SPORTS Page 12 Sunday, August 12, 1984 The Michigan Daily EQUALS JESSE OWENS'1936 RECORD F Carl Lewis wins LOS ANGELES (AP) - Carl Lewis placed himself on Olympic pedastal with the late Jesse Owens, winning his four- th gold medal yesterday with a power- ful anchor leg that carried the United States 400-meter relay team to a world record clocking of 37.83 seconds. It was the first world track and field record in these Games, continuing a string of at least one world mark being set in every Olympics since 1952, and the first world record in an Olympic event by Americans this year. LEWIS, leaping and bounding around the track in celebration after the Americans smashed the world mark of 37.86 they set at the 1983 World Cham- pionships in Helsinki, Finland, was given a standing ovation by the huge crowd of some 90,000 in the Los Angeles Coliseum. The victory was the ultimate symbol of U.S. success at these Games, held on American soil without the boycotting Soviet Union and its allies. But Lewis wasn't the only track star chasing history. VALERIE BRISCO-HOOKS of Los Angeles won her third gold medal with the women's 1,600 meter relay, mat- ching the feat of Wilma Rudolph in 1960. Evelyn Ashford won her second gold K wo 4th gold of the Games, anchoring the U.S. women's 400 meter relay in 41.65 secon- ds - the 150th medal of the Games for the United States. She earlier won the women's 100 meter dash. Ashford and her teammates - Alice Brown, Jeanette Bolden and Chandra Cheesborough - had an easy time in their 400 meter relay victory. The U.S. led throughout, and at the end Ashford had a 10-yard lead and was pulling away. Alonzo Babers, who already collected a gold medal in the 400 meters, ran an outstanding third leg on the United States' men's 1,600 meter relay team to lead the Americans to a sweep of the Olympic relay races. The U.S. team of Sunder Nix, Ray Armstead, Babers and Antonio McKay was clocked in 2 minutes, 57.91 seconds. Britain was the silver medalist in 2:59.13 and Nigeria earned the bronze in 2:59.32 . In the men's 1500 meter run Sebastian Coe cracked the 16-year-old Olympic record and became the first runner ever to repeat as Games' champion in the "metric mile" as Britain went 1-2 in the event. Coe, who also won the event at the 1980 Games, was timed in 3 minutes, 32.53 seconds to better the Olympic standard of 3:34.90 seconds set by Kenya's Kip Keino in Mexico City in 1968. In second was Britain's Steve Cram medal in 3:33.40, and the bronze medal went to Spain's Jose Abascal in 3:34.30. Boxing Frank Tate, the 156-pound class world champion, survived a rocky second round and won an Olympic boxing gold medal last night with a 5-0 decision over Shawn O'Sullivan of Canada. It was the eighth U.S. boxing gold medal of the day. Tate joined teammates Jerry Page, Mark Breland, Pernell Whitaker, Paul Gonzales, Henry Tillman, Steve McCrory and Meldrick Taylor as gold medalists. The previous high for the U.S. was five gold medals won in the 1952 Games in Helsinki. Kayak Ian Ferguson became a triple gold medalist Saturday, leading New Zealand's kayak team to a dramatic first-place finish in the Olympic 1,000 meter fours race. - The triumph gave New Zealand its fourth canoeing gold. Ferguson, 32, won gold medal Friday in the men's 500 meter kayak singles and in the doubles with teammate Paul MacDonald. Tennis Steffi Graf, a 15-year-old West Ger- man, won the Olympic gold medal in women's tennis, defeating Sabrina Goles of Yugoslavia 1-6, 6-3, 6-4. Olympic medal count Medal totals yesterday through 20 of 41 medal events at the 1984 Summer Olympics: Gold Silver Bronze Total United States .. 70 56 28 154 West Germany 15 19 19 53 Romania ...... 20 14 13 47 Canada ........ 9 15 15 39 Great Britain .. 4 8 20 32 China ......... 15 8 7 30 Japan ......... 8 7 13 28 Italy .......... 12 5 10 27 Australia ...... 4 8 12 24 France ........ 4 6 14 24 sweden........ 2 10 6 18 South Korea ... 5 6 6 17 Yugoslavia .... 6 3 4 13 Netherlands ... 5 2 6 13 Finland ....... 4 3 5 12 New Zealand 8 0 2 10 Mexico ... 2 3 1 6 Brazil ......... 1 3 2 6 Denmark ...... 0 3 3 6 Switzerland ... Spa in...... Belgium . Austria ..... . Jamaica ..... Norway ...... Greece ........ Puerto Rico ... Venezuela ..... Kenya......... Morocco....... Pakistan ...... Colombia ...... Ivory Coast .... Peru ......... Algeria ........ Cameroon ..... Dom. Republic Iceland ........ Portugal . Ta iw an.... Turkey ........ Zambia ....... n i 1 i 0 0 0 a 0 i i i 4 0 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 T a 0 0 0 2 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 2 t 2 2 i 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 i 1 1 1 6 4 4 3 3 3 2 2 2 i 1 1 1 t 1 1 3 i i 1 1 1 i Associated Press Carl Lewis takes the handoff from teammate Calvin Smith in the 4 x 100- meter relay yesterday. The American team broke the world record with a time of 37.83 to win the gold. Blue Jays trip Orioles, 3-2 TORONTO (AP) - George Bell belted a two-run homer with none out in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the Toronto Blue Jays a come-from-behind 3-2 victory over the Baltimore Orioles yesterday. The Blue Jays have now won 20 games in their last at-bat. ORIOLES starter Storm Davis, 12- 5, entered the ninth with a five-hitter but Rick Leach led off with a single and Bell hit Davis' first pitch over the right-center field fence for his 16th homer of the season. The homer was only the fourth allowed by Davis this season. Torontonreliever Jim Gott, 6-5, worked the final two innings for the victory. The Blue Jays took a 1-0 lead in the third on a sacrifice fly by Dace Collins. But the Orioles came back with two runs in the fifth against Toronto starter Luis Leal. Rich Dauer led off with a double and two outs later, John Selby doubled to tie the game. Ripken then put the Orioles on top with a single to left. 'M' athletes picking up precious medals (Continued from Page 1) HENRY MARSH, an American who was favored to win a medal, finished fourth. Diemer held back early in the race and then moved to the middle of the pack at the midway point. He and Mar- sh battled for the third spot the rest of the way, with Diemer surging past his teammate near the finish line. Diemer and Barton's medals bring the University's medal total to seven. Divers Ron Merriott and Christina Seufert each took bronze medals earlier this week; junior shortstop Barry Larkin was part of the American baseball team that won the silver; for- mer rowing coach Doug Herland cap- tured the bronze as the coxswain in men's pair rowing; and 1980 graduate Steve Fraser won America's first gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling.