European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 30, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday july 30,1987 the stars and stripes Page 19 commentary body builder rhymes with modish the last thing in he world Rachel Mclish needs is Muscles i mean that s like Dolly Parton being Able to Cook Fawn Hall being Able to Lype. Overkill. Who needs il7 when i Tell you thai Rachel Mclish won a Cones in Atlantic City you nod and think of sure. Miss Ameri Ca not quilt actually she won the same kind of contest Arnold Schwarzenegger used to win. She s a hunk. Body builder. Peels and Abs and Las. But Wail a minute if you get an image of this Amazon this Valkyrie who looks like a Cross by Iwen tugboat Annie and the Taluc of Liberty something that would smoke cigars and spit tobacco and Bench press a porsche you be got the wrong girl. Rachel Mclish it rhymes with modish looks and acts about what you might expect pretty red Wing did. She s pan Indian and on tier it s gorgeous. She has this glorious Olive complexion and big Brown eyes and shiny hair hat is Black on Black. Put a Feather on her forehead and you could Sec How Pocahontas drove Captain John Smith wild. Long fellow would have written a poem about her on tight. Why in the world anyone would put a hunk of pumping Iron into the bands of this Indian maid is something thai will baffle anyone who tees her dose up it s kind Oftie Coldie hawn taking up boxing. Rachel did t really need Muscles to go with what she already had. To get anything she wants she does t have to do anything More strenuous than Bat her Eye lashes. When she was brought up in the Rio Grande Bor Der country of Harlingen Texas the last thing she thought she d gel into was muscle flexing. Harlingen was hardly a hotbed of body building. Most girls of that time and place would much rather have spent their time in hair dressing salons than fitness salons to have been turned Loose in Nei nun Marcus or Rodeo drive. Body building was misunderstood. You know far most people exercise is an intrusion on their lives. It was fashionable to regard body builders Wilh derision As freaks posers. They indented the word Jim Murray not Rachel. The first Lime she walked into a phys ical fitness club she was like a kid who has jus been locked in a Candy store most College women which is what she was at the time would Nave like to have been put in a room with Mink stoles Diamond necklaces Gold bracelets. Rachel s idea of precious metals or jewelry was bar Bells pulleys Chrome weight machines and Bench presses. It was Cor Liz finally coming on Eldorado. Body builders have a reputation for being the great narcissists of our civilization. The body is their Temple their religion. Their goal seems to be to re main forever. 21 years old. The whole idea of health food of vigorous living originated with them. But for Rachel Mclish the object is not cosmetic it s psychological. Almost spiritual. When she came upon her first fitness Center shortly after she had enrolled at pan american University in Edinburg Texas she Felt it was almost a mystical experience Balboa getting his first look at the Pacific Joan of arc seeing a vision. I had been into Ballet and  but i did t exude a fit Quality she says. I was what i Call Skinny fat " in other words the poundage was acceptable but the packaging was Noi. The Point of physical fitness is not narcissism or egotism Mclish Sayi. It s Well being. Most people have at idea what it s like to fed Good All Over. All the time. People unfortunately Lake drugs to do it part of the time. But the ultimate Rush is the feeling you Tan get from intelligent exercise. It s addictive. In the Best Way. A but great athletes were nut fooled. Their fitness programs were not in look belter Bui in perform Lier it s the same  Rachel Mali fish. Taif results look spec Lacunar. At 1 28 pounds 5 feet 6 inches and stacked in a 36-. 21-35 . She has won two is. Olympia contests two years apart a is. United slates contest and o world professional body building championship achieving control Over your body is one of the most difficult goals to reach she says Mclish in her own Case she notes she preferred to think of it As body sculpting rather than body building. It was More of a pygmalion feted. I used hard work As a chisel she says. People who cannot master their own bodies cannot master their own lives she believes. It is a lesson being pounded Home so to speak by Schcara Nigger and on a More discreet level by Jane Fonda. It can be achieved by anybody of any age Mush says. Id a town where muscle Beach started it All Rachel is on the Fachy of a pro muscle seven week Camp on the Campus of Loyola Mary mount not everyone can have expensive furs precious jew Els silk Dresia or designer suits to put on she says. But everybody can have a body that anything will look Good  looking at her you d have to believe in tin Loi Ann no 2 swimmers set records in . Meet Fresno Calif. A Steven Bent Ley Tod Amy Shaw Tel an icon records in winning the finals of the 200-meter breaststroke tuesday at the . Swim Ming Long course National championships Bentley i printed on the last Lap to Fin ish in 2 minutes. 