l'age 20-Friday, August 1, 1980-The Michigan Daily OLYMPIC ROUNDUP Pole sets record despite crowd MOSCOW (AIP)-Wladysiaw, Kozakiewicz of Poland overcame the distractions of unruly Soviet fans in the stands to break the world record in the pole vault and almost become history's first 19-foot vertical jumper. And Cuban boxer Teofilo Stevenson moved toward his own piece of Olympic history yesterday in the heavyweight division. Stevenson took a unanimous decision over Hungarian Istvan Levai in a fight that saw the same kind of sour crowd reaction that has marked much of the past two days of Olympic competition. Stevenson now heads into the final round of the heavyweight competition, where he hopes to win his third straight Olympic gold. In the Saturday final he will take on Soviet fighter Pyotr Zaev, who scored a 5-0 decision over East German Juergen Fanhaenl earlier today. The lack of action wasn't entirely Stevenson's fault. He kept looking for an opening to fire his famed right hand, but the Hungarian wouldn't give it to him. From the opening bell, Levai, who was knocked out by Stevenson in Budapest last year, was on the defen- sive, with the Hungarian in a crouch and his gloves held high in front of his face, Stevenson had to resort to his jab and threw at least 200 of them in the three-round fight. The Cubait did manage to get in a couple of rights to the head late in the bout, but never could get Levai in trouble. Stevenson's victory gave the Cuban team its sixth fighter in the finals. Four more were to try to make Saturday's finals last night. In fact, only two winners in the 12- bout semifinal card yesterday after- noon were not Cubans or Soviets. They were Bernardo Pinango of Venezuela and John Mugabi of Uganda, who both won 3-2 decisions. Pinango got up from a second-round bout against Romania's Dumitru Cipere. The -hard-punching Mugabi, who had scored knockouts in his three. previous fights, edged Kazimierz Sz- czerba of Poland. Track an1Field MOSCOW (AP) - Animated Steve Ovett and calm Sebastian Coe set up their anxiously awaited first-ever showdown meeting in the 1,500-meter race and Bronislaw Malinowski wore down Filbert Bayi in the 3,000-meter seeplechase yesterday at the Olympic Games. Ovett and Coe share the world record of 3 minutes, 32.1 seconds for 1,500 meters, but the Britons avoided each other at that distance. The suspense will end today when the archrivals step on the Lenin Stadium track at 6:05 p.m., 11:05 a.m. EDT for the major confrontation over the classic metric mile distance. Malinowski, of Poland, much bigger and stronger than the slightly built Bayi, outlegged the tiring Tanzanian over the final lap with a brutal finishing kick and won the steeplechase in 8:09.7, the fastest time in the world this year. In yesterday's other finals, Yuri Sedykh of the Soviet Union won the men s hammer throw for the second consecutive time, with a world record heave of 268 feet, 4 inches, and Tatyana Kolpakova, another Sovietm took the women's long jump at 23-2. The track and field competition, the blue-ribbon sport of the Games, will end tonight with 10 finals, including the featured men's 1,500. In that expected masterpiece, Ovett will be seeking to extend his winning- streak to 29 and Coe will be seeking to avenge the bitter loss he suffered to Ovett last Saturday in the 800-meter final. The two Britishers set the stage for that final by winning their semifinal heats last night. Ovett, toying with the other eight runners in his heat, breezed home in 3:43.1. As he came down the final straightaway, he waved and smiled to a crowd of British flagbearers. Then as 1 Olympic Roundup he crossed the finish line, he kept smiling and drew the letters I-L-Y in the air. The I-L-Y stands for I Love You and was dedicated to his girlfriend. Coe, running relaxed and without animation, won his heat in 3:39.4. In the 3,000-meter steeplechase, Bayi jumped to a big early lead and seemed to have the gold medal clin- ched. But the lean Tanzanian, running only the sixth steeplechase of his career-he has been a 1,500 meter and mile specialist-wilted under the grueling comeback of Malinowski. At one time, the Pole must have trailed by at least 50 yards. But he never gave up and finally caught the fading Bayi with about 150 meters remaining. This was the third consecutive Olym- pics in which Malinowski had won a medal in the steeplechase. He only took the bronze in 1972 at Munich and earned the silver in 1976 at Montreal. "I have been waiting for 'this gold medal for 13 years," said the 29-year- old Malinowski. "I already had Olym- picbronze and silver medals, and now I have a gold. "Now my only goal is to establish a world record." I AP Photo POLAND'S WLADYSLAV KOZAKIEWICS holds the gold medal he won for his Olympic pole vault of 18 feet, Ili/ inches in Moscow's Lenin Stadium Wednesday night. The vault was an Olympic and world record. TICKET SALES DOWN: Hearns and Cuevas play it cool DETROIT (AP) - Pipino Cuevas and Thomas Hearns had little to say yesterday, but they were almost alone in their silence as the hype and hoopla crested for their World Boxing Association welter- weight championship fight. Cuevas, reigning WBA champion from Mexico, defends his title for the 12th time in the Saturday night bout against Hearns, who will be fighting before home-town fans at Joe Louis Arena here. The two fighters posed briefly for photographs at an unofficial weigh-in ceremony at riverfront Hart Plaza on the riverfront, then were whisked away by their managers. NEITHER HEARNS nor Cuevas spoke during the weigh-in, but even if they had, it is doubtful they, could have been heard over the clamor of a mariachi band, a conga band and several hundred fight fans and curious passersby on hand for the event. The weigh-in was preceded by a parade - in- cluding the bands and four antique fire engines - through downtown Detroit in an effort to drum up in- terest in the fight, which has turned out to be less than a knockout at the box office. Joe Louis Arena has 20,000 seats, but fewer than 10,000 tickets had been sold by yesterday. Some fans have been angered by ticket prices ranging from $25 to $500 that they claim are far too high for a city staggering under the weight of extensive auto in-. dustry layoffs. BUT BOOKER GRIFFIN, a spokesman for the fight's promoter, said the prices were determined by the choice of the smaller, downtown arena over the 80,000-seat Silverdome in suburban Pontiac. He added that despite slow ticket sales at the arena, the sale of closed-circuit television rights and delayed broadcast rights to CBS already have brought the fight above the break-even point. The local furor over ticket prices and sales has almost overshadowed the fighters, who finished their final heavy training for the bout Wednesday. CUEVAS GOES into the fight with a 27-5 record. He has 24 knockouts, including his first title victory and 10 of 11 title defenses. Hearns has an umblemished 28-0 professional record, including 26 knockouts. At 6-foot-2, he has a five-inch height advantage over the 5-foot-9 Cuevas and a reach advantage of 5 inches. The six-bout fight card also features the first title defense by WBA lightweight champion Hilmer Ken- ty, also of Detroit, against Yong Ho Oh of Korea. A third title fight pits WBA junior lightweight champion Sammy Serrano of Puerto Rico against challenger Yasutsune Ushara, Japan's junior light- weight champion. 1