European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 4, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday september 4, 1991 the stars and stripes b Page 25it was an 8-Day feast for lewisu.s., user Africa sparkled in world meet by Randy Harvey the los Angeles times Tokyo a not everything Carl Lewis touched turned to Gold at track and Fields third world championships but All things considered it was a remarkable eight Days for him. The same could be said for Many of his u. S. Teammates the soviets and the africans but As for the germans is it too late to rebuild that Wall after breaking the world record in the 100 meters with a time of 9.86 seconds and Long jumping More than 29 feet three times in a second place finish to Mike Powell a astonishing world record of 29-4 i Lewis returned to the National stadium on the final Day sunday to participate in still another world Mark. This record one of Only three at the sports second most prestigious Competition behind the summer olympics was not entirely unpredictable. Lewis was running the Anchor leg on a 400-meter relay team that included the three fastest men in history a Lewis Leroy Burrell and Dennis Mitchell a and in the Lead off position the reigning world indoor Champion at 60 meters Andre Cason. Without Lewis the other three and alternate Mike Marsh ran the second fastest time Ever in saturdays semifinals 37.75 seconds not much slower than the world record of 37.67 that Lewis Burrell Mitchell and Marsh set this summer in Zurich Switzerland. It was apparent that barring a major mistake like the one the . Team made in failing to qualify for the final in the 1988 summer olympics the record would fall sunday. It did All the Way to 37.50. The French who held the record for 11 months and never allowed anyone to forget it during that time were second in 37.87. A a in be heard about the French saying they wanted this or that a Cason said. A Well Well take them on anytime  it was a bit of Well earned bravado on behalf of the . Team. With Charles austins upset later in the Day of cubans Javier Sotomayor the Only Man Ever to Clear eight feet in the High jump the United states finished the world championships with 10 Gold medals. That was one More than was won by the soviets who track and Field analysis nevertheless were formidable winning 28 total medals to 26 for the United states. Nine of the United states Gold medals were won by the men who finished first in More than one third of the 24 events. One of the american menus few disappointments came in the 1,600-meter relay sunday when Uscz a Quincy Watts ran a Strong second leg in 43.5 to give the United states a Lead but Antonio Pettigrew who had become the world Champion in the 400 meters Only a few Days before could not hold it on the Anchor and was overtaken by Britain a Kris aka Bussi. In beating the United states in a 1,600-meter relay final for the first time in a major championship since 1936, not counting races in which either team dropped the Baton the British ran a european record of 3 57.53 to 3 57.57 for the runners up. That resulted in the inevitable second guessing of the . Policy of awarding 1,600-meter Carl Lewis relay berths Only to runners who competed in the 400 meters at this sum Mere a National championships. It meant that the worlds  Quarter Miler Michael Johnson was 6,000 Miles away in Waco Texas during the 1,600-meter relay because he competed at nationals Only in the 200, which he easily won Here last week before flying Home. A everybody can speculate that with Michael Johnson or someone else we might have won but that a just speculation a said . Menus coach Tom Tellez of the University of Houston. A the Point is that these kids earned their spots and it was their responsibility to run Well. I think they did. A but the brits were out to beat us. We be been hearing that from the Day we got Here. They put up a Good time and they beat us. But six More inches we would have won and nobody would have said a single thing about that  that was the last of the 43 events and a god save the Queen a was heard for Only the second time the first for the British men. Other than the United states Only two countries won More than one Gold medal in menus events Kenya with four and the soviet Union with three. African men continued their dominance of distances longer than 400 meters. Kenyans won the 800, 5,000, 10,000 and 3,000-meter steeplechase and Noureddine Morcelia an algerian who trains at Riverside calif., ran away with sundays 1,500 meters in 3 32.84. The Man who was supposed to be Morcelia a primary Competition Morocco a said Wouita finished 12th. Of 18 medals awarded in menus events Between 800 meters and the Marathon africans won 13. Long jumper Jackie Joyner Kersee won the Only Gold medal for the . Women although she probably would have won another in the heptathlon if she had not suffered an injured hamstring. But the women a coach Dave Rodda of Cal state Long Beach was encouraged because they displayed More depth than Ever before. They also won medals in events a Gail Devers Robert so Silver in the 100-meter hurdles and Janeene Vickers Bronze in the 400 hurdles a that have