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32 Daily Record, Tuesday July 11, 1972 Olympic track and field squad has both youth and experience ill j.j.iy...!..,!....;.!. Bennett. Army, Ft Hood, 8.076; Bruce Jenner. Graceland. Iowa.

College. Sandy Hok. Conn 7,846. Alternate: Steve Gough. Falcon TC.

7.822. 50-kilometer walk Larry Young, Mid-America TC. Sibley. Bill Weigle. Colorado TC.

Milan. Steve Hayden. Long Island TC. Wantach. N.Y., 4:23:22 6.

Alternate: Bob Kitchen. Athens TC, Oakland, 4:25:06.2. Shot put George Woods, Pacific Coast Club, Carbondale, III 70-1'j: Al Feuerbach. PCC San Jose. 68-10' Brian Oldfield.

Chicago TC. South Elgin. 67-10'i. Alternate: Randy Matson, Texas Striders, 67-534. 200-meter dash Chuck Smith.

Southern California Striders. Los Angeles. 20.4; Larry Burton, Purdue, West Lafayette, 20.5; Larry Black, North Carolina Central, Miami, 20.6. Alternate: Marshall Dill, Michigan State, 20.6. 1.500-meter run Jim Ryun.

Club West, Lawrence. Kan Dave Wottle, Bowling Green State University, Canton, Ohio. Bob Wheeler. Duke, Lutherville, 3:42 4. Alternate: Jerome Howe, Mid-America TC, 3:43.0.

Long jump Arnie Robinson, Army, San Diego. Randy Williams. SC Striders, Compton, 26-4; Preston Carrington. unattached, Wichita, 26-4. Alternate: Bill Rea, Pittsburgh.

26-234. hammer throw Tom Gage. New York AC, New York, N.Y., 229-11; Al Schoterman. New York AC, Brook Haven, N.Y., 225-5; George Frennn, Pacific Coast Club. Los Angeles, 224-7.

Alternate: Al Hall, unattached, 220-9. Marathon Ken Moore. Oregon TC. Eugene, 2:15:57.8, Frank Shorter. Florida TC.

Rancho de Taos, N.M., Jack Bachelor, Florida TC, Gainesville. 2:20:292 Alternate: Jeff Galloway, Florida TC. 2:20:29.2. 400-meter dash Wayne Collett, SC Striders, los Angeles. 44.1; John Smith, SC Striders, Los Angeles.

44 Vince Matthews, Brooklyn Over the Hill AA, New York. 44 9. Alternate: Lee Evans, Bay Ara Striders, 45.1. 5.000 meter run Steve Prefontaine. Oregon, Coos Bay.

Ore 13:22 8 (American record, old mark 13:29 8. Prefontaine Eugene. 1972); George Young Unattached, Tucson, 13.29 Leonard Hilton, Houston T. Houston. 13:40.2.

Alternate: Sid Sink, Bowling Green T. 13.43.8. High jump Dwight Jones, UCLA, Glendale, 7-3; Ron Jourdan Florida TC, Gainesville, 7-3: Chris Dunn. Delaware Sports Club. Newark.

7-3. Alternate: Reynaldo Brown, Cal International, 7-02. EUGENE, Ore. (AP) Jim Ryun, relaxed and smiling, sat with his wife, Ann, at a' Eugene restaurant late Sunday night. The formas Kansas star had climbed back to join the elite of America's middle distance runners.

After a long, often painful, comeback the 25-year-old world record-holder in the mile, half mile and 1,500 meters had earned a third crack at an Olympic gold medal. Just as he did in the 1968 U.S. track and field trials, Ryun had missed a berth on America's three-man 800-meter team but bounced back to earn the country's No. 1 ranking in the 1,500. He'll undoubtedly have to reach back for something extra.

No American has wonthe metric mile in the Olympics since 1908. Ryun, who won a tactical race at the trials in 3 minutes, 41.5 seconds, set the world record of 3:33 in 1967. He finished second the following year at" the Mexico City Olympics to Kip Keino of Kenya. Most of the nearly 600 athletes who assembled in this track conscious city have gone. After 10 days of competition, less than six dozen earned a spot on the U.S.

team for the 1972 games in Munich beginning Aug. 26. It will be a mixture of fastrising young stars and tested veterans on the U.S. team. There's Dwight Stones, the 18-year-old UCLA high jumper, who cleared 7-3 to earn the nation's No.

