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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 16, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 18 the stars and stripes sunday february 16, 1969 record Falls to Davenport Tori to vol Willie Davenport the . Olympic Gold medallist in 110-meter hurdles broke the unofficial world indoor record for the 50-Yard hurdles with a fi.8 second clock ing Friday night at the Telegram Maple Leaf in door games. Davenport broke the record he shared with Hayes Jones of 5.9 seconds. Davenport tied Jones 1964 record last year in these games. Leon Coleman or the Southern californian traders was a close second with a 5.9 clocking. Bill Tipton of Eastern Michigan University was third it 6.3.tommy Smith olympic 200-meter Champ matched the Canadian record of 31.5 in the 360 Yards and Barbara far re took the women s event in 35.2. The los Angeles girl also won the 50-Yard dash in 5.8.madeline Manning . Gold medallist in the 800 meters at the Mexico olympics took the women s 880-Yard in 2 08.4while Bob so Agron won the pole vault with a disappointing leap of 16 feet 6 inches. I crack hurdler Willie Davenport. 5.8 clocking Over 50-Yard distance Graebner Smith Advance into indoor net semifinals Salisbury my. A second seeded Clark Graebner and Stan Smith the no. 3 seed won As expected Friday night and advanced to the semifinals of Tho . National indoor ten Nis championships. Graebner pulled his game to Gether in the final set and eliminated Veteran Ron Holmberg 6-4, 1-6, 6-3 following Smith s surprisingly easy 6-3, 6-4 Victory Over two time Champion Charlespat a Rell. The american Davis cup teammate were to face each other in a saturday night Semi final. An afternoon match was scheduled Between Ismael Elshafei of the United  Republic who has eliminated two seeded players and Torben Ulrych of Denmark the no. 4 foreign seed. Graebner s powerful service culminated the deciding set against Holmberg. He served three games at love and lost Only three Points while he was at the line. Holmberg romped through the second set after two Servic Breaks had Given him a 4-0 Lead. Graebner resigned to losing deliberately lost some Points so he could Start service in the final set. In the opening singles match Friday Smith s hard first serv ice on the fast Canvas surface proved difficult for Pasarell to handle especially when it was directed to his backhand. After breaking Pasarell in the fourth game of the first set Smith lost Only two Points on his next three service games As he ran out the set. Pasarell a 25-year-old puerto rican in the . Army failed to win two break Points in the eighth game of the second stand then was broken in the Fol lowing game when he muffed two volleys near the net. Smith then served a love game to Complete the match in 47 , also advanced to the semifinals in the doubles Ashe and Davis cup teammate Bobby Lutz of los Angeles Defeated Ulrych and fellow scandinavian Ove Bengtson of swe Den 5-7, 6-2, 6-3. Lutz and Smith seeded no. 1, were to play a semifinal Maul saturday against americans Jim Mcmanus and Jim Osborne he no. 3 seeded learn which Defeated Jan kodes of Czechoslovakia and Zeljko Franulovich of Yugo Slavia in the quarterfinals 974-6, 6-4. The other semifinal Maklon Pasarell and Holmberg the no 2 team against Al Shaft Tomci Islan Gulyas of Hungary who upset tie no. 4 team of or Iob Ner and Bobby Wilson of eng land in the second round. Rockets stave off Indiana 5 Miami Routs Mavericks Denver a Larry Jones scored 39 Points his eighth straight 30-plus game and led Denver to a 112-103 Vic tory Over Indiana in the Ameri can basketball association Fri Day night. Jones scored 21 of his Points Indiana Nevicky Dee Daniels Brown Lewie of Ulrch Miller Peep Teaberry Denver o f t8 a Bli Hulond 20-04 pkuwskl12 7-h 31 Beck 1 Sll 33 Jonea 0-0 12 Hooiser 0 1-3 1 simians q 0-2 0 tart 20-04 Mcgill 6 1-3 13 Wilburn  oft10 s-4 is 11-4 0-1 12 14 11-13 38 s 34 s 1 0-00 0-0 60-100 0-0 8 0-0 total. 4t 20-42 103 total hfl112 Indiana. 22 �3 32 se-10 Denver 2632032112 three Point roam Brown. Tola Fouli Indiana 26, Denver 29. Fouled Oul ind Tatum Lewis. . Knights of Columbus meet Patrick wins in close 880 new York a Dave Patrick former Villanova Ace out most of the indoor season with an injury made his 1969 new York debut a spectacular one flashing to the 880-Yard title at the 50th new Yor knights of Columbus Golden anniversary track meet. Patrick now a school teach Erin suburban Baltimore beat Back three challenges by her Gurmann after taking the Lead with Imp laps to go and won in1 minute 52.5 seconds at mad Ison Square Garden. Patrick was making Only his third Start this year after suffer ing a Back injury during the Winter. He won by a step Over Dave Perry of the Pacific coast club. Germann of the new . Was