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CLOVIS NEWS- JOURNAL. Sun Jaa. 25. 1976, Page IB Innsbruck Prepares For Sports Invasion By DON FREEMAN Copley News Service INNSBRUCK, Austria (special) Here at the locale of the forthcoming Winter Olympics, there is speculation on the effect of the Foehn, should it strike around these parts during the competition The Foehn pronounced "fern" as Goethe is called "gert-uh" is, like the oboe, an ill wind that nobody blows well, dockers of winds make it the most troublesome of them all. It is the wind that wears a black hat.

Suddenly, carrying its own electric charges, the Foehn will swoop up malevolently from Italy in the south The warm, alpine current lasts for several days, a benumbing period known in retrospect as a time when things were rotten. Headaches abound, traffic accidents increase, divorces multiply. Usually, the Foehn hits in the late autumn and is known, therefore, as the "turken roster," or corn ripener. But the Foehn, as erratic as the behavior it causes, has been known to visit in February as well. How would the Foehn affect Howard Cosell? The question is put to Roone Arledge.

once an Ivy League wrestler and now the president of ABC Sports, a large, bespectacled chap who smokes missile-size cigars and is innovative and wise and good-humored. "Fortunately," says Roone, "if the Foehn should come at Olympics time, i( would'nt bother Cosell since he won't be here." Why won't Cosell be here? "Quite simply," Arledge muses, "because it is too mind- boggling to imagine Howard Cosell in stretch pants." Surely if the mind must be boggled, let it be done by Innsbruck itself, a lovely, historic, mountain-ringed city whose name stems from the bridge over the River Inn, which is a Celtic word meaning "flowing one." If you ask an Innsbrucker why any Austrian river has a Celtic name, you get a Gallic shrug. I was here in this ancient city on an ABC press tour as part of a chattering of TV columnists, sportswriters and sportscasters (actually one, namely Silent Stu Nahan) and other low types to inspect the Olympic sites. ABC will, once again, be televising the for American consumption beginning Feb. 4.

If the Olympics are, in Jim McKay's phrase, a "mirror of the is hoped fervently that they will become only a reflection of magical Inn- sbruck, also known as Umlaut City. The umlaut, like the surrounding mountain peaks, is everywhere, these two dots that rest gracefully over the letter and which would change "Take the A Train" to "Take the Ah Train." Despite inflation and lofty prices gas is $1.50 a gallon, a color TV set costs $1.000. a single hotel room starts at $25 and peanut butter is unattainable at any price Innsbruck, with its growing population of 150.000. is a city of vast charm and ineffably easy nature "Heaven." an Innsbrucker tells you, "is by definition an English apartment, a Japanese wife. Chinese food and an American salary.

What we have instead is English food, an American wife, a Japanese apartment and a Chinese salary." These are the jokes, of course. I am talking with Dr. Karl Heinz Klee. a practicing attorney in Innsbruck and secretary general of the Olympic Committee, and he adds a line to the old definition of hell as a place where the English cook the food, the French direct the traffic and the Germans tell the jokes "and the Austrians." says Dr. Klee, "do the organizing." This is.

in short, not Germany, where four years ago the Olympics head there had said: "We Germans can't improvise, so we organize." The Austrians and Germans share the same language but the difference in mentality is sharp and historic. In bad times, says Dr. Klee by way of illustration, it was said in Berlin that "the situation is very serious, but not hopeless; whereas, in Vienna, they said the situation is hopeless but not very serious." This is Mozart country and Wagner gets short shrift. Every Innsbrucker knows that a Wagnerian opera is where you go in at 8 o'clock and four hours later it's 8:30. Most Innsbruckers own a smattering of English.

Still, there are language barriers beyond hurdling. An ABC fellow was ordering breakfast one morning at his hotel. On the first day he asked for "scrambled eggs mil bacon." The waiter nodded and returned instead with eggs and ham. The second day he again requested "scrambled eggs mil bacon." And again, despite nodding in agreement, the waiter returned with eggs and ham. On the third day, admitting defeat, the ABC fellow said, resignedly: "May I have scrambled eggs mil ham?" "What," the waiter cried, "no bacon?" Salinger Helps By Don Freeman Copley News Service INNSBRUCK.

Austria Once, to a president and to a nation, he was a lighthearted. sedentary symbol of athletic futility And now. with his cigar and his grin and his Gallic good cheer. Pierre Salinger is. alas.

a sports commentator Salinger, a man of vast personal charm and almost global popularity, has just been tapped to wear the ARC silks at the Winter Olympics here, a move regarded widely as inspired if not ironic It is well known that everyperson of prominence has a skeleton in the closet of his past. Salinger, for example, started his career as a sport swriler. Thus, his new assignment for ARC brings him full circle in a career that has seen him serve as press secretary for two presidents. Kennedy and Johnson, as an appointee to the Senate, a campaign adviser in '68 to Robby Kennedy, an airlines vice president and a movie executive He was even an actor, of sorts, playing the role of Lucky Pierre, a gangster's lawyer in an episode of "Batman." Rut always, says Pierre, on his passport where his occupation is listed, the designation was proud and unchanging "Journalist." "I was selected for this ARC Pierre, "on the basis of my sporting background Once, in college, at the University of San Francisco. I was boxing and managed to knock myself out with one punch.

