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loo-ephktolegyeMl RirlyEdMmi 10 THE FRIDAY, JLLY 7, 1972 With two Jeffs as top men, U.S. strong in decathlon i (4 I XJ They all have their weaknesses. Toomey wasn't big in the shot put or discus, and he always was afraid of the vault. But somehow, he always managed to pull through. At Mexico City, he twice blew the opening height of 12-2 in the vault and if he'd missed a third time, it was the end.

But he came up soaring on the last effort and, eventually, reached 14 feet to stay in the running. Then, when the running began. Bill turned the 400 meters in :45 6, less than two seconds slower than Lee Evans' time for a gold medal in the same event. If you go back to Mathias and Johnson, they were weight men and vaulters. and Johnson was even in the long jump at Melbourne in '56.

Bannister lags in the vault and shot, while Bennett finds the sprints tough to handle. Olympic Committee (AOC), took time to field questions at a press conference. He explained that the hoped-for $10 million fund for 1972 would be about a million short and that another $2 million was invested at present market prices. The big queries were why the AOC didn't fund the Trials for the athletes instead of making them pay their own way. The answers were manifold: That the AOC had picked up the tab at Lake Tahoe in Nevada for the team in '68 because it was felt that special training at the elevation had to be undertaken to match the high altitude in Mexico Citv that in both '70 and '71.

the AOC used similar funds to put development camps at the disposal of prospective Olympians instead of allotting all, or part, of it to the present Trials here. Buck did say that he thought the committee might be disposed to pay the final training freight for the '76 games and that perhaps the U.S. Government could be persuaded to assume part of the financial burden for future Olympiads by underwriting more widespread camps. By JOHN R. CARMICHAEL Chicago Daily News Service EUGENE, Ore.

Four years ago, nobody had ever heard of either Jeff Bannister or Jeff Bennett. The decathlon toast of the Olympic Games at Mexico City was Bill Toomey, with a record total of 8,193 points. His name was emblazoned in American history with such predecessors as Bob Mathias in '48 and '52 and Raer Johnson in 1960. There are those who say Toomey was the best we've ever had, but now look: Bannister will go to Munich with 8.120 points and Bennett with 8.076 for this 10-event competition. On a basis of physical size, they really make a Mutt-and-Jeff pair, with Bannister standing 6 feet 3 and weighing 200-pounds, and Bennett 58 and 152.

But they got the job done in the Olympic Trials here. They have specialties There is no such thing as overall perfection in a decathlon, or even half that in the grueling test, but somewhere along the line, each man finds a specialty with Associated Press The NEW Chess is really my racket, kiddos which he can override the 'down' spots. Like Bannister, for instance, with his 200-foot, 11-inch throw in the javelin or like Bennett's 16-7 3-4 pole vault, which enabled him to make the U.S. Olympic team. Jenner becomes No.

3 But it's the blend of achievement that piles up the points, and this is how the two Jeffs headed their field. By the time they both finished nine seconds behind Bruce Jenner's 4:16.9 in the concluding 1,500 meters, they had their places clinched. Jenner became the No. 3 man with the best metric performance of his lifetime. So we may be better off in the decath-long than anybody expected.

They say this Oregon country is so steeped in track that you could get 3,000 people out at 7 a.m. to see two men run to the grocery store for a loaf of bread, and the audiences at the Trials have been both big and rabid. Roll call BALES 282-4356 SALESPARTSSERVICE BORRIS SPASSKY of Russia obliges young auto- Fischer of the United States for the world chess graph seekers after playing tennis yesterday in title beginning Sunday if further complications Reykjavik, Iceland. Spassky will play Bobby do not arise in the oft-delayed match. Gussie is big-league Whether in personal generosity or a tantrum, Cardinal owner Busch acts on a grand scale Cliff Buck, president of the American -wswasrw's' Li Reds sign high scliool standout; AJ.i's Houston gets MeWilliams BASEBALL CINCINNATI REDS Signed Billy Davis, Knoxvllle Central High pitcfier-outtielder who batted .312 during the past season.

Davis, who had signed a baseball scholarship with the University of Tennessee, will report to the Reds' all-rookie camp at Bradenton, Fla. on Monday. BASKETBALL HOUSTON ROCKETS Signed Eric MeWilliams, a -foot-7 forward from Long Beach State. MeWilliams was selected by Houston in the NBA third round of the college draft HOCKEY CHICAGO COUGARS Signed former National Hockey League detenseman Marcel Pronovost to coach the Cougars of the rival World Hockey Association. Pronovost played 16 years with the NHL's Detroit Red Wings and three seasons with the Toronto Maple Leafs.