third in 1 52.7. Perry was caught in 1 52.6.Jim Green the fabulous soph Omore sprinter from Kentucky streaked to the 60-Yard dash championship in 6.2, Green who apparently pulled a muscle in his right leg at the finish had taken his semifinal heat in meet record time of 6.0, breaking the record of 6,1. Erv Hall Villanova s High hurdles olympian took his Spe Fialty the 60-Yard highs in 7.1, Teuma out boxes Brt Ecoe new York up brazilian middleweight Champion Juarez Delima boxed his Way to a 10round upset split decision Over third ranked Benny Briscoe input american debut Friday night. Tying the meet record. He also hit 7.1 in winning an earlier heat. Another Villanova olympian Marty Liquori the Multi talented Sophomore swept to the1,000-Yard title by two strides Over olympians Tom von re Den Pacific coast club and Czechoslovakia s Josef  was caught in 2 08.5, von Ruden in 2 08.8. Phil Tobin of St. Johns n.y., captured the Downing half mile special in 1 55.3. Nyu s Leon Ard Harewood was next in 1 56.5.the 500-Yard run went to an other Villanova olympian Larry James who romped to Victory in 56.5. Walt Filz Patrick Central Connecticut a.a., was second in 57.4 and olympian Vince Matthews of Johnson  College a teammate of James on the winning 1,600-met-er . Relay team at Mexico Penny Northrup takes Roch cup giant slalom Aspen Colo. A Penn Northrup of Ellic Ovule n-y., a member of the . Ski team won the women s giant slalom Friday opening the annual Roc cup races. Miss Northrup had a combined time of 88.7 seconds for her two runs. Seventeen year old Julie Walcott of under Bill Center vt., was three second behind in second place. The . Team suffered a major setback though when Lau Rie quest one of the nation s top Young women skiers broke her leg in two places luring a prac  run. Miss quest of Excelsior,minn., recently returned from a european ski tour with the .squad. Thirty three skiers were entered in Friday s Competition but Only 12 finished both runs Lois cantle of Canada led a group of her countrymen entered in the three Day Competition finishing seventh. Men s and women s downhill Competition was set for saturday and the men s slalom  Roch cup goes to the skier with Tho Best Over Al record. Five top american skiers Are missing from the Aspen race list because of conflicting races i Italy and Czechoslovakia. They Are spider Sabich ranked ninth in world cup standings racing in Italy Judy and Cathy Nagel Marilyn Cochran and Kiki Cutter who Are in Italy. City was third in 58.1. Peter Chen sports Lote National t.c., Washington took the pole vault at 16 feet Ron Daniel new York a.c.,won the mile walk in 6 25.3. Dan Tague Texas at Elpaso won the 600-Yard run in 1 10.4.Frank Torteo new York a.c., was next in 1 10.9, and olym Pian Ron Whitney of the South Ern California strides third in1 11.7. The crowd of 9,475 saw Villa Nova take its fourth individual trophy when Ireland s Olympia Frank Murphy loped to an easy Victory in the mile on the in la track. Murphy who led All the Way increased his margin to nearly 50 Yards with a Lap to go won by 35 Over Nyu s Byron Dyce in 4 05.9. Dyce who represented Jamaica at the Mexico City games was clocked to 4 10.4 and Czechoslovakia s olympian Josef Odlozil was third in 4 10.0.olympian Charlie Mays of the grand Street boys won the Ion jump with a leap of 24 feet 4 Norm Tate was second at 24-2barry Brown new York a won the two mile run in 8 40,6.leading by Only five Yards entering the final Lap Brown Luton a burst to win by is Yards Over Czechoslovakia s St Noste Petr who was timed in 8 43,. De Caruthers. An Olympia from the Pacific coast club won the High Lump at to on jump off with Frank costello. In the second half As the Rock ets staved off an Indiana drive. The former Toledo Star also it the rockets in rebounding with 13. The pacers who shot a Sosthan 50 per cent from the foul line relied on second year propel Daniels in the second half and he responded with 31 Point Sand 22 rebounds nine of us m on the offensive boards. Miami up Willie Murryl hit the bucket for 32 Points to Lead the Miami Florl plans to nil easy 129-110 Victory Over the Houston Mavericks Friday night. It was the seventh win fur Miami in the past eight games giving the floridians a 27-27season record. Miami is one half game behind easter division Leader Indiana in the american basketball association. Miami took an 11-2 Lead in the Early minutes and coasted the rest of the Way leading by 65 19at the half. 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Jim Oxley of army Ted Al scorers with 31 Points while Greacen paced Butger with 15despite sitting out most of us  Scarlet knights controlled the boards in the closing minutes As they raised their season s record to 11-3. Army now is Ini  
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