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Show Tl'F.SDAY. Aaeust Sp orts report and on winners. . .commentary . : . r 1 TV '' -- -- mil A 1 Hi Jr ' P- - t I Mr 0 ryA 7 -P t jew 1 i THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, A full " rdJ 7, 1964 V- Marion Dunn r v. ' TP SPORTS EDITOR J tt a Ji ..... JL I , , ll ill ;.;i..v;;....; ouaars Confirm TV Date; Vidmar elafives Proud Xa 27' 5 yi .t ..;...,., ; ., ,; . JT."!Tr;r!T!T!? . There's good news this evening. The BYU at Pittsburgh football game Sept. 1 will be televised live on ESPN. The Cougars and Panthers will have the distinction of playing the first televi!?n game of . I... the season. The game was signed a year ago but when the Supreme Court junked the NCAA television package, it was in a doubtful status for America's Carl Lewis fouled once, but managed to get off a long jump of 28'i inches to win the Olympic gold, though many of the fans thought he should have gone for the record. Evades Record Jump BYU athletic director Glen Tuckett said Monday afternoon that ESPN, BYU and Pittsburgh had come to terms and the game will be televised as scheduled. Well, not exactly as scheduled. The game had been scheduled to be played at night with Pitt using portable lights. But now the game will go on as orginally planned, in the afternoon. The game will start at approximately 3:30 p.m. EDT which means 1:30 p.m. here. "It is a real bonus for us," Tuckett said, "because ESPN doesn't have a contract with the WAC. This means we get this game outside the WAC contract with ABC." Tuckett also had some good row o irseasing By JOE JULIANO UPI Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (UPI) -Carl Lewis has set his first record of the Olympics, the event being "Most Boos Heard By a Gold Medal Winner." More than 80,000 people at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Monday night expected Lewis to mount an assault on Bob Beamon's legendary world and Olympic record of 29 feet, 2 Vt inches in the long jump. But it was more of a popgun attack than anything. After one legal jump and one foul, Lewis decided to pack it in for the night, passing on his last four tries. Most of the fans were pleased that the Houston flash had won his second gold medal of the Games, taking the long jump at 28 feet, V inch. But some booed him when he left the track, and again when he walked to the medal platform. However, even though he fell short of expectations in his best event, Lewis is still on course toward his goal of four gold medals. "We started late (about an hour behind schedule) because of the hammer throw and then it got cold very quickly," said Lewis, who holds the indoor world record of 0 lk. "I got a little sore and I didn't want to risk the chance of injury. Regardless of how it ended, if someone had passed me, I wasn't going to jump again. "People don't realize what it takes to run a couple of races and then come back later because of all the 28-1- 200-met- security and the sitting around. It was harder on me today, much harder than the Olympic trials." Lewis won both his heats of the 200 meters earlier in the day Monday. The semifinals and finals of that event are scheduled for Wednesday with Lewis expected to take a shot at another world record, the d mark held by Italy's Pietro Mennea. 19.72-secon- "I'm looking forward to runrace of my life," ning the best he said. For today, though, Lewis and the other athletes will rest. No events are scheduled. Americans claimed two more gold medals Monday. In each case, an underdog defeated a favored teammate in Olympic record time to win. Roger Kingdom of Pittsburgh upset Greg Foster in the hurdles in 13.20 seconds. In the women's 400 me110-met- ters, Valerie Brisco-Hook- s held off Chandra Cheesebor-oug- h with a time of 48.83 seconds, also an American record. Two more Olympic records were set when Joaquim Cruz of Brazil captured the 800 meters in 1:43.00 and Tessa Sanderson of Britain took the women's javelin with a heave of 228-- land in the hammer throw at 256-and Doina Melinte of Romania in the women's 800 meters in 1:57.60 over America's Kim Gallagher. Kingdom, whose biggest hurdle prior to Monday appeared t, to be raced nearly even with Foster before a late 2 news concerning television self-doub- games on ABC. "In the past the television people have given us notice on the Monday before the game if we were going to be on television. Under the contract this year, we will get 13 days notice. That will be a big help to everyone." Tuckett is a member of the College Football Association (CFA) television committee and has spent most of his summer working on a schedule. "I can tell you this," he said. "We're going to start negotiating next surge gave him the gold medal, although he wasn't sure right away if he had won. Brisco-Hook- of Los Ange- s, stopped training a year and a half to have a baby, held off Cheeseborough and bronze medalist Kathy Cook of Britain with a determined stretch run and said later, "This means a lot of hard work paid off." les, who With a great field in the 800, Cruz, an NCAA champion at the University of Oregon, followed Kenya's Edwin Koech d through a swift off and then held opening lap world record holder Sebastian Coe of Britain. Earl Jones, of year right away. We're not going to be caught in this squeeze again." Meanwhile, BYU's football team has started to gather. 51.07-secon- Other gold medals Monday were won by Italy's Alberto Cova, who held off Martii Vai-ni- o of Finland in the 10,000 in 27:47.54; Juha Tianin of Fin Physical examinations for the players take place today and Thursday. Picture day is Saturday and following the session with the photographers the Cougars will start practice. The annual Steve Smilanich Inkster, Mich., took the bronze. H H Oly mpic Happenings Cory Snyder Doubles RBI ANGELES, (UPI) McDowell hit a LOS Od-dib- e two-ru- n homer and scored the run Monday night, pacing the U.S. Olympic baseball team to a victory over Korea and a 2 place in the finals against Japan. Japan beat Chinese Taipei 1 in 10 innings as Yukio Arai at 19 the youngest player on the team, had a triple and two singles, and drove in both runs. In the first game of today's doubleheader, Chinese Taipei 2-- meets Korea for the bronze medal at 4 p.m. PDT, followed by the United States vs. Japan for the gold. Medals in this demonstration Olympic sport are similar but not exactly the same as those for official sports. McDowell, who played for Arizona State and is a first round draft choice by the Texas Rangers, hit his homer about 390 feet over the right field fence in the third inning. Flavio Alfaro of San Diego State scored ahead of him. Kim Yong-Kusingled in a run for Korea in the fourth and belted a solo Lee Soon-Chhomer off starter Scott Bank-hea- d of North Carolina and the Kansas City Royals in the fifth. fouled When Park Heung-Su- k with a double and Bankhead uncorked a wild pitch, Don Au k gust of Chapmen College and the Houston Astros came on to shut out the Koreans the rest of the way for the pitching victory. The United States broke the 2 deadlock with three runs in the sixth. McDowell walked to lead off, stole second and came home on a single by Chris Gwynn of San Diego State. Will Clark of Mississippi State walked and Cory Snyder of Brigham Young and the Cleveland Indians doubled home both runners. Volleyball Gold on Line BEACH, Calif. (UPI) The United States is going to earn its first Olympic medal in the quesvolleyball tonight tion is which one. The U.S. women's team of Coach Arie Selinger plays China tonight with the winner earning a gold medal and the loser getting draped with silver. Japan and Peru will play for the bronze medal first. "My view, Peru coach Man-Bo- k Park said, "is the United States should win." "The American and Chinese LONG teams are similar," China coach Yuan Weimin said. "Most of their players are tall. And they are good blockers and spi-kers- ." Where China has the edge is is expert at finding holes iii a defense and jam craftiness. It ming the ball into the spot. But where the U.S. women have the big bulge is the ability to run off three to five points at a crack especially late in the game. In Monday night's windup to the men's preliminaries, fired-u- p Brazil took the pressure off Coach Doug Beal's team with a tough but suprisingly easy 15-upset. 15-1- 0, 15-1- Marsh Easily In Oly Semis -Bountiful attorney Henry Marsh, a former Brigham LOS ANGELES 3,000 meter steeplechase at the Olympics, where he is favored to win a gold medal. Marsh, a Rosemount, Pa., native, placed fourth in the third heat of his event Monday night with a time of 8:29.23. He needed to place in the top six in his heat to advance to the semifinals Wednesday. "I got through the heat and that was the primary objective," Marsh said, who has been suffering from allergies and a virus since winning the Olympic Trials. "Actually I didn't feel as I had hoped to. I was a little sluggish out there and still had my problems. But I got through the main objective that's to qualify for my next round." Marsh was in the fastest heat, LaVell Edwards, BYU; Chuck Stobart, Utah; Chris Pella, Utah State, and Mike Price, Weber State was held at noon today at the Fort Douglas