Pag TwlveI 9rwi-A lA^ A A Ido LDLAAAAILY Wdnsda,~ulqL-0.97 Page Twelve THE MICHIGAN DAILY Wednesday, July 28, 1976 U.S. cagers: Good as gold! Dantley hits 30. as U.S. = whips Yugoslavia, 95-74 By The Associated Press MONTREAL - A fired - up United States team, led by All- American Adrian Dantley, re- claimed the Olympic basketball gold medal for Uncle Sam last night with a 95-74 victory over Yugoslavia. The triumph was a bicenten- nial present, from the youngest basketball team in Olympic his- tory and erased the bitter mem- ories of Munich, when America surrendered the gold for the only time in history. That happened in a contro- versial o n e -point game against the Soviet Union. But there was no controversy about the outcome this time. Dantley saw to that with a sensational display of shooting that produced 18 first-half points and 30 in the game. He finished with 116 points as high scorer for the United States in the six games it took America to claim the gold. Twelve of Dantley's points carne in the first six minutes of play as Uncle Sam raced to a 20-8 lead at the start. With guards Phil Ford and Quinn Buckner repeatedly strip- ping Yugoslavia of the ball, the Americans charged into com- mand. Ford had seven assists and three steals in the first half alone as the sniping American defense dominated the taller Yugoslavians. The Yanks maintained a comfortable margin through- out the second half, scoring key baskets whenever Yugo- slavia started to move on them. Michigan's Phil Hubbard had 10 points in one span, coming off the bench to keep Uncle Sam in control. As the clock wound down, the capacity crowd of more than 16,000 fans in the Montreal Forum chanted "USA, all the way!" the slogan that has ac- companied this team throughout this tournament. It was an emotional victory for the Americans. who enjoyed every moment of the medal presentation ceremony presided over by Lord Killanin, president of the International Olympic Committee, and Dr. William Jones, secretary general of the International Basketball Feder- ation. Last night's game was one of the ronghest of the entire tornament. Yugoslavia lost guard Zoran Slavnic when he inilred his right ankle in a collision with Ford midway in the first half. Dantley was forced to the dressing room early in the sec- aid half when he suffered a cut o-er his right eye when Drazen Dalinaeic landed on top of him after going up for a shot. Iron- ically, Dantley was charged with a foul on the play. While he was being treated, Yugoslavia made a 10-2 run at the Americans, cutting the U.S. lead to 12 points. But Hubbard, Scott May, who finished with 14 points, and Ford restored the American margin with a flurry of points that built the lead to 81-64. At the end, the entire U.S. team did a happy, victory dance in the middle of the court as the fans roared their approval. After Dantley and May, cen- ter Mitch Kupchak scored 14 points for the United States. Dalipagic had 25 points, Dragan Kicanovic 18 and for- mer Brigham Young Univer- sity star Kresimir Cosic 15 for Yugoslavia. The fans sent up a thunder- ous ovation as the Americans received their medals, delaying the ceremony several minutes with their stusbtained cheering. They applauded the silver medalist Yugoslavians as well, but were less enthusiastic to- wards the Soviets, who took the bronze by beating Canada 100- 72 earlier yesterday. THE BIG IRISH BULL, Adrian Dantley of Notre Dame, finds himself momentarily surrounded by Yugoslavians Kresmir Cosic (11) and Rajko Zizik (7). Dantley got loose often enough last night to lead the U.S. team with 30 points in its gold medal victory. AMERICAN WINS DIVING BRONZE Four U.S. boxers reach semis By The Associated Press M O N T R E A L - Light- weight Howard Davis watched a teammate lose, then turned tiger and pounded his Bulga- rian opponent into submission last night to lead four United States boxers into the medal- guaranteeing semifinals of the Olympics. Davis was joined in Thurs- day's semifinals by light welterweight Sugar Ray Leo- nard, flyweight Leo Ran- dolph and bantamweight Charles Mooney. The only U. S. loser was featherweight Davey Arm- strong, who dropped a 3-2 deci- sion of Cuban Angel Herrera. In Olympic boxing, the fight- ers who win their semifinal bouts in