15.30 seconds beating the record of 2 15.38 set by Sieve Lund quist in i9&3. Shaw swam 2 30.77 in her preliminary race to break a Mark of 2 31.15 set by Susan Rapp in the 1984 olympics. Eight hours later in the final she beat her morning mail by almost a second Wilh a Lime of 2 29.78. Winners of other finals tuesday were Medvin Stewart i  in the men s 200 Butterfly Melanie Buddemeyer 2 12.27 in the women s 200 Butterfly Andrea Hayes 2 12.37 in the women s 200 Buck stroke in a race in which world record Holder Betsy Mitchell finished seventh Scott Johnson 2 01.68 in the men s 200 backstroke Dara Torres 56.4 in the women s 100 freestyle and world record Holder Matt Biondi 49.34 in the men s look Cesile. Cordero 4th jockey to win 6,000 races Angel conetto or. Dismounts after 6,000lh win Oceanport no. A Angel Cor Dero or. Tuesday became the fourth jockey in history to win 6,000 races when he Rode lost Kitty to Victory following 3 three May stretch Duel at Mon Mouth Park. In the Winner s Circle Cordero waved his yellow helmet As fans shouted Praise in English and Spanish Cordero who had been in a slump said he was relieved to reach he Milestone. Finally i got it Over with he said. This Lias taken a Long Lime. I knew it would happen. I just did t know  As he posed for photographers Cordero held up his i a month old daughter Julie who was wearing a pair of her father s Blue racing goggles around her neck. Cordero s Victory in the ninth race was his second of the Day both coming in divisions of the s40,000-added col Leen Slakes for 2-Ycar-Oid fillies. He Rode Blue Jean baby to an eight length Victory in the seventh race before guiding Loit Kitty to a nose Victory Over Granny s Fortran in inc ninth. My Cara Vann finished another three quarters of a Fengl Back. Cordero 44. Joins Bill Shoemaker Johnny Longdon and Latil Pincay or. As 6,000-race winner1. Shoemaker who is still Riding Heads i he ail time list with nearly 8,700 wins. Cordero had Ridden just five winners in his last s4 races before his two victories tuesday. After losing on All six of his mounts monday at bet Nam including five favourites he was booed by inc crowd he was 0-3 at Belmont sunday but his bad Lack was t confined to the track. While eating at a new York restaurant that night Cordero choked on a baked Clam. His dinner companion Marjorie Clayton saved him by applying inc Sci Mitch Man Euver. Cordero had hoped to reach inc 6,000 win Mark last year but he suffered a Bro Ken leg and a lacerated liver in a spill at Aqueduct in March and was sidelined for More than four months. He bounced Back to win his 11th straight Riding title at Saratoga. Cort Lucro s first Victory came at puerto Rico s Al Comandante race track in i960. H is mounts have won More than 1115 Mil lion in purses second on the All time list behind Pincay Shoemaker is third. He has won three Kentucky derbys two Preakness is and one Btl on. He was the first jockey 10 sweep the fall championship series winning he Woodward Marlboro cup and jockey gub Gold cup in 1984 aboard slew o Gold. Evert Shriver notch federation cup victories Vancouver . A Chris Evert and Para Shriver breezed to straight set victories on tuesday to and Vance the top seeded United slates past Japan in a first round match of inc federation cup championships. Evert ranked no. 3 in the world Defeated Lesuk Onoue 6-2, 6-4. Shriver tin no i player who was or cud into action As Martina Navratilova s replacement. Beat Akiko Kiji Muu 7-6, 6-1. Navratilova the lop Rankell player in the world is nursing a sprained ankle. Even also teamed up Wilh Zina Garri son to give the uni cd Stales a 3-0 sweep As they won the Doublet it-2, 7-5 Over . Also advancing into the second round on tuesday were fourth seeded Bulgaria which beat Greece 2-1 fifth seeded Australia a 3-0 Winner mtr Denmark seventh seeded Italy which beat Belgium 3 0 unseeded Britain a 3-0 Winner Over Chile France which beat Austria 3-0 Spain a 3-0 Winner Over Jamaica and Indonesia which eliminated Ireland 3-0. The americans hardly missed a Twat even Wilh Navratilova oui. It was a Lough match. 1 cup cud that Evert said. It s bin three a Tiki mute 1 played and i Nind to work in Way Mlo these matches u in. I held Ier a which i was really pleased  the first Lei ended up Pretli Tough after a routine Start Shriver said. Bui i won the tiebreaker 7-0 and Gol Inlo a Roll in i he second  it was Shriver s first jingles match in the federation cup