Country Club in Salt Lake City. The WAC Skywriters Tour starts at Utah and BYU Aug. 17 and ends in Honolulu Aug. 26. Hey, the football season is late summer just an early fall this year. Sharing the Gold While the entire state thrilled to the performance of the United States' gymnasts in the Los Angeles Olympics, a Spring-vill- e family took special pride in the accomplishment star Pete Vidmar. male' of Vidmar, who helped the U.S. men's team the win and gold then took an individual gold in the pommel horse, is a native of Los Angeles and graduated from UCLA, but he has close ties to the Dr. J. Kyle and Lois Clark family in Springville. The Clark's oldest son, Jim, is married to Vidmar's sister, Melissa. Jim and Melissa met when they were students at BYU. She was majoring in mechanical engineering and he in business administration. Jim and Melissa live in Springville and have six children, five girls and a boy. They attended the Olympics and formed part of the huge cheering section that helped the Americans make Olympic history. Vidmar was recruited by BYU but enrolled at UCLA. Mrs. Clark this week recalled the day Jim and Melissa were married in Los Angeles: "It was 1968 and we made the trip by train. We were met in Los Angeles by this little, skinny boy. It was Peter. It is hard to look at him today and picture that skinny boy who first met us at the tiain." Mrs. Clark also said, "If there is such a thing as an Olympic it is gold medal daughter-in-laMelissa. She is a gold medal winner." 25 Days to Pitt which was won by Julius Kar-iuof Kenya in a time of ki 8:19.45. "Our leaders took off. They had a big gap on us at the early part of the race," he said. "But it didn't really bother me because I was on my pace. It was on an 8:35 pace, which I knew would qualify. "My only concern is I want to be 100 percent. I want to be real competitive and I didn't feel it tonight. But I did get the job done as far as qualifying for the next round." Marsh was a member of the 1976 and 1980 U.S. Olympic teams. (UPI) Young University runner, qualified for the semifinals in the coaches upon us. There will be no some time. LewiB' Beehive Boot Luncheon, featuring the four major college Cagers Given First Scare INGLE WOOD, Calif. (UPI) -If you play for Bobby Knight, arms, legs and hands are not enough. You play with your head. "I just didn't think we played with the kind of intelligence that's marked our performance when we've played well," the U.S. coach said Monday night after his team advanced to the semifinals of the men's Olympic basketball tournament with a sluggish victory over West Germany. The United States meets Canada Wednesday night in the semis with the winner gaining a berth in Friday night's gold medal game. YU Countdown Starts the Season Are you ready for this? In just 25 days, the BYU Cougars kick off their 1984 football season against the highly-ranke- d Pittsburgh Panthers. That's right, just 25 days to go before BYU begins its pigskin performance of 1984. Well, not exactly. Actually, the Cougars started getting things ready for their 1984 opener on Monday, as some of the players began reporting for physicals. The Beehive Boot Luncheon, where the coaches from the "Big Four" colleges in Utah get together to preview their teams, was today, and on Thursday report for physicals and practice for the newcomers begins. The annual media picture day is set for Saturday morning, with the first full squad drills set for that afternoon. On Monday, the Cats start the dreaded two-a-day- s, with pads scheduled to go on Aug. 15. 78-6- 7 But BYU isn't the only football squad preparing to open the season. Around the WAC, Air Force officially opened their practice under new head coach Fisher Monday, with pads going on Thursday. The Falcons host De-Ber- ry n mm m 9 AUGUST im mm. iMk - IHi it, XX X S 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 San Diego State on Sept. 1. The Aztecs open practice Saturday, as do New Mexico and Wyoming. Utah and Hawaii join the practice crowd on Aug. 15, followed by Colorado State on Aug. 16 and UTEP on Aug. 22. Joining BYU, Air Force and San Diego State with Sept. 1 openers are UTEP, Utah and Wyoming. One week later, on Sept. 8, the rest of the WAC teams (Colorado State, Hawaii and New Mexico), swing into action. The Cougars go into the season with an winning streak, which ties them with Auburn for the longest current winning streak in Division I college football. Despite the loss of players like Steve Young, Gordon Hudson, Casey Tiumalu, Brandqn Flint and Todd Shell, the Cougars are favored to win tiieir ninth straight WAC .18. |
