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TWO MEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE (Sunday, August 3. 1952 U.S oraes Basketball Team Defeats Russians by 36-25 Score Helsinki (U.PJ The United States staged the greatest come back in the history of the Olympic games-Saturday when it charged from behind on the final day of ma joi competition to sew up the team championship which seemed hopelessly lost less than a week ago. Six days before the Russians lorded a whopping 120Vi point lead, but gradually the Yanks chiseled it down to 24 Vi points at the start of Saturday's competition. US Hoop Team Wins Then came the tingling do-or-die surge.. The U. S. basketball team wiggled out of a deep-freeze in the last three minutes to beat Russia, 36-25. Sun-bronzed little Ford Konno of Ohio State streaked to a record-smashing victory in the 1,500 meter swim ming race to edge the U. S. in front for the first time in the loth Olympiad. MEDF01 Tribune Woman Swimmer Double Winner And Patricia McCormick of Long Beach, Calif., became Uncle Sam's only double winner of 1952 when she headed a 1-2-3 sweep of the women's high dive. That clinched it. Russia was licked, even though U. S. boxers began whaling away at titles in the evening for a coup de grace. Five Yanks won boxing cham pionships to make the final count 610 to 553V2 with the closing ceremony scheduled today. Even under the Russian system of scoring, which gives seven in stead of 10 points for first place, the U. S. won. 493 to 484. The Yanks won 39 gold medals three more than any other time in history. FIvweight Nate Brooks of Cleveland, Light Welterweight Charles Adkins of San Jose State college. Middleweight Floyd Pat terson of Brooklyn, Light Heavy weight Norvel Lee of Washing ton and Heavyweight Eddie Sanders of Los Angeles won America's first Olympic boxing titles in two decades. There were other heroes be sides gold medal winners in to day's excrusiating climb up the point ladder. Other Heroes Bowen Stassforth of Iowa, the only American to make the finals of the 200-meter breaststroke, grabbed second place behind the record-smashing victory of Aus tralia's John Davis. Evelyn Kawamoto of Honolulu streaked to third and Carolyn Green of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., gi.'bbed fourth behind Hungary's Valeria Ovenee and Eva Novak in the rornrH.5mashine women's 400- meter freestyle race. Jim Mc Clane of Yale took fourth in the 1,500. And in a major surprise the U. S. three-day equestrian Jeam of Charles Hough of Holly wood. Calif., and John Wofford of Milford, Kan., took third place. Neither the Russians nor the Americans figured in this event but everyone, it seemed, wanted to get into the act. The Yanks whooped in tri umph, but at the Russian camp across town someone suddenly erased the figures off the score board as the U. S. surged in front. The names of the Russian medal winners were left on the board, however. It takes a step by step chron icle to capture the drama of the Yank comeback on this . mem orable day: U. S. Takes Third With Russia leading by 24V: points, the equestrian event fin ished first. The U. S. was an nounced as fourth place finisher in the- team competition to Sweden's first. Then a correc tion was made. The U. S. was third, and Russia led by only 20li points. The 200-meter freestyle was next. Australia's Davies streaked to victory in the new record time of 2 minutes 34.4 seconds, and Stassforth the only man from either the U. S. and Russia in the race pulled up second in 2:34.7. Both had to come from behind to pass world record holder Herbert Klein of . Ger many, who finished third. Russia now led by points. Basketball came next. The U.S. had beaten the Russians in the first round by a whop-; ping 86-58 score. But the Rus- sians played a smart deep freeze game Saturday. There was one six - minute stretch" without a point scored in the i first