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SECTION Pro Baseball 3 Scoreboard4 Classified 5 ft i Monday, August 13, 1984 Finishes Worn Olympic Games Portugal's Lopes Wins Marathon JOHN BIBB Sports Editor m. U.S. jt Ustfa, Save the Grave, Games Survive Most Stern Test LOS ANGELES Put away the chisels, the Olympic Movement has not succumbed Not yet, anyway. A month ago, many worldwide observers already had begun carving the Games' epitaph: "Here Lies the Olympic Movement Dead in Los Angeles. Buried Beneath Politics, Boycotts and Financial Stress." Surely, the Russian-bloc boycott, the disruptive political undertow created by nations around the world, the uncertainty of the Los Angeles security and traffic control, the controversial site of the 1988 Games in Seoul, Korea.

All this had to be too much for the Olympics to overcome. But, lo and behold, not only did the Games survive, the XXIIIrd Olympiad in LA has set the stage for positive action during the next quadrenrium that might just might offer cures for many of the organization's difficulties. The key issues ahead are 1) the potential sanctions -for boycotting nations, 2) the question of eligibility amateurism vs. professionalism, and 3) the site and financing of the Games. The International Olympic Committee must come face-to-face with these problems, and avoid its ostrich posture if the Games are to continue at anywhere near the standard established here the last 16 days.

But after the performance in LA, there's a chance. Whatever award is higher than an Olympic gold should go to Peter Ueberroth and his Los Angeles Organizing Olympic Committee, and the entire Southern California community. These Games have been tremendously successful. Now, the struggle for survial moves to conference tables in key IOC meetings this fall. William E.

Simon, president of the USOC, yesterday made it clear he believes the first and foremost issue on those conference tables must resolve the boycott prob- lem. The last three sets of Games, beginning in Montreal in 1976, have been plagued by boycotts. Simon, outspoken and resolute in his belief that sanctions against boycotting nations "must have teeth" favors some sort of suspension-expulsion penalty for future boycotters. "That has to be the first thing resolved, the decision whether to penalize. There can be no compromise on this matter.

The degree of penalty is open to compromise, but that's all," Simon said. "All the other things, eligibility, site and financing among them, can be studied" in the next few months, but the boycott issue must be settled quickly, according to Simon. "The LAOOC, working in partnership with the USOC, has demonstrated that the Games need not become a financial burden on the host nation. We have shown it works to get private funds into the Games. As a result of Olympiad XXIII, there are facilities available here now for future generations, not only future generations of Americans, but future generations of people around the world.

These were constructed without a burden on goverment expense. "At this moment I am very proud to be an American. Patriotism is a dirty word to some people, but not to me. These Games have opened the way for many new role pmodels for our young people. They are role models in many sports not too familiar to our youngsters.

All this is a product of the work that has gone into the U.S. Olympic program since 1976. 1 think it is the reason our athletes havehad so much success these last two weeks. "We are all disappointed that the boycotting nations weren't here. Undoubtedly, their presence would have altered the results of some sports.

They would have won (Turn to Page 2, Column 2) LOS ANGELES (AP) America's Olympic party ended yesterday bathed in celebration, gold medals for the United States and gold in the coffers of the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee. It was farewell to an Olympics where Americans fared very well, amassing a record 83 gold medals in 15 days of competition. The United States won three more gold medals on the final day of the XXIII Olympiad, in diving, equestrian and sychronized swimming. The 1984 Olympics officially ended with a bash on the green carpeted floor of the Coliseum to the music of Lionel Richie and the finish of the men's marathon. A 37-year-old runner from Portgual won the marathon in an upset beating the previous Olympic best by 35 seconds.

Carlos Lopes, the world cross-country champion but running in only his third marathon, was half a lap ahead of his closest rival as he ran through the tunnel and completed the final lap inside the Coliseum, where a boisterous, cheering crowd greeted him. American Pete Pfitzinger was 1 1th, while teammate Alberto Salazar finished 15th. Greg Louganis broke a diving barrier of 700 points and became the first man in 56 years to win two Olympic diving gold medals. His gold put the United States over the all-time gold-medal mark of 80. Then, Trade Ruiz, of Bothell, won her second gold medal of the Olympics in sychonrized swimming, adding the individual title to the gold she won in the duet The last American gold medal was won by Joe Fargjs of Petersburg, Va, in equestrian show jumping on Touch of Class, the thoroughbred co-owned by Brownlee Currey of Nashville.

