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He’d test it on high speeds on the curves, then coast to the finish. He’d make sure he was behind down the final stretch, turn it on for 50 meters, then shut it down again. Finally, on Monday night, he had his foot to the floor. As usual, he left the field far be hind on the third 100 meters, his arms churning, the gold chain around his neck beating against his chest, his torso almost perfect ly upright in a style reminiscent of Jesse Owens. Roger Black of Britain was a dis tant second. “To beat Michael I have to run a perfect race and he has to make a mistake,” Black said. “And Michael doesn’t make mistakes. At least I’ve never seen him do it. ” Tens of thousands of flash bulbs went off in the stands as Johnson stretched the lead to at least 10 meters at the finish. His time was 43.49 seconds, an Olympic record, but short of Butch Reynolds’ world record of43.29. “I just gave it all I had coming home and it worked out as far as winning the race, but as far as breaking the world record, it just wasn’t there today,” Johnson said. It was his 55th victory in a row in the 400. He hasn’t been beaten since Feb. 24,1989. Now it’s on to the 200, where it should be a lot tougher. Waiting will be Frankie Fredericks, who beat Johnson last month. “I have to hold back in the 400. But now I’ll be able to do a lot of what comes natural to me, and that is to sprint and just go all out,” he said. Johnson wore a T-shirt that said “Danger Zone” to the post-race in terview room. ‘ ‘That’s the mind set I’m in right now,” he said. “I definitely have to have that now. The 200 is a completely different race. It’s more aggressive. Guys are already talking about what they’re going to do to me, thinking that I’m go ing to be easier to beat because I ran the 400. That’s a big mistake. ” Trade: Vizcaino, Kent glad to be going to AL pennant contender ■ Continued from Page 6 the youthful Mets. “Baerga will step right into the middle- of our lineup and bring something that we lack — leader ship. This makes us a better team right now,” he said. Vizcaino and Kent, both 28, said the trade moves them from a team well out of the playoff pic ture to one expected to repeat as AL champions. “Jose and I have proved that we were the best double play combi nation,” said Kent. "We can do the same thing for the Indians this year and help them go to the World Series. That’s the goal of every player.” Vizcaino is expected to move into Baerga’s spot at second base. “The last couple of years I proved that I’m a day-to-day play er,” he said. “Jeff and I will help them in the world series and in the future.” Vizcaino, moved from short stop to second base this season so the Mets could play rookie sensa tion Rey Ordonez every day, has responded with his best season. He’s hitting .303 with six triples, one home run and 32 RBI. Baerga and Vizcaino are both under contract through next sea son. Kent will be eligible for arbi tration after this season, and Es pinoza’s contract runs out at the conclusion of the 1996 season. Baseball: Ems feel bad breaks in loss ■ Continued from Page 6 hitting streaks of some Eugene bat ters, including catcher Dax Norris whose 10-game streak appeared safe, momentarily, when in the first inning he smacked a ball to deep left that was run down on the warning track. “I thought that ball had a least a chance to get off the wall,” said an exhausted Norris. “It was just one of those nights that everything they hit was a base hit and every thing we hit got caught. ” Norris, who has been battling the flu for the last few days, took a pitch off the knee early in the game that was causing him to limp his way into the locker room after the game. “I feel all right, it’s the life of catcher,” claimed Norris. “We got our butts kicked tonight. We gotta regroup. 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