)"., but a stunning full share with two speedy sons of second unler the listed world after Tuesday's competition and Olympic record of 49. 1 set that the United States will be the British Commonwealth. Father by America's Rex Cawley in lucky to match the 12 gold Oerter, who is giving medals in men s track it won in Time as big a pain in the neck 1964. the 1964 Olympics. So far the for a back into his as he had bad in Hemery came zooming Yanks have only three in men's first the meters the ahead stretch became eight 1 long time, . "4-p?-to and, although he said, "I was so track. On Tuesday, the Yanks athlete in Olynipir history were ehut out completely in the win the gold medal in his event tired I didn't think I could make f hurdles, which the ?z four straight times when he it to the finish line first," he j took the discus throw Tuesday made it with plenty to spare U.S. had won six straight times. with an Olympic record heave over West Germany's Gerhard Chances for Two of 212 feet, 6Vi inches. Hennige. The United States, however, Oerter of Now Australian Winner figures to pick up two more West Islip, N.Y., thinks he just gold medals today. was ror the other, there may go for a fantastic fifth The pole vault, an old Yankee straight gold medal at Munich Australian Ralph Doubell beat to give a is he'll be 36. ing a man whom many had stronghold, expected In 1972-w- hen indoor-outdoto medal gold unbeatuuie, 4T11 keep throwing for at least tho'ight Kenya's n world record holder Bob another year," said Oerter. Wilson Kiprugust, in the final of to John or 800 Pennel, the maybe men's in meters world a "Munich is a big question mark the first man who cleared 17 now. I'll have to thinK about it. record of 1:44.3. And John Carlos and feet. ''AM i Oerter said if he had lost, he The United States had a hero Tommie Smith are expected to would have tried to make the in this race today, even though run in the or maybe ; 1972 Olympic team in yachting. he didn't win slender, blond with men's dash, But now he's the champ again Tommy Farrell of Forest Hills, Questad looking in for a Plans to Retire N.Y. A lot of track people think Larry bronze. Miss Tyus, 23, won't be little Tommy hasn't got the But the U.S. had no hope in the around for another Olympics in talent of a world class runner '72, since she plans to retire but nobody ever had denied his mens javelin, where Mark AL OERTER heaves the discus for an Olympic record and a fourth consecutive Olympic from track after these james. supply of running courage. For Murro is the lone candidate No other athlete in history has won four straight gold medal. The toss was gold name spearthrowBut the Griffin. Ga.. star the second straight Olympics. against big medals in Olympic competition. (Herald-UP- I Telephoto) already has become one of the Farrell has been the only Yank ers. In the women's Los unique "repeat" winners in to get as far as the finals of the dash, Jarvis Scott of Angeles has a chance if she Olympic history bcoming the 800. In 1964 he finished fifth. revises her poor, fast-stafirst sprinter to capture the tactics of the preliminaries. dash for the women's George Young, the Arizona second straight time and this Bears, not necessarily because feet, 6 inches, and wound up By MILTON RICHMAN school teacher, is an outsider time in the record time of 11 UPI Sports Writer they were better but because beating a man he wasn't sure African aces in the MEXICO CITY (UPI)-T- he seconds. one of their coachs hopped a he could, teammate Jay Silves NEW YORK (UPI)-- For the against steeplechase. Wyomia's triumph was mere- first time ever an Australian race isn't always to the swift. cab to a nearby college and ter. ly one performance or one of team will compete in the The U.S. men's basketball Occasionally it goes to the brought back two dozen pair of When Oerter first came here 'he most brilliant track days in National Horse Show here. sneakers. team continued to roll Tuesday shrewdest. 