Conrad Homfeld, also of Petersburg, took the silver, on Abdullah. Louganis, of Mission Viejo, performed the difficult "dive of death" on his last of 10 dives, and that performance put him over the 700-point mark. He chalked up five perfect scores of 1 0 during the finals and had no score lower than 8.5 on his first four dives. The 700-point mark had been eclipsed in 1980 by all five of the eight finalists, when 15 dives were counted in the point total. This year, only 10 dives were counted.

Teammate Bruce Kimball, of Ann Arbor, the only man to defeat Louganis in five years, won the silver medal. Louganis, who earlier won the springboard diving gold, finished with 710.91 points. Kimball, making a fine comeback on the last two dives, finished with 643.50 points, while Li Kongzheng of China took the bronze with 638.28 points. Louganis said he knew what was on the line when he took his last dive, a 3'2 reverse somersault from 33 feet above the water, a dive where his head must clear the edge of the platform a dive that killed a Soviet diver at the World University Games one year ago. "I kinda had a feeling," Louganis said, referring to the impending record.

"I tried to block it all out" The result was a breathtaking dive from high above the water. "I feel like I was at home, I was prepared, I was ready," Louganis said. The crowd enjoyed the moment of history, rising in a standing ovation. Louganis bowed in response. The gold and silver in equestrian gave the United States a total of 174 medals, including 83 golds, 31 silvers and 60 bronze.

West Germany was second with 59 medals, including 17 gold, 19 silver and 23 bronze. Romania, the only Eastern bloc country attending the Games, was in third place with 53 medals 20 gold, 16 silver and 17 bronze. Canada was fourth with 43 medals, including 10 gold, 17 silver and 16 bronze. Lopes won the marathon in a record 2 hours, 9 minutes, 21 seconds. The silver medal in the 26-mile, 365-yard race went to John Treacy of Irland, with Charles Spedding of Britain taking the bronze.

UPI Telephoto As the sun sets on the 23rd Olympiad yesterday, the marathon runners, chasing their shadows through the late afternoon, compete in the final event of the games. 13 Ejections Brawls Mar Braves' Win Over Padres "There was a danger of a riot once the fans got involved. This is scary," Torre added. "It was getting to where pretty shortly it would have been San Diego and us against the fans. Dick Williams is an idiot He should be suspended for the rest of the year." Williams saw things quite differently.

"We know who started what and we were going to finish if said Williams. "We will not be intimidated." San Diego starter Ed Whitson and relievers Greg Booker and Craig Lef-f erts were ejected after throwing tight pitches to Perez, who hit Alan Wiggins, the first batter of the game. The pitches by Booker and Lefferts (Turn to Page 3, Column 4) ATLANTA (AP) Atlanta manager Joe Torre called Dick Williams an idiot Williams, the San Diego manager, said the Braves started it Pascual Perez didn't like the finish, and umpire crew chief John McSher-ry considered ending it himself. Everybody was guilty or everybody was innocent depending on who you listened to. Perez, the Altanta pitcher, was the central figure in brushback incidents that resulted in the ejection of four pitchers, both managers, five other players and two replacement managers as the Braves defeated the San Diego Padres 5-3 yesterday.

The brawls also involved fans, sev eral of whom were led off in handcuffs by police, who confirmed five arrests after the game. The day ended with policemen on top of both dugouts and the benches cleared by order of the umpires. "That wasn't the way I would like for it to end," Perez said. McSherry had banished all non-participating players from the dugouts and bullpens after the last of the brawls in the ninth inning. "We started worrying about crowd control," McSherry said.

"That's why we cleared the bench. We were considering forfeiting the game." Each manager blamed the other for the fracas. "The guy who caused it all was Dick Williams," said Torre. Sounds Grab Tie In SL West Race Waltrip Captures 400 Title, Record record, led the first 18 laps before Waltrip took over as the two sped down the backstretch. Waltrip then led until the first round of pit stops near the 100-mile mark.

Labonte dominated the next 200 miles before Waltrip and Elliott closed in on his back bumper after another round of pit stops with about 50 laps remaining. Waltrip made his last pit stop with 48 laps to go, assuring himself of enough fuel to complete the race. Elliott however, made his last stop with 56 laps remaining, knowing he would need another stop to finish. With 28 laps to go, Waltrip passed Labonte and Elliott followed him to take second. Five laps later, Elliott took over the front spot and at one point held a 1.99-second advantage.

