Thursday, October 17, 1968 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Nine Thursday, Oct5ber 17, 1968 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Pae in I- Triumphant Blacks protest inequality By The Associated Press MEXICO CITY - Tommie Smith, shrugging off an agonizing muscle pull in the 200-meter dash, and Bob Seagren, confidently passing up some of his turns in the pole vault, shattered records last night in bringing the United States its fifth and sixth gold medals of the Olympic Games. Smith, who pulled'up lame after winning his semi-final heat just two hours t earlier and was a doubtful starter until moments be- fore the final, hit the tape two meters ahead of goateed John Carlos, his San Jose State Col- lege teammate, and fast-closing Peter Norman of Australia. After collecting the gold and bronze medals respectively, Smith 0. and Carlos then leveled a bitter racial blast at the white social structure. Theyeame out for the victory celebration wearing one pair of black goves between them, Smith on his right hand and Carlos on his left. They held their hands high during the playing of the National Anthem with fists clenched. TheY said the reason they wore only one glove each was that they could get only one pair of black ones, which they shared.' They wore knee-length , black stockings as an added gesture of protest against treatment of the Negroes in the United States and green and white buttons which said "Olympic Project for Civil Rghts." They also got the silver medal winner, Peter Norman of Australia, to wear a similar button on the victory stand. Carlos was asked why all the Negroes were not following t h e same procedure. "Each will protest in his own way," Carlos said. Explaining their demonstration on the victory stand, they said the reason was to show the solidarity of black America. Carlos said when he and Smith mounted the victory stand he heard applause from the crowd of about 60,000, but also,heard a lot of boos and saw people gesturing with thumbs down, like a crowd at a bullfight. "They look upon us as nothing but animals - low animals, roach- es and ants," Carlos said.. "We are sort of showhorses out there for the white people. They f -Associated Press TOMMIE SMITH of the United States throws up his arms as he won the 200-meter sprint in the Olympic Games yesterday. Smith set an Olympic record with a 20.1 clocking during his semi-final heat, but limped off the track with what doctors diagnosed as a pulled muscle in the right .leg. Despite the injury, Smith was able to run in the finals. Teammate John Carlos (259) finished third in the contest. daily sports NIGHT EDITOR: ROBIN WRIGHT Young of Casa Grande, Ariz., was third. It is one of the closest of long distance races. The three medal winners and Kerry O'Brien of Adstralia were almost even as they came to the final hurdle at the head of the stretch. 460-METER DASH In women's events, Colette Bes- son, a petite French brunette, won the women's 400-meter dash, equaling the Olympic mark, or 52 second. Giuseppe Gentile, a law student from Rome, set a world record in qualifying for the triple jump final, and Hungarian hammer thrower Gyula Zsivotsky matched the Olympic mark in other pre- liminary as Europeans rose up to challenge the favored U.S. track and field forces through the fourth day of competition. But the Americans continued to hold their own on the synthetic running track in the 11/2-mile- high Mexican capitol. Willie Davenoport; Erv Hall sand Leon Coleman won qualifying heats in the 110-meter hurdles and Lee Evans sprinted to a deci- sive victory in the opening 400- meter trial, breezing into the sec- ond round with teammates Larry James and Ron Freeman. TODAY'S EVENTS The United States send its great, talent-deep band of swimmers and divers into Olympic action today with every expectation of collect- ing the first two gold medals in world record fashion. S COR ES NBA Yesterday's Results Uncle Sam's speed marvels are odds-on favorites to capture both of the relays in the afternoon and' to win at least 23 of the 33 gold medals over-all. The U.S.A. holds the world rec- ords in 10 of the men's swimming events, in nine of the women's swims and has the world's fastest current 100-meter fieestyler in Sue Pedersen. Don Schollander. the golden boy of the 1964 Olympics with four gold medals, will swim with the United States reserve 400-meter freestyle relay quartet.I Schollander, of Jacksonville. Fla., won the 100 meter freestyle gold medal and was a member of the record-breaking 400-meter freestyle relay team in 1964. He also won a gold medal in the 400 freestyle and another as a member of the 800-meter freestyle relay team., This year. he finished fifth in the 100 of the Olympic trials and thus lost a place on the 400-relay. team. He will swim in the 200- freestyle and 800-meter free-style relay and is expected to win the golds in both. CIVIL ENGINEERS WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT OF H IGHWAYS Highway engineering is a re- wording career and the State of Washington is an exciting place to work and live. Every phase of highway civil engineering is employed in the Washington Highway Department. Representatives from the Wash- ington Department of Highways will be on the University of Mi- chigan campus, Thursday, Octo- ber 24, 1968 interviewing civil engineers. Interested students please sign up for an interview at your campus engineering placement office. I GO GO BAHAMAS 8 FABULOUS DAYS 7 GLORIOUS NIGHTS $17900. Dec. 27th-Jan, 3rd INCLUDES: " Round trip jet air fare * 7 Nights accommoda- tions at the famous Freeport Inn * 7 Great happy hours PLUS, PLUS, PLUS $50 Holds Your Reservations CALL: Your Campus Representative DICK RINI, 769-0226 or STUDENTOURS, 886-0844 give us peanuts, pat us on the back and say 'Well, boy, you did fine.'" Then Carlos, his eyes glistening, added: "I want you to print this and print it right. If white people don't care to see black men perform they should not come out to the stadium." . He said the reason for wearing the black gloves was to demon- strate their point for both the whites and blacks back in the United States. ' "The reason for the closed fist," he said, "was to show that black men in America are united. We are gradually - no I mean rap- idly - getting closer together." . In the middle of the press inter- view after the awards ceremony, Carlos took the bronze medal from around his neck and passed it on to his wife standing in the back- ground. "This is yours," the black athlete said. "I do not want it." Then Carlos told the newsmen he never again would attend the Olympics games unless he paid his own way there. This represented a' virtual announced boycott of the 197 Games in Munich, Germany. Carlos did most of the speaking but Smith, from Lemoore, Calif., nodded his head in agreement. In other action, several Olympic standards fell yesterday with re- cord-happy athletes ripping through qualifying and final field events. POLE VAULTINGj The pole vaulting competition was one of the most dramatic in Olympic history, with an unpre- cedented five vaulters still in con- rention at three-quarters of an inch higher than the accepted world mark. But Bob Seagren of Los Angeles won the gold medal on a technical decision after Claus Schiprowski of West Germany and Wolfgang Nordwig of East Germany cleared the world record height of 17 feet, 8% inches. The places of the three were determined on misses on the way up. Nordwig had, two at the pre- vious height of . 17-8 and was placed third. Seagren and Schip- rowski each had one miss at 17-81.2 However, at 17-61, Schiprowski had one miss and Seagren passed it up, which is counted as a sue- cess for him. This gave Seagren first, Schi-I prowski second, and Nordwig third. Never have three men vaulted so high in one competition. All three exceeded the accepted world rec- ord of 17-71%. However, Seagren has a pending mark of 17-9. Nordwig again failed narrowly on his third'and last attempt, and then Seagren took the spotlight. He was given a big cheer when he went to the head of the run- way, but he kicked off the bar on his way up. Schiprowski also miss- ed, and the competition finally had ended-after nearly 6% hours -with Seagren declared the win- ner. JAVELIN THROW Janis Lusis of Russia captured the gold medal in the javelin throw with an Olympic record toss of 295 feet, 7 inches. 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