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SPORTS She cfournaHKctiris ROCKLAND COUNTY, N.Y., THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1972 SCORES, AND U.S. rally saves hoop streak STANDINGS BASEBALL ul National League East 77 46 47 57 63 SB 60 63 57 65 Pittsburgh Chicago New York St. Louil Montreal Philadelphia 44 78 West ,2, ,3 i k'U. i Cincinnati Houston Los Angeles Atlanta San Francisco San Diego l) La. i I V- 4f V-V MUNICH, Germany AP) It was the best of days for one sharpshooter.

It was very nearly the worst of days for 10 others. It was the bitterest of days for one high flyer. It was the sweetest of days for another. "I don't spend 30 hours a week at a hobby." John Writer said Wednesday after winning the three-position small-bore riflery and setting a bit of American Olympic history. "This is a sport.

Real competition." By winning the gold medal at these 20th Summer Games, the 27-year-old Chicago marksman gave the United States its second shooting medal, the first time the United States has won more than one in the traditionally European-dominated sport Writer scored a world and Olympic record 1.166 points out of a possible 1,200 in the prone, kneeling and standing positions. The United States got its third shooting medal when Lanny Bassham of Comanche. an Army marksmanship instructor at Ft. Benning. got the silver, finishing behind Writer with 1,157 points.

Vic Auer of North Hollywood. had gotten America's first shooting medal of the Games on Monday, taking a silver in the small-bore prone competition. The 10 other sharpshooters are known collectively as the U.S. basketball team, whose supremacy of the game in the Olympics nearly came to an end Wednesday. "We needed a game like this where v.3 had to come from behind," coach Hank Iba said of his kids after they rallied from seven points down in the second half to pull out a 61-54 triumph over Brazil.

Iba said, with emphasis, "They scared the hell out of us!" The victory was the fourth for the Yanks, now undefeated in 59 contests stretching back to the 1936 Berlin Games when the sports was introduced to the Olympics. The bitter high flyer was Bob Seagren. America's premiere pole vaulter, angered over what he called "obviously a political decision" on the part of the International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF) to outlaw his green vaulting pole for the Games. The pole, with a newer weave of fiberglass than the old ones: came out last year and Seagren, rebounding from knee surgery, used it to set his world record of 18 feet 534 inches. After he set the record last month, the IAAF banned the pole after other vaulters argued it hadn't been available for worldwide use for a year prior to the Games, an Olympic requirement.

Monday, the IAAF reinstated the pole. Wednesday, the federation reversed itself again. "It's a personal vendetta against me and against America. said theangrv Seagren of Monterey Park, Calif. "They're trying to knock me down because I hold the world record again and they dislike America because we've never lost an Olympic pole 2Ss 1 Mill cH3 I i I i'i 1 Jr I r- ''-i "'f 4 I i 4 I 7a 71 65 57 56 54 57 69 70 46 78 Results Chicago 9, Los Angeles 11 innings Pittsburgh II, San Diego 0 Montreal 3, Atlanta 2 Cincinnati 4, New York Houston 5, Philadelphia 3 San Francisco 3.

St. Louis 2 Thursday's Games All Times EOT Los Angeles (Osteen 14-9) at Chicago (Reuschel 6-4), 2 m. Philadelphia (Twitchell 3-41 at Houston Dierker 13-7), 8 30 Friday's Games All Times EDT San Diego at Chicago, 2:30 p.m. San Francisco at Pittsburgh, 8:05 p.m. Philadelphia at Atlanta, 8 05 p.m.

New York at Houston 8:30 p.m. Los Angeles at St. Louis, 9 p.m. American League East Baltimore Detroit Boston New York Cleveland Milwaukee 67 67 64 65 58 57 57 58 59 66 48 75 Wast Oakland Chicago Minnesota Kansas City California 73 51 71 61 60 56 49 Texas Wednesday's Results Boston 4, Chicago 2 New York 3, Texas 1 Kansas City 6, Milwaukee 2 Minnesota 7, Baltimore 1 California 4, Detroit I Oakland 2, Cleveland 0 Thursday's Games AM Times EDT Texas (Hand 10-8) at New York (Peterson 13-13), 2pm Kansas City (Jackson 1-0) at Milwaukee (Lockwood 6-10). 8 30 m.

