Page Eight THE MICHIGAN DAILY Saturday, October 12, 1968 Page Eight THE MICHIGAN DAILY Saturday, Oct0ber 12, 1968 Olympi MEXICO CITY- The tense, troubled, turmoil-beset Games of the 19th Olympiad officially opensi today in the resplendent 80,000r capacity Olympis Stadium close by the University of Mexico, focus of recent student strife. As. the time draws nears for the man-to-man competition to start,j and the argument to -subside, in- terests focuses on what the two super powers of athletics will do. The main question is whether the United States will dominate; track 'and swimming as it has done almost from the very start ofI the Games?-or if Russia will winI ans light their fire in Mexico today Aga inst 7The kwall more medals overall d in gymnastics, rowing ing and other sport minor by Americans. The answer to th that American don track and swimming most overwhelming y the first time since th in Helsinki, the Up might outscore Russia U.S. FAVORED In fact, the Ge: agency, SID, predict will outscore Russia gold medals and tha total 172 gold, 172 ue to prowess bronze medals up for grabs, the take the sex tests then they might ~, weight lift-. United States will get 51-38-36 for be excluded from the Mexico s considered a total of 125 and Russia will win Games opening toda'. 32-49-23 for 104. Prince Alexandre (re Merode of The New York Times foresaw 24 Belgium, the head of the IOC e question is golds, 10 silvers, and seven bronzes medical committee sid: nination in in men's track for the United "The Internationa 1 Swimming may be the States and 11-9-7 in men's swim- Federation has not et agreed to et. And, for ming with 12-11-7 in women's tests on their girls. e 1952 games swimming. Sports Illustrated look- "But I am meeting the Federa- nited States ed for 15-8 3 in men's track and tion doctor later today. I am very a over-all. 12-8-9 in mens swimming and hopeful that everything will be 14-9-11 in women's swimming. solved in a friendly way. rman sports Another big question concerns "But I must point out that in a: s the U.S.A. the sexuality of the athletes. the entries for the athletes for the 51 to 32 in An official of the Intetnational Games a document was signed t out of the Olympic Committee said yesterday saying that the National Olympic silver, 183 that if some girl swimmers do not Committees. The International Federations and the girls involved & would take the test. Female athletes in Olympic Vil- lage reacted with more bemuse- ment than chagrin Friday at or- ders from the International Olym- pic Committee that they would have to take sex tests before being your1mark allowed to compete in the Games--- starting Saturday. *- Mrs. Harold Connally of Culver I CL 1 3 City, Calif., the former Olga Fika- tova of Czechoslovakia who mar- ,s" erafter the Melbourne Olympics n ed the Ameria hamrn th ox or berth on i in 1956, said she jested with doc-z tors duiing the test By The Associated Press "I told them if I passed I would NEW YORK - Detroit's Denny become a sex bomb," the pyetty McLain, first pitcher to win 30 or discus thrower said. "If I failed more games in 34 years, edged Bob to pass, then I would make Harold Gibson of St. Louis in the voting have ou fifth baby. The doctors for the Associated Press' major didn't think it was funny." league all-star team. MeLain received 112 votes to 100 for the Cardinals' brilliant BufS IT fshutout ace in the voting for the r '. team's right-handed pitcher. McLain was the first pitcher to excede Lefty Grove's pitching rec- ord set in 1931. McLain's 31-6 rec- ord earned him enough support to make the team, in spite of two $.0 sports writers and sportcasters, a. ssfied+ T while Smith succeeded Boston's < ?' Dick Williams in the AL. A The Minnesota Twins named ! by Jim Forrester -Associated Press k, get set * * * es Gibson A li-Stars The draught ends: A Titger fan walks proud "When the hurly burley's gone and done." Somebody said this somewhere, sometime. Now its the day after and the Tiger victory in the World Series can be put into its proper perspective. THIS IS THE GREATEST THING TO HAPPEN IN THE EN- TIRE WORLD EVER. As far as I'm concerned this is the first time the Tigers have won a pennant and a World Championship. The last time the Bengals won a flag I was just an idea my parents had. For the nearly twenty one years of my life the Tigers have been ' losers. Along with nearly every other pro sports team in Detroit, the Tigers have made the existence of the fans unbearable. Until now. Some joker who lived down