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Chicago Tribune. Wednesday July 23, 198G Section 5 i Soviet swimmer shatters free style record From TrtbuM Win Serricet MOSCOW Two distinctly different milestones the first sub-15-minute performance in swimming's free style and the use of the Olympic flag and hymn on the victory stand-were recorded Tuesday during the XXII Olympic Summer Games. For athletic achievement, Vladimir Salnikov left no doubt about the emergence of Soviet men as a force in petitive swimming by setting a world record in the free style. Sal-nikov's time 14 minutes, 58.27 sec-ends broke Brian Goodell's gold-medal mark set in a race in Montreal four years ago by an astonishing 4.13 sec- every 100 meters also gave the 20-year-old Soviet swimmer world marks at free style distances once dominated by Americans the 400, 800, and 1,500. "I WAS SURE that I would break the record after the mark," said Salnikov.

"I realized I was very tired, but knew it was now or never." Asked about the 15-minute mark swimmers have sought for so long, he said. "I don't think it was a psychological barrier for me, or that the limit has been achieved." Salnikov's effort could have carried the third day of Rica Renisch of East Germany continued to rewrite 100-meter back stroke records, this time lowering the standard to 1:01.50, and Duncan Goodhew of Britain won a 100-meter breast stroke gold medal that will be remembered more for what happened after the race than his winning time of 1:03.34. The five-ringed Olympic flag was raised instead of the British Union Jack, and the Olympic hymn was played instead of "God Save the Queen" during the award ceremony. Britain was among 16 countries that chose to march under Olympic or national Olympic committee-flags at Saturday's opening ceremonies to protest the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan. "I'M STILL BRITISH and I still be lieve in my country," said Goodhew, who wore the red-and-blue British team uniform, with a Union Jack patch, on the victory stand.

"I believe I swam for my country in the Olympic Games. "I agree with' my federation that politics should be out of sports. So it was worth the sacrifice. I made the sacrifice with regret to keep politics out of sports." Earlier in the day, an even more emotional ceremony accompanied Luciano Giovannetti's gold medal for Italy in trap shooting, the first by an Italian athlete at Moscow. The Olympic flag and Olympic hymn also were used; but after the music had ended, Italian spec tators rushed out and draped a tearful Giovannetti in the red, white, and green Italian national flag.

Goodhew's ceremony was shown on Soviet television in prime time and is likely to intensify debate about the coverage of events related to the Afghanistan issue. Only a Soviet viewer keenly familiar with the Olympics could have realized the significance of the occasion. The sight of the Olympic flag, flanked on each side by national flags from the Soviet Union and Australia, which was divided over team participation, underscored the political irony surrounding these games. The Summer Olympics 999 Moscow onds. "It was a big dream of the Americans to have the first man under 15 minutes," said Birger Buhre, the former head of the Swedish national swim team.

"This was a very special race." Salnikov's performance went beyond the equivalent of a miler breaking four minutes. Averaging under 60 seconds for BEST COPY AVAILABLE Sports IBRIEFING Cubs, Giants find 12 more innings a split proposition Hrabosky hits cameraman They don't call Al Hrabosky the Mad Hungarian for nothing. Angered over a local television sportscaster's comments about him, the Atlanta Braves' pitcher responded Tuesday by striking the reporter's cameraman and shouting obscenities at the reporter. The station, WSB-TV in Atlanta, filed a protest with the office of baseball commissioer Bowie Kuhn over the incident and Hrabosky appeared on the station's sports show Tuesday night to apologize for his actions. The 31-year-old Hrabosky had approached sportscaster Knox Nunally and cameraman Ken Watley as they were winding up an on-the-field telecast at Atlanta Stadium near the batting cage.

After a few words, Hrabosky punched the camera held by Watley, shoving the lens back into the cameraman's eye, according to Nunally. Hrabosky was upset over comments Nunally made on the air last week after the July 15 bench-clearing game with the Mets when Hrabosky threw a pitch over the head of Mets' pitcher Pat Zachry, then had words with the next batter, Lee Mazzilli, after the outfielder hit a homer. "We went out tonight to do a positive piece on the Braves," Nunally said. "And just as I said, 'This is Knox Nunally for Action 2 I saw Hrabosky, with everything on but his uniform shirt walking toward us." Nunally said Hrabosky started yelling obscenities at him. Despite a bruised eye, Watley managed to keep the film rolling and the fracas was aired on the station's nightly newscast.

Designated pitcher Ed Figueroa. who has made no secret of his differences with the New York Yankees for two seasons, was "designated for assignment" Tuesday in order to make room on the roster for pitcher Luis Tiant. The move gives the Yankees 10 days in which to try to assign the unhappy Figueroa to another r6ster. Figueroa, who won 20 games for -the Yankees in 1978, has a 3-3 record end a 6.98 earned run average this season. It quickly became evident during spring training that Figueroa, who wanted to start and not relieve as he has been doing, did not fit into Manager Dick Howser's plans.

