Friday, October 25, 1968 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Pnnp Ffavan Fridy, ctoer 2, 168 HE MCHIAN AIL rage ieve I'1 .Ca Robie captures Schollander loses 200-meter freestyle; .Debbie Meyers clinches third gold medal Olympic 200 -meter butterfl Japanese gymnasts defeat Russian team with near perfect individual performance By The Associated Press MEXICO CITY-Carl Roble, the captain of Michigan's swimming team in 1967, scored a major up- set last night and won the Olym- pic gold medal in the men's 200- meter butterfly. Currently a sophomore at Dick- inson Law School, Robie swept to an early lead and then turned back' a challenge by Great Bri- tai's Martyn Woodroffe for the win. John Ferris of Sacramento, Calif., was third while Mark Spitz, the sensational California high school, senior, faded early and was never in contention. In other swimming events, plucky Debbie Meyer sped to a 'runaway victory in the women's 800-meter freestyle, becoming the first triple gold medal winner at the Olympic Games, but Yale flash Don Schollander was an upset victim as the powerhouse U.S. swim team won two of four finals. Robie was the silver medalist in the 200-butterfly at Tokyo in 1964, as he was beaten by Australian Kevin Berry. Berry, who went to Indiana University, never succeed- ed in defeating Robie again. At Michigan, Robie's perform- ances were impressive enough to place him in the category as the Wolverines greatest swimmer of all time. Coming back from the Olympics for his sophomore year, the Pennsylvanian won the Na- tional Collegiate 400-yard indi- vidual medley in 1965, and was second in the 1650-yard freestyle and 200-yard butterfly. In 1966, Robie won the 200-yard butterfly in the NCAA's while placing fourth in the 1650-free- 'style and seventh in the 500-free- style. And in 1967, after winning Big Ten championships in three events, he again won the 200-yard butterfly in the NCAA's, while placing third in the 500-freestyle and fourth in the 1650-freestyle. MEETS SPITZ Late in his college career, Roble was considered easily the best in the world at the 200-butterfly un- til he ran into Spitz in the 1967 National AAU meet. Spitz, then merely, a sophomore in high school, clobbered the Michigan star. daily sports, NIGHT EDITOR: JIM FORRESTER In the Olympic qualifications this past summer, Robie, who had lost much valuable training time while attending law school, was barely able to scramble to third place, the lowest position on the Olympic squad. At X23, Robie went to the Olym- pics as the oldest member of the men's swimming team. FIGHTS ILLNESS; Miss Meyer, the 14-year-old freestyle marvel from Sacramento, Calif., who shook off strength-sap-, ping stomach, ailments earlier in the week, added the 800-meter MEXICO CITY (M9--Defending champion Japan uncorked a blazing finish, led by remarkable Sawee Kato, to easily defeat a formidable Soviet Union squad and capture the team gold medal in Olympic men's gymnastics last night. Kato won the individual around gold medal. Mikhail ronin of Russia was second Japan's Akinori Nakayama third. all- Vo- and was CARL ROBIE, Michigan alumnus, displays perfect form in his specialty, the butterfly. fA silver medalist in 1964, the former Wolverine swim captain won the gold last night in Mexico City. crown to her 200 and 400 gold hauls with a 20-yard triumph over teammate Pam Kruse. In winning the 800, a new event on the Olympic program, as was the 200, the blonde became the first women swimmer in the his- tory of the Games to capture three individual golds. Miss Meyer completed her triple Oh Mama! Libels 18, Muggers 6 By ERNIE HORSE The Daily Libels rolled to an easy 18-6 victory over the ill-fated UAC Muggers late this afternoon, rallying behind Field Captain Loathsome Landsman's unbeliev- able blocking. A capacity crowd of 36 packed Wines Field to watch the debacle V but only a few i'emained to see the inevitable finish. The only ripple of excitement occurred when UAC Captain Dan McCreep scored late in the first quarter to tie the score 6-6 while the Libels practiced a song and dance act on the sidelines. McCreep astounded the fans by carrying the ball an incredible 12 yards without dropping it or fall- ing down. "It was then I decided we should keep some guys on the field all the time," commented Coach Clar- ence "Biggie" Copi. Copi told The Daily he was forc- ed to stop using the unstoppable straight I formhation early in the second quarter when the fourth string Libel offense found it im- possible to stop scoring after run- ning the tally up to the final 18- 6. "I even fumbled on purpose," noted Ace Quarterback Jellybean Neubacher, "but they just wouldn't recover it." The Libel scores all came on fumbles recovered in the UAC end zone. Contacted after the game, Mc- Creep told The Daily, "We deserv- ed to lose. We stink. I don't know what ever prevailed on us to challenge you guys in the, first' place. Maybe we're stupid."I The Amazin' Libels gave an ex-. hibition of their grid prowess to the fans late in the first half when it became apparent that neither side would score again. Copi sent the" entire first string out for the first time in the game with instructions to go as far as possible without running up the score. Their self-restraint was unbe- lievable. The team took the ball on their own 5 yard line and ran a scat- back option tackle eligible power; sweep left up the middle off the straight I. Jellybean took t h e handoff from Mad Mountain Tnerko and fired a bomb into the waiting arms of "White" Levis, killing him instantly. He then ran around left end and lat- eraled back to Frenchie LaBour, who re-centered the pigskin back to Loathsome. By this time the Mugger