NEW ENGLAND WHALERS-Signed two former NHL players to tneir WHA team. Jim Dorey, a four-vear veteran defenseman with the Toronto Maple Leafs and New York Rangers, and Tommy Williams, who played 10 years with various NHL teams, are the two latest additions. Try It Youll Buy It By BOB WATERS i Newsday LOUIS August A. Busch known with and without affection as 'Gussie," owns the St. Louis Cardinals and Budweiser, the world's most vastly distributed beer.

He has the civic pride of a Fiorella Laguardia, the largest big-daddy complex since Juan Peron's and a habit of slamming down his hand on the nearest object while saying, "Dammit, I said so, that's why!" August A. Busch Jr. is a presence. The good burghers of St. Louis have grown to accept Busch; they have been treated to three generations of Busehcs.

1 1 'K Yes Try the NEW 86 proof OLD BAKER The same great Kentucky Whiskey we use for our 100 proof OLD BAKER. A new experience for today's taste We know you'll like it. has been piqued. But it isn't only money demands that irritate him. "Curt Flood said I was demoralizing the team because I insisted that the players give autographs to the kids.

Why, that's baseball. Stan (Musial) never turned a youngster down. I appreciated that. I remember the day just after I had signed Stan to a contract for $78,000 and he never argued terms. He knew we'd be fair.

Dissenters depart I said to him, 'I'm tearing up your and I did, right in front of his face. 'What's the matter Mr. Busch?" Stan wanted to know. 'I'll tell you what's the I told him. 'I'm giving you a new contract for $100,000.

1 want vou to he the first $100,000 player in the National League. You deserve Stan was happy and I was happy for him. We were a happy family, dammit." Back to Curt Flood. He was traded. And, when Richie Allen made waves not only with his unorthodox training habits, but because he fretted openly that the Cardinals were not giving his mother a weekly stipend, as the Phillies had Bike races sel for Sunday The Kentucky State Bicycle Racing Championships will be held Sunday at Iroquois High School, starting at 12:45 p.m.

Two divisions will compete, juniors (16-18) and seniors (over 18). Races will range from a quarter of a mile to 10 miles. The program is sanctioned by the Amateur Bicycle League. Commentary 4 FIFTH 86 Proof 4 Year Kantvekv Stmoht louikon Whiskey, 4 Year-U Pieol, 411 Ytoi-tOO Preof lorried ly Meodewlgwn Distillery Company, Meodowlawn, Kentucky They have words for him: Philanthropist, altruist, salt of the and tyrant, bully, hard-headed, overbearing. It took a threatened strike of all of the ballplayers in both major leagues to make the real Gussie Busch stand up.

"Let 'em strike. I won't give them one more damned cent!" he roared. Presumably his fist slammed onto a desk top or a bar. The words reverberated, richocheted and banked off the stanchions of baseball. The player-representatives from each of the 24 teams gulped when they heard the words.

Calling a strike had been a remote possibility to some, but now they had their backs to the wall. done he was traded. When Steve Carlton, the Cards' lefthanded ace, thought his talents were under-appraised by Busch and said so, he was traded. And recently, when Jerry Reuss, another lefty, won a reputation for being a clubhouse dissident, he was traded. This left the Cards without a starting lefthander, something, baseball people insist, you must have or you do not win a lot of games.

The Cardinals have not been winning a lot of games. Gussie has weathered this latest outbreak of the Cardinals' inhumanity to Busch. "I'm not disenchanted with baseball," he said after some reflection. "I've loved this game all my life. It's the greatest game in the world.

I'll fight to the last to keep baseball going. Hell, we Have bud AUGUST A. BUSCH JR. Salt of the earth or bully? with a florid face and watery eyes behind glasses. He wears a string tie with a jeweled clasp and two copper bracelets on his right wrist to ward off arthritis.

The hand shook and groped for the string tie as if he wanted to yank it. "God, that Torre," Busch rasped. "How can any man I pay $280,000 over two years, vote to go on strike?" After a moment Busch beat off what looked like palsy. He was sitting in the Red Birds' Roost, a cozy and exclusive den that overlooks the Cardinal playing field. He had interrupted a gin rummy game (one player was Stan Musial) to talk about the strike.

"Who was that Dodger player that abstained in the strike vote?" he yelled out to anyone who wanted to field the answer. "Wes Parker," three people shot back in unison. Animals and kids "Smartest damned player in baseball," Busch said. Then he turned back to his questioner. "I mean that," he said.