1 berth in the event Sunday. And there're 35-yearold Jay Silvester and 34-yearold George Young, both Olympic veterans. Young, bronze medal winner in the Olympic steeplechase four years ago, earned a shot at the 5,000 meters this time as he finished behind Oregon sensation Steve Prefontaine. Young ran 13:30 for a lifetime best to earn an American record fourth Olympic trip for a distance runner. Veteran Frank Shorter of the Florida Track Club won both the 10,000 meters and the marathon and is heading back to his birthplaceMunich.

For Willie Davenport, there's a chance to defend his Olympic title in the 110-meter high hurdles. He ran second behind Tom Hill, formerly of Arkansas State. Rod Milburn, the Southern University (La.) flash and world record-holder at 120-yards, qualified third. That trio makes the U.S. a threat in that event, and the 400-meter dashmen are dangerous as well.

Wayne Collett, Vince Mathews and John Smith, the world record- holder at 440 yards, could sweep the event at the Olympics. Bob Seagren, set a new world mark of 18 feet 5' i inches in the pole vault during the trials. He'll resume his duel with Sweden's Kjell Isaksson at Munich. Isaksson had shared the top mark of 184' i with Seagren, who will be joined by Steve Smith, the Cal State-Long Beach vaulter, and Jan Johnson of Chicago, who both cleared 18-01-. Some of the big names, like Matson, and a number of athletes expected to qualify, won't be around.

Bill Bowerman, the University of Oregon coach who will direct America's track and field team in Munich, said the U.S. team will assemble in Bowdoin, on July 20, work for about a week or 10 days, then go to Oslo, Norway, to finish up. EUGENE, Ore. (AP) Tentative U.S. men's Olympic team, with performance at SL trials, based on competition June 29 through July 9: Discus Jay Silvester, Cougar Track Club, Orem, Utah.

211-2; John Powell. Pacilic Coast Club, Long Beach. Calif 205-10; Tim Vollmer, Army, Ft. MacArthur. Calif 202-0.

Alternate: Gary Carlsen, Southern California Strideis, 01-3 20-kilometer walk Larry Young. Mid-America TC, Sibley. Goetz Klopfer. Athens TC, Oakland. Calif Tom Dooley, Athens TC, San Carlos.

1:39:10. Alternate: Todd Scully, Army, Neshanic station, 1:39:25. 100-meter dash Eddie Hart, Bay Area Striders. Oakland, Calif 9 9 (equals world mark by Jim Mines, Ronnie Ray Smith, Charlie Greene, Sacramento, 1968, and Hines. Mexico City.

1968); Rey Robinson, Florida A Lakeland. 9 9 (equals world record); Robert Taylor. Texas Southern University. Houston, 10 0. Alternate: Gerald Tinker, Kent TC Ohio.

10 1. 8O0-meter run Dave W'ottle, Bowling Green State College. Canton, Ohio. 1:44.3 (equals world record by Peter Snell. Christchurch, New Zealand, 1962, and Ralph Doubell, Mexico City, 1968; bettors American record of 1:44 8 by Ken Swenson.

Stuttgart. West Germany, 19701; Rick Wohlhuter. Chicago TC. St. Charles.

111., 1:45 Ken Swenson. Army, Ft. MacArthur. 1:45 1 Alternate: Jim Ryun, Club West, Santa Barbara, Calif 1.45 2. Triple jump John Craft.

Chicago TC, Charleston, 56 2, wind aided 5 37 miles per hour, over allowable for record purposes; Dave Smith. Bay Area Striders, Berkeley, Calif 56-0 (American record, old mark 55-lU. Art Walker. Los Angeles. Art Walker.

Southern Calilornia Striders. Los Angeles. 55-1. wind aided 5 81 h. Alternate: James Butts, UCLA.

54 8 wind aided 5.36 400 meter intermediated hurdles Ralph Southern California Striders. Provo, Utah, 48 Dick Bruggeman. Oharion. Ohio. 48 HI; Jim Seymour, SC Striders.

Huntington Beach. 49.3. Alternate: Bruce Collins. 49.5. Pole vault Bob Seagren, SC striders.

