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Sports The Indianapolis Star MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 1992 Joyner-Kersee makes heptathlon history Bill Benner fc It' A 1 U'j XJ iVi v. 't i -Vn "-Ts i By JOHN NELSON ASSOCIATED PRESS Barcelona, Spain Jackie Joyner-Kersee and Vltaly Scherbo made history Sunday at the Summer Olympics. For the U.S. baseball players, It was another loss, and they could be history very Next up for Team USA: Cuba. Joyner-Kersee became the first woman ever to repeat as Olympic heptathlon champion, winning the two-day, seven-event marathon by nearly 200 points over Irina Belova of the Unified Team.

"This was the challenge." Joyner-Kersee said. "Because it was so historic. I really wanted to get the gold." Scherbo, the 20-year-old Mighty Mite of Minsk, captured four of the six events in men's gymnastics individual apparatus and became the first gymnast ever with six gold medals in one Games. Trent Dlmas gave the American men their first gymnastics gold in the high bar. "1 certainly did not expect this to happen." Scherbo said.

"It seemed impossible that I could win so many gold medals." A 7-1 loss to Japan sends the U.S. baseball team Into a semifinal game Tuesday against mighty Cuba. The Dream Team, meanwhile, rolled on with a 122-81 basketball victory over Spain. With all of the day's events over, the Unified Team led with 74 total medals, 32 gold. The United States had 56 medals, 19 gold, and Germany was third with 45 medals, 14 gold.

The United States saw its final hopes for a medal in men's tennis disappear Sunday. Pete Sampras, the No. 3 seed, lost in five sets to Andrei Cherkasov of the Unified Team. No. 1 Jim Courier and No.

6 Michael Chang lost earlier. Also out of the Olympics is boxer Eric Griffin of Broussard. La. The two-time world champion- at 106 pounds lost a close, controversial decision Saturday to a Spaniard, and U.S. Boxing immtdJ-! ately protested.

"As far as the International Amateur Boxing Association is concerned, the Incident is rules chairman Arthur Tunstall said Sundayin! announcing that the protest had been denied. Joyner-Kersee finished with 7,044 points. Tier best since a world-record 7,291 at the 1988 Olym-' pics. She won the silver at Los Angeles in 1984. Not only did she become the first double hep tathlon winner, she also became only the second; American woman to win the same track title in consecutive Olympics.

The other was Wyomla Tyus. who won the 100 meters In 1964 and '68LtJ The heptathlon has been contested in ibC See JOYNER-KERSEE Page 2 Bloody 'art' on display at bullfights BARCELONA. SPAIN Went to the arena early Sunday evening. I paid 4.000 pesatas (about $45 U.S.) for a front-row seat, even though I knew who was going to win ahead of time. And, true to form, the loser was bloodied, maimed and, in the end, slaughtered.

Even saw a bull with his tongue hanging out. But It wasn't Michael Jordan and the Dream Team playing against, say, Angola. This was El Matadores i against El Toros. Matadors versus the bulls. My advice? the Matadors and give the points.

When I left, the Matadors were up, 4-zip, with two to play. I was pretty sure they were going to get the shutout. This was a night at the bull-'. fights at the Plaza de Toros de Barcelona. And there was plenty of bull, all right.

Thousand-pounders. But it wasn't much of a fight. The deck was stacked. The officials wouldn't give them any calls. call it sports or a fighi.V said the man sitting "It is not.

The goal is to be artistic, to please the crowd, to show (the matador) knows how to kill the bull right." The man's name is Leo, and he is from Madrid. He is in Barcelona to watch the Olympic Games, but he has come to see the bulls during their one weekly appearance. His English is excellent, for which I am thankful. His interpretations of the action are helpful, to say the least. See BENNER Page 2 1 it.

ASSOCIATED PRESS Jackie Joyner-Kersee unleashes the javelin on the way to the heptathlon gold medal. No home-court advantage for Spaniards against U.S. OLYMPICS TODAY'S TV SCHEDULE (WTHR-13) 7-10 a.m. Track and field qualifying; Canoeing; Tennis (men's and women's singles quarterfinals). Scores p.m.

Track and field finals (women's 800, men's 110 hurdles, men's triple jump, men's Diving (women's springboard final); Men's volleyball (USA vs. Italy); Tennis (men's and women's singles quarterfinals). 11:35 p.m.-1:05 a.m. Weight-lifting (heavyweight final); Water By BILL BENNER STAR STAFF WRITER Badalona, Spain The Cream Team met the Home Team Sunday night: Team USA versus Spain in Olympic hoops. One optimistic banner-hanger in the sold-out Badalona Sports Palace even went so far to waste a bed sheet with this message: "Go Spain they are common and human." And to you.

Charles Barkley, for the response. "The person who wrote that didn't graduate from high school," said Sir Charles. Yes, the Dreamers are human. No, they are not common. The scoreboard again reflected that: 122-81.

And the Yanks now head for the quarterfinals single-elimination with the expected 5-0 record. But they were more common than they have been Sunday night. After the Dream Teamers built the usual 30-something advantage early in the second half, Spain managed to outscore the U.S. 23-9 over a 5-minute stretch of missed layups, turnovers and ho-hum effort at the defensive end. So guess what? No golf today, unless the tee time is later on.