"I'm honest. I mean what I say. I was brought up to mean what I say. I was born that way." Later, a present-day Cardinal confides, "Old Gus loves animals and children. Only he thinks his players are children, too, and he gets sore at us when we want to sound like adults." For several years now, many Cardinals have insisted on acting like adults.

Bush His boys disappoint Let them strike? Really? All right. And 23 of the 24 representatives voted to strike. The 24th abstained. "Mr. Busch's words shocked us, I'm afraid," Tom Scaver, the Mets' player-representative, admitted after the strike.

"I don't think a strike would have been voted, except that he antagonized so many of us." Busch explained: "I had a meeting with the team down in St. Petersburg. I told them just how things were with the Cardinals. We were among the highest paying clubs in either league. We were the first team to ever have a one-million dollar payroll.

I told them how tough it would be this year to stay out of the red. I told it to them accurately and 1 said that if they had any questions to ask me and I'd tell them the truth. There were no questions. "But three day later the player-representatives got together and voted 23-1 to strike. And both my boys, Dal Maxvill and Joe Torre, voted to strike." Gussie Busch is a medium-height man geted $1,500,000 just to make $6,000 this year.

How do you think that sits with my stockholders? Don't forget, this isn't just my team. There are 26,000 stockholders and they want what is due them. (He was talking about "minority" stockholders 3 VACATION VALUE SAVINGS DAYS Gussie is the majority.) "I just don't believe there is a place for unions in baseball in any sport. With 'your guy' (Marvin) Miller (the Players' Associaton counsel) already threatening what he's going to do next year, I don't know where we're going, what the answer will be. But I'm not going to desert baseball.

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Annual percentage rate of V.31'. Total note $3391.97. that drives one of the boats, Miss Atlas or something, and he said a thing as tiny as a scrap of two-by-four could tear it to pieces," said Moran. "I told the committee we'd do the best we could for the weekend. That's all we can do." The Potomac was browner than usual as it licked the sides of an inspection boat called Nanticoke II.

Pieces of wood large enough to cost a driver his machine and perhaps his life often bobbed suddenly into sight at places that seemed smooth from a distance. Since June 22,. Moran's crew has collected nearly one and a half million pounds of debris. "That's normally what we get in a year," he said. "At the Naval Research Lab's pier we averaged 73 tons of stuff the last five days, and it don't even look like we've touched it.

There's gotta be five times as much stuff left. Dchris may shift "Fact is, a man was looking for his and walked right out on the stuff, it was so thick. We been working for seven days a week and 12 or 13 hours a day since everything broke By KENNETH DENLINGER Tims-Wjshin9ton Post Servic WASHINGTON The President's Cup Regatta is coming this weekend courtesy of Harry Moran and the Dcadwood Gang unless the winds, rain and tides conspire once again to make the Potomac unfit for any craft, let alone thin-skinned hydroplanes that skim aiong at three-figure speeds. Moran and his seven-man drift removal unit of the Baltimore District Army Corps of Engineers have been scooping the clutter from the Anacosti and Potomac rivers at a brisk pace since the floods started two weeks ago. They now are concentrating their three boats and floating crane on the regatta course of Hains Point not at all certain the races should be held Saturday and Sunday but determined to make conditions as safe as possible.

Wood appears suddenly "A man would be plain foolish to run of those things (hydroplanes) the way the river is now," one of the workers vd during a tour of the river Wednesday. Some observers say a man is plain f.x.-lish to run a hydroplane under perfect conditions. of the regatta course might break free by or during the weekend. "The course could be as smooth as possible, then the wind could come up or the tides do some tricks and the stuff might drift right out there," he said. "Right now.

we're pretty much at the mercy of which way the wind blows," admitted Tom Hurney, general chairman of the regatta. "We'll have our own course boats out there starting today. Unforgettable sight "Saturday morning myself, the unlimited referee (Art Hafner) and unlimited representative (Buddy Byers) will check the course and decide "whether it's safe or not." In their nearly 20 years on the rivers, Moran and Smith have seen it all from frivolous items such as bottles with notes inside to horses, cows and humans. Although he claim to be no expert. Smith volunteered that women tend to float chest up, while just the top of a man's head is visible.

He will never forget his first experience with death. "It was about five years ago and we were operating out of a tow boat then," he said. "I told the deck hand to see if we could get that piece of wood over there. He said. 'Wood, hell, that's a That frightened me." WE RUN VERT SililDi Dusmess MONTGOMERY CHEVROLET 5325 PRESTON HIGHWAY at INDIAN TRAIL PHONE 968-61 1 1 i James Smith, who operates one of the hat irontioaner boats, is concerned debris now concentrated on the perimt "I was talking last year with the fellow, 4.