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August 5. 1984 Section THE SUNDAY OKLAHOMAN Spain Provide! Test for Cagers Biggs Fighting For Victories, Not Knockouts ByllankWesch guel. "And I have been coming over to the U.S. for many years." In more than two decades, basketbalL has evolved tremendously around the globe. But Knight has built'a team designed to harass, spindle, fold and mutilate international opposition.

By extending its record in Olympic play to 74-1, the Americans merely finished first in their division of the tournament and, qualified for the quarterfinals. Spain was assured a quarterfinal place and could meet the U.S. again in the medal round. With that knowledge, Diaz-Miguel could, rest his best guard, Juan Antonio Corbalan, once the game got out of hand. He could also hope that in any future encounter his best player, 6-84 Fernando Martin, would avoid the foul trouble that kept him pinned to the bench for all but 22 minutes.

If any team in- the tournament has the ability to make the U.S. sweat, it remains to be seen. Italy and -Yugoslavia will probably get the opportunity to take their shots. "Our goal is to show everybody that we're the best in the -world, and that it wouldn't matter if the Russians were here," said forward Wayman Tisdale of the University of Oklahoma. So far they've' been quite convincing.

Copley News Service INGLEWOOD, Calif. It wasn't supposed to be THE test of the U.S. Olympic basketball team. But for about 24 of the 40 minutes of Saturday's game against Spain, it was. The Americans had routinely built 20-point or greater margins by halftime in four previous games.

Saturday at halftime, it was only 46-41, and the last two came on a 30-foot bomb by Michael Jordan at the buzzer. "I honestly would have preferred that we not get that basket," said U.S. coach Bob Knight. "We had screwed up working for the shot we wanted. Those things (30-footers at the buzzer) don't do anything for me that's one of those that you just throw in out of your ass." With 17 minutes to play, the U.S.

margin was only two points; a minute later it was four, 51-48. Then guard Leon Wood came in to get the U.S. fast break rolling and Spain found itself being outscored 15-2. End of test, and at the end of the game it was 101-68. Even though U.S.

star Michael Jordan spent part of the second half in the locker room with an ankle injury he eventually returned to play it was simply another rout. Everybody on the U.S. team played, nobody for more than 25 minutes. Jordan has now scored 90 points in 100 minutes of play spanning five games. "I believe that this is the strongest team in the history of U.S.

(amateur) basketball and has one of the greatest coaches in Bobby Knight," said Spain's coach, Antonio Diaz-Mi- By Mike Madigan LOS ANGELES U.S. super heavyweight boxer Tyrell Biggs doesn't want to kill anybody. He doesn't even want to knock them out. The fans booed him for that. He just wants to win.

He did. And they booed him for that, too. Being a killer is just not in Biggs' hands nor. as his first Olympic boxing opponent asserted Friday, in his heart. As the super heavyweight he is helpless to change the public's image of America's "Big Fella" at the Olympics, killers like Joe Frazier and George Foreman.

"I'm not here to knock anybody out, this is a sport," Biggs said. So Friday morning, when Biggs bounced into the L.A. Sports Arena to the raucous chant "USA, USA. of those expecting blood, manslaughter was the farthest thing from his mind. Biggs won a unanimous decision over 18-year-old Puerto Rican Isaac Barrientos in a fight in which the only thing the world champion could be accused of committing was man-slumber.

"Tyrell Biggs is not a fighter," a scuffed-up Barrientos said after. "He will not go toe-to-toe. Anyone who knows the sport knows a fighter should be able to go toe-to-toe. "I'm not surprised at the fight. I was supposed to be very little for him.

.1 did my best possible, but I wasn't given a chance because Biggs wouldn't go toe-to-toe. What he does is nothing but theatrics in the ring. "To go toe-to-toe you have to fight with the heart and I didn't think Tyrell Biggs can do that," Barrientos insisted. Nine fights in his career (record: 6-3) doesn't exactly make Barrientos an expert or a medal contender. Biggs, who weighed in at a svelte 219 in fact, chased the 237-pound Latin several times in the fight.