the hall from me last year was from Boston and the year before that my roommate was from St. Louis. A truly miserable existence. My head hung in the deaths of dejection. Now I walk with my head in the clouds. The fellow from Boston can cry about the poor finish of the Red Sox, when ever that was (When you're in first place for most of the season, the position of the teams behind you seems to get shuffled.) My old roommate from St. Louis can cry in his beer, because that's all the Gateway to the West has left that's worth a damn. The Tigers took it all, the whole works. All the years of frus- tration and pain are left behind. Like 1961. The team won 101 times and finished eight games out of first. Like 1966, when they finished third. Like last year, when they lost the pennant on the last day of the season. I feel so good! The difference between the Tigers of this year and any other year is the fact that they won baseball games. And not just any baseball games. They won the games they had to win against the teams they 4 had to beat. First they wiped out Cleveland. The Tigers had an odd five game series with the terrors of Lake Erie. The Indians were 8% games out of first place and figured a sweep would crack the Bengals and put them in a position to move into first. They won the first three games and the entire town of Cleveland went nuts. But the Tigers managed a 2-1 squeaker in the second game of the Sunday double-header. Then came the odd Monday game. Denny McLain pitched and the Tigers hit, and hit and hit. When the dust finally settled, the In- dians found themselves buried 14-3. The next bunch to go was the Red Sox. In late August the Bean- towners came to Tiger Stadium for four games on the weekend. The teams split the first two games and met on Sunday for a twin bill. Boston gained a quick lead in the first game, but saw it disintegrate until the contest went into extra innings. In the bottom of the 14th inning, Gates Brown came off the bench to hit a home run for the victory. In the second game Boston took a three run lead into the bottom of the 9th only to see the Tigers score four, with Gates Brown hitting a single to drive in the winning run. Boston was dead. Baltimore hung in the longest but were 8% games behind when 4 they came to Detroit for the second to last encounter between the two clubs. Each team gained a victory in the first two meetings of the three game series. Denny McLain took the mound in the third game and wasn't sharp. The Tigers were not hitting. Sloppy pitching put two birds on in an'early inning. Nobody out. Then the game turned around. The Tigers pulled a triple play. The Tigers won the game and finished off the last threat to their winning the pennant. From there it was all down hill. Well, not quite. In the Series the Tigers committed eleven errors and had a few problems with a couple of fellows by the name of Brock and Gibson. But Bill Freehan finally threw out Brock stealing and Willie Horton cut him down later in the same game attempting to score. These two plays turned the Series around as the Tigers won the fifth game with their backs to the wall. It could have ended Wednesday last but the Tigers would not die and mashed the Cards 13-1. The Series did end Thursday - for the Cards. Mickey Lolich wn his third game and that terror of terrors, Bob Gibson, lost his first and with it the Series. How can I describe the great joy coursing through my veins? I can yell and scream, that's how. And yelling and screaming (and getting a bit drunk) is how Detroit did it. 50,000 fans showed up at Metro Airport to welcome the Tigers home and weren't even mad when they did not show. All they wanted to do was shout and dance some more. As fans, we did a lot for the Tigers. More than two million of us paid to see a potential World Championship team in action. But the Tigers did a lot more for us. Never in all my life have I seen the old Motor City so close. Black and white together celebrated the victory. Only the Tigers could, at this time, give the city a. single identity. You wern't suburbanite or an inner city dweller. You were a Detroiter. THIS IS THE GREATEST THING TO HAPPEN IN THE EN- TIRE WORLD EVER. MAYO SMITH Billy Martin as its 1969 manager yesterday. and gave him the job of improving a seventh-place fin- ish in the American League. Martin replaces Cal Ermer, who was fired after the 1968 seson ended with the Twins 24 games behind the pennant winning De- troit Tigers. 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