Figueroa carried his case to the news media and his differences with management became almost daily reading and listening for Yankee fans. iff i 11 -A. I A I-', I. 1 i iJ If rriv' mmmk -4Sj ZJ Ai ing that Jack had driven a slider uptown through a 15-mile-an-hour breeze in the first inning for the only Giant run. That-score looked like it might hold up for a while, since rookie Giant lefty Bill Bordley opened with three hitless innings extending the Cubs' run famine to 21 innings BUT LENNY RANDLE and Bill Buck-ner led off the fourth with singles and, moments later, an error by San Francisco third baseman Darrell Evans on Barry Foote's potential double-play grounder loaded the bases with one out.

"If there's no error, we could have won the game 1-0," sighed Giant Manager Dave Bristol. Vail followed with a first-, pitch double into the gap in left-center for two runs, and Steve Dillard later singled home an insurance run. "I finally did something right tor a change. That hit ended a lot of zeroes for me," said Vail, alluding to an 0-for-9 slump that put him on the bench after a 10-game hitting streak. "Jt was tough for him Manager Preston Gomez to keep me in the lineup the way I've been hitting the last few days, but I try to stay to avoid getting upset if I'm not starting every game." A truly philosophical approach toKTej'.

one that Caudill, too, attempted to em-, body, despite the disappointment of his first-game gopher ball. Herndon came to bat in the J5fh inning of the suspended contest with 8 string of four straight strikeouts three Monday and the fourth Tuesday Ifay. Caudill I. "He struck me out on three fast bafts the first time up," said Herndon, "so I kept looking for him to throw me some more." CAUDILL DID. With a runner on first, one out, and the count 2-and-l, he gave Herndon one fast ball too many and not even the wind lit was blowing in at 23 miles an hour at the time could keep it in the park.

"If I get the ball in on him, there's way he can hit it," said CaudilL "I tried to get it in. I didn't. "If you live by fire, you ean die fire. If you throw hard, they ean bit ft hard. That's life." The day was costly to the last-place Cubs in one respect: Slugging first baseman Johnson went down in the 14th inning of the suspended contest while trying to go from first base to third on Tim Blackwell's single.

Johnson, a 33-year-old birthday boy Tuesday, aggravated a right knee injury he suffered earlier this season with Cleveland and will not be in Wednesday's starting lineup. "I'll be able to at least pinch-hit, though," said Johnson. "You can't keep an old dog down." End of philosophy class for the day. By Dave Nightingale THE CUBS and San Francisco Giants played 12 innings again Tuesday, just as they did Monday. Each team scored three more runs than Monday; each won one more game.

What could be more fair? Why, it was enough to make Dennis Lamp smile broadly, and to turn Mike Vail, Bill Caudill, and how-ailing Cliff Johnson into philosophers. Lamp, pitching as effortlessly as if he were sitting in Bobby Murcer's rocking chair, spun a rapid six-hitter in the scheduled contest, winning 3-1 with the aid of a two-run double by Vail. And that took some of the sting out of the two-run homer by the Giants' Larry Herndon toff Caudill I that gave San Francisco a 2-0 victory in the three-inning completion of Monday's game which had been suspended after a dozen futile efforts by each team. TUESDAY WAS A rare July day at Wrigley Field a north wind that ranged from 15 to 23 miles an hour keeping the skies cloudless and the temperature around 70. "A perfect day for me, in fact," said Lamp.

"I was refreshed; I was strong at the finish." Lamp doesn't get to make that statement very often, considering he has finished what he has started only twice in 24 times this season. "It has been a while since I pitched this well," he. conceded. "In my last couple of starts, I was turning too much in my windup; I was leaning toward third and just slinging the ball toward home plate. As (pitching coachl Mike Roarke pointed out to me, a sinker-ball pitcher can only be effective if he drives toward the catcher during his delivery." LAMP DROVE ALL day and produced 18 ground balls, 15 of which went for putouts.

"Nothing fancy," he said. "I just stayed with the sinker. If I'm going to get beat, it's' not going to be because I'm throwing my second or third best pitch." And he worked quickly, too the game took only two hours, two minutes, partly because the cool weather let him do so and partly to keep his teammates on their collective toes. "I have to work quickly if I'm going to be effective," Lamp said, "because if I don't, there's a tendency for the in-fielders to start laying back on their heels. When I'm not behind in the count, when I'm working fast, they're always readji and they get to some grounders that might otherwise go through." Lamp didn't walk a man and went to a three-ball count on only one hitter, the Giants' ninth-inning leadoff man, Jack Clark.

Lamp could be excused for being cautious with Clark, however, consider High horses AP Laserphotos and UPl ielphoros An agent for Greek shipping magnate Stavros Niarchos paid a world record $1.7 million for a bay colt by Lyphard out of Stylish Genie in Tuesday afternoon's session of the Keeneland July Selected Yearling Sale. The successful bidder was Sir Phillip Payne-Galwey of the British Bloodstock Agency-England. Niarchos has extensive racing interests in Europe and paid $1.3 million for the colt Nureyev in 1978. The yearling- is a grandson of Northern Dancer, whose offspring have fetched impressive prices at this year's Keeneland sale. Two Northern Dancer colts brought $1.25 million and $1.4 million at the sale.

