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OLYMPICS MARVEL AT SPEED SKATER DETROIT FREE PRESS Monday, Feb. 3. '64 I) 4 Gold Medals for Soviet Girl! The powerful Russians boosted their medal harvest to 14 six gold, four silver and four bronze. The United States has one the bronze won by Jean Saubert in Saturday's women's slalom. The United States even had to settle for secondary honors in the women's figure skating, an event Americans once dominated.

The women's title was won by Sjoukje Dijkstra of Holland, twice world champion, who climaxed the free-skating phase of the competition with a dazzling exhibition. Regina Hetizer of Austria was second and Petra Burka of Canada third. INNSBRUCK, Austria The Soviet Union's speed-skating phenomenon, Lidia Skoblikova, won an un-j precedented fourth gold medal and the United States came up empty-handed again Sunday as four championships were decided in the biggest day of the ninth Winter Olympic Games. The 24-year-old Siberian schoolteacher completed her historic grand slam by streaking 3,000 meters (1.86 miles) in 5 minutes, 14.9 seconds. Only melting ice, which sent pools of water squirting from her flashing blades, kept her from beating the Olympic record a she had done previously in winning the 500, 1,000 and races! She missed by six-tenths of a second her own mark set PEGGY FLEMING, slerfder 15-year-old schoolgirl from Pasadena, and holder of the United States women's crown, took sixth place.

Francois Bonlieu, a 27-year-old French mountain guide, scored an upset in the men's giant slalom, where America met disaster. Eero Mantyranta, the wiry Finnish customs inspector, Turn to Pace 2I, Col. 1 at Squaw Valley, Calif. Until now no athlete ever had won more than three gold medals in the Winter Games. Sports historians had to look back for a comparison to the performances of Fannye Blankers-Koen, the Dutch woman who won four titles in the Summer Games at London in 1948 and America's Jesse Owens, a quadruple medalist in the Berlin Games of 1936.

Udia Skoblikova OUTFIELDER MANUSH, 62, MAKES IT I Tiger Gains Ha of Fame i h. v. vv mw'YYAHmM 1 TftlfBllinniMjS-tl, Striding to a record fourth Olympic gold medal is Lidia Skoblikova ZiY FIFTH PLACE NOW 7 WATCH CAGE FUR FLY Tie Costly for Wings vs. Hungry Bucks The Wolverines know this. They also know Ohio.

mmf BY JACK BERRY I wasn't a night to celebrate'. The Red Wings played with For the first time this season their greatest sense of urgency! the Wings dropped to fifth of the season Sunday night, place, one point behind the rallying for a 2-2 tie i h' rampaging New York Rangers. Toronto at Olympia. But it' And they lost rookie center 5 Other Greats Honored Even Spilball Star Elected Free Press Wire Services NEW YORK Henry Erti-mett (Heinie) Manush, onetime Detroit Tiger outfielder of the 1920s, was named to baseball's Hall of Fame Sunday along with five other former stars. Manush, 62.

lives in Sarasota. Eddie Joyal for the rest of the season with two fractures in his right wrist. Joyal may be back if the Wings make the playoffs, but Detroit is hardly a certainty to make the playoffs. THIS LATEST TIE was a BY BOB PILLE Free Press Staff Writer COLUMBUS Michigan's high-riding basketball team faces Ohio State with no illusions Monday night. It's more than just the idea that the Wolverines, with their 15-1 record and 6-0 status atop the Big Ten and No.

2 national ranking, are a prime target. THE Rl' CKE YES are angry, frustrated, fighting for their basketball lives pick any adjective that might apply to a proud team backed into the corner. After four winters that produced a national championship, three Big Ten titles and bitter one for the Wings. I 'Twice they had to kill off I five-minute major penalties. I Even TV's in Color A eGraiid' Night For Earl Morrall i Special to the Free Preit Heinie Manush Twice they rallied to tie the' 'score in the third period on; HEINIE RECALLS BEATING RUTH the tie for a fourth, the Buckeyes are faced with a game that they must win or fade among the also-rans.

And what better Ohio opponent to pick for such a game than Michigan. It's more than that. The Buckeyes, along with their 3-2 conference record in an 8-7 season, are not in a jolly mood these days. IN" THEIR LAST three games, they have won once and lost at U-M and lost at Michigan State. At MSU, they had a player i ejected from the game for a fight he didn't start, and they had Gary Bradds go home with assorted facial wounds.

1 The Ail-American center sustained a cut lhat required stitching over one eye, and I he got an elbow In the nose i I Turn to Page 2D. Col. 3 Norm Ullman's goal at 8:48 and Parker MacDonald's goal at! i Detroit pumped 18 shots atj i Toronto goalie Johnny Bower iin the final 20 minutes to earn; those two goals and, unlike the! Wings' 18 shots in, the first' Wonderful Manush Fla. He is one of thtee living members of the six named by the veterans' committee Sunday. The committee considered only those men who have been out of 20 or more years.

MUSKEGON How much do the home folks think of Earl Morrall, the former Muskegon athlete who is now the Detroit Lion's No. 1 quarterback? I Well, judging by the reception they gave him on Earl Morrall Night, it's plenty. Morrall was presented with a $1,000 bill and a color television set in ceremonies before an International Hockey League game between Muskegon and Port Huron. period, these were nearly all good, hard drives. THEY OUTSHOT the Maple Leafs, 44-25, and wound up frustrated.

They surrounded Bower like SARASOTA, Fla, (UPD Heinie Manush, looking far younger than his 62 years, threw open the doors of his home Sunday and brought back the limelight he had avoided since retiring from professional baseball. Manush, the former Detroit Tiger who was elected to the Hall of Fame Sunday, was ebullient. "This is wonderful, wonderful. I can't believe it," he told reporters. "It's quite a shock to me to be picked I feel wonderful maybe I'll have a drink to celebrate.