each weight class bat- tle for the gold. The loser of each final finishes with a sil- ver. The losers of the two semi-finals in each class each get a bronze medal. "A lot of people think I can't hit," Davis said after scoring three knockdowns and stopping Bulgarian Pzveten Pzevekov at :48 of the third round. "But I didn't go out to prove that," said Davis. "I saw Davey get robbed. I thought he won every round. So I thought I better go out there and show them some- thing so it wouldn't happen to me." Davis, the 1974 world feather- weight champion, likes to feint and move in the ring. But Tuesday night, it was "crash" not "flash" for the 132- pounder from Glen Cove, N. Y. Davis knocked Svetkov down in the first round with a left-right to the jaw and again in the third with a right - left to the head. He then connected with an- other left - right, and Svetkov fell forward and grabbed Davis to keep from going down. The referee gave him a stand- ing eight - count, then stopped the fight. Diving Diving veteran Klaus Dibiasi of Italy in his farewell perform- ance in international diving competition, fought off the chal- lenge of young American Greg Louganis last night and won the* 10-meter platform compe- tition for an unprecedented third consecutive Olympic title in the event. Dibiasi, 28, grabbed the lead from the 16 - year - old Louganis on the fifth of 10 dives and maintained it for his fourth platform diving medal since 1964. Dibiasi, who won a silver medal at Tokyo'before winning golds at Mexico City in 1968 and Munich four years later, received 600.51 points, the high- est total in Olympic history. Louganis, of El Cajon, Calif., made an auspicious premier into major international diving competition with 576.99 points. Vladimir Aleynik of the Soviet Union was third with 548.61. Kent Vosler, 20, of Eaton, Ohio, finished fourth with 544.14 and Kim Moore, an Ohio State medical student from Colum- bus, Ohio, was fifth with 538.17. Weightlifting Russia's Vasily Alexeev, a gentle 344-pound man moun- tain, reestablished his claim as the world's strcngest human Tuesday night with a record- shattering performance in the Olympic super heavyweightlift- ing division. The 34-year-old defending champion, a mining engineer, captured the gold medal with a total weightlift of 896 pounds In the snatch, clean and jerk. He established a world record for the clean and jerk with a lift of 561 pounds. -MAJOR LEAGUE STANDINGS - NATIONAL LEAGUE East W L Pet. Gsl Philadelphia 65 30 .684 - Pittsburgh 53 43 .552 12 ' New Yark 51 49 .50 0 6% St, Louis 42 53 .442 13 chicago 40 58 .408 26% Montreal 32 60 .348 3112 West cincinnati 62 37 .626 -. Los Angeles 55 43 .561 6Sf Houston 52 50 .51 11% San Dicta 485211.488014Y'2 Atlanta 44 54 .449 17 % San Francisco 43 58 .426 20 Yesterday's Eesults Chicago 5, Montreal 0 New York 4, Philadelphia 1 Los Angeles at Atlanta, ppd., rain San Francisco 9, Cincinnati 4 Pittsburgh 3, St. Louis 1 Houston 4, San Diego 1 Todays Gamnes Montreal (Fryman 8-8 and Kirby 1-8) at St. Louis (Rasmussen 3-8 and curtis 5-7), 2, 6:30 p.m, Chicago (Bonham 6-9) at Phila- delphia (Lonborg 12-5), 7:35 p.m. Las Angeles (John 6-6) at Atlanta tMrssersmith 9-9), 7:35 p~m. Pittsburgh (Medich 5-9) at New York (Seaver 9-6), 8:05 p.m. San Francisco (Dressier 2-7) at cincinnati (Zachry 8-3), 8:05 p.m. San Diego (Jones 17-4) at Houston (Andujar 6-7), 8:35 p.m. AMERICAN LEAGUE East W L Pet. GB New York 60 35 .632 - Baltimore 48 48 500 12V2 Cleveland 46 40 .4131 Detroit 46 49 .484 14 Boston 43 52 .453 17 Milwaukee 42 51 .452 17 West Kansas City 59 37 .615 - Oakland 52 46a.531 8 Texas 47 48 .495 111 Minnesota 46 50 .479 13 Chicago 44 53 .454 15' california 42 58 .420 19 Late games not included Yesterday'sReasults Boston 8, cleveland 7 Baltimore 4, New York 1 Mitwaukee 6, Detroit 4 Texas at Minnesota, ppd., cain Kansas City at California, a Chicago at Oakland, n Today's Games cleveland (Brown 7-6) at Boston (Jones 4-1), 7:30 pm. New York (Alexander 5-6) at Bal- timore (Garland 12-2), 7:30 p.m. Detroit (Roberts 8-9) at Milwau- kee (Augustine 4-7),8 1:30 pm. Texas (iHargan 4-2) at Minnesota (Hughes 4-10), 9 p.m. Kansas City (Pattin 3-9 or Has- sler 0-6) at California (Kirkwood 4-7), 10:30 p.m. Chicago (Barrios 2-4) at Oakland (Torres -9), 11 p.m.