10 days ago, he wasn't overly Olympic history certainly the ine Australians will send a with a 5 romp over the A number of years ago the That was a pretty clever confident. most brilliant day the British delegation of three riders for Philippines, and tonight meets field came up frozen for an move. He knew Silvester had thrown Commonwealth has enjoyed in a the competition scheduled for Yugoslovia, a t,"am to which it NFL title game. In it, the New Al Kaline pulled another one the discus almost 20 feet farther Nov. long, long time. has lost two exhibition games. York Giants beat the Chicago when it rained during the World than anyone else in the world Series and he kept the hitting this year and that fact stayed in surface of his bat dry between his mind. his knees while in the on deck "It'll take a lot to beat him circle. and I'm not at all sure I can," Then there's Al Oerter, the said the articulate, discus thrower. computer anaiyst from West He's a real shrewdie, too, and Islip, N.Y. maybe that's the reason he now The thing tht did it for ranks as the only man in Oerter was that he was able to history ever to win four gold adjust better to the wet underfootine than Silvester. He medals in a row. no It rained at the Olympics insisted later be was is the fact but mudder" simple Tuesday when the New Yorker won his fourth gold that Silvester s best toss was 10 medal and naturally, Oerter had feet shy of his. This in spite of no special dispensation from the the fact Silvester holds the pending world record of 224 weather. Meaning he got wet. 5 inches. He didn't merely stand there feet, No Psycheout about do and nothing it, though. Oerter claimed he didn't He adjusted. All the good ones do. psyche Silvester Tuesday and What Oerter did was change that he doesn t do such things his style. He went back to an but he has a short memory. He forgets how he was the old fashioned one, a technique that was 10 years old. Maybe it underdog in the 1964 Olympics did make him look like "a at Tokyo, how everybody plowboy," as some of the discus expected Ludvik Danek, the So Czech, to win, and how he beat throwing purists insist. what? He finished fvst, didn't him by not talking to him or he? That's what the Olympcs recognizing Danek was even are all about. there. Cookin' For one thing, shoulder-to-should- ' im er i SI 4 i ryi Sea-gre- Err' 2--1, J .tSH .CSj Zl2-6'- rt Did Oerter Psyche L.J.? Aussies Compete 3,000-met- er 96-7- 2. 220-pou- for people going places 43 iJ3 1ft i?rwB Changed Style switched my technique three different times, Oerter explained when it was all over, "I used one technique before the rain started, another one when it did, and a third one after it stopped. Actually It was what you'd call shifting in balance. When it came time to throw, Instead of starting off facing the back, I faced sideways. It helped me adapt better with the slippery circles and the wind conditions." Oerter did so well that he got off the best throw of his life, 212 "I M before U) CROf tEf t "If ilPi vSfa f v Traveler fiftli mWkJZs-- after HMiHnMflPlllBliiiiB i about wanted tne guy to worry me," Oerter laughted later. in mis one tnougn, he was worried about Silvester. He didn't even watch his last ' i .: 'W$ WHISKEV MEIER UMiMt taum ;! fc fse' ?iuu ws u ;ua n irt as tu have done a fine job. The Cougars now have a 2 record. They looked o o against against Western Michigan and Iowa State, but came on great against Wyoming. They'll be in an underdog role against Arizona this Saturday. The UTEP game will probably be rated and the Cougars will be slightly favored a toss-rp- , over Utah. The Aggies will be favored over the Cougars, as will Arizona State, but the Cougars will be favored to beat New Mexico and San Jose to wind out the schedule. Western Michigan is the only team the Cougars have conquered so far. Other teams the Cougars have a good shot at beating are TJTEP, Utah, New Mexico, and San Jose State. Wins in those games would give BYU a 5 record. However, you can't count UTEP and Utah in the bag. If the Cougars happen to drop both of those games the season mark could well be Of course, as exhibited against Wyoming, the Cougars are capable of pulling a few upsets themselves. BYU just might upset Arizona, Utah State, or Arizona State. Pulling an upset in one of those three games will be like pulling a rabbit out of a hat. If the Y can pull off the magic it could be a fine season. 1-- so-s- so-s- 5-- 3-- 7. Hope For A Home Win The biggest hope the Y has for a home win this year is against UTEP next week at the BYU Homecoming. If the Cougars drop that contest there is a strong possibility the Cougars will go winless at home and finish with a losing record. And remember, at the beginning of the season that game was a write-ofOnly the disastrous and Dobbs' Miners has results Bobby by dissappointing given the Y any hopes of a victory in the game. The Miners were expected to be one of the front runners in the WAC, and still might turn out to be. However, their loss to Long Beach State and a tie to Santa Barbara have got to be a tremendous loss of face for the UTEP school. Like Hudspeth said at the beginning of the year "You've got to favor UTEP because of the easy schedule they've got. They play several ward teams and a seminary class." But those ward teams and a seminary class have proven the downfall of the Miners. UTEP tied Santa and then took out vengeance on New 4 Barbara Mexico. Since then the Miners have lost to Arizona This and Long Beach Arizona 25-State week they play New Mexico State and then tackle the Cougars at Homecoming. f. 14-1- 31-1- 9, 22-2- 0, I?" The kickoff Magazine, under its power system of rating, places the Western Athletic Conference teams in the following order. 