"I had no idea this would ever happen to me," he added. Manush has lived here since 193o. He plays a little Turn to Page 4D, Column 6 Morrall MANTSH started his year major league career with the Tigers in 1923. He also played with St. Louis, Washington and Boston in the Amer a swarm of bees in the last period and Bower had to dance from side to side and pop up and down to block shots.

The Wings deserved better. Frank Mahovllch "put the Leafs ahead at 5:01 of the first period, driving his own rebound off Marcel Pronovost past Terry Sawchuk for his 19th goal. Detroit appeared in deep trouble when rookie defense- NO SKATE DOUBT Bertrand Skims To State Record Special to the Free Press PETOSKEY After barely missing a National record at St. Paul last week, Eddie Bertrand didn't leave any doubt about his distance-skating ability at Winter Sports ican League and Brooklyn and Pittsburgh in the National League. Both in 1926 while with Detroit and in 1928 while with St.

Louis he batted .378. He posted a lifetime average of .330, before retiring in 1939. Other named to the Hall of Fame were: Burleigh Grimes, last of the spitball pitchers; Urban (Red) Faber, who spent all of his career with the White Sox; Miller Huggins, who managed the New York Yankees to six pennants; pitcher Tim Keefe and handyman John Montgomery Ward. man John Miszuk drew five minutes from referee Buf ey for slashing Ron Stewart at 19:25 of the first period. Stewart needed two stitches to repair his forehead.

Toronto's Kent Douglas The election of Grimes and helped the Wings survive that jolt when he joined Miszuk atFaber marked the first time the 59-second mark of ei tnat any of the 17 pitchers wno used the spitball when the majors banned it in 1920 have been given the game's highest second period and cut the manpower shortage to three actual minutes. honor. The spitball disappeared of ONLY 59 SECONDS after Park here Sunday. The 16-year-old junior at Detroit's DeLaSalle High knocked more than half a minute off the intermediate boys' two -mile mark in winning his title in the annual Northern Michigan championships. His victory in five minutes and 58 seconds bettered the old mark of 6:35.5.

It was one of three records set. The other marks went to Bill Kuryk of Wyandotte in the juvenile boys' s4, mile, which he skated in 2:22, and Barbara Best, rising juvenile girls' star from Midland who broke one of Kathy Sullivan's many records when she skated the 880 in 1:36.2. Miszuk got back, Gordie from major league base-clirmed Tim Horton and the ball once and for all when Leaf defenseman went down in Grimes delivered his last "wet pain and Howe went off for five one" fr the Yankees in 1934. minutes. Horton took seven; stitches to close a cut near his FABER, WHO still lives In Chicago, won a total of 253..

'games, including four 20-victory: for the Chicago White Eddie Bertrand eye. But the Wings, without their leader, threw up a magnificent defense. Three defen-semen Marcel Pronovost, Bill Gadsby and Dong Bark-lpy and two pairs of forwards I'llman and Andre Pronovost and Alex Delvec-ohio and Bruce MacGregor blunted the leaf's attack. Sox between 1914 and 1933, and also scored three victories overi the New York Giants in the! 1917 World Series. Grimes, who spent most of his time with the Brooklyn Dodgers' and won 270 games in a career! spanning from 1916-1934, lives Women Golfers Settle Title Fast MIRE CAREY and Jeanne Omelenchuk, two Detroit teachers, both swept their divisions in the senior classes.

Carey, 25, won the senior men's A crown HOLLYWOOD. Fla. t.fi Trenton, Mo. Tan air. WrvrwliirrtTt onrl 1-vtm with a perfect 35 points as he Ehret led way to defeal Won BU fOtMl ICKor, Whit.

oH Toronto had only a pair of long shots during the five; Hl'GGINS, a peppery. 5-foot, minutes. When the penalty end- 4-inch, 148-pound infielder with ed the crowd of 14.421, third Cincinnati and St. Louis in the i-jcn Ktni ci itij.il. onu u'ic Hall.

4 and 3, Sunday to win Mrs. Omelenchuk, former Olympic skater, largest at Olympia this National League between 190 the 19th annual women's international four-ball golf Turn to Page 2D, Col. 1 Turn to Tage 4D, Column Turn to Tage 4D, Column Hathaway trims the middle I r- sT lip- cw Hathaway trimmed several sloppy inches from the middle of the shirt to give it a neat tapered fit. No extra fabric no extra folds, just a smooth clean profile from shoulder to beltline. Men have so favored this slenderizing new line, that we show it in 4 handsome models.

The modified spread collar model with french or barrel cuffs, or the push-tab collar model with barrel cuffs in white broadcloth. And the button-down collar model with barrel cuffs in white oxford cloth. And we monogram them free. All styles B.95 MAIL PHONE ORDERS WO 5-7900 Add 4 Mich. Sales Tax Sorry, no C.O.D.'s on monogrammed items All 11 HHS STORES OPEN MONDAY TO 9 P.M.

Free Press Photo by FRED PLOFCHAN BIG M' SCORES AGAIN' Toronto star Frank Mahovlich (light, jersey) proved Sunday night that perseverance pays. The Ieaf winger rifled the puck at Detroit goalie Terry Sawchuk, but it was blocked by defenseman Marcel Pronovost (left). Mahovlich didn't stop there, however. He slammed the puck past Sawchuk as it bounced off Pronovost. SHELBY STATE MACK MOROSS WOODWARD AT MONTCALM II NORTHLAND EASTLAND GRAND RIVER GREENFIELD I WONDERLAND WESTBORN LINCOLN PARK I ARBORLAND PONTIAC MALL 1.

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