been troublesome for them. Except for the 1984 olympics . Women had not won a 100 hurdles medal in a major championship since the 1932 olympics. But the prevailing theme of the women a Competition was the decline of the German women specifically those who formerly competed for East Germany. East German women won eight cold medals at the world championships in 1983 and six in 1987. But with their countries now unified East and West German women combined for Only four Gold medals Here. The East contributed two of them both by sprinter Katrin Krabbe. The entire German team men and women won Only five Gold medals which is half As Many As the East germans alone won in each of the last two world  relay team called poor losers Paris apr Frances 400-meter menus relay team second place finisher at the world track and Field championships last weekend faced Blunt criticism Back Home monday for bad sportsmanship on the Victory stand. A poor losers Quot the French sports daily la equip said in a front Page headline with a photograph of the French foursome on the winners podium their arms crossed looking casually about while the Gold medal . Team stood at attention with their hands on their hearts. A they should their Silver meda., or. No they did no to applaud the winners did no to shake their hands. A with the american National Anthem resounding they looked around every which Way with Marie Rose unwittingly resting his foot on the highest step of the winners  la equip referred to French Anchorman Bruno Marie Rose whom the paper quoted As having hould have been Happy the French with a medal a la equip said on Page one. A but Fyk. I Lnu to chair mockingly claimed that american Star Carl Lewis would Only see his Back As Marie Rose burned up the track ahead of him. La equip also had a cartoon on the front Page of a French runner handing off a stick of dynamite instead of a Baton to an american runner. Sundays loss to the americans in Tokyo was a bitter defeat for the French who ended decades of . Domination in the event by setting a world record of 37.79 at split Yugoslavia in september 1990. For 11 months they alone held the record and were idolized by France which reaps Little Gold in world class track and Field. A . Team equalled the Mark on aug. 3 in Monte Carlo and four Days later smashed it with a 37.67 in Zurich. In sundays world championship final the americans anchored by 100-meter world record Holder Lewis blazed to a new world Mark of 37.50. That left the frenchmen with the Silver and a respectable time of 37.87. But that Wasny to enough a or it was too much a for Max Moriniere Daniel san Gouma Jean Charles Trouba and Marie Rose. A on the podium the mortified frenchmen lacked the most elementary elegance a the newspaper liberation said monday. A they refused to shake the hand Lewis extended them. They finished Small Small. No congratulations to the winners affected  nobody really expected the French to beat the . Team. The slowest american on the squad was probably faster than the swiftest Frenchman. After All Lewis Leroy Burrell and Dennis Mitchell had swept the menus 100 meters and Andre Cason is world indoor Champion for 60 meters. Asked by the paper be Parisien if he was awed by running against such a lineup Marie Rose replied a hardly. In a not a Novice. 1 m not afraid of them. Without us they  have pushed themselves and  have set two world  sue judge in Williams theft trial Bushnell Fla. A prosecutors ave taken a judge to court Over a ruling they say blocks their Case against a Man accused of stealing from baseball great Ted Williams. The state attorneys office sued circuit judge John w. Booth to overturn a decision it claims would a thwart the interest of  a ruling by Booth halted their pros cution of a former business partner of Illiams for allegedly stealing $37,800. In is decision Booth said a civil suit filed by Williams against Vincent Antonucci of Inverness should be resolved first. Antonucci is charged with grand theft a second degree felony that is punishable by up to 15 years in jail and a $10,000 Fine. The suit against Booth was filed aug. 15 in the 5th District court of Appeal in Daytona Beach by Jim Mccune of the 5th judicial circuit state attorneys office in Ocala. Mccune has requested a a writ of common Law certiorari a a Legal term imply ing that Booth made a mistake and that it should be corrected. Booth says he was wrongly named As the defendant and his decision in the criminal Case was proper. Court documents say Williams was involved in a baseball Memorabilia business called what s on second talking baseball with Antonucci and his wife Kimberly and another couple. They also were involved in a business called thumped inc. Under an agreement Williams was to sign various items to be sold by the business. Included were Cereal boxes baseballs pennants and lithographs of himself and other baseball players such As Pete Rose Willie Mays and Whitey Ford. Williams eventually bought out the other couple. Then he and Antonucci had a falling out the court documents say. Williams sued Antonucci his wife and thumped Over the company a Money and assets. Various counter suits have also been filed