But Elliotfs Ford couldn't produce the fuel economy needed and with seven laps remaining he had to stop for gas. The car stalled twice on pit road before Elliott could return to the track, a half-lap behind the leaders. "I didn't know why he pulled into the pits at that time," Waltrip said. "I thought he had a flat tire. "I feel sorry for his bad luck, but I've lost races the same way," Waltrip said.

"I've been beaten a number of times like that when our team had the same problems. "If a caution flag would have come out any time within the last 100 miles, he would have been OK," Waltrip said. "It definitely would have made a difference." TENNESSEAN News Services and Staff Reports BROOKLYN, Mich. Darrell Wal-trip inherited the lead from Bill Elliott with seven laps remaining in yesterday's Michigan 400 when the Georgia driver had to stop for gasoline and held on to win his fourth race this season. It was Waltrip's first victory since May 12, when he claimed the controversial Music City 420 at Nashville.

"rm tickled to death," Waltrip said after climbing from his Chevrolet "The car ran so well. Everything worked well. We had some breaks." The Franklin, driver averaged a record 153.860 mph in the caution-free race, the first in the NASCAR Grand National division since 1980 at Texas World Speedway. The record broke the mark of 153.485 mph set by David Pearson in 1973 in the two-mile track's only other caution-free event Terry Labonte, driving a Chevrolet finished second, 1.2 seconds behind Waltrip. His finish moved him to within 27 points of Dale Earnhardt in the battle for the national championship.

Pole winner Elliott took third in a Ford and fourth went to Harry Gant in a Chevrolet Cale Yarborough took fifth, also in a Chevrolet The Chevrolets have gotten better fuel mileage than the other models most of the year and that proved to be the difference yesterday. The entire race was a three-way battle between Waltrip, Labonte and Elliott Elliott who set a rack qualifying Columbus. Patterson started and gave up 13 hits, two walks and 1 0 runs to the Lookouts insix innings of work. Shiflett who picked a record 22 runners off base last season, set a single game mark with four last night and upped this year's total to an even dozen. He erased Lookout leadoff men in the first second and fifth innings with his crafty move to first and wiped out another runner in the eighth.

"I've got my old move to first back and I needed it with all those walks," said the former Auburn star. "Earlier in the year I was guessing wrong on when they were going to run. I just guessed right tonight" Shiflett who was 11-6 for the Sounds last season, got off to a slow start after trying to pitch with a cracked rib. "I don't know how I cracked the rib, but I'd bet I did it trying to pick guys off first" he said. Nashville loaded the bases with nobody out in the fourth, but scored only one run.

Singles by Pete Dalena, Fernando Gonzalez and Bill Worden loaded the sacks and the run scored when Pat Dempsey grounded into a double-play. The final out came when Gonzalez was easily cut down trying to steal home with homer and RBI leader Dan Pasqua at the plate. "He asked me if I wanted him to steal home and I kiddingly said said Sounds' third base coach Jim SauL "I guess he took me serious- (Turn to Pae 3, Column By TOM SQUIRES It was "get even" time for the Nashville Sounds and pitcher Scott Patterson last night at Greer Stadium. Patterson settled an old score with Chattanooga and Nashville tied Birmingham for first place in the Southern League West as the Sounds defeated the Lookouts 2-1 before crowd of 5,850 in the finale of a nine-game homestand. Nashville moved its second half record to 26-28 and vaulted into a first-place deadlock with Birmingham after the Barons fell to Jacksonville 3-2.

Both teams are now l'2 games in front of Memphis, an 8-5 loser to Columbus. Southpaw Mark Shiflett had control problems with his pitches to home plate, but was right on target to first where he picked four Lookouts off base on the way to his eighth victory of the season. Shiflett allowed only three hits but walked seven including two in the ninth before Patterson came on to strike out the last two batters and pick up his third save in as many nights against Chattanooga. Patterson got his fourth save in the last six games and his fifth of the year by fanning Ramon Estepa and former Sound Dan Hanggie with the tying and go-head runs on base for the Lookouts. "I figure I finally got even with those guys," said Patterson.

"They roughed me up pretty bad one day down there." Patterson was referring to his first game with the Sounds this season following a demotion from Class AAA -t -4A ''AL- I IIP' lz. ST UMhi iiMhT nMUMTrrri rrr flf I i AP Laserphoto Darren Waltrip enjoys his first victory since May the on NASCAR (Turn Page 3, Column 1) circuit w'jh a record-setting in the Michigan 40 at Brooklyn, Mich..