101.0 5. Brigham Young 87.7 1. Wyoming 87.0 98.8 6. Utah . . 2. Arizona State 94.7 7. Colorado State . . 80.0 3. Arizona 89.5 8. New Mexico . . . 70.0 4 TTTEP Southern Cal ranks the highest on the rating sheet with 117.0 points. There are 28 teams ranked above Wyoming. Utah State has a power rating of 91 and San Jose State has a low rating of only 74. .... Small College Grid Standings - he won-lost-ti- (5-0- (4-0- (4-0- 8. Tampa 82 (3-- 72 Ky. (1) (4-54 ) 10. Weber St. 11. Second Morgan St. (40); 12. Northern Michigan (21); 13. C. W. Post (16); 14. n Alcorn (AIM) (15); 15. (14); 16. Northern Iowa (13); 17. Troy St. (11); 18. St., Colorado Tic, Montana StMe (Greeley). Willamette and 9. Western Then there's a guy by the name of Ray Ewry. He aLo competed In the U.S. and won the standing high jump and standing broad Jump events in 1900, 1904, 1906 and 1908. There was one catch, though. The 1906 events, held in Athens, Greece, were listed as "exhibitions'' and esides, Ray Ewry never did Appalachian (1) (10), his things in the rain. 10-- 2770 South Provo, 1650 l ist I'tih 0 Texas-Arlingto- Hayes Named UPI Coach Of the Week By HARVEY SHAPIRO UPI Sports Writer - COLUMBUS (UPI) Hayes "feels guilty" being named United t .;uur cj ,("-u!.i- V 3 Coll for free delivery 99 West 300 f uth Provo, Utah 373-344- -- about Press International's Coach of th Week today for his Ohio StaU Buckeyes' shutout of Purdut Saturday. "If you name coaches of th week, you'd have to name our entire defensive staff." the veteran Ohio State coach said. That means coordinator Lou McCullouRh, Interior line coach Bill Mallory. defensive end coach Esco Sarkkinen and drfensive HolU. backfield four-ma- Old Grow Woody coach Lou ulaff lliiyes and Tiut laid the groundwork for last 22-Saturday's stunning upset the record compiled by Long win over tne previously unbes. Island University baseball team ten and first ranked Hoilrrma. kcrs. during the 1968 season was the Their Buckeyes did tlw rest in best regular season mark at the limiting Purdue to Just 57 yards school since 1937. nuhina and blankins a team that had averaged 41.3 points in ATTENTION liirre previous victories. HOME OWNERS Both Ohio State touchdowns tANDMI tAW -Dftlt.lt were art up by pass IntercepMill ft 0 ITC. ftOUTI!, tions. Ted Provost ran back an A (e 1 RENTALS IM II N. inlrrerptpd pass 33 yards for ) Mil the Buckeyes' firtt score. TIME NEW YORK (LTD The TOOK Drive HERTZ by the hour, day, v?ek or longer while your car recuperates. New Chcvrolets or other line cars. Nice comforting thought. Nice people HERTZ. 1. The Power Ratings (4-0- Take Them To world's most popular Bourbon tumor Now that the Cougars have three games under their belts how does it look for the season? Well, if the cougars finish at the wire with better than a 5 5 record Hudspeth and his coaching staff will The NEW YORK (UPI) International top United Press said "Why football teams answering a question about it. 20 small college and votes first with place so "He's good. I don't wanna records In parentheses. see him beat me." Nobody beat Oerter Tuesday. (Fourth week.) Points Not Silvester, not the rain and ...Team St. 1. San (25) Diego not f n old fashioned technique. 292 St (4) ) He thus unraveled a "tie" 1 239 ) 3. Texas Ail with John Flanagan, an Irish 222 ) 4. Eastern Ky. (1) cop iom New York, who won 156 5. N.Mex. Hilnds (3) three cold medals in a row for 133 ) 6. Chattanooga the U.S. by finishing first in the 84 St. (4-hammer throw in 1900, 1904 and 7. Arkansas should e you're getting smooth, mellow Old Crow. Season Record Be? 1) The popular For fall and football the Old Crow Traveler 'tays, "Take me to the game!'1 And v;hy not? The Traveler is the tuckaway fifth that packs iJ flat as your shirt so it goes anywhcre...corv celebrations venicntly. And for with friends at home, or at your favorite bar, enjoy 01 J Crow in the popular roiTid bottle. It goes beautifully with mixed drinks. And mixed company. Either wayjravclcr or round, What Will the BYU (4-fl- John Kuhni and Sons, Inc. after-gam- JOE WAHS throw. 1908. v BY n LONG - - 2 13-- |