Detroit I Coleman 14-11) at California (Ryan 14-12), II pm Only Games Scheduled FOOTBALL Canadian League Ottawa 14, Toronto 13 Winnipeg 49. Edmonton 16 National League Exhibitions Thursday's Game All Times EDT Miami at Washington, 8 p.m. Friday's Game Baltimore vs. Detroit at Tampa, 8:30 p.m., national TV Saturday's Games New England at Denver, 10 p.m. Dallas at Kansas City, 9 p.m., national TV New York Jets at Atlanta, 4 p.m.

New Orleans vs. Pittsburgh at Memphis, 8 p.m. Los Angeles at San Diego, II p.m. St. Louis at Green Bay, 9 p.m.

New York Giants vs. Philadelphia at Princeton, 2 p.m. Sunday's Games Buffalo at Chicago, 2 m. Cincinnati vs. Cleveland at Columbus, 2 p.m Oakland at San Francisco, 4 p.m Monday's Game Houston at Minnesota, 9 m.

AFC Eastern Division WLT Pet. Pts. OP Baltimore 2 2 0 500 42 79 Buffalo 2 2 0 500 68 89 Miami 2 2 0 .500 95 772 New York Jets 1 2 1 .375 78 97 New England 1 3 0 .250 Central Division Pittsburgh 3 I 0 750 Houston 2 2 0 500 Cincinnati 2 2 0 .500 Cleveland 0 4 0 000 Western Division Oakland 4 0 0 1.000 112 Kansas City 4 1 0 BOO 112 San Diego 3 1 0 .750 76 Denver 1 2 0 33 3 40 NFC Eastern Division WLT Pet. Pts. OP Dallas 5 0 1 000 137 78 0 750 118 36 Washington 3 St Louis 2 500 82 84 .375 89 92 .250 69 101 New York Giants 1 2 1 Philadelphia I 3 0 Central Division Detroit 3 10 Green Bay 3 1 0 Minnesota 2 1 0 Chicago 1 3 0 .750 108 750 51 .467 54 .250 54 western Division Los Amieles .250 250 .250 .000 New Orleans San Francisco Atlanta .629 If -a ill 2 .390 IB'.

i.i 504 10" 492 12 81108 94 46 94 73 40 87 46 Lyle saves 29th Hi V. i If Tie despair of defeaf AP photos bout to Jesse Valdez from AFIJ, Wednesday Peru's Carlos Burga, right, cries in elimination despair after losing his welterweight Hamilton tt WW 11 I' ft II II I 1 Vi 1 1 ImI -fcWa mjinui Olympic results on page 2D What goes up Liudmila Tourischeva of the Soviet Union gets an upside down view of the world during the floor exercises of the Olympic gymnastics Wednesday in Munich. She won a gold medal Jets, Giants slice Seagren got a bit of good news when it was announced that his stif fest competitor for the gold, Sweden's Kj ell Isaks-son, would not compete because of groin and leg injuries. The happiest high flyer was Vladimir Vasin, a Moscow University economics student who won the gold in springboard diving, ending a 60-year U.S. domination of the three-meter event.

Craig Lincoln of Hopkins. rallied from sixth place on his final two dives to win the bronze behind Italy's Franco Cagnotto. It wasn't the best of days for America's aquakids-but it wasn't exactly the worst either. In the four swimming finals, the United States wound up with one gold, two silvers and a bronze. That, along with the rest of the day's competition, gave America 22 medals thus far-seven gold, nine silver and six bronze.

Second in the standings is East Germany with 15 medals, five of them gold. The Soviet Union is third with 11 medals including five gold. Four U.S. gals combined to get the lone water gold, winning the women's 400-meter freestyle relay in a world record time of 3:55.19. Shirley Babashoff of Fountain Valley, was the heroine as she covered the final 100 meters in a sizzling 58.18 seconds to overtake East German anchor swimmer Kornelia Ender.

Ahead of Miss Babashoff in the relay were Sandy Neilson of El Monte, Jennifer Kemp of Cincinnati, Ohio and Jane Barkman of Wayne, Pa. One silver went to Tim Mc-Kee of Newton Square, who finished an incredible two-thousandths of a second behind winner Gunnar Larsson of Sweden in the men's 400-meter individual medley. Both were clocked in 4 31 .98 and the computer had to carry the time an extra digit to provide a victor. It was Larsson, 4:31.981 to McKee's 4:31.983. The other silver and the bronze both came in the men's 100-meter breaststroke.

Nobu-taka Taguchi of Japan won the gold with a world-record 1:04.91 clocking, while Tom Bruce of Sunnyvale, came in second and John Hencken of Santa Clara, third. Only in the women's 400-meter freestyle were the U.S. swimmers shut out. Shane Gould, Australia's 15-year-old sensation, won her second gold of the Games with her second world -record performance, winning in 4:19.04. Mark SpiU, meanwhile, set his sights on a fourth gold here.