half. Only Bill Hough land's last - moment field goal : gave the Yanks a 17-15 half-: time lead. The second half was : more of the same but in the last ; three minutes a U.S. spurt by Clyde Lovelette and Bob Kur land won the game. Lovelette was high scorer with a mere : nine points; Kurland had eight. Russia got second place in the basketball tournament and so now led the U.S. 528V2 to 518 J only 101-t points differ-; ence. The gun cracked for the wo men's 400 meter swim race. The , two Hungarians pulled in front . with the Yanks right behind and at the finish Miss Gyenge set a new record of 5 minutes, 12.1 seconds with Miss Noay second, ' ex-record holder Miss Kawam- j oto third and Miss Green fourth. ! Scores Russia 528, U.S. 525. j United States Gets Ahead The 1,500 meter the met-' ric mile was next. Konno and j Shiro Hashizume of Japan were j in front after 50 meters. Hash-1; izume. edged in front at 250. He led at 350 T . . at 400 ... at 500 . .. . . at 800 at 1,100. But then Konno. started his kick. With 300 meters to go he pull ed even, and then shot ahead. He won over his v Japanese foes by 20 yards with McLane fourth. The score, was now U.S. 538, Russia, 'Russia 228V2 the first time in the' 1952 games! A reporter rushed up to tell Konno the news as he puffed out of the pool. 'Tickled to death to do it," he grinned. ''I had no idea we were that close." The women divers paraded onto the pool edge. Two dives were left to complete the ev ent and the U.S. had a 1-2-3 lead. Two Russians were in the last eight, ,also. Stately Miss McCormick, winner of the women's spring board title earlier in the week, whipped through two graceful glides to win with 79.37 points. Paula Myers, 17-year-old school girl from La Verne, Calif., was second with 71.63. June Irwin, 23-year-old Los Angeles house wife, was third with 70.49. Ev genika Bkgdanovskaja of Rus sia was sixth for one point. Score: U.S. 557, Russian 529. The U.S. had clinched it! BASEBALL FRIDAY'S SCORES American League St. Louis 2. New York 1 Cleveland 6. Philadelphia 3 (10 innings) Boston 3. Detroit 1 Washington 3. Chicago 1 National League - Chicago 6, Brooklyn 1 New York 7, Pittsburgh 3 St. Louis 10. Philadelphia 5 Cincinnati 2. Boston 1 Parific Coast League Portland .9. Seattle 8 San Francisco 8, Hollywood 2 - Oakland 1. Los Angeles 0 San Diego 6. Sacramento 0 Western International Wenatchee 10. Salem 3 Lewiston 7. Victoria 5 Spokane 9, Vancouver 7 Tri-City 6. Yakima 2 Sport Parade By OSCAR FRALEY United Press Sports Writer Helsinki (U.R) Fearless Fraley's facts and figures: Those Bikini, bathing suits which the ladies fall out of have nothing on the swim cos tumes of the Russians and French men competing in the Olympic swimming champion ships. Most of them wear two band aids hem-stitched over the Point Totals Listed as US Forges Ahead Helsinki (U.R) - The United States wound up the 1952 Olym pic games with two equestrian events to come on Sunday last night with 610 points against Russia's 553V2 to retain its un official team championship. Moreover it won the title on both the unofficial scoring sys tem and the Russian scoring system. Under the Russian plan which awards seven points for f;rst place instead of the gener ally accepted 10 the standing was the U. S. 493 Russia 484. Neither country had any hope of picking up any points in the final two equestrian events on Sunday anyway. It was still mathematically impossible for the Russians to catch up. Point totals included: United States, 610: Russia, 553V:; Hun gary. 298: Sweden, 276; Ger many, 165V2; Italy, 16214; Fin land, 159; France, 1424; Czech oslovakia, 113V2; Great Britain, 105: Switzerland, 92 V2; Aus tralia, 97; Japan, 71; South Af rica, 70; Denmark, oa; Argen tina, 55; Norway, 54; Holland: 44: Iran, 40; Jamaica, 39; Bel gium, 37; Turkey, 37; Ro mania, 31 34r Poland, 26; Bra zil, 24; Austria, 23; Egypt, IL Yugoslavia, 22; New Zealand, 19; Nndia, 17; Luxemburg, 