Wednesday, July 12, 1972 Wednesday, July 12, 1972 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Eleven THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Eleven GAME ONE ADJOURNED: Masters start chess match Pawn to queen's knight-four Sports of The Daily I I Detroit's U.S. Olympics @00. ...passing the buck By DAN BORUS THE UNITED STATES Olympic team has been chosen after some grueling and surprising trials at Eugene, Oregon and some amazing stories in human courage have emerged from the week long event. Jim Ryun's comeback from the depths of middle distance running is indeed a tribute to the fortitude of the man. Iris Davis's fight with a nagging back injury that allowed her no movement is, as well, a monument to a woman's desire to run. But what is not being reported from Eugene and what is being hidden in press releases and ad campaigns is the shabby treatment that American athletes are receiving from the land they are representing. What is being discused here is not so much the racial injustices that Smith and Carlos thrust for- ward with black gloves and power salutes, but starving and lack of a real sleeping quarters. Athletes who participated at the Eugene fete did not have subsidies for transportation, room or board. This money must have been shelled out by the athletes themselves or ese:they would not have had a chance to participate in the Orpnpics. McDonald's hamburgers are not the stuff champ- iong'are made from. Track and field is not the big business for its stars the way big time football it. Although as much innate ability is required for excelling in the Olympics, Americans have instead heaped praise and glory on overbound muscle men and become outraged when the United States fails to wow 'em at the four year event. Americans, who never even heard of Randy Matson; are angered when America fails to earn some gold in an event, yet they eschew all sorts of responsibility in the funding of the team and refuse to become involved in the sport until pushed by ridiculous appeals. Track and the people who participate in the sport are a small and rare breed. Under the guise of amateurism, they have been forced into a position of neo-poverty in order to participate in the sport to which they are dearly addicted. The U.S. Olympic Committee which controls the regulations under which the athletes must compete is under some stodgy and misguided leadership. Refusing any sort of government help, the Committee has banished its athletes into a wandering band of nomads, roughly equivalent to serfs. Take for instance the brouhaha over Puma and Addidas. The manufacturing of track shoes were giving small fees to athletes to brandish their wares. One resourceful sprinter decked himself out with a Puma on his right and an Addidas on his left. However the public may be getting the wrong impression. Big time kickbacks in track are non-existent; unless of course you are a U.S. Olympic official. The Committee, stocked with some of the bigger names in sporting equipment business, is worth in an excess of eight to ten million dollars, plus a couple million in stocks and bonds. The commitee's top man Clifford H. Buck, a retired executive from Wilson Sporting Goods, does not know the exact figure. Buck holds he needs the mosey to guard against another 1929 crash. The Committee makes money by selling the name of the U.S. Olympic team. Among products which bear the red, white and blue seal of the Olympic Committee are Rexall Super Plen- ams, Bank of America Travelers checks, Coppertone, Brut, and Palmolive and Rapid Shave. One wit has wondered if the ath- letes shave twice a day or shave the right side of the face with one cream and the other with its competitor. For only $25,000, you can get the label "Selected for use by the Olympic team," on your product. Another official ploy is bureaucracy. Although the Com- mittee has denied that they are sending in, addition to the 477 athletes, 167 non-competitors and officials, most likely babysitters, they have yet to name exactly how many non- competing people the United States will send to Munich in August. Officials however admit that 140, or 130 or 112 is about right. It is about time to discard the platitudes of amateurism that have for so long plagued U.S. Olympic efforts. The fear of public money which has hurt other sectors of national life has paralyzed the athletes. Ameteurism, I think is no longer the goal of the Olympics. Rather the good sport and fellowship that comes from competition. The quaint American definition that an amateur is one who starves is akin to social Darwinism. Magic No. drops to 79 By The Associated Press DETROIT - Mickey Stanley snapped a 5-5 tie with a homer off Paul Lindblad in the sixth inning, powering the American League East-leading Detroit Ti- gers to a 6-5 baseball victory over the Texas Rangers last night. The Rangers had jumped on Tiger starter Tom Timmerman for three runs in the opening inning and got one off Fred Scherman in the second. But Detroit continually nib- bled away at Texas pitching. The Tigers scored lone runs off Pete Broberg in the first, third and fourth innings, plus two in the second before Stanley's homer off reliever Lindblad, now 3-4. Orioles spin BALTIMORE - Tom Shopay walked with the bases loaded in the last of the 10th inning to force in the winning run and give Baltimore a 2-1 