I was also the one who brought the 50-mile hike lo a SLIM, TRIM model tries out her new bikini-type track and field outfit so light and stretchable that it's been nicknammed the "flexible flyer." New Styles Aid Women lly VK MACOMHKH Copley News Service LOS ANGKLKS A couple of generations ago the world thrilled lo the athletic feats of Mildred (Babe) Didriksen Zaharias. She could run, jump and throw right up there with most of the male track-and- field athletes of her time She became a record-smashing golfer as well. The only criticism you ever heard when the Babe's name came up was a sort of wistful observation that she looked loo much like a man in her bulky outfits. But that was more than years ago. Today women are running faster, jumping higher and leaping farther than ever before, and they're looking better doing it.

A few years back nobody would have accused most women track stars of being attractive, much less sexy. That svas before the revolution United States Figure Skaters Plan On Two Medals In The Olympics COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. The United States' fift- urc-skating team for the 197fi Wintel' Olympic Games features a unique blend of experience and youth that most experts believe should produce two medals, possibly even a Mold. This year's team, which hopes to break the East European dominance of recent international competition, is headed by Dorothy Hamill in the ladies' division and Colleen O'Connor and Jim Millns in the dance. They easily won gold medals at the U.S.

championships here two weeks ago. Both Miss Hamill and the dance team of O'Connor Millns would be expected to win silver medals off past performances, meaning bolh haw a shot al the coveted gold. In the men's figure skating and in the pair's competition, the Americans are likely to be shut out. Team leader Paul George calls the 1976 squad "a very strong team, and certainly stronger than in 1972. I think we'll win medals, with our best chances in the ladies and dance." George feels America's best shot at Olympic gold rests with the 19-year-old Miss Hamill.

"Dorothy has a unique, clean style," George says. "She's in a more positive frame of mind. Last year she had a leg problem, which she's over now, and she's in better physical condition." Miss Hamill, a native of Riverside, who lives and trains in Denver, earned silver medals in the last two Woild Championships and this month claimed her third straight U.S. ladies' crown. Al this year's nationals, Miss Hamill, rated the world's best freestyle skater, won all three segments of the ladies' com petition the compulsory figures, short program and frw skating.

Miss Hamill realizes that she must also ylarl quickly at ItwsbriK'k in the Winter Games. "She has to make sure she gets out ahead," says (Jcortji 1 "She can't rely on an eleventh hour, come-from behind type of performance." Her main competition will acomp from Dianne DcLeeuw of The Netherlands, who won the 1975 world title, and Christine Errath of East Germany, the 1974 world champion who was third in 1975. America's other two entries in the ladies division are 15- year-old Linda Fratianne of Los Angeles and Wendy Burgi, 18, of Garden Grove, Calif. "Wendy placed fourth in the world meet last year, and that experience will bo helpful," George said. "Linda is a fresh newcomer who seemed to take longer mature than some others, but she broke into the lop in a hurry." The fiery Miss Fratianne dazzled the crowd at the U.S.

meet with a difficult free- skating routine and finished a surprising second behind Miss Hamill in female track-and-field apparel, which began lo develop Id to 12 years ago. Before the revolution the ladies usually wore heavy rayon track outfits, often one- piece jobs with a lew pleats. About the only way you could be certain of their sex was lo check out the voice pitch. The rayon had little stretch or "give," so important to the athlete. And rayon outfits weighed four or five pounds.

Th' 1 dumpy outfits girl athletes wore for track, volleyball, basketball or gymnastics a few years ago are only unsavory memories today. The nylon or cotton knits, with their easy stretch, have taken over. They weigh perhaps a couple of pounds. The weight loss can help to add inches to the high or long jump or lake mini-seconds off the dash or the half-mile run. Yet that's probably not why the distaff side of the human equation has gone mod on (he track, the basketball court, etc.

"Most women like to be considered feminine and show that they are women," says Pal Broderick. president of the Broderick which turns out athletic apparel at a plant in Parsons, Kan. Its home office is in nearby Glendale. Pat's father, Tom, founded the firm 4V years ago and is chairman of the board. "They also want to be comfortable, especially when they're out on the track or the court.

"So 10 or 12 years ago the girl athletes began to insist on something more suitable and basic in which to perform," Pat Broderick said in an interview. "The older, traditional physical education directors and coaches didn't like the idea, but as younger directors and coaches took over they began lo agree with the girls. "So the pleats and the one- piece track suits began to disappear from the scene. Today you can't find them." Even a biking-type track outfit has showed up, says Tom Broderick. "Of course it's not as skimpy as the bikini bathing suit," he concedes, "hut it's attractive and very functional for the girl track athlete." Clone, loo, is the traditional all while track apparel for the gals.

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