No venue-hopping until evening. Magic Johnson told Coach Chuck Daly it's time for a practice. A hard one. "This is the money time now," said Magic, looking ahead to Tuesday's quarterfinal with Puerto Rico (3:30 p.m. EST).

"A practice will be good for us. I said It In front of them. I hold nothing back. a it 1 1 rj Polo (USA vs. France); Boxing (quarterfinals); Basketball (USA women's game).

AMERICAN LEAGUE Baltimore 2 Boston 1 Toronto 7JYort Detroit Minnesota 5 Milwaukee 0 Chicago 7 Steattie 4 Oakland 4. Texas 5 California 1 NATIONAL LEAGUE Pittsburgh 2 St. Louis 1 New "York' 4 Chicago 2 Montreal 1 Philadelphia 0 Houston 5 4 Atlanta Jan Fidsro m0-S Los AngeieT 4 San Diego i AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Indians fl Buffalo 3 "We're there but not quite. We're missing balls we should catch, layups we should make. We're here to win the gold and the only way to do that is to maintain what we had and have.

I'm not going to let us slip. My job is to make sure we're ready. When we practice and practice hard, we're ready for anybody." So there you have it. The Dreamers are ready to roll up their sleeves. They're also back at full strength for the first time since the second game of the Tournament of the Americas in Portland.

See DREAM Page 2 ASSOCIATED PflESS Spain's Enrique Andreu Balbuena covers his nose after taking elbow from Karl Malone in the first half. ZZ This time a bride: Goodyear wins race Seaver delivers last perfect pitch at Hall induction V. TOP FINISHERS 1. Scott Goodyear, 177.625 mph. 2.

Paul Tracy. 3. Raul Boesel. 4. Al Unser Jr.

5. Scott Pruett. 6. John Andretti. 7.

Buddy Lazier. 8. Danny Sullivan. 9. Tony Bettenhausen.

10. Scott Brayton. By ROBIN MILLER STAR ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR Brooklyn, Mich. Two months after losing the closest Indianapolis 500 ever, Scott Goodyear got the finish right Sunday and stormed to his first-ever Indy-car victory at Michigan International Speedway. Goodyear, beaten by less than a car length by Al Unser Jr.

last May, bolted past fellow Canadian Paul Tracy on a restart with 17 laps to go and drove away with the Marlboro 500. On a day the Fords failed and the Americans fell by the wayside, the two Canadians continued their Impressive climbs in the Indy-car ranks. Goodyear, a road racer by trade with no oval-track experience until 1990. led 97 of the 250 laps and averaged 177.625 mph In the Mackenzie '92 Lola-Chevy-A. "Today, feels a little bit better than Indylf' exclaimed Goodyear afterward.

"I was nassfnu pnvs I By JIM DONAGHY ASSOCIATED PRESS Cooperstown. N.Y. Tom Seaver used his Induction into the Hall of Fame to make another perfect delivery. Seaver, Rollie Fingers, Hal Newhouser and the late umpire Bill McGowan were inducted Sunday as more than 15,000 baseball fans looked on from the grounds outside the Alfred Clark Gymnasium. The ceremony was moved from Its usual site, the Hall of Fame library, which is under construction.

But the location really didn't matter. "It is the last beautiful flower in a perfect bouquet," said Seaver to an audience which included more than 30 Hall Famers, Including Ted Williams, Stan Muslal and Johnny Bench. This also was the first year Pete Rose would have been eligible for the Hall of Fame. But the doors of Cooperstown were locked to Rose after he was barred from baseball for gambling on the sport. Rose was a distant memory on this dcry.

however, as thousands of Met fans made the ASSOCIATED PRESS Rollie Fingers and Tom Seaver. Hall of Fame pitchers (from left) Hal Newhouser, grew up watching on TV, battling with Mario (Andretti) and I guess I feel a little bit of disbe. lief." The smooth 32-year-old na-' tive of Toronto gave Derrick Walker his Initial win as a car-owner and the depleted field a' sound whipping as he took the; checkered flag 5.9 seconds; ahead of Tracy's Mobil 1 Penske-; Chevy-B. Only nine cars were running at the finish, but the lqth stop( See GOODYEAR Page 5 three-hour Journey from New York to thank "Tom Terrific" for the memories. Some of those were his 25-7 season in 1969, his near-perfect game against the Chicago Cubs and his 19 strikeouts, including 10 In a row.

against the San Diego Padres In 1970. Some of his personal highlights didn't even come with the Mets. Hjk'pitched a no-hitter and struck out his 3.000th batter with Cincinnati and recorded his 300th victory as a member of the Chicago White Sox at Yankee Stadium. "I was fortunate to win 300 games," said Seaver, who won three Cy Young Awards and was Rookie of the Year in 1967. "Look at the players 60 feet, 6 Inches away (some of his catchers) Jerry Grote.

Carlton Fisk and Johnny Bench." See FAME Pace 5.