triumph over the Kansas City Royals last night. Reliever Ken Wright, the Royal's second pitcher of the inning, gave up the walk to Shopay after the Orioleskhad loaded the bases with no outs on a double by Brooks Robin- son and walks to Bobby Grich and Boog Powell. The triumph snapped a five- game losing skid for the Orioles. Reds ridicule CINCINNATI - Jack Billing- ham tossed a seven-hitter and Cincinnati shut out Pittsburgh 5-0 last night in a clash of the National League's West and the East Division leaders. Johnny Bench drove in three of Cincinnati' runs with a pair of singles and his 22nd home run, increasing his major league baseball RBI lead to 66. Joe Morgan, who leads the majors in runs scored, touched off two Reds' rallies against loser Bob Moose. Morgan scored the Reds' first run of the game when he walked with one down in the first- he also leads the majors in walks with 65-stole second for his 34th stolen base, also tops in the majors, and came home on Tolan's hit to center. Bench singled Tolan home M e si Make reservations n REYKJAVIK, Iceland (At) - Bobby Fischer made his opening assault on the Soviet Chess for- tress last night, but world champion Boris Spassky repelled it and left the American with a tough fight for a draw when their first game was adjourned. The first game of history's richest world chess title match was called after 40 moves and 3 hours and 34 minutes of play. It will resume today at 1 p.m. EDT, or 5 p.m. Reykjavik time. When play was called off for the night, there was little left on the board: a king and five pawns for Fischer; a king, three pawns and a bishop for Spass- ky. U.S. grandmaster Robert Byrne said: "Fischer is going to have trouble making a draw. I don't see how Spassky can lose." Svetozar Gligeric, the Yugo- slav grandmaster, commented: "It is doubtful whether b1a c k can save a draw." Fischer is playing the black pieces a n d Spassky the white, which means the Russian had the first Yefim Geller, the Russian who seconds Soasky, watched t h e final moves on closed circuit television in the corridor, sipping a, cup of coffee. "What do you think, Grandmaster Geller?" he was asked. "I am not thinking, I am drinking coffee,' Geller re- plied. Fischer has played Spassky five times in the past. The three times he played the black pieces he lost. Playing white he was able to salvage two draws, but has never triumphed over t h e Soviet. Spassky made his first move yesterday all by himself in the shadowless illumination of the stage at Reykjavik's 2,500-seat Sports palace. There was something surreal- istic about the world champion- ship series with prize money of about $300,000 dollars starting with only one man sitting at the chess table. Fischer, as usual, was late. He arrived seven minutes after Spassky moved his queen's pawn and referee Lothar Schmid pressed the button to start Fischer's clock. It's your move Spassky-white, Fischer-black. 1. P-Q4, KT-KB3 2. P-QB4, P-K3 - 3. Kt-KB3, P-Q4 4. KT-u13, u-Kt 5. P-K3, 0-0 6. B-Q3, P-B4 7. 0-0, KT-B3 0. P-QK3 u-gd Elapsed time: white 8 minutes black 10 minutes. 9. KT-K2, QP x QBP 10. BXBP B Kt3 ii. PXiP QsQ 12. RsQ, lBsP 13. P-qKT4,B-K2 14. B-Kt2, B-Q2 Elapsed Time: 51 minutes white 49 minutes black is. Qu-uB, alR-Q1 16. Kt K2 -Q4, Kt x Kt 17. Kt x Kt, B-R5 Elapsed times white 45 minutes, black 35 minutes. 18. B-N3, BxB 19. KtxB, xRCh 20. RxR, K-qua 21. K-n1, K-B 22. K-K2, Kt-K5 Elapsed times white 60 minutes, black 55 minutes 23. R-Qnl, RxR. 24. usE, P-u3 25. Kt-R5, Kt-Q3 26. K-Q3, B-Q1 27. Ki-1u4, u-is 21. NBKt, BBKi 29. P-N5, BxKRP 30. P-N3, P-KR4 Elapsed time: white 87 minutes, black Hminutes Ii. K-Its, P-E5 32. K-3, K-K2 33. K-Kt2, PxP 34. PaP, naP' 'IS. KxO, K-Q3 Elapsed time: white 95 minutes, black 95 minutes 36. P-R4, K-Q4 37. B-R3, K-K5 . n-mP-ES 19. P-N6, P-nd Elapsed time: white 130 minutes, black 110 minutes. 40. K-Ed P-BS Adjourned after 3 hours and 34 minutes of play. Professional League Standings American League San Diego at Hontreal San Francisco 6, New York 1 East Philadelphia 4, Los Angeles 1 W L Pct. GB Atlanta atSt. Louis Detroit 42 34 .553 - Cincinnati 5, Pittsburgh 0 Baltimore 41 35 .539 1 -- - Boston 35 36 .493 41/ New York 35 37 .486 5 Cleveland 32 43 .427 914 Milwaukee 30 44 .405 11 Oakland 41 21 .632 - c , Chicago 44 34 .564 5 Minnesota 38 37 .507, 92 Kansas City 19 38 .506 91/2 DIAL 668-6416 Caliornia 16 42 .462 11 Texas 33 45 .423 16 ENDING TONIGHT Yesterday's Results n or atCaltnd a, inc. NAME YOUR POISON! Milwaukee 5, Minnesota 4 W. BEATTY-J. CHRISTIE Detroit 6, Texas 5 Chicago 4, Cleveland 3 Baltimoe ,2 Kansas City 1, 10 innings National League Pittsburgh New York St. Louis Chicago Montreal Philadelphia Cincinnati Houston Los Angeles Atlanta San Francisco San Francisco East W L Pet. GBl 4t 28 .632 - 44 33 .571 4'/2 4035 .3 7' 42 17 .532 7' 33 43 .434 15 2S 51 .354 21, 46 31 .597 - 46 34 .575 1, 41 It .519 6 36 42 .462 10'/ 36 48 .429 13' 29 49 .372 17'S Yesterday's Results llsustim 0, Chicago 5, 1st Chicago , Houston 5, 2nd Huron River Canoe Rental 2 AND 4 HOUR RIVER TRIPS We put in. we pick up. you paddle. 4325 JACKSON AVE. Phone 662-1270 now. Groups welcome. MRS.AILLER -PLUS- DEALING: OR THE BERKELEY-TO-BOSTON FORTY-BRICK LOST-BAG BLUES DEALING tells the story of the weed "underground railroad" between the coasts. From the filmmaker who brought you "The Revolutionary"