defense had lost all track of the ball, and Loathsome walk- ed down to the Mugger one yard line, where he sat down. The Libels then astounded the fans by repeating the same play as a double reverse going in the wrong direction, winding up back on their own five where they be- gan as the half ended. In the second half the Libels enjoyed a quiet game of bridge in their own end zone, sending the dummy out to stop any of Mc- Creep's runs as they materialized., Split End Gromper Gray en- joyed a fine rubber in the first. round, bidding and making tw w small slams to take the prize by 1800 points. By the last quarter, however, he had joined most of his teammates at the Brown Jug for Coke and Fritoes. crf arf LIBELS MUGS with a clocking of 9 minutes, 24.0 seconds-a record for the first- time Olympic race. She spurted to an early lead and drew further away from the field on each lap of the 50-meter pool. Ada Kek, 6-foot daughter of an Amsterdam milkman, broke the American string in the women's 200 :butterfly and. young Mike Wenden of Australia beat off Don Schollander's late challenge to win the men's 200 freestyle in an Olympic record time of 1:55.2. WENDEN WINS Wenden got off to a fast start and had a lead of one meter after 100 yards, but Schollander-swim- ming hero of the 1964 Games- pulled almost even going into the final 30 meters. Then Wenden uncorked a fin- ishing burst that gave the 18- year-old Aussie his second gold medal. He won the gold in the 100 meter freestyle earlier in the week. Schollander was timed in 1:55.8, and John Nelson of Pompane Beach, Fla., took third and the bronze medal at 1:58.1. The two conquests spelled the U.S. medal splash to a record 18 gold, 12 silver and 17 bronze in 26 swimming and diving finals. The 18 golds are two more than, the previous high grabbed off by the Americans at Tokyo four years ago. The Japanese, who also bested Russia at Tokyo in the 1964 Games, thrilled a capacity crowd at the Mexican National Audi- torium with a series of sensational performances in the closing op- tional round of six events. East Germany won the team bronze medal. Kato provided the sensation of Swede loses, on results of alcohol tests MEXICO CITY VP), - Sweden was stripped of its bronze medal in the Olympic Games team pen- tathlon event yesterday night be- cause one member was alleged to have exceeded his alcohol intake before the shooting event. Sven Thofelt, Swedish president of modern penththlon Interna- tional Federation, said: "Sweden's bronze medal has been taken away from the t e a m because one member failed the al- cohol test - the only alcohol test as far as I know in the Olympics." Alcohol tests do not apply in most events in the Olympics but were introduced to the shooting portion of the modern pentathlon at the urging of the Swedes in 1965. Competitors in the modern pen- tathlon are allowed only the equi- valent of a whisky or a couple of beers before the shooting takes place.t The modern pentathlon gold medal was won last Friday. So were the silver and bronze. Several people have left for home since that date and that's the reason it has taken so long for the whole complicated busi- ness to be worked out. 'Therfelt said the Swedish pen- tathlon athlete involved was Hans Gunnar Liljenvall, a 27-year-old teacher. the evening by scoring 9.90 points, nearly perfect, in the closing floor exercise event, which won him the gold medal. Japan's superbly. balanced team outscored the Russians in all ex- cept one of the six events to pile up 576.00 points for both Thurs- day night's optional and Tuesday's compulsory rounds. The Soviet Union had 571.10 points. The Russians trailed at the halfway mark only 286.40 to 285.15, but the Japanese raised their sec- ond round marks to almost a five point margin Veronin is the husband of Zi- naida Vernin of the Soviet Union who won. the woman's all-around silver medal Wednesday night. In the next-to-last event for Russia, the floor exercise, Voro- nin's score of 9.70 was loudly boed by the crowd, which thought his performance was not that good. On the other hand, when Kato scored his 9.90 tally-10 points is perfect-the crowd chanted wild- ly; "Kato, Kato, Kato" even be- fore the score was flashed on the board. BOXING SEMIS. Featherweight Albert Robinson of Oakland reached the finals of the Olympic boxing tournament yesterday but three other Amer- icans were beaten in semifinal bouts.' Jimmy Wallington of Ft. Bragg, N.C, dropped a close semifinal W L Boston 3 0 xBaltimore 3 1 Cincinnati 3 1 Philadelphia 2 1 xNew York 2 2 Detroit 1 3 Milwaukee o3 western Division xSan Diego 2 1 San Francisco 2 1 Atlanta 2 1 Chicago1 2 2 xphoenix 1 2 Los Angeles 1 :3 Seattle 1 4 x-Late games not Included. is II NBA Standings Eastern Division Yesterday's Results New York at Phoenix, Inc. Baltimore at San Diego, inc. Only games scheduled. Today's Games Atlanta at Seattle Philadelphia at Detroit Baltimore at Los Angeles Only games scheduled. I decision in the light welterweight class, John Baldwin of Detroit was beaten in a light middle- weight bout and Harlan Marbly of Washington lost hi's light fly- jweight fight Over-all, American athletes have taken 88 medals, including 37 gold. Runner-up Russia, with 16 first prizes-one Thursday-among its total of 52, has no hope of over- taking the U.S. despite an expect- ed coup in gymnastics during the last three days of the Games. Pet. 1.000 .750 .750 .667 .500 .333 .000 .667 .667 .667 .500 .333 .250 .200 GS 2 x 1Y 1x x Only games scheduled. Seeg PULVERIZE TRIANGLE inL annual T-BOWL' FOOTBALL GAME I NHL Standings 1 East Division W L T Pts. GF GA GOODNESS POINTS TEAM SPIRIT, CHEERLEADERS CANES. 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