European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 21, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 26 the stars and stripes sunday August 21,1988 Louganis Bradshaw make team Indianapolis a ores Lou Ganis the defending olympic Gold med Alist in springboard and platform diving qualified for his fourth . Olympic team and Mark Bradshaw won an in tense Battle for second place in the men springboard Competition Friday at the . Olympic scored 717.72 Points in the finals to finish with 1440.60. Bradsha battled Kent Ferguson for the other Posi Tion on the . Team and captured i with 1,375.05 Points delighting a group of about 40 Blue shirted relatives that strongly cheered him after each dive. Ferguson who took a 18.06-Point advantage Over Bradshaw into the 11-dive finals dislocated his shoulder on his first dive. The shoulder was quickly relocated by the medical staff and Ferguson continued to dive after saying he Felt no pain. He finished third at 1363.95 to be come an alternate. Louganis who has captured a record47 National championships was in com Mand All night. Louganis who won a olympic Silver medal in 1976 when he was 16, got four 9.0 and three 9.5s on his first two dives to turn the attention of the crowd to the Battle for second be tween Bradshaw and Ferguson. Carrying Over a 1988-High 722.88points from thursday s preliminaries Louganis had Only one 10 in the finals. It came on his ninth dive a reverse 2 /2somersault in the Pike position. The other six judges split with three awarding 9.5 and the other three giving Louganis a 9 for an 83.70 total. Bradshaw and Ferguson traded positions three times in the finals and were separated by less than a Point with two dives remaining. Bradshaw then scored a 9,four 8.5s and a pair of 8s in the 10th round in accumulating 80.64 Points. Ferguson scored 73.08 in that round and Bradshaw then received 88.11 on his final dive which brought him five 9s. The top two scorers in each event Earna berth on the . Team for the olym pics at Seoul South Korea beginning sept. 17. Rams defense halts warriors Ramstein West Germany Ramstein defensive Back Kenneth Tay Lor picked off a pass on his own five Yard line to snuff out a fourth Quarter charge by Wei Brincken and preserve the rams 14-6 win saturday in the season opener in the Continental sports conference football league. Taylor picked off an errant pass from Warrior quarterback Tony Venable and returned the Ball 76 Yards before running out of Gas. Ramstein posted a 14-0 halftime leads halfback Tony Phillips hit the end zone on a 1-Yard first Quarter run an quarterback Chuck Herron clicked on a 9-Yard touchdown pass to wide receive Harry Washington. Wei Brincken cashed in on a 60-Yardstrike from Venable to wide receiver Dave sickness with 12 20 to go in the final Quarter. Ramstein accrued 182 total Yards 70on the ground and 112 in the air. Herron hit 9 of 22 passes for 104 Yards and Bruce Leggroan hit 2 of 9 for 7. Wei Brincken had 23 Yards Rushing and 108 Yards in the air. Ramstein s defense was anchored by linebacker Tony Pickering who had an interception eight tackles and an assist defensive tackle Willie Mccray who had six tackles and linebacker Bobby Mccoy who had four tackles. Butch Reynolds right who set a 400-meters world record wednesday won the 300 at Brussels Friday night. A Lewis in dispute with coach May miss games 400-relay Brussels Belgium a Ca Llewis cast doubts Friday on whether he will run the 400-meter relay at next month s olympics while Steve cram Britain s 1,500-meter Ace swept away any doubts on his ability to win in Seoul. Lewis who easily dominated the100 meters in 10.04 seconds said Fri Day he was barred by . Relay coach Russ Rogers from competing in the 400-meter relay at the Van Damm memorial track meet because he had not proven asked if he would still run the an Chor leg in the olympics after Friday s dispute Lewis said at this Point no. At this Point Iam just going to focus on the three individual events and not the on wednesday Lewis beat Arch rival Ben Johnson of Canada in 9.93seconds, the Best time of the season. He said that was proof enough he should be on the team. Lewis said Rogers also told Joe Deloach he could not run in Friday s re lays despite the assurances of .head coach Stan Huntsman. Rogers was acting like a Junior High school coach said Lewis. He also had a conversation with his personal coach Tom Tellez who told him not to focus on the relay , reached at the . Olympic training Camp at the univer sity of California Santa Barbara said no final decisions about the relay team have been far As running on the team no one will be kicked off unless i do it. Twill be up to Russ and myself but there s no Way he can drop anyone of the team he said. Huntsman who returned to the United states after a meet in Zurich Switzer land on wednesday said Lewis was sup posed to run once with the . Relay team this summer in Europe according to the olympic team manual. He did Runa race in Europe but did so with the Santa Monica track was my understanding that Carl was going to run in Brussels Hunts Man said adding that Lewis called him from Brussels to give his Side of the Story and that Rogers would not return to the United states until after next week s grand prix meet. I m going to have to talk to Russ and see what s happening Over there Huntsman said. When i left Zurich iwas of the opinion that Carl was going to run. I m surprised he did t run. I May wait until they both return. There s not much we can do until we regroup in America. We need a re bypassing the relays would deny Lewis the Opportunity to become the first Man to win four Gold medals in successive . Relay team without Lewis and de Loach won in a mediocre 38.66 May have another Opportunity in Chiba Japan just before the olym pics Deloach said. Cram overcame a disappointing third place in an 800-meter race wednesday to run the Best 1,500-meter time of the sea son 3 30.95 just Over a second of said Wouita s world record. Cram beat compatriot Peter Elliot who still set a personal Best of 3 32.94. Cram who had stomach problem sin Zurich wednesday was still within striking distance of the record coming out of the final Bend. But despite the cheering of the 30,000-Strong crowd Theysel stadium he visibly weakened in the final stages. There is still work to do but there is still a lot to come he said. Wouita of Morocco was pushed tothe limit in the 800 meters by Ameri can Johnny Gray. Wouita had to Cha Segray most of the Way but kicked strongly and won by inches handing Ray his first defeat of the season. Wouita finished in 1 44.36, beating his personal Best by .02 seconds. Gray was timed in 1 44.43. American Butch Reynolds not yet fully recovered from beating the 20 year old 400-meters world record wednesday stayed out of the event. The 400 had promised the same Star studded Field that powered Reynolds to the world record on wednesday. Instead Reynolds strained until the end of the rarely run 300 meters fending off fellow american Walter Mccoy. Thus a race that could have give Reynolds a second record in three Days turned into something of an anti Climax. Reynolds won in 32.22 .52 out Side the 1984 Mark of american Kirk Baptiste and looked uncomfortable throughout the race. The 400 meters went to american Danny Everett who easily led the Field with a time of 44.61. American Andre Phillips won the 400-meter hurdles in 47.90, one of the better times this season with Danny Harris second. In the Long jump . Olympic hopeful Larry Myricks suffered a sur prise defeat at the hands of compatriot Mike Powell who leaped 27 feet 4 /2inches, an Inch longer than Myricks. World High jump Champion Patri Sjoeberg of Sweden also lost finishing second to Cuba s Javier Sotomayor who leaped 7-7% to 7-6 /4 for Sjoeberg