Monterey Park. 18 4 (world record, old mark 18-4' 4 Seagren and Kjell 31 Paso. lif); Steve Smith, Long Beach State. Torrance. 18-0' Jan Johnson, Chicago TC, Chicago Heights, 18-0'2.

Alternate: Dave Roberts, Rice, 17-8' 2. 3.000-meter steeplechase Mike Manley, OregonTC Eugene, Ore 8:29 Doug Brown. Tennessee. St. Clair S.mres.

Mich 8:31 Steve Savage, Oregon TC, Springfield. d.ji rtiiernaie: Jim uare, lavy, 8:33. i. 10.000-meter run Frank Shorter. Florida TAC.

Ranchos De Tals. N.M.. Jeff Galloway, Florida TC. Tallahasee. 28:48.8: Jon Anderson, Oregon TC.

Eugene, 29:08 2. Alternate: Tom Laris. New York AC. 29:43 0 Javelin-Bill Schmidt. Muse.

270; Milt Sonsky, New York AC, Brooklyn, N.Y., 267-11: Fred Luke. Husky Spike Club, Seattle, Wash 267 9. Alternate: Jack Bacon, NY AC, 259-11. Decathlon Jeff Bannister. Decathlon Club of America, Los Angeles.

8.120; Jeff THAT CERTAINLY WAS THE FINAL STRAW, or rather the last drop, Saturday. With rain and floods completly dominating the sports activities in our little section of the world recently it seemed reaonable to assume that something from faraway England most assurdedly would not be dampened by rain. But it was and Saturday's scheduled final Wimbledon tennis match in the Men's singles championship was postponed a day. Fortunately, rains predicted for Sunday failed to develop at Wimbledon and net fans watched a ripping, good match which found military protocol taking a beating. A corporal Stan Smith of the U.S.

Army knocked off Lt. Illie Nastase of the Rumanian army in a five-set thriller to snare the most important event in the world of tennis. Smith not only won it but he achieved the dream of every dog-faced private and non-com the world over, slapping down the brass. For practical purposes, however, Nastase had the last laugh. He kept his prize money of $7,800 but Private Smith, because he is a soldier, had to turn his $13,000 to the United States Davis Cup team.

That's the Army, Mr. Jones, or Smith. THE ONE DAY'S POSTPONEMENT made little difference in the Wimbledon program since Saturday's wiped out scheduled was completed Sunday. Not so the five games postponed in the Central and Susquehanna Baseball leagues Saturday. A crisis is developing among the two leagues as well as the York County American Legion circuit as postponements continue to mount in this moist spring and summer of '72.

Makeup games of rained out contests are being rained out and unless some solution can be found the leagues are going to have a limited availability of time, diamond and players as playoffs and the football season approach. Many of the younger players are involved in scholastic and collegiate football and will be reporting for gridiron training by mid-August. With regular schedules already including three days of the week, diamond facilities will be sorely taxed. Unless the weather abates the three circuits may have to develop alternate plans to determine their champions. As of Sunday, the Susquehanna league had 36 of its scheduled games to that date unplayed or undecided as the result of deadlocks caused by darkness.

That, incidentally, will be another factor, shortening days and earlier termination of twilight contests. The Central league has 24 unplayed games as of Sunday and the Legion loop 19. Softball people find themselves in a similar boat but then boats are popular this season. AN "OFF THE RECORD" READER called Saturday and said he had an addition to the All-York baseball team selected that day. The squad was a mythical group composed of current big league players who formerly played with professional teams representing the York White Roses.

His addition was John Bruce Dal Canton, righthanded pitcher now with the Kansas City Athletics. Dal Canton indeed played in York, not much, but should have been included on that squad. He appeared in 1 1 games and pitched 71 innings with the 1968 York Pirates and had a 2.23 trained run averaged. Dal Canton, now 4-3, was listed as the starting hurler in last night's contest against Baltimore. WHILE ON THE SUBJECT OF BASEBALL the thought occurs that the Players association owes a big vote of thanks to Bobby Fischer, America's cocky, chess challenger.

