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.
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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
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Brooklyn. ;.S4
New York 60
St. Louis 58
Philadelphia 53
Chicago 51
Boston 41
Cincinnati 41
Pittsburgh 28
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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
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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
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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. Karl
Drews was the winning pitch
er, although he needed help
from Robin Roberts in the ninth.
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