Biggs just doesn't own a knockout punch. In his 109-bout amateur career (103-6) he guesses he's had between 40 and 45 knockouts, but he took nearly a minute to remember that his last one came "back in 1983." But he moves well and possesses a good jab, and with the advantage in reach he continually flicked it in Barrientos' face to win easilv and safely. The things the Puerto Rican said afterward about Biggs damaged the American's image more than anything he hit him with in the ring. "I don't care about what he said. I'm not going to go toe-to-toe," Biggs snapped.

"That's not my fight. I did it a couple times and I've got a bruise on my mouth for it. I'm not here to prove I'm a man or anything. I'm here not to take punishment, and to give out as much of it as I can." The bout right before Biggs' matched Lennox Lewis, a quick Canadian with ferocious power, against Mohammad Yousuf of Pakistan and Lewis immediately made it plain that he's to be taken seriously. He practiced his jabs on the Pakistani's lace for two rounds like a tennis player hitting against the wall until he finally dropped him AP Laserphoto PnijjPrH Gre9 Masailas.

ieft- of San Jose, appears Kong's Yee-Lap Lai when they dueled in fencing at the Sum-ruiicu. t0 nave been run through by the foil of Hong mer Olympics in Los Angeles last week. Olympic Boxer Yearns To Be Pro By Bill Center LOS ANGELES Over the last two years, one of the toughest tasks facing U.S. Olympic boxing coach Pat Nappi was keeping his top fighters from turning pro. World champions had to turn their backs on lucrative offers and buy Nappi's pitch to wait for the Olympics and reap bigger harvests of green later.

One of the hardest sells was two-time world champion flyweight Steve McCrory. Even with Emanuel Steward's help, Nappi had his hands full with the 5-foot-5, 112-pound McCrory. McCrory knew the riches boxing could bring. His brother Milton is the WBC world welterweight champion. He trained in the same KRONK gym in Detroit with After winning the world title at 112 pounds with a decision over Russia's Yuri Alexandrov in April of 1983, McCrory did little to protect his No.

1 world ranking. He finished third in the Pan-Am Games, then lost his title via knockout to Cuba's Pedro Reyes in the World Championship Challenge, his second straight loss to Reyes. Both McCrory and.Steward saw the loss to Reyes last spring as a decisive moment. "Steve was either going to get tough from that loss and see what he had been doing wrong, or the Olympics were going to be over for him," said his trainer. "That loss was the best thing that ever happened to me," said McCrory.

Coplev News Service other world champs like Thomas Hearns and Hilmer Kenty. Although KRONK had started out as an amateur club to develop Olympic-caliber fighters, the first graduates hit it big as pros outside the four-year Olympic cycle. "Having an Olympic champion was the only thing KRONK lacked," said Steward. So he convinced McCrory, Frank Tate and Ricky Womack to stay amateur through the Games of '84 and bring KRONK yet more glory. While Tate built steadily toward the Olympic team, Womack was eliminated at the box-offs by Evander Hoyfield and McCrory's hopes were almost wiped out during a stale period in the year leading up to the Olympics.

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Scripps-Howard I Hogshead Calls if Quits Meagher Earns 3rd Gold Although she didn't match her world record of 2:05.96 in the 200 butterfly, her performance was top-notch nonetheless. Her time of 2:06.90 was the third-fastest in history, surpassed only by her world record time from 1981 and the 2:06.37 she turned in at the 1980 Olympic Trials. Her Olympic swim outclassed the -1980 Olympic record by a whopping 3.54 seconds. Ines Geissler of East Germany won the 1980 Games with a 2:10.44. hind at the 100," Baumann said.

"After the breaststroke leg (when he passed Morales), I knew I had the race won. "Actually, I thought Lundquist would be my main competition. But two world records prove I'm the world's best IM swimmer." Meagher, 19, of Louisville, world record-holder in both women's butterfly events, added the 200 gold to the one she captured at 100 meters in the stroke she has ruled for five years. im Swamming and a red maple leaf tattoo on his chest, was timed in two minutes, 1.42 seconds in the 200 IM. That surpassed the world standard of 2:02.25 he established two years ago.