The Indiana University dental student from Carmicha-el, aiming for an unparalleled seven golds, won his heat In the 100-meter butterfly semifinals to qualify along with teammates, Jerry Hein-denreich of Dallas. and (Turn to page 3D) The New York Jets and New York Giants reached their 49-player National Football League (NFL) roster limit Wednesday by cutting players. Among those cut by the Jets were tight end Gary Arthur, who went on the injured waived list; rookie kicker Richard Ciemny of Alabama on the reserve list; and wide receiver Harvy Nairn of Southern University, who has spent several years on the taxi squad. The Jets now are down to 49. The Giants got down to 48 by dropping three rookies, putting three players on the injured waived list, including guard Steve Alexakos and defensive back Freddie Summers, a pair of veterans.

Sparky Lyle and Pete Rose now are on record. Not the vocal kind, either. Lyle, the lefthander, came on Wednesday night at Yankee Stadium in relief of starter Rob Gardner and preserved a 3-1 American League baseball victory over the Texas Rangers. It was Lyle's 29th save of the season, tying the Yankee club record shared by Lindy McDaniel and Luis Arroyo. Rose managed one single as the Cincinnati Reds tripped the New York Mets, 4-2, in a National League game at Cincinnati.

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HBP-by (Rose). T-2 30. Gentry ii, jr, ji transactions NEW YORK GIANTS Defensive tackle Jay Anderson, defensive back John Odom, running back Fritz Seyferth, cut; guard Steve Alexakos, defensive back Freddie Summers, running back Eddie Richardson, put on injured BUFFALO Defensive end Fred Swendsen, placed on waivers. WASHINGTON Center Mike Hull, quarterback Sam Wyche, guard Mike O'Quinn, defensive tackle Carl Talbi, tackle George Starke, wide receiver Frank Grant, safety WILIE Gemany, waived: safety Alvin Haymond, running back Dan Ryczek, placed on injured waivers. PITTSBURGH Linebacker Joe Colquitt, defensive end Bert Askson, waived, tackle John Brown, placed on injured waivers.

GREEN BAY Guard Dave Bradley, waived. Boxing Wednesday's Fights By The Associated Press BALTIMORE Buddy Boggs, Baltimore, outpointed Pat Murphy, West New York. N.J., 10, welterweights. LAS VEGAS, Bethee. New York City, outpointed Lonnie Bennett, 171 Los Angeles.

10. Pro football Wednesday's NFL Transactions By The Associated Press BALTIMORE COLTS- Defensive end Richard Amman, obtained on waivers from Dallas Cowboys; Linebacker Dennis Coleman, obtained on waivers from Miami Dolphins. DETROIT Center Don Popplewe'l, offensive tackle Brownie Wheless, defensive tackle Bob Waldron, cut; guard Frank Gallagher, placed on injured waivers. NEW YORK JETS Linebacker Dennis Keating, guard Mo Lattimore, quarterback Mike Packer, wide receiver Harvey Nairn, lineman Bill Dunstan, cut; tight end Gary Arthur, placed on injured waivers, kicker Richard Cienmy, placed on reserve list. LOS ANGELES Linebacker Don Parish, cut.

MIAMI Linebacker Steve Kiner, cut; wide receiver Karl Noonan, defensive end Bob Heinz, offensive guard Bob Kuechen-berg, signed. DENVER Safety Glenn Bailey, cor-nerback Butch Byrd, defensive back Floyd Prlester, running backs Bill Harris and Eddie Ray, wide receiver Larry Brunson, linebacker Al Andrews, and tackle John Babcock, cut. NEW ENGLAND -Quarterback Steve Goepel, safety Jeff Kolberg, punter Mitch Robertson, wide receiver Al Sykes, placed on taxi squad. NEW ORLEANS Safety John Mallo-ry, running back Frank McGuigan, cut. CLEVELAND Quarterback Brian Sipe, running back Billy Lefear, guard Craig Wycinsky, wide receiver Dave Jones, cut.

SAN DIEGO Tight ends Art Strozier and Luther, wide receiver Rick Eber, of-f I lineman Wallace Williams, waived. A mammoth struggle Mighty Chri9 Taylor, top, a member of the U.S. Wrestling team from Dowagiac, overwhelms his West German opponent Wilfried Dietrick, a former gold medal winner, during their match in the Munich Olympics heavyweight category Wednesday night..