When the ballplayers pulled off their strike early this season and some of their demands were published they were the target of much abuse by the public. Some of those demands, many of which eventually were watered down, did seem excessive and out-of-line when compared to the working conditions of Mr. Average citizen but Fischer makes the ballplayers look like pikers. Not only did Fischer demand an unprecedented sum of money, more than 20 times that he had ever received before, but his every whim had to be pampered. He required the best in transportation, princely living quarters, chauffered luxury automobiles, precise lighting at the matches, etc.

His latest demand was that his rocking chair be shipped to Reykjavik, Iceland, scene of the upcoming chess championship. Seems he couldn't make a move without it ALL IN ALL IT WAS A STRANGE week in sports. Results seemingly were unimportant in relation to other news which appeared on the nation's sports pages. Sentimentalists who claim that sports, athletics and involvement in them by the youth of America is a one-way ticket to a life of purity, honesty and devotion to duty, honor and the Ten Commandants, were dumped into the morass of reality by several articles involving "name" athletes. There was that football player caught trying to rob a bank.

Another, a quarterback, attempted to sell a play book of his former team to a rival group. The Olympic moguls were debating the idea of permitting jail inmates to participate. A former outstanding pro gridder, on probation, was to begin training while the nation's top collegiate football team was faced with the prospect of losing its sparkplug following his conviction of several felonies. But there will be relief this week from the vanity and sordidiness of the sports scene as the first of two political conventions is conducted. Certainly the workings of those two gatherings will renew one's faith in all that is good and pure.

Phillies fire Lucchesi; name Owens to the job PHILADELPHIA (AP) The Philadelphia Phillies, worst team in the majors, fired anager Frank Lucchesi today and handed the job to General Manager Paul Owens. Owens will fill both jobs for the balance of the baseball season and until the Phillies have had a chance to find a new field manager. Phillies President Bob Carpenter said he made the decision Sunday after his last-place club lost the third of four games to the San Diego Padres. "I guess it's the same in politics, war, and everything else, you can't change the army until you change the general," Carpenter said. Lucchesi, 45, was in his third season of his first big league managing job.

Owens, 48, director of the Phillies farm system until five weeks ago, never managed or played in the majors. Lucchesi told a news conference in a broken voice: "I have to take some of the blame for the team's performance." Owens' first move as manager was to dismiss third base coach George Myatt and replace him with Brandy Davis, a special assignment scout for the Phillies. Owens also said that he was close to making waiver deals with several American League clubs. They apparently involve first baseman Deron Johnson and reliever Dick Selrha. Carpenter indicated that Owens would not be a permanent field manager.

"He is going to be there until we find the guy we want," Carpenter said. Carpenter said he believed the Phillies were "two ballplayers away from respectability." HK.U HAMP IIL RT NEW YORK (AP) The New York Mets announced Sunday that first baseman Jim Beauchamp would be placed on the 21-day disabled list Monday and catcher-infielder Bill Sundakis would be activated. Wind-whipped course awaits Jack Nicklaus MUIRFIELD, Scotland (AP) A fierce wind whipped over Muirfield's towering golf linkes Monday in advance of the British Open Championship and Jack Nicklaus was in his element. "I hope this great course keeps playing hard," said the 32-year-old Nicklaus, favored to win the British crown in a bid for an unprecedented grand slam in modern golf. The wind off the Firth of Forth always is an unpredictable factor on Muirfield's 6, -982-yard, par 36-3571 layout where the 101st championship begins Wednesday.

Nicklaus was relaxed and confident in practice. He shot a two-under-par 69 in one informal round. His apparent lack of tension came through when he was asked who would win if he didn't, "I haven't even thought about that," said Jack, who has been touring Muirfield since his arrival last Wednesday. Defending champion Lee Tre-vino arrived Monday from the Canadian Open, wearing a straw planatation hat. Becoming serious, Trevino said he's been told by veterans sucli as Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer and South Africa's Gary Player that Muirfield "is the best course in the world." "I don't know about that," said Lee.

"I'll try it out. At the moment I seem to have it all together-hitting the bell well and putting well." Nicklaus' bid for the Grand Slam is one of the reasons why up to 100,000 fans are expected to swarm over Muirfield's treeless course during the 72-hoIe championship. He already has won the U.S. Masters and Open titles. The third leg is the British Open.

The other is the PGA championship at Birmingham, next month..