17; K.0 rea, 16: Lebanon, 11; Mext co, 11; Portugal, 10. Ferris Fain Regains Lead In American Batting Race New York ' (U.R) Ferris Fain' of the Athletics replaced Gene Woodling as the American League's batting leader Satur day and Stan Musial of the Card inals opened up a 21-point ad vantage in the National League race as both sought to nail down their second consecutive batting titles. . Fain, who led the A. L. with a .344 mark last season, batted .387 during last week to lift his mark from .324 to .339. He leads Billy Goodman of the Red Sox by 10 points and third-place George Kell of Boston by 19. Musial, who led Toby Atwell of the Cubs by only five points a week ago, batted .406 during the week to soar from .324 to .332. Atwell, meanwhile, drop ped out of the top 10 because he has not batted 250 times. leaving WhLey Lockman of the Giants in second place with a .311 mark. Dee Fondy of the Cubs and Ted Kluszewski of the Reds were tied for third, each with .307 Bobby Shantz of the Athletics notched two victories without a loss during the week to hold his percentagewise pitching lead with a 19-3 mark good for .864. Vic , Raschi ranked second with a 12-2 record and Frank Shea was third with 9-3. In the Na tional League, Hoyt Wilhelm, rookie knuckleballer of the Gi ants, replaced Preacher Roe of the Dodgers as the percentage leader with an 8-2 record hips. A tatoo would be more concealing ... Not His Heart ' Maybe you saw the story this week that Emil Zatopek, the inhuman Czech . who scored a distance-triple in track and field, had heart trouble. T'ain't so. It all came about when a reporter asked 'Emil how he felt and the Czech replied: "I have angina and doctor ordered me to be careful" . . . Turns out he meant he had "laryngitis" . . The Russians tossed a private reception this week for heads of the international sports federa tions and they had to dig mighty deep to come up with some class . . . . They had beautiful din nerware and heavy silver all bearing the crest of the czars . . . Old Fearless has a lot of friends in Mexico and I happen ed to ask one of them how he thought his team would do in a certain sport. ' "We win, I think," he re plied. They lost. My friend hur ried around and pleaded: It's Murder "Don't say I said we would win. In the United States you say you win and nobody does anything. In Mexico, you say you win and you don't and they murder you." But the Olympic gold medal for dramatic impetuosity goes without doubt to the Uruguay ans. They could fill Madison Square Garden twice a week, on a basketball night and a fight night. In Friday's basketball consola tion game one Uruguayan "fainted" twice. They also have a new wrinkle on freezing the ball. One Uruaguayan with one eye on the clock, swooned dead away with the ball clutched to his chest. Even "the ref grinned as he ordered him "up" . . . But it was a performance worthy of Oscar's Olympic Oscar . . . Some Breakfast After three weeks of misery in the morning, I've got my breakfast waiter straightened out. It developed that the Fin nish waiter's guide printed a di rective which said that an Am erican's favorite breakfast con sisted of: "Herring, anchovies, sausage, reindeer meat, cucum bers, potato salad with o i 1 sauce, hamburgers, pickles and coffee." . . . Must have been written by a Russian. Katalin Szoe, the beautiful 17-year-old Hungarian who won the 100-meter free style, always wears her father's old water polo cap as a good luck charm. She was paddling about the Olympic pool with the hat on when one of the Hungarian water polo players made a pratice tackle on what he thought was anoth er teammate. He says that the slap was worth it . . . But my favorite story of the Olympic games concerns a Ger man sportswriter who was a member of the Afrika Korps during World War II. He has his plans . all made if there is a third- time. "The first thing I do,"- he in sists, "is become an American