The $1.25 million colt also was purchased by agents of the BBA-England. Seven Northern Dancer yearlings brought a total of $4.7 million Monday. Moscow's good, bad, and ugly Britain's Duncan Goodhew (top, left) was one of the few Westerners to win a gold medal at the Moscow Summer Games, taking his Tuesday in the 100-meter breast stroke. His victory was celebrated with the Olympic hymn. Romania's Roman weight, in Greco-Roman wrestling.

East German Rica Reinish (lower, right) waves to the crowd after setting a world record in the 100-meter back stroke. And Yugoslavian women's basketball coach Milan Vasojevic (lower, left)' cheers on his team in a losing effort against Cuba. Codrean (top, right) lost his match, but not much Briefly noted Long's long season paying off for Sting J.R. Richard will undergo a "detailed diagnostic study" when he enters a Houston hospital Wednesday for diagnosis of the problem that caused him to be placed on the disabled list a week ago, Houston Astros' president Tal Smith said. Since Richard started complaining of a tired pitching arm early in the season, no cause has been found by team doctors for any physical problem.

Ray Kroc has at times threatened to sell the San Diego Padres, but he isn't ready yet "to give up on trying to build a winner here," says club president Ballard Smith, denying a report that the last-place National League team is for sale. Mike Wynn, a former assistant football coach at Northwestern, Purdue, and Minnesota, "nas returned to Northwestern as an assistant in charge of outside linebackers on Coach Rick Venturi's staff, replacing Johnny Cooks, who resigned to go into private business. Quarterback Craig Morton remained hospitalized for the second day with a muscle spasm in his lower back while the Denver Broncos continued training camp. Craig Patrick, the assistant coach of the U. S.

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"There are things Jorgen does that I could "never hope to do, but in another sense -maybe there are some things I can bring to the team that will help in other areas." For one thing, Long is more of a runner than Kristensen. With Long teamed with the swift Peter Ressel at right wing, the Sting has been transformed into a quicker, counter-attacking team. "MY FEELING is that the simpler lie keeps his game the better off he'll be," said Roy, a big booster of Long's. "Sometimes I feel he tries to do a little too much with the ball. Maybe that's his Brazilian background." Long, the son of missionary parents, was born in Zaire and raised in Brazil, where he first learned to play soccer.

Last winter, after playing extensively on Chicago's European tour, he stayed with his brother in Lisbon, Portugal, where he worked out his deal to train with a first division club. "I knew the language from Brazil and that made it a lot easier," Long said. "From a soccer standpoint, I may have gotten more benefit from the tour but being in Portugal helped, too. "I FELT A PRESSURE just to perform well in order to keep working out with the team. I wanted to work at wing, but the fields were pretty small and there wasn't a lot of room for dribbling.

The play got pretty rough," Long's long year of soccer has started to pay off handsomely. In 715 minutes of play, he's contributed three goals and three assists in addition to giving the team needed lifts in late stages of games with his running. By Mike Conklin Chicago Tribune Press Service PONTIAC, Mich. Steve Long, a Sting regular in only his second year as a soccer pro, has no difficulty remembering his first and only goal scored here in his rookie season. "It was a beautiful cross from Luigi Martini and I just ran underneath and headed it in," Long said.

"I got in the game with about 10 minutes left and there was just under 2 left when I scored. I can't really recall what order the rest of the scoring came in, though." Long's inability to sort out the rest of the game isn't reflective of a big ego. It's just that his initial North America Soccer League goal came in what many consider the wildest, free-scoring match ever played by the Sting. "I know I'll never forget last year's game in the Silverdome," said Chicago Coach Willy Roy. "The fact that it was on national television added a lot but people always like to see plenty of goals and that's what we gave 'em." LONG'S TIMELY SCORE with 1:37 remaining cut the Sting's deficit to 5-4 before Karl-Heinz Granitza banged in the tying goal with 43 seconds to go.

Both teams missed several good opportunities in two overtimes before Detroit finally won 6-5 in a shootout. The Sting has continued to play high-scoring games this season with its 7-1 thrashing of Tulsa last Saturday helping the club become the No. 1 goal-scoring team in the league. If Chicago continues to be on top, Long figures to be a big reason, as the replacement for the recently departed Jorgen Kristensen. "I don't really think about being his replacement in the sense that I'm filling his shoes," said the quiet -out P17S8013 BRTSill $39.95 W7514 C-O-ERTBii $51.95 P2057514-t5 FR78x14.15 $55.95 P2157514-15 GR78x15 $59.95 Pz7S14.t5 HR78i14-t5 $62.95 PZ 75x14-15 J-LA78X15 F.E.T.

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