Pablo Morales of Santa Barbara, was second in 2:03.05, giving him two individual silver medals. Morales was second behind Michael Gross of West Germany in the 100 butterfly behind another world-record performance. Neil Cochran of Great Britain won the third-place bronze in 2:04.38, while Steve Lundquist of Jonesboro, finished fifth. "I knew Pablo would really go out fast (on the butterfly leg), so my plan was to give him about one and a half body lengths and be no more than a second be LOS ANGELES (AP) Alex Baumann of Canada won his second gold medal and set his second world record at the Olympic Games Saturday, while Mary T. Meagher won her third gold and the 19th in swimming for the United States.

U.S. swimmers were favored to win two of the three remaining events on the last day of the Olympic program. That would tie the all-time record of 21 golds established by the U.S. swim team in Mexico City in 1968. Baumann added the 200-meter individual medley world mark to the world standard he set in winning the 400 individual medley gold medal.

In both cases, he eclipsed his own record. It also was the fourth swimming gold at the Games for Canada, which hadn't won any for the previous 72 years. The free-spirited Baumann, who wears a diamond stud in his left ear ki A. -w -f Two FREE nights, double occupancy, at CALIFORNIA HOTEL for any passenger traveling round trip on any SUNWORLD rugnr aunng tne month of August. For FREE hotel LOS ANGELES (AP) Nancy Hogshead dearly wanted her fifth Olympic swimming medal Saturday but said she can live with the fact she gave it her best shot in finishing fourth in the women's 200-meter butterfly.

Hogshead, who had three gold medals and a silver, was fourth in the event won by America's Mary T. Meagher. Hogshead was hoping to tie American Shirley Ba-bashoff's record of five Olympic medals. "I tried my hardest," said the 22-year-old Hogshead, who announced her retirement from swimming after the race. "I'll never have to look back and say with just a little more effort I might have made it." She said she was so tired she could barely lift her arms the last three strokes.

"I died big-time right at the end," said the Duke University student from -Jacksonville, Fla. "I was really tired," she said. "I only had about two and one-half hours sleep last night. I'm disappointed because five medals was my goal. I tried so hard." She laughed and said "I just couldn't move my arms those last three strokes.

I'm still happy with the way my career ended. I never have to look back and say 'what Hogshead said a swimming career is a hard one to take on. "I think about all those times I swam with ice on the deck and the pain and the friends I had to give up because I couldn't socialize with them," she said. "But it was worth it. I'm happy.

I've had my last race." SUNWORLD AP Laserphoto VntPr Vinnc? Amy Wnite Mission her head after she wins her heat in the women's ttvjici 3 Viejo, seems to 200-meter backstroke preliminaries at Los An-be bouyed by a spray of liquid on either side of geles Saturday. Woman Referee Proud of Olympic Debut INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) The first woman ever to officiate an Olympic basketball game said she "blew a couple of calls," but added, "I don't know an official alive that doesn't." Darlene May refereed the South Korea-Australia women's game Friday. There were no complaints from the coaches of either South Korea or Australia. South Korea won the women's contest "I was satisfied with the job I did, and I think I did as good of a job any official could do," said the 43-year-old May, who is the women's basketball coach at Cal Poly Pomona.

"I don't know an official alive that doesn't blow a few calls. If all I made was two mistakes, I feel pretty good about it." May, who lives in Placientia, has been officiating since 1974 and has worked on the international level before. including women's world championships. Women's basketball became an Olympic sport in 1976. "I was nervous before the start of the game, but I settled down after my first call," she said.

Ivan Mainini was her partner. "I was glad to be with him because we had worked together before," May said. "I hope my being here will open the door for other female she said. "I see a tremendous difference in foreign and American officiating. I feel I can do as good" a job as the men from other countries are doing." May said she had no aspirations to become a professional referee.

She said she received word on her Olympic assignment Thursday, and did no: know whether she would work any more games here. "This is the pinnacle of my career," she said. "I'm hoping in the 1988 Games in Seoul, they'll need a female official and I'd like to do it again." May has been coaching for 10 years and in 1982 she led Pomona to the 1982 NCAA Division II title. Her coaching record is 256-68 for a .790 percentage. "Being both an official and a coaching helps a great deal.

It helps me see what's going to afreet the continuity of the game." May takes pride in being a member of the committee which selected the U.S. women's basketball team. "The Russians should be glad they are not here because we'd take it to them." she said.".