prisoner of war." Single Title Set in State Bush Leagues Portland (U.R) An agree ment was reached Saturday be tween National . and American baseball congresses to have their state "bush league" champions play for a single Oregon state diamond title. Nick Sckavone and Carl Hande Jr., commissioners of the ABC and NBC respectively, said they had agreed on a two-out-of-three game series between Sil verton, winner Thursday night of the NBS state semi - pro tournament, with the winner of the ABC tourney. First game will be played at Silverton's McGinnis field, the second at Westmoreland park' in Portland and the thjrd, if nec essary, at a site to be determined later . , " The ABC tourney is slated to be completed August 30 with Drain of the Southwestern Ore gon league as favorite. The Drain club, headed by ex-Portland Beaver hurler Roy Helser, holds victories over both Ore gon City and Archer Blower and Pipe of Portland, the one-two teams in the City league. Standings NATIONAL LEAGl'E W Brooklyn. ;.S4 New York 60 St. Louis 58 Philadelphia 53 Chicago 51 Boston 41 Cincinnati 41 Pittsburgh 28 4": 9',: L Pet. GB 30 -..81 35 .632 43 .574 47 .530 14 48 .515 15"i 57 .418 25 60 .406 26 i 76 .276 41 AMERICAN LEAGUE W New York 59 Cleveland 57 Boston 55 44 Washington 54 Philadelphia 49 Chicago 53 St. Louis 43 Detroit 35 L Pet. GB 43 .578 45 .559 556 47 .535 47 .510 51 .510 61 .413 17 67 .343 24 2 2,i 4 7 7 Idaho's first permanent irriga tion system was a canal four miles long, built by Mormon pioneers at Franklin. Hastings, Neb. (U.R) Tt took the Army to introduce two Hastings men who had lived for years within a few blocks of one another but never met. Cpl. Duane L. Petersen and Cpl. Wil lard D. Classen wound up under the same roof, serving with the 28th Infantry Division, Ulm, Germany. AND A RHUBAR3 ENSUED Umpire John Stevens rules interfer ence and allows Tiger Steve Souchock (12) to score after Phila delphia A's catcher. Joe Astroth bumped him on a rundown between third and home in the fifth inning of thee game in Detroit. A hot dispute followed the decision. Other Philadelphia players are Ferris Fain (8) and Pete Suder (12,.foreground). Athletics won, 2-1. Homer Gives Win to Giants Before Downpour Ends Game worn 00001323 FOR ONLY 1' ' New York (U.R) Rookie Jim Rhodes' dramatic, two - run homer in the sixth inning only moments before the game was halted by a downpour en abled the New York Giants to beat the Pittsburgh Pirates, 4-3, Saturday and reduce the Brook lyn Dodger's first- place lead to 4 games. Rhodes, who has hit eight homers in the 11 games he has played at the Polo grounds, de livered the game - winning blow off Murry Dickson with two out and Alvin Dark, who doubled, on base. Dickson delivered one more pitch to Don Mueller and then the rain came. The Dodgers, meanwhile, re ceived a reprieve from the rain which washed their game with the Chicago Cubs off the books. The Cubs were leading 4-0, aft er four innings when play was halted. Cub Manager Phil Cav arretta and Dodger Second- tsaseman jacKie . KObinson en livened the contest with an argu ment which almost brought both to blows. The Cincinnati Reds defeated the Boston Braves, 8-3, in the other National league game play ed this afternoon. In the Ameri can league, the St. Louis Browns walloped the New York Yankees 11-6, the Philadelphia A's beat the Cleveland Indians, 6-4, the Chicago White Sox routed the Washington Senators, 6-1, and the Boston Red Sox overpower ed the Detroit Tigers, 10-5. As a. result, the Indians still trailed the first - place Yankees by tfoo games but led the third - place Red Sox by only a half game. Connie Ryan's grand- slam homer in the eighth inning car ried the Phillies to a 6 to 2 vic tory over the Cardinals in the major league's only night action. Ryan's blast, came off Veteran Brazle, who relieved Cardinal Started Gerry Staley. 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